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In the Hives of Industry.

The mines of Butte, Mont, have a
combined pay roll of $4,000, 900 a
year.
The American typographical I'm
ions benefits last year amounted to
$30S,000.
International Printing Pressmen
and Assistants Union has a mem
bership of about $4,000.
There is a general demand for an
eight-hour day among leather work.
ers of the West, preparations for the
Inauguration of which will be begun
Ooh
Over 100000 worth of work
ingmen's shirts and overalls are pro.
duced annually in our prisons.
Statistics show that in the city
of New York there are $4,000 wo.
men who by their own labor support
their husbands and families.
This years scale will be forty-five
cents an hour for painters and paper.
hangers in Minneapolis, which is a
raise of two and a half cents.
The Workingmen's Federation of
the State of New York has prepared
a list of measures, present and to
come, which will be. favored or CD.
posed by its legislative committee at
ALBANY
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London.-England's birth rste last
year was the lowest on record-25.56
per 1000 of population. This Is near
ly 10 below the rate for 1908, which
showed a slight increase over 1907,
the first for many years.
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Tonic of the Country Town.

He who has never called a country
town his home has missed much. He
who had his first look upon the world
from some little village which at the
dawn Of consciousness spelled all the
world to him and held in its bounds
all the people, will always lack some
thing In his Ems of proper adjust
ment to creation. 1t is in them that
the truest friendships are formed, the
closest studies of human nature pro-
vided, the most lasting hold given on
the eternal truths. Only as a little
child can the kingdom be entered,
and that is as true of the kingdom
of earth as of that one of which it was
first said. Go closer into the records
d these boys off the farms and you
will find that it was from the country
towns, rather than the farms, they
came; that it was some country vii
lage that inspired the dreams, fired
the hopes and prepared for that flight
to broader fields. And they go back
laden with gifts, not to the farms, but
to the country towns to which they
feel they owe so much.-Denver Re-
publican.
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DIR. O'Hanlon's Rare Gift.

DR.. Philip F. O'Hanlon is such a
good mixer and jolly fellow that no
one not intimately acquainted with
him and his work. would imagine that
he perhaps has held more autopsies
than any other surgeon in the world.
In the fifteen years he has been Cor
oner's physician he has investigated
10000 deaths and performed in the
neighborhood of 10000 autopsies. 1t
is not unusual for him to perform
three or four a day. That is grew
some work, but he neve has permit
ted it to get on his nerves or cloud
his naturally sunny disposition.
Those who knew him before he be-
came Coroner's physician say he is as
light-hearted and genial to-day as he
was then, and that he owes it to the
fact that he has the power to dismiss
unpleasant things from his mind at
will.-New York Press.
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1t Wasn't His Fire.

There "a a fire in an Osborne
hotel on a recent Sunday. The fire
company, whose chief is foreman Of
the Farmer office, did valiant service,
saving, and at the same time, soak
ing, everything in sight. No n was
injured, which was the most surpris-
ing part of it to the man who discov-
cred the fire. He was enjoying his
Sunday splash in the bath when
flames began to trickle through the
floor and feel around for something
to play with. With great presence of
mind and absence of raiment, the
guest hastily removed himself. To
an old man he met in the hall he
broke the news softly, lest a panic
be started. "The hotels IN fire." he
whispered. The venerable gentle
man yawned. "Well, If it is" he re-
piled, why in blazes don't you
holler?"-Kansas City Journal.
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Baby sleepless with Awful Itching.

when our baby was seven weeks
old he broke out with what we
thought was heat, but which gradual
ly grew worse. We called in a doctor.
He said it was eczema and from that
time we doctored six months with
three of the best doctors in Atchison
but he only got worse. His face, head
and hands were a solid sore. There
was no end to the suffering for him.
We had to tie his little hands to keeI
him from scratching. He never knew
what 1t was to sleep we'll from the
time he took the disease until he was
cured. He kept us awake all hours
of the night and his health wasn't
what you would call good. We tried
everything but the right thing.
FINALLY / got a set of the Cuticura
Remedies and ! am pleased to say
we did not use all of them until he
was cured. We have waited a veal
and a half to see IL 1t would return
but it never has and to-day his Skin
is clear and fair as it possibly could
be. hope Cuticura may save some
n else's little ones suffering ant
also their pocket-books. John Leason
14O3 Atchison St.. Atchison, Kan.
Oct. 10, 1909"
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Spectacles For Soldiers.

