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the worth of their money,
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STEAMBOAT NOTICE!
r-.-si
St p. "E. N. COOKE,
Will leave OREGON CITY for PORTUAXD
every day Except Sunday, atV4 o'clock,
A. M. Returning, will leave Port land for
Oregon City at 2h o'clock, P. M.
Str. ALICE,
Will leave OREGON CITY for CORVAT.LIS
every Monday and Thursday of each week.
Stv. DAYTON,
Will leave OREGON CITY for McMLN'X
Y1LLE. I A FAYETTE and PaYTON, and
all oints between, every Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday of each week. Ieaves
the Itasin at 8 o'clock, a. x and connect
with the train at Cauemah at 9, a. m.
Str. ATVBAlNrY,
Taves ORKUOX CITY for HARRISBTTRG
and EUGENE and all Intermediate points
every week.
Sti. Fannie Patton,
leaves OREGON CITY for ALBANY and
an intermediate points between twice ev
ery week J. D. BILES. Agent.
Oregon City.Fcbruary. 111. S71. .
CALL AND SETTLE.
11 1 persons indebted to the undersigned
-f V- for Professional services are respect
fully requested to call and settle their ac
counts to the 1st of January. 1875. I desire
all my accounts closed at the beginning of
tun irw a"" iuttr Knowing inem-
selvs indebted win confer a preat favor on
IJI V.v cfc" - a- I lV 1 1 -
Janlotf J. W. NORRIS.
FORSALE. ;
THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS HIS
premises, in Oswego, for sale at a bar
gain, for cash. .There is a fine dwelling
and out buildings, orchard and about three
Acrrs of land. Finely situated Xor board
ing house for t&e ifcaoiu., empiojeain trie
iron Works.
ron Works. ' J-w. ttJe..
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Oswe-o, Sept. W.-1S74.-
OREGON CITY,
THOMAS CHARMAH
ESTABLISHED
1853.
i--'. , I l! X? v," V . . , u "l lne Willamette
V alley, that he is still on hand and doing
business on the old motto, that
A iVt;67 Six Pence it' Better than a Slow
I have Just returned from San Francisco,
where I purchased one of the
LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED
STOCK OF GOODS
ever before offered in this city ; and consists
in part, as follows :
Hoot s and Shoes,
Clothing, Dry Goods,
Hats and Caps,
Hosiery of Every Description,
Hardware, Groceries,
Taints and Oils,
Sash and Doors,
ChlnawafP, Quoensware,
I Stoneware, Crockery,
riatedwarc?, Glasswajp,
Jewelry of Various Qualities
And Styles, Clocks and
Watches, Lad'CS and
Gents' Furnish hi
Patent Medicines, Goods, Fancy IVo-
Rope, Faming tions of Every
Implements of Description
All Kinds, Carpets,
Mattings, Oil
Cloth, Wall Paper, etc.
Of the above list, I can say my stock is the
51 O S T COMPLETE
ever offered in this market, and was seletcd
with especial care lor t he Oregon City trade.
All of which I now offer for sale at the
Lowest Market Rates.
Xo use for the ladies, or any one else, to
think of going to Portland to buy goods for
I am Determined to Sell Cheap and not to
allow myself to be
UNDERSOLD IX THE STATE CF OREGON.
All I ask is a fair chance and quick pay
ments, believing as I do that
Twenty Years Experience
in Oregon City enables me to know th re-
puirements of the trade. Come one and all
and see for yourselves that the old stand of
THOMAS CIIAItMAN
cannot be beaten in quality or price. It
would be useless for me to tell you all the
advantages I can offer you In the sale of
goods, as every store that advertises does
that, and probably you have been disap
pointed. All I wish io say is
Come, and Sec, n ml Examine for Yourselves
for I do no wish to make any mistakes.
My object is to tell all my old friends now
that I am still alive, and desirous to sell
goods cheap, for cash, or uion such terms
as agreed upon. Thanking all for the liber
al patronage heretofore bestowed.
TIIOS. CIIAUMAX,
Main Street, Oregon City,
Tjegal Tenders and County Scrip taken at
market rates. THUS. CHARMAX.
W5n,000 lbs wool wanted bv
THUS. CHARM AN.
