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Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

lie DlED w 1IAOl IlEE @A'
C.. Kerr, of Indiana, the Speaker of the
United States House OF Representatives, in
Washington, died last Saturday at the Rock.
bridge Alum Springs, Virginia-lost his life
at the spot where it was hoped he might
regain his health; at least his friends hoped
so, but he did not. He was sure that his
life was fast ending and was fully prepared
for the issue. He was member of the
Presbyterian Church, and no Christian,
however pronounced, ever met death with
a firmer resignation than he. We speak
of this mans death not because we think
it will be news to our readers, but because
it enables us to hold up the better side of
men in public life, and give an offset to the
too generally accepted notions of the day.
Mr.. Kerr was, to speak in common par
lance, politician, and the general faith
manifested towards this class of our fellow
citizens is not such as accredit to them up
right lives or Christian deaths. And though
Mr.. Kerr died in "the full triumphs of
faith" still his life was not moro marked in
this respect than Vice President Wilson,
Mr. Sumner, and a number of other public
men who have recently gone to their final
reward. The point is, that our public ser
wants are not the loose set in morals and
honesty that fippant public expression
accuses them of being. The morale of the
Congress of the present day is higher than
during the "good old days gone BY" We
are told over and over again that public
vice is not nearly so common now in our
halls of legislation as formerly, and yet we
are forever hearing the sigh for the brains
and morals of the past age, as if all the
good went out with our forefathers and all
the bad left to the present men Of the Re
public. There never was time when the
conduct of our officials was so thoroughly
watched and exposed as now. This feature
has grown to such prominence as to be de
cidedly dangerous to shaky regulations
No man can come before the public nov
without having his character and conduc
thoroughly ventilated; in the early days o
the Republic there were not enough greedy
newspapers to do this.
Another matter in connection Will
Speaker Kerr's death-it again reminds u
ofthe number ofour distinguished men whc
have "risen from nothing" He was til,
son of a poor Pennsylvania farmer; taugh
school for a living and an education
finally made enough to graduate at classi
cal school and study law in Kentucky
went to Indiana and married schoo
marin older than himself Thus he started
and ended his life as the presiding Office
of the U. S. House of Representatives
Two-thirds of the Americans who hav
attained to eminence have had an Origin
equally as humble.
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

Pratt's Segars and Tobacco can't be beat.
Full line of House Furnishing Goods, at
FAIRIES q Co.'S, Glass Front.
Ladies, ii you want a good pair of shoes,
go to 5. }. Tolson's
Go and sec the beautiful Stoves, at FAIRIES
Il Co.'S, Glass Front.
Blcached and Brown Muslins, at S. 9 and
10 cents per yard, at ). J. 1olson's.
Shingles, Mastering and Smuggling Lath,
cheaper than ever, at Wurlen> Lumh,r
Yard.
1900 yards of Calicocs. from to cent,
per yard, ut :. j. TolSon's.
Caycnder's bananas or Lemons can't be
beat, either in price or quality. Try them.
Oil Cloth, largest stock in town. at FAIRIES
x Co. s, Glass Front.
If you want the best Peach Basket in the
market, go to Worden's. All Baskets
guaranteed.
The lumber used for bottoms in Wor-
den's Baskets is perfectly seasoned being
i'll stock now l. months.
| am now manufacturing two sizes Of
peach baskets, one being the regular size
and the other smaller, of which my
customers can have their choice. j. f..
Worden, Worden Basket Factory, Smyrna,
Del.
S. J. Tolson has Just received nice line
of White Goods, as well as Linens, Grass
Cloths, &c, which he is Offering very low.
! Please call and examine.
Lamps in great variety, at FAIRIES & Co. 5,
| Glass Front
Do you want Baskets or Crates? if so,
WOrdcn guarantees to sell the best in the
market. lie gets up no fancy sample but
one and all will be up to the standard
lie will not be undersold. Give him a cal
at Worden Basket Factory before pur
chasing elsewhere.
Go to Jos. l.. Cavendcr's for your cigar.
and tobacco.
On the road to Worden's Lumber YARD
10000 feet of white pine lumber direc
from the mills. Look out for low prices.
~ SUFFERED with fever and ague fo
seventeen months and an n0,c ,ccH through
the use of the William Penn Infallibl'
Fever and Ague Cure Ii. Storm, 4niI
tord Nci0s For sale by j. Wesley Dcnney
Worlen has received a raft of $4,000 fee
of Hemlock, which will be sold at tn,
bottom of the market for cash. Inquire a
office of his Lumber Yard.
NoTICE TO TRESPASsERS is n good thing
but Fever and Ague, Bilious Fover, or In
termittent Fever cannot trespass on you
health if you will use the William Penn
lnfallible Fever and Ague Cure. Get it o
j. Wesley Denncy.
THINK FOR Thousands lac,
miserable lives, suffering from dyspepsia,
disordered stomach and liver, producing
biliousness, heartburn, costivencss. weak
} ness, irregular appetite, low spirits, raisin
5 food after eating, and often ending in fata
attacks of fever. They know they are sick
) yet get little sympathy. The unfailin
] remedy, which yearly restoring thousands
. is DaCostas Radical Cure, sold by j. Wesle
D Dennoy, Druggist, Smryna. A 25 ct bottl
I will convince you of its merits. Don't della
8 another hour after reading this, but 60 an
D get bottle, and your relief is as certain a
T you live. Will you do it, or will you cor
. tinue to sufferP Think for yourselfl
/. Professor Parker's Pleasant Worm Syru
!. is perfectly safe and extremely palatablt
No physic required Costs 25 cts. Try i
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

