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POSTAGE AH person who mail the Sunday inane of The Dispatch to friends hbonldbearin mind the fnct llint ihc pou nce thcrecn 1 Two (3) Cents. All double and triple number copies ot Tiio Dispatch require a 2-cent Hump to Insure prompt delivery. PITTSBURG. SUNDAY. NOV. 23, ISM. BLAEVE AM) HA1UJISON. It would be interesting to learn whether the authors of the apparently inspired dis patch concerning the policy which the Pres ident will recommend in his message, and the attitude of Secretary Blaine toward it, were conscious of the humor which appears between its lines. It is probable that the information is given out in Bimple good faith, as an outline of the Presidental pol icy; but the picture which it draws has more humor under the surface than appears in most of the political cartoons. The statement is that the President will recommend what is called "a vigorous pol icy" in the way of sticking to the Federal elections and sppo.':"onmut bills. The only criticism to offer on the description of this as "vigorous" is that the adjective is liardly strong enough. It should be termed heroic in the medical sense. The effort to cure the Republican party of its desperate condition by stick ing to the principle of timilia similibus and trying to revive it by heroic doses of what ails it, in the shape of election and partisan apportionment bills, is de cidedly in the "kill or cure" line, with the usual chances in favor of the first alterna tive. This picture of the Pres dent as belong ing to the class which forgets nothing and " learns nothing, is completed by the sketch of Secretary Blaine in the background as calmly consenting to the President's course and modestly awaiting the personal usu fruct. Mr. Blaine "differs with his chief on this line of policy," but will not inter fere. He does not especially care for the Presidental nomination and will stand aside so long as the President desires to keep up the effort for a renomination on this policy; but if there should be a call for liis leadership as a party necessity then he will come forward. This we can easily be lieve. The statesman who has been de scribed by a family organ of the President as "Jealous Jim," is not likely to be jealous ot a Presidental boom lounded on the idea of rehabilitating the party by election and apportionment bills. Mr. Blaine can well afford to stand in tne background with a mild dissent while the President commits political hari-kari, under the impression that he is cherishing a sec ond-term ambition by urging the class of measures wnich have already subjected his party to one ot the most complete defeats it ever experienced. The programme is a good one. There is no surer way of bringing about the party necessity for Mr. Blaine's nomination, which is already a positive quantity, than an in terlude in the line of a Presidental cam paign in favor of the policy that has already defeated the party. The only drawback to it is the danger that it may go so far as to mate a nomination worthless to Mr. Blaine or any other Republican. INTER-STATE COMMERCE TAXATION. The latest phase of inter-State commerce rulings comes from Vermont, where a deci sion has been made declaring the corpora tion tax law of the State to be unconstitu tional. Other coutts have already ruled that a State tax of the gross receipts of rail roads earned in their inter-State traffic is unconstitutional. But this decision goes a step further, aid on the apparent argument that it is impossible to separate the gross receipts of State from inter-Stale traffic, and that if it were the taxation of one while the otter is untaxe . would be a discrimination against State t afile, decides that any taxa tion of gross 1 eccipts of a corporation en gaged in inter-i tate traffic is unconstitional. As ell railioaus worth mentioning carrr more or less inter-State traffic, this principle would practically forbid the taxation of the gross receipts of any of them. This is another illustration of the way in which this group of decisions, founded on a purely imaginary prohibition of the Con stitution, is arguing everything to a stand still. Starting with the assumption that the States cannot regulate commerce between the States or with other nations, while the Constitution expressly contem plates such regulation, this Vermont court reaches the decision that it cannot tax its own corporate creatures. The Springfield Republican justly points that the logical con clusion of this decision will prevent the States from taxing corporations at all; for taxation of gross receipts is only a form of assessment, and it the tax is levied on the road-bed, the inter-State commerce must bear its share of burden. But there is a more complete reduction of the whoie line of legal arguments to an absurdity. The char tering of corporations to engage in inter State commerce is far more regulative than the taxation of them. Every charter con tains more or less of regulation, and the whole vast total of railway charters has been created for the purpose which is promi nent among other functions of carrying on inter-State commerce. If the judicial rea son which voids every legislative act'of a State that can effect inter-State commerce in s,ny way is unconstitutional, why should not all tne State charters under which inter State commerce is carried on be declared null and void? It is not likely that any court will go to that length. But it is worth while to con sider whether the logic which would lead to that conclusion would not be just as accur ate as that on which a cooa many of the other decisions are founded. THE INDIAN RELIGIOUS) OUTBREAK. There is a tragic earnestness in the false Messiah-worshiping, ghost-dancing fanati cism of the disturbed Indians which should make the Government extremely careful not to resort to extreme measures which precipi tate bloodshed. It is timely to allude to this, because we see General Miles charged in some quarters with being anxious to bring on an Indian war. Between ordinary deviltry, such as in spired Indian disturbances many times in the past, and violent, even though mis taken, religious emotion, as now shown, there is a vast difference, to which some re spect must be had. Religious belief, whether among the savage or civilized, the enlight ened or the unenlightened, whatever errone ous forms it sometimes takes, commands for bearance to the last degree. Besides, it is not these poor semi-savages of our plains who alone have exhibited fanaticism in their I religions professions. At various times, as history exhibits, sects of white people pre tending to the lights of civilization have shown a frenzy almost as wild as that of the ghost-dancers. "When Short Bull, one of the prophets of the false Messiah of the In dians, tells his followers elaborately how God had urged them "to be afraid of nothing," that "we are the tribe of Indians and the only people who live a sacred life"; that "the earth will shiver and destroy the soldiers"; that "whatever white men tell you do not listen to them"; and "my friends and relatives, all this is straight and true", there is the tone in the assurances wnich false prophets are accustomed to use. His tory records how time and again the "pale faces" themselves have been moved by such appeals to holy wars, mutual hatred and a spirit of fanaticism, than which nothing could be more at variance with the religion of Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose followers they professed to be. It is the good fortune of the whole race that the spread of intelligence has led among