St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 16, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 November 1894 — Page 2

WHEN TWILIGHT FALLS. Wi en twilight falls it is the hour Who i loi e i di cam-visitors have power To e me to us in radiant guise. And satisfy our longing eyes. To l» id above the listening ear And whisper to us words of cheer That bear us from life b cares apart And j o.r sweet balsam oer the heart. When twilight falls the maiden dreams ; fibe ne'er Jias 10. ed ; an I yo» there seems Her ideal loie in the room. Beside ler in the friendly gloom, Ard there upon his shadowy breast, She sobs her little griefs to rest; BLe to Is him —'tis her heart that sings — Os comfort that his presence brings. the ne'er has look d nponjiis face; And yet at any time or pface, If in this life they ever nr et. Will re og itlon ne complete; And in th • future blest though dim, Be wa ts for her and s e for h in; And still for him her spirit cull < In that dream-hour when twilight falls. THE MI88IN& LINK. It was a cold night in December. 1 had visited an old friend who lived about six miles from the city, in an Ober-Forrtei; w : had been sitting to- । gether until la^e in the warm, cozy room, over a glass of punch. Un- ; fortunately, one of the buggy horses of my friend had become lame a few days before, and as I had to transact important business in the city the next morning, 1 had no other alternative but to walk home. It was bitterly cold, and so dark that one <ould hardly see the hands before the eyes. A sharp east wind howled over the gloomy ba.ren fields, and 1 was heartily glad when the yellow gaslights of the suburbs appeared. Under the first lamp post I stopped to look at my watch, which was a matter of some difficulty, as one of the panes of the lamp was broken, and the flame, blown by the wind to all direct.ons. was liable to be extinguished any minute. At last I su ceeded in recognizing the hand. It showed three minutes to twelve. When I looked up again, 1 involuntarily started. Close before me stood a man. I had not heard the least noise of steps; it was as if he had suddenly risen out of the ground I looked for a moment silently into his lace. But this moment, was enough to press his countenance upon mv memory. He was a tall, lank man, clad in a wornout black coat, on which some of the seams were open. His face was exceedingly lean and pale the eyes were deep in their cavities, and around the chin hung a g ay, unkempt beard. He lifted his shabby hat and said in a tone whose politeness astonished me: “May J ask you for the kindness. sir, to tell me how late it is?” J naturally was carelul not to pull out my watch again. “Three minutes before midnight,” I replied. He thanked me w.ththe same politeness with which he had formerly spoken, lifted his hat again ana disappeaied in the darkness as noiselessly as he had come. Half an hour later 1 smiled in my fear, and a week afterward Ihad for--

IGUX) uuu, l* ’*•*''* — — gotten the adventure. I was very busy about that time and a large contract which 1 had to till in the next few days for a firm in the neighboring city M. o cup ed my whole attention. About two months had passed when I had, in the night a very strange dream, after 1 had just returned from a business trip to M. I found myself on the summit of a steep precipice. Far away ou the Boflou, I saw the tower of M. 1 oming up. lieside me stood a tall, black figure. Suddenly it streshed cut its arm and pointed with a commanding motion to the far-away city. The dream was s mpie, but it was so exeedingiy vivid that I could not get rid of the thought of it the following clay. “Will it come again?'’ I murmured when 1 retired on the evening. And the dream came again, the same dream 1 had the night beXore; 1 again stood on the mount, and the mysterious figure again pointed al the city M. Next morning at the breakfast table 1 narrated this strange dream to my wife. She was kind enough not to laugh at it, but gave me a very sensible explanation. “That you dream of M.,” said she, “is very natural. lou just returned from there and moreover tram a very impcrtaut business transaction And as far as concerns the black figure, well, of such ghosts one dreams o ten.” “But it is strange that I have the same dream two nights in succession,” 1 replied “Well, this is natural enough. You just told me that you were thinking all day about you dream.” I drank a cup of coffee with a feel ng of relief. The ex- . .. , unngiidn