This is a fast age. The fact was cxem-
plifed the other day on an open car of the
Gates-ave. line, Brooklyn. Three young
women of respectable appearance took pos
session of one of the rear seats usually re.
served for smokers. When the car started
each drew from her pocket cigar, obtain
ed light, and proceeded to smoke with
the utmost equanmity. Nothing else
about their conduct or speech was of doubt
full or unusual import. They smoked all
the way to their destination, distance of
nearly three miles. In general it is a
sad sight when an American girl takes a
lighted cigar between her teeth, even if
she does not make mistake as to which
end goes in. But in this instance there
were no unpleasant results apparent. The
smokers rather seemed to enjoy them.
selves. OF course the other passengers on
the car made invidious remarks; but pro
badly they were not believers in woman's
progress.-N. y. Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23
For The Smyrna Times.


The next annual meeting of the d. C. II.
Branch Bible Society will be held in the
lecture room of the NJ. i. Church, on
Wednesday evening next, at n o'clock.
Business Of importance will be brought
before the meeting, viz: the election Of
officers to serve for the ensuing year, the
canvassing of the Hundred and arrange
ments for the annual meeting of the Kent
County Bible Society, which will be held in
this town on the third Thursday in Septem-
Der next, of which due notice will be given
by the Secretary.
BY order Of the President.
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

TIE TIMES is published every Wednesday after
noon by JOSEPH II. HoFrEcKEE, Editor and Proprie-
tor at Smyrna Delaware.
-SUBsCRIPrIoN-On year 300 in advance, or
$3.50 paid till the end of the year. No paper
discontinued until all arrears are paid-only at the
option of the Publisher.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate OF
Seven Cents alne for the first inserton subsequent
insertions Threeand a-halfcents. Alibcraldiscount
made to quarterly, semi-annual and yearly advert
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

Tildcn and Hendricks, it seems. have
two more letters to write that will tax
their ingenuity quite as much as any they
ever wrote The Executive Committee Of
the Soldiers National Reunion to be held
at Caldwell, Ohio, Sept. 5, have invited
them to attend, and, if they cannot attend,
to answer by letter to be read to tho.
soldiers at the Reunion. The soldiers close
their letter of invitation in these signifi-
cant words Please have the kindness 10
answer completely to the soldiers of the
Union, 10y letter if you cannot come, and
By speech you can come, this single que
ton, What did you, or either Of you,
ever do or say, from 1851 TO 1868, to
advance the interests OF that cause whose
triumph wearc to celebrate at our approach
| ing Reunion p"
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

