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The Washington times., 1913-02-17
For The Times Children
Just Before It's Bedtime
THE MOUNTAIN OF BURDENS.


I'M water. Greta." said the
mother as she bent to
kndle the fire.
Little Greta, who was a Dutch maid
en- who lived many years ago in the
land of canals. took up the bucket and
shook her long yellow plaits down over
her back Grossly
Il am tired OF this everlasting house
work." she grumbled to herself. From
morning till night it is sweep and
scrub. bake and brew" Just then a
pretty pony cart full of laughing chill
dren drove by. The party was hand
somely dressed and at the side rode
a groom on a fine horse.
Greta looked after them enviously.
There goes a crowd of children who
have nothing to do but enjoy them
selves and dress finely she sighed.
looking down discontentedly at her own
simple gown and bare feet. While i
must work. don't see why some people
have all the fun in the world and
others SO much to do. I Just wish 1
were anybody in The world except my
self" And she banged the pail down
hard besides the gurgling spring.
No", III the DdSk Ol tHt DlS tree WHlCH
stood over the spring was the home
of sprite, who was very sorry to see
Greta in such a humor. For the sprite
had often watched the girl when she
came for water and had grown fond of
the little Dutch maiden with her blue
skirt, her yellow hair and her bare
feet. So the kind sprite stole out from
her home in the tree trunk and touched
Greta on the shoulder with her hand.
Come with me. Greta," she said, land
we will visit together the mountain
which stands far over against the sky.
Perhaps you will find gift there to
your liking" ..-
So she took the girl in her arms. there
was a short spin through the air, and
10. they stood on the soft grass on the
very top of a high mountain far from
Greta's home. Up the sides were toll
ing a crowd of people. some with bags
and some with pals. All were grum-
bling and some weeping.
You see that long procession of peo-
pie, Greta?" whispered the sprite. They
are the people of earth who have
climbed this mountain with their bur-
dens SO they. might exchange theirs for
anothers You see they are all laden
and unhappy and look longingly at each
others bundle
Then she led the girl to the other
side of the mountain. Here al 1.-The peo-
Pile were gathered and each had thrown
their burden on the ground and was
trying to pick out one that suited them
better. But somehow none ever seemed
yhaf hnv nj
would pitch their bundle to the ground
ana eagerly try to fit another's to their
back, but when they had gone a few
steps down the mountain they would
always return and ask to have back
the old burden which they had brought.
Look at this, Greta," whispered the
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Miss Helen Taft and her cousin. Miss
Catherine Anderson, OF Cincinnati.
were the honor guests of the officers
OF the United States steamship May
flower at a luncheon today on board
the craft.
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This evening Miss Taft and Miss An
derson will be among the guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville Ingalls, who are
entertaining at a dinner for Miss In
gals $780,
Miss Nellie Claire Howard, daughter
Of Mrs Samuel T. Howard, is hostess
at a box party this afternoon at Chase 6
in compliment to the girls who assisted
at her debut tea last December. After
the theater. Miss Howard VIII entertain
at tea at the New Willard. The table
will be adorned with a centerpiece OF
red roses and there will be corsage
bouquets of roses for the guests and red
valentine favors. The guests are Miss
Helen McCumber, Miss Carrie Lee
Chamberlain, Miss Nell Fletcher. Miss
Jeanette Ayres. Miss Dorothy Shuey,
Miss Eleanor Manson. of Chicago. and
Miss Ruth Kean. of New Hampshire.
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Mrs. Clarence A. Walters is spending
,everal weeks with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Odell S. Smith.
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Mrs. Norman William will entertain
at a dinner this evening.
r
The German Ambassador and Countess
Won Bernstorff will entertain at a din
ner on Thursday evening.
The Second Secretary of the German
Embassy and Mrs. Kienlin have invita-
tions out for a dinner on Monday, Feb.
ruary "a.
Mrs Longworth, who has been the
guest of her son-in-law and daughter
the Military Attache Of the French
Embassy and Countess de Chambrun
for the last several weeks, has returned
to Cincinnati.
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T.. NJ Dulin will entertain at a
dinner this evening at his residence,
1870 New Hampshire avenue. in cont
pliment 20 the members Of the West
End Citizens Association.
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dramatic structures, l promised myself
l would never get in a rut and never
become identified with any one line Of
work. For every serious article / write.
i counterbalance my nervous system Dy
writing something of lighter vein and
the DEPRESSION has always worked out
to my entire satisfaction.
when l wrote The Other Woman
for Blanche Walsh three seasons
ago." said Mr.. Hummer. the formation
of the lines and situations were per-
fected in less than three weeks but i
had been making notes as ideas would
occur to me that / fancied would
dovetail to a nicely. for matter of
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Dates for At Homes.

