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Trouble for McKinleys Friend
The Ohio Senate lias accepted the re--port
of the committee charging that
-the election of Mark A Hanna to the
United States Senate was obtained by
bribery Now the United States Sen
ate will be compelled to take
of the subject and it would seem
to be in the interest of Senator Hanna
as much as in that oC his opponents
-that the full facts in the contest shall
be submitted to the public--Boston
Herald
Debt and Taxes
President McKinley and his bank
president Secretary of the Treasury
Mr Gage and their followers in Con
gress are determined upon an old-fashioned
Wall-street-begotten government
bond to be subscribed for and taken
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THE TWO PARTIES IN CONGRESS
Hon Mr McMillan of Tennessee
made an able argument against the
l3ond Issue policy of the Federal admin
istration in the House of Representa
tives He very aptly inquired of Hon
Mr Diugley the Republican leader and
Ijond champion why he wanted to bor
row five hundred millions of money
-when Secretary Gage had just publicly
asserted that he had two hundred and
twenty millions already in the treas
ury That calculation did not exhibit
any danger of Government bankruptcy
and the immediate necessity for Incur
ring further interest bearing public
debt did not exist if Mr Gages boast
ful statement were a truthful one Mr
McMillan suspected that there was ref
erence rather to increasing the national
bank circulation thau to the prosecu
tion of the war against Spain
The argument upon the bond bill in
-the House has been a partisan argu
ment The Democrats have given un
hesitating and patriotic support to war
measures and have helped to fill up the
ranks of the national forces and to
make such appropriations for military
-and naval purposes as the executive
departments called for But they have
steadily opposed concessions to Wall
street and legislation enabling capital
to take undue advantage of the Gov
ernments needs They have remem
bered that they were themselves elect
ed to their present positions charged
and Intrusted with the interests of the
iax paying people and that to cast their
influence In favor of the public credit
ors as against those who had confided
to them that agency would be a breach
of good faith It has been left to the
Republican majority of the House in
this discussion to uphold the demands
of the loan mongers and to sustain
the bankers policy to the detriment of
their own constituents New York
News
Who Arc Obstructionists
Republican leaders are getting ready
to raise the cry that Democrats are ob
structiouists This they believe will
furnish good campaign material for the
political contest this fall and they pro
pose to put things in such a shape that
they can find an excuse to use it
With the demands of war upon the
country the Republicans are preparing
measures for the securing of revenue
which contain propositions entirely con
trary to Democratic doctrines and
which must of necessity be opposed by
the Democrats in Congress If these
measures are not opposed then the
xtvuuuvfiuo in in passing
laws which under ordinary
stances could not have been passed
If however the Democrats refuse to
be made the victims of this sort of
trickery then the Republicans will
raise the cry that Democrats are ob-
structionists and will go before the
-country with this false issue As a
matter of fact the Republicans are the
-obstructionists They refuse to yield
their partisanship to the demands of
patriotism and they propose to force is--sues
which in all decency and fairness
should be left until the more imminent
demands of the war have been met
It is far from being settled that a
bond issue is an immediate necessity
yet the Republicans have taken it for
granted that there is such a necessity
and have proposed an issue of 500000-
000 worth of bonds All these matters
will have to be discussed in Congress
and when the facts are laid before the
people they will be able to decide who
are the obstructionists Chicago
patch
Secretary of State Day
Never since John L Sullivan refused
to be mayor of Boston in order that he
might fill the more glorious office of
Iheavy weight champion of the world
2ias a more important political change
-taken place than that in the State de
partment It is one the very contem
plation of which brings the moisture of
virtuous perspiration to the neck of
inodesty Think of it John Sherman
whose glorious predecessors in the
State Department were such intellec
tual and patriotic giants as Jefferson
Madison Webster Marcy and Silas
Wright is succeeded hy Judge Day
Ii0t us swathe ourselves in Canton flan
nel and reflect Washington Times
Factions in the Ohio G O P
rfesr that the North and South are
-united and party lines in Congress ob
literated it is time for the two or three
