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RELIGION AND DAILY LIFE if i'i Men Should Mix Their Godliness With Their Business. The Christian Cannot Eat Enough at the Spiritual llamiui't to IjuI Seiran Days •• 1,111 le Annoyances That Wear, BimoKi.TN, N. Y., Jan. 24.—Dr. T»1 muire'n text was taken from I. Corinthians x. 111: ‘'Whether, therefore, ye eat or ilrlnlt, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” When tlio apostle, in this text, sets forth the idea that so common no action as the taking of food and drink is to be conducted to the glory of God, I he proclaims the importance of religion j in the ordinary affairs of our life. In all ages of the world there has been a tendency to set apart certain days, places, and occasions for worship, and to think these were the chief realms in which religion was to act. Now, holy days and holy places have their importance They give opportunity for especial performance of Christian duty, and for regaling of the religious appetite; but they cannot take the place of continuous exerciso of faith and prayer. In other words, a man cannot ho so much of a Christian on Sunday that he can afford to be a worldling all the rest of the week. If a steamer put out for Southampton, and go one day in that direction and the other six days in other directions, how long before the steamer will get to Southampton? And though a man may seem to be voyag ing heavenward during the holy Sabbath day, if, during the fol lowing six daysof tho week, he is going toward the world, and toward the flesh, and townrd tho devil, he will never ride up into the peaceful harbor of heaven. You cannot eat so much .at the Sabbath banquet that you can afford religious abstinence tho othor . six days. Heroism and princely be havior on great occasions are no apol ogy for luck of right demeanor in cir cumstances insignificant and incon spicuous The genuine Christian life is not spasmodic; does not go by fits and starts. It toils on through heat and cold up steep mountains and along dangerous declivities, its eye on the everlasting hills crowned with the castles of the blessed. i propose, this morning, to plead for a religion for today. In the first place, we want to bring the religion of Christ into our conver sation. When a dam breaks and two <tr three villages are overwhelmed, or an earthquake in South America swal lows a whole city, then people began to talk about the uncertainty of life, and they imagine that they are en gaged in positively religious conversa tion. No. You may talk about these things, and have no grace of God at all in your heart. We ought every day to be talking religion. If there is any thing glad about it. anythlug beauti ful about it, anything important about it, we ought to be continuously dis cussing it 1 have noticed that men, just in proportion as their Christian experience is shallow, talk about funerals, and grave-yards, and tomb stones, and death-beds. The real, genuine Christian man talks chiefly about this life, and the great eternity beyond, and not so much about the ! insignificant pass between these two residences. And yet how few |f circles there are whero the religion of K Jesus Christ is welcome. Go into a circle, oven of Christian people, where *. they are full of joy and hilarity, and talk about Christ or heaven and every thing is immediately silenced. As on a summer day, when the forests are full of life, chatter, and chirrup, and carol—a mighty chorus of bird har mony, and every tree branch an or chestra—if a hawk appear in the sky, Jv every voice stops, and the forests are still; just so I have seen a lively relig ious circle silenced on the appearance of anything like religious conversa tion. No one has anything to say. save, perhaps, some old patriarch in | the corner of the room, who really thinks that something ought to be 'said, under the circumstances; so he puts one foot over the other, und heaves a long sigh, and says, “Oh, yes; that's so. that’s so.” My friends, the religion of Jesus Christ is something to talk about with a glad heart It is brighter than the waters; it is more cheerful than the sunshine. Do not go around groaning about your religion, when you ought to be singing it or talking it in cheer ;j •: (ul tones of voice. How often it is that wo find men whoso lives are utterly in consistent who attempt to talk re ligion, and always make a failure of it! My friends, we must livq religion, or we cannot talk it If a. man is cranky, and cross, and uncongenial, and hard in his dealings, and then begins to talk about Christ and heaven, everybody is repelled by it Yet I have heard such men say, in whining tones *'We are miserable sinners;” "The Lord bless you;” "The Lord have mercy on you;” their conversation interlarded with snch expressions, which mean nothing but canting; and canting is the worst form of hypocrisy. If we have really felt the religion of Christ in our hearts, let us talk it and talk U with an illuminated countenance, remembering ?