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said he doesn't mind what kind of company he keeps. but I had better qualify that.
 He's shy about poor folks and aban- doned human wretches. Ton don't hear of him in attendance
 upon Lazarus, the one the dogs licked You don't hear of him being in com
 pany with the man who was going | down from Jerusalem to Jericho" but l there is q remote inference that he was riding (maybe on the crupper)
 with the priest and the Levite who passed that. way. He may have been with the gentlemen who first enter
 tained the traveler-another remote in- | ference. I have almost concluded that when
 he goes larking with disreputabie
 people he asks the newspaper man not to report it.
 When I 10 to the town or the city | am careful to ask the newspapers to | say nothing about 1t. and I'm afraid the devil. as timely precaution. does | likewise Some of you may recoiiect- him. Once on time. very pious gentleman of Legislative prohibition fame. was averse to any notoriety achieved by his South. ern gallantry, to beauty in distress. ' He didn't want the newspapers to say anything of, 1t He learned that from me or--the devil.
 The same way with another jurist who was seeking initiation Into the
 mysteries of that inoffensive game. to- wit--draw poker.
 | He claimed constitutional protection from publicity
 Now that looks, so much like the devil in gentiiity that am almost | persuaded that the devil associates
 with Honorable men" If Is reported of the devil, and must | not neglect to state 1t (for some of you may never have heard ft) that ne | once dared to approach a Great Teach CT. and had the impudence to offer
 Him heap of land and many cities If He would worship him! When the in- fernaI scoundrel didn't have a foot of land nor a town to his name.
 On this occasion the son of gun
 "caught it in the neck"
 Now that you've learned how to devil to flight?
 By resisting him:
 Now that you've learned how to "get away" with the devil. feel sure that can '.punctuate" again, thus Hoe Age!
 Before we get away from the devil I want to tell you one of his Tow down." mean tricks
 TO show how mean 1t was, the old
 scoundrel concocted 1t. while he was getting his just deserts for disobedi- ence. He vas naturally mad while rolling in hot birthstone. fyou can't even imagine how hot 1t was:) q condition not conducive to pleasant thoughts or benevolent intentions. and if he was already mean. 1t is na-
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4 It is said that the art of luminous painting was known to the Japanese so long ago as A. D. 976, in the dy- nasty of the Emperor sayst The Chi cago Tribune Tai Tsung of the Sung dynasty, who had in his possession picture. painted by one Su Ngoh that was a spirited affair. being nothing more dF less, however. than a picture of an OK that every day left the picture frame to graze and then return ed to the frame to sleep at night This thing worried the Emporer as 1t seemed to his mind to be more realis- tice than was necessary in just e com mon picture of a common cx. so he made numerous inquiries among his subjects as to why the OK. being only a picture. daily went out to graze.
 None of the people, of course, could explain the phenomenon. and the Elm peror finally appealed to certain wise Buddhist priest. who said that the Japanese painter had known of an ancient secret and applied 1t to his art in painting the picture. It really was nothing. explained the learned priest, more than that the artist had found some nacreous substance with in the flesh of a certain kind of oys- ter that could be picked up among the rocks when the tide was low. This substance was dried and then ground into the color material. and pictures painted with these colors were in- visible by day and luminous by night. so the secret was that during the day the figure of the OK was not visible. and 1t was therefore said that 1t left the frame to go grazing.
 / History relates that during the age of Tiberius, a Roman workman who had been banished was allowed to re- turn to Rome. which he did. bringing with him a glass cup---a really won- derful cup. for he dashed 1t. upon the pavement and It was not broken by
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captain to reporters for the newspapers, who send 1t to their offices. At the same time the clerical policemen enter
 1t on sheets under the proper names.
 The vote for Mayor was necessarily the first vote counted at the last cleo tion. because, that came first on the ballot. Following that the ballotR were all gone over again. the votes for the different candidates for Controller were entered on the tally sheets qt the polling place., then footing was made for each and then the result was handed to another police officer. who took 1t at once to the station house, where the same procedure was fol- lowed. the captain reading 1t oft to the reporters and the policemen behind the desk entering 1t upon their sheets. Another policeman at the same time telephoned the figures to police head quarters to be announced there and punched for each candidate. &
 On election night this went on until l the votes for Assembiyman. the last
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You see, when the devil has iInpart-
 cd instruction to the first grade fsl- lows. he does 1t that the lower grades
 may. set the beneflt. and when the old scoundrel has fully fnoculated the up-
 per grades he doesn't bother himself with the tediousnsss of going though thea, b, c of 1t to the lower grades
 and emphasizes his discourse to his disciples with the same text that I'm using yon you--Hoc Age"
 Now, you win understand. that i,when the devil had planned and plott- ed againat the nice old gentleman that lived long ago. even before the civil war. he worked through the old
 gentlenafi's superior. who. from being
 like an angel. achieved the distinction
 of better half.' s,tEf 7 I am almost sure. Gentle Reader,
 thst. from the authentic history of the devil. he does his first works with the and then stands or with folded hands
 and enjoys the sssiduity of his first grades. 2 ' Really. he is1a Professor .Emeritus
 and is excused from the labor of the curriculum.
