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Christmas ut Mrs. Halls. At Mrs.
Halls is the place to get your Candies,
Toys and other Knck Knacks for Christ
mas. Automatic Dancers, Fire Engines,
Trotting Horses, etc, all arranged with
clock work, TO move like living things, the
delight of the boys. Trimmings for Christ
mas trees in profusion and of great beauty
Whitman's Bon Bons, and large assert
ment of all kinds of Candies from finest
French to Common varieties. Fruits,
White Grapes, Bananas, Lemons, Oranges
Apples, Citron, Raisins, liable and cook :
ing)-and nuts of all kinds.
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SPECI4L NOTICES.
Children often look Pale and
SicLx

from other than having in the stomach.
BROWNS YERHIFUGE COMFlTS
will destroy Worms without injury 10 the child being
perfectly WHITE, and free from all colorng other
injurious ingredients usually used in prepaIa-
tons.
CURTIS BROWN Proprietors
No. 2l5 Fulton. New York.
Sold bB Druggists and CasmiStS and dealers in Medi-
cineS at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Box. July by
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Sewing Machines.-$2 80. $40, sen, $50.
$40. so. All in good order. We ale sell
ing al great sacrifice. Now is the time
t" get bargain. J. WILKINSON, Agent,
Wig Building, Elkton, Md.
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How TO Make Home Attractive.-Go to
HINCHLIFFE's, under the Howard House,
and buy Book Albums, Pictures. Games,
Alphabets and Building blocks. [27-3
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SERVICE

At Trinity Church for Christmas Day.
At precisely o A. ". with Holy Com
munion. AT II \. N. with Holy Com
muniOn.
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Ladies' Gents and ChiIdren's handker
chiefs in fancy caskets-very handsome
at the GLASS FRONT
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REIFF & CO.,
EXTRA FAMILY MyNCE MEAT,

~. article FIR Pie prepared ready rr AMI superior
!" any in &c market.
Is III TIE ssEST! TEsY II,
USE NO OTHER
SOLD BY MOST GROCERS.
Manufactured by +. CONRoW Co, North Water
Street, Philadelphia. lv-l2
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Christmas Presents Fine Illustrated
Gift Books, Bibles, Prayer Books, Hymn
Books, Toy Books, Writing Desks, Initial
Paper, Chess and Backgammon Boards,
Stereoscopes and Views, Pocket Books,
Diaries, Pen Knives, and a host of other
things at HINCnLIFFE S, under the Howard
House.
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Mrs. II. Wood, on Main street, opposite
the Glass Front offers specialities in Christ
mas toys of simple and intricate mechani-
cal construction, miniature row boats,
musical instruments, games of all kinds,
initial, note and fancy paper, books, to-
gether with large assortment of candies
and fancy cakes. The stock has been well
selected and in keeping with the present
condition of the money market. Parents.
guardians and those who are DESTROYS of
purchasing articles of this kind would
do well to give her o call.
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North East Items.

Lmprorements-- Christmas Coming-NcCul-
Tough Iron Co.-Painting-Bad Roads
Lecture Markets. Protracted Meeting-
Inapr0uenents in Charlest0rn-6'c., Sc.
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RESTORES GRAY Or Faded Hair.

LONDON HAIR COLOR,
RESTORER and DRESSING,
Il promotes tile GROWTH, restdrss tie COLOR
and increases the Iigor and BEAUTY
Of tie HAIR.
Price. - Cents a Bottle.
Sold Wholesale and Retail ut FRAZER'S Drug Store
Post Office building. Elkton Nd. G0ct H. lS73-ly
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ATTORNEY AT LAW

Having associated ourselves for the practice Of our
profession will give prompt and careful attention TO
all Law and Chancery business placed in our hands
Business intrsted either will receive the attention
of both. TJan 4. 1S12-tf
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The Mutual Building Association of Cecil
County will issue a new series of Stock, to
be designated 81" at the next regular
monthly meeting, 9th inst.
2S-2w r. G. REESE, Sec.
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United States Internal Revenue,