>* tiaat when two Christaln people talk, i|i; <Jod gives especial attention, and writes down what they say. Malachi iil:16: “Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord harkened and heard it and a book of remeinbrunce was written.” - Again I remark, we must bring the religion of Christ into our employ ments “Oh," they say, “that i-t very well if a man handle large sums of money, or if he have an extensive traffic; but in my thread-amt-needle store, in my trimming establishment, in the humble work in life that 1 am called to, the sphere is too small for the action of such grand heavenly principles.” Who told you so ? Do a, you not know that God watches the faded leaf on the brook’s surface as certainly as he does tlie path of a blaming sun? And the moss that jfe creeps up the side of the rock makes ■ as much impression upon God's mind as the waring tops of Oregon pine and Lebanon cedar; and the alder, «rarkling under the cow’s hoof, aonnds as loud In God's ear as the snap ot a world's conflagation. When yon have anything to do in life,however humble it may seem to be, God Is always there to help you do it If your work is that of a fisherman, then God will help you as he helped Simon when he dragged Genncsnret. If your work is drawing water, then he will help you, as when he talked at the well-curb to the Samaritan woman. If you are engaged in the custom house, he will lead you, as he lead Matthew sitting at the receipt of customs. A religion that is not good in one place is not worth any thing in another place. The man who has only a days’ wages in his pocket as certainly needs the guidance of re ligion, as he who rattles the keys of a bank, and could abscond with a hun dred thousand hard dollars There are those prominent in the churches who seem to be, on public oc- ( casions, very devout, who do not put tho principles of Christ's religion into practico. They are the most inexor able of creditors. They are the most grasping of dealers. They are knowr ae sharpers on the street. They fleecu every sheep they can catch. A coun try merchant comes in to buy spring or fall goods, and he gets into the store of one of these professed Christian men who have really no grace in their hearts, and he is completely swindled. He is so overcome that he cannot get out of town during the week. He stays in town over Sunday, goes into some church to getChrlstian consolation when,' what la his amazement to find that the very man who hands him the poor-box in the church is the one who relieved him of his money! Hut never mind; the deacon has his black coat on now. lie looks solemn, and goes home talking about “the blessed ser mon.’’ It the wheat in the churches should be put into a hopper, the first turn of the crank would make the chaff fly, I tell vou. Some of these men are great sticklers for gospel preaching. They say, "You stand there In bands and surplice and gown, and preach—preach like an angel, and we will stand out hero and attend to business. Don't mix thinga Don't get business and religion in the same bucket. You attend to your matters and we will attend to ours.” They do not know that (iod sees every cheat they have practiced in the last six years; that he can look through the iron wall of their flre-proof safe; that he has counted every dishonest dollar they have in their pocket and that a day of judgment will come. These inconsistent Christian men will < sit on the Sabbath night in the house house of Qod, singing at the close of the service, “Rock of Ages, cleft for for me," and then, when the benedic tion is pronounced, shut the pew door, and Bay as they go out, "Good-by, re ligion, I'll be back next Sunday.” 1 think that the church of God and the Sabbath are only an armory where we are to get weapons. When war comes, if a man wants to fight for his country he does not go to Troy or Springfield to do battling, but he goes there for swords and muskets. 1 look upon the church of Christ and the Sab bath day as only the place and time where and when we are to get armed for Christian conllict; but the battle field is on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. "St Martin’s” and "Lenox,” and "Old Hundred" do not amount to anything unless they sing all the week. A ser mon is useless unless we can take it with us behind the plough and the counter. The Sabbath day Is worth less if it last only twenty-four hours. There are many Christians who say: "We are willing to serve God, but we do not want to do It in these spheres about which we are talking; and it seems so insipid and monotonous. If we had some great occasion, if we had lived in the time of Luther, if we had been Paul’s traveling companion, if we could serve God on a great scale, we would do it;,but we can't in this every day life.” 1 admit that a great deal of the romance and knight errantry of life have disappeared before the advance of this practical age. The ancient temples of Rouen uuvo ucen cuuugeu 1ULU siore-nouses and smithies The residences of poets and princes have been turned into brokers' shops. The classic mansion of Ashland lias been cut up into walk ing slicks. The