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world and the next; text, Joshua xv,
19: "Then bast given me a south land; ; without
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The city of Debir was the Boston of
antiquity a great place for brain and
books. Caleb wanted it, and he offered
his daughter Achsah as a prize to any
one who would capture that city. It
was a strange thing fur Caleb to do,
and yet the man that could take the city
would have, at any rate, two elements
of manhood bravery and patriotism.
Besides, I do not think that Caleb was
as foolish in offering his daughter to
the conqueror of Debir as thousands in
this day who seek alliances for their
children with those who have large
means without any reference to moral
or mental acquirements. Of two evils I
would rather measure happiness by the
length cf the sword than by the length
of tho pocketbook. In one case there is
sure to be one good element of char
acter; in the other there maybe none
at all. With Caleb's daughter as a prize
to fight for, General Othniel rode into
the battle. The . gates of .Debir were
thundered into the dust, and the city of
books lay at the feet of the conquerors.
The work done, Othniel comes back to
claim his bride. Having conquered the
city, it ia no great job for him to con
quer the girl's heart, for however faint
hearted a woman herself may be she
alwavs loves courage in a man. I never
saw an exception to tnat.
The wedding festivity having gone
by, Othniel aud Achsah are about to go
to their new home. However loudly the
cymbals may clash-and the laughter
ring, parents are always sad when a
fondly cherished daughter goes off to
stay, and Achsah, the daughter of Ca
leb, knows that now is the time to ask
almost anything she wants of her fa
ther. It seems that Caleb; the good old
man, had given as a wedding present
to his daughter a piece of land that was
mountainous, and, sloping southward
toward the deserts of Arabia, swept
with some very hot winds. It was called
"a south land." ,Eut Achsah wants an
addition of property ; she wants a piece
of land that is well watered and fertile.
Now it is no wonder that Caleb, stand
ing amid the bridal partyVhis eyes so
full of tears because she was going
away that he' could hardly see her at
all, gives her more than she asks. She
said to him: "Thou hast given me a
south land ; give me also springs of wa
ter. And he gave her the upper springs
and the nether springs. "
The Deaert of Sorrow. . .
The fact is that as Caleb, the father,
gave Achsah, the daughter, a south
land, so God gives to ns his world. .1
lua very thankful he has given it to us.
But I am like Achsah in the fact that I
am not satisfied with the portion. Trees
and flowers and grass and blue skies are
very well in their places, but he who
has nothing but this world for a portion
has no portion at all. It is a mountain
ous land, sloping off toward the desert
of sorrow, swept by fiery siroccos; it is
'.'a south land, a poor portion for apy
man that tries to put his trust in it
What has' been your experience? What
has been the experience of every man,
off every woman, that has 'tried this
world for a portion? k Queen Elizabeth,
amid the surroundings of pomp, is un
happy because the painter sketches too
minutely the wrinkles on her faoe, and
she indignantly cries ont, "You must
strike off my likeness without, any
shadows 1" Hogarth, at the very height
of his artistic triumph, is stung almost
to death with chagrin because the
painting he had 'dedicated to the king
does not seem to be acceptable, for
George II cries out:. "Who is this Ho
garth? Take his trumpery oat of my
presence."
Brinsley Sheridan thrilled the earth
with his eloquence, but had for his last
words, "I am absolutely undone. " Wal
ter Scott, fumbling around the inkstand,
trying to write, says to his daughter:
"Ob, take me back to my room 1 There
is no rest for Sir Walter but in the
gravel" Stephen Girard, the wealthiest
man in his day, or at any rate only sec
ond in wealth, says: "I live the life of
a galley slave. When I arise in the
morning, my one effort is to work so
hard that I can sleep when it'gets to be
night." CharlesLamb, applauded of all
the world, in the very midst of bis lit4
tigue cf body and-fatigue of mind, great
discouragement for the future and great
disgust for the past." Ob, my friends.
this is a "south land," and it slopes off
toward deserts of sorrows, and the
prayer which Achsah made to her fa
ther Caleb we make this day to our Fa
ther God: "Thou1 hast given me a south
land ; give me also springs of water.
