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MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 15
THE KIVER COAI. PROBLEM
THE one big point to be gained
in the proposed removal of the
river coal wharves of the Har
risburg l.ight and Power Com
pany to the island is the abolition of
the wharves now marring the land
scape between Walnut and Market
streets. It would seem to be, there
fore. the duty of council to see that
the ordinance providing for the change
ii- so amended that there-will be no
more unloading of coal between the
points named. There is plenty of
room for the concentration of all the
river coal traffic at Paxton street once
the light company's coal fleet is cared
lor in the manner contemplated at
the island, and the Bowman measure
should be passed only on condition
that dumping at Walnut and Front
streets be discontinued entirely,
otherwise the main benelit to the city
would be lost.
The island site need not be the eye-!
sore that some people have feared.!
The wharves can be so constructed
and so disguised and embellished by.
foliage as not to destroy the charm of
the river view from Front street oppo
site. The only other alternative, ifj
the Market street nuisance is to be
abolished, would be a floating barge
with derrick attachment to be re
moved from one place to another
along the river for the benefit or the
coal excavators, who must be given
sonic sort or adequate landing facili
ties. How much more objectionable
such an apparatus would be it is not
dillicult to see. Reside, by an arrange
ment or that kind the city would lose
practically 51.200 a year rentals, an
item of no mean importance.
An architect like' Mr. Manning, our
landscape engineer, would no doubt
be delighted to design an ornamental
landing pjace on the island that
v >ulil l>e a thing or beauty and this
> ould be made a provision or the re
moval ordinance, so that the only
other matter to be considered would
be the protection or thfe city with re
lation to the lease terms and the aboli
tion or the wharves at Market street.
( Ai.CTI.ATING OUR FOODSTUFFS
IN" the last hair year the new bureau
of statistics of the State Department
of Agriculture has inaugurated un
ostenstatiously a system of crop re
ports which have furnished Pennsyl
vanians for the llrst time with fairly
accurate estimates of the yields or
principle foodstuffs and interesting
• lata regarding livestock. In years
gone by the Keystone State was noted
lor its > rops and its cattle raising, but
while the farming industry is still so
important that Pennsylvania ranks
high as an agricultural State the rais
ing of horses, cattle and sheep has de
clined even in those counties well
fitted by nature for such enterprises.
The working out of the crop report
system demonstrated that there was
lack of uniformity in the methods of
gathering information, most of the
« oiintless doing it their own way ao long!
a* data was .supplied under the prooer|
headings of Internal Affairs reports?, i
It w.is found in some localities that
figure? varied and that thoroughness!
did not always prevail. To correct
these conditions and to furnish a
method whereby the Commonwealth
can learn about its wheat, Its corn, its
cattle and its peaches, plums and
apples as exactly as it knows its pro
duction of coal and tonnage of steel, a
Mil has been presented to the legisla
ture by Representative uell, of Hun
tingdon county. It nlaces certain well
defined duties on assessors and makes
it the business of officials to get the
data at their handt. for the benefit oi
the whole people. It is to be hoped
that it will be speedily passed.
I l I.TOX COMING NEARER
FULTOX county is about to lose its
distinction of being the only one
of the sixty-seven sisters in Penn
sylvania to be without a railroad
or trolley line. Fulton has been famed
for its sturdy men. its fine farms, its
aitltudinous scenery and Its good
roads, with their accompaniment of
taverns conducted pretty much as the\
were when the stagecoach sped where
tli" automobile now rolls. And ever>
now nnd then some scientist has arisen
and declared that it is underlaid with
iron ore and Its hills tilled with
minerals anil stones that will make
them more valuable than the crops
taken from their sides. Kut capital
has been slow to invest and the coun
ty has been unique in busy Pennsylva-
MONDAY EVENING,
Inia for its lack of transportation faclli-
I ties.
But now an application is pending
I for approval of a project to connect in
teresting MeConnellsburg, the county
seat of Fulton, with Its old-time court
house and its noted inns, with Fort
I<ouden, rich in historic memories and
blessed with railroad connections. The
scheme is to build a trolley line over
the hills and through the valleys and
to bring FuMon's capital closer to the
outside world than the automobile
and the stagecoach and the farm
wagon can do in this latter day and
generation.
