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Boston to Welcome Taft.

BOSTON. December 13.-Secretary of
War William II. Taft will be the guest
of honor at tbs annual banquet of the
Boston Merchants A@-ociatioh here De-
&ember 80.
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mere was great difference OF opinion
in financial quarters yesterday as to
the probable effect upon the presidential
canvass and upon the stock market OF
President Roosevelt's latest announcement
of his position in the matter. Those who
have believed or professed to believe that
he would accept another nomination If 1t
were pressed upon him said yesterday
that his recent statement clarified the
whole situation very much.
They point out that it will now be pos
sible to nominate a man who will repre-
country and also the people at large.
Other observers CT the political situation
say that inasmuch as no one of the men
who have been most talked OF as
likely to receive the nomination OF the
republican party is apparently decidedly
in the lead, the uncertainty that naturally
develops in that connection will tend TO
retard general business and serve as a
check to the stock market.
There are still other interests which e
now fearful that Bryan will not only re-
ceive the nomination, BIT come danger
ously near being electe If he does
not actually get a plurality of the votes.
Upon this question there was also con-
ing. By some it was maintained that he,
if elected. would prove a less dangerous
man than Roosevelt. but those of more
conservative turn of mind were incnned
to hold a decidedly different opinion OF
that point. Summing up the g .ressions
of opinion that were made regarding the
political situation it was easy to see that
it is still regarded as decidedly mixed and
uncertain.
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Closing Quotations.

Closing Quotations.
At the close of the stock m,-ra+ .bo
Ioiio"lng stocks had changed in nrino
si ie above quotations, there heinz No
tons: e eiosAhs quota
american aeri Car and Foundry. a9.l.
american Ice Securities. iIA
american Smelling. 69H.
american Sugar, 94h.
american Tobacco, pfd.. 6915
Anaconda, DTS
3tchlson. Topeka and Santa Fe. 10
Baltimore and Ohio. S6ss.
Batopilas Mining, 33k.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit. 37%
e.. c.. c. and st. Louis, SIX.
Chlcago, Milwaukee and St. PauI 1onsL
Soiorado Fuel and Iron. 1874. %
delaware and Hudson. 1:;9.
Olstiilers Securities. 3Ias
General Electric. 11Ola.
Great Northern Oregon. A.
treat Northern. pfd. 114a..
louisville and Nashville, sos.
Mexican Central. 14B.
New York Air Brake. GA.
New York Central, a3L
Norfolk and Western. "a.
Northern Pacific. 1885,.
pennsylvania r. R.. ILL.,.
Pressed Steel Car, 10.
Halfway Steel Spring Co., 26l..
Reading. 90h.
Rock Island. com. liz
Rock Island, pfd, %,
Southern Pacific III.
Southern Railway ptu. 3Si
Union Pacific. 114A
T. 8. Rubber 10.
1. 5. Rubber pfd. 10
7. S. Steel. 25&s
I: 5. Steel pfd.. SGas
Wooden Goods. Is
American Tobacco IS. 81,
United States Steel rs S;a,
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The World Of
Finance and Trade
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Furnished by w. B. Hibbs & Co.. bank
ers and brokers, 1919 + stl ct. members
New York Stock Exchange. Washington
Stock Exchange and Chicago Board of
Trade
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BAR silver. quiet. 23lad per ounce.
Money. 31.a4 per cent.
The rate of discount in the >open market for
short hills is 6 per cent.
The rate of discount In the open market for
thrae-month bills is per cent.
sEy-diy
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BULLS AND BEARS.

NEW YORK. December Is. 1907.
Those most familiar with the monetary
situation believe it will continue to play
a prominent part in the stock market and
in general business for some little time
to come. 1t is also believed that it will
not be the dominant factor. inasmuch as
the political situation is likely to attract
constant attention from now until after
the next national election. few days
ago a prominent banker said that the ma
tional political outlook was much clearer
than it had been at any time since the
question of presidential candidates began
to be actively discussed. He declined.
however. to say anything in detail as TO
the basis for the opinion which he held.