Republican parties in Ohio to get to
gether In other words it is unfortu
nate that a season of almost universal
harmony should be disturbed by the
bickerings and diekerings of rival fac
tions of Buckeye Republicans in or- out
of the Senate St Louis
up by money lenders and to be made a
basis for additional national bank is
sues to the profit of the Shylocks They
even make a parade of sacrificing their
darling goldbug scheme of a gold bond
Issue and will accept the coin pay
ment if by that means they can only
get a government bond that will help
them to put out and circulate more
bank paper
The Democrats in Congress are in a
minority although ia the Senate they
are strong enough when re enforced by
the Populists and the Silver Republi
cans to make a good fight It is proba
ble that they will do their utmost to
save the country from any more gov
ernment bonds They will propose in
come taxation greenback issues in
crease of internal revenue duties post-
office savings banks coinage of silver
dollars anything and everything ex
cept the handing over of the govern
ment of the United States to the plu
fcarchists of Wall street We cannot
doubt that the Democrats of the Senate
and House of Representatives will dc
everything in their power to save out
people from that voracious monej
power which has played so prominent
a part in this Cuban business and ap
pears resolved to speculate in our peo
ples patriotism sbill further
Woodfords Record as a Diplomat
General Woodford has twice allowed
himself to beoutwitted in the game of
diplomacy Instructed to demand the
recall of Dupuy he permitted the Span
ish cabinet to accept the ministers
resignation before acting and given
the Presidents ultimatum he permit
ted himself to be surprised with his
passports When It is remembered in
addition to this that he was firmly con
vinced that he could talk the Spanish
Into peace one is bound to acknowledge
that General Woodford is not a success
in the diplomatic field Louisville Courier-Journal
An Ohio Prediction
A11 there is of the Republican party
in Ohio to day is what Governor Bush
nell and his wing of it repres nt But
for him the whole party would have
submitted to the corrupt dictation oi
the most unprincipled man who has
ever risen to distinction in our country
Governor Bushnell will leave his office
with the good will of all the people
while Mark Hanua will in allprobabil
ity leave his in disgrace Columbus
Press Fost
A Popular Loan
After conferring with a politic con
vocation of New York bankers the
Hon Lyman J Gage announces thai
the bonds issued will be a popular
loan The Inference is that the bank
ers are the people a conclusion nat
ural enough considering Mr Gages
tastes and affiliations Resolved Thai
the saints shall inherit the earth ran
the declaration of a certain historic
gathering Resolved further That
we are the saints
Tired of Republican Profligacy
The people of Pennsylvania would b6
glad to welcome a thoroughly able
honest and trustworthy Democratic
party and everything to day points tc
more than willingness on their part to
intrust such a Democracy with the
control of the State as a refuge from rf
discordant demoralized and profligate
Republicanism Philadelphia Times
Confident Missouri Democrats
Governor Stevens predicts a plurality
of 75000 for the Democratic ticket in
Missouri next November This Is a
big figvxe but it takes big figures to
represent the rational expectations of
the Missouri Democracy based upon
past achievements and present condi
tions St Louis Republic
When Heed Rule Will Be Broken
It may be that the House of Repre
sentatives will break away from Tom
Reed In fact it is almost certain be
cause Mr Reed cannot live forever-
Peoria Herald
Political Notes
Wasnt it Mark Hanna who said
There will be no war
John Sherman is not being bored by
the interviewers Washington Post
One reason why General Lee looks so
tall is that he is standing in a rather
squatty crowd Detroit News
General Grosvenor practically con
cedes that this has been a hard spring
on doves and olive branches Wash
ington Post
Among its other war appropriations
Congress may as well provide for an
other wing on the pension office San
Francisco Chronicle
It is suggested that if Mark Hanna
will enlist in the war and sent a sub
stitute to the Senate all will be for
given Amen
While we have a Democratic Senate
and a goodly number of House mem
bers the money power will not be per
mitted to dishonor this nation through
the Republican administration Na
tional Democrat
The Mark Hanna methods inflict
more injury on the republic than the
Weyler methods The latter can be
met and blasted The former are insid
ious corrupting and perilous to the
countrys welfare Pittsburg Post
The sale of postofflce appointments
in this State in which some Congress
men have been concerned has become
an open scandal It is another of those
political methods so well calculated to
