The Kiowa Journal from Kiowa, Kansas • 1

I KIOWA, the gateway to the Cheyenne and Arrappahoe country and the KIOWA, the gateway to the Cheyenne nd Arrappahoe country and the sua? uifloent Cherokee Strip. It the' terminus of the Missouri Pacific, and the through line of the' Santa Fe, which goes everywhere. The Kiowa Journal. magnificent Cherokee Strip. It is the terminus of the Missouri 1'bciflc, and oik the through line of the Santa Fe.

Which goes everywhere. VOL. XIX NO. 26. KIOWA, BARBER COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEB.

11, 1904. THE GIRL AT THE HALFWAY HOUSE Contest Teetetaler's Will. The relatives of a Frenchman wbo left 800,000 for the building of hospitals for teetotalers are contesting the will, principally on the ground that are not sufficient teetotalers in the neighborhood to mako the hospital necessary. Mor Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out or Wow by using Defiance Starch you obtain lietter results than possible with any other brand end one-third morn for same Mouoy. Many a man is on the cvcl and yet hns an up-hill time of it.

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A STORY THE PLAINS BY HOUGH. AUTHOR OP TUB STORY OF TUB COWBOY if AHittun Wise is the man who doesn't write a truthful story of his life. Danish Bacon Factories. Danish co-operative bacon factories now have about 66,000 members, and last year they killed 636,000 pigs and 10,000 head of cattle, amounting in money to The price received for bacon In tho English market averaged 4 cents a pound above the average price for bacon from other countries. barely by one vagrant ray of light which left the massed shades piled strongly about the heavy hair.

There came upon him at that moment, as with a flood-tide of memory, all the vague longing, tho restlessness, the Incertitude of life which had harried him before ho had come to this far land, whoso swift activity had helped him to forget. Yet even hero he had been unsettled, unhappy. He had missed, he had lacked he knew not what. Tho young woman rose, and stood out a pace or two from the shadows. She turned her face toWard Frunklln.

He felt her gaze take In tho uniform of blue, felt the stroke of mental dislike for the uniform a dislike which ho knew existed, but which he could not fathom. With a strange, half-shivering gesture the girl advanced half a step and laid her head almost upon the shoulder of the elder woman, standing thus for one moment, the arms of tho two unconsciously entwined, as Is sometimes the way with women. Franklin approached rudeness as he looked at this attitude of the two, still puzzling, still seeking to solve this troubling problem of the past. There came a shift In the music. The air swept from the merry tune into the minor from which the negro is never musically free.

Then In a flash Franklin saw it all. He saw the picture. His heart stopped! This music, it was the wail of trumpets! These steps, ordered, measured, were those of marching men. These sounds, high, commingling, they were the voices of a day gone swiftly by. These two, this one this picture it was not here, but upon the field of wheat and flowers that he saw it now again that picture of grief so infinitely sad.

Franklin saw, and as he gazed, eager, half advancing, indecision and irresolution dropped from him forever. Cuikf I'oitTKii WAltJca. Ohiei i'orter of the Creeks has itisufd this circular: "I would earnestly warn the people against i-iy i any paper or making contract of whatever kind rcscctug their lauds, either lease, rent or sale, unless they nro fully comcious of its contents. It would be infinitely better for our people to regain their land, even If not so much proflV'accnies to them, until they bevouie better acquainted with the laws governing the use of their land. It may lie admis-sable In some instances for our people to make a sale of a portion of their land, but as rule the policy of retaining is by fur the safest course to pursue.

For. Honu Issues. A measure which means much to the principal cities of Oklahoma has been introduced by Delegate MoGnirc. It is in relation to the issuance of bonds by school districts having a bona fide population of not less than 5,000 persons und authorizing' the issuance of such bonds for erecting necessary school buildings and the purchase of ground for the same. I'nder the old law there were requirements hard tmeetand in many of the cities it is impossible to comply with them.

A Cau RoBBKD, -A local freight car was robbed between Waukomls and Hennessy, of considerable of its eon-tents which hail consisted of shoes, coffee, under-clothing, bar glassware, whisky in cases, etc. Home looters had taken one case of whisky, a part of the underclothes and probably shoes, as the latter were scattered loose all over the cor. A Tki.f.I'HONK A merger of several telephone lines formed a system which will control 25 exchanges. 3,000 miles of pole linos and 3,000 miles of vrirc circuit, mostly in the two territories, but it also extends Ertei.iNQVKST Tanks. P.