THE MAX FOR THE JOB
THERE is something extremely
gratifying to the Republican
mind in the announcement from
Washington that A. Mitchell
Palmer is to head the committee in
charge of the campaign to renominate
President Wilson. Pennsylvania Dem
ocrats who "threw the hooks" into
Mr. Palmer so deeply last November
that he is still nursing sore spots, will
be apt to find less pleasure in this se
lection of a repudiated boss to carry
the White House banner into the fray
of the coming campaign. The spec
tacle will not tend to inspire them
cither with enthusiasm or confidence.
The President, as has been appar
ent ever since the November elections,
is distrustful of public opinion. He Is
not so cocksure of his popularity. So
he han asked Mr. Palmer and a few
choice kindred spirits of the Demo
cracy to go out and make a canvass.
The result may be imagined in view
of the lamentable exhibition of test
ing the public pulse Mr. Palmer gave
in his own behalf last Fall.
The President is wasting aninwrtM
tlon. He needs no campaign for re
nomination. AH he has to do is to
march boldly up and take it. There
isn't a Democrat in the country that
dare oppose him. nothwithstanding
that all of them see nothing ahead but
defeat with Wilson as the head of the
ticket.
However, it may be just as well to
keep Mr. Palmer tip front in the cam
paign plans. He will be useful in ex
tending sincere and heartfelt sym
pathy. deepened and enriched by per
sonal experience, when he is called
upon, following the 1916 November
election, to break the news gently at
the White House.
lURTOX XEEDS HELP
THE New Vork Sun calls the
attention of taxpayers to the
fact that Senator Rurton. who
will have charge of the tight for
a reduction of the millions the Demo
crats propose to appropriate for river
and harbor purposes this year, will
need the help of public opinion. "The
opposition to the river and harbor
bill," says the Sun. "will be intelli
gent and alert. Until March 4 it will
be under the skillful direction of Sen
ator Rurton. Much may be expected
of him, but his hands must be upheld
by a vigorous expression of public
indignation against the wasteful and
indefensible items contained in it."
As this measure passed the House,
it appropriates $34.138,550. Tn the
form in which it comes before the
Senate for final passage it would im
pose an additional burden of $4,459.-
300 on the people of the country. The
Senate committee has amended it by
adding almost $6,000,000. but this is
offset by a reduction of $1,200,000 in
the sum designated by the House lor
continuing work now under way.
One would imagine, after having
read the Democratic platforms of the
past few years and in consideration
of the present depleted state of the
national treasury, that the President
and his colleagues would be willing to
do as Republican administrations <lid
in lean years, namely, materially re
duce or cut out altogether appropria
tions for river and harbor work. There
is no doubt that some of the im
provements contemplated are worthy
and will provide work for many men
at a time when employment is none
too plentiful, but on the other hand
the measure is so weighted down .vhh
"pork" that it might well be cut in
half and still provide for all expendi
tures necessary at this time. The
Sun is right. Senator Burton should
ha\e all the support that public opin
ion can give him.
WHOM, BK THK JUDGE?
REPRESENTATIVE MCGLNXIS, A
member of the Kansas Legisla
ture. wants every woman of that
State fined "who dares to deco
rate her face with powder, wear false
hair and ear-rings for the purpose ol
deceiving, advertising or creating a
false impression."
Doubtless such a law would be high
ly favored by guilllble bachelors fear
some of the wiles of designing maidens,
but the married man. calm "in the re
flection of a wealth of experience, nia;
be expected to ask. who is going to be
the judge? Would Mr. McGinnis havt
every policeman on the street in
structed to act as an official inspector
of feminine adornment'.' Can he not
imagine what would happen to the
daring patrolman who hailed a lady
to rub a smudgy thumb over her nose
in order to see whether it had been
Jabbed with powder? or has he not
'.nuuination enough to picture ih<
■iccne that would follow when a police
man yanked violently at a hunch o
bangs or protruding coiffure to tini
whether it was pinned there or attach
led as nature originally designed hail
to be?
For our part, we would advise Mr. ]
McGinnis to go home during the week- i
end recess and talk this matter ovei
with his wife, or if he has no wife, as I
we suspect, with some feminine friend]
who may '.> a expected to reply with
equal frankness. Having Jone 'his -v<
shall expect to read next' seek 'has
Sir. McGinnis has asked the unant
iiious consent of the ' IOIIMC to villi
idraw this remarkable piece af legists
tion.
