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THE SEM l-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, I By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. ( VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - -§4 00 VVeely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 J3TPAYABLE IN ADVANCE.® All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged tor in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—73 cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 33 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising: Rates; One Square first insertion, - - - -51.00 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .5 i-iT L’en Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserte will be continued until ordered out anil charged for accordingly. Advertisements to occupy fixed places wil be charged 23 per cent, above tegular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. TAYLOR’S SMILING ROOM IS HEADQUARTERS FOR SOMETHIN GOOD EAT AND D&mKl The Best Cook in the city. Meals Served at Short Notice ! Come One, Come All, nov-lcf .A. Buena Vista High School will open its spring term, January Bth 1883. This announcement is made in the hope that the patrons will take knowledge of the fact that is highly important to eacli pupil to be gin at tlie opening of the exercises. A bill is now before the Legislature to fur nish guns, and it is hoped this fact will still add to the attractive features of the institu tion. Calesthenics taught by a competant teacher will afford a proper and graceful exercise for the girls, while the military drill will substantially furnish exercise for the boys. TERMS. Preparatory Department 53 00 Intermediate, 2 50 Academic, 3 oo Music, 3 00 Painting 100 These departments furnish an attiaction. Drawing 2 50 Incidental fee lOcts. per month, 1 00 Payments required monthly. decStf J. E. MATHIS, Principal. THE CELEBRATED SEXTUPLE SPRING BED. To breathe, eat and sleep well is the first requirement of physical organization. s. FLEISGHMAN’S SEXTUPLE BED SPRING. [Patented Aug. 22, 1882. L Is the first and foremost to accomplish this end, as it facilitates the first, accelerates the second, and perfects the last of these grand purposes. It is a “tiling of beauty and a Coy forever.” Last with life,- perfect in its adaptation forcomlort, being disconnect ed in the center prevents sagging. Made by S. M-I,ESTER, who will put them on, and is from long experience able to guarantee satisfaction. AGENTS WANTED to sell these Springs. Territory and Spring outfit furnished and large commissions paid. S. FLEISCHMAN, Patentee and Manufacturer, octll-6m Cotton Ave., Americus. Ga. For Sale. The Berrien County News and Office outfit, including two presses; an eight column Washington Hand Press, and Gordon jobber, in good condition, is offered for sale during the next thirty days. The paper is in its eighth volume, and its circu lation good. Address, “NEWS,” dec2tf AJapaba, Ga. FARMERS READ. All who are indebted to me for Guano, are earnestly requested to settle by Decem ber 20th, after which time, I am ordered to place all the notes in the hands of an Attor ney for suit and collection, and the full face of the note will be required. My orders are imperative and I must obey. decStd J. D. SCOTT. BRICK. BRICK. BRICK. I haveJTHREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND good new brick, which I will sell cheap. 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INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1882. VOY.’YB.’Y. MY CHII,D. BY JOHN PIERFONT. I cannot make him deadl His fair sunshiny head Is ever bounding round my study chair; Yet when my eyes, now dim, With tears, I turn to him The vision vanishes—he is not there! I walk my parlor floor, And, through the open door, I hear a footfall on the chamber stair; In stepping toward the hall To give the boy a call, And then bethink me that—he is not there! I thread the crowded street; A satcheled lad I meet, With tlie same beaming eyes and colored hair; And, as he’s running by, Follow him with my eye, Scarcely believing tUat—lie is not there! I know his face is hid Under the coffin lid; Closed are his eyes; cold is his forehead fair; My hand that marble felt; O'er in prayer I knelt; Yet my heart whispers that—he is not there! I cannot make him deadl When passing by the bed, So long watched over with parental care; My spirit and my eyo Seek him imploringly, Before the thought comes that—he is not there! When at the day’s calm close Before wc seek repose, I’m with his mother offering up our prayer; Whatever I may he saying I am in spirit praying, For our hoy’s spirit, though—ho is not there! Not there! Where then is he? The form I used to see Was hut the raiment that he used to wear, Tlie grave that now doth press Upon the cast-off dress Is hut his wardrobe locked—he is not there! He lives!