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Amendment Number One.
being Senate Constitutional Amendme

(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 40
"A resolution to propose TO the people ol
the State of California an amendment 70
Section Eighteen of Article Eleven OF tnSS
constitution, in relation to revenue ana
taxation, by which it is proposed 10
amend SAID section TO read as tolloWs.
Section IS. No county, city, town, town
snip, board of education or school dlStIict
snail incur any Indebtedness or nanny
ia any manner or for any purpose eNceeu9
ing in any year the income and reVenue
provided for ii for such year, without tiie
assent of two-thirds of the qualifled eject
OrS thereof, voting at an election ~ po
held Tor that purpose, nor unless taS DGtolS9'
or at the time of incurring such lndepteG-
ness. provision shall be made for the cor
iectlon or an annual tax suthclent 10 paS
the interest on such Indebtedness as II
fails due, and also provision to constitute
sinking fund for the payment OF the
winch shall not exceed forty years from
the time of contracting the same; pro
Vided, however, that the City ana County
OF san francisco may at any time pay the
unpaid claims with interest thereon ior
materials furnished to and work done ior
said city and county during the ioftS
th1rd and forty-fourth fiscal years, out oI
the income and revenue of any succeeding
year or years; provided. that any ana an
claims Tor making, repairing, altering, "
Tor any work done upon or for any mate
rial furnished for any street, lane, alley,
court, place, or sidewalk, or for the con-
structlon of~any sewer or sewers IN @ @salu
city and county, are hereby excepted from
the provisions of this section; and IN ue,
termining any claim permitted to be palo
py TINS section, no statute OF llmltat9Il13 u
snail apply in any manner: ana pfoVlQeu
further, that the City of Vallejo, IN so
iano County, may pay its existing 1nQent-
edness incurred in the construction OF us
water works, whenever two-thirds of the
electors thereof voting at an election held
for that purpose shall so decide. Any IN
debtedness or liability incurred contrary
10 this provision, with the exception mere
lnDetore recited, shall be void.
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Revolution In italy.

The recent bread riots in Italy are be-
lieved to be simply mutterings before
the storm. The trouble is the people are
overtaxed A great part of their earn
ings is taken by the Government. AS
times go by the crisis approaches, and
the end is likely TO be the same as in
the American revolution. Many men and
women try to do too much. They over
tax their system as Governments over
tax their subjects. Then comes break
down. The stomach, kidneys, liver and
nerves are affected. What is required is
a medicine like Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters to restore the strength, and build up
new and healthy tissues. Any druggist
will supply it, and the sufferer will be
astonshed after taking it to see how
quickly it acts.
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE
of California, County of Sacramento
In the matter of the estate of 3. L.
EDWARDS, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY,
the 26th day of August, 1898, at 80 p. IN.
of said day, and the Courtroom of said
court, in Department One at the Court
house, in the City of Sacramento, County
of Sacramento and State of California
has been appointed as the time and place
for proving the will of said B. L. Edwards
deceased, and for hearing the applica tion
of Mary T. Edwards, for the issuance to
her of letters of administration with the
will annexed.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court this 18th day of August 1898.
(Seal) w. B. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY b. H. Gallup, Deputy Clerk.
Hiram w. Johnson, Attorney for Peti-
toner au16-10t
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TELEPHONE ENTERPRISE.
The Far West is Not Behind in the
Business.

The Sunset Telephone and Telegraph
Company has just received by rail
6S5,G00 pounds, or 130 miles, of copper
wire to be used in connection with their
new underground system in the city OF
Sacramento.
1t is the desire of the Sunset Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company to make
its system one of the most complete in
the world. The company is now build
ing, and will complete within sixty
days, a longdistance line which will
join into one general system the States
of California, Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, and enable a person TO talk di-
rect from San Diego, Cal. to Boise City,
Idaho, a distance of 1913 miles.
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A resolution proposing to the people of
the State of California an amendment TO
the Constitution of the State by adding
q new section, to be known and designa +
ed as Section Five and one-half, Article
Six, thereby providing for the organiza-
ton of a court, to be known as the Conrt
of Claims The said proposed new section
to read as follows:
Section 515 The Court of Claims shall
consist of any three Judges of the S,lne-
rior Court who may be requested by The
Governor to hold court at the regular
terms thereof The Court of Claims shall
have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and de-
ternine all claims of every kind and char
acter against the State under such laws
as may be passed by the Legislature. and
its Judgment thereon shall be final The
terms of the Court of Claims shall be held
as follows:
on the second Monday of March:
In the City and County of San Francis
CO. commencing on the second Monday in
July and
In the City of Sacramento, commencing
on the second Monday of November Of
each year.
