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—cost one hundred dollars quite a big sum for baby shoes.

But those trying- times are past, may they never return.
When Christianity burns in every heart as it should, wars,

tumults and strife of all kinds will end.

A PLUCKY WOMAN OF MAINE.

When the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, captured the

bark Delphine from Bangor, it was so rough that the skipper's
wife had to be hoisted aboard the cruiser. She was a pretty

woman and observed that had she been in command the vessel
would not have hove to. Her gallant captors expressed the

opinion that it was no empty boast. They believed she would
have escaped with the vessel.

J,. S. E. Beck, who scouted with the famous Belle Boyd
has left this description of her: "She was brave, she was also
modest and well-behaved; but she was not pretty at all. She
was about 5 feet 7 inches, high cheek bones, narrow face, black
hair, hazel eyes, a good looking nose, but a close thin lipped
mouth. Her form was angular. She was not fair, fat and forty,
but she was dark, thin and thirty."