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r STRANGE THINGS In Real Life That Make Truth stranger Than Fiction. QUEER HAPPENINGS. That Have Taken Place In All Parts of the I*nlted States and Other Parts of the Civilized Glohe?Will He Head With Much Interest by the Young and Old Headers of This Paper. Wagers have sometimes taken a grim form. It is credibly recorded that in the eighteenth century a wager was laid for one of a party of Say revelers to enter Westminster bbey at the hour of midnight. He was to enter one of the vaults beneath the abbey, and in proof of his having been there he was to stick a fork into a coffin which had recently been deposited there. He accom-j plished his object and was returning in triumph when he felt himself suddenly caught, and was so overcome with terror that he fell in a swoon. His companions, not being able to account for his long absence, found him in this condition. The fork which he had fastened into the coflin had caught his long cloak, and so occasioned a fit of terror which nearly proved fatal. People are sometimes killed for decidedly trivial causes. Stanley Davis, of Cincinnati, Ohio, stabbed Herman Burns to death in a saloon because the latter blew snufT across the bar and made his nostrils tingle. Because his wife refused to feed the chicken^ at his command Thomas Doehert,' at Richmond, Ky., killed her with a monkey wrench which he threw at her, burying it in the back of ner head. _ , Because his two children had been ^fewwlaying with a necro child John Zo rnujp, Wilmington, Del., became so incensed he shot both as they lay in and then killed himself. |HRett e Francis, an aged negress, | kihI to he 100 years old, was walking ^^^^^^Halong in WicklifTc, Rallard co.unty, HRH^ra[y., when one of her legs snapped I am* ^ow UP Hn<^ s^ruct her 'n the ?|||||i^^ back. When she discovered what had happened she picked up thelimo wBf and crawled home. The old lady for several years had been gradually W drying up. What is known as senile P gangrene set in and withered the " leg. Still she hobbled about on it, and when she started on the street she felt something give way. She \ explained that it felt as if someone had struck her in the back. The blow was accompanied by a popping sound, and when she found thai she could not support herself as before she stumbled and fell. She saw the portion of her leg, from a few inches below the knee lying near by and realised that her leg had broken oil". The injured member does not pain her. In fact, she declared that it "felt good." The case is possibly without parallel. Another case?a decided puzzle to physicians and surgeons?is that of one Bert A. Sterner, eight years old, who lived three years with a broken back, his death occurring only a few weeks ago at Pettsville, Pa. He was sitting on a fence when a baseball struck him and caused him to fall, several of the vertabrae beirg fractured. Again a strange story is reported from Tchliaminsk, Russia, which has caused a great deal of comment in medical circles. A trial was in pro greas ana a man was summoned as a witness who had been an invalid for twenty years. Because of some v' . strange notion he had placed himself in a coffin twenty years ago and has not been out of it since. He declared that he could not leave the coffin without bringing on a violent attack of vertigo, and his physician upheld him. The court, however refused to excuse him, and he was brought into the courtroom in his coffin and gave his testimony while lying in thegrowsome box. By a decision handed down by Supreme Court Justice Tompkins, White Plains, N. Y., Willett Springsteel, who is in Sing Sing prison for life, is declared legally dead and cannot share in the large estate left I by his brother, whom he murdered. Sprir.gsteel, while temporarily insane from drink, shot through a door and killed his brother in their home in Pleasantville. The murdered man left considerable property, and the life convict had a third interest in it. The declaration of "legally dead" was n>ade so that his sisters could inherit the entire estate equally between them. i mi unrrco auni; twu llurSCS ITOIIl Sheriff F. S. Carter's barn in Hammond, Ind., recently. They diove the team to Crown Point, the county 1 seat, and sold them to Liveryman U Philenus Williams for $200, in front of the Crown Point jail, where Shorts iff Carter lives with his family, and under whose very eyes the span of ho?*?