A A SA
Seed.
Bow thy seed, oh husbandman!
What though others reap?
Tt will burst the shell and rise,
Bip the dew snd kiss the skies
Sow thy seed and sleep,
In thy labors thou shalt live
Dust alone is dead -
Ever falls the shine and rain,
Ever springs the golden grain;
All the worlds are fod,
C—O.
Work and Wait,
A husbandman who many vears
Had plowed his fields and sown in tears,
Grew weary with his doubts and fears,
“1 toil in vain! These rocks and sands
Will yield nohatvest to my hands;
he best seads rot in barren lands,
“My drooping vine i§ withering;
No promised grapes its blossoms bring;
No binds among its hranches sing
“My flock is dying on the plain;
The heavens are brass
The earth is iron
they yield no rain;
1 toil in vain
While yet he spake a breath had stirred
His drooping vine, like wing of bird,
And from its leaves a voice he heard
“The germs and fraits of He must be
Forever hid in mystery,
Yet none can toil in vain for me
“A mightier han, more skil
Must ha
And make the fields with harvest a)
n
ng the cluster of the vine
¥ Man oan but work God can ereate;
But they who work, and wateh and wait,
Have their rewand, the }
“ Look up to he
The ok
An
ds and §
answer to thy doubts and fear™
He looked
With tra
Was rushing to a distant
i fames afar,
star
and
And every thirsty flock plain
Was risi
¢ meet the rain
he fields with grain
NABBY'S HUSBAND. |
A knock at the squire’s door.
An eager * come in" from the "squire,
to whom any outside diversion is an in-
estimable boon, he having just reached
that uncomfortable stage of masculine
convalescence when life becomes a bur
den not only to the so-called * patient”
himself but also to those unlucky femi
nine relatives whose duty it is to cff
ciate as his * ministering angels.”
Mary, the servant, came in.
Please, Mr. Hoslev, there's a woman
downstairs who says she must see vou.
She's been here to see you before since
you were sick, and now she won't take
no foran a ”
“Show her right up, Mary,” said the
‘squire, alertly, brightening up visibly |
like the war horse who scents the battle
afar off. Not all the cozy comforts of
his surroundings, the *“ Sleepy-Hollow-
ness” of his chair, the pleasant pictures
on the wall, the wood fire which now,
that the wintry twilight was settling
down over the bit of gray sky, left vis-
ible by the curtains heavy folds, danced
and flashed all over the room in rosy
shadows, conld not reconcile the squire
to his enforced seclusion. Secretly he
pined for his dingy old den of an office,
and fed at the doctor's restrictions,
which as vet forbade all thoughts of
business. But now the moral police
force, represented by his wife and
daughter, being luckily off duty, there
was nothing to prevent this probable
client.
“Show her up, May,” and the
"squire cheerfally straightened himself
and assumed as much of legal dignity
as dressing-gown and slippers permit-
ted.
Mary disappeared. Presently the
door opened again. “Why, Nabby,” said
the ‘squire, “is it yon? How do you
do?”
“Yes, "squire it's me,” said Nabby,
dropping down with a heavy sigh into
the chair, “and I don't do very well.”
Nabby was a short, squarely-built
woman of fifty, with considerable gray
in the coarse, black hair drawn stifily
and uncompromisingly back under a
bonnet about fifty years out of date.
She had sharp, black eyes, and a reso-
lute, go-ahead manner. Evidently a
hard-working woman ; yet in looking
at her yon could not help the conviction
that something more than hard work
had plowed the deep wrinkles which
ran across her forehead, and threatened
to lift her eyebrows up to her hair.
Nabby had lived with the ’'squire’s
mother fifleen years—from the time
when Mrs. Hosley took her in, a ten-year-
old orphan, who was, as the good old
lady sometimes expressed it, ‘‘more
plague than profit,” until she grew into |
the steady and reliable hand-maiden who |
finally, with every one's good wishes,
married young Josiah Gould, and set up
in the world for herself. Old Ms
Hosley had long since gone to her
reward, but her family still kept up a
friendly interest in Nabby and her for-
tunes, the "squire in particular being for
her * guide, philosopher and friend” in
all the emergencies of life.
“Why, what's the matter now, Nab-
by ?" said the ’squive, good-naturedly.
“ Are you sick 7
“Yes, I am,” said Nabby, éemphati-
cally, with a snap of her black eyes.
“I'm sick to death of Josiah. I can't
stan’ it any longer, and T've come to
talk with you about gettin’ a divorce.
You see he's been a growin’ worse and
worse now for a good while. I've kept
it to myself pretty much because I was
ashamed on't, and then kep’ hopin* he'd
do better. I've talked an’ talked to him
and said and done everything a woman
could, but it seemed as if the more I |
talked the worse he grew.”
The ‘squire looked st Nabby’s rather |
sharp, hard face, and perhaps was hardly |
so surprised as Nabby expected that |
Josiah had not been reformed by the
“talking to” Le had undoubtedly re- |
ceived, §
“He grew more and more shiftless |
and good for nothing,” vontinned Nabby,
“till finally he didn’t do much but’ sit
around the kitchen fire, half boozy. If
there's anybody 1 hate,” burst out
Nabby, “it’s a man forever settin’ round
the house under foot. Aud there I was
a-takin’ in washin' and a-slaving. early
and late to be kinder decent and fore-
handed, and him no better than a dead
man on my hands, so far as helping any
was concerned. And so I told him,
time and again. He worked just about
enough to keep himself in drink. He
knew he couldn't get any of my money !
for that. But I stood it all till about a |
fortuight ago. I'd been working hard
all day helping Miss Barber clean
house, and it seemed as if every bone in
my body ached, I was so tired. I came
along home, thinking how good my cup
of tea would taste. The first thing I
see when I opened.the kitchen door was
old Hank Slater séttin’ there in m
rockin’ chair. He and Josiah weve both
drunk as—hogs,” said Nabby, slander-
ing an innocent animal in her haste for
a simile.
“They'd tracked the mud all over
my clean floors. The cookin’ stove was
crammed full of wood, roaring like all
possessed. I wonder they hadn't burn-
ed the house up before I got there. And
they'd got my best teapot out to heat
some water, and the water'd all biled
away an dthe bottom came out, But'the
worst was to see my husband a consort-
in’ with such a scum of the earth as
that miserable, low-lived Hank Slater.
