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i >N THE TOWN OF UNION "ITT ~M T* r ~BT ~f If I 1 OUTSIDE OF THE CITY
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VOL. LIU. NO. 7. . UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY R!. lOOI!. #1.00 A YEAR.
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Dream of The Roads.
written for tub union times.
Farmer Hayseed had a dream
Which landed him in bed,.
So lealistic did it 6eem
The wonder is, he isn't dead.
He thought he must go to Unionville
To see Del'ass about a bill?
... Ilia taxes he wished to pay
! Call on ftieuds and "pass the day."
B bo, for a i>air of shoes?
Mathia, for ihe latest, news?
ltice, the great wonder inan-?<
And the genial, big MoDati.
For other things he must not tarry?
Just call 011 hustling It. P. Ilairy.
T. E. Bailey for his furniture
Thus his pleasure to insure.
He tiiid to lidc, ho tried to walk,
Tlie mud was dttp?his horse would
v.. It..
UMIM ,
Be tried lo swim, lie tritd to 11 >at,
?' " Be tried on "stilus" and in a ouat.
He tiied to turniel, he tried to lly,
lie tried to pray, but could only cry;
At lafct, exhausted, he gave it up,
Reaching his homo too late to sup.
Now he's tick, the effect of his dreaming,
Suppose it real i istea 1 of the saeaiing,
Count the worry and eouut the cost?
Would a road tax be greater ihau the
sum that is lost?
Union, S. C. ?B. K. D.
FAMOUS CHILD LABOR BILL.
Passed its Third Reading 58 to 44
In the House Saturday and
x Ordered Ratified.
FULL TEXT OF THE BILL.
Senator Marshall's child labor bill
was ordered to its third reading
without a yea and nay vote, and was
passed by the House by 14 majority
?58 to 44?without a change of a
word or amendment. The bill as
. ready for ratification reads:
Section 1. That from and after
the first day of May, 1903, no child
under the age of 10 years shall be
employed in any factory, mine or
textile manufacturing establishment
of this State; and that from and
after the firat day of May, 1904, no
child under the ago of 11 shall be
employed in any factory, mine or
textile establishment of this State;
F fWP ?nfl after the -first day of
May,'' 1906, no child under the age
of 12 years shall be employed in anv
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factory, mine or textile establishment
of this State, except as herein\
after provided.
Section 2., That from and after
May 1, 1903, no child under the age
of 12 years shall be permitted to
work between the hours of 8 o'clock
p. m. and 6 o'clock in the morning
in any factory, mine or textile manufactory
of this State: Provided, that
children under the age of 12, whose
employment is permissible under the
provisions of this Act, may be permitted
to work after the hour of 8 p.
m.. in order to make up lost time
which has occurred from some temporary
shut down of the mill on account
of accident or break down in
the machinery, which has caused loss
of time: Peovided, however, that
under no circumstances shall a child
below tho age of 12 work later than
the hour of 9 p. in.
Section 3. , That children of a
widowed mother and the children of
i a totally disabled father, who are
dependent upon their labor for their
i support, and oipban children, who
are dependent upon their own labjr
for their support, may bo permitted
to work in tex'ilo establishments of
this State for the purposes of earning
their support: Provided, that in
tho case of a child or children of a wid
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iintu uiuwici ui Ul a ll t llljf UIMilUK'U
father, tlfe said mother or the said
father, ana in the case of orphan children,
the guardian of said children, or
person standing in loco parentis of
said child or children, shall furnish to
any of the persons named in Section
4 of this Act an affidavit duly sworn
to by him or her, beforo some magistrate
or clerk of court of the county
in which he or she resides, stating
that he or she is unable to support
the said children, and that the said
children are dependent upon their
own labor for their support, then,
and in that case,*, the said child or
children of said widowed mother un<V
the said disabled father and- said
Oiphan children shail not be affected
hy the prohibitions in Section 1 of
i .this Act, ond filing of said affidavit
e shall be full justification for their
employment: Provided, further, that
the employment rf said child or children
shall be subject to the hours of
labor herein limited.
