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IX DUE SEABO.Y WE SHALL REAP.
I marked a child—a pretty child,
A gentle, blue-eyed thing,
She sowed the scented mignonette
One sunny day in spring---
And while the tiny grains she sowed,
The stream of thought thus sweetly flow ed:
•“On this dear bed the dew shall fall.
And yon bright sun shall shine;
“Twill spring and grow, and blossom then,
And it will all lie mine!”
And the fair being laughed in childish glee
To think w hat a harvest her’s should be.
I
I saw a man an acorn plant.
Upon the hill-side bare,
No spreading branch, no shading rock.
Lent friendly shelter there;
And thus—as o’er the spot he bowed,
I hoard him—for he thought aloud:
“Frail thing! ere glossy leaf shall grace
Thy wide, and sturdy bough,
I may he laid amid the dead,
As low as thou art now—
Yet wilt thou rise in rugged strength,
And crown this barren height at, length.”
Each had a hope—the childish heart
Looked to a summer’s joy;
‘The manly thought—strong and mature—
Looks to futurity.
Each trusts to nature’s genial power,
He wants a forest—She a flower.
Who sows the seed of heavenly truth, j
And doubts Almighty power?
Will years less bring the oak,
Than months the summer flower?
Then sow, although no fruit you see,
(■rod, “in due time,” will raise the tree.
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som;,
A maid reclined beside a stream
At fall of summer day,
And, half-awake and half-adreant.
She watched the ripples’ play;
She marked the waters’ fall and heave,
The deepening shadows throng;
And heard, as darkened clown the eve,
The fiver's babbling song.
And thus it sung, with tw inkling tongue,
That rippling shadowy river—
“ Youth’s brightest da}’ will fade away
Forever and forever!”
The twilight past, the moon at last
Rose broadly o’er the flight;
Kach ripple gleams beneath her beams
As wrought in silver blight.
The heaving waters glide along,
Cut, mingling w ith their voice.
The nightingale now pours his song,
And makes the shades rejoice.
And thus he sung, with tuneful tongue,
That bird beside the river—
“ When youth is gone, true love shincson j
Forever and forever.”
<£eutf*eecm ce.
From tic Southern Orgnn.
A FACT IV FAVOR OF PROHIBITIO*.
’ Look on this picture and then on that.”
Charles Parsons, the subject of this sketch, was a I
few years since a young rnan of excellent inoral char
actor, and bid fair to live a long life of honor and
usefulness.
A tine manly form, combined with affable, social:
manners, made him a universal favorite.
Hi- society was eagerly sought after by the youth
of loth <exee. No merry-making or .--or ial gathering ;
could take place without soliciting the presence of |
Charles - Parsons.
Mothers were proud of his attentions to their
daughters ; and fathers enjoined upon their sons to
emulate the example of such an exemplary young
man.
The path of honor, power and w ealth was before
him ; r.sanv a high and noble thought pulsated that
generous heart, as his ambitious fancy feasted upon i
the glories of the future.
Whilst Charles was in trio height of his populari
ty, it Vegan to be noticed bv the observant that he
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Bcbottij to (Imp traitcr, literature. General intelligence, anti the latest llctus.
; occasionally indu'ged too freely. Hut at tl c same
time they thought that there could he no dan err of
him—he was too proud, too manly, to succumb t,
■ the wine-god.
Rut how delusive, how destructive are such hopes.
Oyster suppers, drives to the Lake, and nil the vari
ous inodes of killing time, weie resorted to.
T > the expostulations of friends he promised!
amendment; but his resolutions availed not. How j
few who have once fallen have the moral power t” 1
sever the chains of the dread destroyer.
But depraved as he ha.i become, he had yet a fen j
; disinterested friends left, who detenu nod to make j
I an effort to save him.
Accordingly g suitable outfit was provided, and ;
j he was placed on board a vessel bound for his native !
, home in Massachusetts, lie was kindly welcomed j
by his relatives, who were shocked to see the fearful i
ravages intemperance had made in his appearance.
But they hoped, by kind, judicious attention, to
ibe able to effect a complete reformation; and as he
; was then out of reach of temptations, their fond
t hopes bid fair to be realized.