planation or my -wile was so sensible, li was a pity that I could not p event the dream from coming in the third night and more vivid than ever before. In the gesture of th • black figure this time was something threatening, terrible —I was bathed in cold perspiration when I started up from sleep with a cry of terror. “You look like a corpse,” exclaimed my wife when 1 entered the - dining room next morning. “Has anything ha pened to you' J ” 1 tried to smile, but I fear I did not succeed well in the attempt. “Just think, I bad the dream again last night,” I said slowly. My wile lo ked at me silently. ‘•Either I will become insane or something terrible has happened in M.” ‘•Oh, you superstitious ” she did not conclude the sentence. The maid entered the room with the mail. “Well, there it is. A iettler from M.” “Very well, but what then? Open ft first?” I opened the envelope with trembling fingers. I was sure that 1 must have received an unfortunate message. “Well?” “Uh, my business friend requests me to see him about a transaction.” My wife laughed outright. “And therefore the triple dream! Well, see that you get off. The train

leaves In an hour. But I hope you will bring home another face.” But it was strange, when i boarded the train, I felt more anxiety than ever. I took a paper and tried to read, but it was impossible to get my thoughts together. Again and again the black figure appeared before me. I divided the coupee with three gentlemen, two elderly and a younger one, who had a lively conversation. I soon foun I out that they were lawyers. Their conversation was about a murder case which was to be tried at the district court One, a handsome gentleman with a gray beard and gold spectacles, was thoroughly convinced of the guilt of the defendant “The defense was altogether faulty from thesta t,” hesaid. The younger one—his sharply cut, intelligent profile seemed familiar to me—nodded. “The proof of alibi was ventured, indeed; but on the other side yuu must not forget that there was not one direct witness of the murder. And 1 must confess I 1 am somewhat mistrustful of purely circumstantial evidence.” * ‘But let me tell you. my dear Dr. Bergmann;” said the stout oue, “the case i^s clear as the sun. And if a d en^itnesses had -beeajlhera the fellow would not be tuorS^wrtu.TnT^ convicted. No doubt he is the murderer.” I addressed my vis-a-vis: “I believe we have met befoie, doctor?” The young lawyer recognized me. we had had some business together some I time before I asked him for particulars “What is this case about 0 1 have not regularly read the papers recently.” “ h, it is a very interesting case. A bookkeeper who has lost his position is indicted for the murder and robbery of the cashier of his former firm, a direct p oof, it is said, cannot be given; the circumstantial evidence, however, is grave enough. '1 he defense has tr ed to p ove an alibi but, unfortunately, there is a missing link, just the critical hours in which the deed was committed. Well, here wo are already at M.” The train stopped, and we g toss. “Will you accompany me to the court house? ( r must you attend to your bus.ness right away 0 ” asked the lawyer. 1 stood undecided for a moment. It was just after 9 o’clock, so early 1 wo aid hardly find mv business friend. “\ery well, if I can geta seat” “The court room will undoubtedly be very full, but I will Uo my best” I succeeded in pushing myself into the o\ercrowded court room, but I had lobe satisfied with a seat from which I could see little more than broad backs and high ladies’ hats. It was a low hall, badiy lighted, and worse ventilated; the atmosphere was j stifling. : Perhaps this was the cause why that uneasy, foreboding feeling oppressed me more and more. The com^±»m not yet been opened. Loud 4HKSte^ M l «»oiLes tilled the halt

hearersißpF^-’tne' presiding Judge opened the s&ssioa. ? A few minutes later the district at- I torney took the i oor. Although I : could see nothing of the action, 1 could hear every word: and I followed the argument of the speaker in breathless suspense. 1 had seldom heard a better one. How terribly convin ing he spoke! With what clearness lie arranged and explained the testimony of the witnesses! With what skill he wove out of these insigni. leant threads a net from which there seemed roescape for the murderer! lor the defendant was the murderer; he must be the murderer. Aoone in the court room doubted it afte this crushing speech. The attorney lor the defendant also did his best. But in the proof of alibi, by which he tried to save his client, the most important link was missing It was p.oved that the crime was committed about midnight. Several witnesses had unanimously stated that about that time cries for help were heard from the od.ee in which the cashier had been working alone. The defendant, during the whole transaction, had steadfastly maintained that he was not at all in the city at th it time. But he could not prove it by a single witness. Under these condiUons it was certain that the argument of his attorney wou.d have no force. “•Defendant, you have the last word: have you anything else to say?” asked t.e Judge, amidst a dead silence. At this moment the gentleman in front of me moved a little to the side and 1 could see the defendant,

