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The Penn's Grove record., 1897-01-08

WHISKY AND CRIME.
In a recent issue OF the North American
Review was an article by the Hon. &c.
Parker (slnce deceased), who for Twenty-Five
years was Judge Of the Federal Court for the
Indian Territory and the western district OF
Arkansas. During this period nearly a thou
sand men stood before Judge Parker charged
with murder. He sent more criminals to tho
gallows and jails than any other judges In
America.
"when we go to facts said the Judge,
I've find that during the last six years there
have been ~, 902 homic,des In the United
States. an average OF 1877 per year. In the
same time there ave been 72S legal exeeu-
tfons and 1118 ~lynehings. These startling
figures show that crime is rapidly increasing
instead OF diminishing. In the last year TO-
500 persons were killed, or at the rate of 675
per month. whereas In 1890 there were only
1890, or less than half rs many rs In 1896.
1his bloody record shows a fearful increase
of the crime which destroys human life"
Asked as TO the part whisky had played
in this awful carnival OF blood, Judge Parker
replte':
itAt least three-fourths of The homicides
committed in this country are attributable,
directly or indirectly. to the use OF intoxi-
cants. The question is not n new one 10 me.
1t has been forced upon my attention almost
continually since l a been upon the
bench. / think the same ratio Of whisky
homicides would hold good in this court.
The number that were influenced indirectly
is hard to estimate, and 1t is more than prob
able that In every case Of homicide whisky
has played its part, either on the side OF the
criminal or OF the victims. To my positive
knowledge whisky was the direct cause OF
twenty-five out OF twenty-six murders com
mitted in one locality during the past TWEEN
iy-one years, the parties to the quarrels hay
ing been drinking at the time or Immediately
before the tragedies occurred. The remain
ing one was committed by a young boy, and
/ an not positive now but that either HIM
self or the man he murdered was under the
influence Of liquor at this time. 1t is really
difficult to recall n case in which whisky did
not figure one way or another, and the ex-
ample5 are prominent in which murderers
were excited Immediately to the commission
OF their crime by becoming intoxicated.
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QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

There are said to be pelicans with q
wing spread as wide as nrrvuu fvvt
In Germany asparagus is peeled
before it is canned, by the aid OF q
special machine.
Fossil animals, bearing a close re-
semblance to our horses, have been
found in many parts of the world.
A Bath (Me.) hunter has presented
to each of his eight children a fat
feather bed, stuffed with the plumage
of birds he has shot.
On some parts of the coast OF
France, where the wind is in the east,
the mist that appears bears with it q
very noticeable perfume.
The Chinese condemn criminals to
death by preventing sleep. Sufferers
last from twelve to twenty days, when
death comes to their relief.
Larks are cold by the bushel III
Leadenhall Market, London, and
during certain months OF the veal
they arrive ut the rate Of 40, 900 g
day.
While DIR. Kane was on his second
expedition he and his men lived nine
days in a temperature ranging from
sixty-four to sixty-nine degrees below
zero.
A brides cake, fashioned by means
of myrtle and orange blossoms, to
represent a wedding bell, and costing
| $500, was a feature OF q recent we'd
ding in English high life.
When a graduate of Cambridge Uni
versity, England, commits n crime the
authorities of the university take his
| degree from him and strike his name
from the rolls of the alumni.
John Pakkala OF Calumet, Mich,
after having an arm amputated at the
shoulder, was able to get up and walk
down the hospital stairs to the ambu-
lance. Though he fought in the Rus
sian ranks all through the Turkish
war, and has for the past twelve years
worked in a dangerous calling under
ground, this is the first time no was
ever hurt.
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Income and Oatgo.

