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VOL. 1. NO. 245. HUTEFIKLD WEST VIRGINIA, MONDAY EVENLMO, JANUARY 14, 1!H)7. ... PRIOR TWO nTEWm
SITUATION AT JACKSON
IS STILL UNSETTLED.
THRKATH AND FKAR OF TROF
MiR STII-I, FRKVAIF.
* . * ■ * • •
Tho disappearance of John Smith
from Jackson has caused no alarm
to the attorneys for the prosecution
in the Hargis case, who think they
will be ablo to find him when they
need him. Smith said before leav
ing Jackson that threats had been
made against him and he did not
think It safe to remain in town. Ac
cording to reports prevalent in
Hroathitt more surprises are com
ing for the defense in the Hargis
caso and some of Hargis’ former
staunch friends are deserting him.
EXTRACTS
FROM SENATOR
TILLMAN’S SPEECH
Tho President’s action was noth
ing more nor loss than lynching.
It is contrary to the fundamental
principles of liberty that the innocent
should suffer for the sins of the guil
ty
The negro troops should never have
been sent to Texas.
It Is useless to deny that the race
question lies at the bottom of all
this.
It Is useless to say that theaf
troops were discharged because they
were negroes.
The President is primarily more
responsible than any other man for
the position the negroes of the South
have taken on the question of negro
ngum.
Th'* attitude of the administration
on the social question has been tlu?
cause of a great and noticeable
change in the demeanor of the neg
roes of tlie South.
The white people of the United
Statc*s are face to face with the vital
Issue as to whether the Caucasian
race shall share its inheritance with
the other races on the.earth. *
Is President Roosevelt ready to act
up to his own theory and have his
children marry men and women of
other races? Would he accept as a
daughter-in-law a Chinese, a Malay,
an Indian or a negro?
Is the statesmanship of our time
Inadequate to cope with the negro
question as the statesmanship of
1NG0 failed to prevent the dire catas
trophy of civil war? That war was
fought to settle the race question,
but forty years afterwards we find
conditions more threatening in some
respects than they were in 1K61.
I am ready to go to battle under
the slognn, “America for Americans
and this Ih a white man’s country
and whlto men must govern it.”
TOT SHOWS HER
STRONG DEMOCRACY
Washington, I). C., Jan. 14. The
little daughter of Representative
Burleson of Texas, goes to the same
school Quentin Roosevelt attends.
They have a drill each day in
marching out of the room.
Little Miss Burleson was so placed
♦ hat she and Quentin Roosevelt were
to take hold of one another’s hands
and march out.
The little girl held hack when she
saw the President's son with extend
ed hand alongside of her.
“Take his hand,’’ the teacher said
“I’m sorry, but I can’t,’’ Miss
Burleson said.
“Why not?* the teneher asked.
“Because I’m a Democrat," she
said, and insisted on walking down
nlone.
THE COUNTRY’S
GROWTH.
Here is an eloquent story of the
country’s wealth and greatness in a
nutshell. It Is from the New York
Sun: "Ten years ago our yearly pro
duction of coal was 170.000.000 tons,
and wo thought It a heap. Last year
we mined 400,000.000 tons. In 1896
wo produced 8,600,000 tons of pig
iron. LuBt year wo produced 26,
000,000 tous. Our copper output of
ten years ago was 240,000,000
pounds. It Is now 900.000.000
pounds. In 1896 we dragged from
the bowlee of the earth minerals and
mineral substances worth nbout
$6 25,000,000. The value of our
mineral products in 1906 approxi
mates $2,000,000,000. The figures
aro bewildering in their immensity.
It is no wonder that wo are the rich
est Nation on enrth. Yet in spite of
it all there Is something loft to hope
for, and there may bo something left
to fear.”
The country's growth and richness
tire really staggering Wo are grow
ing so rapidly It causes a feeling of
apprehension. But the population Is
growing, and the average of wealth
Is not. large enough to disturb any
body. Ono trouble may bo that we
may learn such extravagant ways we
will be sorely discontented when less
prosperous times fall upon us. There
is no rose without Its thorn, but we
all like roBos.
