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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15
BETTER OUTLOOK IN CHICAGO WAS
 CAUSE OF 4 RISE
General Cotton List Closed Firm at a Net Advance of Z 20 to 5 Points Over the
 Finals of Friday
sy Associated Pres.

New York, February 14.-Thete was a further sharp advance in the cotton market today, owing to the continued firmness of foreign exchange and the Improved tone of the stock market. May soldtup from SS,52c tossA2Oe. or 55 points net higher and closedaat S415c, with the general list closing firm at net advance of 20 to 55 points
 Realizing brought in by the rapid advance of yesterday led to some ir- regularity at the start and after open ing points lower to 27 points higher, active months sold about 8 to 13 points below last nights closing figures. Of ferings were readily absorbed by the eontinued buying by Liverpool and Wall street shorts, and the market soon turned firmer on the bullish domestic consuntption figures and the better tone sof the financial markets. Domestic
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from two sources, one being from peo- pie who personally dislike the officers and the second source being from people whom the officers from time to time wers trying to catch selling liquor. These char ges and rumors were perSistently circulated until they gained the credence
 of some good people. The grand jury made the most searching investigation. examined witnesses whom it was ru' racred knew anything. We investigated every rumor and we tell the people of
 Lauderdaie county that these charges acainst the officers were absolutely false and without the slightest foundation.
 "A great many charges against l.. (. Monette, chief of police, have been inyes- tigated closely by the grand jury. Every witness whom 1t is rumored knew any thing about the alleged misconduct ot Mir. Monette were summoned before, the grand tury. We find that many Of the statements against him were actuated b+ malice and ill will. Some of them were made because Chief Monette refused to protect the complaining parties ln their wrong doings. We find that MT. Monette has made an efficient chief of police, ana tiat he is not guilty of operating blini tigers or receiving liquor from olinN tigers to protect them. nor is he guilty of selling liquor through blind tigers as charges. We brand these statements as absolutely false and without foundation
 We did find that Mir Monette has been guilty of drinking intoxicating liquor, not to the extent of public drunkenness, in this county. as has been charged, but i.> is the grand jury's opinion that MT Monette would be better officer If he abstains from drinking liquor entireN, The undisputed facts before the grand jury show that Mir. Monette has furnishea the grand juries of the past with more information and has done more to CO., operate with the outgoing and incoming sheriff than perhaps any other officer Some of the charges against Chief Mo nette grew out of an attempt to 1ntin- mate him because he was doing his duty, and because he had courage enough to catch some who did not believe that the law should molest them in operating, what, in the opinion of the grand jury. is one of the worst dives in Meridian. We cali the attention of the officers to the fact that it is just as much a violation of the laws of Mississippi for any officer capturing whisky or other intoxicants to drink any of this as it is to, sell liouor and we suggest the best remed% for any temptation on the part of the # fcers, or any of their friends to use anH liouor so captured, is to destroy it aN speedily as possible after it is captured We hope that the city, will so instruct their officers and will SC that its orders are carried out. The grand jury is glad to report that the moral conditions in Lauderdale county, as whole, are good as compared with past years.
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Oyer Private Wires
I. ". Jay & Co.'S Letter

New York, February 14.-(Special.)- Prices rosely sharply when Liverpool the south, and local interests became good buyers. The partial recovery in sterling rates has occasioned an inn provement in the feeling of the trade and the advance was helped by the strong resistance of southern spot hold CTS who refuse to liquidate on declin- ing markets A further rise would not surprise us, as we believe there is more covering to come. However, on any additional upward movement we sug- gest taking profits on purchases with the idea of replacing on any sharp set back.-J. W. Jay & Co.,,
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Produce

Sweet Potatoes-$S $50 per hundred. California Celery-$10 crae; {1.75 doz. Lemons-$5. Peanuts-spanish, Sc lb.: large. 1ad131kc Cabbage-T.50 per hundred. Irish Potatoes-se per hundred. Onions-3750 roc lbs. Oranges s45o. Bananas-Extras, Sc lo. Limes-sl.50 per 100. Lettuces3 hamper e doz). Rutabasas-4c ID.
 Meats D. g, Clear -22924c. ID. \. Rib Beilies-21G22c. Pure Lard-z7Ac. 9ams-Reg,lar, Seassc; skinned. s2c Picnic Hams-23c Bacon-38@45c. Pork Loins~35c.
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Spot Cotton
MERIDIAN. MISS.

