PLAQUE. OF BAD BOOKS.
DR. TALMAGE'S THIRD SERMON .ON
, THE EVILS OF CITIES.
1 . . .' .
Sto Make a Strong Point Agalnut ThoM
PiwiU Who Take No Tnnafsht aa to
What Their Children Shall Rad An
Attentive Audience Present, '
Nuw Youk, March 8. The plague of
Jternicious literature formed the subject of
Sr. Talnitlge's sermon today, which was
toe third of the aeries he is preaching On
the -"Ten Plagues of the Cities." . The
Brooklyn Academy of Mnsiq was . fijleit in
the morning by a dense crowd eager to
aesr it, and at night at the Christian Her
ald service in the New York Academy of
it osici the doors had to be closed long lie
fore the hour of service, there being no
tare available . within the building for
store hearers. . So large is the. number of
hose every week disappointed of gaining
admbwion that the project of hiring the
Madison Square Garden has again been re
vived. One citizen has offered to pay all
the expenses if the Garden can be secured
and Dr. Talmage can be induced, to preach
4n it. ' The text of the preacher's discourse
was taken from Ex. viii, ft, ,7: "And
the frogs came up und covered the .land of
JCgypt. And , the magicians did so with
their enchantments, and brought up frogs
mpon the land of Egypt.',' , V
THE ANCIENT PLAGUE OF FROGB.. ' J;
... There is almost a universal aversion to
"frogs, and yet with the Egyptian they were
honored, they were sacred, and they were
objects of worship while alive, and after
death they were embalmed, and today their
remains may be. found among the. sepnlr
chres of Thebes. These creatures,' so at
tractive once to the Egyptians, at divine
behest became obnoxious and loathsome,
and they vent croaking and hopping and
leaping into the palace of the king, and
into the bread trays and the couches of the
people, and even the ovens, which now are
pliXted above the earth and on the side of
chimneys, bat then were small holes in the
earth, with sunken pottery, were filled
with frogs when the housekeepers came to
look at them. ' If a man sat down to eat a
frog alighted on his plate. If be attempted
to pnt on a shoe it was preoccupied by a
frog. If he attempted to put his head upon
a pillow it had been taken possession of by
frog.;
.Frogs high . und law .and everywhere;
loathsome frogs, slimy frogs, besieging
frogs, innumerable frogs, great plague of
xrogs. What made the matter worse the
aagicians said there was no miracle in
this, and they could by sleight of hand
produce the same thing, and they seemed
to succeed, for by sleight of hand wonders
say be wrought. After Moses had thrown
oown his staff and by. miracle it became a
serpent, and then he took hold of it and by
aairacle it again became a staff, the serpent
charmers imitated the same thing, and
knowing that there were serpents, in
Egypt which by a peculiar pressure on the
neck would become as rigid as a stick of
wood, they seemed to change the serpent
into the audi, and then, throwing it down,
the staff became the serpent.
So likewise these magicians tried to imi
tate the plague of frogs, and perhaps by
smell of food attracting a great number of
them to a certain point, or by shaking
them pat from a hidden place, the ma
gicians sometimes seemed to accomplish
the same miracle: , While, these magicians
made the plugue worse, none of them tried
to ..make it .better. , "Frogs came np and
covered the' land of Egypt, aud the ma
gicians did so with their enchantment, and
brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt"
THK MODERN PLAGUE OF PBtXiiJ. ..;
.Now that plague of frogs has come back
upon the earth. It is abroad today. It is
smiting this nation. It comes in the shape
of corrupt literature. These frogs hop into
the store, the shop, the office, the banking
noose, the factory into the, home, into the
cellar, into the garret on the drawing room
table, on the shelf of the library. While
the lad is reading the bad book the teacher's
face is turned the other way. One of these
frogs hops upon the page. While the young
woman is reading the forbidden novelette
after retiring at night, reading by gaslight,
ne of these frogs leaps upon the page.
