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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12
Pensions.

Kindly inform me through the Query
Column of your Sunday paper what Con-
fedcrato soldiers are entitled to pensions
in Virginia. and obllge,
AN OLD CONFEDERATE.
Tho pension act applies to natives Of
Virginia who enlisted from this or any
other State in the military or naval
service OF the Confederate States, and
WHO is at tho date of his application for
pension Citizen End actual resident Of
Virginia, Pensleas IRE paid as follows:
Glass Alto eSss'7 person who has lost
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12
Rates to Panama.

Can you give me the rates and days
Of sailing from New York to Panama:
G. O. A.
Rate is $3.50 to soe,5o. according to
vessel and location. Schedules are
complicated too much for reproduction
here. You may get copy from youc
postmaster or postmaster OF ne"
York.
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Choosing Teachers.

Has the principal OF a high school
in Virginia any voice in the selection
Of teachers? j. H.J.
SO much that the average school
board would be likely to give q deal OF
weight to any suggestion the principal
might make. lie has no legal status
in tho matter.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12
SchoollDecorations.

Where may obtain the following
pictures, etc., for the walls OF my
schools: portraits of Washington,
Henry, Jefferson, etc. and Confederate
and United States flags! y, ~ =.
II. r. Cook. o13 East Main Street,
tho order ana got for you the rest,
ty. has returned home.
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Teachers Certificates.

Can you tell me what schools there
are whose diplomas entitlc the holders
to certificates as teachers in the pub
lie schools of Virginia? Il. l..
The matter is somewhat complicated.
A letter to the Department Of Educa-
tion Richmond, Va, will bring you
the Information.
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Southern Railway
TRAINS LEAVE R1cuNtoNp

liza lSS LEAVE RICHMOND.
n. B.-Followns schedule figures pub
guaranteed @ Jill -,
900 a. M.-7Daly--I.ocni for Charlotte.
connecting Mt Kcysyillo for Chase city
and Carksvillc. =
l1;1b A, M.--Dnily--LimItcd - buffet pull
man TO Atlanta aud birmingham New
Orleans. Memphis Chattanooga and
al the South. Through coach for
Chase City. Oxford, Durham ana
Raleigh. -
500 Y. Mex. Sunday Keysvllo Local.
I:co y. M.-Dnily--LImitcd Pullman ready
$3.50 II. NJ, for all tile South
YORK RIVER LINE.
4:30 7. Mex. Sunday--Llmtcd--To West
Point-Connccting for Baltimore.
2:15 =. MEX. Sundays.
4:i5 A. MEX. Sunday--Local to Yves.
Point.
TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.
G;55 a. NJ, $40 =. M.--From MI tho South.
1910 y NJ. From Charlotte. Raleigh, Dur
ham, Chase City. and local stations
$40 A. M.--Irom KeysV!llo--Local
o:2O A. Al.--Frotn baltimore and west
Paint.
1o:45 4. ~, 5:is p. M,--Loeal from west
Point.
c. w. wEsTBURY. d. p. a.
o2o e. Main Street, Richnona. Va
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Collateral Ancestor.

When one person is said to be
collateral ancestor OF another, have
the two a common ancestor?
1GNORAN1US.
Yes. BIS collateral ancestors are his
uncles, grcat-uncles, great-grand-un-
cles, etc.
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Question Of Propriety.

Please publish in your next Sunday
paper as to whether 1t is proper Tor
man to wear his fraternity pin at
formal occasion (dress affair.", unless
such affair Is given in honor OF lodge
which this button represents.
AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
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FOR NEW YORK

Via Night Limo Steamers (cxcept satur-
day. making connection In Norfolk with
Main Limo Ship following day at r. NJ;
also Norfolk and Western Ry. at o A. M.
and A. NJ, and Chesapeake and Ohio Try.
at 0 A. NJ. and 400 r, Nj making connec-
ton daily Except sunday at Norfolk with
Main Line Ships sailing r. NJ. Tickets
sos u. Main ST., Richmond Transfer Co.. SIC
n. Main ST.. The Jefferson, Murphy's Hotel.
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Has the Confederate note $4,000 Of
1853 any value? r. l.. w.
About forty cents a hundred. 1t is
probably counterfeit.
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English Estate

vast estate In ireland. TO whom shall
1 write for information, etc? w. S. p.
Court of Chnncery, London, England.
will probably put you on the track
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12
Formulation.