/ was asked the other day what is
the official income of the Archbishop
of Canterbury. 1t is S75, 1000 a year.
That looks a large sum on paper, but
then the outgoings are simply NOR
nous. Archbishop TAFT may have
saved money while headmaster of
Rugby School. but as archbishop he
found it impossible to do SO. So did
the late primnte. The subscriptions
to various good objects alone amount
ed to huge sum-. and there are other
untyld calls on the archiepiscopal
purse. Unless a man has some private
means, or is well insured. he might
we'll shrink from accepting the Angli-
can primacy. = London Gentlewoman.
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HUMOROUS.

-#r L.
He-This time seems TO haunt me
She-Because you have murdered il
SO often.
He-Well, Your sister is married.
Nowit's your turn. She-ob, Georgei
Ask papa.
He-Do you think absence maker
the heart grow fonder9 Shell don't
know. Go away for a long time, and
I'll write and let you know.
"This liver is awful, Maud" said
Mr.. Newwed. Sim very sorry" re-
turned the bride. sIll tell the cook to
speak to the liveryman about it"
|. Radbourn-My dear fellow, it is al
ways better to begin at the bottom Of
the ladder. Chesney-Nonsense. How
about when you are escaping from q
fire?
Browning-Newmarry's house is a
large one, but it won't be large enough
for two people. Winters-Nonssnsei
Who are they? Browning-His wife
and his mother.
She gazed upon him, kneeling there,
And was about to speak, when he,
With one mad yell, leaped through the all
He'd run a tack into his knee
Customer-What is there for din
ner today? Waiter (under mott 20
leave)-Ob, the same as usual Tough
steaks, leathery fowls, sinewy beef
and favorless mutton.
Jackson-I don't believe in reforms.
l believe in leaving we'll enough aione.
Currie-Certainly, but in this country
the reformer's object is to keep bad
enough from getting worse.
FIing-And did the stage have the
appearance OF a real garden in the
Garden Scene? Storms-Oh, yes; j
hadn't been on three minutes before
the place was filed with vegetables.
1t is talk wasted for an unmarried
woman to boast of her economy to an
unmarried man. A mar never appre-
ciates economy in a woman until he
has married a woman who doesn't
practice it.
Physician travelling out West)-
Xas T hova 1aan a procf;nino phvsi.
clan for 35 years. Butte Bittcrs Zen.
Enthusiastically Shake, old man,
shakel It's many a man I've sent to
his last accounts, tool
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YES OR NO.

We take from Our Parish Calendar, of
Lawrence, Mass the following excellent
presentation Of an important question:
Which do Won think Is for the best interests
OF the community?
Don't allow yourself, in considering this
question, to be ~prejudiced against any class
OF people in making up your m~ind-minis-
tiers, politicians or business men. The ques-
tions Tor each voter to weigh conscientious
ly before casting his vote are these:
Is the granting OF licenses In this city for
the moral good OF the community and for the
general good of the city?
Is 1t an advantage to have saloons open in
fifty different places in the city where men
MAJ c~ongregate every evening and drink,
and in general debauch themselves to that
extent TINT their wives and children suffer In
consequence?
% II to the advantage OF the city that, all
day long, women may have convenient places
in which to purchase that which degrades
them and makes them unfit for the duties Of
wife. mother, sister or daughter?
Is 1t to the advantage OF the city to grant,
for any consideration OF money, this fran
chise?
lsit right to develop the weakness of the
weak?
Are the evils flowing from the use OF in.
toxlcating liquors lessened by legalizing the
saloon?
This is one of the moral political questions
in which you are bound to let your con.
science speak.
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Taking Him Down q Peg.