Indeed they have bopped ' upon the news
stands of the country and the mails at the
postoflice, xh.-Ke .ou$ in the letter, trough
hundreds of them.1 The plague has taken
at different times possession of this coun
try. It is on of the most loathsome, one
sf the most frightful,'' one of - the most
jcfcastly of the ten plagues of our modern
cities. t
There is a vast .number of books and
newspapers printed and published which
ought never to see the light. They are
alleu with a pestilence that makes the land
welter with a moral epidemic. .The greafc
set blessing that 'ever came to this' nation
is that of an elevated literature, and the
greatest scourge has been that of unclean
literature. This last has its victims in all
occupations and .' departments. It. has
helped to till insane asylums and. peni
tentiaries aud . almshouses and dens of
shame. The Ixxlies of this infection lie in
the hospitals and in the graves, while their
souls are being tossed over into a lost
eternity, an avalanche of horror and des
pair. The Loudon plague was nothing to it
That counted its victims by thousands, bnt
this modern pest has already shoveled its
millions into the chamel house of the mor
ally dead. The longest rail train that ever
ran over the Brie or Hudson tracks was
not long enough nor large enough to carry
the beastliness and the putrefaction which
have been gathered up in bad books and
newspapers of this land in the last twenty
years. The literature of a nation decides
the fate of a nation. Good books, good
morals. ..Bad books, bad .morals.
THE LOWEST OF BAD L1TKBATUBX. ".': .
I begin with the lowest of all the litera
ture, that which does not even, pretend to
be respectable from cover to cover a blotch
f leprosy. There are many wnoee entire
business it is to dispose of that kind of lit
erature. They display it bef ore the school
boy ou his way home. - They get the cata
logues of schools and colleges, take the
names and postomce addresses, and send
their advertisements,, and . their circulars,
and their pampleta, and their books to
very one of them.
In the possession of these dealers in bad
literature were found pine hundred thou-,
-aand names and postomce addresses, " to
whom it was thought it" might" be profit
able to send these corrupt things. In the
-year 1873 there were one hundred and sixty
ive establishments engaged In pu blishing
cheap, corrupt literature., From one pub
lishing house there went out twenty differ
ent styles of corrupt books. Although
-over thirty r tons of . vile literature,, have
been destroyed by the Society for the Sup
' pression of Viae, still there is enough of it
Jeff in this country to bring down upon us
the thunderbolts of an incensed God.
In the year 1868 the evil bad become so
great in this country that the. congress; of
the United States passed a law forbidding
she transmission, of bad literature through
J the United States uisiltt, but there wore
, large loops in that ''law- tbrough''wh!"Cn
cnnunaw . minoi..crawi twt, ana tne la.w
wns a dead failure that law of 1863. But
in 1873 another law was passed by the con
gress of the. United States against the
transmission of corrupt literature through
the mails a 'grand law, a potent law. a
Christian law and under that law-mtiiin'
tudes of these scoundrels have, been . ar.
rested, their property confiscated and they
th. :uselves. thrown into the penitentiaries
where they belonged.
HOW AIB WE TO WiK AGAINST IT?
Now, my friends, how are we to war'
against this corrupt literature, and how
are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to be
slain t First of- all by the prompt- and ' in
exorable execution of the law. Let all good
postmasters and United States district at
torneys, and detectives and reformers con
cert in their action to stop this plague.
When Sir Rowland Hill spent his life in
trying to secure cheap postage, not only
for Kngland. but for all the world, and to
open the blessing, of the postofflce to all
honest business, and to all messages of
charity and kindness and affection,-for
all healthful intercommunication, he did
not mean to make vice easy or to fill Mi"
mail bags of the United States with the
scabs of such u leprosy. , r .... t . ,;
, It ought not to. be in the power of every
bad man w.ho can raise a one cent stamp
for a circular or a two cent stamp for a
letter to blast a .man or destroy a home.
The postal service of this country must be
clean, must be kept clean, and we must all
understand that the swift retributions of
the United States government hover over
every violation of the letter box. ''
There are thousauds of meu and women
in this country, some for personal gain,
some through innate "depravity,, sonic
through a spirit of,,revange, who wish' to
use this great avenue of convenience au-.l
intelligence for purposes revengeful, sala
cious and diabolic. Wake up the law.
Wake up all its penalties. Let every court
room on this subject be a Sinai thunderous
and aflame. Lst the convicted offenders
be sunt for the full term to Sing Sing or
Hart-i.-tburg.
I am not talking about; what, cannot be
done. I am talking now about what is be-
ing done. A great many of the printing
presses that gave themselves entirely to
the publication of vile literature have been
stopped or have gone into business less ob
noxious. Wlmt has thrown off, what has
kept off the rail trains of this country for
some time back nearly all the leprous pe
riodicals? Those of. us who have been on
the rail trains have noticed a great change
in the last few months and the last yeanor
two. Why have nearly all those vi le period
icals been kept off the rail trains for souk
time back? Who effected it? These soci
eties for the purification of railroad liter
ature gave warning to the publishers and
warning to railroad companies, and warn
ing to conductors, and warning to news
boys, to. keep the , infernal stuff off the
trains. - .
