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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRGITICLE SATURDAY, ATTGUST 7, 1897.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
IHI DALLES,
OREGON
OFFICIAL PAPEB OF WABCO COUNTY.
' Published in two parts, on Wednesdays
and Saturdays. . . . ,
,r BCBSCEIPTIOH KATES.
- BT IIO, rO8TA0 FBCralD, IX JlDVANC.
One year ..'. .' .. Si SO
Six months - 75
Three months...... JSO
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ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon.
Telephone No. 1.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Wednesday a Daily. . ".
Jackson Engine Co. met last tiigbt,
and among other things voted $50 for
the tournament fund. :.
. Large qaantitiea of mask and water
' . melons are being shipped from this
point, the larger portion going to Port
land. .
The brewery hill grade has been pat
in good ehape by Marshal Lauer, and
work will be began at once on Fulton
street at Methodist hill.
The bids for building the schoolhoase
.here were opened Monday, bat no con
tracts were let. It is probable nothing
will be done in the matter for a week or
two.
William ' Perritt, the man who was I
shot through the stomach by Mrs.
Berkey, in Spokane about six weeks ago,
when the ballet punctured his intestines
in five different places, was discharged
from the hospital entirely well Satnr
day.
It is eetimated that fully three-fourths
of the wool In the warehouses here baa
passed, oat ot first hands.' The wool
' buyers claim that what is left is heavy,
and as a general thiug not ot as good
quality as that which has already been
sold.
A freight ' train plunged through a
burning trestle between Marion and
Jefferson, on the Southern Pacific road,
yesterday morning. Two men were
slightly Injured and five cars loaded
with lumber and wooden ware caught
fire and were burned.
The interest arising from the irrednci
ble school fond, and amounting to $135,
154.24, was apportioned among the vari
ous counties Monday. Wasco county
gets $4,142.32, having 3,983 school chil
dren. The state has 129,956 children of
school age, and the amount for each in
$1.04.
Hon. Wm. Biggs returned from Sher
man county yesterday. Harvesting has
commenced there, bat the grain cut so
far has been mostly volunteer. While
there he saw a Booth harvester at work.
Five men and thirty-two horses were
required to operate it, and it cat and
thrashed from forty to forty-five acres of
grain a day.
Soon after the Umatilla House bowl
ing alleys were opened, Joe Earhart
made a score of 60, which remained the
record until yesterdy, when H. Maetz
made 61. In making this score be got
1 in the first frame and in the other
nine frames made seven strikes and
three spares, the last frame being a
, spare followed by a strike.
- Miss Bath Cooper went to Portland
. this morning to attend the meeting of
the Indian superintendents and teachers
which began, at that place yesterday.
Miss Cooper is employed as teacher at
the Indian school near Carson City, and
will read a paper pertinent to the sub
ject at the meeting tonight. -. At the
- close of the meeting she will probably
return to Carson City.
Monday myriads of grasshoppers, com
ing apparently from the West, settled on
the ranches across the river, and pro
ceeded to take a feed. Fortunately they
were going some place, and in a short
time nearly all of them lit out for Clon
dyke, or some other place. At the same
time there was quite a swarm of them
on the ranches below town, bat they
left before much damage was done.
The supreme court Monday banded
down a decision in the case of H. H.
Northnp, respondent, against Ralph W.
1 Hoyt, treasurer of Multnomah county,
it being a Buit brought to test the law
requiring county treasurers to pay over
-the state's portion of . taxes out of the
first money collected. The decision up
holds the law and requires the payment
, to the state of her portion of the tax at
the times stated in the law. :
Fall grain is being threshed in differ
ent portions of Adams county, and the
yield, ad a general thing, is much
heavier than was expected, says the
Ritzvilla Times. C. G. Dowdy, living
southwest of Sitzville, threshed thirty
eight bushels to the acre, and M. E.
' Helme, of Rattlesnake flat, claims a
yield of thirty-nine bushels per acre.
Quite a considerable quantity of grain
has. been coming into Bitzville the past
week. . It is all of an excellent .quality,
and will command the be6t price going.
Thursday' Daily
Wheat is quoted in Portland at 78 to
80 for Walla Walla and 82 for valley.
A ramor got started last night that a
man named Elva Hollingsworth, who
came here recently, bad the smallpox.
