VOL- xxxvi
pAMs pOOTWeAR
Our entire fall stock of BOOTS, SHOES and RUBBER
;:oods are all in. We bought early and gave large orders there
by enabling us to offer you the best of solid footwear at away
down prices. No advance in price of leather goods, and felt
goods cheaper than last season. We have au extremly large
stock to select from.
LEATHER GOODS.
Men's kip do-.ible sole and tap box toe boots f 2 5°
Hoy's " " " " " boots i -5o
Men's high cut box toe shoes *• ' -75
Hoy's high cut double sole and tap shoes 1 -75
Youth's " " " " " " " '-S 0
Women's liest kangaroo calf shoes 1 2 5
Women's best oil grain shoes ' 2 5
Misses' l>est kangaroo calf shoes '
4 ,'hildren's best k:mgaroo calf shoes ' 5
Children's fine dongo'a slioes I
RUBBER LIST."'
Mali's Storui Kim? ruMx r 1k»01 13.75 Women's rf*gnl:&i liHijlit rul»l»cr rj
Mfn'H p»*tral;ir hHght ruMM?r lioot* M«*n's burklo ar't i<*- ;
lioy's n-'-'ulnr t**i£lit ruMn-i' '** nts I.'** tjin*kli* ar.'tii's * »
Youth's regular rubber boots 1.35 La<U(h' Mbte'-s' JiiniriiHilron ruM*r> -•
FELT GOODS.^
Men's best white f«lt bantu A snae over-. .Men's On-y f.-lt ami sernnd overs ?I..Vt
Hoy's Ist (trade overs 1-Ki Boy's " 1
Youth's 1« " 1.10 Youth's '
" S 'S.. S9ROSIS SHOES "'ST'
In all the latest styles for fall wear. Full stock ol the A E. Nettle
ton fine shoes for men. Ladies' aid Gents felt shoes and varm
lined shoes and slippers.
Visitors to ths Butler County Fair, ws welcome you to our store Make this
your headquarters during your stay in LJutlcr.
JOHN BICKEL,
128 SOUTH MAIN STREET, - HUTLER, PA. (
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I ) ' That the dread house cleaning is ovu the next A 1
{ ~ f and more important work is picking a new carpet A
To pick a carpet in our well stocked carpet rooms Q
I is a pleasure, so say the many who have done so. Q 1
We liave the famous Hartford Axminister, Wilton X
Velvets, Body and Tapestry Brussels and Ingrains Jf
in a" the up-to-date patterns, only, and prices Y
tlia' will astonish you. Then our China Mattings, V I
Floor and Table Oil Cloths, Linoleums, Rugs and jr
Art Squares, deserve a passing notice. Ask to '# <
see our 5 '
SI.OO Axminister Rugs, || ]
Neatest tiling for the money ever shown in Butler at 'r
DUFFy'S STORE 11
m E: in . ~,
| i .IT .J* |j Won't buy clothing for the ptirpo.4c of spewl-
I i| ing momy. They desire to get the bjest
.1 / ] Vti Hl*. possible results for the money expended. '
I V W 1 Notchcnp j;oods but good.-, us cheap .is can
I 1 \* \ be sold and made up projierly. ' Call and
j| M *V| M examine mv large dock ot
jl KsS* SPRING SUITINGS.
IjV Yv y f_J 1 «tight lip to date, tin- latest styles, shade*.
1V N aH and colors that could In- bought. Call and
U, l\ 1 examine them.
n n Rtsan d Workmanship
U I ' I Guaranteed.
G. F? K6CK, :
142 North Main Street, Butler, Pa
PAPES, JEWELERS.
Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelery,
Silverware, Spectacles etc.
We have a large and well selected stock.
We Repair ail Kinds of Watches.
If you have broken jewelery that you think l.eyond repairs
Iniivj it to us and we will make it ;IM ;;ood as new
We take old gold and silver tin- same as cash allowing the
highest market price.
122 S. Mair. H., J'utkr, 1'
ELKO PAINT!
Ready for use is the best paint on the
market SENOUR FLOOR PAINT
stands second to none, fully guaranteed.
Full Line of WALL PAPER for this
fall; prices lower than ever.
Picture and Mirror Framcing a Specialty.
Room Mouldings, Stationery, Paints, Oils and Varnishos.
Contract Painting & Paper hanging
Patterson Bros.,
236 North Wain Street. Butler, Pa.
Wick Building. Peoples' Phone 400
A DIAMOND FOR A DOLLAR, L C. WICK,
Limited Special Offer Which I)kaukr in
Will Last for Ten Days Only
OKNIIINK HAUKIOH IHAMoNIW liuve a n , ... ill l
w..rld-»lil<- r. |.ui;iil -i, It. W almost liii|...s- Uniirih * W0 PK P(l il 111 H(! f
klt.lr to .IUIIIIKIII .li lliim from until'- illii- llUUyil W»UI RCU UUIIIIJOI
mnmis huiiclri'ilt of dollars i-ai-h.
Tlu-y are worn by tim bo«t piopli-. We will
for ward a IOMIIXK iUititios IIIAMOMI Al,l * KIJ,MS .
Ij r .V 1 i'''.'.Vr.■ v 'iV.'r-V-■.V.f Doors, Sash, Minds, Mouldings,
K'trrlnßH, srrewaororoiH, 42 liar l>alr liinx ,
wt tlii|(» an- iniuJe of one coiilliiuout ulmi of rMlllltjleS atld I^atll
llili-k. Nhelletl Kolit, ami ar>- warranted not to , , ■ c. i
tirntkh. Hpeetal romliliiallon offer for tin V.lways ill iltock.
daysonly! Itlim ami *tud nerit u» any ad
dn-'-S U|HMI r«-r<l|it of § I ..>ll. In onli ilnn rlii -■ _. .. .. . ... . ..a. ... . EI'E n
Klvi- fln«.r 1111-iiHiir.ni. M T.y IMIIHT a LIT." |- ol |JME, tl \IR AM) IM.ASTI'.R
.itrintr illw full p ij-1 t« nlarH. A<!<lr« sn plaL'ily
TIIK HARICIOX I'lAMuNli i'O Office opiK>sitc P. & W. J)ctKit.
lIHI-lIH3 llroiiflway. 11 1
Si vi York. BUTLER. PA.
~ THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
NONE SO POPULAR.
