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A Model Charity.

A great many of our most estimable citizens
are patrons and nominal managers of the
charitable institutions with which New York
abounds, and contribute their money literally
in aid of the cause in which they have en-
listed Children's aid societies, Five Points
houses Of industry and similar charities claim
their sympathy and receive their generous as
sistance. But, unfortunately they have
neither time nor inclination to interest them
selves in the manner in which the funds
they subscribe are expended. The de-
mands of business and the claims Of
society occupy their time and their
thoughts, and they are too willing to
trust to the reports Of treasurers, secretaries
and superintendent for faithful account of
the manner in which the trust has been dis
charged. The funds thus fall into the hands
Of secretaries, superintendent and others
who are said to manage them we'll enough to
make them yield large fortunes to the man
ayers. There is some reason to believe that
the cost OF distributing these institution
moneys is so great as to cripple and some
times to defeat the object Of the donors. The
report of the Five Points House of Industry
for the year ending March, 1872, shows the
actual expenditure on the poor to have been
fourteen thousand dollars, and the cost of ex-
pending this sum to have been twenty-six
thousand dollars. The figures are as fol-
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GERMANIA THEATRE,
Fourteenth street-EINE YORNEHME EHE, at p. N.
closes a. IL p. N.
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BOOTHS THEATRE,

Sixth avenue and Twenty third street-EL Enc At -
y SOP NJ.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE.

! ULYMPIC
gBroadway, between Houston and Seecker streets
,NAUDEVILLE and NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT and
Holman Opera Troupe, at P NJ closes at II p NJ
Matinee +. NJ.
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BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE.
opposite City Hall Brooklyn-FRA DiAvOLo. ats P
81; closes AT II :45 P. NJ Kellogg English opera Com
AAny. At matiuee-BOHEMlAS GIRL.
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MRS. CoNwAY's BROOKLYN THEATRE
Washington street, Brooklyn. MARY STUART, AZ p.
y: closes at II p. NJ Mrs. bowers. MARIE ANTON
GETTk, at z p N.
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wALLACK'S THEATRE
Broadway and Thirteenth street.-MONEY, tsp. NJ. ::
closes At IL T. NJ. MI Lester Wailack Miss Jefireys
Lewis.
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THE FOLLOWING FACTS are shown by t

reports we now have on hand
House OF Refuge for year ending December 81,
1873
Expended on the poor. SOL 038
Expended for salaries .................... 49, 238
Excess OF charity over perquisites ..... ST, 1893
Five Points House OF Industry Tor year ending
March, ls72:-
Expended Tor charity. $14 900
Expended for salaries, interest, &c....... $4,000
Excess OF expenses over cnarity ....... sl2 900
Total expenditures OF Five Points House of
Industry In same year ....................$405 18
Amount expended on outdoor poor ......... 31s
Has not the time arrived for investigating
these charities and ascertaining just how the
liberal funds they receive are expended?
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STEINWAY HALL
Fourteenth street-CONCERT OF Caroline Richings'
Musical Caion ats P NJ; closes at 70 p II. Matinee
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Broadway, OF rhirty-ntth street.-PARTS BY
NIGHT at 7. NJ closes at 5 P. ~; at p. NJ.
closes at 10 z. NJ
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TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE,
No. 20l Bowery.-yARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at S p.
M. closes at IL P. NJ. Matinee at 80 NJ
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BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE.
Twentythird street, corner of sixth avenue-CINDER-
ELLA IN BLACK, NEGRO MINSTRELsY, &c, al S z.
u. closes AZ 10 2. VI. Matinee att 2. NJ
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BOWE2Y THEATRE,
Bowery.-POMP; Or WAY DOWN SOUTH, al 2. 81
closes at IL p u.
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PrOVlSlOuS. SlZ,uno
ruel anu
Clothing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ................. S.
Medicine and hospital. Observation-Disclosures. IS
Outdoor poor and benetciares ............. 3l8
Transportation. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1O2
These sums may be said to have been ex-
pended on the poor, although the "fuel and
lights and provisions, no doubt, included
such as were used by the employees Of the
institution, as well as by its benefciaries.
On the other hand we find the following ex-
penditures incurred in distributing this four
teen thousand dollars:-
Salaries. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s7,27s
School and teachers salaries. ............... 2,793
Printing paper called the Record. ......... l,34
stationery, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 7S9
Repairs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1850
Furniture. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 744
Incidental. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l,S4z
Interest, assurances. taxes and new
building. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Q,446
Total. 1926, 1o4
These figures need no comment They
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BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PRoPRIEToR

