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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-23

London, Feb. pa dispatch from Rio
Janeiro via Paris says that an Italian
newspaper there publishes telegram
from Amapa asserting that. as the out
come Of violent discussion regarding
the boundary in dispute an affray has
occurred between the French and Brazil
ian boundary commissioners.
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No Moro Gsrinan Cayd1rv.

Berlin, Feb 23.-The budget commit
tee of the reichstag has rejected the gov
ernment's proposal, in the army bill, for
an increase Of ten squadrons in the cav
airy, despite strong representations by
the minister of war, General Won Goss-
Ter, as to the mighty cavalry forces Rus
sia could hurl across the frontier and the
importance of cavalry for pursuing beat
en- infantry, as often shown in the last
war
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their greatest efforts. Washington was
said to be 'frst in war, first in peace and
first in the hearts of his countrymen." >" Ii
is great thingto be first. Nothing is OF
moro value to mankind and brings great
er happiness than good remedy. Many
things will TeLfeUe but the one that will
cH1s IS best. Brazilian Balm is such rem.
edy. Tens of thousands have found that
it is the only thing that would cure Ca
tarrh and Asthma. For IS yrs. it has nev
er failed in a single case to cure Asthma
and its record has been as wonderful in
Catarrh. Cases that had, to all appearan
ces, run into Consumption, or where the
nostrilswere entirely stopped uporwhere
the poisonous pus had eaten holes into
the throat an inch deep, or where the
stomach had become liberated and raw
from swallowing the germ-laden matter,
we're all permanently cured Such a rec
ord, unknown to any other remedy, lust
ly entities the Brazilian Balm to the flrsi
place in the regard of the American peo
pie. There are 10000, 900 Catarrh victims
and countless Asthma sufferers in this
country, all of whom can be cured with
Brazilian Balm. A Sl.00 bottle of Brazil.
ian Balm contains months treatment
for catarrh or asthma, and for months
we will wrap with each $i.00 bottle q
months treatment of Toxicola Tablets.
tree Toxicola is the best tonic and nerve
and strength builder known to science.
This IS the greatest offer ever made. Ask
your druggist and take no substitute. B.
F,JAcKsoN & Co., Mfg. Chemists, India.
napolis, Ind.
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ND ChampIon Amateur PIgeon shot

New York, Feb. 23.-George S. Nc
Alpin, of the Carteret Gun club won the
amateur pigeon shooting championship
OF America on the home grounds yester-
day with a score Of SO kills out of a
possible 100. Since the championship
contest was inaugurated in 1895 none
Of the scores has equaled that made by
yesterdays winner Louis II. Dureyea,
also OF the Carteret club, ran second
with % kills, and Charles Painter, Of
Pittsburg, took third honors, with 93
kills to his credit
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-23

Two daily trains are operated all the year,
and during the winter season, a third. the
Florida Limited, is added. If you are going
to Florida or anywhere else in the South, ask
for ticket via the Southern Railway. Write
to John NJ Beall, District Passenger Agent,
1923 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
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Does This strike YOn 2

Muddy compilations, Nauseating breath
come from chronic constipation. Karl's
Glover Root Tea is an absolute cure and has
been sold for fifty years on an absolute
guarantee. Price 20 cts and 80 cts Sold by
P. D. Kirlin and a guarantee
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Shenandoah drug store. wholesale agents.
Driven Tnsdne'by suffering.

Savannah, Ga, Feb. 23-Robert A.
Beale, second officer of the steamer Law
renee, which was wrecked on the South
Carolina coast during the blizzard OF
asst week, has become insane from his
intense sufferings in an open boat dur
Ing the storm.
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Buclslen'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 eruptious, and positively cures piles,
OF no pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or mOny refunded. Price
as cents per hoy For sale bv A Wsslay
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Energy all gone Headache9 Stomach out
of order? Simply case of torpid liver.
Burdock Blood Btters win make new man
or woman Of you.
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To DO III Costs More
Than To Do Well. -

