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THE FOUNDATIONS.

r. Ge Edsar at z1ae Ca,ca7o I7tou:it:
CMcAoo, May 8--The position which Affairs
1t the new Government Building have assumed
is NOW one OF great interest not only to the gen.
era1 publ;t,-the taxpayers OF Chicago, who
have lived fox three years IN the hope that soma
share Of Whist they contribute to the National
ta1-gathe1 ars would hero take substantial form,
but to tie architectural profession especially.
Your comments on the gecant "inyesigation
hAve Attracted widespread attention, and hzys
evidently bcon lnado with view to ferret ont
the truth in thiz architectural puzzle II your
reports have drawn erroneous conclusions, they
ire pardonshle, and sre only tho results Of =
want ot full information, which has been
spa1ingy given by Government oficials- You
viii therefore, pethaps allow mo to offer
some further infor1n1toa bearing On the sub
jcct, which Las come to me- in the course Of my
professional experience N this CITY during the
past three yeaJH, aod to volunteer some EuEges-
tons for Whist they may be worth
desire to Say ut the commencement that it is
FIR from my purpose either to defend or accuse
any one connected Eith,the building, and though
personally acquainted with the lato Supervising
Architect and the present one, "a well as the
late Superintendent and other officials con
nected with the building, have not oouvarsed
with eithor OF them for many months.
WHEN TEE BUILDING WAS oRlG1SAILY DESIGNED,
under Mallett's direction st Washington, tho
drawings were made for very unaaaiVo fouada-
nons untlsr all tho walls and plerh which we're
p1oportoned to the xsig ghts to be carried Ths
bottom course was to havo baea cf concrete,
believe feat in thickness, on which were
to hars been footing-stones, gradually
thickness Of walls WAS reached These founda-
Gons were the sz1ue Rs are usually emp1oyed up-
der heavy buildings in this city, built upon tho
clay pla;eau which underlies the greater part OF
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TNF0RHATION WANTED = sTEPaEN Ln.LAs
x carpenter. who worked McCor1nicks factory vii
hcaT so.as3i1E to hs advantage By seudiaz h 1darss
, 1875-05-09

I1ERSOEAL--lF THE JEWELRY STOLEN FROM
NY housa on Tweitlst. last fail retusned liberal
reward win be given, aud no questions. NARY WHITE
, 1875-05-09

EEEsoSAl-TVO YOUNG GENTLEMEN WISE
l. to 1uaEr 1he 4cQraiutaaca OF few young fzdnx al
congonial tAatoa Addsesa 2 II. Trthuna otEce N -
, 1875-05-09

IoERSoEAL-.-HWO FUN-LOVING YOUNG NEN
tAmeIesns> deatzo to correspond with equal mum
bsr OF rcspectahls young ladies' Obeu-tun lore aud
psrhaps nasspony a!l letter. eensaentiA and x'M Be-
4Ma1Mered; A. 9r @ 1sadraas CH RESBIfT and WILL
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18
Cultivate Taste.

The Review says, very sensibly, that
one of the best things young man
can be INDUCED in is taste. 1t will
save him from the enaui which mi ght
drive him to gambling or undesirable
company. Few boys with a real love
for some science or art ever come to
much harm. The intelligence devel-
oped in child who collects specimens
Of stones or birds nests, learns to cul-
tivate a garden, or to carve a piece of
wood, will make him better man of
business, or help him in a profession,
as the case may be. Tastes are not
exorbitantly expensive; they are GER
tainly very much cheaper than vices.
A very moderate percentage of an
income, judiciously laid out, viii soon
secure an excellent library. 1t is sur
prising how small a sum will suffice for
the purchase of every standard work
worth having. The most famous pri-
vate libraries cost their owners nothing
in comparison with the price of a few
race horses. Pictures judiciously Sc
lected are not extravaganza to those
who can afford them. Any collection
made with knowledge and love of the
subject is almost sure to be worth at
least what it cost. The time occupied
in collecting it is in many instances
rescued from being employed in idle
ness or frivolity.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18