The African Church, one of the land,
marks of Richmond, is being leveled with
tho ground. 1t was erected before 1900,
for the First Baptist congregation, but has
been occupied since lS4l exclusively by
colored people. 1t was frequently used
for public meetings, and Henry A. Wise,
John Miner Bolts, John Letchor, r. M. II.
Hunter, John Tyler, VIM. C. Rivos, Judah
p. Benjamin, Jefferson Davis, Gov. Foote,
Robert Toombs, Judge Underwood,
Edward Everett, Henry Wilson, Gerrit
Smith, and Horace Greeley have spoken
from its platform. During the last days oi
the Southern Confedracy jefferson Davis and
Judah z. Benjamin addressed a large
mass meeting within its walls, and strove
to postpone the inevitable hour of surren
der.
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

Albert Rhodes argues in the September
sGalazs that the best way of preventing
drunkenness is by the general introduc
zion of cheap pure. native wine.
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

HARD TO SETTLE.-A month or so ago,
our readers may remember, an account was
published of the rather singular death of
pretty rich old farmer named Downey or
Downing, living in New Castle Hundred,
near Bear Station. A week or more after
the old man was buried his two sons, John
and Edward, had the remains taken up and
an inquest held over them, because they
thought their father had been poisoned by
their mother, whom they openly accused
of living in criminal intimacy with man
named Phillips, a good-looking farm hand
employed by the old man. But the inquest
resulted in nothing, though the stomach
was sent to Philadelphia and Analysed for
two weeks by Prof. Rand. 1t was decided
that there was no poison in it, so the matter
was dropped, and Phillips has been living
with Mrs. Downey every since. But one
evening last week, as Mrs. ID. and her
daughter and Phillips were sitting together
on the porch of her farm house, Phillips
was shot by some one, and later in the
night the room where he slept was pierced
with bullet holes. The bombardment was
fearful for while. Phillips was not much
hurt, however, and on Saturday he went to
Wilmington and lodged complaint against
the two sons, but nothing could be proved
against them. One of them, however, was
bound over in $500 to keep the peace.
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

The Philadelphia Times, in an elaborate
statistical article, puts down the worth OF
the centennial show as: Buildings $l0.949,-
600; contents So, ,342,3 800 total Sl04, 500
$50 \ large proportion Of the exhibits
are articles which, while having little or no
intrinsic value, could not be purchased
probably for all that the rest of the cxhibi-
ton is worth, they being regarded as
invaluable for their antiquity, the re.
membranes which they recall, or the rare
occurrence Of their kind. Such exhibits
the above figures do not take into account
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

Gov. Tilden's back down on the currency
question is likely to injure him in more
ways than one. The large body of persons
who are afraid that il the Democrats arc
put in power an attempt will be made 10
have the Government assume the Southern
debt, are arguing that Gov. Tilden will be
unable TO resist such an effort should it be
made, Even the Cincinnati Commercia,
takes that view, saying: "Mr. Tilden has
already given way to the demands of the
party in the West upon question oil
finance on which no was supposed to be
firm as a rock. He has exhibited weak,
ness that reminds us of the fatal charac
teristic Of James Buchanan,
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

A life is a life the world over; but a life
that is lost on the brink of Niagara is
invested with thrilling interest Six
Germans from Detroit stroIled down the
Canadian side of the river last Sunday, and
stopped at the gate-house of the new
bridge to look back at the falls. One of
the gentlemen approached the edge Of the
bank, which is hidden by long grass and
bushes, and became interested in conver-
sation. All at once he staggered, threw up
his hands, and disappeared. His friends
!. rushed forward to the brink OF the pre-.
cipice, and beheld their companion lying
dead on the rocks rs feet below.
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23
equally as humble.