them to a better understanding of the Divine in junction and purpose. "When the Indian goes to fighting out of the mere excess of animal spirits inspired by either bad frontier whisky or race re venge, no sympathy is wasted when he is caught and sharply punished. But the outbreak ol a spiritual fever among these remnants of the Aborigi nes is, seriously, another sort of disease which calls for gentler and more patient treatment. It is no pleasacter to be toma hawked by a savage who fancies he is obey ing God's command than to fall under the butcher's knife in other fashion, so the Gov ernment's hand should be prompt and strong to restrain. But there is enough humanity and fairness in the country to reprobate any attempt on the part of the soldiers to provoke the bloodshed, the pre vention of which should be their role func tion. The rage of blind or stupid fanaticism passing under the name of religion is" not such a new thing but that it is well to mike whatever allowance is possible- for the frenzy which has broken out so unexpectedly among the Indians whose opportunities to know better have been none of the best, If the Government sees to the protection of the white settlers the Indian craze will soon die out, and in place of harm resnlting the greater may be the opportunity to teach them of the true Messiah who came with a message of peace and good will to earth. The occasion is one where the ignorance of an unfortunate race pleads against any more violence than is necessary for restraint. MONEY CANDIDATES. Under the smoke of rumored rivalry for Don Cameron's place in the Senate there is possibly some fire of opposition. The latest came mentioned is that of Peter A. B. Wid ener, the passenger railway "millionaire of Philadelphia. Mr. hitler, Philadelphia's millionaire Mayor, is also named. How manv other millionaires through the State j would be wiling to represent it in what has been called the Millionaires Club at Wash ington may only be conjectured. It should not be difficult to secure a Senator of more frequency of intellectual display than Cam eron. But if the possession of a barrel of money is set up as a standard of qualifica tion, the public will take no great interest in that sort of material. Mr. Cameron is not a particularly popular personage. He has never made mnch effort to acquaint himself with the temper of his constituents. Bnt the least that can be said for him is that neither Fitier nor "Widener would be such a mani fest improvement as to electrify the State or the outside barbarians. Perhaps Mr. Cam eron's friends understand this sufficiently to help along the Fitier and Widener booms as the chief opposition. From that quarter Don should have nothing to fear. CAUSES OF FAILURE. The two failures which have agitated busi ness circles during the past few days with the fear that the stock flurry was going to spread into manufacturing and commercial circles, prove on examination to furnish their own explanation. They disclose the methods which make insolvency inevitable; and when snch a condition exists in the case of any firm, the sooner it is exposed and wiped out by liquidatiou the better it will be for busi ness at large. The Barkers, of Philadelphia, like the Barings, of London, had a reputation for conservatism and stability, that had prob ably been well-deserved in the past, But wh:n the real state of affairs is exposed by an assignment, the Philadelphia firm, like its London prototype, is shown to have wholly disregarded the conservative princi ples on which their business was supposed to have been founded. That precious Chinese concession on which the Barkers and Count Mitkiewics expected to realize wealth greater than that of the Rothschilds, Astors and Vanderbilts rolled into one, is a compara tively mild and innocuous example of the bubbles which this "conservative" banking firm has been chasing. The backing of railroads without either termini or any main line worth mentioning, is a specimen of the policy of putting large sums of money into ventures which it were base flattery to- call investments, and which, when there comes any pinch, must necessarily and justly end in insolvency. The more recent failure, that of the United States Belling Stock Company, is- hardly old enough to have its details fully known. But the statement in its behalf that k sus t nfciihfc, ifT.i 1 iVwimiMMt pension was necessary by the fact that the corporation, with $6,000,000 of assets, had to take long time paper of the railroads in pay ment for its cars, is enough to arouse sus picion. "With the almost unlimited demand of the railroads for rolling stock it seems as if very ordinary management ought to make a rolling stock manufacturing com pany prosperous. But when we find fromtbe statement of the company that it has spread out by the building of factories all over the country, largely by floating some $3,00fj,000 of various kinds of debent ures and consolidated mortgages, we can begin to understand why a corporation of such seeming magnitude should topple over at the first wind of adversity. This sus pension is an object lesson on the policy of making fixed investments out of borrowed money, and also contains a decided com mentary on the popular theory that the bigger a manufacturing corporation the more solid it is. "We have no doubt that there are half a dozen small car manufactur ing concerns that will keep right along without even noticing these adverse circum stances that have reduced the $4,000,000 cor poration to liquidation. The question whether these failures will spread is of course, the one of absorbing in terest There is not the slightest reason why they should except fu cases where the conditions are reproduced. If there are any more banking firms that have been putting their depositors' money into wildcat schemes, or any more manufacturing con cerns that have been extending their plants on the grand scale by meant of borrowed money, it would cot be strange if the late squeeze should develop those weak points. But it is well known that such cases are ex ceptional. Business has generally kept itself clear of speculation. Prices are on a conservative basis, so that the main cause of commercial panics by a marked fall in the prices of staples, is wholly impossible. The elimination of the agencies which have been diligently cultivating the source of financial weakness will strengthen rather than weaken the situation. There is no reason why legit imate business should not go right on, ad hering to the conservative basis which has so successfully kept clear from the specula tive bubbles during the past few years. THE DECLINE IN SILVER. The decline of bar silver to below the quotation of one per ounce, making the gold value of the silver dollar about seventy-seven cents, is a decided negative of the market for precious metals, to the en thusiastic claims of the supporters of the silver act of the last Congress that it would raise silver to par with gold. "We do not know whether any of that class will assert that bar silver was depreciated by the recent monetary stringency; but as under the law a large portion of the silver could be con verted into legal tenders, that view would not seem very sound. It must be taken as a fair inference that the temporary advance in .silver on the passage of the bill has called out supplies of bullion from every quarter; and the legislative attempt to ad vance the value of tbat metal has only been profitable to the clique of speculators who realized on the advance. Even if theadvancehadbeen permanently established, the real object of the agitation