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?I AM HER SLAVEI" I am her slave. Ah, this I know. Although she would not have it sol The truth my heart could not deny When her dear face first met my eye, That solden day six months aga Twas summer then. Now chill winds blow. The fields then green are white with snow. The world has changed, but still I sigh . I am her slave! Summer again will throb and glow. Tho icebound brooks will laughing flow. Will my sweetheart then pass me by, Or will her smile bo felad, though shy, When once again to her I show I am her slave? -Virginia Van de Water in Harper's Bazar. SAVED BY A FLASH. "Father," said my son Donald to me one day-"father, how do they take these wonderful photographs of lightning flashes that are printed in The Strand Magazine? They don't know when a flash is coming and . can't make it stay still while they photograph it, can they!" "Not likely," I laughingly re plied. "The lightning 'takes' itself. If there is a thunderstorm at night, all that is necessary is to pnt a sen sitive plate in the camera, uncover the lens and point it at the sky, when the next- flash of lightning will record itself upon the plate, which must then be developed in the usual way. " "Is that all?" returned Donald. "How very easy! Couldn't we take some? Do let us try. " . "All right," I replied, "but first of all we must wait for a thunder storm. So when there is another at night get your photographic traps ready, and we'll see what we can do." Donald and I were enthusiastic cyclists, he being one of several years' standing, but I only since we came to live here in Woodford, on the borders of the New forest, as I found it very convenient to ride to the railway station-five miles away -or to Salisbury or Southampton, as our village lies midway on the high road between those towna. Charmed by the lovely forest scenery, I had lately practiced the fascinating science of photography, and thereby secured many a beauti ful scene of woodland glade Don ald, too, soon waxed enthusiastic over it and many a cy cl ?photo graphic day did we spend securing pictures of the exquisite scenes that abound around our home The marvelous photos of light ning flashes that appeared in the Strand had excited Donald's wonder and curiosity, leading to the con versation with which this story commences. We had not long to wait for a thunderstorm; for on that very night raged one of exceptional vio lence. It began about ll o'clock, and Donald, who had retired to bed some time before, burst into my room fully dressed and,shouted: "Come on, father. There's a tre mendous thunderstorm coming up, and such flashes of lightning 1 Pm off to the dark room, to put some plates in the slides, so get the-cam era ready. The front bedroom win dow is the best place to expose from." i Here let me state that our house stands about ten feet from the road side, and the view from our front windows comprises the road and the common opposite us, a small piece of waste land partly surrounded by the noble trees of the New forest. By the time that I had made the necessary arrangements at the win dow, flbnald rejoined me, bringing three double dark slides loaded with the sensitive plates. "We ought to get at least one successful photo out of this lot," said ha ' Soon the storm, which had grad ually been drawing, nearer, burst over us with terrible fury, the light-* t ning flashing with amazing brillian cy, the thunder rolling with deafen ing roars. One by one the plates were exposed under conditions that justified the expectations of good results, and D . Mild was in high ' glee. Just as I was about to expose the sixth and last plate he said: "Why don't you take a flashlight photo of the common with that one, illuminated by the celestial electric light, yon.know? Point the camera toward the center of the common, jost for fun. I'd like to see how it comes out." I acted upon MB suggestion, and no sooner had I got the camera in position than a flash of lightning, so vivid and brilliant in its intensity as to momentarily blind us and ' wring from us a fearsome and terri fied "Oh 1" imprinted the scene on the sensitive plate. "I'm glad that's the last plaie," said Donald when the deafening peal of thunder allowed bim to make himself heard, "for I should not care to stand at the window during another such flash as that. Shall we develop the plates to night?" "Not if I know it, " I replied. "Be .off to bed now, and we'll do them the first thing in the morning." Bat we didn't, for we were awak ened early by a violent ringing of the bell, and upon going down in my dressing gown and opening the door I beheld the village constable with white, haggard face, on which fear was strongly marked in every line. "Oh, sir," he gasped, "will you come over on the common with me? There's the corpse of a man lying there, and I fear he's been murder ed, for there's a knife stuck in his breast. I want you to come as a witness before I touch the body." "Lying on the common 1 Murder ed! Impossible!" I said. "But wait ? moment till I have dressed, and I'll come with you." The