In many cases the vision of third
class shots has been much improved
by the use of spectacles. In the First
Northamptonshire Regiment a third
class shot became a first class shot.
In the First Queens a man who just
missed being a third class shot be-
came a first. In the First Oxfords
one failed and two third class shots
became second class and one third
class became a first. In the First
Cameronians n improved from nom
effective to a second class shot. In
the First Royal Scott Fusiliers one
third class shot became a second class
shot. These results are due to action
taken by the medical authorities in
1907, when the eyesight of several
selected regiments was carefully ex-
amined by army medical specialists in
ophthalmology. Recommendations
based on these examinations were
made, and the Government of India
granted a free issue of suitable
glasses to those men requiring them.
Lancet.
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First Automobile Railroad.

Texas used to Claim the distinction
of having the first automobile rail-
road. Five cars used to make regu-
lar trips on a three-hour schedule
over the forty-fye miles between
Lubbock and Plainview, The county
seats of Lubbock and Hale counties
The line had a private right OF. way
fenced off as for a railway, and it's
roadbed was worked by section hands
to this extent-it was kept scooped
free of sand. The drivers (this in
the sense in which the English use
the word) were cowboys in blue over
alls and large felt hats. They we're
required to make the forty-five miles
In three hours because the liue car
ried United States mail and was un"
der contract to keep a schedule. Of
ten the cars would clip an hour off
that for good measure. The round
trip fare for ninety miles was $40
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ROSY COLOR
Produced by Postum.

when a person rises from each
meal with a ringing in the ears and
a general sense of nervousness, 1t
is a common habit to charge 1t to
a deranged stomach.
II found it was caused from drink
ing coffee, which l never suspected
for a long time, but found by leaving
off coffee that the ~disagreeable feel
ings went away.
II was brought to think OF the
subject by getting some Postum and
this brought me out of trouble.
"It is a most appetizing and invig-
Grating beverage and has been of
such great benefit to me that l nat
urally speak of it from time to time
as opportunity offers.
"a lady friend complained to me
that she had tried Postum, but it did
not taste good. In reply to my ques-
ton she said she guessed she boiled
1t about ten minutes. l advised her
to follow directions and know that
she boiled it fifteen or twenty min
utes, and she would have something
worth talking about. A short time
ago l heard one of her children say
that they were drinking Postum now
a-days, SO / Judge she succeeded In
making it good, which is by no means
a difficult task.
1.-THE son of one of my friends was
formerly a pale lad, but since he has
been drinking Postum, has a fine
color. There is plenty of evidence
that Postum actually does make red
blood as the famous trademark
says"
Read 1.-THE Road to MELVILLE"
found in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
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LATEST NEWS.
BY WIRE.
1000 Girls Go On Strike.

1000 Girls Go On Strike.
Louisville, Ky.-One thousand
girls and women employed as stem
mers in factories of the American
Tobacco Company quit work because
of a decrease in wages.
Mother Dead, Boy Ends Life.
Brockton, Mass.-Believing that
his mothers constant are for him
during a two years illness had
fastened her death by apoplexy,
Frederick B. Hall, eighteen years old,
killed himself by shooting at his home
at North Easton. They were buried
together.
Sued For Theft of Heart.
New York City.-Because the body
of the son she loved was robbed of it's
heart, Mrs. Mary Hassard has brought
suit for $4,000 against DR.. Timothy
D. Leblanc, a Coroner's physician. She
charges that DR.. Leblanc performed
an autopsy on the body and in doing
so illegally distracted and retained
the heart.
Arkansas Governor Renominated.
Little Rock, Ark.-Returns from
the Democratic primary indicate that
Governor Donaghey has been renom-
mated by a large plurality.
Suffragists Turned Down. 9
Boston.-The advocates of woman
suffrage lost their annual fight in
the lower branch of the Legislature
by a vote that varied but little from
that of last year.
Matches Kill Boy, Mother Burned.
Berryville, Va.-While playing
with matches at his home, "a here,
the young son of J.. C. Royston, a
farmer, was burned to death. In
the mother was severely burned and
will lose one of her hands.
Pardon Frees a Slasher.
Woodstock, Va.-Kirby J. Bow
man, a wealthy farmer, who has been
confined in jail here since October,
was released, having been pardoned
by Governor Mann. He was sentenced
for one year for cutting Robert Lantz
over a horse deal.
Congress to Decide Gift.
Washington, D. C.-Congress will
be asked to decide whether the Treas
ury Department may accept a chime
of heavy bells Mrs. Andrew c. Vain
wright, of Boston, has offered for the
new custom house here. She proposes
to endow a guild of bell ringers.
Miss Jackman Dies, 1O2 Years Old.
Boston.-Miss Mary Martha jack
man, the oldest resident of Boston,
died in Roxbury. She was born in
Newburyport in 1903.
Sick Man Killed Wife.
Springfield, Mo.-Zach Ward, seri-
ously i'll, was carried on a cot from
his house to the County Jail here be-
cause it was feared he might be
lynched by indignant neighbors. He
has been b%edridden for months. A
few days ago he called his wife to
his bedside and shot her four times.
She died in a few minutes. He had
hidden a revolver under his pillow.
Strikers Will Keep Secret.
Washington, D. C.-The War De-
partment does not apprehend that
striking workmen at the Bethlehem
Steel Works will embarrass it by
making public any o: the secrets Of
big gun construction. This fear has
been advanced by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. The Wal Depart
ment says it has no secrets Of gun
construction; the secrets belong to
the manufacturers and inventors.
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Her h Varied.