in favor of silver would cot have been at tained. The argument of the silver men is that monometallism has so increased the use of cold for coinage as to raise its price, and that the actual effect has been to lengthen (he measure of values, so that it requires about twenty per cent more of the products of the world to obtain a gold dollar than it formerly did. The object of the reinstatement of silver, therefore, must be to return to the silver standard, and reduce the measure of values to its former dimensions. If the silver leg islation of Congress raised silver to a par with gold it would not accomplish that pur pose, but wonld simply elevate the silver dollar to the gold value. But the silver contention is not entirely unfounded. Probably one-half of the so called depreciation of silver is really due to the appreciation of gold. But it is neces sary to recognize in the course of the bul lion market the lesson that if this country does anything in the line of reinstating silver without an international agreement, it-, must ba done by putting our currency on the silver basis, depreciating the dollar to about SO per cent of its present value, and letting gold go to a premium of 15 to 25 per cent "We may, by pursuing our pres ent policy, make the transition fslow and defer its consummation for years; bnt if we are o do it at all, we should do it with our eyes open. It is by no means a settled matter that such a change would be for the worse. But it is necessary to an intelligent policy that we should perceive in the decline of silver bullion to its old level the fact that the full reinstatement of silver coinage means a cheaper dollar than we have got cow. Loons have been caught in England forty feet under water with books baited with live bait for trout This is- singular, but not more so than the correlative fact that loons 'have "been canght in Lombard street several millions of pounds deep with books baited with South American bonds and similar truck. Chief Justice Roxce, of the Vermont Supreme Court, has resigned. Judging by the last decision of that lofty body the probable cause of the resienation is that the Vermont Contral Railroad overworked him. It is asserted in N ew York that one de pressing influence of the stock market is re moved from the fact that all of our railway Btocks held abroad hays been returned to this country, the English financiers having sold all their "-Americans" in order to carry their bur den of, Argentine bonds and similar securities. The results may lead them to finally question whether it would not have been wiser for them to have unloaded their "Argentines" and held pn to their "Americans." Kind words cost nothing, and yet they make things pleasant all around. "With Depew nominating Blaine. Springer nominating Cleye landand Cleveland nominatingDepew,thepros pect is clear, if this reciprocity keeps on, that the hearts of all of us may yet be gratified by a Presidental mention. Lieutenant Troup says that he will talk no more on this Stanley business. We basten to commend Mr. Troup' example to Messrs. Ward, Barttelot. Bonney, et at France as. a financial reservoir is a wonderful country. After being wrecked in a terrible war, paying an enormous Indemnity to Germany, sinking 400,000,000 in the Panama Canal and losing smaller sums in the copper syndicate collapse, she stands ready to furnish England with money to save, that nation from financial smash. The national habit of f rngal ityandtbe encouragement of small property bolder is working out its results in France. The United States Rolling Stock Com pany is the last corporation to roll into financial liquidation. The statement that two students at Johns Hopkins University are going to Cent a duel, indicates that amass the modern.'apnlrances of edo"" - -SI discipline which tbatrlcb' en-J dowed Institution has secured, it should not have omitted a spanking machine. Seceetakt Stone has been vindicated by the election somewhat more decidedly than some of his rivals. The four counties of his district cave Pattlson a majority of 1,650 over Delamater; while Stone has 3.3S8 over his Democratic rival. As Stone was. a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, this leadership of nearly 5,000 votes over Dela mater warrants him in intimating that he knows how it might have been different The supporters of Governor-elect Peck in Wisconsin evidently think they are keening up the humorous effort by nominating him for the Presidency. Tbcy have not yet perceived that the joke is on'the people who take Peck for a political leader. Unsettled stock markets seem to be an excuse for the weak brethren for their failure to settle up, P03TMASTEB GBNEEAIr WANAMAKEK Is heard crying from the outer darkness into which both the L. and O, and the Blue Law ad vocates have thrust him, that he Is willing to leave Sunday postal service to the local option of any community that wants to vote on it Mr. Wanamaker will, however, find that it is not local option that his critics want but com plete surrender or nothing. MEN AliD WOMEN. Henry Ward Eeecueb's old house in Brooklyn ha3 been turned into a boarding house, and his large library has been cut up by partitions into bedrooms. The Rev. Dr. John Hall will dedicate the new Presbyterian Church in Chicago, of which his son, the Rev. Thomas C. Hall, is pastor, on Sunday, November 8Q The Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler will occupy his pulpit on that day. Our of 800 foreign missionaries at present In India, it is said, the oldest Is an American, the Rev. John Newton, of the Presbyterian Church, the veteran missionary of Lahore, who, at the age of 78, is still a worker in his chosen field. Mrs. Elizabeth I!. Custer Is in appear ance a slender little woman, delicate to fragil ity, who looks as if sha conld not have endured for a day the life of privation and hardship which she chose to share with her gallant hus band for years. Dr. Harold C. Ernst, who has gone to Berlin from Harvard to study Dr. Koch's new treatment of consumption, was the famous pitcher on the Harvard nine for years, who, with Jim Tyng, kept the baseball championship at Cambridge through many successive seasons. Eugene Field declares that Mme. Belle Cole, the American contralto, drives the finest equipage in London, and adds: "You put a spirited thoroughbred English horse in front of a ligbt-rnnning American vehicle pontaining a handsome, well-dressed and cool-headed woman and tho effect upon the British public is simply electrical." The late Miss Mailanne North was one! of the most notable of English women. About 20 years ago, being rich and Independent, she went alone to India, China, Japan, Australia, California, the South Sea Islands, and the West Indies to study tho native flora. She peno trated where few men had set foot, and in 12 years of exploration made a priceless collection of plants and drawings, which she deposited at Kew Gardens, in a museum built at ber own expense, and presented as a free gift to the cation. Una. Frances Fishes Wood, well known for her successful attempt to prepare sterilized milk on her New Hampshire farm for the use of New York babies, has been sifting statistics to ascertain whether college-bred women are indifferent mothers. She finds that nine-tenths of their children amrvive infancy, a record never before equalled in any class, age or coun try. Mrs. Wood is herself a graduate of Vas sar. a trustee of Barnard, a strong writer, a ready and brilliant speaker on social and re formatory topics, a power in society, the scientific secretary of, her husband a well known physician and a model mother. FARTHEST POINT HOETH. An American Made it and There Unfolded the Stars and. Stripes. From Spare Moments. 