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1 j A SAFE DEPOSIT. By REV. E. EVES3TT HALE, D, D. J CllAVTElt 1. Antony Make loft thooftioeot Humrill & Co. a god i;al disappointed. He was himself a shrewd and intelligent follow. Ho had secured the patents on his now invention, and wss ready to proceed with the manufacture. Ho hail carried the papers, tho drawings, his model machine to Ruinrill & Co., ntul thoy bad them iu consideration. Thoy now offered him ISW for the whole tiling if he would turn it all over to them. Ho had pro posed one mid another scheme by whioh he should go into busiaess as a partner with tliom. Those had boon referred by tl6 managing partner to the Mr. Jerkins behind the scone, who was nu imaginary person created for the purpose of saying no when the managing partner was shamed to. Ik-tically all these schemis had been refused, mid Antony was now to take the $SO0 or nothing. This was not his first experience in such business. He knew by this time that the paople who bring things before the pub lic, be they inventions, be they books or b they ideas, generally expect to be well paid for doing so, and he knew that the ystem of co-operation, whioh people are hoping for and praying for, was by no means yet established. With some bit terness of feeliug, it must be confessed, though he was a good natured fellow enough, he walked down the street of Tamworth considering whether he would tak the $oX) and be done with it, or whether he would go to Pittsburg and ee if there were better rhanoes there. Antony Blake did not believe in debt, and he know how to live on a very little money, but for all that he had very little money in store, and he certainly did not have the f 10,000 which would "be neces sary for him if he were to equip a little machine shop of Ms own and make his own automatic car coupler. But, as it happened, he was a persou well esteemed in the whole community of Tamworth, as he deserved to be. I should like to know, however, how much of this esteem he owed to one queer circumstance. While he had to start iu life with absolutely no property it happened that he did hold as trustee for his mother some bonds which he con sidered worthless iu the second issue of the Cattaraugus and tpelousfls railroad. These bonds had long since lk?eu taken off all lists known to brokers, and it was long since any coupons had been paid. Still the Cattaraugus and Oiolousas ex isted, and there wore Siinguiue people, among whom his mother waf. one, who supposed that at some time payment would be resumed. Antony, being her trustee, had to keep these bonds some whore, and he had been notified by legal advisors th.'it he mast keep them in one of the security vaults which are now es- j tablished in all the considerable cities. He had hired a modest safe at the Ami cable of Tamworth, and at the Amicable you have the fatalities of a charming reading room, where are all the new magazines, wnere you can w.isii your hands if yoo need, you can make an ap pointment with a friend, yo.i can write a note on the Amicable's pair. These facilities are thrown open to you because you have hired, perhaps for only $10 a year, a safe in that bank. Antony had found that here wo3 by far the best club room in Tamworth. In that city thoy have what is known as the "Strangers' Rest" well developed; you can go in and pay ten cents an hour for all the comforts of a club room, and then go out again. But Antony found that, in the long run, $10 a year was cheaper for him than the Strangers' Rest at ten cents an hour, and what I should like to know is whether his standing in that community had not materially risen since the old dons and widows and rail road trustees and other such persous who had their safes there found that he was one of the habitues of the reading 'room of the Amicable, He suspected himself that it gave him these advantages, and be was careful not to presume on them. He took care not to sit there writing letters in times when a business man would be at bis counting room; he only looked in there at the hours when the most prominent of the dons were there; he took care not to appear to regard it as the only loafing place which he had. In proportion as he was cautious in these regards the dons began to respect hiin as one of themselves; that is to say. as a person who did not have to work very hard for his money, and who had in tha chamber adjacent the secrets by which a quarter ly revenue comes to the initiated with out muc:i cracking of their finger nails or griming of their hands. On this particular morning Antony was obliged to brnak his rule. It was just the hour