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the White House social dranfas-adyised
by Alvey Augustus Adee. assistant sec
rotary Of state (facetiously dubbed "the
Presidents tutor in etiquette). to invite
foreign diplomats to this function and,
by virtue of their being the guests Of this
nation. to admit them first to the blue
parlor. Against this procedure Chief JUS
tice Fuller. the leader Of the Supreme
Court circle, has uttered an indignant
protest. and there Is some question
reception. on the 23d proximo. unless he
is assured that he and the associate JUS
tees, with their wives and ladies, will be
admitted to the President first and fore
most. ahead OF any diplomat, whether the
latter be tine personal proxy Of a foreign
sovereign or not But as far as the other
guests are concerned. they hope that the
diplomatic corps will continue to be in
vtted to al OF, the state receptions at
the White House, as they have been
White House levee loses its traditional
brilliance So nobody outside the presi-
Dental and Supreme Court households
cares snap OF his finger whether the
chief justice gets the first presidential
handshake or not -
At the state dinner to the Supreme
Court. the sixth act OF the drama, which
is scheduled for Thursday night. January
&c., the chief justice will balm no danger
Of having his dignity ruff1ed, for no dip
lOufaI Will De pgSSenL. SHleI JuStlCe L ui'
ler will enter the state dining room with
Mrs. Roosevelt upon his arm and the
President will escort the ranking lady
present, the chief justice being widower.
This dinner, Hike that to the cabinet. VIII
admit of several dozens Of guests outside
the honored circle. which is very small.
These may be any persons whom the
President may select.
The last two events will be receptions
to the Congress. Thursday evening.
February 8. and to the army and navy.
Thursday evening, February 20. The
congressional reception will be of unusual
interest because Of the fact that a brand
new Congress- Is In town. Moreover. the
gowns on that occasion are expected to be
Of unusual elegance because OF the re-
cent raise in congressional salaries. The
army and navy reception will be a fitting
climax to the seasons functions. It Is
always made brilliant by the dazzling uni
army, navy and Marine Corps.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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Last of the Montauks.
'm the New York World

From the New York World.
Henry Green, a Montauk Indian, has
the distinction of being the first of his
race admitted to Sailors Snug Harbor. on
Staten Island. Green Is eighty-two years
old and was for thirty years a sailor.
Indians have taken naturally to sea-
were fine salmon fishermen. In Atlantic
waters they gained a reputation for hardi-
hood as .whalers. From the settlement at
Gay Head. on Martha's Vineyard. made
by Indians who crossed from the main
land In canoes, Nantucket derived its best
harpooners. Was not the redoubtable
Tashtego of the "Pequod'' Gay Header ?
The Shinnecock Indians have won fame
as daring seamen. They have supplied
numerous recruits for the United States
life-saving service. Is their death chant
of defiance from the rigging of the
wrecked Circassia forgotten? The shores
of Long Island are thickly strewn with
the bones of Shinnecock sailors.
20 GREEN'S distinction OF being the first
of his race to enter the old sailors haven
must be added that of being perhaps the
last OF the once fiourishing tribe which
dominated the eastern end of Long Is
land. Decimated by pestilence in the sew
enteenth century, the Montauks were at
tackled by the Narragansetts and dis
persed. Their name is now a geographical
expression. A theater. a club and a bank
recall II to Brooklyn. But as long ago as
1870 the number of Montauk Indians sur
viving on Long Island was less than a
dozen. OF the Narragansetts only a small
Island. The Gay Headers" are all but
gone. The Shinnecock tribe musters a
few score at most. II is a mournful chan
ter of racial extinction.
