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TITE OMATIA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 31, 1009.
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SOflg PLANTATION RIDDLES
A Tale of Two Letters
LEADER OF TI1E NEGRO RACE
ianos You Know
Rhymes of the NegTo Quarter in the
Old South.
Beneficent Activities of Booker
T.
One Showi now a Nonpartisan Democratic Candidate for
Supreme Judge Ooet Fishing for Corporation Retainers Other
Admiti Hii "Corporate Affiliation!" Are Without Palliation.
Washington of Tuskegee.
SORT OF 1'OETRY IN SOME OF THEM
HIS SCHOOL AND HIS LABORS
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Manr Adaptations from tho Riddle
of Old Knalantl ,'oaeelta He
fliirllnf Life and Cnstoms
of troFi,
All races In their youth are prona to
r.nko and prlva riddles. It wan with th
making of a hard riddle that Bamson'S
nmiital troubles began. It waa from thla
riddle and ita consequences that the
FhillPtlnes wera to see much trouble from
the hand of Samson: "Out of the eater
came forth meat, and out of the strong
came forth sweetness."
Many of the riddles of ancient Oreece
have become a part of world history. It
1h not possible that any sum fame will
ever become attached to any plantation
riddle. Yet very Interesting these riddles
are to the student of folklore. Very much
can be learned from them of the thought
and the llfo and the habits of the colored
people In America.
Every plantation In the stood old days
before the war had Ita notable wits, atory
tellers, riddle rhymeri and sona; leaders.
Many, alaal most of these wise old people
He silent In unmarked graves In lonely
pine woods or old overgrown fields, but
their memories live In many a heart.
Never was there greater delight to any
child than that rare treat to go to the
quarter under mammy's faithful charge to
the cabin of soma old brown wiseacre to
hear Br'er Rabbit tales or to guess riddles.
Mammy's august presence and her
thorough knowledge of the proprieties for
both her own and her owner's race was a
safe expurgation of all stories, songs and
riddles.
Many of the riddles told ware doubtless
adaptations from those of old England,
which the negro children of long ago
caught from the white children of their
I masters. Just so traces of old English
V ballads frequently show in the ejngs of
the black people.
V It la also Interesting to see how what Is
ancient history still finds Ufa In the old
tales repeated by those who have heard
-tiiom so
stories, 1
thorn, so told down the generations. "King
still goes hunting In soma of these
Introduced probably by some dark
Munchausen whose master held a Carolina
land grant from ona of the Georges.
Some have a true sort of poetry, a thing
not uncommon to the old-time negro,
for Instance this:
What dls da koo VarA send
Dat'll break and never bend?
The answer to this Is: Day.
Hero Is one easier to guess:
What Is dls do you think
Some Is green, some Is red.
Borne Is des as black as Ink?
What but blackberries that grow wild all
over the old fields of the south.
Here la one that would take much guess
rng It must have been first mad by one
of great Ingenuity and Invention:
Tell me now, what Is flat
Crooked as a rainbow
And got teefes like a eat?
The long, briery limb of the blackberry
bush.
Some are far fetched enough to oaUBe tha
no doubt desired long puzzlement of the
hearer, and often they fall of either poesy
or wit to reward the solving. For instanoa
these:
What's round about de woods
All day light
dome In and sit on
Supper table night?
The answer: Milk.
What's a-goln' " day,
Movln' n do light.
Pet In de chimb. j corner
Come dark nlyht?
Answer: Shoe.
What goes to de creek
Kv'y, ev'y day
Never, never take a drink
Away?
Answer: A cowbell.
Something more of tha element of quaint
Interest Is to b: found In the following:
Ques me dls you git a dime
What dat holler, holler all de time?
nswer: A hollow tree. '
What dat run from aun to sun
Never ketch up at all?
The answer to this Is the hind wheel of
a wagon.
What all time go to da creek
Never wade aoross, so to apeak)
The big road la the not very satlsfac
tory answer to thla, for unless tha road Is
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Began with a Little Pimple Itched
an d Spread Till Whole Head was
' Raw Hair Fell Out in Bunches
Suffered Three Years and Cure
Seemed Impossible.
