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LEVERAGE.

By T. R. Williamson

ARCHIMEDES the sage found, long ago, That all things earthly yield to upward pressure. He poised a bar upon a fulcrum so That power applied gave power in tenfold measure.

"Ah," said the old philosopher, "could I A planet find on which to rest my lever, Then swing some beam of strength into the sky, Its length extending out almost forever.

"Under this world I'd place the shortest end, And, fearless, seat myself upon the other; My puny weight should through its fibers send A force that giant nature could not smother."

Since the great thinker hailed the new-found law, That men plus hand-spikes can upset creation, O'er all the earth, by dint of tooth and claw, Each pries and turns as suits his inclination.

For every man may lift his share of weight, And force the big world nearer to the heavens. Life is the fulcrum, mind the power great, Love, hate, ambition, greed, the levers given.

Painted with lies, ambition lifts in vain; Greed's lever short can only curses raise; Hate of its bar a bludgeon makes to rain Black, murderous blows on all who merit praise.

Love, lightning-winged, with helmet of the sun, With face that like the dawn bids shadows flee, With mightful, piteous hands, pries down upon A shaft plucked up from holy Calvary.

Forever out its glorious length extends, And error's drag-chains snap beneath its power. Back to its home with God the world ascends, Linked to His throne with stars forevermore. —T. R. Williamson.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE brethren at Streator, Ill., have erected a new house of worship.

AT the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Bear Lake, Wis., two members were added.

THE pupils of Sister May Nickel's school at Bay City, Mich., have had good success in selling the SIGNS.

THE baptism of eight candidates at Greenlake, Wash., is reported in the Recorder by Brother H. C. J. Wollekar.

IN reporting to the Banner, Brother P. C. Hayward notes the conversion of eleven souls, mostly adults, at Prattsville, Mich.

THE Recorder notes that four persons were baptized, December 16, at the South Side Church, Chicago, by Brother J. J. Irwin.

AN excellent report of attendance at Walla Walla College is in the Pacific Union Recorder. Professor Cady says he expects an enrolment of 200 this year.

SEVEN conversions, mostly church-school pupils, at Alfalfa, Wash., are reported in the Recorder by Brother C. A. Gibson. The school is held in the new church building.

THREE candidates for baptism, with half a dozen others soon to follow, at Aledo, Ill., is a partial report of labor by Brother F. J. Harris in the Northern Illinois Recorder.

THE brethren of the little flock at Lodi, Cal., have just completed a new church building. They have showed their enterprise by taking hold with their hands to do the work.

AS A visible result of meetings held at Hanover, Mich., Brethren P. C. Hayward and C. N. Sanders report eight adult converts and a Sabbath-school of twenty-seven members.

AFTER the meeting of the Pacific Union Conference at Portland, Ore., Brother A. M. Dart and wife will return to Skagway, Alaska, and make that vicinity their field of labor.

IN the Welcome Visitor, Brother F. E. Gibson mentions the organization of a church of thirteen members at Powell, Ohio, December 9. This is the result of a series of tent-meetings.

A SERIES of meetings has been inaugurated at Yuma, A. T., by Brethren W. C. F. Ward and J. E. Bond. Brother Ward has recently gone to the Arizona field from Western Washington Conference.

THE Wisconsin Reporter says: "Most excellent word comes to us from Fish Creek, where Brother H. W. Reed is holding meetings. Seven were recently baptized, and sixteen united with the church."

THE Swedish brethren of Northern Illinois Conference, at last report, had taken 1,600 of the special Sion's Vaktare, and the Danish-Norwegian brethren had circulated 2,600 copies of their Evangeliets Sendebud.

A GOOD interest at Kanawha Station, W. Va., is reported by Brother B. F. Purdham. Five candidates were baptized December 16, and six were added to the church. The week-of-prayer offering was double that of last year.

NOVEMBER 7, Brother G. W. Casebeer and wife and Brother F. L. Perry and family arrived at Guayaquil, Ecuador, the latter family going on to Peru. Brother Casebeer soon began meetings in Guayaquil, with Brother Thos. H. Davis as interpreter.

