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All donkeys haven’t long ears; somo
wear silk hats.
Why not settle labor difficulties ac
cording to the golden rule?
Russia seems determined to have a
yellow peril If she has to make It her
self.
"Does It pay to marry for moir
asks Nixola Greeley Smith. Can't
never having tried it.
One of the St. Louis get-rlch-qulck
concerns proposes to pay Its creditors
two cents on the dollar; just the price
of return postage.
A British scientist claims that the i
■ earth is kept hot by radium. Perhaps I
the great rush for radium was what
made last winter so cold.
Statisticians have It nil figured out
now that the Postofflce Department
would be self-sustaining If the receipt!),
were equal to the disbursements.
The motto of the new Panama re
public Is “Pnz, Libertnd. Unio, Pro
gresso." We would suggest that the
word “Bing" be added to this bunch.
Probably the “motorpnthln cerebra
lls" from which the nutomobilists suf
fers Is no worse than the ailments
contracted by the persons he runs
over.
A Kansas man, according to dis
patches, “died suddenly while relating
anecdotes." Wo are not Informed
what happened to the man who shot
him.
Booker Washington’s new book.
"Working with the Hands.” comes as
a novelty in a campaign year when
most people are working with their
mouths.
Charles T. Yerkes says: “The man
who bets on the races Is an idiot.” The
average promoter gets sore when lie
finds you risking your coin on some
ottn r fellow’s game.
Great Britain publicly admits that
she is at war with Thibet. The Eng
lish are having beastly hick of late
in getting Into wars that give them
no chance whatever to show what their
navy can do.
A New York banker has been sent
to prison for nine years for stealing
SIO,OOO. Evidently the New York
courts have outlived the idea that a
man's stealings should be overlooked
if he takes enough.
Recent medical articles have contain
ed an account of the aeftrus scabfel,
which is gravely described as a para
site that attacks the palms of the
hands and makes them itch. Now that
the cause of the “itching palm" Is
known, physicians as well as moralists
may study its cure.
A Detroit judge has ruled that a
man has a right to spank his wife if
she is disobedient. The judge is a
bachelor, but be needn’t worry. It is
safe to say that there's many a girl in
Detroit now who would lie willing to
become bis wife Just- for the purpose
of teaching him a few things.
Mace, the Paris detective, who died
tecently, Is said to have worn a pair
of spectacles of his own invention.
The lenses were divided into two parts,
through one of which he looked ahead
upon the ground and with the other
saw the people behind him. This is an
old Idea. Many mothers nnd grand
mothers had something of this kind
before the detective wns born. They
called their perception "seeing through
the back of tho head." Many of us
have been detected ourselves, and wo
know.
The farmer must learn to place a
cash value upon his own time and la
bor and know where they are expend
ed and what results they produce. He
must learn to think of the dairy cow
as a machine for manufacturing clov
er, etc.. Into milk—a machine that will
do its best work when kindly treated,
sheltered from storms and fed a bal
anced ration. The small plots of idle
ground should be made to produce
something that will sell in the market
or supply the family table. The waste
products of orchard, garden or grain
field should be turned Into pork, mut
ton or poultry, while everything that
can serve no better purpose should. If
possible, add fertility to the soil, no
tation of crops should males, summer
fallowing unnecessary and $lO worth
of apples should not be lost for the
want of $1 worth of spray.
There are so many advantages to be
gained by an Independent farm life
since we have telephones, free mail de
livery, good roads and a constant puMt
for the broadening of these services,
that I do not wonder tlmt so many
who left the roof-tree for positions In
the cities should turn their feet ngnln
toward the farm, where they can once
more drink lit tile pure air and bathe
In the sunshine whli-h turns all nature
into lovellnesSr^gcUeiAi .correspondent
in the Agricultural Epltomist. Farm
Ing Is not what It was to years ago;
education in the different branches of
agriculture line made it n science and
its broadening influence hns so effect
ually wrought a transformation in
character that the soil tillers of to-day
have left behind the life of drudgery
through the adopting of more scientific
methods, and a research into the in
tricate workings of nature. No oue Is
better fitted than the fanner to pos
sess a character upon which our na
tion tuny ever depend to uphold the
laws of government and public author
ity in times of peace and make bravo
soldiers in time of war. Here Is the
nucleus of the power that springs from
the heart near to nature, and Imparts
n desire to live a patriot to his coun
try. an honor to bls State, a blessing
to his community, and a helper of his
neighbor, while engaged In one of the
most honorable and elevating occupa
tions given to mnn.
