SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, Dec. 6, 1940
LOSS BY FIRES
GREAT ON FARMS
Bq B en A mes W illiams
SYNOPSIS
I
struck him down and then shot him,
and he lay like a dead man. But
one of the children, a little boy who
loved George, bit the hand of the
man who had shot. That man caught
the boy. and he broke the child’s
arm acror« his knee.
The white men could not even
catch the girls; so they came to
Mary's father's house and profaned
it. shouting and breaking things. The
child with the broken arm was
screaming, and the people were an
gry-
hJ.phiiiipj*
Fires Are Preventable,
Expert Asserts.
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
sr—
Mary knew that a man afraid is
PIANOS
«NV Wrrto
dangerous. The people on the Is
Ily PROF. J. R. RODGERS
George McAuiland uas 38 years old
land were strung tight with terror
(Agriculture/ Xngiaeeriag Pegarfment.
When he sailed from America to under
ORDER YOUR PIANO ItY MAIL
THE LAST PAIR
at seeing the Venturer approach so
Ummiil, uf MM* I
take his post as a missionary tn the Fiji
W« ship anywhere Frelaht i>rri»l<L
Scene!
Sonic
dceoUtc
spot
on
this
Islands A crime he had committed in a
soon after the massacre. They had
Loss from rural fires nveruges Yun may pu re hi»«« on our rimy pay-
fit of excitement had shattered all his
Inent plnn. Writ« for aalaloa* and
drugged Corkran to keep him ig earth.
confidence in himself He felt forced to
$400 every minute of the tiny, a loss particular
a.
GAarucfers.' Thr lutt tuo uiriiiori
avoid pretty Mary Doncaster, who board
norant of what was to happen; but
the
village
home
owner
or
farmer
of a umhl iior, a ; kiu named Stoopey
ed the ship al Honolulu
She «as en
COM-INS « ERWIN PIANO CO.
now
here
came
many
white
men.
might reduce by his own elTorts.
route to visit her parents, who were
and Droopey.
■nd Moor. Alderway Bldg,
Mary thought any small incitement
missionaries on Gilead Island.
Mary
Stoopey (us a hand grenude goes
Portland, Oregon
The farmer in particular, he points
was attracted by George's attempts to
might touch them into bloody mad over his head)—Hah! You missed
avoid her. One day George accidentally
out. must be his own building In
ness
again;
bring
the
war
clubs
out
that time!
fell overboard. Mary unhesitatingly' dove
spector, zoning officer and in an
GRASS SEED
into the sea to rescue George, who
of hiding, set them swinging
It
Droopey—I got the fellow behind emergency his own fireman and fire
falls in love with her. When the boat
would
be
important,
when
the
Ven
you.
approached her home on Gilead Island,
chief If he docs a good job In each
turer came in. to warn Richard and
CL1AI T1STSO MICBBLX OBÀSI
they learned that Mary's parents had
Stoopey—There's nobody behind
both died George volunteered to take
the others against asking questions. me. Or behind you either. They’ve case, he can do much toward reduc
from oertlfiod •erd. So pound.
charge of the mission Faced with the
ing an annual rural fire loss of about
Early I>«wp I'alry, Veradule,
All the others had disappeared; nil been killed off.
CHAPTER VII
necessity of losing Mary if he left her
1229.000.000.
Washington, Wai. 1444.
but Jarambo stayed with Mary,
now. George forced himself to ask her
Droopey—Gosh! has it got down
to be his wife.
Mary accepted his
When possible, farm buildings
squatting
on
the
platform,
waiting
Jarambo
sent
young
men
to
carry
to that? Are we really the only two
clumsy proposal, and they left the ship
should be in line at right angles to
to Uve In her former home on the island. George away and that was done; her commands. She bade him watch left’
The scanty dress of the natives shucked so when the white men returned to and tell her when the Venturer an
prevailing winds.
With this ar
DENTAL PLATE REPAIR
Stoopey—Yep.
George at first, but he soon became
rangement there is less danger of
reconciled to their customs. Mary dis the landing, he had been borne to chored.
Droopey—Well, who won?
HOUR SERVICE I b M oi IC sisi
covered that Corkran. a sailor friend of 1 safety.
