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    THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL', PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 12,: 1908.
DISHONEST; TIMBER;! ;GRXJISER.S:M AMNGiEORTUNEi
Claim Seekers SKown Valuable Forests," Tken Located on Stony Side of Mountain Far From Tract TLey Believe They Are -Getting Large Fees Collected Ly Bunko Men From Eastern
L
AND swindlers are still operating
In Oregon. Their operations are
extensive but are not along the
same lines pursued by the Mc-
Klnley-Puter class of timber
; grabbers. They are bunko men of a new
type and unsophisticated easterners are
their most lucrative victims. -
When the land frauds In this atate
were given such wide publicity cupidity
, of people throughout the United States
was aroused by the tales of Immense
Vrtunes which were being made out of
ilregon timber land. There was a rueh
W this atate to secure claims and almost
everything available was seized..
In those days the timber locator was
In demand everywhere. Men who made
this line of work their business got
, rich by. charging the prospective claim
ant a, moderate fee for, showing htm
where he could secure . a desirable
claim. Other tlmbermen were attracted
to this line ot work and hod all the'
business . they could . handle. Good
things In life do not last always, and
It was not long before good timber
claims began to grow scarce. Boon
there were a dozen claimants for every
valuable bit of open land and competi
tion became keen. . It was then the
prices charged, by the locators began to,
rise, rrora me original m ciaimv
cruisers began getting-1180. then $160,
and finally as high ss 1260 and 1300 a
claim. As the locator expected to make
from $1,000 to $3,000 out of his claim
he willingly paid this price for a loca
tion. Comparatively recently locators found
It necessary to resort to a raft to make
their profession a paying one. When
the time did come there were plenty of
fertile minds and dormant consciences
I ytb devise some method of keeping the
Interest In Oregon timber-alive. Then
the new type of Oregon land swwaiere
-' sprang Into existence. It has flourished
and prospered ever since. There hsve
been comparatively -' few arrests for
"these latest crooked deals and In the
timber belt these bunko' men of ths .
V forest g-UU ply their trade. t -;
The Spider nd thg PI7. ;' ,
; When a party of timber seekers Verne
out of the. east they Immediately; fait
Into th hands of a locator, if, as Is
J often the case, ths cruiser has not gone
east to induce' them to come to Oregon
- for claims. This Is aa easy task, by ths
way, for ths alluring tales of the aver-
age locator would Instill enthusiasm
into a cigar store Indian. Once In the
. hands of the locator, tf he be one of the
bunko class, they are elected to part
with a considerable quantity of ' their
I! ; money and get a goat pasture In re
turn. f4 " " vt, I ' T
The usual procedure of ' the timber
It shark is to take his party to heavily
timbered Claim, poini out tne lonunv
a , whlcn stanas upon n ana iqiurm
3 k victim that it Is open to entry. He
buggy, drives swiftly past the corners
nH aaatirea the rrostectlve - claimant
i that there are millions of feet otthe
. finest timber on the land. He Is abso
lutely, within the truth 10 this state
. ment but he is tar from It when he
' tells his victim that It Is open for
' entry. Probably It has been taken up
veara before but has been left un
touched bv Its owner, who is waiting
for a high bid from some lumber com
. After the claimant has been shown
i the good -timber the locator gives him
the nnmbers of the claim he Is to take
up. The claimant returns to civilisation
. mnA makes hia flllnff at the land office.
. As soon ss he ascertains that the num-
bers given mm by me locator are ior a
vacant claim he pays the shark his fee.
Probably he does not learn until fears
afterward, when he attempts to sell his
ana ''timhar." that he has been located
on the top of a bald mountain some
i threo or four miles away from the
claim which ha admired and believed he
r wsa getting.--'rj -
- No One Is Exempt . ' ;-.v'
,. This is a coarse gams which Is
worked only in the esse of unsuspect
ing victims who are -only too ready to
- accept the word Of the wily locator for
anything be wishes to tell them. There
are far more complicated methods on
tap which are brought Into play where
the proposed victim is better versed in
the way of the Oregon woods. . -
It is not always the man from the
; effete east who gets . caught on the
bunko game of the wily timber cruiser.