A LETTER to this office, from Brother Wm. Steele, of Valparaiso, Chile, states that the mission printing-plant was completely destroyed by fire on the night of November 9. The property was partially insured, and a new plant was to be replaced, and the work of printing continued.

A CALL is made in the New York Indicator, by Brother and Sister J. S. and Lulu Wightman, for 5,000 new copies of the SIGNS for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, near Bath, in that state, where there are 2,300 inmates. The number of papers called for would be circulated in two instalments.

FROM the Pacific Union Recorder we learn that Brother E. H. Gates has gone to the Philippines to arrange for opening work in that field. Brother R. A. Caldwell, a canvasser who last year introduced some of our larger works in Singapore, is now canvassing in the Philippines. He finds that many of the rising generation read and speak the English language. Brother Gates is expecting to go to Singapore to assist Brother G. F. Jones for a while in securing a firm foothold for the truth.

THE publishers of the Caribbean Watchman are making an appeal for means to purchase a press of their own. They have a small outfit now, but have to hire the presswork on the Watchman. With a new cylinder press they can do all their own work, besides some custom work. Those who feel disposed to donate or loan to this worthy cause can forward amount to S. A. Wellman, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, W. I.

FROM St. George, Grenada, B. W. I., Brother W. A. Sweany writes that after a long illness he is in the work again, and notes that "at least a score of adults will soon go forward in baptism, besides a number of children." He expresses appreciation of our "magnificent Special," and adds: "The SIGNS is always good, but these are the best yet. Surely the results of this effort will be speedily manifest in a harvest of souls, for the message they contain is irresistible. I used to sell hundreds of the SIGNS before I left the States, and these Specials make me long to handle it again."

THE Boulder, Colo., Sanitarium corporation has been re-incorporated under the name of the Colorado Medical Missionary Association. This step was taken that the institution might be conducted as a strictly denominational enterprise. A board of directors, to serve for four years, from December 7, was elected as follows: Dr. H. F. Rand, Francis M. Wilcox, George F. Watson, Edward T. Russell, Dr. Ida S. Herr, James G. Weller, Dr. Kate Lindsay, Charles L. Burlingame, Watson Zeigler. Dr. Rand was chosen president; G. F. Watson, vice-president; F. M. Wilcox, secretary and treasurer. The past year has been the most successful in the history of the sanitarium. Brother J. L. Shaw and wife, of the India Mission, are at present stopping at the sanitarium, and add much to the spiritual interest. A recent visit of Brother W. A. Spicer, secretary of the General Conference, was a source of much encouragement, serving to bring the institution into closer relation to the general cause, and the workers into a greater sympathy with the work in other lands.

THE IMPOTENCE OF HINDUISM.

THE papers from India during the past few years have brought repeated illustrations of the fact that in times of need, such as prevalence of famine or plague, or similar disasters, Hinduism offered no help to the sufferers. The priests were selfish and cowardly, and neither by word nor act brought comfort or succor to the panic-stricken people. Only by government agents and Christian Missionaries was there any attempt at organized effort for relief. The Harvest Field of India quotes from a correspondent, who declares that the sights witnessed in the last half year are enough to brand Hinduism forever as impotent to do aught but ruin, and this correspondent adds: "You may pass through a plague-stricken town day after day, and a dozen times a day, but you will never find a Brahman priest visiting the sick or cheering the frightened, or comforting the bereaved, or burying the dead. Most of the temples are deserted, for the priests have fled. Only in the temple of Good-luck did a few timid souls herd together beneath the genial smile of the elephant god. But when plague snatched one of their number even from that last retreat, they fled hopelessly anywhere, and Ganesha smiled blandly on a deserted shrine." The people of India are not slow of sight, and the contrast between the conduct of their Hindu leaders and that of the missionaries of Christ will have a marked effect upon their estimate of Christianity.—Selected.

TUSKEGEE GRADUATES IN SOUTHWEST AFRICA.

