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SHERMAN CuUNTY OBSERVER* Established Nov. 8, 1888
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL. Established Oct. 14, 1887
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6. 1981
WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891
CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4, 1982.
Grass Valley
Art Bibby is here this week and is
still in the notion of coming beck
here to live permanently. ‘
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Lieutenant
John Homewood and
Published Every Friday at Moro. Oregon, By
wife were here Sunday from Wyom
Managing Editor ing to see Mr- Homewood’s mother,
. GILES L. FRENCH
Mr*. L- R. French. They took their
little girl home with them.
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Miss Cassie Holmes is at the Wm.
Mitchell home caring for Marguerite
Entered as eecond-clMS matter at the ?oetoffice, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of Mitchell who was badly burned seV-
Congress of March 8, 1879.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 11,1983.
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Little Bobbie Johnson has been fl!
lately.
George Wilcox and daughter Janet
left for Portland Mbnday night for
a short visit while George attends
buyers week.
Harold Hughes and Arne Annuls
were
among the party that made the
. WHAT OF WHEAT?
elimb up ML Hood laat Sunday under
Fields of wheat that stood last week, trimmed of hay strip, direction of the Hood River post,
white strawed, red headed, are now being resolved into long American Legion- ,
strings of sacks and rows of yellow straw for it is harvest time
when wheat becomes a marketable commodity instead of a grow,
ing plant
What will happen to wheat as it enters the new stage is un-(
known. There is little of it, if 500 million bushels can be called
little, and a bounty has been placed on it to raise the price. Yet
the warehouses in the northwest are full. It begins to look as if
millers bought wheat before the tax became effective and do not
care to buy now that the price is higher. A company with a full
’ granary is not a good customer at a high price
If the market for flour falls off there may be a lull in the sell,
ing of wheat that will hold down the price for a time . Or it may
be that if benefits are paid to exporters for selling wheat across
the ocean that will
■ f stimulate sales It has been a long time since
the outlook for wheat was complicated by so many factors. -
Now the market is affected by crop* reports from harvesting
sections • In a few months reports df intentions to plant, fall rains
and favorable snows will change the market It is foolish to con-
....elude that next year the orop will be as small as it is this year.
We will probably raise more wheat on reduced acreage than we
grew this season. That will surely depress the market although
the farmer may be protected by an increased tax levied on the
millers
BY MOONLIGHT
Probably everyone in this section has ridden over the Colum
bia river highway on a night when a bright moon gave the hills
a misty,’ vague look and the water a bright sheen. On such
a night one might be riding in a dream, for moonlight, even at
its brightest,is a half light and in it common things and com
mon scenery assume strange looks.
The scenery along the Columbia is not ordinary scenery and
moonlight makes it appear more striking than usual. The hills
whether tree covered or the plain hills might be of some soft sub*
stance molded to fit the turns of the river while the river itsel
shines as bright as a new blade ready for cutting and slashing.
It may be a better way to look at the river than in the daytime
for while the hills are rocked ribbed and mighty they have been
cut and moulded by that comparatively slim stream as yielding as
it appears.
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PAYING FOR PREYING
The press has reported an occurance that seems to just beat
everything. A New Yorker, whose funds were permanently low,
was taken by a group of gun men and he was held for a goodly
ransom. None of his relatives could pay it, so, being gentlemen
of some ability at persuasion they persuaded the kidnappers to let
their victim go upon a promise to pay a small part of the asked
price at some future date.
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We Americans have bought radios, refrigerators, baby carri
ages, automobiles and nearly everything else on time, we have
paid fines on credit after regaining liberty, but dealing with rack
eteers on a time payment basis is something new, even to this
blase' generation Are times so hard with crooks that they are
taking up the installment method in order to increase business?
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With the approaching repeal of the 18th amendment there is
a serious problem that needs much thought; how to handle the
liquor business in a satisfactory manner? How to make every one
honest .and, how to make every one obey the laws are other pro-
b'ems in the same class.
Almost anything can happen to wheat in the next twelve
months. * With the government aligning itself on the side of the
farmer his position can hardly fail to be more favorable, however.
