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W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1866. VOLUME XIV. NO. 11. . A /.. * irirrnuott DaVir in fcfctsotr. V The Prison Life of Jefferson Da? / \ \ Vla-^-By Lieutv GoJ. John S. Graven, V. M. I)., late Surgeon tj. S. Volantocrs, and Physician of the Prisoner, Carleton : New York. The etory x>f the imprisonment of the illustrious personage whose name and fame We tinkod inseparably with the fortunes of *th6 Confederate cause, possesses peculiar interest, especially when written by one *>vi<l#>ntlc mnvpd hv mnnlv imnnlsnq and a respoct for the truth of history. Wo CAnnot At this time attempt any critical notice of tho work, or givo mQre than one or two extracts, but promise to return to it from time to time, until we have given our readers a fair chanco to judge of the interest and value of the work. Wd begin with mb. davis ushered into trison. May 21, 1865?The procession into the fort wib under the immediate inspection of Major-General Haileck and Charles A. Dana, then Assistant Secretary of War; Colonel Pritchard, of the Michigan cavalry, who immediately effected the capture, being the ofBcer in command of the guard from the vessel to the fort. First came Mujor-General Miles holding the arm of Mr. Davis, who was dressed in a Buit of plain Confederate gray, with a gray slouched hat?always thin, and now looking much wasted and very haggard. Immediately after these came Colonel Pritchard accompanying Mr. Clay, with a guard of soldiers in their rear. Thus they passed tnrough tiles or men in blue From the Engineer's Lauding to the Water Battery Postern ; and on arriving at the casemate which bad'been fitted up into cells for their incarceration, Mr. Davis whs shown into cusemeut No. two and Clay into No. four, guards of soldiers being stationed in the cells numbered one, ihree, and five, upon each 6ide of them. They entered ; the heavy doors clanged behind them, and in that clang was rung the final knell of the terrible, but not extinct rebellion. BeiDg ushered into bis inner cell by General nni) thp two ilnnrii Isi^inn , e, thereinto from the guardroom being fastened, Mr. Davis, after surveying the premises for some moments, and looking out through the embrasure with such thoughts passing over his lined and expressive face as may be imagined, suddenly seated himself in a chair, placing hoth hands on hislcnees.and asked one of the soldier* pacing up and down wkhin his cell this significant question : "Which way does the embrasure face?" The soldier was silent Mr. DAviB, raising bis voice a little, re pented the inquiry. But again doad silence, or only the measured footfalls of the two pacing pacing sentries within, and the fainter echoes o f the four without. Addressing the other soldier, as if the first had been deaf and bad not beard him, the prisoner again repeated his inquiry. But tbesecond soldier remained silent, as the first, a slight twitching of bis Byes only intimating that he had beard the question, but was forbidden to speak. 'Well,' 6aid Mr. Davis, throwing his bands up and breaking into a bitter laugh, 4iI wish my men could have been taught your discipline!' and then, rising from hia chair, he commenced pacing back and fourth before the embrasure, now looking at the silent sentry across the moat, tnd anon at tbe two silently pacing soldiers who were his companions in the casement. His sole reading-matter, a Bible And prayer-book, his only companions those two silent guards, his only food the ordi? nary rations of bread and beof served out to the soldiers of the garrison?thus passed the first day and night of the ex-President's confinement. On the 23d day of May, the third day of his imprisonment, he underwent being put in irons?''a trial severer,' says, Dr. Craven, 'than has ever been inflicted upon aqy one who.has enjoyed such eminence.' Oapftain TUIow, of the Third Pennsylvania Artillery, wm sent to see it performed. HOW MB. DAVIS WAS PUS XH IRONS. 'Well 1' said Mr. Davis aa they entered, slightly rsUiog bis bead. I bato an unpleasant duty to perform, sir,' ta$ C*pt, THjof, tod M b# spoke, the semor biftdVamith took tbo shackles (torn bis assistant. , . . * Dsns leaped intUntly fromb'U recum* Dent attitude, a fltuh ev?r,hii face for a moment, And tten hi* 6oQt>t^nanoo growing lirid and rigid at death. V .' He gatped for breath, clotcMrg hi* throat withlfca Ih l? flog Art of kit'right <>.