And he gave her the upper springs and
the nether springs. " ' '
Blessed be God, we have more ad
vantages given us than we can really
appreciate! We have spiritual blessings
offered us in thus world which I shall
call the nether (springs and. glories In
the world to come which I shall call the
rnnpf enrtnoo f "' '
Where shall 1 find words enough
threaded with light to sot forth the
pleasure of! religion? David, unable to
describe it in words, played it on a
'harp. Mrs. Hemans, not finding enough
power in prose sings that, praise in a
canto. Christopher Wren, unable to de
scribe it in language, sprung it into the
arches of St. Pa til's. John Bunyan," un
able to present it in. ordinary-phraseology,
takes all; f he fascination of alle
gory. Handel, with ordinary musio un
able to reach the height of the theme,
rouses it up in an oratorio. Ohthere is
no life on earjli. so happy as a really
Christian life 1 l do not mean a sham
Christian-life, but a real Christian life.
Where there is la thorn there is a whole
garland of roses! Where there is one
.gTban there are jihree doxologies. Where
there is one day of cloud there is a
whole season of sunshine. Take the
humblest Christian man that you know
angels of God. canopy him with their
white 'wings; the lightnings of heaven
are his armed allies; the Lord is his
The Gate iAJr.
It Is very fortunate that we canot see
heaven until we get into itJ O Chris
tian man, if you could' see what a place
ft is we would never get you back again
to the office, or, store,; or shop and the
duties you ought to perform j would go
neglected ! I am glad I shall pot see that
world until I enter it,- Suppose we
were allowed to. go onj an excursion in
to that good land with the1 idea of re
turning. When -we got there and heard
the song and looked at their raptured
faces and mingled in the supernal socie
ty, we would cry out? "Lejtj us 'stay!
We are coming here anyhow.? Why take
the trouble of going back aain t that
old world? We are here now. Let us
stay!" And it would take ingelip vIck
lence to put us out of that world if once
we got there, but as people jsvho cannot
afford to pay for an entertainment some
times come around it and idok through
the door ajar, or through the openings
in the fence, so we cpm4 and I look
through the crevices into tht good land
which God has provided for us. We
can just catch a glimpse of It. i We, come
near enough to hear the rumbling of the
eternal orchestra, though hot jjhear
enough to know who blows the cornet
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Shepherd, picking out for him green
pastures by. still waters. If he walk
forth, heaven is his bodyguard. If he
lie down to sleep, ladders of light, angel
blossoming, are let into his dreams If
he be thirsty, the potentates of heaven
are his cupbearers. If he sit down to
food, his plain, table blooms into the
King's . banquet Men say, "Look t
that odd fellow with the wornout
ccat." :The angels of God cry, "Lift up
your heads, ye j everlasting gates, and
let him come; in 1" Fastidious people
or f who fingers the harp; Myi soul
spreads out both wings and ?claps them
in triumph -a fe the thought -of q those up
per springs. One of them breaks! from
beneath the; throne. 'Another breaks
forth from beneath the altar jof the; tem
ple. Andther at the door of j" the house
of many mansions. " NCppe springs of
gladnessl Upper springs, of Jightltj Up
per springs of lovel It is no fancy of
mine. "The Lamb which isin the midst
of the throne shall lead them to living
fountains of water. " , ij jr
O Saviour divine, roll in upon our
souls one of those anticipated raptures 1
Pour around the roots of the parched
tongue one drop of that: ! liquid j life !
Toss before our vision ; those fountains
of God, rain bowed with eteriial viotoy I
Hear , it I They are never tick there;
not so much as a headache jor twinge
rheumatic, or thrust neuralgia. The in
habitant never says, "I am sick.1 They
are never tired there. Flight to farthest
world is only the play of a holiday. They
never sin there. It is as easy for them
to be holy 'as it is1 for us tosin. They
never die there. You might go through
all the outskirts of the great city and
find not one place where the ground
was broken for a grave. The eyesight of
the redeemed is ' never ; blurred with
tears.- There is health in eyery cheek.