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Perfection is an elusive thing. We never quite attain it for
having won or accomplished our immediate end we cogitate a mo
ment and likely remark, ’’Now if,-^-”.
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The last administration had as its goal a car in every garage
and a chicken in every pot, this one is working for a job in every
family and beer in every glass
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We note the demand for and sale of that hybrid tool, a bottle
opener and a cork screw. Who said they never come back?
Dean Olds has moved from, the
Dugger house to the house formerly
occupied by the Tetz family.
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Phone in your order for fresh
Meats Fruits, Berries and Vegetables
at the Grass Valley Market., Spec
ial prices for harvest meats. Ice 75
cents per 100 pounds. Eggs taken in
trade Ear! Old*.
Miss Margaret Morgan is visiting
at the Frank von Borstel home with
Mrs. van Borstel- They attended
school together at Monmouth.
Henry Tetz is moving hi* house
hold Rufus preparing for the open
ing of school there within a few
weeks. Henry returned from sum
mer school just a short time ago.
Homer Wall and Judge McKee were
visitors here Tuesday while looking
over the county.
Parity Prices” Basis
Of Farm Relit
“In what Une of endeavor?”
“Cows."
"On a large scale?”
"Ob yes!”
"I should know him or of him, then.
What’s his last name?"
. "Latham. William B. Latham.”
Dun J afiné Miguel Hlguenes set
down bis glass and stared at her. “Is
Uncle Bill slightly lame lo his off bind
leg—just a suspicion of a limp?"
"Yes. Do you really know mv Un
cle BUI?"
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“No, I do dol But my late father
knew bim very welL They got Into
an argument once as to which was the
best for the country—the gold stand
ard or Bryan’s slxteen-to-one silver
idea. Your Onde BUI was un outcast
in Texas, at the time being a Repub
llcan. ‘ My father, of course. was a
Democrat.
Is their argument they
waxed persona 1. and finally your Un
eie
Bill callen
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archlxtlc greaser.
So my father
yelled: ‘Hurroo!
Faugh a-hallagh !*
and hit your Unde BUI on the noxe and
canted It five degrees to the south
east. My parent then ran to his hors«
to get his gun, which he wore In a
pommel holster, and on his way there
your Uncle Bill shot his hnt off. Thia
was getting personal, so my father re
taliated by -shooting your Uncle Bill
In the heel."
“Why, Uncle BUI never told me ahout
that, Don Jaime ”
“Why should he? He cam« off sec
ond best, dldi/t he? He was drunk
at the time and my father was Intoxi
cated, otherwise there would have
been two funerals. Father was heart
broken when be sobered up/and sent
his lawyer to your Uncle Bill to apol
ogize, so your Uncle Bill accepted the
apology and sent back one of his own.
When I was a very small boy your
uncle sold out his rancb to old man
Holiurt. whose son, Kenneth. Is now
my general manager. Doe* Uncle Bill
treat you with civility and decency?"
"Of course Nt does. He’s adorable.
He’s a love."
“Very well, then, I’ll not kill him.
You must agree, though, that I did yon
a real service In bumping off old Un
cle Tom.”
"Uncle Bill says you did.” Roberta
admitted. "But then he’s biased.”
' "My father always declared that
Uncle Bill was all wool and a yard
wide. . „ . Dinner’s ready, thank
God.
That stout saddle-color«^
male who appeared In the door Just
now says we’d l»etter come and get it
or she’ll throw It out."
“What an extremely old-fashioned
young man you ire, Don Jaime.”
“Please do not call me Don Jaime.
The dop Is really a title of respect,
and Is used by one's employees or so
cial inferiors—rather like having a
pullman porter address you as ’Judge'
ox ’colonel.’ You may cal) me Mr.
With the whole theory of the agri
cultural adjustment act based on
means of obtaining "parity prices”
for the farmers products, increased
interest is being shown in the chang
ing relationships between the things
farmers sell and those that they buy,
according to L. R. Breithaupt, exten-
sion economist at Oregon State col
lege. This is particularly true as to
wheat, now the object of a definite
control program.
