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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-09

The VITAL STATISTICS of the District OF
Column bia for the week ending February Il
los5. collected by the health officer. show -
oealhs- Among the prominent causes OF
ueatn were consumption, measles, whOOping
cough, apoplexy, commissions. bronchitis
pneumonia. There were Il marriages
white couples and y colore1 The number of
births Were sf--Ss white and "a coIOred The
mortality was "a less than the week previ-
ous- and was a. the rate of Soils per I .0o0 per
annum- Rate OF mortality of the white pop
ulation was Il 10 per coo per annum. while
the mortality OF the colored population was
$50 per eco FOR the same period. Rate of
decrease OF the white population by deaths
over births. O.s6 per ,OOO; while the decrease
of the cOlCred population by deaths over
births was 1880 per 90 per annum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-09

New Edition, ! vol $3.50
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THE book viii be a prize 20 all students ana mo
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Il. Mason. 7~'ei " .
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New Maps 81 p alesti1e for the school and class
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25

To ALL, particularly invalids, spring is trying
season. Indications of sickness should at once be
attended to. Fatal diseases may be caused by al
lowing the bowels to become corstipated, and the
syst9m to remain in a disordered condition until
the disorder has time to develop itself. An ounce
of preventive is worth pound of cure, Is an old
and truthful saying. Therefore, we advise all who
troubled with the complaints now very prevalent
headache, indigestion, dsordered liver, want OF
appetite, nausea or feverish skin, to take without
delay, Schencks Mandrake Pills. We know Of nc
remedy so harmless and decisive IN It's action. 1t al
strikes at the reot of the disease and produces
healthy tone to the system. People never need
suffer from any disease arising from disordered
condition of the liver ifthey would take this excel
lent medicine when they feel the first indications
of the malady. Families leaving home for the
summer months should take three or four boxes o
these pills with them. They have an almost in
st.ntaneous effect. They will relieve the patient
headache in one two hours, and will rapidly
cleanse the liver Of surrounding bile and will eec
tually prevent bilious attack. They are sold b.
all druggists.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
Waters New Scale Piano;
ire the BEST MADE: The Touch ELASTIC, and fl
SINGING TONE, POWERFUL, PURE and EVEN.
WATERS Concerto ORGANS

cannot be ExCELLED in TONE or BEAUTY; they DEFY
COMPETITION. The CONCERTO STOP is FINE mi
TATIoN of the HUMAN VOICE.
PRICES EXTREMELY LOW for CASH DURING
THIS MONTH. MONTHLY INsTALMENTs RECEIVED
on PIANOS SO to $50: ORGANS 81 to $40; MONTHLY
AFTER FIRST DEPOSIT. AGENTS WANTED. A
LIBERAL DISCOUNT to Teachers, Ministers. Churches
Schools, Lodges, etc SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO
ACE WATERS Il SON, 4S1 Broadway, \. Y.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
''It Works like Charm"
RENNE'S RA5N MAGIC OIL !

This a remedy every family should have IN the
house to use in case of emergency. II is purely
vegetable, and may be used internally or czter-
nally. 1t is not an oily sticky substance but clean
delicious and safe to use, even in inexperienced
hands. AS an external remedy, when freely used,
1t penetrates through the absorbents to the seat of
pain, causing free circulation, and giving to weak
ened and oyer-strained cords and muscles new life
and elasticity; it sheaths inhamed and bruised sur
faces, and cures pain as water quenches fire. Try
it for
WOUNDS, SPRAINS, NEURALGIA
SORES, CRICK IN THE BACH, RHEUMATISM.
BURNS, HEADACHE, STIFF JOINTS
or any other kind OF pain or lameness. As an in
ternal remedy it operates kind, diffusiye seda-
tive; it tones and corrects The stomach aids diges
ion and readily cures
CoLIc, CRAMPS, COUGHS.
CHOLERA MoRBUs, INDIGESTION, SORE THROAT
and in fact all aches and pains that flesh is heir
The immediate and faithful of Renne's Pam
Killing Magic Oil III case of emergency, will often
save a life, or long and tedious sickness. The
genuine Rennes Magic Oil is put up only in panel
bottles, with the blown in the glass, and up
on the bottle finely engraved steel plate label,
upon which is the likeness of VIM. Renne All
other Magic Oils counterfeit, or worthless mi
tGtions Call for Renne's Magic Oil, where you
usually trade. 1t is put up in three sizes: Trial,
| Medium" and Large" size. WILLIAM RENNE
| 81 SONS, Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers
Pittsheld, Mass. 10,13d&w1y
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
DIR. Radway's
REGULATING PILLS

