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Folk County Official Directory.
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Polk county covers an area of about 1.230
'square miles. Number of voter*, 1.227. Acres
"of land under cultivation, 03 270. Value of
assessable property, $1.234.529.
Tho Land
Office for this District is located at Oregon
City— Owen Wade, Register: Henry Warren,
Receiver.
Cor STY OFFICE KS. — Commissioners, E. C.
Dice, R. Tatem: ./»dye, J. L Collins; Sheriff,
J. W. Smith ; l'Irek, J. I Th> ■mpson ; Assessor,
II. Davis : Trto surer, R. M. .May; Srhooi Su
perintend- nt. J. II. M jer; Surveyor, L. Burch;
Coroner, C. D. Kuibree.
T erms ok C or rt .— Circuit Court. R. P. Boise
•Judge, convene-* in Dallas on the 4th Monday in
April and 3d Monday in November. County
'Court convenes on the 1st Monday in each
month.
N o ta r ie s P isljc .— T. Pearce, Kola: W. W.
Boone. Independence; J. L. Collins, Dallas;
1H. N. George, Buena Vista.
•P ost O ffic e T o w n s — Dallas (county seat),
Eola, Independence, Monmouth. Buena Vista.
Bethel, Bridgeport, Etna, Grand Koude, Lawn
Arbor, Luckiauiute and Salt Creek.
U. S. M a i l leaves Dallas for Salem on Mon
day, Wednesday and Frvlay at 7 a m , return
iug same days at ft p. in.; for Independence,
each Tuesday morning at 6 ; f«r Salt Creek,
each Tuesday at I p m.; for Lafayette, Mon
day and Thursday at 3 p m , returning Wed-
nesay and Saturday at 10 a. in.; for Corvallis.
*Wednesday and Saturday at 10 a. in., returning
.Monday and Thursday ut 3 p. m.
W . D. J E F F R IE «. M. D.,
and
Surgeon,
Eola, Oregon.
Special attention given to Obstetrics and
Diseases of Women.
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j . e . d a v i d s o n , n . d .,
Physician
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Surgeon,
Independence, Ogn.
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R. J E S SU P , M. I>„
Physician and
.Surgeon,
Dallas, Oregon.
OFFICE— At residence, on Jefferson street
•opposite Academy Block.
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B O M I VTl & L A W S O N ,
Attorneys & Counsellors-at-Law,
S A L E M , OREGON.
O FFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE.
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€. « . U R L ,
Attorney and Oounsellor-at-Law,
SALEM, OREGON,
IWill
in all the Courts of Record and
Inferior Courts of this State.
'O F F IC E —In Watkinds A Co’s Brick, up
stairs.
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H ayden
.tlyer,
A T T O R N E Y * -A T - L A W ,
Dallas, Oregon.
OFFICE IN THE COURT IIOLFE.
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SULLIVAN & WHIT80N,
Attorneys fc Counsellors-at-Law,
Dallas. Oregon,
Will practice in all the Courts o f the State,
LTCCKQrS V I M V A H D
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J A # - H- T O R I E S .
V in e y a r d & T u r n e r ,
A T T O R N E Y « -A T - L X W ,
Dallas, Oregon.
OFFICE—-On Main street, one door north of
the Dallas Hotel.
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J . [,. C e i i M N S ,
Attorney and Oounaellor-at-Law,
Dallas. Oregon.
Bfeeial attention given to Collections and to
matters pertaining to Real Estate.
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J . A- APPLF.OATB.
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J A S . MCCAIN.
Applegate St JlcCnin,
A T T O R N E Y S -IT - L A W ,
XROlgi. P olk C «««ty, Ogu.
X T "CASTLE IN SPAIN."
In the beauteous realms of dreamland,
In the moonbeam’s silvery light,
At the golden loom of fancy
Sit 1, weaving visions bright;
Rearing up ethereal structures,
Thin as mist and light as air*
Working on with kindling fervor,
While I weave a fabric fair.
