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SMOOTH AS HIS OIL
Certain of the pious youth of New
York says the Journal must surely
Ull remember the instructive moment
-when Mr lohn D Rockefeller appear
ed before them with a well thumbed
memorandum book in his hands and
told them of the little earnings and
modest benelicence of his youth They
listened spellbound while he told of his
earnings of G a week a gift of 23 cents
to foreign missions 10 cents to Bible
societies and various sums to divers
beneficiaries And when the multi
millionaire trying to look as if he
yearned for the days of penury again
closed by saying that he held it the
duty of every man to get all the money
he could honestly and then give it ail
away his auditors felt that there In
deed was a true guid for youth through
lifes thorny path When the Ohio Leg
islature is not electing corruptionists
and bribers to the United States Senate
it is usually engaged in investigating
the methods by which Mr Rockefeller
gets his money honestly It was so
employed recently when John Teagle
an oil refiner testified before it Mr
Teagle swore that the agents of John
D Rockefeller tried to bribe his book
keeper with an offer of 30 a week to
give the Standard Oil Company Infor
mation regarding his shipments prices
cost of manufacture etc This book
keeper pretended to be complaisant
and actually received one payment for
helping Mr Rockefeller to undermine
his employers business It seems that
the Bibles are not the only books which
interest Mr Rockefeller the books of
his competitors also engage his atten
tion And perhaps in the memorandum
of charitable disbursements now he
puts down the sums benevolently paid
to indigent employes of his business
rivals in consideration of their treach
ery to their employers At any rate
Mr Rockefeller is living up to the first
part of his counsel to aspiring youth
He is getting all the money he can We
note that the dividends paid to this emi
nent churchman and philanthropist
from the Standard Oil holdings in 1S97
are estimated at 7500000 and still the
man who wants to make a living refin
iug oil must be fought with weapons
ranging all the way from corruption to
explosives
An Insult to Germans
In the name of the Democratic party
and the 0500000 voters who cast their
ballot for Bryan in 189G we protest
against this vicious attempt on the part
of the combined Republican press of
the United States to throw discredit on
the German race and character by re
peatedly charging that Germany is
against us in the war with Spain It
Is an insult to a nation that has always
been our friend an insult to a class of
our adopted countrymen who have al
ways been loyal to our flag This base
slander is uttered in the interest of the
proposed Anglo - American alliance
the one great object of the Repub
lican party The fact that the victims
of the insult on this side of the At
lantic have in the past supported the
Republican party seems to have little
weight with the Republican press The
only gratitude it knows is slander The
day of reckoning is approaching The
German Americans are having their
eyes opened Once they believed that
the Republican party was the best for
this country Now they see it is nar
row bigoted and anti American in its
politics That will not suit the Ger
mans They are coming to understand
the Democratic party Events of the
past few years have taught them a les
son We welcome the German Amer
icans to the ranks of Democracy And
this is not merely because they will
make victory for us certain but be
cause we love the sturdy and unflinch
ing characteristics of the race It was
this same low contemptible bigotry
that drove Irish Americans Into our
ranks where they have ever found the
hand of true brotherhood as well as a
chance to labor earnestly for a cause
that is Gods When the Republican
party finds its true level it will be
mainly composed of a few Angloma
niacs those what-is-its that look so
uncomfortable in male attire and their
progenitors the trusts and newspa
pers established and supported here by
British capital National Democrat
Down witVi the Trusts
With nearly two Thousand millions of
dollars invested in pools and trusts the
United States is certainly menaced by
a great and growing evil Recognizing
this fact the Democratic State Conven
tion of Illinois adopted the following
us one plank of the party platform
We demand the adoption of national
and State laws that will abolish pools
and trusts which unite in unlawful
combinations corporations engaged in
the same line of business for the in
crease of prices and the decrease of
wages thereby largely augmenting
profits at the expense of both consumer
and laborer Consumers arejjlaced al-
most entirely at the mercy of the trusts
Prices are advanced without fear of
these combines for they have killed