The Judges holding such term of court
shall receive no extra compensation there
for, but shall receive their actual ex-
penses to be paid out of the general fund
of the State Treasury. The Legislature
shall enact all laws necessary to organize
such court, to provide the procedure
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Amendment Number Seven.
Being Assembly Constitutional Amend.
ment No 3+.)

~~~HNAAiNis
ment No. 34.)
A resolution to propose to the people Of
the state of California an amendment TO
section TWO or article four of the Constitu-
TN, IN relation to sessions Of the IeCisla-
ture. by which it is proposed to amend
sa!d section to read as follows:
section = The sessions of the Legisla-
ture ShaH commence at twelve O'clock
meridian on the first Monday after the
eiectlon of its members. and shall be BIZ
ennlal unless the Governor shall in the
interim convene the Legislature by proc
Iamation. The Legislature shall then re-
main In session for twenty-five DAYS after
which 1t must adjourn to some date n01
less than thirty nor more than sixty days
from the time of adjournment If the two
houses ran to agree upon time at which
they VIII resume their session the Cover
nor snail, by proclamation, fix a date for
the limits above prescribed. Upon re-
assembling. the Legislature shall complete
Its session. No pay shall be allowed TO
members for longer period than seventy
nVe days. and no bill shall be introduced
In either house except at the first twenty
five days of the session. without the con-
sent of three-fourths of the members
thereof.
NOW. THEREFORE, Pursuant to the
PROVISIONS of the Constitution, and an act
or the Legislature of the State of Califor-
MIA, entitled AN Act to provide for the
submission of proposed amendments to
the Constitution of the State of Califor-
MIA. to the qualified electors for their ap-
proval, approved March Z. A. ID. 1SS3 the
hereby published and advertised to be
voted upon. by ballot by the qualified
electors of the State. at the election 10
be held throughout this State on
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ANOTHER ROUNDUP.
Chief Dwyer and the Officers Run
in q Lot Of Hobos.

Chief Dwyer and Officers Maley, Fish
er, Higgins and Naghel rounded up a
gang of hobos yesterday at Friend &
Terry's lumber yard and gathered
them into the City Prison, just as they
were preparing to enjoy a gallon can
of beer They gave their names as
Frank Bush, Andrew Clark, James
Green, Bob Hamilton, Roy Wilson and
w. r. McCarroll, and they We're charg-
ed with vagrancy. Chief Dwyer is de-
termined to get rid of the gangs of
hobos infesting the city and will strive
to find them work and a comfortable
home in the County JAIL
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Amendment Number Six.
(Being Assembly Constitutional Ameud-
ment No. 3S)

A resolution to propose to the people of
Ihe state of California an amendment to
stCtlon SIX, article nine of the ConstitlI-
sranmar schools. by which it is proposed
10 amend said section to read as follows:
,oectlon g. The public school system
schoois. and such high schools evening
schooIs normal schools and technical
schools as may be established by the Leg
lSlature or by municipal or district aii-
tsnotlty, but the entire revenue derived
IRON the State school fund and the State
School tax, shall be applied exclusively to
the support of primary and grammar
sChooIs Grammar schools shall include
scnools organized in school district or
than one thousand inhabitants in which
a ,.,S1 course OF study shall be taught when
VIII prepare pupils to enter the agricult-
urai. mining or scientific departments of
the University of California
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SPIRITUAL WORK.
Campaign by Brigadier Breng1e OF
the Salvation Army.

A spiritual campaign will be conduct
ed in Sacramento by Brigadier Brengle
of New York City, commencing on
Wednesday. August 9th, in the Saliva
ton Army hall, at 507 K street. At
p. m. he viii speak on, why Did Christ
Gomez"
On Thursday, August 18th, in the NJ.
f. Church, on Sixth street. the subjects
will be: AT ) p. M, "A Living Re-
ligion." and at s p. m, This Great Sal
vation."
Everybody is welcome, and all seats
Will be free Brigadier Brengle is a
college graduate and his wife is a
graduate of NasSar.
