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AGONCILLO TALKS.
Says His People Will Always Fight
For Independence.

NEW YORK, Feb. Ga dispatch to
the Herald" from Troy, N. Y, says:
In an interview here tonight Agon-
clio said, concerning the fighting at
Manila:
There may have been an exchange
of shots by accident. / did not advise
such a thing. l came on a mission Of
peace 1 came to offer the United
States every possible commercial adj
vantage. We want to be friendly with
the United States. We are willing to
pay the $2O,0o0,000 to Spain and also
pay all the expenses of Dewey's fleet
at Manila All we want is to be indie
pendent and to have the friendship of
the United States. We are not pau
pers We are people and we love our
freedom"
Are your people willing to accept
anything short of Independence
Il will not say. They went to be free
and independent the same as this coun-
try"
What will they do if the treaty is
ratified and the United States sssume
sovereignty?"
Il do not know. If the Americans
attempt to conquer the Philippines it
will take them at least ten years, and
even then it would not be conquered IN
heart. They will never be conquered
They will be constantly rising to gain
their independence"
1T is too bad" concluded the Fill
pino; II came to your country to offer
you the friendship of my people-to
give you our trade and pay you all the
expenses of obtaining our freedom for
us from Spain. In return you refuse
to listen to me- If you had only been
willing to listen what had to offer all
this trouble could and would have been
avoided 1t is not of the seeking OF
my people. 1 am sorry"
Agoncillo repeated that he would re-
turn to the United States as soon as
he learned the reliable news about the
events of Saturday in the Philippines
The impression that his manner gave
was that he is very badly frightened
enyoy
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SKAGUAY (Alaska), Jan 80 (via
Seattle, Feb. 5.)-A monster petition to
President Mckinley and the members
of the Joint High Commission is being
signed, asking their assistance in Sc
curing the repeal of the alien exclusion
Act recently passed by the Government
of British Columbia, in which the Atlin
Mining district is located. The petition
has already received 5000 signatures.
Five thousand in all are expected to
sign. The petition will be forwarded
to Washington on the next steamer.
Canadians are signing as rapidly as
Americans. The former are even more
bitter against the British Columbian
Government than the Americans. The
trade is already seriously affected, and
a high official of the White Pass Rail-
road to-day said that the English own
ers have cabled over that if the eXclu
sion Act is not repealed work on the
road will be ordered stopped. The Por-
cupine and Salmon River districts, on
the Dalton trail, are coming to the
front, and prospectors originally headed
for Atlin are going into the fields in
American territory.
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PEARY'S LAST BEAR.
Precautions Taken to Preserve It's
Snow-White Skin Unsoiled.

To the youthful readers of est.
Nicholas" Lieutenant Peary tells. in
the February number, of some of his
adventures as killer and a capturer
of polar bears.
AT the first glimpse of daylight on the
morning of September 4th, the Hope
got under way, and steamed out for
Cape York to land my faithful Eskimo
assistants As we steamed out
through the western passage between
MeteCrite Island and Akpudi, we en-
tered the fleet of countless bergs sweep
ing out of Melville Bay, dazzling in
their glittering brilliancy, and with the
dancing whitecaps flashing between
them in every direction.
Scarcely were we we'll within this
Arctic white squadron, threading our
way between the stately cruisers, when
one of my quickeyed Eskimos cried out
"Nannooksoah!" He had seen the
bear for an instant far up on the top
OF a big berg, one of the tabular giants
of Melville Bay, peering over its pre-
cipitous face, but it had quickly disap-
peared. AS we steamed slowly round
the berg. he came into view again, a
beautiful white animal with contrast
ing black nose, moving leisurely along
the surface of the iceberg. The cap
tain and I both CHANGED shot at him
at long range, and the Captains bullet
grazed his hind leg, making him whlrl
AMI snap savagely at the wound. Ihen
he galloped awkwardly away and ols-
appeared round pinnacle of the berg.
Circling the berg again, we discovered
him in the water swimming Vigorously
and several shots were fired at him, one
of which took effect, and he apparently
collapsed completely; yet a Few mo-
ments later he was swimming of AGAIN
and If was only after had boat low
cred that he was secured.
The fur of this animal was so spot
1essly white and unstained that l gave
orders not to have him lowered upon
the deck. but kept him suspended from
the tackle until, a few hours later We
reached Cape York, and, moorlngA the
Hope against the face of glacier, ne
was swung out on to the surface OF tne
glacier. covered with newly fallen
snow. and there skinned and the beau
tiful pelt rolled up and packed away
still unsullied. This was our last bear.
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COLONEL SECTIONS DEATH.
Elaborate Funeral Arrangements
Made at Chicago.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. = Colonel
James A. Sexton, Commander-in-Ch Chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
and member of the War Investigating
Commission, died at $40 o'clock this
morning at Garfield Hospital from COM
plications resulting primarily from an
attack of the grip.
Mrs. Sexton and her son Williams were
with the Colonel at the time of his
death. Tonight the body was put
aboard the 1920 train for Chicago, six
G. A. r. veterans acting as pail bear
ers. There were no funeral services
in this city. At Chicago elaborate mill
tary funeral arrangements are being
made. Many floral tributes, among
them handsome wreath from Presi-
dent Mckinley, were received by the
family to-day.
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TO FOLLOW HIS VICTORY.
General Otis Will Be Instructed to
Crush Aguinaldo's Power.

