, Df ai] uncertain tasks of life,
Round which are clouds of doubt,
Wad keep one worrying to know
» he way they will turn out,
The most uncertain of them all,
“ _ I'll risk a dollar stake,
. Ba Just the task she sets herself,
4 When Nellie bakes a cake.
-
The simple recipe is there,
* «The book's before her eyes;
. And yet her constant worry is
._ A fear the cake won't rise.
Jt may be sad. She never knows
Whene'er she starts to bake;
For all uncertain is I'm sure
* When Nellie bakes a cake.
‘t Jimmy donned his rubber coat,
- Mghted his candle and stuck it in his
cap peak. Then he sat down in the
hoist room and waited for his work-
dmg partner, Charlie Fields. It was
~ time to go down and take the night
lie was not in sight.
The hoist cage came up with load-
ed ore on both decks. The cars were
rolled off and replaced with empty
es. The cage hesitated a moment,
waiting for the head pumpman, but
as he did not appear dropped down
the long dark shaft into the bowels
Presently Kirk, the big superin-
intendent, appeared. ‘‘Where’s Char-
He?” he asked of the boy.
“Don’t know,” Jimmy answered.
Kirk opened his watch. ‘He's five
minutes late and the pump station is
‘mamanned. Do you have any idea
where he is?”
‘“Yes,”” Jimmy answered, hesita-
tingly. ‘‘This is pay day, and you
know where many of the men are.”
“Oh, ves, at the Gray Goose, of
‘course, drinking up their hard earned
s Oney,’” the superintendent replied
Quickly.
: Kirk started to walk away, then
turned on his heel and said: ‘Jimmy,
yun down and get Charlie. Bring
him up if he isn’t too drunk. The
pump station must be manned at
once.”
Jimmy darted down the trail to
obey. But when he drew near the
“door. he hesitated. The Gray Goose
was the one place in Gold Bug that
the boy had never entered. The bois-
terous drinking place possessed no
attractions for him. His firm refu-
sals to drink had made him all the
more admired by the men.
For a moment the boy stood on
the trail and considered whether it
was best for him to disobey the su-
yerintendent’s command. ‘No, I'm
«on duty now,” said the boy to him-
self. ‘‘Kirk said I must get Charlie,
and I will get him.”
The boy pushed open the swinging
door and entered the saloon. On
this night the place was unusually
noisy. It swarmed with a crowd of
red shirted, heavy booted men.
- As he had expected Jimmy found
Charlie drinking heavily, and treat-
dng the miners, who were in constant
Jine at the bar. Though a strong
man physically, tall and straight as
8 young pine, Charlie was possessed
of one great weakness, and that was
Ais thirst for drink.
. The boy walked up quietly and
touched the drinking man on the
arm. ‘“‘Charlie,”’ said he, ‘“‘it is time
to go down. Kirk sent me after—"
“Get out of this, you little rat!”
the drunken man yelled angrily,
turning suddenly on the boy. “Why
didn’t you ring the dootbell instead
of sneaking in like a coyote?’
At this facetious remark the crowd
Jaughed boisterously.
“Kirk wants you, Charlie,” the
boy repeated, paying no heed to the
Jeers and taunts, and taking a firmer
hold on the man’s arm.
“What does he want with me?
He’s got no strings on 4
“You're late. Our shift’'s on
mow,” Jimmy interrupted. ‘‘There’s
;o one on the pump station.”
“What do I care?” the drunken
man roared. He turned again to the
‘bar.
Just then a mucker rushed into
the saloon, all out of breath, and
yelled: ‘“Where's Charlie and Jim-
9
© “Right here; what's the trouble?”
the boy replied.
“Fire's broke out in the pump sta-
tion. The men are all out of the up-
per levels, and the whole mine will
burn out unless the blaze is checked.
~ Xirk wants two men to go down with
him.”
> “The station's on fire, Charlie!”
the boy urged loudly. ‘Come quick!”
He pulled and tugged at the tall
pan’s arm.
pn the daze of the liquor passed
pn him and the big miner under-
“What's that!” he
in the pump station! And
! It's my fault.” He charged
shift on the pump station, but Char- |
of the mountain. if
cried.
UNCERTAINTY.