Mrs. William S. Howard. wife of Con-
gressman Howard OF Georgia, and her
niece. Miss Jean Robson. who is spend
ing the winter in Washington, will re-
cc!ve tomorrow afternoon at the Park
wood.
Mrs. Charles +. Humphrey and the
Misses Humphrey, wife and daughters
of Brig. Gen. Humphrey, u. s. A.. will
receive this afternoon at the Wyoming,
Miss Bristol, of the Bristol School.
will receive Informally this afternoon
from 10 O'Clock, and will have with
her NJ. and Mime. Gregoire Philip Esco,
Of Bucharest. Roumania. whose mar
riage took place recently.
Mrs. Asbury i. Lever, Of South Caro-
lima, will receive tomorrow at Folk
stone court.
Mrs. Frederick Atherton will receive
tomorrow afternoon.
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sprite. You see that every one has a
burden and that even when they can
exchange with another they always find
they like their own old burden best
Then she took the girl up in her arms
again and they drifted with the clouds
swiftly across the sky till they seemed
to hover over the very park where the
children who owned the pony cart
lived. Softly they fioated to the earth.
falling gently into a hedge that stood
near the lawn Of the castle.
Greta could see children at play
and hear them talking. One she no.
ticed was lame and walked with tiny
crutch. Another was complaining bit
terly of how hard she had to study in
school and OF the music lessons she dis
liked. and the third one stood quietly
by a rosebush, the tears falling from
her eyes as she gathered the blossoms.
You see every one. even a child,
has a burden to bear" said the sprite
again. That smallest child has been
lame from babyhood and the girl
gathering the flowers Is making a
wreath to go on her little brothers
grave"
Again the sprite and the child rose
in the air, and this time they sailed
close down over the homes of a great
city. for 1t was now night. They
could hear the rich and the poor, the
young and the old, men. women and
children. all complaining of 1ife's
burden.
But no one Wishes" the sprite told
Greta. "to change theirs for another
when the time comes to do 1t. We all
have a burden, but when We try not
to worry and instead think of the
good things we have We will be very
content"
And the good sprite dropped the girl
down very gently right at the old
spring. Filling her pail, Greta ran
home.
81 have stayed late, | know" she
said as she put her arms about her
mothers neck, but the kind sprite
kept me. And she has taught me a
lesson and in future l am going to be
a very cortented little Greta."
Tomorrow's story. Jan and the
Drtx
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Locale of painted Woman Laid
In Wicked City, Says Julia Murdock
Jamaican Town Became
WeaIthiest With IH-Gotten
Gains Pouring Into Golfers.

two years before my pen touched ink
in The Other woman's' behalf Far
less time was devoted to Mr.. Butfles.'
the vehicle fixed up for Henry Z.
Dixey, which had a vogue on Broad
way. due to the fact that no strong
arguments were advanced. and, as the
ideas came freely. the complete man
uscript was turned out in about the
same time would devote to couple
Of magazine articles. I found the
writing of The Brute q stubborn
proposition. as 1t deals with \ prob
lem. and problem plays. il there are
such things, are delicate subjects and
to keep within the bounds Of pro-
priety and not get overheard with the
subject at hand"
Writing Pleasure
Instead of 4 Task. -. 7nc -
Smiling. as If pleased with n
thought that suddenly flashed
through his mind. Mr. Hummer con-
tinued: The writing of The Paint
ed Woman was more of q pleasure
than a task 1t deals with chiyalry
and romance and. to be perfectly
frank with you. j would have much
rather lived in that period than in
these huriy-burly money-mad days.
Social ethics Of the twentieth century
have brought about many needed re-
forms. and, to some extent, Furnished
our morals, but back In the sixteenth
century. the period In which The Paint
ed Woman Is supposed to have lived.
there was an inspiring dash and spirit
to those days that furnished the world
with enough romance to last to the mil
lennium."
Mr.. Hummer has just completed a
rev book entitled "A Song Of Six
pence,'' and while 1t has been on the
market less than a week, Is enjoying
large sales in the book marts.
JULIA MURDOCH.
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Personal Mention.