but not his face, for it was turned to the .Judge. “As true as there is a God lam innocent,” said he, with a calm, deep voice, whose tone affected ; me strangely. He slowly turned and ; looked sort- wfully through the long ‘ lines of the audience. “There is but one man in the world whose testimony can save me, and —” I he suddenly stopped. “There is the Guan,” he cried out, and his out-! stretched band pointed at me. Like a stroke of lightning it flashed : through my brain. 1 recognized the j man: he was the same that I had ; met in that December night, the \ night of the murder. “He is innocent,” I shouted. My testimony brought the missing link in the chain for proof of not guiltv. The man at the time of the crime was fully three miles from the city. A half hour later he was free. And, strangely enough, the moment he recogni ed me the hands ot the clock in the court room pointed to three minutes to twelve. —Washington Star. People who are always wishing they had something to do for the Lord might as well stop looking sour to begin with. I । ■ What a lot of things people hide i i from each other.

TORNADO OF FLA]|C" WHOLE COUNTIES IN NEBRAW SWEPT BY FIRE. g 5 ^ Homes, Stock and Crops of Kantl Ruined—Burning in Many Dlrocw nI?U Homeless Persons Seek Safety 1°“ 8 ~ Water Courses. ■Hong May Be Many Death’. ■ The prairie fires which have! vailed in (Irani, Cherry. Sneridaw P e,Thcm s Counties, Nobrasl a, F /md Tuesday have assumed vast p»inee ti ns. Th#y started in Sheridan® o ! °rty and have thus far burned <lvounrection of count y forty miles in Yer a The damage to ha ■, ranch pr^dth. and cattle is enormous, but i like an accurate estimate is yet’^hing ble. Many ives a e suppo od t.®* B>ibeen lost, and- Uiou audios tFP avo hay have b en burned, Tcavin£ ns cattlemen destitute. Homes anp , were also burned, and the cattleK ~ are ruined. Tne list ofkhwn Ju,® 9 at i resent is: i Liss , ranchman. Ja her EL, ranchman. k«J Two iARMebi. names tinknow*'RANCHMAN niMuOeii, t i •L The tw > first-nam'd । ing to uvo thei • properT^iß. burning, but the high wind dro ; he Hames on them and cut off all before th -y were aware of the: totell ger. Lacher lived long enough his story to ranchmen who cam* jd. . rescue af.erthe Hames had pass Thous. .U.R cu<l Perish^ Qad q{ Hundreds of thousands of Ikomas ; cattle are grazing in Cherry, Cwhere : Grant and the ether conntie^ cattle > the fires a e raging The e part were sent the e from tho south &bt has of the Sta e where the drou^ ol . t [ ie I been felt to heavily, to grazekpropo.’winter. It is feared a large V-ished. tion of these cattle have parted to Several ranch houses are rep% e p e is have been destroyed, and t’ human probability of a large loss o 0 life. ^*go and The fires b gan several tiay^teverjl the line of the railroad so? | dense counties is obscured by th^iowers smoke. Ft rmers and stock * boring from Custer and parts of ne i fee. com counties, where c op failure ved plete of b th . grain and ha» tjookmto Cherry, Thoma \ Grant aKk hav er Counties this fall and ^cut hay lands m stly on lease TheKjrough enough to _iarry their sto IcJit could the part of the winter wheßtle and not range, and mo,el their cal- ( ther । horses up to Cherny and thiio fires I “sand hid” counties, w! ere ’ a o now raging. ^disaster Nothing Hki the presenlhere aro i has hap: oned for years. As^ted secnumerous streams in the a’ ranchtion it is presumed many of their men have su ceeded in taWi>Jes and families to these water ci inmes aro thus avoided danger. The £ s no t not driven h gh, since the glebing a tall, c nsequontly anyone overstream can esea; e death uMF come by the dense smoke on 'in Thursday night was a dii^je a large portion c f the sand ’ “gh the vastating fire^ swept thst^ '’'<int nart of Cho;ry

ku. X ...oumizaiii in d; , I Lashed on by a furious winc^he tires traveled at a pace that lyM/eicm- ‘ eternation and destruc ipaXTho fire ] I on the railroad was staled the fir to । the week by a man and his ji)>e about j j ten miles north west of Alliaicj. Ti o j ! man was drunk, and in filling and ! lighting his pipe threw th| burni g match to tlie ground, where it ignited the grass. an in-tint a tire started which fanned by ohe : orthwest wind, at ome set out on its mission of destruction. MISS FAIR AND HER FORTUNE. Young Ciliforna Millionaire Heiress, Rumor N ivs. Is S:»nn to be Marrie !. Y iss A irginm Fair, the young Cali- ! fornia mil i nairo heiress, who, rumor says is to be m irried soon, is a . -

year-old, unaffecL d, healthy girl of quiet ta tes a^ mo e t den eanorff I he posse s ses exceptional vivacity, and in ap-pearan-c il short and i plum , hhs da k, : wavy hail', br ght b’a dc eye 4, a good : skin,an i a noseo the ; , retrousse pa 11 ern. : M ss Fair is at pres- I ent enjoying an in- 1

