Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 April 1905 — Page 2

TaUr are millions of "acres" of arid Xiad upon the globe, much of it, even Trtth the most persistent irrigation, yielding but scantily, and enormous reaches of it devoid of all growth but the cactus, a foe to man and beast; but Mr. Burbank resolved that he would reclaim it, not by Irrigation, though welcoming its aid, but by means of the desert itself the desert and its cactus, Its heat and Its sun. So for a period of over ten years he has worked "With the utmost persistence and skill until at last he has developed a cactus plant which -will convert the desert into a garden. He has made the cactus thornless, taking from Its leaves the hard, woody substance, the spicules, so dangerous to animal life. Hore than this, he has made it adaptable to any climate. It will thrive on the hot desert, but it will grow with marvelous fecundity when irrigated or "when planted in a richer soil. But this is not all of the marvel. He has bred this dreaded scourge of the desert, this pariah among plants, until it has become the producer of a delightful, nutritious food for man and beast until, in his estimate, considering the unusued aceas of the world where It will thrive, it will afford food lor twice the people now upon the earth. Cencury.

A "Wonderful Discovery. Broadlands, S. D., April 17. Quite a ftmsatlon has been created here by the publication of the story of O. W. Cray, who after a epecial treatment for three months was prostrate and feelpless and given op to die with Crlghfs disease. Bright'! disease has always been' considered incurable, but Evidently from the story told by Mr. ray, there Is a remedy which will cure it, even in the most advanced stages. This is what he says: "I was helpless as a little babe. My wife and I searched everything and read everything we could find about Brlghf s disease, hoping that I would be able to find a remedy. After many failures my wife insisted that I should try Dodd's Eidney Pills. I praise God for the day when I decided to do so, for this remedy met every phase of oy case and in a short time I was able to get out of bed and after a few week' treatment I was a strong, well man. Dodd's Kidney Pills saved my life." A remedy that will cure Brighfa disease will cure any lesser Kidney disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills are certainly the most wonderfrl discovery which modern medical renarch hi given to the world. TRAINED NURSES' NEW FIELD. One Teache Rudiment of Calling; to Well-to-Do Women. A bright woman, holding the certificate of a trained curse, has discovered a new field of abor for members of that profession. Possessing a talent for imparting knowledge rather than a love for tending the sick, she has opened classes where well-to-do women in prirate Ufa czaj learn the rudiments of trained nursing enough to enabla them to assist the doctor intelligently in their homes, in cases not eerious enough to require the service of the professional nurse or where an Invalid member of the family has conetjmtly to be cared for. fVVl a T"l AnrfA -t r wVi I H a Vt Iiirae Kam A V UUUJG AAA TlUiVil Oiiw been fitted up as a model of its kind for nursing purposes. The rooms contain all modern sick-room improvements and appliances. When a class is in session it moves from one room to another according as the lesson of the day demands. How one should dress In the sick-room and personal hygiene In order to prevent contagion is the first piece of instruction given to the class. Each pupil is asked to provide herself with the necessary cap and apron and a linen dress is recommended, for regular sick-room work is done, and street costumes might get damaged or be Tery inconvenient. The care of the bed, how to keep It clean and comfortable. Is next learned. Tne shaking of the mattress, how to spread the sheets and best to arrange the pillows that the patient may lie easily and be cool. Lifting the patient lightly and gently in order to change the bedding or shift the position is then mastered, followed by Instruction In moving the convalescent, with many little hints toward making her comfortable on any available couch or chair. For lessons when practice of this kind Is required a woman is engaged by the teacher to represent the patient The last few lessons, says the Boston Post, are devoted to. teaching the most approved diets for patients in various cases. The cooking of the food for Invalids and the dainty serving and the best method of feeding these are also taken up. HONEST CONFESSION. A Doctor' Talle on Food. There are no fairer set of men on earth than the doctors, and when they find they have been In error they are cmally apt to make honest and manly confession of the fact. A case in point is that of an eminent practitioner, one of the good old school, who lives In Texas. His plain, tin varnished tale needs no dressing upi MI had always had an Intense prejudice, which I can now see was warrantable and unreasonable, against 'all muchly advertised foods. Hence, J never read a line of the many 'ads.' of Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food till last winter. "While la Corpus Christi for my health, and visiting my youngest son, who has four of the ruddiest, healthiest little boys I ever saw, I ate my first dish of Qrape-Nnts food for supper with my little grandsons. I became exceedingly fond of it and have eattn a package of it every week since, and find it a dellciou?, refreshing and strengthening food, let-Msg no 111 "effects whatever, causing no eructations (with which I was formerly much troubled), no sense of fullness, nausea, nor distress of stomach in any way. "There Is no other food that agrees icrith me so well, or sits as li-htly or pleasantly upon my stomach as - this Goes. I am stronger and more active aince I began tho use of G raps-Nuts than I have been for ten years, and an do ozzzt troubled with nausea and indigestion. Name given by Postum Co Uzttle Creek, Mich. Thtra's a reason. Lcic in each pkg. for th fanorj fill Izz'z, "Tlo Heid U XTClr'