MARSHALL MEN
DEFEATED BY
THE CRAFTERS
A dispatch to tho Register from
Charleston says:
The battle over the presidency of
the senate that recently rnged so fu
riously has left sears deep and last
ing upon tho body of the grand old
party In West Virginia. Tho eloetlon
of McDermott did not mean that the
insurgents had been silenced or de
stroyed. but simply served to make
them swear a deeper oath to bo re
vengd upon th administration nnd
Its friends who helped put the knife
into them and twist It around.
One of the Insurgent leaders said:
The Marshall forces had opposing
them In combination the state admin
istration, Senator Elkina, tho rail
road
ard Oil. To he able to come within
one vote of nominating their man
against such odds ought to convince
everybody that the Marshall forces
aro not without strength and stand
ing in tho state."
THE LIMIT
OF DISASTER.
Tho founders of the government
could not forecast every futiiro ten
dency, and they naturally nnd wisely
left tho prerogatives of the various
branches of the public service to some
degree vague. The president's ad
mirers will affirm that he has merely
taken advantage of this vagueness,
not usurping, but discovering powers
to exercise; that he has acted not
unconstitutionally, hut. at the most,
ext raconst Rationally. And to sny
that a chief magistrate shall confine
himself vigorously to the privileges
enumerated In the constitution would
he to put a disastrous limit on the
execut |vo authority. Providence
Journal.
BACTERIA.
There Is a motion 0n foot to get
a corps of scientists to determine
the cause of a curious condition ex
isting nt Welch A man may go there
In sound health and in possession of
all his seven senses, holding to a
Democratic faith Inherltetd through
generations, anti within n few weeks
find himself a Republican. If, Is
thought that there must he some
atmospheric, or sanitary condition
which brings about the chnnge. We
hellevo that our friend Wyndham
Stokes Is the only exception, A mi
crobe that would farle Stokes would
have a big assignment Pocnhonfns
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GRASS IN RAIL
WAY CUTS.
AN INTKRKMTING EXPERIMENT
O* T1IE PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD.
That h steep slope covered with
grass does not wash away like bare
earth is a fact known to everybody,
yet apparently railways have been
slow to uso grass systematical iy to
protect cmbnnkmcntB and especially
the sides of cutB. Now, however.
Home roads are expending a good
deal of money In planting anil sod
ding slopes. Needless to stry, the re
sult Is pleasing to the oyo, entirely
apart from its efficiency In preserv
ing the earthen bank. Sayn the
Hallway Age, Chicago November'J: —
“What an Ideal roadbed should bo
both for wonring qualities and ap
pearance, la represented In four
stretches of the line of the Pennsyl
vania rnllroad between Philadelphia
and Pittsburg. Grassy banks sloping
smoothly down, when the tracks nro
In a cut, are the features thnt strike
the iKissenger’s eye; but the grass Is
morn useful than ornamental, and
eventually Is exacted to mean the
saving of thousands of dollars now
spent on maintenance of way. Water
Is the greatest enemy of (ho road
bod. Water flowing down unsodded
slopes cnuse erosion, washing dirt
and stone Into the ditch beside the
track, smd choking drainage, and per
fect drainage Is the secret of success
In the maintenance of roadbed
“In the summer of 1905 President
Cnsaatt suggested Improvements In
order to reduce the cost of main
tonance as well as to make travel for
the patrons of the Pennsylvania saf
er, more comfortable, and altogether
more agreeable. A committee of en
gineers was Instructed to prepare
plans for n bed with drntnlng facili
ties ns near perfect as possible nnd
15 miles of new roadbed Is the re
suit of th > committee’s report. One
of two-mile stretches of standard
road tied Is near Tamcnster, on the
Philadelphia division, nnd the other
near Newport on the middle division
Two shorter stretches, 2 1-2 miles
each, are on to Pittsburg division,
one near Cresson on the western
slope of the mountain, nnd the other
about 50 miles east of Pittsburg, at
Hillside.
"The Pennsylvania requires a ditch
10 1-2 feet wide of a four-track road,
and the bottom of the ditch must he
3 1-2 feet below the level of the top
of the tie. This gives a derided
slopo from the lowest part of the
ror .lbed to the dltrh. so that, water
tri kllng through the ballast will flow
off rapidly. The ditch Itself Is of or
dinary soil, hut the company has
tried the experiment In some places
of sprinkling It with oil to keep down
both weeds nnd dust. Whatfcvcfij
method is adopted, tho ^Important
object Is to keep the ditch clean and
unobstructed. Ft has been found that
the grass hanks Oil the hill admira
bly. When It rains, the water pours
down over them without bringing
anything with It, and follows the
ditch to the nearest outlet.
