Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 27 July 1895 — Page 3

1895 JULY. 1895

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A COOt KETItGAT.

Has livery I«nirabl© Facility for ail Enjoyable Summer Sojourn. Persons desiring to combine recreation, "entertainment, instruction and devotion with their summer outing will find Eagle

Lake, on the Pensylvania Lines, near Warsaw Ind., the ideal spot. This pretty resort is site of Wii.ona Assembly and Summer school, tlie youngest of the Chautauqua Assembly?. The grounds have been well and favor.ibley known as Spring Fountain Park. They constitue about two hundred acres of romantic woodland st etching nearly two miles alog the eastern shore of Eagle Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. The grounds have been platted and pretty cottages constitute the summer homes of persons who here find rest and lieulthgiving recreation in invigorating air, amid attractive surroundings. Some desirable cottage sites areyit obtainable. In addition to the portion laid out for building purposes, a fine park has been made. There is also a race track with overlooking amphitheatre furnishing splendid facilities for outdoor athletic sports. The large auditorium has a seating capacity of 3,000, and the several college halls are used fo Assembly purposes. A good hotel, lestaurants and supply stores furnish means of living at reasonable rates. A large fleet of row boats with two steamers will permit indulgence in boating, and persons fond of fishing may enjoy that pastime to satisfactory extent, as the lake teems with fish. The low tourist rates over the Pennsylvania Lines place these pleasures within easy reach. The rate will be in effeet all season from ticket stations on these lines. In addition to the season tourist tickets, a low rate will also be in effect for round trip tickets good fifteen days. Ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Lines will furnish them, and they may be obtained from agents of connecting lines The Assenbly Department opens July 1st and continues four weeks during which time prominent speakers will discuss live topics. During August there will be educationel work under Prest John M. Coulter, of Lake Forest University,in connection with the Assembly. For details regarding rates of fare, time of trains, etc., apply to nearest Pennsylvania Line Ticket Agent, or address F. Van Dusen, Chief Assistant General Passenger Agent, Pittsburgh, Pa. Applications for information concerning the resort should be addressed to Secretary E. S. Scott, Eagle Lake, Ind.

PLEASURE TKIPS,

Numerous Excursions the Coming Summer at Reasonable Kates. Whether the tourist's fancy directs hitu to the New England States or the Atlantic seaboard to the South or to the lake region of the North or to the Rocky Mountains and the wonderland beyond the Mississippi, he will be given opportunity to indulge his tastes at a small cost for railroad fare this year. In Aug excursion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Lines to Boston, accaunt the Knights Templar Conclave The sale of low rate tickets will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but the public generally may take advantage of them.

The Asbury Park excursion will doubtless attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch and all the famous watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pennsylvania Lines, hence this will be a desirable opportunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion will be just the thing for a sight-seeing jaunt thro' the far West, as tickets will be honored going one way and returning a different route through the most romantic scenery beyond the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Variable route privileges will also be accorded Boston excur sionists, enabling them to visit Niagara Falls, Montreal, Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence Rapids, the White Mountains, the Hadson River territory, and to return by steamer on Long Island Sound, after sight-seeing at Newport. Narragansett Pier, Nantucket and the Cape Cod resorts to New York and thence through the agricultural paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, over the Alleghenies, around famous Horse Shoe Curve, through historic Johnstown and the coke and iron regions of Western Pennsylvania. It is also expected that Boston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will be privileged to return via Baltimore and Washington if they so desire.

In addition to the above, there will be plenty of other cheap excursions over the Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As the season is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not been consummated, but it is certain that no railway will offer better inducements than the liberal concessions in rates and privileges that may be enjoyed by travelers over the Pennsylvania Lines. This fact may readily be ascertained upon application to any passenger or ticket agent of these lines, or by addressing F. VAN DUSEN, Chief Assistant Gen. Pass. Agt., Pittsburg, Pa. apr6wd-t-s-tf

DR. J. M. LOCHHEAD, HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.

Office at 23)£ W. Main street, over Early's drug store. Residence, 12 Walnut street.

Prompt attention to calls in city or country. Special attention to Children*,Women*' and Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louis Childreos Hospital.

