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dINE H RALD~ADVERTISING RATES. THE H ERALD, -$1.00e squar (onene edr strst iuse frti is rGBLTSHED and en fo eac s on above. gvgERYNotices of ngsobkaries and tribut At Newberry, S. C. gV~R ThUSDAYKt.lINIG, I. Dubl coum aoticee n tca coen per cent. IfTHO&: P. GRENKER, dER s E d ito r a n d P ro p rie to r . -_ti sers_ _ _ a d e a y e r ____ w.eeter.lanue in AdvanCe. A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. o- The prW is stpped at the expiration ofWITH NEATNESS AD DISPATCH :"e.apirtion of sub Vol. XVI1. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1882. No. 2. TERMS CASH. Tb1- X1akdntsf emscelaneens. THE SUN. NEW YOE, 1882. Tru; Su zor 19:2 will make itS litltnl1 anunal r.-voiut'ion under the ;r-sent ma" agemLent. .iining, always or:al, 1ig an( little, :ean AnD3 gracious,-i contententd anl athapp%-, Reublican mid Democratic. ow. prnved and ,virtuous. intelflgnt. :andl oh tuse. THic Su.'s light is tor mn'ki.-d and woman,'ziud of every sort; but its Lenial wLrmth is for the good. while it pours hot (,1%.r,aiort on the blistering backs of the ily wicked. TI* 1. of Is was a newspaper of a new krvd. It: isearded many of the forms. and ij.-ini z;-Oe of the supertiious words and of :neient journalism. It undler to report in a fresh, succinct, uncoi v.-:Ii.t:l way all the news of the world, omzitinoi no event of human interest. alT cmm irc imti upon affairs with the fearless ). *s,i :tbsolute independence. Thie sue e. o1 ibii% experimient was the success of Ti. 1r -.it etreeted a permanent change i !!..s. v of Arerican newspapers. Every imi p ...Jokirnal established in this coun z In the Iiuzen years past has been mol cill.l :t-r THE Sus. Every important .jar-n:J :oditled and bettered by the force -ot Ttu- st;'s example. Tim: Su% of 182 will be the same out sp"k e, ;oth-telling, and interesting news palwnr By a :i!eral use of the means which an un.cumn. prosperity affords, we shall make it better than crer before. We shall print all the news putting it into .readabl shape. and measuring its.linpor tane, iot by the traditional yardstick. but by its real interest to the people. Distande frot Printing House Square is not the tirst consideration with THE Swi. Whenever anything happens worth reporting we at the ardenlars, whether it happens in Mr v or in Bokhara. In politics we have decided opinions; amd A accustWmed to .express them in lan that.can be understood. We say 1we think about men and events. That babia te only secret of THE SUes pobti' MWEKLY Sus gathoers into eight pages mater- of the seven daily i-sues. AkAgrioamtrIl Department or unt:qualled gerit, fDLl marrel -eports, and a liberal proportion of literary. scientioe. and do imstio intelligence compleute TrW WeFre 1 .r SUr, and make it the best Liewkpaper.wlr the farmer's household that was ever prit ed. .Who does not know and 'read and like T'sSUNDAY Su.,' each numberof which is &Geleonda of interesting literature, with r%f tp dA_ me vezline , r -more aried and-entextaning t1n ad or little!.-' lfour e of what a -newspaper sblmd be plea*vu,send for THE SUs. (Ilows: Cy, a four-page sheet .of , the price by mnaiI,post amonh, or $6.A a year; or, - e,anl eight-page co u s, the price is 0 month, or $7.70 a year, postage .TMS"day edition of THE Sts is also fr q 1 W W 1s e p a ra te ly a t $ 1.20 a y e a r , p o s t - of the WEEKLY SUN. eight i s -six columns is $1 a year. postage 6lhs of ten sending.$10 we will jsD&n'.xtacopy free. Address. - 1. W. EGLA%D, rablisher-OrTEE Smr, NewYork City. HENRY BAYER, COCOANUTS AND ORANGES, And Wholesale Dealer in Apples, Potatoes, Onions, kc. 215 East Bay, CHARLESTON, S. C. W Country orders solicited and satis hctionguaranteed. Oct. 20, 43-sm. A TRIAL OF THE WILL CLEARLY SUBSTANTIATE SIX ESPECIAL POiNTS OF EXCELLENCE. 1t-It is the easiest running press made. en,1-It is as Strong as any press made. 3rd-IL i the most Durable press made ~ udo asgood work as any pres .a --i :i take les to ke-ep it in repair h;:' :myt pressimade ~Ah.-(1A.t t not least) It costs less ian azny first-class press made. ALL SIZE PRESSES, TYPE, And PRINTEERS' SUPPLIES Catalogue Free. 2! GERMAN ST., BAL.TIMORE. Nov. 3, 44-6mn. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, NEWBERRY COUNTY. By Jacob B. Fellers, Probate Judge. Whereas, Ebenezer P. Chalmers, Ch ekt oft Court, hath made suit to mec, to grant 'bimn Letters of Administration, de bonis non cam test.amento anncao, of the Estate anrd efects of Susan C. Satterwhite, deceased. SThese are, therefore. To cite and admon lsh all and singular the kindred and credit ors of the said de".eased, that they be arnd appear, before me, ini the Gourt of Probate, to be hld~t at Newberry Court House, on the 20th day of January next, after publi -cation hereof, at 11I o'clock in the forenoon, to shey cause, if any they inve, why the said Adm,inistration should not be granted. Given undler my hand, this 10th day.of December, Anno Domni 1881. J. 11. FELLERS, J. r. s. c. P AT E NT S. F. A. Lehman. Solicitor of American and Foreign Patents, Washington, D. C. All business connected with Patents, whethel before the Patent Office or the Courts, promptly attended to. No charge made un less a patent is secu red. Send for circular, WRIGHT'S HOTEL, COLUMBIA, S. C. This new and elegant House, with all modern imnprovements, is now open for thu reception of guests. S. L. WRIGHT & SON, 0r.9, u-f r&ieoe Atseelaneous. TUTT'S PILLS INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEN, AND THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE. 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Cap yv ant aa btesin e awhch yo can mae prna to H. HIAL.E1r & Co., Portland, gottrp. AT fRORNING. 'Tis peace of morning twilight; Before me lies a day, Begun a cloudless beauty, Along a peaceful way. So fair a gift the Father Hath given unto me; 8o pure a zift, I tremble Lest It should sullied be. As past its rosy portals My feet may onward go What It shall bring ere nightfall I'm ghad I do not know, If sorrow or if singing Shall speed or stay the hours; If frowns shall chill, or sinilig Bring cheer like May time flowers. What fierce and unwon battles My ,oul shall wage alone, If those I love the deare<t At evou ide be gone! If ere the sunset curtains With glory all the West, I hear the waited summons From out the land of rest, Or if I yet shall linger In this dear world, so fair, I ask not; but that peace like this May wait me here or there! FoR THE HERALD. THE LAND OF FLOWERS. MEssPs. EDITORs: Having been asked by you and many. others to give the impressions made upon my mind during my recent trip to 'lorida in regard to matters per taining to that State, I send you the following for publication in your excellent paper: A trip to Florida means a visit 1 to a land abounding in a .variety of natural scenery, beautiful and lovely at times and at others wild with the grandeur of nature. It is also to listen to animated conversatious upon the resources of the State, especially upon the ulture of the orange and of the fortunes that have been made thereby and of those had in ex C poct%tion. The firsL impression made on the mind is not apt to be a very favorable one, and you ask your self the question, what do people see about Florida, its deep sand C beds and roads of sand, its bogs and marshes around its lakes and rivers ; its thousands of musquitoes and other insects; its poor sand hills and flat pne lnds ; its m il r ons of sand spurs with jags turn d almost in every direction ; its iferior dwellings and poorly con trcted church edifices and schoolC ouses; and the comparatively -a mall number of the purest anda est part of God's creation-wo tan-wh.at do these people see hat prompt them to speak and rite in such glowir.g terms of his str-ange country ? For some me you may not he able to give ~ sat~isfaictm"y an~wer to the- ques Linf. but the lo.nger you remm lfn ih State-.and the nmore you Tav l around :u;. anssociate w ith the euple an d l,ok at t Yir fi ne range gr..v-e. afdt'i wic ih ihem. ploni Itir beautiful cl'ear water kes, the tea'rer you comeat to a >lution of the que-stion, and you ay wake up) some morning after anight's sweet repose, having een fanned by the gentle breezes fthe great Gulf Stream, to find ~ourse1'f in love with the 'land r flowers.' It -is the vegetablesd ud fruits of Florida, with its a ild and genial climate and gulf nd ocean breezes, together with a it sporting advantages, that give a tprominence, and that lead so0 any pleasure, fortune and health unters to its shores. Take these away from Florida and the State would remain a reary waste ; but with these and' sme other advantages that it can fer, no State in the Union can a -laim a brighter and more prom ising future. 