DEPUTY COLLECTORS OFFICE
3rl Division. LIST District, Nd.
Hartford, Cecil. Kent and Queen Anne's
Counties constitute the THIRD DIVISION of the FIRST
COLLECTION DISTRICT of Maryland All persons in these
counties requiring L. s. Licenses, will apply to
l.. A. c. GERRY
Deputy Collector, 3rd Division.
July Ply Port Deposit. Cecil county, Md.
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GEORGE BALDERsToN, Sec.
, 1873-05-31

EFo3t Tie TdlfF50N q. ~ GVafd77H.
About 2 o'clock Bunday afternoon man
named George Watson, q carpenter, was stroll
Ing around tho pasenic Falls half drunk, whom
ho suddenly took 1t into Lis load I'd o1tt1o Sam
patol'a famous leap from tho Tails. 80 he de4
liltorate1y climbed up on tho iron bridge which
prevent hnd jumped on tho dizzy hoIght, and
sped through distance of fully s6 feot to tho
boiling flood below. : A number Of porsoi'a saw
the fearful loap and hirriod to the spot; OK
pecting to Boo a, ,doad body floating on the water,
but to thoir nstoniahmont Watson came up paafoly
but sober, and hastily olambored upon tholargo,
square rock below tho bridge, where he Bat oowor-
ing and ehivorng with alright at his ,toolhardi-
noRs. Hc was too much un6trung to swim across
tho basin to dry land, and 80 Ind to try to clam.
Dor up through tho narrow croyico noar by. Il
large crowd soon gathered, with every appliance
to 0xtrcate him from Ills prcoario1ls situation.
Watson was completely exhausted when drawn
out by hia friends.
, 1873-05-31
RhiLRCA0.PASSES.
GATu.

70 the Editor u The Chicago Tribune:
SIR: AM glad to SEQ you have taken hold OF
tho pornicfous practice Of giving railroad pasaos.
have boon surprised that tho subject has not
been moro fully discussed among tho farmors,
In their conventions during tho last six months.
That the custom is great injustice to tho tray
cling community, as we'll as robbory of the
propriotors Of tho railroads, no ono eau dispute
yet 1t has heon going On without rebuko from
thopeopto or press. Let the Outrage be at
once discontinued, like tho fran1ing sys-
tom, and railroad fares could DO reduced
to all who are now compelled to pay
the cost OF carrying the great nrmy of dcad-
heads. Tn your article In last Sunday's TRIBUNE,
you aptly say, "If A rides FREQ on railroad D
has to suffer for it; and, whom any considerable
percentage Of travel is gratuitous, tho burden
upon tho rost ia an onerous ono." Not only
editors, Legislators. lawyers, and hotel-proprio-
tors aro included in tho great body Of beno-
flciarieB, but mon Of all pursuits who arc rich
and able to pay, but 80 for forget thoir duty to
Themselves and tho public as to practically be-
como beggars, to be supported by tho atockhold-
ors Of railroads. can scarcely remember case
where passenger has boon carried froo because
no was too poor to pay the regular fare J;
but It is notorious that not day passes on which
large numbors OF rich mon with whole familioa
~ naus !ussaos'' 'Ilo 1os eattleu o'u. m 1no ronus
At the expense OF tho proprietora: Tho practice
has 80 long boen going on without any concerted
rrotest from tho Htookilollers or the general pub
llof that Directors mud 8uperintendentB have
come to consider It one Of their functions to con-
vert the roads, which they aro expected to man
ago for tho pocuniery interests Of their owners,
into eleeuaosynary institutions to accommodate
tho penr.rious and stingy,; 1t is nantfostly tho
duty Of suFSglntsndents to Euara against the IN
trusion q tho great army OF ron poggars, who
have no better claim upon railroads Than thoy
heye to % toagea aoa ana 1ea o. 1otols gratis.
nave th oiiom oeoae 9ottS; t ~ nave poen rdng
over tho fallroaas, that II was not thoao who
woro m aspect OF poverty WHO presented their
Iaa'seaa pas, a as tae conducioF came around bnt tho
WoA-1fesaeu hno high-5ea draagrlhds. Ihoy are
usually sslngy mon, and carotullY calculate how
mnch lIl tney can ayoaa eponan,g aa they 60 over
the cGnntay' attending attending TO tholr bn6lness' or IN
pursuit. Oh pleasure. stngtnoss can DO re-
= adcea i 70 aconee al'a Win scores Of rich men,
is INC oniy art they nttonpt to cultivate They
ssady ta nov 70 I've o a. others expense whiiS garry
lug ~ ~ suta MnS ~ 10 toIp1 ia9
, 1873-05-31
1kc1logg OH tho Wnr.Pnt1a.

