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The Washington times., 1911-08-12

well, the season is opening up
again." said the stage-struck youth
as he leaned against the doorsill so
that he might scratch his back
Yep" answered the stage door
keeper, "in another week or two all
the electric signs will begin to twinkle
and old kid First Nighter will get
his store clothes out of hook and send
his top hat out to be blocked. There II
be some new stars that will begin to
pull the twinkle stuff and a great
number of old ones. Some of them
ought to he put away, but l suppose
they have to make a living some way.
An Early Start
The burlesque shows, as usual,
were first on the job, and I'll bet
that many a laundry is working short
handed now, and this is still their
busy season. Well see the same He
brew impersonator and the two Dutch
brewers and the comedy harp. They'll
put over the stuff that they have
been using for the past ten years,
with a few yards of 1911 embroidery
tackled on to make 1t look new.
And the tired business man VIII
leave a card on his desk, saying that
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keeled over on the pavement outside.
as bum q looking bum as ever spent
the winter months at his country seat
in fail. THE heat" they said, and
stretched him out on the floor. That's
when the sympathy began to ferment
I told en- to never mind sending for
the ambulance-he was reviying and
he could stay where he was until he
felt ready to hoof 1t some more. Some
how or other l hate to see anybody
taken to a hospital
Well. they put the fellow in a cor.
ner and left him, and pretty soon !
forgot all about him. But during
Juliet's lunch hour I left the store
a minute to mail a letter, and when
I came back he was gone-and so was
all the change In the cash register.
The detective from the station house
said the chap has played the same
trick three times this week. Sure.
sympathy!
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THE STAGE DOORKEEPER

I he has gone to consult his attorney, and
sneak over to the matinee, where he
will occupy a modest. inconspicuous
seat about eighteen inches from the
piccolo player
There will be same old stage set
, ting of the sultan's harem, and the
garden Of Eden and a few other choice
resorts where the blond and buxom
( burlesquers won't have any excuse to
wear any more clothes than the law
desires. And the sue-brute will sing
the same old kissin' songs and the spot
light man will make things pleasant
for the old guy in the parquet with the
bare bean.
It's Always Been So
IT'S always been so, and there is no
reason to think that it will be changed.
And 1t really looks to me as though
the public would resent a change in the
old ORDER
But" interjected the stage-struck
youth, tell me If it really is true that
most Of these burlesque squads come
from the laundries."
They not only come from them,
KID" replied the 8. D. K, but they go
back to them
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pirate observation here, were it not
entirely out Of place.
Resolutely he strode to his desk. and
fumbled with one hand at the catch
OF a secret door. It flew open, and in
q second a cleaning revolver was in
his hand.
Thrice more he paced the length of
!. the room. Twice more the breadth.
Suddenly pausing in the middle of the
room, he pressed the muzzle of the
revolver to his forehead.
THE only course!" he cried loudly.
THE only course!''
A figure in the corner Of the room
stirred, and the woman spoke.
Rotten" she commented. but II the
audience will stand for 1t, I'll admit
wrote the play"
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Loretta's Looking Glass

r HAVEN'T had my anger SO thor
i oughly taken out and blown up and
well aired for months! And the
GIRL WHO THINKS WELL OF
EVERYBODY DID IT.
There is something perfectly exasper-
ating about the persistent posy pleas
antness of such a girl. If vices are
simply virtues gone to seed, I haven't
an idea what to say about her virtue!
II has gone to the MOON. It's like
Jacks beanstalk. 1t has just grown
and grown and grown and grown, and
then grown some more, quite above
stalk or virtue was ever meant to go.
Peel the Edges
A SNOB and the GIRL WHO
THINKS WELL OF EVERYBODY
met. And I, Loretta Of the trenchant
pen-I quote from a correspondent
happened to be there. The GIRL is
one of the workers. She has to fairly
peel the edges of of greenbacks to get
her clothes And the SNOB is a young
savage who was also a worker her
self once, but took a shoot into pros
perity via the matrimonial airline.
She was with a rich friend at the
picture exhibition. And when she saw
the GIRL coming toward her she lifted
her silly lorgnette and her silly eyes
and tilted her silly head and pretended
that her silly brain could appreciate
and be absorbed in the splendid and
dignified cattle with which Carlton
Virgins had giorified a canvas. Per-
haps her mean, small convolutions OF
gray matter might have been absorbed
by the paint. Mr.. Virgins puts it on
pretty thick sometimes But she
couldn't disguise the fact that she had
seen the GIRL.
SAW HER SEE HERR That sounds
like that idiotc round about I SAW
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sHE KoLDs IT UP TO THE
Girl Who Thinks Well Of Everybod,