After the third addition to the fam.
lily it became necessary to secure the
services of a permanent nurse.
Now, my husband is very particu.
lar whom l engage as a nurse" said
the mistress to a girl who had applied
for the position. HE wishes me to
go into the most minute details about
your qualifications. Do you know
how to prepare food? Can you sew
and mend? Do you mind sitting up
late at night? Are you faithful and
devoted, and have you a kind, loving
disposition? Will you"
Excuse me, ma'am; am 1 to take
care of the baby or your husband?"
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The Boat That Nature Built.

Man makes the largest sea-going
vessels, but nature constructs the
smallest. This, a species of jellyfish,
is found only in tropical seas, and it
has a sail.
That part of the fish that is sub
merged resembles a mass of tangled
threads, while the sail" looks like
a tough membrane, shaped like a
shell, and measuring quite five inches
or more across. The jellyish can
raise or lower this sail at will.
Knowing seamen avoid contact
with this curiosity of nature, for the
reason that each of the threads COM
posing its body possesses the power
of inf1icting a very painful sting. This
sting enables the jellyfish to defend
itself from porpoises. albatrosses and
other natural enemies.
1t may be added that this odd little
creature has no other means Of loco
motion aside from its sail. When
see skimming along the surface Of
the water it closely resembles a
child's toy boat, giving no indication
whatever of a living creature in
search of food.-Harper's Weekly.
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80
well at night. I believe there is moth
ing like the Pinhham remed1es."-
Mrs. CLARA FRANKS, r. +. d., NO. .,
Knoxville, Iowa.
The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, is unparalleled. 1t may be
used with perfect confidence by women
who suffer from displacements, inflam-
nation, liberation, fbroid tumors. IT.
regularities, periodic pains, backache.
bearing-down feeling, fatuleDcy, indi-
gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra-
ton.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
suffering women owe it to themselves
to at least give this medicine a trial
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands of others, and why should it
not cure you?
If you want special advice write
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, for it.
Il is free and always helpful.
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Plant Ruins Island.

Strength is not a thing usually
connected with maidenhair fern, yet
if it's roots have not sufficient room
they will break the pot in which the
plant grows. Blades Of grass will
force the curbstones between which
they spring up out of their place, and
in a single night a crop Of small
mushrooms have lifted a large stone.
Indeed plants have been known to
break the hardest rocks.
The island of Aldabra, to the north
west of Madagascar, is becoming
smaller and smaller through the &C
ton of the mangroves that grow
along the foot of the cliffs. They eat
their way into the rock in all direc-
lions, and into the gaps thus formed
the waves force their way. In time
they will probably reduce the island
to pieces.-London Globe.
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The Height of Waves.