£he knows just what is right to do,
Of that there is no doubt;
But still there is no certainty
About its turning out,
It may not rise, or it may fall,
The oven may not bake;
So many things can turn out wrong,
When Nellie bakes a cake,
At once to know so much, and yet
To know so little, too;
To know you know it and to find
You don’t when you get through.
To do just what is right and find,
"T'was just a big mistake;
This is the fate that Nellie meets
Whene'er she bakes a cake.
=Ngtroit I'ree Press,
/
THE
PUMP-STATION FIRE.
out of the saloon and up the trail
with Jimmy close at his heels.
2
had your pluck. Let's be partners,
Anyway, won't you forgive my Lad
talk down at the Gray Goose? 1
didn’t mean it.”
“You were drunk,” said Jimmy,
with a feeling of pity.
“1 know it, my boy, I know it,"
the tall man replied, tears dripping
from his eyes. “If I will promise to
quit drinking will you forgive me?"
“Of course 1 will, Charlie,” said
Jimmy, like a real man, extending
his hand, which the miner grasped
eagerly.
“It's agreed, Jimmy, my boy. No
more drinking for me. We're part.
ners from this time on, you and 1." —
Religious Telescope.
HOME OF BUDDHISM.
Religion of Anomalies—Chief End of
Man Nirvana or Non-Existence.
Burmah is the home of the purest
form of Buddhism, the religion which
some once thought originated in a
blundering attempt to copy the Chris-
tian religion, so striking are the
many points of resemblance. At the
same time there are things about this
religion that seem odd to the Occi-
dental mind, because of their strik-
ing contrast. Ranking next to Chris-
tianity in point of numbers, it is now
known to be older, the supposed date
of its foundation being fixed at about
the middle of the sixth century B. C.
It is what might be termed an athe-
istic religion, for it recognizes no god.
The founder of the religion, accord-
ing to the Buddhist books, was a
prince named Siddhartha, son of a
petty rajah living on the southern
border of the district of Nepal. He
was a person of contemplative, as-
cetic disposition. His father, anxious
to prevent him from deserting his
high station and taking to a relig-
ious life, married him to a beautiful
princess and surrounded him with all
The men of the night shift were | the splendors of which the mind
standing in huddled groups about the
hoist, their candles flickering from
their cap-peaks. Smoke was pouring
from the shaft in great black rolls.
Kirk was running to and fro like a
mad lion, angered to frenzy because
none of the men would go down with
him.
“It’s sure death,” they declared,
and none of them would budge.
“You're a lot of cowards,” he
velled, as he seized the hose coil and
threw it on the cage deck.
“No, we're not,” Charlie answered,
reeling aboard the cage. Jimmy
stepped on beside him.
“Don’t let that man go down,” the
crowd protested, “he’s drunk.”
But Kirk did not hear. He pulled
the bell wire and the cage cut a hole
through the black smoke as it shot
downward. At the pump station the
cage stopped suddenly, bringing the
three alongside the burning station.
The fire was roaring like a smelter
furnace. The heat stung like vitriol.
All three would have been suffocated
instantly had they not dropped
quickly to their hands and knees and
pressed their faces to the floor.
Kirk attached the hose to the
pump hydrant and the water dashed
through the nozzle into the flames.
The whole station was oil-soaked and
the fire ate the wood greedily. The
draft started up the shaft, sucking
up fire and smoke in thick coils and
twists.
In spite of their heroic work the
flames gained headway.
“There’s just one way to put it
out,” said Charlie, “and that's to
crawl through and release the pump
on the other side.”
Crawl through! Who would dare?
It was to wade through fire. Even
‘the fearless superintendent protested.
But Charlie dropped to the floor and
squirmed under the flames to the
pump. Jimmy also fell flat, and
dragged through after him. It was
the only chance of saving the mine.
Kirk remained on the cage deck and
played the stream over them.
The floor was of steel and burned
their hands like an oven. Overhead
roared the flames. Burning cinders
and coals dropped on them as the two
crawled through, and they reached
the opposite side with their hats and
jumpers aflame.
Both leaped into the sump tank to
extinguish their burning clothing,
then released the water. Hissing
wildly an avalanche rushed down the
sides and through the ceiling to the
station.
