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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
Punishment In Persia.

Among the Persians the usual mode of
punishment is the bastinado, from which
men of the highest rank are not exempt
1t is inflicted with very great severity,
frequently so as to render the sufferer
almost cripple for life. The victim is
thrown upon his face, each foot is passed
through loop of strong cord attached
to pole, which is raised horizontally by
men, who, twisting it round, tighten the
ropes and render the feet immovable.
Two executioners then strike the sole al
ternately with switches of the pomegran-
ite tree well stepped in water to render
them supple. A store of these switches
is generally ready for use in the pond
which adjoins the courtyards of the
houses of the great. The punishment
frequently lasts for an hour or until the
unfortunate victim faints from pain
Philadelphia Ledger.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
The Seashen Delusion.

They used to tell me when was q
boy" said middle aged man, that if
would hold up to my ear a seashell of a
certain kind would hear in it the lnur.
muring of the sea. have tried it many
times, and it never failed.
Now comes my son, boy of 12, who
holds up tumbler at the dinner table
and says:
Pop, do you want to hear the sea
murmur?
And says yes. and then he holds the
mouth of the tumbler TO his ear, and do
likewise with mine. and bless my heart!
there's the murmur, sure enough.
'And then the boy goes on to talk
about sound waves and to tell me Just
what makes the sound in the tumbler
and all that sort of thing. And say to
myself it's fine thing, no doubt, the ad-
vanced education that the boys of the
present generation are getting, and yet
| am not altogether pleased to have one
of the pleasantest of old fancies disposed
of so summarily. like tumblers well
enough to drink out of, but think I'd
rather have my sea murmurings out Of
seashell. New York Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
Dramatic Taste In San Francisco.

A San Francisco audience will be
much more amused by the manner IN
which the professor breaks down Mrs.
Brooklyn Bridges ceiling than it will
over the splendid merriment of Sir Toby
Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek and NAL
volio. 1t is like the French audience,
which is infinitely more amused by wit
than by humor.
But comedy is not held in great favor
here. The San Franciscans being the
most pleasure loving of people, prefer
tragedy. A good, old fashioned, blood
spilling tragedy, where every one is
killed in the last act, is highly approved
of. If Edwin Forrest were alive today,
he would count his most frantic admir-
ers in the city by the Golden Gate.
Tragedy as he must have understood
tragedy played with all the force of
the lungs tragedy where the murdered
victim and the despairing suicide took
half an hour to die and died acrobat
lcally from the footlights to the door at
the back of the stage-would meet with
the heartiest approval here. The ele-
ment in the theaters which loved and
worshiped Forrest and his energetic
methods is larger in San Francisco than
in most cities of its size. 1t is not that
the audiences here do not contain in
dividual spectators of the highest artis-
tic insight and cultivation, it is that the
majority of the audience is formed of
spectators whose taste in the drama is
very much on the same lines as the taste
in the drama of the gods in the gallery.
The spectators of Insignificant education
and uncultivated taste are more numer-
GUS than the spectators of cultured mind
and trained powers of appreciation, and
the majority rules.-San Francisco Ar
QOnaut
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
A DAY DREAM.


When high above the busy street
Some hidden voice poured Mary's song.
oh, then my soul forgot the beat
And roaring OF the city's throng.
Then Boston bells and cries fell low.
Blent to far and nurmured tone
That changed and chimed in mystic fow
Weaving a spell for me alone.
No more the towering blocks were there.
No longer pressed this crowds around.
All freely roamed a magic air
Within what vast horizons bound;
Beneath sky of lucent gray
Far stretched the circled northern plain
Wild sunlowers decked prairie gay.
And one dear autumn came again.
Before me trod winsome maid.
And, oh. the mien with which she slept!
Eer soft, brown hair without a braid
Hiding the shoulders where it swept,
And glancing backward now she gave
To me that smile so kind and wise,
The radiant look from eyes so grave
That spoke her inmost paradise.
Divinely on my daughter went,
The wild flowers leaning from her tread
Dreaming she lived watched intent
Till, ah. the gracious vision fed.
The plain gave place TO blocks of gray,
The sunlit heaven to murky cloud,
Staring stood in common day
And never knew the streets so l5ud.
e. W. Thomson in Youths Companion
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
Cur,osittes About Ireland,s Emblem.

