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tr ttt' X "Ml 1L P .1 1L IPL 1 i nrl Vol. XI.-NO. 9. REIDSVILLE, N. C., MAY 5, 1899. $1.00 per Year. Y V 1IJU Wo EF DK C ROP'S C'VT SHORT. Dey's a heap er discontentment fclw-hln' loose iTruuu' tie laud. An' I u w tcr flounder in It lak' a eat-fish lo de fraud: But I studied things, an argicd 'bout defrjiond- Iney an' bicii, Yieldiu' less dan tares to hahvest towa'ds makin' of us rich, Tell Ise come U'r de conclusion dat It's foolish ttf cavort, Er to let de lip go drappln Ef de crop's cut short! I Is better o3 f' certain dan big lot I could name. Dat's elected t the back seats w'en dey's run- uin' after fame; It lscoinfortin' to know Ise nebber beat to1 , President, An' ise nebber had no bank to bust an' lose niah ebtier cent; An' a puson dat has 'scaped dls ort torendah thanks, be or. An' not let de lip (to drappln', Ef de crop's cut short ! -Will T.Hale. PUOTECTIOS FOU WOJ1EJ. Soathern Lrf-aUvr Tell What Shoald B Done to Prevent Srgro Outrage. Atlanta. Ga., April 24. The series of crimes which began with tbe burning of building in Palmetto by incendia ries, the lynching a month later cf four negroes by the whites of that little town in retaliation, to be followed eo clays ago by the murder f Alfred Cranford and the ravishing of bis wife, in the same locality, for which the negro, Samuel Holt, was ''jurned at the stake yesterday, has stirred the people or Georgia and the South into intense in terest in the social problems which the crimes reveal. A discussion of the crimes and the remedy for the lawlessness has reached all circles, and the question of protec tion for the white women in the sparsely settled farming districts is the topic of the day. . The Atlanta Constitution devotes a page to a collection of opinions on how proper protection can bp afforded to the women of the country. On this sub ject Governor Candler says: "The question of protection for wo men and homes in the country is one of deep interest, and which weighs uton my heart. I think the wisest plan for protection will be - for the Legislature to take up the matter and provide a suffi cient State militia and funds to be ex pended for a patrol in the country dis tricts." Former Gov. William J. Northen ex pressed himself as follows: "My first suggestion is that all homes should be made miniature ' arsenals, at least to the extent of one good Winches ter rifle and one good pistol ; that women be allowed to carry weapons upon their persons, concealed, if so desired, and that they be taught the use and hand ling of firearms, bo that they may be come their own protectors in the ab sence of the husband or master of the house. " "An occasional negro lying dead in the back yard, shot by a brave woman in defence of her honor, will do more to stopt this awful crime than all the lynch ing that may occur in a year. I would have every county supplied withatleast half a dozen well-trained bloodhounds. I would have an organization of at least twenty men in each county, whoshould have supervision of all lawlessness and disorders iu the county." Mrs. Louie M. Gordoo. a prominent society woman, not only in Atlanta,but throughout the Southern cities, favors the equipment of a company of militia by each county. She says: "The Mexican government has a kind of rural soldiery, having tne power to hold a drum-head court martial and to 6hoot the captured criminal if he is found guilty. The per ceut. of crime is lower in Mexico than 4n this country, and yet trains are loaded with silver and bullion. , "It seems it would be a wise invest ment for our farmers to add a fund to what ehould be contributed by the Leg islature to provide an up-to-date, well equipped, sufficient military force for the counties, as well as cities and towns, while the good moral effect it would surely bring would prod nee a sense of safety which would drive fear away from sinking hearts." Mrs. W. II. Felton, who produced a sen sation by her assertion at an agricultu ral convention two years ago that a thousand negroes should be lynched ev ery week until the outrages stopped, says She has no reason' to change her opinion. , ; 1 How Smallpox I Spread. GastonJa Gazette. Thetraveling man who goes about oyer the country unvaccinated commits a crime against his family and his com munity. If a case likt Mr. Sossamon's were to happen in Gaston ia it would do the town an amount of harm scarcely second to tne wrecking of a bank. Everybody should be on the alert. There is no telling when a traveling man will sir. next to a smallpox subject on a car seat, nor when a pastor in his visits among the skk may run up onb Virulent case. The Witch Doctor' Sentence. Kewton Enterprise, The witch doctor, Chris Detter, who has had quite an extensive introduction to the people of North Carolina, was sentenced last week in Lincoln court to fimr mriuttiB linmisoiimBUt lU'ThB flntlrT- 4 - . ty jail, and required to