It Wo» tlw Cat.
A rather curious thing happened in
Haven, Cfc. A la. je black cat man
aging to get into the collar in some
mysterious way, and finding it impos
Bible to get out, and feeling rather des
pondent at the outlook of affairs, re
sorted to craft. Jumping on the win
dow sill, with her front paws she kept
the wire connected with the front door
bell working, the bell pealing inces
santly. The head of the family, becom
ing alarmed at the steady and inces
sant ringing, went to the door, found
no one, and returned to his anh-chair
to ponder. The ringing continued,
and, thinking perhaps that a band of
robbers were in the house, he started in
March of a policeman, who should
searoh the cellar and arrest the offen
der, if offender it should prove. The
policeman and the prominent citizen
entered the cellar, armed with clubs
and pistols and a dark lantern. The
flash of the lantern lit on the cat, work
ing away in dead earnest. “Goodness
me I what is that?” asked the proprie
tor- “ By hoky-poky, ’tin the eat,*
readily rosponded I he office*. The cat
in the meanwhile, seeing a way of es
cape, ran out the door, and order war
once more restored in the house.
Voi|h Balaam
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To swear off smoking and then be
presented with a 25-cent cigar is one of
those dreadful things which will occa
sionally happen. People talk of suffer
ing, but they have no idea of tb*e mean
ing of the word until they are bronght
to this experience.
An Echo from tho World*. Fair.
/he Lake Shore Route has recently
gotten out a very handsome litho
water color of the * ‘Exposition Flyer,"
the famous twenty hour train in ser
vice between New York and Chicago
during the fair. Among the many
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bian year this train—which was tho
fastest long distance train ever run—
holds a prominent place, and to any
one interested in the subject the pict
ure is well worth framing. Ten cents
in stamps or silver sent to C. K. Wil
ber, West Pass. Agt, Chicago, will
secure one.
A long time ago, in Mason county
Ey., an old toper agreed to fight a fero
cious ram, the prize being a quart of
whisky. The whole village collected to
Bee the fight. Both man and ram
oharged at the same time, but the man
quickly righted, and, planting his foot
upon the lifeless carcass ol his foe, de
manded and drank tho whisky. Just
at tho moment of collision ths man had
dropped his head, and the nose, of the
ram coming in contact with the ele
vated shoulders, the animal’s neck was
broken.
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IN GRANDMAMA'S KITCHEN,
In grandammtt'a kitchtn things pot In a riot;
Tn« cream in a pot on tho shelf
Where everything else seomeu peaceful and
quiet,
i Got whipped—for I heard it mvself.
| And grindnmma sold—such a queer thine to
t say—
I That it made some things bettor to whip them
| that wuy.
Some bold, naughty ejrgs, that refused to bo
eaten
I On toast with ‘-heir brothers, maybe,
Were stripped of their clothing and cruelly
beaten
Rijtat where all the dishes could seei
And vrandmama said though the poor things
might ache.
The harder tho beating, the lighter the cake!
The bright golden butter was petted and
patted.
Ana coaxed to bo shapely and good
But it finally had to be taken and spatted
Right h.trd with a paddle of wood.
When grandmama carried the round balls
away.
The buttermilk sulked and looked sour all day.
The water declared that the coffee was muddy,
But an ejp settled that littlo fins
Then the steak and the gridiron pot In a bloody
And terrible broil—such a muss!
And a fiat Iron spat at grandma in the face,
And I ran away from the qu *rrelsomo place.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
BLIND JUSTICE.
BY HEKEX B. MATHERS.
CHAPTER XI—Continued.
Outside it we held a parley.
“Him carries fire-arms," said the
old fisherman, “an’ if aich wan o’
his bullets be spry as this ’un," and
he touched my arm significantly.
“We must take him by surprise,”
I said. “While two of you beat at
the front door and ask for me, the
others must steal on him from be
hind, through the masked door. He
will be parleying with you, and so
we can easily overcome him without
so much as a shot being fired. ’’
So in the darkness, and without a
murmuring word from any of them,
our party divided, and my pulses
beat fast, as, followed by two strong
fellows, I entered the hidden room,
and, advancing to the grating, looked
in.