Please publish in your Sunday edition
tho population Of Roanoke, Lynchburg
and Petersburg, respectively. Would IKE
to know the best estimate you kAve OF
present population OF each.
Truly yours
a SUBSCRIBER.
by the census Of 1900 the population
was as follows: Roanoke, 21,4o5; Lynch
burg, 1881; Petersburg, H.Slo. We nave
no statistics as to present population.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ONLY ALL-RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK.
Leave Byrd 81. Station, Richmond, Daily.
IN EFFECT JAN 6. 1907.
FOR NORFOLK: 1900 a. ~. $500 p
~, GOO p. N. Pullman Parlor Cars.
FOR I,YNCHBURG. tho WEST and tho
SOUTHWEST: 800 A. NJ. 1910 noon. . go
p. NJ. Pullman Paror and Sleeping Cars
Cafe Dining Cars. Trains arrive daily from
Norfolk. -ll:io A. ~. $3.50 p. NJ From
the West, 7:25 A. NJ. 2:05 z. ", $50 p 81.
20 minutes.
". 3, BEy1LL, C. II. aBOsLEY.
Senl Pass. Agent. Dist. Pass. Agent.
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Old Coli

Can you tell mo tho value Of {
Columbian hnlf-dollar? ). Il. b.
Seventy cents.
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T115 MINES DIsPYTcT RICHMOND va SUNDAY NAY 12 1907

- - <"' "''S' -
The most important qucs-
ton which confrol1ts the
llousckecpcr at present isthc
p PURCHASING POW L Il
OF Tile DOLLAR. Read
our ad. and see how mitch
money we save you.
Best American Grant,
lated Sugar, per lb..43-4c
New Dates, per pound. ..........5c
Best quality Canned Tomatoes..7
French Candy. per pound ......5c
z Largo Bars Swift's Pride
Soap for laundry, for ........25c
Best City Meal, 1sc peck; or,
Va. Comb Honey ........5.......15c
Rnlston's Crisp--iino cereal-pcr
package ......... ............ac
IL Bars Hustler Soap for ......25c
Havc you tried our silver King
flour! Best on the market. aer
barrel, $4.40; or, per Dng. .......29c
lib. package Fine Creamery
bu,ter ,;,.', 49,,
quarts, soc dozen; 1-2 gall
Ion, per dozen zoe
Large package Gold Dust, for
cleaning, 9 for .2Sc
Small size. 2 for
q ,,rs ,v;+c, 11,va, Sn,, FIR
tnuffv Mali N',;ci.cv ner5
: -
bottle $500. ..S5c
. lie ao,o,,+.,;, p,u J,,.t.r Cor o5c
sna,Soara pa,ant 20 1sa,,,,,,, I,,onr
"a % ,,er 1barrni. ~. ,,s,, snck 25c
SOD, C,rnc,5ers 49, c;inrar snaps.
per. pound ...,.4e
snsar corn, cans ,, iof.,'.. 800
and yaniila' .............. Sc
Smoked Yarmouth Bloaters. per
dozen .S..5...3..g.........>.....'. 2oc
Best OH Sardines. for........25c
Best Canned Asparagus .........2oo
bars Octagon-shape soap Tor 2oc
Ihyee plugs Crane, Reynolds,s
for -, = ~. 49,. .25c
~ r,
ID est Ddltietl L edls' PEI
can $500. ............,6C
Best Frankfort Sausage, lb.
1-Pound Package Cleaned Cur
rants Il's ..,...1oc
Cracker Dust and Oyster Crack
efs, per pound t..' ......oc
Good SAT- FORK, per lo.......e &c
Cottage Hams, not a bone : IN !.
paat 60 rnraa .rI.n,. ,,ar
,;n,,n au' q u'oo Ato''' p 1ec
- $3.50 = :
oi.la,,,l it'll, ~ 'Souii"S 1i''''s' PEI ,oo
i .e~
80 rs /
Oill1la1l s IJrlQe lNoaSleu
Coffee, 2 pkgs. Tor. .25c
New Clipped Herring per doz. ,1Oc
Quart Rottlo Toma+o catsnn 1oc
-, : o,,,nr 10
itai ~ o.t'cy i-'itto''s'
~ '.'.s' 80 ~
Good Carolina Rice, per pound..oc
14-lb. package Salada Tea......15c
Mothers Oats, package .......... sc
Fresh Roasted Laguayra Coffee,
per pound Observation-Disclosures 2hc
Mixed Sweet Pickles. at, bot
ties ......... ....5..i...........1o c
Good Mixed Tea, per pound /. SOC
Nhola sweet Pickles pe,. at .1oc
Sweet catawba or Blackberry
box. for. .1oc
cur II.
h(alllolilla Rams, ID z...#.1lc
Try our Green or Mixed Tea;
a regular Coo Tea. now selling
at .......... ......... ..........4oc
Large cans Salmon... ...1oc
Best quality Canned Tomatoes,
large cans ................. ..1oc
Large 5-StrIng Broon1s. 2oc
Crane Nuts or Postum. per
package 1oc
Rest Scotch Herring per box. .1sc
New North Carolina Roe Her
ring, per dozen ...5............2oc
One-half gallon cans Best Cold
1,ull NutCfleS, every .-l OIle
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Sir Walter Raleigh

