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The Washington critic., 1886-09-10

New York paper gives an account OF
company which is fitting ont . vessel Ia
that port which will engage ia catching
porpolses for their oil. The plan is to use
nets, made of strong cord, thousand feet
or more in leugth. We should think taat
would be fishing to some porpus.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10
LOST AND FOUND.

L OsT-Sept. q, Near the Government
IL Printing Onice, small black-and tan gyp,
long, uncut ears; had yellow-brown collar,
nickel buckle; answers to name OF Gypsy.
Return TO No. Ii st W and receive suitable
raXparl
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10

The immortal bard was right about tt
one touch of earthquake makes the whole
world kim Philadelphia Press.
Or better: One touch Of earthquake makes
III whole world skin--out.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10

sour five-ceut cigars can't be beat" say
the cards in toblceouists window We
suppose so, but they can be cabbage, as we
happen to know. II. T.. w.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10
FOR SALE-HOUSEs.

TOR SALE-Brick House 033 M st,
IL bet 9th and 10th SITS n W; II rooms, two
bathrooms; lot "a by l05 to alley; cheap ana
terms reasonable. Apply on PREMISES
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10

LNoR RENT-T1T n q Ave = E, Nine
n rooms $50 20. GEO. Il. HARBlN 3l0
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10

Sentimentalists are holding up as text
that old chestnut about the Indian who saw
Bishop Whipple passing and said, "There
goes one white man who never lied to an
Indian" We will continue our remarks on
this subject when some white man (who
isn't liar will point out an Indian and
say, "rhere goes one Indian who never lied
to white man,
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

AdUsftisen6Ht6 Of Y6ree LtHsS uHdGF his head
inserted Ly6e times for 20 cents.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10

lie struck . stone, the header came,
And DER the wheel he wcut
In graceful summetsets-ala
Twas not tue turn he meant.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10
WANTED SITUATIONS.

advertisements Of 7hyee Lines iJlder htS heG
inserted Mr6e tin'es for 25 ceitts.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10

I l.. KERVAND, 1919 PA. AVE.
~ Engraving plate, 81; 80 visiting cards
from same plate, d5c; 100 visiting cards from
neatly In colors.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-10

w ANTRD-A BOY Who Has Hal
w some experience running job pres
one who can lock NJ blocked forms, run press
required. Address b, Critic Office.
wv ANTED-A First-Class Barber at
w 800 10Th st NV
Little Falls transcript., 1886-04-09

=, Ine lonoWlnG - mao 2 up Of Q00fAtiOna ifoen
Pope. Colefidse. 1rs, Hena ~: Pcs, Dryden,
56urns: Byron. ao!dsmith, Cheuees yollsoIh
sRenset; Dante and other anthors: The COM
piler is 81 james =. Aohs an ,:l hnklisfltnar.
OF man. by:nssare formed for AL sxaa,kind,
How narrow ~ thy prospe how tcDnfneda
Be thou the copious matter o4smy sspg, .
!. And lot thy thought prevent Thy hand and
/ Poor voyageron4Iiisf flood OF tears. 2s31s
IA long nEpefspectivestom to my mind appeafs ::
Der land and - inn&g gination roans.
0pen. then, 'thy 70 the truth that COMES.
tasting IN visw Of q Riorious: goal, . !
Hofsel that thifst md hunger Of the soul. ~
Eager run the race his fathers ran, E sS %z
I Olwhkt = miracls;to man isman: IL 81 s sE.
Each 10 his end = di1terenf path ps,Is,,e ~,
5 s Homer With nj md tne i I'D chuss-
! Tina na.honoured ID a6ziut s&ed, poovs ma sh1ipd.
I ragged cdte OF .hays .a noyan tntnde.
Minds vast as heaven. capacsons as tbs sky.
Born toaament, to labour. and to die: e
And richest Shakespeare was d podt mans
child, % - So, ~
On fame's eternal bede-roll worthie to.befyled.
Already polished by a hand divine, -,
He was not for an age. but tor all time
What rage for fame attends both e.reat and
small, = ....
He who climbs high endangers many xAall.f
Greatness hath still little taint nth bleed,
Fame ts at best but an inconstant good; H.
When kings have toiled, and poets wrote for
fame. ><~~x
Ahl fool.to exaltin glory 50 vain. ",
Both right and loft a1niss a man may slide,
To tread the dreary path without guide;
: The wise sometimes from Wisdom's ways de-
patt.
That can inform the mind. or mend the heart
On high estates huge Heaps Of care attend, !
No JOY so great but ruiheth to In end;
Sooner or later all tllings5p pass away,
'Dissolving in the silence Of decay;
Yet look once more ON natures Hasied plan,
And moralize upon the state Of n,an.
Swift to it's close Gibbs out ife'shiftle day.
fSent into life, alas how brief thy stay
Time, sure destroyer, walkS his hostile round,
Nor is the longest life the happiest :..undi;
The visionsof hope fade one by che
The sands Of .ti1ne grow DINNER az they ruth,
To know. tosesteem, to love, and then to part
Passing away like dream sof the heart
We spend Our days like a tale that.is told,
TO the very verge of the church. yard mound.
70! let me view, while life's short changes last
The end not far of which is fastening fast.
Whilst some affect the sun. and some the
shade.
Let us walk hunbly on. bat stiiil sstiil. l;~!aayed.
There stand If thou wilt stand to stand up.
right
He can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
@! happyhe whose conscience knows no guile
Little Falls transcript., 1886-04-09
The Iselle,s Stratae ern .