C. Simons, the new attorney general, holds that all taxes do not become duo upon the first half becoming delinquent, lit-says: "I oonstruo this law to mean that the first half of the tunes on the 15th day of December following the assessment and the second half becomes due on the 15th day of the following June. If the first half is not paid by the third Monday in January following the assessment of taxes, then the same becomes delinquent. If the second half is not paid by the 15th day of June, tben they will become delinquent on the third Monday in January following. To Drain Valley.

The first movement of a plan began this week in the beginning of the work of draining the big bend of tho Salt river valley in the southern part of Pottawatomie county. Back of the work of reclaiming these lands is Oklahoma City capital, and there arc also interested in it capitalists from Texas and Mississippi. The first district to be drained includes J0 000 acres of as rich bottom land as there is in Oklahoma, but which, by reason of overflow, has been rendered unfit for cultivation. Will Cloud Titi.k. An Atoka dispatch says that whatever the outcome of the suit of the M.

K. T. railroad company to recover alternate sections along its right of way in Indian Territory, there is no doubt that the suit will cloud title to a great deal of land. The city of Muskogee is located on an alternate section claimed by the railroad. The case rests upon the right of congress to grant lands, for which the government had no title, to railroads.

Cbkeks' F. U. Severs, of Muskogee, I. claims to be the only white person now living ever adopted by the Creek tribe of Indians. As far back as the Creeks have Somewhat Ambiguous.

"My dear fellow," said Brown to his friend Jones, who was bespeaking his attendance at Smith's funeral, "I never go to ceremonials of this description unless I have loved and liked the man through life. This Invitation 1 must, therefore, decline. If it were you about to be burled, I would go with pleasure." Can You Spell? Try This. If you you are well up In spelling, just try to spell the words in the following sentence: "It is agreeable to witness the unparalleled csctasy of two harassed pedlars endeavoring to gauge the symmetry of two peeled pears." Read It over to your friends and seu how many mistakes they make. of the room.

"I'm pleased to meet ye all this ovenin'. Perhaps yc all know Battersleigh, and I hope yc'U all meet me friend Captain Branklln, at me side. We claim the lnthroductlon of this roof, mc good friends, and we welcome everybody to the first dance at Ellisville. Ladies, yer very dutiful servant! It's well ye're Mrs. McDermott; and Nora, gyurl, sure ye're charmln' the night.

Kittle, darl-in', how do ye do? Do yo remember Captain Franklin, all of ye? Pipe up, ye naygurs that's right. Now, thin, all hands, choose yer partners fer the gr-rand march, sure, with Jerry's, permission. Thank yc, Mrs. McDermott, and me arm so." The sheepish figures of the musicians now leaned together for a moment. The violins wailed in sad search for the accord, the assistant instrument less tentative.

All at once tho slack shoulders straightened up firmly, confidently, and then, their feat beating In unison upon the floor, their faces set, stern and relentless, the three musicians fell to the work and reeled off the opening bars. A sigh went up from tho assembly. There was a general shuffling of shoes, a wide rustling of calico. Then, slowly, as though' going to his doom, Curly arose from out the long line of the unhappy upon his side of the room. He crossed the- intervening space, his limbs below the knees curiously af CHAPTER XIII.

Continued. The hours grew older. At the heart of the hall the musicians manifested more signs of their inexorable purpose. A nd protesting squeal camo from the accoidlon. The violins moaned, but were held firm.

The worst might be precipitated at any moment. But again there was a transfer of the general attention toward the upper nd of the hall. The door once more opened, and there appeared a little group of three persons, on whom ere was fixed a regard so steadfast and so silent that It might well have been seen that they were strangers to all present. Of the three, one was a tall and slender man, who carried himself with that ease which, itself unconscious, causes self-consciousness in those still some generations back of it Upon the arm of this gentleman was a lady, also tall, thin, pale, with wide, dark eyes, which now opened with surprise that was more than half Lastly, with head up and eyes also wide, like those of a stag which some new thing, there came a young woman, whose presence was such as had never yet been seen In the hotel at Ellisville. Astonished, as they might have been by the spectacle before them, greeted by no welcoming hand, ushered to no convenient seat, these three faced the long, half-lit room in the full sense of what might have been called an awkward situation.