the GIRL. And what do you think
she said as burst out: She cut you'll"
I'm sure she did not see me-"
The lie was an evidence Of her deter
mination to think we'll of everybody
If she perjured her soul to do 1t.
Didn't see you? Do you think she
has developed an astigmatism Just be-
cause she has a lorgnette?" ebuI,ated.
She did not see mel" the GIRL re-
peated, smiling that peculiarly tnane
variety Of grtmace which Is affected by
her kind.
You've lost your eyesightr' I az
claimed. II suppose you will go on CIV
ing her chances to snub you!'
Il shall forgive her." was the not
unlovely answer.
Encouraging Snobs
That's all right. Forgive her: but
don't prove yourself a candidate for the
imbecile asylum by denying the testi-
mony Of your own eyes. You know
she saw you. You know her narrow,
proud little soul snubbed you. And you
are encouraging sNORS like her when
you fail to recognize their snobbish-
ness and call It BAD. Just as you
would be encouraging the bad drama II
yop went to a vicious performance and
then gilded 1t over with your false as
sertion that it was probably well-in-
tended Anybody who deliberately en-
courages N o B 8 ought to be
SNUBBEDw
It's a good deal bigger to SEE a
fault and forgive than it is to refuse
to see 1t. The GIRL WHO THINKS
WELL OF EVERYBODY makes the
mistake OF assuming that there In
nothing wrong. She runs up against
some hard walls that she might have
climbed If she had just recognized them
rs THERE and taken reasonable pre-
cautions about getting over instead OF
DUMPING into chem.
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Our Grocery Clerk
Says, No Sympathy

sympathy and business have about
as little to do with each other as soap
and hoboes.
got in vera, vera bad learning
that.
They carried him in here when hs
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Scintillating Rays
From HumOr's Candle
NAVAL. DREAM

Mr.. Recentmarrie-Mary, I do hope
you WILL never have navy beans fol
supper again; those we had last nigh
gave me a horrible dream.
Mrs. Recentmarrie-Oh, John, I an
so sorry! What was the dream?
MIR. Recentmarrie-I dreamed was
captured by Captain Kidd and made
to walk the plank
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Merry Thoughts
For Diversion
ENGLISH Joke FOR TODAY

Lady Ito. bachelor host)-So delightful
Of you to think Of dining us at small
Soho restaurant-so Bohemian, don't
you know
Waiter Qn loud whisper)-The LADY, s
had two buffers already. sir; Is she to
have any more?-Punch.
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Like Most Of Then

Have another" begged the news
paper mans companions on a rarely
hot afternoon.
Nope" said the Newspaper man
firmly. I've got to get back to the
office and write an editorial headed
Avoid the Use of Cooling Drinks. I'll
be back here in an hour. though, If
you'll wait"
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TO MAKE A Hit

Storekeeper Well, my little man,
what can do for you?
The Kid-Say, when I comee in here
this afternoon with a lady and asks
you for q dollars worth OF your best
chocolates Just pass me out q penny's
worth Of them little things in the cor
ner, will you.
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A Kind Reform

I want land reform" St James's
Budget Is quoting a perfervid orator.
want housing REFORM he con-
tlnued. Il want electoral reforml ]
want educational reform. want
"ChloroformT suggested frm
voice from the rear of the hall,
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The Only Course;
Or, Desp'rate Deed!

Three times, with his hands behind
his back, he paced the length of the
room. Twice the breadth.
Heaven hel-lup me-" he groaned, ut
10 the only course!"
COURSE work." would be an appro-
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A misunderstanding

IT hear their engagement mas peer
broksn off through a misunderstand'
Ing"
eyes. He understood she had money
and she understood he had money"
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SATISFIED