Soon ho began to feel the invigorating, health-re- !
storing power of Temperance. His health in a few
weeks became firmly re-established—his spirits buoy
ant —his limbs lithe and free—in fact, a complete
change had taken place, physically and morally.
lie now looked back with dread and horror to the |
dark days of his degradation.
In an ovil hour he resolved to return to New Or- ,
leans, but with a solemn promise to his friends never 1
again to drink of the “dark beverage.”
On his arrival in the Crescent City, hia former
friends were surprised at the marked improvement
in his appearance.
Again he was surrounded by temptation—had he
the moral courage to withstand the syren's witching
art? No! he had not. At sight of the poisonous
curse, his vitiated appetite returned, and he at once
revelled in unbridled restraint.
The consequence was an attack of tlmi horrible dis- I
ease, delirium tremens. For days ho hovered be-1
tween life and death.
At length he became convalescent, and such a i
sight as he presented—his form bent and attenuated!
—eyes sunken and glassy-—he was but the wreck |
of his former self—and gave himself up entirely to
the power of the rum-demon.
Those who really felt a friendship for him saw
with heavy hearts that his doom was sealed—his I
race well nigh run.
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Alas, the drunkard's lot was on him.
For months he loitered about, living upon the j
charity of the few friends he had loft—never so- j
her—for he always managed to procure enough of
the accursed poison to drown reflection.
At last rum lost the power of easing the con
science or lulling the pain of the wretched man; the
fiend whom he had so long served, now, in his ut
most need, abandoned him.
Reader, the earthly career of this wretched man
was a few days since brought to a close, he died as
hundreds yearly die—a ruin-besotted outcast.
0, who Can tell the agony w hieh racked the heart
of that forlorn man, as lie lay in the last throes of
death?
Visions of happy days no doubt rushed upon his j
mind—days when he was blessed with friends, re-1
spectability and wealth. Hid his thoughts revert to i
bis only sister —the pet, the joy of his youth -the
idol and pride of his manhood?
Why was riot that fond sister bending in agony
over her idolized brother-—w-iping the death dew off
his cold, clammy brow?
She was thousands of miles from him —happily
ignorant of her brother's wretched condition.
May she never hear that her brother died a mis- ‘
erable, unhonored outcast.
This slight sketch is no coinage of the ).min; !
many who read it wilt no doubt know to w hom 1 al- !
hide. 1 record it merely to prove the insidious soul
destroy ing powt r of ruin.
If men have not the moral power to combat j
against the treacherous wiles of the destroyer, leg Is- j
lation most stay its further progress.
To keep temptation out of the reach of men is j
’ the best anil only way to prevent crime. Probib -
tion is our only safe-guard. CORNELIA.
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APPEAL TO THE VOTERS OF THE EMPIRE STATE.
“May it please. you to grant vx permUxion to ‘■
kills”
“In w hat manner do you d>-sirc to kill? With the ■
sword?
“Your petitioners consider the sword as an anti
quated way of extinguishing life. 1 here is a l-av
ageness about it, and a useless effusion of blood. —
Wounds are inconvenient, and not alway s mortal.
We wish to do our work with less trouble, and more
effectually. Heath by the sword is an unjust .and
partial system. It iifT>-rts only those wh draw n
up in battle array. It falls entirely upon n -ex.
According to the tfuory of Mai thus, tin re are mote
human beings created than the earth is able to cun
tain. Therefore, it is necessary, that a part 1 rut
off for the safety and sustenance of the whoK—
Vow, as there are full as many women in the world
as men, and wore children, snine process of diminu
tion ought to bed vised, in which they shall bear
due proportion. We therefore petition to kill wo
men and children as well as men. ‘A e pray that
power may be given ns, to enter the domestic -anc
■ tuary, arid to slay by the fire side, as ac’l a- in tin
battle field.”
i “]> i you prefer the use, of gunpowder let t/u
sword?”
“Mav it please you, none reverence more than
i ourselves the invention of gunpowder As an ex-
pi:\m,D, tap, uim.tr, in a, m
i pediti-ms and commodious way of freeing the earth
|of her supernumeraries, it is truly admirable. Nev-
I erthelcss wc are not perfectly satisfied to adopt it.
ilt is too local in its operation. When the field if
: once onvi red with the dead, tic thunder of the can
non cease*. Rattles arc not of frequent occurrence.
| fields as Waterloo are not frequent. Wc pre
i mr th employ an agcM that needs no real, and that
, night ami day may follow the work,of destruction.”