Yet they did not shuffle or cough, or talk one with another, or smile in anguish, as had others who thus faced the same ordeal. The three walked slowly, calmly, deliberately down into what must have been one of the most singular scenes hitherto witnessed in their lives. As they reached the head of the social PUTNAM FADELESS DYES eoVr more goods, per package, than others. A lean's knowledge is to little or no purpose unless he utilizes it. Why It Is the Beat Is because made by au entirely different process.

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How's This Honduras Draft Animals. Draft animals in Honduras aro mules, asses, oxen and horses. These animals are all of a diminutive type and serve very well for the carrying of freight, but for the purpose of hauling carriages and wagons these little beasts scarcely do; and yet they carry packs of 200 pounds over the mountain trails and through roaring streams. fected, Jerking his feet into half time with the tune. He bowed so low before tho littlest waiter girl that neck scarf fell forward from his chest and hung before him like a shield.

"May .1 hev the honor, Miss Kitty?" he choked out; aud as the littlest waiter girl rose and took his arm with a vast air of unconcern, Curly drew a long records they show the adoption of but to Carthage, into southern Kansas five persons of white blood. and to Dcnison. Texas, Resolved from out the shadows, wherein it had never in his most Intimate self-searching taken any actual form, he saw the image of that unformulated dream which had haunted his subconsciousness so long, and which was now to haunt him openly and forever. The morning after tho first official ball in Ellisville dawned upon another world. Ellisville, after the nrst ball, was by all the rules of the Plains admittedly a town.

A sun had set, and a sun had arisen. It was another day. breath. In his seat Sam writhed, but Could not rise. Nora looked straight in front.

It was Hank Peterson, who Fire Caused by Snow. A snowstorm started a fire on tho premises of a farmer living at HobU-terne, Belgium. He placed a quantity of quicklime near a shed on his farm, and left it there all night. In the course of the night snow fell on to the and the heat thus developed became so great that it set the shed on fire, completely destroying it and its contents. Arid Lands Made Fruitful.

Those parched, dry, arid plains of Idaho and other dry lands respond aulckly and give a big rank, where sat Mrs. McDermott, the wife of the section boss and arbiter elegantiarum for all Ellisville, the gentleman bowed and spoke some few words, though obviously to a tolal stranger a very stiff and suspicious Melons at Mtsta.no. Over "00 acres of cantaloups have been contracted for and the acreage will probably bo raised to 300 and over 100 acres of watermelons have been contracted for. Besides there will be the usual products of sweet potatoes and peaches. Object to The Klofea In led her forth, and who, after the oc-1 caslon was over, wished he had not dians are making a fuss about the sewers being constructed at llolinrt to empty into Kast Elk.

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(W. N. Formic Acid a Stimulant. The Journal des Debate recites experiments with formic acid, a secretion of ants. Eight to ten drops of tho acid taken three or four times a day had a marked effect in Stimulating muscular activity, which might be continued a long time without resultant fatigue.

"That tired feeling" also disappears under the Influence of the acid. To Edward Franklin the tawdry hotel parlor on the morning after the ball was no more four-square habitation, but a chamber of the stars. Before him, radiant, was that which he had vaguely sought. This other half of himself, with feet running far to find the missing friend, had sought him out through all the years, through all the miles, through all the spheres! This was fate, and at this thought his heart glowed, his eyes shone, his very stature seemed to increase. He wist not of Nature and her ways of attraction.

He only knew that here was that Other whose haud, pathetically sought, he had hitherto missed in the darkness of the foregone days. Now, thought he. it was all happily concluded, here in this brilliant chatnber of delight, this irraalant abode, this noble hall bedecked with gems and silks and stars and all the warp and woof of his many, many days of dreams! Mr. and Mrs. Buford had for the time excused themselves by reason of Mrs.