Many of the cities have successfully pro
hibited the most of that literature even
from going ou the news stands. Terror
has seized upon' the publishers and the
dealers in impure, literature, from the fact
that over n thousand arrests have been
made, and the aggregate time for which
the convicted have lieen sentenced to the
prison is over one hundred and ninety
years, and from the fact that about two
milliou of their circulars have been de
stroyed, aud the business is not as profit
able as it used to be. ' '-
' : ' THE LAW! THE LAW!,' ;r -'; .
: How have so many of the newsstands of
our great cities beeo purified? - How has. no
much of this iniquity been balked? By
moral suasion? Oh, no. You might as
well go into a jungle , of the East Indies
and pat a cobra on the neck, and with pro
found argument try to persuade it that it
is morally wrong to bite and to sting and
to poison anything. The only answer to
your artrument would be an uplifted head
and a hiss and a sharp, reeking tooth struck
into your arteries.; The only, argument
for a cobra is a shotgun, and the only argu
ment for these dealers in impure literature
is the clutch of the police and bean soup in
a penitentiary. . The law! The law! I in
voke to consummate the work so grandly
begun! r -, ...
Another way in which ' we are to drive
back this . plague of Egyptian frogs is by
filling the minds of our young people with
a healthful literature. I do not mean to
say that , all the,. books and newspapers in
our families -ought to be religious books
and newspapers, or that every song, ought
to be sung to the tune of "OidHun
dred." I have no Jsyitopathy ""with.' the
attempt to make the young old. I would
rather join in a crusade to keep the
young" young. Boyhood' and girlhood
must not be abbreviated, Bat there are
good books, good histories, good biogra
phies, good works of fiction, good books of
all styles with which wears to fill the minds
of the young, so that there will, be no; more
room . for the ' useless and the vicious than
there is room for chaff in a bushel measure
which .is r already filled with Michigan'
wheat! . ' ;. ,;.'j: ;.;
..Why are 60 per cent, of the criminals in
the jails sod penitentiaries of the United
States-, today under twenty-one years .of
age? Many of them under seventeen, un
der sixteen, under fifteen, under fourteen,
under thirteen? Walk along one of the
corridors of the Tombs prison in New York
and look for yourselves. Bad books, bad
newspapers bewitched . them as soon as
they got out of. the -cradle., Beware of all
those stories which end. wrong Beware
of all those books which make the road
that ends iu perdition, seem to end in Par
adise; Do not glorify the' dirk and the pis
tol. Do not call the desperado brave or
the libertine gallant. Teach our young
people that if they go down into the
swamps and marshes to watch the jack-o'-lanterns
dance on the decay end rotten
ness they will catch the malaria and death.
.'' "ph,"; soys some tPoe, "I am a business
man, and I. have no time to; examine: what
my children . read' I have .no time to in
spect "the books' that come- into my houses
hold." If your children were threatened
with typhoid fever, would you have time
to go for t he-doctor? Would you bitve time
to watch" the progress of the disease? Would
you have time for the funeral? In the
presence of my . God I warn you of the fact
that your children are. threatened with
moral and spiritual typhoid, and that un
less the thing be stopped it will be to thecn
funeral of body, funeral of mind, funeral
P souL Three, funerals in ons day,
.i My word is 4to Jhis vasr multitude of
young people: Do not "toach,"do not bor-.
row, do not buy a corrupt book or a cor
rupt picture. A book jwilj decide a man's
destiny for good or for. ev . The book you
read yesterday- may have decided you for
time and for eternity, or may be atook
that may come into your possession to-
THE POWKB OF A GOOD 'BOOK. i
A.sfid book -who can exHrpic : e -power?,
Benjamin Frapklin
reading of Cotton Mather's ' -'".
Good" in childhood gave !,!
tions for all the rest of hK
Law declared that a blogruj....' i.. . i.i
childhood gave , him, ail his "sulueucnt
prosperities. A fiergyman, many years
ago, passing to the far west, stopped at a
hotel. Ho saw a woman copying some
thing from Doddridge's "Rise and Frog
ress.'?.. It seamed, that, she had borrowed
the book, aud there were some things she
wanted especially to remember.
