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Ioetrv.
NIL DESPERANDUM.
A Farmer's Pathetic Soliloquy.
When the times are so hard, with - no chauce to
Ket softer.
There is nothing a fellovr can do but to change
is manner of living to suit the condition.
And iiaul in his horna to a narrower range.
As nothing is left me, this Bide of creation.
But to fume and to fret if I yield to my state,
I'll take the best course for my ease and my
comfort
And submit, like a man, to the fiat of fate.
Undisturbed by the ways of the world, with its
falseness.
I'll create, by myself, a pure world of my own.
And with Lirds and wiili varmints and other
6uch cattle.
That don't cheat, nor can't swindle, I'll dwell
all alone.
I'm as near to the God of the world and creation
As was ever enjoyed by the absence of man,
A&d can worship the things of riis hand with a
fervor
Not felt whem I mingled with nothing but
sham.
Mere in this dale, while I dream of corruption
Dried oaks, like grim sentinels will guard ont
around.
And the brook, as it murmurs all dai with its
music.
Will sootne me at night with its lullaby sound.
Tke birds in the branches sweet cadence are
making
And the flowers all smile wheu they wake in
the morn
All nature's astir from a sweet, dreamless
slumber
And greet me with truth at the day's early
dawn.
Tke Thomas-cat's squall I'll improve and make
tuneful.
So that ' i will be mellow and pleasant instead ;
Aad his cat-a-waul changed by such happy im
provement, I'll think it a serenade there in my bed.
Tke wild hornet I'll tame to be social and
friendly.
So that he will light on my nose and not sting ;
Aad the bat, that is said to be voiceless and
tuneless,
111 teach how to open lis mouth and to sing. J
Tke 'possum I'll learn to be honest andTfufhful,
So that he ill never " play 'possuni " again;
tmt with truth in his eyes, in his belly, per
simmons. He'll no longer let fraud be attached to his
name.
Tiie skunk, witk his incense so loud and knock-
uownish.
Will be taught to respect and consider one's
nose,
S that wlien he's prowling about, he will rival
The sweetest of flowers and smell like a rose.
Tke fleas I'll convert from their habit of biting.
And ticks from the sin tiiat they have to
adhere
I'll reform the familiar, free ways of all var
mints Whose habits are bad and uncivil appear.
Tkus alone will I dwell, and with brates as com
panions, Which some may deem cranky as well as
uncouth.
Turn my back on the world, with itB shams and
its follies.
To breath tne sweet breath of fair nature and
truth.
Tkough poor as Job's turkey, my mouth Khali
not water,
However inclined it mav be to o'erflow
r to make me go back on myself by base long-
For tning8 that my nature doth hanker for so.
S, away from the thraldom of riches and
tasnion.
Howe'er muck I may hone for or covet the
same,
I'll manage to throttle and hold in subjection
The wants that I, else, might find hard to keep
tame.
Tkough hard it may be to stop poverty's craving
men lie s sick or short-comings and longs
xor a cnaDce.
I'll teach him to graze without jumping his
pasture
In search of a " new " one in which he may
range.
A. virtue I'll make of necessities stinting?,
A trait that 1 otherwise ne'er would enjoy ;
I'll strive on poor " riddles " my stomach to
clog.
Mf wants I'll confine to my means and con
dition With subdued it clinations for what I can't get,
Ner enjoy, for to hone is the bane of content
ment ;
So, deprived of vain longings, I'll live and not
fret.
Tke rtOrld, witk its kingdoms, may tos with
commotion.
And the clash of fell war between nations
occur
The devil in general may stir up creation.
But no fuss will disturb the sweet quietude
here.
la short, a new Eden out here will I 'stablish.
With no snake to invade and to wheedle again ;
Where ebullience of joy unmolested, unceasing,
Will make my life glide like a realized dream.
U. B. GWYNN.
HOUSEHOLD.
MOCK MINCE PIE.
One cup rolled crackers, one cup
sugar, one cup molasses, one cup
water, one cup vinegar, three table
ipoons butter, one tablespoon cinna
mon, one teaspoon nutmeg, one tea
spoon salt, one cup chopped raisins.
Mir in the order given, and bake in
two crusts.
POTATO SAUSAGE.
