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Ink Slings.
—1It now begins to look as if TANNER
will have to go.
.~ —TAXNNER's case must be a very bad
one when even the Philadelphia Press’
is beginning to turn against him.
—An orange trust is being formed in
Florida. Lemons would be appropriate
subjects for such a combine, as they are
so suggestive of squeezing.
—Nevada is about at its last gasp as a
« State. How to administer on the effects of
a defunct sovereignty will puzzle even
the ingenuity of Uncle Sam.
—The report that HARRISON is aiming
for a second term would be incredibles if
the extent to which his head has swelled
wasn’t generally understood.
—HENDERsSoN and DECKER will hard-
ly be able to get a patent on their new
way of running the cotffify ona two mill
tax by the increased valuation dodge.
—There was a significant absence of
tariff talk at the Republican County
Convention on Wednesday. The intro-
duction of that subject would have been
greeted with a broad grin.
—The nomination of Mr. BrcLer for
State Treasurer revives Democratic re-
collections which associate the govern-
ment of the State with a better condition
than that which now exists.
—The grand jury got in a blow at
the Commissioners for neglectful and
(slovenly management of the county
property. Next year the -voters will
whack them for general cussedness.
— Wheat, corn, oats, pork, lard, but
ter and wages ave lower than they were
last year. Wasn't it the farmers and
the wage-earners that were to be especi-
ally benefited by the election of HARrRI-
SON ?
—The absence of boss rule constituted
aconspicuous difference between the con-
vention that nominated BIGLER and the
one that made Boyer the candidate of
the Republicans at the dictation of M.
S. Quay.
—The American revenue cutter is still
working industriously in Behring Sea
in the interest of the German seal fur
monopoly. BLAINE appears to be act-
ing as BISMARCK'S proxy in twisting
the British lion's tail.
—The administration is but six
months old and Tannerism has already
enveloped it in a disgrace of darger pro-
portions than any that the four years of
GRANT, so prolific in disgraceful scan-
dals, were able to produce.
—The Grand Army didn’t object to
TANNER’S capers as long as they were
confined to raiding the treasury in the
interest of pensioners, bnt when he be-
oan to slur the virtue ot soldiers’ wid-
ows the veterans began to kick.
--TANNER got his foot in it at Mil-
waukee in regard to the soldiers’ widows,
and now there is scarcely a veteran who
wouldn’t like to apply his foot to TAN-
NER. They wouldn't be true to their
old time gallantry ifit were otherwise.
—The most inculpating bill of indict-
ed that was ever found by a grand in-
quest of Centre Connty was the one that
was returned against the Republican
hoard of Commissioners by the grand
jury last week. Tt was in every respect
a true bill.
—It seems almost incredible that the
most gullible character in the United
States, who hadn't gumption enough to
shield him against the wiles of an ordi-
nary prostitute, should be a descendant
of the astute and illustrious ALEXAN-
DER HAMILTON.
—In the months of July and August
last year there was a decrease of $7,000-,
000 in the national debt. In the same
months this year the debt increased
$6,000,000. It is just such a difference
as this that marks the distinction be-
tween Democratic and Republican rule:
—By a treasury report it appears that
the net debt of the United States has in-
creased six millions of dollars in the last
two months. The people could accept
this increased incumbrance with ‘it dis-
turbing their equanimity if thew pros-
perity had increased in proportion but
it hasn't. ?
-—The Republican "county comven-
tion’s committee on resolutions didn’t
have the cheek to say anything about
the blessings of the tariff, but they dis-
playcd almost an equivalent amount of
gall in alleging that the State has been
benefited by the administration of
JAMES A. BEAVER.
—We saw a calculation the other day
which showed that the tariff tax on the
tin required to roof the big building
which Dr. HALE is putting up in this
place, amounts to about $75. This rob-
bery hasn't the excuse of protecting an
infant industry, as there isn't a square
foot of tin plate made in this country.
