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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Mrs Mary Wells, who recently
underwent an operation. was not
ftelirs SO vel the latter part Of
last week which her many friends
will be sad to learn.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06
For the Children

he can go several days without wat
er, and he can carry big loads on
his back without getting a bit
tired. He is taught, to kneel while
the load is placed on his back. His
legs are long and he travels quite
fast as he covers so much ground
at each step. He is very docile and
obedient.
Mac and Minnie, Ted and Nell;
What a merry, sweet Quartette;
Which are fairer, can you tell,
Eyes of blue or eyes of jet?
Eight and six and five and four,
Are the ages of the set;
Mac SO bright and Minnie true,
Laughing Ted and Nell the pet.
Soft blue eyes and hair of floss
Are beautiful to me; and yet
So are brown Girls with ,silken CLOS:
And dark eyes in deep fringes set.
Mac. Nell, Ted, Min; two dark, two
far;
Dear, dear. how puzzled one does
get,
To know which is the sweetest pair,
Those wit blue eyes, or those with
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Louie Beck. Chris Petersen and
Harry Hansen took Rev. Rodhoim
to Atlantic Sunday In the formcr's
Cal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Mrs. B. F.. sirsrson is visiting in
Audubon with Ter son, 4. e. simpr
son and family.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

H. j. Hansen visited friends neal
K,mbsllton last Sunday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Several from here attended the
party at the Sam Magill home last
Saturday evening.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Charles Higgins has quit road
work and will go to farming again
in the spring.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Hey, diddle dunn, big bass drum,
To scare the rats and mice away;
A porcupine lived in hollow log,
A turkey gob'bler dined on a.frog
And all the animals rushed to the
fray.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

M. R. Sherman, OF Lewis, visited
in Ross this week with his brother
I. S. Sherman
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06
JINGLEs

The COW jumped over the moon,
and then
/ wonder how she got down again;
When folks from a flying machine
get spilled,
They nearly always come down
killed.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Said little Jack with a tired sigh.
As he supped on bread and tea,
Il wish I were a butterfly,
And lived in gumdrop tree.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Lee Parsott and Frank Smi i, we.
calling on friends in Extra Saturday
evening.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06
III. Peterson

Mr.. and Mrs. p. E. Mortensen Wis
tied last Sunday at the. Martin Jes-
sen home near Extra.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

F. L. Andersen went to Ruthve
this week to visit his father.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Rcte,t PHI per AID wife were
Sunday visitors al tie Wal Eekles.
home nesr Extra.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Charles Higgins and family visdtes
frieIls in Guthrie County Sunday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Walter sissler and family and Mrs
Farewell spent Sunday at the Chas.
jenkins home.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06
Miss Mattel Haahr was in Hamlin
last Saturday shopping.

Jens Andersen is retired corn
hreker this year.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

George and Lizzie GUIDE were in
Extra last Sunday visiting relatives.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Miss Anna Kyhnn did some sew
ir,g for 10. H. ]. Johnson last
week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Fred Back and wife were calling
on N. P. Anderson and wife Sunday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

Fred Boehsne and wife sundayed
CIT the home Ct her parents. Peter
- hwa'b and Wife
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06
HAMLIN
[S1a.g!ssS 81

Miss Mattel Haahr was in Hamlin
last Saturday shopping.
Jens Andersen is a retired corn
hreker this year.
H. j. Hansen visited friends near
K,mballton last Sunday.
Charles Higgins and family visited
frieres in Guthrie County Sunday.
George and Lizzie GUIDE were in
Extra last Sunday visiting relatives.
Miss Anna Kyhnn did some sew
iI,s for 10. H. ]. Johnson last
week.
Charles Higgins has quit road
work and will go to farming again
in the spring.
. Nels j. Jessen and men are busy
building new barn for N. L. Beck
south Of Extra.
! Lauritz Dam is busy building a
big cement building for j. B. j..
Lohner in Extra.
Miss Christina Kyhnn came lln
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06
NORTHEAST 0AKE|E[D
4sGE&
.