Of cold veal finely chopped add the
tame quantity of cold mached potato,
and season with pepper and salt to the
taste. Make it out in small cakes,
flour them, and fry them a light
brown. They may be fried in saus
age gravy if you have any left. Cold
potatoes left from dinner will answer
for this dish.
LETTUCE SALAD.
Cut four or five nice heads of lettuce.
Salt it, and let it stand half an hour.
Then add to the lettuce the powdered
yolks of four hard boiled eggs, half a
teaspoonful of mustard and half a tea
tpoonf ul of pepper. Add a small piece
of melted butter. Heat half a pint of
rinegar and pour over. Mix all and
garnish the dish with the whites, of
the eggs
STEWED KIDNEYS.
Soak in cold water, scald and remove
the outside membrane. Cut them
through th3 edge to the center, and
remove the hard part. Put them in
a stew-pan with two bay leaves, four
tloves, four peppercorns, teaspoon of
alt, one onion, two tablespoons of
rinegar and water to cover. Simmer
till tender. Brown one teaspoon of
butter, add one tablespoon of flour,
and when mixed add one cup of the
liquor; season with salt, pepper and
lemon juice. Pour this over the kid
neys, and serve very hot.
The study of Shakespeare is having
a great revival in Germany.
ALIVE IN THEIR GRAVES.
A Young Girl Who Was Found Lying
on Her Side, With Ribbons
Torn to Shreds.
Frequently we hear of people being
pronounced dead and afterwards com
ing to life, as it is generally termed,
when they regain consciousness. Very
queer, incredible and strangely peculiar
are the stories related regarding these
incidents, but few of them are true.
The further they travel the better and
stranger stories they become.
Many incidents are on record of peo
ple being buried alive, but during the
past fifty years not over eight people
are known to have met such horrible
fates. Every medical college has a
record of such cases, and for the ve
racity of the statements the physicians
who investigated the different cases,
had appearances only to guide them.
" Twenty years ago," as Hazel
Kirke's old father exclaimed so many
times a night in the play, Minnie
Davis,, a girl, young, beautiful, fasci
nating and accomplished, died in the
little town of Asheville, N. C. It was
but a few days before the day set for
her wedding that her death occurred,
the story goes. Before she died she
requested that the ring which her ex
pected husband was to place upon her
finger when they were pronounced
man and wife he tied about her neck
with a ribbon. Needless to say her
wish was carefully carried out.
The physicians who attended were
puzzled by her illness, and when she
ceased to live they rather reluctantly
stated that heart disease was the
cause.
Two months after she was buried the
young man to whom she was to have
been married died. He begged that
the body of Minnie Pa vis be exhumed
and buried in the same grave with
him. His friends and the girl's mother
promised to carry out his dying re
quest. When the coffin containing the dead
girl was raised from the grave the
mother asked to be allowed to gaze
once more on her dear one's face.
When the coffin cover was lifted a
horrible sight presented itself.
The mother's shrieks broke the
silence of the graveyard, and the grave
diggers, used to ghastly sights, stood
seemingly petrified, gazing with horror-stricken
faces upon the sight that
the bright sunbeams made all the more
horrible.
The body was lying upon its side in
stead of the back, and the blue ribbon
which held the wedding ring aromd
the neck was torn to countless shreds.
The features of the girl were contorted
and strangely discolored, and the
muscles of the hands and arms were
drawn up in bunches as hard as iron.
Upon closer observation a startling
fact presented itself. The wedding
ring had been torn from the ribbon
and placed upon the fourth finger of
the left hand. The right hand was
tightly closed over it, as if to shield it
from envious eyes.
The town physicians made a careful
examination of the remains, and, al
though the body had been buried two
months, they declared that the girl
had not been dead over three weeks.
Imagine one's thoughts on awakening
and finding they are in the grave,
coffined and entombed alive. It is al
most too horrible to think of ; but what
must it be to experience!
Another case where a man was
buried alive occurred in May, 1879, in
Rochester, N. Y. Henry Garlin was
the unfortunate man's name, and he
was one of the most prosperous and
respected men in the community.
Early one morning he was found
lying in a stall beside a horse in his
barn. He had gone there but a few
minutes before to feed the cattle, and
the loud neighing of the horse attracted
the members of the family.
The unconscious man was carried
into the house and physicians hastily
summoned. After working over him
for more than an hour they pronounced
him dead, giving heart disease as the
cause.