when he should not ordi- narily have gone to the Amicable. It 1 was seldom indeed tnat no had any oc casion to look at his mother's bonds in his safe, for they were as worthless one month as they were another. But to preserve the respectabilities of the place it had been his habit to have his safe opened for him once a quarter about the 1st of May, August and the corres- ponding quarters which ha observed to , be "coupon quarters" for some very dis- j languished dons. He would retire into one of the little ' cells provided for the occasion, open his i box and then carry it back that it might I be deposited in his safe again. The last time that he had done this Antony had placed two fifty dollar bills in his little tin box to guard himself from spending them. He taw that he should have enough money for hj current . atp'iises besides, and he bad 'not oared to make a pc-ruiii-nent iiive.-.Loe i.t of tiiirf sum. But if he wen; to f;j to Pittsburg li muot have the.-:.; t;vo Ili'lies in his pocket, and he walV.'d down io tha AuiiirabJe, gave the nu;n! r of hU hvtio and his box was given to him. CilAFTF.lt II ' Vrf J . if iiWWfe? He H'totl tht bonds out one after annthrr. It is possible that there are one or two of the humbler readers of this little story who are not soouaintod with the careful machinery of a security sate company, and as the story hinges on that niaehiii ry it may be well to explain it. You boo yon are to have the double combina tion, pateut, absolute security that is given to the largest corporation in the world say the Bank of England and at the same time you who are as poor as Antony Blake was are to have your own little separate cell iu which your own property is kept, and nobody else in the world may interfere with it. All this is arranged by a wry iugvuioiw system of policemen, attentive dorks, doorkeepers, gilt pickets of iron, iron floors below and above, so that tire cannot bnru your se curities nor water drown them, nor thieves break in, nor rust corrupt thein. The most honorable and virtnou ward ers are selected by the most ingenious and highly approved competitive exami nations. You present yourself at the gate and you are personally known to the warder, who geaks to you cordially and opens the gate to yon, as he would not do if yon were one of those unknown loafers who have no safe in the security vault. You pass through this prison gate joy fully, for you know it is no prison to you. You tell him that the day is fine, or that it is rainy, as it may happen, and pass on till you coiue to another gate and another war ier. You toll him that it is tine, or thi.t it is rainy, as before. He also calls vou lv name, and savs that you nr.? looking well, and yon enter a second passage. This passage is provid ed wi.h little catacombs or columbaria, precisely like tls.fcv under or n. nr the city of Rome, except that those are much smaller, and that those oaiaeoiubs have now no doors, but in the stvnnty vaults each cntacotub has a little iron door, and these doors are numbered. You remember by mnemonic processes known to yourself what is the number of yours: the iimnber of Antony's was 4.Ui 7. You meet iu this passage a smil ing, gentlemanly friend, who also calls you by name, expresses his hope that you are well, and tells yon what the weather is. You also tell him. These are not passwords, but thoy are the civilities of the occasion. You then men tion to him. in' a whisper if you please, the nnmlvr of your box. He affects to remember does rem.;::lor, vrhaps and with his key adjusts the luck of your catacomb. But please to obs-Tve he can not open the catacomb, because he has not your key. Your key has leen given to you long since when yuu hired your catacomb. You then op.-n t!ie catacomb with your key. wi:ni mu cannot do till ho has first turned hi.; key in the lock. In the catacomb vo l on 1 a long, narrow tin lxx, unless you should be a very great don. In fiat e.w you have a large catacomb and you have a largo tin box. But Antony w:n a very little don. as the reader knows, and he hail there fore a bos long enough for uny coupon bond, but not large enough to contain many. He drew out his box, thanked the : courteous attendant, p-issed warder No. I 2 again, who asked hi.ii if all was right, and then in the passa: between Noe. 1 ! ami 2 selected a little room, like that in which you eat oysters in restaurant of some cities, when it is supposed that you are ashamed to eat oysters and wish to have a separate cell assigned for the pur pose. You go into this cell, which you find lighted. Thero is a littlo table for you, with a pen and ink and blotting