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TOWS DIRECTORY.
Mayor—Thomas G. Barnett.
Commissioners—W. W. Turnipseed, D. B.
Bivins. E G. Harris, E. R. James.
Clerk—E. G Harris.
Treasurer —W. S. Shell.
Marshals—S. A. Belding, Marshal.
J, Vt. Johnson,Deputy.
JUDICIARY.
A. M. Sprrr, - - - - Judge.
F. D. Dismukk, - - Solicitor General.
Butts—Second Mondays in March and
September
Henry—Thtr Mondays in April aDd Oc
tober.
Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February,
and August.
Newton—Third Mondays in March and
September.
I’ike—Second Mondays in April and Octo
ber.
Rockdale—Monday after fourth Mondays in
March and September
Spalding—First Mondays in February
and August
Upson—First Mondays io May and No
vember.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
M kthodist Episcopal Church, (Sooth,)
Rev. Wraley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth
Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 3
r. tt. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening.
Methodist Protestant Church. First
Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 9
a. u.
Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor.
Second Sabbath in each month.
Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas
tor. Third Subbath in each month.
CIVIC SOCIETIES
Pine (Jrove Lodok, No. 177. F. A. M
Stated communications, tourth Saturday in
each month.
DOCTORS.
DR. J. G. TURNIPSEED will attend to
afl calls duy or night. Office t resi
dence, Hampton, Ga.
I\R. W. H. PEEBI.ES treats all dis
-* " eases, and w;!! attend to ail calls day
and night. Office at the Drug Store,
Broad Street, Hampton, Ga.
DR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes
sional services to the citizens of Henry
and adjoining counties, and will answer calls
day or night. Treats all discuses, of what
ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drug Store.
Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at
my residence, opposite Berea church. apr26
JF FONDER, Dentist, has located in
• Hampton. Ga.,and invites the public to
eall at his room, upstairs in the Bivins
JtJousa, where he will be found at all hours
Warrants all work for twelve months.
LAWYERS.
JNO. G. COLD WELL, Attorney at Jaw,
Brooks Station, Ga. Will practice in
the counties composing the Coweta and Pi nt
River Circuits. Prompt attention given to
commercial and other collections.
TC. NOLAN Attorney at lew. Mc
• Donongh, Georgia. Will practice in
the counties composing the Flint Circuit ;
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
UmteAStates District Court.
WM. T. DICKEN, Attorney at Law, Mc-
Donough, Ga. Will practice in the
counties composing the Flint Judicial Cir
cuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
United States District Court. (Office op
atairs over W. C. Sloan’s) apr27-ly
GEO- VL NOLAN, Attorney at Law.
McDonough. Ga (Office in Court house )
Will practice in Henry and adjoining coun
ties, and in the Supreme and District Courts
of Georgia. Prompt attention giv°n to col
lections. mch23-6m
JF. WALL, Attorney at Law, Mamp*-
. tOn.Ga Will practice in the counties
composing the Flio* Judicial Circuit, and
the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia.
Prompt attention given to collections. ocs
EDW\RD J. REAGAN. Attorney at
iaw. Office on Broad Street, opposite
the Railroad depot, Hampton, Georgia.
Special attention given tc commercial and
other collections and cases in Bankruptcy.
BF. McCOLLUM. Attorney and Couu
• ' nellor at L-w, Hampton, Ga. Will
practice in llenry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta,
Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Supe
rior Courts, and in the Snpreme and United
State* Courts. Collecting claims a specialty.
Offica at> Main io tb« Melotoab BuiHiog.
JUNE.
Come and watch the morning break
Across tb« misty river!
Every sedgy leaf’s awake,
And every wove a-qniver. ’ - ■ ’
Underneath the bending sky
A thousand tuneful voices ;
Every pulse is beating high.
And everything rejoices.
Garden herbs tbeir perfume shed j
'The artichokes flare yellow j
Poppy leaves blush rosy red,
And harvest pears grow mellow.
Wbat a din, witbio the pioea,
The noisy crows are keeping!
Nods the grain in wavy lines,
Soon ripe enough lor reaping.
By the cherry trees is heard
A red and ceaseless dripping ;
In the vines the humming bird
Keeps op his tireless sipping.
