Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 29 July 1895 — Page 3

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A COOL RETREAT.

Has Every Desirable .Facility for ail Enjoyable Summer Sojouru.

Persons desiring to combine recreation, entertainment, instruction and devotion with their summer outing will And Eagle Lake, on the Pensylvania Lines, near Warsaw Ind., the ideal spot. This pretty resort is site of Wii.ona Assembly and Summer school, the youugest of the Chautauqua Assembly?. The grounds have been well and favorabley known as Spring Fountain Park. They coustitue 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 fiud rest and liealthgiviug recreation in invigorating air, amid attractive surroundings. Some desirable cottage sites areytt 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 furnishiDg 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 pastim* 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 ba addressed to Secretary E. S. Scott, Eaale Lake, Ind.

Numerous Excursions the Coming Summer at Reasonable Kates.

Whether the tourist's fancy directs him 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, account 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 aad 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 jaant 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 Moon* tains, the Hudson 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 agrlcultuaal paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, over the AUeghenies, around famous Horse Shoe Carve, 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 khan 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,

HOltEOPA rniC PHYSICIAN and SIMEON.

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

Prompt attention to calls in city or oountry. Special attention to Children*, Women*' and Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louis Chlldrens Hospital. 9Mj

FOR SALE

13 acres choice land, within corporate limits of city,

JOHN CORCORAN.

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ELMER J. BIN FORD

LAWYER.

Special attention given to collections, settlini estates, guardian business, conveyancing, ©if Notary always in office.

Office—Wilson block, opposite court-houaw.

C. W.MORRISON 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&Wlmo.

PLEASURE TRIPS.

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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.

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

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THE ALL SEEING EYE.

VISION, SAYS THE REV. DR. TALMAGE, IS THE CREATOR'S MASTERPIECE.

But the Eye of God Is More Indescribably Wonderful, Searching and Overwhelining—An Extremely Eloquent and Instructive Discourse—Sight Restored.

NEW YORK, July 28.—Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent on his summer preaching tour in the west and southwest, has prepared for today a sermon on "The All Seeing," the text selected being Psalm xciv, 9, "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?"

The imperial organ of the human system is the eye. All up and down the Bible God houors it, extols it, illustrates it or arraigns it. Fivo hundred and thir-ty-four times it is mentioned in the Bible. Omnipresence—"the eyes of the Lord are in eveiy place." Divine care— "as the apple of the eye. The clouds —"the eyelids of the morning. Irreverence—"the eye that mocketh at its father." Pride—"Oh, how lofty are their eyes!" Inattention—"the fool's eye in the ends of the earth." Divine inspection—'' wheels full of eyes.!' Suddenness—"in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump.'' Olivetic sermon—"the light of the body is the eye." This morning's text—"He that formed the eye, shall he not see?" The surgeons, the doctors, the anatomists and the I physiologists understand much of the glories of the two great lights of tho human face, but the vast multitudes go on from cradlo to grave without any appreciation of the two great masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty, if God had lacked anything of infinite wisdom, he would have failed in creating the human eye. We wander through the earth trying to see wonderful sights, but the most wonderful sight that we ever see is not so wonderful as the instruments through which we see it.

It has been a strange thing to me for 40 years that some scientist with enough eloquence and magnetism did not go through the country with illustrated lectures on canvas 30 feet square to startle and thrill and overwhelm Christendom with the marvels of the human eye. We want the eye taken from all its technicalities, and some one who shall lay aside all talk about the pterygomaxillary fissures, and the sclerotica, and the chiasma of the optic nerve, and in common parlance which you and I and everybody can understand present the subject. We have learned men who have been telling us what our origin is and what we were. Oh, if some one should come forth from the dissecting table and from the classroom of the I university and take the platform, and asking the help of the Creator, demonstrate the wonders of what we are!

