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jJOCAL.
" T „., rfl McCloud, of Monroe,
living with her sister,
La.. rt'-ii Vewtou, on East Jackson
Mrs-” 1
street. .
ir 1839 has been oue of sig-
Tbe - V V U to the Prezbyterians.
Sll Bl 'mfluv other blessings and suc-
A ® OQ / unmentioned, Rev. Benjamin
1 to his congregation that
* aDO J ce was free from debt. The
f.K'aool is also in a very flourishing
Charles Stewart, of Baltimore,
tf ‘ ro ffa9 in the city last week en
\lcorn College. Prof. Stew
ri ■ tlie able traveling correspondent
t ' be Baltimore “Afro-American”
1 «f the race’s ablest papers.
02"
tj p Matilda Sims, wife of Mr. Fer
'i c; m a died at her residence on
S&U...V night J« U.h,
L 0 she leaves a husband and five
Viltireu to mourn their loss. The
Jigbt extends its Bymp ath y-
Mr Wra. Bradley, son of Rev. W.
« Bradley, died on Bryson’s Hill
SanJav Jan. 1900 at 8 a.m. He
j- veB wife, father and three brothers
,o mourn their loss. May he rest in
peace.
Alias Sophia Whitlock, of Natchez,
Miss, is visitiug her cousin, Miss
Ibn- L. Turner North Cherry street.
Watch for the Lawler and Chatman’s
jig Mississippi Minstrells!
Miss Pauline Foster, daughter of
M rs , Rosa Foster, left for St. Joseph,
La., recently, expecting to teach
school. The Light wishes her much
success.
Airs. Mary Bellamy, of Opelika,
Mi**., who has been visiting her
mother. Mrs. Hannah Tarren and hor
listers Matilda J. Johnson and Miss
Lillie Williams, left for her home on
.•innJay.
There will be given by the children
0 [ Aleiamler Academy, at the second
Presbyterian Church on North Farmer
street, a grand concert. . Thursday
night January 25th. Admission only
10 cents. A rare treat is promised to
all who may attend.
The Christian Home Society of Mt.
Olive Baptist Church, held an inter
esting meeting Wednesday night.
Air. Thomas Darden, the president
made some appreciative remarks con
cerning the foundation of the society,
the late Rev. Washington.
Mrs. Lizzie Forbes died on the
Levee Wednesday from an over dose
of morphiue.
Mrs. Clara Burston, a member of
Westly Chappie M. E. chuach died
Wednesday Jan. 17th at 11 a.m. Her
remains uas shipped to Forest Miss
the same afternoon for interment.
Trof. Lanier, the president of Al
corn college was in the city last week
on business, returning Sunday.
Remember the Light’s grand pre
mium, Spectacles offer only holds
good for a few more days.
DEATH OF B. B. WASHINGTON.
Rev. B. B. Washington, one of the
best known, best beloved and leading
Baptist ministers in Warren county,
died at his residence near the one
mile bridge, on Sunday January 14th,
1900.
His funeral took place from Mount
Olive Baptist Church, Tuesday Janu
ary 16th, at 10:30 o’clock, when near
ly two thousand people assembled to
pay a last sad tribute of respect to
bis remains:
The opening ode waa sung by Rev,
Frank Bose, followed with prayer by
Rev. B. T. Lynch; after which Rev.
A. J. Brown read the following obit
uary :
Worthy Christian fellow servant of
tbe Lord Jesus Christ, we have been
summoned by g visitation of one of
God’s Holy angels to assemble to
gether to witness the last sad and sol
emn right of which it pleases the Al
mighty God to take from our midst
Rev. B. B. Washington, our loving
shepherd, who has for many years
f erved us in the beauty of holiness,
and commendable in the presence of
uod.
departed this life on the first
month and 14th day of our Lord in
. year 1900, at 10 minutes past 11
oeloek p.m , iu full triumph of faith,
he leaves a loving wife and one child
‘ J mourn his departure in company
a host of Christian followers,
'no we know to be the fruits of his
hand, through the assistance
'R O -Almighty, which he chose in
P'oneer, in his Christian career.
