TWO DREAMERS.
Under a tree two “roam rs lay,
And unto one did the w nd’s voice say,
“Castle Pleasure is building fast;
I heard the hammers as I flow past.”
But to the other the wn i's voice said,
“ 3 Endeav.r lies just ahead.”
ThMreamers rose. ‘Lhe years sped by,
2nd the wind blew out of the changing sky.
He who wrought for his brother well
Came to the castle of Joy to dwell;
He who turned from the toil.ome hill,
| Boeking his castle - is seeking still,
{James Duckham,
“Well,” impudently queried the man
a8 he stood in the door of a fourth floor
room snl loo ted into the face of a woman
whose cheeks had grown white as she
heard his step on the landing.
“I'm sorry, sir, but-—"
“Same old story, is iti"
“]'ve had to tell you for the last two
months that I was out of work and
couldn't pay my rent. That was bad
enough, but now my Tom is out of
work, too. He's there on the bed, sir,
and tho doctor says it's a touch of pneu-
monia.”
“You owe two months’ back rent,” he
said as he inspected the poor old furni-
ture aud wondered if it would pay to at-
tach it,
“Yes, sir, but if you'll only bave a
little patience we'll pay you.”
“Patience won't pay taxes nor make
repairs. I'll give you the day to pack
your traps.”
“But where will I go?”
“‘Beat some other landlord out of two
=months’ rent.”
+] haven't a shilling in the house and
there lies my sick boy! Give me a week
anyhow,
be carried out.
here, but I've only e little coal and have
to use it more carefully than you do
gold.”
they come; I'm sick and tired of hearing
these yarns.”
“Before the week is out I may find
work. If Tom was well I wouldn't say a
badly off that the doctor —"
**Talk to the constables!” shouted the
man, as he turned to go.
lose by it.
Lord raising up
ready to give up.”
two month's back rent out
0."
That was the way the year opened for
the Widow Flint and her boy Tom. It
was hard times all around. Pleoty of
energetic, skillful mechanics were out of
work and behind in their rent,
or
had made him susceptible to exposure
and brought him low. There wasn't
tore, and it was well that the boy's fever
was the only palatable thing in the
but most of them had little else
bread. When poverty begins to hunger
their poverty is selfish.
It makes people selfish to herd them
together.
titution blunts all sentiment.
never noticiog but well-off
folks?”
anybody
all--the poor as well as the rich.
goodness.
burden to" bear, we must do it. You
must have medicine, Tom. [I'm going
out to see if I can pawn my shawl.”
for work.”
“But it may save you.”
She went out and walked about for an
hour, but pawnbrokers and second-hand
clothing dealers were taking a holiday
with the rest of the world. She finally
entered a drug store, and asked of the
urbane proprietor, who came forward
rubbing his bands, to take the shawl and
fill the prescription.
“Very sorry, vou koow, but we
couldn't do it,” he replied. *‘Medicines
are cash, and the shawl is old and thin
and not worth anything.”
“Bat my Tom is threatened with
pueumonia, sir.”
“Y-e.s. Just the sort of weather for
preumonia, and most of the cases seem
to prove fatal.”
“And must he die for the want of this
medicine?”
“Good-day, ma'am--good-day. I no-
tice the thermometer is down to zero,
and I shouldn't wonder if it would go
lower before night.”
She had assured Tom that there was
only one God, and that He watched over
the poor as well as the rich, but as she
wended her way homewards she had to
combat her doubts. His fever was worse,
and he was out of his mind, and all day
long he moaned and tossed about, and
she could do no more than hold a cup of
water to his lips now and then. When
hit began to fall she made up a bundle
of Tom's clothes. They wers old, but
of more value than her shawl. If he
died she would not redeem them; if he
Jt well Well, she had said that the
ord sometimes raised up a fricad for the
poor
’ . * +
and distressed.
- . »
“Humph! Four o'clock p. m., and
Tas Day, sad you not out of bed
It was a young man of 25, who had
to bed at 2 o'clock that morning.
face was Rinched and , his eyes
hollow and hot, one look
at him might have taken him for an o
‘Made #==% of yourself
‘ again last
you?” he growled, talk
so i Tou
“01d man, do you know that I'm about
ready to cut your acquaintance? A
young man of decent family-—plenty of
money, good prospects, and yet how are
you using yourself? Champague, cards,
dissipation, Going right to the dogs on
the gallop. At 25 you feel like a man
of 50. Health, prospects and the whole
outfit going to the devil, and what are
you getting in exchange? You are the
son of your father and a high roller—
that's all. When you come to figure it
down you are a champion fool—nothing
loss.”