paper and a pair of largo cisorg. These scissors are there that you may cut off the coupons from yonr bonds. Observe with admiration that both the requirements which have been referred to are fulfilled. You are here as lonely as Robinson Crusoe was before Friday came. All your wealth is in your bauds; you cim do with it what you choose, A minuta before this wealth was in a safe which nobody excepting you could open, and a minute hence it will be iu that safe aaiin. On this occasion Anton v Blake found ! some difficulty in otiening his box. His key seemed to be out of order, but be ing an ingenious person it happened that he had a little skeleton key irith him, and with this ho threw open the lock of ! the box. He saw in a moment that it was not his box. The securities in it were those of the C, K. and W., C, B. aml Q- B- c mi D. securities, many ot thl!ln' absolutely "gilt edged" in the market of the moment. There were one or two United States bonds, and, in short' if a Boi fairy had touched his mother's bonds and changed thero into ; wniis oi i no very oet hub coma noi have done better for him than had been I done here. Antony Blake was amazed and dazed, ffe, lifted the bonds out one after an- other to nee by what proci:. of evolu tion tho ('attar,:ii:j:!H :i-i 1 Opelousas hud. been thus cli.iagi.d, and with a vague feeling Hint he hhonld find his two fifty dollar notes at the U,tum. The fifty dollar 111 ..'.':) :; re nut tin -re, but thero v.-.'.;i ;i lit' I ; j, -. r.-.'.- l i f five or six mann re;o.l i. , -..! '; -1 ;;;. with white ribboit. CfLAPTKIi III." If voun? libiVe bad troii'i at once to tne head center of tlio wonderful romhi nation of warders, (juiivdlaim, clerks and assistants who made up the hierarchy of the Amicable this story would never have Ixvu written, mid the reader would at this moment be nockitiK other occupation than that be has in band, "lloforoa shiry can ln told," rjivs Mr. Anthony Trollopc, "theitt must boa story to toll," All that folloys on these pages sprang from Mr, Hh'.io's aversion to take tho head center info his confidence, or, in deed, any other of the guardians in (ho hierarchy, lu the first place, lie knew none of them personally, though, as has btvu soon, thoy all know him professionally, That is to say, it was the pil'essional business of each of them to know Antony Blake by sight and to koo that he tit way hud fhe box in No. OCT when ho wanted it and that no one else ever had it, and also that bo never hud any other box than his own. But all of them had boon imported from Now York to carry on the Amicable, which was a new enter prise in Tamworth, so that he had not made their acquaintance ol her than of ficially. In thosovond place, as occurred to him now for the first time, he. should have gone to the head center before if he meant to gout nil. lie should have gene when liis little key did not oiku the bond box. He should not have pu ked the lock of a box which, as ho now knew, was nut his with his little skeleton key. In the third place, ho was not sure whether tie should best advance the ends of justice by going to tho head ceuter. Ho could say that his f KM) were not ii his box. But here were sivuritios of three or four hundred times as much worth; and, as he well knew, there was not any one outside an idiot asylum who would steal the Cattaraugus and Ol lousas bonds. It might Ihi that the head center and some of the others were en gaged in a common frand, of which he had in tiis hands a little clew. Those considerations iassed through tils mind and determined hint, wisely or not, to make no complaint to the head center till he had taken the advice of lawyer friend. Meanwhile his first businese was to go to Pittsburg aud to get the f 100 which he needed for his jonniey. There was no money in the box, and of oourse An tony could not have taken it if there had been, seeing it was not hi. "Urecu backs," says an eminent legal authority "are tho currcnty of thiovi." But oven had Antony been a thief he had no o portuuity to etcnl. There worvthesix letters tied np with the white ribbon. Antony did hnk n their address, as has Ixi'ii said. But at the moment his only wish wa that his despise 1 Cattaraugus aud t lousas bonds were i;. his hands. He re-im-mlx-rcd. i.s he often had remembered Uoio, tiie pathetic K'hf of Kobins.m Crusoe whou tiie givut current of the OriniK o w.'ls sweepm ? him to sea in his cam'. 