For a moment the flames sput-
tered like a monster frying pan. With
long shrieks the fire left the timbers
and burned out wood fell in chunks
from the roof. By the time the tank
was half emptied the fire was
quenched.
At last Charlie's whisky dazed brain
was no longer controllable. When
he attempted to step across the sta-
tion floor he reeled backward, and
would have fallen headlong into the
sump had not Jimmy caught his arm.
At the same moment a charred and
burned-out timber dropped from the
roof and struck the boy on the head,
carrying him down like a shot and
pinning him to the edge of the tank.
Once more Charlie gained control
of himself. Kirk found him ducking
Jimmy's head in the sump tank.
“He's just about gone,” said Charlie.
“Tie caught a timber that would have
kilied me. Say, but he’s a brave boy.
I wish I had his pluek.”
The two men tottered through the
wreck, carrying Jimmy between
them. He was limp and unconscious.
Blood flowed from his head and face.
Kirk jerked the bell wire, and the
cage shot up into the open air—the
cool night air that soaked through
their parched lungs like nectar.
They laid Jimmy on a cot and
called the camp physician. An hour
later the boy regained consciousness.
Charlie and Kirk were stooping over
the bunk when the boy first opened
his eyes. : i
“Jim IB ” said
could conceive. It was of no avail.
Siddhartha continued to think of all
the evils to which flesh is heir and of
the ways of evading them. He had
his long hair, the mark of his high
caste, cut off as a sign of his sever-
ance from all secular ties. The short-
ened hair turned up, and therefore
his images represent his hair as curly.
After much thought upon the subject
of old age, misery and death he
reached the logical conclusion that
if one was not born one would not
suffer the ills of life. He reached
the further conclusion that ignorance
is the ultimate cause of existence.
Therefore, if a man becomes wise he
will have fewer and fewer desires as
his wisdom grows, and in his repeat-
ed reincarnations will approach near-
er and nearer to the goal of existence,
Nirvana, or complete obliteration.
According to the manner of a per-
son’s life when he died he would be
reincarnated in the higher or lower
form of life, birth being only a pas-
sage from one form of existence to
another. In each form of existence
the being had an opportunity to
struggle toward perfect wisdom and
annihilation. Siddhartha was said to
have attained this perfect wisdom,
his final triumph, one night while sit-
ting under a tree about five miles
from Gava, near Patna, India. It is
said that this tree, known as the bo-
tree, or tree of wisdom, was standing
1200 years later, or in the seventh
century. ‘A young tree now stands in
its place. Oddly, while Buddhism or-
iginated in India and spread all over
Asia, the monastery at Gaya is the
only home of the faith in India prop-
er. *‘“‘Buddha” is a title applied to
Siddhartha in his state of perfection.
It means “enlightened” or ‘he to
whom truth is known.” The worship
of Buddha who is supposed to be non-
existent, having attained Nirvana, is
really the veneration of a memory.
Buddhism has a set of ten com-
mandments which are called ‘“pre-
cepts of aversion.” A good Buddhist
must not kill, steal, commit adultery,
lie or become drunken, and if he is
making a special effort to attain Nir-
vana he must eat food only at mid-
day and abstain from dances, theat-
rical representations, songs and mu-
sic, personal ornaments and per-
fumes, a lofty and luxurious couch
and from taking gold and silver. It
has been said of Buddhism that “for
pureness, excellence and wisdom it is
second only to the Divine Lawgiver
Himself.”
In the Presidency of Bombay, In-
dia, are about nine hundred Buddhist
rock temples which have excited the
wonder of all who have seen them.
They are a relic of the suppression of
Buddhism in India in the fourth or
fifth century. It is believed that the
Buddhists being driven from the cit-
ies, fashioned these cave temples.
Buddha, the perfect wisdom, is
represented in the statues which are
found in the temples as a figure seat-
ed on crossed legs. This attitude is
intended to represent contemplation.
In Burmah they never tire of plas-
tering these statues over with gold
leaf.—New York Tribune,
Life of a Bank Note.
During the hearing of a case at
the Old Street Police Court yester-
day, Mr. Ernest Codrington, an in-
spector of bank notes at the Bank of
England, was questioned as to the
life of bank notes.