Meridian. Miss, February 14-(SpeciaL) An auditorium for Meridian. which has been the dream of many citizens for the past several years, is no longer to be a are now taking shape that are predicted to be practical and thoroughly workable
 it has been announced by a man who has long taken an interest in the under taking. According to this informant who requests that his name be withheld for
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LOCAL MARKETS

Swift 6 Co., make changes in beef=cut quotations this morning. Retail merchants claim a good day g turnover yesterday, in spite of the bad weather conditions. big night trade was enjoyed. Quotations were as follows:
 Poultry Stags -25dG0c Turkeys-Live. 42ikG 45c Ducks-32c F'ryers-50c Fiens-34G35r Fresh Eggs-5an55c
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ding. 3i.75c; middling. 3925c' good middling, 4L25c.
 New York, February 14.-Cotton spot steady; midlding. Ss.75c.
 Port Movement
 New Orleans: Middling. 39.25c; re- ceipts, S41S exports S6O1; sales, 1909 stock, 422.2S7.
 Galveston: Middling, 41.25c; receipts S0e1; sales, $40; stock, 317,2H.
 Mobile: Middling, 3Sc; receipts, 292i stock. 21.142.
 Savannah: Middling, 39,5oc; receipts, 2101: exports, 15.475; stock, 224.239. Charleston; Midd1ing, 39.25c; receipts, 49.44s; stock. 143.369.
 Wilmington: Middling, sSc; receipts, 41: stock. 59,696. Texas City: Stock, 67647
 Norfolk: Middling, 3S.50c; receipts 797; sales 1197: stock, 91,5o1, Baltimore: Stock, 6s65.
 Boston; Middling, 3S.45c; stock $500 Philadelphia: Middling, 39c; stock, 10,t47
 New York; Middling. sS75c; stock. 55,50e
 Minor ports: Receipts, 5s; exports 20.537; stock, 15.139
 Total today: Receipts, 64,212; ex- ports, 3s,61S; stock. 1,440,2zs.
 Total for week: Receipts, e42i2s exports, 39,613- r Total for season: Receipts 5,2S0,s21 exports, 4,147,539
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Fish

Gray Snapper -Hesdless and drawn, I4c
 Red snapper4Tfeadless and drawn, g d23c. Eastern Select Oysters-s2.50 gallon. Spanish Mackerel-22625c. Pompano-25c Salt Water Trout-z2d2sc. Mixed Fish-12c. Mullet-11c.
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Interior Movement

Houston MiddIing, 40c; receipts, 6s62; shipments, 56so; sales, s57; stock, 234,S89
 Memphis: Middling, 5sc; receipts 5S1S; shipments, 45o9; sales, 900; stock, 2S9,S21.
 Augusta Middling, ss.25c; receipts, 621; shipments, 1927; sales. 15o; stock, 163.436
 Little Rosk: MiddIing.t ssc; receipts, 14s; shipments, 1o7; sales, 107; stock, 50, 109
 Total today: Receipts, 16,7S2; ship mentsc, 15,604; stock, 7So, 920.
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Spot Cotton
By Associated Press

New Orleans, February 14.-Spot cot ton steady, 25 points up. Sales on the spot 5S7; to arrive, 1,022. Low mid
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It is estimated that per sent of the women of England must remain unmar- ried because of the tremendous loss or young men through war and the influ- 'enza epidkmic.
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Butter

