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VOpinumt Rationale, the organ of Prin
ce Napoleon, has rorrit out in an elaborate
article, objecting tu the whole Mexican po
licy of the inpcrur, It t'links it will lead
to war Willi America, whether the Union
be re-established or not As It is supposed
that the I'riuce, though formally in opposi
tion, still Borne bow acts an Appointed part
In the Imperial programme, it would seem
. as if the article were thrown out as a feeler
of public opinion. We give below a few
xtracts fronfthe artiole: j
"In vain shall we ask ourselves wheth
er it is useful or advantageous for France
to eo ao fur to seek grave cares: to neglect
its internal affairs, its Europeau work, for
the Bale ol undertaking education at a re
mote point, and of necessarily chagiiig our
selves with deaperate cures. The answer
will be that it is loo lute, that we are en
gage 1, and that the honor of the flag does
nut permit us to abandun the work commen
ced. This prospect is so mufti the less en
couraging, as it is plain that beside) quea
t ins of internal organization always ve
ry grave and very oomplicitcd Mexico is
destined within a very few years, perhaps
months, to raise for us grave foreign diffi
culties wit'j the United States, and to draw
sa perhaps into an ab urd and must deplor
able strife.
"It is a curious and characteristic, but
incosteitable, fact that in France at the
present day no one knows exactly why wo
nave gone to Mexico. It is simply a piece
of obstinacy that has grown serious by the
very obstacles which it has encountered.
Is it a vast project, maturely weighed, to
glvo to France an American India, to be
governed and exploited as England gov
erns and exploits Asiatic India? No one
can say with certainty. But certain indi
cations permit the supposition that this
enterprise had, in the idea that oonccived
it, a certain connection, difficult to be defi
ned, with the events that are paining iu
North Amelios.
"Every one has remarked (he solicitude,
unexpected enough, which the French Gov
ernment has evinced for the Southern Con
federacy, and its oft-repeated attempts up-!
---- on the Unglisn Government, fortunately re
pelled by the latter, to give a united recog
nition to the slave holding republic of which
Mr. Jefferson Davis is the President. Pu
blic opinion in Franco has not understood
the reason for this preference. In prineiple
the South is founded upon slavery au in
stitution which is immoral and profoundly
opposed to our ideas and our manners. It
is the South that has commenced the rup
ture with the North. Undoubtedly, in the
point of view of the production of cotton,
the South oan interest us, But that ques
tion interests England still more that us,
and yet the has not wished, up to this time,
to recognise the South; and it is Bhe who
has stopped the impatient ardor of the
French Government in that direction.
"On the other hand, and admitting that
the South may form a sepáralo State, and
that the recognition of France may aid her
in doing so, It is certain that our presence
in Mexico will be still more disagreeable
to her than it can be to the Republic of the
North. In fact, the Slaveholding South
has only one chance of living and of resis
ting the hostile brethren from which it
seeks to separate; and that is to expand
and propagate around it its domostic insti
tution. Slavery, restricted, will bo eecretlv
undormined or violently overthrown by the
North. The South can live only by assum
ing the offensive. It has long recognised
that tact, and its euorts to acquire or con
quer Cuba, Nicaragua, and the small Cen
tral American Republics, and the absorp
tion of Texas, already consummated, show
clearly enough that the South comprehends
the necessity that wnighs upon it, and that
drives it to conquest and to the propaganda
ol slavery.
"If, therefore, the South should succeed
In consummating its separation, it is not
doubtful that it would regard with the uro
atest disfavor the French flag floating over
the soil of Mexico and protecting it from
its avowed covetousness. Our Mexican
establishment will then havo a dangerous.
threatening vicinate. So it is one of not
the least astonishments provoked by this
expedition that the French Government
should persist in seeking to induce England
to recognise with it tho Southern Republic,
whoso attaks the Fronch flag, if it remains
in Mexico, will inevitably havo to rene!
If, then, as is believed, and as facts appear
to indicate, there is a connexion between oar
expedition to Mexico and the policy pur
sued in respect to tho Southern Confede
racy, it must be ickuowlcdged that that
mysterious connexion escapes all our ox
planations. The only point that remains
evident is that if we remain at Mexico, and
if the south succeed, it will resume its pro
jects of conquests, that have been suspend
ed by the civil-war, and we shall have to
repel an inevitable invasion.