Tin humming bird, to robin, the sparrow and the crow, The bluebird and the bullfinch are up In wings, you know; In amity together a congress they hare now. Concerning thing of feather, In blrdly-wlae pow-WOW. The linnet and heron, the oriole, the kite. The phoebe and the cat-bird stow it isn't right For womenfolk to tear them, to pluck them and to wreck. Tu will them and to wear them at fashion's cruel beck. The bittern says sedately: "They sit In church arrayed. To list the Easter sermon, with feathers on parade. A dove has lost Its mother, a lark has lost Its mate, A Bob 0'k.ncoln's brother Is now a fashion plate." Then all the birds agreeing, a message quickly sent: Kind ladles, prithee list to onr Easter sentiment: How can you hope for pardon? Ton only give cs smarts: How can yoo pray mercy with our blood npon your hearts?" H. S. Keller. The bells were ringing Easter evening to summon the faithful to last service when seh entered the office. She would much rather have been at one of the numerous services to which the chimes called attention, but in her way lay duty, and, moreover, she must live. If a woman has any latent intuition it cannot help being developed in a newspaper office. There, where a fallen dynasty or a floor or a suicide means, first of all, so many "stickfuls" of description, written in a limited number of minutea, one doesn't find time to arrive at conclusions logically and in order. Bat Miss Qninley was quick-witted anyway, and when she opened the door of the reporters' room that sparkling morning and pressed in against the blast of hot, smoky air that seemed glad of a chance to escape, it became instantly plain to her that something unusually important had happened. A man in uis shirt sleeves, who was busily engaged in bellowing directions down a tube, looked up as she entered and nodded. "Big hotel explosion," he volunteered, laconically. The girl swung open the gate and walked directly over to the city editor's office, which was little more than a pen, made by partitioning off one corner. She was young and rather pretty, and her face had a firm, decided look as if she were living definitely and with a purpose. Ilemans, the city editor, glanced at her over his shoulder as she cast a shadow on his paper, but still kept on writing. "Good evening. Miss Quinley," he said, in the sharp, irritable tone of a person whose already tense nerves had received another twist. Presently, when he had finished looking over his assignment book, he turned to Miss Quinley. There's plenty of work to be done," he said, scowling. "This explosion changes the whole night. I must put the men rignt into it. If you were a man now but I don't see anything you would want to do." "It Isn't a question of whether I want to do it or not," replied the girl, drawing herself up with some spirit, "it is a question of whether I can do it or not." The city editor fingered a roll of pink assignment slips doubtfully. "You might go down to the hospital and get a story about the wounded; it won't be very pleasant, though," he said, tentatively. Young Mason, who by reason of his youth and a certain ingenuousness of manner, was the most profitable of all tie reporters to send among women-folk, came in at that instant and caught the last remark. "I wouldn't go, Miss Qinley; those poor wretches won't be a good sight," he advised her, boldly. They were the best of friends. "Why, somebody must do it," she said, "and I don't suppose a man would bear it much better." Ilemans made a gesture implying that this discussion was out of place. "Have your copy here by 12 o'clock," he said, cutting them short with a swift return of his old sharpness. Half past twelve had come and most cf the men had gone out to lunch. Ilemans tramped up and down between the double row of empty desks and consulted his watch every few minutes to the immediate confusion of Dicky Mason. "Two men late," the editor burst forth, feverishly, "and Miss Quinley heaven knows where. Do you suppose chjct uoa luiuitcu an auuui Lilt? paper and gone off to start a subscription list for the sufferers, or fainted, or lost her way? I suppose she has lost her way." Ilemans went back into his office and attacked a pile of proof for the sole purpose cf getting his mind focussed. By and by the men began to straggle in, and kept him occupied until quite late; then he loomed up in the doorway once more and beckoned to Dicky Mason. "I wish, if you can be spared, that you would go ovpt to the hospital and look up Miss Quinley he said. "I don't feel quite comfortable about her not coming back." Dicky began to get into his street coat with an expression of peace on his face and vengeance in his heart. But as he dawdled hunting for a match, there was a little rush in the hall and Miss Quinley came In almost running. She went straight up to the city editor and stopped in front of him. Her eyes were dark and her face chalky white. It was evident that she was laboring under the strongest excitement. "Mr. Ilemans, I must see you. I must see you alone," she said, agitatedly. Ilemans stepped back and allowed her to pass into the office before him; there was a door. She motioned to him to shut-it "What I am going to say belongs only to you' she explained. . Hemans seated .himself and made a play at sorting some papers. It was plain that he did not mean to e impressed by the strangeness of her manner. "Is your story ready?" he inquired, cartly. "No," replied the girl promptly, though fcer voice trembled, "the hospital story can wait; It isn't perishable, but the one I'm going to tell you is. I was waiting there when they brought in a young woman; she had been pinned dowr by a beam, they said, and her back was broken. Because she was suffering so frightfully they didn't try to move her much, but just laid her dowi on a mattress in, a side halh I suppos- she must have noticed rzs with my p-cil tnd r-jper, for

