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Show Wood Was Coming Too Freely. Some sixty years ngo tiio town of Palmer, Mass., had a settled minister by tho name of Ruckhii". In those days tho minister's salary was paid In part by ptoducts fiom tho farms. In tho month of February, with easy sledding, tho farmers tnok to drawing draw-ing green birch wood to tho minister until his yard was plied full of It. Tho following Sunday 'ho minister roverentlally ascended tl'o stops to his pulpit, ahd.In a loiu. voice said: "If I could have a few n ro loads of green birch wood I could extinguish tho fires of hell." Boston Herald, |