(Z 4 hand, and then recovering himself slowly, while hia wasted figuro towered up to its full height?now appearing to swell with indignation, and noen to shrink with terror, as he glanced from the Captain's face ( to the shackles?ho said slowly and with a laboring chest: 'My God ! you cannot have been cent to iron me 1' 'Such are my orders, air,' .replied the officer, beckoning the blacksmith to ap- i pronch, who stepped forward, unlocking the padlock, and preparing the letters to do their office. These fetters were ot' heavy iron, probably five eighths of an inch in j thickness, and connected together by a chain of like weight. I believe they aro now in the possession of Maj'ir Gen. Miles, > and will form an interesting relic. 'Tim is too monstrous,' groaned the prisoner, glaring hurriedly round the room, no if -- <" - no II IV/1 QUUJU *>caj?yu Ul ilJt'HIlB OI bell destruction. 'I demand, Captain, tliat you let me see the commanding officer. Can be pretend that audi shackles are required to secure the safe custody of a weak old mac, so guarded and in such a fort as this?1 I 'It could serve no purpose,' replied Capt. I Titlowj 'bis orders art from Washington, I as mine are from him.' I 'But bo can telegraph,' interposed Mr. ! Davis, eBgerly; 'there must be some mis- i take. No sucb outrage as you tbrealeu < mo with is on record iu the history of na- I tions. Bee bim to teleeraub. and dulav : until bo answers." i 'My orders are peremptory,' said the ( officer, 'and admit of no delay. For your I own sake let me advise you to submit wiili i patience. As a soldier, Mr. Davis, you i know I must execute orders.' t 'These aro not orders for-a soldier,' shout- t ed the prisoner, losing all control of himself. 'They are orders for a jailor?fyr a c hangman, which no soli)ie/ wearing a r sword uhould accept I I tell you the world i will ring with this disgrace. The war ia I over; the South is conquered ; I have no i longer any country bat America, and it is t lor me nonor ot America, as for my own I honor and life, that I plead against this c degredation. Kill me ! kill me !' he cried, t passionately, throwing his arms wide open f and exposing his breast, 'rather than in- i flict on me, and on my people through me, t this insult woreo than death.' I 'Do your duty, blacksmith,' said the of i ficer, walking toward the embrasure as if t not caring to witness the performance. 'It \ only gives increased pain on all sides to b protract this interview.' j. At these words the blacksmith advanced t with tho shackles, rind seeing that the pris r oner bad one foot upon the chair neur his t bedside, his right hand resting on the back I of it, the brawny mechanic made an at- 1 tempt to elip one of the shackles over the c ankle so raised, but, as if with the veho- t menco and strength which frenzy can impart, even to the weakest invalid, Mr. Davis suddenly seized his assailant, aDd hurled j him half way across the room. t On this Capt. Titlow turned, and seeing v that Davis had backed against the wall for c further resistance, began to remonstrate, t pointing out in brief, clear language, that t this course was madness, and that nrdnrn v must oe enforced at any cost. 'Why com* f pel me/ he said, 'to add the further indig- i nity of personal violence to the necessity t of your being ironed ?' t 'I am a prisoner of war,' fiercely retorted i Davie; 'I have been a soldier in the armies ] of America; and know how to die.* Only t kill me, and my last breath shall be a \ blessing on your head. But while I have < life and strength to resist", for myself and < for my people, this thing shall not be | done.' ] TTAMiinnn Pant Tillnw nallo/1 id a oq?. I I geant and a file of soldier* from the next, \ room, and the sergeant advanced to seize ] the prisoner. Immediately Mr. Davis flew | on biro, seized bis musket and attempted to t wrench it from bfe grasp. t Of coarse such a scene could have but t one issue. There was a short, passionate J souffle. Jn a moment Mr. Davis was j Bang upon hit bed, and before bis four < powerful assailants removed their bands I from him,-the blacksmith, and hit assistant t bad done tbeir work-^one securing the < riiet on the light ankle, while the other 1 turned the key in }be p^dlo^ on the lefu < This done. MiO W . mnmAnf I ? ? t : 771?? "" w j as if io stupor. ' Then slowly raising b}m* < self and taming roaud, ha ?dropped > Ml i haciM If rt to the TTBe harih j olankof ibii striking ?bain nenu fiitt to < hare reoatfod him to bU ^(aa^?tt?'find ] dropping bufaoeinto his bands* b* boat ; into ft pmbotto fldod of #obbing', rocking i *' . " . ? ?<! u . \ ' "1-" |r;? 