He lazily turned over, sat up on the
side of the bed and continued:
“Head as big as a house, and your
stomach full of vitriol. Nice chap you
are. A decent mule ought to be ashamed
to kick you. No sand-—2a0 cnergy-—
clothes aud wash up. You and I are
going to have a talk after a bit,
and I'll order up a bite to eat.”
Half an hour later the high-roller sat
down to his cigar, and as he smoked he
said :
“What | want to know
had six or
it seems to me
When a
sort of business. You've
seven years of it, and
that you ought to be through.
realizes that he is an ass he's ready for a
change. Suppose we swear off? Sup
pose we surprise the old folks by drop-
ping this high- roller business and living
a half way decent life. Champagne
cards, songs, cigars and all that last
night till you were drunk as an old bum
That reminds me.
streak of luck, Let's sea!”
He bad money in every pocket—twos,
fives and tens, The bilis were crutapled
and rolled, but he smoothed them out on
his knee and counted them over and
| said:
“A fool for luck! Here's an even
| $300, and I must have had luok, just
| about enough to pay for a wine supper,
| and just about a hucdredth part of what
lost at cards. Well, what are
| you going to do about the other matter—
| swearing off ? Strikes you as about the
correct thing, does it? All right. Hold
i up your right hand and repeat after me.
| “I James Forbush, being in my right
| mind for the first time in several years,
and fully realizing that I sm the biggest
idiot in North America, do hereby affirm
and declare that I am no longer a
roller wheels. In other words, 1
i pledge myself to eschew cards, drink and
! other rapid traosit matters, from and
| after this first day of Jaouary, 188- and
if I break my word may I be despised by
men and kicked by animals.”
*““That's all rizht, old man—all right.
May come hard, but you'll wobble
{ through. Now. as to the money. You
i don’t need it. It was won at cards, and
there's wine stains every bill. In
| being a high roller you've forgotten all
i about charity. You've been ready to flip
a dollar to the waiter who held your
| overcoat, but never a nickel to the beg-
| gar on the street. Let's take a walk.”
i I've
high
on
on
- * # ®
-
“Well, what's the matter with yout”
“Don’t arrest me, sir; I'll move on.”
“Arrest nothing! What's in the
bundle?”
“Tom's suit, sir,”
“And who's Tom"
“My boy, sir, and he's sick with pneu-
| monia, and I"m trying to sell his clothes
| to get medicine
“Come off | 1 never heard of such a
thing!”
“Here's the prescription, sir, and will
come home with me and see for
She led the way and he followed.
| When he saw the pinching poverty and
beard her storv—when he stood by the
re
| smiled grimly, and said
“Then there are high-rollers and low.
Never knew that before. Never
had an idea that people really suffered
| from poverty. So this is poverty, eh?—
| no money—no hopes—boy sick-—~rent due
coal out—and vou trying to sell the
boy's clothes for medicine!”
strange man in the room
“What, Tom?"
“About the Lord.
streets and looking all over for Him,
and He was right here all the time! Now
we'll have the medicine and a good fire
and something to eat! You
was a Lord, but—[—]-—"'
roller
“Why, sir, I told him that the Lord
might raise up a friend for us. He was
#0 ill and we were 80 poor that he doubted
if the Lord watched over the poor.”
One by one he counted the bills into
her hand-—just $300, and put on his hat
to go.
“Why, sir—but you see--you don't
mean all this for me?”
“Get medicine—a doctor--coal--pro-
visions—save Tom's life!” he said, as
he went out.
She sat down in a chair, dazed and
faint and wondering if she had not passed
from earth to heaven, and as he clattered
down stairsand got out into the eold and
the night—he muttered:
*Old man, you've made a beginning,
and now see if you can’t keep it up.”—
[Detroit Free Press
The celebrated Lessing was remark-
able for frequent absence of mind. Hav-
ing missed money at different times,
without being able to discover who took
it, he determined to put the honesty of
bis servant to the test, and left a hand -
ful of gold on the table.
