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Money Orders and Drafts

are the most valuable presents that you can send your friends in the old country for Christmas Greeting. T'iey cared for you when you could not care for yourself. Do not forget them now.They're cashnble. free of charge,
 in all banks
 JAMES FEELEY, ARCADE Open Evenings
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SURGICAL APPLIANCES

fashioned on hand looms to fndfvid- uai requirements. Requisites for physicians. nurses. hospitals. Wil- liam Snowden. No 6 Taylor Flock. 111e Broad street. A prarticai ex- periencs of over e5 years- Tesephana ss7. ! as .tf
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LOST AND FOUND.

FOuND.-Pcinter dog. liver and white. Owner can have by proving and pay ing charges No. 5 Engine House.
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THE LEADING SCHOOL

UNION BUSINESS COLLEGE MAIN
 and Congress streets, gives the best instruction in shorthand. typewrit- ing, bookkeeping and English
 studies Established IS years. Six instructors. Advanced methods in
 teaching. Hs7 t'
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hASH DAY---ssfsso,sMsse,,, K Ms,, are--.5Oc Wll do ,our washing We call and delivsr the washing Our machinery leases no V wriLkles to make the lron- ing hard for y0u 1eisDnons or ssae c postal
 IDEAL LAUNDRY. s5-s7 Commercial st- Tei-. 2f f7-s.
 FRANK H. wET.IS Pron
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INSTRUCTION

PIANO REPAIRING-Now Is fhe time to have your plano put in per- feet condition Our workmen are not busy and we can give you c very low figure now Let us tell you how much 1t will cost Drop postal or Call. Steinert's Plano Store. SIS Main St. Le elf
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BIRDS

LOUIS COURTNEY. dealer in import ed canaries. foreixn sone and Aviary birds and talking parrots and para quets- Birdseeds. foods. gravel. etc Birds boarded and conditioned 1fe Wall St.. upstairs Open evenings
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FEMALE HELP WANTED

WANTED. Experienced millinery saleswoman: permanent position Mrs. Geo. Durham, 1127 Broad St.
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LAUNDRIEs

OPEN AIR DRYING-Fanfiy wash ing. ironing taken by week. Park City Hand Laundry. 483 Eewfield Ave. Telephone 12i6-i
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MONEY TO LOAN

NOTES OF sALARIED PEOPLE,
 Bus1ness concerns and women keeping house bought without security. cheap est rates. easiest payments Offices in 66 principal cities D. H. Tolunan. Room ~. 46 Cannon St SIS ds
 GALL AT OUR OFFICE-we will ad- vance you money on your own note if you own property. no matter how much your property is mortgaged at- Bridgeport Realty Co.. Room 109-11o. Warner Bldg L 1s If
 HONEY ADVANCED TO coyDUc- TORS. engineers. nremen. trafnmen, clerks. letter carriers mali clerks. school teachers. bookkeepe<s. cash fers. mechanics and others- Strictly confidential Heffron Co. Room so1 Meigs Bldg. GIT so
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CARPET CLEANING

Bridgeport Stenm Carpet Cleaning
 and Hun Rug Works Has Removed to 238 Stratford Ave
 O. w. WILCOX. Prop.
 J. c. FLORIDA. atgr. Telephone fS2S-S ..S1s o
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PEOPLE SAY to go to the Bridgeport household Supply Co.and trade with
 them It is true because Mr.BergeF elves you all accommodations 114s Main St.. Lear Arch St P1s .
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE.-A good investment 5eo-
 562, 564 Atlantic street. corner Co., lumbia. also Tor 5ox1ls Apply to John
 Bonner. Uz7 6
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SHOES

NEW AND SECOND HAND Ghoes fns
 sale Repairing neatly and prompt ly done at lowest prices Nathan
 Hartman "A State street 1 C
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MISCELLANEOUS

ED-Houseke-pers to fry ~Tn- iusoria Cream" Tho finest and he.1 fnver polish known Guaranteed naEmiess- Ask your dealer for ft
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Different STYLES.
How Meredith and Browning Might
Describe the Same Incident.