groves where the poets said the gods dwelt have been carted out for fire wood. The muses that we used to read about have disap peared before the emigrant's ax and the trapper’s gun, and that man who is waiting for a life bewitched of won ders will never find it. There is, how ever, a field for endurance and great achievement, but it is in everyday life. There are Alps to scale, there are llellesponts to swim, there are fires to brave; but they are all around us now. This is the hardest kind of martyrdom to bear. It took grace to lead Lati mer and Ridley through the fire tri umphantly when their armed enemies and their friends were looking on; but it requires more grace now to bring men through persecution, when no body is looking on. I could show you in this city a woman who has had rheumatism for twenty years, who has endured more suffering and exhausted more grace than would have made twenty martyrs pass triumphantly through the fire. If you are not faith ful in an insignificant position in life, you would not be faithful in a grand missioa. If you cannot stand the bite or a midge, how could you endure the I breath of a basilisk? Do not think that any work God gives yon to do in the world is on too small a scale for you to da The whole universe is not ashamed to take care of one little flower. 1 say, “What are you doing down here in the grass, you poor little flower? Are you not afraid nights? You will be neglected, you wiil die of thirst, you will not be fed. j Poor little flower!” “No,” says a star, |‘5'il watch over it tonight.” “No,” I soys a cloud, “I’ll give it drink.” ! "No,” says the sun, “I’ll warmit in my | bosom " Then I see the pulleys going, i nnd the clouds are drawing water, and ! 1 say, "Whut are you doing there, O, I clouds?” And they reply, “We are ! giving drink to that flower." Then ; the wind rises, and comes bending j down the wheat, and sounding its ; psalm through the forest, an 1 I cry, “Whither away on such swift wing, O. wind?” And it replies, "We are ; go ng to cool the cheek of that flower ” I And then I bow dbwn and say, “Wiil ! God take care of the grass' of the I field?” And a flower at my feet re | sponds. “Yes: he clothes the lilies of I the field, und never yet has forgotten . me, a poor little flower.” Oh! when I j see the great heavens bending them selves to what seems insignificant min istration, when I find out that Uod does not forget any blossom of the spring or any snow-flake of the wint«fc 1 come to the conclusion that we can afford to attend to the minute things in life, and that what we do we ought to do welL, since there la as much perfection In the construction of a spider's eye as in the conformation of flaming galaxies. Plato had a fable which I have now nearly forgotten, but it ran something like this: lie said spirits of the -other world camo back to this world to find a body and find a sphere of work. One spirit came and took the body of a king, and did his work. Another spirit came and took the body -of * poet and did his work. Aftera while Ulysses came and he said: “Why, all the fine bodies are taken and all the grand work is taken. There la nothing left for mo.” And some one replied: ”Aht the best one has been left for you.” Ulysses said: “Whnt'a that?” And the reply was: “The body of a common man, doing u common work, and far a common re ward." A good fable for the world, and just aa good a fable for the church. Whether we eat or drink, or whatso ever we do, let us do it to the glory of Uod. Again, we need to bring the religion of Christ into our commonest trials For severe losses, for bereavement, for trouble that shocks like an earthquake and that blasts like a storm, we pre scribe religious consolation, but, busi ness man, for the small annoyances of last week, how much of the grace of Uod did you apply? "Oh!” you say, “these trials are too small for such ap plication.” My brother, they are shaping your character, they are sour ing your temper, they are wearing out your patience, and they are .making you less ind less of a* man. I go into a icuipior s studio, una see mm shaping » statue. He has a chisel in one hand tnd a mallet in the other, and he gives i very gentle stroke—click, click, dick! I say, "Why don't you strike larder?” “Oh!” he replies, “that .vould shatter the statuo. 