constable's tale was only too true, for there, lying on tn? dam grass, his hair and clothes sodde with last night's rain, with upturr ed face and with the blade of large knife buried deep in his hearl lay the corpse of Ivan Solenski the handsome young tenant of th Hermitage and suitor for the hear and hand of the lovely Marie Deve reux of Forest Hall. While the COL stable guarded the body I hurriei for the doctor, who, upon his ai rival, declared that life had been es tinct for some hours. "Good heavens!" he ejaculated "This knife belongs to Gerald Mer rileesl See, here are his initials!' And there, on the silver mo unte< handle, were the letters "G. M." TJbat evening Gerald Merrilees the handsome, well built young own er of tho Home farm and Solenski'i rival for the affections of the beau teous Marie Devereux, was arrestee on a charge of murder, upon th? sworn information of the butler o: Forest Hall,?who deposed that, 01 the previous evening, Merrilees hac had a stormy interview with Mis; Devereux, in which Solenski's nam? was mentioned several times, anc that Merrilees had suddenly dashed out of the house, muttering: "IT kill him! I'll kill him !" Upon thif evidence, and that of the knifi found in the dead man's breast, Merrilees was committed for tria] at the forthcoming assizes about tc be held at the guildhall, Winches ter. Doubtless the reader remembers the account of the trial, which wa? published so fully in the daily pa pers of the time, but in case he may not recall it to mind I might here briefly give Merrilees' defense. IE spite of the strong proofs of his guilt, he persistently declared him self innocent and pleaded not guilty. He fully admitted the truth of the evidence of the butler of Forest Hall, and his counsel explained that he had that evening proposed fox the hand of Miss Devereux, but had been rejected, upon which he had accused her of favoring the suit of Solenski, and when she admitted that she had that day accepted So lenski his jealousy and rage over powered him-being a very hot tempered fellow-causing him to rush from the house, muttering the terribly incriminating threats now used as evidence against him. After leaving Forest Hall-his counsel continued-reason gradually pre vailed, and he proceeded to go home,, his path lying across the common in front of my house. Being anxious to arrive there be fore the threatening storm broke and partly to cool his fiery temper, he ran, but his foot catching in the stump of a furze bush caused him to fall heavily to the ground, and with such force as to render him unconscious. He declared that his pockets must have been rifled by some malicious passerby while he lay in that state, for whereas he fell on his face, when he recovered consciousness he was lying on his hack. He reached home too weak and dazed to think or observe, but great was his sur prise the next morning io find his pockets empty. Watch, ohain, purse, loose cash, hunting knife-which he always carried-and everything, all gone. Counsel dwelt strongly upon this fact, and maintained that the accus ed was not the culprit, but that when lying unconscious the real murderer robbed him,taking, among other things, the knife used with such fatal effect upon Solen ski whose pockets he also rifled-leav ing the murderous weapon in the dead man's breast, to divert suspi cion from himself to its innocent owner. For further details, I must refer the reader to the very full reports of the trial which appeared in the local papers at the time, merely contenting myself with stating that the jury smiled, in that supercilious, superior sort of way common to the British juror, at the palpable weak ness of the defense, and, having sat isfied themselves as to the prisoner's guilt, after a short consideration they returned their awful verdict of guilty! Gerald Merrilees was sentenced to death. Some time after the foregoing events I was sitting up awaiting the arrival of my wife and son, who were returning from London by a midnight train-or, rather, an early morning one-reaching Dean Sta tion at 3 a. m., after which they had to drive the intervening five miles home. It wa8 weary work waiting. I had finished reading my novel and was looking about for something to do, when I suddenly thought of the plates we had exposed on the night of the thunderstorm and had lain undeveloped and forgotten till now. "The very thing!" I exclaim ed. "I'll set to work and develop them at once It will pass the time nicely. " The first plate developed was a failure. Why, I don't know, for I immediately threw it away and commenced another. "Ah!" I thought, "this one is something like a photograph." Truly, it was a most wonderful photo of lightning, the wavy lines of fire-there were four, springing from one stem streaming down from the dark and angry heavens right on to the earth, where the trees of the New forest in the background were sharply silhouetted against the tongues of fire, from which little side streams spread out in all directions. I felt, and still feel, proud of that photo graph, for it caused no little excite ment in the