How Meredith and Browning Might
Describe the Same incident.
If Browning and George Meredith
were describing the same act they
might both be obscure, but their OBJ
scurities would be entirely different.
Suppose, for instance, they were de-
scribing even SO prosaic and material
an act as man being knocked down
stairs by another man to whom he
tad given the lie. Meredith's descrip-
tion would refer to something which
an ordinary observer would not see or
at least could not describe. 1t might
be sudden sense Of anarchy in the
brain Of the assaulter or stupefac-
ton and stunned serenity In that OF
the object Of the assault.
He might write: "Wainwood's men
vary in veracity' brought the baronet's
arm up He felt the doors Of his brain
burst and Wainwood a swift rushing
of himself through air. accompanied
with clarity as of the annihilated."
Meredith, in other words. would
speak queerly because he was describ-
ing queer mental experiences. But
Browning might simply be describing
the material incident Of the man being
knocked downstairs. and his descrip.
ton would run:
What then? You lie" and doormat be.
| low stairs
Takes bump from back.
This Is not subtlety. but merely q
kind of insane swiftness.-Gilbert X
CheSterton.
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A Good Qualification.

The mystery Of the negro mind J.
illustrated by story which the rhi'
delphia Record prints. John, the coi
ored applicant for the position of bit
ler in family living in one of tE.a
fashionable suburbs of Philadelphil.
strove to impress his would be en-
ployer with his entire fitness for the
place."
"Oh, yes, suh," he said. "I's sholy we'll
educated, sub. rs passed civil serv-
ice examination"
Indeed" responded the gentleman.
''that is very fine. I'm sure. but I
can't say that that will be of any par
ticular value to me in butler"
''No?' said the surprised applicant.
ut shore Is strange how gemmen's
tastes do differ. Now. Mr.. Williams
ma ming his former employer, "he say,
John. one thing deman' is civil
service to nah guests an he done
gave me examination RI there. sub
an that's the truf."
Then the gentleman saw a graas
light. He replied:
Eyes. you are quite right, John.
Civil service is a very important and
rather unusual virtue, so If you have
passed that examination think well
consider you engaged"
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BEARDED LADIES.
A Parisian Snowman Says They Are
Quite Numerous.

A Parisian Snowman Says They Are
Quite Numerous.
An Englishwoman who confesses to
mild mania for attending the street
fairs common in and around Paris
says that she is always impressed by
the extraor mary number of bearded
ladies among the attractions.
II was inclined to think that they
were fakes" she says in the London
Gentlewoman, "but when l discovered
that they were quite genuine my sur
prise at this wonderful supply of
phenomena grew stronger. And when
few days ago I saw at the fair In
the Avenue d'Orleans lady exhibited
with a long flowing beard could no
longer withhold my curiosity.
II applied for information to a gen
tieman well known in the Snowman
world and who acts as a kind Of agent
to the people owning shows. supply
ing them with the necessary goods
human and otherwise. This gentle
man appeared surprised at my ques
ton.
"'Bearded ladiesr he exclaimed. q
can find as many as I like. You have
no idea how many women, II they
liked, could rival men as regards
whiskers and mustaches. But they
are not anxious to enter into thai
kind Of competition.
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BIBLE BRILLIANTS.

They shall abundantly utter the MEM
ory of thy great goodness, and shall
sing of thy righteousness.-Psalm cxlv,
II.
The light of the body is the eye: if
therefore thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light.-Matthew
vi, %.
And he informed me, and talked with
me, and said, O Daniel, am now come
forth to give thee skill and understand
ing.-Daniel tx, %.
Then shalt thou understand righteous
ness, and judgment and equity; yea,
every good path. When wisdom enter
eth into thine heart. and knowledge is
pleasantuntoth thy SOUL Proverbsii, 8, TO-
No man can serve two masters: fol
either he will hate the one end love the
other; or else he will hold to the one and
despise the other. Ye cannot serve God
serve God and mammon.- Matthew vi
"a.
Settle it therefore in your hearts, not
to mediate what ye shall answer: Fol
will give you a mouth and wisdom
which all your adversaries shall not be
able to gainsay nor resist.-Luke xxi
IA, Is.
My son, attend to my words; incline
thine ear unto my sayings. Let then
not depart from thine eyes; keep then
in the widst of thine heart. For they
are life unto those that find them, ant
health to all their flesh. Prov. iv, 1922
My son, if thou wilt receive my words
and hide my commandments wita thee
So that thou incline thine ear unto wis.
dom, and apply thine heart to under
standing; Yea, if thou criest afte
knowledge, and liftest up thy voice TO
understand; If thou seekest her as sill
yer, and searchest for her as hid treas
ures; Then shalt thou understand tn,
fear of the Lord, and find the knowledg
Of God.-Proverbs ii, 2-5.
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III writer wrote Of roaring mus
cles, you would laugh at him. Joints
crack, the stomach thunders, but mus
cles. you would say, don't roar. That
Is your mistake. They do
The speaker, physician. put his
finger in his ear.
II hear a muscle roaring now." said
he. 'Try 1t, and you, too, will hear the
sound. And to prove that 1t is the
sound Of muscle, put plug Of wood
in your ear instead, and you will hear
nothing.
Contracted muscles give out a roar
ing sound. Relaxed muscles are 81
lent. This fact Is Of use IN diagnos-
ing certain diseases. The stethoscope
makes the muscular roars audible, and
those strange voices proclaim the pres
ence Of such diseases as tetanus, men,
ingitis or strychnine poisoning, while
silence on the muscles part is, so to
speak. sullen admission of the pres
ence in their midst of atrophy, degen-
Grafton. paralysis. Buffalo Express.
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WINGED auralars.

