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Built By Order of James Madi
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Fulton's Masterpiece, That Startled
England, But Was Never In a
Fight. "Terror of the Seas"
Threw Red-Hot Shot and Squirted
Boiling Water.
Even la a day of wars and rumors
wars, with articles upon the rela
he strength of navies as common as
iock quotations or weather reports,
Is seldom recalled that the first
li am battleship the world ever Baw
was built by an American for America.
The story of thu Uemologos is an
all but forgotten incident In naval
annals, yet she was the wonder of her
day aud her career, before her myste
rious and tragic passing, quite pic
turesque enough to warrant the re
telling. Planned by Robert Fulton, built by
order of James Madison, the Demo
logos appears In hlsiory In 1814.
Thote were days when the good folk
of the towns a!o::g the Atlantic sea
board walked In tear of attack from
English ships and slept lightly through
troubled dreams. Our fleet of pri
vateers had borne themselves gal
lantly and well ut sea, but the coast
lay unprotected.
The strange little craft of his sug
gestion corresponds most nearly per
haps to what we of to-day might call
an unprotected gunboat for coiiht and
harbor service, but she had "freak"
features. In addition to the boilers
that were to supply steam for the
first time to a fighting ship she was
to be fitted with furnaces In which
her shot might be heated before fir
ing. In addition to her tweuty-six
32 -pounders she wa3 to carry four
guis, two forward and two aft. which
It was planned should be hung over
bow or stern, as the case might be,
with the Idea of discharging heavy
shot into the side of an enemy well
below the water line. She was to be
fitted with pumps and pipes through
Which large quantities of water might
be spouted upon the decks and into
the ports of her adversary. "She will
be the most formidable fighting ship
ever constructed," wrote Mr. Fulton
In conclusion.
The scoffers laughed and the objec- i
tors argued, but James Madison ap
proved and worked to such eood nnr-
oso that on March 14. 1814, the
louses' of Congress appropriated
220,000 to build the craft. Fulton
'?a named engineer, and before June
tad passed the keel had been laid
n the New York yards of Adam &
'oah Brown. On October 29 she was
sunched, the focus of a national cele-
br
On, with thousands gathered
along the river fronts and upon the
hipping that filled New York Bay
to cheer, not the "Fulton the First,"
as the President had suggested the
vessel be christened, but the "Demo
logos," or "Defender of the People,"
a name chosen by the designer him
' self, who turned to the classics as
well as to the elements for his In
: splratlons.
She was a mighty craft. The boiler
' over which the doubters shook their
- heads in fear was 22 feet long, by 12
wide and 8 deep. Her 2,475 tons were
'to be driven by a water wheel 16 feet
in diameter. She was 156 feet over
all, 56 feet beam and her greatest
depth was 20 feet.
' This Is how the commission in
trusted by President Madison with her
construction described the Demo
logos: "She la a vessel resting upon
two keels, separated from end to end
by a canal fifteen feet wide and sixty-
six lone. One section contains the
caldrons of copper to prepare her
cteam. The vast cylinder of iron,
with its piston, levers and wheels,
occupies the other. The great water
wheel revolves in the space between.
She Is propelled by her enginery
alone.
"The main, or gun, deck supports
her armament, and Is protected by a
bulwark four feet ten inches thick
of solid timber. This Is pierced by
port holes to enable her 32-pounderd to
Are red-hot shot; her upper, or spar,
deck Is plain."
Small wonder that England was ter
rified! One of the London Journals
whose agent In New York had gath
ered his information through many
devious channels gave this account of
the Demologos under the line "Ter
ror of the Seas:"
"Length on deck, 300 feet; breadth,
200 feet; thickness of sldea, 13 feet,
f alternate oak plank and cork wood ;
carries 42 guns, four of which are 100
founden, the quarter deck and fore
castle guns being 44-pounders. Fur
ther to annoy an enemy attempting
to board hor, she can discharge 100
gallons of boiling water a minute, and
by mechanism brandish 300 cutlasses
with the utmost regularity over her
gunwales; works also on an equal
number of Iron pikes of great length,
dashing them from her sides with po-
dlglous force and withdrawing tbem
every quarter of a minute."
