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and increasing requirements of raw
sugar in 1884. The extremely low
prices now ruling are favorable to the
largely increased consumption of refined. The
refined market seems to have found the bottom
and has remained steady through the week. and
indications are that raws are also at bottom
prices. Refiners' stock in New York is 2 $50
tons against 5,265 tons last year. and re-
fners' stock in Boston is 5,249 tons against H.
all hands is 74797 tons against U.s. 0S tons last
week and 20, l66 tons last year. The stock in
al hands Nov was O;947 tons The receipts
all hands Decs1 was 7O,502 tons, making the
actual net melting of raw sugar for November,
III four ports, 74,671 tons. Taking twenIy-six
working days in November, the daily deliveries
to refineries for melting average 2,S72 tons for
four ports.
GRAIN.
A weak wheat market, a barely steady corn
market, more active oat market, with ten
dency to higher prices, covers the local grain
markets. The Board of Trade Price Current
says of wheat: every little change in prices, but
undoubtedly a duller feeling prevails and all
grades and futures are less firm than yesterday.
The seaboard is both duh and lower, ranging
from 401c, and Chicago also has declined 7sc
from yesterday" We quote:
No. Mediterranean. track. 81 .06
No. Mediterranean, track LOB
no. req, TRACK. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 101
NO req, track --.-----.---.--.-..---- 30
Rejected, track. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 80
Unmerchanta0le, track. 20
December, track. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES LOO
January, track Observation-Disclosures 10l q
Corn-Looally, our markets are in same posi-
ton, and buyers continue to experience diff
Guilty in obtaining sufficient that will grade to
fill orders. Considerable quantity of off grade,
new, is arriving, but its condition is very unsat
isfactory. Markets at seaboard decidedly
lower, showing decline at New YORK of 7sc,
Baltimore lac, and Chicago sec for May, but it
is lac higher for January. We quote:
no wnte, track.- -----....---s-..-..--.. "a
No. white, track. Observation-Disclosures. "a
Yellow, track ......---...--.....5 50
Hlgh mixed, track. 90
Mixed, I. o. Observation-Disclosures. 55
No 8, track ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. So
RtJecJeus TRACK. OIL
Unmerohantable, new, track. 80
Sound ear, track. -.-..........-........5 5
Sound ear, new, track Observation-Disclosures. 3814
Oats-strong, active, higher and scarce. We
quote:
No. white. track 35
Di2nb mixed, TRACK. --.---.-.-..-----..----- 80
Mixed, track. ...-.......... 32ls
heJecJeu, LFaCk. oU
Rye-No .. steady; Sc bid; no sellers,
Bran-Dull SLID bid, held at $13; rather
nominal.
GRAIN IN STORE.
Dec, IL, 1888.
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$3.75@6 y ewt fer common to extra sheep;
"a 1906 .62I9 p cwt. for lambs. Exports, 800 live
sheep.
Hogs-Receipts 10000. Live hogs frner at
4.8005.70 y ew5. alive.
MILWAUKEE,, Dec. 12.-HoGs, easier at $40
$3.50,
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Cotton,

NEW YORK. Dec r2.-Cotton dull at 10la0
10$c futures weak; December. 1O.42c: Janu.
airy, 10.46c; February, 1O.60c; March. I075c;
April, 10.99c; Nav. IL ,O2c, June, IL 15c; July,
1l.27c; August & Soc; September, lille
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 12.-Cotton quiet and
easy; midding, 1044e; net receipts. TO- 900 bales;
exports to Great Britain, A. 90 bales; continent
1000 bales; cOastwise, $500 bales; sales IL :
600 bales; STOCK on hand, 391,660 bales.
GALVESTON, Dec. 12.-Cotton steady; mid
ding. 15-16c; net receipts, $500 bales; exports
coastwise, 5000 bales; sales, 2,70o bales stock
on hand, 117225 bales
MEMPHIS. Dec. 12-Cotton easier, not lower;
at 97sc; receipts, 1000 bales; shipments, 1000
bales; stock on hand, 99,465 bales; sales, LOO
bales.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 12.-Cotton quiet; mid
ding, 1oc.
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.ana, Bloomington & Western
repart-Pacitic EXPRESS and Mail.. 7:30 am
Kansas and Texas Fast Line. 5:10 pm
Burlington and Rock Island
Exnress, daily, r. c-.-....--.11:lO pm
Arrive-Easterna and Southern Express,
daily. rc......... $3.50 am
Cincinnati Special G. c...-... 1925 am
Atlantic Express and MALL. 6:15 pm
ST. LOUIS DIVISION
Accommodation $50 am
Mail and Day Express -....-. 500 ana
Night Express, daily. T. e---.11:05 pm
Arrive Night Express, daily. r. Co.. 3:j5am
Mail and Day Express .....--. 6:00pm
Mooreheld Accommodation. 6: 10 pm
EASTERN DIVISION.
Denart-Fastern Express, Mali, dv,r. C 4:25 am
DeA"A' Day EXPRESS 100 am
Atlantic Express, s. and r. c. GAO nm
Ar,,,a : spidc Express g. and r. c. . 700 am
AiA''o Western Express. 4:45 pun
Burlington and R. 1. Elk, d'y
o. q .1O:35 nm
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Advance in stocks at New York.

