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THE MINING BILL.

The mining debris bill is likely to fall
through the Berry amendment making ii
a misdemeanOr to directly or indirectly in
jure the nsvigable waters of the United
States by hydraulic mining. The reading OF
the amendment. 10 which the friends of the
bill have assented, is as follows:
And any person or persons, company or cor
poratOns. their agents or employees, who shall
mine by The hydraulic process directly or indi-
recIly injuFihg the nayigable waters Of the
United States, In violation Of the provisions OF
this act, shall be guilty Of misdemeanor, etc.
The object Of the amendment is to pre-
vent the resumption of hydraulic mining
without compliance with the provision for
impounding tailings The bill purpor.s to
be a kind Of compromise between the
farmers and the miners, the former agree
ing to the resumption of hydraulic mining
under conditions which engineers shall pro-
nounce safe. The proposed amendment
does not make injury to the navigable waters
of the United States misdemeanor unless
the Injury is inflicted in accordance with
law. The mining bill will, therefore, il this
amendment is adopted serve TO shield all
parties who may injure the navigable waters
of the United States while working under
conditions prescribed in the bill. The bill,
il passed, would not afford hydraulic N n
ers immediate relief Before hydraulic
mining can be resumed some system of re-
straining dams must be devised to praci-
cally overcome the law Of nature which
ocmpels water 10 seek its lowest level.
There is no space in the foothills TO hold the
water from the mines long enough for the
particles Of earth which it carries along to
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SENATOR FRYE's LITTLE BILL.

The more Senator Frye's bill to prevent
the transportation Of merchandise from one
American port 20 another American port
through a foreign port by u foreign vessel is
looked into the less il is understood. There
never has been a time when such law was
less needed. Clipper ships are passing be-
tween Atlantic and Pacific ports by the
most direct route now open. and no law is
needed to prevent them from going pur-
pOsely out OF their way. But Mr.. Frye is
evidently apprehensive lest foreign vessel
may leave an American Atlantic port cross
the ocean twice, and yet bring merchandise TO
Pacific American port at lower rates than
the American vessel can afford, which
takes the most direct route. The bill evil
IDENTIFY is not Intended to prevent foreign
vessels from taking merchandise to Euro
pean port, thence to a Pacific American
port But 1t may add to the difficulties Of
a company engaged in transporting goods
from Atlantic to Pacific ports through for
eign countries. The Panama contract runs
through a foreign country. There is
proposition now under cOnsidera-
ton to permit the North American
Navigation Company to empty foreign
steamers until such time as American
steamers can be brought rOnnd Cape Horn.
Is the Senator from Maine aiming his guns
at this proposition? Is his professed deyo-
ton to American shipping interests so mar
row that he cannot perceive that the use of
foreign vessels for a few months would in
the end create demand for several Ameri-
can steamers?
This FRYE bill is on the level with much
other legislation inspired by the Southern
Pacific Company TO prevent compe tition be-
tween Atlantic and Pacific ports. Cali
fornla for some years has been practically
unrepresented in the Senate. One Of It's
Senatorial seats has been occupied upon
occasions by an official of the Southern Pa
cifc Company. and the other by man the
Southern Pacific sees no reason TO object to.
When California has Senator of her own.
if she ever has one. Senators from other
States who introduce bills at the dctation
of tie Southern Pacific will be called upon
to answer some pertinent questions.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Julia Ward Howe's daughter is lecturinS
upon astronomy.
William Aston Chanler has recently been
heard from on his African exploration trip.
His health was good.
Mr. and Mrs. u. S. Grant and family ere
winteriDg in a cottage near the mouth Of
the Indian River. in Florida.
Nine. Patti is said to have relinquishe ed
her intention to visit The birthplace of her
father in Sicily, owing 10 her fear of posi-
bic capture by Drlgands.
NiKita, ruler of the Montenegrins, is said
to drive a thrifty bargain with such af his
people as need loans, the interest being
anywhere from IS to 80 per cent.
Paul Blackman of West Superior. Wis.
has been notified by President Higgin-
botbam of his appointment as SupeTin-
tendent of the Bureau Of Collections OF the
Worlds Fair.
erect a memorial to Miles Stancish If the
Weymouth Historical Society will secure
site in the Wessagusset settlement, where
Standish fought his decisive conflict with
the Indians.
The Countess Louise Cianciana, it is
stated. now sells matches on the steps of
the palace of Monte Citorio, where the
Italian Legislature meets, a body over
which her husband presided as speaker
some years ago.
Mrs. Bayard Taylor is gentle and refined
Her eyes are blue and her hair blonde,
streaked with white. She dresses entirely
in black since hei widO who'd, though in
her earlier years she wore blue a great deal
as Ii WAS the color which was supposed to
be especially becoming.
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THE MAYORS PROGRAMME.