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VOL. 34, BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 6, 239,
To the Discredit of the Grand Army of
the Republic’
The Grand Army of the Republic did
itself but little credit at' its general
convention in Milwaukee by its en-
dorsement of Tawver. Tts first im-
pulse, as shown by the first resolution
offered in reference to his case, was to
give his reckless extravagance an un-
qualified approval ; but this was some-
what modified by the cooler heads who
feared the effect of such a thorough en-
dorsement of an official whose delin-
qulncies were so great as to compel
even a Republican administration to
subject them to investigation; yet in
the face of the fact that the
Grand Army did not condemn Tax-
¥eR and, his methods. the organi-
zation has earned the aiscredit which
attaches to so gross a dereliction,
Further, its approval of the recent
ruling that “a dishonorable discharge
from the army is no bar to the securing
of a pension,” covers the Grand Army
with ineffaceable disgrace. It shows
that the chief purpose of its organiza-
tion is to effect a division of the public
money from which it would not exclude
the deserter, the bounty-jumper, the
coffee cooler and the reprobate who had
been drummed out of the ranks with
the tune of the Rogue’s March. The
banner of the Grand Army now bears
the disgraceful motto: “Dishonorable
discharge no bar to a pension,”
would
would
After such abasement one
think that the convention
have been able to stand almost any-
thing, but it is entitled to some credit
for resenting TANNER'S gross insult to
the widows of deceased soldiers. It
was willing to go with him to the fall
extent of hisraid on the public treasury,
but the manhood of the soldiers—that
manhood which was so often glorious-
ly evinced on the battle field, but has
been demoralized in these times of
peace by the tempting pension bait
held out by the Republican politi-
cians—was aroused to indignation by
TaNNER'S insulting slur on the virtue
of soldiers’ widows.
The reputation of the Grand Army
of the Republic has suffered greatly
from the proceedings at Milwaukee.
And probably it is well that it has so
sutfered. In its origin the object of its
organization was a proper and com-
mendable one. But it hasstrayed away
from its original purpose. Politicians
saw what a tremendous political ma-
chine it could be turned into, and they
were quick to connect themselves with
it and bring it under their control. To-
day it is the most effective instrument
of political power that is wielded by
the Republican leaders.
of a looting of the treasury solidified its
support of the Republican Presidential
candidate last year. ALGer, the mil-
lionaire candidate for President, saw
what a powerful supplement the Grand
Army would be te his millions as a
political agency, and had but little dif:
ficulty in having himself elected com-
mander of this Praetorian Guard, Is
it not the irony of history that a body
of men whose devoted courage saved
the nation, should, through a succes-
sion of demoralizing influences, eventu-
ally become a menace to its free insti-
tutions? But even this danger will
be averted by the good sense and patri-
otic conservatism of the great mass of
American citizens.
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lace Troubles m the South.
Trouble between the
the South is assuming
aspect, as is shown by
strations in Louisiana and Mississippi.
two races in
a threatening
recent tfemoun-
The colored people in some localities
have taken arms to defend themselves
against wrongs which are alleced to
have been inflicted upon them by the
whites, and the latter have promptly
met the hostile movement of the ne-
groes by also arming themselves, In
some localities the opposing parties
have shown a reprehensible readiness
to submit their dispute to the arbitri-
ment of the Winchester rifle. The
cause of the difticulty can be easily
traced to the determination of the
whites not to submit to the political
control of ignorant negroes, It is cer-
tainly a natural and justifiable deter-
mination. They have been taught
what such control means by the terri:
ble experience of the carpet bag days.
A national administration has got-
ten into power which, for a political
"advantage, proposes to restore that
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misrule, and the uneasiness of the
blacks evidently comes from the encour-
agement they receive from the reckless
politicians who want to use the solid
mass of ignorant Southern negroes for
the benefit of the Republican party.
But the South cannot be handed over
to the barbarians to serve the political
necessities of any party, and the sooner
the Republican conspirators under-
stand this, the sooner will there be a
termination of race troubles in the
South.
Depreciation of Farng Property.
