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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
TRADE IN GENERAL.
Quotations ut st. Louis, baltimore
Cincinnati and Other Places.

ST LOUIS. Dec. 4.-Flour steady and I'M
and &c for july from ROM yesterdas May opened &c
to sc lower advanced c and closed i-ss below
gee; track Sslsc; No. hard, cash, S5QSSc; Decem-
lures opened weak, declined. advanced and closed
the top the same to fractions above yester-
May. 2SSsc July. 27ikc oats-FGtuTes dull and
strong. Spot steady; No. 2 cash; elevator zoe;
No. while a8s4 a24c. Rye steady at 45l1c; Flax
seed higher SIG a Prime tim timothy syon sed @
east track &c and track this SIDE gSe s ay
&c; dairy 11Q1Sc Eggs steady at 171ec.. Whisky.
Steady standard S mess ss o6bngs S. @sao Lard
higher; prime steam. s4.lO; choice, SAP Bacon .
s. s755as5 5o shorts s2sE Dry meats
B4Eed shoulders y Ss sbo e1tra ssSTs ee Reseps
Flour 5000 brIs; wheat $1,000 bu; corn 1oo 2S $500
wheat. 10000 bu corn, 49, 600 blu; oats. 1900 bu
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 4.-Wheat.oSpot No. 2 red
Western winter steady at 7s s1Sd' no No. ! e req
American mixed quiet at So 2ald.. Fiour-st Louis
fancy winter dull at los Beef frm extra r tn r
prime fine Ass sd PRIME en sFeeay
at as. Observation-Disclosures cut dull at
sls: short ribs. steady at S5s Sd; o.. long m.
eear ana dd dHs heavy. dun at sss
shorcear backs steady at Sis clear i ne sd r
Prime Western steady at 22s Cd. cheese- A
Tallow-Prime city steady at 1ss Cd; Cottonseed
oil Liverpool refined. dull at las 3d. Spirits of
turpentine steady at 24s sd. Rosin-Common
steady at As 1sd.
BALTIMORE Dec 4.-Flour dull and I'M
changed; receipts, SAC brls exports $500 brls.
Wheat strong: spot, 96as@96lac; month, S6hMS55ec;
January 96l5696Ac; May, 92l5c bid; steamer No.
2 red 1i<M91Ac; receirts, 1OO,35l bu; exports,
IA 225 blu; Southern wheat by sample. 9lpyic.
Corn firm; spot. S2ss@32s4c month, S2@S2Ac; De
SfsSc; February, 31%032c; steamer mixed. SOssa
30Gc; receipts, S5,975 blu; exports none; southern
white and yellow corn, 326I35c. Oats firm; No.
white 291bd30c No. mixed. 27@27lsc; receipts,
30 124 blu: exports none. Rye firmer; No. West
ern 0I53$c receipts. SO 10S bu; exports none.
Hay steady. choice timothy $13 asked. Grain
freights steady and unchanged. Butter, eggs and
cheese steady and unchanged.
TOLEDO Dee 4.--Wheat lower and steady:
No 2 cash and December, 93%c; May, 92%c: Corn
active and lower; No mixed, 26c. Oats higher
and dull; No. mixed, &c. Rye active; stock
No cash. 4615c. Glover seed dull and easier;
prime cash and December, $S.12k. OH I'M
changed
CINCINNATI, Dec. 4.--TTlour dull. Wheat dull;
No. Q red, 'e2bc Corn firm; No. mixed, N19c
acc. Lard steady at $4.15. Bulk meats, $3.50 Ba-
con steady at $3.50. Whisky steady at 81. 10. But
ter steady. Sugar firm. Eggs steady at 16l5c.
Cheese steady.
BUFFALO. Dec 4.-Wheat-No. Northern.
store s5c. CornEzNo g. SlAQSlhc. Oats-No 2
white 2794@27iac. Barley steady. Rye 49c asked.
DETRoIr, Dec. 4.-Wheat-No 1 white, soc;
No 3 red. 911hc; December, 90lac; May, 1isc.
Corrl-No. 2 mixed, 26%4c. Oats-No. white, 24s4c.
Rva-NO 46I%c-
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prices. Sales, 5000 bags. including: May. 5.S5e
Spot coffee-Rio quiet No. 7. invoice SIC. job
bsng SIC. Mild dull; Cordova. slsql4c. Rio-Re-
ceipts. 5000 bags: cleared for the United States
6 600 bags: cleared for Europe. 1900 bags; stock
473 900 bags. Total warehouse deliveries from the
United States Is FOL bags including l2,14I from
New York: New York stock to-day 517,643 bags
United States stock VA, 2SS bags; anoat for the
United States. $4,000 bags; total visible for the
United States 1043.2S3 bags, against Co., 1b3 last
year and 545 .541 in 1895.
Sugar-Raw firm: fair refining. 3ssc; centrifugal
37kc refined firm: standard A. 476c; confectioners
A. 4'sc; cut-loaf, 55sc; powdered, S-l6c granu-
lated. &c.
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winter patents, 7Oa4sO; straights z 2Sg4 80 49,
straiehts $4SOa4.5O; bakers, $S:5OQSSO No No. z
spring wheat Ss@sSc No NS sPr CORN wss e No.
yellow % 625s4c. No. 2 oats, 21%c; No 3 white
O. b., Ss@2sc No rye 4s ! oso M9 aI p PRIZE
timothy seed, $2.621b@2 60. Mess pork, per br
ST. sO7S5 Lard. per 100 lbs $425ga21h Sh9rr
TD s4755: shortclear sides boxed $4,000
4so. Whisky. distlers' finished goods. per 9s gal
~ R 3s 5000 brls: wheat, 1872 Geo bu
corn "a 900 blu; oats 4S9 600 bu rye So SVO hr Gu
beaf 2S4 900 bu; corn $50 600 blu; OATS 4SS,OOO bu
rre az Onn hn: barley. 10000 bu.
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Saturdays Bank CIearings.