‘lt would seem then that pestilence or famine must
j be summoned ax rrerutorx of‘your commixxino.”
“V e suppose the plague may Ik- imported, and
; we know that it has produced great effects. The
i cities (ff the east have been bumbled in sackcloth ho
j fore it, and desolated London, anciently inscribed
| with the red cross, and “Lord have mercy upon us,”
j the doors of her smitten and almost tenantless dwell
i ings. The cholera, too, in opening the graves in our
land, told how fearful was even the lightest footstep
of the fit st: oyer, ‘willing in darkness.’ Famine
| has also withered whole nations. They have blight
ed and faded awav, ‘stricken through fur trout of
the fruit .< or the field.’ But earth soon renovated
j herself, and was again clothed with plenty. The
harvest ripened and the vine filled its clusters. The
flocks that had vanished from the fold, returned, and
the herds lowed in their stalls. Health and fullness
of bread banished away every tiace of weeping and
jof woe. Not only’ is the dominion of famine and pcs
| tilin< o transient, hut their sway is also restricted. —
At the height of their power they kill only the body.
> They have no authority over the soul. We desire a
| broader commission. We request liberty to •kill
| the sou! ax veil ax the body.’ ’’
“ What tremendous agent do you. then seek, before
whom the racagex of war, and pent Hence and famine
are ail forgotten
May it please you, that tub sack or intoxicating
nciNK - MA \ UB sASCTIONIin IIV VOLK VOTE IN EVERY
TENTH DWELLING IN 0111 CITIES ANI> IN EVERY TOWN,
VILLAGE AND HAMLET IN THE STATE HY VOl'R VOTE
| iNseitiHEi*. I.IHKNSE.
j Htl LTERATIOA OF URiJVDV, W\. W'HVH, BEER, Hr.
j There are many reasons why every Slate and Na
’ tion should prohibit the manufacture and sale of in-
I toxicating drinks to be, used as a beverage ; but waiv
| ing every other consideration, the known adultera
’ tion of all kinds of liquors that Intoxicate, should he
I reason enough for the most stringent laws to prohibit
I their sale.
Brandy. This liquor is almost universally a base
j imposition. The imported article, as a general fact,
lis adulterated. Unadulterated brandy cannot be
sold at less than about $“.50 the gallon : the adtil-
be made at about .‘th rents per gallon ;
and so disguised that no one can tell the difference.
The dealers cannot, nor do they, resist the tempta
tion to adulterate, where the gain is so enormous.—
Chemical compounds are now made and sold to fab
ricators fop making spurious brandy out of common
whisky: the whisky itself often drugged with arsenic.
A dealer in spurious brandy recently imported
enough of these compounds to manufacture 800 hogs
heads of the forged article. He sold it for pure, and
at $2.50 the gallon : making a clear profit, as he con
fessed, of SIOO,OOO on the speculation ; the fal>ri> a
j ted article costing him only about. 80 cents a gallon.
1 The fabricator having used up his compound to his
j samples, took these to a chemist in Massachusetts,
I for analysis, and for the purpose of having them
made in this country, if possible. The chemist made
the examination, and found one of the samples a
deadly poison : he could not he tempted to have a
hand in producing tin- mixtures. Whether the fab
j ricator found a chemist less honest, or had to wait
j for anew importation, will not, probably, be mode
known until the day of Judgment, when all such se
i (-rets “. ill be made manifest. Who can hegin to es
| lunate the results of the use of the contents of those
j 800 cm !<s. on those w ho, before this time, have prole j
; ably drunk them ?
Another man who had either imported or p:.r
j chased th” -ame kind of compounds, is now in Cali- ,
fornia with them, and he hot slid to a gentleman who
I mentioned it to the writer, that he should make
| SIOO,OOO out of the operation.
A quantity of French brandy was imported into!