Scotion 4, That any owner, su?
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porintcndent, manager or overseer of
any factory, mine or textile manufacturing
establishment, or any other
person in chaise thereof, or connected
therewith, who shall knowingly
employ any child contrary to the
provisions of this Act, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and for every such
offence shall, upon conviction thereof,
be fined not less than ten dollars,
nor raoro than fifty dollars, or 1)b imprisoned
not longer than thirty days
at the discretion of tho court.
Section 5. That any parent,
guardian or other person having under
his or her control any child who
consents, suffers or permits the employment
of his or her child or ward,
under the ages as above provided, or
who knowingly or wilfully misrepre
aL. / 1 a -a a
puuuj mo age ui men cmia or war*!,
to any of the persons named in section
4 of this Act,-in order to obtain
employment for such chill or ward,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and for every such offence
shall, upon conviction thereof, be
fiued not less than ten dollars, nor
more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned
not longer than thirty days,
in the discretion of the court.
Soction G. That any parent, guardian
or person standing in loco parentis,
who shall furnisn to the persons
named in Section 4 of this Act
a certificate that their child or ward
has attended school for not less than
four mouths during the current school
year, and that said child or children
can road and write, may be permitted
to obtain emp'oyment for such child
or children in any oif the textile establishments
of this State during the
months of Juue, July and August,
and the employment Of such child or
children during said'-ilftnths, upon
the proper certificate-.that each child
or children have attended . school as
aforesaid, shall not be lft3||0djct
with the provisions of tjiis Act.
Section. 7. That iti the end]
ment of any child under the age of
twelve years in any factory, mine or
textile manufacturing establish ment,
the owner or superintendent of such,
faetory, mine or textile manufacturing
eMtudish men^^all tf^uire of the*
parent, guardfiTn or penuon standing
in loco parenvfe of sucjx^bild, an affidavit
giving the ago of such child
which affidavit shall bo placed on
file in the office of the employer, and
any person knowingly furnishing a
false statement of tho age of such
child shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
and for every such offense, shall,
upon conviction, be fined not less
than ten dollars nor more than fifty
dollars, or be imprisoned not longer
than thirty days, in the discretion of
the court.
Section 8. That all Acts and parts
of Ac's in conflict with the provisions
of this Act be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
Following is the bill as passed:
Section 1. That is shall be unlawful
for any parent or guardian
living in this State to neglect or refuse
to cause or compel uny person
or persons who are or may be under
their control, as their children or
wards, to attend and comply with
the rules of some one or more public
or private school or schools, for a
term of eight weeks or more during
each successive year from the time
said children or wards are eight years
old until they are fourteen years old,
inclusive, unless they may bo prevented
by illness or reside more than
two miles from a school house, or by
reason of already being proficient
from attending such public or private
schools, and provided that in sjch
case they shall bo excused by the
board of trustees of the school dis?
trict in which said children or wards
may live at the time of such failuro
to attend such public or private
school or schools.
Section 2. That any person or
persons violating this Act shall he
subject to a fino not les than five
dollars, nor more than twenty dollars
for each and every offenco. Said fine
shall be imposed by any court of
justico having jurisdiction on sufficient
evidence of the same being
^furnished by two or more creditable
witnesses, and all fines so collected
shall be placed in the school fund of
the school district in which the fines
are collected: Provided, that no prosecution
shall be instituted uudor this
Act except upon tho affidavit of ono
of the trustees of the school distiict
in which the offending parent or
guardian resides, and such affidavit
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I may be made on information and be
lief.
1 When the biennial session bill
came up for a third reading another
vote was taken on it, but it passed
safely by 31 to G. The ltaysor bill
was substituted lor the Warren bill
as being more complete.