Creamery-i4d75c.
 Ribs-No. I. 24c; No. 2, 20c; No. 3, 17c. Loins-No, ]. 40c; No. 2, 34c; No. 3, BOG. Rounds-No. i, 2Sc; No 1. ZIG: No. 3. 20c Chucks-No. 1. 12c; No. 2, lie; No. 8 1oc. Plates-No l. lie; No. 2, 10c; No. 8, 9c,
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Live Stock

Union Stock Yards)
 Fed steers:
 Good to choice s1oooG11 o0 medium tc good. Ss.oO@s1o6o; common to medium S. e0a900
 Grass cattle according to weight, aual- ity and flesh.
 Steers, $500 @1o,o0; fat cows. s7.0oae. O. medium cows. $60oGD7.O0: cutters, $500 500; canners. $4.0od50o; heavy bulls, s7. 0t @s00; light bulls. s6O0d7. %: oxen, s4. .00d 500; fat yearlings, s7.00dS.o0; medium yearlings, se.oo@7.0o yealers, ss.00@11.o0 Hogs:
 Choice corn fed hogs f6S and up, $145o; choice corn fed hogs 90 to 135 s11.5o; light pigs. 90 pounds down, s10.50; best heavy rough hogs, s12.00; half fat rough hogs, Ss OO6D10. %.
 Soft and oily hogs from 1c to Pc per pound less than above prices.
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New Orleans Futures RN Axsaot,tea prs.s

New Orleans, February 14.-Cotton closed steady at an advance of 30 to 40 points.
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Meal and Feedstuff

Mixed -$o0Qf5. Old Style Hulls-s2o. Corp--S193. Corn Chops-X. No. White oats-;1.16 per bushel. Shorts-S65. Bran-$55 c. s. Meal. per cent-sso. Hen Feed-A per 1o0-lb sack. Economy Dairy Feed-E5. Choice Pea Green Alfalfa sSa. Wheat Straw $25. Timothy-$45. Perfect Hog Feed-ss.
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Hides and Tallcw No Green Salt Hides-29I30c. No. Green salt Hides-2 -2SG2ec. No. Green Hides-24625c No. Z Green Hides-22@23c. No 1 Dry Flint Hides-40@A2c. No. Dry Flint Hides-3Sd40c. No l Dry Salt Hides-SSG40c. No.- Dry Salt Hides -36G57c. Sheep Skins-s0cG$2. Horse Hides -s36S. Goat Skins-St .l0d1. 40. Hog 25cG50c. Taiiow--12615c. -3663Sc. Clear Wash Wool--60d65c Clear Grease Wool-45@o0c- Burry Wool-25G30c. Ginseng (WilD-s10G1s
 Spot Cotton Good mddling .....................s.. B Strict nlddling ..-....-....-..-.s...;. 5tH Mlddling ...-............-..- .....'....'.- oo7 Strict low middling ....-.,.............. 351s - }
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-10-23

yo, cannot build reputation on tne
things you are going to do.-1@mes -
NM
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-10-23