“Of course you counted it?” said one
of his friends.
“Count it?’ said Lessing, somewhat
embarrassed: ‘‘no; I forgot that.”
At a public sale there Was a book which
Lessing was ver rous of possessing.
He gave three of his friends at different
times a commission Io buy 3 at any
y
Brien ai the Le " high 1
Hitec s best 10. Shans. to she ol
t
when it a : they had all besa bid-
whose forgetfulness on
ot him eighty crowns,
Journal.
HOW PAPER MONEY IS MADE,
Work of Uncle Sam's Expert Eagrave
ers at Washington,
If you will look at the pictures upona
one~dollar bill, you will see that the por-
trait of Martha Washington or of Stanton
is composed altogether of curved or
straight lines-—the only kind of engraving
that is allowed tc be done in the bureau;
because unless it is done in this manner
and unless the lines are cut very deep, the
engravings canpoot be used. Now this
portrait was engraved in a piece of steel
by the use of a very sharp little instru.
ment known as a graver,
Every little scratch on the steel plate
will, in printing, show a black line, #0
you will see how very careful the engraver
has to be that he shall not make any false
| scratches, and that the lines shall be just
| 80 long and just so broad.
Now, steel engraving is the direct op-
posite of wood engraving. The scratches
and cuts made on a wooden block will
| be white in the print, and it is only the
{ uncut portions of the block that print
portion leaves the paper white.
When a design has been cut on a steel
plate, and is ready to be printed. the ink
is put on the plate or block, and all the
cuts and scratches become filled with
ink. Then the ink is carefully rubbed
off of the surface, so that nome remains
except what is in the lines. When a
piece of dampened paper is placed on the
plate and subjected to very heayy pres
sure, it sinks into the lines;
is taken off it draws the ink out with it,
paper.
[t takes an engraver about six weeks
or two months to complete one portrait,
and a man who engraves the portraits
Each engraver does only a certain portion
of the work on a note ; no one is permitted
to engrave an entire note; so that be-
sides the portrait engravers there are
some who do nothing but engrave the
fissures, the seal, the lettering, the bor
der, ete. In this way it would be im.
possible for an engraver to make a
complete engraving for his own
we i
use, 1
such a thing.
example, the background of the portrait
and of the borders, and the shading of
the letters- this being done by what is
known as the ruling-machine, which can
rule several hundred perfectly straight
lines within an inch. The intricate scroli
and lace-like work around the figures on
the face and the back of the note is done
by a wonderful machine known as the
geometric lathe. This machine consists
of a large number of wheals of all sizes
and in all sorts of arranyements, together
with a complicated mechanism of eccen
trics and rods, all of which is incompre-
hensible to any but aa expert
machinist,
}y a proper adjustment of parts
the delicate diamond point that moves
about over the face of the steel is made to
work out a perfect and artistic pattern
with greater accuracy and much more
speed than could be done by band;
one
its
the engraving is one of the greatest ob-
{ stacles with whieh the counterfeiter has
to contend, for he finds it next im
possible to imitate it correctly.
Fortunately for Uncle Sam the geome-
to
expensive machine, and the counter.
feiter is generally a poor man; and even
if he did manage to lay up enough money
would live long enough to learn how to
use it properly: for there are only four
men in the world who upderstand how
to operate it.
Indeed, the man who now has charge
of the gegmetric lathe at the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing is the only
time who knows how t
might tangle matters up for a while in
this important branch of our Uncle
Sam's big government —{St,
HUES OF THE EARTH.
to Its Red Vegetation,
is a phenomenon familiar to all dwellers
in the temperate zones.
in summer.
| globe from the moon, says a writer in
| Youth's Companion, the variation in its
i perhaps be even more striking than it
appears to those upon its surface,
In fact, we sometimes lose sight of the
very important part which vegetation
plays in giving color to what might be
countenance of the planet.
It is not the higher forms of plants
that always produce the greatest effect
in this way. Some of the most stiiking
scenes upon carth owe their characteristic
features to mosses and lichens. The
famous ‘‘crimson cliffs,” of Greenland,
which extend for miles northward {rom
Cape York, derive their splendid color
from the growth of red lichen which
covers their faces.
The cliffs rise between 1,700 and 2,-
000 feet straight from the water's edge,
and being composed of gray granite
their aspect would be entirely different
from what it is but for the presence of
the lichen.
