2 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA Hi hi nn Most of Them Are Old Sol diers, Honorable Men. INVESTGATING BRIGADE Stranger in the City Constantly Watched and Acts Recorded So Close Are the Meshes of This Police Not Even a Casual Vis itor Slips Through. About the wortls "the secret police" 'here is a pretty nlr of mystery. They ummon up pictures of cloaked fig ures, of men waiting In dark hallways rind of stealthy steps behind curtains . corridors They are woven Into ire-tenths of popular French Action. Vlio woman concierge. sunning herself .a what Parisian doorway you please, feeds her imagination on tales of multiple disguises. Vs a matter of fact, this branch of Hie police, though disguised In plain clothes. Is not at all occult, it iins to do with plain and simple crimes. MoBt of the agents of the surcte are old soldiers, hon orable men. They are supplemented, however, by a band of quasi-pollce, known as indicateurs. These people, who are permanent auxiliaries of the service, are recruited among the street fakirs and and masterless rogues who foregather In Paris. But behind these humdrum agents and these gloomy outcasts, theirs aids, there is a mighty 'secret police," about which not one Parisian in a hundred has definite knowledge. The real secret police today, as tinder the empire is that which Is known as the brigade des recherches that is, the brigade of Investigation. The members of this force are recruited in a far higher rank of society than the fellows of the surcte. Indeed, there Is no cbss from the old nobil ity to the new feudality of finance which does not contribute this occult system of espionage. It is not my purpose here to describe In detail the many ramifications of this ancient and potent order of spies. A foreigner in Fiance, if he asso ciates frequently with people of im portance, conies in time to know tVem well. They follow him in bis comings and goings, report upon bis nets and opinions, and sift his life with a care unknown in our careless republic. One of those who was sent or.t on my trail I came to know very well. What I was suspected of I know not, though during the troublous days of the Dreyfus case I fraternized with many men one of whom, the Comte du Temple, an ex-deputy, was an ag Tresslve royalist. Anyway, my spy rd I came to know each other very : 11. Ho played a good game of bil ards and was a companionable gn .eman. A little later nr. W. J. O'Sullivan, visited me in Paris. He was great ly interested in the secret police. 1 could hardly persuade him that from the moment we met and shook hands in the Gare du Nord until his de parture from the Clare St. I.azare every act of his had been noted. I got the evidence from my friend (my own pet spy) in the brigade des recherches. The doctor's record was singularly complete. Ho bad not spoken with a man, he had not chat ted with a woman, he had not dined out or breakfasted In my garden, he had not bought a pair of yellow gloves unseen by some ubiquitous spy. The amazed gentleman, when he learned how close had been the watch upon him, shuddered as if he had walked in peril, and went back to New York wondering. So close are the meRhes of this police net that not even a casual visitor slips through. Success. Money Makes the Mexican Go. In "American millionaire" a term nas been found whose magic potency dispels effectively for the moment that peculiar procrastination in Mex ican business methods ho tersely char acterized by the word "manana." Peo ple of this city, resident here but one year, have seen in the last week a hurrying Mexican servant for the first time. Those who have lived here for a longer tlrua- have seen it before when a millionaire from America was here. At the utterance of this term, as it passes from mouth to mouth, for a millionaire from the States must needs be advertised, every knee will bend or bow, hotel managers will take an aotual or pretended interest In the management of the hostelry's affairs, eocheros will race their steeds that they may not be more than an hour behind the time, cargadores will ac celerate their tortoise pace, waiters movo as if more than half awake and the "bell-hops" even have been known to hop. So great is the magic of this potent phrase that no vendor of dulcei on the street, no seller in tho shops nor curio merchant within tho cor poration limits of the capital, but has out his brightest sign, wears his blandest smile, adds to his usual insistent persistence a certain amount of alacrity, and one or two of the more eager have been known to post pone their feet of the laggards, as though each should be a latter day Mercury, the visitor has made of the rejuvenated Aztec a desecrating icon oclast .shattering by hla moment of hurry all the Idols and traditions of the ages. Mexican Herald. The Iowa experiment station made some Investigations last year as to the best time for watering horses before or after feeding. The reaulta show no particular difference. If a man is a coward he always claims to be conservative. RUSSIA MAKES MADMEN. Suspect Priest Confined Thirty-Two Years In Prison. Madness Is one of the spectres that grin