At nil events, we must admire '.hi
nerve of a legislator who proposes ar.
act like this riprht :»n the threshold
of universal woman's suffrage. Has
the man no regard for sscond term
possibilities? ,
[l-VENING CHAT I
The practical operation of the local
option bill now pending before the
Mouse committee on law and order.
| the bill presented by Representative
Ueorge M . "Williams. of Tioga county.
«ith the approval of Governor Brum
baught, means that when voters ap
proximating one-fourth of the total
| number or votes cast at the previous
| general election petition for a special
jelection whether a county shall be
j without license the courts must order
an election. The -county unit means
that a whole county must vote, not
I Harrisburg, Steelton or Williamstown
separately, but the whole county. If
one takes the vote of Dauphin county
for Governor at the last election as a
basis and assumes thai the bill be
comes a law, this means that it would
require one-fourth of the 26,725 per
sons who voted for Governor in this
county to petition for an election on
the question or "wet" or "dry." In
olher words, should the law pass this
session, if would take ♦;.4S 1 persons to
sign tor an election in Dauphin county
and the job or getting so many signers
would indicate pretty conclusively in
advance what the result of the election
would be. Men who have had 'experi
ence with petition circulation say that
they can forecast popular opinion on
the first thousand names. Jf a thou
sand conies easy it is not hard to get
the rest. | n operating the law in
Cumberland county. where 11,502
votes were cast Tor Governor, it would
take over 2,800 signers; in Perrv over
1 140 " ol »d be required and in'Juni
ata t>nt%. it can thus be seen that in
the smaller counties, many of which
are 'dry or nearly so, that a local
option election could be made a de
cidedly interesting affair for the liquor
people and the action of Judges in
refusing to prant licenses wiuild prol*-
ably be ratified. The Williams bill
also carries a provision that a local
option election may be held only once
in three years, a wise provision and
once calculated to save the public
treasury money as well. Sentiment in
favor of local option has grown by
leaps and bounds and the William's
bill, ir enacted, would probably be in
voked very quickly in this section or
the State and Dauphin county, an in
dustrial community, would afford
i ground Tor a mighty significant test.
A. Fisher Russell, of the United!
States quartermasters department,]
who was here visiting his mother. Mrs.!
A. L. Russell, has gone to Washington!
to report for duty after nine weeks!
at \ era Crus and some more weeks |
returning to Galveston and attending]
to details of troop movements. Mr. i
Russell, who is a son of the war time!
adjutant general and who was born in ]
Montev'deo where his father was ntin-l
ister, has been entrusted with impor- i
tan! work by the army officials. He I
possesses a iluent knowledge of Span-1
is'i and has been detailed for work not!
only in Cuba, but in the Philippines,
Panama. Porto Rico and other places. I
He was sent to Vera Crux with the j
transport Sumner and came away with
its troops.
The numerous bills presented in the ,
legislature to regulate the use of auto-i
mobiles caused an amusing action by a I
Harrisburg man on Saturday. This I
man keeps abreast of times and see
ing another, who does not own a car
but who often talks about those who
do. about to pass across a street he
stopped and adjusting his windshield,
said that he hoped the gentleman
would enjoy his trip across the street.
"You're unusually solicitous to-day,"
commented the man on foot.
"The new law requires us to be
careful of those liable to be harmed,
children, the lame and the halt," tired
back the auto owner.
Senator Hqnr.v A. Clark, of Erie,
sponsor of the third class city act
last session, spends the whole session
here and has been putting in his
discussing the law with visitors to the
city and studying the situation. The
senator has some amendments to the
law. but believes that it should be
given a good try-out. He has been
closely observing the workings in Har
risburg. no doubt obtaining much in
teresting information us well as
amusement out of them.
One of the interesting effects of the
war has been that people are thinking
a lot about next summer's crops and
judging from the way questions have
been asked there are a good many who
intend to plant wheat this Spring and
to push their orchards. They are of
the opinion that the war Is going to
make it worth «bile to raise wheat
and that there will be a great demand
for fruits for canning for export.
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE""!
—Col. Richard Coulter, of the Tenth
regiment, is active in securing a site
'or the new armory for the Washing
ton company of his command.