I tell you, "squire, L was mad. I just
hung that kitchen door wide open, and
sez 1:
“Get out out of this houee, Josiah
Gould, and don’t ever let me see your
face inside qn’t again.” oo 3
i Seg. Moses: ‘ Where
in
1~
fe
i
an
nswen
%
, meek as
shall I go to, Nabby ¥
FRED
VOLUME XIV.
Iiditor and Proprietor.
CENTRE
PA. THU
*)
RSDAY, APRIL 2i
INERMS: 82.00 a
, 1881,
in Advance.
RB TAHARI MRA
NUMBER 15,
“Sez I, ‘I don't care where you go
to, so long's vou don't come near me
I've always been a respectable woman,
and I don't want none of Hank Slater's
friends round my house."
“Well queried the ‘squire, as Nab
| by's narmative came to a pause.
“Well.” said Nabby, in a rather sub
dued one, ** he went off. And he hasn
come back. And I want a divorce.”
“Xow, Nabby,” remonstrated the old
| ‘squire, “von don't want a divorce. 1
| know you better than that. You are not
| the woman to give Josiah up and let him
go to the bad without a struggle. Yo
feel a little vexed with him now, and 1
{ don't blame vou. It's hard-—very hand
| But von know vou took him ‘for better,
{ for worse." Deo vou think, vourself, it's
{ quite ght to “break your <acontract
ib t proves the worst for von
| becanse you are the strong one aud
| the weak one of the two? That doesn
| strike me as good Bible doctrine, Nabby.
{ ‘We that are strong ought to bear the
| infirmities the weak,” and not to
please ourselves, you know.”
“ Well, I dunno,” said Nabby, twist.
: ing the comer of her shawl, d
| “1 hadn™ thought on't in that
| must It's
v
5
3
i
n
WORN 1 {
he
t
of 1d
ubiously,
3
s0 aggravatin’
husband. Besi
dunno's he'd come back if I wanted
to.”
Say.
“Hasn't he been back at all?”
“WN hy, Yes, he Came back once for a
pair of pantaloons. But I didn't take no
notice of him."
“ Now, Nabby, you may depend upon
it, it wasn't the pantaloons he was
after. He wanted to see if you wouldn't
relent. If he comes again be
pleasant to him, and il
will stay. Give him another
Nabby. Josiah isn't the worst fellow in
the world, by any means. He has
redeeming traits, after all. 1 i
he will do better if yon will ay
him. You know h
bears enconragement, Nabby.”
“Well, "squire, I'll think
Anvhow, IT to
talk so—sorter 0 & !
Your mother's own son; just the same
Would you be able
some of my cheese, "squire ¥
“Try me and see, Nabby,” said
‘squire, smilingly, not impervious
Nabby's compliments, Nabby lel
exit just as Mrs, Hosley rushed 1
of wifely indignation that the 'squire
had been allowed to see a *f client.”
Nabby's home was over at the “Co
ners,” three miles from the village.
walked rapidly along in the fast th
ening darkness, with the steady, str
gait becor the self-reliant won
that she was. Yet even her unimag
inst the
depressing influence of the chilly, raw
November evening. The wind whistled
through the bare tree brancl which
creaked and groaned mournfully, and
waved wildly in the dim light overhead.
The wind seemed to cherish a special
spite against Nabby. It blew her 1
net off and her hair into her eves, st
gled madly with her her shawl, te
her breath away and firmly resisted
every step. Finally it began to send
spiteful dashes of cold rain drops in her
face—rain that seemed to freeze as it
fell.
“ Josiah used to come
an umbrella when I was caugh
the rain,” thought Nabby.
always real kind and good
all. I duno’s he ever gave
word in his life, even when
drinking.”
Here the driving sleety rain, and piere-
ing wind pounced down upon Nabby
with renewed fierceness, 1
madly in fiendish glee.
“An awful night to be
Nabby,” something seemed to say.
“1 don’t care,” said Nabby to herself
beginning to feel cross again, and gen-
erally ill-used as grew wetter and
colder. “‘ It serves right. He's
lie mn it.”
t streaming out
from other
Josiah is
m bl ALY i You
m oOLIeeged Ol.
comiortin
t
1
go0Q heart. Qo
3
Ing
LINE
¥ AR
188,
1
for
107
after me with
. :
®
“He was
m
§
he's been
vié
ous
to e after
Ti
ii
a Cross
mstling her
1 1 :
ROMEIess,
’
sho
At the * Corners,”
cheerfully into the
homes made Nabby's : house par-
ticularly gloomy and uninviting. Nabby
fumbled under the mat for the door-
key, fumbled with stiff fingers for the
hey-hole, and finally succeeded in un-
locking the door, and felt her way
through the little entry.
There is always something “uncanny”
about going alone at night into a dark
and shut-up house. Every person of
the best regulated minds experience a
vague suspicion of something behind
them, a sense of possible ghostly hands
about to clutch them in the darkness.
Nabby was a woman like Mrs. Edmund
Sparkler, with ‘““no nonsense about
her ;” but nevertheless a cheerful tale
she had read only yesterday about a
burglar and a lone woman, kept coming
into her head, and she carefully avoided
the blackness of the corners and the
pantry door as she groped around the
kitchen for a candle. Of course the
fire had gone out.
“Two heads are better than one, if
one is a sheep's head.” Nabby might
have been heard muttering out in the
woodliouse, as she stooped painfully
down, picking up chips; by which orac-
ular utterance I suspect she was think-
ing what a good supply of kindlings
Josiah always kept on hand for her, and
how much more comfortable it was in
the old times, coming home to a house
bright with light and warmth, and Jo-
siah's welcome,
For Josiah cherished the most pro-
found admiration for Nabby-—an admi-
ration not unmingled with awe. He
thought her a most wonderful woman.
She was just as beautiful to him now as
in the old courting-day., before the
| brightress and quickness of the black
| eyes had degenerated into sharpness;
| before the smiling mouth had acquired
its hard, firmly-set expression; before
| there were any wrinkles in the smooth
| forehead. People thought Nabby had
| done well in marrying Josiah Gould—a
| pleasant, good-natured young fellow
| that every one liked, a young mechanie,
| not very rich yet, it is true; but with a
good trade and such a wife as Nabby,
there seemed to be nothing to prevent
his figuring as “one of our firsy citi
zens.”