This "Uise SaqU ~ might
properly read, at costs
more to BE III than to BE
1veIt.' - The source of all
health Is rich, strong Blood.
It IS to the body Uhat the
mighty streams are to the
earth. IF the blood IS pure,
the body hrfUes; If the blood
IS qUeak or impoverished,
then eVery paLse-Beat carries
WeakneSS instead of strength.
Why make the cost of living more
than it need be? Purify your blood
and give your constitution a chance to
do its level best. The only perfect
blood purifier and yigor-maker in exist
ence is the world famed Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. It brings good, perfect health.
1t nerer disappoiHts.
ScrofuIa-" When three months old our
baby Roy was covered with itching and
burning scrofula sores. The best physicians
failed to relieve Hoods Sarsaparilla saved
MS life as It made permanent cure" Mrs
LILLE NJ. FISH, East Sprlngport, Mich.
Grip - Through the blessing Of God
Hoods Sarsaparilla and Hoods Pills cured
me Of grip and the after weakness NV
heart and nerves were badly affected but
am now strong and hearty, doing all my
housewOrk. i have been a walking adver-
tisement for Hoods among my neighbors."
MRS. MARY NJ. MESSENGER Freehold, Pa.
rheumatism Rheumatism is dis
ease OF the blood, and the acid must be
neutralized TO effect a cure. Z" was troubled
with rheumatism 80 badly that ! could not
walk. Hoods Sarsaparlla cured me-" MRS.
MITCHELL McDERMoTT, Southbridge, Mass
Eczema My daughter had eczema
ana 10 affected her eyes. The doctor said
10 was ncurable. Her skin is now smooth
and white and all on account OF Hoods Sar-
saparilla. / have taken Il for weakness and
can now walk three or four miles easily"
Mrs, e. A. HENRY, Sauk Centre MINI.
CataYrh-"I suffered from childhood
with catarrh. Was entirely deaf in one ear.
Hoods Sarsaparilla cured me and restored
my hearing" MRS, W. STOKES, Midland, Tex.
7KPS @ mn
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-23

THE Republicans in Congress are
straining every nerve to avoid an eX-
ira session, and are pushing legisla-
tiop.
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Gnrntttr 5rruln.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY % 1899
--s ..s1ERa- -
YjsJF
OUR COUNTRY: First. Last and Forever

SOME men in the public eye should
be considered notes.
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man ~ ANAA ,
say she is a won
deriul player. 1t
is the greatest
distinction to be
first in any
thing. For this
in statemenshir
literature, ath-
letics, science
land art, men and
-. - II
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First American killed in the Late war

Clyde, O., Feb. 23.-The remains of
George Burton Mecks, the first Ameri-
can killed in the Spanish-Amcrican war.
arrived here yesterday, having been
brought from the National cemetery at
Key West where they were buried last
May. The body was placed in re-
ceiyiug vault here, and viii be buried
either on Memorial day or May II. with
appropriate ceremonies. Members Of the
Sixth Ohio acted as pallhearers, and an
immense throng gathered at the depot
to receive the body.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-23

Miss Sadie Wertheim, age ID, of Tole
do, o, was the winner of the first prize foI
execution on the violin at the Brussels
Conservatory of music. German critics
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Coroner,s Jury Exonerates Hanser

Coroner's Jury EXonerates Hauser.
Stroudsburg, Pa, Feb. 25.-The cor
oner's jury yesterday held an inquest
over the remains of the dead burglar
who was shot at Water Gap by Post
master Millard Hauser, while attempt
ing to rob the postofiice at that place.
The dead man was John Gleason, of
Newburgh, ~ Y. The verdict of the
jury is that Hauser is entirely exoner-
ated from all blame, as he was protect
ing the property of the United States
government as his oath requires There
is no clew to the other robbers, who es-
capped.
THE GRIP CURE THAT DOES CURE.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets removes
the cause that produces La Grippe The
genuine has l., B. Q. on each tablet. 25c.
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The Herald is delivered in shenandoah and the
surrounding towns for six cents w elk, pay
able TO the carriers BY mail g. % year, or
25 cents a month payable In advance Ad-
vertisements charged according to space and
position. The publishers reserve the right
to change the position ~ advertisements
whenever the publication OF ncws demands
IL. The right is reserved TO reject any
advertisement, whether paid for or not, that
the publishers may deem improper Adver-
tisng rates made known upon application.
Entered Mt the post Office at shenandoah, Pa, as
second class mail matter.
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philadelphia g.
Reading R'y.
Engines Burn Hard COal-NO Smoke.
IN EFFECT NOVEMBER 20. 1898.