But this marvelous and dreaded ves
sel never faced English foes. She
made her trial trips, three of them, in
the summer of 1815, establishing a
"record" of fifty-three miles In eight
hours without her armament, and of
Ave and a half miles an hour when
fully fitted. And then Just as she
might have cut for herself a place In
history, with her red hot shot and
boiling water and "submarine" guns,
peace with England was declared!
The good Demologos was never put
Into commission.
WARWICK JAMES PRICE.
LEAP YEAR PENALTIES.
What a Man Muit Pay If Ha Rejecti
Proposals.
It's all very well to entreat th
pleading maiden to firrne from her
knees, and to tell her Kindly but firm
" l 'uu WI" De a "roller to hor,
though you cannot feel that you love
ly that you will be a brother to hor,
ner well enough to trimi vnnr nm.,
heart in her keeping.
It's all very well and very eaE.v to
do that. but have you thought.
wan, uuoui me penalty you
must pay for rejecting the lady's
offer?
! Do you know what you have to give
every woman whose nand you spurn,
in the year when the feminine sex Is
permitted to take the first leap into
matrimony?
Well, brace yourself up, then, and
prepare to bid farewoll to a consid
erable portion of your patrimony, es
pecially If your fascinations are like
ly to bring down upon your head a
number of proposals. For the forfeit
you must pay for each rejection is
nothing less than a silk dress!
Fly whose authority? ny the author
ity of tradition, young sir! That
same tradition which sets apart all
the Leap years for me benefit of
mums who want to marry.
This punishment seems in no wise
to fit the crime, but it's the punish
ment that has been handed down
through the ages, and It's got to be
taken manfully.
Tradition is mute upon the subject
as to whether it has to bo a rainbow
taffeta at 39 cents a ward, or a lus
trous, regal silk at $3. It is merely
Ptated in the bond that it mu.-t bo silk.
In order to avoid mistakes, it would
be best to take your sister Into your
confidence; tell her what color eyes
and hair the rejected lady has, de
scribe her height and figure, and then
be guided by your sisters advice, only
being careful to pay at least four
times as much as the price she sug
gests, because if there is a piece of
silk to be had for ten cents a yard,
that's the piece your sister will sug
gest for that other woman. This is
curious, but you will find It a fact.
Really, you can afford to pay some
thing for that dress. Consider how
much more economical It Is to buy one
gown now, at any price, than to have
to go on buying gowns for her all
your life!
And the best thing you can do is
to pray that your proposals may all
come right now, "in a heap," when
there are bargain sales of silk in all
the shops.
That's the cheapest rate at which
you can have to escape from a per
plextng situation.
Town-Crier In Tennessee.
"I thought this country had out
grown the town-crier until I struck
the town of Paris, Tenn., last week,"
said the traveling solicitor of a New
York railroad company.
"I went there to see a man about
a contract, but failed to find him in his
office.
"'Want to see him mighty bad?"
asked a man who was warming his
foet against an old-fashioned stove.
"I said my time was very valuable,,
and I should like to meet the person
mentioned as soon as I conveniently
could do so.
" 'Bettor go over to the court house
then an ax the sheriff. He'll git for
you, lively."
"I went to the court house In the
center of a square, and finding the
sheriff made known my mission. I
wondered as I did so how the sheriff
would know. While I was wondering
the sheriff raised the window of hta
room and sticking out his head he
called the name of the man I wanted
three times In a very lusty manner.
Then pulling down the window ha
said to me: 'If he don't show up In
five minutes I'll call him from the
other side of the court house. If he'a
In town he's bound to hear me.
"The man I wanted showed up In
less than five minutes. I had never
seen him before. As he came Into th
room he said to the sheriff, 'Did you
holler?' 'Yes,' replied the sheriff, 'I
hollered three times.' 'I didn't hear
you holler but twlct,' said the man.
"Turning to me the sheriff said.
This is the man you want. When
they hear me holler they come."
Ugliness Secured a Pardon.
When he was governor of Illinois
Uncle Dick" Oglesby, while making
a tour of inspection or ine jouei
prison, came to a cell In which a hide
ously ugly man was eoaSned. The
man was so 111 favored that the gov
ernor stopped to ask about him.