4 CONVENTION TO REFORM ogR SPELLING.
Among the numerous conventions held
in Philadelphia last week was one by the
Philologists. Says the CommerciL cores
pondent:
The PhilolOgists have made the sensa-
sation of the week in the convention line.
The attempt TO reconstruct English written
language on phonetic principles is not
new one but the believers in this reform
have apparently saved up for the present
time in order to make a demonstration of
the most pronounced sort. They contend
that we should spell words as we pronounce
them that by so doing the language
would be much more easily learned; that
early school training would be greatly
simplfied that the task of acquiring the
language by foreigners would be much
lighter, and that English would be much
more used by people of other nations in
consequence, resulting in increased pros
perity to English speaking governments
in many ways; and that an immense saving
would be effected in printing by the drop
ding of silent letters, and redundancies oi
various kinds. 1t looks all very we'll or
paper, as q theory how it would appear il
practice is another matter. Mere prejudice
in favor Of existing forms need not be re
gafdeQ, altnOuEn II ls very stIti.t. ~
may be sure if all the advantage name,
were certain to attend phonetic spelling
and if there were to be no opposing lad
vantages, that no amount Of laH'.'
ridicule would prevent the ne" sPelua
coming into vogue on the instant. Tn
fact that people cannot be brought to Sc
the advantage is a proof that there is
greater current the other way, and that cul
rent points directly to this fact that if W
are to spell uniformly by sound we mus
have a uniform pronunciation. How sha
we get that uniformity? Is it possible t
get if? As the case stands, however pronul
Citations of word may vary we have a ce
tain formula which represents that wor
or sound. If it is sometimes arbitrary,
still answers the purpose, and perhaps it
not always as arbitrary as the phonet
reformers would have us believe. Goo
reasons can be given for most of the col
tradictions in English spelling. IT is vel
however, to have the general discussio
which this convention has provoked. 1t
a topic which makes people think, an
many person only now realizes how de-
his native tongue is to him, as he not
these proposed liberties to its written forr
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

Deliberate SUICIDE OF You've LADY
On Tuesday afternoon last, Miss Sally
Walker, aged 20 years, and daughter Of
Charles Walker, of near FELTON,, committed
suicide at the residence of Joseph Hurd, on
Oaks, about q miles east Of Dover, by
taking strychnine. Miss Walker had been
living with Mr.. Hurd for the past year,
and in the morning of the above day came
to Dover, as she told the family, for the
purpose Of applying for work at our canning
houses. But that seems to have boon an
excuse, and instead she purchased six grains
of strychnine and some sedlitz powders, tell.
ing the clerk that she wanted the strych-
nine for the purpose Of killing rats. After
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

Prof Huxley, in company with Prof
Marsh Of Yale College, has been visiting
the bird-track quarrics at Turner's Falls.
Tho surface Of one slab just uncovered
measures lis square feet, and contains
eight large tracks going in one direction,
and nine tracks in the opposite dirccton.
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

George Fruits died at Charlottesville. Ind,
on the 9th inst. at the extraordinary age Of
ia years. He was born in Baltimore, but
passed his boyhood near Philadelphia
During the Revolutionary War hc saw some
service, but was not regularly enlisted In
l7S7 fought with the Indians in Virginiaand
Kentucky, and in 1890 went to Ohio, and
after building block houses for the protcc-
ton of the frontier, joined the army under
Gen. st. Clair. In 1892 he returned to
Pennsylvania and voted for George Wash
ington for President. In 1874 he was in
Gen. Wayne's army and was i'll tho battle
Of Maumee, where he received wound
from an Indian rifle, the bullet remaining
in one Of his legs to the day Of his death.
lie lived rambling life until about 800,
when he settled near Hamilton, Ohio. lie
served i'll the war of 1872, and took an
active part in the Lattlo of Fort Meigs
lie was 6 feet inches high and weighed
230 pounds.
Smyrna times., 1876-08-23

Judge and Jury have been worrying
over dog case in Memphis, Tenn. Moth
ing could have been simpler than the issue
of fact. A negro stole a Newfoundland
dog but the law in regard to property in
dogs always has been past finding out. The
prisoners counsel argued that under the
common law dogstealing was not a crime
or an indictable oifcnse, and that no statute
exists in Tennessee making dogstcaling a
punishable oilense, such as larceny. Judge
Adams held that the stealing Of dog was
not a larceny or an indictablc oticnse, and
that the demurrer Of the defendant to the
indictment on this ground was good. The
Attorney General then raised the point that
the collar on the dog was personal property,
and the defcndent could be held to answer
for theft: but the adrot attorney on the
other side retorted that the negro took the
dog, and that it was the dog, and not tho
negro, that was responsible for the collar
! The prisoner was finally discharged. Now
the old question comes up, If dog is not
property, is the dog tax constitutional?
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Ointment.