From TIC Nev Orleans Herald MuV q.
:. a Herald reporter yoBtorday waited upon MIR.
Kellogg aud asked him what lo intended to do
In the future, whom quoth the King:
people Of tlIs country what cau do. In tho
first place. mn going to organizo, aud am now
organizing company OF 100 men, armed with
Winchester rinoH aud aplondldly equipped.
Thoso will send into tho ltod Rlyor country aa
Hoon al possible, and kill tho last d-n man that
opposes my Government"
that!
Mr. Kellogg-I willshow them how can do 1t.
hayo rot al appropriation for 100000 to back
, 1873-05-31

"A fine of GIG aud two woolss' imprisonment
Magistrate upon wretch who pricked out tlle
eyes Of a chnninch to improve its song. He
boastod Of having treated forty birds In the Same
manner in ono tlAy
, 1873-05-31
ONE DOT.LAR!

Il boing necessary TO- soil tickots ut two thousand
dforon places throughout Tho adjoining tates, it
6sop found to se sGse5ssa tssts In the
nhto against tho Thousands o nndrohs Of miles te
Attend those oncera BY sonR rgsoTyed In Chicago
nlquo, It has boon dpter1nined 10
, 1873-05-31

dera for all work In bronze of thIs description.
/ found that the stepa takon. had boon simple
and effective. Paris had supplied tho chaBers, -
those who work. On tho bronze with craving
tools. and give texture and finish to statuary
and the bronze-puddlera and nould-malors were
from Lille. North France. Eight or ton men did
kind in tho oount1y,-thero being In ell only
threa foundrles, one In Massachusetts, Bocond
In Brooklyn, and finally this place in Phi1adel-
phia. But" said the mouldor from Lille,
great pooplo for wanting something to act up in
bientos it will 1ourishl'
The philadelphia foundry waa for q long while
merely q foundry Tor atove-wnro, ploW-8h
etc., until at last 1t ascertained that the de-
mand for ornamental iron raings, veraudals.
| cenctory-panels, hitching-poats, etc., required
somebody who could design new formg. Ihon
sal statue Of Henry Clay, about 1856, and It was
modelled at this foundry by tho workmen,-
crldely and hideously enough, indeed, but 1t
was q beginning. At last messenger was sont
smith, Robert. Wood, who labored much Of q
lifotime in ironwRre, ia associated by name with
such atatuary as Wards "6hakBpearo" and
".Reyn9lds," =" ana "gitizen-soldler,', and I'm
Brown" Browns "scott," and Launt Thomp-
sons il '1Dryaut" and "Color- Bearer" 1t this
foundry saw number Of models waiting until
the monoy bo raised to bear tho expense Of cast
4uB tubLu Ii l4tIAIs 4AAulo Hh6 GLuAoa v 4AAulll-
ton,"-almost the same which stands at Wasll-
i9gton, and quite atif!, hopeful Of duplication for
said to be also in tho cisy-an equestrian Grant,
haatily modelod, and no groat ahakes,-pining
in plaster for tho wherewithal to harden to
bronze. "qoy., George clinton."' by II; K.
statue Of Reynolds" had departed for Gottys-
bnrgMone ~, Of Mards ,,add, spondG1s tho1e re
on tho platform, nearly perfect in the
metal, was "Elaa Howe" IN inventor Of
tho sowing machine, and atiff and without cha :,
actor, but of heroic Hizo. In short, thore may
have been twenty models Of nguros. dispatched
Or postponed, or partly achieved. III tho foundry.
nutioed particularly that Mr. Batllie. who has
got the price for tho statue OF Rawlings" had
model Of an equestrian "Washingtonh there.
Said I,
"ian,t that a copy Of Balls "washsngton," at
DoRton7"
"No," said the offloo-man, sits Daillie'a Mo-
Qlollan.' lie found that tAore was no chance OF
statue to 'MoOlellan;' no he changed tue
head, and now it's 'Washington!' &"
American art has found its patrons, and now
1t viii find ita masters. With the election Of j.
Q. A, Ward to the Presidency Of tho National
Academy. the first artist Of our period. and tha
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The Cynic.