WE sometimes ask what the negro is doing for the negro. Tuskegee is doing an unlooked-for bit of missionary work in West Africa. Three or four years ago the German Government applied to Dr. Booker Washington for Tuskegee graduates to teach the people of the Togoland colony to raise cotton. The Togo Negroes had not only to be taught, but to be coaxed to try cotton planting. The Togo cotton, too, had run wild so long that none of its three varieties were worth much, while American seed will not endure that climate. The Tuskegee men have changed all this. By judicious crossing they have originated a new cotton plant that flourishes in Togoland and is of good, long staple. They have also disarmed suspicion among the natives and aroused enthusiasm that the crop of 1905 will be about 1,000 bales. They have also started an industrial school, where forty-five picked Togo boys are being taught some of the energy of their Japanese namesake and its application to scientific agriculture. All these achievements have conquered the skepticism of the German colonial officials as to the profits of improving the condition of the natives. The import of this unforeseen influence of Tuskegee upon blacks in Africa can not yet be measured.—Christian Work.

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EDUCATION IN THE HOME. NO. 33.

By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle

(Concluded.)

"CONCLUDED?" I imagine I hear some of my readers exclaim, who have patiently followed me thus far. "Aren't we going to have any more Bible studies at Brother Hartman's? I'd like to hear whether these readings were productive of any real good. In fact I'd like to know the come out of it."

Would you! Don't you know that the real "come out" of anything can never be fully and truly known in this life? It is "over there" that we get settlement "in full" for our work for Christ. However, I am sure you will be glad to know that the Bible studies continued at Brother Hartman's for a long time, and that many others came in, one by one, to enjoy them. They carefully studied such subjects as "The Home of the Saved," "The Earth Made New," "The Tithing System," "Justification through Faith," "The Love of God," "The Origin of Sin," and the "History and Destiny of Satan."

"But," says one; "does the Bible tell about such strange subjects as some of these?"—Reader, study it well, and see. I promise you it will pay you as well as it did the family and neighbors at Brother Hartman's. God has promised a rich harvest, so be not discouraged if the seed spring not up at once.

It was many long years before the growing church in the village of D— of which Brother Hartman's family were members, felt that their numbers demanded that a meeting-house be built. Shall I tell you about it?—Very well. Then I must ask you to pass over, in your minds, at least ten years of the joys and sorrows, disappointments and victories, of Brother and Sister Hartman's family and friends. How well we remember the last evening we met with them. We have not forgotten that the study was concerning the future punishment of the wicked. Nor have we forgotten how clear the precious truth of God shone out from His Book, on this eventful night. The heathen dogma of an ever-burning hell, with its suffering and immortal torments, was proved by the infallible testimony of God's Word to be but an invention of the fiends of darkness,—for we learned that whosoever believeth on the Son—only—hath everlasting life.

I say it was an eventful evening,—eventful, because decisions were formed that night, and influences brought to bear upon some of the members of that little circle, the effect of which would reach into eternity. On this night, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur were deeply convicted by the Spirit of God. The solemn truths which they had so long been studying were being impressed upon their hearts; and the blessed seed which had been sown, was about to bear fruit also in other lives.

Come; let us make the family of Brother and Sister Hartman one more visit.

They are just as old-fashioned as ever, and they still study the same old-fashioned Book.

We pass through the familiar streets of the little village of D—, over the hills and away toward the pleasant, rambling old farmhouse in the midst of the same thrifty orchard as of yore. It is a pleasant Sabbath evening in late October. The red and yellow and russet leaves of the old maples behind the barn are witnesses that Jack Frost has already paid his annual visit. Hark! where have we heard that sweet song before? A young woman is seated at the old organ singing a familiar melody in which other voices take part. While we are trying to call up some half-forgotten memory of the past, the young woman turns her face full toward us,—and we are sure this must be the little Beth, of long ago. One by one we recognize the singers. Elsie and Mattie, and—yes—that fine young man with the noble forehead and the earnest eyes, is certainly John. He has just returned from his labors for the Master, in the islands of the sea, for a short visit to his old home. Brother and Sister Hartman both join in the singing, but we do not see the sweet, white-haired grandmother in her accustomed place,—and we rightly guess that she is sleeping the blessed sleep of the just; only waiting for the sound of the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God. Ah, it is her favorite hymn which the family are singing:

"Mark that pilgrim lowly bending,"

and our eyes are wet as well as those of the singers, as we think of the hallowed memories of the past.