Rada pro oprayy podala m. radG zpra.
~ o vykonan6m odhadu pozemkovGho
maietku hrani5iciho ulici JJarren.
Odhad jest udin6n k zaplaceni skod pr
fknutych a vzeslych a sice, upravoyani
a zlepso1aui nlice lIarren, mezi III. Fo-
rest a Martin.
Reteny odhad Jest vylozen 1fadovnt
mtstsk6ho pisafe
VSecky s'rany, ktert1 prot odhadu tc
mu namitky ciniti zamysli, nechf tyto m
pisafi do p6ti redH Cd vydani oznatnen
toho pisemn6 podaii.
lno Nc Intosh, NEST. pisaf.
Cleveland, q, II. kvGtna 1876.
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Dikuvzdani ct. tadu Svor-
nosti. Alzb6ta Sayloya, ktorez pied
tfinacti neddlmi zemfel muz, zanochay il
Sc ctyrmi nezaopatfenJmi ditkami V
tehotenstvi, prosi mas, abychom "a nj po-
dekovali ct. Svornosti "a pet dollard pod
pory j cd fadu toho poskytnutych. Ne
boztlk muz jei nobyl 6lenem tadu toho;
podpora j poskytnuta byla tedy dobro
volna. Tento skutek milosrdenstvi slouzi
ct. radu ,,Svornosti' Ike cti zasluhuje
vefejnGho uznani.
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A nj nevim k o h o tn umame.-
V6era desatG hodin6 dopoledni zahaie
ma Halle's hall narodni konvence pro.
hibicionistd eli vodafd k navrzeni kandi
data presidontstvi mistopresidentsty i.
Dyanact statd bylo zastoupcno delegaty.
Veter odbYvana Halle's hall vseobecna
sehdze. Nekteti nejvice vynikajici tenn
perenclafi m6li ptednasky, zaiimaiici
ovSem len ty, ktefi nepoznali sladkosti
zezla Gambrinova a Bachusova.
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hhs-.>E7r

S,'.'-S~s "a - ::.<l A~
Severonemecky Lloyd v Bremen Jest
nejc5tS; spole6noss paroplavebni Ne
mecku, jelikoz eta 2S velkych pomof-
skych, krasn6, zfizenych parnikd, ktere
stdvaii Sc vzdy oJlibea$jStnat, COZ vysvita
z toho, ze mezi Evropou a Amerikou
do konce roku 1874 po Mich J1OO77
osob pfeplavilo. Parolod6 bremske vede
ny jsou spolehiicym' kapitany, jsou pod.
fizeny caste a daklaela6 prohttdce drzs
il sc nejlepsim pofddhu.
zadovala, Cestujicim ma lodi dava SO
s ddstatek dobfe upravene stravy, kazdy
obslou2en jest stejne loftv5tig5, o polio
dH postarano jest co nJlip.
Kdo by ST pfal ntkomu re svych INA
mych aneb ptibuznJch pfeplav vyplatiti,
necht sc obrati ma nGkter6ho nasich p.
t. zastupcI Amcrice, a sice:
V CLEVELANDU ma p. Nj. Krelciho,
1897 - 1899 Forest ul.
V RACINE, ma p. JOS Novotnyho.
V MILWAUKEE ma p. Oh. Toepfera
l44 Clinton ul.
V CHICAGO ma PIP, Novaka Kas-
para, 479 Jizni Canal nj.
V n. YORKU ma p. Brodskeho, 26
Ave C, aneb G. Nikel.a 31o Broome al.
V ALLEGHENY, Pa, ma p. Jos.
PodanGho, 277-279 Ohio al.
V CRETE, Neb. ma PIP, Jindra, Jelinek
spoil.
kdo by ale povolaval "a sebou pfGtele
neb zname, ktefi 81 pfeplayne sami platit
budou, ra6iz nam sd6liti jejich adresy;
my .ie spravime vsem k cest6 te potfeb-
mem a popfejouli nam sv6 ddvGry, budou
S vypravou zajiste spokojeni
Dopisy ma mas budtez adresovany:
karcS L. StOtzky,
Bahnhofstr. 30
Bremen, Germany.
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iSnace L.. Druckera.
1863 Foreststr.
Rent zaplati vam staveni a /,