The Styrian had kindled a light,
and the sound of his curses came
plainly to my ears as he stalked to
and fro, raging at his inability to
discover how the midnight thief had
escaped.
Even as I watched him his fury re
ceived a check, for loud and urgent
came the summons from without, and
the sound of rough voices calling on
my name.
For awhile he stood like an ar
rested statue of doubt and anger,
then lie strode to the door with a
gesture as if he would drive away
these unwelcome intruders, and on
the instant I leaped silently out of
my ambush, followed by the two men.
and before he had time to turn in
the narrow room we were upon him,
and had pinioned both hands behind
his back.
He struggled and roared out as the
pistol fell clattering from his hand,
and tore and kicked and bit at all
three of us; if his strength had not
be,en so enormous, I think I should
have felt ashamed of the uneven
odds of three men against one, but
as it was we found all our work cut
out to secure him to the table, which
was solid enough to fit a prison.
Bound and humiliated, the Styrian
showed his teeth in a snarl of malig
nant hate as he looked up at me.
••You use your guests strangely in
this country,” ho said; “first you rob
and then you deprive them of their
liberty and what do you expect to
gain by it?”
“A woman’s life,” I said, then all
things grew dim before me, and with
them faded the face that seemed to
hide an urgent dread and fear be
neath its mask of defiance and shame.
CHAPTER XU
The chill air was blowing in on me,
and some rough surgery, pending
the arrival of the doctor, was being
applied to my arm, when I came to
myself, and looked around.
My eyes fell first upon Stephen,
who returned my questioning gaze
with another.
“Awh, whatever have 'un bin up
to?” he said. “Sheddin’ o’ blid woant
help he wi’ Judith, an’ he be but a
raskill, too, t’ set upo’ ’ee like this.”
“Slay here with me, and help me
watch him,” I said, then thanked
the three fishermen (the fourth had
gone for the doctor) fcr what they
had done, rewarded them handsome
ly, and sent them away.
They cast many a puzzled glance {
behind, undoubtedly much exercised
in their minds as to the meaning of
the night's work, and they had 1
barely gone when the doctor’s cheery j
voice sounded without, and he came
briskly in. He cast a comprehensive
glance around, raised his eyebrows j
slightly, then, without asking a ■
question, proceeded to examine my !
arm.
“M’m.a pretty severe flesh wound, J
he said, “and the bullet must be 1
probed for; you’ll have to come jack \
with me to my place. Steve here I
will keep an eye on your prisoner. 1
What brought you to such a hole as
this?” he went on, looking at me i
keenly, then turning tq bend a long !
gaze on the Styrian, “and in such 1
company?”
He did not wait for an answer but
hurried out. He had lived all his i
life in Xrevenick, and had no doubt j
been called to more than one scene j
of bloodshed and violence under this
roof. J
I followed him at once, leaving |
alone together the man who loved
and was beloved of Judith, and the
man who loved and was scorned by
her.
“Doctor,” I said, when a sufficient
ly painful quarter of an hour had 1
been got through, and the Styrian’s !
bullet lay in my hand, “is it possi- j
ble for a man to take a quantity of
arsenic daily with impunity, then die
suddenly from the effects of it?”
The doctor, who had been clean
ing and replacing hie Instruments,
turned to me quickly with a wicked
looking knife poised in the air as he
•aid:
[ “So you have not got rid of your
insane idea that Seth Troloar pois
oned hiraselfP” j
j “No,” I said firmly, "and whist's J
more I am going to prove it. This 1
box (I produced it) taken from that !
man whilo ho slept to-night, is posl- j
tive proof that ho takes arsenic hab- J
itually; and as he was a close com- !
panion of Seth Troloar for years, it j
is pretty certain that thoir habits as !
well as their occupations wore ldon-i
tical."