Buford's weariness, and after the easy ways of that time and place the young people found themselves alone. Thus It was that Mary Ellen, with a temporary feeling of helplessness, found herself face to face with the very man whom she at that time cared least to see. (To be continued.) "Ned, me boy, Colonel Wo offer Ono Hundred bollnra lteivartl. for nny esse 01 Catarrh that cannot. lx- cured liy Haifa CattrrU Cure 1.

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Sold by all Di-UKlflHts. Take Hull's Fumlly Pills, for constipation. A Good Soldier. Bayard, the. flower of the French knighthood, the soldier without fear or reproach, never forgot his moth'T's parting words.

She said to him: "My boy, serve God first; pray to Him night and morning; be kind and charitable to all; avoid envy, hatred and lying as vices unworthy of a Christian, and never neglect to comfort widows and orphans." Popular With the'Ladies. There were few plainer men of his generation than the great I.ord Brougham, and as few who took so little trouble to ingratiate themselves into the favor of women. Yet he might have picked and chosen, among the fairest of society beauties. To a question where Lord Brougham was. the answer was once given, "Where the ladies are the thickest.

By following this significant guide he was generally run to earth. Seared the Boys. A witty Englishman who sought to save a tract of woodland and shrubbery from the destructive attentions of the boys of the neighborhood put np a large board bearing the warning: "Any one trespassing in this plantation will be splfticated according to the law." The result was very satisfactory, as the fear of spifllca-tion, whatever it meant to them, deterred intruders from passing through the woods and the trees were unmolested. WELL PpSTED. Error of Telegrapher.

A recent cable from London to Montreal, reporting the speech of an English visitor to the latter city, considerably hurt the feelings of Canadians by stating that Montreal was "the most depraved" city. A later telegram, however, soothed the ruffled citizens by Informing them that the words quoted should have read "tho worst paved city." Young. Lady Homesteaders. -Misses Emma Johnston and Ida Hummel are two young ladies from Oklahoma City that are homesteaders. Their claims are in Beaver county on the Six Mile Creek and they are now shaping them up for the next year's crop.

New School lini.iiisos. The board of education of Oklahoma City has passed a resolution asking the city council to call a special election on the voting of for the purpose of erecting two new school buildings. KtCKAPOO Contests. Kx-Atty. Oen.

Kobbcrts is in Washington to represent the territory before the Interior department in a contest affecting the ownership of 100,000 acres of Kickapoo lands contested by settlers. Found Dead. Miss Elsie Small was found dead in her bed at Muskogee, She was a daughter of ex-Congressmum Kirkpatrlck, of Frcdoniu, Kansas. It appears that Mrs Small was addicted to the use of patent medicines. 936A IIf.ad.

In this payment every man, woman and child in the Comanche tribe will receive $50. This money would quickly pass to the three card monte men if the games were not closed. Governor to Speak. (i.overnor Ferguson ha3 accepted an invitation to ail-dress the Live Stock Association at its annual meeting at Oklahoma City February S3, 24 and 2ft. Workino for Statehood.

Cole Younger and Buffalo Jones have hitched up together on a still hunt for statehood. They are in Washington. Triplets at Fairview. Dr. Lind-ley, of Fairview, reports triplets, two boys and a girl, at the home of George Byfield, and all living.

Oknehal Manager. W. P. Roman has been made general manager of the St. Louis, El Reno Oklahoma road.

Secretary's Order. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock has issued an order directing the Dawes commission to Issue no more allotments of land of Indians who have been accepted by various tribes. Large numbers of Creeks, Cherokees, ChactawsandChick-asaws are affected. Chief Porter There. Pleasant Porter, principal chief of the Cherokees.

is in Washington this winter to remain several weeks to get in touch With the pending legislation affecting bis people. Cowboy Killed. Charles Itlley, a cowboy, who has ridden in all the roping tournaments and broncho busting contests in Oklahoma in recent years was killed at Quanah, Texas, in a like contest, by being thrown from a horse and breaking his neck. The accident, occurred on the O. K.

ranch near Quanah. Quarantine Raised. The department of agriculture has made a special order raising the quarantine on Southern cattle in the interest of the Oklahoma City livestock show. Ketoowaiis. John West, captain of Indian police, returned from the Ke-toow-ah district of the Cherokee nation and reported to the Indian officials at Muskogee that no danger existed from this band of Cherokees.