1 can’t do it that way; I must do it this way.” So le works on, and after a while the Features come out, and everybody who snters the studio is charmed and fas cinated. Well, God lias your soul, inder process of development, and it is' the little annoyances and vexutions' of ife that are chiseling out your ira nortal nature. It is click, click, click! ! wonder why some grent providence loes not come, and with one stroke prepare you for heaven. Ah.no. God lays that is not the way. And so ho ceeps up by strokes of little annoy inces, little sorrows, little vexations, intil at last you shall be a glad spec tacle for angels and for men. You mow that a large fortune may be ipent in small change, and a vast imount of moral character may' go iway in small depletion. A swarm of locusts will kill a grain field sooner than the incursion of three or four cattle. You say, “Since I lost my child, since I lost my property, I have been a different man.” Dut you de aot recognize the architecture of little innoyances that are hewing, digging, cutting, shaping, splitting and inter joining your moral qualities Rats inay sink a ship. One lucifer match may send destruction through a block of store houses Catherine de Medicis got her death from smelling a poison ous rose. Columbus, by stopping and asking for a piece of bread and a drink of water at a Franciscan convent, was led to the discovery of the new world. And there is an intimate connection between trifles and immensities, be tween nothings and everythings. Now, be careful to let none of those annoyances go through your soul un arraigned. Compel them to administer to your spiritual wealth. The scratch of a six-penny nail sometimes produces locked-jaw and the clip of a most in finitesimal annoyance may damage you forever. Do not let any annoyance or perplexity come across your soul with out its making you better. Our national government does not think it belittling to put a tax on pins, and a tax on buckles, and a tax on shoes. The individual taxes do not amount to much, but in the aggregate to millions and millions of dollars.* And I would have you, O Christian n)an, put a high tariff on every annoy ance and vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much, in single cases, but in the aggre gate it would be a great revenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction. A bee can suck honey even out of a net tle, and if you have the grace of God in your heart, you can get sweetness out of that which would otherwise irri tate and annoy. A returned mission ary told me that a company of ad venturers rowing up the Ganges were stung to death by flies that infest that region at certain seasons. I have seen the earth strewed with the carcasses of men slain by insect annoyances The only way to get prepared for the great troubles of life is to conquer these small troubles A Honolulu Feast. A Kentucky burgoo is nothing com pared with 'a Honolulu feast. An American in Hawaii writes about one lie attended nut long ago. The awn ing of sails covered tables occupying 6,000 Fqnnru feet, with room for several hundron guests. The cooks were pro vided with forty-five half-grown pigs, two beeves, 125 chickens, several hun dred fish, and sweet potatoes in abund ance. The cooking was in pits filled with hot stones. Ou these was spread a thick layer of fresh banana stems followed by nearly three feet of meat in bundles. Over these was laid a thick mat of banana leaves.and on top a lid of dirt a foot thick. The trussed pigs were put in whole, and the cook ing occupied an entire night. The fish aud sweet potatoes were simmered iu their own juice iu another pit. The tables were gay with funeifully cut watermelons, nod suppliud with native nuts, fruits, and sea food. The feasters were not only allowed, but expected to lick their lingers. Likely to Die. Kibbon Clark—“When yon are at liUwlv I wish you would eonie down t<> I lie office and wituess my will.” | Hamburg Clark—"Do you expect to din sooilP” | Kdiboti Clark— ‘-Life is uncertain at i tliu best; besides, the floor walker’s | in-si girl was in a few minutes ago and 11 told her he had gone out with a [ wheelbarrow to deliver some goods.’’ A WOMAN'S ■LIFE, i ft* ItatM, from th« ^ntli to th* Grarr, Deftly Told, A wee mother 1s carefully putting 6er favorite tloll to bed, gossips the !ie« Orleans Picayune. With tender •olicitude ehe carefully removes each laioty garment and fastens on the iiny nightgown. Then with a fond Kiss she hugs her treasure to her and places it io its cradle. After tapping It gently she tiptoes out of the room as the twilight peeps curiously in. A fair maiden stands beforo her looking glass adding the last touches to her evening toilet. Her lover will toou be here! Her eyes are full of in* aocent lovelighi! Site looks eagerly it her reflection in the glass! How find sbe Is that she is pretty! She frowns a little at p crimp that will not itay just as it should. A ring conies at the door and sbe hastens away to meet her beloved. A young wife sits anxiously watch ing for her husband. At each ap proaching footstep her heart beats rapturously and then grows heavy with disappointment! She will not go indoors, it is so sweet oat there! The creeping shadows cheer her trembling soul—so she waits and wishes, and the shadows lengthen into darkened night. A mother is rocking her baby to sleen. He looks at her gravely while they move to and fro, as if asking why the bright sunshine must loavo and the ugly shadows hide her dear face from him. There is a wealth of wisdom in his great sweet eyes! He holds tightly to her dress, us *if to keep her near1' hint! When at Inst his eyes are closed she disengages the loving hand, kisses him lightly—he must not be awakened— and arises to put him into his crib. Thus she sinks buck into her chair and