The sun is setting behind the hills, and the Sabbath is almost gone. In the distance we see the tall spire of the new church, and from its white finger pointing skyward, we hear the clear echo of the bell calling the worshipers together to the dedication services of the first Seventh-day Adventist Church ever built in the village of D—, now almost a city. The program is to be an interesting one to-night, for the services are to be conducted by an eminent young evangelist and his able co-worker, a musician of rare talent and deep devotion from the C— mission.

"Come," said Beth, rising from the organ at last, "come; it is quite time we were starting for church—it's a good half mile,—and we must not be late; I'm so anxious to hear the sermon—"

"And the music," added Mattie.

"Yes," declared Elsie, "but it makes me feel sad to realize that our dear John is so soon to leave us again, for his far-away field of labor."

"But let us thank God and take courage," interrupted Sister Hartman, wiping a tear from her eye, as the family wended their way down the grassy walk toward the brilliantly-lighted church already half filled with worshipers.

Let us follow them, reader, as they pass down the pleasant aisle and seat themselves in one of the front slips. We look about us with great interest. Just at the right, we recognize the genial faces of our old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur, and we wonder where the daughter Josie has hidden herself, for we do not see her. At the left are Mr. and Mrs. Jones, a trifle older and more serious looking, but otherwise unchanged; while sitting well up in front, close by the altar, we notice the bright, expectant faces of Mr. and Mrs. Gray. A young man is just seating himself at the organ. His thick, wavy hair is brushed carelessly back from the broad forehead, and the deep blue eyes beam with intelligence as he scans the faces of the congregation for a moment; and as all unite in singing the grand old "Coronation, " it is the superb voice of the organist which is clearly heard above all the others. We wonder if it can be possible that—yes, we are certain, now, that the singer is our long-ago friend Billy Black! and as this consciousness comes to us, our voice trembles with gladness as we, too, sing:

"All hail the power of Jesus' name."

The young minister's countenance also affords us quite a study. We feel sure that we have seen him sometime before—but where? At the conclusion of the song, he quietly descends from the pulpit, and taking Mrs. Gray by the arm, he leads her to an easier seat, still nearer the pulpit. Something in his tender, dutiful manner suggests to us that this dark-bearded minister can be none other than her son Walter, whom we remember had been determined to be a preacher of the Word, ten years ago.

We listen to the sermon with intense interest. The speaker briefly reviews the past few years,—years filled with evidences of the loving care of God and His wonderful providences:

"It is about ten years ago, I think," he said, "while I was yet a mere lad, that I had my attention first called to the nearness of the second coming of our Lord, the sacredness of the true Sabbath of Jehovah, the sleep of the dead, and kindred truths which are so dear to us as a people. I see that Brother and Sister Hartman are here to-night. I have not seen them in a number of years, my work, as you know, being in a distant state, but I wish to say to them, and to you all, that we owe the prosperity of our cause and our church in this place, more, under God, to the family Bible readings held in their house so many years ago, than to anything else. How many times have I found parents depending upon the church-school teacher entirely to educate their children in the things of God. And I have said: 'O for more Brother and Sister Hartmans!' I say as does the inspired apostle: 'Honor to whom honor is due.' O for more parents who believe that the training of their children for God and His church is the first business of life, and who act upon the belief.

"But some have said to me: 'I am a poor teacher; I do not understand the Bible very well myself, how can I teach it to my children?' To such I say in God's name: 'Become acquainted with His precious Book. Make less provision for the outward man, and provide more of the meat which perisheth not, for the soul.'"

"I am glad to recognize in the congregation to-night" he continued, "many old friends; among them, Brother and Sister Wilbur, whose daughter is now a missionary in India, and Brother Jones and wife; who, with my parents and myself, attended these early Bible studies at Brother Hartman's, those precious lessons which were the beginning of a great revival of God's truth in this place, and the influence of which will live on forever. My dear friend and associate, Brother Black, to whose sweet songs many thousands have listened, and whose God-given talent is being used daily for the Master, received his first religious impressions at these same Bible studies at Brother Hartman's."