refund Martin Smith the $G5 he cheated him out of, with interest, all costs in the case, and Smith's lawyer's fees. It is said that Detter ia a man of sortie property and will be able to foot the bills. BILL ARPS LETTER. How these old men do cling together. Almost every day brings a good kind letter from some venerable man who is lonesome or has a community of inter est wilh me, and wishes to write, for he knows that I will listen. There are many more of them living than I thought, for old men grow silent as they near the end. They ponder and rumi? nate, but make no noise. Providence is kind in giving most of them children and children's children to comfort them and to brighten up the passing hours. An old man must be forlorn, indeed, who has none of these. Charles Lamb, in his old and mellow days, wrote sadly when he said : "Where are my playmates, the com panions of my childhood in the joyful school days. All, all are gone the old familiar faces gone before roe to that unknown and silent shore." But Lamb was wifeless and childless and had a right to be sad. He should have adopted some bright little orphan child who would love him and call him father and c'ing to him in his declining years. Every old bachetor should. I have just received a good long letter from an oldand forgotten friend whom I knew in the long ago and supposed was dead. He is nearing bis four score years, but writes the same old school master hand that his generation wire taught to write. He is in good health and strong of mind and loves to com mune with memories of the past the halcyon days, as he calls them. I won der how many college boys know that the pretty word halcyon comes from two Greek words that mean the sea and an egg. When the eider duck lays her eggs on the, high cliffs by the sea, it is always warm and pleasant weather, and hence came the word halcyon als, the sea, and oon, an egg. My friend's name is J. J. Richards and he is the surviyor of the three brothers William C. and T. Addison Richards, who were our foremost literary men away back in trie forties. They published "Georgia Illustrated" and the Orion Magazine, and many beautiful legends of the Cherokee Indians. This brother pub- j lished a war pajer called The Soldiers' Friend, of which I Lave some copies issued in lSfit, in Augusta, Ga., and are little gems, lioth in editorial and se lected matter. He now lives not far from McFherson barracks, near Atlanta, and is tbe postmaster at Golden Gate, and still finds time arid pleasure in writ ing poetry when the spirit moves him. He, too, has added some 'verses to "John Anderson, My Joe." These old mea do not like the way that Burns left John and his spouse sleeping at the foot of the hill, but want them to rise again and enjoy heaven. Wallace Reed ought to go out to that Golden Gate and inter view Mr. Richards and chronicle some of his memories, for he is about the only literary link between the present and tbe past. These pioneers should not be forgotten. Most all pioneers are. We eat the fruit of the orchards and vineyards and take no concern about who planted them. Not a dozen jeopIe in Rome, a city of 13,000 people, know who planted the trees that give such magnificent shade around the churches, or who first laid out and ornamented the beautiful Myrtle hill cemetery. Who knows of the long and patient toil of Mark A. Cooper in developing and building up the iron industry of Chero kee Georgia? What engineer sought and found tbe winding way for a rail road from Atlanta to Chattanooga near ly sixty years ago and planned all its curves and spanned the rivers and creeks with bridges ? Not long ago I asked a conductor on the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad to tell me who planned that magnificent work across the Cumberland mountains, and be could not tell me. Who founded old Franklin college, now tbe University of Georgia, and who conceived and pro jected the establishment of the Wes leyan Female College, the first female college in the world ? Tbe antiquaries and relic hunters will pay big prices for old things, such as ancient cpius and furniture and curios, but care nothing or the pioneers of our civilization, the men who cleared the wilderness and blazed the wav for the generations to come. This reminds me that a one armed confederate soldier who is now pinched with poverty wishes to sell two very old volumes that were published in 1542 the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" of Homer. The binding is in whitish leather with raieed images and flowers stamped on it and the autographs on the title page are Albert, Prince Glen bevrie, and Philip Melanchthon. And there is a Latin inscription as follows : "Sum Johani Conradi Rheilmati, 1615." Now if this be Melanchthon'srgenu ine autograph these volumes are of great historic value, for no greater man has lived or died in all these centuries the man at whose feet Luther knelt' in reverence, and