’1 the late afternoon Jarambo re
Stoopey (sadly)—It's still a lie. I sparks being carried from one build
Brixf at Mail Tear Fiatai
George's, had descried ship to Uve on the
Iloofs of major
When they were gone. Jarambo ported that a boat from the Venturer guess you and I'll have to light it ing to another
Island He had come there to help George
1er
Repair-CREDIT ExtaulaR
buildings
should
be
of
tire
resistant
and Mary if they needed him. Their ; and the other old men decided what was rowing toward the mouth of the out
peaceful life was interrupted one day to do to these white men who had bay. It would be night. Jarambo
material. Chimneys muy be cleaned
Droopey—Hold on a minute . .
D r . H arry S cmur ,
when a ship stopped in the harbor in
search of pearls. They see the pearl hurt the child. So by and by many said, before the whaleboat came into we oughta think that over.
If I of snot using a few bricks or rocks
Alita « Blfcfc <
A Miill'IO«» .• BOaHAN» O«l
in a sack at the end of a long
divers attacked and their schooner sunk of the strongest girls swam off to the the roads; and she told him to build win you're left till alone.
*
It
you
by a pira’e
The pirates head their schooner, with flowers in their hair, a fire on the shore for a beacon
win I'm all left all alone. There rope. Furnaces, stoves, and stove
boat toward the bay near their village.
And No Antidole
pipes properly installed and Inspect
at the landing place, and to help wouldn't be any fun in that
George sends Mary inland for safety and laughing.
Bobby What is the deadliest pol-
walks down to the beach, alone and de
ed
regularly
reduce
a
common
"And it was night," Jarambo told them at the landing.
Stoopey—It might be an excellent
fenseless. to meet the unwelcome vis
son known to man?
When sudden dark descended, idea. That makes everything a to cause of fire.
itors. Natives carry him back to Mary Mary, squatting at her feet. "In the
Andy—I dunno; what do you
dark, many canoes went quietly on Mary brought one of the whale oil tal loss. The complete end of a
hours later, shot through the shoulder.
A system of grounded conductors
think?
the water, and many young men. lamps and lighted the wick «nd set
gives protection against lightning
Bobby—Aviutlon: One drop 1 will
< The white men on tha ship were it here by George's bed. Jarambo
CHAPTER VI—Continued
Carelessness in handling lamps and
kill any ordinury human being.
busy with our girls; and then we went to tend the beacon fire, and
—7—
lanterns, in disposing of ashes, in
Mary asked one of the young men came aboard in the dark, the girls she was alone.
storing and handling gasoline and
Our Existence
for Jarambo; but he shook his head, held them lovingly while our war
She heard shod feet come up the
kerosene and in*allowing rubbish to
not looking at her. If George had clubs cracked their skulls."
path toward the house; and she rose
accumulate where it becomes a fire
"That was a bad thing. Jaramoo.” and went from her husband's side
Existence is not to lie measure^
not filled her thoughts, excluding all
hazard accounts for many farm
by mere durution. An oak ilvM
else, she must have seen a tautness Mary said.
through the big central room to the
fires.
He answered, "It is done.” He door. In darkness there she met a
in centuries, generation after gen
in these young men, as though they
The U. S. Engineers report that
eration of mortals the meanwhile
were waiting, listening. But she said slowly, intoning an ancient tale: man. and thought him her uncle, total war, see? No more arguments, many serious rural fires have been
pussing uwuy; but who would ex
thought only of her husband; and "The white men came ir old times and cried: “Uncle Tom!” and went no more back talk, no more alli avoided because Udders were al
change for the life of a plnnt,
when in midafternoon he opened his and killed my woman, and my moth into his arms, clinging to him. But ances, no more trouble with any hand and water or fire extinguishers
though protracted for ages, a sin
eyes and looked at her, she spoke er, and my father, and my two sons. she knew as she kissed him and felt body.
were readily available. Thia is a
gle day of the existence of a liv
in a quick tenderness, close beside Also they took my daughter, Be- his lips that this was not her uncle,
Droopey—That would be terrible. safety measure that is always highly
fore that, I was a man. Now I am and she pressed back, peering up
ing, conscious, thinking man?—
him.
Stoopey—But it would be what we desirable.
Cuird.
at him.
"Quiet, my dear,” she said. a man again."
have-bcen working toward all along!