"The name of DR.. Il. V. Pierce, of Buffalo,
n. ", has become as familiar to the people
all over the country as household words.
His wonderful remedies his pamphlets and
books, and his large medical experience, have
brought him into prominence and given him
a solid reputation. The Times, in the present
issue, presents whole-page communication
from DR.. Pierce, and our readers may gain
from it some idea of the vast proportions OF
his business and the merits of his medicines
He has at Buffalo a mammoth establishment,
appropriately named tThe Worlds Dispen
sary,' where patients are treated, and the
remedies compounded. Here nearly hun
dred persons are employed in the several
departments, and a corps of able and skilled
physicians stand ready to alleviate the suffer
ings of humanity by the most approved meth
dds. These physicians are in frequent con
sultation with DR.. Pierce, and their combined
experience is brought to bear on the success
full treatment of obstinate cases The Doc
tor is a man of large medical experience,
and his extensive knowledge of materia med
lea has been acknowledged by presentations
of degrees from two of the first Medical Col
leges in the land"
If you would patronze Medicines, scientif-
cally prepared by skilled Physician and
Chemist, use DIR. Pierce's Family Medicines.
Golden Medical Discovery is nutritious, ton
ic. Alternative, and blood-cleansing, and an UNI
equalled Cough Remedy; Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets, scarcely larger than mustard
seeds, constitute an agreeable and reliable
physic; Favorite Prescription, remedy Tor
debilitated females; Extract Of Smart-Weed,
a magical remedy for Pain, bowel complaints,
and an unequalled Liniment for both human
or horse-hesh; while his DIR. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy is known the world over as the great
est specific for Catarrh and "Cold in the
Head" ever given to the public. They arc
sold by druggists.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18

duction: the demand is less than the
supply; the employers have overdone
their work, and have therefore been
acting without prudence in enlarging
the means of production by increase of
mills, looms and spindles, and so are
the originating cause of all the present
existing trouble, trouble that, while
it is heavy grievance upon the opera
tives, though not greatly, if at all,
pressing upon salaried officials, is a
still greater grievance upon that very
large class of stockholders who may be
so unfortunate rs to have Investments
in this uncertain kind Of property. In
this class are women and children, and
many who are dependent upon divi-
dends for their means of living. Three
classes, then, there are-officials, oper-
atives, stockholders; and of these three
the worst off are the stockholders, the
best off are the officials.
Now with these facts before us, the
wonder is that the manufacturers dc
not close their mills and wholly stop
production for long period. The re
cent temporary closings cannot have
depleted the market, and the reopenins
is but a renewal Of the process of over
supply. Yet to stop all work and
lock doors is, in large establishments,
disorganizatjon of their little army
of workers, and in times like the
present measure of hardship that
most manufacturers revolt at adopt
ing.-Bostoa Transcript.
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was torn from its fastenings. Outside
was pitch dark. Not a soul could be
seen. But sounds could be heard pro-
ceeding from the first rest on the stair
way, like some one sobbrng, succeeded
by heavy convulsive breathing and sigh
ing. This in turn gradually subsidized
into a scarcely audible, irregular
breathing, and gasping, and finally
pied away, and all inside was as silent
and as solemn as the tomb. There was
no more thunder to be heard, but nov
and then an angry flash of lightning
lighted up the hall and stairway, but
still no one could be seen.
We brought lamp, and my grand
father, who was not at all constitution
ally superstitious, uttered prayer,
and pale rs death assembled the stairs.
There was no one there where the
sounds had been so distinctly heard but
brief moment before. He decended
and examined the door, and we all saw
| the prints af mans hands, and indent-
atoms of knuckles in the solid wood.
We looked again into the street and
saw only the Waterman sauntering
leisurely by, wrapped in his surtout.
We searched the house from cellar to
garnet, and the neighbors were called
in to assist in the search, but we could
obtain no clue tothe awful mystery.
We retired at last. toward morning.
and 1t was not surprising that 1 insisted
upon having the light remain burning
in my room.
From that day to this the secret of
this frightfui incident remains undis-
| covered. Suffice it to say that on the
very night, at the selfsame hour, my
uncle George died from violence at the
hands of one of the keepers of the
ASYLUM.
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--UNkN OWN. A"
~ CLARA MAnaHALL