NEW YORK, Dec 12.-Money easy at 202l9
per cent? closing offered at 2 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 505lO ner cent
Governments strong.
Railways steady.
State securities quiet.
News and developments IN connection with
the stock market, this forenoon, were all bear
ish, and the result was a general further decline
of q to ls. An advance in prices set in about
IL A. NJ, and continued until the close OF BUSH
ness AS compared with last night, the closing
prices are Il to l u per cent. higher, except
Missouri Pacific. Northern Pacific preferred and
Wabash, winch are ls to So per cent. lower
TIE governing committee Of the Stock Ex-
change to-day listed the following securities
81, 900 Erie third mortgage bonds extend
ed to March 1, 1898, at Ala per cent; $2,792, 900
general first mortgage per cent. bonds, North
ern Pacific; So 100000 per cent convertible
bonds. Central Railway, of New Jersey; SIS, O00,-
600 first mortgage per cent. bonds of South
ern Pacific Railway Company, of New MexicO
$1,000,000 Milwaukee & St. Paul, Chicago & Pa
eiic, Western division, 5per cent bonds; $780,
600 Hastings & Dakota z per cent. bonds
$1,O00,000 6 per cent. second mortgage bonds
Louisville & Nashville, New Orleans & Mobile
division; 1875, 900 Chicago Il Northwestern sink
ing fund Sc, of 1879, and $500, goo Denver &Rio
Grande per cent. first consolidated mortgage
bonds.
The transactions at the Stock Exchange to-day
aggregated 100000 shares, and included 5000
Central Pacific, 10000 Delaware, Lackawaun
& Western, $4,000 Erie, "a, 600 Lake Shore
5000 Louisville & Nashville, 10000 Missouri
Pacific, 10000 Northwestern, 12, 900 New York
Central, $4,000 Northern Pacific, $4,000 Read
ing, 5000 Milwaukee & st. Paul, $4,000 Union
Pacific, 1000 Western Union, $4,000 Quincy.
1000 Canadian Pacific, and $4,000 oregon 81
TranDsOntinental,
STOCK QUOTATIONS.
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LIVE STOCK.
Indianapolis Market.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. IL.
CATTLE-Recepts, 800 shipments. 200 The
offerings were of fair to good quality, and prices
15c to 25c higher on the higher grades while
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lower; No 2. cash and December, 5eloc; Janu-
airy, 571sc asked; May, 81 5sc bid, $3.50 asked;
rejected, SIC; no grade, 42lsG- Oats d9ll; No. 2
$50. Cover-seed dull but firm prime, cash and
December $3.50; January $500: February, So.
Recelpts-Wheat, $4,000 bu; corn. 1000 bu;
oats, 5000 bu, Sbipments-Wheat, 5000 bu;
corn, 1000 bu; oats, none.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 12.-CottOn dull. Flour
quiet and unchanged. Wheat in fair demaDd
No red. 81 o4 CLOS. Receipts, / SOC bu: ship
ments, $500 bu. Corn dull and lower; old
No 3 55c: new, 48049e. Oats irregular at
34936c; latter light. Rye dull at 50 06lc.
Barley in good demand; extra No. 3 fall. soc.
Provisions-POrk duh and nominal at $14 750
10 Lard heavy at 8 soc; Bulk meats duh
and unchanged. Bacon dull and unchanged
Whisky firm at $113. &Stter dull and unchang-
ed
LOUISVILLE. Dec. 12-Flour firm; No l
81 04 so; high grades, $6.500675. Wheat act,
active, but lower No. white, 5Sc; No. Mixed
57l9c. Oats active hut lower; mixed Western,
3o935A9c Provisions quiet and unchanged; new
mess pork, ST A. rs. Bulk meats-Shouiders. sac;
clear ribs, 7l4c; clear sides, 7s4o. Baoon-Clear
stdes. Sc. Hams-suear-cured, lac. LARD firm
and unchanged; Rettle-rendered, lie. Whisky
steady at S1.13.
MILWAUKEE,, Dec 12.-Flour dull. Wheat
unsettled and lower; 96c cash; 96lac january;
95l4c May Corn dull; No. 2. 59c; rejected. 56c.
sec; No, l, 57lac. Barley lower; No. 2. 62c;
extra No. 3. 49lo050c. Provisions lower; mess
pork, $14.45 December, $l4,3 IS January. Lard
Prime steam, SOC December; 3 S5c January.
Receipts-Flour. II 900 hrls: wheat, 10000 hu.
shipments-Flour, $4,000 brls; corn, IA, 600 bu.
LIVERPOOL. Dec. MISUNDERSTANDING
upland. 13-I6d: middling Orleans, Gil; sales,
10000 hales speculation and export, 1000
bales; American, $500 bales. American lard.
As. Bacon-Long clear, 40s short clear, Ais
Cd.
KANSAS CITY, Dec 12.-The Commercial In
dicator reports: Wheat steady; "a Lac cash; S7lsc
February; 92c MAY. Corn quiet; 42c cash; 43l40
43%c February; 474c May. Oats dull and nonll-
nall 25 5sc bid cash.
OswEGO, Dec. 12.-Wheat was quiet Corn
steady.
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Oils.