#?s. valued at $500, was disposed of. The thieves went to the Panhandle depot and got out of town safePerhaps the queerest city in the I world is that of Nang Harm, the home of the royal family of Siam. | The city's peculiarity lies in the fact ? that it is composed of women and | children alone. It is the center of | Gangkok, has high walls around it, H and in its population of 9,000 there K is not a single man, though the king occasionally pays it a visit. There are shops, markets, temples, theaters, ? streets and avenues, parks, lakes, m trees and flower gardens; a hall of K justice, executioner, police, generals k and soldiers; all the positions, official E otherwise being tilled by women. K; The only man in all Siam who can enter this strange city is the king, ft Here is an eagle who defended her ? nest, bit a rope in two, and dropped Frank Scribner 600 feet down a cliff. WOKE TROUSERS. Girl I?ut on Trousers to Make Elopement. ^ At Pensecola, Fla., somewhat of a sensation was sprung Thursday when n man giving his name as W. H. Hill and a woman dressed in a man's clothing were arrested by the police . after they had boarded the steamer Tarpon for Mobile. The parties arrived in the city Sunday morning. They went direct to a hotel and did not appear again until late Thursday in the afternoon, when theystarted for the Tart?on wharf. On i their way there they passed a deputy sheriff, whc was attracted by the peculiar walk and appearance of the one who appeared to be a 17-year-old boy. The deputy immediately followed the couple, and when he secured an opportunity to look at the faces of I the strangers he saw that the one who he had thought was a hoy was without douht a woman. He returned to the city and reported the matter to the day Captain of police. An investigation was mmedlately commenced. resulting in the arrest of hoth the man and woman. The latter stoutly denied that she was a female, and claimed to be the son of Hill. She finally admitted her sex. and gave as nn excuse for being dressed in boy's clothing that she was afraid that the man who had raised her would learn that she had married Hill and would kill both of them if they were found. Hill claims he said he was going to Mobile to make that place his uome. He also claims to have married the girl, who he states was formerly a Miss Grady tetters, checks and notes entered in a pocket diary shows that he has traveled through Georgia. Alabama. Mississippi and Florida, evidently being engaged either in painting or naval stores business. Canceled cheeks, drawn on banks in Georgia, show that at one time he possesed considerable money. The couple is being held pending a futrher investigation at the hands of the police. The fact that a big trust can bo forced into court and fined for its misdoings shows that the seed sowed by Rryan in his campaigns for the Presidency is bearing fruit. Although wounded in a hundred places he was not killed. When found he was clutching a young eagle whjch he had taken from its nest, and which had tried to escape from him when he reached the bottom. Its companion had been killed by the fall, and on the ledge near the top tU..,.Kir *1 il l_:_j 1 J I w.l merlin niu muiiier uiru my ueau. It does not take a great stretch of imagination to infer that people at all times die from odd and ciueer causes. For instance, "I could die eating cucumbers!" was the expression of a woman named Mrs. Stark, of Denver. Colo., as she paid for a dozen cucumbers fresh from the garden of Mrs. Ella Brophy. The latter advised that the former had better not eat them; this advice was disregarded, and, later in the day, Mrs. Stark ate two of them and died. Her body was found by A. G Cox, for vhom she was housekeeper. She was sitting in a chair with a cucumber in her hand. He notified the coroner. Mrs. Stark was thirty-eight years old and married. Her husband is a gunner on the battleship Ohio. A most horrible form of death was reported from Brooklyn recently. John Boland, aged thirty years, was boiled to death at the plant of the Barber Asphalt company while mixing asphalt. Boland was on the "night shift" and about three hours after midnight his associates missed him. The first intimation that Boland's fellow workmen had that he had slipped into the vat was when some one saw his legs protruding from the hoilincr tar. With tho h?lr? r\f utinb-c and ropes his body was pulled out. Of course, naturally, it was impossible to prepare Roland's body for burial, for the suit of working clothes was completely covered with tar and inseparably attached to the boiled flesh. The hody? it is tated, had the appearance of an ebony statue, and showed signs of a terriilic dying struggle. When John Jordan, a St. Paul road engineer, was passing a restaurant at I^add, Mo., the proprietor came out to announce that a fish supper was ready, and beat on a gas drum to attract attention. The drum exploded with a report heard five miles away. Jordan was blown ten feet. One leg was nearly torn off, and will have to be amputated. The fronts of three store fronts were destroyed by the force of the explosion. The restaurant man escaped with slight injuries. Speaking about fish: Like Polycrates, a local magnate of the Vosges has recovered his property from the inside of a fish. He has not, however, thrown it away to propitiate the gods, and is quite content to have it back again. A fisherman on the lake of Garardmer caught a fine pike weighing thirty-two pounds. He sold it to the i chief hotel of the place. In the kitchen the fish being cleaned, was found to contain a small purse, in which was $35 in gold. The cook notified the hotel proprietor, who remembered the local magnate in question, who had been in the house only a week