competition Hardly an article of com-
mpn use can be mentioned that Is not
absolutely controlled by a syndicate of
manufacturers Among thfr boldest of
these organizations are the Sugar Trust
and the Standard Oil Trust The Steel
Trust the Leather Trust the Cordage
Trust will occur to the mind of the
most casual thinker Aside from their
power to increase prices and to lower
wages these combines threaten the
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ertiesof the people They corrupt courts j
and legislatures tliey coerde employes
to vote for the canditfatewhoiwill make
laws favoring thecBinbinQSnd thus
they perpetuate their power ltis wise
and patriotic on thepart of the Demo
cracy to oppose theseuniytuflons and
the plank of the Illinoistatelplatforin
expressing this opposition j ought to
commend itself to every honest and to
every patriotic man 7
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Income Tax n
That the Democratic platform adopt
ed at the Stato convention of Illinois
is worthy of hearty approval on the
part of the people needs no argument
Following the silver plank comes a
declaration that will appeal to the
sense of justice imevery heart not hard
ened by selfish vinteVest This plank
reads as follows We demand the
adoption of a fair and equitable tax on
incomes and an amendment to the con
stitution of the United States if neces
sary to accomplish this purpose This
is just and treasonable on its face As
the Jaw now stands the burden of tax
ation is placed on the shoulders of
those least ajfldto pay it The man
who urns aridncoine of 10000 a year
may beltble to avoid taxation entirely1
but the man who earns a dollar a day
must pay heavj taxation and has no
chance to evade such payment By the
vote of onefinan on the supreme bench
it has been decided that an iuqome tax
is unconstitutional Although ithis is
simply the opinion of one man it is
binding son long as it is- not reversed
and perhaps tlie Way to re
verse it isr to sWure a constitutional
amendment Inthe long run justice
will be secured and the Democratic
party oil Illinois is pledged by its
platforiiiTto aid in its securemenr not
only inithisone case but in other cases
which will be referred to later on
Where Is Fitzhugli Iee
What hasthe War Department done
with Gen Fitzhugh Lee Miles went
to Forto Rico Merritt has gone to Man
ila Shafter lias captured Santiago and
Wheeler waswitli the bir general aiid
helped to bring about the big event
But where is Lee Sampson was an
unknown quantity forced upon the
navy by political influence and from
being an unknown quantity has devel
oped into a palpable and too well
known cipher Schley won the naval
victory over Cervera and Sampson
turned up just in time to claim what
Schley hal won Thus it seems that
politics has had sometbingvto do with
securing positions of advantage and
perhaps there may be more or less of
politics In the suppression of Leer By
right -of a full knowledge of the coun
try Gen Fitzhugh Lee should have
been given an opportunity at the front
in Cuba but up to date haf posltibn
has been denied him Is impossible that
Gen Lee is too popular with the people
of the United States to please the poli
ticians at Washington Chicago Dis
patch
Several Nations Should Note It
Labouchere sees in the Italian riots
this lesson for EnglaiuTSom the ter
rible condition of Italy wc should learn
a lesson or what has befallen her will
ultimately befalliis Weoulilgjve
home rule to Ireland and thus put an
end to the discontent there we sdiaulu
reduce and not increase taxation what
we do levy in taxes should spent foi
the welfare of the community instead
of being squandered in buccaneering
and in the armaments thatiare render
ed necessary for our Wdatory habits
Reace economy andreforatfare scouted
nowadays as not fitted for this enlight
ened age We should Tfevefttftirem
Public taxation in Italy has reached 7a
point where of eVery dollar Taliper
earns the state takes half to spend on
the army the navy the officials and
the aristocracy Meanwhile the un
official taxation ievIed by monopoly by
landlords takfep a good share of the
remainingliaif ordenies opportunity
to earnvanydollara all England Is
not the onljr jiaJojigniay learn this
Folly of the Dfngley Tariff
One of the minor barbarities of the
Dingley tariff as interpreted by the
customs officials is illustrated In the
duties Imposed upon a collection of
eighteenth century miniatures imported
by a residentjinew York These were
Portraits of varans celebrities painted
upon ivory some in metal frames and
sonie setgUjicovQrs of snuff boxes and
other articlestof ivory and metal The
appraisers have decided that the arti
cles must pay duty ranging from 35 and
45 to GO percent- as manufactures of
ivory metal or jewelry This is doubt
less necessary to44protect -the native