1 Ikvii HKir Uobuisoii looked at his retreating island the island which be had always called a prisonand wished th:.t be might return to it, le cans it w as homo. So mor Antony, who had always do. pi- d thoCattaraugusand Opoloiis.is. It ow wii hed that be had them in Lis li.ti.sls. l a point of fact, he put bacu ti.o Li x into the cell from which he had ii K. and be wont at once to his lawyer consul, iit the lawyer cousin was not in. Antony did not like to tell his iph't r story toa si ranger; be therefure borrowed a hundred dollars from the lawycrcousiu'scioi'li and went that night on the train to I'it.slmrg. CIIAPTEU IV. . This is uot one of those storied which torments the reader by refusing to tell him all that the writer knows. Once for all, lot thereadT understand that the KmU and the letters which '. Antony Blake found in his Ixix bclongc.l ' to a very nice girl whose name wa Edith Li:n-. How it happened that they were all in this box shall now bo briefly ; told. ' j It was some six mouths before Antony i Blake found them that Edith Lane's fa-. ther called her into his own room. He then explained to her that she was so old that she uiUHt learn to take care of ; her own uffairs. "I do not mean, said he, "to turu oyer to you now the whole of your mother's property, but I do mean to turn over to you so much that you shall not have to come running to me when you want to buy a shoestring and a paper of pins. I havo placed in this envelope a , number of bonds; I am going to show ' you how to cut off the coupons from these bonds. You will havo to do this twice a year; you will then have to carry these coupons to the Waverly bank, where I have opened an account for you. t When you want money you will write a check on the Waverly bank, and you will go for the money yourself or send for it. You can do as you please about keeping an account of these things. If I were you I would keep a littlo cash book, but I shall ask no questions. If i you come to me at any time for money 1 i shall then ask questions. But it is a ! great deal better that you shall learn to ; take care of your own affairs before I me' Poor Edith was distressed and pained tn hear her father tftlk nf ilvim Klin said as much. She said that she knew ! nothing about business, and she had a I Now Cousin Evelyn had had a great deal rather go on as they were, j horrible love passuge with Fergus Mania But he was flint. He told her that his j tire. I have no right to call it disgrace precise object was to teach her to draw ftj. th(mlfh 1 am verv tht n. check and to keep a bank account, and to teach her sfimetbing of her interest in the community, not to say her duties in tne community. He hart begun witli thirty or forty thousand dollars of hor fortune, which he had put into these bonds. Edith was frightened, and said she did not know where she would keep the bonds, and she waH afraid they might bo ; stolen. "That," said her father, "is iho second thing that you are to be taught. You will not keep these bonds; I do not keep mine. 1 have brought these this morn ing from my own safe to give them to yon. 1 have ordered the carriage, mid I am now going to take you down fo what is known as the Amirviblo f-'ufo com pany. I am going. to hire a littlo ' Kafc there in your iimne, and you wnl keep vour bonds in that safe. When vou 1 Wnitt to cut ott tlio eonHitm you wilt go down to the Amicable, you will have tho safe opened, and you will cut olT what you need." This frightened Kdilh inure, (hail ever. She almost cried, but In her dlMress "he referred toim obi joke of the family bor rowed from the "t loorgia Sketches." It Is tho story of it young man whose father was urging him to marry, mid said to him, "Where would you be if 1 had not ina! I'tedr Tho young fellow replied be twoon his soln, "Yes, dad. but you mar ried mother, mid 1 shall havo to be put out to u strange gal." Kililh said she did not want to be put out to any Anil cahloSafo company or any Va oi ly bank. Kim wanted her father to lake care of her money no. I to give her what she Wauled to spend, But ho was perfectly (Inn. Thecari'iae ruiio to the door, and Kdillt had to go up ti) put on her hat and sacque aud gloves to go down for her first lesson. What alio was taught the reader already knows. She was taken through the Kates, sV was Introduced to tho atten tive warder, and she had assigned (o her one of the smallest safes, exactly such a safe as Antony Blake had, and as it hap ponod the nuinlier was next to his, No, The reader now has a partial uo tion of what mistake had occurred. In ioiiit of fact, about a month before Antony tllako had met this dlsapoiut ment it had boon so ordered by those minor juiwein who, under orders, over rule this world, that he and Edith Lnue went nearly at the same time to the Amicable, Antony had gone simply to show himself, that he