At chicago-Clearngs s1e 256. 545. New York
exchange. par Foreign exchange: Posted rates,
At Menphis--Clearings, s55OsIo; balances.
At New York-CIearings. s157. 45s. 49, balances,
At Boston-clearings. s1sOs2 1Ss; balances.
$2,OS7,041.
At MISUNDERSTANDING, sl2S46OSl; balances,
81, Gas. $50.
AT Baltimore-Clearings 81 s63, 692.
At New Orleans-Clearings, 81. 922. 106
At st. Louis-Clearings, S4,1OS,27O; balances.
1919. 005.
AT Observation-Disclosures s1,4S4,745.
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EIaewhere.

CHICAGO, Dec. 4-There the usual Satur-
day market in cattle. Receipts cry light
and the market nominal one. The fsw cattle
offered We're taken at prices unchanged from yes
teraay This weeks receipts have lched the
unusually large total of about s., 800 head and
prices have declined on average of 25c. Many
cattle that would have been sent here had. the
market been in a satisfactory condition We're
stopped at various feeding points and sellers who
had half fat cattle here had to sell at very low
prices. A good domestic demand for fancy heavy
Christmas beeves IS expected next week.
Trade In hogs quite animated at steady
prices, the greater part Of the hogs crossing the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
Cotton.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 4.-Cotton firm; sales,
600 bales; ordinary 4zc; good ordinary, 49sc; low
middling A 15-16c; middling, SIC; good to good
middiing. 51kc middng fair, 15-16c; receipts,
Is, 5S1 bales; stock, S26,S62 bales.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 4-Cotton firm; middling, SIC.
Receipts, 4,426 bales shipments, COL bales stock,
1871, 59S bales; sales, $500 bales.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-Cotton closed quiet; mid
ding uplands, 57sc middling gulf, csc. sales 20
bales.
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all concerned in connection Herewith. The
true course, therefore, is for the people to
pay as little attention as possible to floating
ruInors about what both the administration
and the government of Spain are going to
do or not going to do in this matter. Pres
ident Mckinley can be trusted to do the
right thing at the right time. and if the sit
uation is simply left to him and his Cab
met associates all will be Well'
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Dried Eruifa.

NEW YORK. Dec 4-Calfornia dried fruits
quiet and steady. Evaporated apples, common,
5a7c per lib; prime wire tray 7%@seS; wood dried
3la61Sc per h. as to size and quality Apricots,
ROYAL 76tS1bc; Moor Park. 9q11c. Peaches-Un-
peeled, 7Q10c; peeled. 12M20c.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-Pig iron quiet; Southern,
s100l12 5: Northern, $10612.25. Copper firm;
brokers, 1O7sc. Lead strong at S.5Oc. Tin plates
dull.
Spelter dull at 3.75c, sellers.
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she,s q Bargain.


Detroit Free Press.
Doesn't your wife's craze for bargains
annoy you, Grumpy2'
Not at all. If she wants a half lollar
she never thinks OF aa|king me for more than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

LIVE STOCK.

NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-Wool steady; domestic
fleece 27Q31c; Texas 13Q11c.
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Cattle Scarce and Steady-HOgs Active
and Steady-Sheep Quiet.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 4-Cattle-Receipts light;
shipments light. Nothing sale except a few
butcher grades. which found ready sale at steady
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

TOLEDO Dee 4.--wheat lower and steady;
active and lower: No. 2 mixed 26c. Oats higher
and dull; No. 2 mixed, PC. Rye active; stock
No cash. 46iac. Glover seed dull and easier
prime cash and December, $S.121s Oil I'M
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

BUFFALO. Dec. 4.-Wheat-No. 1 Northern
old. ssAc; new s3s7c; No winter white IN
white. 2744 027tkc. Barley steady Rye, 4sc asked
DETROIr, Dec. 4.-Wheat-No L white, goc
No. 2 red, 911sc; December, 901ac; May, 9lssc
CorI--No. mixed, 26zc. Oats-No. white, 24Ac.
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No red o2lbc Corn firm; No. 2 mixed, 2719c.
oats quiet No mixed, 2$3ke Rye weak al No 2
con steady at $3.50. Whisky steady at $1.19. But
ter steady. Sugar firm. Eggs steady at l6l9c.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

scales at $S.25@s 42z. Rough packing lots sold at
81 1903 221 and prime shipping lots at s.. 40Qs471s
being marketed are largely of good quality. heavy
lots predominating, and medium weights are the
best sellers
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tile, 500; hogs. 10000: sheep, 1900.
IS, s2G3..v; Texas and Indian steers.
It $3.5O03. IS; cows and heifers. 81. 25
tside range being paid for a few
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-14

SUPPOSE we had q Constitutional
Convention, have we any assurance
that the gang would allow its work to
stand, if it proved an obstacle in the
way of their ambitionp We say to take
no chances and run no risks. 1t is ap-
parent even to a fool that this Consti-
tutional Convention movement is a DO.
litical scheme from beginning to end.
Do not be deceived. These convention
schemes are al much to be watched
and mistrusted ae were tho ancient
gift bearing Greeks. The reason is too
vaporous and the times are too stringent
for the robbed and distressed taxpayers
of the State to furnish a hundred or
more gentlemen of elegant leisure the
money fore high old time" at Nash
vile.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-14
NELLIE.

Ida Stafford is improving slowly.
Pettibone jenkins is fast improving.
John Stafford is down with typhoid
fever. We are told that DR.. Joe Ship.
ley has sixty eight cases of fever. Hog
cholera is abroad in the land, and hogs
are dying on every hand. One party
lost thirty head and another twenty.
Jesse Cox, ST., Mat Cox, VIM. Walker
aud others have bought a new Gar
Scott machine. Henry Carey cut his dog
foot grass. ElbertDepew cut his hand
with a wire and is suffering very much
from the anne. Alice Hale, colored.
was bitten by a snake some days ago.
People should give their hogs some
home made soap, t~urpentine ..and soda
occasionally and try to save them from
the dreadful mslady. Mrs. T. E. Glib.
son has bought a part of the Charles
MAIDEN farm. We are real sorry to
learn through the columns OF the Her.
aid and Tribune of the death of Mrs.
Hall. We remember of breaking bread
at her table. The Colonel has our
heartfelt %sympathies 10 the loss of
such a noble companion. Sam r.
Keebler was the guest of Anderson
Gray Sunday before last. Our worthy
postmaster, E. Depew, will be the as.
sistant teacher at Victory Institute this
winter.
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Dropped Stitches in Tennessee History.