APPOINTMENT OF
ROAD OVERSEERS.
Why the List Didn't Appear in
Last Week's Issue of The Times.
Published by Request.
Tho list of appointments of road
overseers is published by special request
of the County Supervisor and
others. Tbe list would have appeared
in Tiib Times last week but for the
following reasons:
Mr. Jolly, the Supervisor's clerk,
took the list to Mr. Allan Nicholson,
exacting a promise that he would
send it to The Times office as soon
as he could got it set up so it would
come out in both papers last week.
Instead of doing this he published the
list and the copy was not sent to Tiie
Times office until the paper had been
printed and mailed. Mr. Betenbaugh
camo in this week asking us why
we did not get it in last issue. We
explained the situuion and by his
special request we publish it this
week so the people may know of the
appointments. The following is the
correct list:
Bogansville?OUie Lancaster, W
C West, J F West, Berry Lee. J C
Vinson, C N Lawson, J M West.
Hiram Lawson, W F Snmner, J M
O'Shields, J F Lawson W S Liwson,
Berry Gregory, W J Gibbs, J M
Malone, Sam O'Shields, Holland
T.?..? T r ?? r i
uomoviiif cream*? uawouUf una jjirUD.
0 T Belue, J D Smith, J G Long.
Union?L G Bishop, Bennie
Mitchell, II J Barnett, W It Sims.
Leonard Keisler, Jr, W J Jolly, S D
O'Shilds, W II Hawkins, J D Brown,
Judson Ivey, Munro Ivey, .E T
Kohn, William Mitchell, T. P. Mc>
Kissick, Starka Vaughnn^lSaavScott,
A G Parr, J It* M cI>an i a
Bartfett,. 0 E'Bi&tffK J C
Howell, W It Jolly- :
Santuc-^-J J Willard, TJ McNeace.
T J Austin, Tnos Jenkins,
it McCrackan, Richard Kitchens,
ltorlger Fant, Starks Austin, B. J.
Jenkins, Simms McDaniel, S
M Gilmore, William McDaniel, Qist
Brigga, E S Carter. W J Fridy, K
F Johns, Simey Gregory, John
Foster.
Fish Dam?W T McGowan, J D
Murphy, Jessie Comer, R S Thomas
Jr, P P Hamilton, Paul II Jeter,
Thos C Jeter, A E Stokes, Walker
Worthy, W L Ileadspeth, J P Cain,
D F Baldwin.
Jonesville?T M Tweed. Henry
Addis, S W Vinson, J S I?endrick.
J E Mabrey, J W Gallman, C C
T.orn jAn llonniA n A,J i? O 1
juti^ J>CIIII1V IWUIICUVt \J U
lteeve?,.Coleman Fowler,J G Bishop,
J II Burgess.
Pinckney?W C Johnson, James
Farr, L J Sprouse. James Vaughan,
Julius Fowler, W F Farr, W D
Cudd, Dan Farr, J O Harris, Newton
Bailey, S S Fauectt, J E Mcng, W.
L Inman, W M Farr, J T Sprouse.
J E Sprouse, W A L Kelly, W F
Hart. C T Garner, D C Whito, H II
Gallman, J G Faucjtt, D G Gallman,
J T Foster.
Cross Keys?J S Sumner, W II
Clifton. W D Hollis, J 11 Bagwell.
Bobt Wilhurn, A J Bailey. J R
Whitmire. J R Murphy, \V M
Sparks, T J Alverson, P B Stewart,
W W Bishop. I L Bobo. .
Goshen Ilill?M S Lee. C C
Rochester, R S Wilson. C W T
T Willard, J W Wilson, J J Thomas,
J C Cofield, Sam Mobley. Two appointments
yet to be made.
BETTER ROADS"AND
BETTER SCHOOLS.
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Some Timely Words of a Teacher
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Needed Improvements in the
Schoola or the Rural Districts.
Wkbstkk, S. C.