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MANUSCRIPTS THAT SHED LIGHT ON KDD's PIRACY

board till they could be disposed of with
the rest of Kidds effects,
In another letter he writes: 1.-The pre-
serving. of Kidd and the rest and hinder
ing their escape out Of prison is in great
measure owing to the rewards gave tho
sheriff and keeper Of the prison here in
New York. and the caresses and good
words they had every day from me-"
E + X
Up to the last Kidd protested his inno-
cence and said that. far from being a pi-
rate himself, he had done his level best to
capture the famous pirate ship Mocha
with all its vast store of treasure. But
Joseph Palmer, one of his men, turned
states. evidence to save his own skin, and
deposed that he had encouraged and aided
the Mocha" instead of attempting to cap
ture her. Kidd Is spoken Of in the corre-
spondence as ''villainous monster" and
everybody seems to be disguised with the
whole affair. The earl writes: "Sir Ed
mund Harrison, who sent me to America,
gave me a terrible hard Presbyterian grippe
in the articles between him and me-" and
he speaks elsewhere of being given a
Presbyterian sripe"-apparently the
worst possible thing that could befall an
English nobleman Of the nineteenth GEN.
fury.
Frequently in the correspondents the
earl complains that his salary $4,000 Is
inadequate, and beseeches his friends to
use their influence to get 1t increased. He
makes frequent illusions to his rights in
the booty captured with the pirates. II
am told as vice admiral of these seas" he
writes In one place, II have a right to q
third part of them: IL the rest of the
lords come in for snacks shall be salts
fed" - .'-'l
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cabinet always receive their guests. who
invariably, enter through the blue room
door. on their left. The diplomatic corps
having been first received the ushers
will allow the other assembled guests to
file through the now, empty red parlor.
Col. Bromwell. the master OF ceremonies.
introducing each guest, in turn to the
President
The fourth act in this seasons social
dra ma will be the Diplomatic dinner
Thursday night. January 16. at o'clock.
the hour at which the President dimes the
year round. formally or informally. TIL,
same gorgeous court dress will be again
in evidence and the diplomatic corps is so
great that there will be room for no pad
ding at this function. although 1t is tina
invariable rule that the Vice President,
Secretary of State. Speaker. and the chair
the Senate and House shall be invited
with their INVESTOR there are no stag
affairs in the official schedule of White
House Inequalities. At this diplomatic
dinner the President will escort to the
state dining room Baroness Mayor des
Planches. whose husband. Baron Edmondo
Mayor des, Planches. the Italian ambassa-
dor, will by virtue of his being the dean
(senior member in servlce) of the diplo-
matte body here. escort Mrs. Roosevelt.
Friction Over Precedent.
The judicial reception, the fifth act on
the seasons program. will be the only
function on the entire list whereat social
friction is feared.
The members of the Supreme Court OF
the land. who regard it's power and impor-
lance as second to those OF no other Of
fetal body. not even to those of the Pres
ident himself, are now the honor guests.
But it has become a custom Of the mas
ter of ceremonies-the stage manager OF
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,ecial CORRESPONDENCE Of The Star.


LONDON. December 4, 1907.
- ONE interesting manuscripts have
been discovered at Welbeck Abbey,
the seat of the Duke of Portland,
whose titles and estates are being con-
tested in the sensational bruce case,
which throw some new light on the career
Of Capt. Kidd. They are mostly letters
from the Earl of Bellomont, who was
sent out by William III as governor of
New York and Massachusetts, with special
Instructions to suppress the pirates in
Testing the Atlantic. He supplied Kidd
with a vessel Of thirty guns and a COM
mission under the great seal both to act
against the French and seize the pirates.
Kidd, as everybody knows, fell victim
to temptation and turned pirate himself.
There was much suspicion at the time
that Lord Bellomont was really backing
Kidd in the pirate venture and was not at
all averse to making money that way, as
long as his own participation in the me-
farious business was not disclosed. Kidd,
in his protest" which is included in the
documents, says:
1.-The ship being bought, rugged. manned
and named the Adventure Galley the
Lord Bellomont encouraged me to pro-
coed by assuring me that the noble lords
above mentioned (the Duke of Shrews-
bury, the Lord Chancellor, Earl of Rom
ney and Admiral RusselD should stifie all
complaints that should be made in Eng
land and he himself would prevent all
clamours in those parts where he was
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HE curtain rose on this year.
official social drama last Thurs
day night December 49,, when
the guests at the state dinner
to the cabinet thrust their knees
beneath the mahogany in the big state
dining room OF the White House.