It is Dai'y Gaining Favor ii Pennsylvania
Results Reported From People Who Have
Given a Fair Trial to the Remedy.
Morrow's Kiil-at-oids, the scientific i
kiilney remedy and backache cure, is j
j daily gaining favor in this state. No ■
medicine has cvtr l>een sold in Pennsyl
vania for Kidney ailments, backache, I
nervousness, sleepleness ami general de
bility that hasgained sucli popular favor j
as Morrow's Kid-ne-oids.
We give you the experience of Mrs. E
W. Fulkerson. 30 Ktnn street, New
Castle, Pa., says:—"About four years ago
I commenced to have a dull heavy pain
in my back just over the kidneys, and at
times it would be a sharp shooting pain. ;
I was so nervous I could not get the
proper rest and sleep. Morrow's Kid-ne
oids were recommended to relieve me so I
decided to try them. In a very short
time they relieved me of all the trouble
some symptoms. I find Morrow's Liver
lax to be au excellent remedy for con
stipation."
Morrow's Kid-ne-oitla are not pills, but i
Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents ;i
box at all drng stores and at Redick &
Grohman's drug store.
Mailed on receipt of price. Manufac- j
tu.e<t by John Morrow «fc Co., Chemists, |
Springfield, Ohio.
Buier Savings Bank
I/id tier, Pei.
Capiial - f6r<,oix>.(*j
Surplus and Profits - - $ 170,000.00
JOS. 1. PURVIS I'rfcfiiin 1
.1. 11KNRV 7ROUTMAN .Vice-President
U M. CAMPBKM., .Ir i'ul liitr
LOU 13 15. STEIN J' :!«-r
IMKEtTOKS—J"»eph L. I urvts, .1. l.'ei.r,
Troi'.tman. W. I>. Branitou. W. Stein. J i l '.
<'jl'lUb»-11.
Tlie Butler Savnizs Bunk is the Oldest
H.-IIIKIIIK I nstitutioi.f 11 liutler t'ounty.
Oeneral banking business transaeti d.
We Milli-lt ai-counts of ~il producers, lui r
eluints. farmers and ot hers.
All b.islnrss entrusn d to us will receive
prompt attention.
Interest, paid on tlim* deposits.
TH EC
Butler County National Bank,
13 utle r Peon,
Capital paid in - - fi jo,rx*».f)o
Surplus and Profits -
Jos. Ilartman, J Preside fit; J. V. KitLs,
Vice President; C. A. Bailey. Cashier;
John i>. McMarlin, Ass't Cashier.
/ neneral banklnff business t ran«>:iet.ed.
Interest |iuid on time deposits.
Money loaned on approved seenrlty.
We invite you to open an aci'ount with this
bank.
HlliWT JUS —lion. Josi-ph Ilartman, Hon.
W. s. Waldron, I»r. M. Hoov« r. 11. Sle-
S»i I'iii-y. E. P. Abrams, I*. Collins I. O
j'inlth. 1.1-slle I*. llH7.lett. M. I'im tr iri.
W. 11. f.arliin. Harry lleasley. Dr. W. 1:.
Mrt'ainliess. Ui-n tlassntb. I V. KIM ►
Braun's Pharmacy.
Cor. 6th St. and Duquesne Way,
Pittsburg, l'a,, L, D. Telephone 2542.
Wholesale and Retail.
Importer and Jobbcrof
1 "hi niical.s, l'crfunics, Soaps,
l'nusiics, Jilt
The lion >c wc.'>t of New
York carrying a ftili line <>l
Meyers' Grease, Paints an<l
theatrical <joods.
Physicians' PreGcriptions
Compouiuled Day or Night by
"Registered Pharmacists" only.
Wholesale and retail
dealer in Lubricating and
Illuminating Oils, Capital
Cylinder, Dynamo, Water
White and Standard Gas
Kngine Oils, Gasolein, 15en
zinc, I'aradfine Wax and
Petrolatum.
Address all mail orders to
W. F. Braun.
Rare Bargains!
We want to ilis]»ose of our present
stock of 'gy models, and in order to do it
quickly have cut the prices from S3O,
#35 and S4O to 122.511 n1,, l These
are strictly high grade and up-to-date
bicycles, and can't be niatcheil lor price
and quality. Oon't miss this omiortuni
ty to procure a good wheel tor little
money. We sell sundries cheaper than
and other house in town.
WHITE, WALTER & CO.,
303 S. Main Street.
>N HAIR SWITCH FREE
ij\' ON EASY CONDITION*.
Jrm i <,'ut thl ««1. out anil mall to u*. fw-mi n
ft \ J iii)i&ll wiiiifin <>r yxiir ti(ilr,cuti'loiM't<iUin
1 yr rootM. hKM» NO nilNfcVi v . will m iU<' nint
\f \ h.-i,.| yo.i i.v.n.11, p.tpal.l fIN E HUMAN
f\if) ftAIR SWITCH. »"
(MllliTti, rhort •t« T»i Wk Will IllCloitO
VY J
J to return It t«i Ifnol |>< rfrrlly «alUf«rlorf.
inoMt '»! m iHinry vuhj.- and y<.u w|«h
At fl.bU K4UI fiMP.iiK you 1 rrl. fi. ln and
\ th. 3 HWltcbtf t-« thnu jUrvi l l.y innJl^
«* jyjjzK pcrfurtl T r aU*fiutt<iry .and (U Ihm ktta
11; Wf% th« •wllrh «••> ■end you frr* for your Iroulik.
Vk 1 I /ff Hrilii- I'Uaoa, Orxana, H. «1., K SUrlilnr*.
ItMSL lllliwa, t'urnllurr, Witrlm, lllryrloa,
nii'l .illir r |ir»aluai for l*lill>K
▲K-.X artlrra fur 4lur H«llr|i<'B. On. Itdjnrnrii
• l'l»no In llftr.i, .l«y «, ...,r a Mrwlur flarblu.
In U days. Onlrr 11 Hull«'h Hi oner «»r
»rlteto-duy for Hil I I'KKMII MUFKKU. Addrrw.
Ladles' Hair Emporium, Chicago.
H.O.HAYS. L.H.HAYS.
PUT YOUR RIG UP AT
bros.'l
Livery and Sale Stable
Best Accommodations in Town.
West Jefferson street, Butler, l'a
People..' I'houe 109,
Bell's I'hone 59.