IMMEDIATE RELIEF AND
EASY CURE BY CUTICURA
"Mr disease started with a little pim
ple on my head. Then It began to itch.
Tha more I would scratch, the worse it
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Bo I went to the doctor. I continued
his treatment for soma tims but, finding
no result. 1 decided to change and try
some other remedy. Little warts began,
to grow on my head. I would wash it
very day but It grew as raw as a piece of
beef and my hair commenced to fall out
in bunchea. Ho I chanrxl doctors. This
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head at this time wan so sore I could not
toui-h it. After trying several doctors
and many patent medicines, nothing
would cure it and I lost much time from
Work.
" Then I decided to go to tha hospital.
Several d xrtors wera called in to look at
it. and af ter seme consultation they said
that 1 had seborrhoea in Its worst stage.
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xwsille. A friend of mine, upon string
thf condition of my head which was
a mas of running corruption asked
mo if 1 hml tried the Cuticura Kemadies,
I t:ld him nutlm.g would do me any
g.xi: but bing very anxious to be
cured. I d.vided to try them. The first
treatment (with Cutieura 8ap, Oint
ment arid Pills) brought immediate re
lief. My hair became alive and stopped
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OMAHA, June M. Gentlemen : On April
1909. the legislature of Nebraska passed
an act, with the emergency clause at
tached, requiring all corporations, both for
eign and domestic, doing business In Ne
braska, to pay by July t of each year an
occupation tax based upon the amount of
Its capital stock. A schedule of said taxes
i hereto attached.
It la proposed to teat the validity of this
lw In the belief that It Is unjust. In
equitable, unconstitutional, and should not
stand. In order that the contest may be
conducted at the least possible expense to
all concerned and that those most vitally
Interested may bear only their fair share
of the costs. It has been suggested that
the necessary funds be raised as follows:
Assess each corporation thai will assist
In bringing an action to test tha validity
of this law, one-tenth (1-10) of the amount
of Ita flrst'annual tax, as fixed by schedule
of fees attached; said one-tenth (1-10) to
be paid now lo the undersigned, and to
be used In defraying necessary court ex
penses. If the law Is declared Invalid, a
further sum equivalent to twenty-five (30)
per cent of one annual tax shall be paid
by each corporation co-operating In this
contest. This to be the total expense.
The tax for the year 190 becomes due
July 1, and delinquent September L We
advise against paying the tax at this time.
Should thla suit be successful It will bene
fit all corporations doing business In Ne
braska, and the oost to each corporation
contributing will be small compared with
tha amount to be paid in taxes In future
years, should the law remain uncontested.
Tha aotlon will be brought and man
aged by Judge John J. Sullivan, Judge W.
W. BAabangh and John W. Battlu, asso
ciates, will you ka kind enough to Indi
cate whether or not you will join la this
action, and If you desire further Informa
tion before deciding, either of the above
attorneys will be glad to confer with yon?
If a sufficient number of corporations
will co-operate with us, an action to test
the validity of this corporation tax will
be brought at once. Please mall check
for one-tenth (1-10) of your first annual
tax, based on schedule of fees attached.
Payment by your corporation of this
amount will be an aooeptanoa of this prop
osition. Reply should he addressed to John W.
Battln, 928 New Tork Life building, Omaha.
Respectfully, JOHN W. BATTIN.
supposed to begin anew at each stream, It
certainly does go across. A somewhat bet
ter variant of the same idea is in the next:
What dat come right to yo' do'?
Ever come in No. No.
This la a path.
The following Is no doubt an adaptation
put into dialect:
Deep, deep, deep round as a cup
All King George's horses ca nt pull it up.
A well.
Th net surely belongs right where it
is found. In the Alabama prairie belt.
watered as It has been slnoe tha lata 60s
with overflowing artesian wells. -Run
all day, run ail night
Run all over Itself, run away
Tit right heah hit do stay I
Tha place mentioned 1 In tha ' following
suggests again the old days when our
Anglo-Saxon forefathers felt themselves
near to tha old land and unoonsciously
planted the names of its places and . fea
tures In tha converse of their servants:
At X waa cross! n' London Bridge
1 met my good grandaddy
I ata he meat,
I found It sweet.