2 The most northern point ever attained by man was reached by Lieutenant James B. Lock wood, a member of ths American Lady Frank lin Bay Expedition, who on May 13. 1SS2, stood under 83 2S' 8" N. He was accompanied by Sergeant Brainard, who in his field notes says: "We have reached a higher latitude than ever before reached by mortal man, and on a land farther north than was supposed by many to exist. We unfurled the glorious Stars and Stripes to the exhilarating northern breezes with an exultation impossible to describe." For three centuries England had held the honors of the farthest north. The following table shows the farthest points of north latitude reached by Arctic explorers: Year. Explore. North Latitude. D. 11. s. JG07 nudson SO 2J CO 1773 l'hlps (Lord Musgrove) SO 43 00 ISOfi-ScoresDy 81 12 42 IKS' l"arry 62 45 30 1874-Meycr (on land) 82 09 00 1873-JtarKh'am (Mares expedition).. 83 20 28 3S70-fayer S3 07 00 1882-Lockwood (Qreely's exped'n).. 83 23 08 A. COLLECTOR'S REQUEST. New York's Mayor Is Ceremoniously Asked for a Coat of Arms. From the New York San. 3 The following is a copy of a letter received by Mayor Grant from Eudapestb, Hungary, to day: Riqht Honourable Sir Tho very respect able undersigned is collecting the arms of the Staates and citis of Amerika for being able to publish them In a universal book of heraldry. As many jurisdictions had already the ex treme benevolence to send to me, to that sub lime purpose, in a very obliging manner the arms of territoiies and towns I take therefore tho liberty to address myself to you to send me the arms of the town New York in very simple draughts (sketches) and to have the goodness to point me out the colonr of the arms. In the agreeable expectation and waiting for it with the most ardent desire and hopefulness, 1 beg your Highness would feel herself en caged in the very same '.interest of science, to fulfil my huble request, and in -this pleasing supposition, I am already anticipating my best and most sincere thanks and confess myself yours truly. Gust ave Altenburoer. THE "VEGETARIAN CHURCH. It Is Established In Philadelphia, bat Not on Scientific Grounds. Avepetarianchuichis to be. established In Philadelphia. One of the fundamental prin ciples of the church wll( bo that life is sacred, and that therefore the shedding of blood, even though it be for the sake of providing food for the human race, is wrong. But the vegetarians don't follow nut their own principles. In the eyes of the scientist, tnere is no ap preciable difference between plant' life and animal life. The only objection that vegeta rians have to the shedding of blood Is that it terminates a life; but from the scientific point of view, they terminate a life every time they eat a potato or a turnip. Nor is it competent for them to say that'one sort of life is more in violable than another sort. Animal life is moro highly organized, it is true, and therefore its sensations are better understood by human beings; but, for might we know, the killing of a vegetable may be to it as much of a tragedy as the killing of an animal is to it. It is very convenient to make arbitrary distinctions between different forms of life, but it Is neither scientific nor logical. PENNSYLVANIA OIL FIELDS. The Supply Continuous and Production Larger Than a Year Ago. f From the Philadelphia Times.' The geologists have been saying for some time that the Pennsylvania oil field was nearly exhausted and that the supply of petroleum would soon have to be sought elsewhere. In spite of all this the indefatigable oil driller, who knows little and cares less about geology and geolog!sts,keeps bouncing the drill with the result of increasing rather than di minishing the supply of 'Pennsylvania petro leum. A year ago the average daily prodnction was 60,900 barrels. Now it Is 85,000. DEATHS OP A DAY. James Kaylor. James Kaylor, aged 23 years, formerly a medical student at the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, died at the Sotttlislde Hospital yesterday evening from a complication of dluuses. lilt re mains will be sent to his parents' residence at .bbinnlncDort. W., te-dy. MURRAY'S MUSINGS, The Fashion of Hiring a Thug to Beat, an Enemy Is Popular In Gotham How Brooklyn Bridge Expands Making a New Yorker Out of a Cow Boy. IFEOM A STAFF COnKESPOXDEXT.l 'There are a great many ways known to modern civilization in which one man can get even with another for an ill will or fancied injury: bnt one of the most common m New York is tbrongh the assistance of the hired bravo. It Is true the bravo is not a modern in strument of revenge, but civilization clings to a good many forms ot tho Dark Ages and the bravo is one of them. It seems like a cold blooded thing to deliberately approach a stranger who is a professional ttrug and coolly make a proposition to have somebody beaten for so much money, yet that Is a thing being done In New York every week and every day in the week. There are some conspicuous dens on the Bowery and in Mott street where men can be hired for SI up to 20, according to the degree of the liberality of his employer, to hunt down, whip, beat, kick to pieces and per chance murder by accident the victim of the avenger. It you do not believe this ask Inspector Byrnes, or any member of his staff, or any police captain in New York City jEvery now and then the police have been puzzled by the finding of a man in the small hours after mid night lying insensible upon the sidewalk or in some dark alley with his bead crushed in, or ribs broken, or all likoness to bis former self stamped out of bis face by the Iron heel ot the bravo. A sufficient number of exposures have been brought about to demonstrate the sound ness of this belief. The man with a grudge is to be found all over the world. Tho man who is willing to gratify his instincts for revenge is found in every city of any importance, and the larger tho city the more numerous his kind. It 19 only in such a metropolis as New York, however, tbat professional bravos are to be found plying their trade without fear of the law and without any other ostensible means of a livelihood. Within tho last two weeks a half dozen cases of mysterious beatings have been reported to the police authorities from the hospitals where the victims were carried some hours after their respective misfortunes. In mostof these cases these victims know nothing whatever of their assailants or of the cause of tho assault In some cases, no doubt, the circumstances are such tbat if they do know they do not care to tell. For it is the policy of the bravo to lore his intended victim into disreputablo neighbor hoods or some den ot infamy where exposure to the world will compromise his character and there carry out the purpose for which he was lured. The bravo unites with bin business the business of a robber, and thus makes a double stroke of financial speculation. The stranger to New York and the New Yorker himself, who thinks to see the world is to go "slumming," had better confine bis Investigation of New York to respectable and honorable people. Take the advice of the distinguished Kentuck ian to his son "Do not get drnnk, my son but if you must eet drunk, net drunk with zentle- meni" Transformed Into Metropolitans. Tub rapid transformation of a Western man into a typical New Yorker, so far as per sonal appearance goes, is sometimes a curious study. A friend of mine, some weeks ago, from Minneapolis came to New York. He is an