The government index of prices
paid by farmers as of July 15 is 105
per cent of the 1910-1914 average,
now used as the normal period- This
is two points rise since June and five
points since March. As this index goes
up so will the price of farm pro
ducts need to rise if a fair purchas
ing power is to be attained-
The average price of wheat on
July 15 had risen to 869 cents a
bushel, or almost as high as the pre
war average, but since that time the the eastern markets via the Panama
price has gone down and commodity canal, the agricultural adjustment ad
prices have probably raised somewhat ministration is seriously considering
above the 105 index, so parity is not using a small percentage of the in
come from the processing tax on
yet in sight for wheat.
wheat to establish an export subsidy
As for Oregon, the farm price of or equalization fee by which to
wheat has not reached any such fig make possible export of this north
ure' as an unusually large spread has west surplus wheat to the Orient-
developed between Pacific coast cash Such action, it is stated, would not
wheat prices and those at Chicago. only restore the normal relationship
This has amounted at times to be between Chicago and western mar
tween 20 and 30 cents a bushel- When kets but would also protect the
one adds to this freight charges from markets of the entire country from
farm to terminal, it is seen that the being depressed by distress selling of
“front page” report of Chicago fu- Pacific coast wheat through the east
kure price is far above what the for what it would bring.
Oregon farmer can get for his
With this widening spread of
wheat
wheat prices coupled with the fact
This abnormal spread between the that western fanners usually have
Pacific Northwest and Chicago prices to pay somewhat higher prices than
is blamed on the excessive stored the national average, little hope is
supplies of wheat in this territory
- . seen for attaining
’parity” for
resulting from near collapse of the northwestern whieat growers unless
export
_ outlet the last two years. In some such method Is found for re-
»n eflTort to correct this situation and during the burdowom. export
sur-
avoid dumping the western wheat on plus in this region.
. They have toc EAT
Those men who pitch hay and work summerfallow
from dawn to dusk____-
Let us provide the foods, Staple Gro-
ceries Fresh Vegetables all reasonably
and fairly priced.
H. Zeigler’s "SS?
Grass Valley •
Oregon
anticipate a reverse in the market
which will pull him out, if not with a
profit at least without terrific loss."
“My father loved your Uncle Bill,
even if he did shoot him In the heel
and disagree with him politically. I
would be glad to give my fakher'a
1 friend a leg up. You live with your
Uncle Bill, I take It.”
"I’ve been his ward sini n member
of his household since my tenth hlrt’i
day. I have never known a wish he
hasn’t hastened to gratify, nt whatever
cost. So, you see. now that h«’» old
and Hable to suffer financial reverses.
It lx my duty to take care of him. a fid
for that reason my Uncle Tom’s estate
conies to me somewhat In the, nyjure
of a godsend.” .
"One more reason why 1 should bo
dealt with charitably tn the matter of
your deceased avuncular relative," the
Higgins, Mr. Hlguenes. James. Jimmy* young man suggested humorously.
or Jaime.”
“Well, we’ll pull you out all right on
“Very well, Mr. Hlguenes,’* the girl the sheep.”
“I understand the estate Is boarding
murmured In a very small voice.
Then: "Hold everything, mine host I on you. Mr. Hlguenes.
Don Jaime shrugged, “Es nada.” he
must run to my room for a handker
replied. "That Is. the grass they con
chief. I forgot to fetch one.”
Don Jaime gazed after her. There sume doesn’t amount to that," nnd he
was no doubt but that he approved of snapped his fingers. "Th? knowledge
her mightily. When his gaze shifted that I nm serving n distressed lady 1«
a rich reward."
it met Mra Ganby’a
Two mnids removed the empty soup
"How does she Impress you?" she
plates and set the roast down In front
queried.^
"Miss Antrim Is physically beauti of Don Jaime. ”A wild turkey,” he
ful and mentally alert. Yes. she’s as Informed Roberta. Then he sharpened
smart a young woman as you and I his carving knife nn the steel and at
will ever meet
Well raised, well tacked the bird, dissecting It in a very
spoiled, haughty, aware of her power neat nnd scientific manner.