manufacturers - of antiques Philadel
phia Timesi u
Direct Lgitftiit oil Not arfalfcaV
No direct legislation is n8t a panacea
for allnaftfonal ills In fact it is not a
panacea at all It is merely a spoon
with wnlcha tnejianncea could be ad
ministered Specific legislation thfr
pahaceji fgrpfitlcal Ills anddirectiegj
islatioh the method that can be secured
AsJck roan may need a different num
ber of mediclpesJmt they can all bi
adniinisteredWlth one spoon If the
nurse wentitergeka spoon wlth which
to administer tbeniediclneYyou would
not say that sne considered tlie spoon
the panacea for all the sick mans ills
New Era
About steenRepubUcanexchanges a
day teltus thatnBryanjs n dead duckv
If he is it seems to nsit is exceeding
bad taste toinake so much fuss at a
funeral Wasningt6n In1 Democrat- -
3JHE TERRIBLE TURK
Ismail Xonsouf Giant Wrestler Miser
and Glutton Who Died in the Sea
Somewhere on the bottom of the At
lantic sixty miles or more souEhdf
Sable Island there Is lying in the tan
gled wreckage of La Bourgogne the
massively muscular body of a man
and in a leathern belt around that
mans waist are gold coins to the
amount of 8500 a goodly weight
The man was Ismail Yousouf Turk
wrestler protege of the Sultan miser
glutton The weight about his waist
Nvas what did him to death When the
French liner went down it was a nand
ffchand fight among the passengers and
crew for possession of the boats Is-
THE TURK AND HIS MONET BELT
mail Yousouf was a giant a wild beast
for strength and he might have thrust
scores aside when he made for a boat
But the- belt was about him and he
thought more of that than he did of
the boat Or himself So he went down
with It and the world has lost a unique
figure from among her men of might
Incidentally Scutari which smiles
complacently opposite Stamboul has
lostlts demi god for Yousouf was rev
ersdxand feared hi Scutari whence he
cainei Yousouf was on his way home
to open a coffee or bazar or some such
place of indolent business where he
might put more gold into his belt and
stuff more food under his belt For
Yousouf was a gormand of the most in
satiable sort The Terrible Turk had
never really been beaten until the belt
gripped him this last time Men won
from him on fouls but not by strength
It was his invariable rule until William
A Brady began to manage him to go
into a bout with the belt around him
But Brady at once changed this order
of things by compelling the Turk to di
vest himself of the cinch for Yousouf
wore it tight before entering the ring
There was 2S00 In gold In the belt at
that time which made the Turk over
weight And from the moment the belt
was off -until the bout was over You
souf was in agony He -was like a Sam
son shorn of his strength
ALTAR MADE OF ICE
Remarkable Outdoor Religious Scrvica
Held in Russia
Accompanying illustration shows an
outdoor Russian church service the al
tarbreing made of ice These services
are common all over the dominions
ruled by the Czar and particularly so
at this time of the year They begin
at the season of Whitsuntide and are
held at intervals during the months
that follow
The altar of ice is supposed to be typ
ical of Whit or White Sunday and
the services are held by the priests of
the Russian church to induce people
to give up their evil batfits and live a
pure and holy life The sight of one of
these gatherings with the priests and
choir arrayed in spotless white gar
ments is inded an impressive one and
ftie singing and chanting which accom
pany the kneeling of the congregation
I before the altar are never forgotten by
Ifiose who have been present
Some of the altars look very beauti
ful for some men are masters of the
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THE AITAB OF ICE
art of ice cutting and artistically mod
jel the block of ice In the villages it
generally consists of a rude block of ice
surmounted by a cross
HIS NERVE
Got This Drummer a Job that Be
i lonsed to Another
Tbat was a strange experience ad
pitted the traveling man when somo
one had recalled the Incident to him
IV11 tell you on the level that it con
jvertgdme to the theory that there is a
dw3tihy that shapes our endmnd that
Ihefellow who is willing to drift is not
Isuch a chump after all
JAs the boys say I was on my up
persf r No one questioned my ability on
ithe road I could sell goods to men
jwho nad no real use for them and
youll admit that to be the supreme test
of a drummer If I had one forte
above another it was that of selling
stoves I could get rid of a hard coal
burner in a soft coal district and I
could place a consignment of wood
proves In the middle of a prairie dis
trict
One morning I waked up in the
modern Troy of New York without a
cent and without a job To most men
the situation would have been as cold
as a polar expedition but as Intimat