In a conversation we had with a
gentleman from Mifflin county the oth-
er day he alluded to the decline in-.the
price of farm property in that county
within the past five or six years. Ths
depreciation was distinctly marked in
two recent sales of farms in Kishaco-
quillas Valley. One of them, sold =
assignees sale, brought $83 an acre,
and the other was knocked oft at sher-
ifi’s sale for $58 an acre. Five years
ago a farm adjoining the one that was
gold at sheriff’s sale, and of no better
quality, was sold at the price of $200 an
acre. The property in the neighbor-
hood is undergoing the depreciation
thac has overtaken farm property in all
parts of the State. The decline is ob-
servable in Centre county as well as in
MifHlin, and appears in Lancaster and
Berks as obviously as in counties of
less agricultural celebrity The bene-
fit which the farmers are alleged to re-
ceive from a protective #ariff does not
make itself manifest in the value of
their broad acres. The longer the
tariff continues the greater is the depre-
ciation in the value of thea farms. The
home market which is said to be a re-
sult of protection, is not at hand to im-
prove the financial condition of the ag-
riculturist, while his means are con-
stantly drained to pay the tariff taxes.
In the face of so apparent a fact we see
a blatherskite like Victor Er Prorurr
get up before an assemblage of farmers
aud tell them that he opposed Gro rn
CreveLAND and supported the tarifi last
year in the interest of agriculture.
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The Unhappy Tariff Editors.
The Philadelphia Record correctly
remarks that the life of the Republi-
can editor in these days is one of con-
stant tribulation and worriment. And
all this affliction comes from the duty
thatisimposed upon him, aschronicler
of passing events, to publish the many
failures, assignments and strikes which
are happening at a time when, accord-
ing to his doctrine of the blessings of |
.* ‘a high tariff, everythine should be
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lovely in the manufacturing industries
and the working people should be rev-
eling in the prosperity attendant upon
plenty of work and high wages.
Take the case of the Philadelphia
Press, as an instance, which all along
has told its readers thata high tariff
is a sure cure for industrial ills.
How wrenching it must be to that |
journal to publish its daily accounts of
factories workmen striking
and stagnation prevailing in every de-
partment of business at the very time
when the tariff, vindicated and main-
tained by the election of ITArrIsoN,
should be showering its choicest bless-
ing upon employers and employes.
We can understand the awkward situa-
tion of a journal [which for the sake
of appearance must go on with the
laudation of the tariff as the great in-
dustrial stimulant, while its duty as a
publisher of the news requires it to
give accounts of the industrial wrecks
that are occurring daily in this tariff
protected country. The life of the tar-
iff editor in these days is surely not a
happy one.
There are reports that the Chi-
nese government proposes fo retaliate by
expelling the Americans who are now
closing,
residing in China and by prohibiting
any more from coming into that coun-
try. If this be true it is not for us to
complain, It will be treating us exact-
ly as we have treated the-Chinese. We
have thought it better for ourwelfare to
keep then out of our country. We
certainly have not been mistaken in this
conclusion, for the presence of large
numbers of stich an objectionable peo-
ple would unquestionably be injurious.
But the Chinese have a right to be of-
fended by our couse in this matter, and
it would not be reasonable for us to
take offense at the retaliation which
it is said they are going to adopt.
! Something About Alleged English
> Trusts. .
| When indignation began to be arous-
j ed against the Trusts, chiefly through
joe attention which Grover Creve
| LAND had called to this new system of
| public robbery,an attempt was made to
| excuse these monopolies by the pre-
| tense that they were not as bad as rep-
| resented. Their defenders said that if
| there was anyevil in them it was an
unavoidable, in fact, a necessary evil.
