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WOULD IT HAD BEEN MINE EXEMY."
life
.Would it have been mine enemy
Who came a secret way?
(Oh, but the door that waits a friend
Swings open to the day.
There stood no warder at my gate
To bid Love stand and stay.)
Would it have been mine enemy
In open tight and great?
t'Gainst the beloved who goes armed
In strength inviolate
Or dreads lest in his hands he bears
The craven blade of llate?)
Would it have been mine enemy
Who mocked to see me low?
(Better all anger than this thought
Love left to sear me so.
rtv.- \Txt Vioej-rt u*ac r>nL-firl 1 r% l?ic qnsi
&? His hand who gave the Mow.)
?Theodosia Garrison, in The Century.
BX MMflAIOSSR/N^
I * The Feud
7 i iiv i wuu 7 by grace
2 of the s k*ett
? Scoured Pan
About two months before the cherry-tree
limb broke riewn. Airs. Wat^
son leaned over the Reads' fence with
- a neighborly smile on her face.
?v, - "Have some passnips, Mis' Read?
x Those down at the grocery are just
j&v dried-up sticks beside these. Jim
||Sv complains a good deal that we
C haven't 'got a plot to raise gardenp-'
sass, but he always declares that raise
a few passnips he must and will.
'These have had frost enough to get
: the good taste into "em."
Mrs. Read turned slowly from the
|? shining window, which she had just
finished washing, and came to the
fence.
t- ' "We've never been overly fond of
parsnips," she replied, with an extra
careful "r," "but perhaps that is be yr
cause ours came out of the grocery."
jjk'' She took the rusty, dirt-encrusted
0:: pan which Mrs. Watson held out with
a jovial smile and the remark, "Don't
bother to wash that old pan. It's
* been my garden pan for years."
As Mrs. Read disappeared into the
house, Mrs. Watson strolled back to
her parsnip-bed, and looking down at
4: the tiny feathery shoots, addressed
Pf? Ao them her opinion of her neighbor:
I"' / ' She's stiff an' nowise neighborly,
j-i-. to. my thinkin', but I mean to keep
on. They've bought the house, and
she's got a siokly husband and a
1!^-cross baby, so I guess she needs some
pleasant words, if she don't give any
pyi Vk<\ n '
? . > J*fwA agaiu.
ip- V no one who saw Mrs. Read's
|v kitchen would have judged that its
0 mistress had the care of any invalid
|p. to divert her from household duties,
pt: The floor, in the old New England
phrase, "was fit for the (jueen to eat
p off' of," while shining range, gleamty:
ing faucets and snowy sink all spoke
I?- of painstaking labor. Into this realm
Ip; of soap was carried, rather unwillingSfcr
3y, it must be confessed, Mrs. Watp'
. son's dirty parsnip pan. There was
absolutely no place to put it, so hold? :
ing her apron shelteringly beneath it,
Mrs. Read went to the sitting-room
pp. <or a newspaper, and returning,
ci v spread it over her snow-white table,
p;.' and then was at liberty to lay her
||i| burden down.
"Humph J Such dirty folks do beat
m Before I'd offer anybody a pan
V-: like that I'd sit up nights to scrub it!
There must be a quart of dirt on
those parsnips, too." She rubbed and
scrubbed them with a serious vigor
j^that soon made a row of sis shining
0: ' .white vegetables, fit for a county fair,
iSppM* the table.- ,
$ But there were other worlds to j
p conquer! Did anything ever look so
P out of place in a spotless kitchen as
that woful old pan? Mrs. Read stared
if .at it doubtfully, then set her lips
I.; / and crossed the Rubicon. Lye, sand
>. soap, bristol brick, hard soap, soft
^ soap, hot water in floods?how the
fcP elements raged in that little kitchen!
-A; At the end of an hour Mrs. Read
drew a long breath.
b|''{.I- "Now I call that a pan! It was
f|': brighter, maybe, when it was just out
|v ' of the store, but it's" a very respect?? *
able pan."