ed Im a fatalist After jollying the
i bartender for a patriotic cocktail and
I Vi 1 n cimvp T went to the
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nearest stove factory The clock
struck 12 just as I entered the place
Before the handsome young man at the
desk could say a word I had told him
that I was on time I think the re
mark was the inspiration of an ex
tremity
Well not stop to discuss terms at
this time he said You have an hour
in which to catch a train Heres your
expense money It is a new route but
It will serve to try you out I was
knocked daffy but I took the money
caught the train and sold stoves right
and left In a week I had a letter
from the house asking who in the
world I was and where I came from
The other fellow for whom I was mis
taken had shown up and claimed the
job But they told me to fire away
and they raised my salary Im with
em yet DetroR Free Press
NEW FIGURE FOR WOMEN
Athletics Have Revolutionized the
Ideal Feminine Form
Athletics have revolutionized wom
ans figure Thejr have increased the
measurements of the ideal feminine
figure several inches The absence of
corsets has had something to do with
the matter also but not to the extent
of athletics The accompanying figure
of the present type of athletic Ameri
can woman was drawn by a New York
woman artist It shows an increase of
girth all around The measurements
in fact are almost heroic and do not
greatty differ from those of the Venus
of MIlo which heretofore has had no
modern prototypes If the Venus of
Milo were reduced to life size she
would measure
Height 5 feet 8 inches
Weight If a living woman 173
pounds
Neck 13 inches
Bust 38 inches
Waist 31 inches
The artists model is not a profes
sional She is a young woman of the
leisure class who is devoted to
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ics swimming and bicycling being
the two branches of sport in which she
is most interested Her measurements
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Height 5 feet 7 inches
Weight 1G0 pounds
Neck 14 inches
Bust 3S inches
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Waist 27 Inches
Arm 13 Inches
See how these measurements com
pare to the Milo and differ from the
fashionable wasp waisted figure of five
years ago Then the average woman
prided herself on wearing a 12 inch
collar and a 20 inch corset
The modern woman must be a crea
ture of iron nerves She must even be
able to stand without flinching the su
preme test of seeing a mouse run across
the floor And as for fainting that
piece de resistance of the heroine of
twnty fiye years ago would be abso
lutely fatal to the modern tactics of
feminine warfare With the advent of
the new figure a more healthy tone is
creeping into the feminin mind T7
girls who go in for all sorts of exercise
are not afraid to acknowledge good
healthy appetites and normal senti
ments Who could be otherwise than
healthy minded who proudly owns to a
good appetite and a 27 inch waist
Figurative Speech
As an example of the error of talking
figuratively to those who do not appre
ciate and who are apt to take every
thing literally this story is worth read
ing The respected superintendent of
a Sunday school had told his boys that
they should endeavor to bring theii
neighbors to the school saying that
they should be like a train the scholar
being the engine and his converts the
cars
v Judge of his surprise when next Sun
day the door opened during lessons
and a little boy making a noise like an
engine ran in followed by half a doz
en others In single file at his back He
came to a halt before the superintend
ent who asked the meaning of It alL
Tlrtfcnaive reply was
Please sir Im the engine and
thems the cars
Germany on the Pingree Idea
The German government proposes to
try to grow potatoes In Africa
First Theosophlst This settles It I
resign from the society Second The
osophlst the matter First
Theosophlst Why one of my tenants
has gone off without paying his rent
and left a note saying he would try
to square up with me in some future
existence Puck
Trouble seldom visits a man who
Isnt looking for It
HEROES WHO FIGHT FIRE
Their Risks Increase in the Ratio of
Our ProRreSB
Jacob A Rils author of How the
Other Half Lives and other studies
of tenement house life contributes to
the Century in the series of Heroes
of Peace an article on Heroes who
Fight Fire Mr Riis says of the fire
man
His life is too full of real peril for
him to expose it recklessly that is to
say needlessly From the time when
he leaves his quarters in answer to an
alarm until he returns he takes a risk
that may at any moment set him face
to face with death in its most cruel
form He needs nothing so much as a
clear head and nothing is prized so
highly nothing puts him so surely in
the line of promotion for as he ad
vances in rank and responsibility the