Mr. Editor.?Tbo weather is mild,
but there must be something to attract
attention whether the condition
of any one js changed for better or
worse, the current topic must be
exchanged among the farmers, and
this time it is tlio condition of the
public highway. What is a remedy?
It seeuis that none is effectual during
a long wet season. A long dry season
is a very effective remedy, but
not in control.
I was in the Wilkinsville vicinity
a few weeks ago. Just us has beei
written for The Tl.viks?farm labo
is ficiree. Hundreds of acres of lam
aro uncultivated. .Tenant houses an
vucin% and in sotn; cues the oh
home house has gono to decay. Wei
could the Poet say, ' Wild weeds an
growing near the walls, no dog howl
at the gate." Population is drifting
towards the towns, smic to educate
their children, others to better theii
condition as rendered for an excuse
In some cases the simitiop iriav h<
changed as to ho in favor of city life
Go >d schools, churches, better houses
phyg.jians, aud weekly sctrlement:
til aro in favor of those toiling foi
daily bread. In the rural district*
tho reverse is too frequently in order
there will be a change made. Som<
aro already giving attention to th<
uecessary attraction which are calculated
to stimulate the desire to remain
on the farm. One important fhctoi
along this line which should not be
overlooked is the public schools.
Longer sessions, better houses, salary
of teujchfita^jA^ccordance with the
the interest of better
teach'rs to seek such schools in
the rurAl districts
The old system of dividing the
school term into two sessions, summer
and winter, is gradually being
abolished. My thirteen years of experience
in the public schools as i
teacher, prompts me to the conclu
sion that more benefit is derived in
an undivided session. The sann
work in classifying and getting all
matters in shape and regularity answer
far the entire term. People can
very readily open their schools in
November, and can very easily keep
their children in school four or five
months and even longer by a small
sacrifice. Our school authoritie:
here and^ere are beginning to see
it that waj. The General Assembly
would-weld a disconnected link by
eqaetingrijlthree months compulsion
in this jSirticular sphere. If it ic
.education that shapes the infanl
mind rivoVe earnest attention shoutti
J among them. Under
the ^resfefvy system, the interes
among the children to attend must
be awakened by the teacher, as parents
in many cases leave the matter
all to the children to decide as t*
whether they go or not. Working
among the children is a sure remedj
of peeping up the average attendance
of a given school. It is no more
than a teacher's daty, but some as
sistance along this line would bt
beneficial and highly appreciate*
among a majority of teachers. Wil
the experiment be tried?
B. F. F.
OUR SPARTANBURG LETTER
Unionites in the City?The Pro
gress of the Sister Cities Due
To Huatling Young Men.
Editor Union Times:
As I hive not written from tbipait
of the world in a long time, 1
will give you a few dots. Ojr cit}
is still on a boom, that is not bin;
new, and from what I cin hear in;
old town Union is coming. I am al
ways glad to heir from h ?:no f >r
there is no p'ace like home, we a',
will admit that.
Mr. George May wis up here las
week and lie and myself met and il
was like two brot^rs who hid noi
seen each other for years. I wil
say frankly 1 was glad to see George
lie is always full of jokes and fui
and son tell anything you wish t:
hear. George keeps up with thi
times and all the news. But if yoi
don't keep up George said you hai
better hang yourself, for that is th
otdy way a man can feel that he i
alive.
Wm. Beaty was up here last weel*
01 some kind of business, but yot
can't always tell what kind of husi
i ncss. He looks as young as he du
fifteen years ago. lie gave me scv
oral details of Union, so from wh it
can gather Union must be on a boom
Hut that is right, that is the w iy t,
mikeaci'y. If th? oM men on
hundred ve>r.s agv ha I g)t on :
boom Union and Spartanburg wouh
have been cities right by now, bu
they sat back in their shell and sii*i
what would ho would be any w iy, s
1 you see we young boys will have t<
mike thetn fjr our b >ys, for our haii
; is getting gray and wo must surelj
pass away, but let us prepare for ou
' children and they will follow ou
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foot steps. ?o Mr. Kilitor write
f about it an<l t;ilk it, for wh it a man
n makes no his mind to do and puts
r his shoulder (irmly to the wheels and
1 sticks nod says to himself I never
e will look back, that man will make a
I success, you can't keep him under.