He had always expressed a wish to
be buried in Albany, N. Y., where he
was born, but his wife being too ill to
leave her home, they decided to place
his body in a vault and carry out his
wish at some later period.
Three weeks afterward a grave was
prepared in a cemetery in Albany, and
Mrs. Garlin went to the tomb to take a
last look at her dead husband
The coffin was raised, a figure clothed
in black stole tremblingly up and a
pale face peered within the rosewood
case. There was a shriek, a heavy
falVand all was still
Only the old grave digger gazed upon
the sickening sight
The flesh on the dead man's face had
been torn in strips with his fingernails,
and in his terrible death struggle his
garments and the siik lining of the
coffin had been riDDed in shreds. The
A .
powerful strength which cams into the
man's fingers, while in frenzied strug
gles he fought against death, must
hare been supernatural.
The doctors thought from the ap
pearance and condition of the body
that the man must have regained con
sciousness a few hours, or at least a
day, after he was buried. These opin
ions were told to Mrs. Garlin, and she
brooded over the terrible fate of her
beloved husband. She blamed herself
for allowing his body to be placed in
the tomb so soon, and two months
afterward she was found dead in her
bed. The doctors said, and all of her
friends believed it to be so, that she
died of a broken heart.
Three years ago, while laborers were
removing the dead bodies from an old
graveyard in the lower part of New
York City, one of the coffin lid fell off.
The body, which was that of a man,
lying face downward, and the limbs
were turned and twisted in all kinds of
showing clearly that the man had been
buried alive.
xVnother case, which was discovered
in Brooklyn, N. Y., a few years ago,
was that of twin girls, who had been
buried in the same coffin alive. They
were but four years old when the doc
tors pronounced them dead, both hav
ing been found unconious in their
b3ds. The caso was a very mysterious
one, and was brought to light in a
peculiar manner. The bodies were
buried prematurely, it was claimed,
and, in order to prove it, it was neces
sary to open the coffi n. The baby girls
were clasped in each other's arms, and
their skin and shrouds were torn.
" That these people were buried alive
is bej'ond doubt," a well known Chi
cago physician explained to me the
other day, when I broached the ghastly
subject. "You often hear of people
remaining unconscious for days and
months at a time, living without food
or water, and altogether in a state
similar to death. It would be very
natural for a physician to conscientious
ly pronounce a person in such a state
dead, and I have no doubt whatever
that hundreds of people are buried
alive each year. You see there is no
way of finding out. We have appear
ances only to go by, but I think they
are enough to satisfy any man of sense
and judgment."
Just then the physician's pretty
daughter came into the room, and the
ghastly subject seemed to fade from
his mind, so I bothered him no longer.
Chicago Press.
A MAN WHO WALKS BACKWARD.
The case of Joseph Copeman, a young
deaf mute, whose powers of locomotion
are so affected from some unknown
cause that he is obliged to walk back
ward, after the manner of a crab, has
completely mystified Dr. Horatio C.
Wood, under whose care the boy lies
in the University Hospital. Copeman
was born in England about ; ten years
ago. At the age of three years an at
tack of scarlet fever brought about the
loss of his hearing, and he also grad
ually lost all power of speech. Shortly
after this he came with his parents to
this country, settling at Osceola Mills,
in Clearfield county.
Very soon after the arrival of the
family here the mother died and the
boy's father disappeared very suddenly.
Since that time the young unfortunate
has been living with his grandmother,
Mrs. Baker, at Osceola Mills. At the
age of six years he had two or three
slight attacks of convulsions that did
not seem to effect him seriously, but
about a year later he had a severe fit,
which left him in an unconscious con
dition. When he recovered he remained in a
state of profound stupor for several
days, but later recovered his apparent
good health, and continued in a normal
condition until April last. His grand
mother then noticed that the boy occa
sionally limped very painfully with his
left leg. She imagined he was mimic
ing an old cripple of the neighborhood,
punished him and admonished him not
to repeat the offence. The boy rapidly
grew worse and finally lost the use of
his left leg. The left arm also became
affected, and he developed a tendency
to walk backwark instead of in the
usual way.
