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"How strange!" Mostyn said, adhed softly "You'd think so if you ever attended one of our public harangues I've heard persons say I was the whole show Of course, I' now, but the wo I say, whether it has a point to it or not 'Whole show!' I oughtn't to have said that When I try to keep fro; there is no round for me"

"What sort of subjects does your society take up?" Mostyn inquired, highly a the human mind can think up," Dolly answered "Warren Wilks reads all the philosophical and scientific ain; when I talk I either grab the stars or stick enerally abstruse and profound"

"For instance?" Mostyn suggested, still s

"Well, the last one was--and there was a crowd, I tell you, for the presiding elder had just closed a revival in our church and a good many stayed over for the debate We all tried to show off because he was present, and it was a religious subject It was this: Is it possible for hus in the present day to obey the cohbor as yourself?"

"And which side were you on?" the banker asked

"I was affirhtn't to say that either; it sounds like bragging, for there were two men on my side, but I saw at the start that I couldn't depend on them They eak-kneed--afraid of our premise They didn't believe Jesus meant it, anyway I did the best I could I not only think He meant it, but I am sure the day will come when the whole world will live up to the rule Christ wouldn't be for all tirossly e as ours Neither side won in that debate--the judges couldn't agree I wish you had been here last month We had up a subject that you could have helped me on The question was: Which is the better place to rear a man, the city or the country? Or, in other words, can the mind of man develop in a busy, crowded place as well as in a quiet spot in the country? I was on the side of the rural districts that night, and on