"If, on the contrary, the South succumb
and tho great Republic bo reconstituted.
wo cannot expect any bettor fortune. It
will not be, indoed, fir the purpose of snre-
ading ilavory, which it will have abolished
at home, that it will menace our transa
tlantic pupils, but lather for tho purpose
of repelling European influence, of main
taining intaot the more or less authentic
Mourou doctrine, end perhaps, also, of giv
ing employment to the generals and the
Sve or six hundred thousand soldiers who
"""Vhavo contracted the habits of war, and
whomilu close of tho civil war will have
Iclt wituout employment.
"Let it girt adrice, let it lend V;if,,l
men, if It has any to spare, but let it not
muffe itself up in guardianship of which
the present generation would not su th
end. Above all, let it not be seduced by
the fallacious hope of recovering the ex-
piucts of the xpídition; othwwite it il
soon havo expended a thousand millions to
gain back three hundred millions. If these
three hundred millions are lost, so much
the worse. Let us pass them to the acco
unt of profit and loss, and let us not engage
blindfold in an unkuown way, at the end
of which is to be seen only a certaiu war
with North America. Let ua bring back
our troops to Europe; they will not bo at
any iubb. tor employment; ana u uenco
falls back" again into disorder lot not Fran
ce be drawn into asolidarity which nothing
justifies, nor be paralyzed by a transatlan
tic Algeria, which slie wouia nave to pro
tect against enterprising and formidable
neighbors."
From tbe Missouri Repnbltctn
LAKE'S TIIIUCATENKO Ik VAHOS OF MIS-
Qua.tou.'s act in making a descent up
on Lawrence city and niassacreing its in
habitants in the glare of Dames proceeding
from their burning dwellings, Is one fur
which language dues not afford adqnate
terms of reprobation. It was the deed of
a monster and dastard, leading associates
as devilish and dastardly aa himself, and
a deed which, for the honor of humanity,
we huoed. would find no imitators in this
age or any future one, We fear, however,
that our trust in humanity is misplueed,
and that he is soon to find a copyist in a
person holding no less a position than a
seat in the Senate of the Inited States
General Jm Lane, to whom we refer as be
ins ambitions of an infamy to rival Qcan
them's, was the chief speaker at a meeting
held a few days ago at Leavenworth, in
spoech on the occasion finds a full report
in a paper published there, which is as
frantically radical as any sheet in existen
ce, but which bears tho palpable misnomer
of Learenworth C'oníen-aíiue, Lase took
the lead in tho proceedings by offering tho
following lesolutioa:
Rtsoked, That so many of the loyal men
of the border as can bo spared from home
protection bo requested to ,assenjwe- at
Paula on the 8th day of Hetcmber, with
such arms and ammunition as they can
procure, organized and supplied as follows:
each twenty men to select a captain, and
bring with them a wagon and one blanket
each, and fifteen days' subsistence.
In proceeding to explain and discuss it,
he was profuse in the slang so current with
our home Radicals, that the massacre was
the resultof a "mistaken policy," meaning
the "conservativo" policy pursued by Gen.
Sciiofielb, in his administration of tho Dep
artment of the Mioesourl. Gov. G audi e
was denounced as chargeable with the re
moval of CüBTir, and tho appointment of
Ins successor. Tuero wore none but rebels,
he urged, in the border counties of Misso
uri, and added:
Kansas knows from the history of 1800
vears. that guorrillas could not exist in any
country without the aid sua consent ot tne
inhabitants of that country. Therefore, not
for more butchery not forthe gratibcation
of mero prejudice, but for self-preservation,
we believe in war of extermination, Our
opinions and judgments were deliberately
founded. Extermination I repeat here
that for self preservation, there shall be ex
termination of the hrst tier ot counties in
Missouri, and if that won't secure us, then
the second and third tier und tier on tier
till we ure secure. Uproaiious cheers.
When I was in Missouri the other day I
took particular pains to inquire for the best
Union main in the county. , I was directed
to a man named Hook, I rode over to his
house, and had a conservation with this
beau ideal af a Union man. I asked him his
politics my men close by at the time. I
asked him what he meant by "Union." Ho
said he was in favor of the Union as it was
and the Constitution us it is. I asked him
What ho meant by that. lie said: "1 own
niggers. It we havo the uuiou as it was,
aud my niggers run off, I can recover them.