—Hugh Ramsey Know, formerly of
Pittsburgh, has' weddeil woman of
prominent Spanish family whom he
met at the Durbar.
* —Alba R. Johnson has been elected
president of the Bryn Mawr Fire com
pany.
—A. Merritt Taylor, the Philadel
phia transit director, ha* been study
ng the problem In Philadelphia for
vears and his ideas on the subject in
volve untold millions.
—A. L. Colt, of Greensburg. has
jone to Bermuda for a short stay.
—Ex-Attorney General W. I'. Hen
•e! is reported to be improving it;
lealth.
f —DO YOU KNOW 1
That Harri-ibiiig engine* fur
nish power for sugar plantations?
r
Is Common Sense
Uncommon?
Looking at some so-cnlled na
tional advertising rampaigns one
is prompted to ask: —
"Is common sense uncommon?"
All sorts or round-about nielli?
oils are sometimes used to reaeh
the consumer and tin- one sure
and ineNpensivi- method, THK
DAILY' NEWSPAPER, is over
looked.
The newspaper is not a link in
an advertising rhain. It is a
complete methou of campaign in
itself. i
It reaches a definite circle of
consumers regularly and consist.
| ently.
It reaches a definite e'rele of
retail dealers.
It influences consumers and
distributor- and it produces
prompt and rietinite results.
11 offers the common sense way
of building business.
Manufacturers interested in
gi-uing better results from their
publicity are invited to address
the Hure.au of Advertising.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association, World Building,
New Vork.
> ——l 1 1
HARRIBBURG &3&TELEGRAPH
SUFFRAGE BILL
WILL GO RAPIDLY
Course to Be Pursued Will Be
Determined by the Senators
During the Week
PROGRESSIVES ARE FUSSING
Plan to Reorganize Their League;
Governor Makes Notable Ad
dress on Peace
Whether or not the resolution for
the constitutional amendment to per
mit women to vote will be reported out
by the judiciary general committee of
.the Senate before the recess planned!
by the Legislature for the last, fort
night 01' the month, will be determined
to-night or to-morrow. The resolu
tion was sent to the committee of
which Senator Henry A. Clark, of|
Krie, is chairman, when it was rceelv- i
ed from the House.
—The disposition of senators is to|
set the bill out uf committee and vot-J
ed upon and the policy in regard to'
handling it will he shaped within the
next twenty-four hours. Reports were
current to-day that hearings would
be asked by the untisuffragists, but as
hearings were held last session and a
number of senators are favorable to
speedy action it is possible that but
little lime will be lost.
—People at the Capitol are watch
ing with considerable amusement the
effort of the Bull Moosers to keep on
the map for next year's presidential
campaign by reviving the Progressive
League. This league, which is said
to exist in a more or less precarious
manner in forty-two counties, is to be
strengthened and made the vehicle of
the progressive propaganda until it is
settled what the colonel intends to do.
: It is modestly stated that 1,000 mem
! bers will lie sought and this illustrates
to what depths the league has sunk.
As a matter of fact, thp recent meet
ing in Philadelphia showed that most
of the Bull Moosers were tired of
wondering and wanted to lie down in
peace undisturbed by the ambitions
of Klinn and other bosses and the
schemes of Detrich, and utiles who
want to keep busy.
—Democrats connected with the dis
:credited State organization have start
la fault-finding campaign which they
| hope will make up for their utter lack
lof organisation in the Legislature and
| failure to have * any legislative pro
gram in spite of the elaborate prom
ises made last Kali. This policy is to
I criticise everything. For a while there
I was talk that it Democratic campaign
publicity bureau would be maintain
j ed. but this turned out to be baseless.
| presumably because the people who
| had been keeping the machine going
I found that fuel was high this winter.
| Now the policy of "knocking" has
been inaugurated and everything that
| the Governor and Republican leaders
do Is made the subject of criticism.
—it is expected that some of the
election bills will show up this week.
According to rumors the Democrats
will not attempt to revise the election
laws this year, but will criticise every
thing that anyone else does. Some
of the antlmachine Democrats arc said
to hold the view that the people are
tired of experiments and want laws
that can be understood.