Mayor Ebert has returned from Sacra-
meato with definite notions Of what should
be done to make our Jail system answer its
purpose in the proper treatment Of prisoners
and the economical expenditure of public
money. He is anxious that boys who are
undergoing sentence should be kept apart
from hardened criminals by being sent to
the Whittier School or the Preston School Of
Industry. They ought 10 be brought under
TefoTmatiye Influences instead OF being edu-
Gated into further crime. as to men who
are ID prison for a second term, their proper
place for thought on sinful ways is the
State peDiten.iaries. Changes such as these
would leave the House Of Correction
available as a County Jail. It has accom-
mediation now for $50 inmates, and, by
completing the plans, cells can be provided
for an additional $50. Assuredly this should
serve the needs of San Francisco for a long
time. MI Ebert is in favor of retaining
the branch County Jail for women offend
ers. The present County Jail on Broadway
he considers too dilapida ted for any pur-
pose, but the site has some value, and would
Tecoup the city for expenses ia other direc.
tions. Some use viii also be found for the
old City Hall. such as a barracks for police,
a Receiving Hospital and a MOrgue. Pris-
oners awaiting trial are to be provided with
quarters in the new City Hall. This is an
outline of-refOrms which Will in due time be
considered by the Supervisors. There may
be points for modification, but the time is
ripe for some of the changes.
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THE AUTHORIZATION BILL

Both houses have taken favorable action
on the anti-corrnptiou bill. The House
has actually passed the bill and the Senate
has accepted the bill the House has passed
as substitute for its own. 1t remains to
be seen if the Senate contemplates killing
the bill by inacton. We assume not, for the
reason that no public OF private interest
viii be served by killing the bill. Candi-
dates are quite as directly interested in the
bill as the public at large. II it becomes
law 1t will open the doors Of public life to
men of small means who now have to come
to an understanding with somebody to get
the money with which to pay assessments.
The public has seen one excellent measure
lost because officials have been subjected
to unnecessary expense to secure their cleo
tons. Sheriff McDade admitted that his
election had cost $4,000 and demanded the
right to get his money hack by collecting
excessive fees from the effects of ins0lvent
debtors. Senator Ostrom thought the de-
mand legitimate. II a candidate is tempted
through prospect of large fees to expend
more than an Office ought to be worth in
getting it, it was held that the candidate
had acquired something like vested rights
in the excessive fees There will. we trust,
be DO unnecessary delay on the part of the
Senate in passing the House anti-corruption
hill
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COLLECTIVE WISDOM.

It appears 10 be the function of the Legis-
Iature of Minnesota TO reduce modern hasty
legislation TO an absurdity, so as to illus
trate Buckles saying that the best laws
made are those which repeal existing laws
A bill was introduced the other day impos-
ing heavy fine on the manufacture or sale
Of hoopsRirts-the measure being gravely re-
ferred 10 the Committee on Corporations other
than municipal. This sort of legislation
cannot but bring all laws into contempt and
Tidicue.
perusal of the debates Of the Legisla-
ture at Sacramento, and of the statute-book
which contains the measures which biennI-
ally become laws, certainly does not tend
to increase public respect for the lawmak-
ers of the State. a good many OF the men,
bers of both houses seem to be ignorant OF
the law and to be imbued with an idea that
a Legislature is omDipotent. and can order
ANYTHING or forbid anything il pleases. They
appear to Ignore the fact that citizen have
rights which no Legislature can trample on.
1t never occurs to them that the utmost a
Legislature can do is 10 expnnge bad laws
from the statute book and to adjust others
TO the altered conditions of society as
they arise. When they go beyond this they
are pretty likely to violate the natural laws
on which modern communities are organized,
and to furnish a modern example of the
spirit which animated the Cortes OF Spain
when, with the hearty assent Of the King,
it made it penal to encourage the march Of
extravaganza by wearing boiled shirt
People who go 10 Sacramento are often
struck by tie contrast between the intelli-
gence of the legislative body and that OF in
dlyidnal members There are in the Legis-
latnre men as bright as are TO be found In
he State. but The body of which these men
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A PARTY QUESTION.

