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4 Maine Mans wildcat Encounter.

One day, toward the latterpart of the
afternoon, was coming from Sedgwick
on foot and alone. When about half
way down the hill above Black school
house heard a very low, peculiar kind
of purring sound, with an occasional
low, swapping noise at the same time,
which seemed to be very near the road.
The land on the Brooksville side of the
road was quite thickly wooded with
spruce and fir trees, the limbs growing
near the ground. After lingering
minute or two and locating the sound as
near as was able to, l stopped low in
the road, and, looking under the
branches of the trees, 1 saw a large
wildcat, some fifteen or twenty feet
from the road, very busily engaged with
something so buried up in the snow
that couldn't tell what it was. Not
really expecting to get near the animal.
l went back a few rods and succeeded,
after some trouble, in getting small
stake from the fence on the opposite
side of the road, and started for the
wildcat. BY creeping very easy through
the snow / got within five or six feet OF
him before he saw me. L saw that he
was Very busy eating rabbit he had
Just killed. AS soon as he saw me he
Jumped into the limbs of small spruce
directly over MS ucstu, Will tHc i"oDie
in his mouth. BY this time l was with
In reach of him with my stake, and
struck at him through the limbs of the
tree, which, however, were so thick
that, although hit him on the back, l
didn't seem to hurt him. But he drop
ped the rabbit and turned toward me
with a savage growl. He looked
wicked, and put myself into posture
of defense, and none to soon, for he inn
mediatcly leaped from the tree directly
at me. was ready for him, and met
him with my stake square in the fore
head. 1t dropped him in the snow, and
broke my stake short off, leaving the
longest part in my hands. Before he
could recover himself 1 got my foot on
him and got in half dozen more good
licks on his head that finished him.
dragged him home (about mile dis
tanf), having to stop many times in the
road for people to examine my trophy,
for he attracted considerable notice.
The next day l took his ears to the town
treasurer, who paid me $3.50 for them,
the town at that time paying that
amount of bounty for every wildcat
killed within the limits of the town.
Mount Dcseret (lNe.) Cor.
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Is Water Power Disappearing in New
England!

There has not been time In many
years when the water in the various
streams and rivers has been SO low As
this season. Streams which have never
given out before have hecn so low that
they were practically worthless, and
this emphasizes the fact that the steam
engine is the coming power, for the
1ong-vaunted wafer power of New Eng
land is giving out. Various causes
have appeared to make the water power
less, and even less than it was supposed
to be, and these causes have been work
ing all the time and increasing in prac
tical effect, SO that now it is giving out
almost in every place of any account.
with some very few exceptions, where
the timber has not yet been cut off back
in the sources of supply on the hills or
mountains. The effect upon the goods
trade upon this account is already ap
preciable and there is a demand for the
best kinds of cotton. which WAS not ex-
pected so early in the season, if we are
TO take all tho views which are ex-
pressed upon this matter and put them
together The curtailment of prOduc-
. ton on account of the drought will
work in the present state of the market.
a very great advantage. and really it
will be ont of the reach of BUYERS to
Jnihe very liIRc DItdN III piN VI
manufactured cottons, for the reason
that the supply is very much cut down
Mt present. In this way it will make a
brighter fall trade and n better outlook
for the winter trade, more especially if
we have such winter as we have had
i'm two or three instances where the wa
fer has not been in its usual quantity
until almost spring. instead of early in
the fall. as usual, and it will be another
instance of exceptional conditions to
prevent the market from breaking down
under the load of accumulated goods.
One thing is far beyond question now,
and that is that the water power of the
Eastern States is fast fading away, and
that it is less than it was a few years
ago, and is growing less each and every
wear. Let us look, therefore, to ste am
with clearer eye, and learn more oft.
and how to handle it, so that we can
keep up the busy wheels of the million
of cotton spindles and thousands of sets
of woolen machinery. Water power in
the Eastern States is doomed, and it will
not be long until we are a steam spin
ming section of the country.-Cofton,
HoOE and Iron.
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A Pun Extraordinary.

