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VOL. XI.
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May and 2d Monday in October.
Hou. James R Brown. Judge.
George F. Goher, Solicitor General.
COUNTY COURT.
Hon. Thomas F. Greer, Judge.
Moultrie M. Sessions,County Solicitor.
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TOWN COUNCIL.
.T. P. Perry, Intenaent.
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W. H, Foster, Town Marshal.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
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T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court,
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G W. Rice, Coroner,
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April, July and October.
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Rev. C. M. Ledbetter.
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town on how the newsboys pressed you
to buy tiaveling caps ? Flimsy skull
caps they were of cheap black silk with
a Haring red lining. Fifty cents the
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the price was too high, did you notice
how readily they took the proffered
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Each i< i! -etnas at r*u, Oak . carries a
fSH-beaded eso
OLD FRIKT.DS ARB BEST
like to grasp the kindly band
Of one whose friendship tried and long
Hal made life srotn s fairy land.
And with the year* ha* grown more strong.
Ti* tetter far than wealth or fame.
To know that wheresoe'er I roam.
There lingers loving hearts at home,
Who through all time will be the some.
If these were not then life would be
A dreary wade with, care o'erprest
Of all God'* kindly gifts to me
I reckon my old friends the best.
—Detroit Free Press,
Mrs. Warner’s Purchase.
Mnry Warner waa tic richest woman
in California, if not, indeed, the richest
woman in the world. Her hu-band had
accumulated his fortune in railroad ven
tures. and had died before lie had time
to lose it again. 'Possessed of sound
sense, and blessed with judicious ad
visors. Mrs. Warner divided her invest
ment* between improved real estate and
Government securities, and devoted her
self tothe improvement of her leisure. Two
years af’er her husband s death she cele
brated her fiftieth birltrduy. Her house
on California street was one of the must
magnificent in San Francisco, but during
the protracted interval of her mourning
it had not been the scene of any such
festivities as its generous size and costly
.garniture befitted.
Mrs. Warner acceded to her friends
wishes and left her quiet home at Menlo
Park to entertain all San Francisco at
the “Warner 1 alace” without great re
luctance, but cc;tainly without enthusi
asm. The music, the flowei sand supper
were the best that could be had. .V me.
J.uquc, a worn in who had s .b-ided from
the brief prosperity of the Ranch Lu ue
Mines into a position of decent inde- j
pendence upon Mrs. Warner’s bounty,
made all the arrangements and relievid
her friend of even the task of entertain- ;
in j her guests.
M s. Warner ensconced herself in a
cosy cor. nr of the conse. vatory, ac-j
companied by Mr. Richard llc.idiy, the
managing editor of the Sun Francisco
Jouruul. Mr. Headley was only th.iity
nine years old—a young man to control
the most important daily in San Fran
eiscu—but his discretion and ability had
more thin jusii cd his advancement.
“Well, Dick,” snid Mrs. Warner,
“and why haven’t you been down to
Men’o lately? You aro not going to for
get your old friends now that you are
becoming a great man, surely?”
"So, indeed, dear Airs. Warner,” snid
Headley, “hut the responsibilities of my
position, as what you call ‘a great man’
keep mo pretty b sy. You >ee, every
man on the staff, from the city editor to
the sporting re nor er, thinks that he
would have filled poor Duncan's berth
infinitely better than 1 do, and I have to
work with both hands to keep out of
trouble.”
For her turned np nose,
Her aweet little toes,
Her pretty pink hose.
And all her clothes
“I always knew you had it in you, and
I’m as proud and happy as can be. But
what is this I hear about the Journal
changing hands?”
“I m afraid its true. Cashman wants
to go abropd and loaf the rest of his life,
and 1 don’t b ame him. He’s made more
than enough money, and he may as well
en joy it. I think it will be bought by a
syndicate, headed by the Flynns."
“And ho .v will that affect you?”