In.Sribsd On sns head board Of one of the +" vel
low fever srsv's' in the shreveport Ccmssery.
Amons the dark pines and the willow
The even winds fitfully blow,
S<iu chanting their Wild. solemn masses
For the dead who are aleeping below;
chanting masses for those who no lonssr
With hfe's jarring iiscords are go
But sleep meath the,. uonumss"
With holy memorial and tbouvh Al.
Holy texts that s'>--
mourner.. Ane ChAstener's rod:
SIN bog es< rest that rema,neth
And 81 ieng-suf ring people of God;
III turn TO the graves Of the lowly
tAlasi there il many . oue0
And pause where read this inscription
"41s-Unknown."
Who 10 its A man who IL resting
In death from the battle Of years,
Vt Is IL Numbering woman
who hath done now with anguish and
tears7
A woman who, far from her kindred,
Hath sighed out her life all alone.
And left but this record among us.-
"41sUnknown"
no name on the weatherstained headboard
That msrketh the strangers last home:
NC tears, no unvoiced lamentation,
No flowers when All-Hallows il come.
But the sngeh keep watch from high Heaven
Ger the grave where the dark weeds have
grown,
Ger the grave which hath but this inscrip-
"41sNUnknown"
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VIII he found to possess those qualities necessary TO
the total eradication of all bilious attacks, prompt to
start the secrctions of the liver, and give healthy
tone the entire system. Indeed, it is no ordinary
discovery in medical science to have invented REM
edy for these stubborn complaints which develop all
the results produced by heretofore free use OF ca'o-
MEL mineral justly dreaded by mankind and ac-
knowleged to he destructive in the extreme to the
human system. That the properties of certain vege-
tables comprise all the virtues of caomel without its
injurious tendencies, is admitted fact, rem
dered indisputable by scientific researches and those
who the Mandrake Pills will he fully satisfied
that the best medicines those provided by nature
in the common herbs and roots OF the fields.
these Pills open the bowels and correct all bilious
arrangements, without salvation any of the in
furious effects Of caiomel other poisons The Sc
erection OF bile is promoted by these pills. will be
by the altered color OF the TOOLS and disappearing
OF the salow complexion and cleansing of the tongue.
Ample directions for accompany each box OF
pills
Prepared only by J. H. Sclienck & Son. at their
principal office corner Sixtt, and Arch Streets Phil
aIelphia and for sale by ali druggists and dctlcrf
Price - cents per box.
Ell HART * CO, Nos. ~, rs, and ~ Tchoupi-
toulas st. New 0tleans, Wholesale Agents.
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GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS.

LoUIsvrLLE-Flour quiet and firm. Wheat dull,
81 10ml 80 Corn active and higher; new, 3S@42c /;
old, 63@66c. Oats dull, S693sc. Rye steady, Zoe
m22 Bulk meats sl4aSsz. 1G34a1Ice11 {@4113sc.
Lard-tierce, 131z@1ic; kea, 1414gl454c, Whisky,
s1.IO.
NEW ORLEANs-.Sugar in good demand good
common fair, {a6c fair 60 PRIME 7]4]sc;
yellow clarified, Sts@s54c. Molasses steady; cen
trfugaI 256t35c fair, i0ai2c prime, 43aijc strictly
prime to choice, 47a50e. Flour dull superfne,
81 %; double, Si50trebe, Si-75a5.50; choice and
family SIS. 75aG. 80. Corn dull; white, Soc. Oats
dull; choice St Louis, ace. Hay dun prime S22a23:
choice, S25a26 Pork firmer; now mess held at s23
Dry salt meats dull 81, 1118a12c- Bacon dsl -,
ISI5aIfc. IIams-choice sugar-cured firm, 1It2c;
inferior 15alGc. Lard dull; terce packers, l2l1e;
refined 1879; keg 1870. Coffee active and firm
ordinary prime 1sf a2c. Whisky quiet refined,
S1Iial.17.
MENpTls-Flour is dull and unchanged at s5as.
Corn dull at 49a5Oc. Oats quiet but firm choice
Asa ic; inferior duh and nominal. Mess pork is
quiet and unchanged at $3.50. Lard is easier ut
f31 aalFc. Ba5gins is duh and nominal at l2ni2>4c
NAsHvILLE.--Flour, srperiine, St15a5; extra,
$3.50; family, 1921 choice family, $50; fancy
725 meal, unboited and bnlted, sacked, Csc.
Corn, loose from wagon s5a ac sacked in depot
50aJ21%c. Wheat, blu wing from first hands, sound and
dry Mediterranean, Sl.0aI. 10; red and white, 9i'
S125 Oats. new. from frs; hands 40c; sacked de
Iivered in depot, 5jaG0c. Barley bright from first
hands, 81 90; stained nominal. Rye, from wagon,
75aSGc. Bran loose sta dGi sacked in depot, Si60
uay-Timothy, SCI 00a25.G1-
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"IT's amusing" said Deacon Green,
chow stupid we human beings are,
little and big; what worthless things
we strive for, and what blessings we
carelessly cast away. In some parts
of Japan, when you go home from a
dinner, a servant is sent after you with
a box containing everything that was
offered to you at table and that you
refused. All! what if some day an
angel comes after us to show us all the
blessings that were offered to us on
earth, that we were too stupid or too
obstinate or too proud to take!
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said to have been overdone, but GER
tainly this is not true of most farming
communities. A lecture by compe-
tent person on any one of score of
subjects more or less directly connected
with agriculture would be Of value TO
any agricultural community. Often
times there are men fully competent
to deliver such lectures in the county,
ard if not they can be secured at a
cost which will be amply repaid by the
GOOD done.-Rurul World.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18