Trains leave Shenandoah as follows.
For New York via Philadelphia, week days
TO- 8 3S, 80, 65 q M, IL 26. 3 % and 90 p. m
For New York via Mauch Chunk, weeR days
80 a. m, IL 90 and 8 90 p. M.
For Reading and Philadelphia, week days
10, 49, 30, SO am, II 26, 8 90 and co p. m.
For Pottsville, week days, 80, So "a. IN.
u 26, 90, 6 % and 7 80 p. M.
For Tamsqua and MahaDoy City, week days.
30 55 q. M, IL 26 3 90 and 90 p. IN.
For Williamsport Sunbury and Lewlsburg,
week days. II 80 a. M. l2 26, ? 30 H. m
For MahanoS Plane, weekdays, 2 10, 3 q, 8 3S,
30 55, IL e2 a. M, ~ 26, 90, 90, 81, Sc
p.
For Ashland and Sharuokin, week days, 80,
IL 30 a. m, ~ 26, 3 90, O7, 2 25 and 55 p. m.
For Baltimore, Washington and the West VIA
B. & o. r. r., through trains lea, Reading
Terminal, Philadelphia. Up. & X. r. at 20,
55 II 20 a. M, 10 and 7.27 p, L.. Sundays
90 2 90, IL 26 a. M. 40 and "a p. m. Addi-
tional trains from Twenty-fourth and Chest
nut streets station, week days, 10 80 a. m. 70 20
V 10 8 40 pm. Sundays, B5, s % p. m.
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Crippled by
Rheumatism.

Those who have Rheumatism find
themselves growing steadily worse all
the while. One reason of this is that
the remedies prescribed by the doctors
contain mercury and potash, which ul-
timately intensity the disease by caus-
ing the joints to swell and stiffen.
producing severe aching of the bones
8. 8. s. has been curing Rheumatism
for twenty years-even the worst cases
which seemed almost incurable.
Capt o. Z. Hughes, the popular railroad
conductor, Of Columbia, 8. o., had an experi.
ence with Rheumatism which convinced him
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This is the trade
mark of the short
line to FlOrida-the
Southern Railway.
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For WOrnan's Eve


lhere is no neeu nor excuse Tor ,w"omei
10 pe weak, nervous tired ana dlscour
female troubles and an ever present weak
ness and debility which weigh upon he
spirits, drag upon her life, her energies
her happiness, and render her unfit TO
the duties of wife, mother and homemaker
She can be perfectly and completely cure
If she will use DR.. Greene's Nervura bloo
and nerve remedy. the best strengtheue
and invigorator, the greatest upbuilder o
health that the world has ever known.
DR.. Greenes Nervura is the sure
restorer OF health and strength to
women. Under the use of this won
derful remedy the dull eyes grow
brilliant, the pale, sallow, or dark
complexion clears, the cheeks be-
come rosy with health, while the I
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-23
TRAINS FOR SHENANDOAH.

Leave New York via Philadelphia, week
days, IL Is, 80, 90, IL 80 a. M, and 45, 80,
90 pm.
Leave New York via Mauch Chunk, week
days, 80, 10 a. M, 30 .. M.
Leave Philadelphia, Reading Terminal, week
days, 8 10, q s6. 10 2l a. m. and SO, 06, 36.
IL SO y.
Leave Reading, week days, 81, 2 90, 10 Os,
a, NJ, 70 10, II, 8 90, 26 p. m,
Leave Pottsville week days, H. 10 a. M.
IL 30, 20, 30, 6 10 and so pm.
Leave Tatuaqua, week days, l8, 8 80, IL %
a. m, 40, So, z 20, 9 A p. m.
Leave Mahanoy City, week days. 3 45, 9 05,
Il 81 a. M, 2 %, 5 %, 6 "a, 2 A, 10 OS p. m
Leave Mahanoy Plane, week days, 2 40, 90
5S0, ~ 10 23, u 90, a. M, 2 30, s6, AZ bS
10 4pm,
Leave Williamsport, week days, 742, 10 o. a
M. IL "a and 90. II 80 D. IN.
ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION
Leave Philadelphia Chestnut street warf aud
South street wharf for Atlantic City.
Weekdays-Express, 9 90, a. M. 200, 4 90,
90 p. m. Accommodation, 8 90 a M. 80 u m
Sundays-Express, 9 90, 10 90 a m AccommCda-
hon, 8 90 hi, 45 p. m.
Returning leave Atlantic City depot corner
Atlantic and Arkansas avenues
WeekSays-Express, z 85, 9 90, a M, 8 80, s 80
m. Accommodation, l5 q. m. 405 D. m.
Sundays-EEpress. 90, 30 p. m. Accommoda
hon, 10 m, Is p. m.
For Cape May, Sea Isle City and Ocean City
Weekdays-9OO 90 a m, additional for Cape May,
10 m, for Sea Isle City, 8 90 M, for
ocean CITY, 10, 90 p m. Sundays, Chestnut
street, 10 M. South street, 9 90 a. m.
Parlor Cars on all express trains.
For further Information, apply 90 nearest
Philadelphia and Reading Railway ticket agent
or address
[. A. swEIeARD, EPSON ]. WEEKS
Gen,l supt,, Gen'l Pass'r Agt.
Reading Terminal Philadelphia.
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Z n a I lnere ID only one
cure for that painful dis
ease. He says: ~ was q
great sufferer from mus
eular Rheumatism for
two years. l could get
no per manent relief
from any medicine pre-
scribed by my physician.
l took about a dozen bot
ties Of your s. s. s., and
now l am as well as /
ever was inmy life. lam
sure that your medicine
cured me, and / would
recommendit to any one
suffering from any blood
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Charnine a Lion. !.