4 to and fro, and muttering at brief intervals : 'Ob, the bliame, tlio ehame !' f THE CONFEDERATE DEAD. The following eloquent aiMicss was delivered by the llov. J. L. Girardeau at the recent celebration in Charleston to the memory of the Con federate dead : We liavo corne, my friends, to this sacred spot in obedience to the promptings of ? Universal and well lliirti irr.ieialMl.To in. 1 Btinct of tlio human lieart. Men of all forms of religion, unite in cluing honor to the memory of their dea l. Tlio philosopher and the savage, tho Pagan, the Mo- j hammedan, tho Jew, and the Christian, 1 lire at one in the indulgence of the sentiment which dictates the discharge of those mournful offices, tlio Ins*, which it is competent to affection to render in behalf of kindred countrymen and friends. We are hero as mourners to day. "\Vo have repaired to this burial grounrt to mingle the tears of a common sorrow, and to pay that tributoof respect to our de ceased soldiers which was previously prevented by the hindrances of war. The act which we aro assembled topeiform is suggested not by acrimony towards thu living, tiul by affection lor the dead. Simply retrospective in its character, it has no political complexion, and no latent and in ?idous reference to tho future. It affords, it is true, not only an expression of our grief over the ashes of our departed heroes, jut of our admiration fur their character., ind our love for their memories and their lames; but there is no noble and gener? jus spirit, evon among those who were vie ors in tho great and sanguinary struggle | through which wo have parsed, that would efuae us the consolation of dropping a ear, snd of laving our cbapletsof cypress ipon the graves of our dead. Wo aro here as mourners, not only for >ur owo unuUerablo losses, hut uIjo ad rcpeaentatives of the disconsolate kindred of nnny of those who liere bleep in death, de mrred by distance from participating with is in thesa sod rites; of fathers and mothsrs who sent forth their sons, with their lenediclioDB, to eee them no more on earth ; >f wives and bisters, who slowly and relucant'y unwound their arms of affection rom the neck? of husbands and brother?, vhoie faces they wore destined never more o look upon in this world ; of littlo orphaned children who olung to their departng sires, and all unconscious of the dreHd ugniticance of the insignia oT war, toyed vith their glittering sword chain*, aud miled at the nodding of their plumes. Vlasl their fond visions pf the soldier's reurn to gladden his home were doomed lever to bo realized; and now , in place of he joyous greetings of a father, a hus)and, a brother, a son, is the voiceless sience of a grief that casts its daily shadow tver the desolated family circle, and which laugbt but the divine consolations of religion can assuage. Whether they are right or wrong in the ?ro3ecntioo of the contest which cost them heir lives, the men whose sunken grave ve repair, ond whose memories we honor, lied for us. We can uever, never forget bat lliey were sacrificial victims on an al ar which we helped to rear, and that their >lood was poured out like water in deence of principle which we avowed and which we counselled and exhorted them to naintain to the last extremity. Foi hat caU80 which we, as welt as they, egarded as the exponent of constitutional iberty, and wbiob, during its protracted and igonizing struggle for existence, we love-i with a nasnmnnfo intnn^iln ...t. :..U - J r??WMM.w *r u iv/u uu> woruB jan express?for that cause these men jncountered every hardship, under every jrivation, and freely sacrificed their lives.For it they forsook the sweet felicities of lorae, and bade , a last farewell to those ivhom they held dearer than ' life .itself. Sncouraged by the blessings of those whose hearts broke at their own exhortations to .bera to go forward in the path of duty, ittended by the sanctions of religion and ;be prayers of the pious, and stimulated >y the applause of a whole people, they went forth cheerfully and exultingly to the endurance of trials to wbieb even the so row? ;nl annals of warfare < an scarcely furnish i parallel. Engaged in a Conflict with joe of the great Dowers of ih* ffhoda voice i? heard with respect' by "the jcGupantt of Burepean thrones, exoommaaicated from the fellowship and sympathy the human race, engirdled with a wall rffirfeaad barred off from intercourse ?iUj &ertst ot mankind, sustained by rtsoarces it boa* which were barely adequate .*?-Uy* mppjy of their most pressing -neoaaqUa* yet odooeirivg that they Vera syug^tiilgto uphold the grfet prineipleaiof ?Wil and ra? . ufru ? ?/.