THE CALLS Washington dispatches indi-
cate that the confirmation of Judge Jackson
to be Supreme Court Justice VIII become, in
measure. a party question. The Repub-
licans will vote solidly for confirmation. but
it is expected that a number of Democrats
will vote against confirmation. IL is not
likely that the Democrats will make real
opposition to the confirmati ton OF a nominal
tion to the supreme bench which gives that
court man Of their own way of thinking
Some OF them may hold that President
Harrison should have made no nomination
so near the expiration of his term. but they
might be at loss to give a real reason why a
President should not be President through
the term for which he was elected. Pr oba-
bly, the Democrats are not so mad as they
would have people think they are.
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JUSTLY ALARMED.

THE CALL is in receipt of a number OF
communications from schooteachers in
curing as to the origin and purpose of the
proposed amendment 10 the section OF the
code which governs the tenure OF school
teachers positions. In regard to the
originatoTs of the proposition to amend
The CALL is not vet sufficiently we'll in
formed 10 warrant the mention of names.
The orignators of movements of this nature
do not usually appear in person. They send
some party to the front who has nothing to
lose in case of defeat and is willing to
stand OblOquy on chance of small gain.
The purpose of the movement is more
apparent 1t is to create vacancies in the
School Department. Under a law making
the election OF teachers yearly there would
be a tine opportunity TO drop out from one
to TWO hundred teachers each year. The
rule would be to re-elect competent
teachers, but there might be numerous ex-
ceptiOns to this rule. The relative efficiency
of teachers is largely a matter OF opinion.
Some experienced teachers do not consider
young teachers much better than appren-
tees, while some young teachers think
teacher at fifty a back number Politicians
who might want TO have the naming of few
teachers could easily find grounds upon
which a refusal TO re-elect might be based.
If some enemy Of the public school sys-
tenn should aim to devise a law to iBilict
the greatest possible injury on the schools
his ingenuity would take this direction.
What kind of corps of teachers would we
have If positions were held at the will Of
such bosses as have run our municipal gov
eminent the last four years? What en-
couragement would there be for teachers
to make good records if their continuance
in the department could not be secured by
a good record? What parent would con-
slider his child safe under the instruction Of
a teacher who had each year to placate the
kind of men who in past years have con-
troiled our city government?
II teacher is liable TO dismissal after a
few years service for no fault of her own
the vocation would not attract women who
would accept any work not in itself dis
reputable as a makeshift. 1t would be
dropped the moment a better chance pre-
scented itself. The aim of the public should
be TO make the department an object Of
ambition. a proportion OF women have TO
earn their own liYings. and there is no filter
place for them than ouI schools, providing
the door to the School Department is open
to pure-minded young women and the way
TO it protected by law, not subject to per-
SOnal favor
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are members is often guilty of blunders
which are ludicrous in their absurdity. Com
nonsense appears to be as rare in the col
leclive bodies as it is abundant among in
dividuals; the old adage about wisdom being
found in a multitude of cOunselors must
have merely meant that you were more
likely to find a sensible man in crowd Of
a hundred individuals than in a small party
81
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

sToCKwFILs TBFATFR. Powell street near Mar
ket-"Uur B0arding-h
IAIDv1N TBEArER Market street. near Powell
"Ihe Pupil in Magic"
7IvoLI OPEBA ROUSE Eddy street. OF Market
CTeTa-"CRyaileria Kusticana."
GRovE-STREEr HKATER, Grove street, above
] Cik-"UnCle TOMS Cabin"
NIewAM THEATER. corner Stockton and GearY
sts.-" The Queens Lace Handkerchief"
(AITFOFSIA EEATER. Bush street, above hearny
"A Trip To Chinatown"
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THE GAIL CALENDAR.
NOTIOEI

Any Of our patrons l0to fail to ind THE
MORNING CALL for sale Ju train-5oys
as CONFER a facor By notifying this office q
GJact. naming The date and train,
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Bps Montgomery street near Gay. open until IL
O'Clock p NJ BRANCH OFFICES: 10 Market
street. near Kearny, open until O'Clock midnight;
$50 Hayes street, open until $50 O'Clock; 603
Iarkin street open until $50 o'clock; SW. corner
Sixteenth and Mission streets, open until O'clock
.5lS Mission street, open until O'Clock p NJ. and
lI6 Ninth street. open until $50 P NJ
The morning call., 1893-02-14

DAILY CALL (ineluding sundays. SO per year by
p.f postpaid; Is cents per week, or IS cents per
calendar month through carriers. DAILY CALL
f,t copies three months. SIS 25. SUNDAY CALL
(sixtesn pages). 81 so per year. postpaid SUNDAY
CALLand WEEKLY CALL. 81 30 per ear. postpaid
EEKLI CALL Is paGesl. 81 per year, postpaid
TEE CALL cannot return rejected manuscripts,
rtI viii the editor enter into correspondence re-
Al ectlHF them
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AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.