intelligent and well-to-do gentleman, and lives at the Hoffman House. When be first came here he had on an ordinary business suit of a decidedly far Western style of architect ure, a slonched bat, chin whiskers ot a strag gling growth, and boots tbat rarely ever saw blacking. The second time I saw him he was neatly shaved and wore a clean collar, with a new necktie, the latter of latest mode. Three or four days arterward, I noted a new pair of narrow-guage shoes and a new pair of trousers, which formed tho proper connection with those articles of footwear. A couple of evenings later, I called to take him to see Carmcnclta, and be made his appearance in a complete new suit of clothes, evluently made by one of the best New x ork tailors. The other night I went to tho horso show, for my friend is a great lover of horseflesh, and he wore, in addition to the former mentioned articles, a brand now fashionable silk bat. So far as his outward appearance went, there was practically no dif feience between my Western friend and a Wall street broker. And, in truth, he was every inch as fine a looking man as any of them that have come under my vision. Charity That Doesn't Count. Tt is growing cold and we are nearing the , Christmas holidays; the shop3 begin to take on their brilliant winter aspect and the tramp who snooze in the sun on the otherwise de serted park bepches draw their raga a little closer about them and present a more miser able appearance in'contrast with the general expression of human happiness. The poor we have always with us the same now as when Christ was upon earth preaching the gospel of r .., -- mercy and cnarity. iwonaerwnac lie wouiu sav of the latter-day Christian religious system if He could walk the streets of New Yorkaf ter nightfall and SDend a Sabbath among our mag nificent churches! Would He approve ot us? Or would He go 'down into Wall street in wrath and overturn the tables of the money changers? And if He did would He be locked up as a vagrant and sent to the island for ten days? Vast sums of money are spent here annually upon doctrinal exploitation of the Scripture, the great bulk of it golnz into the fashionable churches, fashionable preachers and fashion able charities. That much good is done and manv unfortunate human beings are relieved is unquestionable. It is, nevertheless, a fact that from the humanitarian point nf view ot the Christ 99 of this expenditure for church purposes of every kind goes for appearances where gl goes for tho real elevation or relief of the human race. The benevolence which ex pends itself upon street cats and dogs and shuts its eyes to the homeless men. women and chil dren is not more repulsive to the humanitarian than the Idea embraced in a religion for only the rich and fashionable. There ouehtto bono such thing as a shelterless and starving human being in this great country at least not within reach of rich and powerful church organiza tions. There are people, doubtless, who would not contribute I cent to a relief fund unless the money was to go to Ireland or Africa, or some far-away-place no, not if they stumbled over a halt-naked, half-starved human creature right here in New York at every turn. But there are plenty of generous people who would, were it made fashionable, place their charities where thev would do the most good to the greatest number. If the clerical reformers and their lay brethren and sisters who became un duly agitated over the political situation in this city recently would organiza snch a cam paign as this they would be laying up a surplus wheru moth and rust do not corrupt nor poll, ticlans break through and steal. Expansion of Brooklyn Bridge. Tf you should cross the Brookly bridge one ot these cold nights and return on a warm, sunny afternoon, you would have about three feet further to walk on coming back. That is to say, the contraction and expansion of the entire length of the structure ranges some three feet. To provide for this there are three slidinc connections, one for each span other wise tho continual stretching and shortening of tho whole would soon break it In two. If you will examine one of these sliding connec tions on a sudden change of temperature you can almost see tho wonderful operation of na ture, just as you can see the minute band of a timepiece move by close observatiou. The breaks in the roadway will show you where the connections are. Theso are formed by over lapDing, so as to cause one part of the road to slide upon the other and the "T" rail of the car track has a similar provision. Perhaps you will remember when you see all this that it is the key of the iron bridge problem which both ered bridge builders, and the solving of which problem alone made such immense spans pos sible. New York Won't bo Left, pnERE Is a very strong probability that New York will have a celebration In commem oration of the discovery by Columbus in 1S92 whether such a celebration is held elsewhere or not. There is now a plan on foot looking to the organization of a committee of capitallstSfwith this end In view. A large amount of monoy can bo raised for such a purpose. The ill-feeling engendered by the defeat of the World's Fair project for this city has not wholly passed away. There is a strong sentiment in favor of holding a celebration ot the landing of Colum bus here and making it a very memorable occa sion. This will In no wise interfere with the greater World's project at Chicago; in fact, it will act as an advanced agent for the greater event in the West. There-are a groat many people, chiefly New Yorkers, who be lieve that a larger numbpr of visitors caa be had here in a given space of time tor such a celebration than can bo obtained at Chicago. Whatever effort Is made, one thing is certain, it will be attended with success. Plenty of money will he forthcoming through a properly organized committeb to make October, '92, an era in metropolitan history to be remembered. A Chinese Financier. pROBABMr one of the most mysterious por sons aflout New York hotels is Count Mit kiewicz, of American-Chinese banking no toriety. It will bo remembered that the Count succeeded in forming" a syndicate and organ izing a -banking system for the Chinese Em plre, In which be received concessions from the Chinese Government of a very important char acter. These concessions, in fact, were of such importance that they startled the whole flnaU- uaecvj,!! clal world and roused English hostility to snch an extent as to endanger the successful carry ing out of his scheme. They also raised the envy and cupidity nf certain American specu lators, who immediately jumped into tho deal and despoiled Count Mitkiewlcz, not only of his Chinese concessions and friendly backers, but also attempted to despoil him of his title and name. In this latter they failed. Charles T. Murrat. LARGEST FARM IN THE WORLD. Some Interesting Particulars Concerning This Immense Tract. In the extreme southwest corner of Louisi ana, says Spare Moments, lies the largest pro ducing farm in the world. Measuring 100 miles north and south, and 25 mites east and west. It is owned and operated by a syndicate of North ern capitalists. The 1,500,000 acres of the tract were purchased In 1883 from the State of Louisiana and from the United States govern ment. At that time It was a vast grazing land for the cattle of the few dealers of the neighbor hood, over 80,000 head of half-wild horses and cattle being tbereon. Now this im mense tract is divided Into conven ient pasture stations, or ranches, exist ing every six miles. The fencing alone cost in the neighborhood of $50,000. The