: New York, and advertised for sale at auction, on a I
j given day; it was landed on the w harf. A brandy
fabricator purchased the whole lot, of the importer,
• on the condition that the sale should take place ns |
advertised, and on hie. account. During the night it j
■ wat- all removed to his Brandv Brewery, underwent !
the process of adulteration, was carted back, and |
sold next Any, pure ax imported.
A large dealer in Albany declared that when he
j; ureba'-cd foreign liquors in New York, on ship--j
1 hoard, ha had no confidence in getting the article;
purchased, unless he watched the casks from the
■hip to the Is. at on tie river. Iri former years, it]
uic- -opposed that imported liquors were generally j
pure; hut now this opinion has exploded. The pro
ce.-- if adult- ration is carried on to a vast extent in ]
Furope, and it is doubtful whether one gallon in one !
’ bund “and is no’* landed on our bores in u pure ..Late; •
Hid if in :: pur- state, just So far as jt is intoxicating j
it i •vorthk.-s and injurious, as a beverage; and]
none should be drank as su'-ii by any human being
valuing long life or a h •dUfiil body. In a work
publish. .by ttie . < iebrat.’ and Vani r, Frederick Ar
cilin, on ad and • ration, London, and dedicated to the ;
Duke of Northumberland, the practices of brandy,’
gin, b*.ti and wine fabricator- were pretty fully ex
po-e-l; but as we live in an age of great progress,-
the fabrieatoi of the pie ent day have doubtless en
tirely eclipsed those of the past, \rcuai gives the
following method of compounding, or making up, as •
it is technically called, brandy for r-uil -
To 10 puncheons of brandy, l,csi gallons.
Add flavored raisin spirit, 118 “
Tincture of grains of Paradise, i “
Cherry laurel water, 2 “
Spirit of almond cake, 2 “
1,207 “
Add also in handfuls of oak saw dust; and give i’
complexion with burnt sugar.” The same, author, ‘
s|X'Hking of
(lin -Says, “To prepitr and swcetci tain, Ac.,
oil of vitriol, oil of almonds, oil of turpentine, oil cl
juniper berries, lime water, alum, salt > f tartar, sub
acetate of lend, lire used. Sulphate of leadis poi
sonous. I have reason to believe the us of it is fn -
quent, because its action is more rapid, and it im
parts to the liquor a fine complexion; honec some j
vestiges of lead may often be detected in nedt li- j
quor.” As with brand} and gir, so with
Bum. —ls whisky will fell for more money under
the name of rum th in umlei the name of whisky, it
is as easy to turn whisky into nun as into brandy,
giri or wine. We now come to
Wine.- Hero the fabricators make their greatest
profits, exercise their greatest skill, and probably do
the greatest amount of injury. Unadulterated wine,
according to its name and quality, must command
a certain price, to make it worth dealing in. The
fabricator’s ingenuity is put to the greatest trial, to
produce an article resembling the pure, so ns to ob
tain, as near as possible, the price of pure ; and, as
it is impossible to distinguish the pure from impure;
and aa the impure can he made at onc-tcnth to one
quarter of the value of the pure; the impure, as a
natural consequence, takes the place of the pure, the
same as the bogus dollar would take the place of the
pun - silver dollar, provided it was settled hy common
consent a dollar was n dollar, whether bogus or not.
Says Hr. Nott, “I lmd a friend, who had heenonci
a wine dealer, and having read the startling state
ments made public, in relation to the brewing of
wines, and the adulterations of other liquors, gener
ally, I inquired of that friendasto the verity of those
statements. His reply was, ‘(.o d furgirr what has
paxxexl in my own cellar, but the HtutrmenU made arc
true, amdall true, / assure you.’ ’’
The process of adulteration is carried on in wine
countries, as well as in this country, with regard to
Madeira, Sherry, t’lnret, and all other kinds of wine.
The Rev. Ur. Baird has stated that “little or no
wine is drank iu France in a pure state, except it may
be at the winepress. The dealers purchase it-at the
vineyards in a pure state, hut in their hands it is en
tirely changed, hy adding drugs or distilled spiiil.”
Says Horatio Ureonough, the eminent sculptor,
“that although wine can be had in Florence at one
cent alsjttle, the dealers do not hesitate toadd drugs
and water, to gain a fraction more of profit.”
