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Too Much for His Faith,

"The late Bishop Hare" said a
Sioux Falls physician, fused, very
reasonably, to impute scepticism to
misunderstanding.
"He once told me about a Phila-
delphia business man of sceptical
tendencies who said to him:
"My dear DR.. Hare, 1 do not refuse
to believe in the story of the ark.
can accept the ark's enormous size,
its odd shape and the vast number OF
animals it contained. But when ]
am asked, my dear Doctor, to be-
lieve that the children of Israel car
ried this unwieldy thing for forty
years in the wilderness-well, there
I'm bound to say, my faith breaks
down."-Detroit Free Press.
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The Fourteen Errors of Life.

The fourteen mistakes of life,
Judge Rentoul told the Bartholomew
club, are:
To expect to set up our own stand
ard of right and wrong and expect
everybody to conform to it.
To try to measure the enjoyment
of others by W own
To expect uniformity Of opinion in
this world.
To look for judgment and expert
ence in youth.
To look for judgment and expert
ence in youth.
To endeavor to mold all DISPOSE
lions alike.
Not to yield to unimportant trifes.
To look for perfection in our own
actions.
To worry ourselves and others
about what can not be remedied.
Not to alleviate if we can all that
needs alienation.
weaknesses of others.
To consider anything impossible
that we can not ourselves perform.
To believe only what our finite
minds can grasp.
To live as if the moment, the
time, the day were so important that
it would live forever.
To estimate people by some out
side quality, for it is that within
which makes the man.-London
Evening Standard.
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Here is another fond illusion shat.
tered. "The horse" says an animal
trainer, "is the most stupid of ali
the dumb creatures man has made
his friends. He is so stupid that he
can be taught anything-that is, any
habit-and having no mind of his
own, can be relied on to do exactly
as he is told. All the authentic tricks,
whatever the details, are worked in
this way.
1.-THE horse is taught by endless
repetitions some mechanical habit. A
given signal, and he begins to paw
the floor. Another signal, and he
takes a sponge and rubs it over a
certain spot on a blackboard, or picks
up a card lying in a certain position.
The meaning of the act exists for the
spectator only. The pawings count
the answer to the problem in addi-
ton; the card bears the reply to a
question; but the horse does not
know it.
"He merely follows a blind habit,
just as he will stop when you say
Whoa The a the horse is so
easily managed in this particular de-
ception is that he possesses just the
right degree of stupidity. If he were
more stupid he would not be plastic
enough to acquire convenient habits.
If he were cleverer he would acquire
too many habits and lead too much
his own life, like that particularly
clever animal, the cat."-Tit-Bits.
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The Field of Labor.

In death benefits the carpenters
paid out $221,742.56 last year.
Canadian labor disputes of 1903
involved work people. and the
work days lost totaled S42,275.
The first efforts of national coop
Grafton in connection with the labor
movement originated in Boston in
1874.
The International Typographical
Union decided to vote on the PROPOSE
ton to establish a mortuary benefit in
accordance with a resolution adopted
at the recent convention Of the in
t%ernational.
There were about twenty national
or international unions in the United
States in 1881; in 1907 there were
upward of 125.
Six countries have agreed to send
representatives to the international
congress on child welfare at Washing
ton, D. c., in May.
There was a notable decrease in the
number of violations of New Yorks
child labor law last year, and fewer
children were employed.
The linotype machinists of Man
haitian have established for them
selves an official organ under the title
Typesetting Machine Engineers Jour
nal.
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Tot In His Way

Mrs. Henry de la Pastufe, the pop
ular writer, was talking about mar
riage.
"a pretty GIRL" said Mrs. de la
Pasture, couldn't make a better res
olution for 1910 than not to marry
an old man, no matter what his
wealth. She might also resolve not
to marry a widower. Widowers are,
as you Americans say, so sot in their
ways.
'They tell about a pretty girl of
twenty who married a rich widower
of fifty. He was very much a widow
er. This girl was, in fact, his fourth
wife.
"Well, on the return from the
honeymoon, the husband, after din
ner, took up his hat, overcoat and
umbrella.
"The wife, beautiful in a white
decollete gown that was no whittier
than her shoulders, said:
Where are you going, dear?'
"He gave her a stern look and an
swered coldly:
"'My dear, I am not in the habit
of telling my wives where l am going
everytime I step out of the house,"
Minneapolis Journal
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Telegraphic Ticks.