Dropped Stitches in Tennessee History"
We have carefully reviewed this
work from the pen of Capt. John ALI
son, of Nashville, which is the latest
addition to the literature that has been
called forth by the Centennial rear of
Tennessee, and deem what we shall
say as an honest and deserved criticism.
There is not q dull line or an insipid
page in it. 1t is a picturesque, enter
tanning and invaluable narrative of
historical facts, traditions and reminis
cences never before published. The
author shows genius and originality in
arrangement and t~ireless energy in in
vestigation. The style of composition
is simple, but many gems of classic
beauty flash from it's pages.
This book gives the only correct ac-
count of JackSon's famous duel with
Avery at Jonesboro. 1t proves con
clusively that the emancipation move
ment had its origin in Tennessee; that
Tennessee passed the first permanent
pension act for the soldiers, widows
and orphans of the Revolution; that
Tennessee established the first truly
Republican independent government
in the United States; that Tennesseans
founded the first church, college, dis.
trict school and the second ne
in 1.-THE new world west of the Allie.
ghanies;" and that Tennesseans estab-
lished the first court that was a court
in truth and fact. 1t shows that Ten.
nesseans, especially of the Miro Dis.
trict, had much, if not all, to do with
the final opening of the Mississippi
River to citizens of the United States:
that of all the people who supported
the common cause of Liberty" the
Tennessee pioneers were not only the
most earnest patriots, willing to make
any sacrifice, but their methods were
the most effective; and that the lives
and conduct of these pioneers and their
administration Of public and even
family affairs las in the instances of
Cllry ordered to return to his family
and John Murphy heavily fined for the
i'll treatment of his reputed father, J
did more to give force and direction to
a healthy, moral, upright sentiment in
the community than all the laws that
could be enacted on the subject, and
that the purity, bravery and patriotism
of those people inspired Jackson in his
life of splendid usefulness to the world.
Capt. Allison is an old Jonesboro
boy, well known to, and universally
respected by, the people of old Wash
ington County, who will give a hearty
greeting to his entrance into the field
of historical literature.
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LIFT up your hands and smile.

LIFT up your hands and smile. and
not only smile, but rejoice and be
grateful that you are alive and 1t is
las well with you as what it is" The
wolf is turning from the door. A
partial relief at least is near at hand.
The wheat crop Of this region is q rec.
ord breaker. The grain is of the finest
quality. If this cereal brings a price
even in a remote neighborhood of its
actual worth, our farmer friends will
have money to burn" comparatively
speaking. The oat yield is on a par
with that of wheat-the best we have
ever had since the disappearance of
our rich top soil years ago. Corn is
backward owing to late planting, but
is growing prodigiously despite the
enforced" neglect of the farmers. The
orchards have failed almost entirely.
take the country oyer, but still there
will be enough for table use only.
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enormously reduce our State expenses.
When you hear this class prate and
a v about "retrenchment and REFORM"
you may be sure that a large sized
African is hid in the wood pile, or dad
or bud is under the hay.
This class will not put themselves to
the pains and trouble of suggesting or
doing anything that will be beneficial
to the people without the lions
share of benefits for themselves. Their
eagerness and anxiety excite u
picion and distrust in those who have
noted their career IN rec emf years.
To q very large extent the Jarvis fee
law remedies the chief defects in the
constitution complained of. The pro.
posed change in the judicial system
will not expedite the business of the
courts but will hamper and retard it.
No citizen, who understands the
cult OF partisan politics and is familiar
with the political events of the last ten
years at least, but what regards the
Constitutional Convention movement
as a scheme involving ~inexcusable ex.
pense and attended with the greatest
possible peril. Through its gauzy
Probabilities the common mind can
plainly discern many unworthy mo.
tives and sinister designs.
There is nothing wrong with the Con.
stitution. The trouble is with the poll
ticians. The people have too much
power. They would rather go to one
man for fat Office than to the body of
the voters. There is far less uncer.
tainty and expense in it.
The politicians are afraid to trust the
people. They are striving for a regime
under which power is lodged in the
hands of the few.
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TINKERING WITH THE CONSTITUTION,


Constitution making in America be-
gan in Tennessee. The Watauga AS.
ISOLATION had the first Constitution
adopted by American freemen.
Primitive Tennesseans knew how to
fight and how to make fundamental
laws.
In 1895, Tennessee came into the
Union with a Constitution that Thomas
Jefferson, a pretty fair judge of such
matters, said was "the least imperfect
and most Republican" of any which
had been adopted up to that time. Its
virtues were attested in the steady pro.
gress and happiness of the people.
In 1884, a convention met to revise
and amend this patriotic and sensible
document handed down by the pioneer
fathers, but the changes and additions
that this body made were few and i'm.
material. The convention found out
that what was as near human perfec.
ton as possible its wisdom could not
make more perfect.
In 1870, a third convention was elect.
ed, and its work marred rather than
improved the sacred instrument. This
convention vas not near worth its cost
to the people.
And so the Constitution of Tennessee,
framed and adopted in a time of an
tiquity when men were fa~rsighted, I'M
selfish and honest, has stood the test of
age and is justified by experience.
Now in 1897, 1t is suddenly discovered
by a certain class of patriots that the
Constitution is too Anticipated for this
fast and furious age; that it is loaded
down with complex and cumbersome
systems of government, that should be
simpli6ed by the superior genius and
intelligence of our present statesman
ship, and that these "reformsn would
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Vote Against 1t.

