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l like haze O parcels all round tba Masoh' the roadbed begins t look all- nreo uhtidy in the Wake O the procession es' mats the cider jug! Cider's mighty fuli O gas, ain't it? Hear tn exnlosion when 1t hits? Gailopin' ?-Whee-ee- e-aa, Look at 'er run My land. thar goes tbs whinletree, all t thunder: Wagons run mn lopsldes, aint 1t? Yes, that's the l OH hind wheel httin' a rock, Tn sha goes an down in rain O smokes an, | felly' Now the ex is draggin'i Bv posl, IL catches tie--such a pulli Riebocet they uster call 1t in the army; wagon flies high an comes down all of a scat- ter!-Thar, Kits free at last; Wagon e oeher side up in the ditch, what ain't strung long the track in pieces. Jes' the harness left now an Kit runnin' like rabbit-no reel danger fer Kit up that grade an with Locke's Mills only a mila away. but all-fred strenuous! Somebuddy else runnin. too. What? Anne Twitchell? Why, l yum, so 'ts, way behind, run min an yellin' like soul in torment etarnal. No chance fer Ame though the old hoss has got about a million times too big a start-Ame's sure out of 1t, but he keeps a-runnin' a-sereechin' ies'
  Ponders, hollerin', yellin', scootin up the track like a pack of crazy devils in a it. Red faces wavin' arms sweat, dust an laughter, most uproarious, ondecent laughter. What? Laughter? Why. eff it aint Sockalexis Bean that's laughin! Yes-an eff he don't stop this very min ute, right plum off, he'll sure bust his sus- bender buttons an throw conniption- fit.-
 'Jumpin' Jewsharpsr'
 "Th' brakeman O the local has jes come back over the top O the trainan catched a glimpse of an old hos all dust an sweat thunderin' along tn tracks like a runaway cyclone in the midst of a cloud O gravel an ballast, with tn whole tarnation town screamin' after her
 = 'Jumpin' Jewsharps!-
 "One dive an he's down the ladder into the caboose, jammin' on the air. Jerk! Jolt Grind d -d-d--Zeeeeee,- w Wheeeee-eu- eu-uuu.-
 "Everybuddy runs up pantin,. My land. what's the matter? Everybuddy's askin' bout a million questions with the last tag-end O breath. Everybuddy? Well, no, not quite. No. MT. Sockalexis Bean ain't thar; bout that time he's jouncin' outa town behind old Belle, sound an well an happier than most men ever is. Happy? Did I say happy? Yes, let it go at that
 NO, II never hurt hlt none, a1ter sne cooled down an rested a bit; but the wagon an supplies was too fragmentary to ever be got together again at any one spot. Lawsuit? My land, yes--it run six months or year; if you want to you can find out all about it down to Berlin court house. Damages? Yes-s-s-but precious small ones; the jury, d'you see knowed both sides O the story Damages? Pshaw! Not much more n enough to buy Lueil Twitchell set O bangs to match them what Rindy Bean kep pinned in the front O her best unday-go-to-meetin' bunnet."
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was jes actually bendin' down with pos abilities.
 Sock turned his cud, scratched his bald spot an finally asked:
 Whatll you take fer er?' "'As she stands?' "Yepl'
 Seventy-five an your Kit!' I'll give Kit an fifty
 Sixty an it's go3 " Bride throwed in?
 'Yepr
 I'll go vel You've traded hosses, mis- ter! Onhitchl'
 "Blieve it or not, twas did as quick as
 that. Twas allus word an deed with
 Sock, anyway, an sometimes the deed afore the word. Sock had heered some
 rumors Anne had let float around con
 cernin' his new mare; he'd seen her trot
 an liked her; he wanted her an had the
 money; he was a born trader; over an. above his daily vittles an drink, he traded. In twenty minutes more they'd shifted Kit was hooked up to tn buggy,
 the boot was thumb out an counted over and Anne had druv away, leavin' that an- tique, pork-fed, -cake-stuffed, spavined, broken-down fossil with anti-whstle springs in it's nose, standin' in SockaleXis Beans boxstal. "Well, Sock found out in lessn "A hours. First time he druv her, which was nex' mornn' an got away from the roar O
 the falls, he heard su'thin' kinda whist
 ley in her breathn'. He stopped, got out
 and looked at her nose. Yep-springs.
