THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.-On the 8th of December, at Rome, Pope Pius IX announced as an article of faith in the "holy Apostolic Church" the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary. The meeting consisted of over two hundred full-robed ecclesiastical dignitaries, including sixty cardinals and one hundred and forty archbishops, representing every part of the world, besides some four hundred lesser luminaries of the Church. The discussion on the question lasted twenty-four hours; and when the decree was promulged, it is said that Rome was intoxicated with joy. Hereafter he who does not set down the Virgin in his creed as free from all stain of sin from her birth till her death, is to be deemed a heretic, and treated accordingly. She must be worshiped as superior to even Jesus Christ; and the world in the middle of the nineteenth century is to gulp down and digest, if possible, this terrible monstrosity.

DEATH OF KITTо.-Rev. Dr. Kitto, well known to the Christian public for his contributions to Biblical literature, died at Canstadt, near Stuttgard, Germany, November 25, 1854. His works on the Holy Land and those illustrative of the antiquities and history of Scripture are of special value. The following is a list of his works: Bible History of the Holy Land; Court and People of Persia; Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature; also an "Abridged" and a "People's edition" of this Cyclopedia; Daily Bible Illustrations, eight volumes; Essays and Letters, with a Memoir; Geography of the Holy Land, with an Atlas; History of Palestine; Pictorial History of Palestine, two volumes; Lost Senses, Deafness and Blindness, two volumes; Physical Geography of the Holy Land, two volumes; Pictorial Life of our Savior; Scripture Lands and Bible Atlas; The Tabernacle and its Furniture. He also established and conducted, till within two years, "The Journal of Sacred Literature." The family of Dr. Kitto, consisting of the widow and seven or eight children, have been in very cramped and narrow circumstances since his death; but the pension granted in December last of two hundred and fifty dollars per year by Queen Victoria, will greatly relieve them in their poverty.

CONVENTIONS OF TEACHERS.-The late holidays between Christmas and New-Year's were occupied, as our readers may know, by sessions of the State Teachers' Conventions of Ohio and Indiana-the former meeting in Cincinnati and the latter in Indianapolis. The necessity of having the Bible introduced into all our common schools was ably argued before both conventions by leading members. The sessions of the Ohio Convention were held in the Ninth-Street Baptist Church, and the last day was spent partly in hearing an address from President Andrews, on the importance of at once introducing the Bible into our schools.

PRESBYTERIANISM IN IRELAND.-Presbyterians are diminishing in Ireland. The number of chapels has increased somewhat; but on comparing the numbers benefited by the Regium Donum in 1847 and 1853, it appears that the families had decreased to the number of 7,615 nearly 1,300 families a year.

"SPIRITUAL FATHERS."-Of the Roman Catholic priests of Panama, "J. R.," the Protestant missionary, says: "There is hardly any limit to their vice." He is told, by natives of the place, "that there is not one among them who is not a gambler, a drunkard, or a licentious man;" nor is there any reason to doubt this; "most of them bear the marks of vice upon their faces;" it injures, not their standing to live in concubinage, nor to train

up a family of children just like other people; but if they marry according to the ordinance of God, they are instantly hurled from their office, without even the formality of a trial. Such is Romanism, in a land where no other religion has been known since the day when Pagan rites gave way to the ritual of the Catholic Church; and such it is in every land where it meets not the antagonism of a more Scriptural faith.

ROMAN CATHOLIC STATISTICS.-From the Catholic Almanac, for 1855, we gather that there are 31 theolog ical seminaries in the United States, with 393 students. Besides these, there are about 118 in institutions abroad and in establishments of the regular clergy at home. According to this account, there are 511 theological students altogether.

In the summary we find the following: Churches..

...1,824 678

..1,556

172

37

690

54

48

88

117

144

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.-From the report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the city of Boston we learn, that the income of the invested funds of the Library | furnished the means of buying 3,500 new volumes for last year, and that such is the prospect for the future that about 6,000 volumes can be added yearly to the Library-a rate of increase which in fourteen years will give a list of 100,000 volumes, a larger collection than any at present existing in the United States. The present number of volumes in the library, besides 2,989 tracts, amount to 16,221.