Rev. Washington was born in the
‘.'ate of Louisiana in the cruel days
f’ slavery of bondage iu the year
•'' and joined hands with Mrs.
ashington in holy wedlock Septem
er the 20th in the year 1860 and
li^ ace forward lived a commendable
, Wa ® called to war in the time of
0 -o aud be Became a member of
t i 6rd regiment and company F, of
4s f nion Army and classed his arms
lroa an< i his breast as steel and
f-t!C , 6 . an B r y cannon was sending
i *, tae ‘ r fiery yengeance from the
““ R of the enemy like lightning
• m the heavens.
, V as muß f er ed out with honora
lScharge and after proving him
• a soldier in the civil war under
g Tern nrent of Abraham Lincolu.
ac ,. r , e “ T POU Bht a higher army and
tan ♦ < '' esus as his captain and be
erf ,° ' os 'er the holy cause in a pow-
Ut manner and thus seeing his
Ces s , 80 heautifully adorned with suc
bad e ,B a fhered his jewels in one
, and erected a temple of which
fuff,? Served Bince 1867—and after
80 mucb affliction he called
ba« 6 and e *claimed my salvation
hro (j OOB tbus be cont, i nued * or
Hid ti? salvation las come and
ite,, ‘ e ** Bter Sarah count my foot-
b e cr j Good Stephen of old
r 6 i * See * be h eaveQS cp?n today
died JeBUS thoH 8011 of God tbat
' !j calvery and then sang one
of his favorite songs was, “I know
my soul another year of this short
life is past.”
The last text he preached from was
the 15th chapter of St. John 3d and
4th verses, subject, ‘‘Now ye are clear
through, words which I have spoken
unto you, abide in me.” He spent
33 years of his life holding up the
blood stained banner of the cross, by
which we are saved, and then gently
passed into the arms of Jesus, our
Saviour.
Resolved, That we bow in humble
sympathy in behalf of the bereaved
family. Elder, thou art gone to rest;
we will weep for thee; your spirit is
in heaven, where ours long to be.
Rev. Jesse Henry, of Natchez,
Miss., took his text for this occasion,
Job 19th chapter 26th verse, subject,
‘T know that my Redeemer liveth ”
The multitude was deeply impressed
with his remarks.
The members of the Grand Army
carried out their ceremonies, being
conducted by Col. Isaiah Kelly and
Gen, N. A. Anderson, in a most im
pressive manner.
Hon. Wesley Crayton then paid a
beautiful tribute to the character of
the deceased, declaring that he filled
all of his obligations with God and
man.
Rev. Oscar Williams sang “Land of
Beulah,” and paid a high tribute to
the deceased as a pastor and a Chris
tian.
Rev. D. Johns sang “Save me, oh
God.”
Rev. K. Rucks sang “In the Chris
tian’s home in glory,” and spoke in
the highest terms of the deceased.
Prayer was offered by Rev. I).
Simms.
After which, the remains were ta
ken out of the church and laid to rest
near the pulpit, from which he had
preached so ofter to a most devoted
flock.
The following divines acted as pall
bears: Revs. J. H. Anderson, E. Ba
ker, A. T. Walker, B. R. Ball, H. G.
Reed, George Washington.
The casket was a most beautiful
one, and the floral offerings were
handsome.
The Christian Homo Society of
which Mr. Thomas Darden is presi
dent and Mr. Jerry Myers sec
retary, went $lO5 expenses in or
der that their Chief Commander Rev.
Washington might be interred prop
erly. Much honor is due Deacon
Tom Darden. Rev. Washington spent
33 years in the gospel ministry and
he was recognized and honored by all
who knew him to be a thorough relia
ble Christian gentleman of the highest
type. He was the founder of Mt.
Olive Baptist church.
A Paying Business.
San Francisco Bulletin: There Is no
singer in the world who can draw mors
than a $ 12,000 house. There is no ora
tor who can much raise the $1 admis
sion fee without exposing himself to
the danger of speaking to empty
benches. If the four most popular de
baters selected by popular vote would
advertise a discussion on any question
of the day they would be fortunate If
an audience could be gathered which
would net each $l,OOO. Yet It Is stated
that there was $BO,OOO in the box office
of the Coney Island Clubhouse on the
night when Robert Fitzsimmons and
James Jeffries met to see which could
punch the other harder, and which
could stand the most punishment. The
best of any class of performers always
represents a money value, but the best
fighter carrlos off the largest prizes
A Story of Culloin.