Buchner IN his Psychic Life of
Animals speaks of thievish bees
which, in order to save themselves the
trouble Of working. attack well
stocked hives in masses, kill the SEN
tinels and the Inhabitants, rob the
hives and carry of the provisions.
After repeated enterprises Of this de-
scription they acquire taste for rob
berry and violence They recruit whole
companies. which get more and more
numerous. and finally they form reg
ular colonies Of brigand bees. But 1t
is a still more curious fact that these
brigand bees can be produced arti-
ficially by giving working bees mix
ture of honey and brandy to drink.
The bees soon acquire taste for this
beverage, which has the same disas-
trous effect upon them as upon men.
They become Ill disposed and irritable
and lose all desire for work. and final.
ly, when they begin to feel hungry,
they attack and plunder the well sup
piled hives.
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II II Well.

It is well to carefully cultivate tastes.
Ruskin says, '"Tell me what you like
and will tell you what you are"
1t is well to study human character.
Bodenstedt says: I'm the face Of ev-
cry human being his history stands
plainly written; his innermost nature
steps forth to the light. Yet they are
the fewest who can read and under
stand"
It Is well to 'brush up against the
world" Goethe says: talent forms
itself in secret. Character Is the great
current Of the world"
It Is well to be never cast down.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning says:
Let no one till his death
Be called unhappy. Measure not the work
Until the days out and the labor done
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MEMS CLOTHES.
Not What They Used to Be In ths
Days Of Elizabeth.


Days Of Elizabeth.
Most men nowadays do not get
much pleasure from dress and scarce
ly notice the changes Of fashion in
mems clothes. They are vaguely
aware that a hat looks odd when its
shape is old fashioned, and they Sc
cept the hat of the moment because
they do not wish to look odd them
selves. But this is merely negative
interest. They are also apt to be con-
temptuous Of women's greater inter-
est In the fashions, as If 1t were
mark Of frivolity.
This Is an ignorant mistake. Dress
Is or ought to be an art, and therefore.
If only a minor art, it is a more seri-
GUS matter than any Of the games to
which many men give so much time
and pains. Besides, men have only be-
come Indifferent to their clothes in
modern times.
In the heroic age Of Elizabeth they
made themselves as smart as pea
cocks. Great soldiers and poets then
| took pains to be In the height OF the
fashion, and fashions changed with
some violence and rapidity. In the
eighteenth century, too, which we do
not think Of as a time Of effeminacy
and when men were wanting neither
in enterprise nor In seriousness, they
were MS splendid and extravagant In
their dress as women.-I.ondon Times.
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WONDERS OF VELOCITY.
A Piece Of Thin Cardboard Will Cut
Through Wood.

A Piece Of Thin Cardboard Will Cut
Through Wood.
Velocity has great deal to do
with one substances ability to break
through another, and 1t is remarkable
what can be accomplished by COM
paratively soft substance against q
much harder one when the former Is
given enough velocity. A bullet ma %
Of q tallow candle would smash fat II
fred against board from toy gun,
but when shot from an army rifle 1t
will go right through the board. A
stream of water has been known to
have such swiftness Of movement that
a sword was broken In two when
strong man tried to cut 1t through.
Cyclones have been known to drive
such frail projectiles as straws well
into tree.
An interesting experiment showing
what soft substance can do may be
performed by attaching bristol
board disk to the motor Of an electric
fan and setting it to revolving at the
fans usual rate. II piece Of wood,
| such as a lead pencil, for example, be
carefully applied to the edge of the
revolving disk, the wood will very
readily be cut through. OF course II
the disk were to revolve slowly the
wood would soon blunt It's edge.-Path-
| finder.
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Who the Mound Builders Were.