"What's he In for?" he asked. "He
forced a young woman to elope with
him at the point of a pletol," the
keeper replied. "Well," said Oglea
by, "I guess I'll pardon him." "Pardo
him!" protested the warden. "Why,
governor, the proof against him la ab
solute." "I know," said the governor,
"but he couldn't get her to marry him
any other way." Chicago Chronicle.
Master of the King's Muslo.
Many good stories are told of Sir
Walter Parratt, the master of the
king's music. Here Is one Illustrative
of his extraordinary memory. Some
eight or ten men were assembled one
evening In one of the lodges attached
to St. Michael's College, Tenbury. Sir
Walter Parratt and Herr von Hoist
played in turn upon the piano suoh
music aB was asked for. This went
on for some time, until at last the
chessboard was brought out. Sir Wal
ter then proposed to play two men at
chess In consultation, still remaining
at the piano and playing from mem
ory what was demanded, either from
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, or
Mendelssohn. Without even a glance
at the chessboard he won the game In
an hour. Ixindon Tlt-Iilts.
II I IPS
Twenty Seven Per Cent Greater
Than Any Preceding Year.
'
PRICE PAID REASONABLE
Navy Used 487,036 Tons In 1903 In
1892 They Burned 73,467 Tons.
Aver fes $5, and Is Largely the
Product of American Mines. New
Coaling Stations.
The amount of coal used bv the
United States navy Is or Interest to
everyone; the fart thnt fuel forms to
Important a featnre in the movements
of the fleets of all countries is brought
home by the recent Tieavy purchase
of coal In this country and abroad by
the representatives of the nations in
the eastward. Tho no of coal has
grown with the growth of our mod
ern navy from 73,417 tons In 1892 to
487,036 tons in 1!)0X At the same
time It Is agreeable to note that the
average cost Is less than at any other
time, with one exception that of 1898
and that this Is duo to rile fact that
i so large a portion of fh tonnage
used is the product of American
mines and sent to our aratlons In
stead of being purchased abroad tfnd
being the product of other countries,
and that costing a round prire, for tSe
average for 1892 shows $7.49 per ten,
while for the last year it fa but $"5
: per ton.
I Of the total last year 3S3JD17 tnf
was American coal, which, with the
transportation thereof, cost but $4.50
per ton; tho amount of foreign being
102,010 ton, at an averago owt of
$6.99 per too. The amount f coal
used during the past year was 27' per
cent, greater than during the preced
ing year, and1 the cost of the co.il was
eighty-one cents, or 16 per cenl less
per ton than during the preceding
year, and this was due to exuding
the fining of contracts by producers,,
for notwithstanding the great delating,
the departure of transatlantic mall
steamers and otherwise paralysins,
the business of the country, and th'
very great Increase In cost, the Bur
eau of Equipment was able to supply
all the coal required by the fleet with
out exceeding the regular approprra
tlon for this purpose, and at an aver
age price per ton less than that of
any year 6lnce JSH8.
At the sama time. It would not hi.ro
been able to achieve the above man
tioned results had It not carried a
large amount of coal in Btock. There
were 60,000 ton a in stock at Manila
alone; this was reduced one-half a--fore
additional supplies could be seuti
there. Other coal depots were largely
depleted, bat are now, as a rule, well1
supplied. During the year 220. C50
tons of coat have been shipped to foi?
eign and domestic ports, the greater.,
amount to. the Asiatic station. Of tHi
amount 130,017 tons were sent in,
chartered vessels, mostly foreign, aod
96,643 teas In navy colliers.
There are many coaling stations la
the United States, and those on itw
Atlantic are well known. On the Pai
cific there is at Sitka a storage plant
built for 5,000 tons, at Puget Sonnd
20,000 tons, at Mare Island 20,000 toss
and it is said this should be Increased
to 200,060 tons' capacity, and facili
ties in accordance therewith. Tthea
we have San Juan, Porto Rico, Caun
tanamo, Bahia Honda, Hawaii and
Samoa. Guam Is the latest proposi
tion for a eoal depot In that part of
the Pacific The navat station at Ca
vlte, P. I., is supplied with American
coal for the use of the Asiatic fleet. A
coal depot with a capacity of 30,000
tons at Sangley Point, near the naval
station Cavlte, has been receutly com
pleted. The capacity of the cor storage
houses, however, should be 'joubled aa
soon aa practicable. It is. necessary
to carry at least 60,000 toes in stock
at this station. Of the seven Insular
naval coal depots four are now pro
vided with Indifferent facilities for
storing a very moderate amount et
coal. The remaining three have ae
facilities whatever.