Coming to less magnificent, but not
less beautiful scemery, the rocky 9,
called the Golden Gate, in the Ye'low-
stone National Park, owes its rich color
and its name to the yellow lichen cover-
ing its lofty walls, and the indescribable
hues of great hot spring terraces
arise mainly from the presense of minute
ants flourishing in the water that over.
Considered hole, th
0 as 8 whole, the vegetation
of a planet may give it a
aspeot as v rom spade. Many have
thought that the red color of Mars may
be due to be sistance of red instead of
green vegetation .
That its broad expanses of forest and
prairie land cause the earth to reflect a
considerable quantity of green light to
ite bors is indicated by the fact that
at the time of the new moon a greenish
tint has been detected overspreadin
that part of the lunar surface which
then illuminated
earth,
“
THE JOKERS BUDGET.
on ——
JESTS AND YARNS
MEN OF THE
By
PRESS,
FUNNY
Unavoldable - Why She Decided -An
Iufant Phenomenon An Unexpected
Countession, Kte., Kite,
UNAVOIDABLE,
Tapeleigh — When the boss com-
menced to bully you for not showing up
yesterday you ought not to have lost
your head,
Scrapeleigh—How could I help it?
The first thing he did was to cut it off.
[New York Herald.
WHY SHE DECIDED,
Maud
Waite or Charley Pruyn?
May Well, 1 prefer Charley,
think I shall accept Frank.
Maud—For his money?
May —No; for his asking. —|Truth.
but |
AN INFANT PHENOMENON,
Fond Mother—Big? Do vou think so?
Why, we think he is rather small for his
age. Talk? Oh, yes, he talks; but he
hasn't said anything remarkable-—yet,
Visitors (together)
child ! [Judge
WOMAN'S
Mrs. Muzler {on a visit) trust,
daughter, that you make vour husband
happy?
The
WAY OF KEEPING PEACE,
Daughter (bride of onc year
Whenever we quarrel
I get him to give in and make up.—[Chi
AN UNEXPECTED «OX
NVESSION
“1 know I play a poor game of bil-
liards now.”
bis band, ‘‘but”
“*You used to play a great game,”
terrupted a sarcastic bystander
“But,” continued the man with the
2, 1 used to play a far poorer
Detroit Journal,
as I was sayin
gaint
DESERVING OF MEDALS
“Brown has received fiiteen
om the « ye Io club this week
good work!"
Bragg -—Yes; they are for the people
medals
£ Are they
fo
-{ Chicago
Inter-Ocean
A SLIGRT CORVPI
SION.
She tripped down the stairs and an
swered the postman’s knock, for she was
expectiog letters far too precious to be
rusted to footman or maid
“What here?”
smilingly,
have
as
Hets doug?”
Not exactly, m
'etter-carrier with
Billy Dooley.”
we
sie
“Bi
bd TT replied the new
“my name's
-{ Washington Star,
a blush,
ITT
Willis— You have
trouble you much?
Wallace-—Yes
meet asks me
Drama
ROUBLED iM
'
a cold Does it
fool 1
and
Every blamed
about it M asic
CONDITIONAL
The Old Gentleman — And
think you must have my
band, my boy
He {devotedly I do, sir.
The Old Gentleman—Well, remember
ncludes a sixteen button glove Take
be happy !—[Truth.
you really
daughter's
iT OFTEN Ww
Mrs, Wavback
don’t seem t
ft college
Mr. Wayback—No;
education made him too
WORKS THAT AS
Junkett
since he
Jim
much
Young
y amount to
ie
you see his college
smart
Puck.
HIS LAST WORDS,
“ What did you get, popper’ asked
the little fish, as he saw his parent make
a dart at a nice fat worm.
“ Hooks,” answered the parent.
then he soared to the world above.
And
{In
THE ESSENTIAL FEATURE
““ I'm afraid this picture is spoiled ; the
her
—{ Chicago
Mother—Oh, that doesn’t matter:
Inter-Ocean.
ACTED OX HIS PRINCIPLES,
Mr.
Johnnie—Yes, sir.
Mr. Goodman—And what did you say
to him?
Johnnie— Nothing, sir.
ten apple at him. —{ Truth.