He was a bright, dapper young
lawyer. full of spirits, aud possibly .
little too smart. For some time the
judge of the district court had been
waiting an opportunity to suppress o
trif1e of this s~martness, as it became u
bore when constantly opposed to his
Honor's long experience. The young
lawyer jumped up to defend a case Of
stealing in which the accused had re-
tanned him. Unfortunately he had
failed to thoroughly acquaint himself
with the facts of the case, other than
that his client had been arrested for
stealing.
s'Your Honor" he cried, 81 ask
you does the prisoner look like a man
that would steal? Does he look like a
man hat would suffer his honesty to
be demeaned by appropriating another
mans gold? No q thousand times
Mol He is a patriotic citizen OF the
country, one of the proud upholders
of our grand republic, and I say it IS
an outrage for the plaintiff to accuse
such a gentleman of theft Think OF
his friends that will weep wei his dis
grace undeservedly thrust upon him.
Think of the blight upon the mans
existence. I say the accused is too
manly, too generous, too noble a
specimen of hum"
Smash went the judges gaval as he
roarcd ont, 'Quit thatl Young man,
this is q case of hog-stealingl"-Har-
per's Round Table.
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BANK CASHIERS SUICIDE.
Discovery of $4,000 Shortage In His Ac
counts Was the Ause.

Discovery of 100000 Shortage In His Acc
counts Was the Ause.
Richard Cornelius, cashier, and for forty
two years connected with the National Far.
mers' and Planters Bank, Baltimore, Nd, OF
which Enoch Pratt was president up to the
time OF his death, was discovered to be short
In his accounts to the amount of S6O,0O0
About 10 o'clock u. m. FIR. Cornelius was
notified of this discovery and left the bank.
At rs O'Clock In the afternoon his dead body
was found In the duck pond at Druid Hill
Park. He had committed suicide by drown
ing.
For many years Mr.. Cornelius has been
one OF the most prominent Methodtsts In the
city. At his death he was "A local preacher
OF the Baltimore Conference, President OF
the City Missionary n Church Extension
Society, President OF the Emory Grove Asso-
citation, one OF the trustees OF the Baltimore
Annual Conference and a member OF tho Of
flclai board OF Madison Avenue Church.
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Sixty million dollars arc annually ex-
pend din this country for the apprehension
aud punishment OF criminals, made SO by
the liquor traffic; and 1900 criminals are
supported in tho prison houses OF the coun-
try at the public expense. Add TO this NIL
other expenses of government caused by the
liquor traffic, such as the large amounts
necessary 10 provide for the insane and the
pauper classes that nave been made such by
intemperance, and you will discover that the
amount annually expended by government
in consequence of this traffic Is enormous.
cause Of this expense. TIL revenue from u
sober people will then be amply sufficient for
purposes OF government.-Rev. J. W.
Roberts, OF Atlanta, Ga.
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TWO PROVINCES IN FLAMES.

In Havana and Matanzas the Rebels Are
Burning Cane Fields.
Matanzas and Havana provinces in Cuba
have been a sea OF flames for days, and 1t is
believed all the cane will be- destroyed.
In Pinar del Rio n correspondent saw NO
tobacco at all, but was toll that there is
some planted, and, though late AMI much
injured by worms, about fef per cent. OF the
usual crop may bs realized.
The Spanish correspondents arc wiring TO
MadrId tho doubtIul nature Of the p~acllca-
ton OF pinar del Rio; thnti Psiro Dlaz an |
Silyerlo Sanchez arc In Mstanzas provinces
aud nothing is hea d about Mtxlmo Gomez
whether favorable or adverse; that though
numerous forces arc operathg In Plnar del
Rio they are seldom abe toeheet the insur-
gents.
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THE VOTE TOR PRESIDENT
Final Casting Up p Nosember's Ex-
citing Election.
McKINLEYS PLURALITY, 63o,745.

The Total Vote in the Different States for
President in the isecent Contest Was
1888, 7~Gs---Bryan Received e,47o'eSe
observation-disclosures Majority Over All
3fs,a99.-The "Goid" Votes Total.
WASHINGTON. D. @. (5pecial).-The total
vote In the different States for President III
the recent election was 1883, 762- hcnin-
ley (Rep.) received 7.loi,4o1; Bryan (pem.)'
$40, CSC; Palmer Gold Dem. }, 1856, 9S6; Low
ering (Pro.), 100, 5e1: Bentley (Nationao,
1882, and Matchett (socialist), 1888 Nc
Kinley's plurslitYis 6ao, 745, and his majority
over all, SIG, 299.
HI following tablc shows the votes cast
in the several State, for the principal can
didates:
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schools for Cash Girls.