FALL 1874.
Is your time to buy goods at low prices.
AGKERMAN BROTHERS
are now receiving a large stock of
FALL & WINTER GOODS,
all of the Latest Styles, which will sell 7
AT LESS THAN PORTLAND PRICES.
Our stock has been bought for cash, and
we will sell it at a small advance above
SAN FRANCISCO COST.
TE WILL SAT TO EVERYBODY RE
TT fore you purchase or go to Portland,
come and price our goods and convince
yourself that we do what we say. Our stock
consists In part of
Fancy and Staple : r
Dry Goods, Clothing,
Hats, Boots and Shoes,
. . . Ladies and Gents ,
Furnishing Goods,'
Notions, Grocer-
i e s. Hard
ware
and a great many other articles too numer
ours to mention ;. ,
.ALSO '
DOORS, WINDOWS,
. . , PAINTS AND OILS, :
ETC., ETC.
We will also pay th Highest Market
price ror
T Co u n try; 1 rod uce.
.'A lo i l-j f. i- ACKERMA3T BROS. .
OregoaJTity, ept..lUlS7. v , -rZ0Ji tr
OREGON; FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1875.
Sheridan as a Liar
From the San Francisco Examiner.
Since the time of Titus OateST in
Great Britain, two centuries ago, the
Cincinnati Enquirer says there has
not been so swift a witness as Phil.
Sheridan. To make this comparison
of our cotemporary understood, it
should.be remembered that ' Titus
Oates had become aware of a great
plot of the Roman Catholics to mur
der an indefinite ' number ' of good,
loyAl Protestant subjects and to sub
vert. the Government of thei realm.
Jle and. kindred associates- "testifi
ed and there' was a general persecu
tion of Catholics. Years- afterwards
it was conclusively proven what
everybody in the first instance ought
to have known that he was a shame
less liar, and that a large number of
innocent persons had been sufferers
thereby. He was taken out of New
gate Prison, put at the tail-end of a
cart, and whipped from the jail to
Tyburn, where he was perched in
the pillory for an hour or two, and
again whipped back to Newgate.
Sheridan's columnies upon the peo
ple of Louisiana, in his dispatch to
Secretary Belknap, dated Jan. 10th,
transcended in atrocity the fabrica
tion of Oates. He says that since
1SCG nearly 3,500 persons, a great
majority of whom were negroes,
have been killed and wounded in
Louisiana, and he adds:
There is ample evidence, howev
er, to show that 1,200 persons have
been killed and wounded during this
time on account of their political
sentiments. Frightful massacres
have occurred in the parishes of Bos
sier, Caddo, Catahoula, St. Bernard,
t. Landry, Grant and Orleans. The
in the a?ove-named parishes is so
well known that it 13 unnecessary to
describe them." .
These massacres, "it is unnecessa
ry to describe, seemed to have es-
rence, through a man who desires to J
establish, on account 01 tueru, a mil
itary tyranny. According to this
veracious writer, all the murders of
Louisiana have been of Republican
negroes by Democratic whites. The
negroes nave not done any Killing ai
all. They have not outraged any
white women. They have not stolen
anything. None of them have been
killed by the whites in self-defense
and. for a justifiable cause. They
have not murdered one another.
This is what we are required to be
lieve, and when we believe it we shall
most unhesitatingly indorse the
truthfulness of 44 Gulliver's Travels"
and the 44 Arabian Nights." There
has undoubtedly been a good deal of
killing in Louisiana, just the same as
there has been in Ohio and Massa
chusetts. The population is sparse
and police protection scanty. To a
greater or less extent in the country
the people must protect themselves
with dogs and guns. A large major
ity of the negroes who have been
killed have lost their lives while en
gaged in predatory theft and robbery.
It is well known that no hen roost,
pig sty, or dairy in the South has
been safe from molestation since the
war, and that the robberies have
been so numerous and flagrant that
often rude and irregular justice to
the robbers has been administered
through the instrumentality of a vig
ilance committee. We do not know
that we should put on sackcloth and
ashes on that account. If there was
a strict and honest investigation
there is not the slightest doubt that
the immense majority of crimes com
mitted in the South are perpetrated
by negroes. " The Ohio negroes are
among the best in the country, and
yet official statistics prove that they
have six times the number of State
Prison convicts in proportion to
their population than the whites
have. -Yet we are asked by Mr. Phil.