''Old Grabber ought to be satisfied
with the money he has"
He is satisfied-so much so that he
wants a lot more of exactly the same
kind"
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bother home the shadow of divorce then hovng
and she had chance when the shadow of shame
before skirts below
knees still umbled silky curls down her
No girl has chance who isn't protected these has she'
No girl who watched and guarded and taught know
the and the happiness of gentle womanhood will learn then
the fault rebound the mothers who fail do the
handsthat of guiding the
girls will be the mothers of
The Tragedy of Life
But tragedy of that often the
suffers the giike this onewho
behind the
orab law Of ahead of her. and who stands the
of SLIM little r-haed GIRL who might be just
paths while she still little child
the dares think for there is,
as she says for the world
what she might have thought
women throats they think Of the reality,
tightly their
daughters mother hearts tender they smile
the little faults foibles of their
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In Wrong

Bored Man Cat party)-Beastly slow
here! I'm going. Which way do you
go homer
Son Of the House-I'm at home
now.
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An Old One

Il don't know to whom to credit this
anecdote."
Credit 1t to Noah. II he hadn't
taken 1t into the ark it evidently could
not have survived"
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Wasn't Sure

I,adv-How long since you have done
any work?
Tranp-rm not quite sure, lady.
forget whether am forty or fifty years
old.
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Not q Puncture

Had puncture. my friend?'
The chauffeur looked up and swal-
lowed his feelings with a huge gulp.
mo, STR" he replied. I'm just
changing the air in the tires. The other
lots worn out, you KNOW
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Less Disturbance

(which would you rather be, a poet
or a musicianT'.
"a poet. People aren't 50 liable to be
disturbed while you are practicing"
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Ranid'Eire

What the drama needs is action
what's the use? AL human action
looks slow since the moving pictures
came in"
The Washington times., 1911-08-12
Nj A MIE TELLS BELLE
Kickers Are
Bad Enough But
NIX ON THE PESSIMIST

ADMIT there's place for everybody in this world
but the crouch, Belle
don't mean kickers, Belle, for if it wasn't for
the kckers thisd still be country of volunteer fire
companies and canal boats. l mean the grouches,
the men that just find fault for the love O being
disagreeable, the pessimists.
A pessmist, Belle, is man that can see all the
bad in the good and none O the good in the bad
A pessimist is just man with bad case O
the Crouch, and he's than the CROUCH because
his specially is argun other people into feelin the
same way that he feels about things.
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ESAU, etc! But l have to say it so
the point may not be lost.
So the SNOB with her nose in the
air and her rich girl friend beside her
sailed by the GIRL I hurried toward
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heaven and the shame ndn that anybody perfectly happy
is punishment enough en-.
All their they've people there no such
point e the other angels that each other This
is h.! Oh, it's great punishment Belle.
The Pessimist is King Bore
They deserve nothin'
makes speciality O n people there amt heaven Whether
there's heaven the people that
happy they through by the
until the fellow points
the blue in the sky just the atmosphere
nobody angel
The worlds not big enough for like that Belle There's
meal with symphony in fat; there's for the
wheels the baby down the
tending the mothers stub meen
his Belle pssmist up entirely too much
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Another Question

80 you want to marry my daughter
do you. young man|'
Yes, s-s-i-r."
We'll, can you support a familyf
"H-how many are there OF you
s-sir?'
The Washington times., 1911-08-12
GIVING GIRLS A CHANCE
Is Duty of Mothers Where
Neglect Means Wicked Lives
BY PEGGY VAN BRAAM

JEVER had chance. Nobody cared what did, or
how late | stayed out, or where l went. And then,
when l did wrong, everybody took hand at push
ing down, at raking up old stories and robbing
me of chance to work"
The cry is that of 17-year-old girl, dragged
into the limelight of notoriety by terrible muir
der case and the words, echoing, they do, from
the depth of the girls heart, where she lies in a
CELL offer SO great a lesson to mothers the world
over that l cannot but repeat them.
Never had a chance! OF she hadn't,
when she allowed to wild at IL years of
oF ~ eba &c,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

drunk and disorderly, $5; Albert C3i-
 lins, a negro, was arrested at the ia
 stance of another negro and cnarge
 with petit larceny but at the trial the prosecuting witness did not appeai' and Judge Stewart dismissed the cas- R. Young, a negro woman was fined $15 for petit larceny. She was arrest ed several days ago by Special Off, cer Parnell for shoplifting in Kress' store. A. Brewster, the we'll known capitalist, was charged with violating section T27 of the city laws, which prohibits plumbing work without d license. It was shown that the work was done on MT. Brewster's premises and he had not attempted to do auy work outside of his yard and the case was dismissed. Several others were fined for being drunk. The total fines amounted to $54.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20
MANY CASES IN
 POLICE COURT

