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SPRING..

In the leafy woodlands birds are singing,
Throstles calling through the dell;
In open fields fresh flowers are springine:
Violets bloom on hill and fell.
In shady woods and sunless places,
Orchard. forest, field, and plain,
Cowslips show their modest faces,
March leaves sing through April's rain.
In the Spring the earth rejoices!
All the tuneful feathered throng,
With due instinct lift their voices
Burst with rapture into song.
IT'S the time of joy and gladness,
'Tis the crescent of the year:
Winters past with gloom and sadness,
Snow and sorrow, frost and fear.
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NOTES ON POT AND PEAR1.AsH.

| NOIES ON fOI' AND PEARL-ASH.
A man will cut and burn 81 cords ot
wood day.
A cord of wood yields 2 bushels OF
ashes. (Neither pine nor chestnut will
do.)
A bushel of ashes sells for cents.
1t will make 6 lbs. of brown salts.
which make to 5 lbs. pearl ash in o
common way, and lbs. of pearl ash in
Hopkins's way.
For small work, 2 kettles suffice to
boil the lie into brown salts and l to
melt up the brown salts.
1 cord of wood day maintains one
fire, which will do for kettles.
To keep 3 kettles agoing will require
the attendance of man and boy.
There should be Is or 16 tubs of 100
bushels each.
kettles will turn out 1000 lbs. of pearl
ash week.
Consequently will require 100 cords of
wood week, and 7cutters to keep them
constantly at work.
Each kettle costs "a doll.
! Potash is worth in England - the
ton ,iand in America 114s d.
| Pearl ash is worth in England s4O
sterl., and in America e4O lawful.
An estimate of the profit and expense
of such work at 3 lbs. pearl. ash to the
bushel of ashes, which is 100 lbs. pearl
ash day. and counting days to the
week, which would give only 500 lbs
OF pearl-ash week, instead of l, 900 lbs
the common calculation:
500 lbs. pearl-ash a week is 13
tons year, a. e4O, Virginia
curIency,.............. .E52O.O w
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BARN-YARD MANURE must remain
the backbone of profitable farming,
hence it should be guarded with special
care. Manures should invariably be un-
der cover, and in the absence of proper
shelter, they should be protected by
thick coat of dry earth, road scrapings or
sods and mold. Do not permit your most
valuable aid to increased profits to blow
OFT with every wind, or wash away with
every rain.
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81
PO E II r. Y.
"HE CARETH FOR YOU"


she CARETH FOR YOU"
1t I could only surely know
That all these things that tire me so
Were noticed by my Lord
The pang that cuts me like knife,
The lesser pains Of daily life.
The noise, the weariness, the strife
What peace 1t would afford!
1 wonder II He really shares
In all my little human cares,
This mighty King Of kings;
If He who guides each blazing star
Through realms of boundless space afar,
Without confusion, sound, or jar,
Stoops to these petty things.
1t seems to me, if sure of this,
Blent with each i'll would come such bliss,
That might covet pain,
And deem whatever brought to me
The loving thought Of Deity.
And sense Of Christ's sweet sympathy,
No loss, but richest gain.
Dear Lord, my heart hath not doubt
That thou dost compass me about
With sympathy divine.
The love for me once crucif1ed,
Is not love to leave my side,
But waiteth ever to divide
Each smallest care of mine.
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UNHAPPY MARRIAGEs.-The univer-
sal expectation of married people is,
that their married lives will always be
happy ones. Deluded dreamers They
Imagine that they are different from
other people, and that when they enter
the portals of matrimony, love, peace,
and prosperity will ever be their atten-
dants. Such had better consider them
selves the same as others, but from iron
resolutions to do different from other
married people-resolutions that will
keep them from the dangerous coasts on
which SO many have been wrecked and
ruined. Unhappy marriages depend
upon many causes. Previous to mar
riage, many try to appear more intellec-
tual, more amiable or more accomplish
ed than they really are. Depend upon
it, that love brought into existence by a
moonlight Ltroll, strengthened by deceit
and fashionable displays, and finally
contaminated through the influence of
intriguing friends, will fade in after life
almost as fast as the flowers which COM
pose the bridal wreath.
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| Of course no woman ever did such a
thing, but supposing now, for the sake
of argument, as it were, that woman
were to 60 to church for the purpose of
showing off her new sacque, would it be
sac religion.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

COUGH REMEDY.-Take one ounce of
Irish moss, soak it as you would for
blanc mango; then boil it about ten
minutes in two quarts of water and the
juice of six lemons; sweeten to taste and
strain. Drink of it freely it will nour-
lsh and relieve
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