Ab, my castle none may enter 1
Closed it is te mortal eyes;
Yet amidst its wealth and splendor
Write I, lost in strange surprise,
That in all my haunts aud rambles
Long I not for kindred miud,
And alona aud unattended
This solitude congenial find.
Would you \ iew this phantom structure,
Floating in the ether blue ?
Idle dreamers long have reared them,
They aic neither strange nor new;
Old and young are busy working
Ou these airy castles high,
Sad delusions, these mirages
In Imagination’s sky!
Azure skies and golden sunshine
In this land of dreams prevail;
Silver moon and stars supplant them
When the yellow suu grows pale;
Crystal lakes in emeruld settings
Glisten in the moonbeams fair;
Silvery mists conceal the outlines
Of my castle in the air.
Clouds as light as foam-fiecked wavelets
Steal across the azure sky;
To enrich the sunset splendor
With their gold and crimson d y e ;
Founts of dew play mists of silver
Up into the scented air,
Throwing >prav like glistening crystals
O’er the pearly petals rare.
All about my airy castle
Floats an atmosphere so soft
That it needs no firm foundation
Tu support its weight aloft;
Though its slender, fragile columns
Are upheld by vapor fine,
Yet no citadel or stronghold
Is impregnable as mine.
Never need I fear intrusion
From a friend or foe without,
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No enemy can storm my lortress,
Or c a n c a p t u r e its r e d o u b t ;
In reveries alone I wander,
Well assured that none would dare
To invade the sacred precincts
Of my castle in tde air.
Jury, three-fourths ot which were
against co ored persons. Three negroes
were sent to the penitentiary for o*.e
year .for grand larceny; two whipped,
for petty larceny, and on*. for an at
tempt to commit ra»e upon the person
of a small white girl, was sentenced to
twenty years’ imprisonment— the full
extent o f the law.
— A. T. Stewart’s new model dwell-
ing is rapidly going up in New York
It is to be entirely o f iron aud brick,
eight stories iu hight, inclosing a court
100 leet square. It is to contain an
elevator, » steam-heating apparatus and
a water-tank, and be furnished with
sleeping apartments for 1,500. restaur
ant. parlors, bath rooms, laundry, kit
chens, etc. It will cost over 83.090.-
000, and, it is calculated, will afford the
working women, for whose benefit it is
erected, lodging, food and washing at
a cost o f two dollars a week.
— J eff Davis, in a private letter
sais his hea th is excellent, and adds:
‘ It has been my purpose to return thi-
Spring to what was my home, and if
permitted to do so without injury or
embarrassment to my friends, to engage
in some business which may yield a
support.”
— A workman, while excavating in a
gravel-pi' on the bank of the Wabash,
near Vincennes, Ind., recently, un
earthed considerable quantities o f silver
plate, church ornaments, crucifixes,
ceusers, silver candlesticks, etc. These
articles bore the appearance of having
been buried for a long tim e; and as
the priests have given no explanation
o f the matter, it is involved in mystery
— The manufacturers of Cincinnati
sold duting th • fiscal veareuduig April
1, 1869, 826.000,000 o f go*>ds.
— O f the 13,602 immigrants that ar
rived at New York during the month
o f March. 0,683 were Germans.
A Ligoninr, Ind., barber got a wig.
called himself a Spaniard, and married
a white woman o f Michigan, a few days
ago.
— A dispatch from Berlin mentions
a rumor o f the expected marriage o f
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln to tho Chamber
lain or the Duke o f Baden.
— The Providence (R l.,) Methodist
Conference has resolved not to admit
any man to membership who uses to
bacco "except for medicinal purposes ”
NEWS IN BRIEF.
P R O F E <SIOXA L CA R DS.
Physician
NO. 5.
DALLAS, OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1869.
VOL. 1.
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— West Tennessee rejoices at the
tide o f immigration now setting in.