It Is stated In the report of the
Bureau of Equipment, that while the
total amount of coal purchased for
the navy during the fiscal year waa
27 per cent, greater than during the
preceding year, the amount of foreign
coal was 21 per cent, as compared
with 23 per cent, the year before, and
the amount of domestic coal corre
spondingly increased.
Lota of Room Yet.
At this time, Europe, which Is the
center of the world's civilization, has
an area of 3,555,000 square miles and
a population of 380,000,000, or nearly
107 per square mile. The United
States, on the other hand, with an area
of 8,015,600 square miles, nearly equal
that of Europe, has only 80,000,000 in
habitants. With a percentage of In
habitants per square mile as large as '
Europe's it would have a population
of 320,000,0X10. This country, there
fore, has reasonable capacity of 240,
000,000 more Inhabitants.
Since 1820 the total number of Im
migrants who have come to the shores
of the United States la 21,758,000.
Large as that number may seem, It is
Insignificant, indeed, as compared with
the capacity of this country for more
population. Last year 857,000 immi
grants arrived, the largest number on
record, and yet If that number should
hereafter land every year, It would
take 279 years to make up the 240,
000,000 required to make the popula
tion of the United States per square
mile equal that of Europe, this esti
mate, of course, allowing neither for
deaths or births. Wall Street Journal,
NEW BULLETPROOF CLOTH.
Wonderful Things Related of an
Italian Invention.
The world la at present Intensely
Interested In a new Kalian bulletproof
cloth, and since the Italian govern
U,,,M- 18 negotiating ior us use u is
r lnilrtniico thnt we ce Jut what
ment Is neeotlatlne for Its use It Is
the results are, although it Is necea-
snry to state that the Invention re
mains a secret, and this notwithstand
ing attempts to discover Its details.
Thus we Khali have to deal with a
general description and with the re
sults of experiments.
The armor Is a sort of felt, the stuff
being capable of adaptation to any
form whalevei; for example, a breast
plate with a collar or a sort of coat
which completely envelops the wearer
and absolutely guarantees him froau
gunshot wounds. Tho thickness
the protector vaTles from one-six
teenth to seven sixieenlli of an Inch,
according to tho arm the effects of
which It Is designed to destroy.
Against the armor of seven sixteenths
of an Inch the rogalar ordnance re
volver with steel covered bull Is pow
erless, and also the gun of the 1891
model charged with smokeless pow
dor. Xn tho numeroaa experiments
whlrlt' have been made in firing at a
distance of several ya.vis the ball,
whether It be of lead r,r steel, when
It striKis the protector fi arrested and
deform d'. In some case rebounding
and In rthrr being almost reduced to a
pulp. Thus there is not only an arrest
of the bail but deformatlo as well, and
in this d i formation tho force of tlw ball
is converted. While thera should be
a high degree of temperature ae the
point touched by the bail; It scviiig
that the tall alono feels the effcrts,
for the pr.it ector does ntt' seenr to
bo burnt In- the slightest.
These results are not limited to
ballistic elTVets, for In the- recent ex
periment It was sought to pierce :be
armor with a dagger driven with all
possible fnrrv. The point uf the arm.
however, couid not penetraftr the frit
and was bent into a shapeless mass.
It Is natural to suppose that the
force of the uaH would be stmmuni
Cirted to the armor and that ttiirwould
be driven violently backward,, resulting-
In a dlsugrccahlo shock and on
wltfch at times would be danpr-rous to
the- wearer. Td demonstrate the In
correctness of thTs view SIgnor Bene
dettl attached ills protector to a horse
anrf fired upon- the animal oaly- six
feet away with an ordnance revolver,
the ball falling at the fee! of the
horse, while he, freed from his Hal
ter, walked aay as if nothing- had
happened. It is to be noted t.Jaf with
tho aame revo.ver a piece of stCel had
been? previously-.- pierced. Tlie same
experiment wi made with a chicken
covered with a breast piece- of the
felt, tlie cock,, after being rMlofrfcSe
new shell, quietly pursuing uhe- even
tenor- of his awy. Philadelphia- Bec
ord. Table Winners In Siberia).