Who were the mound builders Of
North America? The Rev. DIR. Bryce
Of Winnipeg has examined large
number Of these interesting struc-
lures and Is Of the opinion that they
were built by the Toltecs and mark
the course Of the Toltec immigration
from the south along the Mississippi
and Ohio to the great lakes and the
st. Lawrence, along the Missouri and
along the Mississippi proper to the
Rainy and Red rivers. This would
make the earliest mound date from
about 100 A. D.-Boston Herald.
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One Reason.

There may be two reasons for
thing. both equally true, and 1t may
be the height of folly to attribute the
effect to both. A gentleman to whom
art was strange thing asked friend
to whom the ways Of its votaries were
more familiar:
"Why does Conneray stand on and
half shut his eyes when he looks at
the pictures he is painting? l was In
his studio the other day. and he made
me do 1t too"
That's simply explained" replied
the other did you ever try to look
at them near to, with your eyes wide
open? We". don't You can't stand
it."-Youth's Companion.
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to make more use Of his big knobby
cane with the crooked handle.

to make more use Of his big knobby
cane with the crooked handle.
As his established benefactor came
up Stuny wheezed and shuddered like
some woman's overfat pug when a
street dog bristles up at him. He
would have flown. but all the skill Of
Santos Dumont could not have sepa-
rated him from his bench. Well had
the myrmidons of the two old ladies
done their work.
Good morning" said the old gentle
man. II am glad to perceive that the
vicissitudes OF another year have
spared you to move in health about the
beautiful world. for that blessing alone
this day of Thanksgiving is well pro-
claimed to each of MS. II you will
come with me. my man. will provide
you with dinner that should make
your physical being accord with the
mental"
That Is what the old gentleman said
every time - every Thanksgiving day
for nine years. The words themselves
almost formed an institution. Nothing
could be compared with them except
the Declaration of Independence. Al
ways before they had been music In
Stuffy's ears. But now he looked up
at the old gentleman's face with fearful
agony in his own. The fine snow al
most sizzled when 1t fell upon his per-
spiriug brow But the old gentleman
shivered q little and turned his back
to the wind.
,tuffy had always wondered why the
old gentleman spoke his speech rather
sadly. He did not know that it was be-
cause he was wishing every time that
he had a son to succeed him-a son who
| would come there after he was gone, q
son who would stand proud and strong
before some subsequent Stuffy, and
say. I'm memory Of nay father" Then
1t would be an institution.
But the old gentleman had no rela.
tives. He lived in rented rooms in one
of the decayed old family brownstone
mansions In one OF the quiet streets
east Of the park. In the winter he
raised fuchsias in little conservatory
the size Of a steamer trunk. In the
spring he walked in the Easter parade
In the summer he lived at farmhouse
In the New Jersey hills and sat In q
wicker armchair, speaking Of q butter
fy. the Ornithoptera amphrisius, that
he hoped to find some day. In thu
autumn he fed Stuffy a dinner. These
were the old gentleman's occupations.
Stuffy Pete looked up at him for
half minute. stewing and helpless IL
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his own self pity. The old gentleman's
eyes were bright with the giving pleas
ure His face was getting more lined
each year, but his little black necktie
was In as jaunty a bow as ever. and
his linen was beautiful and white, and
his gray mustache was curled care
fully at the ends. And then Stuffy
made a noise that sounded like peas
bubbling in pot Speech was intend
ed. and as the old gentleman had
heard the sounds nine times before he
rightly construed them into Stuffy's old
formula of acceptance.
"Thankee, sir. I'll 60 with ye, and
Dluch obliged. Pm very hungry. sir"
The coma Of rcpletion had not pre-
vented from entering Stuffy's mind
The conviction that he was the basis
sf an institution. His Thanksgiving
appetite was not his own. It belonged
by all the sacred rights of established
custom, IL not by the actual statute Of
limitations, to this kind old gentleman
who had pre-empted 1t. True, America
Is free. But In order to establish tra-
dition some one must be repetend-
a repeating decimal. The heroes are
not all heroes of steel and gold. See
one here that welded only weapons Of
iron. badly silvered. and tin.
The old gentleman led his annual
protege southwark to the restaurant
and to the table where the feast had
always occurred. They were recog-
nized.
Here comes de old guy" said q
waiter. dat blows dat same bum to Z
meal every Thanksgiving"
The old gentleman sat across the ta-
ble glowing like q smoked pearl at his
cornerstone OF future ancient tradi.
ton. The walters heaped the table
with holiday food. and Stuffy, with Z
sigh that was mistaken for hungera
expression, raised knife and fork and
carved for himself q crown OF fmper.
ishable bay.
No more valiant hero ever fought hil
way through the ranks of an enemy
Turkey. chops, soups. vegetables. pies
| disappeared before him as fast as they
could be served. Gorged nearly to thu
| utteImost when he entered the restau
rant, the smell Of food had almos
caused him to lose his honor as gen
! tlcman But he rallied like tru.
knight. He saw the look OF bened
cent happiness on the old gentlemani
face-a happier look than even tn
fuchsias and the OrnithopteFa amphrl
sius had ever brought to it-and b
had not the heart to see 1t wane.
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Plenty Of Him.

