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.AtM That Puzzled IntiUltlv Boy
CoBfnlMd HI Ifmiorous Father.
'. Character That Appear to Hm an
KxteoslT Wardrobe.
"Papa," aaked the boy, looking np
from his book, "can a man grow a real
beard In one day?"
"I should pay not," answered the
father cautiously, being mindful of the
fact that within a week the boy had put
to him this question "Why does a
woman walk on her heela in crosMriK a
muddy street, " and when he answvred
that he did not know, the boy hud Raid.
To get across." Bat there was no
about the question the boy asked, nor
about the next one, which was this:
"Can a man get bald in one night?"
"He might in an Indian country," an
swered the father, whereupon there w.m
Hence for a little time. Then the boy
impatiently said:
"I don't understand these pictures at
alL Everybody in them keeps chang
ing around, and 1 don't know who is
who, and 1 don't see how they kinv
each other half a day running."
The book was "The Swiss Family
Robinson," and the title page declared
that therw were "100 illustrations." It
was worth while to follow the "family'
through the pictures.
Putting a,side a colored frontispiw
which depicted a lusty barelegged boy
on a rock, with a polo cap crowning a
shock of yellow hair parted in the back,
a. bow in his hand and his eyes fixed or
a spouting whale that looked like a sar
dine sneezing violently, the panorama
opened with the "family" kneeling in
grateful prayer for its escape. The
father, with head bald on top, smooth
shaven face and long locks of white
hair falling on his shoulders was the
central figure, and made an ideal vicar
of Wakefield. Fritz, the eldest boh,
worfra long coat and long trousers, and
Fraw, the youngest, was distinguished
by a large button on his coat in the
email of the back. This was in the fore
noon. UOnTXINO CHANGES.
A few hours later, in the afternoon,
behold thechangel The father had grown
fine, closely trimmed 6ide whiskers, and
he and his sons had changed their straight
locks for crisply curling hair. From a
gentle faced Madonna the mother had
been changed into a vivacious looking
Jewess, and, strangest of all, two St
Bernards in the first picture had become
tnm bulldogs, with every appearance of
being able to make a good fight.
Then there came a lightning change.
In five minutes their father's whiskers
had grown an inch or two, Fritz and he
had gotten into knickerbockers, termi
nating in the father's case in blue stock
ings and buckled shoes, both of them
had lost the curl out of their hair, and
one of the bulldogs had been metamor
phosed into a setter standing over a red
ish brown rabbit that was declared in
the text to be an agouti.
Noon, the next day, and the father and
Fritz were again presented, seated this
time by a brook, but conveniently near a
stone jug that might have held molasses
and might not. The father looked like a
Highlander in a farmer's clothes, and
Fritz, who had grown three or four
years older, was dressed like Danton
when that gentleman was of some con
sequence in Paris and looked like him.
One of the dogs had become a King
Charles spaniel. The other did not ap
pear, but was probably in seclusion, set
tling on the breed in which he would
next appear.
The pair were on a hunting excursion
on their deserted island. A few hours
later Fritz had gotten his 6hock of yel
low hair back, and traded his Danton
costume for knickerbockers, blue stock
ings and a 6ack coat, while his father
had somewhere picked up a Russian peas
ant's dress, and grown a full brown
beard, and the King Charles had become
a setter. The jug had disappeared.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
That night the father shaved himself
down to the side whiskers, dyed his own
and Fritz's hair black, put a sailor shirt
on himself and a pair of striped lawn
tennis trousers on Fritz, and the next
morning went out sailing. While they
were absent the Jewish faced mother
changed her countenance for a subdued
Irish, arrayed herself in a dark blue
gown that disclosed a red petticoat, and
put a yellow handkerchief on her head.
Taking Jack, one of her other sons, and
putting a trim polo cap on his yellow
locks, the two, accompanied by one of
the St.' Bernards, went out for a walk.
