'. V ."' yS7i' :' V.t j THE SORANTON TRIBtfNE- SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1902. v 10 . Vv V. r j K . t a , i THE FIRST : : AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARRIVAL OF ULLOA THE SIGNAL FOR HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS A REMARKABLE PERSONAGE. LITTLE VERSED IN GOVERNMENT. BUT A , GENIUS OF RARE QUALITIES : : : IN SIX ULLOA nnlvrrl Hi New Or lfans on Match 5, 1766. with two companies ot Spanhh Infantry, com manded by Plcrims, und 'the Superior Council, In fluenced by Lnfronlcre, de t mnnded that hr exhibit the authority by which lie claimed to take . possession of the colony. In response, Ulloa denied the authority of the coun ' ell, declared It was a mere municipal organization and assorted that he would deal only with L'Abbadlo's , suc cessor, Governor Aubry, as the repre sentative of the king of France. Up to this time, Aubry had been writing to ' the French court hi support of the popular protest against. the cession to Spain, but fiont thh tlifio on, he acted with Ulloa and agnlnel the Revolution ists. His attitude was that of a Staunch French royalist, deeply grieved at the loss of North America to France, but' unwilling to traverse In any way what he know to be the king's wishes. Ulloa'B own attitude was characteris tic. He saw that the discontent was great and Increasing nnd he refused to take formal possession until i enforce ments had been sent from Spain to en able him to maintain hinielf. He gov erned through Aubry, who as com mander of the French ttoops then In Louisiana, used them as far as he could to support Ulloa nnd the treaty Of cession, against the Revolutionists. It does Ulloa justice to say that he was wholly unfit to deal by the usual Spanish methods with the conditions of revolt he found In the colony. He was n man of genius, a thinker, a phlloso. phcr and a scientist perhaps the great est Spain has produced. He had been the correspondent of Newton nnd of Voltaire. Ho was a member of the leading learned societies of Europe, and was honored by all of them for his own attainments. He founded the first cabl ent of natural history In Spain, and the discovery of platinum is attributed to him. Ho made important experi ments In elecUiclty and magnetism, encouraged thn development of en graving and printing, made improve ment? in the manufacture of woollens, and in astronomy and mathematics rendered services which were iecog nlzed and valued by the scientists of His day, to such nn extent that after his expulsion fiom Louisiana, he was an object of curiosity to travelers in Spain, much ns Edison now Is to trav elers In America. Townsend, an Eng lish travelers, who visited him in 1793, found him a man of small stature, ex tremely thin and bent, but full of wit and learning, sprightly Inhls conver sation and surrounded by a litter of books, trunks, chairs, fosslK mathe matical instruments, old umbrellas, tpe, shells, Amoiican antiquities and the other curious debris of his woik as a scientist among which plajed the children he had had by the joung wife w ham. when more than sixty years of age, he had married at New Orleans, while waiting to be expelled by the Revolutionists. 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If they will pay you $1,25 In addition to the price of The Tribune they will receive these two magazines ene year, Sample copies of the magazines will be furnished you free, Here are the prices, whera THE Tribune subscription Is paid In advance :' The Tribune one month and the magazines one year, $1.75 The Tribune three months and the magazines one year, ...... 2.50 The Tribune six months and the magazines one year , 3,75 The Tribune one year and the magazines one year , , , , , 6,25 Those wishing to take advantage of this offer should hand' their money to The Tribune at nee and their subscriptions will commence with the first number of the magazines published after the subscription Is received. & A ,4ft ,4t ,4f! 4 4H 4 4 f CHAPTERS-CHAPTER II. nnd so dovotcd to atudy that when a commodore In the Spanish navy on one of the most Important expeditions of his life, he had become ImmorHcd In study and forgot to open the sen led orders on whfoh the result of the ex pedition defended. This was the man who, with two companies of. Infantry, had been sent to tnkc possession of hnlt a continent, deeded by the king of France to his "very dear and well-b'clovcd cousin, the king of Spnln," at the same time the other hnlf had been surrendered to his