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FOB SALE.

13 acres choice land, within corporate limits of city,

JOHN CORCORAN.

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ELMER J. BINFORD.

LAWYER.

Special attention given to collections, settling estates, guardian business, conveyancing, et'. Notary alwavs in office.

Oflice—Wilson block, opposite court-house.

C. W.MORRISONS SON.

UNDERTAKERS.

27 W, MAIN ST. Greenfield, Indiana.

MICHIGAN RESORTS.

Are directly on the line of the

Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad.

EXCELLENT SERVICE TO

July 3—D&Wlrno.

I Traverse City, Ne-ah-ta-wan-ta, Omena,

Charlevoix, Petoskey, Bay View, Roaring Brook, Wequetonsing, Harbor Springs, Harbor Point, Oden-Oden, Mackinac Island UpperPeninsula Points.

Tourist Tickets are on sale June 1st to Sept 30th, return limit Oct. 31st.

Maps and Descriptive

OF THE

NORTHERN" MICHIGAN RESORT REGION", Time Cards and full information may be had by jipplication to ticket agents or addressing

C. L. LOCK WOOD, G. P. & T. A. GRAND KAPIDS, MICII. July l-d&w-tl

Indianapolis Division.

ennsulvania Lines.

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JOSEPH WOOD, E.A.FORD, Gintnl IfcMgw, 6«n»r»l Puus|«r Agwt, I-I»-95-R PITTSBURGH, PENN'A.

For time cards, rates of fare, through tickets, diwitiute ohecks and further information reifHt'limt the runnin* of trains apply

to any

KOT A SOPL SAVED.

Every Settler in Jackson's Hole Massacred by Indians.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN SLAIN.

Their Homes lturned and Their Stock Killed—Tlic Redskin* Are Now Repeating Their Horrible Work in tlio Teton

Basin—Troops En Route There, but Tlicy Were Too Late. DENVER, July 27.—The News has the followiug from its correspondent at Market Lake, Ida.: M. J. Gray, L. M. Tart and Senator Hamer of Illinois and T. R. Haiuer of St. Anthony all left St. Anthony Wednesday morning on a fishing trip to the Jackson's Hole, taking no stock in the Indian war. They have just returned and report every man, woman and child iu Jackson's Hole murdered.

One of The News' couriers' just returned got far in Teton basin, which is the pieseiit point in danger of a massacre, now that the Jackson Hole citizens are all butchered. He reports that the smoke of a large re can be seen several miles south of Grand Teton in the direction of Jackson's Hole. There is no doubt that fclie redskins have fired every home and cabin and will soon be repeating their work this side of the Teton range, in Teton basin, and perhaps after thac all down the Teton river valley in Idaho.

Two hundred Utes were said to have gone north to join the Indians in Hoback basin early this week. Small parties of Lemhis have been slipping in daily across the Conaiit. trail, something they have not ventured to do since the Yellowstone National park was enarged in 1891.

People in St. Anthony, Rosbury and other towns located in Idaho between the railroad and Jackson's Hole have been all along placing no confidence in the Indian scare as they called it.

THE NEWS CONFIRMED.

United States Troops JE11 Route, But Thi-y Are Too Late. POCATEIJJO, Ida., July 27.—William Ross of the firm of Ross, Grey & Wyatt has just arrived at Market Lake from St. Anthony, and reports everybody at Jackson's Hole killed yesterday morning. It is considered authentic news, and the excitement is intense. United States troops from Cheyenne will arrive in this city today and will leave immediately for Market Lake, and thence by wagon road for the Fall River country.

Courier Sargent arrived in Market Lake yesterday morning from the vicinity of Jackson's Hole. He left a companion in the country who intended to gee into the hole, if possible, and return with all the news. Sargent reports all the passes guarded, and is afraid his companion will not be able to obtain entrance.

Information Perfectly Reliable. OMAHA, July 27.—Union Pacific headquarters were notified at 8:30 last night by the company's superinteiiueui at Pocatello, Ida.", of the receipt of a telegram from the Union Pacific agent at Market Lake, to the effect that all the Jackson's Hole settlers had been murdered by the Indians, their stock killed and their homes burned. The agent declares that the information is perfectly reliable.