He blood I drink oh, heyt
lie akin I flung away I
Tha grandaddy here Is supposed to be a
watermelon a mora unlikely thing it would
be hard to meet on London Brldgel
Some few of these riddles hold old super
stitions, as this ona:
Rusty back and bullet eys
If you kill him yo' Mammy's
Cow will die.
Or thla:
Nalry track
Oreen back
Hand legs long
Tall cut short
Spit on you
Oive you wart.
Tha answer to both of these Is a frog.
Tha answer to tha following Is a llsard.
Somethln' al'a'a on de fenoe
Oot a purse, but no can's,
litis you he will make you grin,
Laugh all time and laugh ag In.
Many riddles that are favorite ones are
but little Interesting to the collector, but
they are so often told and retold, always
with such gusto that several arc here
given. They seem to have grown out of
some special happening and for some un
known reason to have rooted themselves
In the fancy of the negro.
Six! She sot
Seven sprung
From de dead llvln' run.
The sni.T''- a busxard sat upon six
eggs which sho had laid In ths carcaas of a
dead horse; Mother Butsard and six young
ones eventually run out from tha nest of
dry bones.
Whits in white.
White run white outer white.
A white cow found her way Into a white
ootton field, a white man came and drove
out the white cow.
Another about the speed of ths above:
Oil bought oil,
Put oil on oil.
Oil rode oil.
Which being translated is I A man named
Oil bought a saddle, put It on a horse and
rod ths horse. If the maker of this
riddle had named his story's chief charac
ter, Hyde, tle riddle would hare read
rather better.
The following
Is a very widely recite!
explanation rather u.an
one and needs
gueiulng:
It It come
It no come:
If It no come.
It sho come.
The rather intricate answer to this is;
If the crow comes the corn will not come.
if the crow does not come the corn will
coma.
liera is ons whoa answer Is a swarm of
bees :
Some scenlka
Some soenaka
bume de color
Er brown tobacco.
The answer to the next la a cow
Two hooks,
To looks,
Four stltf stand outa
One switch all about!
The following have both for their answer
wagon
What run to water, run across.
Never drink, but feel no loss?
And again:
What without legs
Can run, but not walk;
What has a tongue
But never can talk?
One told on every plantation Is this:
What runs round and round de house
And makes one only single track?
Answer: A wheelbarrow.
The following is a very popular one:
. What's dls. friend.
lrad In de tntdlle
Live at bof end?
Answer: A plough.
Who dls Blind John
No m' sense dan to work right on?
Answer: A hoe.
On arm A aorta)
It la Without Palllatloa.
OMAHA, Sept. a Mr. Edgar Howard,
Columbus, Neb. Pear Howard: I am In
receipt of your letter of yesterday, enclos
ing clippings from the editorial columns
of democratlo newspapers relating to the
suit recently brought to test the validity
of the legislation Imposing an occupation
tax on corporations. I observe that these
editorials are caustic, threatening, and In
some instances distinctly hostile. I agree
with you that from the standpoint of po
litical ekpedlency the situation is perhaps
unfortunate, but I do not conour In your
suggestion that something ought to be said
in Justification of my position.
The thing is Impossible. There Is noth
ing to be said; there Is no explanation to
be made; there Is no extenuation to be of
fered. Tha facts are there j they speak for
themselves. Let them stand without
palllatloa; let them exert their legitimate
Inflnenoe.
I ean afford to lose, but I cannot afford
to win by false pretense. I would take the
case, without hesitation. If I were not a
candidate, and I could not, without loss
of self-respect, refuse It because I am a
candidate. I do not want any misunder
standing about my attitude toward corpor
ations; and I do not want to win the elec
tion by votes given on the assumption that
I have any leaning, inclination or predilec
tion against corporations, or In favor of
them, that might in the slightest degree
be reflected In my decisions as a Judge.
I find no fault at all with those demo
cratlc editors who criticise me for acting
as oounsel in the tax suit. It Indicates that
may no longer regard tne party label as
a paramount Issue, or as conclusive evl
dence of the fitness and worth of the can
didate. This, on our side, Is a nonpartisan
campaign, and it Is not only the privilege
of democrats, but a duty Imposed by the
party platform to support the candidates
they conceive to be the most deserving.