BOOKS IN THIS COUNTRY.-The following facts are taken from the United States census: "There are 15,615 public libraries in the United States, and 4,686,411 volumes, of which 1,760,820 are in the state of New York. Comparing the free with the slave states, the former have by far the most libraries. For instance, Virginia has 54, and New York 11,013; Alabama 56, and Massachusetts 1,462; South Carolina 26, and Connecticut 164; Georgia 7, and Rhode Island 96. Of the slave states, in proportion to population, Mississippi has the most public libraries, and Virginia the fewest, although those of the latter contain a greater number of volumes than those of any slave state, excepting Louisiana and South Carolina."

PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THE UNITED STATES.-According to Professor Jewett, of the Smithsonian Institution, the following is a table of the public libraries in the United States:

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NEW BOOKS.

ALICE CARY'S POEMS. Boston: Ticknor & Field. 1855. 12mo. 399 pp.-Alice Cary has already obtained an honorable position among the female writers of America. That position has not been obtained by a sudden and fortuitous leap, but by a gradual, steady, and strong ascent. We therefore augur for her not only the permanent maintenance of her present position, but a still higher ascent. The readers of the Repository are well acquainted with the productions of her pen; and we have cause to believe that she is highly valued by them. This volume contains the best poems from her penone or two of them of considerable length. We assure our readers they will find it an agreeable and useful companion. We give the following beautiful specimen, selected almost at random from among the shorter poems: "Talk to my heart, O winds

Talk to my heart to-night; My spirit always finds

With you a new delight, Finds always new delight, In your silver talk at night.

Give me your soft embrace

As you used to long ago, In your shadowy trysting-place, When you seemed to love me soWhen you sweetly kissed me so, On the green hills long ago. Come up from your cool bed,

In the stilly twilight sea, For the dearest hope lies dead,

That was ever dear to me; Come up from your cool bed, And we'll talk about the dead. Tell me, for oft you go,

Winds, lovely winds of night, About the chambers low,

With sheets so dainty white, If they sleep through all the night, In the beds so chill and white?

Talk to me, winds, and say,

If in the grave be rest;

For, 0, life's little day

Is a weary one at best;

Talk to my heart and say

If death will give me rest."

OUR acknowledgments are due to Carlton & Phillips for a copy of the following series of Sunday School books, issued at 200 Mulberry-street, New York. They form a fine addition to their splendid list of Sunday school publications. The series of "Short Stories from History," originally published by the English "Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge," are admirably adapted to the Sunday School Catalogue. They ought to be in the library of every Sunday school. Dr. Kidder, with rare industry and skill, continues to increase the resources of the Sunday school department. But to our list:

1. STORIES OF ENGLAND-two volumes.

2. STORIES OF ANCIENT ROME-two volumes. 3. STORIES FROM THE HISTORY OF FRANCE.

4. STORIES FROM THE HISTORY OF ITALY.

5. STORIES FROM THE HISTORY OF SPAIN.

6. STORIES FROM THE HISTORY OF SWEDEN. 7. STORIES FROM THE HISTORY OF MEXICO. 8. STORIES OF THE NORSEMEN.

To the above list we must also append the following miscellaneous publications:

1. SKETCHES OF MISSIONARY LIFE.-The author was a lay missionary among the Indians in Oregon nearly nine years, and here he gives us glimpses of the incidents, trials, and perils of missionary life.

2. THE PRODIGAL is from the pen of Rev. J. T. Barr, and contains the Highland Prodigal, the Reclaimed Prodigal, the Woe-Stricken Prodigal, and the Spendthrift. The narrations are striking, and will be useful. 3. PARIS, ANCIENT AND MODern. 4. RAMBLES AT THE SOUTH.