Lemhis Joining the Bannocks. POCATELLO, Ida., July 27.—Fifteen Indians ami 1,500 saddle horses passed through Beavor Canon yesterday from the Lemhis agency, going in the direction of the National park, supposedly to join the Bannocks in their massacre of settlers. Excitement in Pocatello is growing hourly. The citizens are agitating the question of arming themselves and leaving to rescue the people of Jackson's Hole. There are several Pocatello people located there, including the veteran, Tom Ball, and it is feared they are among the unfortunates.

Troops Not Near There.

WASHINGTON, July 27.—The war department has been informed from headquarters of General Coppinger at Omaha that the four squadrons of the Ninth cavalry, under Major Chaffee from Fori Robinson, will probably arrive at Market Lake, Ida., the nearest station to and about 120 miles from the scene of the Indian troubles in Jackson's Hole, at 8 o'clock Saturday morning. General Coppinger will be at the station at the same time, or just before the troops arrive.

JEALOUS NtGROES.

A Wealthy Citizen Whipped ior Taking His Family Out Killing

ATLANTA, July 27.—The latest phase of the White Cap business in Georgia comes from Walton county. Sam Chandler, the wealthiest colored citizen of that county, has made complaint before the UnitedJStates commissioner that Thursday night about 12 o'clock he was awakened by an unearthly noise near his house, and starting out, he was grabbed by eight negroes, whom he recognized aji neighbors, who tied him hand and foot, gagged him and then carried him into tne woods, whtre they gave him a severe beating.

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lashes they veiled out: "We will mop you from riding your family around in carriages fend on the cars."

Chandler says the other negroes are jealous of him because he has a little money. He wanted warrants taken out against the negroes, but the United States commissioner declared it a matter for the state courts and refused to interfere.

Tired of Life.

TROY, Q., July 27.—Andrew Bobbins, a widower, aged 48, living with three of his children at Kessler, suicided by hanging himself with a clothesline in the smokehouse. His children found him after he had been hanging several hours. He left a letter advising his children to live upright lives and asked that no coroner's inquest be held,

Kansas City Wins,

BURLINGTON, Vt., July 27.—Judge Brewer gave a decision in favor of Kansas City in the case of Kansas City vs. the National waterworks, and npon the payment of $3,000,000 in bonds the city will have control of the works.

Massacre In New South Wales.

SYDNEY, July 27.—A boat's crew of 10 natives has been massacred iu tha Bismarck archipelago.

BUSINESS BAROMETER.

R. G. Dun & CotfijKtny's Weekly Review of Trade. NEW YORK, July 27.—R. G. Dun & Company's weekly review of trade says: It is not the season for the tide of business to ride, but there is perceived scarcely any shrinkage except that which comes naturally with midsummer heat. The volume of new business is small compared with recent months, but large enough to encourage more openings of long closed works and more advances in returns to labor. Important strikes show that the advance is not enough for some, but the strikers seem not more threatening than a week ago.

Accounts of shrinkage in the yield of wheat come both from the Pacific states and from the Dakotas, It would be a strange and unnatural July without such reports, and yet they have weight enough tiiio year to lead even the most experienced to reduce somewhat their estimates of yield, while the price has advanced 3 1-4 cents. Light western receipts for the week, not a third of last year's, and for four week^ only 5,36^,0G3 bushels, against 11,983,619 last year, strengthen adverse reports, because the price a year ago was about 20 cents lower than it is now. The western movement largely depends on the export demand, which is phenomenally light, Atlantic shipments for the week having been— flour included—only 671,561 bushels, against 3,818,996 last year, and for four weeks only 3,500,589, against 9,865,722 last year.

Corn advanced about a cent with wheat, but has since lost all the gain. Cotton has remained unchanged at 7 cents, although the latest reports favor larger estimates of the yield, a circular by Neill going much beyond other figures.

Prices of iron and steel products still rise, the feature this week being the startling advance of 50 cents per keg in cut and wire nails, with new cards of various size?, which, it is stated, makes the advance equally greater than it appeared. Angles are also a shade higher and other prices strongly maintained. Bessemer pig does not advance, althouTh the Carnegie and one other compaay have been buying about 140,000 tons, which is supposed to foreshadow large contracts for rails.