Rutter is one dollar and twenty five Q n^ town recently received an addition
cents per pound at Salt Lake City.
to its population o f two hundred per
— Nine bodies o f persons mysterious sons from Pennsylvania.
— A very curious railroad accident
ly murdered were found in the streets
and waters o f New York week before happened recently near Mirztpore,
India. A large elephant, seeing the
last.
— All the United States army bands red light and the smoke, concluded the
ure to be mustered out o f service ex noisy locomotive was an enemy to be
summarily demolished lie accordingly
cept that starioued ut West Point
placed himself on the track, and met
— A couple were recently married in the strange creature, head <>o, with
Kansas City, Missouri, in less than one trunk and tusks. The result was, a
hoar after being introduced.
¡dead elephant, 11 cars eapsized, and
— I he anniversary o f the American one man killed,
hqual Rights Association was held at
— \ convention of person* interested
Stemway Hall. New \ ork. on the 15th Jn conferring the right o f suffrage u,*on
ult. They had a stormy session, enjoy, y*>ung men between theages of eighteen
ing considerable of the "rights.” Khz- and twenty-one, wtfl be held in Man
abeth Cady Stanton was President. chester, N H., on the 27lh iust.
Lucy Stoue read a report showing the
— It is n-*w clear that Mrs. Harriet
efforts o f the socety to have Woman
Beecher Stowe is not about to leave her
suffrage introduced in Congress aud the
Florida plantation because o f "rebel”
vaiious Suites. Fred Douglass idvo-
persecution, having, indeed, borne her
cated negro suffrage and amalgamation -
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of the races first aud woman suffrage ,
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heurtedness of her neighbors; neither
a terwar s.
j j8 that |_To«*le Tom has been found so
— During the past seven months 14 incorrigibly idle as to render it itnpossi
locomotives have exploded in the Uni- ^|e j,, vnuIco both ends meet *»y his labor
ted States, killing tweuty persons aud 00 t.|ie p|aCC| Uncle 'j\)m working, in-
injuring over fifty.
deed, very well in Madam’s orange
— The New York Post says the Union grove, carpet bag politicians being there
Pacific Co. ptoposu to keep an account from denied ; but the truth is, that Mrs
o f the through passengers this year who Stowe bought the land at a tax sale—
intend simply a visit to the Pacific military necessity tax sale— and as this
coast. From applications for passage does not hold good in law, the rightful
already made they count over 15,600 owner is to come into his own. and Mrs
vi-itors to this coast, most o f them "per S. to receive the dollar and a half paid
s<*ns of leisure;” and a majority o f , at the tax sale.
these havo named in their programme
— In a printing office at Gosport is a
a visit to Y use mite.
blind compositor. Hi? average day’s!
— On the Chicago and Northwestern work i* five thousand ems. and on sev
railway, recently, a train ran 91 miles eral occasions he has set from seven to
nine thousand His letter is distributed
in 98 miuutee.
— Typhoid fever of a type that baf-
hi"» and his C017 is r™d d by
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when this is finished he cries the last
— Unity, N. H.. is evenly balanced.
word set, when «mother sentence is read,
It contains a population o f 459 males and so on.
and 450 females.
— A cow belonging to a Mr. White
— A little boy near Quincy, 111, re
o f Winneshiek county added three
cently hung himself because his mother calves, a few days since, to hi« herd o f
angered him by speaking sharply.
young Btock. But twice as natural as
— A o oyster was recently found in that, and much more to the interest o f
New Haven haibor which contained the party o f "great moral ideas,” is the
293 pearls, varying in size from a urns announcement that a white woman of
tard seed to a bird shot.
Decatur county, has presented hsr rad
ical
husband with an “ American cit:zen
— At the late term o f the Bourbon,
Queer doings
Ky., Circuit Court, there were forty- o f African descent.”
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five indictments found by the Graud i now-a- days.