5. THE TEMPEST.-This work discourses upon the nature, properties, and uses of wind in various parts of the world.

6. THE TWO FORTUNES; or, Profession and Practice. 7. THREE DAYS ON THE OHIO RIVER.

8. HERE AND THERE; or, Heaven and Earth Contrasted. HUMANITY IN THE CITY. By Rev. E. H. Chapin. New York: De Witt & Davenport. For sale by Moore, Wilstach & Co. 1855. 12mo. Pp. 252.-The above is the somewhat quaint title of a series of eight discourses from the pen of one of the most eloquent lecturers of the day. The following topics are discussed; namely, The Lessons of the Streets; Man and Machinery; The Strife for Precedence; The Symbols of the Republic; The Springs of Social Life; The Allies of the Tempter; The Children of the Poor; The Help of Religion. The author has evidently aimed to make these discourses acceptable to men of all creeds in religion. That they are eloquently written, we need hardly say to those at all acquainted with the fervid style of Mr. Chapin. Take the following specimen from the discourse upon the "Allies of the Tempter:"

"As I look upon this mass of social evil, these steaming wells of passion, these solid fortifications of habit where the tempter is intrenched, I ask how is all this to pass away? And the answer is-only by the spirit of Christian love, sweeping these impediments of selfishness from the heart, and animating us to effort. With Christ the work certainly can be done. In this Gospel-beating amidst the guilt and sorrow of the world like the pulsations of a Divine heart-in the few leaves of this Testament-there is an illimitable power, before whose inspiration in the purposes and deeds of men no evil thing shall stand. And the spirit and exercise of this love is religion. It is the upshot of all that is preached-it is the open and tangible test of every mystic experience that drifts through the soul-it is so deep, so broad, and runs so far, that it comprehends all requirements; and they who cherish it, and practice it in the low, and dark, and desolate places of the world, are the true saints. Nothing else will do in its place. Not Churches, nor creeds, nor rituals, nor respectabilities. Without it we are not friends of Christ, nor co-workers with God. Without it we deepen the channels of human woe, and prop the strongholds of wickedness. Without it, whatever we may not be, we are allies of the tempter. The Savior

says to each of us to-day, placed amidst these antagonistic forces of life, 'He that is not with me is against me.'"

PETER PARLEY'S POPULAR BIOGRAPHY. New York: Leavitt & Allen. This manual of biography embraces the most eminent characters of every age, nation, and profession; including painters, poets, philosophers, politicians, heroes, warriors, etc. It constitutes a closely printed octavo volume with five hundred and twentyseven double pages. It is one of the best hand-books of biography we have. For sale by Moore, Wilstach & Co., Cincinnati.

THE PICTORIAL CATECHISM, recently published by Carlton & Phillips, is a decidedly rich and beautiful work. The catechetical questions and answers have been prepared with great care, and embody a great amount of Biblical and religious knowledge, adapted to children and youth, whether in the family or in the Sabbath school. It ought to be a text-book in all our Sabbath schools; it ought to come into family use. Sabbath school teachers could do nothing better for their scholars, nor could parents for their children, than to instruct them thoroughly in the Catechism. The illustrations are numerous, and executed in the finest style of the art. The work is a square 16mo. of one hundred and fifty-six pages.

CORNELL'S PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY. Forming Part First of a Systematic Series of School Geographies. By S. N. Cornell. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Small Quarto. 96 pp. For the most part geography has been taught in our schools simply as a collection of facts-and that, too, almost without any scientific arrangement. Here is an attempt by an experienced teacher to mend that matter. The work has a kindly look, and we must own ourself greatly pleased with its general outline and appearance. It claims the following distinctive features:

First. Only those branches of geographical science that admit of being brought fully within the comprehension of the youthful beginner have been introduced into the present number of the series.

Second. At the same time that the memory is called into exercise, the understanding is enlightened by copious and appropriate illustrations.

Third. The youthful student is put in possession of a simple and easy method of memorizing the contents of a map by means of a carefully systematized set of questions.

Fourth. The work is so arranged, and the science so imparted, that teachers, parents, trustees, and others may satisfactorily ascertain, at any stage of the pupil's advancement, what he knows of the science.

Fifth. The mechanical execution of the work is equal or superior to that of any other school-book extant, and will commend itself.

Sixth. The system pursued throughout the entire series is calculated to save at least one-half the time heretofore required for the purpose, and at the same time secure to the student greater and permanent results.

These are high claims. The book is well worthy of examination on the part of teachers. For sale by H. W. Derby.

FIRST THOUGHTS; or, Beginning to Think, is from the press of the same publishers. It is a capital work with which to exercise the thought, to stir the reason, and to store the intelligence of young children-especially those of inquiring minds. For sale by Derby.