A traveler !h Siberia has tte- fallow
ing to say In regard to table -manners
which he me with: "In eating-you
must? reach far what Is passed' durfng
this first stage of a meal. Toil' woald
never suggests to your neighbor-oni the
right to pass-yon the cheese, but you
woultr rise ia- your place and.' with a
firm grasp cw your knife, reach over
his plate aod Impale the tempting
morsel. If this is not possible you
leave your- place and go around the
tahlb and sweure your locti. My Rus
Rlun natura-nst, Alek, was-a fair sam
ple of an educated Russian and be
turned to mo and said: 'Psee-yua eat
with a font.' 'Yes,' said1 I; 'and: I see
that you do not.' 'No, If had' a sister
who studied at an English- oonrent In
Japan for a year or so. When she
eame back she ate with a- fork, but
we soon laughed her out op It The
end of tae Russian knife-1 broader
than the portion next to h handle
and It Is used both as a knife and an
a spoon. They complain that the
American knives do not 'holif enough."
After this It Is not surprising that
"the Russians were highly amused"
at tho author's "use- of the toothbrush,
which they consider- a peculiarly fem
inine utensil."
Simple Life- of the Pope.
One morning early a friend of mln.
a Venetian nobleman, called on hinu
Vgr. Sarto had said mass and settled
down to work. His sisters had gma
out to mass or for the household mar
keting, which they wore doing at the
HIalto on Aug. 4, 1903, the day of won
ders In their simple life.
"Has the count talcen coffee?" asked
the bishop.
"Well, to tell the truth, no, because
the business was urgent, and I have
came straight from the railway sta
tion," the guest replied.
No excuse availed, and Mgr. Sarto
rose and went Into the kitchen. 8o
the bishop of ducal Mantua and his
guest might have been seen there talk
ing and laughing, wnlle monslgnor
coaxed the charcoal with a black kit
chen fan, the coffee fizzled In a tin
pot on the range and the count got
out cups and saucers In order to save
hta, distinguished host what mental
service he could. Then they hart coffee
togother at the kitchen table. Cen
tury. 8lze of Manchuria,
Manchuria corresponds In latitude
to Manitoba, North Dakota, Minneso
ta and Nebraska. Its area of 302,310
square miles is only 10,000 square
miles less than the combined area of
these great grain states. It is two and
a half times greater than California,
and Is as big as Texas, Alabama and
Louisiana combined. In the northern
part of tho province are thousands of
square miles untouched. Manchuria
has a possible wheat area as great aa
that of tho United States,
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ItoU-rt 'Vtttkins, KIih-iii.
James I A 1,hu4hcIi, Bunton two.
V. II. lloUSfl, liloolll.
AU'xuin3-r Campbell, FisiiiuL'crtek
Jacob 8. Wfbe l'ine
Hiram Deinotf, Millvlllo
H. It. rower.,, lierwick
Charles Hesn, Bloom.
Harry 'a&wnwmd, Blooi n.
J. I). Ipher, Benton twp.
William Fetter. I.ooiiMt
Thoiuaasttttig&t, riue
Frank Roys, Bloom.
RamueS Yorfca, 8ugnrlot.il
CharlewTJe;, Bloom,
iMwootl Kiumse, Benton
D C. Hhoemnker. Millviffle
Jienlair.iii (SoMer, .SugntAtf
H. J. 1 tvrsel, Bl. xm.
David ii' Fisher. Mali)
Jeremiah Renter, Main
Nichobs-Ynein), Cleveland
John Pr Lauhlin, Cen'jralia
Ueorire-M, Alleman, Blown.
HtrauiK. iPVt-ritt, Mt. ineasant
Wesley!'. Hetler. Mifl tn
F. BuwtiMa. Greenwcad
John iJownj, Cleveland
JMmea reveling, MjMin
Kd. li Kvee. Millville
Kami oiUCllflgerman, Jk-aver
Fran't iCustw. Center
John .Ml.JMuuiel, Fisl: Jugereek
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Timely and ValuaUe Suggesting
r3any people, especially worsts
whc.lcad closely caefined d Bmesiic
lives, suffer Irom, what in general
term is called " nervousness."