This was the first of the eight acts OF
the social drama whose dates have al.
ready been set. even that of the last.
There are always eight. and they always
occur on Thursday night. except the Off
cial public levee which begins at II am,
New Year day.
Throughout 1.-The season." which begins
at about this time each year, Thursday
night is always white House night" 1t
is left blank on the engagement lists of the
household laying any claim whatsoever to
social prestige. A ball or reception sched-
uled for that night would be an absolute
failure if the hostess depended for her
guests upon the coterie which boasts OF
having its names upon the White House
list-which has an entree ''at court The
ambitious who have not been entered as
yet upon the White House list will eschew
conspicuous Inequalities on Thursday
night because such entertainment would
advertise the fact that they are not re-
ceived at court" And they may have
hopes. For the past century an, invita-
ton to the White House has had the
weight of a royal command. 1t cancels
all invitations which hostess may have
out, and no society matron wishes to run
the risk of unreadiness should Mrs.
Roosevelt take the notion to dispatch her
social messenger demanding her 0he
matron's) attendance at the White House
at the last moment So Thursday night
remains dull one for social pretenders
who are not "at court"
Rules for the Cabinet Dinner.
The state dinner to the cabinet, which
we said was the first act of the social
drama, admits of much padding. The
cabinet is small coterie and it and it's
ladies but meagerly fill the great horse
shoe of mahogany which Theodore Roose-
welt spreads In his state dining room
upon each of these formal occasions At
the state dinner to each of the other
coteries so honored the President escorts
to the banquet board the wife of the rank
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governor by condemning all tie goods and
treasure l should bring in, and disposing
of them privately. and satisfying the own
ers for such part as should be due to
them
These accusations Lord Bellomont, of
course, bitterly resents, and declares that
the pirates have cost him more troubls
and torment than any business during his
whole life and he Is not brass farthing
the better for them.
y
One of the most interesting disclosures
made by these documents is that it seems
to have been hard at that time to tell just
who were pirates and who were not so
dishonest were the kings own officers.
Gardiner, the deputy lieutenant of Rhode
Island, refuses to give up to the earl all
the pirates in his hands. and has writ me
an evasive, tricking letter." writes the earl.
He is very i'll man. Capt. Outlook as
sures me that a silver tankard Of his that
was in the ship Bradish' Zone of Kids
crew. ran away with and was seen in
GARDENERS house. 1t Is scandalous that
such a man should be in the kings serv-
Ice" He adds that he is continuing the
search for Kids treasure, but without
much success "a Capt. Thomas Clarke. !"
he continues was said to have E10.000 or
f12OOO in his hands, and have confined
him in the fort at New York. l was in
hopes he was going to give it up but
some pettifogging lawyers advised him to
set me at defiance
In the same letter he states: II also
send home a negro boy and girl. which
Kidd, at his first arrival here, made a
present of to my wife; but she would not
accept Of them, and they were put to
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GERMAN LITERATURE.
General.

0SueI6l.
Dge@ns Hermann , ,Isstr Ps ns aherleben
Georgy, Ernst, pseud. Morgenroete. 1901
vcn e seck DER s
NORM, A. Johannes Brahms. 1897. WHO
sprache isOi. Xi7G-spa4. W.
wolsast. Heinrich. Elend unserer Jugend'
wo'gast. Heinrich, yom Kinderbueh, gesam
meite Aufsaetze. 1906. Zx-wsSv.
Poetry and DRAINS.
Rsyer; Conrad . q Dc preus1entid' elm sehau
s,Is isS T GsTsiT Iunsfrn v0m Bshof'
Kinkel Gottfried.A Gediehte. ". 1887
} sudermsSh. Hermann n. sturmgeselIs Socrates,
1908. Y41D-Su23Ist
Fiction.
yersoehnung 1901. Y4iF- BJ4S
Boehlau Helene. salih Kaiiske. 1902. Y47F
Eckstein. Ernst; Camilla. 1909. Y41F-EcS5se
Fontsns: Theodor. vpr dem sturm 1906
L-Sra1zsS. X. f. judith Trachtenberg. 1906
Fran.s E. suHe ceschiehten. Y.7r
Frsn.os, E. Tra gische Novellen. y47F.