of whom Erasmus exclaimed. "My God, how profound is his learning, how exalted is his vir tue." These two, Luther and Melanch thon sleep side by Bide in Wittenberg and in 1SG0 the king of Prussia erected over his grave a beautiful monument-'-a duplicate of that Over Luther's. I do not kuuw what I'vidi'iiec1 this". vct6fa"n has that Melanchthon ever owned these ancient volumes, but I will know. It is certain, however, that they were pub lished in his day and he could have owned them. The Latin inscription reminds one of another that was eent to me for transla tion not long ago by a . friend in Ala bama. It is ou the top of a massive gold-headed cane that is an heirloom in the family. Taere is a crown engraved upon the golden head and underneath are these words: "Epis noe ebor," which are not good Latin nor Greek, but I suppose are abbreviations. At any rate they pass my comprehension. The cane descended from a distin guished Episcopal bishop of Ner York city. The more I try to solve such problems, the more I am convined that "a little learning is a dangerous tbiDg." Will not some college boy tell me what that Latin means ? Bili Akp, SpanLh-Amrrlcan Inland. Two hundred Filipinos attacked the American outpost near Tagnig, Luzon, on the 22nd and were repulsed after several hours' fighting, leaving twelve dead on the field. Tne Filipinos are building new in frenchmen ts north and west of Malolos. Intense beat prevails in Manila, tbe thermometer registering 95 degrees at noon one day last week. The wreck of the Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Pluton, which was sunk by the Gloucester July 3 last, has been found.by divers about three miles west of Morro Castle. Admiral Dewey hts heard nothing td determine the fate of Lieutenant Gil more and the fourteen American sol diers who disappeared near Baler, Luzon. Late advices from Mindanao state that war is likely to break out there as soon as the Spanish garrisons are with drawn. A split has occurred in the European junta of the Filipinos, a majority of the members favoring negotiations lead ing to peace with the United States. Six Americans were killed and forty three wounded Monday in a fight near (Juengua, six miles northeast of Malo los. The Filipinos were routed. Col. Stolsenberg was among the killed. Spaniards in Cuba are uneasy, and a number of them say they will leave the island when the American troops are withdrawn. General Lawton has started with a flying column to clear the jungle north of Manila. The Bible and Karly Kllng. Dorothy Drew, Mr, Gladstone's little granddaughter, according to the Young Woman, one morning at Haarden, refused to get up. Wnen all other means had failed to coax her out of bed her grandfather was called. "Why won't you get my child ?" he said. "Why, grandfather, didn't you tell me to do what the Bible gays?" asked Do rothy. "Yes, certainly." "Well, it disapproves of early rising; says its a waste of time." Mr. Gladstone knew his Bible better than most men, but he was not equal to Dorothy. For once in his life he was nonplussed as to his scriptural knowledge. "You listen, then," weut on Dorothy in reply to his exclamation of astonishment, and, turning up the Bible, she read the sec ond verse of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Psalm, laying' great emphasis on the first words, "It is vain for you to rise tip early." Rudyard Kipling had an experience of his own with the same girl one day when he was on a visit at Hawarden. Being left alone with Dorothy by her mother, tbe poet exerted himself to en trtain his little companion as well as possible. Upon Mrs. Drew's returning and asking Dorothy whether she had not bored Mr. Kipling, Gladstone's grandchild replied: "No, but he did me." Signs Point to Bryan. Washington April 29. The em phatic denial of Senator Jones, of Ar kansas, that he has any intention of resigning his present position as chair man of the Democratic National Ex ecutive Committee, coming simultane ously with the statement of Mayor Car ter Harrison, of Chicago, that he is for Mr. Bryan's renomination ' in 1900, would seem to indicate that the friends of Mr, Bryan, as well as his latent ene mies, are agreed that the Nebraska man is still the strongest candidate for the Democratic nomination. Indeed, if the reports "f the Democratic congress men who drop jnto Washington can be relied upon, Mr. Bryan's renomination is almost as certain as is Mr. McKin ley's. Mr. Harrison, in an' interview, says that the Chicaeo platform of 1896 will be reaffirmed, "together with some additions." These "additions" will, of course, be planks denouncing trusts, and denouncing the present administra tion policy of expansion of our national territory. " v C; ' McLubberty Owld Uncle Moike Duffy is out av his mind intoirely ! Mrs. McLubberty Ph wot make yez say thot? ' . ' McLubberty Phwoy, he's been af ther makin' his will an' l'avin' ivery t'irig he's got in the