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IRASBURGII, VERMONT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1856.
VOLUME 1.
NUMBER 9,
Citcrarn Selections.
THE FIRST STEPS IN CEIME.
The following sketch of a young man's
career in crime is from Mr. Holbrook's
book, Ten Tears Among the Mail Bags."
The literary reputation of one of the
oldest and most celebrated seats of learn
ing in New England, was once tempora
rily overshadowed by the 'eminence'
that it attained in the eyes of all within a
distance of fifty miles in every direction,
who attempted to transmit valuable mat
ter through the mails. The period dur
ing which this state of things existed was
in the months of January and February
1854. Throughout those months a fa
tality attended all money-letters designed
to pass through the place referred to ;
the like of which has seldom been known
in the history of the Post office.
" As well might one have attempted to
send a valuable letter across the Mael
1 Strom, as to get it safely past that fatal
point. This point was like the lion's
" cave in the fable, into which many tracks
"entered, but from which none were seen
"to return. And the lion whoever he was
had an insatiable and 'discriminating
appetite, for he consumed the supplies
coming from three or four neighboring
counties in the State, and like a feline
Oliver Twist, continually 'asked for
, more.'
The effect of these numerous losses, of
course, were confined to the vicinities of
the sufferers, but were felt in remote por
tions of the county.
But the loss of money and the conse
quent inconvenience, were not the onlv
results following this wholesale robbery.
Perhaps no series of mail depredations
ever spread so widely the cloud of sus
picion over those connected with the mail
service. All the route agents, postmas
ters, post office clerks, and mail messen
' gers, whose spheres of duty lay within the
infected district ; all these officials felt
the severity of the test of character, which
existing circumstances applied. Such a
state of things as that which we are de
scribing, often serves as a thunder-shower
to clear the moral atmosphere. - Half
formed purposes of roguery, for the pre
sent at least, are laid by ; those already
guilty of speculation on a small scale,
eease from their operations, all wait in
breathless suspense for denountent of the
drama ; and when the bolt fall-, and the
"offender smitten down, they breathe more
freely ; and such a catastrophe is not.un-
Frequently the turning point in the life of
some young man, who has Litherto been
vacillating between good and evil.
The arrest and punishment of another
inspires him with salutary fear of similar
results in his own case, should he venture
like course.
. And the effect of such occurrences
upon those who have never turned aside
from the path of rectitude, is no less de
cided. ,
These are the times that ' try men's
souls.' It is a hard thing for one to bear
up for weeks and months under a load of
suspicion, though conscious of innocence ;
but this is astill harder task, if he has noth
ing between the eyes of the public and
his inward rottenness but the thin shell
of a decent and false reputation. No
man can know to its full extent the value
of a good character, until he has been
through some 'fiery trial,' in which noth
ing but such a power could have saved
from ruin.
Yet those who, at the time of which I
speak, were most firm in conscious integ
rity, did not escape the stings of annoy
ang suspicions, and significant insinua
tions.
' ' Could it be a certain Route Agent?'
asked an officious individual, perhaps
quite too willing to start such a suspicion,
the aforesaid agent having in pursuance
of general instructions, denied him the
privilege of the mail car. I saw him,'
continued our virtuous friend, sporting
a fine turn out only last Sunday, and
they do say that he is rather fast for a
joung man on so small a salary. It
would notsurprise me much if they should
il .i i
uuu uiai me trouble is there.'
Unfortunately for his theory, so well
founded on the basisof a Sunday , turn
out,' and ' they say,' the 'fast' young man
could not nave tad access to one in s
dozen of the lost packages.
- This is a specimen of the endless sur
mises and conjectures that were thrown
out in the progress of the affair, much to
the annoyance of postmaster's clerks, and
other officials, whose honesty aided by
the strenuous efforts of the special Agent
to arrive at the truth, carried them thro'
the ordeal triumphantly ; and left their
accuserparticularly the man who could'nt
r"ic in the mail car, rather chop fal
len.'and possibly not a little disappointed.
The banks within the infected district,
suffered in the loss of drafts, &c, to the
amount of at least two hundred thousand
dollars, which scarcely a business man in
either of the two or three cities within
range of the prevailing disorder, escaped
the vexations and often injurious conse
quences of the depredation then going on,
for the robber did not stop to select his
booty. Indeed, he could not have done
so, had he wished it, as the reader will
hereafter see.