In the first half of 1895 orders for rails were 713,000 tons, against 502,000 in the first half of last year, and a good many small orders appear at Chicago, Otherwise there is a distinct halting in new demand, though neaily all iron and steel works are crowded with orders for some time to come. Prospect that other furnaces with a capacity of 8,000 tons weekly in the east, and as much in the south, will go into blast within the remaining months of 1895, hinders further rise in pig.

Copfti# has again advanced, lake to 11 1-2, contracts having been made this month for 20,000,000 pounds, and lead is also strong.

Textile have a better outlook, with larger demand both for cotton and woolen goods, a shade advance in print cloths and in most bleached goods and a more hopeful market for light weight woolens, which, if scarcely advanced beyond last year's prices, are on the whole selling better. Enormous sales of wool, 44,778,864 pounds in four weeks, against 29,220.i^0 iu 1892, far exceeds ac'.n il consum^ion, but reflect belief that i.he prices will not decline and the few changes this' week have been upward. Scarcity of domestic wool in eastern markets is iu part due to heavy speculative withdrawals.

Failures for the week were 202 in the United States, against 249 last year, and 27 in Canada, against 39 last year.

GIRL FOUND DEAD

With the Hack of Her Head Shot Away. Little Itoy Confesses. MINNEAPOLIS, July 27.—A strange and bloody murder was committed Thursday night on the farm of Ernest Lange, 17 miles west of this city. The body of little Maggie Craigie, the 14-year-old daughter of Cuptaiu Charles Craigie of the Minneapolis fire department, was found with the top of her head blown oft' by a charge from a shotgun.

Futile efforts had been made to remove the traces of blood in the upstairs room where the murder was committed and along the stairs where the body had been dragged down. The Lange shotgun was found with one recently fired shell in it. Mrs. Lange claimed to have been away from the house at the time and If ter her 8-year-old son Freddie confessed that he bad killed the girl by accident.

Destructive Storm.

MARSHALLTOWN, la., July 27.—The heaviest rain and hailstorm since 1881 visited this &$tion Thursday night. Two and a quarter inches of rain and a considerable amount of hail fell here. The storm was much more severe north and south. The strip of country iu the northwest part of the county was badly damaged 1/ hail and washouts. A number of cornfields were ruined and bridges and fences washed out. The cornfields in the southeast part of the oounty were also badly damaged by hail, which were as large as walnuts in some localities. All the glass in many buildings was shattered. I

Work opt tha Miiwurk

WASHINGTON, July 27.—The annual report of the Missouri river commission showing the work performed during the past fiscal year on the Missouri and its tributaries, has been received by the chief of engineers. The report shows the expenditures on this work for the year to have been as fqllows: Missouri river, $£33,979 Gasconde river, $2,700 Osage river. $9,993. There is still available for the work on the Missouri $745,795, on the Gasconde, $3,950, and on the Osage $52,066.

"Jl t^?J! They Will Reply.

^ALLIANCE, O., July 27.—College circles here are stirred up by the report that Inspector Heistaud, ill his report to the secretary of war, scores the faculty of Mount Union college for neglect in the military department, and it is said recommends tne withdrawal of the detail and instructor. The faculty will now go after Heistand. The cadet officers and President Marsh will send in a reply to the war department.

Will Not Draw the Color Line. COLUMBUS, O., July 27.—J. H. Milli-

ken, director general of G. A. R. arrangements st Louisville,

sayB

in a let

ter. to G. A. R. men here that all statements regarding the proposed drawing of a colorline at the national encampment against negro ex-soldiers are absolutely false.

SKETCHES OF LINCOLN.

Dennis Hanks' Visit to the White House.

BENT ON A STEANGE MISSION.

Recollections of John F. Speed—Lincoln's Lack of Affectation and Vices—How He Itlade Two People Happy Plucking

Thistles and Planting Flowers.

jFrom "'The Life of Lincoln" by William H. Herndon and Jesse Y\ VTeik. Copyright, 18S8, by Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 1892, by D. Appleton & Co.J

XXII.