Less than a year ago ths Judge of one
of the counties in eastern Oregon, a
, mtn -h has lived in-the west for 20
years and has rubbed elbows with tlm
1 bermen all that time, gobbled the bait
thrown out by one of . these sharks and
was landed high and dry by the clever
angler. . ,. , ,-' --:.-... .-v-i-
. Last winter when the. snow Was deep
In the eastern Oregon hills three timber
., cruisers formed a - syndicate . and
. amassed a small fortune by locating
j'Buckers'' on barren ground. They told
'an alluring 'tale about having' found a
i small patch, of fine timber, 18 claims in
all, which had never been located. - The
story wtas to the effect that the patch
was completely surrounded by the hold
ings of a bla land-ftrabbin corporation'
which had secured immense , tracts ofd
. I 1 1 W. 1 T T a. "l
end to that kind of business. It ap
peared ' plausible that timber, seeker
: had overlooked this : little group of
.'claims, believing them to belong to the
jNrhe little syndicate of sharks did not
waste ineir lime going east ior victims.
There' were plenty of men with money
'right In thefr t)wn state. After circu
lating their tale among a fe "friends'
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with ths strict injunction not to te'.t
anyone, the sharks sat down j ir.
' for Jhair game to work itself oui.
Other Frierxlg Let In. .-' U
-. Of eourss tha friends" had ether
."friends- who ought to be let In on such
a good thing and soon the full IK names
wera secured. It was then prupoeed thai
after the clalma were taken up a com
pany should U formed and the claim
ants cut and mill their own t.niber.
This made the opportunity all the more
alluring, and the deal was cllnclmd.
All . being "partners" It appeared all
right when the locators took the tim
ber seekers out to look at the timber in
sleighs, s of 1 course the corner posts
were covered with snow, and there was
no use to dig up mora than one or two
of them after the tirabwr had been ap- '
proved. It was tine timber, and the
aatuts westerners saw vislona bf small
ronunes roiling into their povkr in
the very near future. , Th muld nut
pay the locators their $2i0 fee fast
enough to satisfy themselves, after they
had scrambled back to the land office
and filed upon the numbers given them.
Alas, the early spring told a different
story,- the visions ot the wealth van '
lahed and the "vine" fWo-rtn men rnL
lsed that they had been '-bunked." - The
claims they had lnspscted were sur
rounded by claims belonging to tha big
corporation, and I fact they also be
longed to the big company. The few
sukes dug out of the a now had beert
"planted" for the purpose of deceiving
the victims, and the claims they had
located r,iAmhUt mineral hul, knur.
than anything elss. Thev were full?
three miles from the place where the .
-- vra HWLa T.vSrcu 111! VM SJUl.ll
a steep mountain sids thev had to be
ancnorea to Keep them from Sliding oft '
Into the canyon below. ' -
Most of the victims said a few words
which would not appear well in print,
and decided that they would grin and
pear it. iwo or tne party were not ao
charitable, and by threats of .criminal
prosecution recovered their -location
money. The locators were -willing to
e-lve tin tha tSOA tn thee tarn fm lhv
were still about $4,000 to the good on
that one little deal, which took about
two weeks to consummate. . t .
Cupidity Helps Sharks.
r Cupidity of prospective locator also
nuta mnner In tha r.orketa of tha tlnw.-
. ber sharks. They ore always careful to '
tell the members of their parties that
an 01 tns claims are not tne same, in
?uantlty and quality of timber to be
ound on them. This of course arouses
the desire of each member of the party
to secure one of the best claims in ths
?:roup. One fake locator haa been heard
o boast that ho made as much out of
tips on one trip as his location fees
netted him.
After he had dwelt at soms length
on the value of the claims In aggregate
t he frankly admitted that some few of "
, them would run as high as 1,000.000 feet
more than the rest. Nothing ocaurred
at the time, but as the party had to be
- on the road through the mountains for
several days it afforded each member
of the party an opportunity to have a
private conversation with the guide.
locator promised that this particular'
member of the party ahould have the
best claim in the lot, and as a result
his palm was well oiled with a generous
tip.
The locator confessed afterward that
the larger the tip he received the more
barren wdb the snot he picked for his
"sucker." Ths graspln selfishness of
his victims disgusted the shark.-
The daring of the timber sharks is
almost unbelievable. They will attempt
anything, and no man Is ao well versed
in woodcraft that he may feel sure that
one of these . crooked locators will not
attempt to bunko him. - . . -
One easterner hired a prominent and
honest timber cruiser to accompany
him while he went-to look at a claim a
locator had offered him, . Th locator
was known to the honest cruiser as a
notorious crook. The cruiser was on
the lookout for some kind of a game
and warned the locator that It would
be useless to attempt to bunko his em
ployer. The locator promised that he
would not, and took the easterner and
cruiser to sea the timber.