Injure the party and subject it to de
feat Philadelphia Press
WHO THE CARLISTS ARE
How They Base Their Present Claims
to the Spanish Throne
The talk of Carlist risings in Spain
and particularly the rumor that the
person known as Don Jaime de Bour
bon proposes to put himself at the head
of the Carlist party may incite a curi
osity in some to know who the Carlists
are and what they stand for in Spain
Ferdinand V who came to the throne
of Spain after the earth had settled
from the Napoleonic earthquake mar
ried for his fourth wife Maria Chris
tina daughter of the King of Naples
a sister of the Duchessde Berri and
niece of Queen Marie Ainelie wife of
King Louis Philippe of France Ferdi
nand always a miserable creature like
most Spanish monarchs become more
miserable after his fourth marriage He
fell completely under the domination of
his handsome energetic ambitious and
thoroughly unprincipled wife says the
Kansas City Star
Queen Maria Christina was deter
mined that the crown of Spain should
descend to her family But governing
the descent was the decree of Philip V
which had been law in Spain for 120
years and which declared that no wom
an could reign in Spain while there
lived a male descendant of Philip IV
In default of male heirs from the mar
riage or Ferdinand V and Maria Chris
tina the lawful successor under the
decree of Philip V was Don Carlos
brother As it turned out
the first child born to this couple was a
girl Isabella who fourteen months
later was followed by a sister Even
before the birth of Isabella the Queen
Maria Christina began a movement for
the setting aside of the law of Philip Y
Ferdinand for a considerable period re
sisted but yielded at last and on April
G 1830 ordered that an incomplete de
cree by Charles IV in 1789 which ap
peared to repeal the Salic law should
be published and made perpetual All
the Bourbons protested and the King
endeavored to undo his action by what
was called a decree of derogation
but on his deathbed he declared that
his act was the result of misrepresenta
tion and was therefore null and void
This restored his act intended to make
his daughter Isabella his heir When
Ferdinand died Marie Christina was
reigning as queen regent and the little
girl Isabella was the heir apparent just
as the Marie Christina reigns in the
name of the little boy known as Al
fonso XIII
The brother of Ferdinand usually
try is such a party as the Carlists pos
sible It is a party willing to shed its
blood for a government of the worst
type of the fourteenth century There
have been many Carlist risings and
they are yerpetually expected
Maid or Honors Duties
Those who think that the life of a lady
about a court is necessarily that of a
butterfly may be surprised to learn that
cleverness with the needle is an ad
junct demanded of the maids of honor
at the court of Russia to be of use in
cases of emergency when in attendance
on the Czarina That they have also
to read well aloud and to stand for any
length of time goes without saying but
it would hardly be believed that in or
der to pass into the imperial presence
Russian maids of honor have to obtain
a diploma for cooking Such Is how
ever the case In some imperial men
ages too the maid of honor has to com
pose the every day dinner menu And
in all this training there underlies the
teaching that an empress or grand
duchess of Russia is a personage of
divine vocation Having passed through
all this ordeal the would be maid of
honor at the age of 10 or 17 Is pre
sented to the Empress and If finding
favor in the Imperial eyes Is appointed
a demoiselle dhonneur passing subse
quently through the various grades
mentioned From this body of maid
ens too the various grand duchesses
with the Czarinas approval also make
their selections
ODDITIES OF A WEALTHY MAN
Queer Things Which Marked the Life
of George H Hopper
George H Hopper who died on his
Elmwood estate near Cleveland Ohio
began life as a tinner and made him
self immensely rich through a contract
for furnishing tin cans to the Standard
Oil Company About ten years ago Mr
Hopper purchased Elmwood farm near
Cleveland and started In to lead the
life of a gentleman farmer Many
amusing stories are told of him in this
connection He decided to turn it into
a stock farm The first thing he did
was to purchase Bell Boy a stallion
for 51000 Six months later Bell Boy
and the stables were burned Mr Hop
per became disgusted with the idea of
raising stock and gave ft up
He was seized with the idea at one
time that it was the proper thins for a
gentleman of elegant leisure to own a
yacht He had one built and christened
it Florence in honor of his eldest
daughter When the yacht was com
pleted it was found to be too big to
enter the creek at the farm and there
being no natural harbor at the place
it had to be kept at Ashtabula twelve
miles distant Hopper hated the yacht