 He said a bad word suspicion dawnin
 ol his fast he looked at her knees an
 fetlocks-then he knowed the wusst
 March hares is petrifed mummies' side
 of what Sockalexis Bean was then. Dea-
 con CT no deacon, he hollered SUI thin
 nd'lous throwed his hat in the dust
 an stomped on it, called himself blas-
 phemious epitaphs an genrally smashed
 the third commandment lAe you'd d smash
 an egg on rock. Then he druv home.
 "From that thar minute su'thin was
 a-brewin' fer Anne Twitchell, but Sock ne
 never let on. Mo- he never mentioned it to nobuddy, not even to Rindy. who
 scolded day an night bout the dcker he'd made Sock said 'Pshaw, an let on to like the new mare fine, fine! Even when he met Anne at the Pond he never so much as peeped. :" 'How's the new hlgh-stepper suit ye, hey? Anne would ask with grin, heapin' of insults onta injuries 'Fust ratei Couldn't be better! ] 'Trot good?' "'Best rudder, swaney, I ever see!' Winds all right? J'ints soundg Sounds a die! Swap back@ Guess notp "trhen he'd drive on with that poor busted-down critter, lookin' pleased as Punch.
 Spite of all he cd do, Belle took to
 runnin down powful tast. The sleek coat growed ragged agin. fetocks got iong haired spavin' set in wuss'n ever an l whistles begun t sound like d dunn loco l motive But as I was sayin', Sockalexls never peeped so muehs word. Ame | though. want so close-mouthed; he let 1 the story leak. an leak it did. till all of
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history of the world is really the story of the education of mankind in the school of Providence; and the Bible Is Gods revealed plan for the religious education of the world.
 Now. Just as in every well devised scheme of secular education, there are stages, or grades, so we find them in the scheme of God. The Old Testament, then may be regarded as preparatory or introductory to the New.
 Paul, in his Epistle to the Galatians says "The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ" In his sec ond Epistle to Timothy VIC are told that Jesus Christ Drought life and ina- mortality to light through the gospel" The covenant of law, then, was im- tended to prepare men to appreciate the covenant of grace. Law, by It's very nature, is educational. This IS true even of human systems of juris-
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minute an I'll be done. Remember, it's in a good causer
 "cause h.! oa-oo-oool That cussed razor's duller'n 'tarnal shovel?
 "sHush!
 "'Tharl Now you've did it! I'm bleed in like tarnation pig! Yes l be, too I c'n feel it runnin' down my neck-Im all a gore O blood Now l hope you're satisfieJ!
 .Soclz he bellered like a yearlin', but he had to set an take it. Rindy's bout sig sizes bigger, anyway, so he hadn't no show to skip out.
 After the shave, Rin she got out hlS old brown suit ar brushed it good, turned his rubber collar inside out, got his satin neclxtie with the pansies embroidered onto it, combed his hair an made him grease his boots. Then she turned him loose, told him not t stir outa the dooryard, an sailed in on her own prinkin'. |.
 Fur be 1t from me to understan the :nnar dness O that grand fixin' up. All is, when Rindy an Sock druv up to the meetin' house, Kits coat all shiny, Sock shaved an with his collar on, her In the alpacky, with teeth an bangs. su'thln like a shiver went over the folks on the steps, waitin fer the las bell. It amazed 'em, 1t stunned an almost terrified 'em- 'twant accordin' to nature, such vilent an sudden changes. The folks was sure thunderstruck-it boded no good, no good at all like you're a-goin' to SC right square off.
 ".I be a-failin' up fast, hey? I be short on fer looks, be I?' Rims gait an bearin' fairly screeched them questions as she peraded up the aisle to her pew. with Sockalexis trailin' on behind, squeak'n' in his greased boots an look in like he'd ben catched a-stealin' sheep. Sech wicked, worldly vanity as Rims. I never seen in this here mortal vale of tears; it fairly brustled out all over her. Scand'lous wicked, worldly pride She stayed to Sunday school, too, an aft'noon meetin'. Twas plum insultin'.
 Some was mad, some laughed an some worse luck, was bit by the green eyed monster.
 "Mis Anne Twitchell Rims first cous- in, was one O the worst-bit ones, full O consumin', gnawin' envy. All that week an the next she made the grass hopper sburden to Anne. Day after day, whenever Anne want chorin' or Ill the spoolmill, twas Bangs, Alpacky, shave Necktie, Grease, bunnet, Ieetn. Ame told he that long to'ards the last on it he got to dreamin' he was a fashion ma gazine with larded boots an bangs fer whiskers.