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j: M7.3S Virginia fair, come of S , 0 > per month. Her fortune, which she is ait to receive for six \ears, amounts to । about 815,000,00 '. This was left her 1 by her mother, who died two years , : ago. Miss Fair's father, ex-Senator j ■ James G. Fa r, of Nevada, is oie of I California's multi-millionai es. :Le ' I will probably inherit a large share of , 1 his wealth. Her education was a • 1 quired in the Convent of tie S cred | Heart in San Francisco. ShE-LS a good musician, and speaks I rou«wwa .<1 Ger-

man. :hai- a devoted ILL Jan Ca b- , obe. f CUT RATES IN FLQUR. Millers Fall Out and the Ketalier Heaps j a Profit. Flour has taken the place of sugar ! as the bone of contention among the wholesale grocers of Chicago and the ! Northwest. A combine, cun isting of ! । the Pillsbury- Washburn company, the ! Washburn-Crosby company, and North- i I western Consolidated Milling company ! I —has gone to pieces. One le.ult of! I the war is that grccers and dealers for ' i several hundred miles around are Hock- I ing to Chicago and taking advantage; ! of the freeanl openmarket. For s me I time the three concerns named have j had a community of interests. 1 heir plan of business was to send products j to local job' ers on consignment i ! the latter agreeing to abide by i ; and sell at the prices established ib, the “Big Three.” Their proLt ca re in as a commission of cents • a barrel. Competition was keen and prices were frequently shaded when it was necessary to do so to secure an order. When the knife was put into the sugar pi ice-list the Hour schedule be- ; gan to suffer —sympathetically. Jobi bars who found their sales dropping off complained to the “Three” and asked j them to enforce the maintenance of j rates. The Pillsbury and-North we t- ! ern people were perfectly willing to ! grant the request and notified jobbers to live up to their agreement. The i Washburn-Crosby representatives took

Sw er Vi ^ w of the m 'tter. They y P eo P 1° to whom they so d flour Wished to sell either at a 1. ssVr nrSfit to them^and withTll tH h9 ? ] V °'a d furn t’h them so th™ th - Btrck the y needed. And I y th e war is on. with two bi«- con as ”‘" st ® uX BOOTH WILL FIGHT VICE. I Salvation Army s ou „ ler Come , to Amer:ca to Ccndnct a V Itrorous Camnal e n. HE founder and U o m m a n <1 e r-i nchie. of the Salwsr 1 Ar , m y' Cen M ilham Booth, is now in New York t-ity, an 1 to inquir- * ’ng newspaper men 110 ° itlined the plans for a camwhich Wl ' w ^Se against '' " ' J'a the devil in seventy country ar.d C nada, between now and toe middle of next March. Sowell has the can paign been a-ranged that the general Knows how he will span 1 of his time until ho returns to Lnglana. lio will hold >n till io ° meetings. Time has not dealt too I upKind.y w.th the Ceneral during the eight \e irs lace he was last in the Unite 1 State . Though he looks every minute o h s sixty-nine years, and his hair and hoard are gra.. the: e is still p enty oi fire in his voi< e and energy in his action when he gets r used while speaking of his life’s work. General Booth i< now on years old and has been engaged in the Salvation Army movement for 7 years. He was the son of a Methodist preacher anl wai sueJ»W' GEN WILLIAM I OOTH. cesuvely ad apers apprentice, itinerant e hort t, gold miner and Salvation'st. The idea of the army was suggested to him by a dream. Iho new national head uartars of the army on I ourteenth street, New York < ity, the corner--tone of which has recently' been la d by the millionaire iron manufacturer, J. M. Cornell, of New York, wi 1 be eight stories f h Hxtt-material will be Indiana limestone rW'Trw lower Bturins and colored brick for the upperpoFi’' iJ^a»^2Eilii_LOjt of the edifice will lie n n Li’n thA cVn la vhhipd Rt I *