They wero talking of puns. She said
when a man made pun he was always
proud of it, but when a woman made
one she had the grace to be ashamed OF
1t.
He said that woman was justly
ashamed of her puns, for they were in
<ariably wretched; that woman could
scmi-annually make good pun. but
she had to bend her whole mind to it,
and sometimes sit up all night to make
1t work smoothly. while man could al
wavs make first-class pun off-hand:
She said it was no such thing. She
could make as good pun on any word
as fast as any horrid man.
..Wel,n said the skeptical wretch,
..make a pun on horseshoe
IF YOU talk until you re horseshoe
can't convince me-" said the feeble
minded woman.
And he died.-OH City Derrick.
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Mrs. Daniel Bailey, of Locust
Grove, l.. l., who eloped with her hus-
bands partner, returned the other
night, the picture Of abject woe, and
was turned out of the house by her own
mother, who was preparing supper for
Mr. Bailey, and followed her erring
daughter out doors with kettle of boil
ing water. The poor wretch was found
shivering in the cold outside soon after
midnight, and MIR. Bailey brought her
her.-N y Tribune.
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DIR. r. v. PIERCE's "Golden Medical
Discovery" cures every kind of humor,
from the common pimple or eruption to the
worst scrofula.
Four to six bottles cure salt-rheum or
tetter.
One to flve bottles cure the worst kind Of
pimples on the face.
Two to four bottles clear the system Of
boils, carbuncles and sores.
Five to eight bottles cure corrupt or run
ming ulcers and the worst scrofula.
By druggists, and in half-dozen and
dozen lots at great discount.
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.. A DrOD of ,JOy In Every WOrd.~

DR.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y: Three
months ago 1 was broken out with large
ulcers and sores on my body, limbs and
Discovery" and "Purgative Pellets" and
have taken six bo: ties, and to-day am in
good health, all those ugly ulcers having
healthy condition. 1 thought at one time
that could not b, cured. Although can
but poorly express my gratitude to you,
yet there is drop of joy in every word /
write. Yours truly,
JAMES o. BELLS, Pennington, N. j.
Discovery" sold by druggists.
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MANY PERSONS in Pittston are using
Ely's Cream Balm, Catarrh remedy, with
most satisfactory results. A lady is re-
covering the sense of smell which she had
not enjoyed for fifteen years. She had
given up her case as incurable. Mr.. Bar
6er has used 1t in his family and commends
It very highly. A Tunkhannock lawyer,
known to many OF our readers, testiies
that he was cured Of partial deafness.-
Pitts0n (Pd.) Gazette.
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Creamy sauce: Half a cupful of but
ter, one cup pful of powdered sugar one
fourth of cup of cream or mix. one
teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon extract.
Beat the butter to cream; ada sugar
gradually, beating it all the while.
when LIGHT and creamy. add extract
and cream a little at a time. This is a
delicious sauce. snd when we'll beaten
will be white and foamy all through
boston Posi-.
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ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
How We Arc Growing.

AS an indication of the progress of
the State in wealth tho following is collated
from reports recently made to tho State
Auditors Office from forty-eight counties.
showing the comparative assessed valua-
tion of real and personal property therein
for the years 1889 and 1888, with the in
crease, which shows the magnificent total
of over SO, ,0O0, 900 appreciation in values in
the year. Twenty-four counties have not
yet reported:
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"A man will always find some go'

A man will always find some good
excuse for his own shortcomings. 81
didn't recognize you in the street, not
because you were poorly dressed said
a conceIted snob, "but because l am
very near sighted. Indeed. am SO
near sighted that 1 can't even see the
stripes on the arm of that corporal on
the other side of the street ~. Y
Herald.
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vo,,. From tho Northwest.

MILWAUKEE, WIs.-The Daily Sentinel,
which is the leading morning paper of this
State, writes: est. Jacobs Oil, the won
derful remedy for rheumatism, has been
used by a large number OF people in this
city, and with OBJECT truly marvellous"
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SwIFr's Specific IS. S. 81 has relieved
me of an obstinate case of Dry Tetter,w which
had troubled me for twenty five years, and
had baffled all sorts of treatment.
REV. l. r. BRANHAM, Macon, Ga.
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YALE COLLEGE students are organizing
a brass band. Thus there will be a cousid-
cradle addition to tho number of college
tooters.-Ne,o Hdrcn Register.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-01