| James G. BLaiNg, returning from his
European visit, assumed the champion-
ship of the trusts, representing that
England was covered with them and
that they were harmless private affairs
which the public had wo right to inter-
fere with. It was quite a triumph for
the Republican papers to be able to
quote the opinion of BrLaiNe on this
subject. But when his allegation that
England is plastered over with trusts
came to be investigated, it was found
that he had been lying. There was
solely a combination of dealers in salt,
but it lacked the distinguishing features
of our trust monopolies,
It would be impossible to form such
a thing as a sugar trustin England with
the ports of the country open for the
free admission of the raw and refined
sugars of all countries. The price of
the best granulated sugar in London
has for,some time been about 43 cents
a pound. No English combine could
bring it above that figure in the face of
the world’s product, which is allowed
to come in untaxed to supply Eng
lish consumers. Nor could there
be any combine in the form of trusts,
such as we have in the United States,
to control the production and price of
any of the great staple manufactures
of England. It would be futile to at-
tempt 10 rob English consumers by the
trust plan of limiting production. That
can be done only when a high tariff
assists the conspiracy by keeping out
the interference of a foreign supply. It
couldn’t be done in England where
trust thieves could not have such as-
SiYTta miter ting 2 :
The American monopoly supporters
are loudly crowing over a bread trust
which they say is being formed in
London. Such a thing is possible, for
bread is peculiarly a domestic produc-
tion. Fresh bread can’t be imported ;
{ it must be produced on the spot, and
| this circumstance would give local
| producers a chance to rob their consu-
mers by combination, but in the gener-
al line of manufactured articles, which
are produced and can be supplied by
all manufacturing countries, the free
trade of old England profects her peo-
ple from being pillaged by combina-
tions. But clap a tariff of an average
of 47} per cent., such as we have in
this country, on English imports, and
then it would be possible for England
to be plastered all over with trusts.
Misrepresenting an Honorable Demo-
crat.
The following from the Philadelphia
Press furnishes a good example of the
way in which some papers produce po-
litical news :
Henry E. Davis, a prominent official of the
Standard Oil Company, came down from Sun-
bury yesterday in company with Senator Wol-
verton. Both these gentlemen are interested
in ex-Senator Wallace's candidacy for the gu-
bernaforial nomination, and held a long con-
ference with the ex-Senator in his headquar-
ters at the Continental. In the afternoon they
took a train for New York and returned to the
city last night. Their trip is said to have been
in the interest of Mr. Wallace's candidacy:
They were not communicative, however, when
they returned, but they said everything was
going smoothly.
Those who are acquainted with Mr.
Hexry E.Davis of Sunbury, know that
he has no connection with the Standard
Oil Company and wes never connected
with it in any manner whatever. Ile
deals extensively in coal, and no doubt
has been surprised to see the Press in-
. of
clude him among the oil operators.
That paper owes him an apology for
the wrong of associatingso good a Dem-
ocrat with so abominable a monopoly
as the Standard Oil Company. The
visit of Senator WorverroN and Mr.
Hexry E. Davis to Philadelphia, to
which the Press refers, was unques-
tionably of a business character
without the remotest reference to poli-
tics. We allude to this case merely as
an illustration of the reliability of the
political information furnished by Re-
publican organs.
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{ ——DPennsylvania can be redeemed
from Republican misrule.
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The New Holiday.
Last Monday was Labor Day, a new
holiday that for the first time claimed
the observance of the people of Penn-
sylvania. Tt was not generally observ-
ed. Its observance was somewhat
sporadic. The idea of having a new
holiday in the especial interest of labor
does not appear to be confined to Penn-
sylvania, for we observe thatdemonstra-
tions in the way of its observance were
made in New York, New Jersey and
other States on Monday, but so far as
relates to Pennsylvania the act insti-
tuting the new holiday originated with
the present State Legisiature. A good
deal of legislation was asked of it at its
last session forthe benefi of the laboring
people. But it didn’t suit to pass any
of the measures asked for. There were
corporate and monopolistic interests
which such labor legislation would
have interfered with, and it would have
been unreasonable to ask a Republican
Legislature to do anything of that
kind. But there could be no objection
to its passing an act establishing La-
bor Day which might amuse the la-
boring people without being offensive
to the corporations and gentlemen of
capital. At least it was a harmless
thing that couldn’t injure capital and
might reconcile labor to the loss of
more substantial legislation. But it
doesn’t seem to be enthusiastically ac
cepted by the sons of toil. It is entirely
too thin.
EC ——————
The Republican County Platform.
The resolutions passed by the Re-
publican county convention on Wed-
nesday exemplify the recklessness and
entire absence of a sense of the ridicu-
lous which characterize Republican
platform making. They start with a
commendation of “the fearless and up-
right course of President Harrisox in
his administration of national affairs.”
The utter absurdity and amusing ri-
diculousness of this declaration are
apparent to all who know that so far
Pristdent iTarnison had done nothing
but foist Taxyer upon a disgusted
people, distribute the official spoils
among an army of hungry office-seek-
ers, and provide places for his numer-
ous relatives.