The rumor ran on all fours and traveled
fast, and all there was behind it was a
mild attack of measles.
The Dalles City - was loaded to the
guards this . morning, the larger por
tion of her cargo consisting of flour.
i The Dalles Citv went down the river
about a mile this morning to tow a wood
scow up to the beach, and in ' conse
quence was a few minutes late in getting
away on her regular.tnp. ;
Wasco county will have a damage caBe
soon if the large rocks are not removed
from the DesChntes grade. The rocks
are large and easily lift a wagon off its
balance. Moro Observer.
E. E. Martin, denutv county clerk of
Clackamas county, has been .arrested on
the charge of embezzling . $400 from a
banking firm in Denver. He is also
charged with having issced fraudulent
countv' warrants .in theeum of about
$400. ..V.;."., - - :'
Yesterday wits the first day of the
year on which the atmosphere showed
the presence of smoke, out today the air
has the regoiar August bine color from
it. It , is supposed to nave come irom
fires near Portland and they were not
set by Eastern Oregon sheepmen either.
(iraeshoppers are ' fast disappearing
from Umatilla county. It has been dis
covered that the destruction of these
pests is due to the large blow flies or
blue bottles, as they are more commonly
called. ' An experimenter found upon
examining a number of the grasshop
pers that there was nothing under the
outer shell bat a mass of maggots which
bad sprung into life from the deposits
of tbe blowfly. v
Col. Sinnott and Mr. Vanbibber have
a Clondyke scheme that they think
there is lots of money in. It ia to drive
500 milk cows to thafr country, keep
them .as long as - possible, and then as
winter comes on kill tbem for beef.
Col. Sinnott has the thine, elaborately
calculated, and the results, on paper,
equal the best things in the line ever
worked up by the immortal Col. Sellers.
, The school census of this county for
last year shows in round numbers 4000
school children. The census gives us a
population of a little, less than 11,000,
which is now probably about 12,000.
This would make the population three
times as great as the number of school
children. If the proportion is the same
throughout the state, the population of
Multnomah county would be 72,000 and
of the state about 390,000.
John L. Austin, esq., who returned to
his borne at Union Sunday morning,
while in Pendleton last week stated that
the new woolen mill now in the course
of construction at Union ia about en
closed, and the water power, machinery
and entire plant will be in running
order bv this fall. The mill cost, com
plete with all its fittings, $20,000. The
mill is three stories in height, covers a
space of 60x80 feet and will get power
from Catherine creek.
At an early hour this morning a light
rain feel here. The shower was accom
panied by a thunder storm of quite
large proportions for Oregon, though it
would pot pass muster for such in the
East. There was one double-ended peal
that shook things op, but it was the
only one oat of the usual order. The
night was extremely sultry, a condition
that continued after the rain, and still
continues. This is considered by the
weather-wise a sure sign that more rain
is to follow. '
Mrs. Bolton, mother of Simeon Bol
ton, was stricken with paralysis yester
day morning while in camp at the
Meadows, near the Johns' mill.' She
was sitting in a chair and being spoken
to and not answering it was discovered
that she was paralyzed and speechless.
Dr. Doane was sent for and went yester
day afternoon, and at this writing, 2
o'clock, had not returned. Mrs. C. B.
Cashing was in camp at the time, com
ing in yesterday afternoon. When she
left, Mrs. Bolton's condition was some
what improved.
Frioay'sDaily.
The directors of school district No. 12
will receive bids for famishing wood for
the district np to August 16th. The
district will require thirty cords of oak
and forty cords of fir. : '
The Oregonian evidently made a slip
the other' day in mentioning the fact
that the Oregon delegation, consisting
of McBride, Tongue and Ellis, would be
home by the 15th. And it never men
tioned Corbett. '
One of the most delightful places on
the Columbia is the Jewett farm at
White Salmon. The views are magnifi
cent, the fishing good, while the table
is supplied with every delicacy. Bates
from $5 to $7 per week. , , '
J. C. Church, a prominent citizen of
Eugene, fell from the roof of the power
house of the Eugene Electric Light Co. !