 If you want to escape his meshes you must watch for him in high places
 --there's where he uses tne .Ttaiian hand, sts.
 Ithink. now, that we've scored axain with . truism-s.watch for the devil fn high plaeess--rii punctuate again with | Hoe Age. { As the devil uses the same text tha, do. would do you Injustice if did not ask you to notice how the old ras-
 cal can initiate a moral leader who
 chips in while the gospel Is suspepdedl It goes to show what devil of a feilow he is. and how watchfnl you must be of him. f feel like. every one of yon wants to escape the wiles and arts and snares of the Eenteel learned (shaIl sayD pious old fellow. Don't yuu7' efs5g Well. there is one thing only for you to do. and you make him so abashed and embarrassed that he'll sneak
 away. He can't stand that oYe thing. I have heard that he hates holy water" but we all know that hatred makes us stick to and kinder" cher
 ish and pursue the thing or person we
 hate. There is no embarrassment in
 hatred Of water or any such thing as
 that.
 However. there is one thing the
 devil so hates that he can't abide its presence.
 People who have heard of that thing
 which the devil hates. regard 1t as one of the myths Of the ancieuts. If their theory of myth be true. then the devil is a"cowardly q skunk" to go
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every office the ballots have to be gone over in the process of counting the vote. In way 1t is the same as If about S,25O 900 votes had been cast by the citizens of New York City. That. using rough figures again. is about the total of their votes for all candidates. and the number of votes that had to be counted. tabulated and then announced to the citizens of the metropolis impatient to hear the results of the eanavss
 Tackfing thts tremendous job were 6.716 election officials, not including the number employed at the central offices of the Board of Elections and half of the police force of 10000 men. Tn order that the results shall get to the public in proper shape the news papers employ small army In ad- dition to these forces.
 Generally speaking the vote iF counted between the hour of p. In., and midnight. but the bulk of 1t. In fact. long before that hour Of course.
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were at last all got over the river. and prepared to march the nine miles be- tween the crossing and Trenton. One Amrican general found that the pow der of his men had been rendered uBe- less by the wet and he so informed Washington.
 "Tell your general to use tho bayo- net and penetrate the town" replied Washington. '-The town must be ta- ken. and am resolved to take it."
 HuddTed in a hut, suffering from the snow and sleet, the Hessian pickets made small opposition. and when the drums and bugles aroused the sleepy soldiers in Trenton 1t was too late to make c stand. The Hessians were eon- fronted by the enemy whichever way they turned. and finally Surrendered. the loss on the American side being only two officers and three prlvates wounded, while the British lost nearly . thousand in prisoners and tive score killed and wounded.
 The scene of such victory should always remain on the patriots map as one of the sacred spots of tho country. While the defeat aHd capture of e thousand Hessians may not seem a vi- tai matter. it was actually one 'of the most important achievements in the war, for the waning courage of the patriots was revived and the fact dem-
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, on the ballot had all been counted. Ip gathering the Iigures of the vote the police do not pay any attention to the political divisions of the city. such as Assembly distSicts, but simply lump the figures as they come in, hence the necessity of the newspapers getting the figures as quickly as they are brought to .he station houses and tabuiating them themselves. first by election districts and then by As- sembiys districts.
 s Done Xn Few Hours.
 The Sun collects its own figures at the different police stations. The figures for the other newspapers are collected by the New York City Newr Association. These figures have to be telegraphed from the precincts to . central point for tabuIation and there arranged in tables by Assembly dis tricts us they appear in the Sun. About s.000.000 votes have to be thus handled. and this is done generally be-
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son with Preacher Walker and told him he had too much respect for hlsn and the church to fight him there Walker wouldn't reason the matter and kept following Turner with his knife. Finally Turner told Wakes that if nothing else would do hs would so of from the church and sat- tie the matter with him. Walker tliem became quiet.
 The people are wrought up 0Rea such conduct and declare that the proposed amendment is causing con- fusion in tI . churches and dlvidina and hurtinf them. The good people. both men 2 women. are condemnip9 this Sund, preaching of a po- lltical ques n and they are lining up to go to u polls next Monday and caused so much confusion in their churches. The women. in discusaiT& the matter last Sunday say that q men have lost sight of the church 4 its purpose.
