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176 Mt. Olney, con.

‘The Board of Virtues’ will furnish him with funds
to carry on the work from a treasury that is as
inexhaustible as the fountains of light and love.
The hills of pride and cruelty will be leveled by
the agents meekness and mercy. The valleys will be
raised by kindness and brotherly affection. The
streams will be crossed by bridges built on the “Rock
of Ages.” The rails will be charity, the cars of devotion
with springs tempered by the incense of the heart
for every good and perfect gift, and the locomotive
engine of supreme and everlasting love, propelled
by prayer and thanksgiving to the fountain whence
every blessing flows.” This little classic was
written by James P. Stabler Sr. in 1837. He was
the first master-mechanic of the first railroad in
America, - the B. & O. – It ran from Balto. to Ellicott
City, (then called Ellicott Mills), a distance of 10 miles
at the breakneck(?) speed of 8 mi. per hr.

Ellen Farquhar’s offering was “Life’s Journey”
by Griff Alexander, in a Pittsburg paper, -

“A life time is a traveled road
Between two busy streams
The stream of Once-Upon-a-Time,
The stream of Soon-to-Be.
So grab your load, my brother,
And take the road, my brother,
The mountain road, my brother,
Where the hill of Present worry
Bows the head and bends the knee.
We are taking up our burdens
And our hearts are unafraid.
We are taking up our burdens
For the journey must be made.
And though the way be weary
And the journey many a mile
We are taking up our burdens
With a smile.”

Sallie R. Janney’s article was all about a
chain-letter starting in Chicago, ostensibly for the
benefit of an injured railway employe’. Each recipient
is to send 10 cts., and write to 5 others to
contribute the same, and each write 5 more letters.
The man who inaugurated this bright system of
begging says the chain is limited to No. 50, and

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