President Taft modified Secretar!
Knox's shotgun diplomacy" as ap.
piled to Nicaragua.
The steamed Devonian, from Liver.
pool, was dismantled by lightning in
Massachusetts Bay.
President Taft conferred with Gov.
ernor Hughes and Republican leaders
on party ills in New York State.
James r. Keene admitted on the
witness stand that he managed pools
in Hooking Coal and Iron stock.
Captain Saenz, executioner of Can.
non and Groce, Americans, was killed
in Managua by a Nicaraguan soldier,
Frederick Unger, a dog fancier and
dealer, died of rabies in New York
City, after a remarkable fight against
the dread disease.
Joseph Marok, accused by his bride
of three days of robbing her and
throwing her in a well, was arrested
at Springfield, Mass.
Paymaster Aud goes free as the
result of the Cowles court-martial.
the Navy Department RENTING his
sentence to lose five numbers.
Unusual precautions were taken to
guard President Taft On his visit to
New York City. A large force of de-
tectives and police constantly sur
rounded him.
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Few parents realize how many es'
Unable lives have been embittered
and social and business success pre-.
vented by serious skin affections
which so often result from the neglect
of minor eruptions If infancy and
childhood. With but a little care and
the use of the proper emollients.
baby's skin and hair may be pre-
served, purified and beautiied, minor
eruptions prevented from becoming
chronic and torturing, disfgurine
rashes, itchings. i%rritations and chat
ings dispelled.
To this end, nothing is so pure, sc
sweet, so speedily effective as the
use of Cuticura Soap, assisted
when necessary, by Cuticura Oint.
ment. Send to Potter Drug & Chem
Corp, sole proprietors, Boston, Mass
for their free 32-page Cuticura Book
telling all about the care and treat
ment of the skin and scalp.
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JAPANESE AdaptabiIity.

The readiness of Japan and China
n adapting themselves to Western
methods of identification, says the
Railway News, is to-day amply evil
fenced in the work going on in the
large cities of these two countries.
Yokohama has it's electric tramways.
Toxic, the capital of Japan, has a
6ne system of electric railways. The
railway engineers and directors are
Japanese. Shanghai has recently
completed a splendid system of tram
ways, and Hong-Kong has operated
street railways for several years with
good results. There are many other
sities in Japan and China which will
undoubtedly follow the example OF
these cities.
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warsbin Built INTO House.

Timbers of the famous battleship
Wellington are being used as sup
ports and rafters in the 5000, 900
residence of l.. N. Phelps Stokes, at
Greenwich, Conn. Mr.. Stokes, when
le bought the timbers in England,
was not indulging himself in things
historic, although such material in
he house will add greatly to it's in
.erest. His idea was to get good,
strong wood, and the timbers from
he Wellington are of teak, which is
priced because of its great durability.
Most of the timbers will be used as
rafters in the great dining room.
In England there are several firms
that make a speciality of breaking up
Did vessels to get teak and other val
liable woods.--Popular Mechanics.
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sHE QUIT
But 1t Was a Hard Pull.

1t is hard to believe that coffee
will put a person in such condition
as it did an Ohio woman. She tells
her own story:
81 did not believe coffee caused my
trouble, and frequently said l liked 1t
SO we'll l would not, and could not
quit drinking it, but l was a miser-
able sufferer from heart trouble and
nervous prostration for four years.
II was scarcely able to be around,
had no energy and did not car for
anything. Was emaciated and had a
constant pain around my heart until
l thought l could not endure it. For
months l never went to bed expecting
to get up in the morning. l felt as
though l vas liable to die any time.
Frequently / had nervou chills
and the least excitement would drive
sleep away, and any little noise would
upset me terribly. | vas gradually
getting worse until finally one time it
came over me and I asked myself
what's the use of being sick all the
time and buying medicine so that 1
could indulge myself in coffee?
$50 / thought / would see If / could
quit drinking coffee and got some
Postum to help me quit. l made 1T
strictly according to directions and ]
want to tell you, that change was the
greatest step in my life. 1t was easy
to quit coffee because l had the Pos
tum which I now like better than the
old coffee.
Zone by one the old troubles left,
until now l am in splendid health,
nerves steady, heart all right and the
pain all gone. Never have any more
nervous chills, don't take any medi-
cine, can do all my homework and
have done a great deal beside"
Read "The Road to MELVILLE" in
pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new
Lone appears from time to time. They
genuine. true, and full of human
kreSG.
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given me, and I am recommending it
to all my friends. Mrs. W. S. FORD,
22O7 W. Franklin St., Baltimore, Md.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms Of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 1t has
stood the test of years and to-day is
more widely and successfully used than
any other female remedy. 1t has cured
thousands of women who have been
troubled with displacements, infam-
nation, liberation, fbroid tumors, IT.
~regularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing-down feeling, fatulency,
indigestion, and nervous p~rostration,
after all other means had failed.
If you are suffering from anyo these
ailments, don't give up hope until you
have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound a trial.
If you would like special advice
write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, for it. She has guided
thousands to health, free OF
charge.
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Au.Worfd TrfD.