Dr. Cripps took the box from my ■
hand, tasted a grain of its contents i
with a very'wry face, then said: i
“There’s enough here to kill a !
hundred men.” j
j "You have not answered my ques- |
tion," I said, and I repeated it. j
“It is ono I could not possibly an- I
swer." ho said, off-hand. “It is un
usual, extraordinary oven for the
body to assimilate large doses of an
irritant poison, but I should say
that once having violated nature's
rulos successfully, a man would not
be likely to succumb to its effects. ”
My face fell, and the smart of my
shoulder angered me as a useless and
intolerable pain.
“So ho shot you because you stole
this,” said Dr. Cripps, the pallid
morning light falling on his round
weathor-beaten face, at once homely
i and shrewd; “then clearly he values
it highly, and I shall be curious to
know how he gets on without ft”
H spoke slowly as ono who thought
aloud, his hand arrested on its way
to the table, and in his eyes I caught
the slow glimmering of an idea.
"Seth Treloar was under the in
fluence of the drug which Judith
gave him for twenty-four hours," he
said, “it would be dark when he
came to himself, and he may have
wandered round and round like a
boast in a cage for hours, ignorant
of the open trap-door over his hoad,
and the rope by which ho might
gain it Did he—did—he—”
“Die for the want of poison that
he was in the habit of taking at
regular intervals?” I burst out,
putting at last into words and shape
the idea that had so constantly eluded
me, and to which an indefinable
something in the ^doctor's face as
sisted me.
“Exactly,” said Dr. Cripps, “and
it strikes me we have now an ex
cellent opportunity of finding out—
that opportunity being furnished by
the gentleman who is safely tied to
the leg of your kitchen table. But
what brought him here?" he added
suddenly.
I told him the Styrian’s story from
the beginning; of his interview with
Judith, and everything down to the
present time.
“The game is in your own hands,”
he said, when I stopped, “you have
only to sit down and watch the man.
If he shows symptoms of collapse,
send for me, but it's the most extra
ordinary—” he paused abruptly.
“Poor girl,” he said in a moved
voice, “and I was ready, like all the
rest of the world, to believe that the
sudden temptation overcame her,and
turned a good woman into a bad one
—but we don’t know yet. I must
get to bed now for a couple ot hours,
for I’ve a harder day’s work before me,
young man, than yours as amateur
detective. And now you’ll go back
and get some sleep yourself—I’ll look
in after breakfast. And before I go
out I’ll write to B-the first
toxologist of the day, and ask him a
few questions. I wish I had done it
sooner.”
Ana ne disappeared upstairs as 1
went out into the grey morning, more
than satisfied with tne night's work,
and full of hopes of wnat the next
twenty-four hours should bring forth.
CHAPTEifXlII.
It was midday when I awoke from
the heavy slumber into which I fell
from pure exhaustion on my return
from Dr. Cripps, my limb3 aching
from the hard chair in which I had
slept, and with what felt like the
brand of a red hot iron deep in my
shoulder.
I looked across to the bound figure
by whose side was set cup and platter,
both untouched, though the wolfish
look of hunger and craving that met
mine put me in mind of nothing
so much as a starving, hunted dog.
Had his torment commenced already?
it would have to be sharpened yet
before I wasted a word upon him.
Stephen sat m the open doorway, a
patient, pathetic figure, whose atti
tude spoke to his hopeless despair,
and whose eyes were blind to the
glory of the scene upon which he
uazed.
He looked up apathetically as I
joined him, too engrossed in fails own
sorrow to heed me much.
“The sun woan't rise many mo’
times upo’ her, poor sawl," he said,
looking out at the living joy of the
sea, “it ’ull a’ be dark whar she lies,
tho’ th’ flowers ’ll bloom as swate.an’
th’ birds sing as loud as iver over
her head, ay, a’ th’ little ’vn ’ll laff
the while’s my heart is breakin’.’’
“You’ll see many a sun rise to
gether yet.” I said cheerfully, “ay,
and many a sunset, too. Keep a close
watch on that fellow. I shall get !
something to eat in the village, it j
would choke me to eat in his pres- j
ence.” and I stepped over the thresh
old as a captive escaping from his
dungeon.