"And now, as we solemnly dedicate this pleasant house of worship to the service of Almighty God, let us remember that He has commanded that we teach His precepts to our sons and our daughters when we go out and when we come in, when we rise up and when we sit down. And may we all be ready to go

up to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, in the earth when it shall be made new and beautiful, from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another."

MISUNDERSTOOD.

Could we but draw the curtains That surround each other's lives, See the naked heart and spirit, Know what spur the action gives, Often we should find it better, Purer, than we judge we should; We should love each other better If we only understood.

Could we judge all deeds by motives, See the good and bad within, Often we should love the sinner All the while we loathe the sin. Could we know the powers working To o'erthrow integrity, We should judge each other's errors With more patient charity.

If we knew the cares and trials, Knew the effort all in vain, And the bitter disappointment— Understood the loss and gain— Would the grim external roughness Seem, I wonder, just the same? Should we help where now we hinder? Should we pity where we blame?

Ah! we judge each other harshly, Knowing not life's hidden force; Knowing not the fount of action Is less turbid at its source; Seeing not amid the evil, All the golden grains of good, O, we'd love each other better If we only understood! —Fireside Magazine.

SINGING PRAISES.

By Charles P. Whitford

BY CHARLES P. WHITFORD.

"My servants shall sing for joy of heart." Isa. 65:14.

SINGING was a part of the services of the early Christian churches. "And that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto Thy name." Rom. 15:9.

We have numerous examples of God's servants who have praised the Lord in song in times of trouble and temporal difficulties. "And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God." Read Acts 16:22-27.

A number of the books of the Bible are songs—Lamentations, the Psalms, and considerable portions of Isaiah and other prophets. Solomon had his men and women singers, and Josephus tells us that the number employed by him at the dedication of the temple was three thousand.

We have scripture for congregational singing. Here it is. "Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and His praise in the congregation of saints." Ps. 149:1.

David exclaims: "While I live will I praise the Lord; I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being." Ps. 146:2.

In the 150th psalm we are exhorted to praise God with all kinds of instruments. "Praise ye the Lord. . . . Praise Him with the psaltery and harp. . . . Praise Him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise Him upon the loud cymbals. . . . Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord." The poet expressed a wonderful truth when he said: "Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm; Music can change the pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above."

Such being the character of music, and with the approval of our heavenly Father, is it not well worth our while to cultivate a love for it? In our song selections let us be sure to select only such words and music as will tend to elevate, ennoble, and direct the mind to high and holy aspirations.

BOOK NOTICES.

By Editor

"His Life" in the words of the four Gospels. An interwoven narrative. Hope Publishing Co., 228 Wabash Ave., Chicago.

Some time ago the Pastors' Union of Oak Park, Ill., completed through a committee a new harmony of the Gospels. So far as we have been able to examine it, it is an excellent one. The design is the same as the design of all other harmonies are, interwoven Gospels, making the entire record of Jesus upon the earth one consecutive narrative from beginning to end. Another excellent thing about this one is that it is cheap. It was first published at fourteen cents when sold by the Pastors' Union, but now the Hope Publishing Company have found it necessary to increase the price to single copies, cloth-finished flexible cardboard, 15 cents. Ten copies, $1.25; 25 copies, 10 cents each. Cloth, 25 cents; 10 copies, $2.25; full gilt edges, 75 cents. The text used in the Harmony is that of the American Standard Revised Version, the very best. There certainly ought to be a large sale of the books.

Charlotte Temple. A Tale of Truth. By Susanna Haswell Rawson. Reprinted from the Rare First American Edition (1794), over 1,200 Errors in Later Editions Being Corrected, and the Preface Restored. With an Historical and Biographical Introduction by Francis W. Halsey. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London

Thus reads the title page of a sad, true story of a confiding girl, and the fearful fate of those who accomplished her ruin. The events narrated occurred during the times of the Revolution, and have been written many times.