perfectly tasteess, elegantly coated with sweet
gum purge, regulate, purify cleanse, and strength
en- Railways Pills, for the cure of all disorders Of
the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder,
Nervous Diseases Headache, Constipation, Costiye-
ness, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Bilious
Fever, Inflammation OF the Bowels, Piles, and all
Derangements OF the Internal Viscera Warranted
10 effect positive cure. Purely Vegetable, con-
tanning no mercury, minerals or deleterious drugs
~ E-Observe the following symptoms resulting
frem Disorders Of the Digestive Organs.
Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullness of the Blood
in the Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea
Heartburn, Disgust OF Food, Fullnees of Weight
in the Stomach, Sour Fruptions, Sinking Flutter-
ings in the Pit of the Stomach. Swimming of the
Head, Hurried and Difficult Breathing, Flutterings
at the Heart, Choking or Suffocatng Sensation
when In Lying Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots
or Webs before the Sight, Fever and Dull Pain in
the Head, Deficiency of Precipitation, YellOwness OF
the skin and Eyes, Pain In the Side, Chest, Limbs
and sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh.
few doses of RAILWAYS PILLS will free the
system. from Gll the above named disorders. Price
rs cents per box Sold by druggists.
Read FALSE and TRUE"
Send one letter-stamp to RADWAY & CO., No 81
Warren St., New York. Information worth thou
sands vii be sent you
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25

Every drop of the sarsaparilian Resolvent com,
muncates through the blood sweat, urine, and
other fluids and juices OF the system, the vigor of
life for II repairs the wastes of the body with
and sound material. Scrofula, syphilis, COnsump-
tion, glandular disease, ulcers in the throat,
mouth, Tumors, Nodes in the glands and
other parts OF the system, sore eyes, strumorons
discharges from the ears, and the worst forms of
skin diseases erupuOns fever sores, scald head,
rngworm, salt rheum, eryspelas, acne black spots,
worms In the flesh, tumors, cancers in the womb,
and all weakening and painful discharges, night
sweas loss of sperm aud all wastes Of the life prin
ciple are within the curative range OF this wonder
of modern chemistry, and q few days use Will
prove to any person using 1t for either OF disease
Its potent power to cure them.
II the patent, daily becoming reduced by the
wastes and decomposition what's continually pro.
crossing, succeeds in arresting these wastes, and
repairs the same with new material made from
healthy bloOd-and this the Sarsaparillian will and
does secure&a cure Is certain; for when once this
remedy commences it work OF publication, and sue
ceeds in diminishing the loss Of wastes, its repairs
will be rapid, and every day the patent will feel
himself growing better and stronger, the food di-
gesting better, appetite improving and flesh and
weight increasing.
Not only does the Sarsaparillan ResOlvent excel
all known remedical agents in the cure of Chronic
Scrofulous, Constitutional and Skin diseases but
II is the only positive cure for.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
Tumor of Twelve Years Growth Cured
by Railways Resolvent.

BEVERLY, Mass, July IS, 1869.
DIR. RADwAY:-I have had ovarian tumor in the
ovaries and bowels. All the doctors said there
was no help it, l tried everything that
recommended but nothing helped me. l saw your
ResOlvent, auo thought wonld try it; but had no
faith in II, because had suffered for twelve years
took six bottles of the ResOlvent and one box of
Railways Pills, and two bottles of your Ready Re-
lief and there Is not sign Of tumor TO be seen or
felt and feel better, smarter and happier than
have for twelve years The worst tumOr was in the
left side of the bowels, the groin write this
TO you for the benefit of Others. You can publish
II II you choose.
HANNAH p. KNAPP.
PRICE 81 PER BOTTLE
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
Health I! Beauty =!

Strong and Pure IRich Blood-Increase of Flesh
and Wcight-Clear Skin and Beautiful
Complexion secured to all,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
Kidney & Bladder. Complaints

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes
DrOpsy, stoppagc of water, incontinence of urine,
Brighls disease, albuminuria, and in all cases
where there brck-dust deposits, or the water ia
thick cloudy mixed with substances like the white
OF egg, threads like white silk, or there is
morbid, dark, bilious appearance, and white bone
duet deposits, and when there is pricking, burn
ing sensation when passing water, and pain In the
small Of the back and along the loins.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
THE B. sHoNINGER oRGAN