He said that the average life of a
£5 note was sixty-two days, of a £10
fifty-eight days, a £20 to £160 note
thirty days, a £200 to £500 note
eleven days, and a £1000 note fifty-
five days. He said that they could
never tell when a note would come
back. It might be many years. They
had in their possession a £5 note that
was out for 111 years. Misers and
old ladies were very fond of hoarding
up bank notes. Hundreds and thou-
sands jof notes never came back at
all, and that was all profit to the
Bank Jjof England. — London Da
1iC. -
THE VICTOR SEX.
BPP PP— CEEE—K
>rogress of American Women
in Trade and Industry.
(From the Technical World Magazine.)
Out of the 305 gainful occupations (
enumerated by the census of the
United States there are only eight
in which women do not appear. In
all the other 297 there are accredited
representatives of the coming sex
in numbers ranging from two to 600,-
000.
The eight occupations in which
women do not appear fall into two
classes.
In the first of these classes the ab-
sence of woman is due to the tyranny
of man. There are no women sol-
diers in the United States army.
There are no women sailors in the
United States navy. There are no
women marines in that navy. And
there are no women firemen in the
municipal fire departments of Ameri-
can cities. All this is sumply because
women have been ruled out. With
different regulations there might be
different results. In Sweden there is
a fire department in which women
are frequently enrolled. And the
fighting done by women at the siege
of Saragossa in Spain during the Na-
poleonic wars has always stood as a
spectacular and sufficient proof of
feminine valor.
In the remaining four of the eight
womanless occupations in this coun-
try the absence of women cannot be
so readily explained away. It must
be simply due to feminine neglect
that at the time of the last census
there were no women apprentices
and helpers to roofers and slaters,
no women helpers to brassworkers,
no women helpers to steam boiler
makers, and no women street car
drivers. The next census will prob-
ably repair this defect. There is no
reason why women should not en-
ter these four trades. Already they
can be found in trades which are
similar but more difficult. Already
there are women roofers and slaters,
women brass workers and women
steam boiler makers. It is hard to
see why they shouldn’t be helpers in
these trades if they can be full
fledged mechanics. And if, as is the
case, there were two women motor-
men in 1900, there is no reason why
there should not be women street car
drivers in 1910 in cities where horses
are still used for local transporta-
tion.
Only four occupations, therefore,
are to-day beyond the reach of wom-
en in the United States. They can-
not be Federal soldiers, Federal sail-
ors, Federal marines or municipal
firemen. Everywhere else they have
knocked and they have been ad-
mitted.
The total number of women en-
gaged in gainful occupations in 1900
was 5,319,397. This was an enor-
mous advance over the number of
women similarly employed in 1890.
If the same rate of progress has been
maintained since 1900 there cannot
be the slightest doubt that at the
present time there are fully six mil-
lion women at work in various trades
and occupations in the United States
of America.
What this means it is impossible
to realize until the total number of
women in the United States is taken
into consideration. In the year 1900
there were some 28,000,000 Ameri-
can women over tem years of age.
Many of these women were, of
course, mere children. Many of them
were so old as to be beyond the
working age. Millions of them were
engaged in the task of keeping house,
of bringing up their children, of pro-
viding homes for the present genera-
tion and of laying the foundations
of the character and of the culture
of the future. In other words, they
were discharging woman's historic
mission. Yet with all these deduc-
tions there were in the year 1900
more than 5,300,000 women who
were engaged not only in spending
money but in earning it; not only in
managing the expenditure of wealth,
which is the acknowledged function
of woman, but in creating it, which is
supposed to be the duty of man.
In other words, in the year 1900
out of every five American women
over ten years of age there was one
who was going outside of her family
duties and who was taking part in
the gainful work of the working
world.
Just about 1,000,000 of America’s
5,300,000 gainful women in 1900
were engaged in what the census
calls agricultural pursuits. Among
these 1,000,000 women agriculturists
there were 665,791 farm laborers and
397,788 farmers, planters and over-
seers. There were also 100 women
lumbermen and raftsmen and 113
women woodchoppers.