Mrs, J. Fred Essary and Mrs. p.
wetherbee Page have sent out cards
for tea on saturday afternoon from
until : O'Clock. at 1921 Newark street,
Cleveland Park.
Niss Edith Brown and her sister, Miss
I,ssie Brown, are making trip
through the South.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Thalhlmer. who
have been spending the past few weeks,
travelling through the South spent
~. weekend in Washington with
their parents. MIR. and Mrs. Charles
Goldsmith. of Calvert street.
Mrs ]. Elias. who has been the
cues; Of her daughter. Mrs. Morton
I,uchs. of Connecticut avenue, have re-
turned to her home. in New York.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar NJ. LaZrus. are
spending q few days in Washington with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Kron-
helm. before returning to their home In
Brooklyn.
Mrs. Pauline Letterman 10 the CUES
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Love and Adventure During
Period Of Spanish Bucca-
neers in Plot.

- ONCERNING itself with an in
teresting period. when buc-
~ cancers roved the Spanish Main.
THE Painted Woman" which
will be seen at the Belasco this week,
details a story Of love and adventure
in the last years of the seventeenth
century. Especially noted for Its color.
its novel and picturesque atmosphere
and its gorgeous tropical setting. the
play is based On conditions and cir
cumstances that prevailed In Port
Royal, Jamaica, an English possession.
in 1910. and at the time. the headquar-
ters OF the buccaneers. With the riches
Of the Spanish treasure flowing into
Its Golfers. the place became the
wealthiest and wickedest city Of it's
size in the world.
The ''law' was made by Sir Henry
Morgan and his men, and Port Royal
became the scene OF the widest and
most riotous extravagance. The streets
were filed with luxuriously dressed
women. painted women" the stern
New Englanders called them. Money
was spent like water. common sailors
came ashore staggering under the
weight Of their ill-gotten gains. and
unbelievable cruelties were practiced
upon their captives and slaves, and life
was not worth as much as the price
Of glass Of rum.
Into the Whirlpool
Came the Traders.
Into this whirlpool of licentiousness
and In curious contrast with II, came
God-fearing. Puritanical New England
traders from Salem and New Bedford.
bringing salt fish and breadstuffs in ex-
change for rum. as well as for the rich
silks and satins taken by the bucca-
neers from the captured Spanish gall
Icons.
On the basis of the contrast thus af-
forded. Mr. Hummer has built his play.
And the peculiar setting. with its
wealth Of tropical scenery, gorgeous
and picturesque costumes. beautiful
women, and underlying stratum of
primitive emotions, affords a dramatic
background probbaly unequaled in his
tory. Featured ir the cast is Florence
Reed, and prominent in her support are
Charles Waldron. CASTOR Mervale, and
other players of note.
When it comes down to the tedium of
playwriting. Frederic Arnold Hummer,
the author of this play, has neither 4
fixed set Of rules. nor a worked out sys-
tenn to which he adheres. When an in
spiration takes hold of him. IL he is
in the mood, he writes as long as
thought comes freely, and when it does
not, he takes it for granted he Is IA
tisued or sluggish and the manuscript
he is working upon is set aside for the
time being.
Mr.. Hummer claims there are no es-
tablished rules that work out consis-
tently that a dramatist can follow. in
asmuch as each play is an entirely new
proposition and must be treated accord
ingly. When questioned as to the
course OF procedure he adopts when at
his work, Mr.. Hummer had this to say:
when 1t first occurred to We that
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liam Corcoran HILL Miss Gwynn. Mrs.
C. &. Glover. Mrs. william Rives. Mrs.
Samuel Spencer, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs.
Jenkins. and Mrs. Moss.
The boxholders are Mrs. James NJ.
Johnston. Miss Blunt, Mrs. Perkins.
Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. McGo"aii, Mrs.
Meyer, Mrs. Goddard. Mrs. fincho''
Mrs. Julian James. Mrs. Henry White'
Mrs. Peyton Russell. MIS-. Richard
Butler, and Mrs. Train.
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of her dsugter, Mrs. Harold Levi, of
the Ashley.
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Mrs. Nathan Kahn. Of Columbia road
spent the weekend in Baltimore,
with Mrs. A. Miller.
Mis- Gladys Mayer is the guest of her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Meyer. OF
Baltimore.
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WILSON'S
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NOTICE TO WOMEN
Failing hair. oily hair. dandrun. tirht
scalp. etc. correctly treated by experts a.
the offices OF
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I0o2-4 st. N. w. Phone N. 34sA
Only Women and Children Treated
~ fstandfnE tickets for treetments
viii NOT he valid after June rs, 1914
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Home WORKERS MARKET PLACE

section possible
which they home offer first hand and low ad
articles handcra
Buildne is being held.
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LOCAL MENTION