 "'Pshaw! Whats the use, Luell? Jest cause Rin makes 'tarnal fool outa herself, what for you want to?'
 "'Pshaw as much as you're mind to, Anne Twitchell, but you'd oughta be ashamed O yourself to see Rin lar rayed like one 0 these,'' an me goin' to meetin, in my old print polonay. with my Congress boots all worn to frazzlel An as fer your books, we'll"
 "'Oh hush Even eff I wanted you an me t be couple O rum fools, where d'you think the money'd come from? You think we're Rockyfellers, hey?
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IF the republican party of what IS
 called the reconstruction period ! 1S65-75-had been magnanimous ,t sagacious, instead of vindictive and foolish, there would today be militant republican party in what were the seeding states, some of which would be reliably republican and others all mighty doubtful. But the fanaticism of Sumner, the malice of Stevens. and the folly of Morton prevailed, and the most odious despotism the Ang1o-Saxon ever saw was created in the recon structed states. It was proud peo- pie, who could forgive and forget in- Jury, but that has not forgiven and will never forget the humiliation of negro domination.
 Conkling and Morton both repudi- ated-the first In the Senate and the other on the stump-negro suffrage at the north. The scheme was to hold the south in subjection by the negro vote, and thus overcome any advan.- crats of the north by changes of public opinion. But the Ohio election of 1S67 and several appeals to the people of New Jersey, New York and Indiana convinced the republican party that It must be re-engorced by the colored troops at the north as well as at the south. and hence the 18th amendment, that was incorporated in the constitu- ton in 1870. If the beaten and over
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tone of the people, and 1t served to show
 them their own depravity. It is true in morals and. in religion. as well as in the intellectual development of the race, that self-dissatisfaetion is a necessary eondi- ton of progress. savages are satisfied, and hence they do not improve. So the men who are most utterly destitute of any personal appreciation of morality are tie men who, of all others. are most entirely satisfied with their moral condi- ton. The contemplation of the ideal per lection of Gods law. and their failure to keep it. introduces into mems minds a feeling of self-eondemnation, and desire for a better scheme of life. The average heather could have no such ideal; for the heather, that is to say, those rations which had no revealed law, were morally savages however highly civilized In other directions. They had no recog- nized and authoritative standard of moral weights and measures. Such a standard
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prudence. The best men in all tolera- bly, regulated forms of society are com monly free from the restraints of law Their conduct Is not much affected by what are called the laws of the land. They perform their duties from moral motiyes-motives with which human law, as such, cannot properly concern itself. No man in this country would be regarded as honest if he were re- strained by law from committing theft. And so of other crimes. But the aver age man of the community is re- strained by law; and the bad man has little else to restrain him; and as the average man and the bad man constl- ute the mass of the people. we can readily see that criminal jurisprudence is an immensely important matter m every community.
 From these considerations it is also clear that the moral tone of the laws
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of any society will necessarily be adapted to the general moral condition of the people upon whom the laws are to operate. This moral tone cannot De expected to attain to absolute perfec- ton in any society of fallen beings: and yet the ideal of all systems of law should be. as it usually is, perfect jus tice to all.
 This perfect ideal justice which should be the basis of every scheme of human jurisprudence, is just the thing which constitutes it's educational power! and, at the same time the wise legislator knows that he cannot hope to realize this ideal, and that departures from it are abso- lutely necessary in any scheme of prae- tleal government. Hence the moral tone of the law is often lowered in order to adapt it to the actual moral condition of society.
 What we call the legal dispensation
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the Jews possessed under the old dis pensation, and that in the most avail able form, namely. a well-digested coda of revealed and written alws It is true, as the Apostle Paul says, that the law was weak through the hesh." It did not produce moral condrct; but it did measure it. The commandment came; sin revived and men died to all hope of a perfect personal righteousness, and thus found themselves shut up to the righteousness of God which Is by faith fn Jesus Christ. Condemned by law, and by his own conscience. the convicted sim ner, conscious of his slavery to sin, cries: 70 wretched man that I aml Who shall deliver me from the body of this death2" The law has then done it's work: and. abandoning all hope of salvation by works the ransomed soul turns the eye of faith upon the Redeemer and exult- antly shouts q thank God through Jesus Christ our Lordi'
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, though they're an all-fired sight wuss aft erwards. Belle went right onto meat diet, hog meat an oil cakes. Yep, l1n- seed oil-it'l fat a rail fence. Belle took on weight amazin'. Gurus thing bout oil cakes. though; once hoss has ben fatted on em, an then grows pckid agin, there ain't nothin in Gods world Il put flesh onto him second time. You can try as much as you're a mind to; it ain't no use Belle got pork an oil cake good and plenty, plus clean oats; she certainly did pick up amazin fast, more so as Anne never took her step outa thebar Tor as much as two solid weeks. pair O clippers in Ame's hands soon smoothed the rough coat in good style, so Belle's own mother wouldn't a-knowed her. The spavin come down too, by reason O li1i- ment, an pair O nose-springs took away loudest of the whistles. Anne -couldnt stop 'em altogether, but shucks! a little tag-end O wheeze never could laze him.