Hatless, I roamed forth with the
sea, air and sky for company, feeling
brain and body rested with every
step 1 took, and drinking in all the
sweet influences of the morning with
a joy to which I had long been a I
stranger.
“Soon,” thought I. “Judith’s elas
tic step will tread this cliff, and she
will look up free as air to heaven,
innocent before God and man. and
already forgetting those gates of
death that so lately yawned to re
ceive her.
In fancy I roamed beside the pair,
and tasted all the keenness of their 1
delight I seemed to see the bruised I
spirit of the man revive, anti lift
itself as a flower stretches upward
to the sunlight, tho bowed form onoe
more erect, and tho light in his
clouded eyes shining gladly forth on
his follows.
On and on I wandered from ollft to
eUtl, fooling only the springing turf,
tho wooing, whispering air, seeing
but tho mingled glory of sea and
sky, and those tender huos of spring
that spread over tho land, like the
sudden laughter on the face of a very
young child.
No occasion had I for hasto, rather
a secret necessity behind all this tu
mult of joy bade mo Unger and
spend lavishly the hours of this glo
rious day, so that many might elapse
beforo I returned to the hut, and
gauged the effect that tho progress
of ttmo had made on the Styrian.
Ought not tho thought of that
eaged wretch to have takon all the
spring out of my limbs, the elixir
out of my morning cupP Did not
those wolllsh eyes haunt me with
thoir dumb cry for what I had stolen
from him like any common thief?
No! they disturbed me as llttlo as
did tho smarting pain in my shoul
der, felt, indeed, but disregarded in
the triumphant exultation of my
mood. For I was buoyed up by more
than hope; a sonso of victory, even,
possessed mo. and the mere touch of
tho horn box in my breast pocket
gave me a physical feeling of success
impossible to describe.
In less than twonty-four hours—
that was the limit I had set to the
Styrian's power of endurance with
out his drug—I should know its se
cret, life or death, and it would go
hard with mo if Dr. Cripps and I did
not between us wring a confession
from him that would clear the woman
to whom he was acting so basely.
Presently the delightful pang, de
lightful when one sees a prospect of
allaying it, whose name Is hunger,
assailed me.
Tho man who sleeps dines, says
tho proverb, but I was well satisfied
with my appetite now I had found it.
I had passed, far below me, more
than one fisherman's cottage nestled
like a white sea-gull upon a spur of
the cliff, but when I came in sight of
the next, I descended with some dif
ficulty, and explained my wants to
the good woman within.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
Lite on m Sailing Ship,
Sailing ships sometimes spend long
Intervals at sea without raising a
sail of any kind above their ever
changing horizons. Honce the
unique experience of the Lorton and
the Cockermouth Is well worth re
cording. They left Liverpool to
gether and arrived at Astoria, Ore
gon, within forty-eight hours of each
other. Throughout this long pas
sage of over 15,000 miles they were
not widely separated at any given
instant, and for forty days were
actually in close company. Captain
Steel and his family, of the Lortoo,
would dine on board tho Cocker
mouth on one Sunday and Captain
McAdam and his wife, of the Cocker
mouth, would pay a return visit to
the Lorton on the following Sunday.
Life may be made more worth living
on sailing ships, remoto from the
land, were such an interchange of
courtesies always possible.
At the close &f last year the state
of Califdhnia had a population of
1,500,000 and since 1880 the assessed
value of property has just doubled.
She has the largest per capita wealth
of any state in the union, and her
savings banks now have on deposit
$188,000,000. She ranks first among
the states in the production of gold,
wine, honey, oranges, almonds and
walnuts and is running close to first
on many other products. Last year
her mines yielded gold to the value
of $13,000,000 and other precious
metals to the value of $7,000,00). San
Francisco is now the leading whaling
Dort of the world.
I'niforms of Policeman.
Metropolitan fashions have long
prevailed throughout the country.