"The Dice of Life" A. Weird 3-Reel
Drama. Today. Virginia Theater.
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BOWELS SLUGGISH, STOMACH SOUR,
Classy, UPSET. --CSCARfTS GREAT!

belching
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advertising in this section not free spacebu rate charged
workers a
Polly Primm Nuns
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Tomorrow's story, Jan and the
PriXies.
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Mrs. Pauline Letterman Is the guest
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Mrs. Conrad II. Syme will entertain
At bridge party this afternoon.
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Ceremony Will Be Performed at
Four O'clock in st. Thomas
Episcopal Church.

- ISIS RUTH MOVES, daughter
M OF Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
vN. William Moves. will ,be mar
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-10
MUSEUM. HIPPODROME- -MENAGERIE

ROBINSON'S GREAT HERD OF
PERFORMING ELEPHANTS!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-10

ATLANTA.-A resolution offered
by Gov. John NJ. Slaton before the
state school board and seconded by
superintendent of Education NJ. L..
Britain, making provision whereby
parents will be saved the expense OF
buying school books twice where
once would do, is attracting wide
spread interest throughout the state.
It's provisions, or some others like
them, will in all probability be taken
care of by the legislature at its next
session, if nothing is done before.
Under the present situation, which
is pending, in connection with the
school book question a parent send
ing children to school beginning Sep
TENDER of this year could under these
circumstances be made to undergo
the expense of buying or changing
books three times within two years
instead of once in five years.
The practical part of the Slaton
resolution provides that the present
contracts for school books be re-
newed with the understanding that
after the school book investigating
committee makes its report and the
legislature has acted thereon the
school book commission may recon
slider the list in whole or part under
the twelve months abrogation notice
if the present uniform text books
should not be changed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-10
Studying w. & A. Question.

Atlanta.-It is declared at the cap
itaI that more detailed work in con-
nection with a study of the states in
terests in the Western and Atlantic
railroad will be done within TIE next
thirty days than has been done before
in thirty years. The whole PROPOSE
ton is to be sifted to the bottom by
men who are giving their knowledge
and time to the work. Some of
them have studied the question for
years.
The state will soon be facing the
problem of how best to handle its
most valuable asset upon the expira-
ton of the present lease. The prOpO-
sition has so many phases and angles
that the special legislative commits
sion appointed in the summer has
been divided into four working sub
committees as follows:
On Atlanta terminals, MessTs. All
kin and Greene.
On Chattanooga terminals, Messrs.
Tarver and Mcneil.
On double tracking, Messrs. Full
bright and Cole.
On form OF lease, Messrs. Gala
way and Brown.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-10
NEWS STORIES FROM STATE CAPITAL

this fall. Immense skyscrapers are
rearin gtheir heads where last fall
there was merely a shack or vacant
lot The migratory birds, as they
draw near the red old hills of Geor-
gia, have to pause in their flight and
look twice to make sure they are on
the right road again and that this is
really the same Atlanta. spreading
out beneath them.
Among the important building
changes that will be of interest out
side of Atlanta is the announcement
by the Masons' Annuity that it is
making big additions to the heigth of
the Annuity building and is doubling
the Office space. This is very valu-
able, centrally located piece of prop
erty. Masons attending the supreme
lodge meetings and biennial sessions
of the Annuity will meet in this
building.
During the latter part of August
it looked as if strictly new building
activities would not be up to the
mark this fall, but it turns out that
the rush was simply delayed. 1t is
now on in full force.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-10
The WORLDS FIRST PAWNBROKERS