There is spring in every foot j; There is
majesty on every brow.?: Thelre is joy in
every heart. There is hosanna on every
lip. How they must pity as j they
look over and look down and' see us and
say, "Poor things, away down in that
creeping down through a gorge. ,
earth itself., that was once vapor, after
ward water nothing but water after
ward molten rock, cooling off through
the ages until plants might live and
animals might live and men might lire,
changing, all the while, now crumbling,
now breaking off.: The sun, burning
down gradually in its socket Chang
ing, changing, an intimation of the last
great change ; to oome over the world
even infused into the mind of the
heathen who has never seen the Bible
. V The End of tho Earth. " V
j The Hindoos believe that Brahma,
the creator, once made all things. He
created the water, then moved over the
water, out of it lifted.the .land, grew
the plants and animals and men on it.
Out of his eye went the sun. Out of hi
lips went the firei Out of his ear went
the air. .Then' Brahma laid down ito
sleep four thousand three, hundred apd
twenty million yearav Afterthat they
say, he will wake up, and then . the
world will be destroyed, and he will
make it over again, bringing up land,
bringing up creatures upon it, then ly
ing down again to sleep four thousand
three hundred and twenty million years,
then waking up and destroying the
world again creation and demolition
following eaqh other, until after three
hundred and twenty sleeps, each one! of
these slumbers four thousand three hun
dred and twenty million years long,
Brahma will wake up and die and the
universe will die with him an intima
tion, , though very-faint,; of the great
change to oome upon : this physica
earth spoken of in the Bible, but while
Brahma may sleep our God never slum
bers nor sleeps, and the heavens shall
pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat,
and the earth and all things that are
therein shall be burned up. l
"Well," says someone, "if that is iso,
if the world is going from one change
to another, then what is the use of my
toiling for its betterment?" That Is.ihe
point on which I want to guard youU I
do not want you , to become mi$an
thropio. It is a great and glorious
world. If Christ could afford to spend
83 years on it for its redemption, then
yon can afford to toil and pray for the
betterment of the nations and for ihe
bringing on of the glorious time when
all people shall see . the salvation! of
God. While therefore I want to gu&rd
you against misanthropic notions injre
spect to this subjeot I have presented,
I want you to take this thought home
with you: This world is a poor foun
dation to build on. i It is a changing
world, and it is 6 dying world, j The
shifting scenes and the changing sands
are only emblems of all earthly expee
tation. Life is very much like this day
through which, we have passed;! To
many of us itis storm and darkness,
then sunshine, storm and darkness,! then
afterward a little sunshine, now Again
darkness and storm. Oh, build not your
Tb,!" ' DOORS OF VENEER.
cry, "Get off my front stepsl" The world!" And when some Christian Is hopes upon this uncertain world 1 BuiJd
doorkeepers of heaven cry, "Come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the king
doml". When' be comes to die, though
he may be carried out in a pine, box to
the potter's field, to that potter's field
the chariots of Christ will come down,
and the cavalcade will I crowd all the
boulevards of heaven." -
hurled into a fatal accident they cry:
"Good! He is coming 1" Anjljwhen we
stand around the couch of J iome loved
one whose strength is going away and
we shake our heads forebodingly they
cry: "I'm glad be is worse! He has
been down there long enough J There, he
is dead i Come home ! Come home !"
I bless Christ, for the present satisfao- Oh, if we oould only get our ideas about
tion of religion It makes a man all that future world untwisted, our
right with reference to the past; it thought of transfer fromj heicci to there
makes a man all right with reference to would be as pleasant to us 'as it was to
the future. OhJ these nether springs of a little child that was dving.1 She said,
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comfortable rooms. Good er-
The table supplied with the
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C"Boanl per day, including lodging
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Water and Main street. Also a store
on the West side ot Water Street, be
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ber, Bridget, when we used to laugh
from the shilling gallery at the play?
There are now no good plays to laugh
at from the boxes. " But why go so far
as tnat? i neea to go no xanner man
your 6treet to find an illustration of
what I am saying.