BUTLKR, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTKMBKR 7, l.Si)i>
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1 IGEOME 3 W,
,sCRIFFIffIi
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"Eh. mon, yon're no tcllinf? met It's
bnrefacedr-t robbery! It's dog eating
(Jog—just cannibalism in beesness.
That's what it is."
"It was true, thontfb. Sanely, s'xvelp
mi*: may I never see the glint of a go
niva again if it isn't. There was £3,000
worth <>f the klips in poor little Tom- ,
my's insides, as yon know. The tecs 1
pull me npnsar the border. In the dark
Tommy slips ont of the cart, as usual,
and make.* for the clump of gums on
the other -id- < f the drift withont be
ing seen. The tecs find nothing, of
coarse, and I drive* on, thinking what
i rt of a lawsuit wo shall have this
| time against Lipinski and his people,
I crosses the drift and pulls np by the
trees. I whistles, and Tommy, like a
. good, obedient little tyke what knows
| his bizness, jumps in and"—
"Oh, my, to think you'd got such a
)>< antifrri lot so far only to —aweel, go
on. Ike, and let's have the rest of it. "
"As I says, the dog jumps in, and
I drives off again. 'Bout a hundred
yards farther on both my horses comes
to the ground with a crash, and I goes
after them on to my head. When I
comes to myself and picks my MI If np.
there was half a dozen fellows on horse
back round the curt. One jumps down,
and before I can so much HS shout be
has a cloth over my head and ties me
up so tight I can neither see nt.r speak
Ti: u he knocks with his knuckles on
my head and tells me if I don't want a
Imllet in it I'll k< cp quiet and be good.
Of course i WHS good as they make 'em. " j
"But the dog, mi 11, why didn't he .
mak' a bolt for't when he saw there ,
.was trouble? He's been vera weel
trnineii. I'd ti i <-lit In- might 'a' got
avra' in the scrimmage.
"He didn't have a chance. I hears i
him give :i * mothered up yelp and '
wpnal. and from that I knows that ho i
is like my 1 .d—in a bag That tells :
me tin t they bad tumbled to the lay or
that tbeiv wan some one there that
knew it. Well, they bundles me and
the dog into the cart and drives away
somewhere for about half an hour.
Then they pull? np, hauls me ont. hus
tles me into a house of some sort and
takes the bag off my he id. When I
looks about me, I wan in a bit of a
small loom, and there was four fellows
there, all with masks on. "
"Kidnapers and midnight robbers—
maybe murderers as weel," groaned the
Scotchman. "Ike, mon, I'm thinking
yon had a narrow escape. That Free
State's It :-i:;ht too free if it"> coutim* to ,
this. It's naethin r better nor a savage
land wi'out lav." nor oi : r in't. What
did they do till you then v"
"They asked me bow many klips I'd ;
got and win le they were, and of course ;
I says I bav none, and they can search
me if they like, and they does—a good
bit worse than the tecs did, I can tell
you. "f course they finds nothin r, and
then they laugh and says if I haven't
got them the dog has. So they turns
poor Tommy out of the sack, and
s'welp me. old pal, 1 doesn't like to tell j
you what happened then. I'd educated t
that dog perfe t, and I loved the little |
fellow, and besides he was worth a lot [
of money with all he knew."
Sandy Fiv. i r's little Hebrew accom
plice quite broke down here for a mo
ment or two, and Sandy himself gave a j
sympathetic sniff, for they had both i
lost not only n lot of money, but al»o a j
guiltless accomplice whom it would be •
very hard to replace.
"They murdered him, Sandy, right
before my eyes in a big tin footbath,
and of course they found the klips.
Then they offered to sell them back to
me for £2,000 and told me they'd have
made it £OOO more if they hadn't had
to kill the dog."
"Eh, sakes, what a murderous price!
Blank robbery! Why, they cost us £!J00
straight from the Kaffirs. And yon
paid?"
"Well, they was worth £II,OOO trade
price, and the thieves knew it; so I did.
I gave them ii draft on the bank here,
and they kept me there till one of them
got the cash and brought it back, and
then they ties my head up again, puts
me into the cart and drives me away
with the klips in my pocket. When
they took the bag off, it was night, and
I wa*i in a little kloof They showed me
the way to Freetown and rode off. I
got into Freetown by the morning and
found Handbeim there wondering if I
was dead or gone to the Breakwater for
change of air.
"Well, 1 told him the story and got
£:i,800 out of him for the klips on the
strength of it. Then I drives back,
brioiking my heart about poor little
Tommy and wondering where we shall
get another dog like that. That China
man's <iog that he fooled Lowenthal so
Mveetly with wasn't in it with Tommy."
"Nay, that he wasn't, mon. Why,
Tommy mnst a' run close on £20,000
worth for us, and might 'a' run £20,000
worth more wi'out a snnpeecion, wi'
that woudeifu' stomach of his. But,
there, lie's dead and gone, the puir wee
martyr, and we'll jnst go and talc' a
drink till bis future in the happy hunt
ing grounds. But tell me, Ike, lad, did
you hae nue notion what ouy of theiii
thieving murderers might 'a' been?
Home of t hem must a known yon or
they'd never 'a' suspected the dog."
"They was always masked when I
saw any of them, but, Sandy, if I
wasn't sure as death that Lipinski and
his chaps did for Hetli Salter that night
he ran the big parcel and they got it
hack, I could swear that tie boss of
'em had just bis Yankee twang, and his
liuijd wasn't nnlike, neither," replied
Ike, whose F.nglisb was of the oriental
order, and whose tenses changed with
the variations of his mental tempera
ture. "Now, where were we going tot
Let sgo to the qneen's tlmt.'s Lipin
ski's place. Jjet's see if he's there, and
if he's heard anything about this gang
over the line."
When they entered the barroom they
found Mr. Inspector Lipinski not only
there, but the central Ilgureof tic some
what motley crowd that was wont to
foregather there for their evening lime
juice, to use a conveniently general
term.