— The Guernsey (O ) Times states
that at the term o f the Common Pleas
Court of that couqtv, Catharine Ducker
obtained a verdict against Christian
Lohunn o f 8525 aud costs, for selling
ttquor to her husband
The liquor law
of that State provides, that if selling
liquor to u person causes him to fail in
providing for his family, or neglect his
work, tbc wife or employer can institute
a civil action against the vender of
poison, aud if the case be sustained, a
verdict must be rendered by the jury
in favor of the plaintiff.
— At «radical meeting in Richmond,
Va., last Friday. Lewis Lindsay, negro,
took the 8tund and made one o f the
most inflammatory harangues
He said
the white man had the negro down for
two hundred years; but that now the
negro was on top.
They had in their
hun-is the chatus and manacles with
*hich tne white man had kept the tie
gro bound for so long, and they intend
ed t<* put them on the white m n, and
to make him groan, undsweat, and work,
before they were done with him. He
said Gen. Grant knew something about
tainting, aud would help ttiem to tan
the white man until his skin was us
black and tough as theirs.
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— The evidences of the late war are
abundunt. From a few miles south o f
Alexandria ‘ ’on to Richmond” the "sa
cred soil” is checkered with breastworks,
redoubts, ditches aud rifle pits. The
soil, by the way, was evidently manu
factured by the same hand that fash
ioned the foot-hills and red earth por
tions of the Sierra; the exception to
the sa?red soil is white sand, aud along
the river bottoms more or less Joam.
There is quite a resemblance between
portions of Eastern Virginia and the
Willamette Valley, Oregon— small prai
ries and plains or table-lands, and red
hills surrounded by thickets o f scrub
oak, evergreen, and other varieties of
shrubbery— l should think the easiest
sort o f a place to defend when under
stood. Bull Run is perhaps thirty feet
wide, with high steep banks. The red
redoubts d->t the scene on cither side,
up and down hs tar as the eye can see.
aud the fighting occurred both above
ami below, though the heaviest part
above the railroad. South o f the stream
are hundreds of crumbling chimneys,
where the rebels had their tents pitched
behind the masked batteries of Quaker
guns when all was "quiet on the Poto
mac.” On ihe left o f the railroad,
near Manassas Junction, are a Confed
erate and National Cemetery, both neat
ly kept. There is a uniformity about
these institutions in striking contrast
with cemeteries in general
The head-
boards are in regular rows, and all o f a
size ; while those buried beneath aie
all grown up people of the male sex
No sons, daughters, wives, mothers, or
infants; quite un exclu>ive way of
doing, hut 1 suppose the only conven
ient way they have in war .— Letter to
the Bulletin.
/'W e n d e ll Phillips says: “ The
hydra of the next generation is the
po y r o f tnc rporated irealth. New
York has no Legislature. Her laws
are made in the counting room o f Van
derbilt. Pennsylvania lias no Legisla
Hu e. Her c-. pitol is the pockets of her
monied men
The North western Rail
road rules Wi-consin.”
Admiral Semmes com plains that the
C "ontry sympathizes with the Cretuns,
adding : “ But the devil o f it is we
take care o f and admire everybody’s
rebels but our own.”
I f you are a wise man you will treat
the world as the moon treats it. Show
it only one side o f yourself, seldom
show yourself too much at a time, and
let what you show be calm. cool, and
polished
But look at every side of the
woi Id.
Enamored writing master to a young
lady p u p il--"I can teach you nothing;
your hand is alread» a very de-iralle
• me. and your l ’s (eyes) are the most
beautiful I ever saw ”
The best bank ever known is a bank
o f earth; it never refused to discount
to honest lahor. And the best share
is the plowshare; on which dividends
are always liberul.
A feeling of just dignity sometimes
makes us refuse a benefit, but there are
those who refuse because they have too
narrow hearts to pledge themselves to
be grateful.
W e learn to climb by keeping onr
eyes not on the hills behind, but on the
mountains that rise before us.
No one has ever been so good aud ao
great, or has raised so high, as to be
above the reach of troubles.