Rent zaplati yam staveni a lot.
Po ntkolik dnl budu miti ma prodei
ntkoik peknych lotd nablzku, iez "a ce-
nu nizkou a sice "a $500 prodavam. Ne
musite zadnou splatku uciniti, p2kud isto
81 ma pozemku maly domek nepostavili,
v ntmz byste bydleti mohli. Pfestahte
patti rent, kteryz il vami misy. Ne
bot co nyni platte rentu, tim koupite 81
lot domek. Nemeskejte poptete Sc n
FRANTY NOVAKA.
222 Superior str.
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" ybuch lampy. V olejovGm kra-
Brieseho ulici Sheriff praskla horici
pa We vykladni skfni povesena, cimz
iclony a skfin6 ihned vznaly. Obyva
gomd, neztrativse duchapfitomnost
cher mokrymi pokryvkami, tax :
ylo tfeba ami ma poplach udefiti.
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1876-05-18

Is life no opera ,Cikan k a. pro
vozoYana cd ochotnik6 pond6li, utery
We stfedu pred plnym divadlem Il
sp6chem mad ocekavani skv9lym. Hlavn;
zasnhu zdar opery NELL rozkosna slec
ma Effie Ellslerova, iejiz zptv Jest rovn6z
tax bezvadny iako hra jeff, p. Alexin, KITE
ryz velmi obtiznou partii svou veskrze
zdafile vyzpiyaI, p. Wameling, jehoz
krasny barton dokonaly zp6v obdiv
mas vzbndily, p. Long (bssista), iehoz hra
! zPev vybornou vycyicenost jevi slecna
Lori james, jeiil hlas noobycejne obiem.
ny, zyucny do hloubky i do vysky steI-
ne disty a silny jest. Zylast6 krasny byI
sbor, kteryz n6kterych sc6nach az 80
hlasd cital. TEX ptkny sbor byl by ozdo
bou i kterekoliv opery europske. tprava
jeyiSte byla vzorna. Orkestr p. Puehrin
gera hral uznani hodnou precisnosti.
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n avrh ma rozmn ozeni po Ii.
G II h 0 m u2stva, O n6mz posled
MIN posezeni m6stske rady rokovano, byI
ma neureitou dobu odrocen, coz Sc rovna
zamitnutl. Pro odroGem hasovali repu.
blikane demokrate a sice Bayne, Go
bleigh, Farley, Ford, Gardner, HickoN,
Hodge, Horton, johnson, Kelley, Sabin,
Sawyer, Stone, Sroboda, PATTERSON a
lVeed - Is.
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Stance Sc ze nastuzeni obytei
nym lekdm "a pfcinou prudkeho zan6tu
n6znych vnitfnich st6n ronrek ustoupiti
nechce. Tento stay pdsobi bolestn6 bolat
ky. chrapot, kasel zaduSnost, hoktickou ri
mnici, plyvani krye nebo hnisu, vy6erpa
va silu pacientovu pusobi rozliGn6 he
mocc. Ora. Jayna Expektorant
odstrani skoro po kazde vsecky tuto uyede
ne pfiznaky, tim ze plice od yseho hnizu
vycisti bolacky zhoii. Zdn6f prsnich blan
zaduch, bronchita Sc rovn6z timto vzor-
nym prostfedkem letiyym vyhoji; vybor
ma poytst leku toho jest nejbezpe6Dtjsi
zarukou ze je dobry.