from the day it was built It was
launched without ballast and as It
struck the water a big wave hit It aud
it capsized and went to the bottom
with the crew on board The yacht
was raised but Hopper never again put
his foot upon it
Hoppers whole career as a farmer
was an amusing failure He owned a
beautiful orchard of peach trees and a
friend one day remarked that he would
come down in the peach season and
partake of some
Do said Hopper do grasping
DON CARLOS AND HIS WIFE
known as Don Carlos but who indulged
in the name and title at home of Carlos
Maria Isidor de in
fant of Spain entered his protest be
fore the death of Ferdinand against all
the proceedings setting aside the Salic
law admitting the female line and de
clared himself the lawful heir apparent
to the throne of Spain Immediately on
the death of Ferdinand the northern
provinces of Spain arose and declared
for King Charles Jas he was styled and
these people were called Carlists a
name which continues to exist Those
who adhered to the existing govern
ment the government of the queen re
gent were popularly called Christinos
The cause of Don Carlos dear to the
Spanish heart as standing for bigotry
and despotism seemed at one time like
ly to triumph but was betrayed by one
of its generals Morotto Don Carlos
fled from Spain and in 1844 abdicated
in favor of his son the second Don
Carlos Cabrerea invaded Spam in
1S49 but he neglected his former prao
tice of murdering and mutilating his
prisoners and his efforts were not sup
ported with the former enthusiasm
The second Don Carlos attempted to
enter Spain in 1848 and again In 1860
when he was arrested and signed a re
nunciation of his claims to the Spanish
throne The present pretender is a
third Don Carlos grandson of the first
a son of Don Juan He has made sev
eral attempts to overthrow the govern
ment of Spain the most formidable be
ginning in 1873 and lasting until 1S7G
The Don Jaime who is described as de
sirous of mixing in Spanish affairs as
head of the Carlists is the son of the
third Don Carlos
It is a noticeable fact in Spanish his
tory that no real curse ever permanent
ly departs from Spain One of the per
manent afflictions of Spain is what may
be termed Carlism In no other coun
him by the hand warmly but let ua
know when you are coming so we car
get some peaches from Geneva
Hoper was of a nervous restless dis
position and had lived such a busy life
that it was agony for him to be Idle
Therefore he employed men to build a
stone wall around his park not that the
wall was at all necessary but that it
gave him something to superintend
Honolulu Delicacies
JThe things to eat in Honoltiludepend
on who and what you are A civilized
being can have a conventional menu
from oysters on the half shell brought
from Baltimore to Neapolitan ice
cream and Nesselrode pudding For
the Kanaka there is abundant poi
posters paste five days old Dried and
smoked squid cooked seaweed raw
mullet poi dog roasted In tea leaves
and an atrocious drink made by the
fermentation of a certain root after it
has been chewed by native women
comprise the real delicacies of the Ha
waiian cuisine For the Japanese and
their cousins of the Flowery Kingdom
the island supplies rice and sharks
fins Ton3 of home products for the
Oriental table arrive on every steamer
from Yokohama and Hong Kong
From all this provender native and
foreign domestic and Imported the
civilized kitchens of the city are able
to make a discriminating choice which
gives the bills-of-fare at some Hono
lulu entertainments a peculiar piqu
ancy
Made in Paris
In view of the exhibition of 1900 a
wonderful fan is now being made in
Paris It is to be composed of leaves
of ivory all of which are to be painted
by the most celebrated modern artists
Gerome Cazln Carolus Duran Jules
Breton and Jules Lefevre are contrib
uting already The round center is to
be signed by Maurice Leloir This ex
tremely novel Idea is being elaborated
for America
Gold in South Africa
South African gold mining compan
ies last year took out 55472000 in
gold of which 90 per cent was obtain
ed in the Witwatersrand district The
greater part of this amount was pro
duced by a few companies which paid
enormous dividends ranging from 10
to 50 per cent and in two instances
100 per cent of the capital
There is always room at the bottom
of the early strawberry box
The cecret a woman is compelled to
keep is untold agony
FORTUNES BY ACCIDENT
How a Captain Made a Million by Car
rying One Passenger
If there is anything that makes a
poor toiling man happy it is to read
about flukes that have made fortunes
For instance there was a captain of a
vessel plying between English and Aus
tralian points who made a lucky strike
when convicts were taken to New
South Wales
A time expired man came to tie
mariner and begged to be taken home
The former convict had no money but
he would gladly give his plot of land