CHICAGO, Feb. "a special to the
Times Herald" from Washington says:
Instructions will be sent to Major Cen
eral Otis tomorrow directing him to
follow up his victory over the insur-
gents and to crush the power of Aguin-
aldo in the Philippines.
This was the decision reached at an
important Cabinet meeting held in the
White House tonight, attended by the
President, Secretaries Hay and Alger
and Attorney General Griggs and Ad-
jutant General Corbin.
1t was further decided. now that
Aguinaldo has thrown down the gaunt-
let, that Iloilo shall be taken and the
islands of the archipelago occupied as
rapidly and to the extent that General
Otis forces will permit.
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CouRs1NG AT SAN JOSE.
Motto and Fault1ess Beauty Took
First and Second Money.

SAN JOSE, Feb. 5.-The results of
the coursing races to-day were as fol-
lows:
Locomotive beat Prince Dexter, Royal
Flush beat Richmond Boy True Blue
beat Sandow, Motto beat Rustic Lily,
Red Rock beat Our Boy, Rush O'Hill
beat Lady Islington, Brimboo beat
Belle, Jennie Deane beat Dusty Roads,
Little Joker beat Maud, Dark Rustic
beat Madge Wildfre Vigilant beat
Satsuma, Flush beat Bonnie Scotland,
Revolver beat Silence, Faultless Beauty
beat Dawn, Mountain Boy beat Bill
Nye, Blue Rock beat Swift.
Second round-Royal Flush beat Lo-
connective, Motto beat True Blue, Rush
O'HiH beat Red Rock, Brimboo beat
Jennie Deane, Dark Rustic beat Little
Joker, Vigilant beat Flush, F'aultless
Beauty beat Revolver, Blue Rock beat
Mountain Boy.
Third round-Rush O'HilI beat Royal
Flush, Motto beat Brimboo, Dark Rus
tic beat Vigilant, Faultless Beauty beat
Blue Rock
Fourth round-Motto beat Rush
O'Hill. Faultless Beauty beat Dark
Rustic.
Final-Motto and Faultless Beauty
took first and second money.
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RIOToUs TROOPS.
They Tried to Lynch the Slayer Of
One Of Their Number.

AUGUSTA (Ga.), Feb. 5.-Much ex-
element prevailed here to-day as a
result of the killing last night in
saloon row of Dennis O'Conneu of the
Fifteenth Minnesota by Brown Hadley,
barkeeper. Many of OConnells COM
rades swore revenge and after the po-
lice had arrested Hadley, planned to
take him from the officers Shortly at
ter breakfast about a hundred Of the
Minnesota boys, who had no ball cart
ridges for their rifles, stole pick axes
from the regimental store and breaking
open the ammunition cases each took
about fifty rounds of ammunition.
The news soon reached the ears Of
General S. S. Sumner, commander of
the First Division of the Second Army
Corps and he ordered out the Third
Cavalry, Tenth Ohio and Thirty fifth
Michigan Regiments. The men were
deployed as skirmishers and the woods
in the vicinity of the camp were scour-
ed. The entire lot were arrested and
put under guard. The ringleaders are
in irons. The military authorities re-
fuse to make public the names of the
men under arrest.
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INsULAR CABINET.
That Of San Juan Makes Demands
on General Henry.