before, had accidentally dropped hisipurse while on the lake for a row. The property thus recovered i has been returned to the owner, who identified the purse. "Did you get the sassafras?" was Harvey Har{)er's first question when he met Horace Bond after a separation of forty-eight years. When Bond was twelve years old he was sent by his aunt from Prairie Rondo to Law-1 ton, both in Michigan, for some sassafras. Instead of returning at once I "he stayed with Harper a week, and then was afraid to go back. So he ran away after leaving Bond's, went to Georgia, and finally shipped on an ocean boat as a cabin boy. Since then the greater portion of his life has been spent on the water, but he has now returned. Both men served in the Union army in the Civil war, but neither knew of the other's whereabouts. 1 ' * Swicf 4* SOME FAKIRS Who Should Bo Locked Up for tho I Public Safety. Segro Preachers Who Claim to HhIw the Dead Create Excitement Among Colored People. The Anderson Mail sava for sowr. al weeks past a meeting has been in progress at West Union conducted by Jim Knox and Peter Majors, both colored, which has had a tendency to cause many negroes to act in a way that has been annoying to the citizens adjacent to the church. These leaders claim to belong to the sect regarded as "The Unknown Tongue." They jabber and chatter and holler and whoop and act in many other fool ways, and the judgment of some who have attended the meeting is that the whole push have gone crazy. They have gone so far in their teaching as to leave the impression upon the minds of these ignorant creatures that they can raise the dead to life, claiming that they have been ordered by the Lord to do so. Jim Knox gave out the announcement last week that on Wednesday night at nine o'clock he would by divine authority raise the body of Silas Wright from the grave, where it has lain for the past seven or eight years. Consequently much excitement and interests wae manifested by the negroes and long before the appointed hour a large number of those who have been attending the meeting, and also a few white people who were anxious to see what would be done, met at the grave yard, At nine o'clock, Jim Knox was at the grave of Silas Wright, where he began his maneuvres. He began by shaking two handkerchiefs over the grave, back and forth, then walked off a few steps, saying, "The Lord is not ready for him to rise yet." He then returned to the grave and admonished his rollov *rs never to doubt that he would accomplish his work. He then began tearing down the head and foot stones that had been placed there to mark the last resting place of Silas Wright, when Charlie Wright, brother of the dead man. appeared on the scene and put a stop to all the proceedings. Warrants have been issued for several of the negroes who were connected with the affair, and they will have to answer to Magistrate A. P. Crisp on a charge of destroying tomb stones in a grave yard. This proceeding closed the meeting and the citizens of West Union are now enjoying that peaceful slumber of which they have for several weeks been deprived. Nine of the negroes for whom warrants had been issued charging them with mutilating tomb stones were tried before Magistrate Crisp Thursday, but the prosecution failed to produce sufficient evidence to convict and the case against them dismissed. Mahaley Wright, wife of Silas Wright, the dead man who was to have oeen resurrected, testified that she placed the tombstones at the grave, tney were hers, and that she was in favor of what was done there. Blti MAIL KOlHtKKY. TIiht Registered Sitcks Stolen l<>oiu Fust Mail Train. (Three registered mall sucks, containing about u quarter of million dollars, dissapeared from the Burlington train between Denver ami Oxford. Neb., lust Sunday night, and the postofhce officials have just made the theft public. The train left Denver with seven sacks and but four remained when it reached Oxford. Detectives and postoffice officials are at work on the case. Superintendent J. M. Butler of the sixth division of railway mail clerks believes the robbery took place Just west of the Nebraska line. Both mail elerks were asleep while the train was passing over long stretches of track with few stations. Butler believes some one slipped into the mail car and threw three sacks out of the window. He has ascertained that the valuables were all in two of the sacks, one being empty. The sacks were destined for Chicago and were supposed to be placed on the Chicago train at Oxford, Neb. Postoffice officials have all been warned to be cautious about giving out information concerning the robbery. A Fit AID OF III SltA XI*. Woman Stole Money ami Was Afraid To Meet Him. Leaving a note saying (hat she would rather face death than meet her husband's wrath when he learned that she had misappropriated $?