---------=
s@--=------------------- ----------------=
ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
No m TEATEE
2 ASP. NJ closes at 10 30 P. NJ Matinee att 80 r NJ
NIBLO's GARDEN
SR a1a %6R
Tatss Family ami Ss Mane s + closes at 1880 NJ
WOODS MUSEUM
Closes sosnes 81 ga@s G closes
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE;
M closes ~ 10 80 p, NJ Mr. Harkns. Mss Ada Dyas.
Eighth avenue eR and DraFA hGYss
DUMPTY Al SCHOOL. and yARIETY = ENlERrA1Y-
Eox. Matiaes at 2 P NJ ''''''
30 81. ASiFTy hS}A5SNEsr ats
BOOTHS THEATRE.
M closes 10 80 P. NJ Mrs J. b Booth Matinee at
WALLACkfS THEATRE,
Broadway and Thirteenth street-MONEY, at P. NJ. q:
closes At II 2. NJ. M. Lester Waiiack, Miss Jefreys
Lewis.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
s'sSsa rzSSHfSf
0atinee at 2 T. NJ
Fourteenth s.reet-EiSE 7oRSSEhhAE 'EHE, a,sp NJ;
closes Al II p N.
RROOKIyN THEATRE
opposite City Hail. Brooklyn.-FRA DiAvOLo. at P.
81; closes AT II :45 P NJ. Kellogg English opera Com
nAny. At matuee-BoHEMIAN GIRL.
MRS. CoNwAy's BROOKLYN THEATRE,
Washington street. Brooklyn. MARY STU AIT, AZ p.
~ closes at II r: NJ Mrs Bowers. MARIE ANTON
Towery TroMP' OR, WAY DOWN SOUTH GsR ~;
sTEINwAY HALL
Fourteenth street-CONCERT OF Caroline Richings'
Musical Union. ats P NJ. closes at 70 p n Matinee
%, o. TONY RASToE,s oPERA HOUSE:
M :closes at IL p H. Matinee at $50 p. NJ.
BRYANrs OPERA HOUSE.
street sGnsT Of Sxth
nj closes a. "a MfiOes ~ "E'e &C. al T.
COLOSSEUM
$roadway, sorner Of rhirty-hith street.-PARIS BY
NIGH at r NJ. closes at r. ~ same at I p. NJ. !;
ACADEMY OF MUSIC
Sfes sSGer e Ps pace-FoURTH
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*Breakfast. thinner. fSnpper.'
South bound Trains connect at Augusta
for all points South and West. Through
tick ets sold and baggage checked to all prfn-
eipal points. a5- Sleeping cars on all Night
Trains. JAS. ANDERSON, General Sup't
A. PORE. Gen. Passenger and Ticket Agent.
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LyBrand & Son

TIAKE pleasure in calling the attention oi
i the public to an examination OF thoil
STOCK OF MUSICAL MERCHANDISE, con-
sisting OF Pianos, Church and Parlor Organs
Melodoons, violins, Guitars, Banjos, Flutes,
Aocordeons, Brass and Silver Band Instru-
ments Of all kinda. Also, Sheet Music and
instruction Books for every class of Musical
Instruments on hand at all times. We are
Sole Agents for tho State Of South Carolina
of Estcy Co.'s COTTAGE OR0ANS. Sheet
Music sent by mail, post paid. on receipt OF
price; and all kinds Of Musical G foods sent by
Express, whom ordered. 10 any pnrt OF the
State, marked o. .. D. Good Second hand
Pianos and Organs for sale cheap, for cash
Pianos, Organs and Mclodcons Tuned and
Repaired in satisfactory manner: and will
give ospecial attention to Packing. Removing
and Shipping Pianos for other parties toany
point desire ed, at moderate prices.
All orders promptly attended TO md salts
faction guaranteed to thoee favoring us with
their patronage. Send for our catalogue OF
Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise. Ri.
chardson street, O. few doors above PHGN1x
office, Columbia, SO. Now
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Baltimore & &wilmington, NC.
afaIRS> I
sfssEsEIs 7
Semi.Weekly Steamship Line,