The grandmother became alarmed
and sent the boy ton, hospital in Philips
burg. He received no benefit from his
treatment at that institution, and was
afterwards, through the influence of
Rev. Dr. Clerc, sent to St. "Luke's Hos
pital, Bethlehem, Penn. He under
went treatment there for about three
weeks and was throught to be consid
erably benefited. After leaving the
institution Dr. Clerc made application
for admission to the deaf and dumb
asylum at Broad and Pine streets. The
boy arrived at the institution in Sep
tember, but when his peculiar con
dition was discovered Superintendent
Crauter and Dr. Lewis concluded to
place him under the care of a physician
rather than send him to a class for in
struction in the sign language.
A peculiar phase of his case lies in
the fact that, when standing erect, if
he desires to move from one point to
another he is obliged to turn and walk
backward, while, by assuming a stoop
ing position he can shuffle forward in
the usual way. Philadelphia Record.
RUN DOWN.
The Many Things Struck by a Loco
motive.
Everything From Trains to Geese
The Dangerous Pig and the
Irritating Goat An Engi
neer Tells How it
All Feels.
"Yes," said an engineer who had
grown gray in the service of the com
pany, as he stood beside his locomotive,
in Jersey City, the other day, "the
suspense attending a run-over acci
dent when you are on an engine
smothers one. I can assure you,"
he continued, wiping a blotch of oil
off the side rod with a piece of waste,
' ' that I am somewhat of an authority
on the subject, because I have had
the misfortune to run over about
everything from a chicken to a fire
engine.
"You would naturally think that a
collision, where your own life was in
imminent danger would cause you
more anxiety than anything else, but
it doesen't. Usually a collision occurs
before you know where you are. You
are sailing along over the rails, trying
to keep as near your schedule time as
you can, when suddenly something
shows up before you. With me it has
always been the rear of a train, for I
have never tried to pass an engine on
the same track coming in an opposite
direction. In an instant you slam
on the air brakes, reverse the engine
and wait for the crash, and the en
gine buries herself in the caboose or
cars of the train you strike. Then you
make the most of a bad job, and if you
are not at fault for the accident and
no one is injured or killed, you soon
forgot all about it. But it is entirely
different when you run over a human
being. You are speeding along and
see a man on the traek in front of you.
At first you think that he will hear
the train, just as thousands have heard
it before, and get off the track in time,
but he goes on with his back toward
you and you pul the whistle string
and the engine shrieks the warning.
He does not hear even that, so you try
to stop the train. The air brakes are
put on, the engine is reversed and the
great drivers begin working backward,
sending fire in showers from the shin
ing steel rails, while sparks of live
coals from the furnace shoot from the
stack high up into the sky, as the
monster groans and struggles vainly
trying to stop the train behind.
"While you draw nearer and nearer
the victim the suspense is absolutely
beyond description. All efforts are
useless. You feel a slight jar as the
poor devil is struck, and a coal sweat
breaks out all over your body, and a
faint feeling comes over you, until you
fall back on your seat, sick at heart,
and wonder what the fate of the man
was and whether he leaves a family
and what sadness there will be when
they learn the news at home. You
think that you would like to stop
railroading and earn a living at some
thing else. Meantime the train has
come to a standstill. The engine has
ceased her struggles and the only sound
you hear is the throbbing of the air
brake as it pumps back and forth,
making a noise like the breathing of
some exhausted beast. The baggage
master, conductor and brakeman rush
out of the cars and take all that is left
of the victim from under the wheels.
" Well, you know his fate now. As
soon as you are signaled to go ahead,
and as you touch the throttle, the engine
leaps forward eagerly as if she were
anxious to leave the dreadful place
behind, and in a moment the thought
of the accident is driven by other work
from your busy mind.
"A pig is a dangerous thing to run
over, for he is likely to throw the
locomotive ofi the track. When the
pilot of the engine hits him it usually
knocks him down and then rolls him
for a few yards under it before the
trucks strike him, and when they do
there is great danger of them leaving
the rails. The drivers are almost cer
tain to follow the trucks, and if you
don't go down the bank you are lucky.
So you see what havoc one pig can
make with a railroad. Another dis
agreeable thing about a pig is that he
never stops squealing from the time
he is hit until he is stone dead. Engi
neers are not fond of pork.