athwart the dim twilight of the granite cells of the lonely prisoner. But sometimes madmen are set free. One such case was that of a suspect priest, named Peter Zolotnltsky. Hav ing Joined a non-conformist sect, he was sent to the monastery prison of Suzdal, two days before Christmas, 18(15. Alexander II, was then Czar, and the tendencies of his government were, on the whole, humane. Hut liberty of conscience has never been granted even by the most en lightened Kmperor of Muscovy. Alex ander II. vanished from the scene, and his son ascended the throne as Alexander III. An amnoRty was grant ed to criminals, new measures were adopted and new men appointed, but the lot of the priest Zolotnltsky was not alleviated. He was left In his Ftone cellar, cold, hungry, lonely, for gotten. In the fulness of time Alex, nnder III. was called to his Inst ac count, and N'lcholas II. donned tho crowns of Muscovy, Kazan, and all the llusslas, a new amnesty was pro claimed. Hut for the priest Zolotnlt sky and his fellow prisoners tho short days and long nights lost noth ing of their sflmenesB. His world was still narrowed down to the limits of his cell. In time the compass of his mind shrank to fit proportion to his wretchedness, and he lost his reason together with his health. Contrary to cuftom. the madman was then re lented, on April 15, 1807, after having languished for over thirty-two year3 In bis dark stone cage. Harper's Magazine. An Acid Made of Wood Gas. Aside from tho deposits of metal lic copper in the Michigan regiou, practically all the ores of copper, zinc. lead, and nickel consist of compounds J of the metals with sulphur. In smelt- Ing, the sulphur Is burned out and ; gives rise to enormous quantities of sulphur dioxide that gas that has taught man to postpone for a moment . the pleasure of his cigar when light ing it with a sulphur match, and has : caused many a housewife to mourn for the untimely fading and passing away of her most cherished house plants. At Leadville, Joplln, Galena, Argentine, El Paso, and other sections of the country not only treeless but also grassless deserts have been pro- : duced by the large smelting establish- ' merits. Near Mount Shasta stretches . of the finest timber land stand blast- j ed because of this waste, which, were ' it utilized, would doubtless be suffi cient to erect a new plant for the company every two or three years. By what Is known as the "new con tact process," tills gas can be trans formed Into the best of sulphuric acid, and where smelting establishments aro near enough to the manufactories using this article large revenues are being derived from this waste product every year. However, since sulphuric acid is very cheap and freight rates very high, tho economical utilization of the gas In the Shasta nnd other regions similarly situated, far remov ed from manufacturing centers, has not yet been accomplished. Harper's Magazine. Msnu on Ocean . Liners. The chief steward and tho chef determine the menus for tho various and numerous meuls of the following day between them and when this has been done the curds are turned over to the ship's printer who puts them lu type and. runs off whatever number may be required for the passengers. Copies of these are then distributed by the chef to his principal assistants the head baker, the head confec tioner, the head meat cook and so on through the list. Bach expert pro ceeds to figure out the quantities of the various supplies meat, eggs, Hour, vegetables, or what not he will require to carry out his part of the program. These estimates are sub mitted to the chief steward and as soon as they receive his endorsement become orders on the ship's store keeper. Or course, it requires a tremendous amount of foodstuffs to supply 2,000 persons blessed with generous sea ap petites during the course of a trans atlantic voyage. When any one of the big liners leaves New York for Eu rope, her storerooms are likely to contain something like eight tons of beef, three tons of hams and a sim ilar amount of bacon, two tons and a half of butter, two or three thousand quarts of milk, six thousand dozens of eggs, a hundred and fifty or two hun dred barrels of flour, thousands of bushels of each of the different kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits, and other eatables in proportion. In the height of the summer season when transatlantic travel is at floodtlde the figures will be even greater than these in the case of the larger liners. The marketing bill for kitchen sup plies in the case of an organization like the International mercantile ma rine company, which operates the Jargest of the Atlantic passenger) fleets, amounts to several million dol lars in the course of a year. Pearl Fishing In Ceylon. The use of the X-rays has proved a valuable adjunct to pearl Ashing on the coast of Ceylon. By this appli cation it is possible to discriminate between valuable oysters and those containing no pearls. Oysters useless for commercial purposes are thrown back into the sea. It is easier for a married man to pack his trunk than it is for a bach elor because he has less to pack. '""be fool never