mi.Weekly Steamship Line,
Composed OF the frst.cla Steamships
D. J. FOLEY. Y.............. Capt. D. J. PRICE
REDECCA CLYDE. Capt. D. c. Cu1LDs
LUCILLE. .......... Capt. j. 8. BENNETT
RALEIGH. ........... Capt. J. 8. OLIVER
Nv ILL hcrc after paii from DALTIhIURE
wv every tuesday, and FRIDAY. and
and SATURDAY.
Connecting at Wilmington, n. c., with the
Wilmington, Columbia aud Augusta Rail-
road, giving Through Bills OF Lading to and
from all points in North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama.
Connecting at Columbia, s. c., with the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad and Char
lotte division Of tho Charlotte. Columbia and
Augusta Kailroad.
Connecting a Augusta, Ca, with Georgia,
Macon and Augusta and Central Railroads.
Steamers Of this line, on arrival in Will
mineton, stop at Railroad Depot, and the
Naill DAD Freight, being slowed separ ateiy in
Steamer. il transferred, under covered sheds.
direct TO Cars, without delay, and forwarded
by the fast Freight Express that evening.
No GIayage in Wilmington, and no transfer
from Wilmington South Rates guaranteed
as low az by any other route, and all losses
ur over. charges promptly paid.
Mark all Goods Uid Steamship to Whining
ton, and forward Bills OF Lading 20 Nailrosd
Agent, Wilmington, N. G.
For further information, apply TO either of
undersigned Agents OF the limo.
ANDREWS 4 CO, Agents B. & W. Steam
ship Limo. No. 70 Smiths Wharf, Baltimore.
A. d: CAZAUX, Agent q. l. W. Steamship
Limo, Wilmington, n. G.
A. POPE, General Freight Agent,
+. w. CLARK, Asst Gen. Freight Ag't,
HIM coTT1NGnAM, saGn' GENERAL Western Ni t.:
Agent, Atlanta, Ga. Nov % 3mos
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- GYnAiNsss 4 4 rsps : : al dssi1' =
Trains on South Carolina Railroad up And
a1STH; with GFains BoinB NyTih and South On
Onaflotte, Colu nbia and'Augusts and Viii.
mington, Columbia and Augusfa q Il ailroRds.
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CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK,
COLUn nIBlA, SC.
$4,000
100000
Present Capital, s
Authorized Capital, s
OFFICERS.
JOHN Il. PALMER Presidept

HuHOFt1eu C0PHut, 90UU, ,UUU
OFFICERS.
JOHN B. PALMER. President.
A. G. BRENIZER, Cashier.
q. N. G. BUTT. Assistant Cashier.
l. three-story and Mansard Roof building,
on the corner Plain and Richardson streets
general Banking business transacted. Ger.
tihoates OF Deposit, bearing Interest at the
rate OF Seven per cent. per annum. iHeucd.
Notes, Bills OF Exchange and other evidences
OF debt discounted, and money loaned on COL
latersls. Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Silver bought
and sold. Drafts on all the prominent cities
in the United States bought and sold.
DIRKOroRs-Jas. l.. Black, John D. Palmer,
F. W. McMastcr, r. D. Sem, tof r. D. Sem &
Son, J G. w. Bearden, {of Copeland d Fear
den,) R. L. Bryan, ". O. Swafeld, (of r. &
". G. swafield,) ". Is. Stanley. ]. O. Secgers;
Samuel McGowan, Abbevillc; James II. Ricn
Winnsboro. Feb 8
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CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Deposits of Sl and Upwards Received.