"It is next to impossible to kill a
goat with an engine. Goats are the
most irritating of all animals that
wander along a railroad track. No
matter how fast you may pe running
or how quietly you steal down upon
him he will see you out of the corner
of his eye and manage to get out of
the way just in time to miss the cow
catcher as the engine rushes by him at
lightning speed. Cows and horses are
generally easily disposed of, though
sometimes they get under the wheels
and cause a bad wreck. But they are
bo large that the pilot gets under them
and throws them to one side. Sheep
are the most pitiful of all animals to
run down. They seem to realize the
danger that they are in and huddle
together in the middle of the rails and
await death. Their great innocent
eyes stare at you so mournfully and
sadly that they haunt you for days
to come. A locomotive seems to take
savage delight in destroying sheep.
She throws them .in every direction
and will kill a whole flock in an instant.
struck a flock of geese once. Well,
never thought there were so many
feathers in the world. I couldn't see
anything but feathers for ten minutes,
and when we reached the station my
engine looked as if she had received a
coat of tar and feathers. Hello 1 There
goes my bell; I must leave you," said
the "knight of the footboard" as he
sprang into his cab and started the
train out of the station on its journey
to the West. New York Tribune.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Salmon, pike and codfish are the only
fish that never sleep.
A man can live and enjoy perfect
health on milk and its products alone.
The fall of rain in the mountains of
Southern California has greatly in
creased since the formation of Salton
Lake.
It is only a few years since the
nourishing qualities of milk and its
hygienic value began to be properly
appreciated.
The indispensable use of gutta-percha
is for tke protection of submarine tele
graphs, for which all other substances
have proved more or less failures.
G. W. Dunn, the California natural
ist, has collected over 70,000 insects
belonging to the hornwinged family,
5,000 of the cricket tribe and about
4,000 butterflies and numberless rare
plants and animals.
A French anatomist has examined
the skeletons of eighty -six chimbanzees,
gorillas and orang-outangs, and asserts
that he haa found in them bone dis
eases like those which afflict mankind,
and in about the same proportion.
A new artificial honey, called "sugar
honey," bids fair to become a formida
ble rival of the natural product. It
consists of sugar, a small proportion
of mineral salts, water, and a free
acid. In taste and smell it very
closely resembles the genuine honey.
Professor Munsey says that a good
churn will make at least ten per cent
more butter than is called for by the
butter fat found in the milk, and if all
the butter fat got into the butter it
would overrun the amount called for
nearly eighteen per cent.
The germs of yellow fever, it is
thought, may be conveyed from tropi
cal countries by the pet birds exported
in so large numbers. Recent cases of
the disease in Marseilles, France, could
be traced to no other cause than a
pair of parrots from the Australasia
Islands.
Corn husks boiled in caustic soda are
being utilized for the manufacture of
paper. The cooking process results in
the formation of a spongy, glutinous
paste, which is subjected to heavy
pressure so as to eliminate the gluton,
the fiber remaining being made into
paper in the ordinary way.
In using the heavier grades of kero
sene or refined petroleum oils in lamps,
the wick often becomes charred at the
top, which obstructs the capillary
action of the wick. When the w ick is
raised, the charred top obstructs the
slot in the flame guard and diminishes
the flame. Wicks should be often
renewed. The old wicks become hard
and partly obstructed in the tube.
. An ingenious camera for photograph
ing the internal organs of- men or
animals has been invented in Ger
many. It is cylindrical in shape, is
contained in a rubber tube, and has
two hemispherical shutters and two
minute incandescent lamps. Pressing
a fpneumatic ball mores the camera
forward in the tube, opens the shutters,
and makes the electric light contact.
Removing the pressure closes the shut
ters, puts out the lights, and replaces
the camera.
Experiments make in America with
the cottonwood show that the increase
in the girth of the tree is made only
during a week or two about midsum
mer. It is believed to be the rule with
most American fast-growing deciduous
trees. Experiments on coniferous trees,
recently made in Scotland by David
Christison,show opposite results. TLcpj
is a retardation of growth at midsum
mer, and a rather rapid increase just
before and just after that time.
1365 MILES AN HOUR.
A locomotive working under a pres
sure of 140 to 165 pounds to the square
inch of boiler surface may move a train
at a velocity of sixty miles per hour;
and, under favorable circumstances,
even a greater distance. While we
are apt to think this a wonderful rate
of speed, it is slow, very slow, when
compared with the velocity of a pro
jectile fired from a modern "great
gun." Such missiles push forward
through the air at the rate of 13G5
miles per hour, the impelling force
exerting a pressure of 35,000 to 45,000
pounds to each square inch. St. Louis
Republic.