“The 1 miles Involved the use of
73,000 cubic ynrds of new ballast
to make the drainage perfect. The
cost of sodding with blue grass was
even a greater Item. It. was calcu
lated by the onl ine* rs that GO per
cent of tho entire cost was for cut
ting down and sodding the slopes ”—
Literary Digest.
EDITOR ONLY JOSHING’
HAS TO MAKE GOOD
Kalamazoo. Mich., Jan. 14.—John
A. floss, managing editor of the Ga
zette, was only “Joshing” when re
cently he said he Intended to open
the day’s work on the paper with
prayer. The local clergy took him
at his word, commended him, and
at the hint that the proposition
might he a Joke commented on the
possibility In such a way that Mr.
Koss had to sit up nnd take notice.
He was privately advised that If he
dl*l not make good he would con
demned for sacrilege by tho commu
nity. The proprietor of the Gazette
also took n hand In the matter and
under pressure Mr. Koss hegnn to
make good.
The staff gathered In the editorial
room this morning, and an evangelist
offered a prayer. Then the reporters]
scurried out on the divorces, fires
nnd murders. A clergyman detailed
from the Ministerial Alliance will of
ficiate at the newspaper offles each
day.
WILL DIO BIO DITCH.
KNOXVILLE AND NEW YORK CON
TRACTORS, LOWEST DIDDERS.
WILL CONSTRI CT CANAL
JOINTLY.
William J. Oliver, or Knoxville.
Tonn., and Anthony M. Pangs, of
Now York city, bid lowest for tho
construction of the Panama Cannl
and will do tho work Jointly.
The bide wer© oponod today; tho
lowost bids were for 6.7, per cent of
th total estl mated coat.
Among tho obligation* assumed
by tho contractor is beginning work
within sixty days after the signing of
the contract.
STEEL MAIL
CARS ON N. & W.
THRKR ARK UVNNINC BETWEEN
NORFOLK AND COM MIIH8
Tho Norfolk and Western Railway
Company has roeelv«vl from tho Pull
man Company, Pullman, III., threo
stool mall enrs, which were built es
pecially for tho Norfolk «c Western
and hoar tho date or December, 1906.
That Is, they are fresh from the Pull
man shops.
Tho crews which man the cars run
from Norfolk to Bluefleld, W. Va..
where they turn thorn over to anoth
er sot, who go on to Columbus.
Tho new cars, which nro painted
what may he called Pennsylvania red.
reaembles the ordinary mail car s«>
closely that only an expert would soe
wherein they are different.
Tho framework of the car Is of
stool ami apparently of great strength
Adding much to tho wolght of tho
car, however, which roaches 107,600
pounds. That Is more thnn tho ordi
nary Pullman sleeper weighs. Such
a car and nlso tho ordinary hig wood
en passenger coach of tho new type
weighs but 86,000 pounds. The sides
of tho mall cars are of wood, but
thoro Is not much to burn In evi
dence.
The cars gre heated by steam light
ed by tho IMntsch system and have
every modern device for handling
mall mnttor.
From tho appearance of tho enrs,
tho rnllway postal clerks Inside one
of them would ho far safer in case
of collision than they would he were
they In a car mado wroily or largely
of wood. Tho malls, too, would appar
ently ho safer.
WOMEN WEEP
WITH MARTIN.
fc.
IllXJ DETROIT VK BALDWIN IN
IIOVDTON TO RFLEARK CON
FFHHKD BANDIT AND HOLD
POWLKY—FATHFIt OF Aft 1 H
Fl» HFRVKD IN CONFFDFKATF
WAR.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 14—Detect I vo
Erie L. Norton, of the Baldwin De
tectlvo Agency, who has Just return
ed from B%dtown, where he attend
ed the preliminary hearing In the Da
Crosse train robbery case, at which
Percy Martin was held for tho crime,
Raid that women of the Mecklenburg
county town have shown great sym
pathy for the confessed bandit nnd
begged that ho he released.