It we can't have the Union as it wns, then
I am in favor uf the Southern Confederacy.,,,,,,.,)
1 then asked turn how long since he linü
Reen any biisWIiackor. lie said: "Mr.
Woudward was here tu day to dinner. 1
saw your soldiers, and told him that he hail
bottor not go near them. I hear rebels at
my corn-crib almost every night. I never
interfere with them. Quantrell came here
tho other morning on his way to Lawrence,
aud ordorcd brenkfust for fifty and got it."
A voice "Where is Hook now?" In hill,
I left him in the honds of the executiouor.
I will tell you what I waut to seo. I
want to see cvory foot of ground in Jack-
eon, Ouss and Bates counties burned over
everything laid waste. Then wo shall
have no turther trouble, i be bushwhack
ers cannot then remain in tho country, for
they wilt nave nobody to toed tbem nob
ody to harbor them nobody to provide
them with transportation no placo to sleep
in, and will havo thirty-five miles further
to march before they reach Kansas.
The safety of Kansas demands the de
vastation of tho border for a distance of
thirty-five miles into Missouri.
It is also right that you should pass a
resolution demanding the removal of Scho
fiold, and requiring that a good man he
substituted.
These extracts are sufficient to show the
utterly hellish animus of the speech. .--We"
mako no note of other enormities quite up
to and even beyond, in.many instances,
the standard we have-shown. Our readers
may imagine sentiments tliemost atrocious
and thenvretiuce them to their very essen
ce to get at their revolting spirit. If pos
sible a more deplorable feature of the meet
ing was, that the audience was in full har
mony witn ine speaker, passed ms resolu
tion by xlamatioo, and othera that he
recommended, touching the "imbecility
and inefficiency of the Commander of the
Depnttment," ni m "enmiDsiity of nis
aiders and abettors."
The aim of this second Qcaxthell, then,
is undisguised. The pursuit of the Law
rencc raiders ended in the killing of a fo
urth or tilth ot their number, the escape of
the balance, no doubt, towards the Arkan
sas line, aud certain incursions into Misso
uri by Kansas jayhawkers, resulting in
loss ot me ana property to citizens who
were wholly guiltless ot complicity with
the Lawrance massacre. , -"
His proposition to muster a force at Puala
on the 8th inst , can only look to an incur
sion in force to this side of the burder, to
exterminate life and burn or carry away all
property that may be found in thirty-live
miles distance. The fate of Hook, whom
he turned over to the executioner, and
whoso only disloyal act ounsisted in hav
ving fifty armed guerrillas form him to
givo them a dinner, muy by taken as an
earnest of Lane's intentions. Such indis
criminate murder mid rapine will not res
tore the dead of Lawrence to life or rebuild
their razed dwellings, and punish no guilty,
protect no innocent people.
But such a rule of anurchy and blood'
shed against law and order admits of m
question and no discussion. An insensate
i least like Lank, with a troop of such bandit
ti ns listened applaudingly to this speech,
are reason proot, and will regard iiutlnug
short of the strong arm of military power.
General Schofieui is by this time in Kan
sas City, to superintend operations in that
section, and he will doublless see that no
such monstrous acts as Lank proposes are
carried into execution. If they be attemp
ted, every may of them should be made tu
suffer for their hellish atrocities. No Gov
ornor of Kansas has a right to levy troops
no such abandoned wretch as Jim Lane
has a right to put himself at their bead
for the purpose of invading the territory of
Missouri. If they do it, it is at their peril,
and Gov. Hall will fail In his duty if he is
not prepared to resist sucu invasion. The
State of Missouri is nut responsible, in any
sense, for the crimes uf Quantrell and his
banditti, committed in Lawrence, and no
such outrage as that which Jm Lane de
clares ho has in contemplation, should be
permitted, as long as there is man left to
defend the integrity of our soil. f '
The Firiioh in Mexico.
From lite London Í mei.
A paragraph in the France newspaper
says that the Archduke Maximilian has
thanked their Majesties for their congratu
lations on his election to the Mexican thro
ne. It may, therefore, be presumed that
tho Archduko has accepted the position
which has been won fur him by "French
arms, and that Méjico íb now duly consti
tuted an empire, with a ruler chosen from
the most ancient aud illustrious of imperial
houses. There is something romantic and
hardly iu accordance with niutlern history
in this event. It seems to belong ratliei
to (lays before America itself was known,
when kingdoms ana (Wellies were Wo prize
of strong-handed adventurers, and the vul
gar herd of mankind were transferred by
conquest as much us the cattle or the swine
they tended. Universal suffrago and wars
rfor an idea have carried us back to the
early middle ages.