for transportation
The captain accepted the terms and
great is the joy of his descendants for
that plot is now occupied by a wharf
and it is valued at 1125000
A Limerick tobacconist believed him
self to be ruined by a fire that destroy
ed his shop The next day he found
tins of snuff that had been in the fire
Curiosity prompted him to open the
canisters He found that the action of
the flames had materially improved the
aroma and pungency of the snuff Tue
discovery made him very rich
The discovery of the Mount Sheba
mine was purely a fluke and Its out
put of gold is the greatest of any mine
in the world except in the Klondike dis
trict
A bank clerk in London heard that
there was a rich deposit of gold at a
certain place at the Cape of Good
Hope He set about forming a pro
visional syndicate among his fellow
clerks and they raised about 1500
among themselves A mining engineer
was sent out He made a thorough in
vestigation but found no gold He had
decided to give up the search and was
ready to leave for home when he ran
across a miner
Well stranger he said I guess
you are on a hunt for the shiny Taint
here boss
Have you a claim here asked the
engineer
Yes and I want to make tracks up
the country Thats my claim over by
that earners hump You can have ii
fori 100 and heres a sample of the
quartz That claim aint worth its
weight in gold but its worth every
dollar I ask for it
Theengineer examined the specimen
and decided that there was gold in it
He acted quickly
Ill tell you what Ill do mate he
said Ill give you 80 on the risk of
losing it
The bargain was struck and the claim
carefully explored An abundance of
gold was found in the most unlikely
veins To day the shares the face
value of which is 100x are worth
500000 each
In a Turkish Harem
Mrs Max Muller in her Letters from
Constantinople tells of her visits to
the harems of the great ladies and pays
her respects to the wife of one of the
ministers
She was small and nice looking
with brilliant eyes She told me that
she drove out once at the utmost twice
hi the year in a shut carriage the only
time she passed outside of these terri
ble walls She was fond of her garden
and her pets cats and birds but she
had no children and I was told lived
in constant dread that her husband
would in consequence divorce her for
very few Turks now have two wives
Her idea of European life was found
ed on French novels which she read in
cessantly and she- said to me Well
we are happier than you for our hus
bands may fancy one of our slaves
whom we know but your husbands go
about with French actresses whom you
dont know Sweetmeats were brought
in by slaves and then cigarettes but I
had to confess my ignorance of smok
ing and lastly the delicious Turkey
coffee in golden cup stands The min
isters wife is a good musician and her
sister-in-law draws and paints taught
by the minister who is quite a good
artist but In spite of music and paint
ing and French novels and lovely gar
dens I had a sad feeling that she was
like a bird beating her wings against
her golden cage She had read too
much to be content
i M iC
Yet Another
There is said to be in preparation for
the Paris exposition a novelty called
the mareorama which will give visit
ors the illusion of a voyage by steamer
from Marseilles to Constantinople with
calls at Tangier Algiers Naples Ven
ice Alexandria and Smyrna They will
be standing on the steamer which will
appear to be in the sea even to the roll
ing of the vessel and the salt breezes
The unrolling of the canvases will
make them think the ship is moving
the principle being the same as that
which makes railway passengers in a
standing train think they are in mo
tion when another train passes The
voyage of the steamer will be diversi
fied by various scenes such as meeting
a fleet of warships a tempest with
thunder and lightning a sunrise etc
besides other curious incidents At Na
ples for instance natives will climb
on board and perform the dances of
the country London Mail
Lion Hunting in South Africa
I was coming round the base of a
jttle rocky hill when I heard as I
thought some pigs grunting upon a
little bench jutting out from this hill
I cocked the old gun slapped Bess to
keep Tier auiet and climbed up on to
this bench expecting to see a big old
boar and all ready to take a snap shot
if he ran When I got up there I
could see nothing so I stepped up on a
boulder and there lay a lioness and
three cubs playing She was boxing
ones ears Her mouth was open and
the cub appeared to be trying to get
into it I am sure her mouth looked
big enough She was facing me with
her head up when I first saw her but
just as I covered her she dropped it
and gave me a good square shot at her
head Being at very close range I gave
her a center shot with a hollow bullet
She never got on her feet She uttered
one snarl and after partially rising