New BERN, n. C.-Rev. G. w. Ofiey
says: 81 have taken Browns Iron Bitters,
and consider it one of the best medicines
known"
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THE difference between advertising and
advertiser is, the former always pays
while tho latter sometimes docs not
Detroit Post
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TESTED by TINE. For Throat Diseases,
Colds, and Coughs, BRowN's BRONCHIAL
TROCHEs have pr0red their efficacy by a test
of many years. Sold only in boxes.
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AFTER long Mercury and Potash treat
ment, found myself a cripple from Mer.
curial Rheumatism. Tried Hot Springs
two years without relief, and was finally
cured sound and well by the use of Swift's
Specific Is. 8. 81 CHAs. BERG,
Hot Springs, Ark.
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LORD CoLERIDoE said that John Bright
built himself up on Milton. II Mr.. Bright
were an American and an Arkansaw man,
he would have built himself up on Bacon.
-Arkdnsdto Traveller.
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WEAK lungs. splitting of blood, consump-
ton and kindred affections, cured without
Address for treatise, with two
stamps, WORLDS DIsrFNSARY MEDICAL
Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
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THEY say that the use of tobacco stops
the growth, but the use of tobacco will
never keep a man as short as the use of
liquor.-ErchanJe.
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ENaLrSHMEN when travelling through the
bound1ess West are struck with tho
enormous amount Of land to the acre.
Chicago Herald.
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FREDDY: "Oh, mamma, I've dot such
an awful headache in my stomach.''-
Alta California.
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Rock HILL, 8. C.--Rev. j. S. White says
"I used Browns Iron Bittcrs for genera
debility. 1t restored me to strength anc
vipOr y
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THE fisherman is the one who has to
scratch for q living, at least you continually
hear of his having a bite.-IOnke. S States
man.
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A LEEDS paper says that a young widow
in that city, who writes we'll is training
herself for an editor. Who Il the editor?
Detroit Free Press.
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REMARKABLE for overcoming diseases
caused by impure water, decaying vegeta-
tion ETC., is Browns Iron Bitters.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-01

PIso's CURE will cure Coughs, Asthma
Bronchitis and Consumption. % cents.
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THE greatest Engine in the world is tho
pew Baxter portable, in use all over tho
world. Descriptive circulars free: Address
]. Q. TODD, II Barclay, ST., New York.
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Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar
For coughs and colds is renowned Pike's
toothache drops euro in one minute.
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THE canned fruit market is said to be
Y. Ne,rs.
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BILL-CoLLECTING is easier said than
"dun."-Chic1go Netcs.
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Foot and Ankle.

The EDSON ELECTRiC GARTER de-
veioos the FOOT and ANKLE into per-
feet form, supports and engthens
the limbs, adds marvellous grace and
elasticity to the step.
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| If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
| Thompsons Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25o.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-01

IT takes "buc,let shop" to mako a man
turn pale.-IHe Eye.
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THE MARKETS.

STRONG butter-an eight-year-old RAM
Detroit Post.
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FREQ! Cards and Chromos.

E'rCe Cards and ChrOmOS.
We will send free hy mai Il sample set Of or,
large German. French and American Chrome
Cards. on tinted ard gold grounds, with a
price list of over 200 different designs, on ro
ccipt of n stamp for postage. We will also
send free by ms,ilaS samples, ten of our beau
tiful ChrOmos, Oh receipt OF ten cents 10 pay
for p:cking and postage; also incloSc II con-
fidcnIi.il price list OF our largo oil chror-os.
Agents wanted. Address +. GLEASON * Co.,
46 Summer Street. Poston, Mass.
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IT Jires great
ease and com
fort in roN-
ting, riding or
dancing, mutn-
tCins and er-
cites hedlthJu !
circuldtiO n,
dfsp els 0ortf,
RI G u m at les
and neuralgia
pains. srtbdut s
az crdmps ana
sffOncs 5 IS Of
Joints. relieves
bbdfed linn b s
Gnd feet.
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That murder turks in the docile
baked bean few lovers of the nutri-
tious vegetable suspected, but Boston
man has been ''downed' by one, and
hereafter the favorite dish of Yankee
dom will be regarded with suspicion.
Wallace Cobb died suddenly, and q
post-mortem examination developed
the cause of death to be bean, which
lodged in the appendix calci, situated
in the right lilac fossa, on the lower
right-hand corner of the abdomen. In
flammation followed and finally caused
death.-3oston transcript.
"A Cohoes On. " man was awak-
ened the other night by burglars in
his house Being unable to locate the
room in which they were at work, he
called from the head of the stairs:
Hold on, there, will be down in a
minute" The thief replied: Il can't
wait; will be back in a minute No
property was stolen.-Al6a'ay Journal
A motion was made in the United
States Court in Memphis the other day
that bill be stricken from the file be-
cause the penmanship was unreadable.
The Court was at first inclined to make
the order The right of a lawyer to
submit unreadable manuscrip. was
never before questioned.-S4 louis
Post.
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PRICE, in Finest six Webbing usual
coIors), Stud and Buckle Clasp, /2, 49,,
IS inch, $3.50; II inch, 81 90 per. pair,
Maied to any address on receipt OF
noney. Send for circular.
LONDON ELECTRIC FABRiC co.,
81 Beekns0 Street, New York.
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EVACUATION DAY

