Evidence of a conscientious and candid objector:--

"I am sure the Rector could not get anyone to take my place,

as Cowley is now empty, and there are no loafers about."

_Gloucester Citizen._

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"The first cases to come before the tribunal were appeals from

three Thirsk butchers, for the exemption of their respective

slaughtermen. Mr. Johnson said he killed himself about 20

years ago. He thought he would start again."--_Darlington and

Stockton Times._

Very difficult to repeat the first fine careless rapture of a successful

suicide.

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"No, while it is a crime to spend money extravagantly on dress,

it is just as emphatically one to abstain from it altogether."

_Daily Chronicle._

If _The Daily Chronicle_ says so, we accept it. There is no paper for

whose judgment we have a more profound regard.

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