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Wensuring thfc Baby.
:",?>?! .. ( tfll;
We measured the riotous baby
AfcAinrt- Iht iolrftfef wall-*: I
A lily grew nf the thrMltoM,
And the !>oy was just as tall!
A royal tigor lily.
With eve'" of purple ami gold,.
And a lies ft like a jeweled c Inline.
The fragrant dew to hold.
' I' i / '? V ft t.
Without tho blue birds Whistlad
High lip' In the! old roof-trees,
And to and fro at the window
The red ro.*d rtftiked her bees ;
And tlie wee pink fists of th?; hauy '
Were never a moment stD !
Snutchiug at shine and bliadow
That danced on the lattico still I
His eyes wer? wide a* hluo-hells,
His mouth like a Hower unblown ;
Tr o little bare feet, like funny white mi-:e
Peeped out from his snowy gown I
An I *e thought, with a thrill of rapture.
That yet had a tottch of pain.
When June rolls aroint 1 with her roses,
We'll me isuro the boy again.
Ah, me! In darkened chamber
With the BUnetliae shut away,
Through tears that fell like u bitter rain,
Wo measured the hoy to-day ;
And the little bare f^et, that were dimpled
And swwet as a budding rose,
Lay side by side together,
In the hush ef a long repose!
Up fro-n the dainty pillow,
W lite as tho risen dkwn,
The fair Utile face lay smiling,
With the light of heaven thereon ;
An 1 the dear iiltle hands, like ross-lcavus,
Dr jl'ped from a rose, lay still,
! ever to snatch at the sunshine,
'J'li it crept to the shrouded still!
Wo measured the sleeping baby,
With ribbons as white as snow,
Kor the shining rosewood casket
That wait oil him below:
Ami out of tho darkened ebamber
We went with a childless moan ?
Te the height nf tho sinless angels
tint- little one ha 1 grown !
WINNING A LOVER.
'i ???> ; i / I*.* t -nil i n ' jj
'Five dt liars! Oh, Bridget, I wish I
know of any way by which 1 cculd Earn
live dollars.'
Our iconc was no silk-lined boudoir,
no pictm^pque wooded* raviac fringed
with Terns Rnd, musical with th? ripple
of moss brown wattirs, but only alt un
derground ei'y kitchen, with a gloomy
ntuge of warn tubs on otic side, aud a
scantily furnished dresser on tho other.
And Minnie Akerly, a beautiful young
girl of poveuteen, eat perched on the
aforesaid tubs, swinging her pretty little
feet to aud fro, while a stout Irishwo
man, with a basket on her arm, stood
opposite.
'You, Mi?i,r dear!' echoed Bridget
Mai uy. -Din sure that's difl'ercat thing
altogether '
'We need money so hsdly,' said Mio
uio soberly. 'And now that papa is ill,
and'has lout bis Oflvco, we .have so little.
Mama mendfcd point lace for Madame
t.-heriu last week, and got a little. Aud
Sura advertised for a place as nuraery
goTernrss, but no one answered the
advertisement; t could teach, I think,
but every plncu is filled) nud Mr. R?s
sel says there arc ten applicants at least
to every vacancy.'
'Tho pity of it I' sighed sympathizing
Bridget, 'when the likes of uie gets
more Work than she eau do. For there's j
it jintlcuian aent a dozen, shirts hist nig1 ' '
to be dono up, and its meself will have
to .send 'cm back.1
'How much do you have a piece ?'
.Minnie eagerly asked.
" V<y?niing, Mis?.' ?
'That Woifld bo two Ivo ahillings?a
dollar and ;?. half,- said .Minute rnodita
tivcly.
?Bridget, would you let mo do them ?'
'You, Miss M in nie !'
'Do,' coaxed' the girl. 'I know T
could 1 did papa's last week, and he
never knew that they were cot iroued
by a regular laundress. 1 should so
1 ko to earn a little money all of my
own. I could buy mama som? wine,
and 8ira a new wiutor dress, aud?-Oh,'
with a long sigh, 'I could do so many
nice things if ouly 1 had a little mon
ey.'
'Well, I declare,' said honest Bridget,
rubbing her nose. 'Aud you Judge
Akcrly's daughter !'
'Won't you let mc Bridget ?'