Secondly, they take “great pride” in
endorsing the administration of Jays
A. BEAVER, speaking as if they were
entirely oblivious of what every body
else knows, that the Beaver adminis-
tration isthe most complete fiasco that
ever burlesqued a State government.
Thirdly, the resolutions imitate the
Republican state convention in the
stuitification of glorying in the shame
of having a corrupt politician like Mar
Quay at the head of the party organ-
ization.
One thing, however, can be said to
the credit of the convention. It didn’t
have cheek enough to repeat the hum-
bug claim that the tariff is benefit-
ting the workingmen. Its platform
didn’t make the slightest allusion to
the tarift, which, in view of the present
prostrated condition of the industries,
goes to show that the Republicans of
Cenfre county are not entirely devoid
of shame.
Pioneer Justice.
A story that Judge Reilly of Detroit
occasionally repeats when the subject
of Michigan justice is up for discussion
runs substantially as follows :
When Gratiot county, -Mich., first
began to be disturbed by pioneers, and
after it had its first Justice of the Peace,
a farmer named Davidson walked three
niles tosecure a warrant for the arrest
of his neighbor named Meachim for as-
sault and battery. To save the Consta-
ble a six mile trip the defendant walk-
ed with the plaintiff. They encounter-
ed His Honor just leaving his house
with his gun on his shoulder, and Da-
vidson halted him with :
“Squire, I want a warrant for this
man fror striking me.”
“I'm in an awful hurry,” said the
Squire. “Come to-morrow.”
A Meachim, did you bit him ?” asked
the Justice.
“Yes.”
“Davidson, did you strike first?"
“No.” \
“Meachim, had you rather work for
Davidson than go to jail 2”
“I guess so,” answered Meachim,
“And will that satisty you, David-
son?"
“Yes,
“Then make tracks for home and
den’t bother me another minute! My
son has just come in with the news that
an old bear and three cubs are up the
same beech down ac the slushing and
I'm going to have some bear meat if it
upsets the Supreme Bench of Michigan.
Court stands adjourned at present.”
Spawls from the Keystone.
~The Corry Fair will give a 80 premium on
a game of base ball.
—Over 7000 people were hauled by rail to a
late picnic in Luzerne County.
—J. E. Labar, has disposed of valuable coal
lands at Pittston to an English syndicate.
—A Chester lad, watching a performing bear,
got too near the animal and was hugged.
—A thief at Parkersburg dug up a field of po-
tatoes during the night and carried them off,
—Mrs. Jane Clarke, aged 96 years, of Sha-
mokin, has just made a trip across the ocean,
—There are twenty-five typhoid fever pa-
tients in the Red Cross Hospital at Johnstown:
—The Burgess of Uniontown gives notice,
that milk wagons must stop their bells on Sun-
days.
—A horse in Reading was badly burned by
vitriol which an indignant woman hurled at
the driver.
—Drought has baked the ground so that
Lebanon farmers are unable to do their fall
plowing.
—The blackberry season lasts longer this
season than usual, and the crop has been un-
usually large.
—The town of Kane, 2000 feet above the
ocean, has capacity for making twenty-nine
miles of clothes-pins daily.
—Rev. M. E. Cressman, of Lionville, has a
four-pound cabbage which grew on a stalk
which bore cabbage last year.
—A Brownsville joker fed whiskey-soaked
corn to a flock of geese and the whole flock
became hopelessly intoxicated.
—An Erie lad aged 10 years stole 8 from a
huckster’s cart in order to hire a bicycle and
have a peanut spree on wheels.
—A pear tree at Sandy Hill is well filled
with fruit, and one bough is covered with blos-
soms. People go miles to see it.
—Otto Raemer, the Grand Army man who
was found dead on Friday at Milwaukee, was
an Easton bartender. He was subject to hem”
orrhages.
—The union cigarmakers have asked the
Barber's Association of Pittsburg, to talk up
union cigars while shaving customers. They
say they will.
—Workmen taking out sawed lumber on
Ransom’s Island near Williamsport, came up
on a petrified log sixty feet long, which they:
could not lift.