scientific world. The next plate was a bit of a mystery to me,., for it was a negative of the landscape m iront or our n?use ana I wondered when it was taken, un til I remembered that Donald had asked me to take it as a flashlight landscape view with the last plate on that memorable evening of the storm. As development proceeded, and the objects became more and moro distinct, I was surprised to seo several human figures portrayed in it. With a magnifying glass I gave it a closer examination, the result of which made me tremble with excitement "Good heavens 1" I exclaimed. "This is a photo of the murder of Solenski !" And indeed it wa s, taken at the identical moment that the crime was committed. There was the whole soene unerringly depicted on the plate by that brilliant flash of lightning. I examined the plate more minutely, and the result was startling in the extrema There was the murderer in the very act of plunging the knife into Solenski's breast The faces of both men were plain ly distinguishable, and-that of the murderer was not Gerald Merrilees, but of a short, thickset man with a h?avy beard, and there, farther in the background was an inanimate form, with upturned face, lying upon the earth. "Goodheavens!" I again exclaim ed. "So Merrilees is innocent, after all! How wonderful that we should have taken this photograph, anu thus bo able to prove his innooencel Tomorrow I will go to Winchester with it and procure his release." Suddenly I reeled as if shot. " 'Tomorrow,' did I say? Why, to morrow is the day of his execution ! It is 'tomorrow' now, for it is after 3 o'clock ! In five hours all will be over; another victim sacrificed to miscarriage of justice. " What was Ito do? Twenty miles from Win chester, with no means of commu nicating with the authorities to avert the tragedy which would so, soon be enacted, here was I with evidence that would save an inno cent man's life, and that man a very dear friend too. What could I do? I groaned aloud in my anguish and great beads of perspiration dropped from my brow. Just then my wife and son return ed and were alarmed to see my agi tated state, but upon explaining matters, my wife's ready wit sug gested that I should ride to Win chester on my bicycle The very thing ! I jumped with joy, and soon after started on my dark and dreary, but fateful, ride, with the priceless negative carefully packed to avoid the risk of breakage and its terrible consequences. I will not go into details of that rida for only those who have ridden over strange crossroads on a pitch dark night, when a friend's life de pends upon their speed and dispatch, can sympathize with ma At 6:45 that same morning I rode up to Winchester jail and demanded to see the governor immediately, and upon being admitted to his presence showed him the heaven sent witness, which he deemed of such importance that he telegraphed at once to the home secretary, giv in; him details of my marvelous photograph, with the result that in this eleventh hour Gerald Merrilees was reprieved-he was saved. The nature of the evidence that established Merrilees' innocence and all particulars concerning it were kept strictly secret hythe police, who had my negative enlarged and sent copies of the photograph whereon the features of the mur derer were clearly portrayed-to all the police stations in the kingdom, with the result that within ten days the real culprit was arrested in the foreign quarter of Soho, and upon being charged with the murder con fessed his guilt, stating that Solen ski was an absconding nihilist, who had fled to England to avoid carry ing out a horrible task imposed on him by tho peculiar rules of that dreaded society. By so doing his life became for feited and to the murderer was al lotted the duty of carrying out the society's vengeance. Hoping to es cape, Solenski had lived in retire ment in our village, but was tracked ' by his inexorable executioner, who stated that on the night of the great storm he had come across the pros trate and senseless form of Mer rilees, from whom be took every thing available, including the fatal knife with which he stabbed his viotin-whom he accidentally met immediately after leaving Meirilees -just as the defending counsel had surmised at the trial. In due time Merrilees received a full and unconditional pardon-for a orime that he had never commit ted-and I should not at any time be surprised to hear of his engage ment to Miss Devereux. He and I are the strongest of friends, as he says he owes his life to me, but I tell him that it is not so, but that he owes it to the maga zine that prompted us to take tho photos on that eventful night, The Strand.