might keep up the reputation which he had acquired as a don among dons. KditU had gone, on her second visit, to cut otT some coiitsms, wi-cu ku u.ia uouo suivesniuuy, una which she had carried to deposit at her bank. But it had so happened that when she brought Kick her little box to place it in tier safe, Antony Blake was already iu that corridor of the columh.u'iim), and was o'iilng his safe to put his box away. The lock inado sol Ae little obstacle, aud ho had laid his box on the floor that he might have both hands in handling the key. Edith had to wait a moment for his op-1 orations to bo fininhed, and, as it hap-1 polled, she laid her box on the fl.K.ri as she stood by him, in fact, if thj reader is curious, putting on her gloves; at the same moment. Antony touched his hat to her, stoopsl, picked up lliei box and put It into bis own safe, with-j out any thought that he had ma le a ; transfer. He puxscd out of thedoors, m lilted t'ao wardens and w.is gone. Edith ' put the other box into her safe, and, i, the reader nee, the change was com J pleted without a thought from either i party. , It w is not till Antony Blake was well in Piiti-burg, dealing with the varioii sous of Tubil Cain who make that city i one of the lihost and lovoheit in tie, world, that Elith one day ord. red t'i -i carrinv, drove down to ton AuiicaM". tooj out what she suppos M to ! h. -r Imx, and found in it Antony's Cittar oi j gus aud tqiclousa bonds and his h m . ilre 1 dollars. I Of course E lith know h1u had made a mistake, and she instantly supposed, a she usually did, that everything whu o w is wrung was her own fault. Tin-., then, was the first result of In r f.ilh r't I training her to business that k'.io h t '.i lost all her own property, and hud stol. ;; muneo!!ierproK'rtyof vastly more value. , for tho girl know nothing of tho worth j IcstuioK of the Cattaraugus aud Ope ; tmisas, and it was very easy for her l i , i ee mat wnereas sue li.ut loll in li t tmx only thirty or forty thousand doll.ir, worth of lionils, she bad under her hands two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of the second is.-un of that unfurl. ; unato mad She did not do what Antony did, lio.v ever. Slio took the whole parcel, bun- i Jred dollar) an 1 all, an I put it into her! little saU'hol. She put back the box into her safe, and as quickly as she could escape the eye of the warders, all of whom she thought looked on her with suspicion, as if she were a detected thief already, she rushed to hr little coupe and bade William drivo her directly home. Her only thought was to toll tier fa ther all that had hupH'iiod aud to con fuss that she was a fool. Of course this would have been the true thing for her to do, but there was unfortu nately adelay. Her father was in Chicago for two days, and Satan lia 1 all that time to inspire her with other counsels. Now, although Satar. might have done bin worst liefom ho could make Edith Jane do anything wrong, It was easily in hii power to make her do something very foolish. For, as Henry Kiugsley well says, when the devil cannot achieve his purposes by sending a knave he doc the same by a much easier process and sends a fool. For tho more she brooded over the matter the more the poor girl ji r suaibsl herself that she had lsttior not. at first, sieak to her father. Besides the finding that alio was a fool aud had tna lo a horrible mistake there was a little siilo. trouble which increased and increased as she thought of it till it at lat became u giant Afrite, destroying all hor peace. It was tho recollection that she had put in her box the six letters which had been intrusted to her by her cousin Evelyn. my readers was ever so compromiwMl. ; It was a very bad business, and Evelyn had been pulled out of it only with great tact and difficulty. All the compromis ing letters had been brought together and should havo been burned up. In stead of bunting them Evelyn Hadduni, when she heard Edith hud 11 safe of her own, had lieggod her to take care of them, and at her second visit to the safe Edith bad put those letters with her bond, The reader knows what had b coiuo of thein. Now this was the only secret which our poor Edith had ever bad from her father. She did not want to havo the 0 leUoit) broil ;;1 it, lo li 'jit by line iuve .li gation which h ! : -ii' i 1.1. in j.J.., Ti,!, ,. chi'd i,i:;l;i'illy I'aic : I I .- 1 !!' Iiefi.m J( police court, ai a loi'i'; I'vieiel t;,., diiicovory of )l r bo.