We have Oftener than once endea.
vored to attach some meaning to that
aphOrism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftes.
bury, which, however, we can find no.
where in his works, that ridicule is the
test of truth. But of all chimeras that
ever advanced themselves in the shape
OF philosophical doctrines, this is to
us the most fOrmless and purely incon-
ceivable. Did or could the II assisted
human faculties ever understand it,
much more believe it ? Surely, so far
as the common mind can discern, laugh
ter seems to depend not less on the
laugher than on the laughee and now
who gave laughers patent to be always
Just, and always omniscient If the phi
losOphic glory of knowing and believing
is all but a stranger to him, only with
that of questioning and qualifying is he
familiar. Accordingly he sees but lit
tie way into nature the mighty all, in
its beauty and infinite mysterious gran
deur, humbling the small me into moth
ingness, has never even for moments
been revealed to him onl v this or that
other atom of it, and the differences and
discrepancies of these two, has he
looked into and noted down. His theo-
ry of the world, his picture of man and
mans life, is little, for a poet, and,
philosopher, even pitiful. Examine it
ip its highest developments, you find it
altogether vulgar picture simply a
|hex of self, and the poor interests of
eif.-Curiyies essay on I,Oitdire.
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LOVES CiPRTCES
BN PAUL ". HANNE.

Come. swcoth' art. hear me, have loved thee wei
God kr"weth through all these years my hnhcs
Thoughts,
LIZ" tho.e pure doves nurtured IN antique temples
Have fuitrr'd ever round thine image fair,
And found ~ fh"e their shrine. NJ tender,st hor'
Oi mine, which hath not warmed its radiant wing
WITHIN that heaven, thy presence, and DRAM
siren IA
And sunshine from it.
How hast thou responded:
Something's thine eyes, like Ellen gates uDc.' sd.
Would pour such beams of sacred passion down,
That all my soul was flooded with its JOY,
And I, methuugbt, breathcd n immurtals breathe
d'I'l4lrSs light aud ether. Then, when most
] dreamed mr happy, a strange change would come,
Sudden a. strange; some wind Of cold caprice,
Blowing, knew not whcnca, icy cloud
ITbore, aid DER the splcndor Of thy brow,
of late 20 frankly beautiful, there hung
ominpus shadpw- crossed bs gieams of scorB;
Tr.frs a. slight = eider-down have power
Tu move or sting thee, and swarm of hnmors
Gruncred of morbid fancy, buzz and hiss
About sorne vacant chambers of thy mind,
by idle thoughts left Open making harsh.
Rude discord, where. II healthful will had sway,
Angels, perchance, might lift celestial voices
Love! love! thou wrong'st thysef, and that sweet
nature,
Sweet at the core, for all such small desptcs
wherevith KIND heaven endowed thee ; yet beware
caprice, tn nigh frail its shafts, poisoned barb
Hath bound ON each; their points sharp to
wound
And TN" wounds rankle' Giants great as love
Have perished merely If an insects venom,
And who through all Gods universe can tonch
Loves pulseless heart to warmth and life again
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Max Adeler's 5 Duel.