worruld to his heirs, not kapin' back for himsilf as much as a quarter's wort' av anyt'ing. T'ink av ut, ravin' himself pinniless at his age, in case he should" doie! ; Mr. Thad.Seigle, of Charlotte, who went West a year or two ago and last year" Joined th6 volunteer army' and was sent to the Philippines, where he took part in the battle of Manila, has .re turned to his home in Charlotte. He was made a sergeant during his army service and was wounded in the leg in the battle of Manila. LETTER FROM REV. S)AM JONES. , I find in all these sections that spring time "came, gentle Annie," about one month behind time. I find again that most of the fruits have either been killed or badly damaged, with the ex ception largely in favor of the apple. I passed through Texas about the middle ol March last year and corn was knee high and cotton well up. This year in the middle of April I say but little corn up and scarcely one-third of cotton planted and but little up out of the ground. Gardens are belated. In Texas it has been dry and cold. Very little rain has fallen in Texas since Christmas. Last week they had good rains, which gladdened the farmer and merchant and drummer. I tell you, when you make the drummer happy you have made a crowd happy in Texas. It seems to me that nearly every other man a fellow meets in Texas is a drum mer. Sometimes one thinks there are more drummers than farmers and mer chants combined. Anyway, they are a jolly ,eet of fellows, and they are doing much to keep the world rolling along. . In spite of late seasons and untoward circumstances, I am glad to find the people everywhere hopeful and cheerful. I am surer I have met fewer growlers and heard less growling on this tour than I have ever known on a three weeks' tour in years. Both merchants and farmers, railroads and manufac turers all talk like things are either all right or soon will be. Birmingham, Ala., has surely got a move on it. A blind man can spend a day in Birmingham and see things move. An air of thrift and a glow of activity is apparent on all sides at Birmingham. Atlanta had well look to ber laurels. I spent one day in New Orleans, and I confess I was surprised at sleepy old New Orleans. Even that old city has a move on her. They are now taking up her old big flat rock pavement and put ting down asphalt, and a magnificent system of underground sewerage, and many other things they ajgdoing that gives evidence of new life. Houston, Dallas, Waco and Fort Worth show again much of their old life and vigor. Really the whole country has a glow of life, and activity on it. The timber men are happy they are getting $6 per thousand more for, their lumber now than a year ago. The hardware men are jumping up and down; their prices are going Up. Gro ceries and dry goods men look happy and seem to wear an air of contentment But the southern farmer will never he happy until he gets sense enough to see that a twelve million bale crop of cotton means 4 cents a pound and that a six million bale crop means 15 cents a pound, in spite of the monumental crime of '73 that demonetized silver, precipitated panic upon the country, etc. And that reminds me, Mr. Editor, that my good wife sent me your edition of two weeks ago in which you, in so much sorrow for Brother Jones, ex pressed regrets that he should champion the trusts and combines of this country. I fear you misinterpreted me, Mr. Editor. I assure you: my dear sir, that I am no champion or apologist for the trust, but when there are more dogs than rabbits, 1 rather shoots dogs than rabbits. They are having a picnic in Arkansas and Texas now on that sub ject. The Arkansas legislature has parsed an anti-trust law that cleans up the deck, and the Texas legislature has a similiar law under consideration and the business men of both states are pro testing with a Vengeance. I dare assert the people need not be afraid of trusts. They will fall of their own weight and perish in their own greed. No com bination of money or men can stand long that stands in violation to public sentiment, and when they shall cease to do business on a fair and equitable basis, down they will go, and no one knows this better than tbe authors and builders of these trusts. I prophesy that ten years will not pass until the trust3 are all busted and business will take on normal conditions. These trusts devour eacn otner. I rather have a parallel railroad than all the laws you may make regulating rail roads. One set of men, where greed is so intense and .wits so sharp, are not going to let anpthfifset of men have all there is in a good fH?!ng. When there is big money in a thing, some other fellow is going at it. This is a free country and will be in spite of trusts, combines, men and devils. ' Suppose, Mr. Editor, that you and I should have given to us tomorrow ail the stock in the Pullman Car company or Bell Telephone company or the Standard Oil company. Do you be lieve for a moment that we would eyer write" or speak again against monopolies? Or suppose every calamity howler in tbis countrv had a first-class monopoly of hia own? Theu would they howl any more ? 