joe friend

with reports

with reports and various documents concerning the society, all bound so exactly. The goodnatured man of the kind face sits in refreshing ease behind a little desk the wiselooking lean man, in the spectacles, is just in front of him, buried in ponderous folios of reports. In the centre of the room stands a highlypolished mahogany table, at which brother spyke is seated, his elbow rested, and his head leaning thoughtfully in his hand. The rotund figure and energetic face of sister slocum is seen, whisking about conspicuously among a bevy of sleek but rather lean gentlemen, studious of countenance, and in modest cloth. For each she has something cheerful to impart each in his turn has some compliment to bestow upon her. Several nicelydressed, but rather meeklooking