begins to rock again. It is so pleas ant to rest in the twilight, and he is so sweet to nurse! A woman kneels by a fresh mnde grave. The headboard stares coldly at her and seems to say over and over again the words inscribed upon it: ''He was her only child and she was a widow.” Willi tear ladeu eyes she heeds lower and lower, till her lips rest upon tlio earth. She longs so to kiss the quiet form it is hidiug from her! And the twilight seems to hurry past and lose itself in the darkness. A careworn old woman sits watch ing the shadows come—they are friends to her—friends that she welcomes—fot they always sing the same song to her, ••O’ue Day Nearer Home.” And she •miles to them her thanks. She, too. repeats, “one day nearer home.” And so lifo—woman's life—goes on in the twilight till rest comes to her weary body and joy to her aching heart—till her spirit reaches its home, where never u shadow can full upon it. BEATEN BY A MOOSE. fEzoltlnsr Four-Mile Bum In Whieh the Monuroh of th« Forest Won. As a short train of flat-cars was run (ling up the Duluth & Winnipeg Road nto Itasca County. Minn., a large pioose was discovered near the track, says Youth's Companion. In an in stant lie tied ahead of the train aloug the old tote path used by the Indians and woodsmen before the railway was bnilt. The path is close to the cat track and parallel With it. As there are no regular trains on Sunday the engineer had a clear Held and deter mined to show the moose how to run. The iron horse snorted and bounded along over his track of steel, while nil on board intently watched the race. It was a four-mile straightaway run. The moose's gait was an indescriba ble trot, such ns only a moose can ex hibit; his hind feet fanning his ears, his tongue hnnging from his month, every muscle in his body moving, while his paces wore apparently two rods In length. At Hrst it was only a little jog. but as the engine began to do its best the moose let himself out n knot at a time, and all the mysterious power of steam could notiprevail against this monarch of the forest. Faster and faster sped the engine, bnt still the frightened moose trotted In the van, letting out his tongue an other link, and adding another knot, as was needed, to bis gait. But when four miles had thus oecn traversed, the contestants came upon a clearing where men were gathered. Thus driven from his pathway and forced to abandon wlint seemed a playful pas time, the moose dashed across the track several rods in front of the en gine. and a moment later, without awaiting the reward of his well earned luurels, was lost to sight in tbs forest Solid With the Company. Among the first railroads be.Ut in die United Slates was a little line about twenty miles in length. In the course »f time a big tunnel liue was construct ed through the snme country. The original line beenme merely a branch, tor many years it wns run in a cheap way,with one locomotive,one engiueer, and two or three freight cars. Finally a new general manager was appointed. He had not been in office but one week when he sent for the one |pue conductor, who had been there ever since the road was built.. “I would like to have your resigna tion," said the general mnnager when the conductor appeared. “My resignation?" inquired the con ductor in astonishment. “Yes. sir; yours.” “What; for. pray?” “Well, 1 want to make some changes and get Dew blood in the line," was the general manager's reply. “1 won't resign," answered the con ductor. “Then, I will be compelled to die charge you, a step which, for your sake, I had hoped I would be saved from taking." “Young man. you will not discharge me. I own n controlling interest in •he stock of this railroad and elect the President and Board of Directors. I shall have you tired.” I be old conductor did really own the majority of the stuck, and, as he said, put in j,h own It >ard of Direct ors uud President.—AtlaiUn OunttUn tion. Col. John Ilav has preseated Adel bert College la Cleveland with $2,000 THE MIGRATIONS OF INSECTS. anights of ItattarlllM and Dragon flH| Orar tha Prairie. We all know that birds of nearly evory spocies dwelling within tbt north temperate cone migrate fo| long distances and at stated periods Hying in the spring to the far north and returning to the south in autumn ot early winter. A few kinds of quad, rupeds also migrate at certain seasons, chiefly in search of more abundant food. This is true of tho buffaloes, which nt one time roamed in vast herds east of the Mississippi river, but which, many years ago. departed to tho grassy plains of the far west, never to return. Travelers relate a similar fact with re* gard to great troops of elephants in certain sections of Africa. Certain reptiles also migrate from place to place. I have myself observed, says a correspondent of the Philadel phia Times, rattlesnakes crawling across a western prairie in couutless numbers, all in the same direction. At the time I saw them they were spread over a very large terri* tory, the width of the strange pro* cession being not less than eight to ten