The shamrock, Ireland's floral emblem,
is trefoil or three leaf plant much re-
sembling our white clover, but of the
oxalis genus of grasses. While st. Pat
rick was preaching to the pagans of the
Emerald Isle in the year 433 he attempt
ed to explain the trinity in unity but
his hearers could not understand it. At
last he plucked trefoil (shamrock) and
said, SIS it not as possible for the Father,
Son and Holy Ghost to be one as it is for
those three leaves to grow upon a single
stalkY" The pagan Irish were convinced
and soon afterward adopted the sham
rock as their national emblem.-Phila-
delphia Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
Casting SleiQhbells.

A question frequently asked is in re-
gard to the method of producing sleigh
bells containing iron balls larger than
the opening in the bells. Previous to
making a cast the maker of sleighbells
puts an iron ball inside sand core, just
the shape of the inside of the bell. This
sand core, with the jinglet inside, is
placed in the mold of the outside and
the melted metal poured in, which fills
up the space between the cores and mold.
The hot metal burns the core so that it
can be shaken out, leaving the ball with
in the shell. Ball valves, swivel joints
and many other articles are cast in the
same manner.-Detroit Free Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
GRAINS OF GOLD.
lnr deeds travel from afar.

Our deeds travel from afar.
Neatness is one of the virtues.
Life is made up of compensations.
To live in love is to live in everlasting
youth.
The truest JOY we have in life is in
making others glad
A good name is good thing to have,
but good heart is better.
Some cheap things are ever in good
form-politeuess, for instance.
The man who attends the school of
experience must pay his own bills.
To learn new habits is everything, for
it is to reach the substance of life.
Be still prepared for death, and death
or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
The man who controls himself fights
a battle that is watched from heaven.
When you want hard master, work
for beggar who has just become rich
No man should try to teach others
what he does not know to be true himself.
No profit grows where is no pleasure
taken; in brief. study what you most af-
feet.
No man would be willing to have his
dearest friend know him as well as he
knows himself.
You can generally tell where mans
heart is by watching to see what he does
with his money.
No man ought to forget that if he
sows wild oats he will have to reap the
same kind of crop.
We cannot conquer a necessity, but
we can yield to it in such a way as to
be greater than if we could.
True bravery is shown by performing
without witness what one might be ca
pable of doing before all the world.
Be modest, but not too modest. But
Just modest enough. The violet is SO
modest that every one tramples it un-
der foot.
1t is a wonder we are not all kinder
than We are. How easily it is done! How
it acts! How infallibly
it is remembered.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
"Toad Rone,, Was a Wonder.

All early writers attribute wonderful
qualities to toads and frogs and the va
rious parts of their bodies. Pliny be-
heved, for instance, that if a toad was
brought into the midst of mob or other
large and unruly concourse of people
''silence would instantly prevail" A
small bone found in the right side of
toads ''of the proper age" was also be-
lieved to have powers over the various
elements. "By throwing this bone into
vessel of boiling water" says Pliny.
sit will Immediately cool it, the water
refusing to boil again until the bone has
been removed. To find this bone, ex-
pose the dead toad on an ant hill. When
the ants have eaten her all away except
the bones, take each bone separately and
drop it into boiling water. Thus may the
wondrous toad bone be discovered"
This antiboil bone of course had its op-
posite.
In another portion of his work Pliny
says: "On the other hand, again, in the
left side of this reptile there is another
bone which when thrown into water has
all the appearance of making it boil.
The name given this bone is 'apocynon,'
which signifies dog averting.' because it
has the power and property of assuaging
the fury of the fiercest dogs" 1t was
also sovereign remedy for love and
other trouble, would conciliate es-
tranged friends, and if water in which
toad bone" had been STEPPED be used
mixed with lambs tallow as an ointment
''the person using the same might with
out the least effort see ghosts and divers
spirits both by the day and by the
night. LOUIS Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening; Sabbath school 300 a. m. ;
young peoples society Of Christian endeavor SUM-
day evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev,
Harvey Webb, pastor Sabbath preaching, 0:30
a. M; p. m. young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings general prayer meeting, Wednesday eve
n,ngS; Sabbath school S:3Q am. StranEers cor.
daily invited to all services.
United PRESBYTERIAN N CHURCH-Rey.
Th0aas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m
public worship, II a. m; weekly prayer meeting
Friday p. m.; monthly prayer meeting. last Satur
day Of each month, p. m; woman'S missionary
society, last Saturday Of each month, D. m; dis
trict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, D. m:
You Y Homen's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each mCl.fh at tie parsonage D. m
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
A WoefuI Lack of Sapacity.