, If my corporate affiliations give ground
for distrust,, there is satisfaction In the
thought that no purblind partisanship
need now prevent democratlo voters from
turning to soma one of the candidates on
tha republican tloket whose professional
and Judicial reoords are mora assuring.
Very truly yours. JOHN J. SULLIVAN.
In de lead
What she go
Grow no weed.
, Answer again: A hoe.
It is to be supposed that there should be
riddles concerning the staple crops of the
negro, cotton end corn.
What wears a boot bof night and day,
i ever walks a step away?
Answer: Corn. Right at the root of the
corn stalk Is a short woody growth re.
sembllng the start of a blade, and even In
times of drouth there Is a drop of dew or
dampness therein held refreshment for
Mondamln. Negroes remarking on the
heat and drouth say: "But de cornel boot'
yit holdln' water."
What mornln" white,
Kvenin" red,
Nex' day clean like dead?
Answer Cotton bloom.
Whitt dls fust round,
Den like a bell
Square a spell
Round ag in
All time stand still ylt hit git
To de glnT
Answer: Round cotton flower bud, then
bell-like bloom, then the square, then the
boll, at last the open cotton gets to the
gin.
What fust day out to see how de wort go
neaa aes os wnite as any snowT
Answer: Open cotton boll.
Anything that comes within ken of
negro Is grist to the rlddler'a mild.
Long beard,
Round head, three eyes
Guess dls I be surprise?
Answer: A cocoanut.
What you ain't got, don't want,
Wouldn't take a thousand dollars for
If you had it
Answer: A bald head.
And to end with this:
What all while paasln' on
Can't never say gone?
Answer: Time.
BALDNESS DUE TO THE LID
Bareheaded Bvangrel from Boston
Telia the Hairless, "Fol
low Me."
Unless hata are abandoned ths race will
be bald In six generations.
ii men ana women would preserve a na
ture-glven adornment they must go about
their various vocations bareheaded.
um.erwise tne near future sees the en
forced adoption of a universal fashion
in
head toilets for both male and female-
smooth and polished, with an occasional
bump, but generally bearing the complex'
Ion and contour of an old billiard ball.
This is the opinion of Dr. W. A. Guild
cousin of former Oovernor Curtis Guild of
Massachusetts, who la a visitor in Chicago,
"It is a scientifically established fnct that
the American people are on the road to
permanent baldness and the goal will be
achieved in such short order as to startle
the average person unless heroic measures
are adopted for Its prevention at once
aid Dr. Guild.
"Men and women must go bareheaded
if
they would prevent universal alopecia. Men
are 10 oiame ior tne Dimness winch now
Is becoming apparent In women. The dis
ease Is hereditary. Fathers are bald and
their sons early display1 similar tendencies.
Where one or two successive generations j
nave little hair on their heads it can al
most be taken for granted that the next
Ceneratlon will be prematurely bald.
"Stiff and silk hats are much to blame
for the conditions In metropolitan centers.
and the reason the ratio la nut tha .im.
In country districts is because men are
prone to wear hats with loose bands or
to go much of ths time uncovered
"Hats, as men wear them, press close
about the temples and cut of the blood
supply to the head. Thla pressure on the
ascending arteries, diminishing materially
the blood flow produces atrophy In the
parenchyma of the hair follicles.
"As a resut there is an altered secre
tion from the sebaceous glands of the
scalp, and thla altered secretion dries about
ths hair roots, causing what is commonly
known as dandruff.
"Under this covering of dandruff lies
a fertile field for the growth of these
parasitea which feed on ths hair cells. It
resolves Itself into the simple anatomical
condition which Insures any part of the
body health which haa a full blood aupply
and dlbeaae when it la without it.
iona wiii women a nais should go
ail sort or false hair." Chicago Tribune.
Hkat Is Eaaaallal.
An Irish gentleman writing- for an Amer
ican mac anna says, a great deal of leisure
Is essential to the higher Ufa But a great
deal of hustling la essential nowadays to
paying the higher cost of living.
Beo want-ads bring results.