—"A man in this country who clam
ors for war is no friend of the coun
try. " Governor Brumbaugh, in a peace
address In Holy Trinity Protestant
I Episcopal Church yesterday afternoon
imade this Statement among many oth
ers regarding what should be the at
titude of this nation toward war. "Both
church and school," he said, "should
install in the minds of our people that
a nation is honorable in peace and dis
honorable in war." He declared that
when this is accomplished we will have
true basis for our national ideal. The
occasion was the special services held
to commemorate the hundred years
of peace among English-speaking na
tions. It was held under the auspices
of the Interchurch Federation of
Philadelphia. In referring to the hun
dred years of peace between this coun
try and Great Britain since the sign
ing of the Treaty of Ghent. Governor
Brumbaugh said that in measuring it
with the experiences of a man's life
it is a long time, but as compared with
the experiences of a nation it is a tre
mendous time. To reserve this peace,
however, he declared that we must
Coster ideals of peace. "We must be
taught to think the right thing and
trained to do it." said he. "If we want
to maintain this nation in peace," he
continued, "we must behave ourselves
—behave like Christians. In fact, a
j-evivnl of good behavior on the part
*o( all would make thoughts of arma
ment or treaties of peace unnecessary,
because we would then realize that
peace cannot be dictated by the right
arm."
PIIOI'HKCV
Representative Thomas Gallagher,
apropos of Chicago's fortune tellers,
salrl in Chicago the other day:
"It is odd that fortune tellers should
still find dupes. They never foretell
anything, you know. They always
hedge. They are like the palmist.
" 'Your boy will become a very dis
tinguished man if he lives long enough,'
an amateur palmist said at a church
fair."
"•Oh. good." cried the urchin's moth
er. And what will he be distinguished
for?' "
" For longevity, if he lives long
enough.' " —Detroit Free Press.
I.x WHOM;
B; M ing Dinger
A good friend, who my real name
knows.
Came up to me to-day
And said: "Wing Dinger, I've something
That to you I would say.
I took your tip on Saturday
And sent home to my wife
A package nice that set me right—
I am your friend for life."
;ut t>ien a dozen f her chaps.
Who also know my name.
Ml sorts of ugly things to me
This morning did declaim
in style like this: "You silly boob,
My wife showed me your verse.
And I was forced to buy something
That took all in my purse."
I really didn't think that I
Would stir up trouble when
I sat me down, and started In
My latest poem to pen.
But while I stirred an ill wind up
With lits of husbands, 'twould
■ieem that to many wives It blew
A vast amount of good.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
f" OUR DAILY LAUGH
believe in lon*
engagements?
wouldn't marry y
»ny man until
Pil known him at ii (,
least « foj-taiibt. JHil
fANOJGL TOOD.
Do you have
e*r* for break
graph record of »
INHUMAN MON-
He broke her
heart, the wretch.
No, he insisted J
her keeping
her engagement
when she had a •
better offer. ,_-. v ..©
AP 1 JT as
■rbT **r^)
Lni CARRIED OUT.
W j jvv OflSce Boy: ]
* i resolved to qui
3 ""! this job on th«
Ik* First, and og
gone if I donl
Sz. b'lieve I'll do It!
ROUND about
PENNSYLVANIA
Signs of Spring are being reported
from round about Pennsylvania
these days despite the fact that slash
ing parties are still the thins in the
northern part of the State. At Doyles
town last week a marten—lirst of the
year—fought with six sparrows for
the possession of a colony box and
finally won out. Bluebirds are re
ported at Waynesboro and Gettys
burg.
So cheer up.
Cyrus Twining, deputy prothonotary
In the courthouse at Doyleatown, has
been requested to take an alarm clock
out of his offlee. Seems that Cyrus
has everybody running to the tele
phone when the clock begins to "re
peat." The other morning the clock
went off early and the town police
force turned out to see who had
sprung the burglar alarm in the
Bucks County Trust Company Build
ins, just across the way.
Jim Phillips, who owns a big stock
farm near Royertown. sold a cow for
$2 50 last week.
Health Officer Horace Miller, of
Bechtelsville, same vicinity, yesterday
resigned his position. Appropos of
nothing, it may be interesting: to note
that the health officer is going into
the cow rinsing business.
At Scappel's Dale, Berks county, the
other night two groups of the younger
s« t vied lor the bigger crowd. One
branch of the rising generation held a
tango tea: the other a quilting party.