>00 which was in her keeping as treasurer of the Sunday school of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mrs. Andrew C.ootz left her home in West New York on Friday and has not been heard from since by her family. Most of the money in the woman's charge collected by the Sunday school children for a new church which the trustees planned to build. Mrs. ftoetz's husband is a shipping clerk, employed in New York. The couple have been married for 25 years. Cleveland, when President, had the same chance to bring the trusts to justice that Roosevelt has. but instead of doing so, he did all he could to build them up and allowed them to rob the public with impunity. In the course of time the United States Supreme Court will review the decision of Judge Landis, and the I public will be much surprised if it! shall reverse the finding of the jury that the Standard Oil company has violated tho Elkins law not once but, many times. : sggg "dead white man ] Honored by Negroes by the Erection of a Monument. To His Memory Because He Presented Them With the (around NonUsed as Cemetary. The monument erected in Lancaster county by colored people to a white man as heretofore published in The News and Courier, was formally unveiled Thursday with impres one ixicuiuiijr ttuu in tne presence 01 an immense crowd of both whites and blacks. This is probably the first recorded instance where negroes have thus paid tribute to the memory of one of the white race. The nearest approach to it in Lancaster county occurred some years ago, when Bishop Isom C. Clinton, now dead, erected a handsome monument at the grave of his former master, Mr. Irvin Clinton, who, in his day and time, was a leading member of the Lancaster Bar. The mounument unveiled Thursday was erected by the members of Mount Moriah Church, a colored Methodist church four miles west of Lancaster, in honor of the memory of the late James W. Williams, a prominent white farmer, who donated the land now used by them as a cemetery, which is located at or near the church building. The idea of thus honoring their white benefactor originated with one of their own number, Jarvis Cunningham, a respected colored citizen of that county, who has. by farming, accumulated con smeraoie property, The suggestion took well with Cunningham's fellow church members and all of them contributed liberally to the fund which was raised to carry out the plan. The monument, which stands on the cemetery lot, was made by Mr. A. P. McNich, proprietor of the Lancaster Marble Yard, and is what is known as Vermont blue marble. Though not as tall as such monuments usually are. being only G feet and eight inches in height, it is a highly creditable, handsome piece of work, and presents an imposing appearance. The principal inscription is on the side facing the east and is as follows: "On motion of .Jarvis Cunningham this momnnt was erected by the members of Mount Moriah Church in 11K>7 to the memory of Mr. .Jas. W. Williams in appreciation of the gift to the church by him and his family of this plat of land for a cemetery." "G. W. Mackey, C. T. B." The letters "C. T. B." stands for chairman trustee board. The inscription on the north side is. Born December V>7 1VC17 February 10, 1903. Peace to his ashes." On the south side:' 'Trustees; M. M. Young, Jim Brown, 1). Johnson. J. T. Thomas, D. McKinney, Adam Watts, deceased, John Wren, secretary; Joe Brown, treasurer. God lovcth a cheerful giver." On the west side: "Rev. Z. Belton. pastor." The unveiling exercises consisted principally hy an address appropriate to the occassion by Principal M. 1). Lee, of the Lancaster Normal and Industrial Institute, Bible read and prayer. Music was furnished by a brass band. Dr. A. J. Warner of Charlotte, was to have delivered an address, but was prevented from coming by a call in Boston, Mass. The veil that covered the monument was drawn aside by two small color ed girls. Mr. Williams, the man whose memory the colored people have signally honored, was one of Lancaster County's most prominent and influential citizens. He was a large and successful farmer and lived in the neighborhood of Mount Moriah Church. He was a gallant Confederate soldier. At the outbreak of the civil war, in the summer of 18(>1, he enlisted with the lancaster Grays and served with that company until December, when he was honorably discharged on account of bad health. Recuperating, in April, 18(12. he entered the service, joining the cavalry, Capt. J. C. Foster's company. Butler's brigade. He was on duty as a scout daring much of the war and was delegated to pilot Butler's forces through this country about the time of Sherman's raid. As a slave owner Mr. Williams was kind and humane, and after emancipation his treatment of the negro was ever characterized by fairness and justice. He is kindly remembered by all the colored people who knew him. Missouri's I'tiMic Lund. Missouri is the only state in the Union in which public land may be purchased outright without the formality of settlement and cultivation. Some of it can be purchased as low as $1.25 per acre, and it may as well be ctal nrl of 1 ?v* ^ -- A 1 m. uus nine inueii oi it pronably isn't worth any more than that. When you buy Missouri land from the government, it is a strict spot cash transaction, and there is no clause in the bill of sale