The shortest time around the
world is claimed to have been made
by Lieutenant-Colone Burnley
Campbell, who left Liverpool on May
g., 1907, and on his return landed at
Dover on June 13, 1907, covering
the circuit In forty days and nine
teen and one-half hours. If he had
caught the st. Petersburg express at
Berlin he would have reduced this
time by several hours.
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Preferred a Boxing Match.

Lord Herschell, having delivered
his address before a large audience,
was afterward waited on by the local
reporter, who requested a digest of
the deliverance. "How is it you were
not present to hear it YOURSELF" in
quired the noble peer. "Oh," said the
reporter, 81 had something more I'M
portant to attend to-a big boxing
match" Lord Herschell admitted
that this kept him modest.-London
Opinion.
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The Largest Thermometer.

The largest thermometer in the
world, twenty feet high, with figures
big enough to read a block away, was
made in Rochester for a Boston drug
gist. The glass tube was sixteen feet
long, and ten tubes were broken in
the process of making before a per-
feet one was secured. The instru-
ment is very accurate, and registers
from thirty-five degrees below zero
to lis degrees above.-Optical Jour-
nal.
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Negro Stays Two Women, Then
Gives Battle to Toronto Police.

Toronto, Canada.-Armed with an
automatic revolver, with which he
had lust murdered two women of his
own race. Mrs. Davis and her daugh-
ter-in-law. Mrs. Washington, William
Withers, a negro, recently barri-
caded himself in a house near the
corner of Elliot street and
avenue and gave two hours battle
to a force of policemen. He fired the
fnal volley just as the policemen en-
tered the attic of the place, where
Withers had retreated.
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THE STORY OF THE PEANUT
SHELLS.

AS everyone knows, c. w. Post, OIL
Battle Creek, Michigan, is not only g
maker of breakfast foods, but he Is a
strong individualist, who believes
that the trades-unions are a menace
to the liberty of the country.
Believing this, and being a nat
ural-born" scrapper for the right, as
he sees it, Post, for several years past
has been engaged in a ceaseless war
fare against ''the Labor Trust" as
he likes to call it.
Not being able to secure free and
untrammeled expression of his opin'
ions on this subject through the regu.
lar reading pages of the newspapers
he has bought advertising space fol-
this purpose, just as he is accustomed
to for the telling Of his Postum
STORY" and he has thus spent nun
dreds of thousands of dollars in de-
nouncing trades-unionism.
AS a result of Posts activities the
people O know a whole lot about
these organizations: how they are
honeycombed with graft, how they
obstruct the development OF legiti-
mate business, curtail labor's output
hold up manufacturers, graft upon
their own membership, and rob the
public. Naturally Post is hated by
the trades-unionists, and intensely.
He employs no union labor, so they
can not call out his men, and he de-
fies their efforts at boycotting his pro-
ducts. The latest mean of getting
Post is the widespread publication OF
the story that a car which was re-
Gently wrecked in transmission was
found to be loaded with empty pea
nut shells, which were being shipped
from the South to Posts establish
ment at Battle Creek.
This canard probably originated
with President John Fitzgerald, of
the Chicago Federation of Labor,
who, it is said, stated it publicly. as
truth.
Post comes back and gives Fitzger-
aid the lie direct. He denounces
Fitzgerald's statement as a deliberate
falsehood, and undetermined and
cowardly attempt to injure his bust
ness, having not the slightest basis in
fact. AS such an effort it must be
regarded. 1t is significant that this
statement about 1.-The peanut shells"
is being given wide newspaper pub
licity. In the patent inside" of an
Eastern country paper l find it, and
the inference naturally Is that labor
unionites are insidiously spreading
this lie.
An institution Tor a mani which
will resort to moral intimidation and
to physical force, that will destroy
machinery and burn buildings, that
will main and kill If necessary to eff
fects its ends, naturally would not
hesitate to spread falsehood for the
same purposes.
We admire Post. While we have
no enmity toward labor unions, so
long as they are conducted in an hon.
est, "live-and-let-live" kind of a way
we have had enough of the tarred
end of the stick to sympathize thor
oughly with what he is trying to do.
He deserves support. A man like
Post can not be killed. Eve with lies.
They are a boomerang every time.
Again we knolo, for hasn't this wea.
pom, every weapon that could be
thought of, been used land not SIM
ply by labor unions) to put us out OF
business, too?
| am going to drink two cups OF
Postum every morning from this time
on, and put myself OIL a diet of Grape
Nuts. Bully for Post!-Editoriag in
The American Jowrnalo of Clinical Medicine.
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Old Country Dance.