Here is a tine idea from West Vir
ginia. The Agricultural Experiment
Station has entered on a practical cam
paign for the Improvement of rural
school grounds throughout the State.
As a starter, one school yard In each
county Is to be beautlfleil by a land
scape gardener. There will be trees,
shrubbery and flowers, and a thorough
effort to make real beauty spots of
plots that are now unsightly. There
Isn't a more dismal appearing spot on
earth than the average country school
yard. Generally it Is a sizable lot,
grown up to weeds and littered with
lunch remnants, old newspapers and
other debris. In the center Is a weath
er-beaten building, ugly inside and out.
Its walls and smoky ceilings would be
an Incentive to suicide. If it were not
for the natural jubHnncy of childish
spirits. A little money, properly used,
would put the homelike touch on the
interior, and iffnke the grounds a great
garden. And It Is a fact that the chil
dren, even In the most boisterous of
country schools, can be Interested in
the useful life that Iles outside of their
books. They will grow flowers, If they
have a chance and an example to fol
low. They will absorb a love for the
beautiful, if they have the opportunity,
and it is a thing that will make them
better men and women. Perhaps there
was a time when n few parents would
have sneered at those school beautify
ing plans, asserting that fads were 4
only another name for foolishness. But
most of that folly lias been eduerffed
out of humanity. In the city as well as
the country, and in future education
is to be made, as fnr ns possible, a
pleasure, and, ns little ns may be. n
task. The West Virginia experiment is
commendable mid worth watching.
According to a recently issued census
bulletin, the real rank of cities is not
always indicated by the order In which
they stand In the tables of population.
Some great centers have n consider
able part of their massed population
lying outside the municipal bounda
ries. Boston is a good example: about
twelve hundred thousand people live
'in sight of the State House dome, and
less than six hundred thousand of
them arc governed by the Boston may
or. Other cities have annexed far into
the farm lands of the adjacent coun
try. It is customary to speak of the
population of a State, “In proportion to
its size.” Such a comparison is sel
dom made of cities, although It might
not be uninteresting. Pittsburg, for ex
ample, has a population of a third of
a million on eighteen thousand acres of
ground; New York’s population, little
more than ten times as great, spreads
over nearly twelve times as many
acres. Chicago was long famous for
Its annexation habit, but since 1890
New York has annexed much more ter
ritory than Chicago’s total area. New
Orleans has a slightly larger area than
Chicago. Each of them covers six times
the area of Baltimore. Washington,
which occupies the Maryland part of
the ten miles square set aside for a na
tional capital. Is a fair-sizer city as
area goes, for this generation. It may
seem small a century hence, although
It looked abundantly ample for all the
purposes of urban development when
laid out. In the case of cities, as well
as of other corporations, consolidation
Is plainly one of the tendencies of the
times. More than one-third of those
in the United States have added to
their territory by annexation since
Ibuo. Townships and counties are oc
casionally subdivided, by reason of lo
cal Interests, but the cities seem to be
steamly pushing their boundaries .out
ward. There are some economic rea
sons for this, but the reason In many
cases has been the desire of their in
habitants to make a “good showing.”
Health Up In the Arctic.
The advantages offered by the tnree
months of arctic summer are so nu
merous that there have appeared re
cently several announcements of float
ing and permanent hospitals for pa
tients suffering from Incipient pulmon
ary affections and neurasthenic states,
says American Medicine. It is pro
posed to erect a sanitarium on the
shores of Lake Tome, In Lapland, a
long and beautiful sheet of water at
Wassljahve, near the end of the Ofote
railroad. That railroad. It may be
mentioned, has only one station in a
distance of 121 miles. There is no hu
man dwelling near the station, which
Is on the line between Sweden and
Norway, and was erected solely for the
requirements of the customs office. Ex
cept for a small settle nt at Wassl-
Jauve, the only sign of human exist
ence In the district is the occasional
passage of a few I.aplandors wti . theit
herds of reindeer. Already there hns
been installed at tills spot a scientific
station In a solidly built blockhouse
containing seven rooms, find it is pro
posed to build the sanitarium in tho
same way. -British Medical Journal.