puts off until to morrow what he shouldn't do at all. II mi m Life on the Solitary Stretches of the Western Plains. WOMEN AGE QUICKLY 8ettlers Grow Careless of Their Ap pearance and Lose Ambition. Creates a Worthless Mental and Moral Sordidness Field Mice Burrow Through Walla of House. Life In a sod bouse away out on the plains, where for months at a timo there is not a thing in nature to cucer the eye or vary the monotony, is cer tainly close to first princplus, says Stanley Raymond. When the corn waves on thousands of acres, or when the plain Is green with growing wheat, there Is something to Interest the sod buuse dwellers, but from October to May no class of intelligent Ameri cans live more dreary lives thiu these. One wonders what livelihood, what future prosperity or pleasure can repay a man and wile to live in such huge sameness. The shifting clouds by day and a sky of flue stars at night are for weeks the only sights to be seen. Yet some of tho most contented and aspiring people we have ever seen are men and wo men who live among such Hat sur roundings and dead solitude for years. To realize in how primitive and solitary a fashion people can live and be happy-one has only to imagine a man and wile lu a sod house, tilUou miles from the nearest village, lu one of the sparsely settled districts of western Nebraska or Kansas. For days, and in some seasons lor weeks, they sec no human beings outsido of their own household. Even bi-uslns , Indians and tramps are almost un known In this country. Prairie dogs cast up their mounds anil found towns lu the unmolested spots about the place; gophers and Add nut.i burrow through the sod walls of tho house; not infrequently snakes swing themselves down from the rafters in side, or crawl in at tho door to get at any mflk pans standing about. At night coyotes and some of tho gray .wolves come up through the canyons and skulk about the poultry yard or howl close to tho windows. Through the day while the man is in tho fields the herding usually falls to the wo man's lot. Probably each takes a noon luncheon in a paper, to save coming buck to the house until night. The woman attends to her neces sary household duties, throws a gunny-sack over her broncho's back, jumps astride, rounds up her cattle, and drives them down the canyons to graze on the steep sides, or in a low ! strip beside a creek. Canyons are not sociable places; one can Scarcely have a conception of the primeval un less he has walked through a canyon; he thinks of the dawn of creation, of the races of extinct mammoths, and wonders if centaurs have not mere ly retired Into the inner caverns. What the sod-house woman thinks about, all day long In solitude like that, Is hard to tell probably the mortgage on the farm, diseases among the stock, the prospects of crops, tho time when they can put up their frf.me dwelling, the hard, unadorned facts in the treadmill of her life, new plnns for the work, work which Is her solo law of existence. Perhaps she has memories of another time, other surroundings, but they must seem vague and far away. Even the 1 weather is monotonous; there la prac tically always the cloudless sky, the brilliant sun, the strong, dry wind that curls tho leaves of the young corn, and turns the buffalo grass brown. ' ! Living on the dreary plains and amid such monotony, with never a thing to appeal to one's esthetic, so cial or literary nature, is wearing upon most settlers, even if they ore contented. The life makes women, particularly, prematurely old. A few years of residence apart from their sex usually makes thorn careless of their appearance, dulls their ambi tions and creates a sordidness. Such a life-must have its inevitable mental and moral effect. All the sensitive, the esthetic, sometimes the moral sense Itself, becomes atrophied. The tragedies of a city are unearthed and brought to light, but the silent trag edies of these desolate lives are swal lowed jp and lost In the remoteness and immensity of the prairie wastes. New Wireless Station. Another very desirable addition to the resources of wireless telegraphy we may shortly witness, it is hoped, by the installation of stations in the Azores. These islands are by nature a sort of half-way house betwoen Europe and America, and lying within touch by wireless telegraphy of the routes of the ocean liners they can do good service for both continents. The King of Portugal, Don Carlos, may be trusted to interest himself in this measure, as it was largely due to bis Majesty that the Meteorological Observatory was established In the Azores. A station for wireless mes sages would largely increase the value of "iat institution. London Telegraph. Aid to Navigators. The development of marine signal ing promises to be one of the chief aids to the navigator which the imme diate future holds in store. By means of submerg. d bells and telephone ap paratus for picking up the sound sig nals may be sent and received over considerable distances. The system has been Installed on four lightships between New York and Boston, and many government and foreign officers have visited these ships during the past