We never fought more than one duel.
II was with a man named Blood, who
WAS determined TO make us fight whether
We wanted to or not. When We got on
the ground, our second said to us: 'Do
Won want to kill your man ?? or
course not" we replied. " Because If
YOU do" urged our second, "aim at
that tree three hundred yards at the
right of Blood. / have seen yOu shoot.
/ know your style" But we don't
want to kill him." We said. 80 all
right then" exclaimed the second, "all
right; then aim directly at his heart.
You are deadly with a pistol only when
Won don't want to be. | and Blood's
second are going down to the bottom of
the hill to be ont of the way. Both
of Won fellows scatter too much for us.
Call us when you are through Then
Blood and his enemy began. 1t was
seven in the morning, and the battle
ragged until noon. Seven hundred and
thirty-four shots were fired, aud the
bullets hit all the trees i'll the ncighbor-
hood, killed stray pigs, perforated sev-
eral cows in the surrounding fields,
lamed a plowman in the left leg, barked
the trees in the woods to the right of
us, brought down mule on the tow
path close by, riddled the fences until
there was hardly whole board left in
them, and fla tened themselves against
the rocks, but neither Blood nor me had
"A scratch except slight wound which
Blood got bv shooting himself in the
calf with his two hundred and forty
fourth bullet. Then We began to get
hungry, and we asked Blood # he didn't
consider the duel almost too monoton-
ous. He said he did, and proposed we
should stop shooting and both go and
Jump off precipice together. We
urged that prccipices always made us
dizzy, but promised to see him buried
comfortably if he wanted to take exer-
else alone. Then the seconds came mp,
and didn't seem bit surprised to see
us unhurt. Then they proposed that
we s.ould settle the matter with game
of poker, and ascertain if We were
wrong or Blood. Blood held both jacks
and won. So we apologized and went
home. The next day Blood called to
say he was sorry about the affair, and
asked MS to lend him seventy-five dol
lars, which we did, and we have never
seen him since. And now We regret
that we didn't aim at that tree three
hundred yards to the right of Blood
and kill him
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-08-30

IT seems that We are to have one visi.
tor this summer who will be very wei.
come, and whose coming we shall look
forward to with interest. Joe Arch. the
eloquent English laborer, has announced
his determination to come to this coun-
try on a tour of observation, to see
what inducements America offers to the
industri us laboring men and women of
England. In recent speech, he said
that, eff he found America was the true
hOpe OF the workingman, where the son
OF the poor man could sit down by the
children of the rich, write on the same
slate, and read out of the same book,
and where they could have full electo-
rial power, he would stand on her shore s
until he had drained the labOring serfs
out of England, in order that they
might settle in the fruitful field Of
America, with its ninety millions of
acres yet untitled: and he would do
this until the farmers of England were
made to bite the dust, if they refused
to treat their labOrers like men," That
is the kind of man We shall be glad and
proud to shake by the hand. And if he
can go through the country and see the
real bone and sinew of it. the people
whose industry, enterprise, and intelli-
gence are the life of its prosperity and
the guarantee of its success, there is no
question as to what his report will be.
More and more the friends of the work
ing CLASSES in ENGLAND see that emigra-
ton is the solution of the labor 0ues-
tiOn for them. England has too many
peOpl for her cultivated acres and her
work. There is no hope for them in a
and where they are in each others way
and each others bread. And every man
who finds home ont of England makes
t possible for another to have home
IN her soil.
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William Barlow left his home in
Wyoming, Neb. last Tuesday, and went
fo Percival station, Ia., with the avowed
Entention of killing Thomas Woodson,
"a nephew of Gov. Woodson of Missouri.
Woodson heard of his coming, AMI in
trenched himself in a corn field that
commanded the avenue of his approach,
and when he came along shot him dead.
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Mrs. Cassius Claxton of Shelby,
KY, heard fellow prowling around a
window Of her sleeping room, the other
night, and feeling enraged at such an
intrusion, shot him in the eye. He died,
and she has been honorably acQpi1kad
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EX-SENATOR FoOrE writes in his