\Vho can ever weave to rhyme
This riot of the roses ?
Or sounds that in the summer time
Break in on our reposes ?
Brightly falls the morning light,
Softly falls the dew of even ;
Silently the balmy night
Shuts the gates of heaven!
—Frank H. Stauffer.
The Lost Paradise of Irem.
Sunset on the Suez canal. Two inter
minable baoks of grayish-yellow sand, grow
ing gradually higher as they trend south
ward ; a little ribboD of light green water
barely visible between them ; a huge steam
dredge in the background, with a clamorous
garrison of blue-shirted men and r d-eapped
boys who rush shouting to the side to
stare at our steamer as she comes gliding
by ;* behind us the houses aDd docks of
Ismailia, the Khedive’s new capital, fading
into one shapeless mass of gray, amid which
a darker spot represents the month of the
“Sweet-water canaland all around the
dreary waste of the great Arabian desert,
looking vaster and drearier than ever be
neath the fast-failing shadows of night.
At first sight, it is certainly difficult to
realize that this tiny streak of water, less
than 27 feet deep and barely 70 in breadth,
can really be one of the great commercial
highways of the world. Like the Russian
military road across the Caucasus or the
little thread of railway which spans the
boundless desolation of the steppes between
the Volga and the Don, it is so utterly
dwarfed by the vast ness of its surroundings
that one half forgets the .magnitude of the
results achieved or the long and terrible
straggle against heat, sickness, drifting sand,
insufficient supplies and constant hindrances
of every bind which skill and human perse
verance have conducted to this glorion*
completion. The men of old time, when
they attempted the same task, certainly
foond it no ch’ld’s play. “In the reign of
Necho,” says Herodotus, note-hook In hand
as usual, “120 000 Egyptians perished in
digging this canal.” Whatji history of op
pression and wrong, of grinding misery and
wholesale destruction do these few words
convey!
“Stand by yonr anchor! Let go 1”
The captain’s hoarse shout and the rattle
of the chain, as our anchor splashed in'o the
water, scatter my vision? at once and I look
up to perceive that our surroundings have
undergone a sudden and marvelous change.
From the narrow, monotonous avenue of the
canal we have glided into a wide expanse of
smooth, dark water, which seems almost
boundless in the shadowy twilight. To the
south end west, long waves of purple bill
roll op against the last gleam of light that
lingers in the darkening sky. In front the
posts set to mark the channel stand out
gauntly like skeleton sentinels j aDd amid
the deepening gloom twinkles a solitary
point ot fire—the light-house that guards
the passage. This is the famous “Bitter
lake,” one of the countless lagoons that oc
cupy a full third of the space traversed by
the canal.
“Are you going to stop here, Captain ?”
“Don’t see wbat else we can do," growls
tbe skipper, “if them fellers make us go half
speed through tbe canawi, so as it comes on
dark afore we git through. If we was to
go it full steam we’d run tbe whole 83 miles
’tween sunrise and dark easy; bat its no
fault of mine anyhow !”
But no halt can be a matter of regret on
this historic ground, where tbe very earth
eeeme to be still shaken by tbe tramp of
ancient empires, and tbe very air to be filled
with memories of tbe past. Few spots oo
tbe face of tbe earth have a stranger ming
ling of tbe familiar and tbe remote of names
which were tbe household words of oor ear
liest childhood with others which arc Vdowo
HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1879.
only to the driest lore of the antiquarian.
Hebrew shepherd and Assyrian conqueror.
Persian and Greek, Saracen and Crusader,
Frenchman and Anglo-Saxon —aH have
been here in tore.