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE
of California, County of Sacramento.
II the matter of the, estate of LEVI c.
CHANDLER, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY,
the 26th day of August, 1898, at 10 o'clock
said court, at the Courthouse, in the City
of Sacramento, County of Sacramento
and State of California, has been APP
ing the will of said Levi c. Chandler, de-
ceased and for hearing the application OF
S. B. Smith, for the issuance to him OF
letters testamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court, this 18th day of August 1893.
(Seal) w B. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY E. s. Wachhorst, Deputy Clerk.
Indorsed: Filed August 10, 1898.
w. B. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY E. S. Wachhorst, Deputy.
Eoll & Dunn, Attorneys for Petitioner.
au16-10t
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"Old Hoss, Auction.

At 10 a. m. to-day, at Sherburn's auc-
tion rooms, 323 K street, there will be
a public sale of unclaimed baggage
from the Western and State House ho-
tells
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"The Maine.'

The wreck of the battleship lies be-
meath the waters Of Havana harbor,
but the cigar is growing rapidly in
popularity. Price, cents. A. Coolot,
distributor.
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Lost-S2350 worth of Green Trading
Stamps obtained from George f.
Dierssen & Co.'S store corner Ninth and
l., Wednesday evening Finder please
return to Sacramento Trading Stamp
Company, COS j street.
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Dead Horse SaIo

OF baggage from Western Hotel and
State House Hotel, at Sherburn's auc-
tion-rooms, 323 x street, to-day, at 10
a. m.
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Buy no experiment, for you can buy
such popular pianos as the Emerson for
$500, upwards, SO per month Pom
mer. corner Ninth and J streets.
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Amendment Number One, being Sen-l
ate Constitutional Amendment No.
4l (eNempting certain claims against
Cisco c e's ANA dhd the eou T sam
ness of the city of Vallejo for the
construction of its water works
from the provisions of the Con- -
stitution requiring such claims to
be paid from the income and reve
nues of the year in which they
were incurred). Nd
For the Amendment?
Amendment Number Two, being Sen-l
ate Constitutional Amendment No.
10 (providing for framing local Yes
county government Acts by inhab- -
tants of counties for their govern- No
menO.
For the Amendment?
Amendment Number Three, beingl
Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. a (providing for the, creation Yes
of q Court of Claims to determined
claims against the State and to -
consist of three Superior Judges
designated by the Governor tol No
serve without extra compensa tion).
For the Amendment?
Amendment Number Four being As-l
sembly Constitutional Amendment Yes
No: 81 (exempting consolidated
cities and counties, organized or
to be organized. or holding a char -
ter under the Constitution. from
certain legislation in relation to
For the Amendment?
Amendment Number Five. being As-I
sembly Constitutional Amendment Yes
No SO (relating to office of Cover
nor. providing for succession there-i
to in certain cases and removing =
disability of Lieutenant Governor
from holding other office during
term). No
For the Amendment?
Amendment Number Six. being As
sembly Constitutional Amendment Yes
No. 3S (relating to and detiningI =
Grammar Schoos). No
For the Amendment?
Amendment Number Seven, beingI
Assembly Constitutional Amend Yes
ment No. "a (providing for ad
journment of Legislature for notl--
less than thirty nor more than
sixty days during each SESSION.. No
For the Amendment?
Witness my hand and the great seal of
the State of California. the day and year
herein first above written.
JAMES H. BUDD.
Attest: Governor.
L. H. Brown. Secretary of State.
fSeall au5-td
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Suit for Divorce.

Annie Ream, by her attorneys. White
& Seymour, has begun suit for divorce
from w. G. Ream.
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Coronado water. Stockton sarsapa-
rilla and iron, champagne cider, ginger
ale. orange cider. ]. McMorry. agent.
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Tuesday, November 8, A. D. 1898.

The said proposed amendments are to
be separately voted upon in manner and
form as follows:
Each ballot used at such election must
contain written or printed thereon the
following words, whereupon the voter
may express his choice as provided by
law:
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Now or nevertheless ties for 15c,
worth S1.15, at the Bee Hive AS K
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For a cool. sharp glass of steam or
lager Ell Dorado, S26 ]
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thereof. and to carry out theprov:sions OF
this section.
Amendment Number -Four.