He was standing, as usual, the most
nattily dressed man in (he place, with
one elbow resting on the bar counter
and a glass hall full of whisky and soda
beside him. Opposite to him stood no
less a personage than Mr. Michael Mu
ratti and there seemed to Is* a discus
sion of some little heat going on be
tween them. Just as they went in he
slapped his glass down on the mahogany
and said in a loud, angry tone
"Of course you fellows never take
any responsibility, unless It's a case of
searching private housed and annoying
innocent people. Hut what I say is that
this Is just as much vorir affair as the
Free St ite j-.lice's. Why don't you com- j
bine instead of everlastingly bickering ;
and letting criminals slip through your
fingers? If there's been a robbery on
their side of the line tonight, there'll
bo one on your side tomorrow or the '
night after. As for saying that thepar-
I eel was illicit, that's all rot, and nei- j
titer here nor there. Max Sandbeimisa
perfectly respectable man. Why, I've
done business with him myself scores of
times.
' I've no doubt you have, Mr. Murat- j
ti. I wish I'd been there at the time," •
replied the inspector, with a snap-of •
malice in his tone which sent a elinc- !
kling laugh n-mid the crowd and brought j
out u red spot Ixtween Mickey's eye
brows. Before he had his retort ready
Ike pushed his way through the half cir
cle about them and said with ill advised
anxiety:
"Wba-at was that? Wiiat has hap
pened to Max Sandheim, and when did
it happen ? Was he robbed?"
"Aw. the blighted eediot!" murmur
ed bis partner, but he didn't shout it
. like a stage aside, and so it wasn t
in aid. He went to one end of the coun
ter and ordered a drink, hoping that
no one bad seen him come in with Ike.
The inspector pulled himself up I
straight and, as he could do on occa
sions suddenly assumed an air of au
thority which kept even the angry
Mickey quiet while he answered:
"Ah, Mr. Cohen, gocd even I So
you've got buck all safe, but you're a
bit anxious about your friend Sand
heim. Very natural, of course. Well,
I'm snre yon'li lie sorry to hear that a
few hours after you left him, say about
j 8 o'clock tonight, he was held up on the
j road between Freetown and Boshoff by
I four armed and masked men and robbed
j of a parcel of stones which he valued
i at £4,000. I daresay you'll knowubont
how near that is to the truth. He rode
; into Boshoff and reported, and we have
just had the news here by telegraph,
"liy the way, how's that dog of yours?"
The crowd noticed unanimously that
this was the first time since the story
of the diamond dog had become common
property in camp that the inspector had
mentioned one of its species publicly,
and they closed up a little, thinking
there was something coming. Mr. Mu
ratti, for reasons of his own, paid his
apparently exclusive attention to his
drink, while Sandy Fraser cursed all
Jews and dogs in silence and kept his
ears anxiously open.
New, I key Cohen, though not a
strong man nor yet one of conspicuous
pluck, was one of those peculiarly con
, stituted individuals, who gain a sort of
secondary courage through stress of
circumstances, somewhat as runners
get their second wind. From what the
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There mmnt 'l t>> /* c« dc'sciuwcton nf xoine
little hail.
inspector had said he saw that he knew
n goo. l deal more about bis late adven
ture "on the other side" than he
thought he did. Suspicions are some
times as good as knowledge. He stnek
his hands deep down into his pockets,
looked the inspector squarely in the face
and said
"11 you want me to sell you a pup,
Mr Lipinski, I'll be happy to oblige
you I eau't sell yon that one. because
It's dead. But 1 think I could tell yo.u
the name of the man who ordered it to
be killed. Anyhow I guess —you'd
—a —recognized —his voice—as I cal
kerlate I -did."
Ikey didn't,do the Yankee drawl at
all badly, and the shot went right
home. For the first and the last time in
his life Inspector Lipinski lout his self
command in public But his start was
only momentary, and the (lush that
came into his cheeks died out again in
an instant.
"What do you mean by that, sir?"
lie asked in a tone as calm as usual,
but with a distinctly threatening ring
in it.
"Just about what he says, 1 reckon, "
drawled Mickey Muratti, who was
about as good a mimic as he was a jug
gler "If you don't recognize that
twang, I do. That was well done, Ikey.
hoy. What 11 you take? The next'fl
with me."
What might have happened after this
no one will ever know, for just at that
moment one of the inspector's men en
tered hurriedly and handed him a note.
.Unopened it, glanced at it., crushed it
up in bis hand and said
"Gentlemen, I'm sorry, but, so far
as I'm concerned, this entertainment
will have to be postponed. Another man
wants to see me very urgently about a
dog.''
With this he drank off the remains
of his whisky and soda and turned and
walked to the door, followed by his offi
cial satellite, not a little pleased at such
an opportunely good "get out" from a
situation which was bidding fair to be
come embarrassing.
It pleased the fates to draw out the
tragedy which thus began with the in
human butchery of poor little Tommy
into more scenes than could be repro
duced here. The present narrative is,
however, only concerned with tint last
of them, or perhaps it would be mote
correct to say the last but one, and that
which brought the curtain down.
As week after week went by the out
rages committed by the mysterious
border gang, us the unknown desper
adoes who had so suddenly invaded the
hitherto comparatively safe frontiers of
the Free State and Oriqtinland West
very soon came to l>e culled, seemed to
increase in number and daring.
It was quite a curious situation
such a one as the student of human
crime had never had the chance of
studying before and never may have
again It was a sort of three cornered
contest between underhand roguery,
open violence and the forces which
worked for law and order. Tjie old
struggle I > tween the police and tli" I
D. I! • rdiur.iondsmuggling, fraternity
went en r,- I , fi.re, but with an added
terror i. r the evildoer, wh if he elud
ed the clutches of the law. might the
next hour fall into the no more merci
ful grasp of the gang. The honest and
lawful trader still hated the I. P B. as
his worst enemy, but the gang ribbed
both with uu impartiality worthy of a
more honorable calling.
The peliee. naturally, had anything
lmt a happy time of it If they devoted
an adequate amount of time and force
to hunting for the gang—which was
never where it was expected or wanted
the occupation of the I. P B. became
comparatively pleasant and easy, wLile
if they did their proper work thorough
ly the gang promptly went on the
warpath with renewed vigor and ex
tended its scope and raked in the plun
der with both hands from the honest
and dishonest alike.
It will be readily understood that no
state of affairs con hi possibly be more
distasteful ti Mr Inspector Lipinski
than th;' Notonly was his professional
credit at stake, but men like Mickey
Muratti, Ikey Cohen, Sandy Fraser and
Alexaudc r Macadam, who he absolutely
km w either to lie or to have been in
volved in extensive I. D. B. transac
tions. bnt who were now getting rich,
and therefore men of influence in a
town where the faculty of making mon
ey anyhow was the only one that "got
a man on," were making sarcastic com
pariseins between Honnslow Heath 100
years ago and the diamond fields of tie
day, and were asking ugly questions
altqtit the efficiency, nay, even the in
corruptibility, of the police force in
general and the detective department in
particular.