1 shall be candid enongh,. for I ~ o not wish to mis.guide any one, to .ary here that. I cannot believe f hat anything like the high ex ectations of many of the people f Florida in regard to making arge fortunes from the sale of the fruits of that State, especially I ranges, will ever be realized. As I n every other industry and busi- t ness so it will be in this, some will ucceed while the .many will 1 either totally 'or comparatively1 fail. The old adage that there isr amr in the man than in the 1 place or business followed w well apply to orange culture. I who goes to Florida to purcha in orange grove, or set out oi for himself with the expect ati Af sitting down and simply ho! ing his basket for the oranges Irop into it, and then countil bis money by the thousands. profits, will be disappointed. )bservation taught me anythir vhilo t.here, it tuugLt me )OSseSs an orafge grove th ,vould pay well in fruit was ossess sumething that requim w-atching with eyes wide ope x1itin1g in patience, laborinlg wi liligetice and learning by observ i0n. Vxperierce arid stod3 Evei sing has its enemy, and t raige tree is not an excepti( o this general law. Th6iani ond thousands of invisible insve re at band to suck out its li luid, and thus either to depri t of life altogether or so injure is to render it worthless. Thei nsects must be looked after nust be .killed out, and it r luires time, patience, and mon Lnd experience to master ther ['hen the fruit itself often befoi t is full grown will burst at tI md and fall from the tree. Opil on is divided as to what caus< his, and therefore it is anotb ruitful source of study. Let tI ause be what it may, thousaw< f oranges that promised well i me time meet with an untimel nd. Then the orange (the frui rom causes unknown to me wi ake what is known as rust. Thi f it sets in before the fruit is m; ured, greatly injures it in flavoi f after maturity, it does not ii ure its eating qualities, but huri he sale of it. Then again nothing like th vhole number of large trees, eve f the proper age and free fori nsects, bring fortb a p:ying cro ,f fruit. Evidently there are re: ons for this, the principal I vhi4h and perhaps the only one want of fertility in the soil; f( bave been told that such tre( enerally bloom and the LttI range appears, but falls off eitbt ith the bloom or shortly afte: ards. So an orange grove o ,oor pine or worn down hammoc inds requires high judicious mi uring, as well as proper cultivi Ion. But notwithstanding all thet rwbacks, I believe that wit ho right man in the right place nd by this I mean an intelligen areful and industrious attentivi ess to business, that the grov ig of the orange, lemon, banar nd other semi-tropical and troi al fruits, along with the earl egtablee, can be made a payin usiness in Florida, and a mnuc t.rter paying business accordlin ' the capital invested and labc cistwed, with the above cond oins connmected, viz: in tel ligenc tlustry and carefulness, than tb rowingl~ of cotton in this or an ther Southern State. But n< very man, by a long ways, wi as an orange grove in Florida oing to succeed in making a fo une by the sale of fruit. The quickest and easiest wa rhaps to0 make money in Flor a, is to purchase cheap lan ad put out your trees on lo om five to ten acres each an et them in a thriving conditio: ad sell to the first of the man trangers who visit Florida earch of such property that wi ive you the biggest price. Witl a the last ten or twelve years oodly number of individuals has a this way raised themselven om poor to rich men. This, uppose, accounts for the fact the Imost every man with whom yo eet has an ('range grove f< ale. Speculation in landls and oranL roves is successfully carried c n many other ways t han tihis, b vbich large sums of money e: bange hands. Allow me to say to all whbo e: mect to go to Florida, that if the ave come to the conclusion th: bey are going to find a set ~reenhorns there in the way rading and thereby get an a antage, that if they have ar noney to invest, they had eith unm-r make their wives, sisters ill sweethr.ts a present of it; or le change their minds and resolve se to keep their eyes and ears wide .e open. I do not mean by this to )n accuse any one of being dishonest, d- I simply mean to say that these to fellows down there know how to ig trade-that they are sharp. as The lands in that portion of If Florida visited by me, viz., Sum ig ter County and small portions of to Orange, Marion and Putman Coun at ties, may be classified as follows: to Hammock lands, densely cov Ad ered with large live and water &, oak, hickory, postoak, magnolia, Ih bay, &c., with a thick under a- growth of brush wood. These -y lands, as a general thing, are very ie rich, and are adapted to the grow in ing of corn, long cotton, sugar Is cane, tobacco, vegetables, and to ts semi-tropical fruits. fe Then you bave what is known e as 'scrub hammock,' which is it covered with small scrubby bushes ie and saw-palmetto. These lands - are for the most part poor, but e- with high manuring will produce y fruit trees, peas, potatoes, &c. n. Then there are thousands of 70 acres of what is known as 'swamp te lands' along the lakes and rivers; :- portions of which are covered )8 with saw-grass, the water lily r and maiden cane, and on other o portions you find cypress trees of Is huge dimensions and palmetto it trees without end. All these y lands