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A HIGH IDEAL. 



In compliance with my request, I am kindly 

 permitted to give the following from a private 

 letter by Mr. James MacArthur, of New York, 

 September 24, 1892. Would that I could receive 

 a hundred thousand similar letters ! 



" I have been a votary of Charles Lamb's am- 

 brosial weed, but have eschewed the practice for 

 the sake, chiefly, of being free from a slavish habit 

 and of having a purer example to set to my com- 

 panions in life. These motives have succeeded 

 when all others failed." 



UNIQUE SACRIFICE. 



Away beyond Denniston, England, in a lonely 

 coal-miner's hut upon a hill, is the following curi- 

 ous sign, which was put up by the owner some 



months ago : — 



_n 



TOBACCO 

 June 2"), 



CRUCIFIED, 



1891. 



The cross is composed of two sticks of tobacco, 