. luiuD -tkuiraiiuU4av she wanted to s-ak to me. "This is very "Vteresting," broke in Hemans, coolJy, "but I'm afraid I haven't time to hear it quite all now." The girl let her gaze fall full on him for a second: then oyening a chatelaine bag which she w a at her side, she took a curiously ught silver key-ring and laying it on le desk, shoved It toward him with :ie tips of her fingers. The pupils of the man's eyes dilated suddenly. "Shall I go on?" asked the girl. Yes," replied the city editor. "She talked rather incoherently and I had to gather things little by little. She said that she had been married, but that her husband was dead, and then explained how they had. not lived very happily together. She was ambitious and demanded more than he could give, and he didn't sympathize with her but called her frivolous, although he always loved her and was good to her and the children. She wished ou to remember that he left two children. "But at one time he lost money and she grew discontented and the relations between them kept growing more and more strained until" she hesitated and glanced at Hemans appealingly, but he sat in stolid silence, with his hands clasping the sides of his chair and refused to help her out with a question, "until there was" she looked away with that womanly instinct which shrank from seeming to watch him "a robbery in a bank. I won't go Into all she said about it; it isn't necessary. It was for a very large sum, but the fault was finally settled on one man, the youngest to hold a responsible position and the one who was leading the life that demanded the most money. There was some circumstantial evWence, too. They found a key proved to be his by a mark worn in it from a corrugated key-ring which he used to carry, and when they tried to compare the key with

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the ring he claimed to have lost it This was the particular thing that made his relatives dread to have a public trial, and so they persuaded him to take some of his personal property and make up the amount stolen; then he resigned and wont away. At the same time there was another n.an in the bank who gave up his position." Miss Quinley paused, and, putting up her hands, loosened the littJe fur boa about her neck as if it choked her. Ilemans had changed his position and was sitting with his elbows on his knees and his head supported between his clenched fists. "There isn't much more," she said, gently. "If you will go at once, while she still has the courage of her resolution, she has promised to sign something that will clear you from any suspicion; but she said you must come quickly while she had strength to do it.' The girl swayed to and fro in the force of her emotion. "I asked the doctor, and he said that she couldn't last later than 5 o'clock," she said, brokenly. Ilemans raised hii head. His face wore a softened expression. Presently without speaking he glanced at the clock and, rising, opened the door of the office. Every man glanced up involuntarily and surreptitiously from his work. Things must be getting very queer, indeed, they thought, for the city editor moved away without giving her a chance to speak. Dicky Mason, going in a few minutes later, found her crying in a pitiful, exhausted way. "Oh, I say it's a shame, he exclaimed, sympathetically. "I was sure it would be worse than you expected." The girl controlled herself with a violent effort and made a motion with her lips as If to say something. "No, it wasn't worse; it was better," she said at last "How splendidly this Easter is ending! Ending with the resurrection of a man who has been buried, or might as well have been." , ient. lent is nominally a part of the religions life of but two of the great Christian bodies of this country the Roman Catholic and Protestant Episcopal churches yet it has come in recent years to be more or less generally observed by all. Why is this the case? The tendency of the religious life of the day is toward that which is practical; yet here is a drift toward something which, in the minds of many persons, is associated with ritualism, Men and women who belong to noue of the churches which formally observe Lent now modify" their habits considerably during a period of forty days, te conform to thia ancient Christian fast. They may not follow any of the rules in regard to strict tasting or even to abstaining from meat, but they do make changes in their daily habits which are quite t significant. In many of the large cities there are daily Lenten services in churches tx situated as to attract business men. Brokers leave their tickers for an hour at f noon, and spend the time in listening to a brief address. Sunday congregations are larger and attendance at places of amusement b smaller. The explanation is doubtless simple. IX h thit ether churches bsddcs theca