FuRNIruRE.-By Chas Levy Il Co. at 1875
Market ST. at 10 O'Clock.
FURNITURE.-By Frank W. Butterfeid, at %
Hawthorne ST. at II O'Clock.
FURNI1 URE.-By 5. Basch, at 1908 4
n ] ofclocE
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WEATHER PREDICT oNs,

Official Forecast for Twenty-four Hours
Ending Mi night Tues lay.
IEFARTNEST OF AGRICULTURE !
WEATHER BUREAU.
FAN FRASCIsco February Is. 1891
san francisco and vieinity-Fair weather. con-
tinued cool: northerly winds.
P. ]. jenkins Local Forecast Oncial
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THE EASTERN OFFICE OF THE CALL.
Peter building, New York CITY, IS provided with
tltsof California papers. Visitors welcome. Al
auuElt tales and sample copies furnished.
l. X MISCH Manager
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KNOCKED DOWN BY CARS. - An old lady,
named Mrs. Bach, was Knocked down by car ] 6
of tie North Beach and Mission Railroad yes
IeTday morning n az jackson and Kearny streets.
Her injuries were dressed at The Receiving Hos
pirai
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NO CHINESE TO COME.
A Stipulation Anent the Hawaiian
Annexation.

"A AuCHt HAWAIIAN
Annexation.
There seemst to be disposition on the part
of certain parties" said General w. H. Di-
mond to CALL man yesterday, ito oppose
the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to
the United States on the ground that II an
nexed. the Chinese. now on the islands,
would come to this country"
The general. who is strongly In favor of
annexation, then added: "On Saturday
morning when | read that the Labor Coun-
ell Of San Francisco had adopted resolutions
declaring against annexation, on the
ground that the influx of Chinese 10 this State
would be detrimental to the laDorers, at
once wired to Lorrin A. Thurston. chair
man of the Annexation Committee to do
what he could to prevent the Chinese from
leaving the islands.
To-day" continued the speaker, II re-
ceived a dispatch which | have here" and
he exhibited the document. Il is as fol-
lows:
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THE DAILY MORNING CALL

New York. BRENTANO BROS, HUnion Square
Chicago News Stand Palmer House
Men orleans GALLOT q JOUBERT,
49, Common Sc.
The morning call., 1893-02-14

SPECIAL bargains In lamps during our annual
clearance sale at Nathan, DObrmann q Co.'s,
122-132 Suffer street, below Kearny
The morning call., 1893-02-14

Once more the standard for recruits for
the Royal Marines has been raised, so pleu-
tiiul is the supply. The minimum In the
light infantry is now feet inches from
IL to 20 years OF age, and ~ inches above
20 years, while the recruits for the artillery
are not taken under feet inches. a spen-
did standard, and higher than it has been
for many years.
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HEYER's MAJoRITY.-At the close OF yes
terdsy's recount before Judge Hebbard MIR.
DundOn had gained eight more votes for the
oince OF Supervisor OF The Ninth Ward, reducing
MI. HeyeI's majority TO 49,
The morning call., 1893-02-14

PUT OFF CAR.-James Norton was put of
MarRet-street car, near Van Ness avenue. yes.
terday afternoon. and falling, sustained a frac-
ture Of The skull. He Is patient at the Reeeiv-
ing Hospital.
The morning call., 1893-02-14

THE sick relish and thrive upon Cudahy's
Rex" Brand Fluid Beet. Palatable and
Strengthening Sold by all druggists.
The morning call., 1893-02-14

J.F.CUTTERsOLD BoURBoN.-This celebrated
whisky Is for sale by all first class druggists and
gTOcers Merchandising within a shield.
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WASHINGTON Feb. 10, 1893.
General W. II. DinlOnd: No Chinese will be
allowed TO come 10 The United States from the
Hawaiian Islands. LORRIN A. THURSToN.
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THE MORNING CALL
PUBLICATION OFFICE:

Has a larger circulation than any other
newspaper published in San Francisco.
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DIVIDEND NOTICES.