"What sort of man Is JinksT
1.-THE impression you get OF Jinks de-
pends on the circumstances under
which you meet him. II you're there
to collect money you won't like him.
But II you're there to pay money he
seems a lovely character"
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Aia 0trono Point.

at is true" said friend. 'that YOU
have amassed great fortune. But
your grammar
'Never mind the grammar" said
Mr.. Dustin Stax. "This is an era o.
Specifications. l may be weak In
some branches, but I'm an authority
on the possessive case."-Washington
Star
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Didn't Wait For Il.

A couple Of Scotch ministers were
taking dinner together one summer day
in a little manse In the highlands. II
was the Sabbath day. the weather was
beautiful, and the bubbling streams
were full Of trout and the woods full
of summer birds. One turned to the
other and said:
"Mon, don't ye often feel tempted on
these beautiful Sundays to 90 out fish,
mgr
INA. na," said the other. II never
feel tempted. / juist gang"
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In an hour Stuffy leaned back with
a battle won.
"Thankee kindly, SIR" he puffed, like
a leaky steam pipe. ''thankee kindly
for hearty neal"
Then he arose heavily. with glazed
eyes. and started toward the kitchen.
A waiter turned him about like top
and pointed him toward the door. The
old gentleman carefully counted out
$3.50 in silver change. leaving three
nickels for the waiter
They parted, as they did each year.
at the door. the old gentleman going
south. Stuffy north
Around the first corner Stuffy turned
and stood for one minute. Then he
seemed to puff out his rags as an owl
puffs out his feathers and fell to the
sidewalk like n sun stricken horse
When the ambulance came. the
young surgeon and the driver cursed
softly at his weight There was no
smell Of whisky to justify transfer to
the patrol wagon. so Stuffy and his
two dinners went to the hospital
There they stretched him on bed and
began to test him for strange diseases.
with the hope of getting chance Mt
some problem with the bare steel.
And. 10. an hour later another ambu-
lance brought the old gentleman. and
they laid him on another bed and
spoke Of appendicitis, for he looked
good for the bill.
But pretty soon one Of the young
doctors met one Of the young nurses
whose eyes he liked and stopped to
chat with her about the cases.
THAT nice old gentleman over there
now" he said. ''you wouldn't think
that was case of almost starvation
Proud old family. guess. He told me
he hadn't eaten thing for three days
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Milk Toast and Cheese.

Make some rich milk toast and spread
out on q fat dish. Cover with thick
layer Of grated cheese and put in the
oven till the cheese melts and browns.
-Harper's Bazaar.
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A sponasr.

'sThe worse of Spongely Is he never
nays anything" said Grabbles.
.AOh, doesn't he. though? Ask him to
nay you q visit and see." retorted
Hicks.
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Economical.

She-I'm going to give you back our
engagement ring. l love another. He
Give me his name and address. She
Do you want to kill him? He-No, l
want to sell him the ring.-Pick-Me-Up Up.
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Writing For Money.

Green-I hear your wife IS an au-
thoress. Does she write for money?
Breen-l never receive letter from
her that she writes for anything else.
Town Topics.
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Aia MAY 0,,x Of Il,

"He don't give nuthin' to the church
novy'
"No. Somebody told him the Bible
says salvation is free an he says fur
be It from him to dispute the Scrip
turesr'-Atlanta Constitution.
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Liberty exists in proportion to whole
some restraint. Webster.