Tuesday and was instantly killed. . He
was painting the roof and slipping, was
unable to atop. . He fell about twenty j
feet.- f. ;, y ... .:; ' : ,,
Dr. Doane returned from the Meadows
last evening, and from him we learn
that Mrs. Bolton will remain where she
is for some time. She was resting com
fortably when be came away, and will,
in all probability, recover in a great
measure from the attack of paralysis.'
' It is at leaBt a coincidence that follow
ing the statement made by Testa that he
"is : producing a disturbance of the
earth's charge of electricity which can
be felt to the utmost parts of the earth,''
comes a terrific hot wave cooking the
corn in Kansas and sending moist hu
manity sweltering about its business.
That Teslaj needs watching. ... .V '. -. "."
. The . board of directors ot the Prine
ville Jockey Club met last Thursday and
elected the following officers : . Presi
dent, L. N. Liggett ; - secretary, John
Combs ; treasurer," Ed. N. White. A
speed program was arranged and parses
decided upon.. The club will hang np
$1050 in purees for ..the five days' race
meet; which begins October 28th-'. ":
The cold of the Clondyke 'can have no
terror for the man who had to work to
day. As the perspiration started from
every pore and trickled down under the
clinging nnderclotbes, an intense desire
was created to take a tour on a glacier
with a through ticket, or to sleep with a
spirit thermometer that was loafing
around 70 degrees below anything. How
nice it would be to crawl into a snow
drift, or get shipwrecked on an ice floe
or any old thing. Who is there wrestl
ing with 100 above but that would gladly
welcome 40 below? Is it any worse to
die and be buried as an icicle, than to
melt and be carried to your long borne
in a couple of coal-oil cans? '-, ' '
Forgery Ia Alleged.
Ernest F. Nieharge, formerly a shin
gle broker in Seattle, is a fugitive from
justice. : He is wanted Hi Seattle for lor
gery. Nieharge'a system, it is said, was
that . of forging the names of railroad
agents at shipping points to bills of lad
ing, and then attaching the bills to in
voices regularly . made out on his com
pany billheads, going to a bank where
he did business and collecting ninety
per cent of the amount named as the
value of the shipment. .The bank would
take the bills and forward them to its
correspondent at the purported destina
tion. It was by doing this and finding
no record of the shipments at the rail
way freight offices that the crookedness
was discovered. A year and a half ago
Nieharge got mixed rip in much the
same sort of a scrape that he now finds
himself in, at - that time operating with
the bills of lading of the Burlington and
a Se-tfle bank. This time it is the
Great Northern, the Seattle & Interna
tional and another Seattle national bank.
The harvest that resulted from the judi
cious sowing of. bills of 'lading and his
own billheads -is said to have netted
Nieharge over $2000. He disappeared
from Seattle about a week or ten days
ago, and is now supposed to be on his
way to the Alaska gold fields.
Work on the Astoria Boad.
The work on the A-storia-Goble rail
road is reported progressing satisfac
torily, and the general contractors ex
pected to complete their work, within
the time stipulated in - their contract,
namely October 1 ; but,' owing to some
difficulties with -swampy lauds west of
Rainier, they will not be able to do so
until November 1st.
' The men on the rock work east of
Mayger's landing are making good prog
ress, and doing excellent work. There
are some 800 men at work regularly.
The track is laid for ten miles east of
Astoria to the John Day river, where
the first drawbridge is located. The ap
proaches to this bridge are nearing com
pletion, and the center pier for the draw
is expected to be completed in about ten
days. '
John Burke, of this city, has .the con
tract for the pier work. The principal
drawback to the grading has been in the
marshes west of Bainier, these occurring
in patches and keeping seven dredges
busily occupied in banking the oozy
matter. The weather has been excel
lent for the work, and the conditions
generally have so far been very favor
able. Oregonian. .
- . Wheat Going Up.
A dispatch from Walla Walla, August
4th, says:
There was much excitement in the
wheat market today, and dealers were
rashing around like wild men after
every farmer that came to town, in order
to secure the fiist option on what wheat
he bad to sell. The market opened this
morning at 71 cents, and representatives
of Tacoma and San Francisco dealers
began raising each other till this after
noon, when 75 cents was freely offered.