Opens with Grand Centennial Concert a
Fort Scott, Kansas January list, 1876. Tick
cts 81. First Prize, Davidson's Opera House
worth $4,000; Second Prize, $4,000, and
1856 prizes from 5000 down. The enter
prize is endorsed by the best citizens of the
State, and is the most liberal ever offered tt
the public.
For particulars, address
j. s. EIMERT, Fort Scott, Kansas.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18
PLANTATION TOPICS.

SEED PER ACRE AND SEASONS FOR
SOWING.
The table annexed, as amended by
us, with time for sowing and quantity
per acre, will be found valuable for
reference. The letter ga" signifies
the month when they may be sown:
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18

RUFUS CHAPMAN, of Liberty, Maine,
had a stiff leg bent at the knee, limbered and
strengthened by the use of Johnson's Ano-
dyne Liniment.
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Come and See Me-"

a writer says: Never take Come
and see me-" as phrase meant in
earnest unless it be accompanied with
a date. Such an invitation amounts
to nothing at all. If a lady or gen
tleman desires your company he or she
will appoint a time for your visit.
"Call on me when you can make it
convenient" "Drop in as you are
passing" Make us a visit whenever
you have an hour or two to spare"
are social antiquities by which men
and women of the world understand
that they are not expected to do the
thing requested. When people wish
to be cheaply polite there is nothing
like this kind of vagueness. The COM
plimentary, small change of society
must always be taken at large dis
count. 1t is never worth its face or
anything like it. Yet it is a conve-
nient medium of exchange, and heavy
debts of gratitude that ought to be
SECUTED in better coin are often paid
with it. People who have more polish
than principle use it lavishly-plain,
blunt, honest men, sparingly or not at
all. w hoover makes a friendly Visit
to fashionable house on the strength
of mere "Come and see me-" will
very often find that the family circle
he has dropped into by request is as
umgenial as the Arctic circle, and he
will probably leave it with chilly
feeling that will prevent him from
venturing into the same high latitude
again. But when whole-souled man,
whom you know to be your friend,
grasps you vigorously by the hand and
says, "Come and dine with me to-day
dinner on the table at o'clock-be
sure to come-we shall expect you"
YOU can take it as certain that your
presence is warmly desired. 1t is
pleasant always to make or receive a
visit from END, but a nod on
the street all sufficient from a
fashionable acquaintance.
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BURNETT's COCAINE. See Advertisement.

CHAPpED hands, face, pimples, ring
worm, saItrheum, and other cutaneous affec-
tions cured and rough skin made soft and
smooth, by using Juniper Tar Soap. Be care
full to get only that made by Caswell, Hazard
& Co., New York, as there are many imita-
tons made with common tar, all of which are
worthless
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18
The OverProduction of Cotton Goods.

In dividing the production of cotton
by the probable present population Of
the United States, say II 900, 900, and
We have forty yards of cloth produced
per year for each man, woman and
child IN the country. There cln be
no such consumption as that, and con-
sequently there Is over production,
and one Of two things must be done
production must decrease or the num-
Der of consumers be enlarged. Whether
the reduction of income by reduction
of wages will enlarge the number of
consumers, is very easily answered.
Earnings being lessened by reduction
of wage, the wage Garner must re-
sort to more rigid economy, and that
means fewer purchases and less con-
sumption in food, clothing and all other
domestic necessaries.
Taking the production in Nov Eng
land alone, with her 800 mill, 1885,
200 looms, and her 7 800, 600 spindles,
using up 1,235. 900, 900 pounds of cot
ton, she produces about fifty wards per
head TO her population Of about $500
coo souls.
These figures all point to over pro-
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18

THE proprietors of Johnson's Anodyne
Liniment, Parsons Purgative Pills, and Sher-
idan's Cavalry Condition Powders, have pub
lished readable and instructive pamphlet,
which may be had free by mail.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18
Per Get Apparatu.s.