—ln all the past lie lives; nor to the last Of seeing him again will I despair: In dreams I see him now, And on his angel brow I see it written, “Thou shalt see me there!” Yes, we all live to God! Father, thy chastening rod So help us Tiliue afflicted ones to hear, That, in the spirit land, Meeting at Thy right hand, ‘Twill be our heaven to find that—ho is there! ft. Read This Boys. A gentleman advertised for a boy to assist him in his office, and nearly fifty applicants,presented themselves to him. Out of the whole number he in a short time selected one and dismissed the rest. “I should like to know,” said a friend, “on what grounds you selected that boy, who had not a single recom mendation?” “You are mistaken,” said the gen tleman; “he had a great many. He wiped his feet when he came in, and closed the door after him, showing that he was careful. He gave up his seat instantly to that lame old man, show ing that he .vas kind and thoughtful. He took off his cap when he came in, and answered my questions promptly, showing that he was polite and gentle manly. He picked up the book which 1 had purposely laid upon the floor, and placed it upon tho table, while all the rest stepped over it or shoved it aside; and he waited quietly for his turn, instead of pushing and crowding, showing that lie was honorable and orderly. When I talked with him I noticed that his clothes were carefully brushed, his hair in nice order, and when he wrote his name I noticed that his finger-nails were clean, instead of being tipped with jet, like that hand some little fellow in the blue jacket. Don’t you call those things letters of recommendation? I do; and I would give more for what 1 can tell about a boy using my eyes ten minutes than all the letters he can bring me.” Regard for Wives* Feelings. If your wife is sensitive, do not ig nore the fact. Refrain from jesting with her on a subject which there is danger of wounding her feelings. Re member that she treasures every word you utter. Do not speak of some vir tues in another man’s wife to remind your own of a fault. Do not reproach your wife with personal defects, for, if she has sensibility, you inflict a wound difficult to heal. Do not treat your wife with inattention in company; it touches her pride, and she will not res pect you more, or love you better for it. Do not upbraid your wife in the pres ence of a third person; the sense of your disregard for her feelings will prevent her acknowledging her fault. Do not entertain your wife by praising the beauty ami accomplishments of other women. If yon would have a pleasant home and a cheerful wife, pass your evenings under your own root'. Do not be stern and silent in your own house and remarkable for sociability else where. Take your sunshine home with you. He Acknowledged tlie Soft Im • peaclunent. Rochester Post-Express. “You musn’t touch the top of the baby’s head,” said a mother to her lit tle four-year old, “she has a soft spot there that is very tender.” The youngster gazed at it curiously for a moment, and then said: “Do all babies have soft spots on their heads?” “Yes.” “Did papa have a soft spot on the top of his head when he was a baby?” “Yes,” replied the mother, with a sigh, “and he has got it yet.’ And tlie.old man who had overheard the conversation from an adjoining room, sang out: “Yes, indeed he has, my dear boy, or he would be a single man to-day.” TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. DeWITT TALJIAGE WHISPERERS Whisperers.— Romans i., 29. Paul was here calling the long roll of this world’s villainy, and he puts in the midst of this roll those persons known in all cities and in all commu nities and in all places as whisperers. They are so called because they general ly speak under voice and in a confiden tial way, their hand to the side of their month acting as a funnel to keep the precious information from wandering into the wrong ear. They speak soft ly, not because they have lack of lung force, or because they are overpowered with the spirit of gentleness, but be cause they want to escape the conse quences of defamation, for no one hears but the person whispered unto, and it the offender be arraigned he can deny the whole thing, for whisperers are al ways first-class liars! Some people whisper because they are hoarse from a cold, or because they wish to convey some useful information without dis turbing others; but the creature pho tographed by tho Apostle in my test give muffled utterance from sinister and deprave motive, and sometimes you can only hear the sibilant sound as the letter “8” drops from the tongue into the listening ear—the brief hiss of the serpent as it projects its venom. Whisperers a e masculine and feminine, with a tendency to majority on the side of those who are called “the lords of creation.” Whisperers are heard at every window of bank cashiers and are heard in all counting-rooms, as well as in sewing societies, and at meetings of asylum directors and managers. They are the worst foes of society; responsi ble for miseries innumerable; they are the scavengers of the world, driving