Pick me out ten successful worldlings
and you know what I mean by thor
oughly successful worldlings pick me
out ten successful worldlings and you
cannot find more than one that looks
happy. Care drags him to business; care
drags him back. Take your stand at 2
o'clock at the .corner of the streets and
see the agonized physiognomies. Your
high officials, your bankers, your insur-
ance men, your importers, your wnoie
salers and your retailers as a class as
a class, are they happy? No. Care dogs
their steps, and making no appeal to
God for help or comfort many of them
are tossed every whither. How has it
been with you, my hearer? Are-you
more contented in the house of 14 rooms
than you were in the ,two rooms you
had in a house when you started? Have
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you not naa more care ana worameui
since you won that $50,000 than you
comfort I They!' are perennial. The
foundation of God standeth sure having
this seal, "The Lord knoweth them that
are his," "The mountains shall depart
and the hills be removed, but my kind
ness shall not depart from thee, neither
shall the covenant of my peace be re
moved, saith the Lord, .who hath mercy
upon tnee. ' , Oh, cluster or. diamonds
set in burnished gold ! Oh, nether
springs of comfort bursting through all
the valleys of j trial and tribulation!
When you see, you of the worrd, what
satisfaction there is on earth in religion,
do you not thirst after it as the daugh
ter of Caleb thirsted after the water
springs? It is no stagnant pond, scum
med over with malaria, bqt, springs of
water leaping from the R,ock of Ages!
Take up one cup of that spring water
and across the (op of the ' chalice will
float the delicate shadows of the heav
enly wall, the yellow of jasper, the
green of emerald, the blue of sardonyx,
the fire of jacinth.
The Source of Happlneaa. '
I wish I could make you understand
the joy religion is to some of us. It
makes a man' happy while he lives and
glad when he dies. With two feet upon
a chair and j bursting with dropsies, I
heard an old man in the poorhouse cry
out, "Bless the Lord, oh, my soull" I
looked around and said, "What has this
man got to thank God for?" It makes
the lame man ; leap as a hart, and the
dumb sing. They say that the old Puri
tan religion is a juiceless and joyless
religion, but I remember reading of Dr.
Goodwin, the celebrated Puritan, who
in his last moment .said: "Is this dy
ing? Why,. niy bow abides in strength!
Iam swallowed up in God!" "Her
ways are ways of pleasantness, and all
her paths are peace." Oh, you who
have been trying to satisfy yourselves
with the "south land" of this world,
do you not feel that you would, this
morning, like ' to have access .to the
nether Eprings of spiritual comfort?
Would you hot like to have Jesus Christ
bend over your cradle and bless your
table and heal iyour wounds and strew
flowers of consolation all up and down
the graves of your dead?
Tis religion that can give
Sweet esfpleasures while we live. .
' 'Tis religion can supply
. , 8weetest comfort when we die.-
But I have something better to tell
you, suggested by this text. It seems
that old Father Caleb on the wedding
day of his daughter wanted to make her
just as happy as possible. Though Oth
niel was taking her away and his heart
was almost broken because she was go
ing, yet he 1 gives her a "south land;"
not only that, I but the nether springs;
not only that,! but the upper springs.
O God. my ; Father.: I thank thee that
' And, he
So
'Today?
3,
atMf YY Uvil VT AAA AL &J UUIUO:
said, "Today, Florencei
soon? I am 60 glad!"
The Day of Deliverance, j
I wish I could stimulate you witn
these thoughts, O Christian; man, to the
highest possible exhilaration1! j The day
of your deliverance is coming is com
ing, rolling on with the shining wheels
of J the day, and the jet wheels of jthe
night - Every thump of the heart is 'only
a hammer stroke striking off another
chain of clay. Better scour the deck and
coil the rope, for harbor j ip J only six
miles away. Jesus will come down the
to meet
nearer
you.
than
"Now is your
when
!
you be-
Narrows
salvation
lieved."
Man of the world, will yon not today
make a choice between these : two; por
tions, between the "south laqdl' of this
world, which slopes to the desertj and
this glorious land which ' thy Father
offers thee, running with eternal water
courses? ' Why let your tongue be con
sumed of thirst when there are the
nether springs and the upper springs
comfort here and glory hereafter?, I
You and I need something better .than
this world can give us.'iThe fact isfthat
it cannot give us any thing after awhile.