English enemies. The peaceable nnd eccentric Spanish scholar, with his cor poral's guard ot soldiers, found the English aggressive In their determina tion to control the Mississippi; nnd In Louisiana Itself, he found a rebellious population which ho suspected of cor responding with the English to secure tholr help In the event of the failure of the mission on which Mllhet had been sent to the court of France. The only sensible thing Ulloa could do on learning the situation was to tempor ize and postpone running up the Span ish flag at New Orleans, and he did It. Rcfore fully learning what the situ ation was, however, he had cm tied out the policy of Spain in a way which forced the revolution to Issue. An absolute monopoly control of the trade of Its colonies was then the pol icy of Spain as It was of England, and the first American revolution was forced In Louisiana by the same cause which forced the beginning of the sec ond In the English colonies on the At lantic. In September, 1766, Ulloa, who was then acting through Aubry ns the rep resentative of France, under the treaty, caused "a score of soldiers with fixed bnyoncts, pieccded by a drum whoso loud beating attracted the attention and excited the anger of the Inhabit ants," to parade the streets of New Orleans and to proclaim the new de crees of navlgution under which the inastets of all vessels reaching .the port weie ordeied to present themselves be- fore him, that ho might set the prices at which their cargoes were to be sold. In the event of their refusal to accept the prices established by him and his board of appraisers, they weie not to be allowed to sell-In the colony: and In the event of their acceptance, they were to reecho in payment the paper money of the colony, then so depi ecl ated that one dollar in coin exchanged' for tlnee in paper. And added to all this, they weie ordered to take one third of their return cargo in lumber and other pioducts of tho colony. The majority of tho common people were already in sympathy with Lafro nicre, and this decree of Ulloa drove over to him the powerful commercial interests of New Orleans, which had until then been neutral. Through La freniere, the ship-owneis and other merchants presented a i onions-trance agulust the decieo ns In violation of their lights under the treaty of ces sion. The decree resulted in n heavy loss of trade, and the discontent in creased. Ulloa, still temporized, con- THE TRIBUNE'S f 4 W '4 4 4 4 4 4 rfuctlng his government through Aubry In the nnme of France until finally the French homo government made a posi tive refusal to honor the demands which wore made on the treasury for expenses, Ulloa then advnnced the money himself, waiting for his i en forcements and for his betrothed, the Marchioness of Abrado, in expectation of whose arrival from South America, ho left New Orleans und spent the win ter with his mathematical calculations "In a miserable shed at the Utilize," at the mouth of the Mississippi, His ab sence from the city Increased his un popularity, and when the marchioness arrived and ho had married her, she whs oven more unpopular with the female population of New Orleans than he himself was with the mnlc, As conditions were thus reaching their climax, Mllhet, tho envoy sent to Farls, returned with a heart-rending story of humiliation and failure. On reaching Paris, he had gone at once to tho celebrated Bienville, whose dream It had been to make of Louisiana n now France, greater than the old. Bienville was now In his eighty-sixth yeai, waiting for death In grief at the falluic ot his life work. Tho visit of Mllhet gave him a single gleam of doubtful hope and, with the American merchant, he went at once to the cabi net of tho Duke of Cholseul, then prime minister of France. In the Interview with the prime minister, Bienville "spoke like a father suing for the life of his child," but the duke answered tersely that the cession had been made and was Irrevocable. He legrctted It, but could do nothing. As he rose to put an end to the Interview, the aged Bienville throw himself on his knees and "with an almost sobbing voice," says Gayarre, prayed for a revocation of the decree against the colony." Deeply mocd, the pi line minister raised the old soldier and patriot from his knees and embraced him. "Gentle men," he said, "I must put nn end. to this painful scene. I am deeply grieved at not being able to give you any hope. I have no hesitation In telling you that I cannot address the king on this sub ject, because I