HORACE WATERS & SON, 4S1 Broadway, n.
Y. have obtained the Agency of this well-known
Organ, and are prepared 10 supply the trade the
most liberal terms Agents wanted in every COun-
ty in the u. S. and Canada, Catalogues mailed.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
PRICE 81 PER BOTTLE.
AN IMPORTANT LETTER

from prominent gentleman and residen Of Gin
cinnau, Ohio, for the past forty years wen known
to the newspaper publishers throughout !he
United States:
NEW YORK. Oct. Il, 1870.
DIR. DApwAY.-DeAr Sir:-I am induced by a
sense OF duty to the suffering to make brief state
mcnt Of the working of your medicine on myself.
For several years | had been affected with some
trouble in the bladder and urinary organs which
some twelve months ago eliminated in most ter.
ribly affecting disease, which the physicians all
said was prostatc structure in the ureIha as also
Inflammation OF the kidneys and bladder, and
gave IL as their opinion that my age-73 years
wonld prevent my ever getting radically cured.
had tried a number of physicians, aud had taken
large quantity Of medicine, botn allopathic and
homeopathic; but had got relief. l had read
of astonishing cures having been made by your re-
medies, and some four months ago read notice in
the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post Of cure
having been effected on u person who had long
been suffering as had been. went right of and
got some Of each--your Sarsaparillian SesOlvent
Ready Relief and Regulating PIlls-an6 commen
ced taking them, In three days L was greatly re-
lieved, and now feel as wella ever.
c. w. JAMES, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
ASTHMA.

THE SUBSCRIBERS ARE MANUFACTURERS
I and PrOprietOrs of DR.. Il. w. Reads Celebrated
Asthma Relief, which is undoubtedly the best
asthma remedy yet discovered. INSTANT RE
LIEF IS GUARANTEED OR PURCHASE PRICE
REFUNDED. We pat up the medicine in boxes Of
three sizes which retail for IS cents 80 cents and
81. Persons remitting retail price will have ths
medicine promptly forwarded by mail. postpaid
Also samples sent free to any who desire Prices
per doz. $1.75; $3.50 and 500; gross price S1S:
$50; $72. ETHRIDGE, FULLER & Co,
Rome, N. Y.
For sale in Rock Island b. John Bengston, Emf
Kehler, and f. Breunert
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
INSURANCE AT ACTUAL COST.

LESS THAN HALF THE USUAL EXPENSE.
GALL at the office of S. NJ HARRIS, No. 10 IIli-
- nos street. (up stairs) and get Life Insured
in the Protection Life Insurance Co. " Chicago for
less than half the usual expense, payable ia month
ly assessments. Don't send your money east, when
you can save, at least onehalf by using it at home.
Please call for circulars.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25

Fever aud Ague cured for fifty cents. There is
not remedial agent in the world that will cure
fever and ague, and all other malarious, bilious,
scarlet typhoid. yellow and other fevers (aded by
Railways Pins) so quick as Railways Ready Relief
Fifty cents per Bottle
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
Railroad Time Table.
PEORIA q Eo:K ISLAND RAILWAY.

PEORIA & Eo3K ISLAND RAILWAY.
SHORTEST ROUTE To TIE EAST AND SOUTH.
LEAVE, ARRIVE
Freight 7:25am m Galva Accom- 1f.15 a m
Mail n 1x. 30 p. m. Mail & Ex. II 80 II. N.
Galva Accom-. $3.50 p. II. Freight 3:25 p. IN.
The 80 train makes close connection with C. B.
& Q. R. X at Galva for Galesburg and Burlington.
ana at Peoria with l. B. q w. K. K. Tor all points
east and south, arriving at indianapolis and Cincn
natl seven hours IN advance of all other routes
Sleeping coach runs through Peoria to Cincinnati
j. X. HILLIARD, Receiver.
JAS. V. MAHoNET, Gen1 Tk't. Ag't.
CHICAGO. EooE ISLAND & PACIFIC 3. B.
GOING EAST TRAINS LEAVE
At 35 a. ~; AIS p, m.; and 9:45 p. N. Trains
arrive from west as above.
GOING WEST TRAINS LEAVE
Al 6:25 m.; 1890 a. m, and 6:35 D. m Train
arrive from the east as above.
ROCKFORD, RocK ISLAND q ST. LOUIS B. 3.
GOING SOUTH TRAINS LEAVE
At S:35 a. N. and $50 p. IN.
ARRIVE FROM ST. LOUIS
Al 6:3U a. H. and 500 p m.
STERLING TRAINS LEAVE
| At 700 a. m. and $40 p. m.
ARRIVE FROM STERLING
| At 7:35 o. n and 40 p. IN.
COAL VALLEY MINING co.'s TEAMS.
LEAVE. ARRIVE
| 7:05 A. N. 10 80 A. NJ
12:00N. $3.50 P. NJ
WESTERN UNION RAILROAD.
| LEAVE ARRIVE
| Express and MaH .........S:35 600 2 y
Accommodation. ,...... 4:30 Pm 1880 A \
BURLINGTON, CEDAR RAPIDS s;ssMlN.
| To BURLINGTON-Le. West Liberty. Ar w Liberty
| Accommodation 700 An II :3S A \
| Express $40 p Ii :aS
To CEDAR RAPIDS
| Express ........-. 1900 9:25 A
/ Accommodation 7:55 Pm 5:35 p
INDiANAPol rs. BLOOMINGTON & WESTERN
LIZ. Indianapolis. Ar. Peoria.
| &C. Mail i EX.. 400 A N / 80
Peoria. Indianapolis
| &C. Mail q Ex.. 7:45 p N $40 P
| Cars run through from Peoria to Cincinnati with
out change. Connections made at Indianapolis fo
all points East and South,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
The Neat Housekeepers'