Toward evening she rapped at Mrs.
L .Watson's back door, but getting no
reply, came away, leaving the pan on
the porch, thus giving her neighbor
almost a battle challenge,
g'-'. What's that?" exclaimed Mrs.
A Watson, dramatically, the next morn[fy
* ing, as she stepped out for her milk]
bottle.
;.f "Is that my pan? And she couldn't
even hand it to me like a Christian,
but had to tiptoe over and sneak it
onto my back porch!" Here she was
wronging Mrs. Read, who had really
^ * tapped at the back door, but no
knowledge of this came to calm the
angry woman.
"So she thought it was her bounden
duty to clean up after me, did she?
And all those good passnips wasted
on her, too! Hope they'll choke her!
Now maybe like as not she thought
A they were too dirty for her. If she's
S dared to dump 'em in her garbagebox
I'll complain to the police; and
I'm going straight to the alley this
minute to see!"
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Luckily that last straw was not
added to Mrs. Watson's wrath, but
all the forenoon her indignation was
seething and bubbling, until the time
when Mrs. Read stepped from her
back door with a pan of potato peelings.
Once again a hand holding a
pan was thrust over the fence at her,
' but this time no cheery smile nor
friendly word accompanied it.
"I think you'd just better have pan
as well as passnips, since you've been
to such pains in cleanin' it. When
folks as good as tell me I'm a heathen
to my face, I'm done with them, so
there now!"
The pan fell on the Read side of
the fence with a clang, but Mrs. Read
had no reply to make for a moment.
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Ker conscience did suggest an apology;
but no. the disciple of cleanliness
must stick ?to her colors. She
came forward stiffly.
"I do not need your pan any more
than I needed your parsnips, and I
do not care to hear such language."
She marched straight to the pan.
tossed it over the fence, then went
directly into the house, apparently
unmindful that before the door was
hardly closed the pan again sailed
into her yard.
Then a pan farce certainly began.
There were no more words between
these two; but if no words went back
and forth, the unlucky pan took
flights enough. Mrs. Read would go
out with her ashes, and, spying the
pan, would send it on a hasty journey.
Mrs. Watson would come out
to weed the famous parsnip-bed, and
how the pan would spin back again!
Happily there were no children to
take up^he feud and throw the pan.
The "cross baby" spent its time mostly
in the house or on a sheltered
porch away from the Watson side.
The two husbands nodded good day
to each other as usual; in fact, Mr.
Watson, at least, found a joke in the
traveled pan.
Slowly a hot June sun climbed
higher one morning. Both husbands
were at work, the Read baby was
aslec?, and both yards were in a state
of neutrality, although the pan was
on the Watson side. On^ lone cherrytree
grew in the Read yard, and to
this Mrs. Read, with step-ladder and
pail, now made her way, visions of
preserves floating in her head. Up
she climbed to the very top of the
ladder, and picked till her head was
dizzy in the hot spring sun. There
nroro otill finer / ? Vi vrn oc S n of a here
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[ her, and with a good deal of hesitaj
tion she reached higher, found a limb
for her foot to rest on, and left the
friendly step-ladder entirely behind.
Now Mrs. Read was stout, and
cherry limbs are brittle. There was
not a moment of warning when
crash! crash with one sljrill scream
Mrs. Read was landed, cherries and
all, upon the ground in a dismal
heap.
Mrs. Watson, who was cleaning
house, heard the scream through her
opened windows, and rushed to the
scene. Out of her gate and in at
her neighbor's was the journey of a
moment.
Then a capable hand was removing
the overturned step-ladder, brushing
away the crushed cherries, and helping
the dazed woman to her feet.
'Well, now, I do call you lucky!
Not a bone broke, is there? But I
guess you're shook up some. Nowlet
me help you in onto the lounge,
and you just rest a spell. Awful uncertain
work to climb into cherrytrees."