myself ndlsed the ces sion of Louisiana. Do you not know that the colony cannot continue Us precarious existence, except nt nn enor mous oxpeiiHe, of which France is now wholly Incapable? In it not belter, then, that Louisiana should be gUen away to a friend and n faithful ally, than that it should be wrested fiom us by a heieditary foe? Farewell. You have my best wishes. I ca.li do no more," THE ELECTRIC LIFT. A New Device of Great Service in Ship Building. The teccnt tremendous giowth ot the Ami" lean ship building tndustiy is de ;illjfd b John II Spears In the July monthly li unrated number of the Out look, a mom,' the. most Impoitant now do lc" Is tlie electric lift. 'ilia 1 niiillii,, of materials in a ship, jairl !?, iu n way, like the handling of senbers 4 4 4 4 4 .4 ,4 4e .4; .4 .4 & eaal In the stoke-hole of a steamship. It Is dead .lift work for human muscles. Th mo.it ttndlly seen Improvements mado re cently In our flhlpvaids have had In view the telle! of llilu clnsi of Inhering men. Ilnllroatls havo been laid from the shops whd re pliilco ate shaped and finmes bent to tlw ways vliiro frames and platen air lurcmblrd. That was an Improve ment, bi't another followed. Beside ths crowing hull cr hulls was erected an elevated rallrcnd on which a movable steam crnno traveled to and fro the whole length of ths hulls. This crane pls'te,! pint .r frnmo fiom the railroad car and c.iitled 11 forward or aft as needed, T list ot all was Invented the o'.erheud ti alley for carrying parts of the ship to tho way. nnd tho oloctllrnl tlft for distributing them ahout tho hull. The vlertiic lift la r. simple matter. Huge mnMf nie erected nt Intervals between tha gl'itwlmj hulls, On each mnst Is a yard that i eat lies oilt across tho hulls. Then, from Nnrd to yaid, four he.ivy stD.i topes ate sit etched nbovo each hull, and on tueli wpo in n stout trolley driven to and fio nlong the rope by electrical power, Fiom each trolley hangs a grasp ing tackle, and so, as each trolley works Independently of the others, all may be working at once, carrying four pieces of metal to four points in the hull, and that, too, nt a speed unknown to steam cianes, not to mention the hand work common In Kuiopcan yards. Last year a Gorman expert was sent here to make n tour of our shlnards. When ho had finished the round, he told a leporter of the Now York Kvenlug Post that tho best American shlpyaid was the best In tho world. EDWABD AND AMERICANS, Many Proofs of Friendship Shown by England's Sovereign. Ucorge W, Smalley In a peisonal aiticle about King Edwaid VII In the Outlook sajs: "We Americans have certain prejudices to get rid of before we can do lustlco to a king. But wo ought to be just to this one, If only because he has approved himself, ns did his mother befoie him, our filend. It has become n common place to sny so; and the commonplace ness of It Is good proof ot Us truth. Americans of distinction who have been abroad aie so many witnesses of tho fact, They have been welcomed at Marlbor ough House, or at lloinbmg, or nt Sand tingham; so lime other Ameilenns whose chief claim to distinction was their Americanism which Itself tor many .enis has been a passport aciosa many a social frontier In England. The quecn'a real regnid for tho United States and real wish for a good understanding be tween England and the T."nlt"d States has descended to her son. I wll venture to add, delicate ns the ground Is to tread, that 'American women In London hive done much to foster this Inherited and pctsonal predisposition. ''From the eaillest days of the Ameil can Invasion, when Ameilcan women, of whom some nio still living, began to en lion London society and to light up cer tain waste spaces of social life, the nrincn showed himself susceptible to theso new enchantments. The influeneo thus gained hns never boon lost, nor the effoct of It diminished. The pilnce liked Amei leans. The king likes them. It may not b amiss to note tlmt two Amoiican women' whose tank as wives of Biltlsh husbands would not entitlo them to witness the coionation In AVcstinrnstcr Abbcv will witness It as guests of the king, It cer tainly cannot bo nmlsg to note that the fhst nmbnsgadnr with whom tha klnc hn-j dined is the Ameilcan ambassador, Mr. t'hoate. And when the president ap pointed Whltolnw- Reld special amba ,-- dor for the coionation. the king firs' t In timated thioiigh ofllcial channels ll, plenstiio In this net of our government then sent a piHato message to ny how glad he was that the ambassador