 ".It's danged lucky fer me, though, he said to himself, putin on the final ked' does, that Sockalexis Bean lives on risin' ground right snug to Androseoggia Falls. The roar of that thar waters sure wuth a power O money to me. Now I'll borrer Dudleys new buggy fer couple Q days, git me a quart of XXX, an see what can be did in the manner O family businessn
 Bout the next evenin' Sock was a-rockin' on his side porch, listen1n to the high water boomin' over the falls and luggsuriatin' in his old cloe's, when some- buddy druy tn hill at a good smart lick. The hoss jerked a trifie in its gait (snd no wonder, with pint slug of AAA coursin' through its ytals), but it went along right lively, jes' the same. Its coat looked sleek an fine; twas tall upstand- in critter, plump an well-hung, diff'r from the gen'ral run O South Pond nags.. Sock, allus keen fer hos-fiesh an a good trade, set up sudden an took notice.
 Half an hour later, back the rig come agin, an Sock seen twas Anne Twitchell drvin He'd ben round by Locke's Mills, cross the br.age an so own the Gore road. Sock hailed him:
 Hey, thar, hey! Hold on a minute, can't ye?'
 Whoa! Whoa-aa Shhhhh! hollered Anne, malSin' a great todo with the lines. 'Whoat, consarn vel Stan still thar! Whoat-' A
 Gosh a'mghtyr said Sock t himself It's every mite h ecan do t stopr
 Excuse me-, hollered Anne from quite a smart piece up the road. Excuse me It's tarnation hard t hold the cr-itter when she gifts goin'. That's the wust of these here high-steppers. Danged ef I'd a-bought tn mare at all, eff I'd knowed she was so all-fired jumpy. From Indiany yep an the hardest-bitted brute ever drawed a rein over. by tn way, how'd you like?'
 Fine, fine; When did you git Ter? Whats her records?
 'One-ten an a quarter, measured half mile: sired by Westmont; I've only had her bout fortnit, but I c'n see already she's a hummer! At first I vummed 1 wouldn't sell, but now, well, she's too rlaguey swift fer me-
 "The minutes silence that come then
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<tCAY, did ever tell you bout Mis-
 n sockalezis Beans l,s.ln new ..l bangs. ,,gs, A No? I swan, that's too bad!

<tCAY, did ever tell you bout Mis- Sockalexis Beans new bangs
 o No? I swan, that's too bad! Hitch tn old splint-bottom up nigh to the stove an yum I will!''
 I "htched." Summer Sessions very methodically lighted his corncob with a sulphur match, then carefully stroked back the curve of his long, white mus taches.
 "Th whole fool business started, dye see, with them thar bangs. Mis- Bean- her that was Oridy Purrington-seemed to be gittin' along some into the sere an yaller It galled her most uncommon how folk was beginnin' to gossip.
 "'Lawsee (said sonte), but Rindy' s failin' up these days '
 .'.She is fer fair; I callate she ain't got hair enough left to make even so much's watch chain!'
 "'Teeth again fast, too, ain't they?'
 "'Yep--face fallin' in like she was again to swaller it!
 T. I swan, if anybody ever was short on fer looks, Rin Beans that personp
 ''Folk's talk filtered back to Rindy an galled her. as I've said, somethin' terri ble. She stood it as longs sh could, an when she couldn't stan it no longer she made up her mind somethin' would have to be did about it. So, after she'd delib' . rated good an plenty, she took some O her board-money outa the bureau drawer an went on the cars to Bethel, where she had her upper gooms stamped in wax fer set, bought her a pattern O black alpacky an purchased the 'foresaid bangs which made all the to-do, lawsuit an all, like r a-goin' to tell you.