wuivu uae t" invuuoiieu, anapemapl persons outside of churches, have begun to feel that it ic good to give a part of the year especially to the life of the soul and to spiritual things; to recall the fasting and temptations and the last earthly days of the Master, and to rededicate their aims and ambitions. The age, so far from being one which encourages theological or ecclesiastical differences, is impatient and heedless of them. Men of all creeds are becoming broad enough to recognize a beautiful custom, no matter in what church they find it, and to adopt every custom that makes for purity of life and spiritual advancement. Youth's Companion.

IMAGINARY MOONS FIX DATE. ASTER'S date caused centuries of controversy. It was in the second century that the dispute arose between the eastern and western churches. The great mass i of eastern Chris tians celebrated Easter on the 14th day of the first J ewish month or moon, considering it to be equivalent to the Jewish Passover. " The western churches celebrated it on the Sunday after tbe 14th day, holding that it was the commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus. The council of Nicea decided in 323 in favor of the western usage, branding the Easter with the name of "Quarto deciman heresy, but this decision onlj go thou forth and alngl Resurrection hont settled the point that Easter was to be held, not on a certain day of th month or moon, but on a Sunday. It was not until 13S2 that Easter wa3 definitely fixed. It was debated at the time of the introduction of the Gregorian calendar whether Easter should continue to be movable or a fixed Sunday after the 21st of March be adopted. Ancient usage prevailed. It is not the actual moon of the astronomers, not even the mean moon of the astronomers, that regulates the time of Easter, but an altogether imaginary moon, whose periods are so contrived that the calendar new moon follows the real new moon sometimes by two or three days. The effect is that the 14th of the calendar moon, which had from the time of Moses been considered "full moon" for ecclesiastical purposes, falls generally on the 15th or 16th of the real moon. Vrith this explanation, then, that by "full moon" is means the 14th day of the calendar moon, the rule is that Easter day is always the first Sunday after the paschal full moon, which happens upon or next after the 21st of March, the beginning of the ecclesiastical year. If the full moon happens upon a Sunday Easter day is the Sanday after. One object in arranging the calendar moon was that Easter might never fall on the same day as the Jewish Passover. They did occur together, however, In 1S03, 1825 and 1003 and will occur together in 1023, 1027 and 10S1. The Jewish Parsover usually occurs in the week before Easter and never before the 2Gth cf March or after the 25th of April. The Christian festival is never before the 22d of March or after the 23th of April. In 17G1 and 1818 Easter fell on the 22d of March, but this will not happen In any year of the twentieth century. The latest Easter in thia century will be In 1943, on the 25th of April. Especially When Colored. "Of an the Easter lays," she said, "Admired and sung of men, Mine most, I wis, Important Is" The speaker was a hen. New York Evening Journal Shattering an Easter Ideal. - 9 1 ? Mr. Goldbrkk Bunny WelL if thos darn chickens I've just bought don't lay pretty soon my reputation as an Harte rabbit will rarely take an crful tcnt!