-jJ* *-'? '' ligioue liberty for which tbeir fathers before thorn had bled, they manfully endured every trial, nnd heroically confronted every peril- They wcro scantily fed, they wore poorly clad, they wero often inefficiently armed, yet amid tho enow* of Virginia win tore, amid tho deadly malaria of Carolina swHinpR, amid the bleak winds that sweep our ocean slioro, amul the burning heats of Mississippi, amid tho bayous an<l wilds of tho fur Wopt, in labors and watch ingi, in hunger, nakedness aud cold, iu the dreary lienchea, on the exhausting march, and on the red Gold of carnage and deatu, they attested their fidelity to a cause whic?* wnscommon to them and us. Who of ur in tliis conuourso which was spontaneously poured forth, not as a triumphal procession with floating banners and clashing cymbals, but as a community of stricken mourners?who of us can forget the I ttle wornout handful of heroes that on this day four years ago stood an immovable breastwork before this city, and met and broke the thunder-cloud which buist upon them 'n fury with that morning's earliest light ? "Who of u9 can forget the gal'ant men who fell amidst a tempest of Gre, and a hail of iron, at Wagnor and c -5 \1m._ p . " ni. uuiuiui * n uu 01 us cnn lorgo'those who saturated with their blooJ the fields of James Island, John's Islanl, Pocotaligo, and Coosa .vhatchio ? Noble old city ; poor as she is, she is rich in Buch memories as these. Torn, a(lloted, impoverished sho may be, but none can wrest from her the inheritance of that immortal legacy which was bequeathed her by her dying sous. The crovn has fallen from her quoi-nly brow, and 8he nits in dust and a-dies, but there are still left, in her dead and living oliildren, c-istly and glittering jewels which blaze upon her bosom, and nrn pressed with ineffable fondues* to her breast. Our brethren fought and bled, and died, ns vicarious sufferer* on our behalf. Our profoundest graiitudo is, therefore, due them; and every generous emotion of our natures impels us to do what we cud, consistently with our present relations and duties, to honor their memories and to consecrate their names. Their spirits have passed from amongst U9, but their graves are with us ; and, although we may not lay upon then? thd laurel garlands of the victor, we would revereutly place upon them the tokens of our undying gratitude, and our quenchless love. It would bo as idle as it would bo nneandid to deny that in performing this office in memory of our dead, we offer a silent protost which, however feeble and useless it may appear, is still solemnly rendered aga;nst the judgment which would consign them to infamy as the perpetrators of unnatural and monstrous crimes. Let others say what thevmav. it ip not in our natures to regard as criminal? those whom revered and loved as our fathers, husband?, brothers and sons, and who freely yielded up their lives for principle which we deemed worthy even of suoh a saorifico. Wo would be guilty of grossest consistency with ourselves, and o! deepest injustice to them, did we reluse to do them such honor as it is possible in our circumstance to pay. We cannot frame our speech to pronounoe augbt but blessings upon their Dames ; and palsied would be our tongues should they ever be schooled to utter a syllable of re? pronch upon their memories. Were it so that we were required to do it, our answer must neod be, by God's beip we cannot. Belter, far better, in that ease, would it be for ub to say of our dead oountrymen, aa the great Roman poet makes hi* hero exclaim of hid 'llappy, thrice happy they, to whom it was allotted to die before the faces of the fathers," and to look forward to the hope of sharing their graves as the last, the only consolation that would be left as, The world, which haa misunderstood us in the past, and which misunderstands us now, may withhold from the soldiers of anill-starred conntry the meed of praise for the performance of heroic deeds. It is ours ?we oannot help it It is ours U> repeal .l 1 .s.?