A young lady of Smithtown, L. l., re-
turned home little late the other even
ing and, after parting at the gate with
a & some one else,'' crept, up on the front
stoop and very softly inserted the might
latch key in the lock, unfastened the
door, and crept in the house,so as.-not to
awaken; her parents who were slumbering
up stairs. But luck was aga st her, for
she upset ca1air, aud voice from above
Immediately asked: "Whos therep"
."Only me, papa" "What time is 1t, ana
where have you been?" *I only went
down to rs to spend the evening"
Imagine the young ady's feelings when
she heard her parental ancestor get up and
prepare to come down stairs She imme,
diately set her brain at work to get out Of
the coming storm. She at last fell upon
the idea: that she had better turn the clock
little back, SO she went to the smantel.
piece, and as there .was no lamp In the
room she had to feel forit. She found it,
and gave the key which turns the hands a
twist, and with a,snaile sat down to warm
her feet and awattAh arrival of her dear
papa. In due time he arrived and brought
with him q lamp. Y The hands on that
enuch- abused sclotk registered 1-2a. N.
The young lady instead 6f turning the
hands back, s'qf turned them ahead.
Composition IA the West. s =
Country Merchant Ito Chicago drummer
"A ST. Louis firm offers nae eighteen
months time. III. 4 ri. 5s4sES l }.Ss
|z# Chicago !. Drummer Only eighteen
months' They're trying to sw1ndle you.
Merchant What time can your house
klve. ~ ss5ts ssSEssE sEf sssEs .e m
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
Can You Swim?
THE TIDAL WAVE is COMING.

The Prohibition Tidal Wave is
coming and no mistake. 1t is
continent wide and several miles
high, and if you can't swim, bad
luck to you.
The first dash of the cold water
spray struck Richie county last
week, and the hustling and bust
ling among the old party chops
that don't like water was wonder
fully amusing to the Prohibition
ducks that like nothing better
than political storms and floods
and deluges that are so delightful
and exhilirating in cleaning out
the filthy sewers and stagnant
pools of politics. Let the wave
come on, flooding every county.
The saloon must 90.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
What Meaneth ThIs2

In the Moundsyille correspond.
ence Of the Wheeling Register, We
find these three paragraphs follow.
ing each other in the same article.
"Mr. Willard Dunlap has been
appointed to act in the capacity of
City Sergeant" x x
The funeral obsequies of Rev. J.
P. Thatcher were very impressive
Revs. Hite, Sanford, Stewart, Sham
and Pomeroy officiating. He was
buried from the Church which be
had founded and of which he was
pastor. The floral offerings were
beautiful. X X
The saloons have all resumed
business. X
Now the natural inquiry is, does
the resumption of the saloon bust.
ness follow, as matter of course
the killing and burial of the Prohi.
bition city sergeant, or did the
killing of the sergeant follow the
resumption Of liquor selling?
And again, are these resuminq
saloonists the same that once
upon a time signed the SCALE"
agreeing not to sell? Or has the
Register slandered the saloonsY
How Is it, anyhow?
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
% Prisoners.

On going to our County Jail,
last Sunday, with Temperance
and Religious papers, we found %
prisoners behind the bars; 20 men
and boys, and nine women.
Nine oO0no6n in our Jail in Par
kersburgl But what wonder, with
40 saloons, in full blast continual
ly, debauching and degrading ev-
erybody that comes under their &C.
cursed, destroying influenced
When will our people be shocked
into a sense of this awful curse and
crime in our midst2
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
CairO's Fourth.
The Prohibition Party Coming to the
Front.