It was a fine claim, and the easterner
was delighted. -The cruise looked
doubtful as the locator started to run
the lines and called halt, declaring
that they must be going south Instead
of -north, ss the line should run. The
sky was overcast with clouds, and the
locator had the only compass.
"We are groins directly north, he as
serted. Then h showed the compact
which proved his assertion. He would
have succeeded in working his swindle
had not nature com to the rescue.
Suddenly a breese sprang up and tora
a rift In the clouds. The sun became
visible and the cruiser's suspicions were
.confirmed The dishonest locator had
' reversed the dial on his compass and,
was depending upon the cloudy weather
to assure the success of his graft.
Most of the government location
marks have been cut into atones and
are made nlsiner by two marked treea
called 'witness' or "bearing" trees.
Sometimes, howevor, and this is most
common in eastern Oregon, oak stakes
take the olace of the rock marks. W hen
this is the case It i much easier for
the sharks to deceive their victims. AH
that is necessary, then Is to move th
stake and mark two .new "witness" .
trees. ' Of course the marks do not show
the stains of time when first ait. but
this Is easilv overcome by the u of
chemicals. Even when tM corner
cut into a stone a little extra labor, win
mark a new one. A-small matterjik
some manual labor will not nead off tha
avaricious timber shark. t v f .
HORRORS QF SLAVE TRADE STILL EXIST IN ;
; ; AFRICA Arabs Raid the Negro Villages
From the New Tork Times. flames, and realizing that within a few the owners" of which are paid hand-
ELO! CELO'' which:1 translated minutes they will be on their way to somely for carryinir freight of this
frdtn . Con goes to English,
me: ns "Hide yourselves! Hide
yourselves!",., . y.;' ' ';
Often though the claim la
made that the alava trade has been aK
most entirely If 'not absolutely sup-
traders.' Among 2,000,000 native Afri
cans it is estimated that there are at
east 500.000 slaves, the larger nroDor-
tlon belnr females. Of these, a large
percentage la in the Soudan. Many are
slaves through choice. Women are in
the majority, for they are . used as
servants in harems to a great extent.
Gentle, obedient, and resigned, they
submit patiently to the capriqps of the
favorites of their masters, beautiful
Circassians, who themselvea are" really
little else - than slaves, indeed, many
TAPPING THE AIR TO FEED HUMANITY
Continued From the First Page of This Section .
slavery, the old women being murdered kind, although ostensibly refustrig to
by the Arabs as not being worth troub- deal with the traders. After the steam
ling about, while the young and middle- er puts to sea . the "cases of mcr-
affnA nman .nil h. .ltl!irtt vHll . ha chAnrilna." are nrutnAn for aanltarv Dlir-
taken with the nien into captivity, i poses and to give food and drtnk to the . Circassian girls are sold to wealthy
Then the lone wearisome march com- freight-. Upon arrival at their Arabs and others by their; paents.-and
mences, me men,
being chained to
wearisome march com- numan freight. Upon arrival at tneir AraDs ana otners uy tneir parents, ana
i women and children t destination it is usually found Without protest on the part of the girls,
e?heT sometime. iS
nrasaad. the fart ramarna. thf . thl. ton Una. aHn two hv two mnA mam, wrercnes are tuvi or nc 10 vwww ?f ISV.iXt'il' . "." ".
very day thousands of human beings In Mm" "2 ?? a))ra.8t I' 5?"f2 '""fnrtviawi' iiil n..aatin of aiaverv In with a Circassian father and mother
Africa are annually. sold Into captivity. .Sorting men if possible the op- H must be remembered thta it is the J,Mf1 BI1"n,ti,e,lr
Strange as It may, seem.! many of these oosit Sn of thl white race to slavery bet result, largely, of the social condition MW.1, J"hir,- Ab'wa5 !l ,n
tlnHAaiyH - na, hnlMSi . UL 111B . UUUll III 111 W 11 l, t 1 L, BAinva, IIU ' , . . . . ..
without obiectlon. regarding the.oppor-; "1- l0T'ttmi,thrXrkb tra'S that before it 'can bo entirely eradicated X' ii"'
tunny to serve a master wno will feed r- avoid anv Interference with their th aoclal condition or the country in S.'," -rSult " '
niMha th.m iiiiii ar..n.. - or" to avoia any lntenerence witn ineir , v. .ni in She - IS entirely happy. What more
ut expense or f- nians bv the off iclal reDresehtatlves of ' must be entirely changed: , ' In . intJlaAi ,lTf'
not to ba neg- rovernrr?ents tK route ti io countries , where tha religion of "'IJ1?':-- Prent.