In fine, it is believed by those who are competent
judges, that (here is scarcely a drop of intoxicating
liquors, whether brandy, gin, rum, whisky, wine or
beer, sold or drank in this country, which is not
adulterated or drugged. Always injurious to it per
son in health when pure—how destructive inusf they
he when thus poisoned !
cefl’atteout? S c lc cut ou a t
HOPE AND MEMORY.
An old poem of the North tells of a brave boy,
who, in his earlier years, found his mother’s cottage
too narrow, mourned at tending the goats on the
mountain side, and felt his heart swell within him
like a brook from the melting of the mow, w hen he
saw a ship shoot like an arrow into the bay. He
ran from his mother and the goats- the Vicking
took him on board. The w ind swelled the, sails. —
He aw the hill tops sink into the blue deep, and
was riotously glad. He took his father’s sword in
his hand, and sw ore to conquer him houses and
lands hy the sea. Rut now, in his old age, his pal
! aee in Ryzanthimn is a weariness to him, and he
j longs for his mother’s cottage. He dreams of the
i goats; all day the kids bleat for him. He enters a
j barque; he sails for the Scandinavian coast, and goes
j to the v. ry cottage too narrow for hi - childhood, and
| eats tin- oat< n I read of Swedi n, and drinks its I itter
lieor; bares his forehead to the storm; sits on the
I rook, and there he dies.
I “Bury me not, I pray thee, in Lgypt, -aid Id Ja
cob, but I will lie with rny fathers; bury me in their
burying place.” *
| The scholar becomes an antiquary; he likes not
j young men unless he knew their grandfather before.
! The young w oman looks in the newspaper for tin
j marriages, the old man for the deaths. The young
1 man’s eye looks foiward it is a hard woi Id ; l.e does I
j not know it; lie works little and hope much. The |
j middle aged man looks around at tin present; be has
; found out that it is a hard world; lie hopes It- and
works more.
The old man looks back on the fields he lire- trod:
, this is the tree I planted; this is my foot- t- 1 , and
he loves his old home, cat, dog, tail’and fri- nd-c
In lands where the vine grow s. I have seen an
i old man sit all day long, on a sunny day, before hi
; collage door, in an old arm chair, his dog couched at
j Ids feet in the genial nun. ‘I he autumn winds play
; ed with the old man’s venerable hairs; above lorn on
■ the wall, purpling in the sunlight, hung the full clu
: tr- of the grape, ripening and maturing yet morr
The two were just alike; the wind stiried the vim
: leave- and they fell; stirred the old man's hair, am
]it whitened yet more. Roth of than we ,- e waiting
for the spirit in them to be fully ripe. The youm
man looks forward, the old man Lack. How long
the shadows He in the setting wir; the steeple a milt
long, reaching across the plain as the sun stretcher
- out the hill in gr terque dimcri-i >n. So are tin
: events of lift in the old man’s memory.
V#L MI.-IMBR S.
FMIVL DEVOTION A .Ml ITS KEIVAKD.
An old rag-picker died in Paris, i„ * *t„t e of the
most object poverty. His only relation was a niece,
who lived as servant with a greengrocer. The girl
always assisted her uncle as fnras her slend* r means
would permit. When she learned of sdeath, which
t-'in, place suddenly, she was upon the point o’ m.ir
mep with a journeymen baker, to whom she had
le-di ‘mg at'aehcd. Thu nuptial day was fixed, but
Suscttc had not yet bought her we Idfng ‘•loUiea.—
She hastened to tell her lover that their marriage
must 1 e deferred, as she wanted the price ot her bri
dal finery to lay her uncle decently in the grave.
Her mistress ridiculed the idea, and exhorted her to
leave the old man to he hurled hy charity. Susette
i refused. The coimeqeence was a quarrel, in which
j the young woman lost at onoo her place and her lov
-1 or, who sided w ith her mistress. She hastened to
the miserable garret where her uncle had exrirod,
<nd by the sacrifice not only of the savirgs for her
wedding attire, but of all her slender watdrobc, she
had the old man decently interred. Her pious task
fulfilled, she sat alono in her uncle’s room, weeping
bitterly, when the master of the faithful lover, a
young, good-looking man, entered. “So, inv good
Susette, I And you have lost your plare?” said he:
“1 am come to offer you one for life—will you marry
me?” “I, sir?” exclaimed Susette ; “you are jok
ing'.’’ “No, faith, I want a wife, and I’m sure I can’t
find a better.” “But every one would laugh at you
for marrying n poor girl like me ?’’ “Oh, if that is
your only objection, we shall soon getoverit; come,
come along; my mother is prepared to receive you.”