 "Bangs-yes, they was first-rate bangs for S5 cents. Easy to put on. too. They was made outa somebuddy's hair, parted fine. Rindy kept 'em pinned inside her Sunday bunnet; then, when she put the bunnet on. they'd hang plum down over her forred, nat'ral as life. All she had t do was wet 'em down good an comb lem, an they'd curl up some diff'rent when she got them bangs on, an the up- per set. an the new alpacky own
 Mex Sunday after all the modern inn movements was installed, you bate she didn't miss meetin, no sir! Her an sockalexs had bene a-blackslidin for some time, what with livin' five mile from the Pond, old Kit goin lame an the een'ral slump nj looks. But that nex' Sunday-not by judful!
 "Rindy she got up at a. m. helped Stock chore ,strened the milk, got break fast. made Sock wash the blackboard an card Kit the first time in two yearl, done up the dishes an fed the shoats all bv half pas seven, SOS shed have two pood hours to fix up her an Sock. They nrined some, too, now I bate vel
 "Elmer Bowker drivin' past down the Jericho road at 8, seen Rindy shawn sock on the side porch. which was most usual. Sock was straddle of Kitchen chair with an apurn pinned round his red neck, an Rindy was 'tarnally iayin l. . to him with a razor. Elmer said he heefd l Sock hollerin' an Rindy encouragin or him.
 ntAw! Aow w-ow-ow-ow-w-w-w What cher pulln so for, consarn ye?
 |" sSh-hh-h, Sock! You set still jest 8
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~ CD is an educator In His phys
 ical government of the world
 this truth is constantly illus trated:s Winter is a preparatory sch ool for spring spring for summer: sum- mer for autumn, and autumn for win ter. Youth is a preparatory school for mature life and mature life for old age.
 God establishes schools in strange places. The inside of an egg shell Is not, at first sight, a promising place for an institution of learning; and yet it would be well for our age. if half the colleges sent out their graduates anything like so we'll prepared to be- gin life. as is the young quail. when it first leaps out of the shell.
 God educates nations. The early his tory of people, like the early his tory of a language, commonly presents unmistakable signs of infancy. The
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ELDER HYRUM NJ. SMITH.

Elder Hyrum NJ. Smith OF the council
o. the apostles address the gathering.
1T is written" said he, that man
shall not 1.-Two by bread alone, but by
every word which proceedth from the
mouth of God, and that every man
should keep every covenant and COM
mandmcnt and while this condition has
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~.. e,ndsy sessions of conference
he FAR the most largely attended
mo several gatherings. Not that
.no we're very many moro persons
~. at the tabernacle, for on each
aston previously the building had
~ ,rowded almost to its utmost ca
~, The Increase of attendance
p1 - tho assembly hall and on the
,nds outside, where it is estimated
ne ,a,s, 10000 or 1900 persons congre-
IA in the afternoon. Such an out
ri of people was astounding TO
,,sso who are accustomed TO see the
,shorracle square densely crowded at
,onference time. and to strangers So
.an,ring in the city the sight must
- heen a revelation. indeed.
TSs sneakers of the day ranged from
.,o,,bars of the general authorities
i lr,nn 10 presidents OF stakes, presidents
,tssions and lay members. The
.,,hiscts discussed were quite as varied
ros the list of speakers, doctrine,
"s,ditions of the church, stakes and
.uiss;ons being dwelt upon In an in
listing manner The hour of y. m.
,o5av Will witness the close of one of
'Ss srcatest conferences in the history
o. the Church.
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0IJTPOUR|NC OF SAINTS
MARKS SUNDAY SERVICES

.e Throng Attending Conference Packs fhe Big Taber-
nscle Its Limit, Necessitatng Overflow Meetings in
the Assembly Hall and Outdoor Gatherings on the
Temple Square Speakers Congratulate Saints on
Work Accomplished and Splendid Showing Made
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Saturday, and again the building was
crowded to its capacity. The con-
gregation sang the hymns "Oh ya
mountains high" and 20 say what is
TRUTH, the choir rendering rs a clos
Ing anthem ''Ldft up the voice IN
singing" Miss 1.otinda poulton sang
20 Shining Light" Patriarclr Angus
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all this world that is
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And there is no better
way to keep a baby
clean than by the regu-
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Ivory Soap.
A white soap, it yields
a snow white lather-a
lather that cleans, but
does not injure, the
most delicate skin.
Ivory Soap
SO 1900 Per Gent. Pure.