Anybody can be somebody in this
country if he is only determined. But
that was the difficulty with Josiah. He
never wad determined about anything.
He fell into the habit of drinking be-
will to avoid it. Then Nabby's sharp
words and his own miserable sense of
meanness and self-contempt, of utter
discouragement and despair, drove him
lower and lower into the slough of
despond without effort or hope.
- By a beautiful dispensation of Prov-
idence, whenever a poor, shiftless, good-
for-nothing man is sent out into our
world, some active, go-ahead little
woman is invariably fastened to him to
tow him along through and keep his
head above water. It is for the best,
of corse, What would become of the
poor fellow without her? At the same
time, she sometimes finds it a little
was ambitious and proud-
d.
ay
spirited, willing to work hard to save,
to do her part—anxious to get on in the
bors,
in her husband she had no support, only
a drag and a burden, and finally a dis-
grace, had been a disappointment em-
bittering her whole nature. To have a
t
i
husband that no one respected,
even the bovs around town ealli
Gould,” was dreadful to Nabby., Per
haps it was hardly strange that she grew
hard and bitter
Meantime Nabby had succeeded in
starting the fire, and, having changed
wer dress, sat down to dry her feet until
i b i But
nddy light and warmth with whi
kite en now glowed could not sen
the dreariness of the night. The n
“tapped with ghostly finger tip upon
the window.pane,” and the wind howled
and watled nd the house like the
spirits i { the be LO
taken back and
warmth. Such a wind stirs in even the
happic st heart a Vague san
1
i
PACTS AND COMMENTS,
———
Of the total population of the United
States 1880 a fraction ninety
1 Atlantio
cent, in
basin and a a4 than two
half per cent, the Pacifie
Phin statement will startle some
imagine that the star of empire 1s
ng westward with break.-neck
i i over
great
to
3 iit On
tea-Rettle ole even
3
i
the
¥
1
Bix edd
185d the L§
from 1g fit
Ning 10 various parts ol Germany,
tralia and Switzerland, while thes
numb
Ain
Statistics show that since
haa been an inerease of risk
RIX Ww
Los {
wh Of
}
Hore human life spondi
than
though
CO 10ey in the
Ol he explanation
to lie in the clearing of forests
rail thie
S06 Of loss, Of
that goes to make up the .
of life, Dead
rows creep forth from their graves on
3, and stalk up and down
@ heart.
wondering
It was so
y 3
al { weds, and
BION
AUSIACLOrINeSS sor
houses,
echoing chambers of th
ld not help
was to-night,
lonely sitting there with no one to speak
; er to the moaning wind, the
.
the AR, the loud ticking
A recent decision of the Unit
interest
t
t
supreme court 1s of great
it de
Ci
ne Joss h
; “ un Crmines
oft
CON,
military officers,
they hol i office as tle
the will of the Presi
ate, who etl remove
without a verdict
which has been supposed to be
sary preliminary to the
and navy officers in time of peace.
: .
to, list 23d
: ¥
Creaging «
¢ is
f
i
)
lex
of the eloek. :
The wind wailed and wailed,
Nabby thought and thought. The fact
havi 8 her mind” to the
"squire had relieved her long pent-up
indignation, and now she felt more sad
than ADETY { p before her seemed to
rise a picture of her life youthful
dreams and hop 8, the changes and dis
ap} urned
and of a
“ freed dismissal of ar
30
n
The question what degre 0 of he
NeCOssSary to de stroy tneian 1
flesh is of importance. A German eo
pert says that if the pieces put nto ¢
nl are larg
carta
the
wintments, the love
e, frehins
and realized how
was for one of his weak
e tempiation
will
. "
his place,
impossible it
nature to resist, unaided
mid
retains the
it
, th
been
sironge
i
Ss ‘rare 18s n
ost a y an A rare ha : i
ficiently cooked to destroy thie par
ites. Smoking
4
and pickling the meat,
hin of
iy
1 afraid ve been a little too sh ry
h,” thought she, “I've sor
r granted I was a saint
Slit scolded him
ill. A nice saint
nd high-strung as
.. AsSeris, are «
ag
A. Keene Ricl
tneky recen
, who died in Ken.
more than 81,000,
000 to improve the breed «
of race-hor
He made two |
FGA
3 3 Swit
along y BPS
pre
dow n-h
ud
S sae) 3
Goal
ck and begin over again,
gs would gO better.”
» was a faint noise
Y ch.
and around
till again—no one visible,
could not rid 1
th
with the
Am
3
mixed
i
wWever,
, like
Nabby
; was
Yet Nabby
yeaa if f the ims Aa y
ersell of the umpression
near her, i
¥
hil
wavilt
result, i
loo A d
$
3 p 3%. 3
iI 8 dea faried 10 meet
JP
% * 5 8
sent from his beautifnl blue grass
wn, Ky,
ticipations, though many winn
!
it SOME One Was that o
id
another's individuality
10t present,
hangin’
¥
i near Greorgeld
5 +
sense we have o
near us, the
“There's
here, I know,” said she to herself,
Nabby wa who always
things half way. Accor ngly she walked
to the outside door, and Op it
quick'y, peered out into the darkness,
There stood Josiah, wet, sheepish, ROITY.
Once he started to go in, but his moral
courage failing, he lingered in dubious
tion on the doorstep,
“Why don't yon
18 round
on
5 One ' met
3 $
agen 0
gr Broome
DEITY §
y1ts great excitement in the
in f the
and Broo of
with the
{
a come ne, s¢Gme
i nse being
Zs © towns i
being unprecedented in the
a three day s' trial three
were acquitted and four
abby.
know an
: replied Josi
meekness becoming a
gal.
“ Want yo Of course I do,” said
Nabby, heartily. “ Come right along in
I'm going to have good griddle cakes
for suppe d you must tend them
while I set table.” Griddle cakes
were weaknesses, and
Nabb
Josiah came in.
n
i
?