Cairo, Richie county, had good
Fourth of July, on the Third, last
Saturday. The G. A. R., 1. O. G..
T. and Sunday Schools joined for
ces in a general Picnic, and were
addressed by Rev. D. M. sleeth, of
Cairo, and Rev. W. E. Powell, of
Petersburg.
We are advised that both ad-
dresses were on the Prohibition
line and wholesomely aggressive.
and that the call for Prohibition
County Convention, which was
being circulated and signed pri-
vately, soon became the subject Of
stirring comment. The readiness
with which good and substantial
citizens Of all the old parties
signed the Call, spread alarm and
CONSERVATION among the old polit-
ical machinists.
''Let the hurricane roar" Tx
Saloon must go!
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
The People VIII Rule.

On last Thursday the expert.
ment of Prohibition in large cities
was inaugurated in Providence and
Atlanta.
If the Temperance people of those
places are in earnest, and there are
abundant indications that they are,
we shall soon have a practical
demonstration that law and order
are possible even in populous cities.
The day will soon be here when
all will recognize the extreme
toolishness Of supposing that the
American people have not the
ability to enforce any law which
is necessary to the public peace
and prosperity. The intelligence
and morality of the country have
the right to rule, they have the
poaoer to rule, and when fully
aroused, they sejU rule.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
Another Charleston Boom.

Charleston had grand time last
week with the Ohio editors and
statesmen. Among those who
went up among the eagles and
SCARED in grandiloquent speeches
were Governor Foraker and Gener-
al Grosvener, of Ohio, Governor
Wilson, of our State, and eloquent
editors innumerable. 1t was big
boom for Charleston, and the peo-
pie doomed with whole-souled alac-
rity and hospitality.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
Ritchie Ripe for Rev.
OlutiOn.
A CALL
For a Prohibition County
Convention at Richie g.
H., Aug. 2, 1856.

We publish below, "a Call"
which is being numerously signed
in the various districts Of Richie
county.
To show who are signing the
Call, we append the names signed
to the copy that was being circula-
ted at Huntsville, on Saturday
last, prefxing the Capt" "Rey.,"
SO that our readers will the more
readily recognize the names of
prominent citizens mentioned.
So here it is:
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

Our friends in Richie have set
the ball in motion in just the right
way. The people are ready. Let
him that is wise and OF good report
among you take the lead, and the
honest folk of the decrepit old par
ties, will readily fall into line. Let
the Calls be started and the rally
ing cry be raised in every county
in the State without delay.
The Saloon must 90, and live,
determined Prohibition party is the
only thing that can make 1t go.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

The honest farmers of Richie
county have grown tired of raking
away chat after the old party ma
chimes while the bosses gather in
the wheat. They now propose to
have a new Prohibition Separator,
and have hand in running the
machine themselves. See how
they put their names to call for
a Prohibition vention, in an
other column.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
Mountain Lake Park Summer
Art School.

The Second Annual Session will
begin July 1, and close August 81,
1885. :.
Drawing Lessons from Casts and
other objects.
Landscape. Flower and Portrait
Painting. Crayon Portraits. Spe
cial attention given to study from
life Model.
For information, address
MRS. EVA HUBBARD,
1928 Eoff st., Wheeling, W va
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
1000 Prohibition Majority.

Copiah county, Miss, went "dry
at an election held there last wees'
In other words it declared for Prohl'
bition. The majority was over
1000, and as this is the second tlms
the temperance people have car i
ried the county it is pretty gooda
proof that the people are oppose'
to intoxicants.-E.
Let the tidal wave roll on. I~
Saloon must 90.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

DR.. Leonard assails the Ubiquitous
Dow law through the columns of
the Western Christian Advocate. "a
Methodist minister" tries to reply
through the Commercial Gazette.
He is mary minister to hide his
anne while in such nasty place
as is the &C. G." columns.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

The State Teachers Association
is in session at Mt. Lake Park. If
they only had the young ideas"
up there on the mountain top,
they could teach them chow to
shoot"-if they could keep them
out of the June berry trees and
trout brooks.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

Bro. Wilding, in his stirring &C
count of the Illinois Convention,
asks if West Virginia can improve
on their platform. Read it, every
body, and study it, and then at our
next Convention let us try.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

Our W. G. T. U. friends will en-
Joy the Convention Proceedings
inside page. And we are sure they
will hasten to find the intensely
interesting proceedings on the Re-
port on Resolutions.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

Read The Lively Discussion OF
the w. G. T. U. Convention. 1t
was the best and most profitable
schooling our noble w. G. T. U.
workers have ever enjoyed in West
Virginia.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