When she could speak, her senses
• •
"You’re all right. We're safe. Qui
"It's all right, Mary. Don't you
clearing,
she
asked:
“
Jarambo,
did
et Rest my dear.”
know me? I'm Peter Corr." Before
Droopey—No; the winner would
He stared past her. stared straight the white man with the talking bird she could free herself, he kissed her still have his hate left. What would
up at the thatch above them. She help you kill those men?”
again, his beard rough against her he do with that?
He answered, with a shrewd glint cheek and chin.
thought he did not know be spoke.
Stoopey (thoughtfully—That's the
While feather picking, cannibal
He said: “They were angry because in his eyes: “No one knows what a
"Peter?" she cried. "Oh, I’m glad hard part A man would have to ism. and egg eating arc in part the
white
man
will
do
about
killing
white
no canoes met them. They smashed
you’ve come!” Then she saw some hate somebody. It would be part of result of dietary deficiencies, over
their boat against the rocks getting men. That white man with the bird one behind him. tall and slender, his nature after all these years.
crowding is important among the
ashore, and that made them more which talks was given sleep to drink, and she asked, trying to see in the
Droopey—Yeah. But there'd be causes, according to H W Titus of
Crromul.iion relieve« promptly be-
angry. One was a red-headed man and he sleeps now. He did not see half light: "Who is it?” Then, see noURdy he could hate, except him the federal bureau of poultry nutri
cuir.<- It goes right to the seat of the
the
ship
come.
He
will
not
see
it
trouble
to help loosen and expel
with a red beard and red hair all
ing more clearly: "Why. it’s Tom self.
You couldn't hate yourself. tion. It has been found that feather
germ laden phlegm, and old nature
over his chest. They all had guns. go. Soon it was never here.”
my!” Her voice broke, her eyes
Stoopey—There would be nothing picking Is less likely to occur if the
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
His eyes as he spoke looked down filled with happy weeping. "Why.
I told them we didn’t want them
else to do. And at this stage of diet contains about 20 per cent of
flamed bronchial mucous mem
at
the
schooner
in
the
roads;
and
here, and the red-headed man put
Tommy, how you've grown!” She hatreds it would be easy.
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
barley or oats.
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
• •
his hand against me and pushed me Mary saw that some sort of sail was caught him. and he clung to her.
"Cannibalism" is a term used by
derstanding you must like the way it
over backward. One of the others set on her, and that she now moved young arms tight around her neck,
Droopey—There must be some
quickly allays the cough or you are
shot me before I could get up.” He > slowly toward the sea.
hugging her hard. He did not speak, way out. Let’s compromise. Let's some poultrymen in referring to the
to bave your money back.
When the schooner was now out and she smiled to herself, thinking: call it oft. You and I as the last habit sometimes developed by chick
looked at her with a deep shame at •
ens
of
picking
one
another's
toes,
side
the
bay,
a
little
skein
of
blue
his own weakness. "I fainted, Mary,
He's so glad to see me that he’s two survivors can then hate each
combs, vents, feathers, and other
smoke had begun to rise from her crying, doesn’t dare try to talk for
like a woman.”
for Coughs, Ches? Colds, Bronchitis
other and be quite happy about it
parts of the body Used in this sense,
"You couldn't do anything against hatch. It became a black and grow fear we'll know. She asked: "How’s
Stoopey (suspiciously)—How do I
the term also includes feuther pick
their guns, George. Now rest, dear.” ing cloud.
Uncle Tom, Tommy?"
know I could trust you? The first
Love Is Sight
She
whispered:
“
They're
burning
His eyes closed. “Like a wom
But Tommy, without answering, thing I know you might soften up ing; it is however, more common
Love is not blind. It is an extra
to restrict its use to those cases
an," he muttered again, and sighed, her!"
only held her harder, and Peter and want to be friendly.
eye which shows us what is most
where blood is drawn.
Jarambo brushed his hand, flat, asked urgently: "Mary, where's
and slept.
Droopey—There was a time when
worthy of regard.—J. M. Barrie.
In the morning George was strong . the palm down, across a rock/ He your father?”