A day or two later the father had got
ten back bis full, yellow beard, which
he seemed to wear with his peasant cos
tume, and one of the dogs had changed
into a hound. But if you hoped the
father would stay that way long enough
for you to get acquainted with him, di
vest your mind of that thought. Before
night he had returned to his trim side
whiskers and curly hair, while Fritz had
shrunk in length, broadened in girth,
and put on long trousers that were too
short for him and heavy shoes.
And so the pictures run. The father
changes his clothes, his beard and his hair
at least once, and often two or three times
a day, Fritz is a good second in this
kaleidoscopic performance, the mother
facially runs through all the races and
exhibits a bewildering number of differ
ent costumes, the little boys must have
been branded or their parents would
never have been able to keep track of
them;o extraordinary were the changes
they underwent, and the dogs offered
enough varieties to have given a capital
bench 6how. The "one hundred illustra
tions" were altogether the most entertain
ing things about the copy of "The Swiss
Family Robinson" over which the boy
puzzled and the boy's father laughed.
.New York Times.
A veteran Provincetown (Mass.) fish
erman, who claims to know, says that
- when mackerel are on the move the ad--ranced
body is entirely composed of fe
male fish, while the rear column is
formed of t
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THE I) HAND Cr
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la Said tw .Be lOriiil and
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Means ofe Rrnelt.itlon.
Colonel Henry tCtsdale, f the Royal
engineers, claims to have discovered a
certain and rapid menns of resuscitating
persons from the effect h of r. allocation.
A nap per among the nin under his com
mand at Chatham wait one day found
enveloped in t!i fold of a half empty
war balloon The coal gas with which
it had been inflated had sulfocated him,
and to all appearances he was a dead
man. But efforts were made to restore
him. though the pulseJeAH heart aad ca
daverous face of tb umn gave no en
couraeiuent to persevere. In a mo
ment of something like inspiration it
occurred to Colonel Elsdale to sead for
some tubes of compressed oxygen, which
had been prepared for the oxyhydrogen
light.
This pure oxygen, at a very high pres
sure, was hurriedly conveyed into the
mouth of the prostrate sapper by means
if inserting the nozzle of the valve be
tween his teeth, and the supply was
gently turned on" to the smallest ex
tent. The effect was absolutely instan
taneous. In an instant he opened his
eyes and seized the nozzle between his
teeth. In bhort, the sapper was not only
thoroughly revived within a few min
utes, but in half an hour talked away,
quite well, to the barracks, and refused
to go to tue military Hospital, as wan
suggested by his commanding officer.
Of course the objection will be raised
tnat everyooay nas not tubes of pure
oxygen at high pressure in readiness to
apply to such cases. Happily oxygen in
quantities as large as those administered
is not needed, and it can be 6tored "in
small, 6trong bottles made of the finest
steel, with a valve giving an absolute
herrnetio seal."
These vessels may be as small as a
soda water bottle, and may bo made part
of the medical stock of every doctor.
Oxygen at any degree of compression
required can, in fact, now be obtained,
and the whole apparatus for restoring
vitality can be packed in a small box
quite portable.
What possibilities may not such a dis
covery as that to which we have drawn
attention involve I It is equally availa
ble, we are assured, for those persons
who have been asphyxiated ,by choke
damp in co;d mines, or by ordinary coal
gas. People apparently drowned, and
those insensible from long exposure in
the rigging of a ship, might also be saved
from an untimely end by what Colonel
Elsdale calls "a dose of oxygen."
It would probably be invaluable, too,
in cases of suffocation from the fumes of
charcoal, or in cases where chloroform
had operated injuriously on a weak
heart. Such a discovery should at once
occupy the attention of the Royal Col
lege of Physicians, with a view of ascer
taining whether Colonel Elsdale has
overrated the beneficient effects to be an
ticipated from the administration of
pure oxygen. London Chronicle.
How It Feels to Have a Bag In One's Ear.
"A bug in his ear," is a figure very ex
tensively used in common conversation.