"The scores of beautiful women
surrounded Mr. Baldwin and begged
him to release Martin and hold Pow
ley,’' Hnld Detective Norton to a re
porter for The Now Deader. "They
wept when he wept In court. I have
never seen a court-room which con
tained a larger number of good-look
Ing women than were at the prelimi
nary hearing In Boydton."
HherlfT Beales, of Mecklenburg
county has Just received a letter from
Tennessee informing him that Percy
Martin had served a term of three
years in the penitentiary of that
State.
Martin has told a great deal more
about hla family since the prelimi
nary hearing. His wife was former
ly Ml«s E. .1. Chambers, of Hunting
ton, W Va He Is a son of B. J. Mar
tin. an ox-Confederate soldier of At
lanta, Oa.
TODAY’S ^THOUGHT
If It Is true, ns the Spanish adage
hns It, that "Every man Is the son
of his own words," how are your
father and yourself getting along
In the mnttor of advertising?
Perhaps you can exchange It for
something yon do want through a
classified advertisement.
Richter said that "a timid person
Is frightened before a danger, a
coward during the time, nnd a coura
geous person afterward " The prop
er time for a merchant to get seared
about a store-crisis Is after It has
| boon passed safely through a
| "nervy" and courageous campaign of
(advertising! 1
PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS
TO ACT VERY QUICKLY.
SPECULATIVE
MINE CRAZE
AN1> WHAT A CHICAGO IIANKKit
MAYS OF ITS KXTKNT
ANI) DANOKIt.
At tho present time there is a
great boom In mining storks. Men,
women nml children nro Investing In
the stock of some kind of mines,
located somewhere, mining some
thing, or promising to mine some
thing some dny. As long as tho
stocks of these small, almost un
heard-of mines continue to rise and
permit the owner to sell next week
at a profit what he bought this wook.
why should wo worry about whether
his mine Ih located In the moon, or
only In tho display type of a Sunday
newspnpor? That most of these small
Investors wilt come to grief Is a foro
gono conclusion. This Is what com
mon sense tells us. It Is what history
teaches us.
Tho extent of this mine ernzo Is
equal, If it does not surpass the
speculation of 10 or more yonrs ago
In South Africa mint's, mid Icavt's
the "John Law South Sea Hubble"
In tho primary department. To Il
lustrate, on November 3 tlioro wns
sold on the curb of tho Now Yor\
stock oxehnngo over r.00,000 shares
of three Bllvor stocks—Nipisslng,
McKlnley-Dnrragh and Silver Queen
Tho snlo In Hoatpn, Philadelphia,
Denver anil Snn I< ranclsco also were
enormous. One Philadelphia banker
recently estimated that fully $50.
000.000 of Philadelphia money had
been taken out of the banks for In
vestment In mining shares in the last
year. Ho ostlmntod Pitshurg was
committed to $25,000,000, and other
larger cities at from $5,000,000 to
$10,000,000 each. Many bankers In
New York, St. Honls, Chicago and
clnowhero can give similar testlmom.
The strain upon manufacturing,
mercantile and other business Inter
ests because of Insufficient funds and
dea r money is everywhere apparent.
Hanks will not loan on thso stocks,
hence they must he bought outright.
When the decline comes as It did a
few years ago In Kngland, there will
be a great disturbance In our finan
cial centers. May who will surer
from the decline In mining stocks
are carrying other stocks. The; e
latter will be sacrificed to protect
mining investments, hence all stocks
will decline more or less together._
Chicago Post.
CARNEGIE SAYS
TAX FORTUNES
IV AltTK’I.KH rritl.|K|||;|> AritOHH
TIIK I’ONI*.
London, Jan. 14. - The Review of
Rev lows prints a striking articles by
Andrew Carnegin entitled “My Part
ners, tbo people '* Mr. Carnegie; ex
press the belief that a millionaire
ought, to share his wealth with the
poor, but with the limitation that his
fe»rtune should not be divided before
the millionaire's death Then the
community should exact a large*
share, grnduntod In Increasing pro
portion to tho extent e»f the doad
man's wealth.