It fs a changing worldi j Do you know
that even the mountains on the ba :k of
a thousand etreams are leaping into the
valley. The Alleghanies are drying. The
dews with crystalline mallet are ham
mering away the ' rocks. . Iprosts and
showers and lightnings; are sculpturing
Mount Washington and the Catskills.
Niagara every year is digging for; itself
a quicker plunge. The sea all around
the earth on its shifting shores is mak
ing mighty changes in bar and bay and
frith and promontory. jSome'of the old
sea coasts are midland; now. Off j Nan
tucket eight feet below low watermark,
are found now the stumps of trees,
showing that the waves are conqaering
the land. Parts of Nova Scotia are sink
ing. Ships today sail oyer what, only a
little while ago, was' solid ! ground.
Near the mouth of the St. Croix iriver
is an island which, in the movements
of the earth, is slowly but certainly ro
tating. All the face of the earth chang
ingchanging. In 8S1 an island
springs up in the Mediterranean sea. In
1868 another island cornea upr under the
observation of the American;; consul as
he looks off from, the beach. , Thejearth
all the time changing, the columns of a
temple near Bizoli show; that the water
has risen nine feet above the place it
was when these columns wereput down.
Changing 1 Our Colorado river, once
vaster than the Mississippi,! flowing
through the great American desert
which was then an Eden of Ipxuriance,
has now dwindled to- a " small stream
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on God. Confide in Jesus. Plan for an
eternal residence at Christ's right hand.
Then, come sickness or health, come
joy or sorrow, come life or death, all is
well, all is well. !
In the name of the God of Caleb and
his daughter, Achsah, I this day offer
you the ;upper springs' or untaaing
and everlasting rapture.
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i Great Britain' Dependenctea.
Says Professor Bryce, "More by a se
ries of what may be called historical
accidents than from any deliberate pur
pose Great Britain has acquired yast
transmarine possessiops. " This isj pe
culiarly true of the British settlements
and protectorates in Africa and th far
east The English have no possessions
in north Africa. The sphere of their in
fluence and dominion in the dark pon
tinent extends from Cape Verde on the
west and the gulf of Aden on thejeast
to the Cape of Good Hope. England's
scattered colonies and dependencies in
this district have an area of more than
2,500,000 square miles 'and a population
estimated at from 10,000,000 to 40,000,'-
00a To Great Britain more than to; any
other nation belongs the credit of bring-1
ing this unknown land into contact
with European civilization. British en
terprise and capital; have done much to
develop its abundant resources. British
traders, hunters, soldiers, and mission
aries have traversed its wilds and sailed
its rivers and lakes. Along with other
blessings that England has brought to
Africa her share in suppressing) the
slave trade should not be forgotten.
Chautauquan.
rreneh Inatablllty..
The revc'atioh of f 1848 swept; every
thing before it like a cyclone, making
the path clear for the third great experi
ment of pcstrrvolutionary France. ' I The
abortive jcr t VI io of 1848 passed away
with the L! -j lahed in which the 'aeoond
emnire had its baptism, and in due
'?e itself perished jby the
re it life. No one: who
ative of these unforeseen
established rule will be
to assert tnat tne tnira re-
is the final word of Frahce's
That it will r be upset jby the
time the er;
sword that:.i
reads the a
overthrows
rash enougli
public
choice.
Bonanartists or the royalists may" be
most unlikely, but so seemed the revo
lutions of -1830 and 1848 before! they
came to pass. What was more unlikely
in 1846 than that before five years Louis
Philippe should have died in exile after
barely, escaping with his life to Eng
land, and that Louis Napoleon, ;lh.en a
prisoner at Hammea, should be seated
on the imperial throne? It is because
the unexpected has happened so often
that one - hesitates to predict that the
republic will last forever. Montreal
Gazette. J
Lore Alwajn Tonaav
Donald B. McDonald, 98 years: old,
and Margaret Ann O'Beagan, 84 years
old, of Beno, Mich., were married the
other day. McDonald had been married
three times in Canada and is the xatner
of, 14 children. The bride had beenmar-j
tied twice and is the mother el : ten
children. : The wedding was performed
in the presence cf gre&t-great-jgjraud-childreq
of both bridegroom and bride.
r? DooW. Hot Crrn ti More Ceat
lr. Made of Selld YTeoA.