Just At the busy time one day when
the crowds from the department stores
packed the cars a tired-looking man
with a painful limp came in with the
crowd at the Fifteenth street transfer
station and stood clinging to a strap
Just in front of Senator Cullom. The
senator looked up. and, seeing the
weary face, instantly rose and offered
his seat. The man demurred. The
senator insisted. “Sit down, sit down,”
said he cheerily. “You mustn’t stand;
sit down.” The man sank into the
seat, and the tall Illinoisan contented
himself with a strap. From beneath
a great poppy-laden hat the bright
eyes of a little girl near whom he
stood peered up at him eagerly. At
last he looked down and saw her.
“Won’t you take my seat?” she said,
politely. The senator smiled down at
her and Bhook hi 3 head. “No, thank
you, child,” he said. “You musn’t ever
give up your sfat to a man. It sets a
bad example.”- -Chicago Tribune.
Her Real Charu
A Scotch farmer, says lxmdon An
swers, who was a bachelor and a little
past his prime, finding his comforts in
life rather meager on account of his
Indigent circumstances, decided that
the be3t thing he could do was to
marry a certain middle-aged neighbor
of his who did not lack for money. He
went wooed and won, and his estate
soon took on an air of greater pros
perity. One of the first purchases he
made with his wife’s money was a
horse. When he brought it home he
called his wife out to see It. After
admiring the animal she said: "Well
Sandy, if it hadna been for my siller
It wadna hae been here.” “Jenny,”
replied Sandy, “if it hadna b?en for yei
siller, ye wadna liac been here yer
iel’! ” mmm _
A boy named Veasy, having escaped
'rom the workhouse at Hinckley,
Leicestershire, Engfand, the porter was
ordered to proceed to Stanton, a neigh
boring village, and bring him back.
The porter went to Stanford on a bi
cycle, and, finding the lad, tied both
bis arms with a rope, and, attaching
the end of It to his bicycle, dragged
him back to Hinckley, the man riding
good speed. The afTair has created
a great sensation in the district, and at
the recent meeting of the Hinckley
guardians the board expressed their
strong condemnation of the porter’s
conduct. One member of the board
said the boy was exhausted by the
treatment meted out to him. At the
meeting the porter’s resignation was
tendered and accepted, the man’s ex
planation for resigning being that he
did not care for the treatment he re
ceived from the vagrants.
At preseut it looks as if the horse
ihoe superstition would outlast the
hors a. - - f .
TALMA GE SERMON-
‘ *«IEF SYNOPSIS OF THI OIVINF’S SUN
DAY DISCOURSE.
SubJ eel: Capacity to Sloep-Tt Is the Poor
M »n’i It less Inc—Words »f Comfort For
the Victims of Inseinnla— Walcefulaes*
• Means ot Grace.
[Copyright, Louis Klopsch, Uw. J
Washisotoj, D. C.-Iq this discourse
Dr. Talmagc treats of a style of disorder
not much discoursed upon and unfolds
what must be a consolation to many people
text, Psalms ixxvli., 4, '‘Thou boldest mine
eyes waking.”
Sleep is the vacation of the soul; It is the
mind gor.e into the playground of dreams;
It Is the relaxation of tlje muscles and the
solace of the nerves; It is the hush of ac
tivities; U is the soft curtaining ot the eves;
It is a trance of eight hours; it is a calm
ing of the pulses; it is a breathing much
Blower, though far deeper; it is a tempor
ary oblivion of ail carking cares; it is the
doctor recognized by nil schools ot medi
cine; it is a divine narcotic; it Is a com
plete aniesthetic; it is an angel of the
night; it is a great mercy of Qod for the
human race. Lack of tt puts patients on
the rack of torture, or in the madhouse, or
in the grave. 0 blessed sleepl No wonder
the Bible makes much of It. Through sleep
so sound that a surgical Incision of theside
of Adam did not waken him came the best
temporal blessing ever afforded to
man—wifely companionship. While in
eleep on a pillow of rock Jacob
saw a ladder set up, with angels coming
down and climbing. So “Hs glveth His
beloved sleep,” soliloquized the psalmist.
Solomon listens at the door of a tired
workman and eulogises bis pillow by say
ing, “The sleep of a laboring mau is
sweet.” Peter was calmly sleeping be
tween the two constables that night be
fore his expected assassination. Christ
was Hsleep in a boat on Galilee when
tossed In the euroclydon. The annuncia
tion was made to Joseph in sleep, and
death is described as only a sleep and the
resurrection as a glorious wakening out of
sleep.