The clergyman had' in his sachel a copy
of Doddridge's "Rise and Progress," and
so he made, her a present of it. Thirty
years, passed on. The clergyman came
that way, and he asked where the woman
was whom he hud seen so long ago. "Sui'
lives yonder: in tbat, beautiful house.''
lie went there, and . said- to her, "Vj
you rememlier me?"- She .said, "No, 1
do not." He .said, "Do yon remember n
man ' gave you Doddridge's 'Rise and
Progress' thirty years ago?" "Oh, yes; I
remember. . That book saved mysuoL 1
loaned the book to all my neighbors, and
they read it an-1 they were converted to
God, and we bad a revival of religion
which swept through the whole communi
ty. We built a church and called a pastor.
You see tbat spire yonder, don't yon?
That church was built as the result of that
book you gave me thirty years ago." Oh,
the power of a good book! Bnt, alas! for
the influence of a bad book, ,
John Angel James, than whom England
never had a holier minister, stood in his
pulpit at Birmingham and said: "Twenty
five years ago a lad loaned to me an in
famous book. He wonld loan it only fif
teen minutes, and then I . had to give it
back, but- that ,look has haunted me like a
specter ever since. I have in agony of soul,
on my knees before God, prayed that hu
would obliterate from my soul the memory
of it, but I shall carry the damage of it un
til the day of my death." 1 The assassin of
Sir William Russell declared, that be got
the inspiration for his crime by reading
what was then a new aud popular novel,
'Jack Sheppard." Homer's "Iliad", made
Alexander, the warrior. Alexander said
so. The story of Alexander made Julius
Cesar and Charles XII both men of blood.
Have you in your pocket, or in your trunk,
or in your desk at business a bad book, a
bad picture, a bad pamphlet? In God's
name I warn you to destroy it. '
THE CHRISTIAN PBESS.
Another way in which we shall fight
back this corrupt literature and kill the
frogs of . Egypt is by rolling over them the
Christian printing press, which shall give
plenty of healthful reading to all adults.
All these men and women are reading men
and women. What are you reading? Ab
stuin from all. those, books which, while
they bad some, good things about them,
have also an admixture of evil. : You have
read books that had two elements in them
-.-the good aud the bad. Which stuck
to yon? .'The bad! The heart of . most peo
ple, is like a sieve,, which lets the small par
ticles of gold fall through, but . keeps the
great cinders., , Once iu a while there is
mind like a loadstone, 'which, plunged
amid steel and brass filings, gathers up the
steel and repels the brass. . But it is gener
ally the opposite. If you attempt to plunge
through a fence of ..burrs to get one black
berry you will get more burrs than black
berries. . ; f)r: :':' ". . 1 1 - r-
You cannot afford jto read a bad book,
however good you are. You .say, "The in
fluence is insignificant." I teil you that
the Scratch of a pin has sometimes pro
duced lockjaw:1 Alas, if through curiosity,
as many do. you pry into an evil book,
your curiosity is as dangerous as that of
the man who would take a torch into a
gunpowder, mill merely to see whether it
would really blow pp or not. In a menag
erie a man put , his arm through , the bars
of a .block leopard's cage. The 'animal's
hide looked so sleek and bright and beauti
ful. r' He just stroked it once. The monster
seised him, and he drew forth a band torn
and mangled and bleeding.' ' :
Oh, touch not evil even with tha faintest
stroke! Though it .may . be glossy -and
beautiful, touch it not lest yju pull forth
your, soul torn, and .bleeding under the
clutch of the black leopard. '.'But,", you
say, "how can I find out whether a book is
good or bad without reading it?", There is
always something suspicions about a Dad
book. I never knew an - exception some
thing' suspicious in the index or style of
illustration. This venomous reptile almost
always carries a warning rattle... , ... ;.,
. The clock strikes midnight. ; A fair form
bends over a romance. .The eyes flash fire..
The , breath is quick and, irregular.,. Oc
casionally the color dashes to the 'cheek,
and then dies out:- The hands tremble as
though a. guardian spirit were trying to
shake-the deadly book' out of x the grasp.
Hot tears fall. -She laughs with a . shrill
voice-.that ' droe 'dead at. its own' sound.