The cushion dance was originally
an old country dance in triple time,
which was introduced into court at
the time of Elizabeth. The dance
was very simple. A performer took a
cushion and after dancing for a few
minutes stopped and threw the cush-
ion before one of the spectators. The
one so selected had to kneel on the
cushion and allow the dancer to kiss
her. After which he repeated the
dance.
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Stop the Clocks.

Bendigo, Australia, has started a
reform movement to stop the Ginning
and striking of all-nightpublic clocks,
the city being moved thereto by Nine.
Melba. The prfma donna passed a
sleepless night in Bendigo owing to
the din of clocks, and she has threat
ened never to visit the city again.
The complaint has been discussed by
the Bendigo City Council, and it was
decided to silence the clocks from
midnight to 6 a. m.
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Ex.coNv1CT BANKER DROWNED,
Body of John F. johnson, of Logans-
port, Ind, Found in Wabash River.

Logansport, Ind. = The body OF
John F. johnson, aged fifty-four, for
mer president of the State National
Bank, now defunct, and who served a
~six-years' sentence in the Federal pri-
son at Columbus, was found in the
Wabash River here. His watch and
iewelry were intact, but only a few
cents were found In the pockets.
There is little doubt he committed
suicide.
Johnson embezzled $350,O00 of the
money of the bank of which he was
president, and since his release from
prison had been in the brokerage
business.
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6ammation within.
You can't be rid oil
the ache until you
cure the cause.-the
kidneys. Doan's Kid.
ney Pills cure sick
kidneys.
j. F. King, 221 W.
Union St., Jackson
Vile, Fla, says:
Dull, nagging back.
ache and irregular
action of the kidneys
bothered me for five
months. Doan's Kid
ney Pills proved jus
what | needed, driv'
ing out the pain and
the kid
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Defined Absent Minded.

Rufus Choate nce endeavored to
make a witness give an illustration
IF Observation-Disclosures. "Wall," said
The witness, cautiously, IT should say
that a man who thought he'd left his
watch to hum, an took it out'n his
pocket to see if he had time to go
mum to get it should say that that
teller was a leetle absent-minded."-
Eyerybody's Magazine.
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Marriage Statistics.

The vital statistics prepared by City
Clerk Entwisle, of Salem, Mass,
shows that during 1907 there we're
479 marriage licenses issued and 396
solemnized in the city, which is
eighteen fewer than the previous
year. The oldest bridegroom was
sixty-eight and the Oldest bride fifty,
while the youngest bridegroom was
sixteen and the youngest bride fifteen.
Seventy-one brides were older than
the bridegrooms.
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Aerial Letter Boxes.

Aerial letter boxes have been
placed in all large tenement houses
and apartment buildings in Budapest,
Hungary. The boxes are shot up to
the floor required, where they re-
main until emptied, or until the post
man comes again and brings them
down by touching another spring.
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Old Vegetables.