Fred Back and wife were calling
On N. P. Anderson and wife Sunday.
Grandpa Peter c. Larson went
10 Elkhorn last Saturday with Pete
Christensen to visit friends.
Irwin and Minnie Beck. Of Extra
spent Sunday afternoon with their
friends, Lester and Eda Hansen
Mrs. Carl Nielsen and daughters,
Dena and Agnes spent Saturday In
Elkhorn at the Lars Esbeck home.
Jens and Christena Hansen and
Alfred johnson visited at the MAIDS
Madsen home last Sunday evening.
Louie Beck. Chris Petersen and
Harry Hansen took Rev. Rodhoim
to Atlantic Sunday In the formcr's
Cal.
Rev. .Rodholm OF Des Moines gave
a fine sermon last Sunday at the st
John church. Ia miles west Of E1
ira.
Chris Petersen and wife are re-
joicing, over he arrival OF baby
girl which wac born to them octo-
Ter 20.
Arnold Christensen. who works on
the Ellis Cannon farm, visited from
Saturday evening until Monday nool
with his lady friend.
Louie and Christina Beck, Chris
mad Athena Petersen, Johnnie Han.
so, Minnie Back, Badeline and
Margaret Bills and Katie Madser
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

evening.
----- ----
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atesu 'tssue4 |'iu = - AI -
: are'ws4' spen' ''unuas :. ing -eiAa''.
rieu e'N's 'nu WY :, W
~ 1hs iioiiss - nei pa snA se' se'A
7Sn'"sp anu VIE
SUNDAY sis'.ois az sAe .ai r1sAiss
- iie ns,A' - y =
Mrs. B. F. Sir rson is visiting in
Audubon with Ter son. 4. e. Simp-
Lester and Omar Bowen and wiye
were visiting Their brother, Ir'
Bowen and, family Sunday.
--
Ruby end Ruth Webs, daught 81
Of Andrew Wells ard wife. wer,
Visiting II =E grandparents Ma.iol
Phelps and wife in Extra Sunday.
Mrs Nav we,-s rno racant,
,ndarwan4 ~ onar..ian 40. -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
JUDGMENT DAY DERIDED
No Biblical Authority for 1t,
Says Professor Haupt.

Philadelphia, April 1S-That there
was no Biblical foundation for the story
of the final Day of Judgment. was as
serted by Professor Paul Haupt, of
Johns Hopkins University, in an ad-
dress to-day before the American
Philosophical Society.
THE Book Of Zachariah, which Jews
as well as Christians give as authority
for the description of the last judg
ment,' he said, refers merely to plan
for municipal improvements laid out
by the Maccabees. The poetic and
fanciful language of the Scriptural
scribes has been misinterpreted.'
The speaker also declared that
BeeIzebub had been described by the
ancIents rs the father of flies. not lies,
as the modern horror of those germ
carrying insects was shared in Biblical
fines"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
Mr.. Sims's Version.
Mr.. Sims's account follows:
SIX POISONED BY FUDGE
Mystery in Sending of Candy to
Postmaster.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune

York. Penn. April 1S.-SiX persons
including four employees of the Diiis-
burg postofice. were poisoned by candY
sent from Harrisburg last night 10 the
postmaster. +. NJ. Altland. MI. AI'la''u
and his daughter, Catharine' are CON
fined TO their beds. The others VINO
uartook of the candy and were maze
IN are Bailey Spohr and Robert smith,
carriers. and Helen Spohr and Maud
J<uph. school children. who had re-
ceived some of the candy from the post
masters daughter.
4 box Of homemade fudge was re-
ceiyed by Postmaster Altland carry TINS
morning. He treated his daughter anu
the two carriers His wife refused 10
cat any. becoming suspicious when she
was told that the person who sent the
candy was unknown. Detectives nave
been put at work on the case
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
Isolation by Rockefeller Doctors
of Eight Strains of Germs of
Deadly Disease Newest
Medical Triumph.
TWO YIELD TO ANTlT0XIN
Discovery Not Yet a Cure, y
but Health Department Sure
Il Will Reduce Death
Rate from Malady
Il to Low Tgure.

'@0 ,fHu for pneumonia which is eX-
p.cted. reduce the disease TO the
Ileve' OF a minor ailment, is being per-
feet d at the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research.
While II Is yet too early TO deter
mine definitely how far the new anti
toxin will reduce the death rate, ii is
known that excellent results have been
obtained during the winter at the hos
pital connected with the institute.
The serum is based on the discovery
that pneumonia like a number OF other
germ diseases. is not produced by "A
single organism. but by several closely
related organisms, or strains The
experts Of the institute have succeeded
in isolating about eight of these
strains. and developed sera which have
been found TO react on two of them.
Dr. Walter Bensel, sanitary superin-
tendent of the Health Department,
said last night that the department was
keeping in touch with the institute's 3
experiments along this line, and that
he had every reason to believe It's ef-
forts would ultimately be crowned with
success. When the serum is ready for
distribution he said. 1t would doubtless
b placed in the hands of health de-
partments all over the country ana
dealt out by them TO local physicians,
as is done in the case OF dlphtheria
antitoxin in this city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
NURSE WEEDS FACING KNIFE
Undergoes Operation Directly
After Marriage to Doctor.