Indigestion produces disagreeable and
sometimes alarming symptoms. Wrights
Indian Vegetable Pills stimulate the diges-
tive processes to function naturaliy.-Adv
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the rank of colonel in the Indian
wars"
what was he like?"
The Iron-Gray-Woman turned her
eyes and studied him so long, so in
tently, that he trembled lest his ques-
tion--a question that came In spite of
him-had startled her into silence.
Like you" she resumed, land not
like you. His eyes were blue. his hair
light. Your hair Is dark, like mine
Your eyes are like mine. But ne had
the same height and breadth Of Shout
der; like you. slow of speech, slow to
strike, till the right instant came
then, us the hawk strikes.
II never liked the-other man !;
though my uncle made it impossible
for me completely to discourage his
attentions" Her words dropped back
into the memory groove worn deep
by the years. II kept up show of
interest in him, for the sake Of my
cousin. She really loved him, and it
was the only way she could get to see
him. He was q very handsome man !;
though, as 1t afterward turned out, the
black sheep of his family, and deeply
involved In debt. 1t was to repair his
wasted fortunes, as I now believe, that
he deliberately planned to win my
cousins heart-and hand"
The cough Threatened to come back.
She held her hands tight upon her
breast till she had mastered it, and
then hurried on as If afraid her
strength might not hold to say all that
had to be said.
"The very boldness Of him fasci-
mated my cousin. Day by day his
power over her grew greater. 1 never
realized how great till one night, with
out taking even me into her confidence,
she utterly astonisheG us all by elop-
ing with him. I will never forget the
day that followed. My uncle disowned
her. and sent after her message that
she was never again to set foot inside
his door. He raved and swore; drank
himself into drunken madness; and
finally ended by driving me away also.
"Y0ur father had already declared
himself. My uncle's cruelty fastened
our marriage. That same day he took
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A crooked log makes a food fire.
French PrOyerb.
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me to his home as his bride-to the
beautiful gray mansion overlooking
the river. We've sometimes passed it
in our neutrality-suspicious. came a
wistful pause-"but l never allowed
you to know.
There followed a year of such hap
piness as l never knew could come to
this wOrld-a year that has left bar
rem all the years that followed; that
beggared all that went before! One
evening. almost a year to day after
ward. as l sat rocking you, baby in
the cradle, and waiting for your father
to come in, thinking, strangely enough,
OF my cousin, whom | had never seen
since the night of the elOpement, a
slight sound at one of the low win
dOws caused me to turn. / was far
steadier nerved than l now am, but
I could hardly keep back scream
There stood my cousins husband. He
was speaking in a half whisper. But
for the moment | was too startled to
make out what he said. He came out
near. / shrank away. In low whls-
pers, for the maids were just outside
the door, he was begging me to leave
your father and come to him--that he
had never loved my cousin-that /
must come-that it was always me.
His voice was hot as flame, but i.
turned me cold. / couldn't move. He
came close-stooped over me.
"a step sounded in the hall. Half
frantic, I tried to push him back
toward the window. At the instant
the door opened, and in it-your IA
Their: with the maids behind him.
never knew a mans face could look as
his looked I sank into chair and
hid my eyes.
"'How long has this been going on?
he Numbered.
The Iron-Gray-Woman shuddered.
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PGrtin0 the bushes NTH the

Parting the bushes NTH the
utmost caution, he crept up
to the edge of the pool and
peered forth. A woman-a
girl-sat ON a flat rock jutting
out from the opposite bank,
her bare feet Swinging in the
mater With the mass
of color close to her face, 1t
was hard to tell the one from
the other-the flowers from
the face; where the roses left
off and the face began. Her
hair hung loose. soft and ,Oary
the kind of hair a roguish
shaft Of morning sun can
change to spun gold; lips like
the song a moment ago upon
them. eyes like the little patch
of sky at the bottom of the
pools-eyes that opened ride;
that had nothing to conceal.
This is Pearlhunter's FIRST
glimpse Of the Wild Rose. He
calls himself Pearlhuntsr be-
cause he does not know his
father. Wild Rose 10 the
daughter of Wild Man. q mys-
ferrous recluse. Pearlhunt.
er finds the $4,000 Blue Moon
"A great pearl that looks like
a full moon in a cold sky"
And then the most exciting
things happen in quick success
sion.
This is a fascinating story of
. queer people in a queer place
the freshwater pearl hunters
Of the Wabash river flats of
Indiana in the late forties.
It's good reading.
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CHAPTER !.
The Iron-Gray-Woman.