miles. The migration of insects is a fact that has been seldom recorded and perhaps not often witnessed. In this case, again, to And illustrations, we must look to the prairies of the west. In that vast and trackless domain, where nature reigns supreme, she un folds her richest treasures and relates her strangest stories. It was once my good fortune to wit ness in tho far southwest the migrations in vast numbers of throe widely differ* ent species of insects. The first, which took place in the month of May, wa( the flight of white butterflies of the species known as kricogonia lyside, about a9 large as our common cabbage butterfly, and pretty closely resemb ling it. In the morning those white butterflies began to leave the places where they Imd concealed themselves during the night and to move to one general direction toward the north. By noon the prairie was alive .with them all around as far as the eye could reach. i wanted several miles that morning through the vast cloud of wiujjs, but foumfno end of it. At times I com pared then: in numbers to bees lenving n hive, nt others to great rarid snow flakes. 1 stood with my collecting-net catching on the wing some of the finest and largest specimens that came .within reach. There was not much choice, however, for I noticed that nearly all of them were in fresh and perfect condition, having evidently just emerged from the chrysalis. All that day they continued to fly. but, of course, the migration ceased at night, because it is the instinct of butterflies to go under cover when darkness approaches. I found few that Imd lodged under the leaves of the mesquite, a bush rolated to our locust. The uext morning the flight was re sumed, and the white-robed travelers continued to move past me in dense swarms for about an hour, after which the numbers dwindled down, thun be came scattered. Then a few strag glers only were to be seen, and ai last they disappeared. On two other occasions I witnessed northward migrations of the same species. 1 was assured by observers, whom I had reason to cousider trust worthy, that iu the early autumn large flights of this same white butterfly take place in a southward direction. Such a flight must be composed of in sects of a later brood, because the life of an individual butterfly is but a few weeks in duration at most. It is quite possible that by some developed in stinct peculiar to only a few species, theso butterflies are impelled, at the beginning of the long, dry, southern summer to seek a more noighern climate, where they may find a soil less baked by the sun and more suc culent herbage adapted to the wants of their voracious caterpillars. At the end of summer it would seem that they return, like the birds, to find a_ warm and sunuy winter. The flights that I observo took place iu, southern Texas, but in my journevc farther north I never found'this species in largo numbers, I nru, therefore, un able to say to what northeru locality my great clouds of white butterflies could have been wafted! in June of the 8nmo year nnd again in August n certain large dragon fly caught the migrating fever and mil. lions of this kind flew in swarms all in one direction over the prairie. As far as our party could travel in one day we continued to see these winged “darning-needles.” In June they flew due northwest, in August nearly south west. This also seemed like a going and returning migration. Unlike the butterflies, theso dragon flies continued their passage during, the night and their procession occupied three or four days in passing us. We had no means of learning whither they were bound or whence they came. The common gray beetle known as the Spanish fly is another migrant over the Texas prairies. Our party sud denly encountered an army of these beetles as we were driving from one of our hunting camps to another, and we turned and followed in its wake. The insects crawled as fast as their active legs could carry them, making a column that varied from six ihcbes to two feet in width nnd more than 100 yards in length. The head of the army was impactly formed in a dunse line, but its rear ended with a long stream of stragglers, which became fewer and more scattered until they gradually ceased. 1 am inclined to be lieve that all these myriads of beetles wero batched from eggs laid close to gether by a few females of the preced tng generation. the new Countess of Dudlev is, ac cording to all accounts, a very beauti ful woman, but to sny that she is hand somer than the dowager Countess, her mother-in-law. is something which is difficult to believe. The senior Count ess is one of the beauties of Enroiie. whose charms only ripen nnd expaud with age. r “Isn’t it strange that the law in Ne xork compels a pcUticlan to swei concerning his campaign expensei Whatever made them think such a la was neededP11-'Eulltmorc American* comPbompilt R ALGIa BcYAT/ff Sprains, Bruises, Burns. ScaldT • ItlKCHARLES A. VOCILgg CO.. BalUa*** & iteeouifflendcd m the Ile»t. II IiB Urns, Plymouth Oo . 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