Kirkwood thinks the
of the Indians a pee
3 It problen i i
body will dis
when the young
hard and vexatious
broken his wild pony to thi pd
Wome acquaintance and
will gather about him and taunt |
doing squaws work; offering him ax
of their own female apparel as sui
for present 1
angercdd and
plow, mounts
up agricultural
Decretary
£
of Josiah's
new id
one
iY
If he ever gets into
heaven probably his sensations will not
be one whit more delightful than they
§ from forlornness of his
wretched wanderings he came into the
COZY brirrhtness of the kitchen, and felt
that h. was home once more, How
Agel wl the tea smelled, The fire roared
and snapped, the tea kettle boiled and
bobbed 1ts lid up and down, 1 from
the gride the savory odor of the cakes
ascended like homely incense. Josialy’
face, shining with mingled heat i
ne he turned the grid
cakes, was something worth seeing.
Nabby stepped briskly around getting
supper ready. It seemed so pleasant to
see the table for two again, to have some
one to praise and appreciate her cook-
ing. The November wind might howl
its worst now, Its hold on Nabby was
In place of all the bitter sadness
that had hung heavily round her heart
was a warm feeling of happiness, of
comfort and hope.
All the explanation they had was
this: Josiah drew from under his shabby
coat an exceedingly awkward and knob-
by bundle.
“I've bought somethin’
Nabhy,’ he said.
The “somethin’” undone proved to
be a very Jhandsome brittania teapot.
The teapot must have known that it
was a peace-offering, with snch preter
natural brightness did it shine and
glisten. Something in Nabby's “eves
shione and glistened, too, although she
had winked hard, and scorned the weak-
ness of a pocket-handkercliief,
“Thank yon, Josiah,” she said; “it's
a regular beauty, and I shall set lots by
it.” :
Which, so long as they understood
each other, was perhaps as well as if
Josiah had made a long-worded speech
of repentance and reformation, and
Nabby another of forgiveness.
I wish I could say that Nabby never
seolded Josiah again. But I can’t.
However, she “ drew it mild,” and there
was a general understanding between
them that this was only a sort of exer-
cise made necessary by habit—a barking
by no means involving biting. And
Josiah was 80 accustomed to it that he
would have missed it, and not felt
5 nn
4 n
5 ;
" 4 11
i OF IS
ar
Me DOW, as
his ocenpation,
ashamed,
Hs pony
life,
i y
i + 1
an
fl
ie
RS #88 W ashi
rrespondencs
the
» stale department at
recently issued
wd with European countries f
past twelve years, on the subject of emi-
gration to this country of the pauper
and criminal classes of various Eastern
nationalities, From this it ¢ {
Switzerland has given caus
he complaint, four-fifths
respondence having been
authorities of that country,
the charge d'aflairs at Berne,
1d, in this correspondence states that
the ratio of the of objectionable
emigration — the pauper and criminal
was to the total emigration in
1879 and 1880, in each nationality, as
follows: One to 30,5638 : German, one to
23,848 ; Italians, one to 18,08¢ ; Swed
ish, one to 12,5046 and to
+43 2-3.
d
i ©1 1 the oo
‘
Appears hat
for most of
{ the od
had with the
Mr. Fish,
Switzer
gone, o pe
CARS
classes
for
you,
Swins
one
A Buffalo grand jury found an in-
dictment against one Henry Weil, who
keeps an oleomargarine mill in that
city. Here is the indictment, which is
a curiosity: It is alleged that he “did cre-
ate and maintain a certain and common
public nuisance by keeping and acen-
mulating the fat, bones, flesh, tissues,
entrails and substances of divers dead
animals, and divers chemical acids to
the jurors unknown, beef, tallow, offal,
carrion, and other foul, noxious, filthy
and putrid matter and substances, both
solid and liquid, which the said Weil
has cooked, steamed, soaked, mixed,
puddled, fermented, stirred, brewed,
| converted and rendered together and
{ separately, by which he has wrongfully
and unlawfully caused and permitted to
raise, evolve, emanate, disseminate and
spread divers noxious, noisome, offen
sive, deleterious, nnwholesome and nn-
natural without being wound and set
going for the day by Nabby.
One day, later in the winter, Nabby
was washing for Mrs. Hosley,
“Bo you've taken Josiah back again,
after all,” said Mrs. Hosley.
“Well, yes, I have,” said Nabby,
giving the last twist to a sheet she was
wringing out. ‘Josiah mayn't ba very
much to brag of; but then, you see,
he's my own and all I've got. We're
| gotting to be old folks, Josiah and me,
and we may as well put up with each
here.”
healthy gases, vapors, exhalations, ef-
flnvia, miasmas, smells, stenches, which
contaminate, poison and infect the air, to
the health, comfort and happiness of
many thousands of the good citizens of
the city and to the common and pnb.
| lie nuisance of said citizens.”
The farmers in Louisiana are giving
attention to the cultivation of the jute
i plant. So great is its consumption in
{the manufacture of mattings, coarse
ported last year into the United States
seven millions worth of that product,
It is an annual plant; the seed is sown
| in April and is ready to harvest when it
| beging to blossom in the summer
{ months, The fibers are soft and silky,
and prepared for the loom in like man-
ner as flax, to which it; assimilates in
appearance and the uses to which it is
| converted in textile industries. In Ori
“How has he been doing since he
came back 7”
“First rate. He's walked as straight
as a slring ever since, He's a good
provider, now he's quit drinking, and a
master hand for fixing up things around
the house and making it comfortable.
{ 1 tell you what it is, Mrs. Hosley, we've
| got to make 'lowance for folks in this
world. We can't have 'em always just |
| to our mind, We got to take them | yui0r,
| just as they are and make the best | gttended with great success, and as thy
i on't.” | Sonthern States are well adapted as
o. I'm glad to see you so much hap- | jute-growing regions, the crop, which
| pier and better contented, Nabby.”
