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corner meeting cf the Salvation Army and hear their
brass music and singing but am deprived; the ungodly
en the outskirts hail me friendly, and my stiy 'vculd net
do, unless I %vere willing to interrupt the Army's work.

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proves tr»at man is an. ic.zct anc a.so tnat ne is utteny
vile and malignant. Kow can a priscner pay a debt: Was
tr.e idea c^ it tc urav tne creditor in revenger

Xcv. 27. Livy's birthday. I claimed that her birthday
has either passed or is to ccme; that it is the i^th as the
27th exists in America, net here \vhere \ve have run?

cut a day and closed up the vacancy.

Today we reached Gisbcrn in a big Bay , Poverty Bay)
but did net go ashore to lecture. A big sea running. A
tub of a steam launch came cut turning summersets, and
took off 25 and put on about 15 people, men, Bremen and
children., in a most primitive basket. Any ucskillfulness
would have cost lives, but there was nose.

Prohibition

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted
licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

In fact, the more things are forbidden, the more popu-
lar they become.

He embodied these thoughts in an interview
he gave to a reporter of the Licensing Guardian,
X. S. W.

Mark Twain on Prohibition
(From the Licensing Guardlzn^ N.S.W.)

"What do I think of Prohibition?" Nothing, for the simple
reason that there :s no such thing. When men want drink, they'll