In the professions women are ac-
cepted more as a matter of course
than they are in agricultural pur-
suits. And among all the professions
that of teaching is the most thor-
oughly feminized. It is not surpris-
ing, therefore, to learn that in the
United States in 1900 there were
more than 325,000 teachers. It is
decidedly surprising, however, to
wake up to the fact that there were
only 6418 actresses. It is clear that
it takes about 1000 teachers to make
as much stir and get as much space
in the newspapers as one stage lady.
And who would suppose from the
relative amounts of comment made
upon actresses and women clergymen
that the latter are more than half as
bumerous as the former? Yet there
ere 3405 women clergymen in the
United States in 1900 and they ie
actively engaged in the religious life
different d
many
Engineering is properly regarded
as the most difficult profession for
women, The engineer has to do
rough work in educating himself and
he has to do still rougher work when
he begins to practice. Nevertheless,
in 1900 there were forty women civil
engineers, thirty women mechanical
and electrical engineers and three
women mining engineers,
Incidentally, there were fourteen
women veterinary surgeons.
And women should not forget that
modern library science, with in-
tricate technique, is providing them
with a new and expanding field of
professional effort. In 1500 there
were 3125 women librarians in the
United States.
There were also 2086
loon keepers and 440
tenders.
Coming down from the professions
of cataloguing books and of mizing
drinks it is observable in a perusal
of the census statistics that a man
who wanted a new residence might
conceivably have all the work done
by the women who have gone into
the mechanical trades. In 1900, be-
sides the 100 women achitects, who
come more pronerly under the pro-
fessions, thert were 150 women
builders and contractors in the
United States, 167 women masons,
545 women carpenters, forty-five wo-
men plasterers, 175% women painters,
glaziers and varnishers, 126 women
plumbers, 241 women paperhangers
and two women slaters and roofers.
A complete structure in honor of the
sex might be erected by these repre-
sentatives of its modern ingenuity
and activity.
The most notable advance made by
women in the decade from 1890 to
1900 was in stenography. In 1890
there were 21,270 stenographers and
typewriters. In 1900 there were 86,-
118. This was an increase of more
than 300 per cent.
The only occupations in which wo-
men are going backward compared
with men are those in which they
might be expected to go forward,
namely, sewing, tailoring and dress-
making. There were fewer seam-
stresses, tailoresses and dressmakers
in proportion to the number of men
in these occupations in 1900 than
there were in 1890. Work with the
needle seems to be becoming too
feminine for women.
On the whole, however, the in-
crease in the number of women in
the trade and industry of America is
not only satisfactory but more than
its
women sa-
women bar-
satisfactory. It is alarming. While
in 1890 there were 5,300,000 such
women, in 1908 there were only
about 4,000,000. The number of
women at work increased thirty-
three per cent. during the decade
from 1890 to 1900. In that same
period the total number of women
in the United States increased only
twenty-two per cent. In other words,
the number of women at work in-
creased half again as fast as the total
number of all the women in the coun-
try. Roughly speaking, it may be said
that while in 1890 one woman in ev-
ery six went to work in 1900 the
proportion had increased to one in
every five.
CUCKOOS AND COWBIRDS.
A Bad Lot—Other Birds Are Driven
to Desperate Measures by Them.
With all its vagabond ways the
cowbird is scarcely as bad as the
English cuckoo. It has all the sins
of the cowbird, to which is added the
worse one of turning the legitimate
birdlings out of their nest.
It begins as soon as it is out of its
shell, and never gives up till all have
been thrown over the edge of the
nest. The strange thing about it is
that the parent birds care so faith-
fully for the selfish intruder, be it
cuckoo or cowbird.
The presence of a young cowbird
in a nest usually means that the
smaller birds are either smothered or
starved to death on account of its
bulky body in the tiny nest and its
voracious appetite.
Some little birds, notably the yel-
low warbler, are wise enough to rec-
ognize the strange egg, and to build
a second’ story to their nest, thus
shutting it away from warmth
enough to hatch it. Sometimes, says
a writer in Good Health, they even
build a third story to cover up an
egg that has been deposited in the
second story. But enough birds are
duped and imposed upon annually
so that the cowbirds hold their own
in numbers with other birds.
The Lady Cow.
Marjorie was on a visit to her
grandparents on the farm, and her
enjoyment of country life was some-
what marred by the apprehension of
being horned by the cows. One day
her mother asked her to run to the
barn and call grandpa to dinner. She
started out, but espying a cow in the
lot, one of the mooley kind, ran back,
crying: “Oh, mamma, there's a cow
out there!”