land is best adapted for rice, sugar, corn and cot ton. All cultivating, ditching, etc., Is done by steam power. A tract, say, half a mile wide, is taken and an engine is placed on each side. The engines are portable, and operate a cable attached to four plows, and under this arrangement 30 acres a day arc gone over with only the labor of three men. Harrowing, planting and other cultivation is done in a like manner. There is not a single draught horse on the entire place. Of course, horses are used for the herders of cattle, of which there are 18,000 head. The Southern Pacific Railway runs for 36 miles through the farm. The company have three steamboats operating on the waters of their es tates, of which there are 300 miles navigable. Tbcy have also an icehouse, a bank, a ship yard and a rice mill. LAW TO PROTECT ANIMALS. The First law of the Kind Is Due to an Irish Member of Parliament, From Oar Dumb Animals. The first law in the world to prevent cruelty to animals we owe to an Irish member of the British Parliament. Lord Ersktne attempted to introduce such an act, but so much fun was made ot it that be de sisted. Then came into the House, of Commons, from Gal way, on the west coast of Ireland, Richard Martin, an Irish gentleman, or, as the folks called him, Dick Martin, and he was noted for two things. First, he was very fond of animals; and, sec ond, he was known to be very much inclined to fight anybody that he thought insulted him. So one day he brought In a law to protect ani mals. Immediately somebody made a cat-call. He just stepped right outonto the floor of the Honse of Commons and said very gravely that he should bo very much obligedf or the name of the gentleman who had seen fit to insult bim. There was dead silence. The gentleman didn't give his name and Martin walked Dack to his seat amid the cheers of the Honse of Commons and bis law became the law of Great Britain and the first law of its kind in the world, "Now these societies have spread over the world, PAULTY WAYS OP TEACHINO. Artificial Methods Which Discourage and Mislead the Pupil. When the young teacher faces real children, says Harper's JSazar, instead of studying their actual minds, she proceeds on a method previ ously arranged. Perhaps it is a stuffed bird which she holds up before them. She says, as she has been taught to say, "Children, what is this?" One boy shouts, "It's a jay." Another says, almost simultaneously. "It's a blue jay." Then the teacher explains to them that this is not the proper answer at all. They mustanswer first, "A bird;" and then they must go on, with due surprise, to the Informa tion tbat it has two legs, and has wings; and, by and by, after plenty of system atic preparation, they may go on to the fact that the bird Is a jay, and even a blnejay all this being something which they knew per fectly well already, but must not be permitted te recognize in any unmethodical or disorderly form. The consequence Is that bright and observing children who uught to be tho leaders of the class, aredeadencd and discouraged, and all of the laurels go to the unobservant and the stu pid, who never noticed a bird in their lives, and wonld not do anything ao unseemly as to pro nounce any stuffed object a bluejay until the teacher bad led them up to it by a logical and irreslsltbleiprocess. A ROCS LASTING DEVOTION. For Over Ten Years He Made His Home by the Grave of His Master. From Oar Dumb Animals. J At the Grcyfriars churchyard, in Edinburgh, Scotland, there stands a beautiful monument erected in memory of a dog. The statue of the dog on top of it cost over $2,000; and this is the story: A poor man died and was bnried there. He was followed to his grave by his dog. When tba other mourners went home the dog remained and laid down on his master's grave. The sexton drove him away, because dogs were not allowed there.- Next morning the sexton found him on the grave again, and again drove him off. The second morning he found him on the grave again, and again drove him off. The third morning was a very cold one, and the sexton found the dog again lying on his master's grave, shivering with the cold. His heart relented; be fed tho dog. Presently the Lord Mayor of tho city heard about it and sent the dog a collar, and a man that kept a restaurant near by fed him every day. I don't know what provision they made for kennel, but during 10 or 12 years, until ha died, he made his home in that graveyard, and much of the time lay on his master's grave;aud now they have built that beautiful monument to tell future ages of the fidelity of that poor man's dog. quick: presence of hind. A Young Xady'g Singular Expedient Saves tho Life of a Servant. Morpeth, England, November 22. Yes terday afternoon a servant maid in the house of Mr. A. M. Loades, Dacre street, Morpeth, was engaged in cleaning one of tho upstairs windows, fronting the street, when she was heard to scream and seen to be in the act ot falling from the ledge to the ground. A young lady named Miss F. Artless, who was passing at the time, seeing the danger of the girl, at once ran to her assistance, and, with great presence ot mind, knelt down upon tho pavement, and received the poor girl's head in the lap of her dress as she fell. She thus was the means of averting what wonld doubt less have been injuries of a serious nature. As it was, the injuries she received were confined to severs shock and a bruised thigh and arm, whilo Miss Arkless herself, in ber courageous act, escaped unhurt. The girl was immediately taken into the house, and her injuries attended to by Dr. Skrlmshlre. S0HE QUAINT RING CUSTOMS. The French Had Some Pretty Sentimental Fancies About Rings. A pleasant custom of modern times, says Har per's JSazar, was the "regard" or "name" ring used a few years ago; but rarely do we see them nowadays. The French, in their pretty sentimental way, use a combination of gems which spell "Souvenir" or "Amltie." This ro mantic idea is said to have originated with them. In English, "Regard," "Dearest" and "Love" aro the most common, as: Regard. Dearest. Ruby. Diamond. Emerald. ' Emerald. Garnet. Amethyst Amethyst. Ruby. Ruby. Emerald. Diamond. Sapphire. Topaz. A RARE POEM BY THACKERAY In the Control of an Eminent Surgeon Who Will Not Publish It. A New Yorker who was lately In London aaw there a remarkable poem by Thackeray that has never been printed, and is now in the pos session of the eminent surgeon, Sir Henry Thompson. Thackeray, who was ill when he wrote it. was a patient of this surgeon, and tbe poem is a series of dally sketches of the progress of bis case, all of them written In tho most satirical vein, and many of them while he was in acute pain. The New Yorker wljo saw Tbackerav's manuscript, and has been telling bis Irlends about it, says tbat the famous satirist "sur passed hlmselt" in this production; but its pos sessor will not permit Its publication for rea sons sausiactory 10 uimsen. - THE TOPICAL TALKER. Mollie'i Mistake. just as the family were about to start for J church last Sunday morning, Mollle, aged seven, said: "Mamma, Isn't Mr. Banks going to church ?" "He's not going to oar church, Mollle; he's an Episcopalian, you knqw." "I wish be were an American so he could go to church with me,", said the puzzled little girl. A Vision of Peace. A BOUT supper time last night I fell in with a great baseball prophet, not one of the lit tle stuffed prophets, but a great illuminated interpreter of tbe mystenes of the diamond. As we walked up Fifth avenue together, the prophet at my elbow unfolded the sanguinary prospect of a duel to the death between