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A Waye Of Good Sense

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
February
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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The i'o luwiiu. clativr to a habit . ome ;Hi,:Hfiicvs, s is apptfcable to Aun Albor ;i to Grasa jxike, for iik'h p'jace Si was wilt ten by the New. Il lá a wave ttoa.1 ought to sweep over audieucea everywhere : ''The riKHscriininuie oucoring at the ooaoei t Tueeday oveniug was certain:y hl very li:iil beste. To encové discretely and wlth proper judgm&n't, is lo:l compymentiary to the peiTormer and iiuliiviiive oí a calcured apprediniifíKi ota he part n' 'die audience ; out wIidA'sale cnciX'i'ug advertáses a wanl ot nrtj.stic ta-ste and is sm oftensive to .lie proíossrtonail .irtist that ne wij reïuse sucli recalls altogether. Qere in Orase Lake, il our people wiü Pake the tnoublie to notfce, hand-ela.ppini;' fo" a recaí] h a usual tliing o: iig-ïitat.'s wi ■ ii úhoughtJ'ess boys. Tliey 'biii' tihelr iiajus together noisöy and perslstexutly, wheblier approp:iate oi tnappropiiafce, and people whid in obliei' ragiards usually exercic diecriminatloB, allaw themselTes to joiin in the folly of the juveniles. Tbe numbers oonapffteaing the program Tuesda' evening wre very welfdone, but some were better given than others and to have encored a few of the very best would hiave been appropriate But to put all on the same pifane made the oomplimeat valueless. It is to bi haped 'üta.t thoso of our cdtizens whö tnow whiere to reaCJy draw the "iinp, wlll ait allow an element whloh lacks sucli perception, to wiied;e them into haind-clapping for Indfecrimioate recalas. Buch. a practice. too, often draws the program out to a tiresome length, and besides is really mrsusinig the occupantg of the stafff by forcing mare work from them taan they contracted to give." w At the fnurteentli national convention held at St. Paul Miiin., last Spptember 3 and 4, the W. E. C. accepted the gift of the Andersonville prison property, from the Gran'! Ariny of the Repuhlic of the state of Georgia, on oonditinn that it be kept in sarred trust. It is a bout fifteen hundred feet avvay from the national cemetery where tliousands of our union soldiers are buried. The Englisb guard with reverent care the Black Hole of Calcutta, wbere a few missionaries and their families lost their lives by persecution during the Sepuy rebellion. Shall uot the partiiotic people of this United States guard with sacred care the plane where so many thousaud of our brave joys perished from hunger aud thirst. Here deep pits still remain, one of tbem thirty-five feet doep that they dug with their hands and bits of tin and bones without success, and t is told that sueh a bitter cry went up from the suffering multitude, that the Lord veiled himself n a blac-k elond over Andersonville jrisou, and sent down thuiiderbolts and cleft the earth and rock and a spring opened u, whiuli is i-;iI!m! Providence spring, and it is still rniming f resh, pure, and sweet. This proprty consists of eighty acres, tvventy-live oí wliich were used lor prirjona pen.

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Ann Arbor Courier