1 tell you, Mr. Editor, the difference is mainly in who has it more than what it is he has. I repeat I won't kick on the Standard Oil company as long as I get oil at 10 cents, and the flour combine as long as I get good flour at $3 per barrel, etc., etc. It is also true. Mr. Editor, that these trusts and combines have within the last three months, voluntarily raised the wages of a half million workmen and still the good work goes on. You can abate some of your sorrow for me, Mr. Editor, I am not'sick abed on the sub- jecLone way ox the bthera iVJoES. rrTVVA n Uyr ABSCiijray Makes the food more SOVM. BAK1HO BAYED THE CRUISER BUFFALO. J BY REV. D. D. HATUCOCK. , This Btory wins the prize of $50 of-, fered by the New York Voice for the best true tale of heroism submitted by a I preacher. A motherless boy of eighteen obtain ed the reluctant consent of his father an advocate of the peace principles of the Religious Society of Friends to en list tor the war to liberate Cuba. Being a fine shot and something of a "rough rider," he joined a company of cavalry. Not long afterward he made application and was transferred to the navy and given the appointment of assistant elec trician on the cruiser Buffalo, named after his hjme city. He had worked himself through the various depart ments of an electrical manufactory, aud had served some time in the adjusting room for the finished products of the factory. So, asssiaut electrician, he had charge in hi waKh of the electric lights of six decksSmO of the great flash light. His boyish imagination had pictured a patriotic company of young men, the ship's crew with whom he should find noble fellowship. When he found them all given to the use of intoxicating drinks, tobacco.profanity and obscenity, he suffered keen disappointment, and was much inclined to let down his standard a little to find sympathy and' fellowship. He had smoked cigars for a week, when one day he stood alone with a cigar iu his mouth, thinking of his brothers and sisters and the sainted mother whom he could scarcely remem ber. He took the cigar from his lips, and, as he wrote his father, "I threw it away and made up my mind to go through alone." On November 6, 1898, the Buffalo left New York with a crew of 350 men and 400 extra Bailors for Dewey's fleet at Manilla. When about GOO miles out' the great November gale struck them, and about midnight "all hands" were called out, and the assembled men were informed that the ship had received such damage tba Uhe was filling, with the prospect of foundering unless some means could be devised to stop the leakage. Most of the men fell into a panic, and with cries of childish terror many ran to provide themselves with life-pre servers and to secure control of the ship's boats. A few heroic men set resolutely abiut the work of plugging the leak and repairing the damage. The young electrician looked for a moment at the strange conduct of the.j unthmkiug mass, and turned away t find something to do in the dynamo room. As.he reached the hatch the chief electrician rushed past him cry ing frantically, "The ship is sinking' Tbe ship is sinking!" and disappeared among the life preservers. In the dynamo room he found the machinery deserted, and devoted him self to the task of keeping up the ehip'B lights. For twelve anxious hours he worked on without seeing a human be ing, or hearing from the workers who were trying to save the ship. ' Some time after 12 o'clock the executive ofii cer made a visit to the dynamo room to thank the electrician for the splendid service of the lights which had made it possible to save the ship with the hu mau freight. Then he learned that a hungry and sleepy boy who had deter mined "to go through alone" would like to lie relieved. The electrician was found lading in one f the ship's cutters, surrounded by a pile of life-preservers, not yet. free from- the terror of the night. He was court martialed add dismissed from the service in diBgraee. The Buffalo re turned to New York and after repairs in the dry dock started again for Ma nilla. . Peanut Hatter. In Indiana, according to the Monthly Bulletin of the Bureau of American Re publics, butter is being manufactured from peanuts and is being sold whole Bale at 15 cents a pound. The process of manufacture is simple. After roast ing over a rotary oven the nuts are ground fine. The natural oil in the nuts give the flour thus produced the consistency of putty and the color of rich cream. To convert it into butter a little water is added, and nothing more, not even salt, is iequired. "It never grows rancid," says the report, and is in great demand at health resorts." It can be used on the table as dairy butter, or for frying. Water added forms with it "a delicious cream," and more water converts it into a sort of milk. Our Southern States ought to find a new source of wealth in the neglected "Cnnler." , , General Miles, it is stated iu a Wash ington dispatch, will demand a court martial for the members of' the beef court ot luquiry if they rerwrt that his charges against army beef are not sustaiaed. ., ,.'