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that same magnetism with which she always won friends. Shc is not the gay, light-hearted girl that she was at school; but a more sober expression rests upon her face,and a more subdued air characterizes her movements, for the opposition that was put forward to keep her from leaving home for this sphere of life has changed her somewhat. But with all this opposition she wears a self-satisfied air, tor she knows that she has done her duty. She lives in hopes that the war will soon be over so that she can again return to her home. ]n Baltimore you will see the sign John R. E. Turpin, Attorney-at-Law. Jack, was a proud man when he received his degree, and, after a short visit to his home, returned to the city to practice law. But this he found was not, by any means, an easy matter, for he waited and waited, but no clients came until he had been in the city nearly a year. By that time he was so discouraged he bad almost given up in despair. but fortunately for him,he at last had a chance where he could show his powers as an orator. The side of the case he de- fendedwas certainly in the right, and he did full justice to himself and client. This case won for him a name which he has every day continued to strengthen, so that at the next elec- tion he is to be nominated for Sena- tor. There is no doubt that he will be elected, for he has become a popular politician of the State. ]11 the town of Barclay lives Katie Merrick. She has turned her education to some advantage, for there, in a ~. 69-1-
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