There is a great deal of romance
about the stories that are told about
the height of sea waves. They are
not as high as the Imagination,
coached by these stories, would make
them out to be. The height of the
wave generally depends upon the size
of the body of water in which they
appear. For instance the highest
wave on the Lake of Geneva is nine
feet; on Lake Superior, twenty-three
feet; in the Mediterranean, thirty
feet; in the Atlantic, from forty to
fifty feet. In measuring the height
of a wave the reckoning should be
top of the wave to the level of the
sea, and not, as is often done, from
the trough of the sea to the top OF
the wave.-New York American.
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Glenn H. Curtis, at a dinner In Los
Angeles during the brilliant aviation
week. said of the Wrights good
humoredly:
"They don't own the air, you know
Did O hear about that conversation
that was overheard between them at
the Dayton plant?
".Orville,' cries Wilbur. running
out of doors excitedly, look! Here's
another aviator using our patent!'
"'He certainly isl shouted Or
Vile. That's u simultaneous
varying and steering movement to a
IT,
"'Call a cop!' screams Wilbur.
Get another Injunction
"But Orville, who had looked UP
through his %binocular, laid his hand
gently on his brothers arm.
leone on back to work, Wilbur,
he said. It's a du~ck."-Washing-
ton Star.
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Tulip Sunday in Holland.

The Dutchman looks upon his tulip
farm as a steady and profitable means
of livelihood, and the traveller jour-
neying in the spring from HARLEM by
rail to Leyden passes through fields
of gorgeous color, which reach a
climax at Hillegon. To lovers of
color these sheets of scarlet, yellow
and pink are a pure Joy, especially
when reflected in the canals which
Intersect them. The flowers are in
their full splendor in the middle of
spring, Tulip Sunday being about the
third Sunday in April.-London Out
look.
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In Spite of Tommy.

Home study for Tommy had just
begun, and he found it hard to apply
himself to regular hours. At bed
time one evening his father said:
Tommy, 1 am not at all pleased with
the report your mother gives me Of
your conduct to-day"
"No, father, I knowed you wouldn't
be, and l told her so. But she went
right ahead an made tn report. Jest
like a woman, amt it?"-Ladies'
Home Journal.
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A Boston woman once asked Low
ell to write In her autograph album,
and the poet, complying, wrote tho
line. "Wlat is SO rare as O day In
June?" Calling at this woman's
house a few days later. Lowell idly
turned the pages of the album till
he came to his own autograph. Be-
meath it was written in a childish
scrawn: "a Chinaman with Whis-
kers."-Washington Star.
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Free to Our Reader

Write Murine Eye Remedy Co, Chicago,
for 4S-page illustrated Eye Book Free;
Write ali about Your Eye Trouble and
they will advise as to the Proper Applica-
ton of the Murine Eye Remedies in Your
that Murine Relieves Sore Eyes, Strength
ems Weak Eyes, Doesn't Smart, Soothes
Eve Pain. and sells for SOC. Try It in Your
Eyes and in Baby's Eyes, for Scaly Eyelids
and Granulation.
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DEMOCRATS SWEEP CHICAGO.
Mayor Busse Condemned Because of
Various Scandals.

Chicago, Ill. - In the Aldermanic
elections the Democrats returned
twenty-one out of %thirty-five mem
bers, giving them a majority of six in
a body of seventy members.
1t is reputation of the Mayor
Busse administration, which has be-
come involved in all kinds of graft
scandals. 1t is a rebuke also to Gov
ernor Deneen, who lost three of his
four wards, all of which were former
ly Republican.
In addition to local issues Colonel
James Hamilton Lewis and former
Mayor Edward F. Dunno injected ma
tional issues into the campaign. Both
assailed the tariff and the high cost of
living, and told the voters that even
in a municipal election they could re-
buke the Republican Administration.
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KILLED FRIEND, SLEW HIMSELF
Connolly Turned On Himself Weapon
Which Took Fracella's Life.

Trenton, N. Jas John Connolly,
q watchman; Frank Fracella, a cab
man, and Roy Accord, a detective,
were chatting together at the Trenton
Junction railway station, Accord ex-
hibited his revolver. Connolly took
the weapon, pointed it at Fracella,
and said:
How would you like to get a load
from this?"
AS he spoke the weapon was dis
charged and Fracella, shot through
the heart, fell dead. Connolly in a
fright ran around the end of the sta
tion and shot himself dead.
The killing of Fracella was clearly
unintentional, as he and Connolly
were friends.
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trouble. One ply
stefan treated me
and then another,
and it was thought
l would not live.
] rallied from that
attack, but my
back ached as II
it would break.
was la1.guid and
nervous. Life
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seemed a burden. Doan's Kidney
Pills helped me very promptly and 1t
was not long before l was cured. Now
/ enjoy perfect health and am with
out an ache or pain"
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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TEXAS MOB LUNCHES SLAYER.
Bates Son, Who Shared Attempt to
Escape. Rescued From Crowd.