BY Telegraph 10 Ht i''"""'
Cincinnati, April lo.-Supporteu ~
two of her fellow nurses. MISS h''''
Hanger. Southern girl and grduuate
at the Jewish Hospital IN thls 9odi
class. was married this morning WINE
confined to her bed to Dr. Johh 0peh-
man. The marriage was witnessed ~
the members of the hospitai iheuio"'
staff and nurses, and occurred just oe-
fore the young bride submitted 10 I"
serious surgical operation
When the minister pronounced inc
,u., man and wife the bride fell back OH
Tho hed exhausted The operation was
,bon performed. 1t is said she VIII re-
coyer The marriage followed TWO
wears, courtship which began when Dr.
sneIlman was an inferno at the hos-
uital
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
LONDON PAPER SARCASTIC
REGARDING MRS. BELMONT
Discusses Rumor of Boycott
Plan with Some Acerbity
and Offers Advice.
lBy Cable to The Tribune. J

London. April 19.--"Thc star last
night. in an editorial based on dis
matches from New York stating that
Mrs. O. II. +. Belmont had threatened
TO boycott England, says: Those SUD-
ile disasters which apparently make
NOT a ha'porth of difference To any one
are often TO be feared the most. Nhen
we looked out OF the window this morn
ing there was nothing In the aspect ol
the land TO suggest that Mrs. q. IL. T..
Belmont, of the L. $. A.. had declared
a boycott upon England. Yet she had'
.'Tbe New York correspondents OF the
London papers announce that the ladNs
who is the mother OF the Duchess OF
Marlborough. is determined to show
her displeasure at the British govern
ment's policy by declining to stop IN
England this summer, by boycottihg
British goods and by trying TO induce
her friends to do likewise.
"Aftcr all. duke is British goods,
and an American society lady boy
eating a duke is unthinkable. The
,tauretania is big British goods. too,
and should be almost offensively Brit
,eh i'm American eyes. seeing that shc
otorgs TO the great company winch so
successfully de1ed Mr.. Pierpont Nor
Gang transatlantic shipping combine.
rho Rritish Mauretania will bring Mrs.
,o,r,o,t TO Fishguard apd there land
hor upon this repugnant island. AS Il
hovcott this strikes us as rather
,,.,,,g failure IL Mrs. Belmont
really means to avoid us she should
a., T., America and do the thing prop
IL, we should not mind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
LAST OF TRlPttTS DIES
Mrs. Hope Allcorn, at 80, Out
lived Charity and Faith.

Greenwich. Conn, April lS.-M' rs
Hope Trower Allcorn. the last oi TRIP
lets born in England eighty years ago
and named Faith. Hope and Charity'
died here last night. Charity. lived 10
be only hfty-two years old. faith dleo
al the age of seventy-four.
The three were born in Hereheld'
Sussex County, England, IN lo"-.
Faith and Charity never married bul
Hone became the bride of Charles All
corn in 1852, and came with him ana
their TWO children TO America and set
tied in Greenwich, where five more
children were born 10 them.
Mrs. Alcorn was prominent Ihsh-
ber of the First Presbyterian Church
of Greenwich and one of the best
known women in town. She leaves six
children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
GERMANY 0UTBIDS US
Gets Canal Contract $500, 1000
Under American Figures.

Washington. April 1S.-Contracts for
the construction Of two gigantic float
ing cranes for the Panama canal were
let to-day by the Isthmian Canal Com
mission to Neumeyer & Dimond, Of
New York. agents for the Deutschen
Maschinenfabrik. q German concern,
whose bid of SS37 800 was more than
100000 below that of the lowest
American bidder.
These cranes will each have lifting
capacity of 300 tons.
An act OF Congress authorizes the
purchase abroad of equipment for the
sonable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
THINKS 1T AST0R MESSAGE
British Skipper Says He Found
Relic of the Titanic.

