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The North Carolina Presbyterian . - shortening but lard, nowuse COTTOLENE and couldnt be induced tochange, simply because it is better*, cheaper and more healthful. The genuinehas this trade mark—steershead in cotton-plint wreath—on ever> pail. I/x)k for it Made on|jr bj The N. K. Fairbank Comiiany,ST. LOUIS and ??I^ That prince of Sunday-school super-intendents and purveyor of prime jokes,Capt. Lewis L. Marks, of Petersburg,tells a good story to illustrate the dangerof inferring too much in the study ofthe Bible. A colored preacher who hadlost his wife sought solace in a new com-
The North Carolina Presbyterian . - shortening but lard, nowuse COTTOLENE and couldnt be induced tochange, simply because it is better*, cheaper and more healthful. The genuinehas this trade mark—steershead in cotton-plint wreath—on ever> pail. I/x)k for it Made on|jr bj The N. K. Fairbank Comiiany,ST. LOUIS and ??I^ That prince of Sunday-school super-intendents and purveyor of prime jokes,Capt. Lewis L. Marks, of Petersburg,tells a good story to illustrate the dangerof inferring too much in the study ofthe Bible. A colored preacher who hadlost his wife sought solace in a new com-panionflhip in so short a time thereafterthat the refined sense of his congrega-tion suffered a serious shock. Requiredto explain his unseemly haste,he said : **Ihas Scriptur fur whut Ise done, mybredderin. Wen dat fust wife died, Iwent ter de Scripturs ter find comfot,an I sarched it frum de fust chapter terde las chapter, an everywhar I fincomfot fur de widder, but nary a wordob comfot fur de widderer. Whut warI ter infer, my bredderin ? I war terinfer dat de Lawd, He specked dewidderer ter comfot hisself.—Ex, Scott
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