Mr. Nimick and Mr. O'Neil over the Presidency of the National Leagne Club. At the end of tbe prophet's story 1 inquired: "Is it certain tbat blood will be shed?" "Buckets!" was the terse reply, and it was hardly out of his month before he ejaculated: Great Jehosaphatr" Guided by a wave of the prophet's hand my eyes fell upon a tall, slender man walking arm-in-man with a stonter individual, whose carefully-arranged whiskers proclaimed his iden tity beyond a doubt. They fvero smiling upon each other, and cooing, if two elderly gentle men may be said to coo, like a pair ot turtle doves. They were Messrs. Nimick and O'Neil! "Guess the duel's off," I remarked to tbe flabbergasted prophet. "Harps and harmony for twol" he mur mured. No Applause. ti-yovno Ca shall proposed to Olivette last night," said the soubrette to the come dian In the wings. "How did she treat him?" "He didn't get a handl" From Diamonds to Dashboard. T boarded a Third avenue car at Forty second street in New York the other day," said a Pittsburg financier yesterday, "and stood on the front platform furtively smoking a cigar. We'd gone a block or two when a voice 1 knew somehow said, 'Weil, Fred, how are you ?' 1 tnrned and looked about me; there was nobody on the platform but the driver and he was looking at his horses, apparently not minding me at all. I was still wondering where the voice had come from when tbe driver looked me full in the face and said : 'You don't know me. do you V "1 confessed I didn't, although I added: 'Your voice is familiar.' " 'It ought to be,' be said, for I've talked to you by tbe hour. I'm Bill ,' and be men tioned a name tbat nsed to be pretty familiar in some Pittsburg circles, and especially among sports. The last time I had seen him he wore fonr big diamonds in his shirt front which was usually soiled and was reported to have made a tidy sum in the show business circuses; prize fights and the like, for Bill was not par ticular. I asked him how he cam to De driv ing a street car, and all he would answer me was 'Hard luck.' "I had to get off at the next corner, but I told him where I was stooping and asked him to call. He didn't too proud, I guess, for though his diamonds were gone bis nerve seemed to have stayed by him." At the Fall of the Flag. 'T'het were hardnp for men in the local room, and the sporting editor was pressed into the service to report the Anarchists' meeting. Tbe religious reporter met him on the stairs and asked him where he was off to. "Going to trot a heat with Herr Most!" he said. Fun In a Phonograph. "DX way of a vocal relaxation before the matinee yesterday, DeWolf Hopper sat on the back of a chair before a phonograph, and poured "Casey at the Bat," the classic which has, as he confesses, pulled him out of many a tight place, into tbe big funnel. It was a very laughable sight; the big Hopper, In an easy snit of brown, balancing himself on tbe back o fa chair and rattling off tbe side-splitting account ot how the hope of tbe Mudville nine strnck out thrice, witbont any pauses for applause orlauehter for be had to keep right on to get the piece on one cylinder. It didn't take more than three or four minutes, and then the phonograph turned around and re peated tbe thrilling idyll in a voice that sounded like the shadow of Hopper's, but with the humorous emphasis and Inflection intact. Some actors lose their nerve before the cold, mechanical stare ot the phonograph funnel. Florence, tut comedian, put some of hU speeches into phonographic cylinders when he was here the last time, but he complained that the unsympathetic attitude of the phonograph made It very hard for him to start. Hopper, on the other band, says he'd rather act before a phonograph Ida refrigerator than cast his comic pearls before an ultra fashionable audience at a matinee. He has filled scores of cylinders, and the nickel-ln-the-slot phono graph fffn the East are full of Hopperisms. Murder or Football. T2E telephone kept ringing all last evening. There wcT6 apparently two sets of watch ers on tbe anxious bench all over Allegheny county. One set wanted to know tbe result of the football match between Harvard and Yale, and the other longed for the verdict in the Myers murder case. The kept "Central" in a state of high fever, and provoked proranity in tbe righteous purlieus of tbe printing offices. Abont bait of the people who asked which had won. Harvard or Yale, were mad when they beard that tbe Crimson had triumphed, and everybody who received tbe answer that no verdict had been rendered in the murder case was disgusted. But the news handlers who were called up to the 'phone every ten seconds came to view the matter philosophically at least, and made the flood of queries a gambling medium. Bets were made at every tintinnabulation of the telephone as to which would be the subject of the inquiry, the tootball game or the murder, and tbose who bet upon tbe pastime won in a majority of cases. Hepburn Johns. A Pleasing Entertainment One of the most pleasing entertainments of the past week was tbe concert given in the Bethel Presbyterian Chnrch Tuesday evening, under the able management of Prof. C. L. Gildersleeve. The prozrarame included selec- S. Weeden, Miss Bertha Collins, C. E. Stewart, B. C. Taylor. C. M. Canuthers and Prof. Gil dersleeve." A GOLDEN RIDDLE. The husbandman one golden morn A white seed dropped amone the corn. Beneath the summer's mystic spell it bur$l erelong the prisoning shell. And 'twlxt the brown loam's rifled crust Its emerald leaflets upward thrust. Throneh lenRthenlni days of rain and snlnt Fast grew and thrived the generous vine, And 'neath the changlns skies held up For sun and dew its golden cup, t Till in its veins these forces 9n Had wrought a mystery divine, And elven to the world a boon Fair as the golden-hearted moon. The ruddy globe against the mold Outvied the fabled crock of gold. . Each day a riper hue It gained. And, while the season waxed and waned, Tall knights -with gleaming lance and sword Guarded with ceaseless watch and ward Throogh midnight huih and noonday heat Tbe golden treasure at their feet. And when the crops were garnered is, And granary and barn and bin With wealth of goodlier cold were stored Than tbat which greedy misers board. When glad lips sanr the harvest-homt 'fteatb lowly-roof and lordly dome. Ami kltu-and kin, from great to least. Had gathered for the harvest feast. Ah, richer than the rarest wine This yellow fruitage of the vine. Transmuted by the honsewlfe's skill To golden disks with flaky frill. No fairer fruit tbe fields afford. No choicer viand decks the board, And grateraLhearts their praises lift , To Him who gives the golden gift. "un a,.aitpnff in aamtr'i nasar CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. In England about 87 peers are director! of public companies. One dog of the Convent of St. Bernard is said to have saved more than 40 human lives. If you catch an animal in steel trap, every minute it stays there Its meat is growing worse. There is one society of boys and girls ia Sn!?ntl t0 protect animals, which has over 0,000 members. A velocity of about sir or seven miles a second would suffice to carry a body away from the gravitation of the earth. There are a hundred chances that any boy or girl will he struck by liehtninz for ivery one chance of having hydrophobia. "Sun-dial" rings, said to give the hour with "great exactness." and the "zodiac rings" were often in use among the ancients. Fifty-five ladies practicing medicine irt India have presenteda memorial to the Viceroy tbat the age of consent in marriaze mav ba