Following the lead Of Chicago, q
New York dry goods house is about
to start q little school in ats own prem
Uses where the cash girls can obtain
instruction one or two hours every
day, as also those older ones whose
early schooling has been neglected.
In one of the large dry goods stores
of Chicago day and night
school is maintained, with compe-
tent teachers aud all tue mod
ern accessories OF a frst-class school
room. where the employees Of the store
are given free education. In Milwau-
kee one of the greatest broweries con-
ducts a school, library and reading
room for its employees, who are over
10, 900 in number. All three were
established despite the protests O.
thoss who said the advantages would
never be utilized, and nll triumphod
from the outset. The school compares
iavorablJ with the best public schools
in the city, the reading room is well
patronized, and the library is EN-.
played to its fnll capacity Chicago
Tribune.
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pgsRoss TO EE SENATOR.
Nominated by the "a pblican Caucus at
HarrisbkH f4enp.

Nominated by the "a pbiican Caucus at
HarrisbRl fYenu.
The great fight in< klvania for sena-
tor cameron's seat is and State Senator
BoIes Penrose, of Philadelphia. has won.
The Joint Republican caucus was held in the
hall OF the, House OF Representatives, Harris
burg, and a great crowd filled the galleries
and all the space In tn, rear OF the desks.
The merits of Mr.. Penrsfe and ex-Postmas-
ter-General John WananAker were presented
In glowing periods by tteIr nomInators and
~seconders, and then the Iote was taken, The
vote resulted:
For Senator Penrosc, 1888; for Mr.. Wanna
maker, 70; for Senator Cameron, 1; for ex-
Congressman John B. Ipbinson, l.. and for
President Judge Rice Of the Superior
Court. l.
When the chairman Announced that Sena-
tor Penrose had received the highest num-
Der ofvotes and was tbs caucus nominee.
Senator Kaufman, the Vanamaker leader.
rose and in a brief spes,h moved to make
the nomination unaRiEiss. Senator Kauff-
mans motion was ade<tei, and Senator
Penrose was made the Unanimous choice Of
the Republicans for Unsed States Senator.
The caucu th&n adjourned,
The Democratic caucUj was also held and
ex-Lieutenant. Governor 5hauncsy f. Black,
of York, was chosen Is the Democratic
candidate for Senator.
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ARMS FOR 1UBA LANDED
fiIibustering ESedition Reached the
Island With Valuable Cargo.
BoAIloADs OF yAR MATERIALS.

IF. II.
RI. ,r... ~rr... rr,.,s,
.ne
Failed to DELHI Now mi tho Hands OF
tbe c,han-rn.. per,,ou. Pass.
NY
age Through = ormJ stea with the
Mon and Arn,.In Gmknez's Hands.
KyY WEST. Fla ,s,sc,aAl-Tho tug
p.n,.a. o,,h. .aas
Daess mas JUST = rned ny" ae
landing one of the Lgest expeditions ever
started for the island.
Thu p.r,Nasa 10, r,,,,,;,,o o,a nm
a
DOWN to No Name Key, on Bahia Honda,
where she took 10 )4s Mauser rifles, one
tweIve-nound = lea asId-nlece md 9oo
.h.,,a s~nsm-
ene'' ior 'ne same, fV,Vo' rounuSo Vi auihu-
milton, 200 pounds Q dynamite AMI forty
men.
While anho-b. "a rh,o,, u.s
"s a'eo' ~
OH there by the Thre Friends on tnat ves-
sells last unsuccessful trip, the Dauntless
men were frightened vice. Once 1t was by
a small launch from icy West with a news
paper man and sou, sightseers on board,
The launch saw the ben in small boats and
three large schoonersransferhng the cargo.
On being discoveredte loading was stopped
and the men made e the land. After get
ting up to the Dauntlss and finding that the
men from the launchwere friends, the work
was continued.
The Dauntless lit Friday afternoon
and went Immediately to sen. On Sat-
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RAIDERS TO BE AaRgsrgO.