Boston. April ls.-Captain Wits oil the
british steamer Longstar, arriving to-
dav from Cette. France. brought III ""a'
is said to be message from the Iltahlc'
which he picked up off the Grand banhS
an his last Transatlantic passage
Captain Willis said that the message
o,bicb was scratched with nan Oh
..,ooo NJ wood about a foot square. was
signed by Colonel John JACOB As.o''
What the nature OF the niessase "aa '"o
captain would not diVuise' nc sa' "
had been in communication WI"
Astor and offered the rene W ii''' '''
that she had declined 10 receive -
Officers of the steamer behe'c 'ne mes
sage is genuine. but sh'pplhs peop'e
placed little credence In the 'heory '"a'
IL came from the Titanic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
TWENTY Draw SHIP BRIDES
Canny Scot Waiting at Pier for
Each Bonnie Lassie.
rBy Telegraph TO The Tribune.

Boston. April 1S,-Twenty girls cabin
passengers, all from Scotland. became
brides upon the arrival of the steam
ship Partisan to-day.
Disappointed when the immigration
officials held them up the girls pleaded
TO be allowed to land, but the law gov
erning such cases is inexorable. The
young men had come prepared TO have
the marriages performed on the pier, as
they brought their licenses with them,
and were taken on board the steamer
and became husbands as soon as the
necessary questions had been salts
factorily answered.
In each instance the young people
had become engaged in Scotland and
the coming of the girls was in accord
ance with an agreement made at be-
trOthai,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
LEADER FORSAKES MOOSE
Declares Republican Party Is
the One That Does Things.
BY Telegraph TO The Tribune J

Lansing. Mich, April N.-This after
noon Representative Charles II. Freeman.
Of Detroit who has been one OF the Bull
Moose leaders in the present session OF
the LEGISLATURE, deserted the Roosevelt
ians and declared himself back into the
Republican party.
THE Republican party is the party that
doos things" he said Its members are
as progressive in their policies as the
Progressives and are much better able to
carry out political ideas. II is not nee
essary to break up the Republican party
% cot the laws people want | am glad
n go back to it. and | see no reason
u,hv any of those who left II last summer
shor,d hesitate to return
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
BANKER ATTACKS A
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
Charles c. Glover, Washington Millionaire
Says He Also Called Representative Sims
Lila" r"-Row Over Land Deal.

to apologize when was in the wrong,
but that | had seen no reason TO change
my opinion in this instance. He again
demanded that ! apologize and then he
cursed me and he struck me-once or
twice. | don't remember which.
MY hat was knocked or fell off in
the melee and when | looked up after
STOPPING down to pick it up bystander
was standing between Glover and my
self. | told Glover / would not fight
him on the street but would meet MIN
elsewhere. He walked on and walked
behind him and he stood glarins AT me
asI caught IN with him at the entrance
10 the Lafayette Park
Mr.. Glover. who is president OF 'he
Riggs National Bank and one of thc
most prominent men in the national
capital. made the following brief but
Illuminating explanation of the fracas;
AS | was leaving my town mousse
this morning on my way TO the paiN
saw Sims waddling across Farrasht
Square. ] crossed over TO where NJ
stood and said: This is Mr.. sims
believe?' He replied: And this is Mr.
Glover | looked at him squareiy III
the face and said to him. ! want 10
tell YOU to \ our face that you are con-
temptible liar. yes. miserable. con-
temptible liar. Furthermore, mean 10
show you just what l think of you.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
Jury ConviCts SWeeney'S HenCh-
man After Less than an
Hours Consideration
of the Evidence.
HELD WEEK FOR SENTENCE
Tell Him Not to Worry" He
Calls to Friends as He Is Led
to Cell-Verdict Shows Po-
lice Forced Man to Keep
Dive, Then to Pay
Tribute.
WHITMAN is GRATIFIED.

dBy Telegraph 10 the Editor Of The Tribune)
Amherst. Mass, April 18.-"Of
course am sratified at the verdict,
although no other outcome seemed
possible. We will move to fix tho
day for trial Of the four inspectors
on Monday for the following week.
This is the earliest possible date
under the law.
&C. S. WHITMAN"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
NATIONAL PROHIBITION URGED.

Lansing, Mich. April ls.-Nation-wide
,.oh,btion of the liquor traffic is favored
e. resolution adopted to-day by the
,n,,or house of the Michigan Legislature.
,rbe measure provides for a request to
congress to submit to the people an
amendment to the Constitution prohibit
;ne the sale OF liquor anywhere IN the
I-nIted states.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
,,ee TERM FOR BOY SLAYER.