CHARTER OAK STOVES are simple in con
struction; compact in shape; made OF best
materials; easily operated economical IN
fuel, and low-priced, and the very perfection
of cooking apparatus.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18

VEGETINE is not a vile, nauseous COM
pound, which simply purges the bowels, hi I
a safe, pleasant remedy which is sure to
purify the blood and thereby restore the
health.
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C.tTTME MARIE EFT.

CTuCAGo.-Cattle in good demand and firmer
good fat natives S5a75a6 p; fair to good s5a550
leshy steers S3a4.5o; Texas 50: % Hogs, re-
ceipts 16 600 head market dull but firm: assorted
packers S7a7.25 shipping S72oa7..5; bacon s7aT 90
but chiefly at S7-10a715; Philadelphia S!.40a760.
Sheep-Inarl:et slow; common S3a3.50; best S3.75
40.
NAsHyILLE-Good cattle are in fair request, and
fat hogs and sheep bought up fast received.
Sawags, 11al214c; common butchers, 21aa3c; good
Butchers 5a512c select steers 81. S:ieep-5Town
weighing upwards Of 1919 lbs, So. 00a3 50; spring
lambs S150a3.00. HoGs-stock, &c; wel-fattened,
1z6a7c.
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TEE CoTroS ETs.

NEW YoRK.-Cotton-Inarkct quiet and easy at
49, ia13 9-i6c.
NEW URIEANs.-C otton-danand fair; good
binary to strict good ordinary IGt<aII2zc low mia
ding TO strict low middling, 155al25c; midd!iug to
strict middling l23 sal2t good middling to mid
ding fair 15a14c.
Observation-Disclosures steady middling 12ii "a
1214c.
GA1yEsToS.- Cotton - market quiet uiiddling
191Ic.
MEMPIIIs-Cotton-narket quiet and unchanged
at l214c.
observation-disclosures quiet and I'M
changed at 125Sc
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A REMARKABLE CASE.

Fast MrppLKBoRo', Mass, June Q, 1866.
MEssRs. BURNETT 6 Co:
afflicted with neuralgia in her head for three years
She had used during that time, many powerful aP-
plcations These, with the intense heat caused by
The pains burned her hair so badly that in October,
1901 it all came off and for two years after her head
was as smooth as her face
Through the recommendation Of a friend, she was
induced TO try your CocoAISE, and the result
astonishing She had used half the contents of
bottle before her head covered with fine young
hair In four months the hair has grown several
inches in length, very thick, soft and fine, and Of
darker color than formerly.
With respect, WIN. 6. EDDY.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18

If your fat-irons are rough, rub
them with fine salt, and it will make
them smooth.
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Below we give the weight per bushel
of other seeds and products, which will
be found convenient for reference:
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scHExCK,s MANDRAKE PILLS

BuRSErT's COCAINE. See advertisement.
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, s,.., PER WEEK GUARANTEED to Agents
or Male and Female, in their own locality
a Terms and OUTFIT FREE. Address r.
~ O. NfCkERY & CO. Augusta, MIME
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v/EILS' ESCYcLorEniA, Nc'c, Rtri*ed F't'o,n;
r iuCrlTIn.s ana Is
mans. Agents waitea. ftkEi- DAVIS 4 ~ fhi!a-
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lrrMTy 20 Elegant OIL Chromos mounted size
HGHN y Ski for ST. Novelties and Shromos
IL aucr Icsciifinn National Chromo Co. Phila. Pa.
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Send one letter.stanp to RADyyAY - 40, 70.
:}Z Warren Street, New York. Information
worth thousands will be sent you.
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Competent and Reliable Agents Wanted through
the country. UEexceptional guarantees re-
! mir
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ns,E5Iss and Morphine habit absolutely and
sssFEs an speedily cured. Painless; no publicity
III So iTs send stamp for particulars. Dr.
wv asjiN TON 1877 Washington St, Chicago, ILL.,
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GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK.

The oldest Magazine in America. p" \ premium
ruroMo' THE MoRNIsG CALL. will he given to
subscriber whether single in club who pays in
advance for 1876 RENTS direct this office.
Address. l.. \. Cooley, Philadelphia. Pa.
pERMANENT AND PROFITABLE EMPLOY
1 NENT lie secured by one lady in every
town in tho United States. Address j. II ~ fsf
ETysstEKsS. SIS pevonsliiIe street. Boetun. Mass.
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nNEsTHH HABIT CUEED AT HON
5tpEE Viii publicity. Time short. er1ns mod
NE Ssii53 crate. 1,0Go testimonials. :th Y n
V SNA OF unparalleled success. esc;ibt
asa. Address DR.. Z. +. MARSH. Quincy iich