Present indications are that the vote
on a constitutional convention. at the
election to be held on the first Thurs
dey in August will be very light.
Probably not half the voters in the
State would be at the polls were the
election to be held tomorrow. To
those who are opposed to holding a
constitutional convention, the situa.
ton is not without danger.
The friends of the scheme are much
more active than those who are OPP
posed to it. They are in the field max.
ing speeches, using money to perfect
an organization. They will get out
their votes and though it is believed to
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-14

meeting of tie Legislature in January,
1877, at whia time Jas. E. Bailey was
elected to 6llout the ~unexpired term,
and he serHd until March 4, 1881,
when he was succeeded by Howell f.
Jackson, VIII, served until in the sum-
mer of 1885, shen he resigned, having
been appointed a Federal Judge by
Cleveland. ioyernor Bate then filled
the vacancy by the appointment of w.
G. Whitthorte who was succeeded by
Ex-Governor Bate himself, March 4,
1887, and WHO still holds the position.
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THE MILK IN THE COCOANUT.

The old Constitution, which came
down to us from u wise and honest
hearted %forefathers, is good enough for
the people and they revere it, not only
for its antiquity and its origin, but for
its supreme excellence and adaptation
to all the conditions possible to such a
great, glorious and resourceful State as
Tennessee. But the old thing" don't
suit the politicians and the place hunt.
ers. 1t is an insurmountable obstacle
in the way Of their selfish ambitions.
There is too much popular freedom in
it. In no line of it can be found the
faintest suggestion that the peoples
interests are best subserved when power
is lodged in the hands of a few. The
politicians, who are advancing this
gorgeous project of a Constitutional
Convention, are striving for a central
lied government. They want the of.
ices to be appointive. They want the
counties to be governed by commits.
sioners and to create additional Judi.
cial divisions. In fact they want 70
get away from the people just as far as
possible, and have "a close corpora.
ton" of their own. This is the milk
in the Cocoanut.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-14

What is the matter with all the news.
papers any way, that they keep saying
that If Senator Harris had lived until
the 4th of March, 1893, he would then
have served twenty years as a Senator
from Tennessee? 1t is a matter of his.
tory that he was elected to the United
States Senate by the Legislature in
January, 1877 for the full term of six
years, aud also a matter of history that
he took his seat as a Senator from Ten.
nessee, March 5, 1877, and served con
tinuously from that time up to the
day of his death, having succeeded
himself three times. Any school boy
will tell you then that from March g..
1877, to July Z. 1897, is exactly twenty
years, four months and two days, which
Is the length of time Isham G. Harris
served his State as 4 United States Sen.
ator.
The Senatorship held by Senator
narrls mas Deen one OF exceptional
good luck ever since the war. In 1865
Josiah s. Fowler was elected to the DO
sition and held it up to the 4th of
March, 1871, when he was succeeded
by one Henry Cooper. who had been
elected by the Legislature in October,
1859, defeating ex-President johnson.
Cooper's term expired march, 1877 and
he was succeeded by Senator Harris.
who died last week.
The other S%enatorship has not had
quite such a smooth I'M. 1t too began
in 1865; and David T. Patterson, son
in law of Andy johnson, held it four
years up to March 4, 1859, when he was
succeeded by W. G. Brownlow. Brown.
low served for six years up to March 4,
1875, when he was succeeded by ex-
President Johnson. johnson died july
80, 1875, and Gov. Porter appointed
Judge D. NJ. Key to serve until the
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-14

JUDGING the nature of the Nashville
Sun editor from the "hot stuff that
daily flames in his editorial columns,
he will have no use for q palm leaf
fan and a barrel of ice water when the
Devil gets him. But the Devil has no
chance to get him, as there are too
many pious people in Nashville vigi.
lantly looking after his spiritual in.
tereets.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-14

1T is estimated that, on account of
unpaid Recorders Court taxes, John
son City owes the State 80, Bristol
S1,1OO, Greeneville $500, Knoxville
$50, 900, Nashville $50, 900 and Memphis
$3S 900. So far, Chattanooga is out of
the ring.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-14

THE belligerency of the Nashville
Sun has been recognized time and
again and in divers ways, but it still
raves on as if nothing had happened
to appease its indignation and quench
its thirst for gore.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-14

SPEAKER T~HoMPsoN's melancholy
grows more graceful as his chances of
slipping into Bob Taylor's slippers
grow smaller by degrees and mourn
fully less,