It was this last suspicion that touch- !
ed the puzzled and harassed inspector
most keenly. As a practical man he
hael no belief in miraculous escapes or
the possibility of people being in two j
different places at once, and gradually
tliu conviction forced itself upon him
that the immunity of the gang from i
caj ture and its invasion of trap after !
trap that he had laid for it v.itli all the '
skill and cunning at his command could
only be due to the connivance of some of j
his own men and the Five State police,
which he knew to be anything but im
maculate.
This conviction led him at last to the
resolve to risk not only reputation and
position, but life itself, in tire attempt
to personally break up the gang, or at
least to penetrate the mystery which
shrouded its doings and shielded it from
justice. This resolve once made, it did
not take a man of bis character very
long to translate it into action.
He caused certain information to leak
out, as it were, through underground
channels which were always at his
} service, to the effect that in consequence
of strong suspicions that the Diamond
mail to Vryburg was going to Im.' held
np by the border gang on a certain
night when it would be carrying an ex
ceptionally valuable consignment of
gems the stones would be run the night
before, as though they were an illicit
parcel, over the border to Freetown and
thence conveyed in the usual way to
Port Elizabeth instead of Cape Town
Tie' Diamond mail of the following day
was to take no consignment at all, but
was to be accompanied by a double
guard.
On tbe appointed night the inspector
had a score of his best and most trusted
iiifcU, armed to the teeth, posted along
the border within bail of the point
win-re the road to Fre town crosses it.
On the other side a detachment of the
Free State police was by arrangement
with the district chief to be lying in
wait ready to act in concert with them
and to catch the gang 1» tween the two
forces at the mo:nt nt of attack.
Wh. n Inspector Lipinski si t ont that
nijrbt to take his part in the working
out of bis scheme, lie took an even more
than usually affectionate leave of bis
daughter a pretty, giac-ful giri of be
tween 111 and 17. who was the incarna
tion of the one romance of bis life, the
daughter of the only woman lie had
ever looked upon to love and long for
and the one rose that ho had saved ont
of the paradise that lie had once dwelt
in.
He Went to his office and changed his
uniform for a suit of clothes that he
had never been seen in. a sort of semi
sporting rig, that he had had up spe
cially from CupeTown, put bis favorite
Smith Wesson in bis right hand coat
pocket, and then started ont. to walk to
Beaconsfield. On the way lie overtook
his Kaffir groom, leading his be-1 horse
lie mounted, saw that the pair of heavy
Jh tank miniii mini than unnnlly ctCcc
tlnnuli leave nf lil* daughter
Colts in the holsters were ready for im
mediate use, and then cantered off to
ward the Itordcr, which lie had timed
himself to reach a little before I in the
morning.
It bad been arranged that two of bis
own men should hail him just before
he got to it and tliut then the game
was to begin. News bad reached hint
that the gang had got wind of the big
pared he was supposed to be carrying
and had vowed to have; him and it at
any price. If his men only did their
duty and the Free State police kept
faith with him. the new terror of the
border would be a thing of the past by
morning.
Two mounted figure's loomed out of
the darkness ahead of him and pulled
up on either side of the road A gruff
hail came growling down the .viml
"Is that yon, Da vies, Mays? All
right. 1 suppose the others are ready.
Open a bit and let me through, then
chase for all you're worth. Yon needn't
lie afraid of catching me. "
As he said this he touched his horse
with the spur, and the easy canter broke
into a gallop The two men pulled their
animals aside. As he came up the moon
broke through a rift in the clouds, and 1
he saw that they were both masked. It
was too late to stop. He clucked his '
head and dived for his Smith Wesson,
but the next instant a rope of rawhide, 1
stretched taut across the road, passed '
over his horse's head and took him un
der the chin. Then came a jerk that
nearly broke hit neck, a thud against
the bard mud of the road, a mist of r
dnjjcing stars before his eyes anil then I
darkness
Wiien he c-aitic to himself, he was
half -itting, half lying in a h.nam ck
deck chair in the same little hut in
which Ikey Cohen had witnessed the
liirvrder of p«ior little Tommy There
was a burning taste of raw brandy in
his mouth and throat, and his head was
aching terribly. He li . k d up and saw
a in ;:i with a black clutli liia-k over the
upper part of his face sitting astride a
wooden chair in front of him, with his
arm- across the back, looking at him
through the eyeholes of his mask. Even
in the first moments of returning con
sciousm be seemed to recognizd some
thing familiar in him, and the seeming
soon ltecame certainty.
• • Evening inspector. Coming round a
bit? That's right. Been waiting quite
a time 1 to have a bit of a chat with yon.
Feel up to it now? Have another nin
There was n i mistaking the drawling
t i:e i t the clip i f the word ends. The
ii;-;. ti r i rallying thoughts went ba.-k
to that night at Freetown, nearly 1H
months ago now, when, fur the sake of
per-oital pique and a threatened repu
tation. lie had sanctioned -in fact, as
sisted in the doing of—a deed of treach
ery and violence, the one nnlawfnl and
unmanly act of his life, with which the
worst of the offenses laid to the charge
of the gang wonld compare only too fa
vorably.
Now he felt instinctively that he was
in the presence and at the mercy of the
chief of this baud of outlaws, against
which he had declarecl war to the death
a man who. owed him a grudge that
life would hardly pay. Still,, he had ele- j
liberately staked his life on this very
venture, and he was not the man to take
his stakes off the table when the game
was going against him. He looked in
! silence at the masked man for a few
moments to let his thoughts get into
! something like order. Then he said
quietly:
"Well, Mr. Salter. 1 confess 1 never
expected to see you in the flesh again,
but. since you have manifestly resur
rected. I don't quite see the {*>int of
that mask of yours at least not in pri
' vate life "
"Rc snrrected: I!y thunder, sonny,
you've hit it in once. Say. did yon evei
see anything more like a last year's
corpse than me?"
H« tore thi> mask from his face as he
uttered the last word The inspector
st:.. g; rid to his feet and dropped back
into the chair with a gasp of amaze
m 'lit and a groan of horror mingled in
tb • same breath. What had been Seth
Salter's not uncomely face was now a
one eyed, noseless mass of pits and
seams and scars too hideotts to imagine.