His Experience. , .
"Your Southern girls.” ewalrt ihe
Northerner, "are so funny. Nearly all
Of them say ‘Yes, Indeedy.' "
“Not all of them." replied the South
ern youth, dismally; "some of them
say ‘no, Indeedy.' " —Philadelphia
Press.
The boy’s mother listened a moment
in the hall. Then, advancing to the
stairway, she called: “Willie!"
There was no reply, so she ascended
three stairs and callod again, “Wil
lee!"
She listened once more. “Now, isn't
that provoking!" she exclaimed. “Wil
lie! Oh, Willie! Wll-lce!
“I suppose I’ll have to climb up there
again," she said to herself in an Irri
tated tone, •'Willie! Willie! Do you
want me to come up there to you?”
Xmiuffled sound came from the up
per rXom. “Oh, you heard me, did
you? ww, you get right up and come
dowm/tafrs.”
Thete was no further sound. “Wil
lie!" A^MUse. “Willie! Wil-lee!"
"Yes'mTX^^ -
“Get up this moment. Do yon hear
me?”
“All ri'.”
"Well, now you'd better. You haven't
got any too much time to gi t ready
for school.” Another pause.
J “Willie!”
"Yes'm."
“Are you getting up now?”
There was no reply ami the boy's
mother mounted three more stairs.
“Willie! Willie!"
“Yes'm.”
“Are you getting up? You arc go
ing to be late for school and your
breakfast's all ready. Hurry down^.
now, like a good boy. Don’t tunke
mother come up to you. Do you hear
mo? Willie, if I come up to you!"
ALONG THE PANAMA CANAL
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AN AMERICAN EXCAVATOR IN THE CULEBRA CUT.
Gigantic excavators will soon be eating their way through the isthmus
again, and now that the United States Government has assumed charge of
the canal work, the natives feel assured the dilly-daflying that characterized
former efforts will disappear.
Between Colon and Panama. In various localities, hundreds of thousands
of dollars’ worth of machinery is literally rustlpg to pieces for lack of work.
The big excavators stand like ghosts in the shadowy cuts which will one
day become the Panama Crfnal. These great machines, equipped with giant
scoops, carve their way through the earth, biting off tons of rock and earth.
The scoops work on an endless chain, and the speed with which they fill a
train of gondola cars Is amazing.
Yankee energy Yankee machinery. Yankee brains and Yankee money
will undoubtedly accomplish much during the next few years. Already
the advance guard of the army to follow is here, preparing to combat the
fever which hitherto has been the enemy the empire makers failed to over
come.
TREES AND THE RAINFALL.
Importance of Forests in Regulating
the Humidity of u Region.
Although some meteorological ex
perts have recently endeavored to be
little tlie Influences of forest vegeta
tion as a regulator of humidity, the
tact seems to be Incontestable that
the removal of the trees increases the
rapidity with which water runs off to
the streams. But the forestry bureau
at Washington, In a study of the Rock
river watershed, partly in Illinois and
partly In Wisconsin, snys, "It cannot
be safely asserted that forest destruc
tion bos caused the falling off in the
precipitation over the region." and R.
He B. Ward culls attention to the tact
that a falling off In rainfall has been
observed in other parts of the west
and advances the^condusion of Bruck
ner that there is a thirty-five-year
cycle in rainfall.
'Ube most that can be said of these
cases is that the proof Is not conclu
sive that the loss In precipitation was
due to removal of forests, and not
that there Is conclusive proof that It
has nothing to do with It As to the
general fact, the opponents of the
theory are disposed to overlook the
natural process and the evidence of
experience much wider than those in
the coses referred to. it Is ls>yond
dispute that the chief function of for
ests In reference to water supply Is
the retention of water In the ground.
But It Is also well established tlmt
forest trees tire constantly evaporat
ing Into the air from tlielr leaves an
immense quantity of water In the ag
grqgnte. That this evaporation Is less
In quantity than the retardation of
the drainage is shown by the longer
life of forest streams and springs.