The sweat on her brow is the spray dashed
np from the river, of death.., .The clock
strikes f,bur, and the, rosy dawn soon after
begins to look through the lattice upon the
pale form that looks like a detained specter
of the night, -' Soon in a mad house she Will
mistake- her ringlets for curling serpents,
and thrust her white hand through the
bars of the prison, and smite- her -bead,
rubbing it back as though to push the scalp
from the skull, shrieking: "My brain) my
brain! -,Oh. stand, .off from that!. "Why
will you" go sounding your way amid the
reefs and warning buoys, when there is
such a vast ocean in which you - may voy
age, all sail set? ' -: 1
'"''' ". WHAT IS -A BOOK? -We
see so many books we do not un
derstand -. what : a . book is. . Stand it on
end. ; Measure it the height of it. the
depth, of it, the length of it, the breadth
of it. You cannot do it. ... Examine
the paper aud . estimate the ' progress
made from the time of the impressions
on clay, and then oh to the bark of
trees, anil from the bark of trees' to papy
rus, and from papyrus to the bide of wild
beasts, -and from the hide of wild beasts
on down until the miracles of our modern
paper manufactories, and then see the pa
per, white and pure as. an infant's soul,:
waiting for God's inscription.
A book! : Examine the type of H. ' Ex
amine the printing of It, and see the prog
ress from the time when Solon's laws were
written on oak planks, and Hesiod's poems
were . written u - tables . of lead,; and the
Siniatks commands" were written, on tables
of stone, on -down to. Hoe's perfecting
planting press. . ,' . ' 4 " . ;
A book! It took all the universities of
the past, all the martyr fires, all'' the -civilisations,
all " the buttles, sil the victories,
all tie defeats, allthe "-glooms, -all 'the
brightnesses, all the centuries to make it
nssiWe-.i. ? ,-v-,- f ?Vv
-AbookJ- Itis the chorus of the ages;., ft
is the drawing room in which kings and
queens and orators and poets and historians
cotn .Dut to greet youi If I . worshiped
anything on earth I would worship" that.
If J : burned ncense "to any . idol I wonld
bnUd. an,aItar ;to thaW.i.Thank God for
good "books,,' healthful books, .Sinspiririg
books,, Christian books, .books "-"of men,
books oi .women, Book of God It is with
these good books. that,we are to Overcome
ppriupt. literature.. "Upon the frogs swoop
with these eagles. I depend much for the
overthrow of .iniquitous literature upon
the mortality of i booksv . Even good books
have a hard struggle to live,,,.. -. ;
Polybins wrote forty books;' only five of
them. left. Thirty books of Tacitus have
perished. Twenty - books of Pliny have
perished. , Livy wrote one hundred and
forty books; only thirty-five of them re
main, i - schylus . wrote one hundred
dramas; only, seven remain. Euripides
wrote over a hundred; only nineteen re
main. iVano ..wrote , the .biographies .-of
over seven hundred great Romans. All
that wealth : of biography has perished.
If good and valuable books have such a
struggle to live, what must be the fate of
those that are diseased and corrupt and
blasted at the very start. They will die as
the frogs when the Lord turned back the
plague. The work of Christianization will
go on nhtil there will benothing left bnt
good books, and they will take the su
premacy of the world. -May you and I live
to see the illustrious day! . .
FIGHT THE BAD WITH THE GOOD..
Against every bad pamphlet send a good
pamphlet; against every unclean picture
send an innocent picture; against every
scurrilous song send a Christian song;
agatnst every bad book send a good book;
and then it will be as it was in ancient
Toledo, where the Toletum. missals were
kept by the saints in six churches, and the
sacrilegious Romans demanded that those
missals be destroyed, and that the Roman
missals be substituted; and the war came
on, and 1 am glad to say-' that the whole
matter having been referred to champions,
the champion of the Toletum missals with
one blow brought down the champion of
the Roman missals. ....
So it will be in our day. The good liter
ature, the Christian literature, in its cham
pionship for God and the truth, will bring
down the evil literature in its champion
ship for the devil. I feel tingling to the
tips of my fingers and through all the
nerves of my body, and all the depths of
my soul, the certainty of our triumph.
Cheer no. oh. men And wnm r u
: toiling for the purification of society! Toil
' nr44-K nnii. aw t .. V. Hn.,ML.A. ..T 1" . 1
be for us, who, who can be against us?"