But, reader, did you ever have a bug in
your ear in fact? If not, you have no
idea how it feels. B. F. Tomlinson, who
experienced the sensation, says he never
suffered such torture in his life. The
bug crawled into his ear while he was
lying in bed asleep, between 11 and 12
o'clock one night. It was only a com
mon candlebug or fly, but the degree of
torture one of them can inflict while in
the ear is beyond the scope of the imagi
nation. Mr. Tomlinson said that when
he awoke he dreamed that a railway
train had jumped the track, struck him
in the ear and was plowing its way
through his head. The train kept going,
but it seemed that it would never get
through.
Occasionally it would stop and then
start again with renewed force. Then
again the train seemed to be at a stand
still, but the wheels would be turning
with lightning rapidity. The train
would move off gradually with a grating
noise, and would not stop till the whistle
blew for the next station or it ran off the
track or collided with another train,
which frequently occurred. Mr. Tom
linson stood the torture till daylight,
when he sent for a doctor, who succeeded
in fishing out the bug, which in the
meantime had died. Mr. Tomlinson
said that if the bug had remained in his
ear an hour longer he would have been
a raving maniac. Mexico (Mo.) Intelli
gencer. Strengthening; Cast Iron.
Some of the most prominent iron
founders are introducing a new and sim
ple practice in order to secure stronger
castings, the method in question consist
ing in placing thin sheets of wrought
iron in the center of the mold previous
to the operation of casting. This method
was first resorted to, it appears, in the
casting of thin plates for the ovens of
cooking stoves, it being found that a
sheet of thin iron in the center of a quar
ter inch oven plate rendered it practi
cally unbreakable by fire.
" This result has led to the process be
ing now applied to the casting of large
iron pipes, a core of sheet iron imparting
additional strength and lessening the
liability to any fracture. As an evi
dence of the additional strength capable
of being imparted by this means, it is
stated that a plate of iron one-fourth of
an inch thick, cast with a perforated
sheet of 27-wire gauge wrought iron in
the center, possessed six times the
strength of a similar cast plate with no
core. The quarter inch plate had the
strength of a plate one inch thick. New
York Sun.
A Door In an Old Church.
: Now and then a small door may be
seen high up in the piers that divide the
nave from the chancel. This is the door
that once gave access from the winding
stair within the pier to the footway on
the top of - the screen with which most
churches were once provided. When
screens were found inconvenient " and
were removed, these doors were left.
Ress church, Herefordshire, has a no
ticeable example; Hinckley church. Lei- ,
cestershire, has another. Gentleman's
Hagann.
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A novel plan for ucti2tiia3 a
church debt baa b-.-n hit upon in Mel
bourne, Australia. The church com
mittee or vestry, as he case may be
divide the total debt among themselves,
and each man insure his life for the
amonnt that falls l ma share. The
policies are transferred to the church
and the annual payments on them are
made out of the collections. Then, of
course, as the members of the commit
tee "drop off," the sums insured on their
lives drop in, and later, when the only
survivor dies, the last installment of the
church debt is paid. Pall Mall Gazette
People Who Live Over 2,000 Feet High.
The population between 2.000 and 5.000
feet is found mainly on the slope of the
great western plains. In this region the
belt between 2.000 and 8,000 feet is al
most everywhere the debatable ground
between the arid region of the Cordil
leran plateau and the humid region of
the Mississippi valley. Above 3,000 feet
irrigation ia almost universally neces
sary for success in agricultural opera
tions. Washington Star.
ThA most nnhannv nerirwl nf imarrinmi
j according to French divorce statistics,
is for the reriod extending from rh fifth
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to the tenth year. After that the figures
drop rapidly. Only 28 per cent, of the
couples seek divorce between their tenth
and twentieth years of union. Only one
pair in 100 6eeks to cut the knot after
the period over thirty and under forty
years.
The Forth bridge was begun in 1881.
There were then only two cantalever
bridges in existence, one of them carry
ing the Cincinnati Southern railroad
across the Kentucky river, and the other
spanning the river Warthe at Posen, in
Germany Both of these were built in
1870.
Among the articles made of asbestos
are mittens to guard the hands of fire
men, assavers. refiners and others who
are exposed to burning. As the mate
rial is not affected by heat, the work
man thus protected can grasp hot irons,
crucibles and the like without discom
fort Next Monday night the amusemnt
lovers will be amused by the come
dians lirown and Green with the
Creoles, Kight comedians, ten beau
tiful Creole ladies, with the Picka
ninny quartette, should be able to
entertain an audience. Elegant cos
tumes will be used in the first part.