their cart through every community, and to-day I hold up for your holy anathema and execration these whis perers. From the frequency with which Paul speaks of them under different titles, I conclude that he must have suffered somewhat from them. His personal presence was defective, and that made him, perhaps, the target of their ridicule. And besile that, he was a bachelor, persisting in his celi bacy down into the sixties—indeed, ail the way through—and some having failed in their connubial designs upon him, the little missionary was put un der the raking lire of these whisperers. He was, no doubt, a rare morsel for their scandalization, and he cannot keep his patience any longer, and he lays hold of these miscreants of the tongue and gives them a very hard setting down in my text among scoundrelly and the murderous. “Envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers.” The law of libel makes quick and stout grip of open slander. If I should in a plain way, calling yon by name, charge you with fraud, or theft, or murder, or uncleanness, to-morrow morning I might have peremptory documents served on me, and I would have to pay in dollars and cents for the damage I had done your character. But these creatures spoken of in my text are so small that they escape tlie fine tooth comb of the law. They go on, and they go on, escaping the judges and the juries and penitentiaries. The dis trict-attorney cannot find them, the sheriff cannot find them. Shut them off from one route of perfidity and start on another. Ykiu cannot by the force of moral sentiment persuade them to desist. You might as well read the Ten Commandments to a flock of crows, expecting them to retreat under the force of moral sentiment. They are to be found everywhere, these whisperers. I think their paradise is a country vill age of about one or two thousand peo ple, whete everybody knows everybody. But they also are to he found in large quantities in all our cities. They have a prying disposition. They look into the basement windows at the tables of their neighbors, and can tell just what they have morning and night to eat. They can see as far through a keyhole as other people can see with a door wide open. They can hear couversa tion on the opposite side of the room. Indeed, the world to them is a whisper ing gallery. They always put the worst construction on everything. Some morning a wife descends into the street, her eyes damp with tears, and that is a stimulus to the tattler and is enough to set up a business for three or four weeks. “1 guess that husband and wife don’t live happily together. I wonder if he hasn’t been abusing her? It’s outrageous. He ought to be dis ciplined. He ought to he brought up before the church. I’ll go right over to my neighbors and I’ll let them know about this matter.” She rushes in all out of breath to a neighbor’s house and says: “O! Mrs. Allear, have you heard the dreadful news? Why, our neigh bor, poor thing, came down off the steps in a flood of tears. That brute of a husband has been abusing her. Well, it’s just as I expected, I saw him the other afternoon very smiling and very gracious to someone, who smiled hack, and I thought then I would jußt go up to him and tell him he had bet ter go home and look after his wife and family, who probably at that very time were up stairs crying their eyes out. O! Mrs. Allear, do havo your husband go over and put an end to this trouble. It’s simply outrageous that our neigh borhood should be disturbed in this way. It’s awful.” The fact is that one man or woman set on fire of this hellish spirit will keep a whole neigh borhood aboil. It does not require any very great brain. The chief requisi tion is that the woman have a Btnall family or no family at all, because, if she have a large family, then she would have to stay at home and look after them. It is very important that she be single or have no children at all, and then she can attend to all the secrets of the neighborhood all the time. A wo man with a large family makes a very poor whisperer. It is astonishing how these whisperers gather up everything. They know everything that happens. There are telephone and teleghrapli wires reaching from their ears to all the houses in the neighborhood. They have no taste for healthy news, but for the scrap 'S and peilings thrown out of the scullery into the back yard they have great avidity. On the day when there is anew scandal in the newspa pers, they have no time to go abroad. On the day when there are four or five columns of delightful private letters published in a divorce case, she stays at home and reads, and reads and reads. No time for her Bible that day, but toward night perhaps she may find time to run out a little while and see whether there are any new develop ments. Satan does have to keep a very sharp look out for his evil dominion in that neighborhood. He has let out to her the whole contract! She gets hus bands and wives into a quarrel, and brothers