I threw a rot
A DEGENERATE NEW ENGLANDER
“Beans, ma'am,” exclaimed the man
at the kitchen door, aghast. ‘‘Beans!
, ma'am, I've come more’'n a thou.
sand miles to git away from ‘em!”
And the tourist from Boston went
sadly away and tried the next house, —
[Chicago Tribune.
A DIABOLICAL BCHEME,
“I want to go home. Not one gentle.
man has come near me the whole even.
ing,” said a neglected maiden at a Har.
lem sociable. Whereupon her mother
whispered in her ear:
“I'll tell you what to do. There is a
gentleman's hat on that chair, Sitdown
on it, and the owner of that hap will
have to hunt you up sooner or later, and
then you oan scrape an acquaintance
with him." [Texas Siltings,
KOT TO BLAME.
Tenant—8ee here! That house you
rented me is infested with rats. Every
night we are waked up by the Packet
Agent—That's very strange. ast
tenant never said a word or p09 rats,
“Well, then, of course you are not to
“No. The people who lived there be-
fore never complained of anything ex-
cept ghosts.”
HEROIC REMEDIES,
Student—Professor, is
amputate when you can’t i groper
las i
NATURAL HISTORY,
me what comes under the head of meat!
Bright Boy—The mcck, ma'am,
{ Puck.
He
AND LEFT.
“Rose,” zald the adsrer, taking his hat
and eane for the seventh time, and mak
ling the third bluff at leaving since 11
‘Rose, bid me but hope. I
could wait for you forever.’
“That's ull very wall, Mr. Staylate,”
anid the beautiful girl, coldly,
| needn't begin to-uight.”
| ;
o'clock,
1 HE KNEW
1
| her proteges) — Be brave and earnest and
| you will succeed, Do you remember my
| Washington had to contend with?
Willy Raggs--Yes, mum; he couldn’t
i tell a lie!—{ Puck
GONE FROM FIM,
First Steamship Passenger—Do you
i know what they had for breakfast this
| morning?
Second Steamship Passenger
{Judge
No. 1
| guve it up long ago
WANTED TO BE RED
Caller—1 have a little bili
{—"
Hardup (interruptiog) -The
{ out
i Caller—\Very {i
some other day and pay it. Good day
Hardup requested office boy
kick him six tunes. — | Philadeiphia
ord
Casnier 1s
well: call around
the
TWH ALL
XTY-ONE IN
“How many neighbors hav
Oia’
“Eighteen, and three my wile
Detroit Tribune
Speak ti
“ How do you
pie
“Aw
i deah boy,
ud $y
haiah.
I follow
yoush know
Truth.
AN INAPPPOPRIATE SI
““ Milton ia a regu
he ?
ir mouse ir
sition, sat
'
**irreat J upite
au idea of
* Mrs. Jone
town on a DIY
vipur bh
baat
He
ie
REE EL.
‘Is that sol
roiny on a
Pre
HELY
Dashaway—Old man, can't
me to-morrow nigut
ier i ertainly, old
will have to make it ¢i
Dashaway—Why s0 late
uffer—11
another at si
with
wt
vou
nt ave X
IO BE CONGRATULATED
Willis—Borrowit has removed to kan
He save his nearest peig
hirty miles away
Wallace—Lucky
Life
%
RA Boor
is
neighbor. —| Brooklyn
EVERYTHING IN STOCK
(Customer I'm lo king for a tall
with arm.
Floorwalker— Certainly. The
just across the store
man
sae
remnant
{Puck
pler 1s
NOT A RARE CASS
doesa’t know her own
“I'nat woman
mind
“What's the reason?’
“She changes it so often.”