Those who had collected in the hills had moved from the South Canadian district to escape molestation from white settlers. C. H. Wood Resigns. Asst.

Atty (Jen. Wood has resigned to become assistant attorney for the Santa Fe in ihe territories under Henry Asp, the general attorney. sewage will spoil the water cf the eretik and make it "small heap bud" and "make ponies Heap sick. MORE Oh" AT LWToN. Oil has again been struck on the Ileal addition at a depth of Hio feet.

A strong vein of dark lubricating oil was found. This makes the third well on the addition and is by far the strongest How. For Trade Extension, -The Shawnee Chamber of Commerce is planning a trade extension trip of two days or longer over the Santa Fo lines through the territories and into southern Kur-sas. Sheriffs Organize. The sheriffs of Oklahoma held a meeting at Kingfisher to organize in the interest of securing fees in misdemeanor cases.

They will probably make a test easts. Found in a Buggy. James aged HO years, was found near Mangura in a buggy. He was unconscious and died after being brought into town, before regaining consciousness. Chicken Fanciers.

Those residing in the Osage valley have organized a poultry club which proposes to give a show and sale at efferson on 1 eh. 1 3, A Liberal Town. At. a meeting in Waukomis was raised in a few minutes for the good of the town. A Righteous War.

Tho Enid Eagle has commenced war against, the wooden awnings. Carload of (Same. Its contents were confiscated at Enid. The poor of the city all had quail as ten cases, or 1, 70(1 of the birds were given to the poor families. The birds sold went at fifty cents a dozen and all demands were supplied, as the supply exceeded the demand.

Hon ns of Woodward. --Mayor Ap-pelget. of Woodward, has consulted Judge Greene at Guthrie who approved the legality of the bouil issue of 144,000 for a water works system at Woodward. This action closes the contract. Endorse Single statehood The Ardmore Democratic Club, perhaps the strongest in Indian Territory, at a meeting indorsed single statehood or union with Oklahoma, on terms of absolute equality.

The plan to admit the Creek and Seminole nations as a part of Oklahoma was condemned, Womans' ISkmk.k Corps, Mrs. Nettie J. Hornaday. deprrtment press correspondent of the V. R.

('. of Oklahoma reports corps in the department with continually increasing membership. Pistol Fell From Pocket. Hen J. Higbee, city marshal of Coyle, O.

and assistant cashier of the Cimarron Valley bank of that city, whs fatally injured by the accidental discharge of his revolver which fell from his trouser pocket, while he was eugaged in a friendly scufllle. French Keinstated. Secretary Morris of the Oklahoma Livestock association, failed to find any irregu'ari-ties which were charged against A. G. French.

The secretary has reinstated Mr. French. Tricks of the Types. A friend met Whltelaw Reid, the veteran editor of the New York Tribune, the other day and said to him: "I Bee you are on the advisory board of Mr. Pulitzer's new college of journalism at Columbia university.

Do you expect to put an end to the typographical error?" "The most we can hope to do," replied Mr. Reid, "is to mitigate its hor-hors. You can't abolish the typographical error any more than you can original sin. I remember when the prince of Wales visited this country of writing an editorial on the subject. I was young and ambitious, and thought I said some clever things.

It began: 'The prince of Wales is making captivating The next morning I picked up the paper to enjoy reading It in print. I turned to the editorial page, and this met my gaze: 'The price of Nails is making carpenters Philadelphia Post. done so, for bis wife sat till the last upon the row. Seeing this awful thing happen, seeing the hand of Nora laid upon another's arm, Sam sat up as one deeply smitten with a hurt. Then, silently, unobserved in the confusion, he stole away from the fateful scene and betook himself to his stable, where he fell violently to currying one of the horses.

"Oh, kick!" he exclaimed, getting speech in these surroundings. "Kick! I deserve it Of all the low-down, -n cowards that ever was borned I sure am the worst! But the gall of that feller Peterson! An' him a married man!" When Sam left the ballroom there remained no person who was able to claim acquaintance with the little group who now sat under the shadow of the swinging lamp at the lower end of the hall, and farthest from the door. The "grand march" was over, and Battersleigh was again walking along the line in company with his friend Franklin, before either could have been raid to have noticed fully these strangers, whom no one seemed to know, and who sat quite apart and unengaged. Battersleigh. master of ceremonies by natural right, and comfortable gentleman at heart, spied out 'hose three, and needed but a glance to satisfy himself of their identity.