 It is certain now that B1ounk CT ty will roll un a much larger ma3H against the amendment than was
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vaex on nis friends. And Dc afraid of nothing but . myth.
 That supposed myth is The Truthi The devil can't stand the truth. thousn he often uses the vesAsis Of Truth. Gle may Dc using them while the gospel if on the hook.)
 It may have been shak sspsars or some other old fellow "way back 9on- der" who studied out plan by which one may rid himself of the presence of the devil ana I'm going, to give 1t to you--"reii truth and shame the devil.'s Now. as your moral teacher. on this Sunday and perhaps next Sunday--thAt is. while the gospel is' suspended. as- sure you that this is good rule and as all of you are going to strictly ob- serve 1t. I'll punctuate asain-Hoc agei--but 1t is hardly necessary.
 feel like the rule Is going to he 50 generally observed as to almost create ious. In political cirdies.
 l hope nobody. will blame me forpre- cipitating the panic--I am only pex- forming duty--in the interim. Not to go beyond the pfescriked and orthodox Sunday length of instruction. we had better sum up."
 Tn doing this. we ghAve. learned ssv- eral things. at least. four. which are--
 Confess to the injured--Tfoc aget
 Resist the -devil---Hoc age. Watch for the devil in high piacss--- Hoe age! and
 Ten the Truth--Hoc age.
 With appropriate textual punctuA~ ton.
 Of course. as use 'svile. dirty sheet as means of impressinx mor- ais (while, the gospel is on hook) up- on the people. many. nice people will not get the benefit of our cpnciusions
 These conclusions will, no doubt. be regarded as innovations by the better class of people. but I'm going to in- sist, upon their orthodoxy this Sunday and, may be so, next.
 I am persuaded that the Moralists who have temporarily given the gos- pei the dodge. will give the Aineri to our last conclusion---ssre1l tho TruthF
 Tbey are. generally. conssientiou4 truthful men and have such ( horror of intoxicants that every mothers son of 'em voted for the prohibition cam didate for President! 8
 Tn round numbers there are about six hundred Of ,em, They show their faith by their works! They are bully
 on next Sunday. Deo voiente. I'll give you the Charge of the Six Hun Let all observe. the Four Rules--es. pscially the iast'
 0' ,. cuipsppsr.
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the size of the task before it. Tn every one of the 1879 polling places when the count begins there are two or more policemen. Waiting in the police stations are the commanders of the precincts and at least four police men detailed that night for clerical work in tabulating, the returns.
 The distribution of the returns from the I.679 election districts of Greater New York among the ninty three police precincts of the city is done by the Board of Elections a month or more be- fore election. The entire city has to be charted so that on election day and also on the registration days each pre- cinct knows which returns 1t should receive.
 Counted Separately.
 As fast as the vote for an office is counted by the election officials 1t is put down on slip by, one of the policemen detailed at the polling place and he takes 1t at once to his station house. There 1t is called out by the
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tween the hours of ! D m. and O.. m. t. 5Atst
 Some of the districts from which fhla vote must be obtained are as rural as almost any to be found in this State. Nevertheless the police arm reachea out for them just the same as it does for the districts along the Bowery. and they so into the same great hopper to come out on the next Jnorning'a breakfast tables arranged in their proper place for each caudidate and district.
 It would be difHcuIt to conceive of, d much larger job of the kind than this of finding Gut in . few hours just exactly how this city of cvsr eoe.eoe voters has gone. ar of any that is done more expeditiously considering the area covered. reaching es 1t does from tho end of Staten Island down opposite Perth Amboy to Ycnkers and beyond Jamaica and from the Hudson Co where the ocean rolls along the chores ck RockRway.
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only i've of the States cast as many votes in a presidential election as the city of New York piled up when 1t voted for Mayor at the last election. These States are Illinois. Missouri, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania. In a majority of the others the vote Is not equal to that of either of the two largest boroughs of the greater city, says The New York Sun.
 Roughly speaking. the total vote for Mayor was 596,000. While that Is the number of valid ballots which had to be handled on election day, it doesn't convey a true idea of the gigantic task confronting the election officers and the police in counting and tabulating the vote and giving the result to the public practically con- plete so that they might have 1t at their breakfast tables in the morning and know who was elected before they went to bed on election night.
 There were in all fourteen different oficers filled at the election. For
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This. is the Blessed Sabbath day, with the Gospel temporarily suspend-' ed: and think it not Improper. e ing a layman for the time being de- prived of the usual Sabbath pabuium, td isubmit some remarks.