Mr. Downing assures the Platts
mouth people that everything will
be first-class and will give the audi
ence a surprise when the curtain
goes up.
Secure your tickets now at J. P.
Youngs. Price 50c, Company will ar
rive Monday morning from Omaha.
New Barn New.btoek.
Klam Parmele has pushed his
way to the front as a livery man by
keeping nothing but the finest car
riages and buggies and best horses
to be found in the state. Those
wanting a satisfactory livery can't
do better than to call on Mr. Par
mele. dtf
Quilting and piecing, comforting
and crazy patch work and carpet
rag sewing satisfactorily done by
Mrs. Vroman, 513 North Sixth street,
Plattsmouth, Neb. tf
I think Kly's Cream Balm is the
best remedy for catarrh I ever saw.
I never took an3'thing that relieved
me so quickly, and I have not felt
so well for a long time. I used to
be troubled with severe headaches
two or three times a week. J. A.
Alcorn, Ag't U. P. R. R. Co., Eaton,
Colo.
I have been a great sufferer from
dry catarrh for many years, and I
tried many remedies, but none did
me so much benefit as Ely's Cream
Halm. It completely cured me.
M. J. Lally, 39 Woodward Ave.,
Boston Highlands, Mass.
Everybody says that Gering & Co
sell the most wall paper and paint
Why? Because they sell the best
goods for the least money.
Mllss' Nerve and Liver Pllle-
Act on a new principle regulating
the liver, stomach and bowels through
the nerves. A new discoverv. Dr. Miles'
Pills speedily cure biliousness, bad taste,
torpid liver, piles, constipation. Une
qualed for men, women, children.
Smallest, mildest, surest! 50 doses, 25c.
Sampla free at F. G. Fricke & Co's
Death And its Strusele
Up to now whose entered into a
right wite death, fought death,
fought b losing fight now science
has discovered a way to circumvent
even death Haller.s Sarsaprilla &
Burdock crapples with a disordered
svstem and carefully builds and
reorganizes. Try it. For sale by
S,.G. Frtcke &Co.
Will you suffer with Dyspepsia
and Liver Complaint? Shiloh's Vit-
alizer is guaranteed to cure you. 2
Wreck on the B.4M,
A freight train was doubled up
between here and Lincoln this mor
ning which delayed the morning
east bound trains. No particulars
further at this hour accessible.
What did you say? I said that
Gering & Co's soda water and frost
ed cream are out of sight, tf
Rheumatism Cured in Day.
"Mystic Cure" for rheumatism and
neuralgia radically cured in 1 to 3
days. Its action upon the system is
remarkable and mysterious. It re
moves at once the cause and the di
sease immediately dissappears.
The first dose greatly benefits. 75c
Sold by F, G. Fricke, Druggist, wt
Man is often deceaved in the age of
a woman by her gray hair, Ladies
you can appear young and preveul
true grayness ly useing Hall s Hair
Renewer.
J, 1 IS (gl!d3IS
When you take Quality and Make in Consideration you Can n.
Huy Cheaper nnj Place in the World than of
The Only One Price Clothier in Oass Co.
TO APPRECIATE JOE'S LOW PRICES
You inut call and
Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats, Etc
Joe buys Only
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Quotes no Prices
Money fSheerfmlly Mo funded! if
Opera House Corner
BAD ECZEMA ON liADY
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HcadoueSolid Sore Itced awful Had
To tie his Handsto Cradle
Cured by Cuticura
Our little boy broke out on his head with a
bad form of eczema when he wa four months
old. We tried liiree doctors but they did not
help h'm. Wh-ii we rsed your three Cuticu
ki Kkmkdiks, and after using them
eleven weeks exactly according to directions
ne Degan 10 steaauy im
prove and after the uae
of them for seven
months his head was en
tirely well. When we be
i;an using it his head
was a solid sore from his
crown to his eyebrows.