An investigation of the case was ordered
by the Department, and carried on with
as much energy as prudence would per
mit ; yet in the midst of it the robberies
continued unchecked. Hereupon some
of the bank officers grew very impatient,
as the victim of depredations are apt to
do, if they are not acquainted with every
step that is taken in the delicate process
of narrowing down the investigation.
. When I had been on the train for near
ly a week, one of these gentlemen an
excellent financier, but by no means pro
foundly versed in the mysteries of human
nature in his imprudent zeal to find out
tomething, took matters into his own
hands, and came near spoiling all by
alarming the robber, without detecting
him. lie prepared a sort of decoy letter,
as he called it, well filled with tissue pa
per, about the size of bank notes, and his
tempting package he addressed to
cashier to whom several of the missing
letters had been directed. This fell into
the hands of the robber, but the experi
ment was rendered harmless by the fact
stated by himself after his arrest, that he
never stopped to read or examine any
letters, except to ascertain whether they
contained money. It will never be known
probably, how much good advice the crim
inal lost when he committed this tissue of
deception to the flames, for the worthy
cashier, in his well-meant zeal, supplied
the place of bank-notes in the decoy pack
age with what he doubtless considered of
more value, namely, a moral lecture to
the delinquent, displaying in vivid colors
the folly and wickedness of his course,
and closing with the warning that if he
took that letter, he surely would be de
tected! .:, . ' ..: ..
1 The ingenuity and shrewdness of this
device cannot be too much admired. The
threat contained in the letter was so well
calculated to throw the culprit off his
guard, that if he read it he would no doubt
have fallen an easy prey to such cunning
machination : It was of course expected
by the deviser of this scheme that the
package would be preserved by the per
son who stole it, in order to afford the
evidence of crime ! The pieces of tissue
paper could have easily hare been inden
tified, and he would naturally preserve
the accompanying document with as much
care as Job was ready to show to the book
which he wished his adversary to write
Such interference as this, with an im
portant investigation, is never warranted
by any consideration whatever. The
commander of an army who has laid all
his plans for surprising an enemy, would
feel under very slight obligations to any
officious friend, who, in his impatience
and ignorance of the cause intended.
should alarm the foe by some hasty and
ill-advised attack.
Thus it is in the investigation to which
we refer. Secresy is all important to
the successful issue of the plans that may
be devised ; and volunteer services, es-
pecially from persons destitute of expe
rieiice, are quite as likely to aid the crim
inal as to assist those who are endeavor
ing to detect him.
This digression has been made princi
pally for the sake of protesting against
such interference as that above mention
ed, and of inducing other to abstain
from similar unwarrantable experiments
Notwithstanding the unesiness of our
amateur detective officer, and the re
markable skill displayed by him (as he
supposed) in that capacity, considerable
progress had already been made by means
much safer than those which he adopted,
if not more lrgnious.
There were but few points to which
suspicion could be reasonably directed,
as there were but few places where the
stolen packages would have centered.
Each of these points was closely watched
A section of Tailroad, some thirty-five
miles in length, over which most of the
robbed mails must have passed, seemed,
for a time, to satisfy the conditions of the
problem to be solved, but this hypothesis
was overturned by the fact thiU on one
and the same night, packages were taken
irom ine mails which had
other on this rod, in opposite trains, on
separate tracks and at a high rate of
speed.
The mail messengers employed to con
vey the mails to and from the several
railroad depots were carefully looked af
ter, but all appeared right among them.
As for post; offices, there were not more
than two out of all affected by the nu
merous losses, through which half a dozen
of the lost letters would have passed.
There was, however, one man who had
not thus far been included in the investi
gation, chiefly: because in- the discharge
of his ordinary duties as baggage-master,
at a central station or junction where
mail-carriers were provided by the rail
road companies, he was not supposed to
have -tfta a temporary charge of any of
the mails. But while watching one of the
mail-carriers on a certain evening, as he
was conveying a number of mails from a
city post office to the cars, the Agent ob
served him placing them in charge of the
aforesaid baggage-master, prior to the ar
rival of the train by which they were to
be fowarded.
After they had thus been committed to
his custody, he was seen to throw them
carelessly into his baggage-room, and en
ter the room, closing the door behind him.