On the other hand, Insomnia or sleep
lessness is an old disorder spoken of again
and again In the Bible. Ahasuerus suf
fered from it, and wo read, “In that night
could not the king sleep.” Joseph Hull
said of that ruler, “He that could com
mand a hundred and seven and twenty
provinces could not command sleep,”
Nebuchadnezzar had Insomnia, and the
record 1?, ‘‘His sleep brake from him.”
Solomon describes this trouble and says,
“Neither day nor night feeth he sleep
with his eyes.” Asaph was its victim, for
he complains in my text that bis eyes are
open at midnight, some mysterious power
keeping the upper and lower lids from
joining, “Thou boldest mine eyes wak
ing.”
Of course there Is au uprighteous sleep,
as when Jonah, trying to escape from
duty, slept la the sides of the ship while
the Mediterranean was in wrath because
of that prophetic passenger; as when
Columbus in his first voyage, exhausted
from being up many nights, gave the ship
lu charge of the steersman and tbe crew,
who, leaving the management of the ves
sel to boys, went to sleep and allowed the
ship to strike on tbe sand banks oT St.
Thomas; as when the sentinel goes to
sleep at his post, endangering the whole
army; as when the sluggard, who accom
plishes nothiug the day before he went to
sleep and will accomplish nothing the day
after he wakes. Alls up Solomon’s picture
of him as he yawns out, “A ,'ttle sleep and
a little slumber and a little fc lding of the
hands to sleep.” But sleep at the right
time and amid the right circumstances,
can you imagine anything more blessed?
If sleep, according to sacred and profane
literature, is an emblem ot death, the
morning to all refreshed slumberers is
a resurrection.
Remark the first: If you have escaped
the insomnia spoken ot in the text, thank
God. Here and there one can command
sleep, and it comes the minute he orders It
and departs at the minute be wishes it to
go, as Napoleon when he wrote: “Different
tiffurs are arranged in my bed as in draw
ers. When I wish to interrupt one train of
thought I close the drawer which contains
that subject and open that wblch contains
another. They do not mix together or in
convenience me. I have ngv r been kept
awake by an involuntary preoccupation of
mind. When I wish for repose I shut up
all the drawers, aud I am asleep. I have
always slept when I wanted rest, and al
most at will.” But I think In most cases
we feel that sleep Is not therosnlt of a res
olution, but a direct gift from God. You
cannot purchase it. A great Freuch finan
cier cried out, “Alas, why is there no sleep
to be sold?”
Remark the second: Consider among the
worat crimes tbe robbery of ourselves or
others of this mercy of slumber. Much
ruinous doctrine has been inculcated on
this subject. Thomas Moore gave poor ad
vice when he qaM, “The best way to
lengthen our days is to steal a few hours
from tbe night.” We are told that, though
they did their work at night. Copernicus
lived to be seventy-three years of age, and
Galilei seventy-eight years, and Herschel
eighty-four years. Yos, but the reason was
they were all star hunters, and the only
time for hunting stars is at night. Prob
ably they slept by day. Tho night was
made for slumber. The worst lamp a stu
dent can have is “the midnight lamp.”
Lord Brougham never passed more than
four hours of the night abed, aud Justinian,
niter one hour of sleep, would rise from
his couch. But you are n*lther a Justinian
nor a Lord Brougham. Let not tbe absurd
apotheosis of early rising nduce you to
tho abbreviation of sleep. Get up when
you are slept out unless circumstances
compel otherwise. Have no alarm clock
making its nerve tearing racket at 4
o’clook in tho morning, unless special rea
sous demand the forsaking of your pillow
at that hour. Most of the theories about
early rising we inherited from times when
people retired at 8 or 9 o’clook in the even
ing. Such early retirement is Impossible
In our own times for those who are taking
part in the great activities of life. There
is no virtue in tbe mere act of early rising.
It all depends upon what you do after you
get up. It would be better for the world it
some people never wakened at all.
Remark the third: All those ought to be
comforted who by overwork iu right direc
tions have como to insomnia. In all occu
pations and professions there are times
when a special draft Is made upon the ner
vous energy. There are thousands of men
and women who cannot sleep because they
were injured by overwork in some time of
domestio or political or religious exigency.
