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THE PORTAL OF HOPE.
"This--" the speaker was judge Price; "this is the place for me: They are a warm-hearted people, sir; a prosperous people, and a patriotic people with an unstinted love of country.

A people full of rugged virtues engaged in carving a great state out of the indulgent bosom of Nature.

I like the size of their whisky glasses; I like the stuff that goes into them; I despise a section that separates its gallons into too many glasses.

Show me a community that does that, and I'll show you a community rapidly tending toward a low scale of living.