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Show BY WORK 8, NOT FAITH. ' ' -V The Saving Graces of a Deceased Gentleman Gen-tleman from Kentucky. Hamuol W. Mintrt. a prominent law- I yor of Kantatt City, on returning to hU homo from ArkniiMaa a few dnye nco. told a Kood xtory rtmcomlnK . dlHllnKUlht'd utiorney in wontern Ar-kantua. Ar-kantua. JikIko JniuoM K, Head, who wan horn und llvod lu Kontuiky bo-fore bo-fore moving to thlH atato. It runs thlt way: 'A man IIvIhk near Fort Hmltb died. Thla man wan comfortably woll i off in worldly puK.HCriMoiiti, hut he had boon nerJociful of hit Hptritual wol-faro. wol-faro. Ho hud never Joined any church and hnd 1-tilc to do with rdtijiouii ad ! vltora. Tho tlmo fur hla funeral ar- rlvod. nnd nlthuiiKh a preuchor hnd nirooil in ho on bund, an unavoidable j accident had delayed him. The houo waa out of town, and aa the friends of tho departed brother were all an aoinhlod, JutlKO Head was asked to nuiko a few romarliH over tho body of hla friend, who ul.-.o hnd unco lived la Kentucky. Tho JihIko ronKontod. "My friend!," ho mild, "wo aro tiuth-ored tiuth-ored hero today to pay a final trlhuio to our friend who tmi already atdvod tho myttterlo- tf tho great bere.iffer. Ho did not hnvo tho reputation of a i roMnloua man, and yet ho lived the tiro of a noblo Kentucky RontU'inuii, Ho had good hoHsea and bo run 'cm. Ho hnd gtHid whitthy and bo drank 1L lie hud KM.d Kunio cocka and ho 111 'pin, for Much u tho UlnKdoin of heaven." heav-en." ArUaunn (iaotto. |