- r* mpir uhluqb wiiu aaecwpnaie veneration? to oheriah them in our hearts,-apd to bold them in everlasting remembrance as the symbols of every quality which we are wont to honor a# noble', brave and true. The great" and good Jaokaon never oould have >been a leader -.of poaspirators, outlaws and banditti.? His; life?ami it' was- one pf those bright *n(i gterious tiaont) wfifcb oooe be~ frpij jugbji914 yirtu*,*hiah Iiwped U#elfc*t pbcs ftqUlowerupob th* hearts ?f mankind; his death-*** serene and peacSfdl ak the eretfnf scene which oloW ^ njwi spm# <Tsj of might/ Con? . jw t. n ii * flict; the life and tlio death of Buch a man cannot but redeem from reproach the principloa to which they were devoted .and shed a hallowing lustre upon even a defeated cnuse, which now, but for such luminous Illustrations would, in the judgment of tho word, go down into the night of a perpetual oblivion. Nor were there want iug many kindred spirits of lower rank mid lesser note. Hundreds, officers and private soldiers, developed the lofty spirit of self? sacrifice, the noblest, the sublimost, the most god-like trait which can adorn and dignify our poor human nature. A gallant ntid bclovod young officer from this city, when d)ing of a wound, in a distant State, said to mo, 'Tell my dear parents I <lo not repent of fighting for my country.' lirave. crentle. affectionate mesamafo Mn<l friend I fie sleeps not upon tho soil of liis cherished Crtro'ina, but tho Bosom of Virginia, redJeDed with the goro of beroe?, softly pillows his head in his last unbroken reposo. Said a private soldier to mo, while he was lying in a hoppital in prospect of death : "Sir, I may die, but if I had forty lives I would give tliem for such a chuso as this." Said another to me, after be had contracted n severo and dangerous dinea^e in consequence of doing pickot duty, in freezing weather, without an overcoat or a blanket to cover him : *.T 1. - /T ? - * ' T ? 1 i. iihvu suuereu mucu, dui i would rattier die than give up the cause I have been fighting for.'' Sacred to us muat be tlio memory of such heroes I Greon be the turf that reals upon their sleeping dust I But I must forbear. The emotionB which thrill us at such recollection* are deep, too tender, to find exprossion in language. We cannot give utterance to the feolings which oppress us, and yet, like an inward fountain of fire, they would fain burn for themselves a vent. It has-pleased an all-wise Providence to ueuy success co n cauBe in wnicn tUO Dlooa of our brethren whs spilt. We would reverently and submissively-bow to the dccision of His sovereign wiU. We would retail tho whole case to His wisdom and raeroy, and quietly and pationtly await its ultimate developments. Wo have no quar* re! with the providence of God. We would obediently accept the situation wbicb Qe allots ur, and would endeavor honorably to meet the obligations and discbarge the duties which it implies. We are not insensible to the sanctity of oaths, and trust WA rriAtT Kuva nrrn M stswfs%?m i/v ? requirement of conscience, probity, and honor. But while thus in sincerity wo feel and epeak, justice to the dead and fidelity to truth alike compel us to say that we cannot ignore the fact that "the mere presence or absence of success does not, of itself, determine the question of the righteousness of principles. We cannot close our eyes to the great lesson which starts out from the pages of history?that causes, which, while struggling for existence, were branded with the stigma which attaches only to crime, have been rescucd from con* tempt and glorified in the eyes of men by the mere accident of victory; and that others, which, while in the ascendant, were atteoded with acclamations of applause, have, by a reverse of fortune, experienced an opposite fate. Such was the ksson written upon the great struggles for the maintenance of constitutional law in the history of the English people; such was the lesson impressed, as in letters of light, upon the face of the American Revolution. Nor can the argument, (rom the apparent favor or frown of Providence, be deemed "conclusive as to the cbaraoter of principles,since the Church of God her sen nas sometimes Deen suDjectea to persecutions which drenched ber ia blood, and brought h<r to the very verge of extinction. Bight is right, nod wrong is wrong, whatever may be the outward and accidental circumstances whiohaocompany tbem; and it is an ineradicable faith of the human heart, which eJ^o would be bot eopulohre of heps, thai troth and right, though, like th* setting sun, y>ey may sink beneath r horizon of daibneea and an ocean of s^proui may at last re-appear Id the morn iof grory of an UDCttoqeq day. The blood, the proofed*, prioeleat blood of our breatbren may teem to as to .bare been drank op by the earth in vaia?bat whatever of truth, whaterer of right, whatever of pare and lofty principle there tnu for wbioh they oontomfod taclfor whiob they died, may, in another dajy toi., and prophet*, eame.forth-in tha naMii if#! f) m?otiul,wb?o th? booM of it* wnftww i v? '-vM ' . and martyrs shall bave mouldered into dust. "Truth ?traok to earlh shall rise again, The eternal