After a lapse of several minutes, he came
out, piled the bags upon a barrow or baggage-truck,
and Wheeled them to a point
upon the platform, opposite which the ap
proaching train was; to stop. The un
necessary operation of placing the bags
in the room when the train was nearly or
quite due, was a very suspicious circum
stance, when taken in connection with
other movements. The Postmaster of a
neighboring city was requested to be
present at the opening of the mail, to see
whether certain letter packages arrived
which were known to'have been in the
through mail pouch for his office that
evening. ' The reply was, opened mail
myself, no letters for this delivery.
An hour and a half had now passed
6ince the train had left, and if the mails
had been rifled in the baggage-room, suf
ficient time had been afforded the robber
to have concealed or destroyed the direct
proof of his guilt upon this occasion.
Hence no open action 'was then taken in
view of the discoveries made. . Besides,
there was too much .at stake to warrant
the incurring of any risk on the strength
of these facts.
The following evening the movements
of the suspected person were again watched
the Agent haying a better knowledge re
specting the exact nature and value of a
portion of the mail bags which were to be
forwarded at that time.
Upon this occasion, the train was ' on
time' and the carrier a little later than
usual, so the mails were placed directly
upon the barrow, and wheeled by the
baggage-master to an obscure part of the
depot, more remote from observation and
less in the way of passers, than where
they were carried the previous night.
After remaining there a short time, he
rolled the truck and its valuable load
back to the usual spot, in readine. s for
the train. - . ; . .o- ' .
The strange manoeuvre indicated still
another and colder operation, but the
probability were that he had been foiled
in any attempt he might have designed
to make by a person whom I saw follow
ing him into his dark retreat to make
application for baggage, as I supposed
for they both entered the baggage room
ana soon came out, tne stranger witn a
valise in his hand. The contre temps
excited in my mind no very amiable feel
ings towards its innocent cause, for I had
concluded to bring the affair to a crisis
at once, should the telegraph report any
thing missing from the mails. But the
dispatch received that evening, was All
right,' which confirmed my beleif that my
plans and those of the baggage master
had been frustrated by the stranger.
Another train from the opposite direc
tion, and bringing mails for delivery at
this point, were due at a late hour, and
as there had also been losses from these
mails, I decided to wait and see what
usage they received on their arrival,
which owing to heavy snowdrifts some
where on the road, was delayed till near
midnight. "
' "When the train came in, and the bag
gage was disposed of the mails were all
carried to the baggage room instead of
the post office, and after putting out the
gas lights about the depot, the faithful
baggage master returned to his apart
ments. ' . : -" - n
'Through a small swinging window de
singed for ventilation, opening into his
room near the top I could see a faint
light, and from its unsteady motions,
which showed that the lamp from which
it proceeded was in the hand of some one
moving it in various directions J concluded
the occupant of the room was rifling the
mails.
This was an exciting moment My
first impulse was to proceed at once to
the door, demand admittance, and charge
him on the spot with the crime of which
I suspected him. But a slight distrust of j
my physical ability to cope with him sin
gle handed in case of resistance, which
would almost certainly follow if my sus
picions were correct; and the lateness of
the hour rendering improbable that I
could obtain and should it be necessary ;
these considerations prevented me from
carrying out my first intentions, and when
the unconscious object of my scrutiny put
out his light and left th v depot, I went in
an opposite direction to my quarters, de
termined, however, to give him but one
more chance to continue his depreda
tions. The next night he robbed his last mail
bag. Obtaining an interview with the
Superintendent of the railroad, I for the
first time laid the facts before him, for
the purpose of securing some assistance
in the prosecution of my plans which he
only could render. I wished him to pro
vide a place of concealment in that re
tired part of the depot where the mails
had been taken on the preceding evening;
and as empty cars were frequently left
standing over night upon some of the un
occupied tracks, it was arranged to leave
a car near the place mentioned for my
exclusive occupancy. From the ' loop
hole' of this retreat I could determine
with some accuracy the nature of such
mysterious movements as I had before
witnessed in that vicinity.
Lest the baggage room should be cho
sen this time as the scene of operation,
a discreet friend was stationed near that
point about the time the mails were
biought over from the office, in order to
' head off' the suspected functionary.
For the purpose of allowing as much
time as possible, the conductor of the
train which was to take that mail had
been telegraphed to ' come in a little be
hind time.' -
Certain money packages had been pre
pared, and everything being in readiness,
I took my post of observation in the emp
ty car just before the mails came from
the post office. I had not long been sta
tioned, before I heard the familiar sound
of the baggage truck, and in a' moment
more the baggage master appeared, trun
dling along his load of mails, and coming
to a stand upon the platform within fif
teen feet of my watchful eye.