—Alfred Hughes died at Athol a few days
ago from a cancerous growth, the result of be-
ing kicked twice in the same place at differ-
ent times by animals,
—Hon. R. J. C. Walker has purchased 18,000
acres of timber and mineral lands in Pine
township, Lycoming county, and will construct
a railroad to reach it.
—Joseph W. Sheeler, of the stove firm o
Buckwalter & Co., Royersford, has just been
presented with a piece of the scaffold on which
John Brown was hanged.
—Mrs. Mary Sheets has complained to Al-
derman McGeary, of Pittsburg, that a club of
sharpshooters next door to her have killed one
of her cows and wounded another.
—A Stony Run cow has just died from over»
indulging itself in a lot of pastry. A _kaker's
wagon was upset in a stream, and the cow ate
several pies which floated down.
—The property of the Penrhyn Slate Com-
pany in Northampton coucty has been seized
by the Sheriff to satisfy a claim for $10,000 held
by the Stroudsburg National Bank.
—L. D. Owens, of Logan, Mifflin county, saw
hisbrother Samuel carried off the battle-field
wounded during the late war, and heard ne
more of him till a few days ago, when he turn-
ed up. ’
—Jacob Gnau, the proprietor of the opera-
house saloon at West Chester, has just receive
ed from the tannery the skin of his £500 hun-
ting dog “Beda.” He will have the hide made
into pocket-books.
—A Pottstown lady expecting company made
some ice-cream a few days ago, and accident-
ally flavored it with a dash of laudanum in-
stead of lemon. Her guests detected the er-
ror in time to save their lives.
—Herman Poser, the night watchman at the
Williamsport Gas works, lighted a match to ex-
amine a naphtha tank from which he was pum”
ping water on Thursday night, when an ex-
plosion followed, burning him severely.
—A beer-drinking contest took place at
Chester on Thursday for $10 a side. The vie-
tor, a colored man, downed ten big glasses in
one minute and three seconds. His white an-
tagonist lost the wager by throwing up his
load.
—John Palm, of Bowmansville, Lancaster
county, who had worked at blacksmithing tor
twenty years, has quit that business and will
enter Franklin and Marshall College next
week to prepare for the ministry in the Ger-
man Reformed Church.
—Squire Stauffer, of Manheim vicinity,
caught an escaped parrot by diplomatically
begging in a soft voice for permission to
scratch “poor polly’s” head. Polly bent her
head for the seratch—and then bit the
Squire's finger severely.
—Professor Charles Ashburner, speaking of
a statistical oil chart just prepared by Profess-
or Carll, of the State Geographical Survey,
says: “The deductions of these statisties in.
evitably lead to one point, viz, that the oil
fields of the State are beiug rapidly depleted.’
—A Pittsburg paper of yesterday says: To-
day there were five applicants for marriage li-
cense who were refused on account of the im-
mature age of the contracting parties. In two
of the cases the women had every appearance
of being of age, but were not willing jto take
the required oath.
—Harvey Graybiil, of Manheim, has a tiny
rat terrier. A couple of mornings since he
found the terrier and a monstrous rat playing
genially in the yard. He went ihto the house
for a weapon, heard a scratching, opened the
doorqnd in frisked dog and rat, which began
to gambol around the room. :
—(alvin Correll, a boy of [6 years of age em-
ployed as “devil” in Haines printing office, in
Allentown, attempted to pour water from a sec-
ond-story window on a crowd of men, lost his
balance, fell to the street and saved his neck
by going through a mildewed awning, which
suffe d to break the fall.
—A pumpkin which was being grown at Al.
ienville, Mifllin county, gave such promise of
attaining prize proportions that the owner, an
experimental farmer, concluded to concen-
trate the efforts of the vine on it by cutting oft
the top of the vine. Aceordingly he severed
the vine, and is mortified to find that he cut it
between the root and the fruit.
—A well-known lady of Grapeville, West.
moreland county, was believed to be dying a
week or two since, and the relatives were tele-
graphed for. A brother, en route home, called
on an undertaker, left a stylish order, and has-
tened to his sister’s bedside, to be rejoiced by
the discovery that she had rallied and would
live. Rather than face the disappointed un-
dertaker, however, he left for his own home.
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