"Sir," said Battersleigh, approaching and bowing as he addressed the stranger, "I shall make bold to lntro-juce Battersleigh of Ellisville, sir, at your service. If I am not mistaken, you will be from below, toward the next town. I bid ye a very good welcome, and we shall all hope to see ye often, air. We're none too many here yet, and a gintleman and his family are always welcome among gtntlemen Allow me, sir, to preslnt mc friend Captain Franklin, Captain Ned Franklin of the th, Illinois in the late unplisantness Ned, me boy. Colonel ye'll pardon me not knowin' the nameT" "My name Is Buford, sir," said the What Ice Will Bear.

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After I had used the first box I was able to throw away one of the canes and was considerably Improved. The second box straightened me up so that I could go about free from pain without any assistance and very soon after I was completely cured, well and happy, without a pain or an ache. Dodd's Kidney Pills seemed to go right to the spot In my case and they will always have Cty greatest praise." stranger, who was too startled to reply. The ladies bowed to the wife lif the section boss and to the others as they came in turn. Then the three passed on a few seats apart from and beyond the othor occupants of that aide of the house.

1 There was now much tension, and the unhapplnesa and suspense: could nave endured but little longer. Again he accordion protested and the wept. The cornet uttered a faint note of woe. Yet once more there was a pause In this time of Joy. Again the door was pushed open, not timidly, flung boldly back.

There stood two figures at the head of the ball and In the place of greatest light. Of these, one was tall and very thin, but upright aa a shaft of pine. He was clad in dark garments; thus much might be said. His waistcoat sat high and close. At wrist and neck there showed a touch of white, and a bit of white appeared protruding at the bosom of his coat.

His tread was supple and easy as that of a boy of twenty. "Ned, me boy," he whispered to bit companion's they entered, "I'm feelln' fine the night; and as for yer-aelf, ye're fit for the court o' St. James at a diplomats' ball." Franklin, indeed, deserved somewhat of the compliment Dressed in the full uniform of a captain, he looked the picture of the young army offlo9r of tho United States. Simply, easily, much as bad the little group that Immediately preceded himself and friend, Franklin passed on up Into the hall, between the batteries which lined the walls. Any emergency brings forward its own remedy.

The times produce the man, each war bringing forth its own general, its heroes. Its solvers of great problems. None bad chosen Battersleigh to the leadership. There had been no election for master of ceremonies, nor had Battersleigh yet had time to fully realize bow desperate was this strait in which these folk had fallen. It appeared to him merely that, himself having arrived, there was naught else to cause delay.

At the center of the room he stopped, near by the head of the stern column womanhood which held the position on the right as one entered the hall. Here Battersleigh paused, making a deep md sweeping bow, and uttered the A California Doctor With 40 Years' Experience. "In my 40 years' experience as a teacher and practitioner along hygienic lines," says a Los Angeles physician, "I have never found a food to compare with Grape-Nuts for the benefit of the general health of all classes of people. I have recommended Grape-Nuts for a number of years to patients with the greatest success and every year's experience makes me more enthusiastic regarding its use. "I make it a rule to always recommend Grape-Nuts and Postum "Food Coffee In place of coffee when giving my -patients instructions as to diet, for-I know both Grape-Nuts and Pctum can be digested by anyone.

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Down in Virginia, says Thomas Nelson Page, there was an old darky preacher who had preached about infant baptism morning and night until his congregation couldn't stand It any longer. They told him to preach something else or they'd have to find some one wbo would. He promised, and the next Sunday announced his text, "Adam, where art thou?" "IMs, bredern, can be divided into fouh heads." began the dominie. "First, every man is somewhar. Secondly, most men am where they ain't got no bus'ness to be.

Thirdly, you'd better look out or you'll be gittin' there you'self. Fo'thiy. infant baptism. Now, bredern, I guess we might's well pass by the fust three heads and come lmmed't'ly to the fo'th, infant baptism." Voices Made to Order. Voices made tc order ar the latest things In surgery.

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