If I refer to the physiological facts suggested by the former part of my text it is only to bring out in a plainer way the theological lessons at the latter pai of my text, "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?" I suppose my text referred to the human eye, since it excels all others in structure and in adaptation. The eyes of fish and reptiles and moles and bats are very simple things, because they have not much to do. There are insects with 100 eyes, but the 100

eyes. The black beetle swimming the summer pond has two eyes under water and two eyes above the water, but the four itsectile are not equal to the tw^ human. Man, placed at the head of all living creatures, must have supreme equipment, while the blind fish in the Mammoth cave of Kentucky have only an undeveloped organ of sight, an apology for the eye, which, if through some crevice of the mountain they should get into the sunlight, might be developed into positive eyesight. In the first chapter of Genesis we find that God, without any consultation, created the light,

Structure of the Eye.

See how God honored the eye before he created it Ho cried, until chaoe was irradiated witb the utterance,. "Le» there be light f" In other words, before he introduced man Into this temple of the world he illuminated it, prepared it

human eye has been destroyed in th« final demolition of the world, stars are to fall, and the sun is to cease its shining, and the moon is to turn into hi In other words, after the human are no more to be profited by their smning, the chandeliers of heaven are to be turned out God, to educate and to bless and to help the human eye, set in the mantel of heaven two lamps—a gold lamp and a silver lamp—the one for the day and the other for the night To show how God honors the eye, look at the two halls built for the residence of the eyes, seven bones making the wall for each eye, the seven bones curiously wrought together. Kingly palace of ivory is considered rich, but the halls for the residence of the human eye are richer by so much as human bone is more sacred than elephantine tusk. See how God honored the eyes when he made a roof for them, so that the sweat of toil should not smart them and the rain dashing against the forehead should not drip into them. The eyebrows not bending over the eye, but reaching to the right and to the left, so that the rain and the sweat should be compelled to drop upon the cheek, instead of falling into this divinely protected human eyesight See how God honored the eye in the fact presented by anatomists and physiologists that there are 800 contrivances in every eye. For window shutters, the

eyes have less faculty than the human I which the world sails in and drops

created the trees, created the fish, creat- eye say one thing and the lips say aned the fowl, but when he was about to make man he called c. convention of divinity, as though to imply that all the powers of Godhead were to be enlisted in the achievement "Let us make man." Put a whole ton of emphasiB on that word "us." "Let us make man." And if God called a convention of divinity to create man I think the two great questions in that oonferenoe were how to create a soul and how to mav«» an appropriate window for that emperor to look out of.

for the eyesight And so, after the last I lands? Anything you ask me. I am so sorry I put your eye out." But the servant refused to pot any financial estimate on the value of the eye, and when the emperor urged and urged again the matter he said, "Oh, emperor, I want nothing but my lost eye!" Alas for-those for whom a thick and impenetrable veil is drawn across the face of the heavens and the face of one's own kindred. That was a pathetic'soene when a blind man lighted a torch at night and was found

eyelids opening and closing 38,000 times a day. The eyelashes so constructed that they have their selection as to what shall be admitted, saying to the dust, "Stay out," and saying to the light, "Come in." For inside curtains the iris, or pupil of the eye, according as the light is greater or less, contracting or dilating.

The eye of the owl is blind in the daytime, the eyes of some creatures are blind at night, but the human eye so marvelously constructed can see both by day and by night. Many of the other creatures of God can move the eye only from side to side, but the human eye so marvelously constructed has one muscle to lift the eye, and another muscle to lower the eye, and another muscle to roll it to the right, and another muscle?" to roll it to the left, and another muscle passing through a pulley to turn it round and round—an elaborate gearing of six muscles as perfect as God could make them. There also is the retina, gathering the rays of light and passing the visual impression along the optic nerve, about the thickness of the lampwick—passing the visual impression on to tho sensorism and on into the soul. What a dclicate lens, what an exquisite screen, what soft cushions, what wonderful chemistry of the human eye! The eye, washed by a slow stream of moisture whether we sleep or wake, rolling imperceptibly.over the pebble of the eye and emptying into a bone of the nostril. A contrivance so wonderful that it can see the sun, 95,000,000 miles away, and the point of a pin. Telescope and microscope in the same contrivance. The astronomer swings and moves this way and that and adjusts and readjusts the telescope until he gets it to the right focus. The microscopist moves this way and that and adjusts and readjusts the magnifying glass until it is prepared to do its work, but the human eye, without a touch, beholds the star and the smallest insect. The traveler among the Alps, with one glance taking in Mont Blanc and the face of his watch to see whether he has time to climb it.