E%@ Dividend Notfce-At Meeting Of
IT, the board OF directors OF the Consolidated
New York Mining Company, held on the tenth
(lOth) day OF February 1893. dividend OF ten
(l0e) cents per share was declared. payable ana
after WEDN ES9AY, February fifteen C5). 1893.
the Office Of the company. 70. Nevada
block, 500 Montgomery ST. san Francisco. Cal.
Transfer-hooks viii be closed Oh Monday February
thirteen (l3l, 1898. al 3 O'Clock p. NJ.
CHARLES l.. ELLIOT, Secretary
OEce-Room 70. Nevada block, 3O9 MONTGOMERY
ST. san Francisco. Cal. fell I'd
ES5s Dividend Notice-At Meeting OF
G~S the board OF directors OF the Mayiiower
Gravel Mining Company. he Ia this day dividend
no. - or ten cents per share was declared, pay
able on and after February IS. 1898 Transfer
books viii close SATURDAY. Feb. IL, 1898. at
u NJ. d. NJ KENT, Secretary
Rooms Is and 10. $50 Pine st.
San francisco, Feb. 9, 1898. felO I'd
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wo pounds cream mixed candy In Japanese
baskets for 90 cts Townsend's. Palace Ii otel.
The morning call., 1893-02-14

FOR a nice valentine send basket OF Town
sends candies.
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ATTORNEYs-AT-LAw

A DvICE FREE ON ALL LEGAL MATTrRs
"A marriages snnulled: collections damages ate
q w. HOWE. atty $50 Market. cor stockton al "a
~ DAVIDSON. ATTORNEY .AT-LAW am
w California ST., rooms l4-i5: advice free ia rf
u A. CROIHERS ATTORNEYATLAW Az
H. Clay st acssf
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"SPERRY's BEST FAMILY FLOUR" is ahead
OF them all.
The morning call., 1893-02-14

ANGosruRA Bitters are used by mothers to stop
collie and looseness of the bowels in children. DR..
j. q. b. Siegert a Sons Manufacturers.
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COUGHS, HoARsENEss AND SORE THROAT
"Bro,cIls Bronchial 7FocAes" give immediate relief
The morning call., 1893-02-14

ElRs1-CLAss STORAGE; ADVANCES MADE
u SA2-eAA Mission St CHAH /. TAYLOR 1y3st
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While Gladstone was speaking yesterday
in the House Of Commons on home rule for
Ireland Ii was s In the morning in San
Francisco and in the afternoon at
Westminster. BY our time he had finished
bis two hours speech at 10 A. NJ, but by
Greenwich time at p. NJ We are eight
hours behind London, but il Californian
went seventy-fye degrees farther west he
would find himself eleven hours ahead OF
London. But the telegraph defies local
time and wonderful it is to find news flashed
in few minutes from the remotest parts of
the earth. Except the Arctic regions and
number OF Islands in the Pacific, Atlantic
and Indian oceans almost every region en-
joys practical speech with the rest of the
globe. Numbers OF men are still living who
assisted in laying tha first ocean cable
there are indeed many old people who re-
member as if it were yesterday the begin
nings OF land telegrsphy as well as railroads
on the modern plan.
Quite number of papers In America will
publish Mr.. Gladstone's speech in full, at
least in describing the proposals Of his bill.
In two hours his utterances would extend
to five and half or six columns of 1000 words
each-truly formidable feat for a statos-
man in his eighty-third year. lie w0ui
make his voice heard too. Palmerston and
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FINANCIAL.


M ONEY LOAN ED; REASONABLE INTEREST:
1fI property tor SALE Room II. Crocker bldg 70
GAN FRANCISCO COLLATERAL LOAN BANK,
- o3S kearny ST.. the only corporation that lends
money on diamonds. watches: low lnterast. oc4 U
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POSITION FMENT

The delinquent day OF above assessment Is hereb
postponed to March 2, 1893 and the day OF sale I
FRIDAY. the gath day of March, 1898. BY orde
OF the Board of Directors
felltd j. w PEW Secretary
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MR.. HENRY EDDY, matchmaker, Norwich. n. Y,
in a very weak condition after the 6rip. Dsath
seemed near. but Hoods Sarssparilla overcame all
the bad effects and restored health.
MANY mothers have an abiding faith In Parker's
Ginger Tonic. They have used It fory ears and they
know It's value. IilBess so often invades the home
that their knowledge OF Pak er's Ginger Tonic rem
ders them unwilling TO be without it. A grateful
mother says: 81 buy six bottles at a time to be
sure TO have it. would rather pay So bottle than
Ne MilhOnt1t -
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SEWING MACHINES.

Q1C NEW IMPROVED SEWING MACHINES
ID -. rented 81 per month. las Sixth tal4 I'm
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SPRING Sly LES BUTTERFLIES patterns. Catalogues
mailed free. d. A. DEMING, ia Post st, S. f.
EXTRA Mince Pies. SWANS, 2I3 Suffer street.