rolled over without even kicking Next
morning John Ingram and I started
back with four blacks We got there
before sunrise and found everything
O K I saw by the spoor that the cubs
were still with her After skinning hep
we went up the kopje and found two
of the cubs Then the fun began
The first one we ran out was a male
and a scrapper and by the way he
roared and switched his tail you would
have thought he was papa We ran
him down the kopje and across a little
flat about 100 yards and about 100
yards up another kopje Bess grabbed
him again by the ear and they both
rolled clear to the bottom the pup
Gwanda trying to get hold the nig
gers yelling and the little lion roaring
for all he was worth We tore off our
shirts and coats and threw them over
the Hon and finall by getting on top
of him succeeded in tying his legs Wo
then took him back to the old one and
tied him We af terward went up in the
kopje and caught a cub lioness Sho
had taken a stand in a crevice of rock
and the dogs could not tackle her With
a short lasso and a forked stick we got
her out The cubs are beauties and
just the right age St James Gazette
BSb SSbS JySSl Usyyir
L Z Lelter has rendered the citizens
of Chicago a good service by his genera
ous aid to Rufus Blanchard In reprint
Ing his History of Chicago published
twenty years ago A second volume
will be added to It bringing the records
down to the present time
I The handbook of the American Eco
nomic Association for 1898 contains
besides proceedings or tlie tenth an
nual meeting abstracts of papers and
discussions relating to reforms of tho
currency relation of economic history
to political history rate making and
taxation and municipal and private
distribution of water gas and elec
triclty
The London Speaker calls for a new
fashion in titles of novels The present
generation it says has outlived the
quotation epidemic which started I be
lieve with It Is Never Too Late to
Mind Put Yourself in His Place Love
Me Little Love Me Long and othei
monstrosities of Charles Reade and
stalked unchecked through the seven
ties and early eighties with Coming
Thro the Rye The Wooing Ot why
not Ha Ha the Wooing Ot Red as
a Rose Is She As He Came Up tho
Stair and the like A recognizable va
riant took the form of polite
Will He Do With It Cad
Wo Forgive Her Ought We to Visit
Her A little while ago we were wel
tering amid conjunctions of abstract
nouns and proper names The Reputa
tlon of George Saxon The Awakening
of Mary Fenwick The Silence of Deanr
Maltland Th indiscretion of jtha
Duchess The Redemption or Stella Ma
berley The Damnation of Theroa
Ware Ian Maclaren tried a retaliation1
on Charles Reade with his Beside the
Bonnie Brier Bush and In the Days of
Auld Lang Syne but fascinated per
haps by John Oliver Hobbes The Gods
Some Mortals and Lord Wickenkam
has degenerated in his latest novel to-
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
the two titles by-the-way might be
run together with very pretty effect
Who can tell But for an accident ofj
fashion we might be knowing Hamlet
to day as A Ghost Some Mortals andi
the Prince Timon of Athens as Ought
We to Call on Him and Paradise Re-
gained as The Sorrows of Satan
How Lord Salisbury Speaks j
Lord Salisbury speaks best when he
rests his elbow on something In the
Souse of Lords he usuIy Amis the
support he needs in two Or three boots
placed one above the other Somebody
one day removed one of these it was
some book of reference and Lord
Salisbury missed it immediately His
eloquence was checked he floundered
in his speech and did not resume it
until the book was returned On an
other occasion at his own house wnere
there was a political meeting he be
gan to speak rather lamely and after
considerable hesitation he walked
across his drawing room to wbere
there was a rather high fire screen1
He got inside this with his back to tho
fire and facing his audience with his
elbow on the screen proceeded to
make a most eloquent harangue
The Energetic Czar
The Czar of Rusia is a very energetic
monarch for he goes out every morn
ing directly it gets light and runs a
verst about three fifths of an English
mile in order to keep himself in good
form He carries his watch in bis
hand all the time in order to see that
there is no falling off in the matter
of speed day after day Like his Dan
ish relatives the Czar is a very keen
cyclist and he might almost make his
living as a trick rider if the Nihilists
by any chance drove him out of his
empire He is fond of shooting while
on the wheel and can bring down a
bird when going at a good speed
Convenient Handle
The original idea of the Chinamans
pigtail was that it formed a conven
ient handle by which one day he
would be lifted up to paradise The
curious belief is still to be found among
the natives
Every dog has his day but the club
man has his nights
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