"Can you cook. Miss Antrim?"
over men and just loves to use It
“Heavens, no!”
Sound at heart, though, t think.”
"I had heard It was a lost art with
“Will she be here long, Don Jaime?”
”1 do not know. In all probability the rising generation. I’m a rattling
she will not be here long enough to good cook, myself, If I do say sd. Most
please mA In fact if I hadn’t run I^itln males are. you ’know, ! enjoy
that Bill Dingle scalawag down the cooking Hah and game.”
"How ahdut boxing?"
road she wouldn’t be here now. *She’s
"Great sport. I have three \ n <i lieri » h
a new note In life to me. hut I’m not
who are paid five dollars a month
going to let her know she Is.”
I extra to box with me."
CHAPTER VII
Robbie, his pule face glowing from
his recent ablutions, arrived with Ro-
hertz and the four went In to dinner.
The table had been set In the gallery,
Don Jaime explaining that during the
summer they always ate outside.
Roberta appraised the table with
„ the eye of an expert. It was covered
with a white linen cloth; short-
stemmed red roses peeped from n Jade
green bowl in the center; the service
was of sterling silver and very old and
beautiful.
On closer Inspection she
saw that It carried a coat of arms.
“My great-great-great-grandmother’s
silver.” Don Jaime explained. "Fellow
in New York once heard I had it and
-sent his secretary down to buy it. He
offered me an unbelievably high price
for the service and didn’t seem to be
lieve me when I told him it was not
for sale. He Just kept tilting the ante
and couldn't seem to see he was an
noying me. Some people are like that
They think money is the beginning
and the end of everything."
Perhaps you would, also, Mr.
Hlguenes, if you had ever been poor,”
Roberta suggested.
"I’ve paid 12 per cent for rented
money.' ” he retorted, “I’ve had the
ranch mortgaged In bad years and
banks carried my father half his life-
time. Only those who are poor tn
spirit, who lack courage, can he really
poor.”
“Dn you not find life a little lonely
here?"
"A busy man Is seldom lonely. My
father spent his life in bondage to the
Irrigation system you probably ob
served en route here, but after his
death 1 completed It and transformed
a semlarld valley Into alfalfa and cot
ton fields. I got rid of the scrubby
long-horned cattle that were built for
speed and substituted Herefords, which
are built for beef. All this has been
a considerable task and fell to my
hands when I was eighteen. That
ten years ago.
•’After I was demobilized In the
spring of 1919 1 really started to put
this rancb on a paying hasis. I
cleaned up on cotton in 1919 and ’20.
And cattle price* were unbelievably
high. I bad a feeling, however, that
such a wartime prosperity wouldn’t
last, so I sold »11 my cattle In the
fall of 1920, and in 1921 I didn't plant
any cotton. Well, the market smashed
on both—and lucky Jim didn’t have
any I
"Instead I raised alfalfa and stacked
It; then I bought cattle for a song
when the banks and the governmental
loan agencies foreclosed. Cheap cat
tle and cl)eap feed, you know. 1 had
my moments of panic; the road was
rough and rocky In spots, although
that, of course, made it all the more
Interesting, the victory all the more
delightful. I think that when one has
had to fight for his land tnd his people
he learns to love both, no matter how
unlovely or unintereatlDg they may
appear to those whose lives have been
spent lh shelter and without effort.”
“My life has been spent that way, 1
must admit,” Roberta confessed. “And
I like It,” she adddd.
“Why not? You’ve never tried nhy
other life, have you?”
Roberta noticed that her host was
much more at his ease, now that their
conversation bad veered Into new
channels. It occurred to the girl too
that Don Jaime Miguel Hlguenes had
lived more In five minute* of his color
ful Life than had the last three genera
tions of Hacketta. And the Hacketts
were a long-lived race.
“What gainful occupation, if any,
does Mr. Latham pracUce now?” Don
Jaime asked Roberta.