Eleven cases were on the docket Waen Judge Sonny" Stewart took hs seat yesterday morning but he soon had the slate clean and ready for an- other batch. w. P. McGeorge, who had a fight with a stret car conduct or some time ago. appeared and was fined 5 for disturbing the peace by fighting. He gave notice of appeal l9 the circuit court. Harrison Smith, a negro, was fined $10 for vagrancy
 II. l.. Stroud, drunk, $3; Robert Rhodes, drunk. $3; Jerry Scanlor,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20
LAURA HANSEN.
itue friend,

Dear Santa:-I am a little girl three years old. I want you to bring me doll and a doll buggy, and T little piano and a little trunk, and don't forget my little baby sistee. Bring her a little red rocking chai" and a rubber doll She is one year old. And don't forget papa, May God bless you, Dear Santa, Your little girl,
 FAIRY BELL
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20
With the Coming of Middle Age

There is letting down in the phys. ical forces often shown in annoyir and painful kidney and bla' ments and urinary fire Foley Kidney Pills are a sp1-,, ulating and strengthening medicin. at such time. Try them. w. L. De woody & Co.,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little girl, five years old. l weigh 56 pounds doll. I want a big doll with black curly hair and black eyes, and a lit tie bedstead; doll buggy, a trunk. [ set of furs and don't forget my ma- ma. My number is No. 2003 West Eleventh avenue.
 ATHALlA BELL.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20
BURDENS LIFTED
From Pine Bluff Backs-Relief Proved
 by Lapse of Time.

Uy LipSe Ol lInes
 Backache is heavy burden; Nervousness wears one out;
 Rheumatic pain; urinary ills; All are kidney burdens
 Daily effects of kidney weakness. No use to cure the symptoms,
 Relief is but temporary if the cause remains
 Cure the kidneys and you cure the cause.
 Relief comes quickly-comes to stay. Doan's Kidney Pills cure kidney ills; Prove it by your neighbours case, Here's Pine Bluff testimony.
 The story of a permanent cure Mrs. B. Sylvester, 116 w. 4th ave-, Pine Bluff, Ark, says: 'The relief ;! have received from Doan's Kidney Pills has been permanent and I have had no cause to use kidney medicine since publicly telling of my first ex- nerience in June 1908 It gives me pleasure to confirm my former state ment and again recommend Doan's Kidney Pills
 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents Foster-Milburn Co.,, Buffalo, New York. sole agents for the United States.
 Remember the name-Doan's--a take no other.
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LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS
< <. s .s ss .s # ]. $. .s < * s, # a. s.

Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a big doll, dressed in red with q hat on, a bracelet and ring and T. knife, fork and spoon, Santa, please don't forget to bring me some har ribbon. a money bank, tablet and pen eil l am seven years old and live aJ No. 1909 East Second avenue Yoar 1ittle friend,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

Bucks White Enameled ovens in Natural Gas Ranges are non-rust- able. Sold by Reap & Crawford Furn. Co. If.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

and catridge-all makes Guns and Rifles.-HOWELL ARMS co. Dept of Old Lloyd Gro. Go. 10-18-tt
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Dear Santa Claus:-1 will not ask for much this year as it will be a sad lonely Christmas for me. All | want is some nice flowers to take ou; to my dear papa S grave and if you want to you can bring me little bed Christmas. 1t will be a sad one for
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

Complete stock of the old Reis ole Winchester and IT. M C. sheli.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

HELEN GOULD LOVEJOY,
 No. sos East Second avenue.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

Remember the name-Doan sand take no other.
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ATHALlA BELL.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-11-17
FORECASTS GLOOMY 1912.

Paris, Nov. 17.-Mme. de Thebes,
the Paris prophecies, who n year ago
predicted an European war and grave
trouble in the far East, as well as a
number OF other events that have
come to pass this year, sees little but
gloom ahead In 1912 There will be
labor troubles OF a grave nature
throughout Europe and America, she
says, and general discomfort among
the working classes. Huge scandals
in the theatrical world and the death
of great literary parsonage are also
included among the predictions of the
prophecies. War between France and
Germany is likely to be declared, she
says, in 1913
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-11-17
SLAYER OF CHIEF HARE
DIES OF HIS WOUNDS