raised to 14. J A 'resident of Richmond, Va., has come into possession of a Revolutionary relic, in the shape of General Daniel Morgan's mesa chest, which Is estimated as being 125 years old. The chest Is made of pine, heavily ribbed with, Iron, and is closed by an old time ponderous) lock. In the village of Erchfont, near Devizes, there are five brothers living whoso united agea amount to 415 year. In a neighboring village five persons, related to each other, live In ona house, their united ages making up 391 years, A horse 30 years old serves them tor all then outings. It is not only poor men, but some of tba greatest men of the world whose lives bava been made happier by the love of these lower creatures. Sir Walter Scott, the great novel ist, and Sir Edwin Landseer, the great painter their whole lives were made happy by theh? love of dogs. One thing especially noticed in ifaina is the impetus given to the apple canning busu ness by the partial failure of the apple crop. Frnit that was formerly considered only good enough for cider escaped the press this year and has gone into cans to help furnish the world with apple sauce. A Norwegian bark, laden with ice, ar rived in New York Monday after a tempestuous voyage of 84 days. She left Norway In Augusr, and the long voyage has left very little of bef ice cargo. Most of the experiments of bring ing ice from Norway have proved failures be cause of the great wastage of the voyage. Medical students in London are com pelled to go through a course of fonr years' study, hospital attendance and lectures befora being qualified to appear for final examination. By an order of tbe General Medical Council ot England the term of preparation has been ex tended to five years. Tucson is one of the oldest as well as largest and best-known towns in Arizona. In fact, it is so old tbat there is no record showing wben It was first settled. When the first Spanish explorers visited this country about 1530, they found an old Mexican village there, and It was then said to have been Inhabited for centuries. An increase of 296 national banks in the United States will be shown by the annual report of the Controller of tbe Currency during the 12 months which ended September CO. This is the largest number in a single year since 165- The aggregate capitalization of these new institutions is mostly in the growing regions of the Northwest and douthwest. It is claimed that tbe first silver mines worked in the United States by Europeans ara situated In the mountains near Tucson, and al though they are represented to have been so securely hidden by the Jesuits ere they were driven from the country that their location is now unknown, tradition states that some ot them were marvelously rich. The United Crosses of England and Scotland were first used on the flag in 16CC by order of King James, then sovereign ot the two countries. In tbat year some differences having arisen between tbe ships of the two countries at sea, the King ordained tbat anew flag be adopted, with the crosses of St. Andrew and St. George interlaced. Sisal hemp is the product of a thick leaved plant, Agave sisilana, resembling tha well-known centnry-plant except that ths leaves, instead of being serrated, or spiny, on the edges, are perfectly smooth, it is native to the whole of tropical America, and as early as 1S33 was successtully introduced into Florida by Dr. H. Ferrine, who foresaw lt value as a commercial fiber. "When Brigham Young invited Made moiselle Rita Sanganelle to appear atMontana, be fixed the charge ot admission at one fowl, and a supplementary pigeon it the fowl wasnot as plump as it might be. The nizht's receipts amounted to 700 fowls and 50 pigeons: and tha dancer had no reason to complain wben sha was paid their equivalent in cash, at the rata of 10 shillings per fowl and 9 shillings per pigeon. One of the features of social practice In London for many years has been the show which can be made on fictitious capital. If, for instance, tha FitzShams desire to give a big dinner party, and have no special provisions of their own for an imposing display, they can hire all the requisites. They can rent their silver and porcelain from ono man, their tapestries from another, their plants from a third trades man and garnish tbe dinner table with tha costly pineapple of the hothouse. An association of learned antiquaries ia Paris, called the "Americanlstes." who have devoted themselves to studies and researches connected with the early history of the Amer ican Continents, have held a congress la;tha hall of the Geographical Society. M. Qnatre fages and Dr. Jourdanet are Presidents of tha congress, which Is under the patronaee of Doin Pedro, the ex-Emperor of Brazil. The object of the gathering is to contribute to tbe progress of scientific investigations relative to North and South America, especially during times preceding the sailing of Columbus. From the earliest times rings have al ways been emblems of power. The signet among Oriental nations now, as In olden times, is used for all documents, papers of State never being signed with the name, bnt stamped with the seal. Theso "ring seals" are engraved with the name and title, and with them impressions are made. From time immemorial, for thou sands of years, rings have been worn by all peoples and nations. History is too young 10 record their origin, which is lost m the dim distance of past ages. Ona of tha roost interesting of all the nu merous kinds is the pretty love-token In vented by the French, called sometimes tba "armillary," but usually the glrnmal" ring. Our modern "puzzle ring" is copied from this old Idea, and is made upon the same principle. These consist often of four, even of nine, slender circles, playing within each other, and forming, when put together, a solid ring set either with jewels or with an odd design. WITTY AND WISE. The cup to the lip doesn't cause so many slips as tbe glass does. Puck. "This is a stupid world! I wish there was some moral kind of suicide." "There Is. (Jo into bankruptcy." Sarper't Bazar. Will Postmaster General Wanamake? permit the publication of wedding notices? Itls said that marriage is a lottery. Birmingham Age-lltrald. "Farewell," said the poet to his manu script, as be scaled It for the malls. "No," returned the manuscript, feeling Its own weakness, "not farewell, an revorr." JTewi Xork Sun. The exact birthplace of Cinderella, famous m connection with the little glass slinper. U not known, but the greatest story-teller In the world never alleged she wu a Chicago glrk Philadel phia Times. "Why do yon imagina that Miss Dntton will accept yon?" "She promised to be a sister to my brother, yoa know, and there's no other -way to ba so except by marrying me." Harper's Baiar. "This parrot is worth $o00." "What give it soca, tremendous vaJae?" "It can't talk. "-Sparks. Merritt Are yon going to set off -a pov der mine?" I.ltUe Johnnie Not much I ain't. The things never goes off UU a feller crawls back to se what's the matter with It. Spare Xtnruixts. Gazzam (entering the club) I under stand that Jaysmith ha been faying things de rogatory to my character. I an going to make him swallow his words. Maddox Don't do It now, Gazzam. Ton'U kill the poor fellow. He'sbeentalxlngforfoar hoars, Xeio Tort Sun. Kooritch Yet a Rht,nM m-r library Isa dukedom. jsiuiit And your brain a barony. Pxtv First Tramp They sav there's millions 'n' millions or snlmlles la the water we drink, Jimmy. Second Trams Fall drought ahere mast ha ome kind av grub ia it, Jaexy or we nXtsr eoaU
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