. But,, while the French Emperor thus in
creases his influence in Europe, we are
afraid ho must count upon a diminution of
the little love which the Federal section of
tho America people bears him, By his po
licy during the Inst three yoara, by his re
ception of Mr. Slidell, and his plainly spok
en opinions on recognising tho South, he
and his empire have become objects of dis
like to the Northerners. Nut that the
French, however hostile or interfering, will
ever excito in Americana that animosity
which has been implanted by education
and traditions in their minds against En
gland; yet it is beyond a doubt that the
Federals are deeply offended both with
Prince and pcoplo, and Would gludly reta
liate tor the luucied wrongs they havo r
Ibis Iceiing will gain depth anil
permanence by the establishment of an em
pire in Mexico tho very scheme against
which the Monroe declaration was level
led when the European sovereigns were
suspected ot a design to subvert the newly
independent republics of Central und South
America. The jealousy can hardly fail to
bring the Federal Union into collision with
the new empire, in the lar West such re
gions as Chihuahua, Sonora, and Lower
California, peopled by a few Spaniards und
the Indian tribes, wilt naturally invite the I
ambition ot the Anglo-American on t'.o
Pacific; and thus, if even theUuited States
Government were to acquiesce in and ac
knowledge the empire, there will be always
matter fur a quarrel whenever the oppor
tunity is desired, the position of Fiance
as tho protector of this weak empire of her
own creation must be for the future one
of antagonism to the pretensions of Wash
ington statosmen, and it is in this rejpeet
that tbe recent revolution has the most im
portance.
The Indian War.
The three battles of Big Mound, Dead
Buffalo Lake and Stony Lake, together with
the death of Little Crow, have completed
tho success of Gen. Sibley's expedition,
and about closed the war against tho Sioux.
The troops marched four hundred and tin
miles in forty-four days frum Camp Popo.
The Indians were overtaken on tho plains
of Dakota, five hundred miles from St. Paul,
and driven across the, Missouri into Ne
braska. We trust that the 'Miuessota peo
ple are now satisfied, and hoptxthat their
war ol extermination nas tuny glutted the
revengeful spirit which too many of them
have manifested upon a race which, we
dobut not, would have been perfectly pea
ceable, hud not their own savage passions
been aroused by innumerable outrages per-
?etrated by white men.-r-Missoori Repq-.
lion
TUB ALABAMA AND THE CEOUUIA.
Tbe New York papers publuh a private
letter, dated June 25th. from Thomas L.
Wilson, Esq,, the American Consul at
Bahía, Brazil, in relation to the privateers
Alabama aud Georgia, from which the Cum-
mercial Advertiser condenses the tollowing
narrative:
Hie Alabima entered the port of Babia
on the 1 Uh of May, fur the purpose of lau
ding eighty eight persons lakes from Ame
rioan vessels which bad been burned uy
her at sea. Mr. Wilson immediately called
upon tho President of tho Province, and
demanded that the Alabama should be held
us indemnity for outrages committed on
United States property in Brazilian wat
ora, and that she should not be permitted
to take in supplies. His demand was uot
grunted, aud tin; next day tho Alabama
lauded her prisoners in the city. Among
the number landed were four captains, four
women, two children, and one gentleman
passenger. These persoes had been rub
bed of every thing, even to their wutches
and jewelry they were unable to assist
themselves. Although they had no legal
claim upon the Consul, he thought that un
der the circumstances humanity and the
honor of our country required hila to pro
vide for them, and he did so.
On the 13th of May the privateer Geor
gia also came to anchor in the port, and
landed thirteen more prisoners, making in
all ono hundred and one persons thus
thrown upon the hospitality of the Consul.
None uf them could speak the language ol
the country, and they were consequently
entirely dependent upon Mr. Wilson. He
also lad the privateer steamers tu luok af
ter, tu see that they did not obtain muni
tions uf war and other contraband articles.
He endeavored to throw every obstacle in
their way to prevent them from taking in
cual or water, in order to detain them un
til sume United States war vessel should
arrive to catch them both. An English ves
sel, the Castor, had been waiting for them
with coal, aud rumor said with a large sup
ply uf shot aud shell, V..