Brother Hill's Bible Class. A Study of Excuses, Inventions, Fables, and Dreams, addressed to the honest-hearted. By W. B. Hill. 76 pages. Price 15 cents. International Publishing Association, College View, Nebraska.

Since this pamphlet came to us for review, the author, an aged and godly minister, has passed away. He had his own quaint, direct, straightforward way. This pamphlet is devoted to the law and the Sabbath, and his class is composed of fifteen ministers of various denominations who have written and spoken on the subject. All their objections are met with plain Bible instruction.

Four Weeks of Family Worship for Busy Homes. By William E. Barton, D.D. The Puritan Press, Oak Park, Ill.

The title of the booklet indicates its purpose. Each day's service includes a verse to be learned for the day, a short, practical scripture lesson, a verse of a hymn, a short prayer, and the Lord's Prayer. The services suggested are splendid with one exception. Let the people do their own praying. Those who do not feel enough gratitude to God to thank Him for mercies bestowed, and have not sense enough to need to ask Him for cleansing and help, will not be aided much by formal, read prayers which may in no way meet their need. The bad theology of the pamphlet is all in the prayers and one or two hymns. Sunday is called a holy day with no scriptural reason. Many of the prayers are utterly Christless; and the highest of the Higher Critics would find no objection to their phraseology.

LIBERAL MINISTRY APPROVED BY KING EDWARD.

London, December 10.—King Edward approved to-night the list of the new British Liberal Ministry submitted to him by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as follows:

The Cabinet.

Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Herbert Henry Asquith.

Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Herbert John Gladstone.

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey.

Secretary of State for the Colonies, The Earl of Elgin.

Secretary of State for War, Richard Burdon Haldane.

Secretary of State for India, John Morley.

Lord High Chancellor, Sir Robert Threshie Reid.

First Lord of the Admiralty, Baron Tweedmouth.

President of the Board of Trade, David Lloyd-George.

President of the Local Government Board, John Burns.

Secretary of State for Scotland, John Sinclair.

President of the Board of Agriculture, Earl Carrington.

Postmaster-General, Sydney Buxton.

Chief Secretary for Ireland, James Bryce.

Lord President of the Council, The Earl of Crewe.

Lord Privy Seal, The Marquis of Ripon.

President of the Board of Education, Augustine Birrell.

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Sir Henry Hartley Fowler.

Ministers Not in the Cabinet.

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Aberdeen.

Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Right Hon. Samuel Walker.

First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings, Lewis Vernon Harcourt.

LITTLE THINGS OF THE HOUSEHOLD.

By A. M. H.

THERE is nothing better for cleaning hair-brushes and combs than gasoline, as it cleans them perfectly and will not loosen the bristles; but it should never be used in a room where there is a light or fire, and the gasoline is excellent for cleaning the marble basin and the bath-tub. Moisten a small cloth with this and give the article a brisk rubbing, and all nickel is at once brightened by using gasoline.

To take fly specks off gilt frames, moisten them with the white of an egg; let it remain about fifteen minutes, then wipe off with a soft, dry cloth. The brass trimmings of iron beds may also be cleaned and brightened in this way.

Plaster busts and statuettes may be cleansed by dipping them in thick liquid starch and drying, and then brushing the starch off. Marble figures can be cleansed by using a paste of whiting and water, allowing it to dry, and brushing off with a soft brush. To prevent the striped ticking from showing through your nice pillow cases, make covers of bleached muslin and slip them over the pillow-ticks, then draw the nice covers over them.

It is mistaken economy to put off laundering curtains under the impression that they will last longer if not washed and ironed often. The dust in curtains, and hanging in the same folds, wears them more than laundering with reasonable care. Lace and muslin curtains require very little rubbing if they are put to soak over night in warm soft water to which a small cup of kerosene has been added. In the morning they should be rubbed lightly through this water and then washed through a strong pearline suds, and they will need no boiling unless they have been allowed to become very much soiled. Nothing adds so much to the appearance of a room as clean windows and fresh draperies. A. M. H.

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