About 20,000 bushels were sold at 75
cents, and 30,000 at 71 cents this
morning. . Many offers of 75 cents were
made, but farmers are still inclined to
bold for higher prices. :
- The Tournament. -
The Jackson Engine Co J at . its meet
ing last night, very generously donated
$50 of its funds towards assisting in pre
paring for the firemen's tournament this
fall. .We understand committee will
soon wait upon oar basiness men tor
the purpose of soliciting funds for the
tournament. To make the . matter a
success will require considerable money
and 'donations should be . liberal. - The
efficiency of the firemen is. the only pro
jection we have against fire and as their
services are given free, . the giving of
money should be looked upon as a busi
ness transaction, for which every busi
ness man and property owner gets a
valuable return. -. " , v.. ', ,
.'-Wanted.'-;, - '. '.-
Upright and faithful gentlemen or
ladies to travel for responsible, estab
lished house in Oregon. Monthly $65
and expenses. Position steady. Refer
ence, Enclose self-addressed -stamped
envelope. - The Dominion ' Company,
Dept. H., Chicago. ; , jy20-3td
City Council Meeting-.
,. The city council met last night in
regular , session, present Hon.' M. T
Nolan, y mayor ;" Couneilmen : Kuck,
Stephens, Johnston, Cbamplin, Clongb,
and Recorder Sinnott. . , '
' The minutes were read and approved.
Clough, of the fire committee, made
verbal report that be had ordered five
fireplugs.'- -' , . :
;,. Cham plain, of the ;' committee on
streets , and public property, reported
that the marshal had been instructed to
repair the brewery grade. . - "
. Marshal Lauer 'reported . that there
was a stagnant pool of water in the lot
at Maetz & Pundt'a. ' The- matter was
on .. motion referred to committee on
streets and public property. .
: Clough made verbal report that Bowe
desired to pat a cess pool at bis place,
there being no sewer within 300 feet
Reports . of officers were read and
placed on file, and the' bills as. reported
by the marshal were ordered paid.
Ordinance No. 293 in relation to fixing
and establishing salaries of officers of
Dalles City. .The purpose is to increase
the salary ot city treasurer from $20 to
$35 per month. On motion the ordi
nance was placed on final passage, the
vote being as follows : Ayes Ktn-k and
Clough. Noes Cham plin and John
ston. Not voting Stephens. So the
ordinance failed to pass.
On motion the bills and i ted bv the
finance committee were allowed and
warrants ordered drawn for the same,
' On motion the bills of Drs. Logan and
Doane and Mrs. Hitchcock were ordered
paid. v. . : . , . '
On motion the bill of J. W. Lewis and
others, clerks and judges of election,
was referred to judiciary committee.
On motion a committee of three was
appointed on street lights, as follows:
Kuck, Johnston and Stephens.
On motion the committee on streets
and pnblic property, was Instructed to
improve Fulton street at what is known
as the Methodist bill. " ' . '.
On motion it was ordered that when
council adjourn it be to August 17th, to
consider sewer svstem. ! . -
On motion the marshal was instructed
to cause' all boxes on sidewalks to be
removed. .
BILLS ALLOWED.
C F Laner, marshal.. ..... . . . ... .$75 00
Geo C Brown, engineer 75 00
J J Wiley, night watch 60 00
R B Sinnott, recorder 60 00
C J Crandall, treasurer ...... 20 00
Logan and Doane, prof services. . 20 00
Mrs M E Hitchcock, Miller case. . 2 00
Electric Light Co 14 60
H L Kuck. register for fire de
partment. i' , 15 50
Gunning & Hock wan, labor...... 50
VV ciaRenev, hanling engine... a W
Wm Henzie. hauling hose cart... 2 50
D W Mann, hauling 50
J E Ferguson, hauling hose cart. I 2 50
James Like, labor. .. J .... ... ' 1 50
Millard, labor 1 00
E Benjamin, sawing wood....... 100
Mays & Crowe, mdse. .-. 10 52
CV Cbauiprin, labor;...... 15 45
WA Johnston, mdse.... ........ 3 50
J T Peters & Co, mdse. . : ". . . . 17 60
Gunning & Hockman, labor. ..... 2 05
Maier A Benton, mdse. 9 00
Dalles City VY ater Works, water. . 32 00
W Blakeney, hauling. . ... . . .... 2 2a
Dalles Lumbering Co, lumber. .'. . 33 91
Unas t Lauer, killing dogs.. . 3 00
Jack Staniele,1 work on streets 4 30
Sam Klein, work on etreets... .. 160
James. Like, labor 4 60
Jack Staniele, work on brewery
grade e oo
Jaa Like, work on brewery grade 12 00
Charles Jones, work on brewery
grade 6 00
Antone Knechtley, work on brew-'
ery grade 10 00
Sam Klein, work on brewery grade 12 00
Applegate, . . " " 9 00
Millard, " " " 11 OO
Joe Berger,work on brewery grade '
with team. 6 00
J Huebner, police ;. . .... 4 00
Cbas F Lauer, taking . Miller to
Portland ' ' i. .. 6 70
California restaurant, meals. ..... . 2 25
Columbia hotel,. meals 1 50
The treasurer's report shows as fol
lows: :
Balance on hand July 1st.. . . ..$8,398 43
Auit rei'd daring month ...... 842 28
Total..