year. CALIFORNIA WILD GEESE. Men Employed to Keep Them Mo Ing Not Allowed to Shoot. Wild geese are still so abundant I California that they are an actual pei to the wheat growers of the great li terlor valleys. During the Winter see son they are so numerous on th largest ranches of the Sacramentt valley that men are hired to ride ove. the fields with rfles and shoot at then frequently from daylight until dark, in order to keep them moving and prevent them from grazing upon the tender young grain. The birds at times congregate in such Immense flocks as to seem to cover closely acres of ground. Their destructive powers are so groat that In less than an hour, and sometimes, It Is said, In a few minutes, thoy completely strip from the field upon which they rest all the shoot of gr.iln above ground. The men employed to keep the geese moving are called "geese herd ers." They are not expected or re quired to shoot tho birds, but to keep firing at them, and so, as much as possible drive them from the grain lands. The occupation of tho goose herder Is far from exciting or agreeable, and Is one of the most despised of all rural employments In California, says the Los Angeles Times. The herder must sally forth when daylight ap pears, for at dawn the geese begin to feed in the grain fields. Some of the wheat ranches are many square miles in extent, and one upon the west side of the Sacramento River, In Glenn county, embraces over 4,000 acres. The herder must ride many miles in a day, and pursue his calling In all sorts of weather. Upon the largest ranches half a dozen or more herders find steady employment during the Winter season. It may happen that in the course of months of stendy work a herder will not Tihoot even one goose, although perhaps firing !j0 or 100 shots a day. The geese are wary, and do not nllow any one to approach them with in a few hundred yards. For this reason it is necessary for the borders to use rfles, so that the bullets may strike the ground where tho geese are feeding and put them to flight. It Is a fine sight to see the wild geese upon the wing at certain hours of tho day, when they ate flying to or from the river or some body of wter where they drink. The sky at times seems filled with long, waving lints, where the birds are flying in their peculiar V-shaped flocks, nnd the air Is laden with their discordant calls. Trackless Trolley. A trackless trolley line is being built by tho community of Moan helm to Lungefeld, and will be about two and one-half miles long, with two short brandies Intended for freight ing purposes. The roadway from Monnheim to Langenfeld is about twenty-three feet wide, with a good basaltic cover about fifteen In width, running almost in an air line, with the exception of a few curves. A special contrivance for coupling will bo provided in order to keep an exact rut of all tho cars. The power will be conducted to and from the cars by means of two rotary poles, placed on the top of the cars, and Bllding blocks enabling the train to give way from ten feet to twelve feet. For entering farmyards lying close to the road there will be used, in stead of the regular wire, a conuector an 1 flexible cable fifty feet to seventy feet In length by means of which the current will be transmitted to the motor car. Tho trains will consist of an elec tric locomotive for drawing two or three cars, driven by two electric mo tors of from twenty-five horse power to forty horse power. The conducting crow will have its place on the loco motive. The cars for carrying freight have a capacity of about five tons. Some 'of the cars will be open and some closed, and all will be fitted with brakes. Couplings will be provided for attaching farm wagons. Elec trical World. The Mummies of Venzone. Mummies have been found at vari ous times iu the tombs connected with some of the old European churches, their formation being due to natural process and not to any methods of embalming. By far the most notable place In this respect is the old parish church at Venzone in the northern part of Italy. In this church there are thirteen tombs which appear to have the power ot mummifying the bodies placed in them. These mummies seem to be the dried residues of the original bodies with all their organs in place. They are very light, weighing from 6 to 13 pounds. Various attempts have been made to give some ade quate explanation of the cause of this unusual process, explanations which took into account the possible desic cating action of the mineral constitu ents of the earth around the tombs. The true reason appears to be the ac- ! tlvity of a certain fungus (Hypha bombaBtlca) which is always found growing upon the bodies and forming dense dark yellow masses on the sur face. It has been found possible to induce mummification of various ani mals by inoculating their dead bodies with this fungus. The process is an alogous to the so-called calcification of the silkworms in the disease to which they are subject caused by a fungus pest of the genus Botrytls. Before obtaining a license St. Pet ersburg drosky drivers have to ta':e on oath to be civil and not to over-charge. Conditions Good