After advocating the British grad
uated death duties as a basis fe»r dls
distribution, Mr. Carnegie says:
"Huch contributions from the* own
ers of enormous fortunes at their
death would do much to reconcile
dissatisfied but fair minded people
to tho alarming unequal distribution
of wealth arising from the; new Indus
trial conditions of our day. Wo
shall ultimately have to consider the
adoptiem of some such scbe*mes as
a progressive tax on all fortunes be
yond n certain amount, either given
In life or bequeathed at ele-ath so
thnt It will *t)n Imposlble for the
owners of enejrnmus fortunes to hand
on more than a certain amount of
any Individual.”
Mr. Carnegie humbly deprecates
the claim of the merely wealthy te»
fame. They have- no place with ed
ucated men and they occupy a lower
plane Intellectually. In the coming
Jay brains will stand above dollars,
and remduef above both The mak
ing of memey as an aim will then be f
rated as an Ignoble ambition
How to minimize newspaper sen
sationalism and eroticism during the
Thaw murder trial Is a dlflcult. prob
lem engaging tho carnost attention
- " ----- —s
of District Attorney Jerome and tho
Judge who Is to preside over tho pro
ceedings* Legitimate reporting has
Hs proper place, but a limit Is soon
reached, ns some other notablo mur
der trials huve shown In recent times
The Thaw case has excited «o much
Interest far and wide thnt tho court
room might easily bo flllod. to the
exclusion of ©voryono else, by re
portros special correspondents, "well
known writers," "authors of Romo
note." "specialists In phychology,"
color artlstH for tho ovoning odltlons,
literary etchers from life, pencil ar
tists, Htiup-shottors and photograph
ers, representing newspnpers from
every part of tho United Rtntos.
Among this horde there would bo
of course many far hotter qualities
to try tho case than tho Judge and
the Jury, and who would naturally
be disappointed If they nro not per
mitted to decide all the Issues. Just
how Mr. Joromo and the Judge will
deal with "publicity* at tho Thaw
trlnl will bo ono of ItH Interesting
aspects.
MESSAGE TO
BE COSTLY TO
THE CHINESE
Washington, Jan. 14.—Tho riots nt
Llenchow, Clmn, on October, 1988,
whch resulted In tho destruction of
a mission and tho death of flvo Amer
ican mlsHlonalroH, will coHt tho Gov
ernment of* China about $80,000
One-half of this has already boon paid
for tho loss of property and u llko
amount will go to the fanmlloH of tho
dead missionaries. Tho outlook was
tho retuilt of Intorforcnco by tho
missionaries with a colobratlon. Tho
natlvos were about to flro a cannon
near tho mission hospital. There has
been a good deal of criticism over
ftio fact that this Government would,
miiko China pay an Indemnity. Rome
of tho missionary Interests opposed
tho step «,n the ground that mission
aries did not. want blood money, for
that Is what an Indemnity would ho
In this caso. Tho Htnto Department,
however, felt thnt tho best way to
make the Chinese behave would be
to show them how expensive it Is to
kill Americans.
THE CUBAN
SITUATION
Olvo Cuba a rest. Thoro 1h no nood
now to Indulge In iHuudmlHtlc proph
»*Hoh regarding whnft tho Cubans will
do when tho republic In again set on
Its foot. Affairs In the Island were
prosperous and thoro was little sign
of dlstifrbnnCo until the government
In power lent Itself to tho promotion
of an unfair election In order to keep
in office. There Is no conclusive evi
dence thnt the r<»sult of a fair elec
tion would not have been Accepted
and prosperity have continued. No
pnrfy can be severely blamed for dis
content when defeated by cheating.
It Is tho fashion now to assert
that the moderates will not submit
If a fair election shows them to he in
a minority. This Is equivalent to say
big that they are loss faithful citizens
than tho liberals. Porhnps thoy aro
worse, hut wo shHil not tako It for
granted In advance of a demonstra
tion of the fact. The forebodings
of some politicians who think they
know it all deservn no serious con
fidence at thla time. If wo ever havo
to hold Cuba as a subject province
It will he an ugly business and cost
ly Ronton Herald.
OUR POLITICAL
PATRIOTS.
Onggenholm, tho copprtr captain,
wfro hns bought n soat In tJio United
Staton Benato from tho legislature
«»r Colorado, says ho In nrtiintod nol®
ly by n denim to norvo tho public
online In entering Congress John
V. Drydon, who ban become n rnultl
mllllonalre upon tho lapsed short
term Insurance policies of tho poor
and unfortunate, -and who thinks ho
Is about to ho ro-elecbnd bo tho Henata
t>y a corrupt majority of tho Now
Jersey legislature, says tho same
thing An long an there are nurh
disinterested patriots the country Is
safe.- Philadelphia Record.