Honors were about equally divided.
Miss Susan F. Wharton, late of
Wyomissing, has provided for six pet
cats in her will. The document sets
aside a sum sufficient to keep the
tabbies until the time of their demise.
A near kinsman, who, rumor had it.
was to receive a big lump of Miss
Wharton's fortune, got a dollar. Hut
possibly the kinsman's claws were the
sharpest.
Civil War veterans from every part
of the State are planning to visit the
national capital the latter part of Sep
tember to take part in the exercises
celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of
the great review of I'nion soldiers by
Abraham Lincoln in 'fis. Members of
the McLean Post, of Heading, are go
ing in a body, seteral hundred strong.
i
[From the Telegraph of Feb. 15, 1885.]
'•hfrmnn In HrniM-hvlllr
Washington. Feb. 15. Sherman now
occupies Branchville, S. ('... and several
towns near it. An advance movement
will be begun soon. Some of these
troops are near Charleston.
Food In Scare*
Richmond. Feb. 15. Food is scarce
in this city, owing to Sherman cutting:
railroad connections with Augusta.
Savannah and other towns. Prospects
of peace are becoming more certain.
IN HARRI3BURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of Feb. 15, 1565.]
tlmiir la Humeri
Fire In the home of K. M. Pollock.
.Market Square, caused slight loss.
Flro I*l nun Frnm
Complain has been made to the City
Council that every tire plug in the city
is frozen.
loans People Misbehave
Young people of the cltv are being
censured for their action In churches
during services.
j Hot Tea Breaks
a Cold—Try Thist
Get 'a small package of Hamburg
Ureast. Tea, or as the German folks
all it, "Hamburger Brust Thee," at
iny pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful
of the tea, put a cup of boiling watei
upon it, pour through a sieve and
drink a teacup full at any time. It
Is the most effective way to break a
cold and cure grip, as it opens the
pores, relieving congestion. Also !oos- '
ens the bowels, thus breaking a cold
at once.
It is Inexpensive nnd ermrely vege
table, therefore harmless. Adver
tisement.
Try Telegraph Want Ads.
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_ Buy materials that last
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By the Messenger Boy
Over here on the corner where our
big new l« story hotel is goin up. I got
mixed up in a skand.il the other day
that is a big trubil to my consense;
and 1 must reffer it to the consid
e rash tin of the ministerial associations
and the Council of Civiek Churches
which is such a. bin thing in the ad
ministrashiui of our little city by the
brook, t hope the preachers will be
condescendin enuff to consider and
advise me ahout it whether 1 done
rite or whether I didnt.
This is how it happined: 1 was
watching a big steal piece of I-beam
being started by the derrick on its
way to the tenth story, to help make
the frame of this wondirful fire-proof,
it! story, million-dollar, fire-a-day
wlth-bath stoppin place for drummers
and law-makers which 11 arrisburg has
been strugglin for so long to net built.
As 1 was saying Ihis two ton I-beam
was startin on its jerney to the tenth
floor—which is how far they have got
up with the frame—anil two Irishmen
was workiit under it, twistin of it j
around so it would pass the corner of
a skatllld. They was very much in
tlristed in the work and 1 thought
they wouldn't see me; so 1 goes to the
dinner pail of one of them, which
was setting in a pile of lumber, and
1 borrows a piece of tninee-ple which I j
thought he wouklnt care for, it being
eo indigestibul.
Hut I was nilstakun, for both them'
Irishmen yelled and run at me like]
forty, each one thinkin I was stealin j
bis pie. They both, give me a kick
that landed me out in the middle of I
the street. Jist: then there was a j
awful crash, and we looked around to
see the tackei holdin the I-beam had '
busted and the two-ton piece of steal I
had fell to the ground und would n [
smashed the Irishmen sure as cats if j
they'd been standin under
The mean part is that they kep I
right after me and kicked me some 1
more and told me if they ever caut me '
stealin pie again they'd half-kill me; j
they didnt think a bit of the two ton ;
I-beam that would-a hit em if I hadn't ]
took the pie.
What I want the preachers to dislde
is whetir I am a common thief, or>
whethir I was a insterment of pover- j
dense In savin theni Irishmen. My
consense Is trubbled. as f was never j
known to steal before, it being a un- j
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