Cannibalism is of most frequent
you wouldn’t have thought that a
er, able to sit up with Mary to sup said again as he had said before:
"Father's dead, Peter. He and bad idea.
occurrence in overcrowded flocks,
port him, her arms around him, his “That ship was never here!”
Mother died before we got here.”
Stoopey—I know, but this hate but it may be due to some as yet un
The pillar of smoke rose slowly Then, in the doorway: "This is my
shoulders leaning against her breast
business has gone on so long it’s known deficiency of the diet because
ADVISES
The young men were gone when she above the schooner. Mary watched husband. George McAusland.”
become a habit. I'm an addict the feeding of oats and barley ap
woke; but later they returned, and it rise higher and higher between
Peter stood by George's bed So are you.
pears to be of some value in pre
Mary saw a red gleam in their her and the blue saucer of the sea, "Husband?” he muttered.
Droopey—Maybe you’re right. O. vention. The use of ruby-colored
eyes, and their eyes would not meet her eyes following the tip of that
"He's sick.” she said.
K.! Stop worrying. If I give you window panes and ruby-colored elec
ENTERING
hers. She wondered, and her heart black cloud till like a pointing finger
"He sure looks like it!”
my word to keep hating you 100 per tric lamps in the noultry house is
began to beat hard with a sort of it reached the saucer's rim, the hori , "And—he's been hurt." she admit cent I'll keep it. And I'll expect as often a simpler means of prevent
premonition, but she was not afraid zon there, where the smoke-finger ted. looking back to see if Jarambo much from you. (Wearily) Say, ing cannibalism.
of what would happen. She thought pointed, the square topgallant sails had come in with Peter and Tom what was everybody fighting for.
Thoueende of young glrla entering wom-
Egg eating is also likely to de
enhood have found a "reel friend'' In
that in some strange way she was of a full-rigged ship, the rest of her my, wondering how much just now anyhow? I forget.
velop
as
a
result
of
overcrowding;
l.ydla E. Pinkham'« Vegetable Oom
terrified by something already past; still below the horizon.
to tell Peter. She asked again:
Stoopey—A better world. Every however, the tendency to eat eggs
pound to help them go "amlllnz thru"
The
canvas
of
those
sails
was
reatleae,
moody, nervoua apalla, and
but she decided this was merely the
"Where’s Uncle Tom?”
body was determined to get it if it is markedly stimulated by a defi
reUeve rrampa, headache, backache and
reaction from her alarm of yester dark, blackened by 'be soot of
Peter said slowly: “Your uncle's took the last man.
emberraaaing fainting aprlla due to l-tnale
ciency of calcium in the diet.
functional Irregularltlae. Famoua for over
day, now eased, and put the fear many fires. She was a whaler! The 1 dead, too, Mary.” She noticed that
Droopey—And it damned near did!
^■0
yeara. WORTH THY1NUI
Venturer, so ldng expected, was i he did not look at Tommy, seemed
• •
aside.
“What has happened?” she asked. coming at last to Gilead.
careful not to.
Stoopey (looking around)—Well,
Somewhere along the mountain far
His eyes flickered with something
She was curiously not moved by anyhow, we're near that new order,
curiously like dismay; and he looked away a voice sounded in a long cry, | this intelligence, as though she were that new setup.
Clear Vision
at his companion, then at Mary and nearer another, and then others. ' immune just now to grief. She only
Soundness of intellect is clear
Droopey—Boy, you can have it!
again, without replying. She insist The sound spread like ripples in a j said: “Dead?”
ness of vision.
Danger of colds in the poultry
Capital gone, the economic system's
pond, flowing down the mountain
ed: “Is the ship still there?"'
Peter wiped his brow with his gone, the bankers are gone, the crit
flock will be lessened by keeping
She realized that he was confused side, reaching them and going on. hand, looking down at George. He ics are gone, barriers are gone, fron
the birds free from worms. Colds
by some strange sense of guilt; and Jarambo at her feet looked up and said: "Yes. And my father's sick tiers are gone . .
and worms often run hand in
everything.'
her pulse pounded in her wrist. She spoke.
aboard the Venturer, Mary. I think
hand, since worms lower body
"Your man wakes,” he said, and he’s going to die. Dick said your
looked back at George. He was
resistance.
Stoopey (his eyes falling on some
asleep, so for the moment he no watched her warily. "He calls you.” father knew something about doc thing in the wreckage) — Look.