“Well, I used to fret and complain | 4 ready sale, will be remunerative to the
‘a good deal because things hadv’t| planter. It can without much trouble
| turned out as I expected em to; but | expense bo raised in sufficient quan.
| one in this world, after all. We mayn't | their way into the pockets of Southern
| git just what we want, but we git some- | farmers.
thin.”
| lieve Nabby was about right. | 8t. Petersburg is one of the measures
| adopted by the new elective council of
If there is any difficulty about decid- | twenty-five to invest the reigning czar
ing where to hold the State fair, we | with all possible safeguards from exter-
{ would suggest that a rocking-chair or a | nal foes. The Cossacks seem to he the
sofa would be a good Place Wiseling | o0rDS d’elite on whom the emperor
Journal. chiefly depends for protection. This
i
}
guard of honor co Opn rates with the po
to the eity until each person is subjected
i strict nve stigation, that the
citizens of Bi, Petersburg are literally
besieged by their countrymen,
the cordon the condition of aflairs 1s not
much better: the inhabitants are sub
jected {0 the most rigid surveilance
by the police,
make iy hour
search the house, and arres
tion the inmates, Their names and oe
cupations are taken down by the author
ities and they are not permitted to
change their domicile without first
taining permission to that effect, The
streets an patrolle od nig h i day 10
those and keep
and ward over the « mMperor, who,
notwithstanding all the
:
fo BO
domicillary visits,
t at discre
al ar
t
:
ab
{
i aI
enforce observances
i
wateh
TL) surroundings,
1 that
i AEsINA
some form may reach
it
ms an indefinable dread as
in i AS
imperial father.
————— AA
$l
Humaors of the Proof-Room,
A New York proof adder, whose ox- I
perience dates back nearly twe nty five |
contributed an
series of articles on his business to the
1% After presenting &
vivid pen picture of the many trials to
which the proofreader is subjected, both
and newspaper oflices, the writer
ladierous mis. |
vears, has interesting |
dar Gem
»
Good
in book
gives a few instances of
prin We quote !
In of a famous trial in
i cookin, a lady was te Hing about the deo-
fondant
having
fir
§
Lal
the course
ir
r on her to relate Lis woes,
which, 1 he laid |
» and she cove red him
I'he reporters caught |
wrote ** napkin, ' and it
in the reports of several
ng The HI Poss]
g" the portly and dig
with a
struck the
wl
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defendant
have
er, bu lid not,
tleman, describing a visit to a
building, where he ha
ienlty in finding the way out,
ound the Eg
i him ;
Cis
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pre of wl
A nt
ie
$5
i
wostern
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ale, where he !
but
con”
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} BWaled i the con
i at
d
th a arrestee
the innumerable dogs of
iter longed for the
“WN HiGSRacCTe,
ned for
dog
he VeuLy
' 3
holow's dog mu-
likened something
very flat and stale to
procession by darvlight,
ical candidates, but
thon it
4
moralist
mposito pursiod guns |
be better than the candidates,
gentleman from New York" ap.
peared in proof once as * Cunningham
1%
ik
and, may be pre
writer to think that |
have vielded something
i 1 he
some satlors engaged
., but the types
AONLENGG Was
‘ Beeing some sailors en.
: HY po ¥4 foi 1 i
BUCIMAD Was Onee plat
i situation for
student,” but
a conscl
the |
theo.
wke of an anthor
1 argument
is, based on evidences
' when printed the
the existence of
in
plimentary
:
4 it for the
3
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A, Disodd On the rodeness of design
ol not Mn
whi
girls
bing a fort,
was ©
it was written that
guns were barbette,” but
thought it wonl be
‘all the guns were in Baireuth.”
stronomer once saw “thirty-six
y course of a single hour
on their way throngh the
. Tr
§ 8G
en
npositor
leh
comp
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roan tHe Mmeleors ox A in Wie cor-
f
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an account
transformed
i rough hie
heading
college feast w
“The Dartmout Dinner” to the
‘ Foulmouth Dinner,” which was not
true, although there were many speakers.
Speaking of the strain upon a laborer's
it was written, ©“ When he lifts
pipes or carries bricks in his hod,”
it the compositor put the “bricks in
hat,” where, alas! too many of them
are car rie d.
A reporter, writing of an accident, |
put the cart before the horse, by assert. i
ing that the #4 backed overboard, |
dragging the cart after him, Of course, |
if the proofreader had been thus |
“mixed” there would have been trouble. |
A traveler in Africa told of an alli-
gator which swallowed thirty-six * mis.
sionaries.,” The printer must have been
jilted, for, according to him, the reptile |
made his meal of ** nurse-maids.”
A weekly newspaper lamented the
prevailing tendency of English girls of |
the period to defy the
restraints of former vears The com- |
positor made it read * connubial re.
straints,” and perhaps he was not far
wrong.
Another inquirer wanted to know if |
the “police cannot do something to
prevent careless and dangerous blasting |
in the neighborhood of Third avenue ?” |
and this is the way the typo put it: “Can- |
not the police do something to prevent |
camels and deer from bleating in the |
neighborhood of Third avenue?”
“ His blood boiled as he beheld yonth |
and beauty in the power of a determined |
villain,” was what the author of a story
wrote, ** His blood boiled as he beheld |
guilt and brandy in the form of a deter.
mined villain,” was the way the com-
positor fixed it.
Mr. McGinnis determined to exercise
his marital right of “snoring in his
chair,” but the composite r thonght he
would be better ‘‘snoozing in his
straw,” and possibly Lie was right.
Some time ago it was asserted that
“a Canadian had devised a scheme for
warming his beloved lvnd,"” but the artist
at the “ease” said that he had devised
a scheme for “wearing his blond hair"
A Virginia paper said, during a politi- |
cal campaign, that the farmers would
forget their “pantry and nursery” in
the excitement of politics. What the
editor wrote was that they would forget
their ** poverty and misery.”
“The Duke of Brunswick is sick, and
all the courtiers of Europe are in a flut-
| ter,” came up in type, “The Duke of
| Brunswick 1s sick, and all the court
| geese of Europe are on a platter,” which
is a good place to put geese, if they are
nicely roasted.
The list is not by sny means ex-
hausted, and is being added to daily and
{ nightly all over the country, but the
| Gen has limits, and this article must
close with one or two specimens of the
| kind of copy of which printers and
| proofreaders are expected to make in-
| telligible advertisements:
“A companent mother wishing a
child unbottle or board best reverence.”
“A yong Heolly woman of 18 As wet
| nurse with the priviage of own wages
| no Objecting.”
| And this notice from the Hartford
Courant will do for * finis:"
“ BIRTHS. — TroMsury. — In Sun-
bury, November 12, a daughter to Jane
and Sarah Trumbull.”