A* the full moon breaks forth in its cloud
less glory, the shadowy armies seem to rise
nroond us once more—Moses and the thou
sands of Israel, setting forth upon that woo
derfnl march of which God himself was the
pioneer—Assyrian Ninos in his carved
chariot, with the “captains of the hosts and
the mighty men of valor” around him in all
the pomp and splendor of war—the tnrbaned
warriors of Cambvses with tbeir light lances
and their huge wicker shields, sweeping on
ward to that fierce short lever of conquest
beyond which lay an unkoowo grave in the
depths of the hungry desert—the soldier
zealots of Arabia, following black-browed
Amrou to the sock of Alexandria—mail-clad
horsemen with the red cross on their breasts,
straining their eyeß to catch the first ele«m
of Saladin’s spear along the sky—and finally
the war-worn grenadiers of republican
France, gathered around the dark, stern face
and eagle eye of the “Gen. Bonaparte” who
was one day to be the Emperor Napoleon
As I step forward on to the forecastle I
find, as if to leave no element of romance
wanting to this wonderful panorama, a group
of Arab pilgrims gathered around a gray
haired kessehgou, story-teller, who is re
counting in his quaint oriental style the
weird old legend of the lost Paradise ot
Irem, which contains a moral that the west
ern as well as the eastern world may profit
ably lay to heart:
“Long ago, my brethren, whpn the nations
of earth were yet idolaters, and before our
holy Prophet, may bis name be exalted ! had
risen to teach all men that there is bnt cne
God, there reigned in the land of Ad a great
king whose name was Shedad the Proud.
Among all the sons of men there was none
goodlier than be, for it was ever the custom
of the children of Ad to choose the strongest
and stateliest man among them for their
king. And truly he was mighty among
men. Whoso named him laid bis hand on
his month ; and when men spoke of anything
beautiful they said, ‘lt is like the city of Ad
and Thamoud.’ And his name went forth
to the ends of the earth, till all men won
dered at him and said, ‘Who is like unto the
great king of the children of Ad ?’ And so
he prospered in whatsoever he did ; tor the
blessings of the evil Genii, which are curses,
were upon him.
“But in the pride of his prosperity, the
heart of this son Eblis (Satan) was lilted up
nnto his ovrn destruction. For he said with
in himself: ‘There is none like me upon
earth—why should I not be equal to Him
in heaven? His paradise is hidden from the
eyes of men ; but 1 will make a paradise
unto which men shall come from all king
donis of the earth, that the name of Shedad
the king may endure forever 1’
“So he sent forth into all lands for skill
ful workmen and men learned in enchant
ment?—the magicians of tbe East, and tbe
cunning men of Frangistan (Europe.) aod
the black sorcerers from the land of Ethiopia
and the Kitai (China ) And the cbiefest of
all was the Egyptian, onto whom Eblis had
given power and cunning above ail the chil
dren of men, that he might work the accursed
will of his master and fill up the measure of
the sins of (he race of Ad. And he did so.
“For he built a wall of metal, whose cir
cuit a swift dromedary would take three
days to compass—such a wall as Scander
Rnmi (Alexander the Great) built along the
border of Khnrassan, to keep back Gog and
Magog with their giant host. And around
this rampart he planted trees and bashes
and all manner of thorny plants, so thick
that an elephant could not have broken
them down or a serpent wiggled through
them.
“Then, within the double barrier—a space
in which El Khuds (Jerusalem) itself and
Mecca, the mother of cities, would have
seemed but as wells io tbe desert—be made
gardens, whose flowers were as the flower?
of the paradise, reserved lor tree believers,
and whose fruits would revive with the mere
scent of them ODe over whom Azrael, the
angel of death, bad spread bis wings. And
he made stately palaces of marble wiiii roots
of pare gold; aDd cool baths overshadowed
by spreading palm trees; and sparkling
fountains which never grew dry ; and trees
whose frnita were gold aod silver and pre
cious stooes, such as those which tbe magi
cian Tubal-Cain made for tbe giants ot tbe
elder world before tbe will of Allah boned
them deep io tbe earth ; and forests through
which tbe most skillful hunter of the tribe
of Ad might have roamed for a hundred
years without exhausting tbe game that
filled them. And io tbe midst of all be built
a noble city, such as tbe children of Nem
roud reared at the beginning of time ; and
above it all rose a tower, whose summit
looked up into heaven and met the sunrise
while the lower world lay yet io darkness.