"You're real good," murmured
Mrs. Read, as Mrs. Watson steadied
V?/~?r? t4*olririor fnvm intn iVio ViAnco
u^i ouaniug i.vi uu aaawv iuv uvu^v.
The blow must have affected her
head a little, for she sank into a
sound sleep, to be roused by the baby
some hours later. When she went
into the kitchen the first thing that
met her eyes was the pan?battered
from its many blows, but still able
to b8 piled full of cherries.
Beside it was a paper, on which
Mrs. Watson had scribbled:
"I've washed the pan and washed
the cherries. I hope you won't be
lame."
Mrs. Read stood and looked at the
pan and cherries and message for
some minutes. Then in her slow way
she repeated the words of the morning:
"She's a real good woman!"
The great pan feud was ended.? j
Youth's Companion.
Great Future For Agriculture.'
It cannot be said that there is anything
pessimistic about Secretary
Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture,
for he assuredly is an optimiet
rwf tlio fireh water if WP arP to
take his forthcoming report as reflecting
his real opinions. He says
that had we cultivated our farms on
a more scientific basis, we would have
raised crops far in excess of the demands.
He then predicts that as the
demand increases the American
farmer will be adequate thereto by
more scientific farming. Here is a
specimen of his optimism. He says:
"No miracle would be required to
double or even treble the production
of cotton per acre. The corn crop
can be increased by one-half per acre
within the fourth of a century, and
yet without reaching the limit, and
the same may be said of wheat and
other crops. One-fourth of the dairy
cows of the country do not pay for
their feed, and more than one-half of
them pay no profit. The egg production
per hen will be increased by at
least a dozen a year within a generation,
while some poultrymen foretell
double that increase. If the hens of
this year had each laid a dfczen eggs
more than they did, the increased
value of this production would have
possibly aggregated $50,000,000."
TV>^ CnnpQfow fnl 1 ATL'C thi<! with Sfimp
i. W&V/i VOU4 J ?f N/ VM.w ..
very pertinent suggestions, saying:
"The farmer will not fail the nation
if the nation does not fail the farmer.
He needs education to open the powers
of the soil now hidden from him.
The work of the department has already
had results valued at hundreds
of millions of dollars annually, and
yet has barely Classed the threshold
of its mission of discovery and education."?American
Cultivator.
Where Giant Cabbages Grow.
The soil of Cuba is very fruitful.
Cabbages grow so large that heads
weighing twenty pounds each are
common. All vegetables do well.
Radishes are ready for the table
within from fourteen to eighteen days
after sowing, lettuce in five weeks
after sowing, while corn produces
three crops each year
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CHIEF WILLIE SI
Said to be the only son of the great ?
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EARLY SCHOOLS IX IRELAND.
Many of Them Flourished a Thousand.
Years Ago.
Quite small children were sent to
school in ancient Ireland, and, writes
Jane Barlow in Youth's Companion, ,
like children of to-day, began their ;
studies with the alphabet. The letters
were sometimes stamped on '
bread or cakes, which the youthful ^
scholars might eat when their lesson 1
was learned?a son 01 Kiiiuergai ten ^
device.
The chief school-founding period
in Ireland was in the seventh century.
We learn from the chronicles ;
Early Christian School in Ireland.
of the Venerable Bede that about the '
middle of it great crowds of AngloSaxons,
among them Egbert and
Saint Chad, came over to" Ireland, 1
and were kindly welcomed by the 1
Irish, who provided them gratuitously
with "food, books and teachers." |*
During the same century two for- *
elgn kings were educated in Ireland 1
?Dagobert II. of France and Aldfrid *
of Northumbria, who has left an 1
Irish poem in praise of the country, t
Irish geometers, geographers and astronomers
were then fa. in advance 1
of their age, and the si dy of Greek,
whinh had all but died out in the }
countries farther east, was common
in Ireland. "At one time," says M. ?