lives of others as well as his own
come to depend on his judgment The
act of conspicuous daring which the
world applauds is oftenest to the fire
man a matter of simple duty that had
to be done in that way because there
was no other Nor is it always or even
usually the hardest duty as he sees it
It came easy to him because he Is an
athlete trained to do such things and
because once for all it is easier to risk
ones life in the open in the sight of
ones fellows than to face death alone
caught like a rat in a trap That is
the real peril which he knows too well
but of that the public hears only when
he has fought his last fight and lost
How literally our every day security
of which Ave think if we think of it
at all as a mere matter of course is
built upon the supreme sacrifice of
these devoted men we realize at long
intervals when a disaster occurs such
as the one in which Chief Bresnan and
Foreman Rooney lost their lives three
years ago They were crushed to death
under the great water tank in a 24th
street factory that was on fire Its sup
ports had been burned away An ex
amination that was then made of the
water tanks In the city discovered eight
thousand that were either wholly un
supported except by the roof beams
or propped on timbers and therefore a
direct menace not only to the firemen
when they were called there but daily
to those living under them
Seventeen years ago the collapse of a
Broadway building during a fire con
vinced the community that stone pillars
were unsafe as supports The fire was
in the basement and the firemen had
turned the hose on When the water
struck the hot granite columns they
cracked and fell and the building fell
with them There were upon the roof
at the time a dozen men of the crew
Df Truck Company No 1 chopping holes
for smoke vents The majority clung
to the parapet and hung there till res
cued Two went down into the fur
nace from which the flames shot up
twenty feet when the roof broke One
Fireman Thomas J Dougherty was a
wearer of the Bennett medal too His
foreman answers on parade day when
his name is called that he died on the
field of duty These at all events did
not die in vain Stone columns are not
now used in supports for buildings in
New York
So one might go on quoting the perils
of the firemen a so many steps for
ward for the better protection of the
rest of us It was the burning of the
St George Flats and more recentlj of
the Manhattan Bank in which a dozen
men were disabled that stamped the
average fire proof construction as
faulty and largely delusive One might
even go further and say that the fire
mans risk increases in the ratio of our
progress or convenience The water
tanks came with the very high build
ings which in themselves offer prob
lems to the fire fighters that have not
yet been solved The very air shafts
that were hailed as the first advance in
tenement house building added enor
mously to the firemans work and risk
as well as to the risk of every one
dwelling under their roofs by acting as
so many huge chimneys that carried
the fire to the onen windows opening
upon them in every story More than
half of all the fires in New York occur
in tenement houses When the Tenement-House
Commission of 1894 sat In
this city considering means of making
them safer an 2tUn l received the
molt practical help nnu auvice rrom
the firemen especially from Chief Bres
nan whose death occurred only a few
days after he had testified as a wit
ness The recommendations upon which
he insisted are now part of the general
tenement house law
Casan the Tartar Dwarf
In the series of papers on Historic
Dwarfs in St Nicholas May Shears
Roberts describes the famous Casan
Mrs Roberts says
Casan was the name of a little Mon
gol Tartar who flourished In the early
part of the thirteenth century
He was born in the eastern part of
Asia not far from the ancient city of
Karakorum His parents belonged to
one of the barbarian hordes that owed
allegiance to Genghis Khan and Casan
became a fierce though small warrior
and fought bravely under the banner
of the great and mighty Mongol con
quero
The exact height of this little dwarf
is unknown He was certainly not
over three feet tall but lie was active
and muscular and like all his race
could endure hunger thirst iatigne
and cold
The Tartars were unexcelled in the
management of their beautiful horses
The fleetest animals were trained to
stop short in full career and to face
without flinching wild beast or formid
able foe Casan was a born soldier
and at an early age became expert in
all the exercises that belonged to a
Tartar education He could manage a
fiery courser with great skill and could
shoot an arrow or throw a lance with
unerring aim in full career advancing
or retreating
Like many of those small In stature
he was anything but puny In spirit
and while yet a lad he gathered abouf