should be Mr. Bold, who had held tha same po.il nc mo fjueen s juuiiec. THE BUTTON-BRUSH. A Shrub With Sweet Scented Flow eis in July. In July unci after. ,nu still find in mil blossom one o fthe most cm ions unci in ti'icstms f all our llovvprinu sin ubs tii" iHilton-urusli. TliM ii a plant Riowlns tliltli along tho bmileiH of sticmns invl ilu:p swamps mid In .still Im.s and 1h Kiions of lal.oi. U rxox nmetli.tlly in tlw water, on Uissofks" built up of its own iooi.i oi ten oennc aciri of hwump. Th sti'lMuc tlilns: about tlin plant is its blossom; the ducli" llnnn-ets aie masse I toki'lhci into a peifect! splu-ilcal head with a mist of dellcuo, pintnidliiB Hu ii'pim the Ulnd of flower a Uohcmi.in pl.'f-bjoner mlRht lnont In his nleep. The ".cpniate flovrei. while, tlioitjili not quite a pine white, aie slender. siipru- inj.- in simpp a honeysuckle. These feaJi eiy balls, otten nn Ineh and a half in diameter, aie ery sweet, especially to naitls nlsrht, with a frasriance much like tliU of the golden Illy. All day they hwaini with butterflies, and aftnr dark tlu returnlntr ansler Is met and suidecl by wae after wave of sweetness, the hi f nth of homo perfumed 3wamp. Coun tiy Life In America. EXCEKPTS FROM (JTJD0E." The cabbase-leaf bat-llnlner, From lioro to Snmarcund, Is like the high-ball Rhinitis, Anil simply owns the land. And wlille tho sirl is plnins On mountain and on strand The Jeisc man's ntilnlnluK Himself to beat tho bund. Should Keep Out of the Draft. First South American "Ah, Rood after noon, tenor. Looks like a revolution," Second South American "Yes, I've been firedlUlns one for ceveial days. My iheumatlsm always bothers me Just be fore such changes." Suburban Life Revealed. Artistic City Friend (visiting In Swamp huiM) "Red Bplouhes op a blue back Bioiind: I never saw suoh artistic wall paper!" Mr. Lonely (of SwHinphurst. Kloomlly) "It was oilslnally plain bluo-those led aplaxlips aie where I havo killed mos nultocs on it." The Season of Outing. Off for tho mountains and sea, and off for tho sc and the mountains, Swiftly tho crowd i-qrcucolcs, abeam with excitement nnn pleasure, Somo lislitlnir out for Houcdimk, and oth ers for PemJKowabset Caper and ilanco and cavort, cura-fros as tho ally mosquito. List to the boat ns It blows Its whistle, that hdsson the welkin List to the chime and the shriek that pop from the hlu locomotive; Look at the baisgng and does, and note tho loud Nqmil) nf tho babies, Then in a Jiffy you'll Know we've come to the season nf outing. A Slight Change. "I understand that Boston Isn't eating tn much pork and beans since the prise of meat went up." "Not so much poik, perhaps. J am told that llio consumption of porklcsa beans Is vory heavy, however." A Queer Covering, It was the Hist time that Dorothy had seen a hoi so with n fly-net on. aoodncas!" she e.clalmed, "that horso Is wearing holes tied together with strings. Well Qualified. Editor "You ay you want to manage our circulation department. What experi ence have jou had?'1 Major Applejack. "Wll, uh, J made out tiie election leluhns from ouah dis trict n th black belt (oh a number of talis, sun." - ... J 1. . Ml i i ,i, I, i . MM m, mmmmuJV ' '""i i i mi mil mil in nn, in , 1 1 .i swrapBuwpiK V v vVViilllliljjy f I J? Ill Fllliliii v Did You Ever If not, why not? Take a look at the inside of this store today, and if the prices don't tempt you to buy you will at least have the pleasure of seeing a large number of people who rely on the truthfulness of our advertising. SAMTER BROS iflff"TfcygySfcLjfeyip ''ifirSi?" tCL5B!y?K5tf!3tyw53sMi Sam Lothrop's Finesse. SAM ut 01 AM LOTHHOira team was hitched nder tho shed at the Thicis Rlv- ci s sioceiy, and Sam wat In thu Htoie dickering, There was no more mistaking the team than thae was Its owner, when once joti had hcen either; both weie original in the ex ticme. Upon tho day in question the "iilllMKP con-dhlcd of a straight, IiIkIi lat Keel blelfih and Ham's old cicnm loloied ni.ii c. Thu back of the sleigh was so straight that It seemed to pitch forwaul lather than backward, and It was so high that even Sam'f. fur cap did not come up to the top of the back when he was seated In this ancient vehicle. If anyone remarked upon the perpendicular tendency of this back Pam would fciiy, in his queer drawl: "Gol durn It, what would you hev, en nyhow? t don't want folks tor think I am a'lyln' in a bed when I go a-rldin' out. Some uv these new-fangled sleighs Is as pitchy hack as a bed. Alius makes me sick tor my stomach