for Spread of Consumption, Says Report. DIRT OF BEDS APPALLING 101 Lodging Houses In New York City Sanitary Conditions Preju dicial to Health Mattresses Crumbling to Pieces Not Uncom mon to Sleep With Boots on, A lengthy report has just been made public by Mr. Paul Kennaday, secre tary of tho Committee on tho Pre vention of Tuberculosis, relative to the sanitary condition of New York city's lodging houses. Mr. Kenna day's Investigation, which was search ing and thorough, was undertaken with a vlow to discovering to what extent the city's cheap lodging houses were responsible for the spread of consumption In the community. The result of his inquiry Mr. Kennaday sums up as follows: "If tho course of this Inspection has given no direct evidence of tubercu losis among the lodging house popu lation, nor of house Infection, it has suflicicnlly demonstrated that in not a few instances conditions are abso lutely inimical to health and quite ideal for the rapid progress and com munication of disease." According to Mr. Kennaday's sta tistics there are In the Borough of Manhattan 101 lodging houses, with a licensed capacity for 16.470 bods. The prevailing type is a four story brick structure, used as a store in front. There are two recognized kinds of lodging houses, those with Individ ual rooms and those where tho in mates are all herded together. In both classes Mr. Kennaday has found the ventilation, as a rule, excessively bad, although the ventilation In the second of the two classes is apt to be better than when tho rooms aro separate. The sanitary conditions are usually prejudicial to health, he said, and only forty-nine of the lodging houses were found to possess free baths. The dirtiness of the beds In ordi nary use was appalling. Tho mat tresses In many instances were crumbling to pieces. "As to the blan kets," says Mr. Kennaday In his re port, "eight houses were found to be very clean, fifty-five clean, twenty three dirty and fourteen very dirty. I was assured many times that tho blankets were washod 'ut least' twice a year; no thought of cleaning them oftener seems to have occurred to the proprietors, although lodgers often go to bed with their boots on, and the floors are swept in such a way that the dust at once settles on the blan kets, which, as a rule, are unprovided with coverlets. "By requirements fil the Board of Health," Mr. Kennaday continues, "each lodging house must have an Iso lation or hospital room which must not be used for other purposes than tho reception of such persons as may become sick while lodging in the house. In twenty-four houses the room was either used as a general storeroom for blankets or used as a sleeping room by the day or night clerk." The remedy which the tuberculosis expert suggests for the present state of affairs is a more stringent and fre quent inspection of the lodging houses by the Board of Health. In defining his position, Mr. Ken naday remarks: "While the city charter provides that it shall be the duty of the Board of Health to cause a caroful Inspec tion of every lodging house at least twice a year, inspections of some bouses are actually made much often er than this. But the character of these inspections must be faulty if, despite the fact that the majority of the houses show an adherence to reg ulations, so many positive violations can be found and conditions of such a shocking character permitted to exist. In addition to more thorough Inspec tions, a higher standard of needful cleanliness should be adopted by those Inspectors who it would seom, have sometimes adopted thu theory, often advanced by lodging house keepers themselves, that the condition of the men they harbor Is a sufficient excuse for the truly abominable conditions sometimes found." Trepoff's Black Record. Gen. Trepoff is notorious rather than famous. He Is said by those who are in a position to know the facts to be the most detested man in tho Russian army, the soldiers having nicknamed him "Iron Heart." When only a lieutenant not many years ago bo sabred his orderly for a trivial broach of etiquette. His next ex ploitaccording to his own boast was tho shooting of five men with a revolver. With this record it is not surpris ing that he should a few days ago have been the victim of an attempted assassination at Moscow, where he was chief of the police and whero he had put down some disturbance in a particularly brutal fashion. He Is a very big smoker, fond of wine and of making speeches to his troops. In every speech the expres sion, "Obey your commanding officer" frequently occurs. The Czar is fond of Trepoff, and has been hoard to remark: "He Is one of the few men I can rely on." Trepoff is married but Is separated from his wife. London Daily News. When it comes to a quick parting the fool and his money are a close second to a woman and her secret. Borne men waste a lot of valuable Urn explaining their actions. PIGEON POSTMEN IN WAR. Bird Which Carried 800,000 Words on Its Tall Feather. It is a curious link with long gone centuries that the beleaguered people in Port Arthur-have been using car rier pigeons to keep in touch with th outside world, Just