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Sheep manure is richer than that of
cows, Practically it is estimated at
| THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
Cannda Thistles,
| An effective method of eradicating
{ Canada thistles is as follows: As soon
as they appear in the spring strike them
toff with a sharp hoe below the lower
i leaf or even with the solid earth. Re.
{ peat every time a sprout starts, and
your efforts will be crowned with sue
{cess the first season. Cutivating about
{ them increases their growth as it does
| other plants They cannot, however,
live without a top, It is a waste of time
| attempting to dig up the roots. Mow
{ ing closely when in full bloom will check
! them seriously , but the only sure method
{is that first mentioned above. Thistles
{ are such a nuisance that farmers can af-
| ford to spend some time in their effec.
| tive eradication, A few may appear the
{second year after this treatment; if so
{ repeat the cutting of the stalks, and if
| thoroughly done sure death is the re
| sult, {meri Ch
in eaior,
Transplanting and Cutting Back,
of the roots are
stroyed. Those that remain when set
out in a new place are in no condition
to feed the plant as it was fed previous
injured—a part de-
back to restore the equilibrium. Let us
instances the case of a newly-fransplanted i
If many buds are permitted |
to push and grow, the growth of each
at the end of the season will be found to
be of a fool ls , Hamature kind. If, on
the other hand, but one bud be per
mitted to grow, a strong, healthy cane |
Thus we see in the :
former case the sap is distributed among |
many buds and shoots, while in the lat- |
ter it is supplied to one. The tree or |
plant of any kind may live in either |
While, however, euntting back |
renders the chances of life greater and
insures more vigor, we have still to con- |
sider whether a few str Mig shots are not
desirable than many feeble ones,
New Yarker,
mor
5
R HE
Good Veood for Fawle, |
All varieties of poultry Can be kept
well and economically upon screenings
composed of all manner of seeds. They
can be also ke pt npon table refuse, sour
milk and decaying meat scraps and |
musty grin. This may be an induce.
ment for keeping poultry, but the ques- |
L100 Arises whether it is the best Way to
keep poultry where an excellent quality
of eges and flesh is desired. Beef may
w fod on distillers slops, but the quality
1% very much inferior to corn-fad beef
Onions, cabbage, clover and filthy water
affect the taste and quality of the butter
and milk of the cows to which they are
ed. Pork made from corn is very mueh
superior to the swill-fed article. When |
a fine quality of eggs and chickens is |
ry should be vigorous and |
desired ponlt
order that their digestive or
1
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healthy, in
taken to see that the poultry-house is
properly ventilated and not kept too
warm, as a vitiated atmosphere has very
much to do with the profit and health i
of the #1 Poultry, to be ke EL prof. :
itably, Hay be watered, housed and fed |
abundantly, with frequent changes in
diet. The poultry-keeper who attends
to these details may reasonably expect
f realize considerable pront.
profit may, however, be realized when |
kept
farm, if ordinary care is taken to see
that they get suflicient food and shel
ty of the product §
orn and wheat produce
ock
i8t
Some
o
simply as the scavengers of the
“|
ter: but the gnali
inferior, CO
5%
he
1
1
the principal foc
wheat and decay ng
wl emploved., Buck
vegetables are the
poorest foods, not onis for
i
quality but
color of flesh and egos reespondence
ties
$3
Cotntry (re pan,
Breaking Colts,
There may be something good and
useful thus far unwritten as to how to
break a colt well. 1 may be allowed to
try. When only week old
put on the foal and let remain the head
part of a halter. Soon after attach
about one
and stand hitched quietly without pull- |
ing backward, But, if not before, as |
to halter ; then |
commence to fake up all its feet and
liness to prevent thrush and slipping,
and also to get it well used to having |
its feet handled preparatory to being |
shod. If of very large size and showing |
considerable * high stuff,” it may be |
well to commence breaking to harness |
at one and a half years old. First, in |
stable, put on all the harness and spend |
considerable time in adjusting each |
part and buckling and unbuckling every- |
thing. Tie traces into breech rings,
use no blinders on bridle and only loose
cheek-rein. Let the colt stand several
hours at a time with the harness on.
After some days of this usage, a small
string of bells may well be attached
tothe girth, Take the colt out of doors |
with harness on, and first in lot, after
ward in street, teach it to handily be
driven by the reins and to tum out
on meeting teams and turn around cor-
ners, Go different routes daily. Then
teach it to back, first by taking hold
of the bridle, afterward by long reins.
Always on return home teach your colt
to stand still while being unharnessed. |
Three weeks’ daily lessons of this kind
and your colt will be fit to hitch to a
Not less than |
two persons should be in active attend.
i
large ring of the bridle bit with the |
right, yourself meanwhile leading the |
colt forward by the opposite bit ring. |
Should the colt show signs of much |
fright the shaft may be romoved from
the holder and gently let down on the
ground ; then try again, and so i
it cares nothing for the sulky |
Thus |
i
i
on, !
the ultimatum of good and easy break.
ing may be accomplished, and so mod. |
erately and gradually done thatthe colt
will never know when he is being
broken, —Aational Live Stock Jowrnal,
Farm and Garden Notes,
Never overload a team nor discourage
it by a too heavy pull at first starting ;
nor start from a bad place, if possible to
avoid it.
A change in seed is often very bene-
ficial,
It is said that a pullet's first eggs are
not so good as those laid later,
Fowls seldom tire of milk. They
may eat too much grain or meat for
health, but milk in any form is both
palatable and healthy.
One of the most deleterious systems
of gardening, says the London Chronicle,
is to spade about a foot deep, while the
subsoil remains untouched.
Decayed grain of any kind is highly
injurious to stock. It hasa Friialysing
effect upon the animal fed with it, often-
times causing death.
A single horse or a pair will draw far
more and easier after getling up to
their work thanwhen first starting. Never
draw the chieck-rein tight in heavy pull-
ing or in driving a fast gait.
nearly double the value of that of cattle,
A New York farmer says that potato
ries,
heavy enongh not to be blown off and
will pack and smother the plants as
straw or hay will sometimes do, In
spring they are so well rotted as not to
need removal,
{ “W. 8" asks if cutting potatoes to
one or two eves in a hill would be too
small to produce good resulta. The best
crop of potatoes we ever saw was from
potatoes cut to one eve and planted one
piece in a hill. There is a great waste
of seed potatoes every year in our coun-
try through ignorance.— New York Her
ald,
A compost heap should be a perman.
ent institution in every garden, and it
will be found surprising how much fer
{ tilizing matter can be accumulated dur.