Mr' Wilson protested to the President of
the province (gainst allowing the bnglish
vessel lo discharge her cargo into the Ala
hama or Georgia. In this ho was success
ful, although tho English Consul took up
the caso of tho Castor, and claimed that
she had a right to sell her coal to whom she
pleased The Castor had hem sent, from
Liverpool to supply the privateers.
The Alabama was thus detained in port
from the 11th to the 21st of May, and the
Georgia Irom the 18th to the 23d of the
same monlh. Tho authorities allowed them
to take coal and provisions, notwithstand-
wg the protest ot Mr. Wilson. The English
barque Castor remained in port with her
cargo after the privateers had sailed.
On the 25th of Mav. just too late, the
United States steamer Mohican entered tbe
port uf Bahia in pursuit of tho privateers:
but she hastened to coal, and immediately
put to sea again in eoarcli. While tho Mohi
can was coaling the Castor attempted to
run away, but the Mohican put after her.
But before the Englishman got beyond
Brazilian waters he thought bettor of it and
put back. After the Mohican bad finally
left tho port, the Castor's captain fell sick,
and before he got around again the United
States ship of-war Onward arrived at Bahia.
In the mean time another English barque,
culled the Agrai.ina, came into the port
laden with coal and powder, to supply the
rebel steamers. Mr. Wilson informed the
captain uf the Onward of the character of
the bnglish vessels, and requested him to
remain and watch their movements. These
vessels arc old, and evidently ownod by
the agents of the rebels in England, and
sent out for tho express purpose of supply
ing the rebel cruisers with coal and muni
tions of war. At the date of Mr. Wilson's
letter they were both strictly blockaded by
the Onward, and it wa3 thought would be
compelled to discharge their cargoes or be
captured,
THE NEW ENGLAND CONSCRIPT
CAMP
Wo visited yesterday (19th) tho camp
at Long Island, which is under tne carcluf
and intelligent management of Gen. I'ev
ens. There aie now about nine hundred
men here, including a contraband camp of
twenty, who, though mostly employed in
commissary labor, are jet under drill dis
cipline. Four hours a day are spent in dril
ling the conscripts, who, as they are recei
ved, are classed in detachments of iwohun-
died, each under five officers. Their friends
aro accorded every indulgence consistent
with a compliance with the law; while the
General tempers the necessary firmest with
kindness. Up to the present time two thou
sand recruits have been sent to the army
four hundred to the Rhode Island regi
ment, and detachments of 200 each to the
12th, 14th, 15th, 20th, 11th, and 28th Mas
sachusetts; 200 to the 2d Vermont and 200
to the 10th Maine. Though the guard is
small, yet, thus far, in spite of tho ingenui
ty in hmuguhng to the Island citizens'
clothes, life-preservers, and the sharpness
of traders in substitutes, only about twen
ty have escaped. That more have not es
caped is owing to the vigilance of the gu
arde who have fired upon buats that keep
approaching the Island. Tho conscripts are
to be sent here from Massachusetts, Maine,
Vermont, and Rhode Island. Tin class
now coming are decidedly better than those
who first came; but there are some hard
characters among them.
flusíon Ponió" SOtá
Jones complained of a had smell about
the Pot office, and asked Brown what it co
uld be?-Brown didn't know, but wggoeted
that it might be nrjiby "the dud letters.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE
"MEGR0E8?
There Is no topic upon which a certain
discretion of men among us talk mere flip
pantly than upon the abolition of Africas
slavery in the Southern States. There is
uone in respect to which an expression of
hesitation, doubt, or caution is more ram
pantly denounced as evidence of "inciviam."
Those who imagine that such a 'course is
the shortest wuy to the tavorof "tho pow
ers that be" ero invited to peruse and to '
ponder the following sensible views of tha ,
Cincinnati Commercial, a Republican jour
nal, of the 14th instant: '
"What will end that sort of troahlef
Will any thing end it short of tbe absoluto
abolition of slavery? -, .
"The enormous, the almost, perhaps al
together, insuperable difficulties in the way
of such a disposition of slavery, we do not
care, in this place, to cousider at length.