Practical Eipesent of the Go pel of
Belf-Hels) Among the Colored
People Maay Obstacles
Overcome.
Leadership of a people Imposes grave
utles and responsibilities. Whether leader
ship Is assumed or comes through force of
circumstances, the role demands self-sacrl-flce
and draws out the best qualities of
mind and heart. The task of reaching or
coming within measurable distance of the
various Ideals of those who follow becomes
the more difficult when the following Is of
lowly estate with restricted opportunities
for advance. Every step must be measured.
every move gauged, to determine the ulti
mate effect.
Circumstances have made Booker T.
Washington a recognised leader of the
negro race In ths United States. Doubtless,
If the question was put to him, he would
deny the distinction. He Yeara no written
commission as a leader. His credentials
are his thirty years of labor as the "guide,
philosopher, friend," and teacher of the
colored people.
Coming Visit to Omaha.
Mr. Washington Is now on a tour of the
west and will be In Omaha during tha week.
Wherever he goes he sounds the praises of
the famous Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute of Alabama. And he Is Justified
in boosting the school. Tuskegee is uni
que In being the most successful Institu
tion of its class In this country. Its work
Interests the whole nation, and commands
the active support of sincere well-wishers
of the race north and south.
Nearly thirty of his fifty years of life
have been devoted to the upbuilding of
Tuskegee, overcoming many discouraging
obstacles, practising the doctrine of self
help and preaching It to his fellows, and
enlisting the co-operation of philanthropic
people. A roster of 1,400 students attests
the success achieved through zealous lab
ors of the principal.
Gospel of Self-Help.
Self-help Is the gospil taught In Tuske
gee, as It Is the gospel that has shaped
the life of Booker Washington. In a serins
of papers In the Outlook Mr. Washington
relates among other things tho wide-spread
discouragement of the colored people In
Alabama and the south generally, follow
ing the Inauguration of President Garfield
In 1881. Disfranchisement was the primary
cause of the apathy. A delegate was sent
to the national capital to Interview the
president with a view to securing political
rights which they deemed essential to their
welfare. The delegate did not see the
president, but nevertheless reurned with a
report that intensified the gloom. "This
Incident," he writes, "struck me as the
more pathetlo because I happened to know
the man who went on ths errand. He waa
a good, honest, well-meaning fellow. Thla
feeling of apathy and despair continued
for a long time amcng these people in the
country districts. A good many of them
who owned land In ths county at this time
gave It up or lost It for one reason or an
other. ' Others moved away from ths
county, and there were a great many aban
doned farms. Gradually, however, the
temper of ths people changed. ' They began
to see that harvests were Just as good
and Just as bad as they had been before
the chaDges whlct deprived them of th'ir
political privileges. They began to see, in
short, that there was still hops for them
In economic if not In political directions
The man who went to Washington to call
on the president Is still living. He it
different person now, a new man, In fact.
Since that time he has purchased a farm;
has built a deoent, ooir.forlable house; Is
educating his children; and I note that
never a session of the monthly Farmers'
Institute assembles at Tuskegee that thla
man does not come and bring some of the
products from his farm to exhibit to hi
fellow-farmers. He Is not only successful.
but he Is one of the happiest and most
useful individuals In our county. He haa
learned that he can do for himself vhat
tho authorities at Washington oould not do
for him, and that Is, make his life a sue
cess.
Promoting; the Uplift.
"A large part of the work which Tuske
gee Institute did In those early early years.
and has continued to do down to the pres
ent time, has been to show the masses of
our people that in agrioulture, In tha in
dustrlea. In commerce, and In the struggle
toward economic success, there were com
pensations for the losses they had suffered
In other directions. In doing this we did
not seek to give the people the Idea that
political rights were not valuable or neces
sary, but rather to Impress upon them
that economic efficiency was the founda
tion for every kind of success."
Force of example and onoouraglng help
fulness are ths patent Influences of Mr.
Washington as a teacher and leader.