In 1863 Mr. Lincoln was informed one morning that among the visitors in the anteroom of the White House was a man who claimed to be his relative. He walked out and was surprised to find his boyhood friend and cousin, Dennis Hanks. The latter had come to see his distinguished relative on a rather strange mission. A number of persons living in Coles county, in Illinois, offended at the presenco and conduct of a few soldiers who were at home from the war on furlough at the town of Charleston, had brought about a riot, in which sncounter several of the latter had been killed. Several of the civilian participants who had acted as leaders in the strife had been arrested and sent to Fort McHenry or some other place of confinement equally far from their homes. The leading lawyers and politicians of central Illinois were appealed to, but they and all others who had tried their hand had been signally unsuccessful in their efforts to secure the release of tha prisoners. Meanwhile sonn one of a sentimental turn had conceived the idea of sending garrulous old Dennis Hanks to Washington, fondly believing that his relationship to the president might in this last extremity be of some avail. The novelty of the project secured its adoption by the prisoners' friends, and Dennis, arrayed in a suit of new clothes, set out for the national capital. I have heard him describe this visit very minutely. How his appearance in Washington and his mission struck Mr. Lincoln can only be imagined.

The president, after listening to him and learning the purpose of his visit, retired to an adjoining room and re-

DENNIS

HANKS.

turned with ail extremely large roll of papers, labeled "The Charleston Riot Case," which he carefully untied and gravely directed his now diplomatic cousin to read. Subsequently, and as if to continue the joke, he sent him down to confer with the secretary of war. He soon returned from the latter's office with the report that the head of the war department could not be found, and it was well enough that he did not meet that abrupt and oftentimes demonstrative official. In the course of time, however, the latter happened in at the executive mansion, and there, in the presence of Dennis, the president sought to reopen the now noted Charleston case. Adopting Mr. Hanks' version, the secretary, with his characteristic plainness of speech, referring to the prisoners, declared that "every done of them should be hung. Even the humane and kindly inquiry of the president, "If these men should return home and become good citizens, who would be hurt?" failed to convince the distinguished secretary that the public good could be promoted by so doing. The president not feeling willing to override the judgment of his war secretary in this instance, further consideration of the case ceased, and his cousin returned to his home in Illinois with his mission unaccomplished.

Dennis' Opinion of Stanton.

Dennis retained a rather unfavorable impression of Mr. Stanton, whom he described as a "frisky little Yankee with a short coattail. "1 asked Abe," he said to me once, "why he didn't kick him out I told him he was too fresh altogether." Lincoln's answer was, "If I did, Dennis, it would be difficult to find another man to fill his place." The president's cousin sat in the office during the endless interviews that take place between the head of the nation and the latter's loyal subjects. He saw modesty aud obscurity mingling with the arrogance of pride and distinction. One day an attractive and handsomely dressed woman called to procure the release from prison of a relative in whom she professed the deepest interest. She was a good talker, and her winning ways seemed to be making a deep impression on the president. After listening to her story he wrote a few lines on a card, inclosing it in an envelope and directing her to take it to the secretary of war. Before sealing it he showed it to Dennia It read, "This woman, dear Stanton, is little smarter than she looks to be." She had, womanlike, evi-. dently overstated her oasa

Before night another woman called, more humble in appearance, more plainly clad. It was the old story—fathei and son both in the army, the formei in prison. Could not the latter be discharged from the array and sent home to help his mother? A few strokes of

the pen, a gentle nod of the head, and the little woman, her eyes filling witb tears and expressing a grateful acknowledgment her tongue could not utter, passed out.