which provides for the return of your money if not satisfied with the goods. However, there is a lot of this government land that is certainly worth the price asked for it; particularly that in the Ozark mountain region, where it is covered with fine timber. Some day this territory will be opened up by a railroad and then the claims will prove their worth. Missouri public land can also be obtained in the manner prevailing in other states, by settling upon the claims for a certain period and making the usual improvements. The Republicans of Ohio are having a monkey and parrot time. Senator Foraker accuses Secretary Taft of having the lockjaw on public questions, and calls upon the Secretary to declare himself. It is gradually dawning on the trusts that they will have to obey the law just as common folks have to do. NEARING THE END. Great Oil Trust Menaced by Internal Dissentions. RichcHt Man in (he World, Scents Trouble and Only Honors' l'ursuas Hion Kwiw Him in tlie Line. Is the Standard Oil company, the peek of all monopolistic corporations, and the world's greatest example of consentrated wealth,, threatened with internal disruption? Rumors that will not down have been sneaking around New York city's financial center, whispering that as far back as six monts ago, John D. Rockefeller, the head of the great combine, the man whose keen intuition has made him the greatest man in the world in point of wealth, saw signs of the impending storm, and wanted to sell his Standard Oil holdings, and retire bag and baggage. A few weeks later, these same rumors have it, James Stillman, the president of the National City bank, of New York, the bank of the Standard Oil company, therefore the richest in the world, also desired to quit the company. With the decisions of these two men threatening the great trust with disruotion, nothing but the iron will and personal pleadings of Henry H. Rogers, vice president, and the actual head of tne company, kept the two dissatisfied men in line. Rockefeller, who possesses the gift of foresight to a degree almost uncanny, saw last winter that the dav of -c Pi 1-- i me uuwiii.au ui outnuara v/n was at hand. The law, which for .'{5 years had lain dormant while the Oil trust made ridiculous the Federal and State statutes enacted to control the giant concern, had at last turned on the corporation, and with all the more vigor because of its long rest The man who did the main part of the planning which resulted in the perfection of this money making machine, which for years piled up in comprehensible fortunes, had a vision of the strenous times ahead for his great industrial pet and wanted to quit cold, and, but for the pleadings of Rogers, he would have done so. Meanwhile Rogers, who has active charge of the defense being made against the attack of the Federal government, having succeeded in getting the ruling of Judge Landis in regard to the $29,000,000 fine carried to the Supreme court of the United States, is busy repairing the damage done by the latest shafts of Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations. Smith, after showing how the prices of oil vary in different parts of this country, purely at the will of the men who control the necessary commodity, and without reference to cost of production, freight charges, etc., makes the astounding assertion that the Oil trust can convey crude oil and its products to Europe in their own steamships and still sell it cheaper than it is sold in America. "Instead of making its price list lower than that of independent com panies as its monopoly enabled it to do," declares Smith, "thus retaining a great proportion of the business by fair and legitimate means, the Standard is an example of precisely the opposite. It is a combination which maintains a substantial monopoly, not by superiority of service and by charging reasonable prices, but by manifestly unfair methods of destroying competition; a combination which then Uses the power unfairly gained to oppress the public and enrich itself by wholly extortionate prices. "It has raised prices instead of lowering them at the very time when the trust, by reason of its position and advantages, could produce a great deal cheaper than independent concerns. But instead of this it charges more than smaller concerns would have done if the Standard would have allowed them the chance." Save I he Negroes. A colored man by the name of Raymond Jackson is detained at the police station in Columbia to await the result of an investigation into the death of a negro woman. The prisoner was committed by the coroner, who thinks he has discovered a criminal of most dangerous possibilities. Jackson, it is suspected, has been doing a flourishing business, buying cocaine in wholesale quantities and selling it at retail to the hundieds of negro cocaine fiends in Columbia. The Record says "there is nothing in the conditions of life among the | poor colored people of the city which so fosters and develops criminal tendencies as the cocaine habit. If the general public had the knowledge which the police possess regarding