Baton Rouge, La, Nov. 17.-Henry
Gillingham, the suspended police off
Ger. who killed Chief of Police Hare
here at midnight last night, died TO-
night in the hospital from the effects
of the bullet wounds inflicted by As
sistant Chief Huyck and Special Off,
Ger Charles Bauer.
At his bedside last night Mrs. Gil
lingham expressed the wish that her
husband would not survive.
81 pray to God he doesn't get well,
she exclaimed. For if he lives |
know they'll hang him"
Gillingham had been suspended by
Huyck on the charge of intoxication
They later engaged in a quarrel but
separated. Later Chief Hare, Huyck
and Bauer, intercepted Gillingham on
his way home. Chief Hare ordered
him to give up his revolver. Gilling
ham emptied his revolver, the first
bullet causing instant death. Huyck
and Bauer Immediately fired their re
volvers, three bullets finding lodg
ment in Gillingham's body, resulting
In his death tonight.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-11-17
G. G. S. l. Announces
Changes IN Time Card

Effective Sunday, Nov. 18th, the G.
& S. |. railroad will inaugurate new
time table, which makes material
changes in the time card now in use.
South bound passenger train No. 5,
which now arrives at 1926 a. m. gets
in at 9:35, or just one hour earlier
and departs at 9:45. South bound
passenger train No. 3, which will ar
rive at 7:O5 and leave at 1925 instead
of at 7:13 as at present. North bound
passenger train No. 6, which now
leaves at 1853 p. m. will leave at 7:15,
arriving at 6:55. North bound passen-
ger train No. which now leaves at
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-11-17
ca. ATTORNEYSHIP
MAY Be ABOLISHED
Reported That Ehcrt Will Be Made
to Do Away Win These
Offices.
Special to The News.

Jackson, Miss, Nov 17.-One OF the
most spirited fights of the approach
ing legislative session will be provok-
ed on the attempted repeal of the act
of 1910 creating the Office Of county
attorney.
1t is by no means certain, however
that this hostile movement against
the county attorneys will be success
full nor is there any assurance in
prospect that the fight will meet with
the approval of the incoming admin
istration. It is known that Governor
elect Brewer has some very decided
ideas of his own on the subject of
law enforcement in general, and
county attorneyships in particular.
Again, the county attorneys them
selves have been quietly but efrec.
lively at work interviewing the men,
bers-elect in their various counties.
and supplying them with some very
convincing facts and figures showing
what has been accomplished through
this office during the past eighteen
months. In many instances they will
not only be able to show better
character OF law enforcement than
ever before In the history of the state
and this is in a large measure justi-
fled by the enormous increase in peni-
tentiary population-but they will
also produce figures showing that the
office has actually been more than
self-sustaining through increased
fines and costs collected in misde-
meanor and minor felony cases
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-11-17
Local Pastors Pursue
the ElusiUe O'Possur71

The pastors of the different church
es, smarting under the feast they
missed when they failed to attend to
the recent O'Possum spread that WIS.,
iting physicians enjoyed at Mammoth
Springs on Wednesday afternoon, de-
termined that they would have an
Opossum dinner that would forever
relegate to oblivion the history of the
aforesaid feast. Aiming themselves
with various implements of war; shot
guns, pitch-forks, axes, automobiles
and buggies of various and sundry
sizes, kinds and conditions, they Sc
lected a rendezvous and accordingly on
last night at the footing of horns,
tingling of bells and a myriad of lights
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-11-17

sia, setting forth that unless the Per-
sian Minister of Foreign Affairs
apologized for the alleged insult to NJ.
Petroff, Russian vice consul at Tehe-
ran, on the occasion of the seizure of
the property of Shua Es Sultaneh, and
made other reparation. Russia would
occupy the provinces of Chilan and
Mazanderan.
The seizure of the property of Shua
Es Sultaneh was carried out at the
instance of the National Council by
w. Morgan Shuster, Persian Treasur
er-general. Later the head of the Rus
sian section of the Persian Foreign of
flee informed the Russian office that
as the new Cabinet had not beer
, formed, it would be impossible TO re
ply Immediately to Russia's demand
for an apology.
London dispatches, referring to fur
ther encroachments upon Persia's in
dependence by both Persia and Grea
Britain, said that il Russia enforced
/ her ultimatum by occupying a part o
! the north, Great Britain was likely t.
take corresponding step in the south
/ Russian troops in the north have beer
strongly reinforced, while Great Brit
ain has landed two regiments of II
dian troops at Bushire, a seaport O
Persia, nominally to guard BIRTHS
consulates in the south,