"Y.ta-\ looka sorter pretty, tat it"
Don't seem to think much of it Waal,
p'raps not. 'tain't likely; but if yon and
your chaps didn't exactly do it. them as
yon was kind enough to leave me to ont
yonder in the kloof did. Ye>s, sir. that's
vultures' work. I'd a bullet of yours
through my right ami, one through the
chest from one of your slouches, and a
crack over the head with a carbine stoi*k
that'll 'a' knocked the grnej outer >■ me
people's skulls, so, you see, I hadn't
much chance again' the critturs. But I
thought I'd tight to u finish, and I
should 'a' gone if a Capo lad hadn't
come through the kloof before I was all
gone and toted what was left of me to
his hut and fetched an old Kaffir med
icine man to patch me up.
"No, you needn't trouble to make
any remarks. You're weak yot. and
I'm on deck jnst now Tt'U make
things shorter and pleasanter if yon
jnst make yourself comfortable and hear
me out. I shan't worry you with what
happened to me jnst. after 1 got l>et
ter. and I'd one eye and a month left,
as yon see, and the eye had to look
around for something to put in the
month.
"Waal, after considerable tips and
downs, I met your Lootenant Mays way
down in Natal. I told him who I was
or had l>ee ii for you can Itet he fldn't
recognize me—and we put our heads
together and worked out this border
gang scheme. I found the requisite
hard cases for the actual work, and he
got round your chaps or kept 'em off
the scent, as the case might be. The
game- worked' like an angelic picnic.
We robbed thieves, and the thieves
daren't split. Then, as the organization
got better, we exteuded things, and by
about three months ago we'd half yotjr
chaps and nearly all the MIOJIS on this
side in i»ir pay.
"Waal, we've made Urns of money,
and we're jnst thinking aliont retiring
into respectable society; bnt. Mr Li
pinski, there's just two things I want
to do Itefore I do that."
"And those are—revenge on me, and
what else, may 1 ask?"
'JfJness you're nervy, little man, and
yon may ask. Yaas, one of 'em's to
square np things with you and the
other is to clean ont the mail when it
takes that big consignment that ycai
trieel to fool ns over tonight on board,
which, I take it, 'll Ist the day after to
, morrow, or, I should say, today, for
it's morning now. We've got you, anil
all the guard bill two ate chipping in
with us, so that's as good as done
"And may I ask again what you ip
tend to do in the way of squaring things
up with me? Something with vultures
in it, I suppose. 1 can't growl under
the circumstances, though, for the sake
of my own conscience, I'd like to tell
you that we honestly thought you vA-ro
dead before we left you. I can't think
bow you stood all we gave you. What
a thousand pities yon didn't give the
i|nietly!"
"I guess it is for you Why didn't
you let me keep 'cniyiifter I'd played
the game and run fair and honor
able? But that's nowhere. If 1 didn't
think yon a white man mid grit all
through, I wouldn't give you a chance.
! I'd have your living twines, so to speak,
picked clean by tomorrow night, as I
mighty near had mine. Hut I ItelleVe
you did think me dead, and so I'll give
yon a square show. But I'm going to <
give you half all honr's hailesfirst, just
to even tilings up for what I had when <
I was fighting them vultures "
"And that?"
"I'm going to make you play me
Chicago, best 7 games out of l!t If I !
win, I shall plug you fatally and go 1
and clean the mail out. you win, I'll 1
give you back your shooter and Itack I
my one eye again' yonr two at shooting 1
on the drop I'll set the alarum of that '
clock to go off two minutes after we've '
taken our places Then, when It goes. '
we'll go one or both of us. That's ■
about as fair as I can afford to l» '
What do yoa thinkt" I
"I don't see much hades in that, to '
tell yoa the truth ' 1
"No, ItecaiisK you seetn to have for- 1
gotten TTUTT MISM Kadlia's going down
with the mail that day. Yon know I've 1
admired her a lot How d'you think
she'd like to have Some nf the NtolleH t
we shall get if 1 had 'eiu cut for her as )
a wedding jiresent? I shouldn't take
the dead gems and leave the living and '
the best of 'em all tiehind, you bet " r
"That'll do, enrse yon I tJet out the
dice!"
"Waal, that's hizticsa, anyhow, if it
ain't over grateful or jsilite Take a 1
drink tlrst, just to steady your hand? |
No? Then I will Here's the dice.
vVo'll shake for first throw "
Now, for the instruction of the uu
sophisticated, the game of Chicago is '
played with diet) in this wise Five ;
lie -are thr. K# A - . ant li» the
tir-t nix tlir- \vu . other* • From five
dotrn to tv.u •j> t- are t tinted «»tie
l*jli» iu't-*t le I ft ill the table after
each throw . hi•• tlt* ..!• fiv. thr* w -
and th high.wt in fi*» a..*,
counting .V»t»
Tbc tw< played in Hleri. e. People
dn wbin the -•.ik'-s are «.» bin
thut if they 1. -e they can mver play
a_:ain Tiif fat«-s mnst have Isnn l*».k
ing I'Vtr th» ir shonlders and . n;. .ving
the •!'_Mine. for they drew it • it
t. •it - itnio-t length After the t«nth
game Sultw vu twi. ahttd. and the
in*-;iect..r w u the eleventh by -ix ani
the twelfth by —-v.ii
"Six aii'l -even* thirteen. and wi v*
tb<- thirteenth game to play," naid Sal
tei »ha[iiiiif tbn first actual sent.-ii.«
t!!..t h;i<l been n{« k' ii sino- the play I—-
R.iii "Shunldn't wonder if I l«*l now.
That'* help vonraelt Whisky*
I i for shouting My tlir.-w, I reckon."
Hi" shu-k th- dkv u;- canted the bo*
gently over, and th-- dice tri kl.d out In
a little white rattling -tr«ain Wbf-n
tb>y settled there *trc two a «i*.
a four and a two.
"Tv ' hundred and -ixty* not a l« i
ntart. l>nt I gn.«s I'll (five the aces an
other cfcanw."