IC '.oin, while the sro is vaiuea hi /JoiM 00. Appropriate exorcises will be he'd upon* tfie General’s arrival, to celebrate the prog o; of the work on tlie -tri ct re. which will bo finished by the o’d of the year. An auditorium, seating 3,(00 pers< ns, will furnish a meeting place lor army gatherings of irnpoi tance. COUNT ITO SPEAKS. An E ahorite Address Before the Japan cse Diet — Japs Whlppe I at Yi Chow. TO the Primo Mintr i ter of Japan, a made an elab rate | speech ia the House x-* I of Lords upon the A 4 | as eml ling of the I Diet at Hiroshina. 1 e expai ed at j \ s length the causes ' * f ths war between z -- aj a:i and China During the course h' 9 6 becch he read the c; rre-pon-dence which had passed betwee i the J- vane e aid Chinese governments before dip omatic

i negotiations were suspended and war j wa'i declared. T, e sreedh ma o a deep ■ impression up n the H< use. Tne Lel- : ing of t e Diet appears to be uaani- : mous in favor of the course pursued t y ! the govenraent. Toe universal exj pression is that the war must be vigcrI cusly pursu d until it is brought to a I triumphant conclusion Tne Diet has i mani'ested the greatest willingness to ! grant everything asked by the government. Th two houses passed by a ! unanimous vote the bids introduced by the government relating to war expenditures, which involved a total sum :of J 5”, 09 MIX I I Advi es from Chemulpo. C rea state that the ; aofnation of the c untry is I s piously impeded by the Tunghaks, , who, a though unumo3, are a stani- | ing menace t»the Japa e?e interests |on aieoun of the spreading of their ■ propaganda of mistrust of the Japanj e e. The latter are scattering silver • about the coun ry with t e ob ect of I purchasing the favor of the people, a d ! it is stated that 10 ',O 0 yen have been distributed about teoul alone. Tie ! Janane e arrangements are very de- | fective, and a number of dead horses and cat ie a; e found along the reads j between Seoul and Ping ang. On the battlefield of Fing Yang are ! many dead Chinese partially buried. • and the stench from their bodies is I ter ible. It is now iep rt d that the • Chinese infantry cut through the Jap : anese at Ping Yang, but it is said that i the Chinese cavalry was easily de- | stroyed, as the In rses stuck in the mud i ard the r riders-were shot before they l ccu'd extricate themselves. Chinese i officials report that a batt e cccu red ■ near Yi Chow and that the Japanese : were repulsed southward, with a loss of 3,000 men on each side. i H/rri ; Olney and Charles Dalton j were fout.d dead in a room at Ihe Mettropolitan Hotel, in Brooklyn. They had retired, leaving t ie gas turned on full head. Olney, who was 28 yea sos •age. a id resided in Brooklyn, was at one time a jockey, ard Dalton was connected with race tra ks. Nearly 24,000 Democrats were placed in charge of postoffic »3 during the first year of the present administration, exceeding thp record made under President HarrisOu.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.! thoughts worthy of calm REFLECTION. * Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Wesson, and Where It May Be Found— A Learned and Concise Review of the Same. Lessoii for November 4. a& D Xs li! KK't; Tho Sonof “ an 19 aiso or in * Sabbath ’’—Mark 2: 28. This lesson is found in Mark 2: 23-28* Jesus is Lord of the Sabi at h’ This is a day in which there is much of . abbath controversy, and we hate in our lesson the solution, for the most of us, of the whole matter. It voiced for u in the golden text. Wo are not enslaved by days. We are not bound Cursis a ■ piritual religion, and the Master of our souls is also ilaster or all the soul's exercises. < hr Ist, is greater than any altar th t enshrines him, or any day that worships him. He is aboie tho day, as h » is above the altar. Anil as if to provo and wit eis to his supron acy, he co a es and takes the^old ceremonial dav anl Ch U ’ e ° ”. the early chun lies, tilled with his spirit, sots it aside- for tho sake of a now day, which thall curry all that wa truly holy in iho first institution and much that wis not known a; acred, beside —the day of his resurrection, tho Christians holy day. Every Sunday le eats the golden t >xt. “i e weflt through the cornfields on the Sabbath day.” It was not to, but "through,” the cornfields. He was doubtlo son h s way to some Sabbath appointment, and the i eds werenecessariy passed through on the way. That is quite dillerent from making the feds, as with seme of us, often, i tho place of < uest on the Lord s day. • But in as; ne, too. he passed right I through the Sabbath < n his errands of love. He wa. go ng about doing good, ai.d this ear.h with all it possessed of ground and gift but gave him passage way to hearts. He had something better than the keeping of days in mind. He was after souls. “•The disciples I egan as they went to pluck the ears of corn.” In the Gre k it leads that t:ey began to make their way, plucking the ears of corn. Just as they Dashed along they : put out their hands and broke off the nodding wheat heads that bent acro.s the narrow path. They broke no law of M< sos. They were, indeed, treading out the corn for old Israel, and they I went unmuzzled in their work. So absorbed were they that they took little thought of ordinary matters,such as engage and often monopo ize other men's i minds. Perhaps they scarce-y stopped to eat; so thronged the day. But there were those wiio did take note of it. The Pharisees were there with their j narrow-visioned, close-spectacled eyes , to sei this little departure from tra- : ditionalism. In eel, eo much did they । see this one triting thing that they lost sight wholly of ihe great and noble I ends, the purpt ses that w^ra driving these blessed feet through cornfields, । and streets, and deserts, seeking to ; save. Hence their complaint here. | ****^- 11 -Limd.AUAat.ug from such narrowness; may he give ii?b oad giinapsel 4 Lui his o-vu-e anil *-mth :