“And when all was finished, Sbedid went
forth to see his paradise in all his might and
majesty, with his queen by bis side and his
princes and his wise men and warriors around
him. thousands upon thousands, like the lo
custs that descend upon the core when ihe
harvest is lull. But Io! as he reached the
gate the sun hid his face, and all was dim
and gray as when the air is heavy with the
cotv’g storm ; and over the whole sky low
ered a deep, black cloud, like the outspread
ing of mighty wings ; and in the midst was
a face of stern and solemn beauty, with eyes
like the stars thut looked through the storm
of the desert. And a voice came forth like
the blast of the night wind through some
ancient city, and it said :
*• ‘I am Azrael. the angel of death ; and
as thou bast exalted thyself against God, so
shalt thou be brought down to the dupt,
even tbou and all tby people, like the beasts
that perish 1’
“And as be spake, beneath his icy breath
the king and ail bis host shrank and with
ered, and fell as falls a caravan when the
simoom of the desert passes over it. Of all
that great army none escaped save the king’s
bow-bearer, who went back to tell men bow
Allah bad pnoisbed the presumption of the
evil-doer.
“Now it befell that long after this, in the
days when the Caliph Moawiyah gat in the
seat of the Prophet, a wayfarer, who had
gone astiay in the desert in the darkness of
night, found himself suddenly in the midst
of a vast city, beside which even Mecca and
Medina the Noble would have seemed hut
as an Arab camp. The walls were mighty
as those which the genii reared at the com
mand o( Sub imar. Ben Daoud (Solomon the
son of David) and glittering with precious
stones ; and there were fountains in marble
basins, and palaces beyond all the palaces of
Hindoostan, and gardens surpassing those ol
Haroun the Just, and long rows of colored
lamps lighting up every court arid colonnade.
“But everywhere reigned a dreary and
awful silence, as the silence oi the grave. In
all the mighty length of the wonderous city
no human foot stirred, no bird fluttered, no
insect crept—not a single creuture drew the
breath of life. And for hours the affrighted
man wandered amid this wilderness of ac
cursed beauty, till in bis agony be cried for
help to God ; and straightway there ap
peared before him a gate higher than the
minarets of Damascus, and he hastened
through it rejoicing. But, when he turned
about, lot the city, with all its splendor,
was gone as if it bad never been.
“Then be went and told his tale to the
calii h, and «bowed in proof of it (be jewels
which he bad broken from the wall. And
the caliph sent men to seek the city, and
they sought it forty days but found it not;
neither bath it ever been seen again since
that day. For it was the will of Allah that
the paradise which man’s pride bad reared
should be bidden forever from the eyes of
man ; and who can resist Allah ? Brothers,
the story is ended."— David Ker, in Sunday
Afternoon for May.
Easy Lesson In Etiquette.
We have been profoundly interested in a
work that has just been sent us, the author
whereof. Professor E. B. Fanning, aims to
give to the world easy lessons in etiquette
for gentlemen. It is a useful work. Among
other things the Professor s»ya:
“When calling on a new lady acquaint
ance. the hat should be takeo to the parlor
and held in tbe hand.”
This is one of tbe best instructions in tbe
book. When you don’t know all about the
young lady and her family, young man freeze
to your bat all the time. We once knew a
young lady who kept her father and lour
brothers in nice, new, stylish hats all tbe
time, by simply instructing the servant to
just skin the hat rack every time a young
mao with a giddy hat was fresh enough to
leave it io tbe hall. We’ll bet a dollar
Prolessor Fanning has been there himself.
And then, besides, a “plug” hat is such a
comfortable thing to bold in one’s bund.
When you can’t think of Bny'hing to say,
stroke tbe hat the wrong way, and then ex -
ert yonr energies daring the rest ol the visit
to getting it smooth again.
“A gentleman,” says tbe professor, with
becoming severity, “never dances with his
overcoat on.”
And we may add that be hardly ever
dances with bis overshoes on, and tbe in
stances in ihe best society in which a gentle
man has danced through the ent're set with
bis ulster drawn close over bis head, bu
trousers stuffed m tbe legs ut bis india-rubber
boots, and an umbrella held over bis bead
arc rare iotietd. society cannot fee! too
grateful to tbe Professor for meotiooiog this
little matter of etiquette.
"A gentleman.” continues the professor,
“always wears gloves "
This is a solemn, earnest, inspired
truth. When yon meft a—a—person any
where. in the street, In the cellar, at the
lunch stand, In swimming, In bed, and you
see he wears no gloves, shun that person.
He is no geotleman; Professor Fanning suys
so, and Professor Funning knows. Why, a
real gentleman wears gloves when he washes
his hands and trims his nails.