THE HISTORY AND POETRY OF FINGER RINGS is a wonderful book—parvum in multo-a 12mo. of two hundred and thirty-nine pages. Verily, what a waste of brainsif brains had any thing to do with it-was there! It is published by Redfield, New York. For sale by H. W. Derby, Cincinnati.

PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS.

THE METHODIST NEWSPAPER PRESS.-We have just glanced over the files of the "Advocate Family," and rejoice to note the evidences of a healthy and strong development.

The Christian Advocate and Journal, which stands at the head of the list, appears in new type, and holds on the even tenor of its way. The old veteran holds firm the helm.

The Western Christian Advocate appears finely in its new dress. The popular estimation in which it is held as a family religious newspaper needs no further evidence than the fact, that while two popular and thriving Advocates come in to share its territory, its subscription list is constantly augmenting. Last year it had an increase of over four thousand; and this year it is now over one thousand in advance of last.

The Northern Christian Advocate, published at Auburn, N. Y., also looks finely in its new type. Its patrons have also given substantial evidence of the appreciation of it by a large addition to its circulation. Brother Hosmer wields a strong pen.

The North-Western Christian Advocate has been greatly enlarged and beautified. It is a marvel how suddenly this paper has passed into a hale and vigorous manhood. Its editor-Rev. J. V. Watson-seems to have intellectual vitality diffused through his whole system, and be radiates it with rare energy.

The Zion's Herald has for years been a choice family journal. It has lost nothing of its old energy and excellence. The Rev. D. Wise wields both the pen and the scissors with great skill and taste.

The Buffalo Christian Advocate is also enlarged, and is in every respect a fine paper.

The Pittsburg Christian Advocate is also moving onward in its regular course, supplying the wants of an important section of the Church.

The Central Christian Advocate, at St. Louis, has encountered some heavy gales, but bids fair to weather them nobly. Now that it is determined it shall live, we trust all its friends will rally to its support. By doing so, we are certain they will subserve the interests of Methodism in that section.

The California Christian Advocate has ceased to be a General conference paper; nevertheless, it still lives and flourishes. It is edited with decided ability, and is an excellent paper.

We should be glad to say more of these papers, but our space will not allow us.

A LECTURE ON ROMAN CATHOLICISM, by Rev. W. R. Litsinger, of the Ohio Conference.-Pamphlet, twenty-seven pages, 8vo.

THE GOSPEL MINISTRY—its Difficulties, Responsibilities, and Rewards, by Sinex.-Pamphlet, sixteen pages, 8vo.

ONEIDA CONFERENCE SEMINARY-Twenty-Ninth Annual Catalogue-located at Cazenovia, N. Y-Principal, Rev. H. Bannister, D. D., assisted by 7 professors. Studentsgentlemen, 283; ladies, 218: total, 501.

ISE VERSUS IZE-LETTER FROM PROFESSOR GIVEN."Dear Doctor,—I have just observed among the 'Notes and Queries' of the Repository for January a 'Query' as follows: Why do certain words terminate with ize, as Christianize, civilize, brutalize, while others terminate with ise, as compromise, advertise, enterprise? and by what rule shall we determine whether the termination shall be ize or ise in any given word?'

"Now, I do not profess any great skill in etymology, but to me both the rule and the reason called for above are sufficiently obvious. The rule may be as follows: The termination ise is used whenever the word is formed from a Latin past participle, as demise, advise, surmise, etc. There seem to be two classes of words-generally verbs-which end in ize. 1. Those which are but the English form of Greek verbs ending in ize--as dogmatize, syllogize, etc. 2. Those which have adopted this form, though not of Greek origin. The root of these words is commonly a Latin adjective, as civil-ize, real-ize, brutal-ize, etc. The English language, when giving activity to the idea of these Latin adjectives, makes verbs out of them by the suffix ize after the Greek style. This explains the reason why, according to your Rule I, when a complete word would be left, the termination should be ize, and also explains your exception to the rule. The application of the above rule presupposes a knowledge of the Latin and Greek; there seems to be no rule for the mere English scholar."