. -eoh the -ear- Islam holds, sway slavery exists to a -' 'i. '-il..
d the eoudart that tTolr,? .hJ the ;V?b5btaSS ramarltabl extent,; for ,t6 negroes do The minister made no reply.
iort on tnerr part one
. it is in tne uonao ana me aouaan tnivt . , r
'tha' neatest number of . slave, ara ohJ i.'I'r""' "i? ""v"" not till the soli and aricultue Is Drac
tatnari h the Arab traderi h .ka 'i ayPl"??l -i JilJ tlcallv unknown. With slavery In
periodical visits to that part of Africa -on. tan tlv " movliiriceDt when existence ahere can be no agriculture
for-the purpose of replenishing the sup- camned f or tl?e nlaht ' ' worth speaking of.. The religion of
, n v.Ar , avi rnr wn mn rnpra i aivruva 7. '
piy or slaves, ior wnion mere is always rt i, . -.t,n ucwmia uu itMiic
a. demand at the porta of Zansibar, tio i" .'lllXS???, Jt Tl flcaof alayery. but It fprb
deldah, Pemba, and at Timbuctoo, Mas. crossing the Sahara desert manyof tl$jp lowers to place In captivity
Sate Tripoli. Fea. Maraketch and elst TO"S&bi!l t'U,JS'i co-rellglonTsts. As many
Uses for Austrian Recruita.
Prom the Lady's Bealm. '
Uke tha famous John Gilpin, , the heir
Islam oermits and reculates the Drac
xorDias ; its ioi- ; hmn. ho. lo..i a j 4.
any of their " ,....-.. - . 'i
Mnssnimnna has been maliciously whispered, sees
where - ;;-nw mist raos roson w peculiar irem-. cannot exist witnout tne' aid or slaves, ; great chances to exercise this virtue at
The' innocent and simple negroes will : Rnh 1&.1XXuZa. lif f.ach v?"mlI v of r"11 counting amdhg ; the expense of the poor recruits.
be quietly assembled in their villages, the sand up to his neck. This treatment its chief possessions a large number of ,,, Scores of these who come from thai
following their simpl ocqupations, tha r several days, a little food slaves. It is to Africa that slava owners country are drafted off to the archducal 1
f wm?n"w4Sdina.ra naii?e Sn 1 n. rwater being given the jpatient sev- must look as the great source - of sup- estates and do their military service '
xt is inererore there, mucn of It consisting -in game- .-V
anu uu in , Keepers- auties in tne arcnduKe s pheaa-c
r. nntnta In nM.,.n,aa , irk, -1
that, slaves . uned when Improvements in the parks,'
du jtrounus are oeinv maae. Accoroing ;
wumou cnnuuiK - turn J .vr iihuvu in , . . . . . . v.. - .s-v ... r . . . - .
.i t. , j...- .1.-. .1.1. erat times ourina tne uy. it .m eururis- niv ana , remenisnment.