Ilenh.uk np th* three dice They
raiw 'Mi an nee and two wise*. Ilia
?<• wan tn >w 800. with two nil ire
throws, but be had the option of leav
ing th. nix . r including it in the n st
throw, ob th- cliance , f getting an are
inntead of it He Wt it and threw th'
tw. They came np six and four. Mak
ing bin t<<tal 124. with one more throw
He t -.-id the fonr into the I. x and n
it i lling along the table. When it stop
|w>d it was a three
"I ve swn lietter. he miM as b<*
gathered the dice into the box and pn«h
ed it over to the int>pector. "lint aßy
tliiTi_r over 400 takes* tig nr. - to lM*at it "
Lipinski's first throw was a poor one
Six. five, two three* and a two! The
second throw three aces came np to
gether. making hi* wi re MO, The oth
er was a four lie picked it np, threw
and made a three of it He tried again
and made it a nix. He wan now W#-
fonr behind
"Tongh lack. hot I guess yon've got j
to try again, parti."
The hand of the man wan Arm
thonghthe heart of the father was -hak
ing rtf the inspector turned tti. Isot over
for the last time
"An ace! By thnmler. i thought so!
Wual. if that ain't the lack of satan.
t<'ll me. There's yonr gnn!"
By every law save that of the nn
written code of gaiubler* honor In-
Hpecti* Lipinaki w..nld have been jimtl
fied in covering Salti an he went to net
the alarm, and he d another very
rtrong motive for doing it. bnt be
didn't. He knew the game, and he
played it
They took their pla«>*s< in oppiwite
corner* of the hat, al»>nt eight paces
ujuirt The little Anioiiiia clock
to think itself a Ixiiler factory for the
time being, no londly did it tick the fa
tal .seconds away
W-h irrrr hang - Iwng—bang
ting-a ling a ling bang -Iwng— ting
—bang ntirr np'
It wan an ntrange a ( borne an mortal
earn ever heard, and the little cl«n-k
eeemed to think no and did ita bent to
keep itn end np. When it wan over. In
spector Lipinnki pull»sl himself np on
to his haniln and. looking acroxn the
hnt through a mint of blood and a fog
of nmoke, naw Heth Halter'* one eye
glaring at him over the barrel of a re
volver that wan nwayiug from *ide t.»
nide a foot i>r so from the floor
Then he remembered that hi* Smith
Wonrin had only five chauitwr*. Sal
ter* Colt pri liahly had nij Hennw the
flame leap from the mnzrle and at the
•wine instant Salter's head dropped with
a thump on the floor. A re«lhot knife
•eemed to pierce bin nhonlder. and then
he dropped, too. jnnt too noon to hear
angry nh<>nt.« and the stamping of
lloW* boefn ontnid«-
The Free State police didn't mind
winking for natinfactory consideration-*
at I I) H . or even at a peaceable form
) r \Wu= i
"I'iKU, loo hs *,rfer pretty, dvn'l ttf"
of robbery under arum, lait tbey Imd
neither th»" ntoinach uor the heart for a
ahare of blood guiitimMw, and w». when
one of the iunp»-ctor'n traitor* drop|*sl »
hint a* to the real pnrpoee for which
he had been taken to tin* hat, their
cotumandar* ordered an immediate
raid on It.
He M<>t there three minutes toy kite.
Salter Wan uuconwioTin and IJeeding to
dentil five bullet hole inbilu The
inspector wan inaenalbte, t<*>. Imt be re
vived and lived long enongh to giv»- the
true *tory of what hud happened The
I>utch |n>Hceman wisely oonclnaled tliat
a procefs of whit>'wanhing would be
gi«*l for hi* noli 1. *o he had the inspect
or'n Ikhlj - conveyed with all h«>tH>r
acronH the Imrdfr and delivered it to the
liritlnh authoritiea with nuch an ac
count of tin* night'* doing* an fully in
nil red their lieing the laat of the exploit*
of the Imrder gang
The lldrr.
( mi any one tell how it happened, it)
the s|M*ech of our country j»sip|«. that
the word "poetoftlco" lost itn firnt and
more imjiortalit half, and lnnmo nim
ply "theoflice?" In no New England
village that I know of in the poetoflice
called anything elnt* than "the ..AW"
nlmply. In every village there are com
monly neveral offices Tin* d«**tor ban
one, and the wjutre ha* one. and the
factory ban a very important one; Imt
people nay, "1 am going to the office. "
or ask. "Have yon l**en to the office T"
and thiv never m>«in any thing bnt the
jHintofllce. nor will you bear the word
"poatoflicn" from one of them once in a
month
It htrike* uie an a curious abbrevia
tion. and it ia very hard, even after I
years of it, to refrain from asking. <
"What office?" when the |»«tofHce ia
thus mentioned without any previou*
reference to it lioston Transcript
- '
I'lrasrd to Obllff.
Mlstres* (toeook) Your name. Mary, ,
and my daughter'* being the same, j
make* matter* somewhat confusing
Now. how do you like, say, the name
of Hrl.ttf.-t •
<"is»k Share, mum. It'* not me that'* »
particular. I'm willing to •all the I
yotnitf lady an) thing you like Tit ' |
Rit. 1
No. .'C>
AN UNEVEN HAY CROP.
Sh<»rtrr r»«»a&r Than ( «mI m
•tank litwwtk mi
The hay cr *p ! < o»itlftu*«l a* unusu
ally Irregular an.l uneven" by the
A merit an .\.ri nitarM. nay* at
the Ci nerai nUiilli, - The range ia
failM (a n:ag
ull:.f-nt lu.v -irtati. and *hen the rlev
in uarruMwl t«» take tn state - oivi.iioaa
only the raug>* in almost a* great \-*t
••oly is tl <r>- gr>-at il:-;»iritj ia state
• i-Btllti-'n*. !.iit wlthtn the »tate the
««»■ Irregiilniity evlat* It is thus
lb;:. It I. - • I. tl.e ci.udtt.oa Cur
the whole tii-Ul. l>ul the < arefui r tonw
of our tountry (Ml'o>|»mlhli furntak
atMimlaat bunt* f..r the - laun that the
hay i-rop t!.i* year will be «mall in
• or.jwrisoß with the a Mini tan t pmdnet
■ of bi«t year
Kant of flte Atli .-'i-inlei ami tn tlaa
south the ton. *|»r:ng dr»wght i-ame at
a time when its fi.il eff«-»t waa ansae
ent in tli*. gre-* -Top NVit only wait
the crop rat short, hot on aiaterfal
areas no att. ? pf was u.aife to cat aay
hay. <-attU- K*tng i«».-tur«sl on ntenttows
I In the a!>s4'iH-e ft any nourishua-nt on
re. ii ,r |*utnre arena. Ia New Kng
land tile crop Us ally run* fmni nar
foqrth t.i on. iialf a i-n»p In J*ew
York and IVnnsylrania only three
fourths of a crop hia sight With
! *Bch a ait tuition in fh>-«e Important hay
districts It naturally follow* that the
I geio-ral average at cwadlthia for the
whole crop ia k>w
West of the AUeghaniea the maaoa
I !uw pr tite«l radically -isfferent nadt
: tlon-- InnteaA itf drought the whole
. uprlag ami aamnu r have f«eea nartnl
| by a .Teat eiiis. of rainfall, ami a»»t
j ! -king ' cyood the bare riunl* uf pre
! cipitat on the pnbhe has h*>»a •-oavtae
■ il that the crass of the xtent Woafcl
, make «ihml any deticieui-tes tn the eaet.