Darmesteter, "Armagh, the religious '
capital of Christian Ireland, was the
metropolis of civilization." <
The earliest of celebrated Irish 2
schools was founded more than 1400 t
years ago by Saint Enda, the son of {
a King of Oriel, on the wild, rocky ;
island of Aran More, off the coast of j
Galway, whither "fleetsful" of schol- ]
ars came from all quarters. 1
Other schools as famous and nearly- i
as ancient were Clonard, close to the ;
River Boyne, and Clonfert on the 1
Shannon; but greater than either of ]
them was Clonmacnoise, founded by 1
Saint Ciaran beside a wide curve in ;
the Shannon not far from Athlone, i
almost in the centre of Ireland. . i
Although many beautirui worKs 1
still bear witness to Irish achieve- <
ments in art and letters, testimony <
ever stronger to the nation's constant
love for such things abides in the <
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TTING BULL.
Sitting Bull, now dead, and future
Sioux Nation.
fact that it never was quenched by
all the water of affliction through
which it passed. Wars, massacres,
pestilence and famine swept in wide
waves over the land.
A time came, and lasted for generation
after generation, when it was
a felony for the greater part of the
people either to teach or to be taught,
or even to own a book or a manuscript;
a time when children might
3e seen furtively learning their alphabet
from letters chalked on their
father's tombstone. .
Yet in the worst days schools continued
to exist, however secretly and
perilously, and a scholar was always
m object of respect and admiration.
This Little Pig Stayed at Home.
It was formerly the custom of the
:ountrv folk to work out their taxes
>y boarding the teacher, which meant
hat from time to time1 he was supplied
from various quarters with
tood.
One day a boy named Tim Moorelead
breathlessly sought the teacher,
exclaiming:
"Say, teacher, my pa wants to
enow if you like pork."
"Indeed I do, Tim," was the reply.
'Say to your father that there is
aothing in the way of meat that I
ike better than pork."
Some time passed, and-there was
10 pork from Tim's father, a fact that
n no way surprised the teacher, for
he old man was known throughout
;he county as a tight proposition.
Nevertheless, one afternoon the
eacher took the boy aside and asked:
"How about that pork, Tim, that
fTour father promised me?"
"Oh," answered Tim, "the pig got
veil."?Harper's Weekly.
riie Passing of Courtroom Oratory.
Inspiration is a lost art in the
jourtroom. Nowadays no true lawyer
advises, prepares documents or
;ries & case without a careful prepar-Al??
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iway. No longer does the crowd
gather in the county courthouse to
listen to and be moved -by the wit,
aathos and eloquence of the advocate
is for hours or days he addresses the
jury. The courtroom may be filled,
Dut It Is largely with the ubiquitous
reporters, many of whom are as destitute
of tears as Sahara of water and
is callous to emotion as the mummied
sleepers of Egypt. No longer
is it true that weeping men and
ivomen with handkerchiefs to their
eyes are moved by the eloquence of
counsel. Time is a pressing factor.
Facts rather than eloquence is the
demand.?D. C. Brewer, in Atlantic.
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ienny, lidy."?Tatier.
jPalmetto Stale News
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New South Carotin? Postmaster*.
President Roosevelt has sent to the
senate ihe following nominations of
South Carolina postmasters: A. D.
Webster, Orangeburg; Susan E. Morten,
Put; West; L. Padgett, Pel/.er.
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Poctofficc Robbed.
The postoffice at Taylors, eight
miles l'rom Greenville-, has been robI
ed r,nv.KidArah]f> monf-v and srnmnS
were taken. The office was in Freeman's
store, which was a'so burglarized.
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Hospital for Animals Projected.
Dr. Devereux Turner of Greenville
will within the next lew weeks, establish
a hospital for animals of all
kinds at Greenville. The infirmary
will be equipped with all the latest
appliances known to science for tne
ti eat merit 01 uumb creatures.
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Mud Saved His Life.
James Lester, a machinist of Columbia,
fell 50 feet from the Columbia,
Xewbeiry and Laurens railroad trestle
into the Columbia canal and stuck
in the mud ten feet below the surface
of the water. He pulled loose
and swam ashore and seems none
the worse for the episode.