SAN JUAN DE PORTO RICO, Feb.
5.-The Insular Cabinet late yesterday
rendered it's resignation to Governor
General Henry. General Henry order
ed General Eaton to take charge of the
Department of Public Instruction and
instructed Major Pierce to take charge
of the public works. Both of these de-
partments belong to the Interior De-
partment.
The Cabinet demands the immediate
appointment of a successor to Senior
Carbonell and that natives be appoint
ed in place of General Eaton and Ma
jor Pierce, in accordance with previous
enunciations of the policy of General
Henry and the Colonial Commission
that no Americans are to hold Office
here. General Henry promises compi-
ance with these demands and the resig
nations Of the members of the Insular
Cabinet are, therefore, held in abey-
ance.
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IT'S DEATH BLOW.
Filipinos Think That independence
Has Received It.

MANILA, Feb. 6. 6 a. m.-The Fill
pines have apparently reached the con-
clusion that the Americans mean bust
ness, now that the barriers are re-
moved. as there were no further hostil-
tiles last night. and no attempt was
made to recover the lost ground. It is
possible, however, that they are follow
ing tactics they employed against The
Spaniards, and will merely lie off a
few days to recuperate their forces be-
fore returning to the attack.
II is impossible to ascertain as yet
how the news has been received at Ma
lolos, the seat of the insurgent Govern
rrent, but the Filipinos in Manila ex-
press the opinion that the movement
for independence has received its, death
Flow, and that annexation will soon be
welcomed generally.
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san Francisco data: Maximum tenn
rerature a, minimum SO, mean ~
The weather is cloudy in Southern
Oregon, the upper Sacramento Valley,
along the northern California Coast
and in Southern Arizona. Elsewhere it
is fair. Light rain is falling at Eu-
reka. Light rain fell at San Diego and
rain or snow in Arizona during the day
Light snow furries are reported from
the mountain regions of California
The temperature has fallen over
Southeastern California and Arizona
and remained stationary in all other
districts.
Conditions are favorable for contin
ued cold weather with severe frosts in
California Monday.
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Once fortnight there appears in
Rome a journal called "vox Urbis." 1t
is written entirely in Latin, and in this
tongue discusses the most modern
events. The Dreyfus case does not
puzzle it in the slightest, and M. Glenn
enceau becomes "ferox vehemenesqua
homo: but "vive PArmee," we are
told. becomes "Bene exercitus." Smith
Minor would be glad if he were allowed
to use such freedom of translation.
ssBene exercitus'' he would translate as
.sveu exercised. London Globe.
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California Regiments Losses.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. .. The
following is a list of the members OF the
First Regiment of California Volun-
teers who were. killed or wounded in the
battle of Manila:
Dead-Private Charles c. Ballinger,
Company L.
Wounded-Lieutenant Charles Hogan,
Sergeant William Wall, Private A f.
Scheerer of Company G. Private Joseph
Mater, Company H.
1t is not certain that the above list
is complete, but no other names had
been received here at a late hour.
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sToRM-RIDDEN COLORADO.
Snowfall the Heaviest Ever Exper-
fenced and Cold Intense.

DENVER, Feb. 5.-The conditions in
stOrm-ridden Colorado are but little
changed from those which have existed
for the past ten days, except that to-
day but little snow has fallen. How
ever, reports from all directions in the
State show that more or less snow is
falling tonight, which may develop in
to another heavy storm before morn
ing. The cold weather throughout the
State has been unprecedented, the ther-
nlometer registering 80 degrees below
zero in the greater portion of North
eastern Colorado and all the way from
to % degrees below in other portions
of the State. The damage to railroads
has been great and the loss to stock
men immense. The Denver and Rio
Grande- Railroad is still unable to run
trains east and west between Leadville
and Glenwood Springs, and several
hundred of their passengers are snow
bound at these places. The company
has men and rotary engines working
night and day in the drifts at Shoshone
and the officials say that the road will
be open for traffic tomorrow. Six
slides at Shoshone have covered nearly
400 feet of track with snow to the
depth of from two to twenty feet. The
weather is growing much colder there.
which is favorable to the progress OF
the workmen, as this precludes the pos
sibility of another heavy snowfall as
long as the cold continues.
The track over Marshall Pass has
been cleared and the road is nearly
clear to Gunnison on the second divis-
ion of the Denver and Rio Grande. The
Midland Terminal road issagain oparat-
ing trains into the Cripple Greek dis
trict, and the South Park has pushed
through the snow as far as Dillon and
Fairplay.
From Wyoming come reports of deep
snow and undoubted heavy losses to
cattle and sheep. Throughout the
Platte Valley the snow is four feet
deep on the level In the northern part
of the State the snowfall is the heay-
lest ever experienced.
In the Powder River country feed is
running low and much loss to stock is
threatened President j. w. Springer
of the National Live Stock Association.
says the Situation in the storm-swept
sections Of the west and southwest is
becoming alarming He is receiving re-
ports to the effect that cattle in Texas
are dying In great numbers and the
| loss cannot be estimated Mr.. Springer
expresses very grave fear that the
West is passing through an experience
almost as disastrous as that Of the Win
tier Of 1886.
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WORTHLESS RAT1oNs.
Spoiled Beef in Cans Issued to the
Destitute at Havana.