and sisters into antagonism, and she disgusts the pastor with the flock and the flock with the pastor, and she makes neighbors, who before were kindly disposed toward each other, over suspicious and critical, so when one of the neighbors passes by in a car riage they hiss through their teeth and say: “Ah! we could all keep carriages if we never paid our debts.” When two or throe whisperers get together they stir a caldron of trouble which makes me think of the three witches of Macbeth dancing around a boiling cal dron in a dark cave: Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind worm’s sting, Lizard’s log and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a bell both boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf Of the raven’d salt sea shark; Make the gruel thick and slab; Add thereto a tiger’s cliandron For the ingredients of our caldron. Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble. Gool it with a baboon’s blood; Then the charm is firm and good. I would only change Shakespeare in this, that where he puts the word witch I would put the word whisperer. All! what a caidron. Did you ever get a taste of it? I have more respect for the poor waif of the street that goes down under the gaslight, with no home and no God—for she deceives no one as to what she is—than I have for those hags of respectable society who cover up their tiger claws with aline shawl, and bolt the hell of their hearts with a dia mond breastpin! The work of mascu line whisperers is chiefly seen in the embarrassment of business. Now, I suppose there are hundreds of men here who at some time have been in busi ness trouble. I will undertake to say that in nine cases out of ten it was tho result of some whisperer’s work. The whisperer uttered some suspicion in re gard to your credit. You sold your horse and carriage because you had no use for them, and the whisperer said: “Sold his horse and carriage because he had to sell them. The fact chat he sold his horse and carriage shows he is going down in business.” One of your friends gets embarrassed and you are a little involved with him. The whisperer says: “I wonder if he can stand under all this pressnre? I think he is going down. I think he will have to give up.” You borrow money out of tho bank and a director whispers outside about it, and after a while the suspicion gets fairly started, and it leaps from one whisperer’s lip to another whisperer’s lip until all the people you owe want their money and want it right away, and all the business circles come around you like a pack of wolves, and though you had assets four times more than were necessary to meet your lia bilities, crash! went everything. Whis perers! whisperers, O! how much bus iness men have suffered. Sometimes in cirolee of clergymen we discuss why it is that a great many merchants do not go to church. By the time Satur day night comes they are worn out with the annoyances of business life. They have had enough meanness practiced upon them to set their whole nervous system atwitch. People sometimes do not understand why in this church we generally have men in the majority in alrabst all our audiences. It is because I preach so much to business men; and I resolved years ago that I would never let a Sunday pass but in prayer or sermon I would ntter my sympathies for the struggle of business men, know ing that struggle in many cases to be the work of whisperers. I have seen men in Brooklyn and New York whis pered into bankruptcy. You have seen tlie same thing. O! if people would only mind their own business we would have the millineum next week. Alas! for these gadaboutß, these scandal-mon gers, these everlasting snoops. I hate them with an ever increasing vehem ence of hatred, and I ask God to give me more intensity with which to hat® them. I think among the worst of the whisperers are those who gather up all the harsh things that have been said about you and bring them to you—all the things said against you or against your family, or against your style of business. They gather them all up and they bring them to you; they bring them to you in the very worst shape; they bring them to you without any of the extenuating circumstances, and af ter they have made your feelings all raw, very raw, they take this brine, this turpentine, this aquafortis, and rub it in with a coarse towel, and rub it in until it sinks to the bone. They make you the pin-cushion in which they thrust all the sharp things they havo ever heard about you. “Now, don’t bring me into a scrape. Now, now, don’t tell anybody I told you. Let it be between you and me. Don’t involve me in it at all.” They aggravate you to the point of profanity, and then they wonder you cannot sing psalm tunes! They turn you on a spit before a hot fire, and wonder why you are not absorbed in gratitude to them because they turn you on a spit. Pedlars and nightshade. Pedlars of Canada thistle. Pedlars of nux vomica. Sometimes they get you in a corner, where