The Tear Glands.

Oh, this wonderful camera obscura which you and I carry about with us, so today we can take in our friends, so from the top of Mount Washington we can take in New England, so at night we can sweep into our vision the constellations from horizon to horizon. So delicate, so semi-infinite, and yet the light coming $5,000,000 of miles at the rate of 200,000 miles a second is obliged to halt at the gate of the eye, waiting for admission until the portcullis be

miles and striking an instrument which has not the agitation of even winking under the power of the stroke! There also is the merciful arrangement of the tear gland, by which the eye is washed, and from which rolls the tide which brings the relief that comes in tears when some bereavement or great loss strikes us. The tear not an augmentation of sorrow, but the breaking up of the arctic of frozen grief in the warm gulf stream of consolation. Incapacity to weep is madness or death. Thank God for the tear glands, and that the crystal gates are so easily opened. Oh, the wonderful hydraulic apparatus of the human eye! Divinely constructed vision Two lighthouses at the harbor of the immortal soul, under the shining ®f

anchor! What an anthem of praise to God is the human eye The tongue is speechless and a clumsy instrument of expression as compared with it. Have you not seen it flash with indignation, or kindle with enthusiasm, or expand with devotion, or melt with sympathy, or stare with fright, or leer with villainy, or droop with sadness, or pale with envy, or fire with revenge, or twinkle with mirth, or beam with love? It is tragedy and comedy and pastoral and lyric in turn. Have you not seen its uplifted brow of surprise, ot its frown of wrath, or its contraction of pain? If the

other thing, you believe the eye rather than the lips. The eyes of Archibald Alexander and Charles G. Finney were the mightiest part of their sermon. George Whitefield enthralled great assemblages with his eyes, though they were crippled with Strabismus. Many a military chieftain has with a look hurled a regiment to victory or to death. Martin Luther turned his great ey4£bn an assassin who came to take his life, and the villain fled. Under the glanoe of the human eye the tiger, with five times a man's strength, ..snarls back into the African jungle.

But those best appreciate the value of the eye who have lost it. The Emperor Adrian by accident put out the eye of his servant, and he said to his servant: "What shall I pay you in, money or in

passing along the highway, and some

one said, "why do you carry that torch, when you can't see?'' "Ah," said he, "I can't see, but I carry this torch that others may see me and pity my helplessness, and not run me down." Samson, the giant, with his eyes put out by the Philistines, is more helpless than the smallest dwarf with vision undamaged. All the sympathies of Christ were stirred when he saw Bartimeus with darkened retina, and the only salve he ever made that we read of was a mixture of dust and saliva and a prayer, with which he cured the eyes of a man blind from his nativity. The value of the eye is shown as much by its catastrophe as by its healthful action. Ask the man who for 20 years has ijot seen the sun rise. Ask the man whq for half a century has not seen the fa^of a friend. Ask in the hospital the victim of ophthalmia. Ask the man whose eyesight perished in a powder blast Ask the Bartimeus who

lifted. Something hurled 95,000,000 of so full of indignation, so full of com-

nfiver met a Christ or the man born blind who is to die blind. Ask him. This morning, in my imperfect way, I have only hinted at the splendors, the glories, the wonders, the divine revelations, the apocalypses of the human eye, and I stagger back from the awful portals of the physiological miracle which must have taxed the ingenuity of a God, to cry out in your ears the words of my text, "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?" Shall Herschel not know as much as his telescope? Shall Fraunhofer not know as much as his spectroscope? Shall Swammerdan not know as much as his microscope? Shall Dr. Hooke not know as much as his micrometer? Shall the thing formed know more than its master? "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?"

Wonders of Vision.

The recoil of this question is tremendous. We stand at the center of a vast circumference of observation. No privacy. On us, eyes of cherubim, eyes of seraphim, eyes of archangel, eyes of God. We may not be able to see the habitants of other worlds, but perhaps they maybe ablo to see us. We have not optical instruments enough to descry them perhaps they have optical instruments strong enough to descry us. The mole cannot see the eagle mid sky, but the eagle mid sky can see the mole mid grass. We are able to see mountains and caverns of another world, but perhaps the inhabitants of other worlds can see the towers of our cities, the flash of oiu® seas, the marching of our processions, the white robes of our weddings, the black scarfs of our obsequies.