(Being Assembly Constitutional Amend
ment No. 37)

ment No. 37)
A resolution to propose to the peor;e
oI tne state OF California an amendment
10 the Constitution of the State. amend-
ing article eleven by adding new sec
tlon thereto, to be known as section num-
yer yer nVe ana one-half relating TO consoIi-
dated city and county governments Iha
sala Se proposed new section to read as fol-
four and five of this article shall not por
shaIl any legislation passed pursuant
mere %1ntreto, apply TO any consolidated city
hereafter formed. which shall have he
coiiie, or shall become, organized under
sectioh seven, or secure a charter under
section eight of this article.
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Try McMorry's Coo uncolored Japan
tea; E. B. tea, roc; G. p. tea, S5c; P. F.
Japan tea, soc; 531 NJ street
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PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,

Sacramento, July 30, 1898.
Whereas, The Legislature of the State
OF California, at its thirty-Second session,
beginning on the Fourth day of January.
A. D., 1897, two-thirds of all che members
elected to each of the two houses of said
Legislature voting in favor thereof, pro-
posed the following described amendments
to the Constitution of the State of Cali
fOrnia. to-wit.
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Clearance sale of trimmed hats a
Van Alstine's, COZ street.
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Mems French calf shoes for 50, worth
81, at the Bee Hive. 41S K street.
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NOTICE TO HUNTERS.

NO SHOOTING OR HUNTING WILL
be allowed on the Rancho Del Paso. Any
violation of this order will lead to arrest
JOHN .MACKEY. Superintendent.
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Electrical lamps at scott's. 3o3 ]. :

Tailoring. John Straub, $40
street. Exclusively first class. >
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Amendment Number Three.

being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 44)
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Pabst cafe and grill rooms, strictl
first-class resort. 1913 Sixth st.
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DR.. Strader has removed his residenc
from Masonic Temple to Poll street.
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DIED.

Try McMorry's Blend Coffee 35c.
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A member of Captain Lucey's Sac
ramento company of volunteers writes
the following gossipy letter from santa
Cruz:
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Two Christmas SfOriegs
Examples of Joy and Gladmess

to good humor. The older members of this
family had d ed and the younger members
scattered out to the larger cities. "Uncle
Jake" lost his home, and had also gone to
the city.
Suddenly Uncle Jake" Strengthened up
and stood away from the post he was lean
ing against. A smart appearing young man
of %, well dressed, came hurriedly down
the street. He had that appearance of
business man who detests a crowd and he
was paying little attention to anything
his efforts being bent on edging his way
through.
Uncle jake walked further into the
sidewalk. He eyed the young man strange
ly.
wonder If OATS him. he muttered half
aloud as the man hurried by without TAX
ing cognizance of him.
Dat mus be him. Wonder eff he'd know
OF Jake?'
The man heard some one call, "Young
Marser,' Young Marser," and he halted.
There was a scene. Possibly the old ster-
eotyped scene you will say. 1t is needless
to tell what transpired.
Uncle jake held five dollar note in h s
rusty palm when the young man walked
on and he went home that Christmas eve
night to a home of happy, woolly heads.
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Run, Fred, run! Mamma will starve IL
we get caught!''
1t was a little girl, poorly clad, with pale,
pinched cheeks, and big, blue eyes, who
gave the note of warning, and she and her
companion, boy about her own age, start
ed to run down Jana avenue.
The policeman caught the girl, but the
boy got away. He took her to the station
house his diminut.ve prisoner weeping con-
vulsively at her misfortune in being cap
tured.
Mamma Is dying" she cried. "She is
starving. II isn't wrong to beg for her, is
it?" But the policeman held her. AS she
quoted down she sobbed OUT I'm hun
gry too, but 1 don't mind that. It's NAM
ma think about"
SThe child was in fact SO weak she could
scarcely stand. The policeman carried her
? to the station house. where she was given
food and ate after the police had promised
to send to her mother.
In the meantime the police had been no
titled that a starving family had taken
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He was just an old negro. A primitive
specimen, in ragged apparel with a bald
head, an expanded mouth and, to round it
OFT, smile that could be provoked with the
least excuse. "Uncle Jake" they called
him. Yesterday "Uncle jake stood on a
corner by negro saloon shivering in the
cold. 1t did not require double glance
to tell that the old negro was detected. He
looked careworn, in striking contrast with
the crowd that surged about him, some
loaded down with Christmas packages, and
others stepping gaiy along to the shops to
purchase.