. . . J .$9,240 71
..... 443 46
Warrants redeemed.
. Balance on band Aug 1st. .$8,797 25
Eight d ds were 'sentenced during
).he month, one forfeiting bail in the
sum of $5. , -
Seven team, one dog, one botel run
ner and one liqnor license was issued
during the month. .
Shot His Thumb Off,
Charles Sandoz met with an accident
this morning'from fooling with a shot
gun, unloaded, of course. His wile
wanted a chicken for dinner, and Sandoz
sent a man after his shot-gun. When it
was handed over to him he asked if it
was loaded, and was told that one bar
rel was. ' . He evidently misunderstood
the answer and . playfully put the gun
against his head, when bis wife told him
to be careful or be would shoot himself.
Then he held bia right thumb over the
end of the barrel and pulled the trigger.
The gun did not miss fire ; guns seldom
do tfiat nnder each circumstances, and
the result was tbe thumb was ehattered
back to the first joint.
Our reporter went up to Dr. Hollister's
office to get the item, and found Sandoz
in the chair, with - the doctor cutting
the broken pieces oat. He at once be
gan to tell ub how the accident bap
pened,' seemingly unconscious of the
fact that the doctor was whittling his
thumb. , ' ''-'"'' .... '
. Nebraska corn for sale ' at tbe Wasco
warehouse. Best feed on earth. m9-tf
BLACKWEIXS
-7 "v D NO OTHER. :
' GENUINE ..'-, V ' ! JL J hJftm Mm "
I DURHAM fcy K---Ji
Tost will find one coupon
inside emeh two ounce bag,
and tm coupons inside each
four ounce bag of Black
well's Durham. Bay a bag
ot this celebrated tobacco
and read tbe coupon which ,
glvea a Hat of valuable pres
ents and now to get tbemu
A PECULIAR RAILROAD.
Skamania Ha One That Belongs to a
Class of It Own.
bsamama countv, Washington, nas a
railroad that: is a cariosity. It is less
than four miles long, but is said to have
cost $3,000,000. It is the old portage
road from the Upper to the Lower Cas
cades, and was built by tbe old O. S. N.
Co., and is now the property of that
company's successor, the O. R. Sj N.
There was a time when the road did an
immense basiness, carrying all the prod
ucts of tbe Inland Empire to tide water,
all the freight destined for the mines of
Idaho, Eastern Oregon and the vast re
gion east of the Cascades. -
The days of its glory have departed,
and today it is scarcely more . than two
streaks of rust and a right of way. Its
sole use now is to carry salmon from tbe
fisheries along the rapids to. the Lower
Cascades, from which point they are
shipped to Warrendale, ' so the road
really "runs" only with the run of fiBh.
Mr.. Jones, who has been employed on
the road since it was first built has en
tire control of it. He is superintendent,
engineer, conductor, brakeman, fireman,
section foreman and section crew tne
Alpha and Omega and all the balance of
the alphabet. Mr. Jones has grown
gray in the service of the company, yet
every . day he gets out tbe solitary en
gine, gets ud steam ' and makes the
round trip over, tbe road. The engine
has gotten wheezy, and to get . up steam
a fire has to be buiK in tbe smoke stack
to get op a draft. t
Kecently the railroad commissioners
made a trip over the road, and to do
honor to the occasion Mr. Jones got out
the "directors' car," the one solitary
passenger coach. It had been used for
along time as a storehouse for chicken
feed, and occasionally the chickens had
used it as a sleeper, bat Jones oiled the
hen coop np and gave the commissioners
ride over the road. He is good na-
tured, happy, contented, and thorough
ly enjoys his unique position as a whole
railroad company.