OIL CITY. Dec 12-The petroleum market
opened at 81 141s highest point of the day,
$11514; lowest, $l.135s: closed at 81 .143t Sales
to-day aggregated 2,526,O0O brs. Clearances
yesterday. 11,542.o00 brls. Shipments yester-
dsymThrT rI United pipeline. 64:271 brls;
for the month, So, 165 brls. Charters, ST.
597 brs: daily average for the month. 34,719
hrls. Runs Monday Through United plue-line,
66,250 brls; through Underwater line. 1881 brls
daily average for the month, 81 Az oris.
BRADFORD, Dec. 12-The petroleum market
was stronger. Total yesterday, 1897
brls. Total shipments to-day, 69.471 brls Char
teTs, 90, $40 brls. CIearances to-day 10,714, 900
brls. United pipe-line certificates opened to-day
at ST. ls. and closed at 81. 14a; highest price,
$1.147e: lowest price, 81 1855.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 12.-The petroleum market
was irregular and fairly active; United pipeline
certificates opened at $1.144, advanced to
Sl.15. declined TO $113at, and closed frmer at
$1.147s. Trading was good,
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THE INDIANAPOLIS NATIONAL BANK
Designated United States Depository
Corner Room, Odd-fellows' Hall.
TheO. P. Haughey, Pres't II. Latham Cashr.
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ClnclnnatI. Hamilton and Indianapolis.
Depart-Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo 400 ana
Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo
and New York 10:5O am
Connersville Accommodation. 4:30 pm
CINCINNATI DAYTON, Toledo
and New York Eypress..-. GAO nm
Arrive ConnersvNle Accommodation. g 80 am
CINCINNATI, Peoria and St,
Louis lao am
Cnennnti Accommodation. 800 pm
Cincinnati, Peoria and st.
Louis 1910 pm
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Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific.
Depart-Detroit and CHICAGO Mail. 49,. TIA am
Toledo Fort Wayne Grand
Rapids and Michigan Ex-
press .-.-------.--s S.V+ pun
Detroit and Toledo EXPRESS
daily, C. c. and s....--.--.11:29 pun
Arrive Michigan and Toledo Express.
daily except Monday ........ 300 am
Toledo and Fort Wayne Elk
press. .1O;34 ann
Detroit and Chicago MAIL. $50 pm
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Indianapolis and St Louis,
0oroyt-Day Express, daily c. e. RIO ana
'of"-' PARIS EXPRESS .......-.. $40 pw
Boston and St. Louis ExpreSs.p 63O pm
New York and st Louis Ex-
press, daily, E. ana C. G. lilo ptu
Arrive New York and Boston Ex-
press, daily, c. c..----..----... 400 ann
Local Passenger. p....-.. $50 anu
Indianapolis Express. 3:15 pm
Day Express, c. C., daily $50 pm
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FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
MONEY AND STOCKS.

annual Settlements Creating a Demand for
Money-Banks Doing an Active Counter
Business.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec IL.
The approaching annual settlements are al
ready affecting the loan market and the demand
improves daily. Nearly all the banks are now
full of paper. Eastern exchange sold from par
to 25c premium. Counter business is active.
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Wheat.I Corn. Oats. Rye.
Elevator A. 71.40o 1920 10000 1,7Oo
Elevator b.. 64,10ol 6,2O0l 2O,90Ol 1880
Capt'l Efvat'r 15,0O0f .--... --...-..
West Elevat'r. 34,10Cl 11,000 25,000l 5000
Total. --..--. $4,000 34.4Oo 56.SooI 1900
Corresp'g day
last year. =. 20s .oOol $4,000 31,oooI 10000
RECEIPTS BY RAIL PAST TWENTY-FoUR HOURS
Wheat. bush OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 5000
Corn, bushels. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $500
Oats bushels. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1000
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Metals.