Z --y
LOOKS BETTER. *
The statement of the New York
Clearing-house banks for the -pant
week shows that the hanks hold $k,
010,700 more than the legnl rofiervo
requirements. Thin Is an Increase of
$M*2.X7r» as compared with the
previous week. ♦
It may he that our winter: la yet
to como. *
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PRWIRRNT BAYS OOIjOHADO 1UV
Fn 18 A MKNACK. BPECtAI* *
MKSSAGK A8K8 Foil $2,. j
000,000 OIITIaAY.
Tho President has mint to the
House a message urging some ac
tion by Congress toward romodytng
tho situation oaus«id by the brtuUt In
tho Colorado rlvor bank four miles
bolow the International boundary
lino in Mexico and which threatens
the property Interests in tho Impe
rial Valley of California. Tho Pres
ident’s mossage contains s long re
view of tho situation and says that
prompt nctlon must bo taken, other
wise conditions will become so ex
treme as to bo Impracticable of rem
edy. Probably with an expenditure
of $2,000,000, he says, tho rlvor can
bo rostored to Its formor channel and
hold there Indefinitely.
HOW NEW ZELAND
WOMEN VOTE
The men said tho women have no
tably Improved political Ufa; It Is the
cleaner and purer becauso of them.
Women go to political meetings and
rowdyism flees heforo them; candi
dates are vory careful what they say
and how thoy say It when thoy know
women voterH are listening to thorn.
Public ofllcora are more careful about
tholr recordH, because It has boon
found that women will not ovorlook
things that the men pardon. As to
public policies, tho women have
steadily supported reform and tho
now Ideas; thoy havo not cared
whothor a thing was sanctioned by
tho ages ho long as It was right and
good. This Is what the men to^l me.
Tho women said they had not found
It nny more dreadful to go to a pol
ling placo and vote thnn to go to a
store and buy thread; they had never
soon nor heard anything shocking nt
a polling-place, but Invariably they
had boon treated thoro with the great
est respect. The men said that most
of thorn did not know how tholr
wives voted. As for letting tho soup
burn and tho children go hungry and
woman's sphere and nil that sort of
things, tho Now Zelnndors despise
nny such suggestions about their vo
ting helpmntos. Thoy flay a woman
can vote and understand perfectly
what she Is voting about und be Just
ns good a wife and mother as If sho
never had an Idoa In her life about
puddings: I don't know; I know I
hnvo room a great many New Zealand
households, and they Boomed exact
ly ns well ordered, us bright, cheer
ful. and happy as any other house
holds anywhere on this celestial
globe.—Everybody’s.
HELPS GOVERN
-MENT OWNERSHIP.
We hnve hnd a long trial of the
plan of letting tho railways conduct
their business In their own way, and
any unprejudiced person must ad
mit that tho plnn Is a dead failure.
Casualties are Increasing and aot
diminishing The dangers of railway
travel In tho United Rtatoe to-day are
proven by statistics to he more se
rious than ever before. Our Wall
street rnllwny kings are Intent on
deals and strategic moves, high fi
nance and underground politics, but
they are singularly blind to the fact
that the reckless railroad operation
of the day Is creating a strong body
of public opinion In favor of govern
ment ownership, which must be reck
oned with In the near futuro.—En
gineering News.
SENTENCE OF
SERMONS
The life reflects tho loro,
rent ness Is revealed In gentle
nnsis
K'very bouI olthor servos or shrinks
Working for mon Is tho best way of
waltlrf/< on Ood.
This Ih a aad world to him who
looks at It with our eyes.
A man must bo judged not alone by
his attainments, but by his Ideals
The srrrmon of the Man Is might*
ler than Ills on the mount.
Kvery tJmo you do a worthy thing
you make It easier for others to bo
worthy.
Man wns not made for the sake
of morals, but morals for tho making
of the perfect mnn
Small wonder some go to heaven
slowly when they nro crawling thorn
as "worms of the dust."—Chicago
Tribune. ,
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