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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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reation, andincreasing the incongruity aiul the complica-tion of our daily life. What a helpless beingis the housewife in the midst of her treasures!The Drawer has had occasion to speak latelyof the recent enthusiasm in this country forthe cultivation of the mind. It has becomealmost a fashion. Clubs are formed for thisexpress purpose. But what chance is therefor it in the increasing anxieties of our moreand more involved and overloaded domesticlife ? Suppose we have clubs—Japanese clubsthey might be called—for the sinq)lification ofour dwellings and for getting rid of much ofour embarrassing menage! Stephen A.Douglas, in his campaign againstLincoln, spoke in front of the hotel, and OldRube was an attentive listener. Afterward hewas asked what he thought of the speech. Dat was heaby doctrine, said he— deheabiest kind ob doctrine. But dar was lotsob ignant folks dar, Mr. Hall, dat didnt un-derstand dat doctrine—not a bit ob it. Deydidnt understand it, Mr. Hall, no morcn youdid.
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816 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. PLANTATION CHARCOALS. TUE TUANCE. John Gns was emotional and religions. Aprayer-meeting stimnlatcd his spiritnal natnrebeyond bodily endnrance. One of these happyseasons was generally followed by a trance, inwhich state John Gns had visions of heavenand hell, for he visited either place Avitli eqnalfacility. His reply to my greeting one morn-ing was rather startling, and his haggardappearance was qnite confirmatory of hiswords. I aint feelin so well dis mornin, thaukee,doctor. I went to hell las night. Yassir, Iwas dere, slio. What did you see there? Meet any ofyonr acquaintance? Yas indeed, sir. Seed three or fo overseersI knowed, an old Sauk was dere a-ploughin.Old Sank was a mnle noted for his indomi-table will and nimbleness of heels. And what was it like down there, JohnGns? Well, doctor, dis de way it was. Fearedlike dere was a great dig jimmyjohn, an yonhatter ride down a long lane, which is de necko de jinnnyjohn, an you ride a boss what seeml

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