Lady Hester Stanhope was the daughter
of the third ' Earl of Stanhope, and after
her nearest friends had died she went to
the far east, took possession of a deserted
convent,-threw -up fortresses amid the
mountains of Lebanon, opened the castle
to the poor, and the wretched, and the sick
who would come in. She made her castle
a home for the unfortunate. She was a
devout Christian woman. She was wait
ing for the coming of the Lord. She exr
pected that the Lord would descend in per
son, and she thought upon it until it was
too much for her reason. . In the magnifi
cent stables of her : palace she had two
horses groomed and bridled and saddled
and caparisoned and all ready for the day
in which her Lord should descend, and he
on one of them and she on the other should
start for Jerusalem, the city of the Great
King. It was a fanaticism and a delusion;
but there .was romance, and there was
splendor, and. there was thrilling expecta
tion in the dream! . ,
Ah, my friends, we need no earthly pal
freys groomed and saddled and bridled and
caparisoned for our Lord when he shall
come. The horse is ready in the equerry
of heaven, and the imperial rider is ready
to mount. "And I saw, and behold a white
horse, and he that sat on him had a bow;
and a crown was given unto him; and he
went forth conquering and to conquer.
And the armies which were in heaven fol
lowed him on white horses, and on his
vesture and on his thigh were written,
King of kings, and Lord of lords." Horse
men of heaven, mount! Cavalry of God,
ride on! Charge! charge! until they shall
be hurled , back on their haunches the
black horse of famine, and the red horse of
carnage, and .the pale horse of death.
Jesus forever!. .
-' A Strange Story.
Early in Januarv of the present year a
woodman engaged in chopping someof the
monster oaks in the northern part of the
great "Black Forest,'! Germany, and who
had built a fire against a large dead log
preparatory to partaking of his midday
meal, was surprised to see a serpent of gi
gantic proportions crawl from the log as
soon , as the rotton wood had got well
warmed through. The day was bitter cold
and the snake only made a few yards over
the froseu ground - until his convolutions
became smaller and smaller, until be finally
ceased to .wiggle, and. quietly coiled np
near a large pile of brush. v
The sturdy -German chopper, who had
been more surprised . than Beared,, waited
until the creature had become thoroughly
benumbed with the cold and then ap
proached and dispatched him with his axe.
Measurements showed the slimy creature
to be 27 feet ft inches in length and, nearly
15 inches through the body in the middle.
-. Just back of . the immense head, which
was ,11 inches. ;in length.: and , almost .as
broad, a little., gold ring . bad been ; put
through the skin. H it -was in the form of
two rings .rather.. than .one, being shaped
not unlike a figure 8. One part of the ring
was through the skin, while the other was
through a bole in a small, copper coin bear
ing date of 1712. One side of the coin was
perfectly; smooth with the exception of
these letters and figures, which had evi
dently been cut on it with a pocket knife,
the workmanship being very rough, "Louis
Krutxer, B. G. O., 178L"
Some of the- older inhabitants of the
"Black Forest" remember hearing their
parents tell of , "Krutzer, - the serpent
banner," and they all unite in declaring
that this gigantic serpent was formerly the
property of the old "charmer," and that it
was at least 115 years old when killed by
the woodchopper on that cold January day
of 189L St. Louis Republic. . '
A Unique Wedding- Fee
i Last spring, when one of the younger
ministers of tbeeity was devising ways and
means for a summer vacation trip, there
was a ring at the doorbell and a caller
upon the minister announced. -The stranger
introduced himself, explaining that be was
recently from Buffalo, bnt now of Albany,
and a salesman of barbers' supplies. With
very few introductory words the gentleman
asked the minister to perform the mar;
riage ceremony for him in two weeks' time.
Promptly at the hour appointed the couple
Camay An officer of the church had been
invited in to witness the ceremony. While
the necessary papers-were being filled out
the groom .opened a - small traveling bag
and produced a half, pint bottle, with glass
stopper: r ' . . . . ; - '' - " --, - .
; ! I'There, V said , he,phuBing to' ' bottle" on
the minister's desk. "I leave this with yon
as a token."; Then the nmrriageeeremony
was performed, " coogratuiations offered
and 'the certificate placed in the hand of
the bride. As tyn Kuwv .n ro . u...
ing the study the groom drew from his
ui.im w euvetope ana nsnaett it to the
minister. ' A hnrmint t. l. i
ope was opened and the following found:
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have come and gone since then, but the en-
buumasuc salesman - or- Darners' supplies
stilj has the bottle. Albany Journal. - i
Elizabeth Ranarent. M. TV. flsnfrfitii 'Ur
our former minister to Berlin, is an oculist
of exceptional skill. She lives in California.
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