Hon. T. R. Carskadon has been
secured for an address at the Ritch-
ie County Prohibition Convention,
al Harrisville, Aug. 7. Let every
body be tnere, tor without doubt
MIR. Carskadon will have somewhat
to say.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

Let every friend Of Prohibition
who gets this paper, start a can
vass tor the Freeman at once.
Only one dollar a year-25 cents
for 3 months trial trip.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
Sad News from MIR. Thomas.
HIS appointments AU Withdrawn

HIS appointments AU Withdrawn
We are very sorry to announce
the sad news that Mr.. J. L. Thomas
State Lecturer I. 0. G.. T., has been
suddenly called home to Cumber-
land, to sick wife and father-in.
law, both OF whom are dangerously
ill.
On Friday kilograms were re.
ceived at the FREEMAN Office,
which we forwarded by telephone
to Spencer, calling Mr.. Thomas
home. On Saturday evening Mr..
Thomas passed through Parkers'
burg en- route home after hur-
ried and hard trip from Spencer.
We now have the sad news from
him as above, direct from Cumber.
land, and asking US to announce
the postponement of his appoint
ments till further notice. The
heartiest sympathies of all Good
Templars will go out to Bro.
Thomas in his anxious hours with
his suffering dear ones at home,
and we are sure many earnest
prayers will 60 up in their behalf
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

In less than six weeks some folks
will think the bottom has fallen
cut Of West Virginia politics.
7 here's a storm coming. Prepare
to s1uGn1l
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

Everybody will want the Free
man in tbs next three months.
There's campaign coming on that
will astonish the political natives.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

The latest news from the English
elections indicate that Mr.. Glad
stone will be defeated by a consider
able majority.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

We are now sending many
sample copies of the Freeman all
over the country. See in another
column, how the orders come in.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

anu lu6 poOplo alO SOVo1hS 0W @ho
to the fact that neither of the old
parties will give us Prohibition.
Yours in the work,
W. H. EATON,
Sec. County Com.
AND THUS THEY COME FROM EVERY
WHERE.
x Please send sample copy of
FREEMAN.
LARA ARMSTRONG,
Oberlin, O.
x Would be glad to see the FREE
MANS face. Address copy to G. w.
Roseborough, Ada, 0.
ASTORIA, OREGON, July 5.
Please send copy of FREEMAN to
Yours truly,
DR.. AUG. G. KINNEY.
SYRACUSE, N. Y.
x Please send copy of The FREE
MAN. If l send you three new sub
scribers will you send me extra
copy7 * MARY D. FERGUSON.
Yes, Friend Mary. Send on the
three subscribers. The FREEMAN
would be glad to come to New York,
numerously.
244 ESSEX ST., LAWRENCE, MASS.
4 x Please send sample copy of
THE FREEMAN quick as possible.
Am Secretary of the Band of Hope
Of this city would like to see
what kind of a paper The FREE
MAN is.
Yours, &C.,
ARTHUR WADswoRTH.
x Send specimen copies FREE
MAN to D. W. Shoemaker, Abram
Hill, Abram Hess, Harvey, Carroll
County, Md.
ALLENTOWN, PA.
Please send sample copy Of
FREEMAN. Saw advertisement in
Ayres American Newspaper An
nual. A. M. STACKHoUsE.
4 Send copy of FREEMAN to
Miss Elma Moore, Hurtland, Tenn,
and to 1. H. Holmon, Fayetteville,
Tenn, and oblige,
Yours, &C.,
H. r. MOORE.
Please let me zee what The
FREEMAN looks like.
S. N. STUBBs, West Elkston, O..
Will you kindly address sample
FREEMAN to
CHAs. S. HATFIELD, Clifton, O..
Would like to see the Freeman.
Send sample to
B. J. WELTHAM,
16 Squire St., Hartford, Conn.
GATH, MARION Co., w. Va.
Am ready to help all can in
the suppression OF the great evil.
Send sample copies of the Free
man, and 1 will gladly distribute
them. J. L. w. VINCENT.
INDIANA Greetings.
TApP, INDIANA, July 8.
ED. FREEMAN:
For enclosed stamps please send
sample copy of Freeman. Can
place several copies in good hands
if you send them.
The cause of the Prohibition
party is rapidly advancing here
and Indiana bids fair to be a free
State in the near future.
Yours,
7. E. HoLLINGwoRTH.
We might continue indefinitely
these extracts from postals and
letters from all over the country,
seeking acquaintance with the
Freeman. a
The Freeman heartily thanks
The Voice for the wide introduction
that has brought US showers Of
postal for sample copies and many
subscribers from many States Il
our notices of The Voice has brought
it any return We are doubly glad.
For We do insist that the next best
thing for every Prohibitionist to
do, after getting the Freeman, is to
SUBSCRIBE FOB THE VOICE.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07

Rememb Der the Union Signal and
FREEMAN one year for 1925.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
Call for q Prohibition
County Convention.