But the supply of evaporated humidity
to the air from n large forest must be
a umterlul addition to the stock
whence rains coma Thus It follows
that a well-forested country has a
higher average of rainfall than one
without forests.
If we are not mistaken the case of
Spain is well-nigh conclusive on this
"Yes'm, I'm gettln' up.”
"Well, why didn't you say so at
first? Hqrry now.
•Willie!”
No answer.
"Willie!”
"Yes'm.”
"Did you hear me till you to hur
ry?'
"Yes’m.”
• You'll be late for school, you know,
and I'm not going to write you any
excuse. Do you hear me?"
"Willie!”
“Oh. Willie!
■Wil-lee!"
"Yes’m. I’ll get up.”
The boy's mother sighed and de
sc< tided tho stairs.
Ten minutes later she came out into
the hall again and listened. There
was no sound from above, so she stole
s<.lily up the stairs and suddenly flung
open a bedroom door. On a little white
bed there was an Involved heap of
bedclothes and diving into tills tangle
she pulled out a rumpled, blinking boy.
"Why didn't you got up whqn I call
ed you?" asked the mother, setting him
down on his feet. “Now dress your
self quickly or you won't get any
breakfast."
■What time Is it, ma?" asked the
boy. sleepily.
e^Flt’s half-past 8."
■i Hi. gee!" he whined, “why didn’t
you wake me before?" —Chicago Daily
( N< ws.
point In the Roman days Spain was
the garden spot of the world. It wns
denuded of Its forests and became
send-arld. France went partly along
the sanLe road, but by energetic for
estry measures lais preserved, if not
restored, its rainfall. Tropical coun
tries without forests have rains that
are next door to a deluge.
No Tramps in Germany.
To-day the lot of the laboring man
in Germany is in many respects better
than that of ours. The German state
recognizes the right of every man to
live—we do not. When the German
laborer becomes old or feeble the
state pensions him honorably. In Ger
many the laboring man can ride on
the electric cars for 2 cents—we pay 5.
German cities have public baths, pub
lic laundry establishments, big parks,
free concerts and many other features
which soften poverty, although they
may not remove it.
The corollary to this Is that the em
peror permits no tramps to terrorize
his highways. The police Is organized
for rural patrol as well as city work,
and every loafer Is stopped and made
to give an accAunt of himself. In Eng
land vagrancy has been a public nui
sance for generations—with us It hns
become of late years almost a public
danger. Germany has no tramps. The
man who Is without work in Germany
tlnds no inducement to remain idle. A
paternal government sets him to such
hard work that the would-be unem
ployed finds it decidedly to his interest
to seek some other employment as soon
as possible. —National' Magazine.
Wise Fellow.
Fuddy—Why were you so avyfully
afraid of that pistol? You knew well
enough that It wasn't lombsl.
Duddy—fit Is the unloaded pistol that
always goes off and kills somebody.—
Boston Transcript.
Sunday School Teacher—Now, Toni.
ul y. what do we learn from the parable
of the prodigal son? Tommy—That
It is better u> be u prodigal son than
a fatted cult '
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FAVORITES |
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The Girl I Left Behind Me.
The dames of France are fond and free.
And Flemish lips are willing.
And soft the maids of Italy,
And Spanish eyes are thrilling;
Still, though I bask beneath their smile.
Their charms fail to bind me,
And my heart files back to Erin's Isle.
To the girl I left behind me.
For she's as fair as Shannon's side,
And purer than its water.
But she refused to be my bride
Though many a.year I sought her;
Yet, since to France I sailed away,
Her letters oft remind me
That I promised never to gainsay
The girl I left behind me.
She says: “My own dear love, come
home,
My friends are rich and many.
Or else abroad with you I'll roam
A soldier stout ns any;
If you'll not come, nor let me go,
I'll think you have resigned me.”
My heart nigh broke when I answered
—No!
To the girl I left behind me.
For never shall my true love brave
A life of war and toiling;
And never as a skulking slave
I'll tread my native soil on;
But. were it free, or to be freed.
The battle’s close would find me
To Ireland bound —no message need
From the girl I left behind me.
—Thomas Osborne Davis.
Opportunity.
Master of human destinies nm I.
Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps
wait,
Cities and fields I walk: I penetrate
Deserts and sens remote, and. passing
by
Hovel, nnd mart, and palace, soon or late
I knock unbidden once at every gate!
If sleeping, wake—if-feasting, rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate.
And they who follow me reach every
state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or hes
itate, ‘
Condemned to failure, penury, and woo.
Seek me in vain nnd uselessly implore,
I answer not. and I return no more.
—John J. Ingalls.
BOY REFORMED BY SURGERY.
Surgeon Removed Part of Skull Press
ing on His Brain.
London is just now very much inter
ested In two surgical cases which
promise to render valuable assistance
in pointing the way to the reforma
tion of criminals, says the New York
Times. One of the patients was a
boy of good family who had developed
brutal instincts which seemed to lie
beyond control. He gave his time to
the invention of malicious mischief, de
lighted InWiilling or wounding, was the
terror of the neighborhood in which lie
lived and promised to grow up a des
piYado and a criminal.
A surgeon took him in hand, exam
ined his head with care, located what,
he considered the scat of the trouble,
removed a portion of the skull and
thus relieved the deforming pressure.
The change was Immediate. The lad
forgot his prevbllis tastes and habits
and was restored to his parents a nor
mal and lovable boy, the complete an
tithesis of his former self.
The other was a soldier who was in
jured tn a skirmish and after Ids dis
charge for disability became a thief
andsburglar. His previous character
had been unexceptionable, his military
record was the best and the change
was naturally attributed to the injury
to his head, caused by a blow- from the
butt of a musket. When he was taken
In hand by the surgeons he had about
come to the end of a career of crime,
being paralyzed on one side and un
able to get about except on crutches.
A depression in the skull sufficient to
bring an abnormal local pressure upon
the brain was found and an operation
was decided upon, which restored his
physical powers as well as his mental
and moral faculties. His discharge
was secured and he has since lived an
Industrious and honest life, with no ev
idence of a disposition to go wrong.
RED LYNX 18 FEROCIOUS.
When Furnishing It Is an Animal tJ
Be Hhwuned by the Traveler.
California has In her hills the largest
and most kind-hearted of the great
fighters, the grizzly, and at the same
time the smallest and most treacher
ous, the red lynx. Most hunters call
them "wildcats," but they are not.
The real wildcat has a long tall and
lives only In Europe—ln fact, he's
about extinct now —and old hunters
dread the walling midnight cry of a
hungry lynx more than they do all the
growls a grizzly ever let out. For
when a lynx is maddened by hunger
he fears neither man nor beast, and
most of the animals of the forest give
him the road without waiting for him
to ask it. In Canada and even in the
northern row of States of tills nation
the lynxes grow to be much larger
than they .do hero, in the warmer cli
mate of the southwest. There, too,
they are hunted for their fur, but here
that fur Is worthless, and. save for
those killed, by an- oeeoeionaJ hunter,
the lynxes hold undisputed sway in tile
foothills.
No matter how soundly th y may
be sleeping, you can never, “catch one
napping,"'fpr nt the sllghte-t sound of
your nffproach lie Will cleMr tho ten or
fifteen feet between his nest and tho
ground and be off like a flash In the
undergrowth. About the only way to
get these fellows Is with hounds, and
then generally one or two of the dogs
gets pretty severely chewed up.
In the bills the lynxes usually stay
In thick underbrush or in caves during
the day, coming out to work havoc fry
the quail coveys by moonlight. Then,.
If the night be bright, the hound'
hunter has real sport rousing the
round-eyed owls with his shouts of
encouragement to the dogs, which are
not plways ready to rush Into the teeth,
of an angry cat_
It is almost Impossible to trap a cat,
though a hungry Hon may occasionally
be caught In this manner. Now and!
then a cat can be run Into a trap pre
viously set along a runway, and In this
way the lumbermen of the Canadian!
pineries take many of the cats that In
fest the great forests of the north,
The further south you go the smaller
the lynxes become, until the family'
winds up with the little pampas ont
of the South American plains. Our
lynx, however, Is the most savage of
nil, and the hardest for any* dog, ms
matfer bow good he may be, to master,
in a fight a ent has an immense nd
xantage over a dog, In that he cam
fight with all fours, and usually does;
so. There is little worse can liefall a
green pack of dogs than to shake nm
old-lynx out of a tree into their midst.