 The common, ordinary Christian when deprived of the regular sab-i bath dish is like the slave of tobacco without as .scha w---he's .'just obleeged to have something" and. under the trying. ldsstressihg circumstances. win be thankfui for sweet gum ..rossutn.s Just. so with the Cnristlah on sanday when the Gospel is sas
 rscoiisct. just nows an. old friend in tho ministry. who. In me opensns M and closing prayer. always asked 'he blessinrs Of the Lord, upon all con- crerations where the gospel hao been dispensed with"
 The good man has long peen lh heaven but I reeoilect tpe earnestness of his prayer. had my opinion. at tha tsme that he had harnsssed up words without due consideration, but I think. now. that. probably, he pray ed better than he thought.
 If there are .pulpits aud congrega- tions wliefe the, Gospel Is dispensed with" if seems to me-, that a good man is very thoughtful now, to ask inc blessings of the Lord on such. They need the special. care of Ben evolent Providence.
 Tn this temporary suspension of the Gospel In so many of the orthodox Christian churches, Nsome man ought to furnish moral chewing gum or re- 1iqious eroasum" for the entertain ment of those who are temporarily de- prived of Sunday 'sweetnin'-"
 A distinguished Baptist minister onceg confided to me that when one of his brethren ate too many collards for supper. enough to sadden him in the low grounds of sorrow. he Inter preted 1t as "call" to preach, and if he had got over the bellyche by the time of the next conference he ap- peared there and asked the brethren to '1iberate" him.
 feel so sad and serious that. | think I've had special 'caif',t--- something like Woe is me if' etc, etc.
 Being "divinely set apart for, 1t, 1t becomes me to go at it seriously. earn estly, gloomily. In hammer. and tongs kind of way becoming the occas- ion. s.Rs s4s . . A
 Don't forget. 1t Is the Sabbath and the Gospel suspended--hung up on the hooki and Invite your serious at- tention to the text-"Hoc Age"
 BeforesI begin. 1t is well to fix and establish the present relation of writ CT and reader. It Is my business to teach. yours to learn. and 1t is well
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rural to infer that his cnyironmsnts made him meaner than "gar broth.' The old rascal was in what we cell. frame of mind,,' and had ft in' for something or somebody. He had heard, in passing. that there was nice old gentleman though careless of his toilet, on one of the worlds above him, who was doing so well and seemed SO happy, that he forthwith determined 10 knock his props from under him.
 The old gentleman had more land and farm animals and other beasts at that time than he actually needed. He had the biggest fish ponds in all the country which were supposed to be recently stocked with all manner sof fish; he had fruits to waste He was what we call landed proprietor In good circumstances. If he had any dealings with the merchants IL Is sup posed that The paid cash."
 In his domestic life he was a model of a husband. Of. all the women in that county he would take but one, which made him the very head ana front of Monogamists.
 He put his foot down on divorces with almost as much emphasis as the Pope.
 At the time or WHICH II ofu -WEheAhs the old gentleman was SO rich and in- dependent and had SO many rights that he naturally invited the envy and enmity of the gentleman in the hole tby this you will understand that mean the deyilJ and he "1aid for him. ss q.
 By what means. do you think, the devil. meant to destroy tho nice all gentleman with the big plantation and fish ponds? s..ss x
 Did he mean with true Southern chivalry to meet the old gentleman face to face. and "haye 1t out with himT" M e,-ia. l- .4
 oh. No! A
 He knew enough of the old gentle man to conclude that if he approached him bold and told him he intended to deprive him of some right which he had. why the old farmer would have 'beat hell out of him W
 So. the old rapscaiiion took this tack on hini--he got his wife to do the devilment
 Ever since that it has been the practice of even good men to get wives and daughters and. mothers to deceive their. husbands and so forth to destruction. tfa You see how good men can learn and do learn from the devil
 give 1t t6 you in confidence and at low breath that think the devil sometimes stoops to association with the poor and the mean and the wick ed not as a primary teacher. but as c kind of superintendent. to observe whether his first grade teachers have extended his precepts
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TWO AMnNpMnNT, ApvocATns

 Ia Diagraceful Row on sand AHoun-
 tnIn--Exnife Drawn.
 Special, to Gadsden Daily Times-News.
 oneonta. Route No. 1--An affray between two men over the proposed amendment to the constitution took place last Sunday at the Wilson Ia bernaele. Methodist Church on Sand Mountain. the principals being Rev. Walker, a Methodist. and Rev. Turner. Missionary Baptist After Rev. Walker had concluded hie sermon he took from his pocket some campaign Literature and cartoons and began a lecture In defense of the amendment. At this point. Preacher Turner asked for a few minutes to talk and the time was granted. Preacher Turner began bv saying he was for the amendment and would vote for 1t. but for Gods sake keep 1t out of the church. He said that the editor who wrote the literature and made the cartoons did not have Q spark of relig- ion. At this point Preacher Walker took offense, pulled his knife from hiss pocket and declared that he would stand hts ground and that he was not afraid. Preacher Turner tried to req