Father-Yes, admit that our boy
amt lazy. He's as smart as can be when
it comes to tending traps and running
errands, but he doesn't seem to have any
business sagacity at all.
Mother-Why. what makes you say
that?
Father-Well, for example, look what
he did yesterday. He had four nice, big
fat rabbits, and what does he do but take
them down to town to sell them Why
didn't he take them up to the woods
where them city fellers were huntin?-
Kate Fields Washington.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
As to interviewing.

A contemporary speaks of ''new
kind of interviewing, where the inter
viewer in the course of pumping his vic
tim has the opportunity of airing his
own opinions. We had supposed that
this was the basic principle of the inter
view. We had been given to under
stand that the opinions of the victim
were the last things to enter the mind of
the interviewer-BostOn Transcript.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
Curious People In Russia.

"The Christs" are curious sect in
Russia. They worship each other! The
chief ceremonies are crazy species Of
dancing, yelling as loudly as possible
and pounding stones with sticks.
The "Skoptsys" believe in self mutt
lation, but will not submit to amputation
even though it would save life. Like the
"Christs," hey dance and yell for hours
without intermission. = PHILADELPHIA
Press
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
Dealing With An Honest Man.

Here's your fare," said gentlema,
to Finnish peasant who had driven him
for three hours through the woods, and
he handed him four shillings.
mo, sir, that's double my fare" here
piled, returning half the money.
And when he was told he might keeI
it for his honesty he slightly nodded his
thanks with the dignity of one of nature,
gentlemen Characteristics.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
Experienced Attendant.

First Waif lat the mission)-Why did
yer ask the preacher to tell us story
wild er moral?
Second Waif-'Cause them's always
tn mos interestin ones. They pick out
the good ones to make tn morals GO
down easy, an we're near 'nough to tn
door to slip out fore tn moral comes.-
Good News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
What Froebel Discovered.

Little Teddy, who is most regular in
his attendance at the kindergarten, was
very much interested in the approaching
celebration of Froebel's birthday. The
day before the event he came rushing
into the house crying, Mamma, mamma,
l must have some flowers to take to kin
dergarten tomorrow Certainly, my
son, but why do you want them?" "Why,
don't you know? Tomorrow is the ami
versary of the day that Froebel discov-
cred the first kindergartenT-New York
Tribune
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

AT CHIcdSO - 30 II 90 0 % 10 Z 10
*Trains run daily. tDaily except Sunday.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE DIVISION-Leave St
Clairsvie at 9:15 m; 2:5Gpm.
PULLMAN SERVICE-Pittsburgh and Chi
cagO trains Nos. 8 and 6. Chicago, Cleveland and
Pittsburgh, Columbus via Attiea trains Nos IA
and 10. Chicago, Baltimore and New York. trains
Nos.i3, 4. 5, g. and 8. Pittsburg and Cincinnati,
trains Nos 105, 106, 103 and 104,
For further Information call on B. & O. ticket
agents, or address L. S. Allen, Asst Gen. Pass
Agent, Chicago, ILL.,
ROBT. b. CAMPBELL, 20. SCUII.
Gen Sup't. Gen'l Pass. Agent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

For lame back or for pain in the
side or chest, try satuating piece of
flannel with Chamberlain's Pain Balm
and binding it onto the affected parts
This treatment will cure any ordinary
case in one or two days. Pain Balm
also cures rheumatism. Fifty-cent bot
ties for sale by Patterson & Sons, Drug
gists, st. Clairsville. S35t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
Do YOU KnoW7