as tho good folk of Modcna did not much less thaa 2,000 years ago. But the most Inteersting use of pig eons in war was undoubtedly when they did such excellent service during the siege of Paris a generation ago. The pigeons, it may bo remembered, were sent out of the doomed city by balloons 363 of them; of these, 301 were liberated, but only seventy-three set foot again in Paris. It Is amas ing, even In this age of miracles, to think that a single one of these pis eon postmen carried no fewer thaa 40,00(1 messages, each containing oa an average 20 words. This means a grand total of 800,000 words ,or the equivalent of half a dozen fairly long novels, as the burden of a singlo bird. How was it done? Part of the mys tery vanishes when we say that the weight of all these dispatches waa actually less than a gram mo, about one-lwenty-elghth of an ounce, and that they were contained within a goose quilt ono and three-quartet inches long, which was attached by a silk thread to one of tho bird's tall feathers. The puzzle, however, re mains how it was possible to get over three-quarters of a million words with in this tiny compass. The secret of this seemingly im possible ' feat was microscopic pho tography. The messages were first printed in ordinary type, and thea reduced by photography several hun dred times. Tho photographs wer 'taken on thin films or pellicles of col lodion, each of which, though it waa less than two inches square, could tin;:, contain GO, 000 words. Of those pellicles a pigeon could easily carry a do.eu without interfering with Its comlori or speed, and, us wo have seen, one bird alone coin eyed 40,004 messages. lint a pigeon has carried as much as tlireu-quurters of ail ounce for a short distance. This weight would repret-eut something llko 800,000 mes sages, or 16.000,000 words; so that under those conditions, it would be quito puusihlo for a pigeon to carry a bi.:a.l library of 120 volumes ou its ta.l. Uo Iinpruiucd were army men gen erally wiih tho usefulness of the pig eon as demonstrated iu tho Franco G en nun war that it was not long be lo;o practically every nation iu Eu rope had its trained military pigeons; and today there uro more than 60, iiiilitary pigeon stations iu Europe. We wore among tho last to adopt this simple and efficient method ot carrying messages iu time of war; but now wo have excellent lofts at Portsmouth, Dartmouth and else where, where birds are kept and train ed lu a most scientific manner. In the Portsmouth lofts, which are in the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport, is an olllco whure the ollicial log-books are kept with the ut most detail and precision. Thore are stud registers, and report books lu which the doings of every pigeon are chronicled; one volume Is devoted to a record of limes of liberation, anoth er to pigeons homing at the loft, and in another volume the various mes sages carried by tho birds are pasted. Among these it Is intorestlng to no tice many that have been sent to the lofts by members of our royal family when crossing the channol. The mo 'mcnt a bird enters the loft it Is auto matically shut into a box by the dropping of a noiseless slide, and aa electric bell summons an attendant to take the message it has brought. Poisons In Vegetables. In preserving foods the natural col ors of food products tend to fade n4 diminish with time. In order that this fault be remedied, the use of co lorlug matters has become almost universal in some forms of food pro ducts. For instance, some time ago I was unable to find In the eity of Wasblogton a single pound of uncot ored butter. Tomatoes and other reel vegetables and fruits are often col ored with eosln; preserved peas an4 beaiu, as is well known, have th green fixed and accentuated by th use of a very objectlouablo substanoa, namely, sulphate of copper. Added! red coloring matters are often found in wines. Preserved cherries are first bleached so as to become white, the colored a beautiful red, and many oth er objectionable practices of similar kinds are indulged in. It is probably true that the palat ability 'of foods is increased by having them presented in attractive forma, aud to this end the natural colors which food products have and which are regarded as Indexes of purity and excellence should be retained as care fully as possible. This, however, doea not seom to justify the practice of any deception by the use of artificial colors for the purpose of imitating in a poorly colored food product th attractive and more pronounced col ors which characterize the better kinds of food of that character. Doc tor Wiley in Pearson's. Navigation of the Colorado. The problem of navigating the tor tuous waters of the upper Colorado river and the lower Green and Grand rivers and so opening up to exploita tion a district of great mineral and prospective agricultural wealth has iong baffled Coloradans. It is now claimed at Denver that a specially designed gasoline motor boat has proved equal to the task, and that a new empire will b opened up la which possibly a ssooad Cripple Crk will be found.
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