Is 1t certain that Raleigh was ever
in America? G.. a. j.
It is practically certain that lie never
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12
Old Coin.

Is there any premium on half-dol.
lar OF 1901? G. w. S.
No
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Continental Currency.

VIII "PocaNontas" who lately asked
about Continental notes please send
name and address ngain?--Edltor.
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Mr.. Washington

Will you tell me IL General wash
ington was ever in Richmond?
A SUBSCRIBER.
Yes
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Merchants and Miners
TRANSPORTATION Co. s

BOSTON. MASS. and PROVIDENCE, r. i.
Steamers leave Norfolk for Roston Tues
day, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. For
Providence Monday. Thursday and Saturday
at II. NJ. Passengers and freight taken
for all New England points. Tickets on snlo
at q. o, RY. and N. y VA, Try. ofticcs,
land re, $40 East Main.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12
Seaboard Air Line Railway

|SOCTfi3OEED TRAINS SCHEDULED TO
LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY.
9:35 a. M.--Local TO Eor!inn, Raleigh.
Charlotte, Wilmington 1890 p. M-sleep,
ers and coaches. Atlanta. Birmingham Sa-3
vannah. Jacksonville and Florida points
o:25 p. M--Sleeners and coaches. Atlanta,
Birmingham. Memphis, Savannah, Jackson
Vile and Southwest.
NORTHBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO
ARRIVE RICHMOND DAILY.
G:50 a. NJ, G:35 +. NJ. 1905 T.. n.
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Cows and Onions.

My COW gets wild onions IN t|e grass
lot. Can anything be given her, or put
in the milk, to prevent the butter tasting
Of onions?
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Steamboats,.
'nLD DOMINION
- STEAMSHIP CO..
Niqht Line for Norfolk

Leave Richmond every evening (foot Aah
street, ut Z p. NJ. stopping at Newport
News en- route Fare $3.50 ono wnyi $3.50
round trip including stateroom berth;
meals extra. Street cars ~ 70 steamers
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Steamboats,,
Virginia Navigation Co.
K. JAMEs RIYER day LINE.

FROM OLD DOMINION WlIAR II
MONDAY, "WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY,
STEAMER I4URAY, TUESDAY, THURSDAY
AND SATURDAY ut a. NJ. for Norfolk,
Portsmouth, Old Point, Newport News,
Clnrcmont ana James River landings, con
Meeting at Old Point for Washington, Bal
tmorc and tho North. stateroonls reserved
for tho night at moderate prices on Poca-
Fare, $50 and 81. Norfolk, Through I1x-
curslon Tickets ON sale at Richmond Trans
for Co., SO u. Main street. sos East Main
Street. or on wharf or steamer. Round
Trip. $3.50.
Steamers stop at Exposition Grounds Pier.
104th Street.
Freight received for aboye-named places
and all points In Eastern Virginia, North
Carolina and tho East
JOHN u. MAYER, Agent.
IRWIN WEISIGER, Gen'l MGR.
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Translate

TRANSACTIONS.
Please publish in your Query Column
the denition OF zen PEASANT" and Dec
ylndice."
Also, Queen victorias family or sur
name, A CONSTANT READER.
/. In passing,
2. God avong,ng. Tho form is what
the Latin grammar calls ablative abso-
lutte.
3. Queen Victoria was originally Miss
AEON Won Este. She was descended. as
We're the other members OF the house OF
Notwithstanding and Hanover, from
AEON, Margrave OF Este. King Edward
VII, the son Of Prince Albert OF Sake
Cobourg, has, naturally, his father
family name. Descended from the Wet
tins, a line founded in the twelfth cen
fury, his actual name is Albert Edward
Victim.
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CLYDE Steamship Co.
PHILADELPHIA.