"He plays the stock market.”
“With success, I hope.”
“He has always been very success
ful until recently, when he loet prao-
tlcally everything he had—or at least
k. W«OM hit. Io«t It wlthont th. »Id •
of same people who |ore him.
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We
Certainly.
After dinner you can
telephone your message to the office
at Los Algodone« and charge it to tr.a
account.”
”1 suppose 1 should go to lx>s Algo
dones In a day or two to consult with
my attorney.”
"Well, the longer you delay your
visit. Mi is Antrim, the more agreeable
It will be to Prudencio Alvlso. Prudy's
almost a full-blooded S|>aniard. About
one thirty second Aztec or Yuqyl, but
that’s enough to make him want t<»
take life easy. Be kind. Your visit
on a business mission will cause him
to bestir himself.”
Roberta laughed again—softly, sud
denly, for again she had a swift vision
of Glenn Hackett artd compared the
activities of his law office with the
somnolent status of Don Prudencio’»
Dgal mill.
“I feel like Alice in Wonderland. ’
she declared suddenly.
“Speaking of bees and birds and
sealing-wax, and cabbages and kings,”
lighted to have sold Prudy tn you.
Hex so slow, so deliberate; I kqnw
he’ll just lengthen out your visit to <
the Rancho Valle Verde until you get
to like the country.
Just now you
think my country's bare and lonely'
1 and desolate, but—It will grow on
I you. To one unaccustomed to wide
, horizons there is born, in Texas, a
i feeling that pne Is lost. But presently
one discovers that out of all tills lone
liness and vastness a surprising num
ber of good-natured and contented peo-
pel come; they’re friendly and they
do not talk too much, although they
do talk to the point. I’ll miss my guess
a mile If you find yourself without a
serious Interest In Texas. Mees—I
mean Miss—Antreefh—Antrim."
“He’s secretly excited, and dis
turbed,” Roberta thought. "Ihronounc-
Ing ‘I’ us *?.’ I wlsN dinner were over.”
Providentially, It was not a long
“That. 1 suppoRp,” said Roberta dry-? course dinner, such ns Roberta had ex
pected would be served and which she
ly. “appeals to your Irish blood. Arp
you of a reNglnug turn of mind$"
a had looked forward to with dread. A -
“Well, I built a church In my pueblo . soup, a salad, a roast, two vegetables,
a light dessert and hlack coffee. That
and I sup|M»rt a padre for my people.
was all. —
,l play the orgna in my church and
“Haruns his household like a sensi
Uve rehearsed the choir until It’s real
ly ratlier goo<|. ^Vou must enme to
ble man, at any rate," the girl re-
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mass witli me tomorrow and listen • fleeted.
to It."
She watched a humming bird flitting
from flower to flower, saw a quail come
“Why were you armed today? Do
forth and bear away a crust tossed
you always carry that arsenal?"
him by Don Jaime.
Then, as the
he replied soberly. “I do not.
.shadows lengthened, the mocking
But of late I have felt that discretion
birds, replete with food and happy,
might be the better part of valor. You
perched.In a lime tree and paid for
see, I have been unfortunate enough
their meal In melody. Roberta had
to make Romp new pnpinlps recently.
never heard a Spanish mocker before
The last time I went abroad unarmed I
and was delighted with the beauty
was carried home on a stretcher."
ami variety of their extensive reper
“I fear," the girl suggested, “that
toire.
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the Antrim sheep are preying to be a
“You arc fond of music?” Dou J aline
source of embarrassment to you.”
queried.