COrGatored Males”
Washington N
"male is, according to Flore
iislect, a mule that
} partially insane by an
are hundreds of such
in Florida, and it is a {act that they ane
never the same after a genuine fright of
this sort
i helped to ‘gator onc mysel!, writes a
traveller. 1 had been staying at Ocala,
ind finally agreed with several friends to
go hunting in the south. Some distance
from town we located upon a small stream
abounding in game. After pitching camp
{I went for a walk, and before long |
found a ‘gator hole From the strong,
musty odor isssing {rom it | knew the
owner must be at home, I decided to
| capture him, and called my companions,
| Several times we rammed a long pole
into the burrow. Finally we heard a
snap like the report of a gun, and the
{pole remained fast. The ‘gator had
| seized it. We tried vainly to pull him
{out. Then some one suggested that we
{try our camp male. The mule was led
{down to the hole, a chain fastened to
him and the pole, and the frightened
| animal was started. There was a creak
ling of chains, & roar, and an alligator,
| fully seven feet in length, came out with
{ a rush, as the mule started on a wild run
WE SAVE
has been driven
tor. There
demented
sunken so deeply in the pole that he
could not release himself, and away went
mule, pole and all. The alligator spun
round, hissing like a steam-engine; but
he' held on, while the mule, thinking
himself pursued, snorted and ran. We
followed. Into the main street of Ocala
flew the mule and his queer load. Com-
pletely exhausted, he was stopped bya
party of men near the post-office, The
‘gator wasdead. We skinned and stuffed
him. The mule recovered, but the sight
of a swamp now throws him into a per.
fect frenzy of terror,
AA UAL IN
A Puzzle.
Among the puzzling questions some.
times put to young men and women in
collegiate examinations is this: “What
were the ten days in the world's history
in which nothing was eaten, nothing
drunk, and pothing spoken?” ‘The ane
swer 1s, of course, the period between
Qutoht bth nd 15th jo dd 1582,
when Pope Gregory L days
off the calendar. That was the bagi
between the
ning calendar
old and new styles was ten days. Ia the
eighteenth century it was eleven days.
In the Prasent cenury it is twelve days.
From 1900 to 2100 it will be thirteen
days. —{ Worthington's Magszine,
In 1890 Pennsyl hag
inhabitants and pr
of pig iron.
uoed
A NEW ENGLAND MIRACLE.
His EXPERIENCE,
THE WORNDERIUL STORY TOLD
ABD 1I8 MOTHER -IB-LAW
PonTER OF
BOTH ARE BESTORED AVIER
YEARR OF
BY FRED ©, YONS
TO A NE~
THE BOSTON HEEALD
AGONY,
{From the Boston Herald]
The vast health-giving results already ate
tributed by the newspapers throughout this
country and Canada to Dr. Williams’ ‘Pink
for Pale People? have been recently
supplemented by the eases of two confirmed
Pills
town, The names of these people are Frad
C. Vose, his wife and his mother-in law, Mes,
members of (he
same household,
To the Herald reporter who was sent to
Mr.
“1 am thirty-seven years old, and have
remarkable cure Yosa
been railroading for the Fitchburg {or fiftesn
i I bave been troubled
Vi
vears I have suffered terribly and constantly.
Years, bovho
Binee
with a weak stomach the past seven
stomach would not retain food ; my head
"5
shed constantly and was so dizzy | could
Ihada
i
help me,
ago 1
wail
qareely stand my eves wers blurred
beartbars and oy breath was offensive
it they failed to
43 i { var
the
hysicians, 1
SRE
art
‘h
Had ter
iad to
breathing.
and nREe
5 developed
» nights,
pita.
nights | did
was broken
spirit when,
got a uple
Pink a
water
racgmst
If 1 lay down m3
pat st a4 great rate, and many
not lose my at atl i
body and dis
in February last, |
Dr. Willams
nished
+ signs
eyes
OUraAgea in
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Another Great Ship Canal.
The great canal between the North
and Baltic seas is fast approaching
-ompletion, and the engineers say that
it will b> opened without fail next
| year. It has no locks or sluices along
its course, but at each end there are
gates regulating the water level in the
canal he average level will be the
, same as that in the Baltic. The bed of
the canal is 27 feet below normal water
| jevel and it has a bottom width of €8
| yards. The slope of the sides is either
| two to one or three to one, and the
least depth of water is to be about IS
feet deep. The Baltic trading steam-
| prs generally draw less water than this
{| minimum and are of such a beam that
{ they can easily pass in the canal. The
| groathst amount of curvature is made
{ with a radius of 3,000 feet, and 63 per
| pent. of the canal is straight. During
| the summer about 5,000 men nave been
| pt work on the great ditch, and up to
i
}
-t
the present time about 100,000,000 cubic
ards of excavation have been com-
flied at an expense of about $17,500,
i, The entire cost of the canal is es-
timated at 239,000,000, of which sum
| Prussia contributes $12,500,000 and the
German Empire the balance.
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