{ing a year. Buch a structure need not
{present an unsightly or objectionable
appearance ; it may be built behind
some hedge, or in a fence corner, and
{ protected from sight by a few ever
The most successful fruit growers,
turned in.
The prevalent idea that shallow plow-
roneous one, Unlike corn, the roots of
uire
There is said to be no eure for the
earbuncular erveipelas, when the swell-
ings on the flanks and legs have ap-
peared. In fact, cure may be said to be
impossible at any stage, but prevention
easy, To prevent danger, give each
one ounce of linseed oil daily for three
is
Hecipes,
Jey Cusranp.—To one eupiul of
any sort of jelly add one egg and beat
cream or fuilk, After mixing thorough-
Iv bake in a good crust,
Braipen Saver. — Beat a cup of sugar
and a heaping tablespoonfal of butter to
a cream, make into a pyramid on a
small plate and grate nutmeg over it,
berry puddings.
Smurre Lewox Pie—Five eges, two
cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter,
one cup of warm water, one cracker
pounded fine, rind and juice of one
lemon; bake with an upper and under
crust. This should make two pies.
Crooorate. — There are several meth.
ods of making breakfast chocolate, A
very old French recipe has been care.
fully tested and found perfect by the
and pour upon it enough boiling milk
have the milk beiling in a saucepan
until it boils to a bubble, then gently
stir in the paste, stirring until thor
The white of eggs foamed on top is an
improvement.
Household Hints.
Make: Spors Warenrnooy. — A
of gum copal varnish applied to
the soles of boots and shoes, and re-
peated as it dries until the pores are
filled and the surface shines like pol-
ished mahogany, will make the soles |
waterproof, and make them last three
TT 3
wit
Sramxep Maus —A small quantity
of diluted vitriol will take stains out’of
Wet the spots with the acid,
ew minutes rub briskly with a
soft linen cloth until they disappear.
To Creax Suveawaxs Frosted sil-
verware or frosted ornamentation on!
plain silver should be cleaned with a
soft brush and strong lve, accompanied
by freqent rinsings in soft water. After
the frosted parts are dry, tho polished
parts may be rubbed carefully with
powder,
To Curax Brass.—Brass is cleaned
{
+
an old tooth-brush will |
polishing with dry pumice and
cloths, This will clean lamp
cets, also pedals of pianos, and gas |
burners.
“ TA 5. i
Trees and Moisture, |
A report sent us by an undoubted an-
every quarter century in consequence of |
the wanton destruction of woodlands, |
must most seriously affect the climate of
ment of health as well as the fertility of
That the picture is not over- |
drawn we can easily prove from the de- |
cline of horticultural products. From
States in which but a com-
paratively few years since peaches were
it,
upon
until
garden products with
to the *“ Report
Scuthern Indiana,
other
H
to the far more hardy apples and other |
fruits. Tight frosts in May and June |
are no longer a rarity ; the wheat mar- |
EE RS
SHAM BUTTER.
| Some Poluis of Intevest About Oleomars
: garine,
| The New York cor ndent of the
Detroit Free Press wntes: We have
been picking up some more :
about oleomargarine. The logis
sent a committee down from Albany to
| investigate the sham butter business,
| and it was through the tteo that
wo got the points. I don't know that
any one ever had a consuming desire to
eat oleomargarine, but if there ever was
such a person he is rather scarce just
now, i seems {hough that
and thousands of people have been eat.
ing it, and are still doing so, no doubt
under the impression thst they were
| and are feasting on real butter,
sell it as such all over the country.
buy it for what it is, but always sell
it for what it is not. They
are obliged to call it real butter in order |
| to sell it at all, for if they called it oleo-
| margarine their customers wonld not
HEI
{
The air, while yet 1 breathe it, vweet for m
For loving looks, though raghivih fender
And words of praise, slas! can Banght svail
To Lift the shadows from s life that's past,
news,
And kindly
HUMOR OF THE DAY,
touch it. The reason why they buyit is |
because it is cheap. Tey can make a
much better profit on it than they could |
body is the wiser. The law requiring |
the manufsciurers to brand the boxes
* is no protec. |
stuff |
is taken out of the boxes and tubs by
the retailers, or else the brand is re.
moved, and the woman who orders a
pound or two of butler has no ressen to |
—
¥
5 *
Dear st any prico—Sweethearts. ar
A tie vote is generally the result |
otty question. woo
A man who was
watchman refers to it as his
Xo star ever rosé and set withont
with a hen.
frand instead. In most cases the taste
is all right, and detection of the frand |
in that way is nearly impossible.
The committee examined a large nam- |
ber of dealers in dairy products, and |
they all testified the same way—that |
oleomargarine is nasty, abominable stuff, |
which the law should shunt right down |
on ak closely as possible. One objection |
to it is that in preparing the fat and |
grease used in its mannfacture the tem- |
perature is not allowed to rise above
120 degrees, while it takes a tempera |
ture of 212 degrees to kill animalenle. |
If there happens to be an insect life in |
the fat and grease {or lard, for it seems
that is used, too, and this, by the way,
suggests trichinm), it passes into the
sham butter and remains there. Another |
objection is that all the surroundings in
the manufacture are disgustingly dirty. |
A dealer who had visited four factories |
told the committee that all were abom- |
inably filthy, The floors were covered |
with filth an inch deep, and the work-
men were nearly naked and hasdled
evervthing with dirty hands. The |
committee itself visited some factories, |
snd found plenty of dirt snd a shock-
ingly offensive odor in each. One of
the regular produce dealers, Frank
Moulton, gave the oleomargarine men a
first-class raking. He said they had |
almost ruined the dairy interests of the
country. Those interests suffered a loss |
of about $50,000,000 a year by the oleo-
margarine fraud. Europe would takean |
enormous amonnt of American butter if it |
deception, —Phitadelphia Cloonide.
“You don't know how it pains me to
ish you,” said the teacher. “I
ness there's the most pain at my end of
the stick” lied the boy, feelingly,
“*T any rate I'd be willing to swap.’