-Tit-Bits. Japanese Welcome Society. Tho Japanese have shown their hospitality and their desire to culti vate the good will of strangers by establishing a "welcome society" in Tokyo. The object of this society is to give counsol to all strangers vis iting Japan and to make their so journ in the kingdom of the mikado as agreeable as possible. Land In the United Kingdom. If the land of England, Ireland and Scotland were equally divided among the inhabitants, eaoh man, woman and child would have two acres to move about in. TRIED TO INSURE GUITEAU. A Joke That Helped to Kill Deathbed In surance In Pennsylvania. The following is the story of the pretended effort to insure Guiteau's life. The scheme was conceived hy two young lawyers, and, although they hogan it as a joke, there were many who took it seriously. One of its results was to help to kill "deathbed insurance" in the eastern part of the United States. Garfield was shot in July, 1881, and the trial of the assassin, began in November, 1881, and ended with a verdict of guilty on Jan. 25, 1882. Guiteau was hanged on June 30, 1882. At this time the deathbed in surance craze was at high water mark, many of the companies tak ing all kinds of risks. One evening in February, 1882, two young attor neys here were talking of Guiteau, for whom an application for a new trial had just been made. One of the attorneys suggested that they attempt to insure Guiteau's life, as a means of bringing ridicule on the "graveyard companies. " They talk ed of it to a resident of Reading who at that time held a political office in Washington. j He entered intoJ the joke and thought he could arrange the Wash ington end of the affair. Going back to Washington, the Berks county politician told a newspaper man there of the business of the insur ance companies in Reading, and also of the scheme of insuring Guiteau. Meanwhile, the -attorneys made written application for $100,000 in surance on Guiteau's life. The ap plication nearly got the jokers into trouble. Among the many life in surance concerns in Reading at the time was one that did not prop erly come under the designation of a deathbed company. By accident a blank of this particular company was filled out in due form and for warded to the Washington newspa per man. His part was to take it to Guiteau and try to secure his signa ture. The reporter visited Guiteau and told him that a firm of insurance agents in Reading, thinking that he might secure a new trial and even tually escape the gallows, considered him a good risk and wanted to in sure him for 1100,000. The reporter gave Guiteau to understand that neither he nor his friends would have to pay any of the assessments; that would be attended to in Read ing. Guiteau was also told that the agents would make it worth his while to sign the application. Al though no figures were mentioned, he was left under the impression that his heirs might expect $25,000 should he be executed. Guiteau lis tened to the scheme and then smiled. He knew the newspaper man, and told him he thought the entire mat ter a joke. The reporter knew it was, but did not say so. Guiteau declined to sign then. The following day the Washing ton newspaper appeared with a long article, saying that a graveyard in surance company nt Reading want ed to place $100,000 insurance on Guiteau's life. The name of the company was given. The article was in the form of an exposure and said that large sums of money had been offered to secure Guiteau's sig nature and that a large sum was to go to the assassin's heirs. The news was sent all over the country subse quently. By this time the Reading origina tors of the scheme were beginning to find that they had succeeded be yond their expectations. The offi cers of the company whose name was connected with the affair went on a still hunt for the schemers and lawsuits were threatened. Then the New York and New England papers took up the subject Long articles appeared calling attention to the deathbed or graveyard insurance companies doing business in eastern Pennsylvania, and especially in Reading. Next the insurance pa pers of England took up the matter. They cited the Pennsylvania death beds as samples of American life in surance. One daily paper in San Francisco called the attempt to in sure Guiteau a disgrace on humani ty. It is said by those conversant with their affairs that the Guiteau episode, as much as anything else, assisted in wiping out deathbed in surance concerns.-Reading (Pa.) Letter in New York Sun. Loch and Hairbreadth Measures. The table of measures says that three barleycorns make one inch, and so they do. When the stand ards of measures were first estab lished, three barleycorns, well dried, were taken and laid end to end, three being understood to make an inch in length. The hairbreadth, now used indefinitely and conven tionally for infinitesimal space, was a regular measure, 16 hairs laid side by side equaling ono barleycorn. Tho Great Question. "What is this great servant girl question that tho women talk about?" "Why, 'How do you like your new girl?' I suppose. "-Philadel phia North American. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the /fl' V/fJ Signature of t^Let^Z^^C^U^ - American forests have produced during thc past six years 824,000,000, 000 feet of lumber, valued at $25,000, 000,000. COLORED TROOPS. Those In the War Were Much Like Their White Brethren. The qualities of the negro soldiers were simply human, says a writer in the Washington Post. They were capable of fatigue or ardor, of cow ardice or courage, of grumbling or cheerfulness, very much as white soldiers would have been in their place. If it is necessary to scruti nize more minutely, it is possible to say that they were mero enthusias tic under excitement and more easi ly depressed; more affectionate if judiciously treated and more sullen and dogged if discouraged; more gregarious and less prone to indi vidual initiative-and so on with many other minor differences. Yet even these generalizations would be met by so many scattered excep tions as to be of subordinate value. Every regimental or even brigade commander comes to know after awhile who are the men in his com mand who covet danger, who are the men who simply face it when it is inevitable and who are the men who need watching lest they actual ly flinch. And all this is equally true whether they be white or black. "Two o'clock in the morning courage," in Napoleon's phrase, is a thing that belongs to the minority in every race, and it is probably no more abundant, and yet no rarer, among black soldiers than among white. Two peculiar trait3 of the black troops grew out of their former state of servitude When serving on their own soil, or even on soil and under conditions resembling their own, they had the great ad vantage of local knowledge. They were not only ready to serve as guides, but they were virtually their own guides. They were serviceable as Indian scouts are serviceable; they could find their way in the dark, guess at the position of an en emy, follow a "trail, extract knowl edge from others of their own raoe, and all this in a way no white man could rival. Enterprises from which the bravest white man might shrink unaided could sometimes be safely transacted by black soldiers, or in their company. Again, they had to sustain them, the vast stakes of personal freedom and that of their families. Say what one pleases, they all desired their freedom-I never encountered an exception-and it gave them a peculiar stimulus apart from that of the white soldier. The latter had at etake his flag, his nation, his com rades, his life; the black soldier, if he had been a slave, had all these things risked upon the issue and one thing more-his personal free dom, with that of his household. The negro regiments themselves recognized this and had a feeling that they were playing for higher prizes than their white associates. Let the Confederacy succeed,, and they would be remanded into slav ery, while the white soldiers would simply lay down their arms and go home. No one who did not serve with them and have their confidence could know the great strength of this feeling in their hearts. A Visit to Tolstoi. The family Uves handsomely, buty as we were not invited, only toler ated, guests we only took off our outside wraps in the anteroom, where a man was in waiting to re move them, leaving our hats on. We passed up stairs and through a room where a son was playing de lightfully on a piano when we went in and bowed to us as we went through. We stood waiting around the room into which we were usher ed, when Tolstoi came in in the most cordial manner possible, in quired of Mrs.-about her son, whom he spoke of most flatteringly; was introduced to us all, asking us to be seated, etc., and no one could have been more cordial and agreea ble A daughter afterward came in, and both spoke English with per fect ease. He inquired how we all came to be traveling in Russia, and when he learned that most of our party were in Berlin to study he said he won dered when foreigners would come to Russia to study. He asked where each of us was from and seemed perfectly familiar with our country. He is a tall man, stooped some what, and was dressed as the peas ants are-in a blouse with a skirt coming almost to the knees, belted in, and trousers of the same goods, a dark brown homespun. His long beard is not as white as I expected to see. He has fine eyes, and I had good opportunity to study his ap pearance, as I eat next, and he turn ed to me sometimes. He does not consider himself a good Christian, I understand, be cause he has not given up every thing.-Literary World. How Bnckinger Wrote. Matthew Buckinger, a German, who many years ago exhibited him self in London, had neither arms nor legs, but nevertheless managed to write a good hand, very clear and round, by holding the pen between tho stump of his right arm and his cheek. When you call for Dewitt's Witch Ha zel Salve, the great pile cure, don't accept anything else. Don't bs talked into ac cepting a suhstiiute, for piles, for sores, for burn?. Evans Pharmacy. - "If you are not good the Span iards will catch you," cautioned the annoyed mother. "Pooh, mama," re plied thc bad boy, "who's afraid of Spaniards?" A stubborn cough or tickling in tho throat yields^-^ne Minute Cough Cure. Harmless ct, touches the right spot, reliable/^ at what is wanted. It acts atoned . yans Pharmacy. The Forest of Fontainebleau. Fontainebleau has no conspicuous charm. Thero are few noble trees. The one of any excellence has a re freshment bar to celebrate it and fin ger posts for miles