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Dispensary Buildings "For Rent."
The sign of "To Rent" is displayed
in the Charleston office formerly
occupied by the state dispensary
constables. The liquor officers have
left the city for th^ir homes. The city
is without a local beer supply. County
dispensaries will be operated in a
short time by the local board.
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Witteklnd Sails With Cotton.
The Witlekind immigrant ship sailed
from Charleston for Baltimore,
with 3.000 bales of cotton. It is probable
that the committee of the re
cently organized South Carolina Immigration
Association, ex-Governor
Hey ward, Commissioner Watson and
P. H. Gadsden of Charleston, will saii
on the Wittekind when she leaves Baltimore
for Bremen.
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Woman Jumps Into Well.
' Mrs. Bessie Thomas, tged 33 years,
committed suicide at Spartanburg by
jumping into a wel! in her back yard.
She left her room during the night
and going to the well removed part
of' her cloihing and lifting the box
from the top of the well, jumped in.
Her body was found head downward
in the well next morning.'Ill health
is supposed to have caused her to
end her life.
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Plea of Guilty by Zimmerman.
Daniei H. Zimmerman, aged 70,
pleaded guilty in court at Columbia
to a charge of conspiracy to defraud
Ua nrtth T T Hrihson. ail
lUtJ SlttLC. 11C, ,
other elderly man, was accused of
having purloined $12,500 in bonds
from the state treasury, where Zimmerman
was bond clerk for ten years,
and the abstraction of bonds was not
discovered until he had been out of
office for several years. Gibson is
said to have negotiated the sale of
the bonds. He will b^ tried later. Zimmerman
is well connected* ana . the
case caused a sensation.
It is believed that Zimmerman's
plea was for the purpose of taking
the case to .the supreme court on a
technicality. Sentence was suspended
until Gibson's case is disposed of.
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Immigration Association Organized.
At a meeting in Columbia the past
week the South Carolina branch of
the Southern Industrial and Immigration
Association was organized with
R. R. Honier, Jr., of Marion, the largest
farmer in the state, as president.
The cotton mills, oil mills, fertilizer
mills and the banks of the state were
well represented at the meeting, as
well as the farming industry.
Captain Bardeleden, captain of the
immigrant ship Wittekind, which was
then in Charleston harbor, was present,
and addressed the meeting. It
was decided to send ex-Governor
Heyward, Commissioner of Immigration
Watson and Mr. P. H. Gadsden
Hromon as a com
Ot V.'il(trieBlUU iu ^
mittee to induce the North German
Lloyd to make the steamship line between
Bremen and Charleston perma,
nent. It is planned to bring immigrants
for all the southern states
through Charleston, which.has recently
been made an immigration station
by act oi congress.
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Shortage is Alleged.
* Investigation by experts, which has
been going on for several weeks in
Charleston, now show that the late
William Jacobs, who was secretary
and treasurer of eleven building and
..loan companies, was short in his accounts
about $40,090. It is claimed
*>yi interested parties that $30,000 oi
this, amount wasrused by Jacobs in
winding up companies that were not
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ready to dose and that $10,000 represents
all that he had evidently used
for his own purposes. The companies
are going into liquidation, and it is y
claimed also by interested attorneys
that stockholders will not iose very
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much. Jacobs was undei $56,000 bond.
and an effort may be made to get the
losses from this source. The dead secretary
was regarded as a man o? J ^
great ability and thoroughly reliable- r ' frj
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Score of Negroes Drowned.
Owing to inaccessibility of the- lA :
plaqp where the steamer Marion was
burned last Friday morning?Hart's v.
Landing, on Wadmalaw river, about ->i
40 miles from Charleston?informa
tion has been hard to get. Monday the *y
report of Captain Ferguson was filed :
with government inspectors. It is now *.'
known that twenty negro passengers a
were drowned or burned to death, and ' ' v=
a dozen or more are missing. J"hero ; v
were seven white passengers and ::5
about fifty negroes.