INTEREST ALLO WE'D At TIRE RATE
OF SEVEN PER CENT. J'ER Ann U6b
ON CERTIFICA1 1ES Or DEPOSIT,
ND SIX PER GENT. CDWPO UNDEI
EVERY SIX MONTHS ON .iCCG UNITS.
OFFICH.itS.
Vim. Martin, President.
John Is. Palmer, Vice President.
A. Ct. BrcniZer, Cashier.
]. Il. Sawyer, in general charge.
John @. B. Smith, Assistant Gaslr!cr.
Directors.
Wade Hampton, William Martin, john y
Palmer, A. q. Haskell, T. ". McNasttr. T.
II. ueinitsh Il. e. Gregg, Columbia
G. 7. Scott, W. G. May Ecwbtrry
B. Il. Rutledge, Danicl Ravancl, Jr., Char.
eston.
M ECHANICS, Lahnrcis, Clerks, Widnys.
1V1 Orphans and othcra may here deposi.
their savings and draw liberal rate Of inter.
est thereon. Planters. Professional Altr and
Trustees wishing to draw interest on .hti,
funds until they require them for businc. or
other purposes; ;,Parents desiring TO set apart
small sums for children, n nd Married woAen
and Minors {wboee deposit can only be with
drawn by tn emselvcs, or, in case OF death, by
their legal reprcaentativcs,) wishing TO lay
aside funds for future nse, are here afforded
an opportunity of depositing their means
where thoy will rapidly accumulate, and, at
tho samo timo, be subject to withdrawal
when needed. AuClS
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Canned Goods.
MEATs.-Dcviled HAM peviled TONGUE,
IX1 Deviled Turkey, Roast Beef.
Fruits-Pcaches. Pinme, Apricots, Pine
Apples, Pears, Strawberries.
Vegetables Corn, Green Peas, To-
matocs. Mushrooms. For sale by
Nov IS HOPE 4 GYLES.
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Mark Twain, at public dinner in
London, recently, responded to the
toast, ssThe ladies, " and In the course
of his remarks said: "Ah, you remem-
ber, yon remember well, what throb
ofpain,. whata great tidal wave Ct grief
swept over us all when Joan OF Are fell
at Waterloo. Who does not sorrow for
the loss Of Sappho. the sweet singer OF
IsraelP Who among us does not miss
the gentle ministrations, the softening
Influences the humble piety Of Luore-
tia Borgia? Who can join in the heart
less libel that woman is extravagant in
dress, when we can look back and call
to mind our simple and lewly Mother
Eve, arrayed in.her modification of the
Highland costume?
A Macon negro, who went into D
trance at meeting, the other night.
was accidentally overlooked. When he
found the lights were all out. he fol-
lowed the congregation and succeeded
in seriously walloping one of the dea-
cons. He gives as an excuse that 'dey
lug udder niggers home, an dey mout
as we'll lugged me. De church amt no
place fur ter git up 'structions in
s'oiety."
A gentleman built wing to his house.
consisting of cellar, library on the
ground floor, and q bedroom above.
he asked the opinion OF friend about
it, who replied: "My dear fellow, am
sorry to see you have lost your senses." I"
@'How?" exclaimed the other. "Why,
bon pirant and literary man. as you
arctic read over your wine and to sleeps
svefiyour books" ifl'4't
Isis requires 81. 600. OO0. 600 OF curren.
now, it appears evident to us that it will
require SO, 900, 600, 600 to answer the
purpose when the business doubles.
why is this reasoning defeotiveP asks
the Cincinnati Trade List, and We re.
peat the question.
They have caught Chicago preacher
in the ACT OF stealing his sermons. A
thrilling discourse delivered by him on
the occasion of the loss Of the Vile de
Havre was ascertained to be transcript
OF sermon preached by DR.. Chaplin, Of
New York, when the Arctic was chip
wrecked, some yearsago.
The most fashionable sash of the
period ia OF black watered silk, half
yard vide with deep. fringed ends.
Some otsFthe newest promenade snits
have an arrangement in lieu of over
skirts which looks like an apron fastened
behind.
It is an alarming state of things when
Howard City, Michigan, mother per-
sists in bringing three girls and two
boys into this vale OF sorrow at one
time.
"Matchless maid" is tho way pre-
sumtuous young man addressed lady
OF very uncertain age.
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ton In Wilmington nearly twlce as large as
that OF any other paper. all the news Of the
day will be found, il it, condensed when nm
important. ut length when Of moment, and
always presented in q clear, intelligent and
interesting manner.
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WEEKLY STAR.
PRICE REDUCED.
The WEEKLY STAR 10 now com bint with
the CAKOLlNA FARMER, and is one Of the
cheapest papers III the. country, a. the fol-
lowing REDUCED RATES:
Ono Copy, Blk Months. ...... 10
n5- Clubs Of to 10, One Year. 81 25 per
copy. Clubs OF 10 or more, One Year, cnly
s! 90 per copy. Srt CINE n Copies sent Oh ap.
pllcatlon. Address
WIN. II. BERNARD.
Editor and Proprietor, Wilmington, NC.
Choice Provisions.
A T low prices for cash.
n 6.000 pounds BACON SIDES.
10 barrels Leaf Lard,
20 boxes Goshen Cheese,
10 boxes Young America and Pine apple
Cheese,
10 chests choice nav crop Tens,
100 barrels Family Flour
rs barrels Apples, Onions and Potatoes.
Deco HOPE GYLES
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-01-24

appropriations made by the Board ofSupervi-
sors 70 the Sheriff tested in the courts, the sub,
scfibers basing their action upon the follow
ratiocnation:
If the county Board of Supervisors may in
their discretion allow the Sheriff 500 for a
deputy, we know no limit between that sum
and an indefinite amount. The effect Of a
limitless discretion on the part of the Board
would be to make the Sheriti's compensation
limtless. Yet the constitution says his COM
pensation shall be limited.
The same may be said of the $500 allowed
for assistant deputies, and Of the $1,000 allow
ed for travelling expenses. In voting the al;
lowance for travelling expenses the Board
seem to have doubly violated the constitution.
First-It makes the Sheriii's compression
$3.50, which the constitution limits to $4,000
Second-The allowance was voted after the
Sheriff was elected. The constitution says
the compensation shall not be increased or
diminished during his term Of office.
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COLLECTOR HARPER.