bility of their ever paying them, anC
when the city was pressing then
hard, Cosmo de Medici came forward
and paid them all up.
So. of course, when Cosmo sug-
gested to these same persons that he
might take a hand in running Flor
ence as it ought to be run they all
agreed that they should like to see
him do it. And when a rival family,
called the Albizzi, established a sue
cessful opposition against the policy
and credit of the Medici rule, they
came forward and chased the pre-
snmptuous Albizzi clear up to Ven
ice; and Cosmo, who had been ban
ished to the same city, came back
and became the uncrowned king of
Florence, and was given the title of
Father of His Country"
Lorenzo, the Magnificent"
The most famous member of the
family was Lorenzo, surnamed the
Magnificent He was a grandson of
Cosmo, and besides running loan
shops and banks in France, Eng
land, the Lower Countries, the Lee
want and other minor places he be-
came the virtual head of the Flor
ence state, and what he said was law
He had a crowd of five or six hang
ing around who, theoretically, had
to say about how the city
should be governed, but Lorenzo
merely ignored them, and they were
glad to be allowed to draw their sal
aries.
Before he succeeded to power and
while his father, Pietro, was getting
things in smooth running order for
him Lorenzo married Clarice Orsini,
A member of one of the greatest fam
lies in Italy. Lorenzo did not seem
10 be very enthusiastic about this
for his own notice is curl
)usly told: Il, Lorenzo, took for
wife Clarice, daughter of the Lord
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-10
MEDICI FAMILY OF FLORENCE
ITALY, MADE BIG FORTUNES.
Their Business Sense Brought Them
Great Wealth, and Their Wealth
Brought Them Great Power.

Back in the thirteenth century
there lived in Florence, Italy, fam
iiy called Medici, whose chief bust
ness was running the banks in most
of the civilized world, says a delving
historical writer in the Kansas City
Times. Their business sense brought
them great wealth, and their great
wealth brought them more power.
Besides owning a large number of
banks the Medici had a monopoly of
the loan business in that part of the
country. Their coat of arms was a
shield with six bulls emblazoned on
it. but as the loan business spread to
other parts of the world and slipped
out of the Medici hands three balls
and the shield were dropped and the
remaining three, suspended over a
doorway have always suficed to in
dictate that within money can be Dor
rowed
No other house in medieval Europe
can boast of such strange career
as that of the Medici. Bankers by
profession, possessing no military re-
sources, gifted with no experience in
war, aided by no general convulsion,
they established a despotism which
lasted for three centuries.
A Money Making Family.
The Medici owed their earliest dis
tinction to their success in various
branches of commerce and the lib
eral spirit with which they devoted
their money to general utility, but
this general utility usually was Me-
dici utility. When some of the lower
classes got so far behind in their tax
es that there seemed to be no posi- |
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-10
Pistol Toting Officers in Trouble.

Atlanta.-That practically every
bailiff and constable in Atlanta car
ries a pistol habitually, though it is
against the law for him to do so,
is apparently shown by number OF
recent arrests of bailiffs in each in
stance of which a gun was found on
the mans hip.
Bailiff w. A. Johnson, attached to
a Decatur street peace justice court
has already been bound over to the
higher court by Recorder Broylesr
ard it is understood that similar
action will be shortly taken in other
cases.
1t is said that these bailiffs make
flourish of their weapons every
time they go into the houses OF ne
groes or white people in poor cir
cumstances to levy on furniture OF
household goods for debt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-10
WERE SIXTY-THREE FEWER
SUICIDES REPORTED IN 1912
San Francisco Has the Highest Rate
of Any City in the Country.

san AhSAO AiAO AAASsihN7N ANSNNN
of Any City in the Country.
The Spectator, a New York weekly
insurance journal, publishes an ar
ticle on suicides in the United States.
In 1912 the suicidal death record
was 1873 per 100000 of population.
This is the lowest percentage since
1906. There was a decrease in 100
cities catalogued from 4,460 to 4,997
in 1912.
''All this indicates" writes Fred
erick L. Hoffman, author of the ar
ticle, that for the time being, at
least, the economic condition of the
country is improving over previous
years"
The highest suicide rate during
1912 prevailed in San Francisco.
A tabulation concerning 100 Amer
iaan cities finds that there have been
66,137 suicides in the last twenty
years. This is an average rate OF
1872 suicides to every 100000 per
sons.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-10
The New Game Commissioned.

Atlanta the appoint
ment of Charles L. Davis as state
game commissioner does not become
effective until November list Mr.. Da-
Wis will at once begin to lay plans
for the careful organization of war
den system throughout the state, in
order to have the situation thorough
" in hand by the opening OF the
hunting season late in November.
The majority of the new licenses
for this fall and winter will be issued
under the direction of Mr.. Davis al
ter November LIST.
As a man well versed in hunting
and conservation lore and leader
in the movement which consummat-
ed in the forming of the present game
law Mr.. Davis is perhaps better fitted
than any other man in The state to
carry out its provisions.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-10
! a WORLDS CHAMP ON
'HWUtS UNIUN FHWABBX BAREBACK RIDERS
SEE THE ACTEC MARIMBA BAND

Billy Lightfoot and Twenty Other Funny c