Houston, Texas.-Following an at
tempt to escape from jail, Frank
Bates was lynched by hanging in the
Jail at Centreville. Dolly Bates, his
son, was also strung up, but was cut
down before life was extinct.
The two Bateses, who were await
ing trial on a murder charge, NOR
tally wounded Jailer JEFF st. John in
the attem~t to ESCAPE.
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The Judges Interruptions.

Sir John Bigham complained to
Lord Watson that he interrupted
counsel too much; and the reply was:
"Eh! man, you should never COM
plain of that, for 1 never interrupt a
fool."-Satnrdav Raviaw-
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Edible Fruit Grows On

the Climbing Rose.
Berkeley, Cal.-Hugo Lilenthal, a
local horticulturist, announces the
discovery of an edible fruit from the
climbing rose. He declares this fruit
will in course of time take the. place
OF the loganberry, to which it is allied.
Lilenthal obtained the fruit by cross
grating.
The fruit, which he says is quite
nutritious and has a flavor like a pine
apple, may be eaten either raw or
cooked. 1t is interesting for it's origin
and delicious to taste.
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NEGROES LYNCH NEGROES.
Mob Shoots Man and Women Who
Had Killed Two Others.

Keo, Ark.-A mob composed en-
tirely of negroes overpowered Con-
stable Mallory, of Keo, four miles
north of here, seized his two prison
ers, both negroes, one of whom was a
woman, and shot them to death, after
which they hanged their bodies.
The victims were charged with hav-
ing killed the husband of the woman
and the wife of the nan
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Stops Larneness

Much of the chronic lameness
in horses is due to neglect.
See that your horse is not al
lowed to go lame. Keep Sloan's
Liniment on hand and apply at
the first sign of stiffness. It's
wonderfully penetrating - goes
right to the relieves the
soreness = limbers up the joints
and makes the muscles elastic
and plant.
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Great Achievement.

"And what do you regard as the
greatest triumph of modern sur
gery?"
collecting the bills" promptly
responded the great practitioner
London Spare Moments.
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"WETS" WIN IN ILLINOIS.
In More Than 200 Cities 'Drys'' Lost
Control.

Chicago, Hl.-In local option cleo
lions in more than 200 Illinois cities
the "wets" won a decided victory.
They turned back into the wet" col
umn %thirty-one towns that had been
dry" and held on to more than 100
of their former strongholds.
The "drys" captured only ten
places in which there had been sa-
Icons, and none of these was large.
They maintained their supremacy in
seventy towns.
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The City of London Corporation
consists of the Lord Mayor, twenty
ave other aldermen and 206 common
councillors. N. f.-I3
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But He Wasn't.

In conversation recently with a
pretty society woman Rupert Hughes
asked her If she was a native New
Yorker.
NO." she replied, 81 am not. -
then she hesitated.
Don't hesitate" urged Mr.. Hughes
earnestly, "to tell the worst. Permit
me, dear madam, to reassure you.
Your secret cannot be any worse than
mine. I was born in Keokuk, IoWay."
New York Press.
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GAVE UP HOPE.

Doan's Kidney Pills Cured When Doc
tors Failed.
Mrs. John H. Cole, 80 Arlington
ST., So. birmingham, Mass, says:
"For years ! was a martyr to kidney
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AFTER
DOCTORS
FAILED
LydiaE. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound Cured Her

Knoxville, Iowa. -"I suffered with
pains low down in my right side for a
year or more and was so weak and ner-
yous that 1 could not do my work. L
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Vienna has $4,000 street beggars,
and many of them make a better liv-
ing than workmen.
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Here's the Proof.

Mr.. G. T. Robert. CT Rcsaca, Ga,
RID. No. 1, Box 43, writes -" have
used your Liniment on a horse for swee-
ney and effected a thorough cure. al
SO removed a spawn on a mule. This
SPAWN was as large as a guinea egg. In
my estimation the best remedy for lame
ness and soreness ia
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The total continental area of the United
States, including Alaska, is about equal te
that Of all Europe.