“Always," insists the professor, “offer your
hand to a Indy with the back of the hand
down.”
If yon don’t believe this, try offering the
band to a lady with the back of it up. The
lady will immediately kick the stuffing out of
you.— Burlington Hawkeye.
The People of Pisa.
At Pisa you enter on the Tuscan oivihzn
tion—the glory of modern Italy—and mod
ern here means the last thousand years, for
these Italians were learned and accomplished
people when our Saxon forefathers were rude
savages—when England was a forest filled
with warring tribes, and the Howards were
“bogwards.” Fortuoqjely for the ease and
instruction of the tourist and student, all that
is best in Pisa is summed up iu four build
ings that are grouped in one spot, and which
taken together, affords an admirable intro
ductory study of Tuscan art and architec
ture, as they are representative and finished
specimens of the style. These buildings are
the great Cathedral of Pisa, tbe famous
Leaning Tower, which is a detached tower
of exquisite symmetry, raised for the purpose
of swinging the Cutbedral bells; a huge
baptistry, and a walled, holy field or ceme
tery. All tbe buildings are of pure white
marble, of fanltlws design and masterly finiah,
and together const I'ate a group which is said
to be without equal in the world. They
illustrate well, too, the wealth which, io tbe
modern ages, was lavished on church build
ings, and the splendor and elaborateness of
their establisbnient. Of this splendid group,
each one of which is a masterpiece, tuking
rank among the great buildings ol tbe world,
tbe Cathedral is, of course, the centre ; all
the others are mere adjuncts to it. The
Leaning Tower—Campanile they call it—is
a belfry The baptistry is hat a colossal
fonnt, and the Cemetery, or Campo Santo, a
graveyard, but walled with costly statuary,
and tbe burial ground made with numberless
shiploads of earth brought from Jerusalem.
At Florence there is the same magnificent
equipment for the Cathedral Church there—
tbe Campanile—a square tower, raokiug as
the first of its kind in the world.
And when this wonderful endowment of a
single cathedral is considered, it must be re
membered, too, that Pisa is a small place. It
has hut 26,000 inhabitants, and is the ceoter
of a district of about 50,000 peopla only.
Nevertheless, the Pisaa, altheogh a little,
hove been a mighty people. They were great
soldiers aod sailors io tbeir day, and their
physical energy was always animated by tbe
force of education and high culture. There
was, therefore, little of lost power in their
development, aDd thus they carried tbeir
arms into ail parts of Ihe world, and their
name into history. At one time they domi
nated Italy, aod thought it the world, dis
playing military and executive genius of the
highest kind. Tbe Bonaparte family was of
Tuscan descent, aod although Napoleon
came on the field when the glory of Pisa was
but tradition, be seems to have only gathered
up and reviewed in Iwmself what was once a
common inheritance of Tuscan blood.—
Philadelphia Pres*.
American and English Flirts.
American men and American women are,
perhaps, the boldest and moat uncomprom
ising flirts in tlie world. It must needs be
so in a society which banishes mothers as
superfluous, old ladies as nuisances and any
kind of chaperona e as an Infringement of
the glorious Trans Atlantic birthright and
an insult to human nature. We do oot say
for a moment that this unchecked, uncon
trolled intercourse betweeo the yoaug men
and women in America leads to grave mis
chances; but we do say that it leads to
an organiz e system and recognized tooe of
flirting wbicb strikes os, used to more reti
cence and less freedom, as odd, to say the
least of it, aod essentially -‘bad form,” as tbe
youth of the d?y would call it. If an En
glishman were to permit bimaelf to say to a
single favored oue anything like what an
American man woold say to any girl what
soever with whom be might converse, society
would mark him as dangerous sod careful
mothers would keep their daughters out of
bis way, as watch-dogs guarding the lambs
from tbe prowliog wolves. But tbe Ameri
can girl weald and Joes think nothing of it.