While Rev. w j. Davis was living IN
Africa, his little son John, a boy Of 4
years, went too near to chained lion
in neighbor's yard. 1t was called a
pet lion, but was so wild and vicious
that no living thing was safe within
the radius of its beat.
The unsuspecting child stumbled
within it's reach, and the lion instantly
felled him to the ground and set it's
huge paw on his head. There was great
CONSERVATION among the bystanders.
but none were able to deliver the child.
African News tells the story of his es-
cape, which seems equally due to the
lions love for music and young WON
ans presence of mind
Miss Moreland, seeing the peril Of the
child, ran upstairs, seized an accordion
and fastened to a window which
looked out upon the lion. There, with
shout to arrest it's attention, she be-
gan playing tune. The lion at once
released its prey, went the length of it's
chain toward its fair charmer and
stood in rapt attention.
The boy, In the meantime, got up and
ran to his mother He never thought
OF crying TILL he entered the house and
saw how excited every one was; theh,
quite out of danger, he had a good cry
on his own account.
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The Living Cod.

How many times we find the ex-
preston ''The Living God" in the holy
Scriptures! And it is just this very
thing which we are practically prone
to lose sight of. We know it is writ
ten, "the living Cod" we may speak
about Him as the living. God, but in
our daily life there is scarcely anything
we practically SO much lose sight of as
the fact that God is the living God,
and he is now whatever He was three
thousand or four thousand years since;
that He has the same sovereign power,
the same saving love toward those who
love and serve Him as ever He had,
md that He will do for them what He
did for those two thousand, three thou
sand, four thousand years ago, simply
because He is the living God, the un-
changing One, the same as ever He
was. Oh, how therefore we should
8confide in Him, and in our darkest mo-
sments and in our greatest trials and in
SOur heaviest difficulties and afflictions
should never lose sight Of the fact that
He is still the living God and ever will
@be the living God.-George Muller.
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A Kind Monkey.

Monkeys are more renowned for mis-
chief than for kindness, but even mon
keys can be benevolent. Monsieur
Mouton records the doings Of one in
Guadeloupe that surely seemed to mer-
it that reputation.
This monkey had a friend in a goat
that went daily to the pasture. Every
night the monkey would pick out the
burs and thorns, sometimes to the num-
ber of two or three thousand, from the
goats fleece, in order that the animal
might lie down in peace.
On coming, in from the pasture, the
goat regularly Went in search of his
light-handed friend, and submitted
himself to the operation. Strange to
say, the tricky instincts of the mon
key reasserted themselves after the
pricllles We're removed; he would tease
the poor goat numerically, plucking
his beard, poking him in the eyes, and
pulling out his hairs. The goat bore it
all with patience, perhaps regarding it
as only fair price to be paid for the
removal of the thorns.
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bends over our voiceless misery as the
good Samaritan bent over the speech
less Jew, and not waiting for those
trembling, pallid lips to ask, poured
oil and wine into his wounds, and lift
ed up his almost passive frame, and set
him on his beast.
All! many here have known such
times as that, times when we could
scarcely lift an eye toward heaven, yet
we had family thought, God knows,
God sees, God is good, and God is
great; and to us, waiting He has come
and laid, as it We're. His fingers on the
souls thin pulse, and dropped His liv-
ing water into parched lips, and the
pity of the Lord has fallen like the
tears of Christ to battle the clammy
brow, and His strength has been like
everlasting arms beneath our sinking
faith. Thank God, renewal often comes
to men in their extremity like this and
those who have experienced it do thank
God, and am quite sure that those
who have never experienced it thank
God, too, that others have, and that it
may be true for them in times of need
Rev. T. v. Tymms.
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Plueiartst and suics,,e.