Sheridan to- believe that it is the
whites who commit the crimes in
Louisiana. Gen. Sheridan instances
cases where the. people had asked
and compelled the resignation of
certain officials in a number of par
ishes.! Well, that is what the Dem
ocrats of New. York City did when
they made Tweed & Co. resign be
cause they were ' thieves. ' The peo
ple of -the Louisiana parishes had
precisely the same reasons. Their
officers were either 'thieves or they
had not given the bonds required by
law for the discharge of their duties.
Shall the people of the North lash
themselves into a foam on account
of this? Sheridan had been in : the
South just ten days when he made
this fabulous report. What did ..he
know of Louisiana affairs? Nothing.
He simply . wrote down the state
ments of carpet-bag . and negro
thieves, accepting them all as genu
ine. We want no other ' evidence of
the falsity of his. dispatch than the
fact that Kellogg," Casey," Packard,
Durell and others who had been the
authors 'of the "woes' of Louisiana,
have not been killed and no attempt,
has ever' been made 'against their
lives. .If such; a crew of ' thieves
sought to fasten themselves upon the
people of Massachusetts or Xew York
they would not live two hours before
the popular uprising it would pro
duce. The people of Louisiana have
been very forbearing under .the op
pressions to which they have been
subjected, and are entitled to credit
instead of abuse therefor. But even
if there were many .actual murders
in Louisiana, is that any reason why
the United States Government should
on account of it, murder popular lib
erty? That would be an assassination
of far more importance than all other
assassinations put together. We un
derstand well what, this murder cry
in the . South1 means. .' During, the
"-Iteign of. Terror' in France r1791-2-3-4
the bloodiest massacres and most
numerous x'ekectrti6ns,f wereP always
inaugurated mpon the j)lea that the'
caped the attcnuo.' 01 tuc
press, and to have bet firbt heard
of years after their purported occur
country was in danger. So, now,
when a State Government - is to be
subverted and freedom destroyed in
this country, it is upon the assump
tion that life and liberty are not safe
in the South. If they are not, is it
not the business of the United States
to apply a remedy? It is the fault of
the State and local tribunals, and it
will be rectified in time. Soldiers
cannot prevent murders. Their con
tinued presence in the South, as the
supporters of thieves, incites crime,
rather than represses it. The South
ern States that are the most free from
civil disorders are the States where
there is hot a soldier The "only
thing in all this business, the only
reason why the South is imposed up
on in the way it is, is simply to
coerce her votes by the bayonet for
the Radical ticket." It must stop.
Mule Leadership.
A lot of hybrid nondescripts mule
men in fact about .Washington.
"Professor Langdon," 4 'Fred Doug
lass," Src, have sent to Congress a
petition, or demand, rather, that
that body shall pass the "Civil
Rights" bill at once, or the negroes,
in their indignation, will do some
thing terrible, even vote the Demo
cratic ticket perhaps! If, with its
victims of a million of the very flow
er of the land in bloody graves, this
was not the saddest tragedy in all
human annalss it would be a farce
that the whole world would scream
over forever! Think of it! hybrids
offspring of the vilest sin possible
to either white or negro speaking
for the latter! Suppose a mule gets
into his mulish brain that he repre
sents the asses, and demands of the
horses that thoy shall equalize and
regulate their paces to suit the form
er a thing, if attempted, quite as
impracticable and damaging to the
hybrid as to both of the others! The
darkeys, the real, natural, God-made
darkeys, should revolt from this
mule leadership, which has all the
vices without any of the virtues of
either race, and in keeping with
i,J?eir sinful and revolting origin
are, 'ith the white negroes, and
traitors to" their own race, the cause
of nearly ai
the mischief at the
South. N. Y.
Don Book,
An Alarming- Stgn. The White
House despot is getting his toels
ready. His satraps and slavish
hounds in Congress are preparing to
retain power by the boldest revolu
tionary means. As we go to press,
our Washington correspondent tells
us that the Committees of the Senate
and House have a bill ready to re
port, which restores to the President
the rightto supeiid the writ of habeas
corpus in any State or portion of a
State. The powers of supervisors of
elections are to be enlarged, so as to
embrace cities as well as towns.