OPENING UP. This expression is becoming more and more current in American literature. It is a Scotticism, and a correspondent of a Philadelphia religious paper wants information about the thing. We give a few of his remarks:

"Will not some one, who favors its adoption, inform the ignorant what is the force of the suffix up? Are we restricted to the one specification? May we not open down a subject, or open through it, or over it, or about it, or into it? I wish to be in the fashion, having long ago learned to talk about the stand-point,' the 'objective and subjective,' and made some progress in pronouncing 'æsthetics.""

TITLE OF LL. D.-The question is often asked, "Why are two L's used to designate the title of Doctor of Laws?" In answer to this question, a critic writes:

"Some have accounted for it by supposing that the mystic letters mean 'Doctor of Law and Logic!' Others think they mean Literarius Legum Doctor! Now, the simple explanation is that the letters mean Legum Doctor, 'Doctor of Laws,' and the first letter is doubled according to the well-known practice of the Romans in abbreviating words of expressing a plural noun by a double letter. Some persons, not aware of this, write L. L. D. as if each letter stood for a word, instead of LL. D. As to the meaning and value of the title itself, I leave it to the Doctors' themselves to decide."

CURIOUS NOTES FROM AN OLD PARISH REGISTER IN NEW ENGLAND.-The following notes have been recently taken from the records of the old Church in Andover, Mass.:

"January 17, 1712. Voted-under protest-yt those persons who have pews sit with their wives."

"November 10, 1713. Granted to Richard Barker foure

shillings, for his extraordinary trouble in swiping our Meeting House ye past year."

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March 17, 1766. Voted, that all the English women in the parish, who marry or associate with negro or mulatto men, be seated in the Meeting House with the negro women."

"In 1799 it was voted, amid much opposition, to procure a bass viol."

ORIGIN OF THE CUSTOM FOR MEN TO SIT NEAREST THE PEW-DOOR IN CHURCHES.-The English Querist says: "It is the custom in America for the head and male members of a family to have the sittings in a pew nearest the door, and it is supposed to have originated in the following manner: In former times it was customary for the Indians to attack a village on a Sunday, when they thought the men would be in church, and unprepared to receive them. The savages having been successful on several occasions, it became a necessary precaution for all the males to go armed, and having sittings near the door of a pew, to be enabled, on the first alarm, to leave the place where they were congregated, and repel the attack of their enemies."

CAMPBELL'S "ANGELS' VISITS."-Nothing can be more absurd or ungenerous than that hypercriticism which is constantly hunting up some antecedent to a felicitous expression, in order to rob its author of the credit he receives for it. Take, for example, Campbell's celebrated

verse:

"Like angels' visits, few and far between."

A surly English critic labors hard to show that it was "all but copied from Blair," and quotes the following from "The Grave" as evidence:

"Like an ill-used ghost
Not to return; or if it did, its visits,
Like those of angels, short and far between."
He also shows that a similar phrase occurs in a poem of
Norris, of Bemerton, who died in 1711:

"But those who soonest take their flight
Are the most exquisite and strong,
Like angels' visits, short and bright,

Mortality's too weak to bear them long."

Very likely the same idea may be found elsewhere; but where is the evidence that either of these authors obtained it in any other way than that in which we obtain most of our ideas? We see not why it does not as much expressed it with far more beauty and force. belong to Campbell as to Blair, and certainly he has

ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE "BY HOOK OR BY CROOK."The notable expression "by hook or by crook," is said to have its origin in the following circumstance in England: Persons entitled to fuel wood in the king's forests were only authorized to take it of the dead wood or branches of trees in the forest. They were not permitted to use an ax in obtaining it, but only "a cart, a hook, and a crook."

SEMLER'S REPLY TO THE PUBLISHER OF A BAD BOOK.A publisher of erroneous and dangerous books assured Semler that he only gave them to the world in order to excite inquiry. "That," replied Semler, "is to set a town on fire in order to make a trial of the engines."

was the gentle reply. The landlord said, folding his hands, "God, teach us how to pray." "That is prayer, my friend," cried Mr. Hill, joyfully; "go on." "I am sure I don't know what to say now, sir." "Yes, you do: God has taught you how to pray. Now thank him for it." "Thank you, God almighty, for letting us pray to you!" "Amen! Amen!" exclaimed Mr. Hill, and prayed himself. Two years afterward, Mr. Hill found in that same village a chapel and a school, as the result of the first effort of family prayer at the "Black Lion."

