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Rh And yet just such wails arise heavenward every day in the year from literally thousands of bleeding spirits.

CIII. I do not envy the feelings of those guilty of breaking up love-matches, or tyrannically ordering what shall or shall not he. If there is a hell, hereafter, it seems to me that all such ought to go there, at least tor a summering, if no longer; yet there are those who ruthlessly destroy others' happiness, because they have the power.

"My wife was not my wife, but always her mother's daughter!" has been the story ever since mothers-in-law came in fashion; and it is my opinion that more families have been "smashed into smithereens," to emote a Hibernicism, by that awful power, than perhaps any other single cause in the list, yet they think they do no harm; forcibly reminding one of the "Moral man" of the Russian poet, NEKRASOF:—