She is used to close sailing and gives as good
wr.
of yotiths and maidens who meet np in the
mountains for a summer, and who pair ‘off
day after day and far into the night, among
the lovely in the do»ky glades of
the silent fores! ; thinking nothing of it. and
not supposing that any one else will think
more than she does She has been used to
being taken to dancing parties by the young
man of the boor, who call* for her and is her
“friend” for the occasion. The mother doe*
not and the giH is con fid--d to the eare ot
her male chaperon without hesitation or re
pdgnance. Human nature demands gallantry
in such circumstances as ao absolute neces
sity—the inevitable outgrowth of the occas
ion ; and. unles? she is weaker and rasber
than most, she has to take care of beeeelf
while paying back her entertainer in hi? own
coin, shielding herself while attacking him,
and, above all things, showing no fear.
Hence flirting becomes, as we have said/
both an organized system of intercourse and
a regular fashion among the American youth;
and the consequences are to be found i* a
certain dash and boldness and hardness and
discretion all combined, whereby the parties
engaged in the pleasant game seem always
on the brink of danger, and yet secure.
Another consequence is, that English men
and maidens are at a disadvantage when they
meet with their compeers from over the
water, for the American men would be sure
to say more than they meant to substantiate
to the English girls, and tbs American girlv
would lead the Englishmen farther than they
meant to follow, and the q)i<tnces are (hat
there would be heartaches and disappoint
ments for the more reserved of the two.
We have flirts enough, however, among
ourselves, and we do as much harm to each
other as is ever done by outsiders, a hose
ways we misunderstand because we judge of
them by oor own. The serious flirt among
us is especially dangerous, and we question
if the boldest American, or the most impas
sioned Italian, ever did more damage than
the quiet, undemonstrative English flirt, who
tabes sentiment ns bis ground of action and
Platonism as his point il'appui. Soft eyes
that took dark and melancholy in the twi
light ; a sweet, sad voice that awaken re
sponsive echoes in the imagination of the
bearer; a languid, still, aod self-contained
manner, giving the impression of reserve
fond of force, of talent, of feeling, of capac
ity for sorrow, of power of sympathy—these
are the various items which make up the
stock-in trade of the sentimental flirt ; and
with these he or she dispenses sweet pain
and pleasant anguish to all aroond. All,
that is, who are weak enough to believe and
innocent enough to be deceived ; nnd who
take tinsel and tinfoil for shining silver aod
ruddy gold. —From a Parallel Driven fry an
Englishman.
A Catechism fur Plain W omen.
When a woman loans a desire to please,
she loaes half her charms. Nothing is mora
conducive to beaoty than cheerfulness and
good humor; and no morose or unhappy
woman can be good-humored and cbeerlul.
Then there are vast numbers of ill-tempered
women who are ill-tempered because they are
ngly They do not know what is the matter
with themselves; neither do their friends
know. But the incessant neglect and indif
ference with which they are treated Anally
does its work of embittering their feelings
until the elf ct upsn their moral character is
most pernicious. Every woman ought to
understand that nothing short of deformity,
can make women unattractive, provided she.
will study her points ; and points of attrac
tiveness every woman has.
A thoroughly refined, graceful manner.can
be aeqaired by any woman, and is a power-,
ful charm. The best grace is perfeot
naturalness. Still, you must study yourself,
and form your manners by tbe role of that
art which is bat a carrying out of the lawpf
nature. But if it is voor nature to be for
ever assuming some unpicturesque, ungrace
ful attitude, pray help nature with a , little
art. If you are stoat, av.oid the smallest
chair in the room,; and be yon do sit
on it, not to lean back on it with your,,bands
folded in front of you, below you* waist,
especially while the present fashion lasfc, if
yon are thin do not carry yourself with; your
chio protruding and your spinal, column
carving like the bowl of a spoon, E|p not
wear flimsy materials made up, without a
ruffle or puff or flounce, to fill np hard out
lines of your bad figure, so cruelly defined
by the tightly pulled back, draperies. Study
the art of dressing.
We once knew a. very plain vgomon who
dressed so tastefully it was a pleasure to look
at her. If you huge been moping till you
are sick'with the thought of your,.own hope
less ugliness, be up, and dping. Forget your
disappointments; forget the past and the
fneers of your own family over the mistakes
that yoo have made. There are still friends
to be won. There iu work to be done.
RoiWG yoarspjf anrl n§ thg PQpr-v&ting!
distrust of self, and the moral cowardice
which forbidsgon tqassert yoereelf. Xoung
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