absentOT hurn tn" "t a depth of a few from the west. east, north .:
doinS other lYXVorl f or the neS ?5 feet below the surface the sand Is so that Arab traders proceed to
iMmXPXTiuS So'moiS ,-eoia .aa to be most noticeable, although , Africa where it lsnown tl
io'owS .nDUman
In other Darts of the world. Suddenly ''':f!!FrlVl!! - a"t0.n,8h- : One difficulty to be evercome in the to one story squads of them are marched
dliose who have been absent hunting will ' B V. , .ufr c "f - i . """"r" "ur : abolishment of slavery is the lncllna- about and made to do duty as dummy
SDniar at illaaw t0lhlT cuel ad inhuman treat-.uon on , tha , part of its adherents to trees while the heir to the throne
afrSost out o coat. sUnd by a custom that haa existed for stands at a distance and experiments aa
It Xrm announce ""sdriiS i?Z. th 5uf Si18 .. "hed j so many centuries t and which is so to where a lump.. of trees would look
Arab trader are naar bv at the same " 5 '"" i ,V 1.. ' . , ::'"M . oeepiy impianteu in tne . Monammeaan Det. - - 7i - , . - -- -
V t . r -. ' . 11.. ilv.. ....ti ... mtxj-' HI ail J ' A t? aviuicn. VOllig IIIOIQIJ IIUIIWIJ,. vu
,u tne more' Decause tner.e are no,
ratiorm for this kind of duty.. Thev .,
have generally to shift for themselves ,
and their miserable pay only procures ;
them food far poorer than that, which,
they would get in , barracks, although ;
that Is not very sumptuous.. i , ;.1
time waenina- theirTfellow-villaa-ers io ' Vv pons ot snipment ine oineiais 01 ,mind. Even in Africa-there are many ' The soldi
bldrtselves mo negroes approve of Joct all tha
In a moment the :' entire TvUlaae is in atch r ' vlotationa of the law against the trafflo in their fellow-beings, and ;extra rationi
in a moment tne entire VHiage is in alava tradtnir. and therefor turt mi r n,u. r.nti. .r ..nil. (k.i. 'h..
f mi f-tiheni PAh? fnS ?hm ' W t0 reaier .advantag. , Ingenloua . vile-whiskey, a donkey, or an old-fash-iVvJai.
Kun, which is regarded as money
rrfVa-y? l0..liffeLlnA.?'a??'r; thawuntry- through, which, the Arab
rifles the unfortunate, negroes, with , iometTmes the slaves are actually and 'pedltiona. A male chUd Is Sometimes
only a fejr antiquated guns, stand no literally packed for shipment, being In-, mold ior tW a girl "for double -tha
chance whatever, ahd are either snot cased In-large bales, with openings left amount, and an.adult woman for a little
down or stand .terror-.strlcken watehlng for ventilation purposes. These "goods" less, while an aged woman has scarcely
their poor huts .being destroyed by are then shipped, on foreign steamers, any Avalua at all In the eyes of tha
,. ..... -.;:r-jngfAbout, " '; :r .
" " ' rrorn'' the Houston Post. TV f
.." "The - -new- alrshtpr - Is shaped ' lust '
about ilka a railway coupling pin, isn't'
It?" ', ,. t. A.
"Tea; It fllca about Ilka ona.-
for tha production of the electricity
which should precipitate the mineral
from the air. . .
They harnessed Niagara, and made
? nitric acid. But their machinery was so
cumbrous and so costly that when they
- sought to raise their output to a volume
. which would be profitable, nothing re
. malned for them but to cease operations.
Similar , ventures in Europe suffered a
,'llk fate. , :
But the near prize, and tha ultimate,
dire necessity, were far too great to
, daunt-every One; Indeed a few years
longer and all men poor and rich, ig
norant and expert must have been1
driven by. imminent, clamorous hunger
, to make, possible the Impossible.
While the Americans at Niagara were
sadly closing their factory doors, two
Danish scientists. Christian Blrkeland.
professor of physics in the University
of Chrlstlanla, and his partner, S. Eyde.
were harnessing the - water power
at Nottoden, ,' in Norway; and were
scientifically at work on the very heart
and crux of the problem's difficulty
the securing of an electrical incandes-.
cence sufficiently large to come into
contact with an appreciable quantity
of air at one time.
In Germany, as in America, the ex
perimenters had succeeded in igniting .
the aerial - nitrogen . by means , of the ,
electric arc; , but, although the current
waa carried to . the height of 60,000
volts, and although most ingenious ar
rangements weracmade of multiple poles,,
the burnina- surface of the multiple arc '
was always too small In proportion to
the amount of energy expended, to fix.
enough nitrogen for commercial profit.,.
It - was a deadlock between eager,' ig
norant man and unconquered nature', '
with billions of tons of food that was
literally free as air. and yet more baff--lingly
withheld than all the pearls that
ever hld their nacreous splendor be
neath the seas, and all the gold that
was ever sealed within the deeps of the
firlrnal rock. -And the deadlock, if man's
nvention could not suffice to break it,
carried with it the penalty of universal
catastrophe. - -. . , ' -,'
- The Blrkeland method solved It. Man's
Inventivenessthat inflnitesmal scintilla
of. creative power which' flashing fitfully -In
some few individuals, proclaims hu-i
manity's inheritance of the divine tri
umphed afresh over the elemental air.
as it had triumphed over the primeval
earth.