I What- if Col. T. C. Duncan had bud'
3 that little mill at Union and stopped,
s the next one would not havej-~:n
; built, and the old field where 1* j lo
) Mill now stands would havJUr -en
r like m!ii> \vna hmtitir /...?. ~ 1
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little scrub* of pin** and broon *.
: but the last time-^ .as in that. Jtv
. I heard the \yr oil calling the "Ad*
, to work, nyr a. made me feel * p I
was in thcV.iburb* of some b Jty.
and it will be some day. Am what
i a brainy man can do. If you lud
; said that work could have been done
5 twenty years ago they would have
; said th it man ought to go to a cert .in
institution, located in Columbii, end
i if you had kept it up you would have
probably been sent there.
i , Union Boy.
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HERE AND THERE.
Items Gathered sit Random of More
or Less Interest.
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The directors of the proposed Lex1
ington-Columbia electric lino have
not yet tiled their bond of ?10,000
with the city, but are expected to do
so in the next few davs.
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Saturday morning on llendrick's
. farm, five miles from Spartanburg,
[ the body of E l B/**ar, a negro, was
found in a cotton pbtch. lie had
t lain down to rest while intoxicated
l and froze to death.
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! Mrs. Lafayette Taylor, of Centerl
ville. Sullivan county, N. Y., has
1 confessed bavin * killed her husband,
Lnfeyctto Taylor, and burned the
' body on January 20 to eicape detection.
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V The Biitish steamship Garlands,
npund from New London for WjIJiington.
N. C., is stranded one atd
a half miles north of Big Kiunakeet,
* N. C. She is ^inside the bar far
from deep waterybuf is in good condition.
Her crow of eighteen were
rescued in breeches buoy.
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\ At a regular meeting of R. E. Lee
, Camp, United Confederate Veterans,
, at Foit Worth, Texas, this week, a
resolution indorsing Senator Ilanna's
, bill to pension former slaves, was inj
troduced by the State historian,
^ Judge C. C. Cumming8, and passed
by an almost unanimous vote.
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FLOOD AND EARTHQUAKE,
Macon, Ga , February 8.?Ileavv
rains in up-seetions have raised the
Oi?millorfiO of lno -1.-?
wmu.^si/ ui kino |;uiui< IU tuc ulinger
line. The rise is over twenty-one
feet above low water mark. All
trains on the Southern out of and
through Macon have been annulled.
\ Tracks above and below Macon are
1 under water, but no washouts are reported.
l'eople living on river bot*
torns at this place have been com''
pelled to Hoc.
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. Columbus, Ga., February 8.?The
Chattahoochee river is on a big rise
and a 11 >od is feared. The water is
t thirty-six feet above normal and ris
' in^r. All the filse work on the new
j 14th street bridge is gone from the
centre span to the western shore,
' having given away early this movn1
ing. All the mills on the river front
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will be idle several days on account
of the inundation of their water
j wheels. Tho construe'ion work on
the new Muscogee Mill has beon susL
pended and water covers tho entire
8 structure. Within six hours today
the river rose five and a half feet.
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Two distinct earthquake shocks
j were fell in St. Louis and vicinity
between (>:"20 and .-iVlnMr Rof_
j unlay night. The shock was sufficiently
forceful to rattle dishes and
j swing doors. Shocks were distinctly
j felt in Cairo. 111.. Owensboro, Ky..
t Louisville, Kv., Paducal, Ky., and
\ Paris. Ilick's Almanac for 1003
t says a stonn period is central on
I Feb. 9th extending from 7th to 11th.