There is.a decided commotion among a Ger
tain class of politicians at Springfield in
consequence of the announcement that the
abscondlng L. S. collector John T. Harper
has returned from his hiding place in Gambia
to his home at Ell Paso, and is about to clear
his conscience by making clean breast of il
with regard to his singular delalcation. 1t
will be remembered that his dcfalcation was
for something over $200000 yet that he had
lived apparently as economically during the
time he held Office as ever before, and at nc
time appeared to be flush with money. The
mystery was what become of his heavy steal
ings?
The received way to explain the mystery
hitherto has been to say that the stealing had
been done by Albert Smith, Harpers cashier
or chief clerk. Smith got but $4,000 year
yet out of that salary he was able to buy
$4,000 worth of stock in Pekin distllery out
of which he made 100000 in two years
besides which he owned large dry goods
stores IN Bloomington and PEORIA and sup
ported an expensive establishment in Spring
field.
Smith has been indicted, and was to have
been tried in the L. S. District Court last week
but when 1t was learned that the prosecution
would put Harper himself on the stand to
testify in the case, Smiths attorneys got the
case put off until June.
The suspicion is, that while the revelations
of Harper May not be as favorable to Smith
as that worthy might desire, they may be still
more damaging TO host of other cormorants
about Springfield, who are said to have blei
poor Harper mercilessly for political pur-
poses. 1t is limited that the heavy expenses
Of Logan's senatorial campaign were largely
borne by Harper; that Cullom drew heavily
on him in his effort to get back to congress :;
that Oglesby, for man comparatively
pcnniess, found Harper's money especially
convenient in the management of his guber
material and senatorial campaign, and so on
No wonder Smiths trial is postponed TO give
the managers time TO drive Harper back to
Canada
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MnrIll Winters.

Remarhing on the mildness Of the present
winter, an old settler told us the other day that
in tire winter of lS4.5 he had plowed ground in
every winter month-Dcccmber, January and
February.-and although there had been few
cold snaps, the general mildness greatly exceed
ed The present winter. We have no meteorologi-
cal record to refer TO, but have no doubt of the
correctness of ournformant's recollection.
The exceptional mildness Of the present win.
ter thus far is not peculiar to the west, but eX.
tends to and Includes New England and the
Hartford Calrdat, after remarking upon it, copies
some records from the journal of the Rev. rhos.
Smith, of Portland, Maine, between the years
1850 and 1875, to show that it is nothing new In
1885, says the CoUunt, January was pleasant and
moderate, and February was summer month -
in 173S January came in like April; in l140 there
were but two snow storms; February was sum-
mer month again, and March The same; in l75l,
January 10, the frost was entirely out Of the
ground, February was like spring, and the win
ter ends wonder through the whole" In 1856,
in January the fish, as they are reported to have
done this year, "struck III" from the sea, the
weather being so warm. February was delight
full, and March clustering but soft as May. In
l713 Mr.. Smith records summer day on Janua-
ry 81, wonderful moderate" the next day, land
February O. "nu snow since December %, Won
derful weather. We saw two robbins" In the
year l71j, February - the New York Gazette ana
Post Boy reports that last Wednesday the wea
ther was so uncommon warm that many young
lads went into the river to swim"
| These are records all but one of them more
than century old They notice six rcmarkabl ,
warm winters within period of forty years, but
coming with no noticeable periodicity. People
who are calling this a season strange above al
others, Indicative that our planet has drifted in
to new influences, and are promising all sorts Of
consequences, from poor crops to Second Ad
vent, may bear in mind that there is precedent
for it all, and that whether the weather is divine
ly dispensed each day or is II grand sequence
under ordanc / law which prayer cannot affect
it keeps coming and changing hour by hour, and
the peculiar freaks OF century and more ago
have not resulted in humiliation yet Nor has
the period between them ana now been one OF
uninterrupted disaster.