Minnie had jumped off the wash tuba
and come olose to tho good naturod
Irishwoman, with sparkling eyes and
check? deep dyed with the earnest noes
of her pleading. 'Please, I could corae
to v"ur house this afternoon, and ptpa
I ? ?' 1 11-.111-1.....->
would think I was walking in the 1'ark.'
'Pute you'd be kindly welcome, Mi??,'
ac eticcl Uiidget. 'Only-?'
And uwuj rab Miunie in great glee,
to make all nocesstiry preparations for
the altdruoou work.
?t won't tell Sara,' she thought, 'nor
mama, bcouuse they'd be sure to cry and
make a fuss orer it. I'll just steal quiet
ly away alter I have made tho omelette
for pupa's lunch. Only, if Mr. Russoll
should call?' aud tho long face fell lor
a second?'but perhaps ho won't. Any
way this is one of the opp irt-uniliea to
help myself that I have sighed fi f s ?
long, aud it will bo throwing luck away
to neglect it.'
And so Minnie Akerly stole away at
two o'clock, much to thtj displeasure of
her elder sister Sara.
'I think she might have stayed to
road to papa.' said she, 'instead of leav
ing it always to me.'
'My dear.' said conciliatory Mrs.
Akerly; you must rcmoinbsr that site in
very youn^, aud uccds more relaxation
thau wo do.'
'Relaxation ?' If they could have
seen Minnie at that moment, with flush
ed checks aud slucves lulled up to tho
fair round sl.ouldcra, working as if her
life depended upon it, they might have
taken a different view of matters and
things in general.
And the 'next day ahc went again to
iron the bhirts that bbc hud washed 30
daintily.
'Sbuie, Mies, you're making them look
like whim satin,' cried tho admititig
Bridget. 'And it's yerself would m.tke
a dacent liviu' imiroly, as a lauudresx
fo you would ! Only its make my heart
uehc to see the little white hands of you
nil blistered and burned with tho irons,
p-rbilcd with the suds.'
'My hand.*,? said Minnie contemptu
ously. 'A little glycerine aud a week of
kid gloving und they'll be all right
again.'
'M'.rriod!' said Euginc Russell medi
tatively. 'Aud why shouldn't I get
married, iTaioni'J la ffut a mau all lifo
happier for uniting bis fortune with
some truly congenial pool V
Young ladies now.;? rl iys ate all so
rat avJ trivial.' enid Mr. Kussella
mature, strong-minded tisier, who was
Hewing d'digently away ou red flannel
ahirts for the pom*.
'Most young la lies I grant you,' said
Eugcuc. 'Rut not all, Helena.''
'But you are tho rcry one to bo im
posed upon aud blinded.' Said Miss Hel
ena Russell, who never yet loft off re
garding her younger brother as a rerj
small buy, who rci-uired admonishing
and looking after, in everj rospect.
'Mow you are judging udfaifly,'Hel
ena. You have Uevor scjn Minnie
Akerly.?
'I've heard of her though,' Hai l bis
hinter. 'She waltzes, and Mugs, au.l
plays croquet.'
'Is any one of these three a cupit 1 ]
crime, lleleua?' laughingly dj.minded
Bugeno.
'Nonsense?you krlow that is not
what I mean. But it would ba in ire to
the j' lint if shtj could aew on buttons
and irou shirts.'
'Perhaps she can,' suggested Eugene
(tussoU
'It is likely V contomptuouslj retorted
Miss Helena.
'Suppose we declare a truce hpoo the
subject,' slid her brother. 'It's quite
plain that wc never can agree upon it;
aud in tho meantime, what do you say
in going around with inc to toe Mrs.
Mnlouey the laundress?'
?Mrs. Molouey ? Oh, the laundress.
Yes, I suppose we ought to see her
about 4the summer's washing. Rut is it
necessary for me to go myself!
'It would be better, I suppose.'
'And rather grudgiugly Miss Russoll
went to put on her walking habiliments
'And aud, disagreeable part of tho city
to come to,' she said, elevating at the
same time her skirts aud her patrician
nose ns they wettded their way to tho
regions of tenement houses, grocories
and small thread and needle stores that
stretched westward, not far from the
palatial residence of Fifth Avelino itself.
'Yot people lire here, ftelsua.'
'Yes, aud I suppose they like it.?
Why, don't they go Wast? I'd *end
'em there, if I Was the government,
whether they would or not.'