CTOVE DRESSING. NO DUST! NO SMELL.
y Alwavs soft and ready for use without dish
1t will do more work with less labor and expense
and give more elegant and lasting lusre than any
STOVE POLISH ever produced A stove can be dress
ed on a delicate carpet without soiling it. Manu-.
factured only by b. f. BROWN Il CO., Boston
Mass
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
House for Sale.

CINE BRICK DWELLING HOUSE WITH CAR
] riage House and Stable, situate in lot humber
in block number 4, on Illinois street, for sale
The property belongs to Mr.. Temple Buford and
Mr.. Ben. Harper is authorized tC sell it.
April 10, 1S15.-d2w
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-09-11
Desperation Of the Buffalo.

A curious fact illustrating the habits
of those monarchs of the plains, the
buffalo, is cited by an author, and is a
leaf from the unwritten history of the
buffalo taken from the era when the
Pacific railways first spanned the con-
tinent The winter of 1912 was I'M
usually severe in Arkansas. The ponds
and the smaller streams to the north
were all frozen solid, and the buffalo
were forced to the rivers for water.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad was then in process of construc-
ton, and nowhere could the popularity
of the buffalo be better studied than
from its trains. If herd was on the
north side of the track it would stand
stupidity gazing and without symptom of
alarm though the locomotive passed
within hundred yards. If on the south
side of the track, even though at dis
lance of one or two miles from it, the
passage of train set the whole herd in
the widest commotion. At its full
speed, and utterly regardless of conse-
quences, it would make for the track on
its line of retreat. If the train happen
ed not to be in its path it crossed the
track, and stopped satisfied. If the
train was in the way each individual buf-
falo went at it with the desperation OF
despair, plunging against or between
locomotive and car, just as the blind
madness CHANGED to take them. Num-
bers were killed, but numbers still
pressed on to stop and stare as soon as
the obstacle was passed.
After having trains ditched twice in
one week, conductors learned to have @
very decided respect for the idiosyn.
cracies of the buffalo, and when there
was possibility of striking herd " or
the rampage for the north side of the
track, the train was slowed up and some
times stopped entirely.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-09-11
A Colorado Heroine.

A Denver lady-who is lady-was
the other night compelled to do very
unladylike thing. There was an invalid
gentleman sleeping in one part of the
house, and her chamber was in another
quarter, and these two We're the sole oc-
cupants of the premises that night. She
heard somebody trying to get into her
room through one of the windows, and
wanting to catch them at it, did not
scream or faint away. She had no doubt
it was a robber, and she could not call
to the invalid without frightening her
game. Besides, she thought a sick man
would be of no use in such an extremity.
The lady went to a dresser in her room
and got long, sharp, butcher-knife that
happened TO be there, and went to the
window and waited. At length the in
truder was about to step into the room,
and she attacked him with the drawn
knife, daringly disputing his entrance.
She slashed right and left at him on
the window-sill, while he called to his
confederate beneath the window. At
length she gave him a deep one in the
chest and he fell back and to the ground.
The confederate dragged his friend off
into the darkness, and the lady returned
to her slumbers and was disturbed no
more that night. In the morning it was
found that the intruder had bled pro-
fusely, both on the window and in the
yard below, and it was hoped some Den
yer doctor would report a man with a
wound in his chest, but no one had done
so at last accounts. The people had a
special interest init, because it has been
a long time since the police have been
able to arrest burglar, and the town is
full of them. There is hardly another
woman in the world who would have
done what the brave Denver lady did,
and therefore her act is unladylike, and
she is called ga Colorado heroine"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-09-11