Governor Bradley SEND Troops to stop
Tollgate W%reciiDgfn Kentucky.
Governor Bradley, Of +1tucky, instructed
Colonel Gather, OF the sond Regiment, to
call out the Lexington and Harrodsburg com
panies OF the State caArdtor the purpose Of
going to Mercer County tctcapture a band OF
200 turnpike raiders who are destroying
The Governor has had detectives at work
for several weeks learning the names
and plans Of the raiders. They found
that Washington Coubty was their
headquarters. The detectives notified
Colonel Gather of the raiders In
tentions. and he. in tutn, informed tho
Governor. The troop dre In command
OF Colonel Gather. who will secrete
them In squads at d~iferet toIlgates likely
to be attacked. When the aiders approach
and begin to tear down tie poles they will
be ordered to surrender. Il they refuse, the
troops have received orders TO IRE on them.
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This is the testimony OF Police Commits
Andrew d. Parker, OF New York;
s'My individual testimony Is ininltesimal
rs compared with the testimony OF genera
tons OF public observers. OF statesmen, OF
staiisticians, Of scientific and religious
teachers and thinkers thai there is no crime
producing agency that anywhere approx
mater tho liquor traffic In its dreadful eff
cacy. lam not a Pronibitionist, nor a Pur.
itap, nor a member of a church, but no man
with eyes In his head and with the least
particle OF heart or conscience can fail to
realize the danger and handicap that iniem.
perance Is to our Anglo-Saxon civilization,
especially when il does its work on our
nervous American organizations"
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The Episode Closed.

He is a Young lawyer, and she lives
in tho West Fad. They were to have
been married in the spring. The
other day they fell to quarreling over
the telephone. She vas petulant. He
wasangry. Finally she calIeAhima BIB
brute. and said that he could consider
the engagement off.
.AiI right" said he, and then he
sang of, as they say in telephone
parlance-
And she-well. she returned the ring.
Albany Journal
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TEMPERANCE
A TRUMPET CALL

A L
When song springs from the vine
And chants the praise Of wine,
The evil seeds
In such smooth words and terso,
With not a hint of curse
To soul and home and purse,
Will grow bad deeds.
A legion cups are thine,
But each, or coarse, or fine,
Will faint the breath;
They tempt souls to their fall,
A lie turks In them all
Sweet first, at last as gall,
The end Is death.
A pledge we sign with Joy.
Up, every girl and boy,
To fight the drink.
Let zach one find bis place,
And then from God seek grao
To set through life the face
Against the drink.
Would we oil country save
We must be true and brave
And ~steadfast stand.
Have faith In God and pray;
Work, vote, and haste the day.
That IRON the demons sway
Shall free our land.
A. g. Lawson, in the Temperance Al
vocate.
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A majority OF the mothers complain OF the
neglect and brutality of their husbands,
caused by excessive drinking habits, and say
they are hungry and almost shelterless, not
because they are poor through illness, or be-
cause OF lack Of work, but because the men
spend their wages at saloons. One woman,
aged about thirty-hve, told a story more than
half q century long In a few words: ~
married a man who was good to me as long
asI was young and nice looking. My mother
did the same thing with the same result, and
her mother met the ame fate nearly sixty
years ago, and | suppose this baby will go
and get q drinking husband II the sanitar-
ium succeeds In saving her poor little life.
II my husband had treated US right, I
wouldn't have to come here with my baby
nor would have to depend on the matron
giving me car tickets In order to get home
and get back tomorrow. / wish the rum
holes OF the city were sunk at the bottom OF
the lake.
What do you think Of that sort OF a record,
and what about the value as citizens OF the
descendants Of such a line?-Sacred Heart
Review.
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Foreign Notes.