'Thon it is fortunate that you are not
the government,' dryly responded tho
brother. 'This is the number, I believe.
Halloo! my littlo man'?to a dirty faooJ
Mrs. Bridget Maloney ?re here7'
Master Malonoy pricked up Ina ears.
'It's my mother,' he said ; 'an' its in
the basement you'll find her.'
Mr. Kussel, with hie sister standing
austeroly by, tapped once At the door,
twice three times, before Mrs. Malonoy's
fine contralio voice, shouted out :
'Conio in, whoever "lyou may be, an'
do not stand thero knock in' the door
down. Oeh, an* beg your pardon. I
didn't know it was tho quality.'
Hut Kugcno Kussel stood still in tho
doorway, his eyes gfoed to the scene
that met their gaze?Minnie Akerly, in
n buff calico dress nnd white apron, iron
iug diligently nwny, wit|t a pile ofsnowy
shirts ~on her left hand, and a basket of
sprinkled linen on tho tight. And Min
nie herself colored luto tho 'red, red
roBe,' for a minute. ly
'Why am I ashamod'?* sbo resolutely
nsked herself. 'Am "doing anything
?WfOiij^ ? I rroii'l be such n fool !'
Aud with this doughty resolution in
her miud, she glanced calmly up, the
pink shadows still glovrtng on her check
"Good afteinoou, 3l|y Bussel,' she
said calmly.
And Kugeno ?tnmnjt,?ringly introduced
her to his siiter, who had stood judi
cially eyeing the wholo;8Cene.
'It's the geutlem.tuY a wantin' his
shirts, an' sure th"y laro they'er not
done yet, eri<-d blunde|f1tg Bridget.
'Hut they will be .* >oti,'said Minnie
quietly?I am on th*> ta'^t. one now?if
Mr. Bussel will sit down aud wait a few
minutes.'
'You, Miss Akerly, ironing my shirts'"
'Kven so,' Minnie 'answered. 'The
truth is, Mr Kussel, :ir6 are poor ; and
although ironing shirHte not so genteel
an occupation as giving7music lessoin or
unking wax flowers, lam glad to earn
a little money iu anyway. I believe
those shirts will givmBfeisfaction,' and
sin- smilingly glatt : l'it tho completed
pile.
Miss Helen came Forward with her
gray eves fairly lumi'Jtya-with satis?c
?ion.
'.My dear,'" saTu suc^"'! couldn't hare
done them better myself, aud that's say
tug a good deal.'
A id -it:- nodded, in an appr >ving way j
at her brother.!
Minnie Akerl.f went home with t'te !
ddlln? and a halt in hoe ptoku?, tii?i ;.c.
triumphant little capita.ii. yju erjr be"
held.
'I don't think Mr. Hussol was rcry |
much shocked,' she said to herself; 'tor j
he sttid he would keep my secret from
pupa, aud promised to call this evening.'
And three mouths afterward, when
Kogeue Kussel was married to Minnie
Akerly, he wore one of the very shirts
that had been cashed and ironed by the
bride's fair nands.
T Could not be half so proud of it,'
he said, "if it Were f.ttlti mod out of
cloth of gold.
SATED BY A DREAM.
BY KATIE MAUD ST. JOHN.
'1 do love you, dearest Olive!' cx
claimed Kldrcd Thornton earnestly, and
ho gazed with admiration on tho beauti
ful girl who sat, with pouting lips, at
the piano on which he was leaning.
'1 doubt it uot, but then-?'
Here Olive Esty hesitated, and a
deep criiusou sutfused hor cheeks aud
brow.
'But then! what is it sweet Olive ?'
exclaimed Kldred, quickly.
'Ah, Bid red, you know there is a
great barrier betwoen us, which, if uot
removed, hi.all ever keep us apirt:'
'A barrier ! What is it'( 1 see none !'
'Dear Kldred, you do see it?you for
get yr.u indulge altogether too freely in
intoxicating drinks. This is the barrier
to which 1 allude, and onu which must
be removed before I couseut to boyours,'
said Olive, nnd {the expression arounti
the ruby lips prew moro-dotermiued.