Among all forms. if treatnieub. none
has.eveu approacbed in sues tbe
intalltgent use ofTDr. Davai' Ken.
neJiy',s Favorite Remedy, off Ron
dout, N. Y., which promotes an
tt&y and natural action oil tbe di
gestive organs md imparts, toae to
tjft nervous syotem.
Take a Trip to California and, Portland.
Low Riis This SunvaM.
If you've Iron planning a western
I t 11 11 rr . .
trip ana Deia on ior a t&vorable op
portunity, tibis summes" the time
to go. Rcu-nd-trip swnmer tickets
on sale, certain dates May to Octo-
Der ujloaido, California, Oregon,
Washington. The Rock Island
offers choke of roule3 and a chance
to see the most iar your money,
tull information, rates and litera
ture from John Sebastian, Passen
ger Traffic Manager, Rock Island
System, Chicago.
"Cleanlinesi ii acxt to godliness.'4 Dirt
and depftvity go hal in hand. Thii is jUsl
at tiue ol the mud of the body as tbe out.
Mile. ConstipaJioa clogs the body and
douus ine mmO, Constipation means that
corruption is bleeding in the body, poison
ing the blood with its foul emanaiions, be
fouijineihe brain with its tainled exhula.
lions. Lonstipalion is the beginning of more
diseases than, perhaps, any other single dis
order. The consequeaces of constipation
re legion. Headache, pain in the side,
shortness of breath, undue fullness after eat
Ing, coldness of the extremities, nervousness
indecision, lassitude, dizziness, sallowness'
flatulence, and a score of other ailments are
directly caused by constipation. Cure con
stipation and you cure its consequences. The
quickest cure of this evil is obtained by ihe
use of Dr, Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They
are fmall in sue but wonderful in result
1 hey cure permanently. Tliey contain no'
injurious ingre.lienis. The use of them does
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New Stxle Automobile Law..
Alter J-inuary 1st Next, Highway Depart
i ment Will Have Charged Licenses.
I State Highway Commissioner
; Hunter is fornnilatin his plans for
the enforcement of the new auto
mobile law which goes into effect
January ist vx-xt. II. M. Cut
shall, a former member of the legis
lature from Crawford county, will
have charge of this bureau of the
department and will probably have
one or two assistants.
The new law transfers the issu
ing of auto licenses from prothoao
taries to the highway department
and after January ist nobody will
be allowed to tun an automobile i a
Pennsylvania without having first
obtained a license from the high
way department. With this license
will be furnished two number tags
one for the tront and one for the
rear of the machine.
All oilier tags will have to be ire
moved so that hereafter all machines
operated anywhere in this State
must carry only the numbered tags
bearing the license number. The
number tag in the rear of the ma
chine must be lighted at night so
that it can be plainly read. The
new law also regulates the speed of
autos in cities, boroughs, and town
ships aud makes a radical change ia
existkig la a s on this subject.
Found Skeleton! of Giant
SAillt Twice at Large as Those or.
Mlnarf Adults
Two skeletons, each measuring:
mor than seven feet in kngth,
weri discovered recently in, a grav
el pit in a forest near Fon-du-Lac
Wis.
The skuSis are twice as, large as
those of an, ordinary adult and the
thigh boucs are almost six inches
longer than those of a six-foot man.
The bone are in a gocd state of
preservation.
It is probable the skeletons,
which are thought to be remains of
some psr-historic race, will be sent
to Milwaukee for examination.
School Board Deadlocked-
Owing to a deadlock in the
School Hoard of Conyngham Town
ship, Columbia County, the schools
did not open at tbe time agreed up
on by the board.
u A Pf'wity oi this deadlock is
that the hitch is not against the ap
pointment of any particular teach
ers but against the appointment of
any teachers at all. The board is
composed of six directors, three of
whom, it is alleged, are determined
to force the matter into court, which
will cause a dissolution of the old
board and the appointment of six
new members friendly to the side
javonng such action, thereby plac
ing them in control. "
A professor has discovered among
some ancient ruins what is suppos
ed to be the eleventh commandment.
The text is as follows: "Etnas rof
yltpmorp tseyap tioht sselnu repaps
weu a daer ton tlahs uoht." The
commandment is easily translated
by beginning at the end of the
sentence and reading backward.
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