you can not very well escape without being rude and then they tell you all about this one, and all about that one, and all about the other one, and they talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. After a while they go away, leaving the place looking like a barnyard after the foxes and tho weasels have been around— here a wing, and there a claw, and yon der an eye, and there a crop. Oh! how they do make the feathers fly. Rather than the defamation of good names, it seems to me it would he more honor able and useful if you just took a box of matches in your pocket, and a razor in your hand, and go through the streets and see how many houses you can burn down and how many throats you can cut. That is a better business. The destruction of a man’s name is worse than the destruction of his life. A woman came in confessional to a priest and told him that she had been slander ing her neighbors. The priest gave her a thistle top, and said: “You can take that thistle and scatter the seeds all over the field.” She went and did so, and came back. “Now,” said the priest, “gather up all these seeds.” She said “I can’t.” "Ah!” lie said, “I know you can’t; neither can you gather up the evil words you spoke about your neighbors.” All good men and all good women have sometimes had de tractors after them. John Wesley’s wife whispered about him, whispered all over England; kept, a-whispering about that good man—as good a man as ever lived—and kept on whispering until the connubial relation was dis solved. Jesus Christ had these whis perers after Him, and they charged Him with drinking too much and keeping bad company—a wine-bibber and the friends of publicans and sinners. Y’ou take the best man that ever lived, and put a detective on his track for ten years, watching where he goes and when he comes, and with a determina tion to misconstrue everything and to think he goes hero fo: a bad purpose, and there for a bad purpose, with that determination of destroying him, at the end of the ten years he will be held despicable in the sight of a great many people. If it is an outrageous thing to despoil a man’s character, how much worse is it to damage a woman’s repu tation. Yet that evil goes lrom century to century, and it is all done by whis perers. A suspicion is started. The next whisperer who gets hold of it states the suspicion as a proven fact, and many a good woman, as honorable as your wife or your mother, has been whispered out of all kindly associations, and whispered into the grave. Some people say there is no hell for such a despoiler of womanly character, it is high time that some philanthropist build one! But there is such a place established, and what a time they will have when all the whisperers get down there together rehearsing things! Everlasting carnival of mud. Were it not for the uncomfortable surroundings, you might suppose they would he glad to get there. In that region where they are all bad, what opportunities for ex ploration by these whisperers. On earth, to despoil their neighbors, some times they liad to lie about them, hut down there they can say the worst things possible about their neighbors, and tell the truth. Jubilee of whis pers, grand gala day of backbiters, semi-heaven of scandal-mongers stop ping their gabble about their diabolical neighbors only long enough to go up to the iron gate and ask some new-comer from the earth, “What is the last gos sip in Brooklyn?” Now, how are we to war against this iniquity which curses every communi ty on earth? First, by refusing to lis ten to or believe a whisperer. Every court of the land has for a law, and all decent communities have for a law, that you must hold people innocent un til they are found guilty. There is on ly one person worse than the whisperer, and that is the man or the woman who listens without protest. The trouble is, you hold the sack while they fill it. The receiver of stolen goods is just as the thief. An ancient writer declares that a slanderer and a man who re ceives the slander ought both to be hung—the one by the tongue and the other by the ear, and I agree with him. When you hear something bad about your neighbors, do not go all over and ask about it, whether it is true, and scatter it and spread it. You might as well go to a smallpox hospital and take a patient and carry him all | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. through the community, asking people if they really thought it is a case ef smallpox. That would be very bad for the patient and for all the’ neighbors. Do not retail slanders and whisperings. Do not make yourself the inspector of warts and the supervisor of carbuncles, and the commissioner for street gutters, and the holder of stakes for a dog-fight. Can it be that yon, an immortal man, that you, an immortal woman, can find uo better business than to become a gutter iaspector? Besides that, at your family table allow no attraction. Teach your children to speak well of others. Show them the difference between a bee and a wasp—the one gathering honey and the other thrusting a sting. 