"Oh, not at nil! My enemies never
Roberta nodded nnd he tossed a
embarrass me, I assure you." He said
quick order In Spanish to one of his
It so simply, so earnestly, so absolute
dusky maids.
ly without brag or bounce, that Ro
From behind the climbing passion
berta laughed aloud.
vines on the gallery across the patio
"You are a new note In life," she de
a guitar was strummed; Roberta
clared. “Mrs. Ganhy, do you not find
heard the mellow notes of a harp as
Don Jaime a source of profound
unseen fingers ran the scale. Then
amusement?"
a girl’s voice—without much volume,
“Don Jaime, I must admit, is—dif
but wondrously sweet and sympa
ferent,” Mrs. Ganby replied guardedly.
thetic—commenced to sing "La Golon-
“I’m sure of it, Mrs. Ganby. He Isn't
drlnn."
a bit religious, but he Is very charit
“When 1 am unhappy," Don Jaime
able—so charitable. In fact, that I am
explained, “they sing that sad song to
certain he Is obliging me. In the matter
me nnd make me unhappier.”
of those sheep, at considerable loss
"Why don’t you have them sing
and nuisance and Inconvenience to
something Joyful?”
himself.”
"My dear Miss Antrim, no Higgins
"Not nt all," her host protested, "I
ever wants to be made happy when
expect to collect from the Antrim
he’s unhappy. It’s like enjoying poor
tate a reasonable fee for my services,
hen 1th. We must feed our racial mel
to reimburse me for my outlay or In
ancholy.”
convenience."
Roberta hn<! a feeling of helplessness
“You incorrigible Celt? Are these
In this man's presence, for he was a
professional entertainers brought out
from Los Algodones?”
new experience with her.
She had
“No, they’re part of the ranch as
never met a man who remotely resein
hied him— ro ruthless, forceful and
sets. That harp has been In our family
dominating.
since the first Higgins emigrated to
Madrid.
Hello, bub, you getting
Not knowing what to say, she
sleepy? Tired after your long ride to
was silent and attacked her meal.
day, eh?”
When presently, her glance met
Robbie had left his chair and climbed
Don Jaime's again he was smil
up Into Don Jaime’s lap; his thin little
ing at her, whereupon she itched
arih was around the brown, powerful
with a desire to pull hla undoubtedly
neck, his head cuddled under the big
Celtic nose. "He has all the audacity
square chin.
Don Jaime held him
and assurance of the Irish and all of
close with his left arm, and Roberta
the ego of the I-atln,” she thought.
noticed that with his right hand he
“What an
indolent,
semi-Insolent
gently massaged the atrophied mus
glance he has! And he isn’t good
cles of the boy’s left leg.
looking at all. Still he isn’t bad-look
The purple shadows crept over the
ing. He’s Just masculine and knows It.
patio, the music sobbed and mourned
All of his life he has been accus
behind the passion vines.
tomed to being high and low justice
I’resently Don Jaime shook Robbie
on this ranch; because these peons of
gently. "Come, son," he said softly.
his kotow to him he thinks he can get
“Say your prayers—in Spanish, as I
away with murder. He’s just a Mex-
have taught you. Nuestro padre—”
The sleepy voice spoke haltingly the
unfamiliar words, the man prompting
from time to time. When the prayer
was finished he rose and, with the boy
In his arms, stooped over Mrs. Ganby
that she might kiss her son good
night Then he passed around the
table to Roberta’s chair. "Innocence
and helplessness," Roberta heard him
murmur. “Who could not love It!”
He stooped over her and lowered the
boy until the childish Ups brushed her
choft; then he bore the lad off to bed.
The two women exchanged glances,
the mother’s eyes were moist “That
Is the Latin in him. Miss Antrim. He’s
Ml1
not ashamed to demonstrate his affec
tion.”
Roberta did not answer. She was
thinking of a remark that Crooked
Bill had once made in her presence.
“When children and dogs love a man
a woman Is usually safe with him.”
She wondered now If Glenn Hackett
loved children and dogs and decided
presently that he would love his own
children. If and when be had them,
but that he would not be interested in
“Just a Mexican Feudal Baron.”
<l<>gS or human beings beneath him In
the social scale.
lean feudal baron who has established
his feudal sway just far enough north
To be continued.
of the border to make good with It."
Hojack—What do you do with your
"Is It possible for one to send a tele-
dull
old razor blades T
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7°ur ~nch'
"•««'»«>’
Skookum
—Shave with them.
* Olked.^
mi' urn.