Celebrated on an Elaborate Scale in New
York An Enormous Procession. Wit
messed by q M Multitude Of People, Despite
the Fact that the Rain Came Down in
Torrents -Unyeiling OF tho Statue OF
Washington.
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PHOTOz: IHA pzzS joriyinaIs) sent for &C Post al
Note Dealers supplied. c. L. itznann 9i3 way. N. y
Milford chronicle., 1883-02-09
$3.50 PER YEAR.

that costume suitable for even church
going. would not cost above three or
four. Prints or calicoes are compar-
itiyely high-priced, twelve cents a yard
being ordinarily asked for the quality.
It was surprising to us tosee how often
such household as we describe lays by
money, for at most the income rarely ex-
ceeds three to five hundred dollars per
year-more, as we know. than many
curates with large families have, since
two hundred and fifty to four hundred
are generally the incomes Of these minor
clerical gentlemen-yet such is the case,
few frugal-minded cottagers being with
out some hoard, for sickness or sudden
need. The great drawback toprosperity
in some cases Is the existence of "'long
bills. Tradesmen, laborers, thatchers,
etc, are often paid once or twice a year,
so that in their turn they are compelled
to have bills with their butcher and
baker the system of long credit serving
rich and poor in England alike, and, let
us say, serving them often, in both cases,
to their ruin.
Milford chronicle., 1883-02-09
Pioneer Courtships.

Counting, or sparkling, in the early
days on the Western Reserve, in Ohio,
was not Irritation, but an affair of the
heart. and was conducted in the natural
wav. The boys and girls who were pre-
disposed to matrimony used to sit up to-
gether on Sunday nights, dressed in
their Sunday clothes.
They occupied usually a corner in the
family room in the cabin, while the bed
of the old folks occupied the opposite
corner. with blankets suspended around
it for curtains. During the earlier part
of the evening the old and young folks
engaged in a common chit-chat.
About eight o'clock the younger chill
dren climbed the ladder in the corner
and went to bed in their hunks under
the garret-roof; and in about an hour
later father and mother retired to bed
behind the bed-blauket curtains, leaving
the "sparkers' sitting at a respectful
distance apart, before a capacious wood
fireplace, and looking thoughtfully into
the cheerful flame, or perhaps into the
future.
The sparkers, however, soon broke the
silence by stirring up the fire with
wooden shovel or poker, first one and
then the other; and, every time they re-
sumed their seats, somehow the chairs
manifested unusual attractions for closer
contiglIity.
If chilly, the sparkers would sit closer
to keep warm; if dark, to keep the bears
off. Then came some whispering, with
a "hearty smack, which broke the cabin
stiffness and disturbed the gentle breath
ing behind the suspended blankets so as
to produce slight parental hacking
cough. h.-HARvEY RICE.
Milford chronicle., 1883-02-09
VALENTINE AND ORS0N.
BY KEsIAH SHELTON