Gsnsscfsr, Ludwig. Der Besondere. 1903
s9pssctsE. Ludwig Jaeger Won Fail. 1906
TGsns6ofer. Ludwig Rachele scarpa. 1890
fsiorky. Maxim. I'm Gram gesammelte Erzaeh.
In-en den.s Husefschen Michael Feofa.
Mlern. IcfM wilhelmine Won. Friedhofs.
bluIsr 1sS3 Y47F-H553f.
Ifueh. Ricardo. Erinnerungen Ludolf
Ursiea den Juengeren. 1905. Y41FHS62e.
!eaSsp Wilhelm, Edssstone. 1894. xA1F'
JenseA wilhelm. Pfeifer rom Dusenbach
1s94- Y4TF-J457p.
Keller. Gottfried. zuericher Novellen. 1906.
Kretzer. Max. versehlossener Mensch. ". in
assdsy; Rps sssi Der Fanar und Mayfair
Linden. RudoIf Lange Hollaender. 1908.
Maeiles. q. A. Ais die Goetter starben. 1902.
stern. adolf. Aussewaehlte Novellen. 1905,
YI7F-St41.
Sudermann. Hermann. Geschwister. Zwel
Noyellen. 1909; Y4IF-su2s7g.
yoss. Richard; Roemische Dorfseschichten.
voss Richard. sigurd Eckdals Braut. 1900
voss. Richard. suedliches Blut. Y47F-vs3ssu
wilbrandt. Adolf. villa Maria. 1902. Y4IF-
w649v.
wolzogen. Ernst Won. Drltte Geschlecht. 1900
Y41F-WS39d.
wolzogen Ernst Won. Tolle Komtesz. 1889
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woerishoener. S. Natwforseherschi1. 1905
zschokke. ]. II. d. NovelIen. 10v. 1904
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| the student or visitor. First in order are
| shown the churches of Ravenna-that
| city to which the Emperor Honorfus fled
when the horse men Of Alaric were laying
waste italy. and wherein the first Chris
tan art, as 1t emerged from the cata-
combs. found expression. Revenna today
and rough facades. externally unattractive,
but internally beautiful; and one can well
fancy that such condition must pre-
vail. 1Homely enough are the pictures
Of the .exteriors Of the basilicas and bap-
tistries and wonderfully beautiful the
reproductions Of their interiors. No peril
cd in the history OF art Is more vitality
interesting that this and none which more
richly rewards the inquirer. And from
Ravenna to Rome is but a step. The
Byzantine influence. so patent in the
chupches of Ravenna. manifests itself In
the early churches Of Rome, which before
the days of Constantine were In some
instances used for secular purposes. The
Pantheon. for examples which Is consid-
cred the most perfect pagan building In
the city. was erected by Marius Agrippa
in q B. c., and not consecrated as
church until COS A. D. The wonderful
Of these houses of worship make an ex-
hibit by themselves and open the way
| naturally to the sympathetic apprecia-
ton Of the early painters. The 'gaunt
and wasted faces OF the Byzantine wom-
en- are found in the paintings OF Gina
bue. Giotto and their followers. and the
drapery is arranged in no less formal
folds than in the mosaics OF three CEN
| turtles earlier. 1t is hard to realize today.
when viewing the reproduction. why a
whole city should have gone mad with
Joy over the altar piece which Cimabue
painted for the Church of Santa Maria
Novella, IN Florence. though in its SIM
plicity. decorative treatment and gravity
| It still makes appeal. In those days
architecture and painting and political
history were so closely allied that 1t Is
difficult now to disentangle one from the
other or to study any one separately. This
exhibit will probably remain on view for
two or three more weeks.