In no one thing is that more plainly
apparent than in the uniforms of po
licemen. In the smaller cities, and
even in small towns, the policeman
wears a uniform like that of his
city brother. He may not have the
city brother’s repose -of manner and
cool jauntiness of bearing, but his
clothes are strictly up to date.
“A Soft Amwer," Etc.
Young Wife, pettishly—You at
ways seemed to have plenty of money
before we were married.
Loving Husband—It was only
seeming, my dear. 1 had very little.
“And you told me you expected to
be rich.”
“So I am rich, darling; I’ve got
you.”
She could not help kissing him.—
London Tit Bits.
What l’apa Said.
Mr. Bigwaist—And so your fathet
has been giving you some points in
physiology and has told you that all
persons’ bodies are composed mainly
of water.
Little Robbie—All except you, he
said.
"Except me?”
“Yes; he said you were made up
mainly of beer.”—Boston Courier.
Bin r deni and Hanging*.
In the four years ending 1S91 there
were 16,947 murders in the United
States. But 1,060 of the murderers
were over called to account for their
crimes, and of these 410 were
hanged and 040 lynched.
Knew It Was Loaded.
Joe—I guess I must be a gun.
Tom—Why?
“The boss fired mo this morning.”
“Was it a case of didn't-know-it
was-loaded?”
“On the contrary.”
—I
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the purest and strongest of all the baking powders.
The purest baking powder makes the finest, sweet
est, most delicious food. The strongest baking pow
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That baking powder which is both purest and
strongest makes the most digestible and wholesome
food.
Why should not every housekeeper avail herself
of the baking powder which will give her the best
food with the least trouble ?
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Avoid all baking powders sold with a gift
or prize, or at a lowor prioe than the Royal,
as they invariably contain alum, lime or sul
pburic aoid, and render the food unwholesome.
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Royal, which is absolutely pure.
Health of Hones.
The health and comfort of horses hare
of late years been greatly improved by
the better construction of stables. They
are made more roomy and lofty, and
provided with means of thorough ven
tilation. In many new stables lolts are
done away with, or the floor of the lofts
is kept well above the horses'heads, and
ample shafts are introduced to oonvey
away foul air. By perforated bricks
and gratings under the mangers and
elsewhere round the walls, and also by
bay windows and ventilators, abundance
of pure air is secured for the horses;
while, being introduced in moderate
amount and from various directions, it
comes in without draught. Too much
draught is almost an unknown stable
luxury.. To secure a constant supply of
pure air, horses require more oubio
space than they generally enjoy. Even
when animals are stabled only at night,
a minimum of 1,200 cubic feet should
be allowed. In England, the newer
cavalry barracks give a minimum of
1,500 feet, with a ground area of fully
ninety square feet per horse, and tha
best hunting and carriage horses have
more room.—Journal of Chemistry.
Born, Mot Made
Weak by Imprudence, are many stomach*.
1’uny people have. Invariably, weak diges
tion. The robust as a rule eat heartily and
assimilate their food. A naturally weak
stomach, or one that has become, although
notsaorlglnally, derives peedful,aid from
this thorough stomuchlc, Hostetler's stom
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i ellcute Is the prompt effect of a recourse to
this professionally sanctioned him univer
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—1“ overcome by It. Fo are liver complulnt
and constipation. Inctplont rheumatism
and kidney trouble It defeats thorou hly,
and It constitutes an efficient defensor
against malaria. But In order that the full
benefit derivable from 11s use should be
availed of, it should not be used In a hap
hasard way, but continually. The samesug
gestl n liulds good of all standard remedies.
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Two good whiat players were matched
against two bad players, and the lame
arrangement was made in another room,
in which the bad players held the same
hands as the good players in the first
room, and vice vena. Thirty-three
hands were played. In one room the
good players held good cards and won
(oar rubbers out oi six, in points a bal
ance of eighteen; in the other room the
good players had the bad cards, and
played seven rubber* with the same
number of cards, winning three ont of
seven, and losing seven points on the
balance. The difference was eleven
points, or nearly one point a rubber in
favor of skill. Dr. Pole, working by a
statistical method, has arrived at nearly
the same result; but he estimates the
advantage of superior personal play,
atw>ng players all playing by system, at
about a quarter of a point a rubber. So
that the combined skill of two very
skillfnl players against two very un
skillful ones would be more than half a
point a rubber. _
Ilmir* Catarrh Cara
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“Ugly Girls.” .