Certainly it would be tho most troubleso
me, the lLost delicate, perplexing, and dan
gerous task ever undertaken by a people if
we of the North were to attempt to fix the
relations between the whiteand black races
of tho States iu rebellion, We know tho -a
negroes cannot be colunizod, and that
there Is a negro question distinct from the
slavery question. We kuow the nsgroes
must i-emuis in this country, particularly
in the Southern Stutes; that our bayonets
cannot change their character suddenly, if
they may do it remotely; and that it is their
destiny tu raise I he products of the South
ern soil. Can wo, if wo would, make the
negroes citizens uf the llottun States? The
negro and white man must associate In the
Southern Stutes. Who is to determine the '
relations that shall subsist botween them J
Are we to do it? Or are the negroes to Jo
it? Or are the white men of the South to
do it? It must be admitted there are soma
desirable thing's that cannot be accomplis!
00 by wur. no urny 'occupy and possess'
the territory sought to bo wrested from us
by the rebels. We muy defeat and dostroyX,"'
1 lie military organization of thoso warring'
against tho Government. Wecanputdowa
the rebellion. These things will havetheir
influence, and a great influence, in shaping
the character of the Southern people, bat
we cannot change materially tho charac
teristics of the negro and the whito man,
and when the war is over the relations bet
ween them will be determined less by our
decrees than by their own native furcci and 1
iiiBtiucts They will be in contact, aud the
stronger race will, in eorno way or other,
assert its supremacy."
THE TROUBLE IN JAPAN.
A letter from one of our missionaries at
rT, J " --" ..... ......
"' ue"ce Tnc8 u"ÍVn, u2wn;
mml.w a,mv m. wlul ."".S'. ?
pay the money demanded as indemnity for
the murder of Mr. Richardson. Satsuma,
the Japanese noble, whom the English with
to deliver to tbem one ol bis hghest offi
cers, it is said, can bring one hundred thou
sand troops into the field, He has an iron
foundry and machine shop; lie makes guns
aud glassware and vermilhou, and altogeth
er is iu advaoce of the rest of Japan, and
nas long been in the arts 01 pence and war.
Now ho is chagrined that the opening of
the ports does nut increase his own reve
nue, but rather diminishes It as compared
with that of the Taiknn, who is greatly ec
richer! thereby. This prince, It is believ
ed, wi'l not yield to the British demand
with the power he holds. His officer may
perform the Interesting and ceitain Opera
tion nf hari-kari, and cut out his own bow
els, but tho English would scarcely believe
this act ol official immolation to save th
nation from war and the nubility from dis
grace, uuless-they saw it peril rmed.
A small question of inte national law tin
recently been deeded in tuvor of Mr. Hild
yard, an uttaché of the British Embassy in
Paris: i
"Mr. Hildyard keeps a dog, in respect df--'' .
which he lately received a tax gatherer's ,
paper claiming a duty of 10s., iu pursuan
ce of the new act rendering dugs liable to
taxation. Mr. Hildyurd claimed exemption
ou tho ground that, inasmuch as Foreign
Ministers' dugs were not taxed in England,
his dog ought to be free on the principia
of reciprocity. The head of the tax-gathering
department thought this a good pics,
but the question was, nevertheless, brought
before a court of law fur decision, At thai
hearing L. do Uugue, the judge advooato,
was of upiniou that the reciprocity doctri
oe would nut hold water; but he, neverthe-
less, thought that Mr. Hildyurd's dog was
entitled to repudiate the tux, because ha
inhabited Lord Cowley's house, whiob, by
a recognised fiction of international law, is ,
British territory. The court, adopting this ;
view, decided that Mr. Hildyurd'a dag
stood upon the same footiug aa all other
personnel of the Embassy,
Some Mime men who were traveling
among the White Mountains recently stop-
. ? -J II..J p
ped at a larm nous unu ouneu tur mux.
After drinking several basins full, tha
woman of the house brought them an enor
mous bowl full, remarking ' One would
think, gentlemen, you had never been
weaned."
An eminent divine preached on Sunday
morning from the text:, "Ye are children-oLA "
the devil," and in the afternoon, by a fun
ny coincidence, from the wordy'Childrott
obey your parents." '
"Why don't you give tu a Utile Greok
and Latin occasionally?" asked a country
deacon ofa Jiewtainister, "Why, do yon
understand those languages?" "No, out
we pay for the best, and w ought to bav
it"
i Baltimore firm advertises, "concentra
ted clam" as a. notricioos food hrtoldjert
and travslsrs.
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