HAVANA, Feb. 5.-Inspector General
Breckenridge has discovered among the
army rations issued to the destitute in
Havana hundreds of cases of spoiled
beef, and it is believed there are 9TH
ers, but just how many, only the in
spection can determine. The marks on
the cases show Chicago, July, 1898"
They were bought by Captain o. M.
Smith of the Subsistence Department
of Armour, Libby, McNeal & Libby,
and were sent to Porto Rico Yester-
day some of the cans were given to the
destitute, who refused to use the con-
tents.
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FOoTPADs CAUGHT.
One Of Them Resisted Arrest and
Tried to Shoot an Officer.

SAN JOSE, Feb. 5-Peter BONNER,
head gardener at Edenvale, five miles
south of town, was held up by two
footpads at 8 O'Clock this evening when
about halfway home from San Jose,
and robbed of a gold watch, after be-
ing knocked down and beaten. The
Sheriff was notified, and at 8 o'clock
Deputies Bates and Druschmeyer
caught the robbers on Almaden ave-
nue..
They proved to be John Brooks and
]. Mcclellan, the latter well known to
the police as a petty offender. Brooks
resisted arrest and tried to shoot Dep
uty Bache, but was beaten badly about
the head with a dubbed pistol Nc
Lellan confessed, and the stolen prop
edty was recovered.
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CANADIAN CABINET.
It Holds Council in New York II
Transact Dominion Business.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The Canadian
Cabinet held a session in this city to-
day at which official business of the
Dominion was discussed Sir Wilfred
Laurier, Premier, presided, and the en-
tire Ministry were present
The council, which is the first Of a
foreign Power to be held in this city.
was made necessary by the absence
Of the Canadian Premier, Laurier, and
other Canadian officials who are mem
bersi of the Joint High Commission. The
Premier said he was unable to give
anything pertaining to the meeting to
the press.
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Mrs. Botkin Will Appeal.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5.-Papers
on appeal in the case of Mrs. Cordelia
Bot4n will be filed tomorrow. and
Judge Cook has already consented to
grant writ of probable cause. This
will act as stay of proceedings, and
will have the effect of permitting Mrs.
Botkin to remain in this county until
the decision on that appeal shall have
been rendered by the Supreme Court.
She will remain in the Branch County
Jail until the appeal is decided.
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Acting Commander-in-Chief.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 5.-Captain w.
c. Johnson of this city. Senior Vice
Communicating Chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, under the Con-
stitution, becomes the acting Com
Chief at once upon the death
of his superior, and continues as such
until the vacancy is filed by the Ma
tional Council of Administration The
Ohio Department will urge upon the
council that Captain Johnson, who has
a brilliant war record, be elected Com
mander-in- Chief.
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ing the first shot at Manila, was a re-
cruit who joined the First Regiment at
San Francisco several weeks after the
mastering and departure from Ne
braska His home is thought to be
Madison or Norfolk. The First Ne
braska is commanded by Colonel John
M. Stolzenberg, who is a First Lieuten-
ant in the Sixth Cavalry of the regular
army
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Washington Regiments KILLED.

PORTLAND orr, Feb. "a dis
patch to the "Oregonian" from Spo-
kane gives the names of those of the
Washington regiment killed in the Ma
Mia fight They are as follows:
First Lieutenant Edward Kerwin,
Company A. First Washington Volun-
teers; Privates John Klein and James
Green, Company A of Tacoma; Private
Oscar Howard, Company c. enlisted at
San Francisco; Privates William E.
Fair and Richard H. McClain.
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scHMIDT's AssAILANT.
Police Arrest Charles Forrest on
Suspicion of Doing the Deed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5.-Charles
Forrest was arrested to-day on susplc-
ion of having committed the brutal as
sault with a hatchet on Adolph Schmidt
on Saturday, from the effects OF whlch
he now lies at the point of death. For
rest was found by the police following
trail of blood leading to his room
from that of Schmidt. On being TAKEN
into custody he exclaimed
do you want the hatchet! Iheh
he became sullen and denied all knowl-
edge of the crime. He Is known 70
have gone home with Schmidt on the
night of the attempted murder.
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TERRIBLE SCENES.
A ConAagration Destroys a Village
in Hungary.