Grant's officials are to count all votes
and-certify to their correctness, &c.
Voters arc to be alloiced to rote outside
of their own district, instead of in it, if
thejf choose! This is to promote ne
gro frauds and repeating. There is
a vast deal more of this atrocious
character in the bill, all of which is
to shackle every anti-administration
voter in the whole country. The bill
will come rip for action at once. In
the name of all that is holy, can this
new administration be sprung upon
the country, by that miserable despot
of the White House, and the echo of
the people's thunder of last Novem
ber scarcely died away. JV. Y. Day
Hook. -
The Corvallis Gazette says: Capt.
Wilson, of the steamer Gov. Grover,
has discovered a new chute about
five miles below - Harrisburg, just
above Davidson's landing and below
Alford's chute. It is a good, deep
channel, and perfectly safe and clear
with the exception of a few snags at
the head. It saves great labor and
inconvenience of 4 "lining," as hereto
fore. The Grover passed up light
and brought down 100 tons without
experiencing any difficulty whatever.
It has been christened the "Channel
Wilson," in honor of the discoverer.
The Farmer says: Th'e following
resolution was adopted by Oak Point
Grange, No. 6, P. of H., at a meet
ing held in ITalsey, Saturday, Feb.
20th, 1873: Resolved, That we, as
patrons and farmers . of Oak Point
Grange, refuse to purchase any ma
chinery, wagons or other wares, or
merchandise through any agency Or
sub-agency where State agents for
said machinery, wagons, etc., refuse
to sell such to our regularly appoint
ed purchasing agents at the. same
rate given to merchants throughout
the State.
The Home Manufacturing Co., of
Marion and Linn counties, has final
ly disincorporated by a majority vote
of the stockholders, which was effec
ted at a meeting at Salem, 430 shares
of the COO being represented. Two
hundred and sixty shares have been
paid up, 10 in each share, 170 other
shares have paid 2 50 each, and 170
still other share have made no pay
ment at all. The expenses incurred
amount to over 500, besides Bowie's
time spent canvassing.
A Pbivter's Malediction . on a
Non-Payer. May he be shot with
lightning and compelled to wander
over powder. 3Iay the famine
stricken ghost of an editor's baby
haunt his slumbers. May a troupe
of printer's devils, lean, lank and
hungry, dog his heels each day, and
a regiment of cats caterwaul "under
his window every night. May his
daughters marry one-eyed editors,
and his sons wed female type-stickers.
A little girl on the train was asked
what motive was taking her to the
city. " I believe they call it the lo
comotive," said the little' innocent.:
Limberger Cheese.
A True Story of a Salinas Ifall,
From the San Jose Mercury.
"Not any in mine, if you please'
said Jim Boggs to our reporter, as
they were about to indulge in a
friendly glass of Tager at Alex Mul
ler's upon! whose well spread lunch
table Jim, discovered a fragrant Lim
berger. "I rayther soured on cheese,
leastwise on Limberger at the ball at
Salinas. I never told you about it;
did I?" . said Jim. : VWell, it was
when they had mud and fog at Salin
as, yon bet. , The; rrrud was ' so thin
and the fog was so thick that yon
couldn't tell which was which. Old
Peters had just built his hall and
the boys thought it about the square
thing to start off with a dance a
right nifty one; and when the Salin
as boys let themselves out, suthin'
had to come. You kin bet yer bow
els on that and stand a right smart
chance of gettin' a spare set of
in'ards
"It bothered 'em some to get their
boots in shape cause in them days if
a fellar walked on his hands his boots
would still be three feet under that
dobby mud. So they concluded to
bring their boots to the old hall
alongside the ball-room, and have
Pete, the boot black, shine 'em up
and then when they got ready the
fellars could get 'em there, and into
the dance without ary speck.
4 'So eleven of them brought their
boots and sent for old Pete and told
him to throw hisself, and not mind
expenses; and when he got done to
put in suthin' .so they could get 'em
on without being pounded on with a
maul. And then the boys went off
and had a sociable little game ef pitch
seven-up for the drinks.