Uncle Jake" has a way of meditatng
aloud, or rather of soliloquizing. Now,
dem chilern. No money, no turkey, no
nothin and heah hits Christmas. or Mar
ser tol me long time ago my Judgments
was bad. 'Sot yer Judgments for cartan
thing he said, and compel hit to cum dat
way No use pestercatin' OF Jake haint
with a cent no how" And he again set
tied down in that same detected mood.
To go back to other years, "Uncle Jake"
was born and raised in country village
tecting wing of an old aristocratic family.
Christmas the family platter was always
especially well filled. In this family there
was a boy, Young Marser." 1t was Uncle
Jakes" delight to taunt this youngster into
anger and then cuddle and laugh him back
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CONSULAR REPORTS.
Interesting Facts Compiled by Consuls
in Foreign Countries.

Washington, December 24-The bureau
of foreign commerce of the state depart
ment has just published advance sheets of
consular reports an interesting compilation
of reports from various consular officers in
regard to the policies adopted by the re-
spective governments to extend foreign
commerce. These reports come from the
consulates general In France, Belgium,
Great Britain, Netherlands, Austria-Hun-
gary, Germany, Switzerland, Russia and
Japan. Wherever there is an established
bureau of commerce the consuls have given
a full outline of it's scope and workings.
Perhaps the most valuable information con-
tanned in the reports is that relative to the
effect of technical schools in extending for
eign trade The representatives from Ger
many and Great Britain are particularly
full, In the latter case embodying various
circulars and regulations issued by the
British colonial offices to foster trade be-
tween the mother country and the colonies.
Another series of the advanced sheets con-
tains a series of special reports, indicating
the method of collection of debts in foreign
countries by aliens.
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refuge In house which had been unoccu-
pied.
There the officers found a pitiful state of
affairs. On the floor in a corner, wrapped
in an old blanket, lay a dying woman,
gaunt and emaciated. She had contracted
rheumatism and pneumonia while nursing
her husband, who died five weeks ago.
These, with starvation, were killing her.
Crouching frightened beside the woman
was the boy, Fred. aged IA, who escaped
when his sister, Mamie, aged 9, was caught
begging. He had brought a few dry crusts
which he in vain urged his mother to eat
Two older children, boy and a girl, were
out looking for work, but they returned
with only failure to report For long time
the slender wages of the older children,
who worked in a factory, were the sole sup
port of the family. They were discharged
the same week their father died, and since
then no money has come in.
Piece by piece the furniture disappeared,
and when they were dispossessed for nom
payment of rent, the four children, with
their dying mother, crept into the vacant
house next door.
Just an incident of a crowded city, and an
instance of sadness where all is joy around
them, 1t has not occurred this Christmas
in Birmingham to the knowledge of the
writer but it is a true story from memory,
a sad story of one year ago.
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WE'RE NOT DESTROYED.
Tolles Denies That Standard Oil Com
pany's Books Were Burned.

Cleveland, o., December A.-Accordng to
Attorney Tolles, one of the Standard Oil
legal representatives, none of the books of
the company which are wanted for examin-
alton under the Ohio supreme courts recent
order, have been destroyed. He says that
only useless records or books have been
burned.
$50 far as 1 know" said Mr.. Tolles today,
''the books in question will be produced
when the proper time comes"
Owing to the non-appearance of high
Standard Oil officials whose testimony is
wanted, no dispositions were taken before
Notary Mason today and 1t is probable that
the hearing will not be resumed before the
middle of next week.
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GAINESVILLE, Wis, December 24.-Ithimathix
C. Sloane, distinguished lawer ex-con-
gresham, ex-attorney-general of Wisconsin
and dean of the law school of the Universe
ty Of Wisconsin, was found dead in his bed
today from stroke of apopiexy, aged 76.
Mr.. Sloane was member of the committee
ION military affairs in congress during the
administration of President Lincoln.
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TWO SOUL STIRRING
CHRISTMAS PUNCHES.
THE PUNCH OF "WGTOME."

OF
bottles
rum
made lei hot oil col
When served warm heatyo
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CHAMPAGNE PUNCH.

o
to
of
of
OF
ten
that the wine here mentioned should be cold that all should be
after mixing