It was also all over his
ears mort of his face and
small places on different
parts of his body. There
were sixteen weeks that
we had to keep his hands
tied to the cradle and
hold them when he was
taken 'up ; and had to keep mittens on his
hand to keep his linger nails ont of the sores,
as he wold scratch it he could in any way ttet
his hands loose. We know your Cutictri
Remedies cured him. We feel safe in rec
coinending them to others.
Geo. B. and Janetta Harris, Webster. Ind.
CUTICURA BE80LVEST
The new blood and skin purifier, and greatod
of Fumor Kemedies. cleanses the bioes
of all imparities and poisonous elements
and thus remove the cause, and Cuticura,
the great Skin Cure and Cuticura Soap, an
exquisite Skin Purifier and Beautifier.
to clear tbe skin and scalp and restore
the hair), speedily cure every humor and
disease of the skin, scalp, and blood, with lss
of hair, whether itching, burning, scaly,
pimply, and blotchy, skin scalp and "blood di
sease, from plmyles to sdrof ula from infancy
to age when the beet physicians fail.
Sold everywhere. Price Cuticura. 50c, Soap
25c : Kksolvknt $1.00. Prepared bv the Pot
ter Drug and Chemical Corporation. Bostyn.
ESSend for how to cu e Skin Ceseaaee."
skin and scalp purified and beauti-
jfled Cuticubi SoAP,Abselutely pure
PAINS AND WEAKNESSES
Of females iastantly relieved by that
npw flpfrnnt and i ti f u 1 i t il V stntltflntA
to pain Inflamation and Weakness
me vHiicun rn mas
ter
Hair chains, rinfja, crosses
an
hair work of all kinds to order.
Mrs. A. Knee.
tf 1726 Locust St.
Ladies, among that sample line
are some of the finest shoes you
ever laid eyes on Wm. Herold
& Son's tf
Itch on human ans horses and all
animals cured in 39 minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This
never failp. Sold by F, G. Fricke &
Co., druggist, Plattsmouth. wtf.
A Safe investment.
Ic one which is guaranteed to
bring you satifaotary results, or in
case of failuree a return of purchase
price. On this safe plain you can
buy from our advisertise Druggist
a bottle of Dr. King.s NewDiscrrery
for consumption. It is guaranteed
to bring relief in every case, when
used for any affection of Throat,
Lungs, or chest, such as Consum
ption, Inflammation of Lungs Bron
chitis' Asthma, Whooping Cough,
Croups. ets., etc. It is pleasant and
gareeable to taste, perfectly safe
and Trial bottles free atF. G. Fricke
& Co' e DrugstorL
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Examine his Super or
THAN THOSE KEPT I5Y HIS COMPETITORS,
From the Best Houses in America.
JOE
But he Will Sell You The Best Goods
FOR THE LEAST ILfcOXTEV.
or as
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HARNESS!
FRED GORDER
The only Implement dealer who has made a success in Caes County
THK best of harness, both double and single may be found at my
storeand everything in the harness line also buggies and carriages
which are first-class in every respact, being the lightest, strongest add
easiest riding vehicles on earth.
I
ALSO have a large lot of Schutler, Noline, Uain and Sterling wagons
Spring wagons, road carts, and plows of all discription.
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Plattsmouth - -
BURLINGTON & MISSOURI RIVER R. It.
V TIME TABLE. J
OF DAILY PASSENGER TRAINS
GOING EAST
No. 2 5 : 05 P. M,
No. 4 10:30 a. n.
No. 8 7; 44 p. m
No. 10 9 :45 a. m
No, 12 10 :14 a. m
No. 20 8 :30 a. m
GOING WEST
Nol, 3 :30 a. m.
No. 3 5 :30 p. m
No. 5, 9 :25 a. m.
No. T ' .-15 a. m.
No. 9.. .. 6 :25 p.m.
No. U 5 :25 p. m.
No, 19 11 .-05 a.m.