Then f How two "--^cs from our Savi r. One is the appeal to Scripture, th- other is the apnea' to life,.' his own life. II n t* an<l Illustration*. How to keen the Lord s day—this is the practical question. Lo not be ; drawn aside to a fi uitless and needless i discussion of the Sabbath or Sunday, j Come to this very pertinent query: I How would the* Lora have us keep his day.-' Rules there must be. of co :rse, for everything sacred needs to be ; guarded/ But one does not spend his time at the hedges and fences, i.e betakes himself lo the ameniiies and delights, the uses and privi'eges of the inclosed garden. The Lord w. nts his day employed forgo d purpose-. What better way for us than to take, in this case a- elsewhere, the distinct fcot- > steps of the Master? Hew were the Jews keeping Gods holy day? Slav- i ishly, fruitle s’y, hurtfully. The Pharisees enunciated thirt -nine major enactments for the ke ping of the day, and a multitude of minor regulations. It was a kind oi a carnival of rules. Cne c ,uld scarcely move without run- '■ nino r un against a stake, driven, mind. 1.1 A 1 _ • _ 1 I _ 1

not bv Moses, but by Moses so-cal:ed i interprets-s. The safest i lan was to sit still with folded hands; and eve t in this there was ha a.d, for t’.e hands might not be folded properly or there might be a needl ;• about the clothing, ; or a nail in the shoe Ail this and countless other things wc e forbidden. How are y< u keeping God's day? Is it formal and perfunc. or .• worship, cr is it real service, sacri ce. communion with God, study of h.s Word such as puts a Sabbath spii it into * 11 the w ek days a d fits the soul for gra p’ing with the tasks o the week? Christ b ought in a day of service and benefaction. 1-he ything of old -aid. u Thcu shalt not;” there w. s very little of doi g- and he ping. The Sabbath was self centered, selfish. <’h i-t came to make it anyth ng e’se religion positive rather than negative, helpful rather than hurtful Let this good Sabbath-keeping spirit be m re pronounced. Next Lesson—‘ The Twelve Choser.” Mark 3: C-19. Atchison Cilobe Sights. SOMEHOW an old man on a bicycle does not look welL People do not seem to be hcmesick as murh as ormetly. The trouble v ith a practical joke is that it is liab'e to react. It takes a peculiar sort of a man to color a meerschaum pipe. Some people < ught to apply for a divorce before they get married. The next general complaint of the people will probab y concern cold feet. As soox a the ice collector quits bothering you, the coal collector begins. When a man goes to looking for trouble, he generally’ finds something he is not alter. There are so many mean peo le in the world that the good ones ought to be appreciated. Ministers, as a rule, are too willing to allow strangers to strike their congregations for a collection. Sidewalks are not worn out so much by constant travel as by lazy people who do not raise their feet. 1

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