dated Panama, Aug, 26, announces that the
State Of Panama has declared war against the
State OF Colombia ... 1t is reported that the
Khoksnd insurgents have surrounded Kho-
jend, large city fifty miles from Khoksnd.
Communication between Khoiend and Tasch-
kend is interrupted. TIL e authorities Of
Taschkend are srming the Russian inhabitants
of the city. ..A dispatch from Halifax, N. s.,
states that the total catch Of msokerel at the
island this year is not above two-thirds that Of
last year, but the quantity is superior. 80.
The bank Of California, at San Francisco,
stopped payment owing to lack Of coin. The
officers claim to have sufficient assets to settle
all liabilities. The bank will not resume BUSH
ness. =. Stirling, Ahrens & Co., Of Baltimore,
Md, the Ian est sugar importing house in the
country, suspended with liabilities amounting
TO 81, 500, 600. .... James H. Noe, the New
York merchant who was beaten on the head by
burglar he found in his store, has since died
Of his injuries ..... The Atalanta crew, COM
posed Of college graduates, won the four-oared
race at Saratoga against the amateurs in
eighteen minutes and thirty-two and one-half
seconds; Courtney and Robinson won the double
scull contest in twelve minutes and forty-two
and one-half seconds. 80. Twenty-four crates
of peaches were shipped to Europe by the
steamer Ohio, the first shipment on record.
Well executed counterfeits of the $40 bill
of the First National bank of Philadelphia are
again in circulation. Private kilograms
NJ Al
with the President and his ministry is such
that no doubt is entertained that another
revolution is imminent in Uruguay.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-09-11
A Young HippOpOtamus.

Among the latest additions to the
menagerie animals of the United States
is young hippopotamus. A hunting
expedition in Africa came upon the
mother sucking her young. The mother
was driven away, and the youngster cap
tured. 1t was taken charge of by Lohse,
who now has it, and being safely secured
on the back of one of the camels, was
brought after thirty-seven days march
through the desert to Souakin, whence
the expedition returned by sea and canal
to Alexandria. Here Bachita, as it is
named, and her captor took passage for
Marseilles, and went thence by rail to
Alfeld, in Germany. The prize was for
warded to America from Bremen, arriv-
ing on the steamer Mosel. Bachita when
captured resembled sucking pig in
size and appearance. She was fed on
milk for several weeks, sucking it from
Lohse's fingers. She is now four and
one-half months old, stands two and one
half feet high, and is about four and
one-half feet long from snout to tail.
We're it not for the fattened nose and
protruding eyes and nostrils, she could
be well likened to comfortable, middle
aged Berkshire pig. The color is light
roam on the tanks and belly, deepening
on the back. The "baby" is exceeding
.ly tame, and is devotedly attached to her
keeper, Lohse, whom she follows like a
dog in all his movements around the in
closure, lying down close by his side
when he stretches himself on his plank
seat. Her food at present is white bread
and milk, which she devours in large
quantities. Her hide is thick, but firm
and smooth, presenting none of the
roughened spots and scales that will
come with later years. She is said to
have cost $4,000 for expenses of catch.
ing and transportation.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-09-11
The Wrongs of American Boys.

The wrongs of women and negroes
have monopolized public attention for
many years, says Chicago paper. Seri-
Gus as some of them are, or have been,
the wrongs of boys are as bad, if not
worse. For a series of years the boys of
America have been shut out, more COM
pletely with each years advance, from
chance of learning trade. The trade
unions have adopted rules which pre-
vent the employment of any except a
very limited number of apprentices.
These rules forbid q master to employ
an apprentice unless he employs GER
tain number of journeymen. In some
trades the proportion is one boy to
twenty men. The few places left vacant
by apprentices becoming iourneymen
are soon filled. Tens of thousands of
boys are thus deprived of the oppor-
tunity to become reputable and self
supporting artisans. When they leave
school, and try to do something for
themselves, they find the doors closed
in their faces.
Instead of becoming blacksmiths,
silversmiths, carpenters, compositors,
cabinetmakers, coachmakers, matters,
machinists, bakers, tanners, timers,
tailors, masons, shoemakers, stonecut-
tiers, plasterers, bricklayers and weavers,
they have to become bootblacks, news
boys, errand boys, beggars, loafers,
dead-beats, paupers, thieves, etc. No
one of the occupations open to them
offer any education, except in sort OF
cunning which is often a curse. II
the members of the so-callen liberal pro-
fessions, the journalists, lawyers,
teachers, doctors and ministers, should
successfully combine to prevent the
education of boys and young men in any
of their specialties there would be q
universal howl of complaint. A fa
greater wrong is committed, however,
when trade education is prevented
Many more boys are affected, for one
thing, and most of them must go tc
work at once and labor constantly il
order to live. If they do not do this and
do not steal, then they must starve.