When a lynx tights he doesn't bite anti
lot go like a wolf or dog. but bites and?
bangs on like a bulldog, while his
claws keep up a sort of snare-drum ac
companiment on the dog's ribs, It
takes a mighty good dog to do ftp ::
lynx, nnd when n thoroughbred hunter
gets such a dog It takes a mighty good’
price to buy him.—Los Angeles Times,
ODD FACTS IN TELEPATHY.
Experin^mtsthnt Add Greater Mystery
so the Occult Phenomena.
That telepathy or mental communi
cation of persons nt n distance froim
each other Is more than a Action Ims
frequently been demonstrated by well
authenticated facts. A writer in a;
Paris scientific journal relates some
circumstances coming under Ids obser
vation that will interest those win*
may lie Investigating the phychle phe
nomena.
“In my efforts to discover the moch
anism of telepathic communication.”’
lie says, “I used a Roman medium,
Politi, taking him to the house of M.'
De Albertis at Joinvflle. Having ren>E
that Mesmer had at one time put :r
woman to sleep by placing his cane i’r
a basin of .water, the woman having,
placed her Umbrella In the same basin.
I decided to see if the same effects’
could be obtained with my medium.
1 went one morning with Politi to tlie
border of the Marne, and requesteilS
him to place his cane in the water,
where I also placed my own stick at
some iwu es upstream, nt the same time
making a muscular effort. This effort
on my part produced a violent con
traction of tile arm of the medium,
who nearly fell into the water, al
though I subsequently discovered that
the Interposition of a boat betwoeiw
myself and the medium succeeded In
arresting the effect. We then returned!
to the garden of the house and pro
ceeded to make a series of tests.
“M. De Albertis joined us in our
promenade, and the following is bis
account in an Italian journal of the
experiments: ’De Rochas, Politi amt
myself went to the border of the
Marne, a river with a breadth of 180 1
feet and a depth of from fifteen to
thirty feet, being very rapid. De-
Rochas was rowed to the middle of the
rlver, while Politi and myself took an
other boat and descended the current,
stopping at a distance of about
feet from De Rochas. I had agreed
with De Rochas that when he made
a signal by raising his cane I wns t->
request the medium to place his owm
stick in the water, the back of th -
tnedlum being toward Be Rochas. All
of this was done. De Rochas gave tho
signal, I gave the order to Politi, who
piueed his cane In the water nnd wait
ed. A few seconds passed lief ore the
medium felt any effect, then suddenly
Ills arm was violently shocked, his
hand contracted; he resisted with all
his strength, but it was evident that
the cane was powerfully drawn i<>
ward the bottom of the river, i bls’
experiment was repeated many times,
and gave wjth every- trial the same re
sult The following day experiments
were made on the tracks of a railroad,
which experiments seem to ind^-nte
that the effects may be transmitted vr-r
n much greater distance along lmy.
sort of a conductor.' "
Something In Names.
“1 have always contended,” said the
observant man. “that there is more Im
a name than our revered friend, Bill.
Shakspeare, ever dreamed of. For In
stance, I once knew a fellow named
Cheatem, who was so unwise ns to go-
Into the auction business. Of course,
he went broke. In spite of the fact
that he was as straight as n strlugk
Let his name was against him. There
was another chap named Ketclii’m. I
went to school with Keteheuft^He was
always reading dime novels, and when
be grow up be got a Job with a private
detective agency. He lasted nbout
three mont|is. ami failed ignominious
ly A German friends of mine named
Boozer. who Is a chemist, wanted to
start a drink-cure establishment, but I
dissuaded him on the strength of his
name, as delicately ns I could. Just
the other day a new barber shop was
opened up in my neigh Isirhood. Tlltf
proprietor's name is Buggy. Imagine
icy surprise when. sfter tin- window
decorations were placed. 1 B-ad the
sign, which, by the way. was not i>ubc
tuated: Buggy Hair Cutting ami
Fbnving!' ” —Philadelphia Record.
Unselli-1,.
Alice—Y’es, I accepted George at
once. 1 knew when lie proposed to me
he was wholly unselfish.
Bertha—Oh, nobody could ever have
any doubt about that.—Boston Trans
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