SECRET SOCIETIES
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS- Gauntlet Lodge
no. 47. Meets every Wednesday evening
at their hall In Parmele & Craig block. All vis
itlni? knights are cordially invited to attend
C. C. Marshall. C. C. ; ti Dovey, K, K. S.
YOUNG MEN'S CHKISTION ASSOCIATION
Waterman block. Main Street. Kooms
open from 8 :30 a m to 9 :30 p mj For men only
Gospel meeting every Sunday afternoon at 4
o'elock.
AO. U. W 8, Meeis first and third Friday
eve-iincs of each month at G. A. K. Hall
in Rockwook block. Frank Vermilyea, M, W.
D, B Euersole, Recorder.
A O. U. W. No. 84 Meets eecond and feurth
Fridav eveninos in the month at G. A. K.
hall in Rockwood block. E. J. Morgan, M W,
F, P. Brown, Keaorder,
ROYAL A RCA N AM Cs Council No 1021,
1 v Mett at the K, of P. hail in the Parmele &
Craig block over Bennett & Tutu, viairing
brethren invited. Henry Herold, Regent;
Thos W ailing. Secretory.
CASS LODGE, No. 146,1. 0. O. F. meets ev
ery Tuesday night at their ball In Fitzgerald
block. All Odd Fellows are cordially invited
o attend when visiting in the city. J Cory.
N. G. 8. W, Bridge, Secretary.
Will you suffer with dyspepsia
and liver complaint? Shiloh's Vet
alizer guaranteed to cure you. 1-tf
3Iake and Quality oiV
Gqq&& FqujmImq) t
Plattsmouth, Neb.
HARNESS,
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PLACES OF WORSHIP.
Catholic St. Paul's Church, Oak. between
Fifth and Sixth. Father Carney, Pastor?
Services: Mass at 8 and 10 :30 A. m. Sunday
School at 2 :30, with benediction. J
Christian. Corner Locust and Eighth St.
Services morning and evening. Elder J. K.
. Reed, pastor. Sunday School 10 A. m.
Episcopal. Ht. Luke's Church, corner Third
and Vine. Rev. H B. Burgees, paetor. Ser
vices : 11 A. M. and 7 :30P. m. Sunday School
at 2 :30P. 91.
Gkbman Methodist. Corner Sixth fit. and
Granite. Rev. Hirt. Factor. Services : 11 a.m.
and 7 :30 p. M. Sunday School 10 :30 a. m.
Pbeshvtebian. fervices In new church, cor
ner Sixth and Granite sts. He v. J. T. Baird,
pastor. Sunday-school at 9 ; 30 ; Preaching
at 11 a. in. and 8 p. m.
The Y. R. . C. E of this church meet every
Sabbath evening at 7 :15 in the basement of
thechucrh. All are invited to attend these
meetings.
Fikst Methodist. Sixth St., betwen Mala
and Pearl. Rev. J. It. M BucknvT. pastor.
Services : 11 a. m.. 8 :00 P. m. Sumfay School
9 :30 a. m. Prayer meeticg Wednesday even
ing. German Prebbtteri an. Corner Main and
Ninth. Rev. Wltte, pa-stor. Services usual
hours. Sunday bchool 9 :30 A. M.
Sweedish Congregational. Granite, be
tween Fifth and Sixth.
Colored Baptist. Mt. Olive. Oak. between
Tenth and Eleventh, Rev. A. Rorwell, pas
tor. Services 11 a- m. and 7 :30 p. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening.
Yocwo Men's Christian Association
Rooms in W aterman block. Main street. Gos
pel meeting, for men only, every Sunday af
ternoon at 4 o'clock. Rooms open week days
from 8:30 a. m.. to a : 30 p.m.
8outh Park Tabernaclk. Bev.' J. M.
Wood, Pastor. Services : Sunday School,
10 a. in.: Preaching, 11 a. ni. and 8 p. m. ;
prayer meeting Tuesday night ; choir prac
tice Friday night. All are welcome.
WA nted Au active, relioble man salary tit
to f 80 monthly, with increase, to repreoafil
In his own section a responsible New York
House. References, man cr actcb&b, bock
Box 1585, New Yosk.
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