Susette hesitated no longer, but she wished to take
with her a memorial of her deceased uncle; it was a
cat that he had had for many years. The old man
was so fond of the animal that he determined that
even her death should not separate them, for he had
her stuffed and placed upon the tester of the tied.—
As Sus-tt > took puss down, she uttered an exclama
tion of surprise at finding her so heavy. The lover
hastened to open the animal, when out fell a shower
of gold. A thousand gold napoleons were concealed
in the body of the cat; and this sum, which the old
miser had starved himself to amass, became the just
reward of the noble girl and her disinterested lover.
H'OKDGKS OF THE ATMOSPHERE.
The atmosphere forms n spherical shell surrounding
the earth to 11 depth u liich in unknown to iim hy rea
son of its growing tenuity, ns it is released froru the
presence of its own superincumbent mass. Its up
per surface cannot be nearer to us than fifty, and
can scarcely be more remote than live hundred miles.
It surrounds uh on all sides, yet we see it not; it
presses on us with n load of fifteen pounds on every
square inch or surface of our bodies, or from seventy
to one hundred tons on us all, yet we do not so much
as feel its weight. Softer than the finest down
more impalpable than the finest gossamer—it leaves
the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs the slight
csl flower that feeds on the dew it supplies; yet it
hears the fleets of nations on its wings around the
world, and crushes the most refractory substances
with its weight. When in motion, its force is suffi
cient to level the most stately forests and stable build
ings with the earth -to raise the waters of the ocean
into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest
slops lo pieces like toys. It warms and cools hy
turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit
it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, re
•oins them dissolved in itself orsuspended in cisterns
of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or
(b w when they ore required. It bends the rays of
the sun Iroin their path to give us the twilight of
evening and of dawn—it disperses and refracts their
various tints to beautify the approach and the re
treat of the orb of day. But for the atmosphere,
sunshine would burst on us and fail us at once—and
at once remove ns from midnight darkness to the
blaze of noon. We should have no twilight to soften
and beautify the landscape—no clouds to shade us
from the scorching hea*—but the bald earth, as it
revo'vi and on its axis, would turn its tanned and weath
ered front to the full and unmitigated rays of the
lord of day. Il alibi ds the gas which vivilies and
wa-ms o ir frames, and receives into itself that which
had been polluted by use, and is thrown off as nox
ious. life Is the flame of life exactly as it does that
of the fire it is in both cares consumed, an*t affords
dm to 1 of consumption ; in both cases it becomes
combined with charcoal, which requires it for com
bustion, and is removed by it when this is over.
WOMA 3/ liTI'IHI.Mk.NT.
Women remark manners far more than characters,
rbc mental force which might be compressed and
minted into a javelin, to pierce quite through a char
acter, they plintcr into little tiny darts to stick all
over the features, complexion, attitude, drapery, 4c.
ilow often have I entered a room with the tnihar
'■••..-srnent of feeling that ad my motions, gestures, pos
• on -, dress, 4c., wore critically Appreciated, ami self
'unplac* ntly condemned; hut at the same time w ith
odd consciousness that the inquisition could reach
(0 further, f have said within myself, “My ehar
cter, that i- the man, laughs at you behind this vail;
I may be the devil for what you can tell; and you
vould not perceive, either, if I were an angel of light. ’’
bE’nUM.
The wind and the waves may beat against a rock
.lanted in a troubled sea, but it remains unmoved,
lo you like that rock, young man. Vice may en
icc, and the sung and the cup may invite. Beware,
stand firmly at your post. Let your principles shine
mrth unobsc ired. ‘J here is glory in the thought
bat you have resisted temptation and conquered.—
four bright example will be to tin- world what the
tight-house is to the mariner upon a sea-shore; it will
guide others to the point of safety.
) JAMES T. BLAIN,
l PKINTER.