around guide you to the giant Jupiter. Jupiter is indeed a splendid relic, a straight column towering above the puny moderns, 12 paces round the swell ing roots, 6 yards in girth at the height of a tall man. Between Bar bizon and the road to Paris there is a tolerable glade of elms, but from one end of the forest to the other there is nothing comparable with the oaks of suburban Epping or with the beeches and oaks of the New Forest. There are no thickets, no tangles of undergrowth; the dili gence of the administration keeps the forest as clean as a kitchen gar den; the thriving young trees in sedate regularity are as orderly as a regiment on parade; one imagines each numbered and docketed ina prodigious inventory. This bureau cratic husbandry brings with it a lamentable absence of wild life. . There are no arenas purple with bluebells, no banks of primroses or lush glades dappled with cowslips, and animals are still rarer. In the remotest parts of the New forest the underwood creeps and rustles with living things, the ground is black with hurrying insects, the air trembles with flashing wings, call notes of birds and beasts assail the ears and every step from the beaten track drives some creature from its lair. Here the wildest groves, which the naturalist would expect to find thronged with multitudinous life, have the eilence of an empty room. Some malign enchantment has de populated the forest-Saturday Re view. A Census of Words. It is generally admitted that 5,000 expressions are amply sufficient for common use. The vocabulary of a writer seldom surpasses that num ber. With 7,000 words a language is acquired thoroughly. According to Br?chet, the number of French words in the Dictionaire de l'Acad ?mie is 27,000, including 6,000 prim itive expressions. The Littre Dic tionary contains about 66,000 words. English, according to Johnson, contained 15,000 words, but Thom mery gives to the English of the present day 87,000 words. An ordinary German dictionary has about 42,000 words, and a Span ish dictionary 52,000. Chinese is composed of 41,000 known words in an imperial dic tionary of the eighteenth century. Arabic has probably the greatest number of expressions. It has about 30,000 words. But what richness it possesses compared especially to that other language of the Levant, Hebrew, the poorest of all 1 For ex ample, wine, although forbidden by Mohammed, has 140 different names in Arabic, not to indicate the differ ent varieties, but simply to signify the juice of the grape. A cup of wine has about ten expressions and the camel, the horse and the lion have hundreds of names.-Interm? diaire des Chercheurs. Bite Worse Than the Bark. Rubher-Good heavens, man! How did you cut up your face like _that? Sadher-Well, you see, I can't stand a barber's continual chatter, so I hired a dumb one to come and shave me every morning. Rubher-And he didn't know how to shave, eh? Sadher-Oh, yes, he could shave all right, but he would persist in talking to me on his fingers while working.-Up to Date. Ungrateful. "That ungrateful son-in-law of mine," said the fat man with chin whiskers, "wouldn't take a good job when I got him one." "What kind of a job was it?" "W'y, there was a fellow wanted a good, stout man to try a new air ship. "-Indianapolis Journal. A Brilliant Thoroughfare. Unter den Linden, Berlin, is the most brilliantly lighted thorough fare in the world, with its triple rows of arc lamps, fed by under ground wires and separated by rowe of lime trees. LAND FOB SALE. "1 Q "I Acres near Varennes P. O., on _L O JL public road. New six-room dwelling, necessary outbuildings, good tenant house.0. Near churches and good school. 75 acres upland, 20 of bottoms in oultivation, 25 acres in original forest, fine pasture Will sell right for cash. This place is seven miles from town. H. L. MCDONALD. Aug 24,189S_0_ 2 LAND FOE SALE. rf f\f\ Acres of good Farming Land ? Uv in the mont progressive sec tions of Oconee County. S. C. Will di vide in lots and Hell on terms to suit pur chasers. W. O. HAMILTON, Seneca, S. C. Ang3t, 1808_10_6_ Notice Final Settlement. fyiHE undersigned, Administrator of X the Estate of Mamie Campbell, dp ceased, hereby givrs notice that he will on the l?t day of October, 1898. apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson Coun ty for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from his office as Admin istrator. T. A. CAMPBELL, Adm'r. Aug 31, 1M)8_10_5_ NOTICE ! THE regular Annual Meeting nf the Stockholders of the Anderson Cotton Mills will be held in the Court House, or some other suitable placp, at ll o'olock a. m. ou TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 18!)8, for the election of a Board of Direc tors to serve the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. J. A. BROCK, Presiident and Treasurer. August 24, 1898 9 3 '.oo aoivinoaa aiauav?ia am o% uorrBOirddu uodn Bsaippt? ?uv oi 3uos oq nP1- 'namoi*. aol nor* -?araoraj ejqBnreA Saiureqiuoo 'SHOOS aa?ii .oDud jo idpodJ ao Treen iq ?nsB JO 'sajous 3nap rte VB oiWoq. 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