Another exhibition of, unusual note
which the print division Of the Library of
Congress is arranging Is that OF the work
Of American illustrators. Through the
copyright division the Library has been
enabled to collect abundant material of
the first order and for the past six months
preparations for its exhibition have been
in progress. This is a field Of art which
Is we'll deserving Of attention and yet one
which makes popular appeal.
-
Two interesting paintings which are
now in the Boston Art Museum were
shown in this city at the Gallery of For
eign Arts last week. One was a picture
supposed to represent Christ before Plate, |
presumably the work Of Caravaggio. and |
the other landscape with figures at
trfbuted with some certainty to Zuccarelli |
The one was previously owned by. col. |
lector. In Switzerland and the other came |
from Sir Charles Cootes' collection.
LEILA MECHLIN.
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
NEW BOOKS ON SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING.

The following books have recently been added
TO the library:
Mathematics.
OF Mathematics. 1888 LB-RI65.
Bc1a. oskaI; Lectures on the Calculus Of
ArfS Sss SIR 1905 81 LsI s a'nem.e' on'en'
Business MSSse 1rt h fea i MRfr c
Newcomb Simon. Algebra for Schools and
T"it' p. g. Elementary treatise on ouater.
Mons. 1873. LGQ-T135.
Physics.
Ball, Sir r. S. Experimental Mechanics. 1871.
Draper. j. W. Scientific Memoirs. 1878. LK.
PoIncare. Lucien. New Physics and It's Evolu-
PrIestley. Joseph. Scientific Correspondents.
Todhnnter. Isaac Treatise on Analytical Sta
ties. 1874. LIB 56.
Astronomy.
CIerke. y. NJ. The System of the Stars. 1905.
Ericsson ,fcS; John Solar Investigations. 1876,
ocott W t. a Field Book of the Stars.
Proctor, r. A. Star Atlas for Students and
Observers. 1892 LT-Ps4 Reference.
nSd Of e9sgsG
Building.
Black. John. ed. Artificial Stone. sC-B56a
Cain William. Theory of Steel-concrete Arches
and Of vaulted Structures, 1906 sF-Cl26t
Carver. G. Il. Instructions to Inspectors on
Reinforced Concrete Construction. 1906 Sc
Hasluck. p. ", ed. Rustic Carpentry. 1907.
Jenkin. Fleming Healthy Houses; Adapted
to American Conditions by G. E. Warning. 1879.
Kidder. F. E. The Architects and Builders
Pocketbook. 1906. S-K53.
National Fire Proonng Company. Pittsburg:
the iS,N Camera ~ ire 1906 &c pan siY.N2i. '-
Rice. II. H.. and others. The Manufacture of
s GGuSts5s bS scS ase RSsT Con
sc-Tei.
Mechanical Engineering.
Benjamin: C: II. Modern American Machine
s ssn?f: r. l. Formulas in Gearing 1905 IA
Foster. Frank; Steam Turbines and TurbO-
PerrigO, G, @. E: Modern American Lathe
Rogers Rogers. W. o.. ed. Kinks and Recipes for
EnSineers. No: 2. 1905. TC-Rs8.
selden. F. H.. Elementary Turning; for Use
in Manual Training Glasses. 1907. TG-Se4S.
Surveying.
Daniels. F. T. A Text Book of Typographical
Gurley. Mathematical Instrument Makers. In.
struments Used i'm Engineering and Surveying.
1907. GE-G96 Reference.
Ives H. c.. and Hits. II. f. Problems In
Surveying. Railroad Surveying and Geedesy. 1900
Tracy, ]. C. Plane Surveying. 1907. GE-
T6I Reference.
Yachts and Sailing.
Davis. C. G. How to Design Yacht. 1906.
CuT-D29.
Littlehales, G. W. Development Of Great Cir
Gle Sailing. 1899. UPN-LI33.
Skene n. L. Elements Of Yacht Design. 1904.
UuT-Sk26.
Taunt. E. H. Young Sailors Assistant. 1899.
CPN-Tl9-
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