It passes out from the guess into tho positive when we are told in the Bible that the inhabitants of other worlds do come as convoy to this. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation? But human inspection, and angelic inspection, and stellar inspection, and lunar inspection, and solar inspection are tame compared with the thought of divine inspection. "You converted me 20 years ago," said a black man to my father. "How so?" said my father. "Twenty years ago," said the other, "in the old schoolhouse prayer meeting at Bound Brook you said in your prayer, 'Thou, God, seest me,' and I had no peace under the eye of God until I became a Christian." Hear it. "The eyes of the Lord are in every place." "His eyelids try the children of men." "His eyes were as aflame of fire." "I will guide thee with mine eye." Oh, the eye of God, so full of pity, so full of power, so full of love,

passion, so full of mercy! How it peers through the darkness! How it outshines the day I How it glares upon the offend^ er I How it beams on the penitent soul! Talk about the human eye as being indescribably wonderful! How much more wonderful the great, searching, overwhelming eya of God I All eternity past and all eternity to come on that retina.

A Searching Glare.

The eyes with which we look into each other's face today suggest it It stands written twice on your face and twice on mine, unless through casualty one or both have been obliterated. "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?" Oh, the eye of God! It sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees our perplexities to disentangle them, sees our wants to sympathize with them.

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back, the eye of an antagonist. If we ask his grace, the eye of an everlasting friend. You often find in a book or manuscript a star calling your attention to a footnote or explanation. That star the printer calls an asterisk. But all the stars of the night are asterisks calling your attention to God—an all observing God. Our every nerve a divine handwriting. Our every muscle a pulley divinely swung. Our every bone sculptured with divine suggestion. Our every eye a reflection of the divine eye. God above us, and God beneath us, and God before us, and God behind us, and God within us.

What a stupendous thing to live! What a stupendous thing to die! No such thing as hidden transgression. A dramatic advocate in olden times, at night in a courtroom, persuaded of the innocence of his client charged with murder and of the guilt of the witness who was trying to swear the poor man's life away—that advocate took up two bright lamps and thrust them close up to the face of the witness and cried, "May it please the court and gentlemen of the jury, behold the murderer!" and the man, pi ^ctically under that awful glare, confessed that he was the criminal instead of the man arraigned at the bar. Oh, my friends, our most hidden sin is under a brighter light than that It is under the burning eye of God. He is not a blind giant stumbling through the heavens. He is not a blind monarch feeling for the step of his chariot Are you wronged? He sees it Are you poor? He sees it Have you domestic perturbation of which the world knows nothing? He sees it "Oh," you say, "my affairs are so insignificant I can't realise that God sees me and sees my affairs." Can you see the point of a pin? Can you see the eye of a needle? Can yon see a mote in the sunbeam? And has God given you that power of minute observation, and

possess it himself "He that

formed the eye, shall he not see?" Restored to Sight. But you say: "God is in one wprld and I am in another world. He seems eo far off from me I don't really think he sees what is going on in my life.'' Cus you see the sun 95,000,000 miles away, and do you not think Gk)d has as prolonged vision? But you say, "There are phases of my life and there are colors —shades of color—in my annoyances and my vexations that I don't think God can understand." Does not God gather up all the colors and all the shades of color in the rainbow? And do you suppose there is any phase or any shade in four life he has not gathered up in his own heart? Besides that I want to tell you it will soon all be over, this struggle. That eye of yours, so exquisitely fashioned and strung, find hinged and roofed, will before long be closed in the

last slumber. Loving hands will smooth down the silken fringes. So he giveth his beloved sleep. A legend of St. Frotobert is that his mother was blind, and he was so sorely pitiful for the misfortune that one day in sympathy he kissed her eyes, and by miracle she saw everything. But it is not a legend when I tell you that all the blind eyes of the Christian dead under the kiss of the resurrection morn shall gloriously open. Oh, what a day that will be for those who went groping through this world under perpetual obscuration, or were dependent on the hand of a friend, or with an uncertain staff felt their way, and for the aged of dim sight about whom it may be said that "they which look out of the windows are darkened" wheu I eternal daybreak comes in! What a beautiful epitaph that was for a tombstone in a European cemetery: "Here reposes in God, Katrina, a saint, 85 years of age and blind. The light was restored to her May 10, 1840."