the prevalence of this habit, all good citizens would stand aghast. There is a stringent statute regulating the sale of the drug, but violators are shielded by their customers and detection is very difficult. If a case can be made out against Jackson. his punishment will be severe. What is true of Columbia is true of the balance of the State. The drug and cocaine habit is indulged in by a large number of the negroes all over the south, if the reports made by the census bureau is correct. The negroes, not knowing the danger attending the use of these drugs, fall easy victims to the habit of taking them to excess. It is said that they learn the habit at first by taking so-called medicine that is sold by fakirs, and which contains large quantities of morphine or other narcotics. Any one caught selling this helli: h stuff to negroes should be severely punished. He is not much better than a murderer and should be punished accordingly. Thk big corporations and the Republican party thoroughly understand one anofher. The courts will fine trusts, a* in the ea?-p nf the Standard Oil Company, but the finn< will rever be paid. T.iia io on'> a new dodge on the part of the Republican I arty to fool the people. JAPAN'S KOREAN POLICY Miij lie a Serious lllow to South'* Cotton Trade. The government of Japan Is going to close the open door In the Far East; intends to monopolize the trade of Korea and is operating directly agaiust the cotton and cotton goods trade of the United States. Such is a summary of the statements made at Atlanta last week by Prnf II U II ..11?? 1 the country as the "Yankee School Master," and who hus for a number of yeurs been located in Korea, und who is acknowledged to be an authority on Korean affairs. Prof. Hulbert was in consultation with Harvey Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton Growers" Association, relative to the situation in the Far East, and made the statement that the execution of the Japanese plans in Korea will be a terrific blow to the trade from the southern section of the United States. Prof. Hulbert is the editor of the "Korean Review," largely quoted in this country, and elsewhere, as a mirror of the true situation in that country. He goes to Birmingham and from there to New Orleans. In each place he will confer with the more prominent cotton interests relative to the Korean situation. Oldest Town In America. Taos, the ancient Indian villcge of New Mexico, is probably the oddest town in America. There are two great pyramid houses, one five and the other seven stories high, occupied by the entire tribe, numbering about 400 persons. These buildings are considered the most perfect examples of early Indian architecture i in existence, for. while the.v were build considerable more than 500 years ago, and have been continuously occupied, there is not the slightest sign of decay. Indeed, they are in a state of perfect preservation. The Indians who have lived in this quaint village for so many generations are simple, quiet and peaceable. Thejr are mostly tillers of the soil. 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David Livingstone, the first white man who crossed the Manyemaa country of Africa, was reluctant to believe that cannibalism was not in some way associated with superstitious rites. Hut when he saw the eagerness with which the natives devoured their fhvorite food he changed his mind and wrote that "the Congo man simply prefers human ilesh to any other |kind of meat." Another tribe is said to have stated. "It is good to eat I meat that talked." Africa shows the | Darwinian theory of survival of the litest in its most pitiable application. The siik, crippled, aged, men and women alike, are killed and eaten in the cannibalistic tribes. The flesh of prisoners of war or men killed in battle is preferred above all others. Strangely enough all explorers report, that the man-eating tribes are superior. mentally and physically, to the nun cannibals. In the Ratigala country not only are the bodies of those slain in battle eaten, but the natives hahitally kill men for food. And about this there is much curious system, such as inclines students of anthropology to suspect some hidden origin. 'I'llus the prisoner is not killed outright, but is placed chin deep in a pool of water with his head made fast to a log lest lie drown. Tin* victim's limits, by I lie way, have been broken three days previously. On the third day the poor creature is taken out mm kiiiou This procedure. tin* tierce Hnngala says, makes the llesh more tender. Capt. S. Ij. Hinde, returning: home from Stanley Falls on the Congo. had personal experience of those | e >plo On the down river trip to Itoina six of the Hangala crew were put in irons charged with having eaten two of their companions. The aroused were magniflcient savages, over six feet high and superbly proportioned. Two of the crew, it seemed, had fallen ill on the voyage up and were allowed hv the captain to take a few days rest. lint when next rations were served they were missing. 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