Mothers who, after taking a whole family
ot children through the disorders that are
sure to strike the nursery, have been left
physical wrecks, and one entire night ot
slumber is to them a rarity, it not an im
possibility. The attorney at jaw, who,
through a long trial iu poorly ventilated
courtroom, has stood for weeks battling
for the rights of widows and orphans ox
for the life of a client in whose iunocence
he is confident, though all the circum
stances are unfavorable. In bis room he
tries the case all night long and every night
when he would like to be slumbering. The
physician, in time ot epidemic, worn out in
saving the lives of whole families and fall
ing iu his attempts to sleep at night be
tween the jangliugs of his doorbell. Tbe
merchant who has experienced panics,
when the banks went down aud Wall street
became a pandemonium aud there was a
possibility that the next day be would be
penniless—that night with no more possi
bility of gaining sleep than if such a bless
ing had never touched our plaDet.
Remark the fourth: Insomnia is no sign
of divine displeasure. Martin Luther had
distressing Insomnia and wrote, “When I
wake up in the night, the devil immedi
ately comes and disputes with me and gives
me strange thoughts until at last I grow
enraged beyond endurance and give him
ill words.” That consecrated champion
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of everything good. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng
Sr., in his autobiography says that theonit
encouragement ho bad to think he wouhl
sleep at night was the fact that he bad not
slept the night before.
Wakefulness may be an opportunity far
prayer, opportunity for profitable reflec
tion, opportunity for klndl'. ’g bright ex
pectations of the world, trhere there is no
night and where slumber will have no
use 3, God thinks just as much of you
when you get but throe of four hours of
sleep as when at night you get eight or
dine hoars.
Remark the fifth: Let all Insomnlsls
know fof their consolation that some
people sleep more rapidly than others, as
much in one hour ns others do iu two, and
henejs do not require as long n time in un
consciousness, In a book ou tbe subject of
health years ago I saw this fact stated by a
celebrated medical scientist: Some people
do everything quick—they eat quick, they
walk quick, they think quick, and of
course they sleep quick. An express train
can go as far in thirty minutos as a way
train in sixty minutes. People of rapid
temperaments ought not to expeot a whole
night to do the work of recuperation which
slow temperaments require. Instead of
making it a matter of irritation and alarm
be a Christian philosopher and set down
this abbreviation of somnolence a 3 a matter
of temperament.
Remark the sixth: The aged insomulsts
should understand that if their eyes are
held waking they do not require as much
sleep as once they did. Solomon, who in
knowledge was thousands of years ahead
of his time in bis wondrous description of
old age, recognizes this fact. He not only
speaks of the difficulty of mastication on
the part of tbe aged when he says, "The
grinders cense because they are few,” and
of the octogenarian’s caution In getting up
a ladder or standing on a scaffolding, say
ing, “They shall bo afraid of that which is
high,” and speaks of the whiteness of the
hair by comparing it to a tree that has
white blossoms, saying, “The almond tree
shall flourish,” and speaks of the spinal
cord,which is the color of sliver, and which
relaxes in old age, giving the tremor to
the head, saying, “The silver cord
be loosed,” But be says of tbe
aged, “He shall rise up at tbe voice of
the bird;” that is aboat half past 4
in the summer time, an appropriate hour
for the bird to rise, for he goes to his
nest or bough at half past 7 in the evening.
But the human mechanism baa been so
nrranged that after It has been running a
good while a change takes place, and in
stead of the almost perpetual sleep cf the
babe and the nine hours requisite iu mid
life six hours will do for tbe aged, and “he
shall rise up at trie voice ot the bird.” Let
all aged men and women remember that
they have been permitted to do a great
deal ot sleeping in their time and that if
they do not sleep so well now as they used
to it is because they do not require so much
sleep.
Remark the seventh: Insomnia is prob
ably a warning that you had batter mod
erate your work. Most of those engaged
iu employments that pull on nerve and
brain are tempted to omit necessary rest
and sleeplessness calls a halt, «Eren their
pleasuring turns to work. As Sir Joshua
Reynolds, the great painter, taking a walk
with a friend, met a sun browned peasant
boy and said, “I mu-t go home and deepen
tbe coloring of my infant Hercules.” The
sun browned boy suggested an im
provement in a great picture. By
tbe time most people have reached
midlife, if they have behaved
well more doors of opportunity open be
fore them than they ought to enter.