, Btit aoch In not as*areiL Instead of a
! great hay crop as a result of the ma
nual rainfall In the i-eatral valley*, the
crop in inferior to laat year for the hell
a* a whole, ami In many loraUttea it Ii
decidedly smaller than the nrera«e fte
a series of year*.
While the partial failure In the eaat la
the result of the drought entirely, the
uneven crop of the west i» due ta a
cause which I* apt to be loot* lasting
and farreaching. The aeverv winter
which so nearly .Wr»y**«t the
winter wheat «-rop over a large d;strict
left a heavy mark on the meadnv* a*
well, (lover ntifferetl to an extaat al
most l»eyi ml pr»n-e.lent, and me;ah»nr»
were h ft In <m-h shape In many see
tlon* thet t!.e plow waa the only reme
dy «tti this account Uiere waa a larger
area of grass html put tn coca thaa fat
many year*, ami much of what waa
spared will another year he plowed.
The crop promise of fjx» weat ia not
up to the usual st.imlard. fot only Will
there tn* a shortage hi tonnage, hat the
usual rankneaM in weed growth rjifcn
year will lower the <|<Mllry of the
In portions of «ihio. In.ban* ami Illi
nois the citoifilalnt of white top la
greater than ever liefore. ami thia pert
will n.s.-saitate further plowing irp of
grass laml
\lfnlfa Tmr tf. t Putw
An »MUo Farmer ■ • rrespoadeat aalw
wh« tber alfalfa can be «wl tn aa
orehanl for hog pasture which '.tm
N-.-ii In timothy and clovor amt la ail
heaved out. and Joseph E Wing a»
awera Alfalfa umlouMetHy makes the
beat hog pasture of any plant that ta#
l>e grown Whether the soil of this* ac
chard will grow It or not ta another
•luestion The clover having froaen oat
ma> simply be the re»nlt of Ita having
die.l front »ld age. or It may be tAM
the soil Is undntlned ami apt ta heave
thing*. If the soil I* n-ally rich and dry.
I should now the alfalfa wttboot any
hesitation. Plow the laml ileep. throat
lng up an Inch or two of new soil and
•owing the alfalfa along about the
miihlle of April or later Cover by roll
ing Ite anre the laml Is smooth, eo that
the mower can run over It easily, for
keephlg It m«»wed off two or thnt
times the first summer to destroy the
weeds ami to Invigorate the alfalfa by
the ell we cllpplug la the a»er«!t of atr
ceesful alfalfa growing IM> not pa*
tnr.* It the tlmt year, ami do not pas
ture it the second year too close, ami
never allow the hogs to ran on It arfcrn
the alfalfa ia fronted, or ths plants wtfi
be destroyed.
Ilarirallna «•)< Braa* tar l»»*
tut aa Soon «t»t pod* turn yelho*
or Inwmm a light brown. If left t.»»
lons to ripen, the leaves will drop «fl.
thus injuring the value of the hay ami
straw. The stalks will also becom
too hard and tough to cat with a mow
er or rea|«*r An old fashtuoed self
rake or dropper la the bast I'ut ttn
l>eann In small piles, .-uta.nlng a g»*»l
forkful each, ami allow them to care
They are l>est thrashed from the ftrhi
a* this naves extra tiandling. the shell
lng of the seed ami prevvnt* heating
If stonsl when m< perfectly drie.l
i'are must l«e taken la feeding the hay
flke corn fishier, foe It Is a rich r>»
imrf fmsl. gdvises American Agrt
cultiirlst
%!«!•.
The s«>cretary of agrictdtnra ha* an
Bounced that any graduate of a «-ol
lege receiving aid from the I'ulUsl
States ha* the chance, on certain e*-n
dltkHia. to lie Icarneil from the 1 aite.l
Static civil servk-B «n»mmission. W»<t.
Ington. «»f becoming a "aclentlfle abt
In the I'nltcd States «h-|)artn>ettt of ag
rlculture for a perlo«l limited to ten
years at a salary not to exceed s*• per
month. The minimum age limitation
for entrance to examination far th. po
sition is 2I» year*. There Is m> magt
taum ago limitation.
A rrlplr t viarttfar*
An >lm<*i lacredibUi triple eoim-i
dence was noted in Francs n few year*
ago In I "MM the deputy ft* Ih- Ar
dennes nan M Frrry. fi* Loir et • h
M llrisaon and tot the Vijagi M
Hugo In 1 *M, lt)l vcara earlier, a h
district had been repreeented in the
chamber by a man of exactly -h« nn>
name —San Francisco Call
*»t Her atyls.
"The ides'" exclaime.l th*
11..rial actreaa aa -be lieat aa aag •it
too an the flisjr with hsr slipper
••What's the troableT t'aa't y> a get
your divorce?"
"Yea. hnt that lawyer has off I •
am-nre it without publicity 1" »*«h
ington Star
Vrlakknrleiiiil • ••«*.
"Mr*. Jorkens. I na* }-»u pri*.
Mrs Itrash'a bouse f.-laj
•*, but 1 luive no aciuait
With her at all, 1 Ju*t use h.-.
plmne " Chi* ago Beo-ri
• Klondike luck * at the presei t tt;
•eeiiis to mean tlw «afe arrival .»f tt
prosji' ctiir at the front gate of a -»n
|Mitbetie relative In the States. St
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