Toulouse has been startled by an
army Officers committing suicide on
account Of plagiarism. Captain Cas-
sagnade sent in poem to the Floral
Games, which received minor prize
and was printed with the other prize
pieces. A lycee professor accidentally
opened the book and recognized the
poem as an already published produc-
ton Of his own, with the exception Of
a dozen lines. He informed the prize
committee of the plagiarism and the
captain was asked for an explanation,
whereupon he shot himself. The com
mittee went 80 far as to state that if
it had not been for the captains own
addition the poem would have received
the first prize.
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Notes from Far and Wide.

There are 42,S93 Baptist churches IN
the United States, an increase of 500
over the number reported last year.
There is a strong Christian Endeavor
Society of sixty members at Havana,
composed of Cubans and Americans.
Fifteen years ago native Christians
could rarely find employment in In
dia. Now they are preferred by con-
tractors, because they do more and bet
ter work than the heather.
Former President Harrison has ac-
cepted the place of honorable presi-
dent of the general committee of the
ecumenical conference on foreign mis-
sions to be held in New York City next
year.
The Methodists, Presbyterians, Epis-
copalians and Roman Catholics each
have church at Dawson City, and it
is stated that all of these, besides the
Salvation army barracks, are filed ey-
cry Sunday night.
DR.. Bosse, the royal minister of state
for public education in Prussia, be-
lieves that pastors should be elected
and appointed school directors. He
says that a Christian minister is a
thousand times better fitted for such
office than politician.
The London Missionary Society was
organized in 1884, and in 1898 the first
missionaries were sent to the South
Sea islands, the first mission station of
the society. A second company of mis-
sionaries sent. out in 179S We're cap
tured by a French privateer, and the
work was sadly crippled. The mis-
sion in Africa was begun in 1899 and
the noted missionaries in this field are
Drs. Moffatt and David Livingstone.
This society has carried on successful
missions in Madagascar, India, China,
Mongolia and the West Indies, and the
name of Robert Moffatt, David Liv-
inSstone, John Williams, MulTens Of
A1pwapwa, and Griffeths Johns Of
China will descend in history as pio-
neer missionaries.
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/ lg|RRl!lllE|E2 = EEjll[lZ5

The first gold medal ever given by
the Smithsonian Institution has been
awarded to Pro. Dewar, of the Royal
Institution, London, for his discoveries
tn regard to the liqujfcation Of air.
In seven years time, if the present
program is carried out, the Mikado
will have at his disposal sixty-five
ships, with an aggregate tonnage Of
5000; eleven torpedo-boat destroyers
and 115 torpedo-boats.
A California manager gave to an ac-
tress as memento of her success on
his stage what purported to be real
diamond. But it was an imitation, as
she learned when she tried to pawn it.
In her resentment she published the
fact.
We are the greatest coffee drinkers
of the world. In 1897 we used G36, ,OOO,-
600 pounds of coffee, which was TO-
100000 pounds more than was con-
sumed in all Europe. We have increas-
ed dour consumption during the past year
at the rate of more than pound per
person, and we now use about fifty
pounds annually for each person in the
United States.
How hard the Cubans are working
to learn English appears from this ad-
vertisement in Havana paper: "Thiss
is without doubt one Of the Factories
of tirst-class and of the most universal
credit, and we affirm that no other has
this credit with more merits, by the
goodnes sintelligency and care employed
in the preparation and perfectionment
of his productions"
Miss Ruth w. Beardsley, of Shelton,
Conn, performed daring feat few
days ago by riding her bicycle across
the railroad trestle spanning the Hous-
atomic River between Shelton and Der
by. The trestle is nearly half a mile
long and twenty feet high. Miss
Beardsley rode on the ties in the center
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a Sure Conqueror.

The man who makes the highest his
own, Gods will his law, is fearless Of
defeat. In reality, he is sure con-
queror. He is fully persuaded that
nothing can separate him from the love
of God. Neither death nor life, nor
angels nor principalities nor powers,
nor things present nor things to come,
shall be able to separate him from the
love of God which Jesus, the Christ,
has declared to the world. In that faith
he rests, and in that faith he is forever
blessed.
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In the Old Rut.

For many years he had been a police
magistrate, but finally, having been
brought to see the error of his ways,
he resigned and became a minister Of
the gospel.
The first time he was called upon to
officiate at a wedding he went through
the ceremony without break until he
reached the all-important part and ask
ed the bride:
do you take this man to be your
lawfully welded husband?"
II do" responded the fair one.
What are the mitigating circum-
stances, if any?" he absently inquired.