The great loss of life seems to have ,
been on account of the negroes be- "vj||
coming terror-stricken and neglecting
to get life-preservers, of*which there ;
v.ere 350 on board.
The Marion was licensed to cany
200 passengers, and cost $20,000. Only
$5:000 insurance was carried. The
value c\f the cargo, -which consisted.
of general merchandise, was estimat- :
ed at $5,000.
80UTH'S OLDEST CITIZEN DEAD. , ^
Frederic Messer, Noted Hunter, Gone
at Age of 114 Years.
Frederic Messer, the south's old- .;J$f
est citizen, famous as a hunter and / :v*|
trapper before civilization blazed jx ^ /*ll
trail across the Blue Ridge mountains,
is dead at his home in Hay
wood county, North Carolina, at the.
age of 114 years, six months and five
Me3ser was born August 12, 1732,
in Lincoln county, and in early litey r|?8
when western Carolina was an' unex- J-ssH
plored wilderness, peopled by the vM
Cherokees, he located in the xnouatains
21 miles from what is now
Waynesville, the ,CQunty seat of Hay- ;
v ood county, there pursuing his wild fjWm
vocation ot hunting and trapping. He
married a lady of Wilmington, who ';3
bore him nine children and lived tothe
age cf 84. But one child, now - :f~J|
a woman 90 years old, survives him.
His age is established by authentic
records.
He used tobacco and the corn whiskey
of the mountains, in moderation, .jppgl
ail his life, and Attributed his giedt
longevity to his regular sleeping and ^
waking hours, most of which were .
spent out of doors.
NEWSPAPER IS BANKRUPT.
Atlanta News Shows Liabilities of
*74.797.22 and Assets S63.281.39. 'SJmk
The Atlanta News Publishing Co. ; |
was formally adjudged a bankrupt 'aM
Monday by the clerk- of the United
States court A petition to have the
News company placed in bankruptcy
was filed January 31st by the Lookout
Mountain Coal Co., James W.
English, Jr., John L. Hopkins & Son
and the Southern Engraving Co., but
not until Tuesday wis any find! action
on the petition taken.
At the time the petition was filed ^
Js K. Ottley was appointed receiver,
and he recently presented a report
in which it was stated that the. liafcilities
of the News company amount
to $74,797.23, and its assets to $'53,281.33.
ELEGANT SILVER SERVICE.
For Battleship Georgia Assured at
Meeting of Mayors. ' ' < ^
Of the $10,000 necessary for the sflver
service for the battleship Geof-'
gia $7,515 Vas guaranteed at the
meeting of Georgia mayors held m ' Governor
Terrell's office at Atlantaif |
on Monday. *
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THIS insures a sei VIVC ui nutut u?v .
officers and men of one of the newest M
and most formidable vessels in# the
United States navy may well be %y|j
proud.
That the state will raise the remaining
money necessary in a voryfew
days is assured.
LUMBERMEN IN CONFERENCE. M
After Brief Session at Jacksonville,. v
Adjourns to Meet at Tifton."
The Georgia-Florida Lumbermen'a
Association met in Jacksonville Mobday
morning, transacted routine busi- .
liess, and adjourned to meet in 1 ifton,
Ga., March 12. They accepted an ;
invitation to hold the June meeting. ':;'M
ir. Fernandina, Fla. ) . .
Only a short session was held, at -r
which a closer union of the assoeiations
was discussed. - v^Js
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HARRIMAN ON THE RACK. p|
Great Railroad Magnate Before Inter-. state
Commerce Commission.
At New York, Monday, E. H. Hai>.
riman, master of the Union Pacific.
snpnt the dav in a recital of ^
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portions of the intimate histoid* of "
the financial operations of himself
and his associates before the inter- .
state commerce commission, which, in.
behalf of the United States govern-1 '
ment, is investigating the consolida-.^|?S
tions and combinations of carriers. 33