4 4Pete blacked the boots clean up
to the tops and when he had gone
through 'em and stood 'em in a row,
you could see twenty-two Petes it
looked like the house was full of
darkies and then he fixed 'em , so
the boys could get 'em on easy, and
quit. -
4 4 After Pete had gone, along came
that infernal cuss Sam Jones. He
took a look at them boots and then
scratched his head like he was try in'
to think of suthin' and he started for
Johnson's store. 4I'd like a little of
that old Limberger of yours,' says
Sam to the Clerk. 4Like what!' says
the clerk. So Sam told him again.
4Not much you won't like it,' said
the clerk; 4but you can help your
self. It's out in the back yard.'
4 'Sam started for the back yard
but the clerk yelled to him to hold
on.
44 'You ain't fixed to go after that
cheese,' said the clerk. So he gave
him a onion to put in his mouth and
put a clothes pin on his nose and told
him to keep to the wind side of the
cheese and not to come back through
the store.
"It was a mighty heavy job, but
Sam got away with the cheese and
got back to them boots; and ho jest
mashed up the Limberger and put a
right smart chunk into each one of
them boots and then he went and
spilt kerosene and cologne on the
floor and burnt two or three old
shirts, and he got up such a smndge,
you would have thought a 'pothecary
shop was afire, and then Sam jest lit
out.
"The boys come in for their boots
about ten o'clock. They was putty
well set up and they naturally put it
up that the things that Sam had
strung around was what was the
matter, and then got into them boots
and out of the room as quick as they
could.
4 'Mighty nifty they looked in the
ball-room, and the boys that came
in from the ranches had to take a
back seat while them shiny fellars
waltzed in.
"It weren't long before their pard
ners began to- look wild like, and
their noses got sot up like old wim
en's when they go pokin' around the
house in the night time, askin every
body if they don't smell cotton burn
ing; and the fellars would quit and
go outside and stand on one foot and
twist their necks off tryin' to look at
their heels and " ask the Other fellars
if they saw; anything on their boots
beside the blacking;, and then desir
ed to know who some fellar was; and
then they'd go back and dance again;
and then the rest ; of the chaps went
out and looked at their boots . and
cussed and eat cloves, and just said
what they'd like to do, and they tried
to go on with the dance, but it got
too hot and the gals wouldn't dance,
but sat by the winders and said it
was awful; and -one or two fainted
"and the chaps got white around the
gills and the ball jest busted. Then
every fellar made remarks and insin
uations against some other chap, and
there was five or six fights; and when
they got home they . went snuffiin'
around the same wa3r and finally con
cluded it was in the . atmosphere; and
then when they. pulled off them boots
it was in the atmosphere so it would
well nigh knock a bull down; .and
eleven pairs of boots : went out of
eleven winders' and eleven of the
maddest fellars you ever : see lav
awake all night thinking what they'll
do in the morning with a shot-gun.
. 4 'Next day they found but who got
the Limberger,,' but Sam Jones had
gone ta Monterey-'.-. He came back in
about two weeks and packed a shot
gun all the while. . Whenever he
came across one of them cheese fel
lars he'd' make! him throw up . his
hands until he explained it , to him.
','1 were at the ball and I've had no
use for -Lamberger since, said Jim
The Record. has found,, by perusing
tue report 01 tne u. SAgncultural
Department for Januarv. that Or-
gon surpasses all other States in the
. m ...
production- ot : w heat the r average
vield beinsr 19 bushels to tho aorA
The :next highest ,is Connecticut,
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witn 19 misneis.
NO. 20.'
LAWS Ot' THE STATU OF ORE
GON. An Act to Prevent the Spreading of
Contagious and Infectious Diseases
among Domestic Animals, " ?
Be It Enacted by the Legislative-Asem- '
My of Oie State of Oregon :
Section 1. Any person, persons",
company, or corporation, who shall )
bring, or cause to be brought, or aid .
in bringing into this State any hog,"
sheep, horse or ' cattle of any kind, ''
or any domestic animal of any kind, 1
knowing the same to be affected with
any eontagipu&!pr inf ectious, disease T
shall , be r guilty, of a, misdemeanor,"
and on conviction be punished by a
fine not less than one hundred dol- -lars
(S100), nor more than one thou- ?
sand dollars (1,000).