years of God ore ber'e. Ladies of the Memorial Association, the suggestion of this affecting ceremony orig. inuted in your delicate and loving sympathies. Nover did you, never can you, forget that the namo of Woman waa sacred to the Southern soldier's heart. It is no wouder, that as he lived for your defence, he should die with your blessing. Tour hands industriously wrought to supply his wants while he lived, your hands softly ministered to him when lying on the pal? lot of suffering and of death?it is but fitting that the same hands shonld gently lay upon his last resting place the touching memorials of a people's gratitude and love. NTr. ~r ? ' ...? ui bouiiuu, uvii ruii 01 arums, nor blaro of trumpets ia heard abova tha graves of oar dead, but as long as they shall be surrounded by kneeling mothers and daughters, sisters and wive.", vrho shall bedew them with their tear?, they will not be wanting in the noblest and truest honors whioh the human heart can pay. 8INOULAB DREAM. A gospel minister, of tbo evangelical principles, whose name, from the circumstances that occurred, it will be necessary to conceal, being much fatigued at the conclusion of tho afternoon service, retired to hia apartment in order to take a little reat. rr _ i- i . i ? tie nau not long reonnea upon nis ooaou before he fell asleep and began to dream, lie dreamed that on walking in his garden, he ei.tered a bower that had been erected in it, where he aat to read and meditate. While thus employed he thought that he heard some person enter the garden, and leaving his bower, he immediately hastened toward the spot whence the sound seemed to come in order to discover who it -was that had entered. He had not proceeded far beforo he discerned a particular friend of his, a goppel minister of considerable talent, who had rendered himself very popular by his aealoua and unwearied exertions in the cause of Christ. On approaching hi* friend, he was surprised to find his countenance with a gloom, wbicb it bad Dot been accustomed to bear, and that it strongly indicated a violent agitation of mind, apparently anting from conscious remorse. After the salutations bad passed, bis friend asked the relator tbo time of day, to whioh he replied, "twenty-five minutes after four." hearing tbis tbe stranger said: "It is only one bour since I died, and now"?(here bis countenance spoke unutterable horror.) "Why so troubled!" inquired the dreaming minister. "It is not," said be, "because I have not preached tbe goipel; neither is it bccause I bare not been rendered useful; for I have now many seals to my ministry that can bear testimony to the truth as it is in Jesus, which they have received from my lips; but it is because I have been accumulating to myself the applause of men, more than tbo honor that cometh from above; and verily I have my reward." Having uttered these expw sions he hastily disappeared, and was seen no more. The minister walking shortly afterward with the contents of this dream deeply engraven on his memory, proceeded, overwhelmed with serioua reflections, toward his chapel, in order to conduct the evening service. On his way thither he was occoBted by a friend, who inquired wheth* ap ha hml Itpurrl lh? Rftvnro 1dm th? flhnrah bad sustained in the deatb of tbnt able minister * * * and be replied, "No,** bul being much affected at the singular intelligence, be inquired of him tbe day and ;ime of the day when bis departure took place. To tbis bis fiiend replied, "This afternoon, at twenty-five minutes after three." ?Herald of Truth. - ?? ? ?? A National Bankrupt Law.?It is an instructive fact, says tbe Tribune, (bat the repugnance to a national bankrupt law is strongest in those communities which are least exposed to loss or injury by its operarion. That, tbe Cbamber of Commerce of New York has just reiterated its prayer to Congress to pass the bill alread/ through tbe House, though it is certain that many millions ot debts due from tbe interior and West to that city would be sponged out by such an act; whereas the West, as represeotdd in Congress, seems generally averse to suot> a law, though tie Waat.wnnlri Ka raHnvad hv it nf-thfl IwmI obligation to pay many million* ownad then 06 to the Eaat. Io other Word#, the credi wr intoreflt aric* for abeokfopt. Jew; while the debtor interest reuito iu eoeot? mqpt?. : *> * >' i - W?bopo?od trart that Oflfcgfett'will not adjourn without louiitg the capttVe'' ?o #j^Bi?ipef|ytfi rt;were lht? 8u?<aw ektiedLthftt'tbedetj imposed br tbe OootkH?lto&'oXOofigto*m < of irafcrf?t;"l*d l-.-j .* <\ *-s V - .?i