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P r o s p e r i t y . — The
prime want o f Oregon is an intelligent,
diversified and well developed industry
Having this, the State would at once
find a new life, infusing its animating
power into all our relations and inter
ests. Diversified industry can support
itself at home. It can create wealth
and establish a reciprocity of interests
mutually advantageous to the whole
people. Agriculture may be made «
basis o f wealth, but it cannot be the
sole reliance. In this State it langui-h-
es for waut o f market, aud in our pres
eut undeveloped condition there is noth
ing else for our people to turn to. We
want capital and enterprise to open the
way. Water wheels must lie set at work,
furnaces built, forge fi>es kindled and
looms and spindles set in tnotion. Our
farmers are apt to turn their attention
too much to one department o f their
business. O f late they have been de
voting their efforts to the production of
wheat and neglecting too much the
rearing o f cattle and sheep. Wheat is
now worth but very little while cattle
and sheep bring good* prices. I f our
farmers now had live stock to sell to
meet the present demand the State
would receive money enough to com
pensate for the failure o f the grain
market. We are too liable to forget
that prosperity liesindiversified employ
menta, and to devote ourselves to one
industry to the exclusion o f all others
— Oregonian.
A C o l o r e d J u r y . — An “ uncon
sfructed” traveler writes as follows from
Jacksonville, F la, to the Savannah
Republican: I have seeu evidence
that Florida is in advance of Georgia
in reconstruction. I visited the United
States Court House and there 1 saw out
o f the twelve jurymen on the trial be
fore the United States Judge nine of
them negroes. I had the curiosity to
scan them closely. Two o f them were
fast asleep; their heads thrown back,
and mouths wide open. Two or three
o f them looked wondrous wise, as if
they were trying to evince great atten
tion and astuteness. On the whole the
thing looked very comical, and I could
not help thinkingof the depth towhich
liberty had brought ns.
fla^The Selma (A la .) Times snys, as
an evidence o f the increasing di-toosi
tion on the part o f immigrants to settle
on the fertile lands and under th*- sunny
skies of the South, we are «ratified to
learn that Col. B. M. W oosey, Super
intendent ot Lands ami Immigration,
has received probably the most exten
sive order for lands ever sent to uny
agent in the United States. The order
is collossal iu its proportions, being for
one million forty thousand acres. Is
not this a convincing proof that the
people o f Europe are awakening to the
fact that we are in possession o f the
finest country and the fiuest climate on
the face of the earth ?
W ork to be P ushed .— As thcflFen
tral Pacific Railroad is now completed,
we in-iy exp*ct u large number o f labor
ers will *oon commence work on the
Oregon extension. A correspondent o f
the Bull-tin, writing from the "End of
the track.” April 27th, says the "C en
tral Pacific will also move men and
teams to Marysville to commence the
Oregon road. Governor Stanford says
they will push the road north as quiekly
us passible.
The Central Company
have bought the California end of the
California and Oregon road, and will
connect with Ben Holladay’s road on
the east side o f the river south o f Port
land .” — Afargsville Appeal, May 1.
A Washington special to the
Chicago Times says: "T h e Virginia
press, with great unanimity, accept the
reconstruction law reganiing their State,
and call on the President to submit the
obnoxious features of the new constitu
tion to the people; declaring at the
same time that the disfranchisement
section will be voted down, and that
they are opposed to the fifteenth consti
tutional amendment us a condition pre
i-edent to congressional representation ;
but say that uuiversal suffrage is a fixed
fact, any way, in the South, and the
peo: le o f Virginia are perfecUy willing
to do anything n*iw that will force ne
gro suffrage on the North and West—
hence they take the fifteenth amend
ment
Candidates for Congress are
already coming out in the State. W
D. Wallach, late of the Washington
Star, announces himself as one. aud
modestly adds, in his letter, that to him
is due all the credit of the passage of
the new law.