TURNING FROM NOTHING TO NOTHING.-A female, who had more of the form of godliness than of the power, one day said to Mr. Cecil, "Sir, have you heard that I am going to turn from the Dissenters to the Church?" "Madam," he replied, "you are turning from nothing to nothing."

THE PROUD LADY AND THE POOR GIRL.-The following lines are from one of James Russell Lowell's poems: "Hark! that rustle of a dress,

THE HORSE-FAIR SERMON.-One evening, in a rather crowded place, a minister was preaching very finely and flourishingly to little purpose, from the "white horse," and the "red horse," and the "black horse," and the "pale horse," in the Revelations. Robert Hall, who was present, sat very impatiently, and when the sermon closed he pushed out toward the door, saying, "Let me out of this horse-fair."

Stiff with lavish costliness;

Here comes one whose cheek would blush,
But to have her garments brush
'Gainst the girl whose fingers thin
Wove the weary 'broidery in,
And in midnights, chill and murk,
Stitch'd her life into her work;
Bending backward from her toil,
Lest her tears the silk might soil;
Shaping from her bitter thought,
Heart's-Ease and Forget-me-not;
Satirizing her despair

With the emblems woven there!" ELEVEN HAPPY DAYS IN A LIFETIME.-" Were I offered the choice," said Byron, "either to live my life over again, or to live as many years more onward, I should certainly prefer the first; yet my young days have been vastly more unhappy than I believe those of other men commonly are. I once attempted to enumerate the days I had lived which might, according to the common use of language, be called happy; I could never make them amount to more than eleven; and I believe I have a very distinct remembrance of every one. I often ask myself whether, between the present time and the day of my death, I shall be able to make up the round dozen."

ON ATTEMPTING TOO MUCH.-Don't attempt too much. Knives that contain ninety blades, four cork-screws, and a boot-jack, are very seldom brought into action; and for this reason, in attempting too much, they become so clumsy and ponderous that men of small patience can't "get the hang" of them.

SLANDER. The expansive nature of scandal is told by the poet thus:

THE THREE HARDEST WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. A very learned man has said, "The three hardest words to pronounce in the English language are, 'I was mistaken;'" and when Frederick the Great wrote his letter to the Senate-"I have just lost a great battle, and it was entirely my own fault"-Goldsmith says, "This confession displayed more greatness than all his victories." ANECDOTE OF ROWLAND HILL, OR FAMILY PRAYER AT A TAVERN.-Rowland Hill was once driven by a storm of rain into a village inn, and compelled to spend the night. When it grew late, the landlord sent a request by the waiter that the guest would go to bed. Mr. Hill replied, "I have been waiting a long time, expecting to be called to family prayer." "Family prayer! I don't know what you mean, sir: we never have such things here." "Indeed! then tell your master, I can not go to bed till we have had family prayer." The waiter informed his master, who, in great consternation, bounced into the room occupied by the faithful minister, and said, "Sir, I wish you would go to bed. I can not go till I have seen all the lights out. I am so afraid of fire." "So am I," was the reply; "but I have been expecting to be summoned to family prayer." "All very good, sir; but it can not be done at an inn." "Indeed! then pray get me my horse. I can not sleep in a house where there is no family prayer." The host preferred to dismiss his prejudice, rather than his guest, and said, "I have no objection to have prayer; but I don't know how." "Well, then, summon your people, and let us see what can be done." The landlord obeyed, and in a few minutes the astonished domestics were upon their knees, and the landlord called upon to pray. "Sir, I never prayed in my life. I don't know how." "Ask God to teach you,"

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"The flying rumors gathered as they rolled; Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements, too: On every ear it spread, on every tongue it grew." THE TRIBUNE ON OUR MILITIA SYSTEM.-The Tribune has a good remark on the subject of our militia system. "Think," says that paper, "how disastrous it would prove, if all the conceit and lust of command that are blown off harmlessly through that channel, should be pent up to swell and fester till they found relief when met to organize combinations for carrying on the serious business of life!"

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