That eye saw rapid work for a few mo
ments ! Hasty passes of the right hand
between the mouth of one of the mail
bags (as it appeared in the dim light to
be) and the rapacious pockets of the sack
overcoat, showing clearly for what pur
pose the mails had been thus taken out
of the way, and the well known click of
a mail lock informed me that the opera
tion was concluded, and that the moment
had arrived for action on my part.
I think a railroad car was never emp
tied of its contents in a much less time
than on the present occasion. And my
very informal introduction to the whole
sale dealer in the original packages was
about as sudden. In fact, he had hardly
set down his barrow, after removing it a
few yards to its original position, before I
was addressing him.
In the midst of the rifling process just
described, I had seen him open the door
of a small apartment near him, a light
shining for a moment while the door was
open. And it ocvurred to me that an
accomplice might be secreted there lor
the purpose of receiving the stolen poper
ty. Accordingly I remarked that I would
like to have him accompany me for a mo
ment into his room on private business,
to which he readily assented, neither
knowing me nor having any suspicion of
the nature of my business, for otherwise
he might not have so cheerfully complied
with my request.
On openiug the door I discovered a
person within who appeared to be wholly
unoccupied except in smoking a cigar.
Thinking it probable that he was in some
way connected with the robberies, I con
sidered it prudent to obtain assistance be
fore making known the object of this in
terview, and accordingly spoke to three
or four persons who had been attracted to
the place by the unwonted movements,
requesting one of them to call one of the
police officers, some of whom were gen
erally in the vicinity of the railroad sta
tion. During this delay, and in order to pre
vent any attempt to escape, I put a series
of questions to the baggage master, calcu
lated to allay the suspicion which began
to be strongly indicated by his looks.
Did you,' I inquired, find, in thismorn-
ing's train from II , a pocket-book
lost there by a passenger ? If we can re
cover the papers, the money is less of an
object.'
This seemed to relieve him consider
ably, and he replied in a cheerful tone.
I have found no such thing. It isn't
my business to see through the trains, but
this man's,' pointing to the other person
present.
'Ah, it's my mistake. Did you see
anything of a pocket-book,' I asked,
turning to the other person indicated.
' No,' was the answer ; ' have you lost
such an article ?
I was relieved from the difficulty of this
question by a rap on the door from the
Chief of"Police, -who was the man of all
others I wished to see.
As he entered, I intimated to him in
whisper what was on foot, and then turn
ing to the baggage master, without any
preamble or formality, I requested him
to hand me the mail-key which he had in
his possession.
' I haven't any mail-key,' was the dull
response. ' Very well, then,' said I, ' we
shall have to search you.'
He turned pale, and remarked, with as
sumed carelessness, ' I suppose I know
what you want.'
One of the side pockets of his overcoat
appeared somewhat distended, I com
menced my investigation with that. The
first article that appeared was the large
package of letters made up that evening
for delivery at the neighboring city, be
fore alluded to, and the next dive brought
to light heavy distribution packages for
the same office. Several other packages
of less size were afterwards drawn forth.
After the search had been completed,
the culprit was handcuffed and lodged
in jail within half an hour from the
time when he committed this depreda
tion. After we had dispatched this part of
the business, we turned our attention to
the companion of the unfortunate baggage
master, who had been observing our pro
ceedings with the utmost equanimity, tho'
not without interest.
' That's rather hard on Ed,' said he, as
the door closed on the culprit.
' Yes, replied I, ' it is. But I believe
we must search you, for I think you are
concerned in this affair.
' I never was searched in my life,' said
he smilingly, ' excepting when I searched
my own pockets, and then I never found
much. Perhaps you'll have better luck ;
at any rate it won't hurt me to have it
tried,' and thus saying he laid aside his
cigar, and presented himself to undergo
the ordeal. But nothing was found that
could implicate him in any way
I then expressed a fear that he might
still be an accomplice, as I noticed the
baggage master open and shut the door
of the little room, while rifling the mails
that night.
An honest laugh followed this remark,
and an explanation was given me, which
satisfactorily accounted for the suspicious
circumstance.