A young man stood on the after
deck of small and very dingy house
boat filing a fish spear. Riding at the
end Of -blackened rope strung
from q cleat at the bow to tree on
shore, the boat rose and fell with the
pulse Of the river, lazy and languid
under the beat Of the hot afternoon
sun.
He was 80 tall, with such q spread
of shoulder, that he seemed out OF
place upon 50 small deck. Wind
season and weather wear had worked
their win upon him. But there are
forces that grave deeper than wind
and weather. Youth can hold wind
and weather at bay. 1t is powerless
against those other forces-those n
ner forces that grave the soul. Under
the chafe of them his face had become
the face Of q man who had looked
upon life and found 1t not to his Tx
ing. His eyes held the keen. quick
hardness that comes to eyes that see
only life's sterner side.
The Pearlhunter, they called him,
the river men, not that he had found
his pearl, possibly because he had not
found it. Failure names men, as well
as success, in the wilderness.
The space between the fore and
after decks of the housebOat was occu-
pied by kind Of cabin, with cur
tanned entrance fore and aft and
single small window on each side. The
man suddenly stopped filing the fish
spear and glanced with quick anxiety
toward this cabin. A woman was
coughing. He crossed the narrow deck
at q stride, showed aside the soiled and
rumpled curtain and entered. A dark,
iron-gray woman sat bumped forward
IN q rickety old rockingham by the
window on the shore side. AS If con-
scious Of his inability to help, possibly
calloused by long familiarity with SIM
liar scenes, he stood looking down
upon her, with no expression of SYM
pathy other than vince of pity in
his eyes.
She Strengthened after a time, and
lay back against the bed quilt spread
In the chair, spent and quivering, the
trembling shell Of what had once been
a very beautiful woman. The man
crossed the cabin, dipped up tinful
of water out of bucket by the cook
stove and offered it to. her. She
waved 1t away.
TITS so warm-and fiat! 1t has
been long from the spring.
Without word he set the cup back
on the bench, picked up the bucket,
passed out to the front deck, crossed
the narrow gangplank, and hurried
away up the slope toward the cliffs
that rose above the trees a few rods
back from the river shore.
The spot was known the length of
the Wabash, for who has not heard Of
Fallen Rock. with the broad. thin wa
terfall pitching over the sharp-edged
shelf between it's two breasts and lap
ping the stone-strewn pool at its base?
And the spring breaking out from I'M
der the shale lodges of the cliff near
the west end of the old cabin and
trickling its waters down little sui
phur-stained gutter into the pool-who
has not heard Of It? Not to have
drunk of its waters was considered q
misfortune in the Flatwoods, just as
In ancient Greece It was considered
q calamity to die without having seen
the statue Of Olympian Zeus.
Fallen Rock is the highest front Of
naked stone along the Wabash. At
the present day seven towns can be
Veen from its summit; i4Sthe late for
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very much. am we'll and strong and
now able to do my work. I cannot
thank you enough and recommend
your medicine to my friends who are
sick. Mrs. SUSIE SAcATANsKY, 25
East 18th St.. Bayonne, N. ].
1t must be admitted by every fair
minded, intelligent person, that nedi-
cine could not live and grow In popular
!ty for over forty years, and today hold
% does Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, without possessing great
virtue and actual worth. Such med
lcines must be looked upon and termed
both standard and dependable by every
thinkinr person
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The man kneeliN

The man kneeIlru1,,..,,,,,,i.
drinking in everyf
fingers reassuringlSNde, eagerly
II answered ne&iened biz
couldn't she falteredNhand.
was hollow; empty as ard. !
The lady can answerpreast
the voice of the-other mtn
There was cry, and yerd
sprang at him. The maids s.
uncovered my eyes, expecting
upon death. But the-0ther man
through the window and was e
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|by female trouble.
II felt so tired all the
time, had bad head.
aches, and for six
months l could not
work. / was treat
ed by a physician
and took other re-
NEEDLES but got no
relief. A friend told
me about Lydia E.
|Pinkham's v g e e.
table Compound and
II r n aa holnod ma
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"The Man in the Fancy
Vest"
(rO BE CONTINUED.)
Wheels Progression.