Kldrcd Thornton bowed his head in
alienee for fully five minutes ; but when
he raided it again, ho looked straight in
to tho beautiful blue eye? before him
und, in a voice husky with emotion,
said :
'Dearest Olire, I confess I have been
hitherto a toper, yet I sincerely hope
Mint in the future 1 will keep the
promise 1 am ul out to make you to
night :
?Never will 1 again touch liquor or
frequent the tavern. Erotn this day
forward I will do all I can to atone for
rriy past life.
'So help me, Ood Y
'Thanks thanks, Eldrod !' exclaim cd
01i?"), in dolight: 'now I ma be jours
without one cause for regret/J
All Kldrod Thornton said waa to
shower kisses on the pretty face held so
enticingly up to his. Then turning
orer a leaf of the 'Home Companion,'
which lay before Oiive on the piano, he
joined With her in singing Balfe's beauti
ful strains :
"When othor lips and other hearts
Their tales of love shall tell."
? ? * ? ?
'?et out, you little surse I Let'?>
hiceup?'mo alone. I won't go home.
D'ye -hear that now 7'
*Oh, father, do come, poor ma is very
sick,' pleaded a littlo girl of about teu
years, as she looked imporingly up at
the inflexible face of tho man who Btood
before him.
'I tell you I null not. Enough?so
clear homo with you, aud don't bother
i nie sny longer.
j Little Edna Thornton, for she it was,
with three convulsive sobs, turned slow
ly from the door of the 'Becholt lVvorn,
and walked towards her cheorless home,
while Eldrcd Thornton stflgget+in^ty
ontetod the den of iufamy.
Silting down in the most quiet corner
of tho taviru, he rested his hoad in
hand and fell asleep.
While iu this state he hid a dream ?
me summer days.
lie thought he was once more stand
ing at the piano, pleading with Olive
for her consent to their marriage.
He went through the same speech
which ho had gone through on that
night, wheu promising to abstain from
intoxicating drinks.
Then he heard a loud voice saying :
'Seo, Eldred Thornton, how well you
have kept your promise?behold the
wicek !'
Then he saw tho youug and beautiful
Olive?thu blue eyed girl whom he had
promised to love and cherish lyiug eold
aud dead in a cheerless room, and by
her side little Edda, crying tvs if her
little h':;rt would break, and murmur
tug:
'Oh, minima, mamfni, I toIJ turn yon
were nick, but, he would nut come. He
spi k ; f> roughly to mo, t"?, tho papa
that u-v.l t:? he go kind to us. Oh, dear.
I ?> ?!' and the child's wail of anguish
rang out mournfully.
Suddenly Eldrcd Thorutou awuku,
and fouud tnis terrible scone was but a
dream ; and he murmured :
?My God: 1 thank thee !'
Thou flashed upou him the words he
heard his little daughter speak about a
half an hour ago.
'Oh., father, do conic, poor ma is very
sick,' aud, perfectly tcrriflcd, he ex
claimed :
'Heavens! has it really come to this !'
?What is it you say V asked the bar
tender, bluudly.
'Nothing bir. What do 1 owe you 7'
'Seventy ceuts.'
'Hero you are sir. Good day.'
Leaving the 'licchalt Tavern,' which
bad btcoiiie his geueral place of resort
only lour short years after his marriage
with her to whom he bad promised to
abstain from lii> previous bad habits, he
walked rapidly towards his residence.
I A great change had come over Ed
ward Thornton. *He now felt how un
just were bis actions, aud as he walked
along, he turned over in his mind many
a plan, which might enable him to re
trieve his former standing in society.
Thon ugain he thought how lie would
endeavor to atone to Olive for the dis
tress be had caused her. And pror
little Edna, his only child, how could he
meet her after the brutal language be
bad used in addressing her 7
At last he arrived at his homo, and
with burning brow and beeting heart,
he entered the bouse, praying inwardly
that his neglected wife was not sick as
his child had informed him.
Finding no one in tho small though
tidy parlor, ho went into tho kichen?uo
one thoro I
NN hat ! NVhere are his wife and
daughter 7
Surely there cannot be anything
wrong 7
Softly he approaches the bed-chamber
and tarts lightly on the panel ofthe door.
In n few minutes he is admitted, and
all his fears vanish.
His wife is propped up in sn arm
chair with Edna, the only solsce of her
life, kneeling beside her.
'Olivo, oh, dearest, Oliret'
?J.? that you, Eldred 7'
? ? i
'Yes: here I am craving pardon for
my past life I'
Eldred sank on hia knees, while a
ook of; l i ^sajjiuW crTet Oliver's
pale, Borrow fid *ahoe.