ter ride in us." "What's the mutter with tho old mare's tall?" someone would say. "Why, she is sech a durn swift trav eler that the hair nil come out. It tried tor keep up for a long time, but It wai n't no use It worn't no use, and so It had ter come out," Coming to town was quite an' event in Sam's uneventful llfo, and also an Interesting time for the grocer, When that worthy saw this particular cus tomer coming he would inn so up his mouth, mark up his goods and prepare to dicker, "Howdy, howdy, Mr. Merrill," Sam would say by way of prelude, "a' how much air granulated augur tuduy?" "Fourteen poundn for u dollar," the grocer would reply. "Too dear, too pesky source, fur that 'etc money," "Well, Sam," tho grocer would say, "seeing It Is you, I will ni.tko It fifteen." "Too durn source," Ham would i di ctate, "but ou make it sixteen, un' I'll take some. "All right, seeing it is you," Mr. Mer rill would reply, anil a dollar's worth of sugar was weighed out. Sam al ways tiptoed tip and peeked over tho grocer's shoulder to see that tho weight was KiMUiiue and sometimes ho. Mould tako out a little sugar on tho cud of his finger. "JUither coarse grained, rutlier course grained," ho would say, shaking his hend doubtfully. "Doubly extra refined, and (inputted all the way ft am Porterlque," the gro cer would leply, at which Sam yus satisfied. So on down through Sam's eutlie list of purchases they would go the grocer defending and parrying, and Sum strik ing nnd thrusting, "It's more work ter trade with Sam than all tho other custoincis thut I huve got," the grocer said onu day, when tlmt worthy parsed out through tho door with his arms full of pur chases, "and tho funny p.nt of t is thut ho don't know the price of any thing In the store, hut ho must hev about so much of his consumed dicker ing, an' I sw'ow It Is more work thun sawln' wood. It 'ud bo just the samu If I offered to give him soiuethlu' ho would still want me to throw off n. little," The occasion of Sam's great finesse was a certain town meeting day, nearly a scoie of years ago, but the story is still told upon the Town Hall steps us &CK& YlTOIzgpva , remedy tbat cures W iu taJ 1 i Complete Outfitters, iHEsaon one on Sam, and a happening that is too good to bo easily forgotten. Upon this partltulnr occasion Snm had come rather early to town, and had been loafing about the" stoic for an hour or more, but his coming had, as ii"-u.il, not been unannounced, for the double tow of old-fashioned bells that wunt ideal' round the old maie outside of hoth shafts could be heard half a mill' away. "That's a mighty loud set uv bells that you hev got," said someone as Sam came in. "That's what they air," replied Sam, "I don't want ennybody ter think that I am going ter a funci.tl when I go by, so f keep them bells on all winter. I wouldn't know how to ride without 'um.Tliey air a heap of .company down thioiigh the woods where it is lone Homo and kinder skeery at night not that thcic air enny thing to bo afraid uv, but their janglln kinder cheers a feller uo." "Howdy, Mr. Merrill; got enny West Ingy molasses?" "Plenty uv It," replied the grocer with a wink at 'Squire Nubbins, who was seated by the stove reading a paper that he had just taken from the ortlce. "An' how much air you a-gettln' fcr It nowadays?" "Sixty cents, Sam, Molasses has rlz tcnlbly lately." "C,o long," replied Sam, "I don't be lieve It, but I'll gin you fifty, cf you will wan ant that there ain't been no niggers a-wauin around in it, I wuss letidln' the other day how niggers waded utotind In West Jngy molasses until It warn't lit for a white man ter cat no inore'ii nothln'. "ScerasMcr nic It looks kinder nig gcry," said Sam, as he stood watching tho molasses trickle into the gallon nieasiiic that the grocer had placed under the faucet, "An' huw much dn you happen to he glvln' for maple sugar?" asked Sam lit an abstracted way, as though the an swer mado no dlffcrenco iu tho world to Him. "Ten cents, Sam," said tho merchant, "ten cents Iu trado and nine In cash," "W.il, 1 rutlier gue.ss I won't he a borln' holes Inter iny tices and a-lettlu' nut their life-blood fur cuuy sulIi ilguro as tlmt, not this year," And Snm stalked out of tho store In fclgtiPd wrath, but presently he returned with a largo box of maple sugar and set It down upon tho counter for Mr, Mer rill's inspection. "Bipuk olf u hunk un' taste on It," ho said to the grocer, cotdlully. "Now sap pan, buckets all painted this year, an' uv'rythlng as clean ns a whistle; you don't