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or does not, may manage her husband while she can keep him 

 at home, if they are moderately congenial to each other. Unfor- 

 tunately, she cannot always keep him at home and then is the 

 very time he is likely to go astray. 



Mr. President: "I have been cudgelling my brain all this 

 time to think of something to talk about. I have found it, I 

 think. This glass of water may furnish the inspiration. Noth- 

 ing could be better. Here is one of the most beatiful, one of 

 the most common, and one of the most wonderful things in 

 nature, liquid, pure, bright, sparkling water. It comes down 

 from the clouds as rain, hail and snow, and runs to the ocean ; 

 it pervades the air throughout the universe, although, then it is 

 vapor. Put it out doors, one of these cold nights, and quickly 

 it becomes a solid. When it. is pure it is the most healthful 

 thing in the world; without which no grass or other green 

 thing could grow, nor animal life exist. Nevertheless, look 

 well to your wells, I mean no pun, look carefully to your wells, 

 that the source of your pure water does not become contam- 

 inated. We do not appreciate this blessing that the great God 

 has given us. We look at the clouds in the morning under the 

 rays of the sun, being dissipated, and what are we looking 

 upon? We are looking upon water mixed as a vapor in the 

 atmosphere, but let a thunder storm come up and soon follows 

 the welcome rain. The Lord has given water this power, that 

 whenever the air is reduced in temperature, by about twenty- 

 seven degrees, the air must give up one-half of the vapor it 

 holds, but suppose you reduce the temperature by another 

 twenty-seven degrees, it then immediately gives up one-half 

 more of the vapor that is left, and so it may go on until finally 

 upon the desert plain we have almost no moisture in the air, and 

 consequently life cannot exist. 



The air is composed of two gases and another mixed chem- 

 ically with them. That other substance is most costly in 

 agriculture, it is what builds up and nourishes our bodies — 

 nitrogen. It also holds the vapor of water and certain acid gas. 



There are many curious things in water; 