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Bishop Charles 0 .McCabe, of the M. E. Church, now a resident of Philadelphia, Pa., pays a tribute to the late Gen. W. H. Powell, who died at his home in Bellviile, 111., Dec. 24, 1004, the distinguished Methodist acknowledging that to the ministration of Gen. Powell, a Presbyterian, while they were fellow Union prisoners during the Civil War, he owes everything-his life. lie says: "Gen. Powell was a fellow prisoner with me in Libby prison in 18G2. . In the battle of Wythesvllle, Va.t he was terribly wounded, and it was supposed that his days were numbered. He carried the bullet with him to his grave. "When he recovered sufficiently to be moved after the battle he was brought to Libby prison, and while there a charge of murder was brought against him. Of course it was a false and cruel charge. He told me afterward how the impression got out that he had killed a man after he had surrendered. One day he was riding along at the head of his command, when he saw lying right in the road over which his troopers must pass the helpless form of a wounded Confederate officer. Gen. Powell sprang from his horse and, lifting the man from his perilous position, carried him to the side of the road and laid him down under a tree, and then rushed back and mounted his horse. He was so far ahead of his troopers that he did this and still was In the lead. "The officer was found dead by his friends, and Gen. Powell was charged with having murdered him. I saw the sergeant of the guard take him out of Libby prison and put him in the dungeon to await his trial upon his false accusation. He was kept in the dungeon thirty-seven days and then was released because no proof was forthcoming that could be brought up against him. There was no furniture In the cell where he was confined except a little wooden bench, and the room was dark and dismal enough. The rats which abounded in the prison were his only companions.. "We had a custom in the room in Libby prison where Milroy's men were confined, of singing an evening hymn, and every evening 'Nearer, My God, to Thee, or 'Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me or some other familiar hymn would be rang by the prisoners. One day I received a note from Gen. Powell, which was brought to me secretly by x colored man, which read as follows: Dear Chaplain: Sing a little louderi I can Just hear you. . W. H. Powell And always after that appeal from the dungeon we pitched our tunes in a little higher key so that our lonely, suffering comrade, far below, could hear them. "I had with me a litle copy of the New Testament and Psalms, such as the American Bible Society had distributed in the army. I prized it much, but I pafted with it to comfort the General, and wrote on the margin of the Forty-second Psalm, 'Hope thou in God, for thou shalt yet praise Him.' The General carried that little book with him for many years. Many times In addressing Sabbath schools and other religious assemblies, he would take it out and hold it aloft and tell the story. "Just about the time he came out of the dungeon I was sent to the hospital, 111 with typhoid fever. In a few days Gen. Towell was sent there, too, for he was still suffering greatly from his wound. "His family has in its possession a Journal in which he tells what he did for me in those days. He found me covered with vermin from head to foot and supposed to be dying from fever. He sat down by my side and took out his little pocket scissors, and he cut off my long hair, which hung down to my shoulders, and then he cut off my long beard, which hung down to my breast He then secured from the physician an Insect exterminator which soon relieved me from this part of my suffering. The next day he gave me a bath with his own hands, and then asked the prison cook for permission to go to the kitchen that he might get up something that I could eat and he brought me time and again some nourishing food. "In an old scrapbook which I have preserved there Is pasted a letter bearing the date of Oct 3, 1SG3, Richmond, Va., addressed to my wife, and Gen. Powell took it down from my lips, sentence by sentence, and while the tone of it Is hopeful of recovery, I thought at the time that it was the last letter my wife would ever receive from me. I wish to record the fact, that I owe my life and all that it may have been worth to my family, to my country, tnd to the church of God to the tender and faithful ministries of this good man. He was as faithful to me as David was to Jonathan. "I have said he was a great man. Gen. Sheridan thought so, too, and when Gen. Powell's wound made it necessary for him to resign his command, and Gen. Sheridan wrote his approval upon it as it passed on to the Secretary of Wart he made this remark: The army could better spare ine Gen. Powell always reminded me of that little strain in Bayard Taylor's poem about the singing of Annie Laurie' at the siege of Sevastopol. The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring "I met him again in February, 1834, Just after he was exchanged. We were both invited to speak at the anniversary of the Christian Commission, which was held Sabbath night in the ball of the House of Representatives. We sat together in the presence of a vast assembly on that occasion, and we made brief addresses. Together we sang Mrs. Howe's 'Battle Hymn of the Republic': " "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of tfie Lord. Ha h. trampling out tha yintaga wfcera