To What was owing this sudden
change 1
It waa t u-ely the work of Ood.
Little Edna lifted her dark bine eves
to her fatber'a in blank dismay*
'Dearest Olive,' he murmured again,
'I have como to be forgiven, and renew
the promise I made yon long ago I'
'Thank Ood !' said Olive fervently.
'Do you forgive V
'Wih all my heart. Oh ! Eldred, I
have prayed fervently for this hour 1'
Eldred covered his face and sobbed
bitlerly.
'Oh, my dear father, don't cry.!'
pleaded little Edna, she laid her little
hand softly on his heal.}
In another moment, she waa pressed
to her fathof's heart.
O, what a h?ppy moment for these
three?one strayed sheep jreecored?a
husband and father saved from a drunk
ard's fate.
Gladly will we draw a veil over such
a scene as this, for, though'one of'hap-.
piness, the heart is strangely moved at
such a flow of feeling Which character
izes one like this. v*
Eldred Thornton _faithfully kept his
last promise, and was ever known, after
wards, as a man of exemplary habits.
lie soon regained the position he bud
lost, and with Olive and hia darling
little daughter, resided agaiu with honor
in the house of his forefather*, which
he had the happiness of agaiu calling
his own.
The First Catilaet.
TUB MSN Wl!0 SURJtO'JKDSO V.'ABltlNO
TOIfi
Mr; Farton, in the Jdnnnry Atlantic,
thu* describes Washington and ltls first
Cabinet:
Age had not quenched the vivacity
nf either of the fodr Secretaries: JeT
lers ui. 17; Kuox, 40; Unndolpb, H7 ;
Hamilton, Si. When in the world's
history, was so young a groups 1 charged
with a task so new bj difficult,* 80 1UO
tueiitous 7
Sueh were the gentleman who were
gathered round the council table at the j
Presidents house in New York in 1780 :
at the head of the table General Wash
ington, now fifty-eight, bis frame ?s
erect as ever, but his face showing the
decrepitude of a thousand auxiouihours
he had passed. Not versed iu the lore
ol school?, but gifted with a groat sum
of intellect the eternal glory of this mn.n
is that he used all the mind he had in
patient endeavors to fiud out the right
way, ever on the watch to keep out of
his decision everything hke biaj or pre
judice; never deciding till ho hid ex
hausted every source of elucidation
wilbiu his reach. Some quaatioas ha
could uot decide with his own miud, and
he kuew he could not. In such oases
he bent all his powers to ascertaining
how tho subject appeared to iniuds fitted
to grapple with it, and gettiug them to
viow it without prejudice.
I am delighted to learn that Mr. Car
ly 1 ?:- can seldom hear the name of Wash
ington pronounced without breaking
forth with an oxplosion of contempt,
especially, it is said, if there is an A uteri,
can within hearing. Washington is the
exact opposite of a fell Oarlyloan hero.
Ilia glory is that ho waa not richly en- I
do<\od, uot sufficient unto himself, nor
indifferent to human rights, opinions and
preferences; but feeling deeply his ueed
of help, sought it where it alone ?ras to
bo found, in miunVMrcd by nature and
training tb supply his lack. It is this
hoartfealt desire to bo right which shines
so aft'actingly fiom the plain words of
Washingtou, aud gives him rank so far
above the gorgeous bandits whom hero
worshippers adore.
On the right of the President in the
place of honor, sat Jefferson; not forty*
revon, the senior of all his colleagues,
older in public service, too, than any
of them ; tall, ereot, ruddy: noticeably
quiet, and unobtrusive iu his address and
demeanor; the least pungnacioui of men.
Not a fauatic, not an enthusiast; bat an
old fashioned whig: natured upon "old
Coke," enlightened by twenty five years
intense discussion?with pent tooguo,
aud sword?of Cokean prluoipU"
from the latest commeut*^ Up0n (j0^a
?the ruins of the Baatile??0)1 his red
Faris waiscoat gua breeches, he was an
object of particular interest to
and, doubtless, often relieved the sevorty
of business by ^ne thilulluas, Ill<*el?i
out of hisr^?WWWfc *x?*\*m* ba%e4
Opposite him, on the President's left,
has the place of Hamilton, Secretary of
the Treasury, in all tho alertness and
rigor of thirty-three yoars. If *H?t? ,;
had matured his tsllent, It Had n&JfcaVH
ened his self-suffioienojr, beeeasei,M$l$?'