That more ills result from an
Unhealthy Liver than any
other cause-Indigestion, Consti-
patton, Headache, Biliousness,
and Malaria usually attend it
DIR. Sanford's Liver Invigorator
is a vegetable specific for Liver
Disorders and their accompany
inq evils. 1t cures thousands
why not be one Ct the1n2 Take
DIR. Sanford's Liver Invigorator.
Your Druggist will supply you.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
No Advice About Kissing.

A prominent publication, in which a
department is given to answering ques.
tons sent by letter, has been obliged to
request young women not to send in
quiries concerning when, where and
whom to kiss. ANY girl needing advice
on this subject would, we are sure. moi
be guided by any advice of ours"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

In 1888 Joe Kidd was bitten by a
copperhead snake in Batavia, Ohio. 1t
didn't kill him, but every year thereafter,
just on the anniversary of the bite, he
was laid up with reminiscent sole leg.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
A Rumor as to Mems Evening Dress.

1t is once more current in society that
the Prince of Wales is endeavoring to
modify mems evening dress and that the
usual swallowtails are to be replaced
by black or dark colored short coat
and also that knee breeches are to be
worn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

The orientals. who have long made
use of basket ware, seem to have solved
completely the problem of combining
use and beauty in such articles, and the
best of such things as .sade are those
that follow the lines long ago established
by the Asiatics or by our own Indians.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

Edinburgh and Aberdeen universities
have opened their art classes to women.
The Bombay university has IS magnifi-
cent buildings, erected by some of the sue
cessful native spectators in 1864.
The number of elective courses in the
academic department of Yale college has
increased during the last year from l2l to
l47.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
belmont COUNTY DIRECTORY

Common Pleas Judge John r. briggs.
Probate Judge-James f. Tallman.
Clerk of COurts-Henry NJ. Davies.
SAAe6f g eieeiUtt9R Siffffsss orro .urrsv
railroad is hurting business.
Curtis r. Goddard, an inventor tn'
genius, but who had lost all he had
made, was killed by an engine lev
Ashtabula.
A colored child was born in the pc
tentiary on Saturday. ord'
The Pioneer Pottery Company, art.
Wellsville, has assigned. ort:
Three sleepers of a west. bound trR
DRUMMOND POST No. 2O3-G. AR.
Meets Saturday evenings on or before the full
moon. Comrades requested to attend.
j. F. .CHARLESWORTH,P P. @.
W. ii. ADAMS, AdJ't.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
aUCKLEN's ARNICA sALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price, 25 cents per
box. For sale by Patterson & Sons lY
NEAR Richmond lives an old negro
who is gradually turning white. One
half of his face is perfectly white, and
he presents a ghastly and lopsided ap-
pearance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

A WOMAN who can faint or blush
upon slight provocation has a decided
advantage over her unfortunate sisters
who can do neither, though she may be
neither more sickly nor more modest.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

Children generally hate to be idle.
All the care, then, should be that their
busy humor should be constantly en-
ployed in something that is of use tc
them.-Locke.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

Mr.. Croaker-And does the Rev. DR..
Sweetmouth believe in practicing what
he breaches?
Mrs. Gadby-Yes, surely. I've even
heard that he practices it before look
ing glass Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

Baron Liebig, the German chemist,
says that as much -four as will lie on the
point of table knife contains as much
nutritive constituents as eight pints of
the best beer made.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

Since Mr.. W. W. Astor settled down
in London he has grown rather particu-
lar about being called Mr.. Waldorf-As
tor, with hyphen.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

A use is made of ribbed glass on the
New York Central and Hudson River
railroad where the windows of some
stations are so glazed where they look
out on unpleasant subjects.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. IS, F. d a M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon.
j. B. MEYER, See. g. P. BUAIGARNER, ". NJ.
ST. GLARS VILE CHAPTER, No. II, Royal
irch Mds0ns.-Stated convocations first Friday Of
ea.h month.
j. B. MEYER, Rec. JB.RYAN, HIP.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No ST. r. d s. M
Meets second Tuesday of each month.
j. B. NEVER, Rec. C. w. CARROLL, I. I. NJ.
HOPE C0MMANDRF, No. rs, K. T.-Stated
conciayes, first Thursday of each month.
J. B. MEYER, Rec. VIC. BURGUNDTHAL.EC.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
Electric Bitters.