After a glance out of the window
at the meek looking bovine her moth-
er said: .
“Why, Marjorie, that's a mooley
cow. She can't harm you, for she
hasn’t any horns.”
“But, mamma,” exclaimed the
child, ‘‘she might butt me with her
The strong feature of the New
South Wales liquor law is when &
person is found on licensed premises
during prohibited hours he must go
before the court and prove himself to
be a traveler or regular boarder, or
submit to a fine,
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Almost 15,000 women work about
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The latest innovations in English
church work are ‘apple dumpling
suppers,” which have proved a great
success.
H. H. GREEN'S Sons, of Atlanta, Ga.,are
the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the
world. See their liberal offer in advertise
ment in another column of this paper.
Cyclists in Roumania, to facilitate
identification, are compelled by law
to have their names on the lamps of,
their wheels, so as to be legible at
night.
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The custom that prevails in Greece
of carrying a body to the grave in
a coffin which allows the face to be
visible is said to have originated
when the Turks dominated the land.
STATE oF OH1o0, C1TY OF TOLEDO,)ss.
Lucas County. )
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case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by
the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE.
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The greatest Alpine avalanche was
that which in 1827 swept away the
town of Biel and killed nearly ninety
persons.
One of Dublin's Glories.
The old Irish Parliament House,
which according to rumor may be oc-
cupied by a national council under a
devolution scheme ere long, is one of
the architectural glories of Dublin.
In its exterior aspect it remains the
same as it was when in the possession
of the lords and commons of Ireland,
but internally it has been knocked
about to meet the requirements of
the Bank of Ireland, into whose hands
it passed after the act of union. The
legislative hall of the commons, which
once resounded with the eloquence of
Grattan, Curran, Plunket and Flood,
has - been practically destroyed and
the present public banking chamber
occupies part of its site. But the
House of Lords remains intact, just
as it was at the time of the union,
and is the most interesting and at-
tractive part of the building to visit-
ors.—London Chronicle.
Rifle Practice for Marines.
The Nevy will shortly issue orders
providing for an increase in pay for
expert marksmen in the Marine
Corps, placing them on a footing with
the expert marksmen of the army. As
the Marine Corps has no ranges at
its northern posts, General Elliott
proposes to arrange with the Bay
State, New York State and New
Jersey State Rifle Associations to al-
low the marines to shoot on the
range near Boston, at Creedmore,
New York, and at Sea Girt, New
Jersey. The marines at Portsmouth,
Boston and Newpert will use the
Boston range, those at New York
will go to Creedmoor, and those at
League Island to Sea Girt. The ma-
rines at Washington and Annapolis
will probably use the range at
Williamsburg, Virginia.
NEW YEAR'S CALLS
A Few Drink to Replace the Old
Time “Apple-Jack.”
Twenty-five years ago the custom
of making New Year's calls was a de-
lighttul one for all concerned, until
some of the boys got more *‘egg-nog"
or “apple-fack” than they could suo-
cessfully carry.
Then the ladies tried to be charita-
ble and the gentlemen tried to be as
chivalrous as ever and stand up at
the same time.
It anyone thinks there has not been =
considerable improvement made in
the last quarter of a century i: the
use of alcoholic beverages, let him
stop to consider, among other things,
the fact that the old custom of New
Year's calls and the genteel tippling
is nearly obsolete. .
The custom of calling on one's
friends, however, at the beginning of
the new year, is a good habit, and
another good habit to start at that
time is the use of well-made Postum
instead of coffee or spirits.
A Staten Island doctor has a sensi-
ble daughter who has set Postum be-
fore her guests as a good thing to
drink at Yule Tide, and a good way
to begin the New Year. Her father
writes:
“My daughter and I have used
Postum for some time past and we
feel sure it contains wholesome food
material.
“1 shall not only recommend it to
my patients, but my daughter will be
most pleased to give a demonstration
of Postum to our Christmas and New
Year's callers.” Read “The Road to
pomipadour!”’—Harper’'s Weekly.
Waellville,” in pgks. “There's a rea-
son.” : wf
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