Power to decline, power to say “No,”
they should now cultivate. When a mau
is determined to be useful nnd satau can
not dissuade him from that course, the
great deceiver in luoos him to overwork
and in that way get rid of him. We have
thermometers to tell the heat, and barom
eters to teil the air, and ometors huug iu
engine rooms to tell the pressure of steam,
and ometers to gauge aud measure almost
everything. Would that some genius
would invent au oineter which, being bung
around the ne:lc and dropped over
heart and lung, would by the pulsa
tion and respiration, tell whether one
is under too great pressure or might carry
more. All brain workers would want such
an ometer and want it right away. For
tbe lack of it how many are dying and how
many have dledot overwork? A prominent
financier who recently departed this life
was an officer in over 100 financial and
charitable institutions. Thousands ot
editors, ot lawyers, of physicians, °f
merchants, of clergymen, are now dying
of overwork. Do not be in t board of
directors of more than three uauks and
two trust compaules and live life aud
fire insurance establishments. Do not
as pastor preach more than three ser
mons a Sunday and superintend your
own Sabbath-school and conduct a
Bible class the same day. Do not edit
a paper and write for three magazines
and go to lour public dinners where you
will be called to make a speech more than 1
four times a week. Do not go so deep in
to the real estate business that before
spring all tbe real estate you will really
possess will be a piece of groua 1 about six
feet long aud three feet wide. Your in
somnia is the voice ot nature, the voice of
God, saying, “Better slow usi” Stop that
long, swift train, the wheels of which ate
taking*(lre from the velocity and smoking
with the hot box. Do not burn the candle
at both ends. Do not under too many
burdens sweat like a camol trudging from
Aleppo to Damascus. Do not commit sui
cide.
Remark the eighth: All the victims of
insomnia ought to be consoled with the
fact that they will have a good, long sleep
after a while. Sacred and profane litera
ture again and again speak ot that last
sleep. God know that tho human race
would be disposed to make a great udo
about exit from this world, and so He in
spires Job aud David and Daniel and John
and Paul to call that condition “sleep.”
When at Bethany the brother who was tbe
support of his sisters after their father and
mother were gone had expired,
Christ cried out in regard to him,
“He is not dead, but sleepeth.” Cheer
lug thought to all poor sleepers, for
that wilt be a pleasant sleep, in
duced by no narcotic, disturbed by no
frightful dream, interrupted by no harsh
sound. Better than any sleep you ever
took, O ohild ot God, will be the last eleep.
In your slumbers your borne may be in
vaded by burglars aud your treasures car
ried off, but while hero and there, iu oco
case out ot millions, the resurrectionist
may disturb the pillow of dost tbe last
sleep is almost sure to be kept from inva
sion. There will be no burglary of the tomb.
And it will be a refreshing sleep, Y'ou have
sometimes risen in the morning more weary
than when you laid down at night, but
waking from the sleep of which I 6peak
the last fatigue, the last aohe, the last
worriment, will be forever gone. Oh, what
a refreshing sleep!
8o my hearer, mv render, “Good night!”
May God give you such sleep to-night as
is best for you, and if you wake too soon
may He fill your soul with reminiscences
and expectations that will be better than
slumber. Good nlgtatl Having in prayer,
kneeling at tbe bedside, committed your
self und all yours to tbe keeplug of tbe
slumberless God, fear nothing. The
pestilence that walketh In darkness will
not cross your doorstill, and yon need not
be afraid of evil tidings. Good night!
May you have no such experience as
Job had when he said, “Thou scarest
me with dreams nnd terrifies me through
visions.” It you dream at ail, may It be a
vision ot reunions and congratulations,
and, waking, may you find some of them
true. Good nightl And when you come
to the best sleep, the blissful sleep, the last
sleep, may you be able to turn and say to
all tbe cares and fatigues and bereave
ments and pangs of a lifetime, “Good
ntgbtl” and your kindred, standing around
your Illumined pillow, give you hopeful
though sorrowful farewell as you move out
from their loving embrace into the bosom
of a welcoming God. Good night! Good
nightl
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804 Veto Street,
Vicksburg, Miss
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BROWN & JENKINS,
Coal and Wood Yard,
Cor. Ist East anti Walnut Streets.
These 230.
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