Wheels Progression.
The use of the wheel goes back to
the dark ages. The first wheels were
made of solid blocks of wood cut from
the trunks of trees. Many changes
were made before the modern Wha4t
was evolved.
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Each package of Diamond Dyes
contains directions SO simple that any
woman can dlamond-dye worn shaooS
skirts. waists, dresses, coats, gloves
.tockings sweaters, draperies every
thing, whether wool, SILK. linen, co'lo.
or mixed goods, new, rich fadeiess cor
ors Have druggist show you liz
mond Dyes Color Card."-Adv.
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He that rises again quickly and con.
t:nues the race is as If he had never
fallen.-MOlineux.
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SIX MONTHS |
COULD NOT WORK
Lydia E. Pnkham's Vegetable
Compound Made Me Strong and
Able to Work. Recommend
Ii To All My Friends.

Bayonne, N. III had pains in back
and legs so that I could not stand caused
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important tc Mothers

II WILL" is the motto Of Chicago. Il
can" Is the motto Of the fruit pre-
server.
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a-s. ..asasaaisa= - -saasa'a=aaa7s=a aas's a=a
O. II. CLAYTON
aWVeF
ANTIQUE FURNITURE

Repaired and put in nrst-class condi.
don by workman who was with An
Grew Oatman for eight years. Also
Ill kinds of furniture repairing pre- mpts
~ executed.
NAPOLEON HHRGERON
All Cewuxy St
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BIGGEST or EARTH'S VALLEYS
Giant Crack In Surface Extends Over
one.Sixth OF the circumference
OF the World.

The Great Rift valley, as 1t IT, called
by Prot. J. w. Gregory. extends over
one-sixth of the circumference CT the
earth, remarks the London Times.
1t begins in Lebanon, follows the
canyon Of the Jordan and the Dead
sea and crosses a high divide" to be-
come the deep ford of the Gulf OK
Akaba between the highland of Edom
and Sinai. The Red sea, a great
trough 1900 feet deep, measured
from the summit of Its rocky wall to
! the sea bottom, continues 1t between
she high deserts of Nubia and Arabia
to the narrow neck of Bab-el.Mandeb.
II strikes across Abyssinia to Lake
Rudolph, runs almost due south
through British East Africa and
trayerses range 1000 feet high TO
Lake Natron, In what was German
East Africa Where 1t crosses the
Uganda railway Its walls are so steep
that the trains used to be hauled up
or lowered by cables. II Is continued
by the rift which holds Lake Nyasa,
nn inland ocean. whose surface is l,60C
feet above sea level, with depth OF
200 feet below sea level.
From Nyasa it runs down the ShiI
valley, crosses the Zambesi and ends
IN the Indian ocean at the Sabi riveI
In OAKLAND. a minor branch forms th'
lower end and gigantic arm stretches
from the upper end Of Nyasa through
Tanganyika, the second deepest Lake
IN the world, It's bottom 1.600 feet be
low sea level, to the upper Nile.
We are accustomed 10 think OF val
leys as having been formed by erosion
but the Rift valley is clearly the result
of some more catastrophe agency
There have been differences of opinion
as TO the mode OF its formation within
the historical period But the discoy
cry of fossil mammals, Of types Ion
extinct, makes it impossible TO regar'
The laundering of the Dead sea Ms &C
incident with the destruction of SOD
ON and GomorraA.
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"pevlps porcn.n

The saying devils dozen means
the same as bakers Dozen" but the
origin differs. 1t "connotes." as the
metaphysicians love TO say, IS loaves
of bread instead of -. and 1t sprung
from the idiotically superstitious at.
tempt to explain the bakers dozen,
which also was 10 loaves. This latter
practice Of giving 10 loaves was due
to the drastic penalties in England
for shortwelghtlng, and to be safe the
baker threw In the extra loaf.