are partially covered by ) w-ter, and if properly drained || would be the finest lands in this s State and as fine as any in the world for the production of sugar cane, corn, &c. - There are threo classes of pine s lands, and by the way these lands make up by far the largest part e of the area of Forida. They may n be classified as follows : Lands n lying near the lakes, ponds and P rivers and some on the ridges are L tolerably fair and well adapted to the growing of such crops as s grow on the rich hammock lands. r The second class consist of a lands somewhat inferior to the e first, some of which can also be r found lying near ponds and lakes. I- The third class of which there n are thousands and thousands of k acres consists in as poor lands as you can find in the sand hills of South Carolina or any where else. The most of these lands will 0 make orange trees and will also b produce fruit provided they re c eive the right kind of treatment. t, Acres, almost without number, of 3 such pine lands as described above, can be obtained from the a United States Government and Sthe State and Rail Road authori Y ties from 90c. to $1.25 per acre. g Homesteads from 40 to 160 acres h~ can be had at about 10c. per acre g 'if the conditions are complied r with ; that you live on the place - for five years, put up a house and a clear, fence and cultivate as much e as four or five acres of land. Y This gives to the man with but it little means an opportunity to get a 0 home of his own, and many who iare now the most successful men - in Florida at one time availed themselves of this privilege. Y The pine timber of Florida as a i- general rule is short and not very 8 large. There is scarcely any un ? dergrowth of small trees, and the d pines themselves stand so far a apart that you can drive a wagon, Y buggy or cart through the woods n without any difficulty. The tim II her for the most part is of the 'yellow pine and makes splendid a building material. The country e0 is sandy and the roads or woods s do not cat up on account of wet I weather. ;Now put all these things t together and connect with them U the idea of cheap lands and any r one can readily see how easily and cheaply lumber can be turned eoct by a good saw mill. The de ni miard for lumber and the facilhties ytor shipping it are increasing year Sby year. Florida is generally regarded as - a very sickly country, but in the y poor sand bills away from their it larger water courses and in part f from the musquitoes too, I see no :good reason why a person should - not enjoy as good health as any y plaice on the globe. According to er the number ofinhabitantsof those r sections of'the conntry visited by me, a regard to truth compels me to say that there is no more fever, and in some instances far less, than in some portions of the Southern States. I was however deeply impressed with one thought ; that from some cause or other Florida is not a good place to raise children. The general rule seems lo be that children have a sallow, sickly appearance and do n.t grow off near so rap idly as they do here. These re marks will apply in part also to women, for they do not as a gon eral thing look as healthy, or do as well as men. It seems to me that.while it is a fact that there is not any more fever or sickness of any kind that confines one to the bed among the people of Fl,)rida than there is in other Southern sections, that the great trouble with many there is a detanged liver, which I suppose is climatic, and which, together with the difficulties mentioned in regard to children and women, I believe could be remedied to a considerable extent by the people having their residences on high, poor and healthy localities away from the heavy grass regions where the atmosphere is so damp and injurious. The free stone water is warm and .therefore is not appreciated by a person accustomed to drink ing pure cold water, but there is nothing very disagreeable about the taste of it. Fish in the lakes and -ivers abound, and there is much sport in catching them and real enjoy ment in eating them, for they are fat and excellent in flavor. Bear, deer, turkey, &c., can still be fouud, but are not half' so num erous as formerly. Society is pretty good and is constantly improving by the ar rival of new and worthy settlers. The people are kind and hospita ble. Church privileges are in creasing and educational facilities are improving. Water transpor tation is ample in some parts of of the State, and some rail roads have been built and others ai:e in eourse of construction. Upon the whole, I was pleased and if I had to leave South Carolina I would prefer going to Florida to many other places. There is to me an indescribable charm about the