It seems that his dishonest companion,
fearing that he might come out of the
room, and detect him in the act, had
opened the door, telling him that he would
have to be locked in till the train ar
rived, and turned the key on the outside.
Tliis passed for a joke, and the imprisoned
person thought little of it, as he would
have no occasion to leave the room until
the train arrived, when it would
be his duty to inspect the cars.
It also appeared that this locking up
trick had been played several times
previously, no doubt for a similar pur
pose.
Thus was an honest man subject to sus
picion, by circumstances beyond his con
trol. A satisfactory explanation of this,
however, was not beyond his power, and
his experience goes to increase the array
of testimony, to show the inestimable val
ue of a clear conscience in all exigien
ciea whatever.
The key of a private desk in the bag
gage room was taken from the robber,
and in this desk was found about $10,000
in bank drafts, check?, &c, and more than
a hundred rifled letters, which, as their
postmark showed, must have been the
proceeds of one or two nights' robbery.
Everthing taken from the mails except
money, had been committed to the flames,
as the criminal himself afterwards con
fessed. A large portion of the available
funds which he had accumulated was re
covered, and restored to the rightful
owners.
In less than a week from this time,
he was tried and sentenced to the State
Prison for the term of twenty-seven years.
The discoveries here detailed give rise
to great surprise and exclamation among
all whoknew the guilty individual, for he
had sustained a good reputation for so
briety, honesty aud industry.
His innocent family received the wafm-1
est sympathy of the entire community,
which indeed they deserved, for the cul
prit's wife was a sincere christian wo
man ; a living exemplification of the
religion by which the professed to be
guided.
Some of the interviews at the prison
between her husband, children and her
self, were painful to behold ; yet, after the
first terrible shock (and how terrible it
was can be realized by those only who
have seen a beloved one suddenly meta
morphosed from a fancied angel into a
fallen spirit,) she became more resigned
to the overpowering calamity whkn had
overtaken her and her children.
She had no reproaches for her sinning
husband, nor did she allude in his pres
ence to the sufferings which he had bro't
upon his innocent family ; but her aim
seemed to be to induce him by means of
his bitter experience, to begin a new and
Christian life.
One day when I called to see the pris
oner, in company with a gentleman who
was anxious to learn the fate of a pack
age of papers he had lost, we found the
afflicted woman sitting by her husband
one arm thrown lovingly around his neck,
and an open Bible lying on her lap. We
apologized to her for the interruption.
She looked up mournfully, a tear stealing
down her wan cheek as she said, .
' It's no matter. I was only reading to
poor Edward.' Then looking at him
fondly, she continued, ' He has been a
kind, good husband and father, and he
hadn't any bad habits or companions that
I knew of ; and I have often thought that
if he only had religioa Le would be per
fect And if this trial, bad as it is, will
only make him a Christian, it will be all
I shall ask.
Meanwhile, her two little children
were thoughtlessly playing about the door
of the cell, unconscious of the ruin which
had been wrought in the hearts and pros
pects of their wretched parents. The
youngest one while we were there, tried
to play ' bo-peep' with its father, but was
immediately checked by the poor mother,
who cried out in an agonizing voice, ' Oh
Eddie, don't !
Ever since her husband was sent to
prison, this devoted wife has visited him
twice a month (having been furnished
with a free pass by the officers of the
railroad, which passed near the prison),
and to judge of the report of those who
have an op portunity of observing every
day, the prisoner has commenced a Chris
tian life, to which the prayers of Lis lov
ing wife were designed to lead him.
Nothing can be said that would add to
the force of the lesson contained in the
facts here narrated. If a life-time of im
prisonment, and the blighting of the
hopes and happ'mi'ss of loved ones, do
not show with sufficient impressiveness
the result of crime, imagination will in
vain attempt to supply the deficiency.
I append a letter received by me from
the criminal, some time after his commit
tal to the State Prison :
W , Ju'y 1, 18o4.
Kind friend For I must consider you
as such, because through your instrumen
tality I have been saved, jerbaps from a
worse fate than has befallen me. I tliink
through this, I have been taught to see
what a sinner I am. I am truly penitent
for this crime, as well as my disobedience
to the just laws of God. I meau through
the help of Almighty power to serve
my Creator the remaining years of my
life.
It is strange how I was tempted to do
that crime. I never was Inclined to do
evil or to keep bad company. In fact 1
kept no company hardly, except that of
my wife and little ones. Oh, how my
heart throbs to break loose aad join them !