Now uavenc Conn. April 1s.-Harold B.
nineteen years old. was sentenced
S,a,e prison for life here to-day for
W ,,rder of Harold j. Ford. aged about
eighteen, in 1911 he , was recsn',y ,So 'ap,-
ured in Colorado. ROBBERY was 'ne mo
live for the murder.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
eA1TLesHIPs ON VOYAGE HERE.

Norfolk. Va. April Is.-The battleships
wyoming. Florida and North Dakota
sailed from Hampton Roads to-day for
New York. The Rhode Island and the
Delaware will remain here until the ar
rival of other battleships from Mexico
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19
Leak at Church Talk.

News of the discovery leaked out
through meeting of the mems club
of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
Church, Brooklyn. on Thursday night
DIR. Clarence 4. McWilliams. of No. 81
East 53d street, who has been follow
ing the work of DR.. Alexis Carrel and
other members of the Institutes star,
described it to the club in an informal
talk, thinking he was speaking IN the
bosom of the family He was more
than surprised to find himself quoted
Yesterday as saying the institute mad
discovered "a cure" for pneumonia.
Il did not say that the institute had
found a cure" declared DIR. McWill-
Jams. when the matter was brought to
his notice. Il merely said that I had
great hopes Of IL cure There Is no
doubt that the discovery Of the different
strains is a great step forward in the
fight against the disease.
1T is common knowledge among the
medical profession that the institute
has been working toward remedy for
pneumonia along these lines. But 1t is
only recently that learned Of the dis
covery of the six strains. for which no
serum has yet been found
Henry James. jr.. manager OF the in
stitute. when asked for specific details
regarding the serum. said nothing de-
finite could be given out by the insti-
tute at this time. DR.. McWilliams. he
said, was not officially connected with
the institution and could not speak
with authority on its work.
He admitted, however. that expert
ments were being carried on with a
view to developing a pneumonia anti
toxin. Full details would be published
when 1t had been perfected, he said.
Continued on second page fourth column.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-19

Thomas +. Robinson, henchman of
Dennis Sweeney when Sweeney was
Harlem inspector, and the first Of the
police grafters TO be tried for grating
was found guilty yesterdaJ afternoon
and remanded until Friday for SEN
tence.
The shadow of Sweeney and Sweeney s
suggestive methods of increasing both
the revenue and the fear-compellng
power OF the System" hung over the
Robinson case from start to finish, and
Robinson. going into the Tombs. waved
back this final message TO Il group OF
his policemen friends in the corridor OF
the Criminal Courts Building, Tell him
not 10 worry"
II took the jury a little less than one
hour to arrive at its verdict II left the
courtroom few minutes after
o'clock. but the members did not return
from luncheon until $40 p. m. At 3:3o
o'clock they came into the courtroom
for instructions on the cross-cxamina-
ton Of Frank Nigro, the Italian waiter
in Tancredi's place.
How He Remembered Date.
Nlgro. on the direct examination, tes-
tilted that he recalled Robinson's visit
10 the Tancredi restaurant on Scptem-
ber ., 1872. the date on which the in
dictment charged the policeman with
cxtorting so from Tancrcd. When
Charles G, Ijzicr. Robinsons lawy Z,
asked him now he fixed the date. Ms 20
al swered:
j remember il because Mr.. Tancredl
got romc bills out of the safe and went
into the Dutch room and said to me
as he went in, I've got To give this
money TO this big thief.
The jury wanted TO know whether
that answer was TO be considered in the
evidence. and Justice Seabury In
structed them that he had overruled
the defendants objection TO the answer
as il was cross-eXanination brought
out bv the defence AMI that the answer
was a part Of the evidence TO he con-
sidercd
-Four minutes later the jury returned
with the verdict Of -.uilty, arrived at on
their second ballot, the first having
stood ten TO two for conviction.
By its verdict the jury stamped as ac-
cepted truth wha. is probably the most
startling single fact yet disclosed in the
general police graft inyestigation-that
the police not ony arc allied with and
exact tribute from the vice of the
underworld. but that they deliberately
sought to force Tancredi. the keeper OF
a restaurant and e.-ht-room lodging
house. into the position of maintaining
a disorderly resort. with the purpose, as
expressed 10y Robinson, ITO make
money for yourself and make money
for lis"