Kingsley's Place In Literature.

Kingsley was a striking example of that which is so characteristic of recent English literature—its strong, practical, social, ethical or theological bent. It is. in marked contrast with French literature. Our writers are always using their literary gifts to preach, to teach, to promulgate a new social or religious movement, to reform somebody or something, to illustrate a new doctrine. From first to last Carlyle regarded himself even more as preacher than as artist. So does his follower, Mr. Ruskin. Macaulay seemed to write history in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of the Whig to tho Tory, and Froude and Freeman write history to enforce their own moral. Disraeli's novels were the programme of a party and the defense of a cause, and even Dickens and Thackeray plant their knives deep into the social abuse of their time. Charles Kingsley was not a professed novelist nor professed man of letters. He was novelist, poet, essayist and historian almost by accident, or with ulterior aims. Essentially he was a moralist, a preacher, a socialist, a reformer and a theo-' logian.

Without pretending that Kingsley is a great novelist, there are scenes, especially descriptive scenes in "Hypatia," in "Westward Ho!" which belong to the very highest order of literary painting and have hardly any superior in the romances of our era. No romances, except Thackeray's, have the same glow of style in such profusion and variety, and Thackeray himself was no such poet of natural beauty as Charles Kingsley— a poet, be it remembered, who by sheer force of imagination could realize for us landscapes and climates of which he himself had no sort of experience. Even Scott himself has hardly done this with so vivid a brush.—Frederic Harrison in Forum. j,

Leather Tires.

Two Frenchmen of Rlieims have re cently completed an invention which they claim will in a measure revolutionize the present pneumatic tire. They build their wheels by substituting an outer pneumatic tube made of leather for the rubber tubes now in use. Their invention has been taken up by the ministry of war, which is now perfecting the idea with a view to supply all the military cycles with tires that will not give out easily.

The resistance of leather is considerably greater than that of rubber, and it will better stand the pressure from within and the exterior agents of destruction, such as nails, hoops, roots or sharp pebbles. It is not absolutely imperforable, but it is at least as good as the fine steel band which was experimentally placed between the outer and inner tubes, and which was pierced by needles and tacks. Leather offers the greatest impenetrability in relation to its thickness without impairing the necessary elasticity. It is further improved by a preparation which renders it impermeable to water. The leather tire is easily repaired in case of perforation— any cobbler can sew it up—and this repair is permanent and not likely to get out of order.

Other advantages claimed for the leather tire are: Greater lightness, it will not get out of shape as does rubber, and it will not slip on asphalt pavement or wet roads. The new material for the tire seems to meet with great encouragement on the part of the military authorities of France.—Paris Nature.,

PrlnaeM Helens Favorite.

Princess Helene is an accomplished horsewoman and is very fond of hunting. She is a beautiful girl, with a fine figure, tall and queenly. Princess Helene has long been a great favorite with our own royal family, and more especially of the Prinoess of Wales and Princess Beatrioe. At the garden party given at Sheen House in 1889 by the Comte and Comtesse de Paris to celebrate their silver wedding, Prinoess Helene was a lovely girl of 18, with beautiful golden brown hair that has now become some shades darker. The Duo d'Aosta is two years older than his tylfa |^d though not so handsome 8°°^ looking and of pleasap^KmM^B manners. It will be reme^tfictlp that his father, the late duke, was king of Spain for a few years under the title of Amadeo I.—London News.

Couldn't Name the Flower.

How we walk through the world, blind to the commonest things, was illustrated the other day at a summer boarding house. A bunch of delicate white flowers was in a little vase on the table, mixed with some wisps of drooping grain pods. Somebody wondered idly what made up the bouquet It was finally decided, though not without question, that the grain was rye, but the blossomc no one recognized. When everybody had admitted that it was a speoies of wild flower that she and he had never uome across, their gatherer was called, and the company, with chagrin and humiliation, received the word that they were—potato blossoms. New York Times.

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