A bishop asked little child: "My
little friend tell me where God is? and
1 will give you an orange.n MY Lord"
replied the child, "tell me where he is
not? and will give YOU two.n
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To BE TRUsTED.-One grocer asked
another: us Colonel - man to be
trusted?" II think you'd find him so,"
was the reply. 'If you trust him once
you'll trust him forever. He never
pavs.D
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

Ifa man is honest he does not need to
tell of it. Sterling virtue can afford TO
keep still, but sly dishonesty has very
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

1t is Cotton, in his inimitable LA
conics," who says that men will wrangle
for rsligion-write for it, fight for it, die
for it anything but-live for it.n
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StatlNtot, $peftatcr.
RATES OF ADyrRrrsYro

ADVERTISEMENTS will be insa-,., =.
90 per square of eight lines or Lees S ~
first insertion, and so cents for each snhseorsnt an
insertion. "'oq"ens
As- liberal discount will be made on advsr.
tisements published for 8, 6, or u months.
~ SPECIAL NOTICES will be inserted a. a,,,-
BILE the advertising rates.
10. Obituaries, Announcements Of Candidates
for office, and all communications of a personsi
or private character, will be charged for as adj.
Address-"Staunt0n Spectator" Staumton. Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20
A Shocking Church Scandal.

The Wesleyan Methodist Church in
Canada once might have had q kind of
Beecher scandal, but it didn't.
A venerable clergyman was riding to
| the district conference in an eastern
township. somewhere near Stanstead,
his companion in the buggy being
young, Jealous and lndiscreet minister
not long stationed in that part of the
country. AS they logged past a cross
road tavern the old gentleman indicated
it with his whip, and said:
MANY and many day I've been at
that tavern, years ago."
Yes, said his companion" with in
difference.
"Yes; and a mighty handsome wife
the tavern keeper had too"
"Ah!" said the young brother with
surprise.
YES" continued the elder, "she was
one of the handsomest women 1 ever
saw! young, pretty, plump, fine color,
and such arms! Many and many kiss
have given her when we were sitting
in big hair cloth chair in the little pri-
vate sitting room off from the bar. Well,
well, time flies" And the good old
man gazed at his companion, whose eyes
were as large as soup plates, then, blush
ing deep beet red, he said with some
confusion
Bless me, what have I been saying?
Of course, brother, you will not breathe
word about this; 1 cannot imagine
how [ came to say anything about it,
but then the tongue is" etc.
The young clergyman gave the requir-
ed pledge, and repeated it when ut the
end of their drive the old man besought
him earnestly to remember and not
breathe a word of the m altar
But during the afternoon the
young minister rose, and declaring that
his conscience would not longer allow
him to bear the burden he had imposed
upon it, and that he must tell the truth.
40 matter how terrible the consequence.
Informed the astonished brethren that
brother B had that day admitted
that he had been guilty of improper and
unchristian conduct toward married
woman-nay, more, had recited his sin
with an unction which showed that it
had never been sincerely repented of.
1t is needless to say that every body
first stared at the speaker and then at
the accused minister, who, for q hundred
miles around, had won an enviable re-
putatlOn for uprightness and purity.-
The accused buried his face in his hands,
and the Chairman desired the young
brother to repeat his startling accusation
with details.
The young clergyman did SO, and
when he announced that the ether mem
ber of the guilty pair"' was o woman
whose name he did not know, but whose
husband kept tavern at - Corners.
be was electrified to hear the chairman
bawl, 'Ha ha hal" and every men,
Der OF the conference go off in paraxisms
of laughter.
"Can you-is it possible you can smile
at such a revelation ?n said the dunn.
founded young minister.
As soon as the Chairman had suffi-
GENTLY mastered his emotion to speak,
he said: my dear young brother, before
Brother b was converted and enter
ed the ministry he kept that tavern!"
Thereafter that young minister was no
less Jealous and infinitely more discreet.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

Mail Train through to Washington and Bal
timore without change of cars, and makes close
connection at Harper's Ferry with Express
Trains for the West. The Accommodation
leaving Staunton at 3.l5 p. M. runs through to
aarpers Ferry on Monday, Wednesday, and
Saturday. '
8. NJ. WOODWARD. JR..
]. II. AvERILL, Supt. V. r, r.
s. of T., B. q o. r. r. jy2
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LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE LATE
JU UDGE e ARCHIBALD STUART, OF
STAUNTON.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20
GROCERIES AND PRODUCE.
NEW FIRM.
w. f. WOOD Sc CO.,
No. 2 South augusta Street,
Next door tn e. r. Haines's Tobacco Store