R1cTM oND AND NORFOLK LINE.
Freight received and delivered daily al
a., s. o, Ry Cots Depot, Seven tenth ano
broad Streets, II. JS.s WC)opFIN, Soliciting
Agent, clyde Line " hart. Phone elQ
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AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.

Tho only way we know Is to keep thu
COW from the onions.
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East Lynne

been publishod? j. Il. a.
We do not know OF one
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12
Confederate Note.

was.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12

Please publish in your Query Column
the denition OF zen PEASANT" and "Deo
i = . "a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12

Come forth and behold him, the Crane
IL Old Standpatter.
Whose mind is so fearfully plain,
Beside him all logic seems mad as /:
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G. w. wEsTBURY. ID. p. A.
D2o e. Main Street, Richmond. Va.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-29

with the nomination stake To get a table at A
window where one may look out on a town that has
gone mad and is glad of it. he must belong 10 the
same lodge as the head waiter and pass over a tin
OF sufficient size TO have been reckOned Mt ransom
for an ordinary N\N King back IN the Middle Ages
The theaters have no more than half a crowd
Only the cafes and the police stations have the
sign of Standing Room Only. Tin horns and lin
horn sports to blow them Confetti of a shade that
YOU feel morally certain not going to match yOur
interior furnishings. going down your throat IN
shower every time you open your mouth. Girls
riding on mems shoulders! Men riding on the roofs
of h:-nsOm cabs! Feather busters wine bottles
false faces wooden rattles, college boys, chorus
girls, bOhemians, songs, diamonds, turS, rags beg
CARS, gee clubs, hOOdums, policemen, men about
town and men about loaded, bare heads picture
hats iarnmed sidewalks and OverflOWed streets
Old Trinity Ginning out the birth Of the New Year
and nObO 1y paying any attention except the chinis
who yanGs the bell rOpes-wassaIl and WahO0-
Christmas, Fourth of July, Election dav and NarH
Gras all scrambled together and cooked on a hot
fire with a garnsh of snowfakes,-t that's New
Years eve Broadway the Land OF the Midnight
Sousel
Don't YOU SEE now what a boom such night IS
going to give 70 the good resolutions business next
day.
And So It befalls that when the deacon .- eour
little home town mine Is checking off the --rEIv
ones at the watch meeting in New York BelIge-ent
Bertv the erstWhile kind and gentle distribute Of
his father surplus cash. Is climbing the ta lie
and striking series of plastic poses while defy1g
the WATERS and the bOunCer TO put the weight
pollutng finger on him. And that how the two
towns welcome New Year'S,-the little town With
the aforesaid ker-blim of the town clock, the iIg
town with the live bling -blang of the gong on The
speedy arrival wagon from the Tenderloin dice
station around West 5Oth-st
And good resolutions coming cut of the horr.- 70
beat the band!
New-York tribune., 1907-12-29
Gold Dust's Attraction

DURING the 50 when immense quantities OF :. ID
l. from the newly discovered deposits OF Cali
fora were pouring into the Philadelphia mint. tie
temptation proved too much for one of the trusted
EMPLOYEES of that establishment He held the I.I
ot weight clerk. and. incidentally I" weighing ta,
precious metal found II easy L" abstract and scCTtj
on his person small amounts, more than tea
spoonful, perhaps. being taken from each c'n~'2-
Iucnt Il was a profitable business for him. and
nobody can say how long he might have kept 1t up
had II been for thc HatChtulnces ot keen eyed
subordinate
The name Of the subordinate va- Henry Cochran
He thought one daE that lie Saw the weight clerk
abstract -urrcptitou-> ounce or tN" of gold dust
FROM ID sack. ami thereafter keeping careful watch
he made sure that stealing was going ON ~ a re-
suit on information gwen by himself. the guilty man
wa arrested lie confessed. surrcndcrlng por-
tIon IF his Ill gotten gains and Cochran as ii II
ward for the important service he had rendered N
the matter, appointed /" his place.
There is every reason To- suppose that Cochran
We an honest man. He held The place Of weight
clerk for nearly forty wears. and during hat time 500
far as known, no, dollar Of Uncle Sans money
found its way into hI~ pocket good husband ami
father. with no bad habits Of any kind he lived III
little house which he had bought with small saving
from his very modest salary No employee OF the
mint Wa more trusted han ac. and had n"t been
New-York tribune., 1907-12-29