him a troop of wild young Tartar boys
as reckless and daring as himself o
whom by common consent he became
leader He commanded his lawless
young comrades with a strange mix-
ture of dignity and energy and they
obeyed his orders with zeal and will
ingness Sometimes they would go on
long hunting expeditions seldom fail
Ing to lay waste any lonely habitation
they happened on
Experiments to discover the best fire
resisting material for the construction
of doors are said to have proved that
wood covered with tin is better than
solid Iron
A new process of rendering silk non
inflammable consists In substituting for
the nitrated cellulose heretofore used a
solution of purified cellulose sulpho
phosphoric acid
A plate glass switchboard is one of
the novelties of the New York electri
cal exposition Slate or marble Is in
variably used for this purpose and the
wonder is why no one ever thought of
plate glass before
The richest deposit of aluminum In
the world has just been discovered
near Bowling Green Ky An analysis
of the clay by the government assayist
at St Louis Mo showed the propor j
tion of aluminum contained therein to
be 50 per cent
The human system can edure heat of
212 degrees the boiling point of water
because the skin is a bad conductor
and on account of the perspiration cool
ing the body Men have withstood with
out injury a heat of 300 degrees for
several minutes
A nineteen story steel cage construc
tion oflice building in San Francisco
recently underwent a severe test in be
ing shaken by the most violent earth
quake which has been experienced
there for many years The building is
said to have swayed like a tree but
suffered no material damage
In Rochester it is proposed to intro
duce a drinking fountain whose water
supply will be delivered as a short ver
tical jet or fountain The person using
it places the mouth over the jet and
drinks without touching anything but
the water itself This avoids contam
ination from other users of the foun
tain S
The new 12G ton gun intended to be
placed on Romer Shoal in New York
harbor and now receiving Its finishing
touches at Watervliet is the largest
cannon in existence six tons heavier
and five feet longer than the greatest
Krupp gun Its length is 49 feet 2
inches and the diameter of its bore
sixteen inches Its projectile will weigh
2300 pounds and the firing charge of
powder will be nearly 1000 pounds
The extreme range is calculated at six
teen miles The total cost of this gun
and its mounting will be about 300000
An interesting device for the prompt
delivery of letters to the tenants of the
upper floors in lofty houses is employed
in Geneva On the ground floor is a letter-box
for each of the floors above
When a letter is dropped into one of the
boxes it makes an electric contact
which not only sets a bell ringing on
the floor for which the letter is intend-
ed but also opens the valve of a water
tank on that floor by means of which a
cylinder connected with the letter box
by cords and pulleys is filled with wa
ter When full the cylinder descends
and pulls up the letter box The latter
on reaching its destination automati
cally dumps its contents while at the
same instant the cylinder discharges
Its water The box now outweighs the
cylinder and accordingly descends lift
ing the latter to its original position
Needed His Right Hand
I have heard and read many pathet
ic stories said Senator Hoar recent
ly but none of them ever awoke so
much sad sympathy as one which
j nointofi The profgsi
sor has a favorite pupil a little deaf
mute boy exceptionally bright Mr
Gallaudet asked him if he knew the
story of George Washington and the
cherry tree With his nimble fingers
the little one said he did and then he
proceeded to repeat It The noiseless
gesticulations continued until the boy
had informed the professor of the elder
Washingtons discovery of the muti
lated tree and of his quest for the muti
lator When Georges father asked
him who hacked his favorite cherry
tree signaled the voiceless child
George put his hatchet in his left
hand
Stop interrupted the professor
Where do you get your authority for
saying he took the hatchet in his left
hand
Why responded the boy he need
ed his right hand to tell his father that
he cut the tree
The Largest Coneregation
The largest congregation In America
is tha of Str Stanislaas Kostkain Chi
cago which has 30000 communicants
The numb of attendants at the sev
eral Sunday services frequently ex
ceeds 15000
Where They Aliased It
I am very much surprised to hear
that they aro married I thought he
was merely flirting with her -
He thought so too Colliers Week
ly
We have noticed that every man
with a big mustache is very fond of
soup
The turtle may be slow but he usu
ally gets there in time for the soup
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