?U bis short life had been success, enj|-t
had assoeiated chiefly with mon wh<?
possessed nothing either of his fluency
or his ariJhemetio. A positive,
merit, little gentleman, with as firm p
faith in the apparatus of finance as Gen-?,
oral Knox had in great guns. He wne.
now In the fall tide of activity, lobbying
measures through Congress, and organi
sing tho Treasury Department?-tUtf mo?t
conspicous man in tho adrainistrtftto'tf; .
except the Presidsut. ? > aaaM
As usual, his unseen work wSs. hi'.
bcSt. In organizing a system of collect* ?
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tug, jkccpiug auu uiauui-nug tue revenue
ho employed ?o muph fact, forethought
and fertility Jthat his successors have ''
each, in turn, admired and retafneff'llf9
Imost important devices- Ho 'arradged"
the syslom bo that the Seectary of Uie
Treasury, at aoyf niomant, cohhl fearfttj-i
the wltolo working of it; and he held at
command oil the resources of the United
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States subject to lawful use, without be
iug able to divert one dollar to a : p^2r<
pr.8c not specially authorized. He could
not draw his own pittance ef salary
without the signature of the four ehicf
officers of the department?comptroller,
treasurer and register.
GttANiiY Copi?ems.?The first copper
coinage of tho United States was mads
in the yoar 1737, and Jqoneciicut Oa*.
claim the distinction. .These coppers
wer? made at Granby, by John Higley,
a blacksmith. At that time" (Jrikwf
was almost a wildern c-ss", end money was
to be had with great dimoirlty. The few
coppers coius in circulation were British
hair- pen nies'? ttd'larteio^*r Bigloyiifcjlfci
less obtained thoeapper from the fsmouf
eld mice near Granby; and ie would
scent to have been valued three times as
much as old King George's half-pennies,
The coin itself represents a deer, said
also bears the inscription: "Value-aue
as you please,", the reverse being,. MX'anf
good copper, 1737, with three. pj?f%i
hammers crowned indicating thai John
Higley thought that labor yet would ba
king in America of the future. On tfte
other side, "I cut my way through" wftbr
a broadaxe in the center, indicsting
again that Aigley'a ide* asf^^a She
axe would: e*t its waj through the;.prima.
eal forest of New England. Of the
Granby coius there are not a dosen gen
uine ones in existence.
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Gold is a speciality of California but
must people will beustouishoi, tw leant
that California gold exists in other de
prosits than those of the. gulches and
poartz hills on the Golden States. Re*
cently an inn keeper in Switzerland un
dertook to carve a California 'hatt-g&d
d scovered deep down in the pofojn*
strata a nugget of pure gold of tho sise
of a walnut. This discovery may give*
a new direction to the effort pf gold hun
ters, &ud we may yet live 'to see pig
gold quoted from the bills of lading of
California ships. The mining of Cali
fornia hams, if carried on to any* great
extent, will, of course, greatly increase
the price of pork^but if it proves to be
as successful as the pearl fishery we shall
soon look upon the,pig precisely ae we
do upon the pearl1 oyster?as only* the
worthies? i nvelojVt^vfcrlbg^theprWious
deposit within.' Probably those gentle
men who formed a company, to., collect
tho diamond and rubies of Arizona will
lose no time.in, fo^mipg? a pig .mining
gold compa^j&Eu jnvRR to pre-empt
all the wild pigs oC CflfMtt.'' i
The heathens ideas/yf tfo uses and
habits of deep sea telegraphic cables are
rather peculiar. Some of these innocent
Confuoians ranke a living by fishing Up
the wires, cutting them and selling the
pieces. Occasionally they bury' their
dark ways by resetting the cable like a.
verbena or a geranium, in order that it
rosy grow and serve for future pro vis
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10U.
The simplicity that believe* jjj
are the innumerable *- \ . _ *"? n
a ads of God a shin
mg linger* A. . .
j J?. piercing the heavens, is
u .uitely more blessed than the, astute
skepticism that boiievos nothing.
You may glean know lodge by read*
iog, but you must separate the wheat
from the chaff by thinking.
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