tention TO the fact that pretty much everybody
he could think of at that moment was lost IN
sin and no reward offered From where he
sat it looked him if the past had been one
long unbroken succession of serious omissions and
fatal mistakes Errors roasted along the right OF
wav as thick as sparrows telegraph wires. 30
far as the future concerned, the less SAID the
better There wasn't gleam of hope anywhere
not a flicker
After a little while he would roll a cold, prOtes-
sional eye over the congregation, like an under
taker sizing up a home for incurables and state IN
the calm absolute tones of the United States Su-
preme Court handing down decision that before
another New Years eve rolled round, many-yea,
verify very many-of those who now sat within
the sound OF his voice would be in another, and
he hoped better, wOrld-but he had his doubts
remember once the deacon said this when l was
sitting next to a fellow who seemed vlslbly affected
Later | heard he had Just been turned down by a
life insurance company.
A minute or two before midnight the deacon
would halt and raise his hands, 50, and sort OF
stand there like frozen trock coat and cod
Clarmv silence would steal in out OF the VOID OF the
palpitant night and Unfold you and cuddle up to
YOU and chill you like taking ice bath IN a rub
Der sheet and YOU could feel the banks form
ing at the base of the spine, and everything was so
still that YOU could hear the dandruf falling and
hen-and-then-
ker-bm
1t was the town clock up in the steePle over your
head hitting the first lick of twelve. And in halt
second the whistle on the rolling mill would be
cutting loose for all she worth and the boys on
the night trick at the round house would fire OFT
salute and a casual finger two IN the brass can
non that was left over from the campaign tor mayor
and we'd have the benedictiOn, and everybody
would 90 home gummed to the hair roots with the
best resolutions in the world.
Sometimes it was late three o clock on New
Years dav after fellow had been to FIVE or SIX
New-York tribune., 1907-12-29
The Lure He Couldn't Resist

HENRY COCHRAN the weight clerk, had daily
IL access 20 q vault in one corner of which was "a
f.ir szcd stack Of gold bricks ncloscd within wire
cage # represented about twenty million dollars
One afternoon IN the spring of 1905 he CHANGED to
notice that the wire door of the cage bt loose
efficiently TO be easily lifted two or three
inches 1t struck him that this not altogether
safe Having examined II critically, 1t occurred t.
hum that tho, might iuC 1t possible with the help
of q suitable rtlmcut. 20 hook one of the bricks
away from the pile and pull 1t through the space
beneath the door Just for the sake OF experiment,
he vent and got a small iron rod bent II at one end.
and began To- fish. Sure enough. the thing was en-
r:rclv practicable and within five minutes he held
The bar III his hand
Upto that moment he had never thought IF steal
ing the bar His intention had been merely 10 call
he attention ol his superors To the matter. IN order
that the cage might he made properly secure But
meanwhile +ht-t Was rhc t,- in l-- hand There
New-York tribune., 1907-12-29

for one little accident Is probable that he would
have maintained his integrity and good reputation
10 f. he end of his humble career But alas a luck
less moment ne was bitten by the goldhug
It should bc understood that the Government
does not keep its stock of gold at the treasury IN
Washington. y few millions worth OF the yellow
com are usually stored there a small vault, Tor
emergencies but the bulk Of the metal on hand Is I"
hc found in the various subtreasurcs and Ins scat
tered over the country; more particularly IN the
PHILADELPHIA mint where visitors may sometimes
see "a, much as one hundred and fifty million dollars
IN gold bars stacked like bricks. and protected by
wire cages. Value IN such concentrated form Is
most impressive to the eve ana stimulating To the
imagination It takes small brick 10 represent
ii fortune
New-York tribune., 1907-12-29

IT Is perilous infection that Is conveyed
i by the goldbug bite Many honest men
have succumbed to it, and in the n1ted
---ates treasury, elsewhere, history IN tins
5pect will doubtless repeat itself again and
again in the future In the management OF
a great bank, other establishment that
keeps large quantities of money IN storage =
il is absolutely necessary to trust somebody
There are always one or more persons who,
if they wished, could steal on an extensive
scale The wonder is indeed that thettS
should be no more frequent than they are
With the treasury il IS with other great financial
institutions 1t is Obliged take the risk OF rePoslng
absolute confidence in few individuals, who are
withheld from stealing not by any watch kept or
checks placed upon them, but merely by their own
unwilingness to do wrong. Nevertheless, to men
who are obliged to live small salaries, awful
temptation is sometimes offered by the sight OF
masses of concentrated wealth,-wealth OF which
So very small portion, easily scCrc ed and removed
would make them independent and comfortable for
hfe Nearly always this temptation IS resisted; but
once in awhile II Is too strong. and IN moment OF
weakness the unfortunate Government employee
hitherto mpcccably honest. yields.