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divorced from him. Is not the quotation " Hodie to 

 me, Cras tibi " true ? To-day to me, to-morrow to me. 

 Some time after that, another citizen of Chicago 

 came to see me on a certain Sunday morning and asked 

 me if I allowed people visiting our establishment on 

 Sabbath Day ? I told him I did, and to convince him 

 of my sincerity I told him 



" If you have never done any more harm 

 Than to visit a friend, a garden, or a farm, 

 On a Sunday, or any other holy day, 

 You are sure to go to heaven straightaway." 



It was early in the morning I was going to breakfast and 

 offered him to come with me. He said he had had his 

 breakfast at his Hotel in Albany (Delavan House) 

 where he had to stay until 10 or 11 o'clock at night to 

 go to Chicago, and it was for that reason he broke the 

 Sabbath, and that he wanted to have something to do 

 to kill the time. On this "deliberate utterance" I 

 made him the observation that he was an awful man 

 to "break the days and kill the time. "Well, he said, 

 in talking, in doing so I do not think I do any more 

 harm than many who pray the whole day. I am a 

 sort of an Artist, I do admire nature and if you will as 

 you said, allow me to stay looking round the whole day, 

 I will be much obliged, for I see that you have enough 

 to see to keep me busy until dark. Please go to break- 