Important Decision.
Among the decisions banded down by
the supreme court in Pendleton Satur
day was one in the case of .McKennon
vs. American Fire Insurance Company,
garnishee. The main point in the case
is that of sustaining the validity of the
homestead exemption law passed at a
former sea'aion of the legislature. The
appeal grew out of the Cotner insurance
case. McKennon garnished the insur
ance company for a debt, owed by Cot
ner and the company refused to pay on
the grounds that the amount of the pol
icy, about $900, was exempt from execu
tion. .
The homestead ' exemption act pro
vides that a free holder may claim ex
emption to the amount of $1500... Nearly
all tbe circuit courts of the state have
decided that the -law is inoperative, but
the supreme court has now affirmed tbe
validity of the act.
A Beet Sugar Factory. . -
T. A. Hudson, who returned last bight
from San Francisco, tells us that while
there he had several conversations . with
parties engaged in the manufacture of
Bi5 Drop
of Bieyels.
: The season, is getting late, and to close out
our stock now on hand we have marked them
'. ' down to V "v : .v '.
IJ3S5 tap (08t : . ... V
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beet sugar, during which he mentioned
the fact that Wasco county sugar beet)
had shown a greater percentage of sac
charine matter than any raised on tbe
coast. This statement at once interest
ed them and they expressed a desire to
have a ton or more of sagar beets grown
in this countv eent them, promising
that if tbe beets tested 'well and tbey
could be assured of a sufficient crop be
ing raised, that ' tbey would pat in a
plant here for extracting the sugar, to
cost not less than $300,000.
It is too late, of course,' to experiment
this year, bat Mr. Hudson thinks that (
among our farmers from one to five or
ten tons might be secured. If this can
be done be will forward tbe beets to the
factory at San Francisco, free of charge,
and have the sugar returned here.
Here is an opportunity that should not '
be neglected, and those farmers who
have sugar beets, even though in 6mall
quantities, will do well to call upon Mr.
Hudson and assist in getting the indus
try established. ,
Netted a Curiosity.
John Nelson, the well-known fisher
man, caught a cariosity of a Chinook
salmon on Saturday afternoon about '
three miles below tbe bell buoy, says
the Astoria News. As he palled a fish ;
out of bis net he notioedthat something;
was hanging from its mouth. - Upon ex
amination he found it to be a troll hook,
spoon and a couple of feet of line. Tbe
hook must have been in the salmon a
long time, as with a light pal) it broke
looBe from the under law, palling a part
away with it. , The fish weighed about
thirty pounds and did 'not differ in ap-
psarance from tbe run now iu tbe river.
The spoon and hook gave evidence of
being of Indian manufacture, but from
where it came is a matter of curiosity,
as the chinook salmon is known not to
take a book in these waters. . Several
years ago fish were caught in Tillamook
bay with similar hooks and spoons fast
to tbem, and at the tim'e it caused some
inquiry.
A Volcano Kills BOO. : :
A dispatch to the Chronicle says: '
"Five hundred reported killed up to
July 1st is the record of the terrible out
break of the volcano of Mayon, on the
island of Luzon, one of the Pbillippine
group. On the night of Jane 26tb the
volcano began throwing np ashes and
lava in immense quantities, and flames
were thrown upward considerably over
100 feet. Tbe next day fifty-six bodies
were recovered at a considerable dis
tance, and the recent dispatches to Hong1
"Kong np to July 8th state that not less
than 500 were known to be killed."
- A gardener near New Whatcom bas
hit upon a novel method of getting rid
of a neighbor's chickens, which had
done much mischief in his garden. He
wrote a number of cards : "lam likely
to be shot," "Keep me at home," "I've
been scratching up my neighbor's gar
den," etc. To each of these cards be at
tached a thread and at tbe other end a
kernel of corn. The' hens swallowed the
corn and returned home labeled with
the cards, every one having a sign bang
ing oat of its mouth.
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