EX-SENATOR FoorE writes i'll his Con-
federate "reminiscences, published in the
Washington Chronicle: "By what
means Mr.. Davis managed to become
president / never exactly knew though
1 have learned through quite direct
channel, that he received for this office
in the convention by which he was chO-
sen majority of one vote only over
Howell Cobb of Georgia. He was only
elected TO the place of provisional pres
ident. Had not hOstilities been actually
commenced at once, he would certainly
have been beaten in the popular cleo
tiOn which afterward occurred. It was
therefore all-important 10 him that the
war should be begun as soon as posi-
BILE, for nothing could be more certain
than that the election of . new execu-
tive chief in the midst of war would no1
be deemed safe nor prudent He
the precipitate order to fire on
,Sumpter, which wsse diQetch
Charleston.
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THE DEPrH OF MID-OCEAN-In her
voyage from Teneriffe to st. Thomas the
British exploring ship Challenger
sounded and dredged every other day.
The sonndings show that pretty level
bottom runs off from the African coast,
deepening gradually to depth of 3, 125
fathoms at about One-third of the way
across to the West Indies. If the Alps,
Mont Blanc and all, were submerged at
this spot, there would still be half
mile of water above them. Five hun
dred miles farther west there is a cons
paratively shallow part. little less
than two miles in depth. The waterj
then deepens again to three milesl
which continues close over to tn" Wcs
Indies. At the deepest spots both oi
the east and west side OF the Atlantic
the dredge brought up a quantity o
dark red clay, which contained just sufs
ficient animal life to prove that life ex-
: pts at all depths. No difficulty was
Kperienced in obtaining these deep
1redgings, and it was merely a
NRtience, each haul occupy
IN depths over two
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-08-30

NATURAL TIoNs.-WisdOm will
never let MS stand with any man or men
on an uDfriendly footing. We refuse
sympathy and intimacy with people as
if we waited for some better sympathy
and intimacy to come. But whence
and when? To morrow will be like to-
day. Life wastes itself while We are
preparing to live. Let us suck the
sweetness of those affections and cOnsue-
tudes that grow near us. Undoubtedly,
we can easily pick faults in our com
pany, can ea@ily whisper names prouder
and that tickle the fancy more. Every
mans imagination hath its friends and
pleasant would life be with such COM
panons. But if you cannot have them
on good, mutual terms, you cannot have
them. If not the Deity, but our ambi-
tion, hews and shapes the new relations,
their virture escapes, rs Strawberries
lose their flavor in garden beds.-Enaer-
son.
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M. Bert. as the result of recent re

M. Bert, as the result of recent re-
searches on the influence of change in
barometic pressure upon vegetable life,
has discovered that OF. diminishing the
pressure on wheat, barley, and turnips,
the termination is proportionally slow
er. With an increase of pressure to
two or three atmospheres, the seeds ap-
pear to profit somewhat Mt very high
pressure, however, the seed is killed it
is also killed when submitted to COM
preston after development has COM
menced.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-08-30

A dog was seen dragging a human
skeleton through the streets of Moores,
n. Y, few days ago, scattering here
and there an arm, leg or rib as he went
along. Somebody had desecrated a
grave for plunder and left the skeleton
exposed. And then the local paper
goes on TO say that these bones belonged
to man who had dreamed, shortly be-
fore his death, that dog would come
and dig him ont of his grave, closing
the item with the original remark,
"Tru:h is stranger than fiction" Pro-
badly.