Look upon yours as you cim in freedom
and think of me. It almost suffocates me
to call them before me in my mind.
Oh, horrors ! little did I think such a
fate would befall me ! I cannot tell why
I did it, more than this to pay roy debts.
How they did trouble me how should I
ever ay theru? But this was not the way
to cancel them.
I do not love money not at alL I
never deairod to be rich, only to be square
with the world. I became indebted bv
extravagance and pride.
I would tell you a little story of my
life, if I could. My connections exw-pt
my father are pious people. My mother
was a good Christian, and dil in the hoje
of Heaven. She called me to her bed
side about two months before Ler death.
That was the last time I saw her alive ;
and when oho parted with me. the clasped
me to her boom with these words
"My Son, oby Gl and m f um in
Heaven
But this is too painful. 1 cannot write
of this.
You can imagine my feelings at this
time. Btit the evil tempter has left
me now, and I pray to God, never to re
turn. Do warn others of my sad fate, to shun
the road to ruin.
Will you not call and see tne some
time? Don't despise the thief Christ did
not
Many thanks to your kind heart. Also
please thank the Government Attorney
and the Postmaster of II and N
II May God watch over and pre
serve you all. "
Your unworthy servant, E. A. S.
TTEXTCO.
"Who shall describe Mexico the Mex
ico of that age? It ought to be one who
had seen all the wonders of the world ;
and he should have for an audience those
who had dwelt in Venice and Constanti
nople, who had looked down upon Gran
ada from the Alhambra, and who had
studied all that "remained to be seen of
the hundred-gated Thebes, of Babylon,
and Nineveh. The especial attributes of
the most beautiful cities in the world
were here conjoined ; and that which was
the sole boast of many a world-renowned
name, formed but one of the charms of
this enchantress among ckies Well
might the rude Spanish soldier find no
parallel but in the imaginations of his
favorite romance. Like Granada, encir
cled, but not frowned upon, by moun
tains ; fondled and adorned by watery
like Venice ; as grand in its building as
Babylon of old, and rich with gardens,
like Damascus the gn at city of Mexico
was at that time the fairest in the world,
and has never since been equaled. Like
some rare woman, of choicest parentage,
the descendant of two royal houses far
apart, who joins the soft, subtle, graceful
beauty of the south, to the fair, blue
eyed, blushing beauty of the north, and
sits enthroned in tho hearts of all be
holders so sat Mexico upon the waters,
with a diadem of gleaming towers, a fair
expanse of flowery meadows on her
breast, a circle of mountains as her zone ;
and, not unwoman-like, rejoicing in Hie
reflection of her beautiful self from the
innumerable mirrors which were framed
by her streets, her courts, her palaces,
and her temples. Sjxiniih Conquests in
America.
CsTA wag meeting a very homely
man, thus addressed him "My dear
friend, you ought to take saffron." u For
what?" inquired the latter. "To keep
the ugliness out, for if it ever strikes in it
will surely kill you.''
C Chesterfield, having been inform
ed by his physician that he was dying by
inches, congratulated himself that he was
not so tall by a foot as Sir Thoma. Kob
inson. Cyilere are two faces under one
hat," as the young lady remarked when
her lover wa3 kissing her.
6 An incorrigible wag, who lent a
minister a horse, which ran away an I
threw his clerical rider, thought he should
have some credit for his aid in spreading
the gospel !
CJTA Cincinnati paper contains ai
advertisement of bonnets and petticoat
for young men's wear, to correspond
with the shawls so generally w orn.
62 The fifth vo'ume of Maeaulav'-i
History of England has passed into the
hands of the printer.
6" He submits him-elf to be wn
through a microscope, whosufl'ers himself
to caught in a passion.
6iT It better to go round a stream
than to drown in crossing.
63 The best work a mother can do is
to take care of her children.
53 Tis but a little, narrow soul, w hieU
earthly things can please.
In California they call a livery
stable a "horse restaurant'
Unjopu!ar Quarrelsome wotnrn,
rainy day, and thote dirty-faced boys
who are continually boring you about
that little bill you owe Mr. Grip.
6ST O'a uwther " aid a little child,
fc Mr. S. does love aunt Lucy ; he its by
her, he whispew to her and he hug
her. "Why Edward, your aunt doci
jnot iuffer tlmt, does the-'
i i-' mother, it? !!!-- ir,"
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