LONDON, Feb. 6.-The DAILY Tele-
graph publishes the following dispatch
from Vienna:
Terrible scenes We're witnessed in
the confiagration last Tuesday night
which destroyed the whole village Of
Nagyprobroez, in the Liptau district
of Hungary. Twenty men, literary IN
flames, ran about the streets until they
dropped insensible. Many were trodden
by maddened animals Others were
frozen to death in the open fields.
Twenty charred bodies have been re-
covered, and ninety of the survivors
are suffering from dreadful burns, sew
eral being blinded.
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: No New Gases of Smallpox.

LOS ANGELES, Feb 5.-For the first
time in nearly a week, no new cases of
smallpox We're reported to the health
authorities to-day. One death resulted
from the disease to-day
The condition of the patients now in
the pesthouse IS as good as could be
expected. 81
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Coolest Of the Season.

AUSTIN Tex.), Feb. 5-Central and
Western Texas was to-day visited by
the coolest weather of the season. The
BLIZZARD was a:wet norther with the
temperature so low that the rain froze
as it fell, covering everything with ice.
The loss to thecattle on western ranges
will doubtless he heavy.
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Omaha Soldiers Killed.

OMAHA. Feb. "a private catle-
gram dated Manila was received here
to-day from Captain Taylor of Com
pany l, First Nebraska Volunteers. 1t
stated that Privates Charles O. Balm
ger and Ralph w. Kims of Company I
We're killed in Saturdays engagement
Both men lived in Omaha
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Away Below Zero.

PORTLAND (Or). Feb. 5.-The cold
weather of the past few days over the
entire Pacific Northwest still contin-
ues. Reports from Eastern Oregon and
Eastern Washington show that the
thermometer ranged from ten to twenty
degrees below Zero
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Remnants of Silks and
SatinS.

From the past few weeks great
silk selling at the remarkably
low prices which have prevailed
there remains quite an accumu-
lation Of short lengths of vari-
Gus co1ors. prices and kinds.
They are all such as can be used
for some purpose, trimmings,
rulings, etc., and all have been
reduced again that they may go
quickly.
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THEIR LAST SERVICES.
A Struggling Congregation Gives
Up the Fight With Debt.

Los ANGELES. Feb. 5.-There was
a pathetic scene at Simpson Tabernacle
this evening. when the congregation
which built the fine temple and has
struggled for years against a burden
of debt, met for their last services in
what they had so long considered their
church home
A company is now in process of for
nation to purchase the tabernacle and
lease it for legitimate amusement and
concert purposes.
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Nearly Wiped Ont.

CARTERSVILLE (Ga.), Feb. 5.-The
town of Stilesboro was nearly wiped
out of existence to-day by q tornado.
No lives were lost but several people
were injured. The Methodist Church
demolished.
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SSOlJF
A fresh lot of Curticc Bros
Blue Label Soups----Green
Turtle, Mock Turtle, OK
Tail and Tomato----in foil
quart cans.
CURTIS & CO.'S MARKET, SOS K Street.

tempt to learn the machinists trade,
and the chances would be against such
a boys proper advancement, for ones
best work and development are the OUT
come of being congenially employed"
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A Modest Youth.

"Who is the smartest boy in your
class, Bobby" asked his uncle.
I'D like to tell you,'' answered Bobby,
modestly. Only papa says I must not
oast."-Harper's Bazar..
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San Francisco Dogs Won.

STOCKTON, Feb. 5.-San Francisco
dogs took first, second and third money
in to-day's coursing at Goodwater
Grove. Prince of Fashion, Seldom and
Capadura is the order in which they
won
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WEATHER OUTLOOK.
Conditions Augur Continued Cold
Weather and Severe Frosts.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5.-The fol-
lowing are the seasonal rainfalls to date
as compared with those of the same
date last season, and rainfall in last
twenty-four hours:
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Overdue Steamer Safe.

NEW YORK, Feb 6.-The overdue
Cunard liner Lucania was sighted off
Fire Island at 1890 this morning
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A scientist has calculated that the
eyelids of the average man open and
shut no fewer than 100000 times in
the course Of a single year of his exist
ence.
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A Common Wish.

II wish I could make both ends
meet sighed Patty. I've got new
hat and new pair of shoes, and then
/ wouldn't need anything else. "-Har-
per's Bazaar.