- opened by a j'l'l .") and those loiters of Evelyn's mid i;'e 1 read itlond tin-! prtnte.1 in nil tne hiuui newi'piii,i,s. She cried over It: she wroti a note lo Evelyn which she destroyed, nhe wrote another note, which she do slroyiil also, and finally wild to hot'soll that she had roller H'w nil l,'l property which mh Iu the wib' than have any revolution made a to what wis In t'lm hos, if ho could only b, uiolliiit whoever bad the bonds would, burn those li.lM'nl leii-rs it seemed I. her that ulio should bo p.'ifectly Impl'V Iu nil (his of course Iviuh l.ann wa quite wrong; but. as lb ' reader will ne she was in a fal-o pmttioii, which nIh had stumbled into really IVoitl no fault of her ov. il, l'oor Antony lllalut is (lie p-inoii win deserves tile most cou.ldei'ulioll Hil'l slil pathv from (he re,i lor, Antony lllak upeui two or throe day iu l'ittsliui' Ho was mod hospitably received by oln friends whom lie bad Known at llinl'oly technic iiiilitule. lb' saw all the mar vela of gas di ili ibiilioti, or glass uiakiuu of Iroufounding, and ly Mr. Westing house's liiidMo.s ho was taliell lllioilgl the wonderful luaihino works fron which that os.piiilte appaialus Is pro duced which pi sorvos every year lh livs of I dare not say how many thou sand jHsiple In this world. Uesuwuoim of (he Tubal Cuius whom he had gom to see; ho showed (o (hem the plans " his mm'hino, which wore cordially com mended. Ho had one and another mitf gestlou made to him n to the ways foi putting It upon tlm market. Hut it w clear to him, as it IiikI been In Taul worth, that the destruction of tln oo" Is their poverty . and that ho was in noway to gid any decent return for the very ex quislte contrivance which everyUsly ad mittisl he lisd In hand unions he him self could Invest f IO.ishi or ft-VOW in th coiuplicnl.Hl mat hlimry which was nuo ewsary for priHlulug It. CHAtTEft mem- Shr fiiiii.i 'icr tioni, Kdlth l.l'l- res.ilv. aft.-r her f ,;'i. r'-. reti t'll hiin u lie. b i Hut ail ! :v lie w.is (..will t.i Kir t. llrr I ..ii. and tig n li u that she w.ml,! id I..,! b'T biii-lv' at bis ol!l'. mi l each Ion,. . to toil hi'u .vh , ho iv! urn.' 1 s ie liutod , .i-.i I -i put li i'iT till liii.fi ills', 1. 1 h nil iriiiri ; In. w.i . in h;v,!, I n his br. :!.l'.t!. an 1 t'l- p r gul p it It ulTaMIII. Afl'T tie) svell uf t'l-.o failures she Ii t. n i -U me . A -cinii'i k. mi., in I'.e afi 'i i n from ,ci i-arly uri-hory party i'i" found a not -from h'T f i.h. t nyie.; t'. it he ; cull" 1 to New Yir. Tin W H followo 1 by a tele tram Iron N'.uv York naj mg he was o die I lo l,in.!o!l An I M pm-r Kdith whs left t,, in r own newly a. quired skill in iii,oi:i :i ; her ii.vn bn i is-ss fur the ii"t six we 'ks. What is. hi li-caini' v.-ry cl.-.ir was that ! she must have money. In 1 ed t!u is Hini'tliing which gi.ii.-r.illy Uii:ii-i clear b most isii!e in modern ..iciety. ICdit'ij first mi-al'itlie luist ike which in .my other; psipln in ike uf thinking that it will dot any goo'l to nay aloud. "I must have some money." She said loii to the l.mk ing glass twice as she dressed herself Hut no money cam., from liiat. As to pusstsl th" most attractive book stm saying. "I. -a I us not into temptation." She wont on fsit if she could not rid 1 in her own oarriu,;o, by whi' Ii I mean alio never took the n'ople's c irri'ig.. the street ear. She was even ncali einiii ;:i to put a uickli) into the eouti'i'iuUoti but at church, sitting iu the very inv where tho deacon w is always sure of a five d lar bill. Ibit t'.ien Edith in 1 . an no count of this, and solemnly pledged her self for every nirklo sir 1 laid mi thu id tar to place a ten .lullar lull wlimi oh' had it. li ar child, sin) know the diilor eniM Is'twoeii blue turtle dnvo am i(vA largo lambs. Those economies she kept up steadily. Dut irouoiines do Uot create money. And it seemed as if never were the un expected Oapeusos so terrible. Then came a bill for annmil costs at the cine-fj-ry which her father bad forgotten. Edith promptly paid that. Then canin ENTKlt- J '11 venls. ,1,1,1 Tnnli. M,,rli..,l,il,.,,, in.a(. i-nl hie.!,,,-, n,,,,!,,,.,,.,! tr MiHti.,,,1,, F,.,. llll.l UT ...ir 111111:0 in 111, lee , ip (j, j p, ill'lll mo nr. ' citll Hire iml, lit In l,.. i ,,,, , i i n iiniie irnin ;i -1 , 1 1 , . -1 , , ; 1 , M'li'l ni'iil.. I. ill.,,, I, r l linn. V.'e luh l.-. if i, ,i, ,,i,e . w ill, ,, -iTIi. ''" nl nr.', I, '""" "m f"' linl Hue III; lilll-l " I' !..:, i ll 1. hi.w 11 ,' i'i, . leilll' 1 I 1 11:,! ,. ,, ,, . I "i. 11, i" ut 1'ri'i'. a .lu-,. "llll ! I 'Mllll v V. ills Air ((, 'I '1 T.fl s a Vi ' I I i 1 11 .1 1. .,, HVKUVIli HY lil'.AliS THE j ruisiv -rr,-!'un;i.; vok it. j C.A.SOW&CO. 0ipulte Palunt oitlco, Wahlni)lon, 0. C. AllMlNlsTMATuM'H No I lo , . 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