AtbdFBs
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Lead quiet.
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DRY Goods.

Dry GOODS.
NEW YORK. Dec. lahore business doing
for immediate well forward deliveries
Holly Tree Mills beached eottons are being in-
troduced. Prices Holly Tree 36-Inch shirtings
10l4c; S6-inoh eambric muslins, IL lsc 36nch
percales, very fine 15c 40inch cloth, 17c.
Agents have made the following reduced prices
on hleached cOtoons: Fruit of the Loom 36nch
&c; Sd DO, &c regular, nhd Zi9e extra discount
64c Hero 36-lnch. &c; Lockwood WV 36ineh,
81ac LaDgdon 37inoh, 15c.
Coffee.
NEW YORK, Dec ~ Coffee-Spot lots fair
Rio dull ami nominal at 11la011 SIC; options
opened 10O15 points lower, closing firm: Rio
cargoes, No spot. 9,75c; sales of $3.50 bags
Rio No. December at 9.7009.s0c; $4,000 bags
January at 9,7509 $50; l1,750 bags February at
8 S5010c; 1880 bags March at S-95O10.10c;
15,75O bags Anrl at 95010.l0c; $500 bags
May at 10.0 TO-. Zoe; l,500 bags June at 1000
io15e; $50 bags July at 10.10D10. 15c.
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Chicago. St Louis & Pnttsburq.

chicago, St Louis & Plttsburd
nepart-New York. PHILADELPHIA. Wash
lngton, Baltimore and Pitts
ourg Express, daily, s.-... 4;22am
Dayton and Columbus Ex-
press, except Sunday O:4Xaln
ttlehmOnd Accommodation - 3;l7 pm
New YORK, philadelphia, Wash
ington, Baltimore and Pitts
burg Express, daily, q. H.. 4:52 pm
Arr,,o layton Express, excl Sunday 49, pm
Ne-hlchmond Accommodation, ex-
cept Sunday ..-.......... 942 am
New York, Philadelphia Wash
lngton, Baltimore and Pitts
bnrg Express, daily ....ll:3, am
Columbus and Dayton Express
except Sunday ............... 5.27pm
New York, Philacelphia, WASH
ingtOn, Baltimore and Pitts
purg Express, daily . 1929 pm
layton Express. daily except
sunday pun
EE,ioAGo DIVISION VIA KOKOMo, P, C. & ST, RE-
Depart-Louisvile and Chicago Ex-
press, y. c.-.-..-...........I1:o9 am
Louisville and Chicago East
,, Express, daily, s------.-.. l0:44 ON
arrive Chicago aL1 Louisville Fast
Express daily, s...-..-... 3:59am
chicago and Louisville Ex-
press, p. c-----..-...-... 3-34 pm
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CIncln'ti, Ind'aphs, ST. Louis & Chicago.
CINCINNATI DIVISION.
Depart-Chicago and Louisville Fast
Line, daily, 8. and C. o-...----. 400 am
Cincinnati acc daily ..........10:55 am
Chicago and Louisville Mail,
r. 345 pm
Cincinnati Accumulation, d'ly 655 pm
Arrive India polls Accumulation, dy. 1888 am
Chicago and st. Louis Mail, DC. 11:30 am
Western EXPRESS. .....--..-.... 4:43 pm
Chicago and st. Louis Fast
Line, daily, sand c. 10:45 pm
CHICAGO DIVISION
Depart-PeOria and Bur- Ex. ..--..----. 6:55 am
Chicago and St.LOuis Mail. p.e.11:45 am
Western Express. 500 pm
Chicago Fast Line, daily, re. 11;20 pun
Arrive-Chicago and Louisville Fast
Line, daily, C. c. and s...-..- 3::35 am
Lafayette Accommodation. .10:40 am
Chicago and Lous'lle Mail, pc $3.50 pm
Cincinnati Accommodation. GAO pm
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Rye-No. .. steady; Sc bid: no sellers,
Bran-Dull; SLID bid, held at $13; rather
nominal.
GRAIN IN STORE.
Dec. IL 1888.
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ONE OF THE BEST PHYSICIANS.