Watch the droppings and ex
She turned to go to George, but toring. He asked, in a curiously boy There’s part of a broadcasting set
longer needed her. She said firmly
amine the intestinal tract of birds, 's
she paused again and said, after a ish perplexity: "What are we go
to the young men:
dressed for eating. If worms are
over there. With just you and I left
“Take me to Jarambo. Or bring moment, in careful explanation: ing to do?”
•
found, treat the flock with indi
it's going to be awfully lonesome.
You'll like the way It »nape you be. k to the
“Jarambo, the ship that comes there
Jarambo to me.”
She said: "We haven't any medi We could put it together and still
vidual worm capsules. A num
teelln* of ''ratin' to So" lltneea and Internal
After a moment, one of them is my father’s." She could not re cines here. We’ve had a lot of peo have the radio.
ber of satisfactory worm expel-
deanltneae. Nut a miracle worker, but tf
temporary rotutlpotlon la cauelng Indlsee-
turned and darted off through the member the native word for "un ple sick and dying on the island.”
lers are now available on the
Droopey—What! and listen to
Oon. headache«. llalleMneae. Garfield ten
forest. The other spoke, bidding cle" if there was one. "My man
“I'll go send the boat back, send EACH OTHER!
market.
will certainly "do wonders." rat« SAMPltl
her come. Presently ahead of her and I will go away in her." She them word your father's dead,” Pe
ISc
Me at druSatoree
After
treatment,
thoroughly
(He shoots Stoopey, who doesn't
she heard a call go down the moun looked down at him and saw his ter said.
clennse and disinfect the poultry
For Prompt Relief
seem to care much.)
eyes waver, "Better we go,” she
tain, summoning Jarambo.
• • •
house. Remove and burn ail drop
She nodded, and his footsteps de
"My man will die parted toward the landing.
Soon Jarambo spoke at her elbow said gently,
She
pings or scatter them in a far
IS THERE NO LIMIT
vr L
without ■ffliFIrall
here.”
and she turned.
turned tc the boy. Him at least she
away field. Also keep the birds
"God Bless America" is a pretty
opietrs or quinine
He muttered: "Ship sees smoke.” could help, just by loving him. "My,
The old man met her eyes and
confined for 38 hours.
fine patriotic number, and it has be
GARFIELD
She understood that he was sullen I’m glad to see you. Tommy! I'm
waited. She had never been afraid
Birds with colds should be pro
come the American song of the cri
HIADACHI POWDER
of him, but she was afraid of Ja with fear that the ship now ap so sorry about Uncle Tom.” She sis, but something should be done
tected against drafts and over
10c 25c
rambo now. There was that in his proaching would punish the Island kissed him again.
crowding, and fed a balanced ra
doctor if ho.idac ho• pwr• i • t'
to protect it in the clinches. Night
eyes she had never seen there, a ers for the killing done last night,
Tommy spoke carefully, knuckling club comics sing it immediately fol
tion.
blaze like a leaping fire, a drunk and she told him, reassuringly, his eyes. "I haven’t cried before, lowing pretty raw interludes, mas
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48 40
fury, a reckless intoxication. But pointing to the burning schooner, Mary, till I saw you.”
ters of ceremony call for it after
this was not the drunkenness of rum. using his own words: “That ship
"I know, dear.
But It helps, their most risque moments, and, be
Makes for Interest
Nevertheless he was drunk with was never here.”
doesn't it? You’ll feel better now.” lieve it or not, in one Broadway
Uncertainty is what gives life its
Mary told Jarambo: “My man She asked, groping to find a need in
something. She looked at him in
picture and vaudeville house a fat,
interest.
tently; and suddenly her head rose. must be carried to the house, We him which she could fill: "Do you
coarse, faded female blues shoutcr
Average per capita consumption of
go to him now.”
She said:
want to talk about it?"
swings into it with a comedian, after fruits and vegetables in America is
When they came to the lodge deep
"Jarambo, tell me.”
“I saw it happen,” he said. "I they have both been giving a club
at least two to three times greater
He said, under his breath: "Long in the forest where they had hidden was in the crosstrees with a glass."