“Yes, sir,” said Gallagher, “it was
funny en to make a donkey
I laughed till I cried,” and then he
smile go round the room, he grew red
iy the & , and went away mad.—Boson
ost,
I'he favorite girls in Washington have
but she takes only $5,000,000 worth |
from the United States, on account of
oleomargarine. We exported last vear
25,000,000 pounds of the latter and only |
dairy interests
eat ice-cream with a coal shovel, ic
to be an expensive summer
or unmarried government clerks.
Some one who has had a sad experi
the of a horse says
he wonld
»
is declining, as people are afraid of get-
ting oleomarganine instead of butter at |
the stores. Some manufacturers who
were examined objected to their trade |
being interfered with by law. They
would not consent either to give the
oleomargarine a special color, such as |
green or blue, so that buvers could |
know what it was, or to the hanging up |
of signs inscribed, * Adulterated Batter
for Sale,” in the stores where it is sold.
Of course no one who makes money out |
of it, either as manufacturer or dealer,
will admit that oleomargurine is not a
good thing. They all maintain that it |
1s particularly good—a great deal better |
some will stand right up and tell you it
is a blessing in disguise, :
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
Vines are said to extract yearly from |
Fhropist replied. ab once th
good for
Courant,
It is said that two French: philoso.
proves that
or that nat
which, — New Haven gos
dr ven mala love of
marked ‘Tom and Jerry” Gen.
majolica; *“ Yes; we
‘ But haven't you some marked Clifford
Alvord or Bertie and Georgie ?”
A_ debating society has tackled the
quantity
that the cereals take up.
A curious fact has been noted by
fessor Von Tieghem. The cells in the |
roots of an apple tree
holic fermentation when the soil was
very damp.
very sickly appearance.
Mr. G. Phelps Be
grand total of gol
historic ages to be $17,500,000,000, and |
that of silver £14,000,000,000, making
to be worth §31,000,000,000,
Eschnit has confirmed, by a new sia.
hard that 38
?—Boston Post.
A stock broker ing to his office
different to a man when he has
bottle of champagne i him."
different to the
a
“Yes, sin,” lied the
= ix looks
Puck. :
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No wonder a man hates to have his
life in the various professi
—the general impression that medical |
men are shorter lived than any other
class,
fifty-three Protestant clergymen, forty-
magistrates, thirty-four Catholic priests, |
but only twenty-six doctors reach the
age of fifty.
jon. Theeflort results in
look cross-eved, and when he
. around. And
ment in Caleutta obtained last Novem-
ber a sample supply of the londspeak- |
pany, and the experimental trials of their
instruments have given so much satis.
>
.
&
The Origin of Restaurants,
The use of restaurants has become
20
eral all over the world, that it will ¢
Low they
be interesting to many to,
first originated, and to ‘what they owe
their now familiar name. It appears
‘that the first of these establishments
rejoicing
ket was in many places entirely killed | an order fora large number of their
by frost: in others from twenty to | telephones. The government of India
forty per cent. was lost. In many | Will not sanction the establishment of
States in which, at the commencement | telephonic exchanges by private per | in 1765, by &
of the present century, spring used to | Sons. ihe tasted in DY 8 man of ‘Bou
happen in February it is now delayed | Although Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys has, | This date however, :
until the end of April, and the growing | during a period of between forty and | 4 "40 with the choice of the Rohing ;
of wheat has become altogether proble- i fifty Years, dredged, as a explorer, all ! which the ho of en .
nois (July, 1879) on the harvest, pros-!a considerable part of those «n the | :
pect, climate, ete., says the erops bad | coasts of North America, Greenland,
suffered greatly from the want of rains | Norway, France, Spain, Portugal, Mo-
we must go back to the
| century, at the end of which one of the
‘soups, or liquid ailments, most used by
the people was a bouillon known as the
It was made up of
| anything of value except to a naturalist, ' « jivine restorer.”
we Minneapolis Tribune.
=
A Trapper's Death,
Chris. Haltman, a trapper, who lived
alone in his cabin a few miles from
Moscow Mills, in Wasco county, Oregon,
recently sustained a rupture while chas-
forest for several hours, and sneceeded
in reaching the cabin. Three weeks
later his nearest neighbor having called,
found Haltman in a dying condition,
He faintly told of the accident, said
“I'm nearly gone” and not long after-
ward gave up the ghost. All the avail-
able surface of floor and wall within his
reach was written over in charcoal. The
writing proved to be his will. He had
considerable gold, which he wished to
be sent to relatives in the Fast. He
never got up from the floor, and during
the three weeks was unable to reach
anything but a box of sugar and a bag
of coffec, though he had plenty of pro-
visions in the cupboards of the eabin.
C—O 05
A solemn old scientist printed the
fact that by bathing the feet in tepid
water a man oould increase his circula-
tion, and now all the editors are having
tanks fitted to.their office stoves,
‘nor any human bone, although many |
thonsand human beings must have per- |
ished in those seas. The gems, ‘dead :
bones,” ete., that was thought to form |
| the floor of the oceun appear to exist
| only in the imagination of thepoets. |
| The artificial means by which drowsi- |
| ness may be induced have been investi- |
The ordinary drowsiness of fatigue sup- |
posed to be caused by the introduction |
| into the blood of lastic acid, a compound |
| proceeding from the distingeration of
the bodily tissues of nerves and muscle.
To ascertain whether this view was cor-
rect, Preyer administered large quanti-
ties of the acid to animals, and found
that it would induce a drowsiness and
slumber apparently identical with formal
sleep, and from which they awaken
seemingly much refreshed. Not only
lactate soda, but sour milk and whey,
produced this artificial sleep.
vo —
The London Cuckoo says the Czar of
Russia is a lineal descendant of Princess
Sophia, mother of George the First, and
therefore, under the act cf settlement
with the reservation as te r ligion, is
entitled, better heirs failing, to succeed
the remains of fowls and viands !
down in an alembie, with émshed bar-
Ih ra ow af Tu of compare
As it was onl .
tively well-to-do persons who could
afford such a luxury, a génius was
required to bring the **divine restorer”
within the reach of all the multitude.
a
Gailliard, who pro an
excellent substitute” for the 1 eal nectar
by cooking a fat fowl in a little aromat-
jzed water, and selling the boullion as
At that time the privil
k
victualers, and that of
dinners was sessed hy
corporation or
new sellers of the “