Sec. 2. If any person or persons,
company or corporation owning or "
having possession or control of any
animal affected by any such conta
gious r or infectious disease, fail to .
keep the same within an inclosure,
or her4 the same in some place where
they will be secure from contact with
other animals of like kind not so
affected, or shall suffer such infected
animals to range where they will
be likely to come in contact with
other animals not so affected, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction, be punished by a fine of
not more than one thousand dollars
(81,000) for each offense. : - -
Sec. 3. All offenses under this act
may be punished by indictment.
Sec. 4. All fines secured under
this act shall be paid into the treasu-4
ry of the proper county for the use
of the common schools thereof.
Sec. 5. Any ; person, company or
corporation, violating any of the pro
visions of this act, shall be liable for0
all damages -sustained by any other
person, company - or corporation
through such violation.
Sec 6. All acts and parts of acts
conflicting with the provisions of this
act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 7. Inasmuch as the law now
in force provides no penalty, and the e
public interest greatly demands it,
this act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its approval by
the Governor.
Approved October lGth, 1874.
Attest:
S. F. ClIAiTWICK.
Secretary of State.
An Act to provide for the appoint
ment of Immigration Commission
ers in this State, and for the ap
. pointment of Honorary Commis
sioners in other States of - the
United States and in Foreign
Countries.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assem
bly of the State of Oregon :
Section 1. That the Governor is
hereby authorized to appoint a State
Board of Immigration, to consist of
five members, to act without salary
or other compensation, who shall
have power to adopt their own rules
and working regulations for the
transaction of their business, but no
rules to have force of law 80 as - to
affect third persons.
Sec. 2. lhat the Governor is here
by also authorized to appoint Hon
orary Commissioners in - foreiem
countries and in the various States
of the United States to invite emigra
tion to this btate, and to act for the
State of Oregon in circulating infor
mation as to the resources of this
State, and who shall act without sal
ary or other compensation.
oec. d. As this Act is deemed of
great public importance, it shall be
come a law immediately after its ap
proval by the Governor. '
Approved October 2Sth, 1S74.
Attest:
S. F. Cn.ADwicK, '
Secretary of State.
The Death of a Mother. AsiMa
from that of a wife, the death of a
mother has something in -it more
touching than any other event; it
bursts a tie which no other affliction
can possibly dissolve. ' For when
such an event los li-nrn tv IrL-
back upon the days of our childhood
wnen a iona rootner watcned.over
our 44 out-goings and in-comings,"
When the ' dull hours of rtiodit wpm
marked by her wakings. We think
we have done our duty when we lay
her in the grave, wetting it with our
tears, and raised a stone over lier
dust r and chanted a hymn to her
memorv. But there is a rlntv which
paternal affection has inrmoso1 rn-iori
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us and which nothing but stern con-
lormity to precept can perform; it3s
to follow her precepts and examples.
to take home to our hearts the sol
emn warnings which heaven-born
love dictates to practice -those vir
tues which ornament everv denarfc-
nient of life, and ,to cherish fondly
the memorv of her to whom we ar
indebted for life, for happiness, and,
we might say, Heaven. If we fail to
perform these, we : prove ourselves
traitors to our nature, to our con
science, and to , God. .
. A grave stone man from Decorah,
Iowa, has been at LeRoy taking or
ders for work. ', He', secured a job of
placing a monument over the 'last
resting place of a pious old departed
Methodist, with a-, design represent
ing finger pointing upward, with the
words, "Gone to Jesus." But as
the agent had just taken three t( whis
key straights," and tone 4cocktail,"
he turned the finger downward and
put ."by", in, the place of "to," it
gave the monument a queer look. ' '
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44 How do you like . the character
of St.i Paul?" asked a person 1 of ! his
landlady, one ;xlayv "O.'he i was it a
good, clever - fld f soul,, for fbe
once said, you auow, : " r""" - "
what is put before us, and aslr bo
questions for conscience flake.- I al
thoueht I should like nua .for
uirufi lio'r1.
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