This remedy is becomino so vell
known It's were accordingly fired off into
9peci"i les. When the young man found
proise. ..u."' ~ .oI. 80 80 soo,;.-o 80
and it fiioh on"i ao'oi'A 'Ao ono
claimed! tninRS OF tnings IhaI lie "oulu
diseasesot have said.
remove
other afis a good year for "varmints."
Will dri elk family in town discovered
prevent, senses than one that a robust
fevers. os a. ,..,.--..,.....1e, uuns...,a-
tion and indigestion trv Electric Bitters.
Price soc and 81 per bottle at Patterson
& Sons drug store. 5
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

The canyon of the Colorado is 300
miles long, and the cliffs Oil either side
are from 5000 to 5000 feet above the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
RAILWAY RUMBlES.

Surveys are being made for three new
railroads in the Transvaal South Africa.
The Michigan Central is using thick rub
Der mats on the aisles and passageways of
its dining cars. They are proving very ac-
ceptable.
In order to put through its Worlds fair
trains on time, the Erie management has
decided to suspend the running of construo-
ton trains.
The new shops of the New York Central
at Depew will use only pneumatic lifts on
its lathes, planes and other machines for
heavy work.
The Denver and Rio Craude management
is appointing re,trlllly Or>...i..Cd ministers
or each division d. chaplain at :, salary OF
500 per month.
1t is sGid by President Eas;!n of tie Chi
cago Great Western that rot Il single ro;;sl
west of Chicago made operating expenses
the past year owing to SHOW block;,des and
heavy operating outlays
The Northern Pacific has a new official in
the person of n travelling blacksmith. His
duties will be to visit all of the blacksmith
shops ON the line and suggest improvements
in methods wherever necessary.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
aily. I Daily excent Sunday.

Cleveland-with fast trains for East and West;
LOrain-with the "NickelPlate;" Elyria-with the
l. 4 NJ R'y; Grafton-with &C 4 st L Ry;
Sterling with the \ 4 R'y: Warwick-with
the G & c Ry: MasillOn-with w 4 L Ry and
DOver-with s NJ Ry; Uhriehsville-with the
Panhandle; BridgepOrt-with c & R'y; Bel
laire-with b s Ry; Wheeling with K Ry.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

A CORRECT taste is ever the concomi-
tant of a chaste mind. "For," as clev-
er writer has justly observed, sour taste
commonly declines with our merit" A
correct taste is the offspring of all that
is delicate in sentiment and just in con
ception; it softens the infexibility of
truth and decks reason in the most per-
suasive garments.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
ForMalaria, Liver Trou-
bic, or Indigestion, use
BROWN IRON BITTERS

SwAYBACK Ito importunate beggar)-
Leave the house, sirl Beggar-Cer-
tainly. would not think of carrying
it off with the heavy mortgage it has
on it.
A GREAT many young men are partial
to the dollar of the daddies. They will
never have any of their own.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03
CLEVELANO, LORAlN & WHEELING R. r
Time Card Of Passenger Trains.

In effect May 2Sth, 1898, and until further notice
Standard Times minutes slower than
Columbus, Ohio, time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

FRIVOLOUS curiosity about trifles and
iaborious attention to little objects,
which neither require nor deserve mo-
ment's thought, lower man, who from
thence is thought, and not unjustly, in
capable of greater matters.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

1t is instanced as one of the curiosities
of the memory that people who know
long pieces of verse by heart frequently
cannot remember their telephone num-
ber.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03

IT is related of the late Bishop Phil
lips Brooks that when in England he
was requested to preach before the
Queen, and was jocosely asked if he felt
afraid to do so. He replied: mo;
have preached before my mother"