Next door to c. E. Haines's Tobacco Store.
Here will be found q full line Of
FRESH GROCERIES,, ia,-
Grocery, with Prices to suit the times. All
kinds Of COUNTRY PRoDUcE bought and taken
In exchange for goods. Parties who make
before selling. choice article of New Or.
leans MOlasses-new crop-just received.
Just received q lot of Northern Seed Irish Po-
may6 w. r. WOOD 4 co.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

Mr.. Jefferson retired from public life.
Sends Judge Stuart some sweet potatoes.
Wants to buy two or three score of
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

WIN. M. McALLISTER,
w ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
WARM SPRINGS, VA.
Courts-Alleghany, Bath and Highland, Va,
nd POcahontas West Virginia.
A5Special attention given to collection OF
dec 1S-tf
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

nR. JAMES JOHNSTON,
IL d MIST,
MAIN STREET, STAUNTON, VA.
OFFICE Turner & Harman's Grocery
Store. dec N-f
T. G. ELDER. WIN. ]. NELSON.
ELDER k NELSON,
II ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
and Real Estate Agents,
mays STAUNToN, VA.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20
DR.. ]. F. HAYWOOD,
ne AEM N0HN No.

~'Few diseases exist that cannot be relieved by re-
storing the Liver to its normal functions and for
this purpose no remedy has ever been invented th=t
has as happy effect TUFTS PIILS.n
SOLD EVERYWHERE, PRICE rs CENTS.
Once 35 Murray Street, New York.
U DR.. TUFTS MANUAL of Valuable Infor-
nation and Useful Receipts will be mailed free
on application.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20
TUFTS PILLS

Rre compounded from substances that are
free from any properties that can injurc
the most delicate organization. They
Search, Cleanse, Purify, and InvigOrate
the entire System. BY relieving the en-
R0rgcd Liver, they cleanse the blood
frosn poisonous Iinm0rs, and thus impnrt
health and vitality to the body, causing
the bowels to net naturally. without
which no one can fecl well.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

LEX. H. H. STUART,
n ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Having recovered his health, and retired from
public life, will hereafter give diligent atten-
tion to such causes in chancery, and In the
Court of Appeals at Staunton, as may be en-
trusted to his care.- nOD-4t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20

MONTICELLO, Jan. 3, '96.
Dedr Ssr: II troubled you once be-
lore on the subject Of my nails, and
must trouble you once more, but hope
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A Noted Divine saws !:

martyato Dyspepsia, Constipation %nd Piles. Last
Spring your Pills were recommended to me; used
them but with little faith). am well man,
have good appetite, digestion perfect regular Stools
piles and have gained forty pounds solid flesh
They are worth their weight in gold
RFv r I. SIMPSON T,u;sr.;io
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20
SYMPTOMS OF A
TORPID LIVER,
TUFTS PILLS

are especially adapted to such
cases, a single dose effects
such a change Of feeling as to
aStonjSh the sufferer.
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TUFTS PILLS.

Their first eject ls to lncrease The Appetite,
and cause the body TO Take OH Flesh, thus the
system is nOurished, and by their Tonic Ac.
zion on the Digestive Organs, Regular
Stools are produced.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

is the fruitful source of many diseases, proni-
ncut among which are
DYSPEPSIA, SICK-HEADAcHE, COSTiVfNESS,
DYSENTERY, BILIOUS FEVER, AGUE AND FEVER,
jAUEDlCE, PILES, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY Con-
:. PLANT cnlI ETr
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Mr.. Stuart.

All about nails. Milton, Chaflottes-
vile and Staunton preferred to Warmin-
ster and Warren az marketa
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L ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
And Solicitor in Chdrceyy, STAUNToN, VA,
practices in all the Courts OF Augusta and adj
Joining counties.
OFFicELThe same formerly occupied by his
father Col. Geo. Baylor, decd, on Augusta st.,
opposite the Courthouse. uOM
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loud crash, killing four persons and

Address-"Staunton Spectator Staunton. Va.
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10
C.s. Dlsu.insstl.