Two schoolgirls were talking as girls
will do, more of the coming fourteenth
ofFebruary than of geometry orrhetoric.
Sensible College was not Vassar
where girls could slide down the banis-
ters at their own sweet will, and no criti-
cal Wills to detect them; here was CO.
education.
On heroines, Bessie and Tressie, were
two sunnv-hearted seniors, and had been
chums for the whole three and one-half
years of their college life; in their class
were two of their ardent admirers; twin
cousins, the college girls called them,
for three reasons; in features andform they
were almost fac.similes of each other,
they were Of congenial tastes, and ar
IDENTIFY attached to one another.
st. Valentines Day was at hand
Not one of these pretty girls but had
tested on similar occasions some one of
the time-honored, whimsical methods
of guessing at the identity of that prob
able husband, who in lateryears becomes
the possible.
Now, an innocent-faced, faxen-haired
Freshie asks, "What is st. Valentines
Day truly celebrated for p
Because it is this day, on which birds
do their wooing or mating for the year,
replied Tressie.
'Indeed it is not; it is in remembrance
Of ST. Valentine, who in 270 befriended
the martyrs of Claudius, and in conse-
quence was beaten with clubs, and on
the fourteenth of February was beheaded
The Romish Church had a festival al
ready on February 18th, called Feb
rltta Juno, and the clergy honored the
beheaded Valentine, by abolishing the
festival of the heather goddess and in
sitting the 14th to be a fast day in its
place, said stately Portia Stanton, with
her usual assumption of superior dignity
over her childish companions-so she
fancied.
"Oh, Portia, that version is horrible.
It is sufficient to spoil all our Valentine
frolics to think Of such an origin as that;
I won't believe it, I'll go back to the
days of Valentine and Orson, and swallow
both the bear and King Pepm first, and
that's bad enough"
Good for you, Bess; let's believe it
is the day of the birds wooing. say,
girls, let's try something new this year;
sending an anonymous love-letter with
two embossed paper birds pecking at
each other beneath it, is, or ought to be.
out of date.
They say that if you go walking
alone that the first man you meet will be
your Valentine, the man designed for
YOU in Heaven where matches are
made"
ooh, pshaw, we often go walking
along these village ways without meet
ing anybody, even the boys, for although I
not made by the Medes and Persiens,
yet the law forbidding exercise of boys I
and girls at some hours is as unalterabla I
ms if it were 4
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The Aged Millionaire Mechanic.

Regarding the venerable philanthro-
pist. Peter Cooper, the scribe Of the
Rochester Democrat says he will be
plump ninety-two on the 18th OF next
month. He is still able to attend to
business, but the infrmities of old age
are upon him. and he is rarely found at
his office in the Institute. Forty years
AGO. when the present philanthropist
was merely business man, says the cor
respondent. I used to see the sign upon
the warehouse in Burling slip: 'Peter
Cooper. Glue and Iron Wire. How
little did 1 then imagine the distinction
this name would hold both in enterprise
and benevolence. The office was very
small, and everything had a quiet look,
for it was in fact merely place for tax
ing orders which we're served from the
factories. The quiet, methodical man
who sat at the chief desk might have
been taken by stranger for retired
mechanic who had become a clerk. He
spoke in a calm and subdued tone, and
resembled one Of the more favored mem-
bers of the working class. Such, in
deed. he was, and in the light he has
always viewed himself, and hence he now
stands before the public as one Of the
most wonderful mechanics in the worlds
history
Milford chronicle., 1883-02-09
A Mystery Not Easily Explained.

Considering how severe a winter we
have had, it is quite wonder in its way
that pleurisy and pneumonia have not
made more work in the upper circles for
the undertakers, remarks writer in the
Hartford Times. Woman must be a
pretty hardy sort of mortal, after all If
men went around with as little covering
on their upper stories as women manage
to get on with, at parties and the like,
the mortality would be fearful to think
of. A piece Of lace ON a woman's shoulders
seems as potent in keeping of the cold
as broadcloth and thick mderclothing
on a mans. How in the world the wo-
men who leave most of their clothes at
home when they 90 to balls Or parties
manage to survive a single season Of the
consequent exposure. is mystery that
no ordinary person need ever hope to
find out. Which is sufficient reason for
not pursuing it any further, jlst now.
Milford chronicle., 1883-02-09
THE TWO COUNTRIES.

There is a land Of tears and bitter wailing
land most like that dear one Dante knew,
Where wan-faced Niobes, with dark robes trail
ing,
In sad procession move, brow bound with
rue.
It is a land peopled by witless mortals-
Compared with them the Virgins five were
wise
And it is writ above its gloomy portals:
ave did not think it paid to advertise"
There is a land that flows with milk and honey
Not the condensed nor yet the sorghum
strains
Each dweller bears gripsack fat with money,
Bonds, coupons, stocks and various other
gains.
Happy are these as, at high tide the clamleti
No tear doth drown the laughter in their
eyes;
For better luck they'd not donate onedamlet
The pastrys theirs-they learned to adver-