, The full moon in perigee on the 10th
^ and 11th will be strong factors in
the storms and other phenomena of
, this period.
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r News of a fearful loss of life in a
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disastrous storm, which swept over
the Sojth Sea Islands last month,
reached tsan Francisco on the 8ih by
the steamer Mariposa, direct from
r>ihi'i. The loss of life is ostium ted
at 1.000 person*. On January 13
i huge tidal wave, accompanie 1 l-y a
terrilic hurricane, attacked the Society
Islands and the I'uamoto group
*i"b fearful force, causing death and
levasiatioii never before equaled in a
land of destructive storms.
Pocket Pistols.
V ilc?s the law can be properly
cnforctd in regard to concealed weapons
one may leel compelled to avoid
crowds in the thoroughfares of life
and especially they should be wary
of meeting a personal enemy anywhere
or at any time.
I) an iter lurks in the verv ?ir wlmn
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in evil minded person can prepare
himself to pull down on you without
giving you warning or preparation;
and your life may be snuffed out bofore
you can defend yourself or entreat
for mercy.
We have some laws on our statuto
books in regard to such matters, but
they amount to very little as at
present enforced. The penalty is
too light, when the concealed weapon
is uncovered. This shooting business
is altogether too lax in its privilege
of concealed pistols?and too
dangerous kMo every day results?
from reckless handling.
Not a day pa?ses that a rash shooting
scrape is not published in tho
daily j mrnals. A man c in carry
a loaded pocket pistol into a crowded
passenger car, aud if he does not kill
somebody before he leaves the train
it is because ho is not drunk enough
to become insane in his inebriety or
because lie does not happen to meet
the particular enemy he desires to
shoot. That concealed pistol is indisputable
evidence that he wishes to
shoot when the time is ripe and all
conditions favor a personal contlier.
The pistol would not be hidden unless
that ulterior motive was already existent
in his mind. It is unders'ood
that a man's personal liberty to d >
whatever he wants to do, ahouhl not
be interfered with, unless he trespasses
on another person's right.
1 >ut the right to walk the public
highway unmolested is one of these
invaluable rights, and should be protected
at all hazzards. The right
to occupy a seat in a public conveyance,
that is bought and paid for?is
another right thi't should not be interfered
with?if every railroad company
shall be compelled to search
passengers and confiscate the concea'ed
guns or pistols?wherever they
may be found. Human life is held
too cheap. It is about the cheapest
thing in the universe?quality being
considered. Mules and horses would
not be considered safe, with a pistol
handled by a drunken man?but the
facts go to show that the world is
moving around in public piaces?
with concealed arsenals in close contact
with the innocent and helpless.
A man that fires a dwelling or
barn is as a rnle, and ought to be imprisoned
for life, but a man who
carries deadly concealed weapons is
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need a radical change in our laws,
and in the manner of enforcing
them.?Atlanta Journal.
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Happy Life of a Farmer's Wife.
A o'.ty girl writes: It is a fond
dream of mine to become a farmer's
wife and tncandei with him down
life's pathway, says an exchange.
Ah, yes, that is a nice thing, but
when your hnsband meanders off and
leaves you without wood, and you
have to meander up and down the
lund pulliog splinters off the fence
to cook dinner, and when you ine*
ander around in the wet grass in
search of the cow, till your shoes are V
the color of raw hide and your stockings
arc soaked, and when you meander
out across twenty acres of
plowed ground to drivo the hogs out
of the Otirnfii?lrl anil tmr n.\nr /Ir-.-o..
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I the barbed wiro fence; you meander
I back home to the house and find that
the billy goat has butted tho stuffing
out of a child and find tho old hen
and forty chickens in the parlor,
you'll put your hands on your hij>s
and reilize that meandering is not
what it is cracked up to be.?Ex.
De Witt's V.".?.V Salve
I For Pile*, Burns, Soros.