The cld aunt who is a confidante oi
youthful troubles, and helps to smooth
family jars; the maiden sister, who
acts as nurse when there is sickness in
the house; the middle-aged, unmarried
daughter, who keeps house for an in
valid father and mother, and soothes
the declining years of ths old people
by her dutiful attendance; all these are
types of women who may be found in
no small numbers among “ugly girls.”
—London JY'jfh.
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tunity.
The country is new, the lands are
cheap, and the eastern market is from
500 to 1,500 miles nearer than to simi
lar lands iu Oregon, Washington and
California. ’’
Advertising matter sent on applica
tion. Address EL L. Lomax, Q. P. &
T. A., Omaha, Neb.
A Short Creed.
When a young man declared to Dr.
Parr that he would believe nothing he
did not understand, “Then, sir,” said
the doctor, “your creed would be the
shortest of any man whom I ever saw r
Sum Houston’* Duel.
A correspondent of the Bowline
Green (Ky.) Intelligencer unearthed an
old man of the vicinity who remembered
all about "the sensation of the year
1820,” the old man being one of tba 1
participants in the dnel that caused the
sensation. To settle a spat that coma
of hot blood Gen. Bam Houston, then a
member of Congress from Tennessee, v
and Gen. White, of Nashville, agreed
that on “ Sept. 23, 1820,” they would
**fight a duel on the Tennessee line;
time, sunrise; distance, fifteen feet;
weapons, holster pistols.” Houston got
out of bed at 3:40 a. m. on the 23d, and,
sitting in his night clothes, molded two ,',-t
bullets. As the first fell from the
mold a dog named,"Gen. Jackson"
raised a triumphant howl under the ■
window. When the second bullet
dropped a game cook crowed long «nd
loua from a neighboring tree. Houston,
who was superstitious, out the figure of
a dog on one bullet, and that of a cook -
on the other. The principals'stood at -
their posts on the second and to the ’
inoh. White’s lead out a whistle
through the sharp air, but Houston
stood unhurt. At the same the
bullet with the dog mark passed dean
through White’s body, so that a silk
handkerchief was drawn from one side to
the other. Alter the duel Houston select
ed as his coat-of arms the famous
" chicken cock and dog.” ■ 4 ‘ $
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law. n mUrn beat Oouiii Cures. auu.,a(lau.*fun
Touxo sportsmen—“ Doe* your fain*
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— Oh, no; we nae au our fruit for
making tarta.”
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Tmtu would be fewer accidents in ’
this world if men would take their
wives’ advice, for we never yet heard at '
a man’s head being blown off with m'A
shot-gun, or his being ran over by the
cars, but what his wife said ahe had : j
often told him to keep away from th£
railroad track or never touch a gun.
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The debts of the world are estimated at h
1150,000,000,000.
DOCTORS ENDORSE IT.,
a Eminent Physician of itkaima
telle of some ■emnrktuUe Cured
of Consumption.
atamjM, ua tnytue uo„ Ant. ■
Dr. R. V. Pisncs:
Dear Sir—I will aajr tbit
to you, that Consumption
to hereditary In my wife's
family: some have al
ready died with the die- '
ease. My wife has s Ma
ter, Mrs. B. A. Cleary,
that was taken with con
sumption. She used your
“ Golden Medical Discov
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prise pf her many friends,
she got well. My wife has
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from the lungs, and her
sister insisted on her us
Mui nonane Discovery.” I consented
MRS. ROGERS. Jo ^ (gj R
relieved bor. Sbe hoe bad no symptoms of
consumption for tbe |«st six yenrs. People
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Yours very truly.
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