NORRIS c. PAss TAKEN BEroRn b. =.
NcoMMIssIQNER sMITR x1zIs NonMlNa.
Norris @. PaS who IS arres1bd on
last WedneDday s(terndo for attempting
TO steal his child from fljA> residence Of
his wife and given hearing In the even
ing before the Mayor on the charge Of
disorderly conduct, and required to pay
SIS and costs and give $500 bail to keep
the peaca, was, released from tle City
Hall this morning he having, COMP }ied
with the sentence imposed by the Mayor.
He was taken In custody by U. s. Mar
shal McAlullen,, and taken before, u. s.
Commissioners Smith, who had Issued .
warrant for his arrest ON the disposition
of. Mrs. III. u. Tatnall, under the follow
ing section Of the u. s. Revised Statutes :
SECTION 5,525. Every person who
kidnaps, or carries away any other per-
son With the intent that such other per
son be sold into involuntary sertitude,
or held as slave; or who entices, per
suadcs or induces any other person to 60
on board any vessel, or to any other
place with the intent that he may be
made or held as slave, or sent out oi
the country to be SO made or held; OF
who in any way knowingly aids in caus-
ing any other person to be held, sold, OF
carried away to be held or sold as slave,
shall be punished by fine Of not less
than five hundred nor more than five
! thousand dollars, or by imprisonment moi
more than five years, or by both. (Re-
vised Statutes Of U. g., page 1V77.)
Charles G. Rumford, Esq, appeared
for Pass. The defendant plead "no'
| guilty" to the charge. nts
The Commissioner stated that thu
prosecuting witness was out Of town
and as there was no one present to testi
| fy In the case but his wife, and she WA
incompetent according to law therefor
1t placed him in rather a singular posi-
ton. He would say, however, that i
Mrs. Pass desired to call any witnesses
that he Mould examine them.
Mrs. Pass replied that she did not wan
to produce any witnesses or prosecnt
the case. Ali she desired was to be le
live peaceably and that the defendan
had promised that he would not annoy
her any more. 4iilin r.f. $3.50 Tlt7 I'D
Mr.. smith said that the charge was
grave one, and Il would require q larg
amount OF evidence TO hold the defend
ant as he had no witnesses he woul
dismiss the case. ..,,...f.,, iii %
Pass is still In the custody of tn
Marshal and may be taken to Baltimor
to-day to answer the charge of desertion
The Marshal In the meantime will g
the advice Of the District Attorne,
whether he has the authority to- TAX
him him to Baltimore or not without IN
structions to the captain Of the compan
from which he deserted, ~ lsl sna .
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10
Democrats.

n THREE YEARS will help to make a
man ambitious to excel in his work, a
result not to be expected from one years
term. Council, we think, did right on
7 Thursday night in this regard. d.--Herald.
sf who viii Be eeesd sa sdet Sr GmmssSn f9rse seans
may "excel in his work !" but the cham
ccs are equal that he will not excel, and
il, that case we have deprived ourselves
OF remedy for three years. The mea-
sure was very doubtful one, to say the
least of it, and when it is reflected that
tile term is extended in order to give the
Office to a gentleman favorable to the
majority, it becomes still more objection
able; for whenever the Republicans sue
coed to a majority of the Council, they
may cite this action for extending the
terms of other city officers. But the Re-
publicans will not be able to claim the
extension by the Democrats on Thurs
day night as partisan movement, be-
cause enough Republicans voted for the
extension to have defeated the measure
had they voted with the Democrats who
opposed it and voted against it. As the
thing has been done we hope that the
choice of Street Commissioner may be
such as to make the extension of the
term beneficial during the next three
Years at least. ,.. 7f DO -rI4lr ..l
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10
IN. n .,lt D.s..sea fest n pr,.e.F,shser.
ELLIOTT BADLY USED UP-A PossIDII.-
- a. ITY OF HIS DEATH. I

ELLIOTT BADLY USED UP-A PossIDII-
= - aa"'i IrY OF HIS DEATH. lfi
Special Dispatch to the Times. 4f
ERrE, May Son The return from the
prize fight Elliott vas taken TO Jacob
Geg's dwelling here aud DIR. Speucer
was called. Examination showed q
badly bruised face and severe contu-
sion on the left side. His eyes were en-
tirely closed by swelling. Al least five
ribs Oh the lett side were fractured, and
there was severe confusion in the re-
gion of the heart, caused by terrible
rig ,t-hanIed cross-count.,I IN the first
round and by the falling Of Dwyeri upon
him, striking there with his knee. The
right side has also some ugly bruises,
aud Elliot thought that some OF his ribs
on that side were fractured also. The
! pbysician ascertalned that respiration
produced coughing as well as pam, which
would indicai internal injuries. Elliott
was very confiden of whipping Dwyer
previous TO the fight and he told his
! baker that he was never in such fine
| conuil ion in his lite. He said that nc
novice In the world could stand the
ghost Of show with him; he was sue
to win. On being asked how he cam
| to lose In so short time he said thai
Dwyer hit him in the left side in the
left side In the first rcuLd and in the
third round be received right-hant
blow on the nose Wi ich he thought hat
STAYED his face i'll. Elliot said he nevel
recovered from these two blows. "Be
sidps.n he said, II have been near-sight
ed from child, and after these two hit
l was pearly bind and could not SCI
| Dwyer.. At noon to-day Elliott wa
dangerously i'll and the boys were afraiC
that he mi ght de. Tonight he felt bet
d Ter and as taken TO the cars for home
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10
General ,ws.