.,-.,, , V f A vevjmn pure delicious and wholesome POWWS CO., P YOWC. '-tVHV BOOTH KILLED LISC OLS. Wilmington Messenger. We were much interested in a short article in April number of Wake Forest Student. It was sent by George Ander son Fcote, son of the late Dr. George A. Foote, of Warrenton, an honored and highly-reputable physician, lately deceased. He first gives an extract from Appleton'a CyclotRHlia of Biogra phy (wrongly printed "Biology"), of the hanging of that very gallant and meritorious officer. Captain John Young Beall, a native of Virginia, and born in 1835, and hanged 24th of February, 18G5, as a spy, which was most infam ous, most infernal. He was regularly commissioned, and was acting under orders. It was one of the many dis graceful acts of the Goths and Vandals in their war upon the South, and liter ally without any reasonable or just cause. A sketch was found among Dr. Foote's papers, who was a surgeon in the Confederate army aud was impris oned in Fort Columbus, New York har bor. Dr. Foote's posthumous paper is both interesting sud informing. Ho tells of the efforts made to save Captain Beall'8 life by Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, and others, but in vain. Dr. Foote's cell in which he was con fined was adjoining Captain Beall's. Beall and John Wilkes Booth had been room-mates at college, and were very dear friends. Booth tried every way to Becure Beall's release from prison, but in vain. An ettort to Becure his tsjape was made, in which Dr. rootewasto be a party. In fact, two plans came to naught. The interesting point really of historic interest is to follow. Dr. Foote's pri vate memorandum gives a statement that will surprise many, as it did us. The common idea is' that President Lin coln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth because he was the head of the Northern States and was responsible for the war upon the South. In other words, that - Booth, being in intense sympathy with the South, and being somewhat daft, had assassinated the President on account of his course in the war. After the plans failed Dr. Foote says Booth hurried to Washing ton, and on his knees implored Presi dent Lincoln aud Secretary Seward to pardon or at least respite Beall. Lin coln promised to respite, but that night ordered his execution. Dr. Foote says: "This order was executed, and Beall was hanged within thirty yards of my window and inside Fort Columbus, and not at Johnson's Inland, as has been frequently reported. "Booth, for what he termed the per fidy of President Lincoln toward him self and friend Beall, at once swore to avenge ' his friend's death by killing both Lincoln and Seward. He did not intend to shoot Lincoln in the theatre, but the contemplated opportunity did not offer itself elsewhere. "But for the fact that Booth's spur Caught in the curtain that fataj night, he would have escaped at least for a time. The war had nothing to do with the assassination of the President; it was due simply and solely to revenge, intensified by Booth's love and admira tion for his friend. '.'Booth went to New York the morn ing of Beall's execution, and being so grievously disappointed at what had oc curred, he became measurably an insane man. I had not the least idea of Booth's plan to assassinate the Presi dent.. This plan was known only to one man, and to him Booth revealed it only an hour before the assassination. The man to whom he thus confided his purpose beggei him not to carry it out, and finding that Booth was not to be turned from his revenge, left the city before the horrid tragedy occurred." We were very intimate with Dr. Foote for many years. He was our family physician, and most attentive, sympa thetic, and skillful. We always thought him truthful, honorable, and sincere. We at last believe his statement without reservation. Quicker Than Thought. The teacher had been trvinir to ex- u plain to the class the instantaneousncss of though, if the term may be used. "Thought is the quickest thing in the world." she said. v And, turning toward the head of class, continued, "Clarence Fitzgerald, do you know of anything quicker than thought." "Yes'm," was the quick reply. , The teacher started and squinted over her glasses. "What?" she asked. "LathV." . "Why, Clarence Fitzgerald, what do you mm "Well," went on the youth, "lknow it is, for th' other night my pa asked th' blessin' at supper ; an' said 'Oh, Lord, bless this meat before us,' when they' wuzn't nothin' on tb' table but beans n' tea, n' I laffed before I thOUght." ,. . r-r.
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