We the undersigned voters of
Richie county, feeling assured that
we have reached a point in the
history of the Nation and cause of
Temperance, which calls for direct,
persistent and determined action,
most respectfully urge upon all
who desire the success of the Prohi-
bition cause, to meet in Mass Con-
vention at the Court House of
Richie County, on Saturday, Aug.
7, 1886, to make such permanent
county organization as shall be
deemed necessary by the Conven-
ton for the success Of the cause of
Prohibition.
We would recommend that each
sub-school district send at least one
delegate; and all who are friendly
to the cause of Prohibition, and
feel that it is the all-absorbing
question of the day, are invited to
meet and act with us.
We have been compelled to this
course by the open and avoWed OPP
position to the cause of Prohibi-
tion of one Of the leading political
parties, and the evasiveness, du-
plicity insincerity, and intolerance
of the other We have talked, pray-
ed, preached and petatioraed for re-
spectful hearing of our cause.
In answer to these efforts and ap-
peals, we have received nothing
but broken promises, unfulfilled OBJ
legations and insult.
At the last State Conventions of
the two leading parties, our petit
tions we're respectfully presented.
At the Democratic Convention in
Wheeling our petitions were ig-
nored, and resolution in favor of
granting the people the right to
vote on the question Of Prohibition
was smothered in the Committee.
A like resolution was offered in
the Republican Convention in Par
kersburg, and was received with
insult and contumely, and in less
time than it took to write it went
under the table.
Surely the time has come for sep
arate and direct action.
Signed.
DR.. M. S. Hall, Rev. E. J. Wilson,
Syelus Hall, John Douglass,
J. Marsh Wilson, T. w. Balm,
A. H. Hall, Gen. T. M.Harris,
Capt. Jacob Clammer,
T G. Snodgrass, ] E Norman,
Prof J s Cornwell, Rev Amick,
R w Golf, Lewis Hammer,
Capt. John Somerville,
] W Shafer, John B Upton,
Lemuel Hall, is Hall,
Rev P A Woods, F M Hall,
Thos Hess, J P] CIV Warner,
Johnson Jackson, A T Capon,
Geo. Pritchard, Lamson Hall,
E J Taylor, ECFox,
John P Harris, G G Griffin,
L B McWhorter, M Shannon,
Asa w Flesher, L D Brown,
A Mason, D M Helmick,
Among others who have signed
and who are assisting in circula
ting copies of the Call, we might
mention Hon. D. McGregor, Rev
D. M. Sleeth, Geo. Rutherford, John
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-07
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1886.

''Let Us have peace" But before
we can have it, The Saloon Must Go.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-04
san FRANCISCO. November 3, 1886.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
A Journalistic Superstition.

An editor out West seriously remarks
that he has good reason to believe that
newspaper men become white mules after
death, because the expression on the coun-
tenance of a white mule has often remind
ed him of some deceased brother journal
list, especially the respondent droop of the
lower lip. He also calls attention to the
fact that editors and white mules seldom
die and are awful hard to kill
The more we ponder over the Western
editors words the firmer are we convinced
that there is something about him that re-
minds us of jackass, but at the same
time we are willing to admit that the SUI
perstitious idea concerning the transmit
grafton of an editors soul prevails in the
West and to a great extent in Texas. In
that State whenever newspaper man sees
a white mule he invariably points to him
and says Look at that old editor over
yonder pulling load of cord wood" and
if the mule happens to pass near him he
touches his hat respectfully and says,
" How are you, Colonel" and the aged and
solemn animal always flaps his ears in a
friendly manner, apparently in recognition
of the salute. There any many Texas jour
nalists, among them Major Dan. McGary,
of the Houston ECening Age, who are thor
oughly convinced that after death an editor
is transformed into an elegant milk-white
mule, of gigantic stature and dignified bear
ing. Major McGary, who no doubt has
devoted much of his time to instituting
searching inquiries says that after years of
patient investigation he has never himself
seen or met any one who has seen white
mule dead. He has also frequently and
publicly stated that he has never failed, as
well as he can remember, to lift his hat in
the presence of a white mule, and every
time he did so the mules eyes frightened
with happy smile, and the animal uttered
very intelligent and joyful bray, and tried
hard to speak to him.-The Sunday States.