T he i atholics and S uffrage —
The Cat’iolic World in its last issue
contains a paper on the "W oman Ques
tion,” taking the ground that the move
ment in favor of extending the suffrage
to women, is suited to d«* more hirm
than good to both sexes. The writer
admits the high intellectual and moral
capacity of women ; he does not object
to their political enfranchisementon the
score o f their incompetency to either
hold office or vote; hut on the ground
• hat it would weaken and ultimately
destroy the Christian family. He be
lieves that the greatest danger to Amer
ican society aries from the present ten
dency to become a nation of isolated
individuals, without family ties or »ffcc-
tions. W c have in a great measure
lost the pure associations o f the old
homestead. Wc live in hotels and board
ing houses, rath-r than at the domestic
fireside. The family, to a fearful extent,
lias become but the mere shidow o f
what it was and o f what it should he.
Hence, the writer argues, that if the
•uffrage is conceded to women, what
remains of the fainily union will soon
be dissolved. Woman was created to
be a wife and a mother; her proper
function is the care of the household;
and whatever draws her away from the
domestic sphere, and places her in the
turmoil o f political life, tends to rob
her o f her true dignity and worth.
A N a u o h t y G i r l — Ma*sachusetts
each day develops more dnd more those
attributes wh « h go »o prove her claim
to be considered the centre o f civiliza
tion to the wtirld. Iler papers give ait
account of another white girl that ha*
been most cruelly and brutally flogged
in o e of the public schools in the town
o f Me ¡ford. The victim was sofn iR -
mered th >t "both arms were black and
blue; both hands were blistered; there
were bruises on her knees; her stomach
was so swollen that her clothes had to
be cut from her; and she was confined
to the house f* o weeks in consequenoo
•f the flogging.” Nevertheless, a judge
"h* Id that the girl was naughty and
deserved punishment, and therefore
discharged the teacher from custody.”
It is quite superfluous to tell how the
Massachusetts moralists would have
howled and the Massachusetts Sunday
Schools would have screeched if a tithe
of this flogging had been laid on tho
back o f some bacon stealing negro down
in Texas.
0 ® “ During the present year there
will be two eclipses o f the sun. The
first will take place on the 23d o f July,
but will be only partial, and invisible
in this country. On August 7th, a
total ec'ipse of the sun occurs. Thi*
will be ’ he most interesting that has
been witnessed in the United States for
years, and will not happen again until
the last of the century. The shallow
of the earth will commence cr"ssing tho
sun’s disc about half past four in the
afternoon, and will not entirely pass
over it until half past six.
teÿ* A lady correspondent writes that
she entirely destroyed thein-ccts which
infested her rose bushes by the use o f
quassia, and that they thrived better
a fe r its use than before. In the report
of the Alton, Illinois, Horticultural
Society, quassia is recommended for de
stroying black rod green insects in
cherries. Qua-sia may be found in any
druggist’s establishment.
Use two
ounces to a gallon o f water; boil fifteen
or twenty minutes. It will also be found
effective in destroying many kinds o f
insects which iufest the flower garden.
tei»“* The State of Ohio, although she
cast a majority for Grant o f over forty-
one thousand, and o f course may be
considered a Republican Sta»e, has vir
tually ignored the Fifteenth Amend
ment. The House, on Thursday, passed
a bill to prevent the negroes from voting
by punishing them for a violation o f
th»- election laws. It also punishes all
who aid them in doing so. even to offi
cers o f election. Three cheers for Ohio
aud a white man’s government.
A western woman, who persist*
>n -nil wearing a trailing dress through
the streets to the disgust of sensibb
■eople, recently went to law to get
damages for a nice dress that was trod
den upon in the street. She claimed
that the dress cost three hundred dol
lars, and that it was ruined by a lout
treading upon it. The jury brought
in for defendant, aud on the ground
that a w<»man had no right to leave her
dress round on the sidewalk aud other
public places.
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H i that knows how to speak knew*
■one
J udge thyself with a judgment of also wheu to be silent.
W
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use
riches
as
children
use
toys
sincerity, and thou wilt judge others
— to amuse us till we fall asleep.
with a judgment o f charity.