A Near Friend's Testimony. It will interest the reader and nft doubt aid him greatly in drawing tho portrait of Lincoln to call up for the* purpose a friend of his, whose testimony is not only vivid aud minute, but for certain reasons unusually appropriate and essential. Tlio friend referred to is Joshua F. Speed. Under date of Deo. 6, 1866, he says: "Mr. Lincoln was so unlike all the men I had ever known before or seen or known since that there is no one to whom I can compare him. "The beauty of his character was its entire simplicity. He had no affectation, in anything. True to nature, true to himself, he was true to everybody and everything around him. When he was ignorant on any subject, no matter how simple it might mako him appear, he •was always willing to acknowledge it. His whole aim in life was to lie true to himself, and being true to himself he could te false to no ono. "He had no vices even ns a young man. Intense thought with him wasthe rule and not, as with most of us, the exception. He often said that he could think better after breakfast, and better walking than sitting, lying or standing. His worldwide reputation for telling anecdotes and telling them so well was, in my judgment, necessary to his very existence. Most men who have been great students, such as ho was, in their hours of idleness have taken to the bottle, to cards or dice. Ho had no fondness for any of these. Hence ho sought relaxation in anecdotes. So far as I now remember of his study for composition, it was to make short sentences and a compact stj'le. "Unlike all other men, there was entire harmony between his public and private life. He must believe he wasright, and that he had truth and justice with him, or he was a weak man, but no man could be stronger if he thought he was right

His Kindness of Heart.

"The last interview but one I had with him was about ten days prior to* his last inauguration. Congress was drawiug to a close. It had been an important session. Much attertion had to be given to the important Jls he was signing. A great war was upon him and the country. Visitors were coming and going to the president with their varying complaints and grievances from morning till night with almost as much regularity as the ebb and flow of the tide, and he was worn down in health and spirits. "On this occasion I was sent for to come and see him. Instructions were given that when I came I should be admitted. When I entered his office, it was quite full and many more, among them not a few senators and members of congress, still waiting. As soon as I was fairly inside the president remarked that he desired to see me as soon as he was through giving audiences, and that if I had nothing to do I could take the papers and amuse myself in that or any other way I saw fit till he was ready. "In the room, when I entered, I observed sitting near the fireplace, dressed in humble attire, two ladies, modestly waiting their turn. Ono after another of the visitors came and went, each bent on his own particular errand, some satisfied and others evidently displeased at the result of their mission. The hour had arrived to close the door against all further callers. No one was left in the room now except the president, the two ladies and me. With a rather peevish and fretful air he turned to them and said, 'Well, ladies, what can I do for you?' They both commenced to speak at once. From what they said he soon learned that one was the wife and the other the mother of two men imprisoned for resisting the draft in western Pennsylvania. 'Stop,' said he. 'Don't say any more. Give me your petition.' The old lady responded: 'Mr. Lincoln, we've got no petition. We couldn't write oneand had no money to pay for writing one, and I thought best to come and see' you.' 'Oh,' said he, 'I understand your cases!' Ho rang his bell and ordered, one of the messengers to tell General Dana to bring him the names of all the men in prison for resisting the draft in western Pennsylvania. The general sooncame with-the list. He inquired if ther» was any difference in the charges or degrees of guilt. The general replied that he knew of none. 'Well, then,' said he^ 'these fellows have suffered long enough, and I have thonght so for some time, and now that my mind is on the subjectI believe I will turn out the whole flecks go draw up the order, general, and I will sign it' It was done, and the general left the room. Turning to the women, he said, 'Now, ladies, you can go.*" The younger of fhetwo ran forward andt was in the act of kneeling in thankfulness. 'Get up,' he said. 'Don't kneel tome, but thank God and go.' "We were now alone. I said to hixo^ 'Lincoln, with my knowledge of your", nervous sensibility, it is a wonder tbaSv Buch scenes as this don't kill you.' Hethought for a moment and then answered in a languid voice: 'Yes, you are* to a certain degree right. I ought not tor undergo what I so often da I am very unwell now. My feet and hands of late seem to be always oold, and I ought perhaps to be in bed, but things of the sort you have just seen don't hurt me, for, to tell you the truth, that soene the only thing today that has made m©' forget my condition or given me any pleasura I have, in that order, madetwo people happy and alleviated the distress of many a poor soul whom ,1 never" expect to see. That old lady,' he continued, 'was no counterfeit. The mother spoke out in all the features of her face. It is more than one oan often say that in doing right one has made tw* people happy in one day. Speed, di» when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best that I alwaysplucked a thistle and planted a flowar" when I thought a flower would grow.'**' What a fitting «ontiment! What a gIo** rions recollect*.*! t"

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