THE DISCOVERY OF TOBACCO.
Africans Are Supposed to Have Used It
Long Before Raleigh's Time.
It has generally been supposed that
the uses of tobacco were not known
outside of America and its islands
before the discovery of the western
world, says Goldthtcaite's Geograph
ical Magazine. While convincing:
proof to the contrary has not been
obtained, the explorations of recent
years have raised the question whether
the tobacco habit in the fifteenth cen
tury was not far more widely prevalent
than has been believed. It is learned
that among many of the Pacific islands
the natives used tobacco long beforo
they were visited by white men, and
there i no tradition among them of a
time wh n their fathers did not under
stand the culture and uses of the to
bacco plant. Throughout inner Africa
also the use of tobacco is universally
known and there is every reason to
believe that some of the varieties of
the tobacco plant in common use art
indigenous. For all we know to tho
contrary the savages of Central Africa,
who were quite unknown at the timo
Columbus discovered America, wero
puffing their pipes long before he mad
himself famous.
There is no doubt that the discovery
of American tobacco had considerable
influence upon the tobacco habit in
Africa, if it did not actually introduce
it. Our common Virginia tobacco was
carried far up the Nile to equatorial
Africa long before white men pene
trated to that region. Sehweinfurth
was the first to discover that this
imported plant is in use among several
of the Bahr el-Chasal and Welle-Makua
tribes, and it is a curious fact that tho
savages who use this exotic have no
native name for it. Each tribe has its
own name for the native variety of
tobacco, but the appellations the Afri
cans apply to the imported plant show
finmistakably that they are derived,
one and all, from the word tobacco.
So far as this large region, at least, is
indebted to America for an improved
quality of the weed the obligation
seems to be acknowledged in tho
names given to the article. But tho
indigenous varieties are far moro
prevalent and are largely used even
where Virginia tobacco is cultivated.
And since the foreign source of tho
exotic has been so easily discovered in
the language of the people, it seems
not unreasonable to suppose that in
the greater regions to which it has not
extended, and where no foreign in
fluence is discernible, the smoking
habit had an independent origin.
It is not at all certain that the whito
race has a prior claim even upon tho
invention of the cigar. In all parts of
New Guinea, the largest island in tho
world, that have yet been visited to
bacco is cultivated, and in some o
these districts the humble pipe con
tributes nothing to the enjoyment of
the weed and is not even known. Dr.
Maclay saw natives with crude looking
cigars in their mouths who had never
seen a white man before, and thought
he had dropped from the sky. Dr.
Fincsh, who, some years later ex
plored the coast for hundreds of miles,
says the natives of the whole north
east coast of New Guinea, though
inveterate smokers, had never heard
of a pipe and returned those which ho
gave them as articles for which they
had no use. He says they roll tho
partly dried leaves into a rude cigar,
and, not being blessed with Havana
wrappers, they tie around their cigar
a large green leaf from a tree. Doubt
less the vilest weeds sold on the Bowery
are superior to these products of Papuan
ingenuity, which hold fire so poorly
that a live coal.is alwayskept at had to
revivify them. But they suit tho
native taste, and the people seem to
regard those who draw tobacco smoko
through a pipe stem as belonging to an
inferior race of human beings.
A GOLD MINE IN THE TEETH.
French statisticians have recently
made some curious calculations of tho
amount of gold which is annually
buried in the United States. M. Victor
Meunir asserts, after making careful
inquiries, that the -American dentists
annually insert into the teeth of their
patients, 1800 pounds of the precious
metal, which would bo worth $450,000.
This gold is never recovered, of course,
but is buried with the person in whoso
mouth it is placed. Making allowance
for the rapid increase of our population
and for the continued deterioration of
tho human teeth, it appears that in
les3 than a hundred years American
cemeteries will contain more gold than
no w exists in France. Th is is no fancy
sketch, but the result of study and cold
figuring. St. Louis Republic.
NOTICE, COUNTY LECTURERS.
In the organization of the District
Lecture Bureau any member of tho
Alliance in the District can be chosen
President, and the said President shall
be District Lecturer.
Fraternally,
W. S. Barnes,
Sec.-Treas. N. C. F. S. A.
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