Tuskegee la the visible monument of his
efforts. But the sohool does not bound his
energy and talent. Frequent tour of the
country are made, primarily In the Interest
of the school, lectures delivered on be
half of the cause, and often the assistance
of philanthropic people enlisted. The press
Is an ever-ready friend, and the sedate
weeklies and monthlies welcome contribu
tions from his pen. These agencies are
employed frequently and effectively, serv
ing to keep Tuskegee In the spotlight and
whetting the ambitions of young men for
a practical education and training. Despite
the responsibility and duties of his posi
tion, Mr. Washington has found time fo
write a series of ten volumts embracing
biography, history and the business1 activi
ties of the negro race.
IDAHO AND THE CAREY ACT
How
the Law
Worth
Was ifonrfd and
Ita
to a Western
state.
Among the elCer men y,:o visited Spo
kane during the great Irrigation congress
none was received with heartier cheers
than old Judge Carey of Wyoming, father
of the so-called Carey act. At a dinner
given on the first evening to those who
were to address the convention. Senator
Carey was called upon to speak, and told
In a most delightful way of the manner In
which the present law watf secured from
a reluctant congress.
"I came across this country long before
the first railroad to the west was built,"
he said. "We travelled slowly out through
the rich grass country of eastern Kansas
and Nebraxka, and then striking Into ths
short glass, trailed up into Wyoming. I
had met travellers who had been In Utah
and had seen what wonderful things the
Mormons were doing there by turning the
brooks and rivers over the parchud soil.
"Ho as we got Into the drier eountry of
northern Wyoming where there was
scarcely a living for our beasts In tha best
season, my companions asserted that this
region would always remain an idle desert
" 'Not so," I always Insisted. 'When the
country fills up thrjr will treat thla desert
like Utah, and with water upon It it will
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be capable of supporting a tremendous
population.'
"That seemed absurd to them then, and
they often teased me about It. But when I
had begun to be an old man and all the
good land was gone I saw that tha time
had come to undertake the great work, and
to try by co-operation a kind of Irrigation
no farmer could afford for himself.
"It was In 189S I got ths first act through
though as a matter of fact it was no act
at all, but an amendment to the over
burdened sundry civil bill. I had tried to
get through the committee a bill providing
that each state might have a tract of
desert land deeded over to It for reclama
tion; but the committees would do nothing
with It. At last In the senate committee
It got added as an amendment to the sun
dry civil 1)111 and 1 waa told, on the last
day, that It would be dropped unless
strongly endorsed by both the Interior
and Agricultural departments. There waa
no time to lose, I jumped Into a cab and
raced down to the departments. Both sec
retaries were away and the second assis
tants were acting. I took them, as the
most valuable available material, per
suaded them to give me an endorsement of
the bill, raced back to the committee and
had the pleasure of seeing the amendment
Immediately reported to the senate and
passed. It was accepted by the house.
"Later we had It again amended, to pro
vide the financial features It now carries,
and It has grown in favor, I am happy to
say, ever since."
Tho effect of this act upon the prosperity
of Idaho and of the whole northwest is in
calculable. In 1900 there were In the whole
'state but H2.0U0 people. Today there are
probably 400,000 and the number Is increas
ing rapidly. There are reudy for use, or
f aM approaching completion, under the
Carey act, 1. 623. 014 acres of Irrigated land,
of whloh on January 1 of this year a little
more than 1,000,000 acres remained unsold.
The highest price for any of tills Is $ an
acre, the average $30 an acre In ten annual
payments Including Interest and giving per
petual water rights. This land will support
and within a few years will attract to
the former doaert region a population of
1,000,000 people, which will be Increased as
the area Is added to. In addition there are
several hundred thounand aores privately
irrigated at no greater prise; as for In
stance out of 6j,UW) acrea belonging to one
company in Bingham county, 15.000 are un
sold and will be disposed of for fa an
acre, 13 cash, 2 an acre at tha end of first
year, the rest in eight annual Installments.
But this vast desert Is only a small part
of Idaho. North of It lies the most mag
nificent white pine forests known to the
world, and beyond this great areas of yel
low pine and Douglas, Interspersed with
rich farming valleys, watered by beautiful
rivers, rich In water power, with scenery
unequalled except in the Immediately bord
ering states and wtth mines which are of
fabulous value. John L. Mathews in Bos
ton Transcript.
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Danville, 111., July 7. 1909.
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