The electric current was forced to
pass through a magnetic field. Its line
of flame spread out into a broad disk,
aa though it were a blazing sun.
It was a sheet of flame, instead of a
fiery line's yet it expended mo more
energy than that required by the mo
mentary flash of light produced by the
same current outside of a magnetic
field.
It added enormously to the are light
area which came into contact with tha
air; and it added enormously to the
amount of nitrogen that was Ignited.
' We are accustomed to imagine any-:
thing which has been "burned" as hav
ing been utterly destroyed. No fancy
could go further from, the fact. The
electrical "burning" of the atmospherio
nitrogen is. In reality, simply a compul-
sion of the union of atoms of nitrogen -with
atoms of oxygen, at the lightning
flash temperature of 3,000: degrets cen
tigrade. ,
, . And that is lust what the process isf
jan exact imitation of nature in het;
moods of wrath when, discharging a -thunderbolt,
she burns out the nitrogen
from the atmosphere through which the s
fiery flash flies, and leaves all around
the acid, chokinsr taste of the chemical .
She has instantly manufactured.
iThe flash of. the electrical current,
manipulated by man, affords the high ,
temperature at which alone the union of
the two gases is effected. . The atmos-
pheric nitrogen that has been burned ,
has not been destroyed; nor has It been
changed from the material form of a
gas. It has been merely made one with
the other gas, oxygen; ,; and the two, ;
now - absolutely wedded, constitute nitrous-oxide
gas." ... . r;"7--;v,..-" V",vV
Birkelund and Eyde, having achieved "I
the effective form of the electrlo spark,
used it in connection, -with -a' series of
ovens and other machinery which, while
It was necessarily massive, was not un
duly expensive. , ,.
The heat in the ovens produced by .the
electrlo arcs usually reached 2.500 centi
grade and frequently rose to 1,500 centi
grade, or 6,832 degrees Fahrenheit; and i
the very air that passed from them reg
istered from 600 to 760 degrees centi
grade., r . . . -.
This air,- forced Into the ovens, gave
one fifth of Its volume up to direct con
tact with the electrlo spark, while the
remainder, served jto cool tha resultant
nitrous-oxide gas and prevent certain
undesirable reactions. '
The amount of niter in the air varies
with conditions, but the ovens and ab
sorption systems used in the Blrkeland
Eyde process have been brought to such,
perfection that from 90 to M per cent
of it la retained. . The power used is
represented by; the comparatively mnoK
erate strength of 6,000 volts, and upon
such an arc, In -.every oven, is thrown
air amounting, to more than 6,000 gal
lone a minute, il'i.r-'
Electrically burned ahv filled with ths
nitrous-oxide ; gas. Is passed through a
reservoir of , water, where it combines
for the formation of nitrio acid, com
posed of one atom of hydrogen, 01,
atom of nitrogen and three atoms nf
oxygen, V Now it Is a liquid, with .which,
almost anything. can be done. ,
At Nottoden, the nitric acid is mlteti
with a solution of milk of lime, makim;
calcium nitrate nitrate of lime. It t
a milky Quid,-stored In sealed cans, una
ready for market,
1' In those cans, it goes everywhere over
the earth, giving to the farmer the fer
tilizer .which, drawn from the irx-x-haustible
reservoirs of the air, Is i-k-tined
to restore to the starved land the
food; that Hues,, transformed, in the
swaying stems and the 'golden, -nodding
beads of the life-sustaining wheat.
It 19 aa cheap now as the Chilean ni
trates; It Is as good as the Chilean ni
trates; it , Is forever limitless, "where
Chile's' blood-stained monopoly was
foredoomed to extinction within the run
row span of a young man's life.
It is the salvation of the world i f
man. f
-.Without It famines which would hav
made India's annual holocaust a Hurtui:
apalus feast must- havn aiternote-i
wars that would have o.tiUfled jhnu
Khan and leoiwld of, belg-lurn fur t-.io-onlzatlnn
beside Saint Amhony fit i -
dua. With it, mankind Is prni.i iu ui i r
endowed for the evolution of its (,-.,-eted
millennium.
- riiiosHlf)l,
v From the Vale JWord.
Etude at comrrtons I in in' I i f
dering grub., Just bring mc a g , s .
ner. .- - , ,
Sambo I'ss sorrowi ,ih. f . r I
-bring yon nothin' .'cept .-. 1 '. " ,
bill o' fats,
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