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Rh prayer. "I believe," said he "that the reporter will be able to do better work and that the object of the newspaper will be more thoroughly reached in this way than heretofore."

We often hear it said, with portentous solemnity, "Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right;" but no right thing is ever settled. Even a potato, from the time a cutting is planted in the ground until the digging from the hill at last, requires fresh treatment at every stage of its growth. By as much as a great cause is more important than a hill of potatoes is the need of fresh thought, new methods, and increased energy at every stage of its progress. We stopped the slave-trade, but settled nothing; we emancipated the slaves on the American continent, but settled nothing; we gave the colored man in the United States the ballot, but settled nothing. We are educating them, but we are opening new problems and raising new questions with every advance we make.