Garlic, onions, shallots and leeks
have long been cultivated in almost
all countries, and their origin is very
uncertain. That of the scallion is
better known. 1t grows s%pontane-
ously in Siberia. One finds chives in
a wild state throughout the northern
hemisphere.
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A Germ DESTROYER

Tea is now elevated to the dignity
Of a germ destroyer. DR.. Mcknight,
the medical investigator, has found
that typhoid bacilli placed in cold or
lukewarm tea are greatly diminished
at the end of four hours and have
completely disappeared at the end of
tw~enty-four hours.
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Inventor Must File Extra
Drawings to Prevent Fraud.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. changes
in the law affecting Patent Office pro-
cedure are sought in bills favorably
reported by the House Committee on
Patents. To avoid possible fraudu-
lent alterations of the single drawing
now filed by the inventor with his APP
plication for patent, he must here
after file such additional copies as
the Commissioner Of Patents may di-
rect. This will enable him to place
copies in the archives inaccessible to
the outsiders.
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Missing.

"Our son doesn't get his brains
from you," says Mr.. Jawback.
NO" answers Mrs. Jawback, with
meaning. 81 confess he must have
got 'em from you. At least somebody
got yours-if you ever had any
Cleveland Leader.
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River Power Going to Waste.

1t is claimed that enough horse
power goes to waste in the rivers
and streams between Austin and San
Antonio, Texas, to run all the indus
tries in the State.-Philadelphia
Record.
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JEFF-JOHNSON FIGHT IN FRISCO

Official Announcement is Made as te
Date and Place.
San Francisco, Cal.-The forty-five
round championship battle on July 4
between James J. Jeffries and Jacl
Johnson for a purse of 100000 will
be fought in San Francisco.
This announcement was made fol
lowing a conference between Te1
Richard, Eddie Graney, Supervisor
John l.. Herget, Sam Fitzpatrick and
Jim Griffin.
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Gerald-"People can't make a
monkey of me-" Geraldine-"I don't
suppose they could make a real mon
key, but you know there are some
perfectly lovely limitations of things"
Chicago Daily News.
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Watchorn at Los Angeles.

Robert Watchorn, formerly Com
missioner of immigration at Ellis ISL
and, was appointed to the Housing
Commission by Mayor Alexander at
Los Angeles, Cal.
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BOY JUMPED FROM TRESTLE.
Leaped 20 Feet to Frozen River to
Escape Approaching Freight Train.

Stamford, Conn. = Caught on a
trestle west of the Stamford Railway
station with no other chance of escap.
ing from an approaching freight train
Charles H. Dixon, twelve years old,
jumped off the trestle into Rippowar
River, twenty feet below. The boy
said:
81 had to break the ice to get
ashore and was handicapped by my
overcoat. l had a hard time of it. ]
thought it better to risk the jump
than to try to u cross the trestle
ahead of the train"
The boy suffered no ill effects.
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from lTT6guldIl-
ties. terrible drag
ging sensations,
extreme nervous
ness, and that all
gone feeling in my
stomach. I had
given up hope Of
ever being well
when l began to
take Lydia E Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound. Then
1 felt as though
nav life had heeD
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A Poor Excuse.

The worst thing about a poor ex-
cuse is that it seldom cry the pur-
pose for which it was intended
Chicago Record-Herald.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softenst the gums, reduces infiamma-
tion, allays pain, cures wind collie. Csc. a bottle.
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An Italian jeweler has carved a
single pearl into the shape of a boat,
which has a sail of beaten gold.
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WHEN YOUR BACK ACHES
SUSPECT THE KIDNEYS.

Backache is kidney ache in most
cases. The kidneys ache and throb
with dull pain because there is in
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KILLS ARKANSAS TRUST LAW.
Supreme Court Says, License Fee Fol
Foreign Corporations is Invalid.

Washington, D. C.-Another State
law, that of Arkansas, seeking to i'm
nose an incorporation fee on foreign
organizations according to the capital
stock. was declared unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court of the United
States.
The law was known as the Wingo
act.
The case was decided on the same
reasoning given for declaring a sim.
liar Kansas law void.
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| Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money! If it fails to cure
E. w. Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
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Itch cured in 80 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
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There are three times as many
Buddhists, Brahmans, Mohammedans
and pagans in the world as there are
Christians. N.Y.-S
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France recently launched the largest sub
marine.