The very finest of doors are raada
nowadays of veneer on a body of plna,
Even when made of mahogany or some
other costly wood doors have to be ve
neered. The body of the door irmade
of a plain, straight grained mahogany,
While the surfaces are veneers cf tn?
wood. '. . .s' -r
In the finest doors the body is mac! 3
cf selected white pine, free from sap
and perfectly seasoned which is cut in
to narrow strips and then glned to
gether. The outer edges of this door are
faced with what is called a veneer, but
which is really a strip of the fine wotxl
half an inch or more in thickness. Tho
inner edges of the frame, by the panels.
are covered in the same manner with
thick strips, in which the ornamental
moldings or carvings are made and
which are grooved to receive the panels.
This .bullt up frame of white pine,
with' edges of the fine wood, is then
veneered with' the fine wood. In some
lighter doors the panels may be of solid j
mahogany, but in the finer, larger and
heavier doors the panels also are in ad a
of sheets of white pine with a veneering
of the fine wood, so that the entire door
is veneered.
It would be difficult if not impossi
ble, to procure at any cost mahogany
lumber in fine and beautiful woods of
sufficient size for the larger doors. The
built up and fyeneered door of pine
wood; however, has eYery appearance
of a solid door, and, made of selected
Veneers, it ;may be more beautiful than
a solid door would be. ,It is more serv
iceable and remains longer perfect Its
cost is about half what a solid door!
would cost. New York Sun.
WASHINGTON RELICS.
Ia
Article of rrlcelcaa Worth Kept
the National: Mnseaaa. ..
One of the most Interesting relics in
the National museum at Washington If
the camp chest used, by Washington
throughout the Revolution. It Is a com
pact affair about the size of a tourist's
wicker chest for cooking of the present
day, 2 feet long, 3. feet wide, 1 foot
high, and it contains an outfit consist
ing of tinder box, , pepper and salt
boxes, bottles,, knives, forks, gridiron
and plates. Every bit of the outfit save
one bottle, which is , broken at the
shoulder, looks strong enough to stand
another campaign. ; "
Near by are the tents used by Wash
ington three in number. One ia a
sleeping tent, 28 feet long, with walls
6 feet high : and a - roof with a 0 foot
pitch. It is made of. linen. The other
two are marquee tents of smaller size,
one with walls, the other a shelter tent
open on the sides. That the tenting ma
terial of Revolutionary dayp was good
stuff is proved by the excellent condi
tion of these tents, which sheltered the
great commander through all his severe
campaigns. i I
Here also is Washington's uniform,
worn by him when he gave up his com
mission as .commander in chief of tho
army; at Annapolis In 1783. It consists
of a big shadbelly coat of blue broad-,
cloth, lined and trimmed with soft
buckskin and ornamented with broad, J
flat brass buttons; buckskin waistcoat
and breeches. The size of the garments
(which are in a state of excellent prcs 1
ervation) testify to the big stature of
the Father of His Country ; and sug
gest that he , had an eye to a fine ap
pearance in his drees. Washington
Consci
T7"iffAri
? Do net think for a single
moment that consumption will
ever strike you a sudden blow.
It does not come that way.
. It creeps its way along.
First, you think it is a little
cold; nothing but a little pack
ing cough ; then a little loss in.
weight: then a harder cough;
then the fever and' the night
sweats. ,: ' '..
The suddenness comes when
you have a hemorrhage;
Better stop the disease while
it is yet creeping. I
You can do it with
1
-
You first notice that you
cough less. The pressure on
the chest is lifted. .That feeling
of suffocation is removed. A
cure is hastened byplacing one of
Dr. Ayers Cherry
Pectoral Plaster '
oyer the Chest.
A CooU froom
It is on the Diseases of the
Throat and Langs. ,
Ki!f am VaWy
If von hava any eonf latnt wbaterer
and a aslr. tha beat mMilcl 1t)c. yoa
ru povtlblr receive, write tbe doctor
m j irfrtij . i v will rvvviiv yivuiyiivyi i.
: . DR. J. O. AXES. Lowen, Utu; f
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