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free to applicants. THE SWIFTSPEClFIC co,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga,
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oeiiersonVille, Madison & Indianapolis
Depart-Southern Express, daily. g.. 400 am
Louisville and Madison Ex-
press ...-...-.... 7:24 am
Louisville and Madison mail,
5;.----:..---.....-..... 3:49 pm
Louisville Accommodation,
- daily, c--....-...-.-.. GA pm
ArflVe Indianapolis and Madison
Mail. .--..-................ GA am
. indianapolis, st. Louis and
Chicago Express, daily, n. 1859 am
New York and Northern Fast
Express, r. c.......-........... 5:s4pm
ST. Louis, Chicago and Detroit
Fast Line, daily, 1929 pm
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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.

sRMs INVARIABLY IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. PRE-
PAID BT THE PUBLISHERS.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS.
EXCHANGE AND GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

San Fernando has raised $4,000 for S
school house.
Somebody steals the dinner baskets Of the
public school children at Chico.
There s1e thirty-ODe houses under course OF
erection in the town of Pomona.
The Montana Constitutional Convention
will meet at Helena in January.
Ten murders are said to have been CON-
mitted at American Falls, on the Oregon
Short Line, within the past year.
One of the two children Of Mrs. Alonzo
Badger, of Liberty Hill, Nevada county, who
ate the sulphur from matches q few weeks
ago, has since died.
Jim Renwick won the one mile and 800
yards dash at Oakland Thursday, beating
Patsy Duffy neck in the fast time of 2:l3.
May ID. did not start. Frank Moscow won
the two mile and repeat trotting raca. Time,
5:13 and 5:115.
A man working in field near Three Riy-
ers. Tulare county, last week, discovered an
animal the sjza of large dog creeping to-
ward him. He drove the dangerous looking
brute away by firing n charge Of bird shot
at if. The animal is supposed to have been a
jagusr.
4 Carson lady the other day heard noise
at her back door, and going 10 that direction
heard some one ask if he could use the wheel
barrow. Thinking it was her husband. she
said, "Yss, deary," auG a few minutes later
looked out of the window in time to see a
man living in the neghborhood wheeling the
machine home with very self-satisfed look
During the late high wind Mono Lake was
swep. from one end TO the other by a young
tornado, says the Bodie Free Press, which
lashed the water into foam and piled the
lather up on the shore twenty feet high in
some places. Mixed up with the lather were
thousands of dead ducks thst had been killed
by being dashed against the rocks of the
islands
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FACT AFD FANCY.

Mr.. Boyd, of Concord, Tenn, has grown
eourd this year which measures five feet
eight inches in circumference, and holds is
gallons.
The Colored Americaa, a weekly paper
devoted to the work of education among
the colored people, has been started at
Chattanooga.
Two hundred thousand dollars worth
of gold dust has been shipped to the Phila-
delphia Mint from the Coco creek gold
mines in Tennessee.
There is now in the Arkansas Peniten-
tiary 575 convicts. for whose servicea the
State receives So IS per month per capita.
Memphis Avalanche.
Two farmers saw couple of dudes on
street in Troy, when one exclaimed
"Gosh what things we see when we
don't have no gun"
A lsdy's boudoir is a powder magazine
preparatory to an expedition into the very
heart Of the enemy she has little brush
and then raises her Colors.
Crockett county, Tennessee, claims to
have the oldest Mayor in the world. He
is ia years old, of good mind, and walks
lanche.
Nothing ironical really meant % Is that
gentleman a friend of yours % asked a
newly introduced lady of another at a re-
ception. 80 no, he's my husband" was
the innocent reply.
Although they seem to be eterually open.
ing new veins in Colorado, the State is not
liable to bleed to death. We can't saw the
same for the stockholders of the mines,
however -[Hoosier.
At the bottom of good deal of the
bravery that appears in the world there
turks a miserable cowardice. Men will
face powder and steel because they cannot
face public opinion.-[Chapin.
The way to subject all things to thyself
is to subject thyself to reason. Thou shalt
govern many if reason govern thee.
Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of
little world Command thyself.-
[Quarles,
"Say," said the bibulous individual,
do you know the new idea I've got on
tumblers? ~ "No." "Well, I'm going to
have one made for me with mirror in the
bottom of it, SOS can see where the drink
goes to"
One watch set right will do to set many
by ; on the other hand, one that goes
wrong may be the means of misleading a
whole ueighborhood and the same may be
said of the example we each set to those
around US.
Scene, a Sunday school. Young lady
catechising the children on the plaques of
Egypt. Y. l." And what became Of the
plague of locusts? ?" A pause then small
boy at bottom, suddenly please, miss,
l know. John the Baptist ate them l'