1 read of a family where they kept what they called a slander book, and when slan derous words were uttered in the house about anybody, or detraction uttered, it was all put down in this hook. The book was kept caretully. For the first few weeks there were a great many en tries, but after awhile there were no en tries at all. Detraction stopped in that household. It would be a good thing to have a slander-book in all house holds. Are any of you given to this habit of whispering about others? Whisperer, let me persuade you to desist. Mount Tanrus was a great place for eagles, and cranes would fly along that way, and they would cackle so loud that the eagles would know of their coming and they would pounce upon them and destroy them. It is said that the old cranes found this out, and before they started on their flight they would always have a stone in their mouth so they could not cackle, and then thej would fly in perfect Bafety. Oh! my friends, be as wise as the old cranes and avoid the folly of the young cranes. Do not cackle. If there are people hero who are whispered about, if there are people here who are slandered, if there are people here who are abused in any circle of life, let me say for your encouragement that these whisperers soon run out, They may do a little damage for a while, but after a while their detraction becomes a eulogy, and people understand them just as well as though some one chalked all over their overcoat or their shawl these words: “Here goes a whisperer. Room for the leper. Room!” You go ahead and do your duty and God will take care of your reputation. How dare you dis trust Him? You have committed to Him your souls. Can you not trust Him frith your reputation? Get down on your knees before God and settle the whole matter there. That man whom God takes care of is well sheltered. Let me charge yon, my friends, to make right and holy use of the tongue. It is loose at one end and can swing either way, but it is fastened at the other end to the floor of your mouth, and that makes yon responsible for the way it wags. Xanthus the philosopher told his servant that on the morrow he was going to have some friends to dine, and told him to get tlie best thing he could find in the market. The philosopher and his guests sat down the next day at the table. They had nothing but tongue —four or five courses of tongue—tongue cooked in this way and tongue cooked in that way, and tlie philosopher lost his patience and said to his servant: “Didn’t I tell you to get the best thing in the market?” He said: “I did get the best thing in the market. Isn’t the tongue the organ of sociality, the organ of eloquence, the organ of kindness, the organ of worship?” Then Xanthus said: “To-morrow I want you to get the worst thing in the market.” And on the morrow the philosopher sat at the table, and there was nothing there but tongue—four or five courses of tongue—tongue in this shape and tongue in that shape, and the philoso pher again lost his patience and said: “Didn’t I tell you to get the wore* thing in the market?” The servant replied: “I did: for isn’t the tongue the organ of blasphemy, the organ of defamation, the organ of lying?” O! my friends, employ the tongue which God so wonderfully created as the or gan of taste, the organ of deglutition, the organ of articnlation, to make others happy, and in the service of God. If you whisper, whisper—encourage* meat to the fallen and hope to the lost. Ah, my friends, the time will soon come when we will all whisper. The voice will be enfeebled in the last sickness, and though that voice could laugh and shout and sing and halloo until the forest echoes answered, it will he so feeble then we can only whisper conso lation to those whom we leave behind, and only whisper our hope of heaven. While I speak, this very moment, there are hundreds whispering their last ut terances. O, when that solemn hour comes to you and to me, as come it will, may it be found that we did our best to serve Christ, and to cheer our comrades in the earthly struggle, and that we consecrated not only our hand but onr tongue to God. So that the shadows that fall around onr dying pillow shall not be the evening twilight of a gather ing night, but the morning twilight of an everlasting day. This morning, at half-past five o’clock, I looked out of my window, and the stars were very dim. I looked out a few moments after, and the stars were almost invisible. I looked ont an hour or two afterward, not a star was to be seen. What was the matter with the stars? Had they melted into darkness? No. They had melted into the glorious light of a Sabbath morn. Let us pray. Young men or middle aged ones, suffering from nervous debility and kindred weaknesses should send three stamps for Part VII or World’s Dispensary Dime Series of books. Address World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. NO. 26.