The Great Council OF Red Men, In ses-
sion at Easton, adjourned yesterday 10
meet 10 Harrisburg next year.
Charles Brown, an Adventist minister,
being announced TO address the Adven-
lists OF Pocasser, Mass, tomorrow, the
people threatened to tar and feather
him. -H
Ten sailing vessels at Buffalo, N. Y,
yesterday engaged seamen at So per day,
ihe price demanded by the Seamen's
Union.. 0rt
Ricba:d Lee, colored burglar, wa
banged at Fayetteville, n. c., yesterday
in presence of 1000 persons.
Leonard Chamberlain, Deputy Sher
III of Albany county, n. Y, was fatal,
wounded yesterday, byI John: Frederick
UPON whom he was serving process o
ejectment. af7 o.
n AZ IRasIEig,sgss- -GhRei SeftsEday, Iaso' G.
lisburg, was convicted of having raised
q bill against the county for work. ant
forged the name Of Justice Vt the Peac,
| to it ~
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10

'INDEPENDENT STATESMEN" are very
often the most mischievous of human
characters. They are ever seeking to
,endparties asunder and prefer to see their
own opinions prevail even If chaos should
succeed good government. The war upon
arties by independent papers, usually
The organs of would-be eccentric states
men, tend to the destruction of conf
dence and the disarrangemcnt Of all po-
litical system. Had the Democratic party
not been rent and torn by dissensions
over distractions in 1850, permitting the
eccentrics and fanatics Of both the old
parties in both sections to get control Of
the government, the rebellion resulting
in the most disastrous war of the centu
1y would not have been produced. r'
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10
The past six months has with

The past six months has witnessed a
great religious revival in Baltimore
which on the one hand may be attribut-
ed greatly to the labors of Mr.. Moody.
He has preached to large congregations
and the good effect Of his services in the
cause of religion are recognized in every
section of the city by an increased at
tendance at the Protestant churches and
by the reformation in the lives of many
who had hitherto given no heed TO spirit
ual things. Missions largely attended
have been held at st. Pauls and Mt.
Calvary Protestant Episcopal churches,
which had great effect in those and other
parishes. The Catholic churches have
also been favored with an increase of at
tendance and interest. Archbishop
Gibbons, throughout Lent, on every
Sunday night preached on the doctrines
of the Catholic Church to congregations
numbering three thousand persons.
The London Board of Bublc Works,
having tried the electric light on the
Thames embankment, ii nd that il costs
21 pence per hour per lamp more than
gas giving an equal light. This fact must
be very comforting to the holder. OF
| metropolitan gas stocks. Mr.. Edison,
hOW6teT, Iuiuhs ludl ut ChI make The
| electric light at less than one-ffth of the
price of gas, though be hasn't yet accom-.
plished that very desirable object.
THE New York Sun shines for David
Davis, and pauses in its pursuit of 6
''fraudulent administration" long enough
to say /: ''No man is ever going to b.
elected President of the United State.
about whose loyalty to the Union in til,
past, in the present or in the future ther,
is room for shadow of doubt"
| Dyer, the victor in the recent prize
| fight with Elliott, went to the latter
while he was lying with two lbs broken
and .apologized for beating him SO SO
| verely. He gave him, also, a $50 note
passed around the hat for him on th,
steamboat and picked up "a handsom,
sum" Of money for him.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat onl,
extracts affidavits from negro rrfugees a
they push westward. The affidavit of ,
negro making his way from Kansas t,
the South is not supposed to be worth tn
paper on which it is written. u'l .
The liabilities of Swami, Clough 4
Co., the bankers, of York, whose failur
was announced on Thursday, are estima
ted at f2,000,0O0. -e5s.5E5
The French Council of State has deci
ded to refer to committee the conside
ration Of the question of separation 0
Church and State. IHt