Show in a good cause the business tact of the gentle sex is ably illustrated by a young class in one 0 the foremost protestant churches of the city foreseeing a great strife among the leading candidates as the sword contest should near the finish they carefully hoarded all the coupons which they biad cut from the capurs and solicited their friends to do the same with a view of selling tho lot at last to the candidate who would pay the higher figure As the proceeds of this canny piety were to go to works of benevolence none can complain springfield homestead |