country-something that enchants, that fascinates. I like the country, but I like the old Palmetto State better. In deed, Messrs. Editors, I verily believe that we have or could have a State second to none in the Union. If the people of this State would put forth any thing like the effort in bringing people and capital from abroad to her territory that the people of Florida do in this direction for their State, old South Carolina would in a very short time be made to blossom as the rose. Is there not too much selfishness among us ? Are we as citizens doing our duty to our old mother? Why, every man, woman and even child in Florida, whose interest is identified with the State is a standing, setting, moving and talking advertise ment for the State and her re sources. Each county is putting forth strenuous efforts to induce settlers and capital to the favored iocality. I have a pamphlet now lying before me of 56 pages set ting forth the advantages of Sum ter County with the attractive title, 'Our American Italy;' and I have another published by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration entitled, 'Semi-Trop ical Florida, its C'linate, Soil and Productions.' The energy and tact thus displayed by the people of Florida to a very considerable extent is what is building up tbat State and giving it such a bright and promising future. To induce a few families from each State in the Union to settle down and make a place their home is to see others from those same sections follow on in a few years. This is exactly what is being done in Florida, and no one can tell with this harmonious cosmopolitan pop ulation what the end shall be. Can we not do something in this way towards building up our Sita--the proud old State of South Car lina, whose territory ti extends from the sea coast to the p mountains, embracing a variety 1 of soil, rich and fertile and adapt tl ed to the growing of crops of al- a most every description, and to the s< successful raising of stock of every ti kind ; containing water power d sufficient to manufacture every a lock of cotton raised in the South- v era States, and with room, thou sands of room, for settlers both fr with and without capital who desire to invest in farm or pasture u lands, in factories, in town and it city and rail road property ; or to ai labor with their hands at paying s( wages in almost any capacity? Can we not speak of the resources d of our State, of our pure health b giving water, of our genial cli- h mate, the most desirable of any 1 other, of our mountain scenery g and ocean-washed beaches, of t our churches and superior edu- d cational and transportation facil- tj ities, of our towns and cities and a of the healthfulness of our cli- 0 mate ? Will we take knowledge b of others in this respect and begin w to develop in reality the resources 01 of our State? Let it be done. la Yours very truly, d J. A. SLIGH. h FoI "Ms HERALD. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLAN Y. sM Considerable interest is now felt in 0 ballooning, and the lovers of aero d nauties are evidently determined that b something shall be done to increase r the usefulness of this department s of science. The balloon society form ed in England some months ago is a now followed by a similar association a in Berlin which intends to hold an 81 aeronautical exhibition at some time d during 1882. Among the plans pro- P posed to the British Balloon Society, is that of a balloon to be kept under ii control by means of compressed gas. m The gas would be stored in a suitable p tank under pressure, and the balloon tl would be reduced in size or enlarged et at pleasure by admitting or withdraw- ai ing gas--which might be effected by simply turning a crank. The balloon would of course fall when reduced in 01 size and rise as it became expanded, fs so that ballast and waste s gas would 'I be rendered unnecessary. Improve- P ment in another direction is still I sought by areonauts who are striving to travel considerable distances in pre- a determined courses. Little success has ri attended these efforts. The most im- ei portant ballooning scheme now before tI the public is Commander Cheyne's a~ project for reaching the North Pole. b He proposes to travel by sea as far as tc practicable, and to complete the dis- em tance to the Pole in immense bal- el loons. He is very sanguine of sue- Ut cess. It is to be sincerely hoped that re the thought and money now being de- tl voted to air navigation may lead to w useful results. Progress thus far has fi been very slow, and it must be con- w Eessed that little material advance has LC been made since the time of Mont- si ~olfier. s Dr. Born, of Breslau, has found ri hat when young tadpoles are fed ex- c4 ~lusively upon certain articles of diet n astonishing preponderance of fe ales is developed. The proportion in the case of 1,440 tadpoles thus g8 reared reached ninety-five per &nt. e~ he experimnents of M. Yung also 0o show that special food has a remarkable effect upon the development of sex in :adpoles. How greatly would human knowi edge be narrowed had the microscope aever existed ! This wonderful in trumeut has not only revealed the p agnitude and importance of the un- b seen world about us, and shown us, many hidden marvels, but it has fur. ished a means of studying disease which will never cease to be an ines- j timable boon. It has shown that the oc animal body is preyed upon by a va- LI riety of organisms, producing dis eases whose cause would have never been suspected without its aid. The w knowedge thus gained has in several h instances led to -the discovery ofj methods of rendering the attacks o the minute parasites comparatively i harmless, thus conquering certain u dreaded maladies. Observations of this kind are only of very recent date,I but the progress made has been very remarkable. All epidemic or con- P tagious diseases are now believed to be due to microscopic organisms in the blood, and it appears quite proba- b b1e that M. Pasteur's nlan of vaecina- d on may ere long be successfully ap. lied to all ailaieuts of this kind 'ith the result of greatly reducing ieir ravages. . It is hoped .that these ew ideas concerning disease may on lead to a material lessening of ie death-rate from such wide spread isorders as scarlet and typhus fevers id diphtheria. Traly great is the ork of the microscope. In 1885 a prize of twenty-five anes, offered by the King of the Bel Lans, is to be awarded for the best ork on means and measures for mak ig the study of geography general 3d furthering instruction is that ience in educational institutions. In a new work Paul' Du Chaillu ascribes a'curious scene, encoounteied y him in Lapland, illustrative of the abits of the most generally known i Arctic animals. On entering a irest he suddenly found himself in ie midst of a great number of rein eer which were digging through ie snow for the moss of which they e so food. All except the younger ies were working lustily, evident* sing very hungry. They dug first ith one fare-foot then with the ,her, the holes gradually becoming rger and larger, and the bodies-of ke animals becoming more and more idden. The snow was about four et in depth, and some of the holes ad been dug so far that nothing 6ve their swaying tails could be seen some of the reindeer. In every irection these busy creatures were to e seen toiling with the soe object of laching the moss covered by the low. Late measurements of the carbonic :id existing at considerable heights )ove the earth's surface appear to iow that the gas is pretty evenly stributed throughout our atmos here. Violent atmospheric disturbances e always attended with electrical anifestations; and, in a recent pa .r. Dr. Rogers is disposed to consider e prevalent theory of wind as erron us, and believes the real cause of r currents to be electricity. Bx CouRTzous.-Perbaps the 2e quality oftenest deficient in ,mily relationships is courtesy. oo much familiarity,' as the roverb says, -breeds contempt.' he habit of treating one another ithout the little forms in use nong other friends, and the hor d trick of speaking rudely of ieh other's defects or mrishaps, is ie underlying source of half the ienation of relatives. If we are >und to show special benevolence those nearest to us, why on L.rth do we give them pain at rery turn, a;nd irritate them by 2fiattering remarks or unkind forences ? For once we can do iem a real service of any kind e can hurt or else please them ly times a day. T be individual ho thinks she performs her duty sister, niece or cousin, while e waits to do the exceptional rvice, and hourly frets and wor es and humiliates her, is .ex edingly mistaken. (Frances Power Cobbe. He is not indifferent or alto ~ther incredulous, but he is so sentially practical that he can ily deal with what he sees. . Men who have the strongest in Ilects have the weakest mem ies; they trust more to inven on than memory. Blessed be he who gives to the >or, albeit only a penny ; doubly eased be be who adds kind ords to his gift. The most sure method of sub cting yourself to be deceived is iconsider yourself more cnning an others. Awoman that wears false curia hich have not been paid for,~is a rir owing sort of an object. Pltcasought to make good ilegraph repairmen. They are ied to pulling wires. Orange peel is very dangerous ; ie least bit of it often brings on bysical prostration. A dog frequently worries a cat, - it man, who. isuobfer than thQ