get such sugar ns that cv'ry day, It air genuine; no store sugur In it." "That's very good sugar, Sam," said the grocer, "I'll give you ten cents In trado for t." "No, you won't," he loplled. "I'll feed It ter tho hogs fust, hut mi give mo twelve an' It ulr jams, box an' all," "Well, seeing it Is jou, an' good sugar, I'll do It," said Mr, Men III, winking at the 'squhc again, So tho sugar was weighed nut, tho balance stuick between the purchaseis and the pi lie of the sugar, und Sum, bundles In hand, punched out of the store, nut no sooner was he outside thun a change caino over his whole person, his stern set features lelaxed Into a broad This signature Is on every box of toe genutas Laxative Bromo?Quiu1ne Tablet Attend One? J grin, and he began pounding hlmstlf upon the leg and dancing around ln most ridiculous manner. After putting his bundles into the old sleigh ha sat down upon a dryooods box in the ihcd and gave himself up to a paroxysm of mirth. He put both arms acrofea hia chest and swayed back and forth in convulsions of merriment, He was still swaying when tho 'io;uifr came out to get his own team, and 1 happened around Just in time tp Jwar' the 'squire say; "What In the voryLU the matter with you, Sam? Hav7m got a nt?" "Guess I hev a small un," and 8am was off again. "You come over here," he said, a soon as he could speak In his ordinary tone, "an' I'll giv' you a tip about It, but I don't want nuthln' said about it at present, for It air too hard on hm ter gin It away, after socktn' it to him so, but it von't do no harm ter jilt gin you a tip." ' The squire was curious and 10 he ap proached Sam, who whispeied a fawr words of explanation to that ofTlolal, pausing occasionally to punctuate hii story with a slap upon ths squire's back. I watched the squire's face. At first he looked doubtful, then amused," and finally he, loo, sdt down upon the box and shook with laughter. "Pietty good, Sam, pretty good," he said at last, "but I wouldn't say much about It to the boys. It would bft too hard on him; It's bad enough as it la." "Oh, I'll be easy on him, you needn't worry about that," said Sam, as he backed out the old mare and started for home, "but I am afeorcd I can't keep from tellln' once in a while. Gee lang." In answer to this last Injunction, which wns addressed to the mare, and not to us, that faithful animal sham bled off, and the fantastic equipage and Its more peculiar driver were out of sight. "What In the world has got into Sam?" I asked when he had gotten falily out of hearing. "He says that Mr. Merrill has been cheating him on groceries for mora than a year, and he laid out to get even with him. He has Just sold Mer i HI sugar that he says was adulterated, for when he was boiling down the saji he put In moie than a hogshead of water, and Mr, Merrill didn't even no tice It when he tasted t!" Springfield republican. THE ENGLISH SPARROWS. Their Number Said to Be Deoreaiimg in the State of Virginia. From the Richmond tVa.) Dispatch. AVhat Is becoming of. tho English spar rowf Is he passing away? Certainly ha Is not so often In uvldence hereabout aa he used to be, and fiom other paits of Virginia also wo hear thut these birds ato not nearly so nuincious as they wera some" ears ago. The consequence U that thu small native blids aie tenppeailng in many 'localities, onllvenlng oidiaids and woods, llclds und meadows with their choeiful Hongs. If It bo true as to tho wheje atata thai ths tobustlous John Hull sparrow Is dis appearing, how i an It be accounted for? Has dlseaso thinned his .ranks or the In hospitality of our people driven him to other climes? Who knows? This sp.uiow was Intioduced Into Rich, muiid about 1S70 by lieneial Newberry, whe was icglsler of the Vllglnla land oN llco und supeilntendcnt of public, build Inss under C!oernor Walker. .At that tlmo the trees In the Capitol square wets Infested with catcrplllai. and these epar iows wciu tolled upon to destroy thm. Their services were 'beneficial to some ex tent, but Uth so many other opportuni ties for feeding It Is no wonder that they declined to accept un exclusive diet of c.ttci pillar cbs- Fiom Richmond, fiom Washington, and from other cities tho Ihigllsh kparums spread Into all parts of Vllglnla, anjyri times' tliieatencd to become as numeWus aa tho flies In Kgynt, but now, we at, told, as we have said, that their numbers aie declining, but why or wheitfoie la not explained. Vv j. rii 1-T if W I i ' 4 -ft - - t
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