George, she found that he had His tone nuzzled her, stiff and re smoker atmosphere to the proceed than 20 years ago, and maybe six to
time we were men.”
ings. And with an enormous Amer ten times that of 40 years ago, ac
waked fretful and hot with fever.
She waited.
strained. "Peter’s boat was right ican flag as their backdrop! It may cording to officials of the Great At
She spoke quickly to old Itaui. there . . .” They heard Peter re
He spoke explicitly, from the be
be too much to expect them to see lantic & Pacific Tea company. This
ginning. When the schooner an "We shall lake him home.”
May Warn of Disordered
turning. and the boy stopped, bit off anything wrong about it, but isn't it greater domestic consumption is at
Mary went ahead, to make his bed the word, watching the door where
chored, George's insistence kept the
Kidney Action
time the audience started throwing tributed to modern refrigeration and
canoes ashore; but presently a boat ready. In the house she saw that after a moment Peter appeared,
Modem life with Ila hurry and worry.
improved transportation.
things?
,
Irregular habit«. Improper eating ana
put off from the vessel with three rough hands had been here rummag Mary wondered why. She asked Pe-
drinking—Ita rlak of eapoeurn and Infec
white men in it. Those white men ing; saw her own garments pulled ter:
tion—thrown heavy atraln on the work
WITHOUT GAS MASKS
of the kidney«. They are apt to become
did not know the landing place, and out and strewn around; saw all her
"Will you and Tommy stay with
over-taxed and fall to Alter eirrae arid
"Hitler and Molotov Talk for
they went toward the beach, but possessions in disorder.
and
other Impurities from the llte-tivina
George while I change my clothes?"
Three Hours.”—Headline.
Old stumps can be burned out with
blood.
they saw that the surf there was
She had come swiftly down the
"Sure. You look pretty tired. Go
You may «offer nagging backache,
And they promised there would the use of saltpeter. First, put a
impracticable, so they came along trail, and she had time to remove to bed, why don't you? I'll keep an
headache, dicalneaa, getting up nlghta,
be no gas warfare this time!
hole two Inches in diameter deep
leg palna, «welling—feel conatantly
the shore and they shouted, and the more obvious traces of their in eye on him.”
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tired, nervoua, all worn out. Other algna
into the stump with a drill or hot
some of the children went out of vasion before George, muttering in
of khlnoy or bladder disorder are aome-
"Oh, I’m not sleepy!” She left
Elmer Twitchell saw a friend of iron. Drop two ounces of saltpeter
tlmea burning, «canty or too frequent
the jungle to the landing place, and a half delirium, was brought home. them in George's room, crossed to
urination.
then some of the girls. When the On his own bed, he sighed and her own room in the other end of his going downtown the other night into this hole and fill to the top with
Try Doan'» Pill«. Dnon'i help the
kidney« to paaa of! harmful eareaa body
white men saw the girls they tried seemed to sink and grow small and the house, came back with a lamp with his wife, his wife's mother and water. Plug up the hole entrance
waate. They have hed more than half a
to land, and their boat was broken weak and helpless; and he slept. to light it from the burning wick his wife’s two sisters. “Under con and leave until the liquid has been
century of public approval. Are recom
absorbed into the wood. Then fill
mended by grateful uaera everywhere.
against the ledge; but they climbed Mary covered him, and Jarambo here. Tommy had disappeared. She voy,” he muttered.
e e •
Ailt your neighbor!
the hole with paraffin or fuel oil and
ashore. They were angry because of came to her side. She thought the asked: “Where’s Tommy?”
set
on
fire.
If
enough
of
the
chem
Mr.
Green
and
Mr.
Lewis
want
a
the loss of the boat, and when old man clung to her as though for
"Outside somewhere,” Peter said
labor peace no matter who gets hurl ical nas been used, the fire should
George came down the path and protection from the punishment of I , briefly.
burn until the stump la consumed.
at it.
spoke to themt one of the men i his sins; but no one else came near. I I
(TO HE CONTINUED)
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2
Overcrowding Has Effect
On Poultry Cannibalism
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
CREOMULSION
YOUNG
GIRLS
WOMANHOOD
Worm-Free Chicks
Safer From Colds
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GARFIELD TEA
Sale of Fruit, Vegetables
Doubles in Twenty Years
Nadine
Backache
Burn Out Stumps
D oans P ills