Captain General weyler, Of Cuba, Is back
In Havana from Pinar del Rio. He reached
Havana, coming from Marlel ON board the
warship Legazpi. The Captain-Generai was
received with n pompous demonstration and
Immediately drove to the palace.
According to q despatch received from
Manila, capiiai OF the Philippine Islands, o
force OF 1000 insurgents has been surprised
and routed by the Spanish troops at Agony
and olfnausas.
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BLADE SANK me HIs HEART.

Little Richard Faik F~AtsEiy Isiured in a
scufie with His Playmate.
Richard Fatkia ioarteelsysar-old son OF
DR.. Frederick FAX, Is dead at Indianapolis,
Ind, from a knife stab the heart, for
which Thomas Hanna, Jr.lthe sixteen-year-
old son Of Thomas Hannat former Lieuten-
ant-Goyernor. IS responsible.
Young Hanna called To- soc a sister OF
young Balk. While he wal waiting he took
out a penkniie to sharpei a pencil. The
Falk boy asked tor 1t, AMI, being refused,
made q grab for 1t. Ia thE scufie Tint fol.
lowed the knife blade 4 SUNK into his
heart.
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rlnrraAkcE NEws Asp rorEs.

No man who Is intoxicated, or whose
breath is even tainted with strong drink, is
allowed TO take his post on a train on The
Grand Trunk Railway. From this Il Is In
ferrsl that tue engineer blows his breath in
the face ofths inspector before he IS allowed
to enter the cab.
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Aconvre,rn,n.. My2terIOu. v;,it.

Representative and Sd ator-eleet Money
OF Mississippi returned Havana, ''aba.
nfter n TIRES DAYS abseny,e which il de-
eiinad to explain. 1t was \believed in Hav-
ana thai he visited the insurgents. Consul
General Lee denied that Nd. Money has seen
any rebels.
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oyr rowy,s pRoa,vIrros REconp.

in Dalton, Ga, a town OF $500 inhabitants.
During this time its property has increased
in value ninety per cent. Its school attend
ance sixty per cent; its terms OF court, both
civil and criminal, have been reduced one
half; its police force The same. and Its county
poorhouse is almost tenantless.
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The Chicago City Council pa q, orli-
nance prohibiting the wearing hats In
theatres. The offens@RYpnasH a mig
dsmeanor and punishabtaA not loss
than ei0 nor more tn N "a Feature OF
Il 10 that the people who 4 ts are not
dned, but the managers 81
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Ex-Recorder of Deeds S fhuel r. Chase, OF
Cook County (chicago), s%Iiineis, Is found
short in his accounts viii the county over
$50. 900. The County All ;ney has made a
report accusing him OF mahteasance In onics.
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Eight OF Esssdp Lost.

There is no longer any lps for the eight
missing members oil the c " Of the aiibus-
ter Commodore, which ID kndered on tho
coast Of Florida. When he vessel went
down these men took to a IN, and Il is now
certain that they were drowf Aed. The United
States cruiser Newarka.d .thar6teamer
Three Friends returndS ~ TASTE, act after
a vain search OF three daN liver endMf con
tanning the men. Ths;tem, dit Al night
used her powerful ardbituA but nothing
was seen OF the raft and buy an freight.
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Love Knows No Reason.


Why do 1 love you, sweetheart miner
In sooth, I cannot say,
Love came to ne so ~stealthily
Env'vs Sow pIe r,-y
His gentle footsteps scarcely pressed
The pathway to my heart
! only saw him standing there
And knew he'd meier depart.
How can / tell what brought him when
/ know not how he came?
/ only knew and bowed before
The magic Of his name.
SO many are more beautiful?
All, well, %perchance It's true;
So many are much better, dear?
Sweet, no n else is you.
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sss; I. 's's's'I'i's - So l ~ .:.. on
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BANKS FAIL.

Totals .7,1O1, 4o1 o,47O,e $50 1875, s5s 100, 5s1