the grapes of wrath are stored. He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on. "The great audience gave back the chorus until the hall rang with Its triumphant 6 trains. Abraham Lincoln was sitting within ten feet of us as we stood together, and he sent up a little scrap of paper on which was written the words: 'Please sing that song again. Of course, the request was granted. "Gen Powell was a Christian man, an honored member of the Presbyterian ohurch. He died calmly and even triumphantly, bidding his family and comrades to meet him in the heavenly world. Thus, one by one, the soldiers of the Grand Army are passing away, but the Republic lives for which 400,000 men have given their lives. Indianapolis Star. The Battle Fla-s. As these lines are written, says one of the leading papers of Ohio, there rises a vision of a Confederate battle flag planted in the soil of Virginia 40 years ago, now seen for a momer fluttering and gleaming in the sprbr? sunlight now lost to sight in cloud. of sulphurous smoke. About it rags and surges, back and forth, one of the fiercest struggles of the war. Blue and gray intermingle with hoarse crtee of "Down with 'em I" There are savage thrusts of bayonets and cuts of swinging swords, officers fighting with clubbed muskets, and all the wild excitement and bloody scenes of a hand-to-hand conflict Slowly the gray line gives back, when a Union sergeant seizes the staff of the flag, only to fall dead beneath its folds; then a boyish young private wrests it from the ground, and, unhurt, bears it to tho rear. Later it was carried under escort of a guard of honor, with a blue silk ensign of the State of. Georgia, captured by the same regiment in tha same battle, to corps headquarters and forwarded to the War Department, where with many others they are kept to-day. Now we are told that they are all to be sent back to the States from which the regiments came that carried them. Has there ever been on any statute book the world over such an act as that? We know of none. Warring nations have made peace, and friendship and good will have been restored, victors have returned surrendered swords, but where is there an instance of captured flags having been restored? The resolution came at first to those who had won them with a little shock, but it is right Gradually the spirit of magnanimity and the recognition that we are one people, which dictated Grant's terms at Appomattox, have swept away every prescriptive act and every disability growing out of the war, and now the North, through Congress, lays this last offering toward perfect peace and reconciliation on the altar of our common country, and the men who wore the blue say Amen. Take back your battle flags, brethren of the South. We yield them to your keeping willingly and gladly. They were ours by the fortunes of war; they are yours by right of the magnificent courage with which you defended them, and by the gift of the nation with our hearty concurrence. Cherish them, and teach your children to revere them as emblems and mementoes of the brave deeds of their fathers, and teach them as well to rejoice with ours that we are united again and invincible under the old starry flag of our fathers.

Shot by the Law of War. "The solemnity of a military execution Is about the most impressive and dramatic act that is known in human affairs," said Capt W. B. Pennington of San Francisco. "These features appeal to the witnesses of the tragedy in a forceful way, and no man who has ever seen one can banish it from his memory. "I had a young friend in California Who enlisted in the Union army at the same time with myself, and, coming East we were placed in the same company. This young fellow fell in love with a Virginia girl and under her influence deserted to the enemy. A few days afterward he was captured, and, being easily recognized, was condemned to be shot "He had fought like a dmon in the engagement which resulted in his being made a prisoner, for he knew well what fate would be if taken. His execution was the most mournful ceremony I ever witnessed, and nothing ever seen on the stage was more theatrical the procession to the scene of death, the band in advance playing a dirge, the coffin with the prisoner upon It the guard in the rear and a brigade of cavalry formed in a hollow square. "The condemned man, sitting on bis coffin, met his fate like a hero, without exhibiting a tremor of fear, and those who witnessed his death were far more excited than he. It seemed a sad thing that such a courageous lad should be sacrificed, but it ii one of the necessities of war, and this terrible punishment was necessary to deter others from playing the role of traitor. Josh Billings' Philosophy. Fashion kosts the world more than bread and religion duz. Menny people rate their importanse bi their ability to find fault with everything but themselfs. Liberty iz one ov the most natral rights we possess, and one which we kno the least how to use. If we never had committed enny 'sin we should hav missed a most blessed privilege the privilege ov repentanse. A proper deference on all ockashuns la not only the very kream ov politeness, but one ov the best evidences ov a wellordered and highly intelligent natur. When I see a yung man who iz anxious to disbelieve everything he sees and hears, I konklude he has got but few branes, and don't feel az though he could afford to take enny chances. I don't beleave in phooling around en nything. I never waz krazy to taki enny unnecessary risks. If I wax called upon to mourn over a ded mule, I should stand in ' front ov hirrs and do mi weeping. First ov all, az a rashional being, yr aire required to exerci-o yure rearonj after that fails, fall bak on yure faith, not on yure doubts; no one kan bt held ackountable for their faith they may k fct tltir doubts.

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