“Throw me out in short order. The
Flynns have never forgiven me for at
tacking them wh-u 1 was on the Herald,
and they would give my chair to old Par
sons. anyway. '1 hen’s no use pretending
I don’t feel bad about it, because I do. I
shall have to start fresh somewhere else,
oDd shall haid’y have such luck again.”
Airs. Warner 10-.kcd at him kindly,
and put her hand on his arm. It iva< no:
a pretty hand; as a girl’s hand it had
been almost too round and dimpled, aui
it had Install it* cliapliness since then.
“Dick, how much does the journal
make i”
“Fifty thousand a year in round num
bers. Sometimes there aie big sub idies
that run it over that, but fifty thousand
is a fair estimate.
“And how much does Air. Cashman
expect to get from this syndicate for the
pa : cr ?”
“They talk about capitalizing it at
10,000 shares at $l6O each, but I think
about $700,000 will come to Cashman.
The paper is worth that lairly enough."
“And what are your plans, Dick ? Yon
talk about making a fresh start, but where
will you make it i”
“1 think 1 sha’l go East. Reece, the
man who writes the column of causene
every Sunday, yo i know, wants to go
b ck to England, and he is anxious to
have me go with hm. But I don t fancy
making such a change. I have writ en
so much Americanesc that I don’t think
I could get into the swing of the formal
Eng ish style; and then it seems hke
running away, too.’’
“Dick, I’m going to be a great society
woman now. Mme. I.uque wants me to
go abroad and live at Nice—but I’m like
yo i, fond of my own conntry,and I mean
to live here and make the house pleasant
for young people. That is what a rich
old woman ought to do, isn't it ?”
“Old woman, indeed 1 You're as young
as any of ns now, Mm. Warner!”
“Indeed, I’m not. I’m developing a
ta-te for buffered toast—and that settles
the matter, Mr. DufTon says. But I’m
going to entertain a great deal, all the
same-and I’m dreadfully afraid of the
society columns in the Journal. Sup
pose they liould say* that the flowers at
this reception only cost $ Of) instead of
S7OO. ft’s nn aw.ul p wer, that society
column, and I should like to propitiate
it. Why shouldn’t I buy the Journo!,,
Dick?”
“I would if I were you—five cents a
copy or fifteen cents a week. I thought
you did, already.”
“No, I’m not ioking at all. If it is
♦TOO.Ouo, I have that much in shnpethat
I could use. and you could be my sole
editor. Will vouf”
•Wo, Mr“. Warner, 1 won’t. It would
no: lie a wist investment. It pays well,
and all that Imt u newspaper is such a
ticklish property- so east y destroyed—
tii :t it ought not to be owned by any
one who doe*n’t run it. One month’s
blundering would take fifty per cent, off
tbe • alue of the Journo'."
•But y< u sre cot n blunderer. I isten
tome hick, i am not doing this for you:
I would really lik r t*. own a newspaper
Tim e is 'omething grand about it. I
would not buy t it you were not here to
mu it form*- Hut I Jttvw that it ■•'•ill
pay me heiu-t ibsn any investment I have
80". and i l idu’l uiske as mueh out
of it as Mr. Cashman is making, I know,
Dick, that you would keep it dean,
wouldn’t you? Will you help me try the
experiment? We will see if a daily news
paper cannot pay without publishing
wicked advertisements. I have heard
you talk, Dick, and I know what you
would do. There should be no blark
mail, no illiteracy, nothing that I would
not be proud of. Help me, Dick.’’
“Mrs. Warner, I would give ten years
of my life for such a chance. I would
work for $1 a day to do it and live on it.
I wasn't getting much more when I first
knew you. But I can’t do it. I am
nothing to you that you should do so
much for me.”
“'o one would know, Dick. Mr.
Tardin would buy it, and no one would
know whom he was acting for. And
surely, no one would be jealons of an old
woman like me doing you a good turn.
Is there nny one who might do jealous,
Dick?”
“No, indeed. But I shouldn’t feel
rightabout it. I don’t see how I could
do it. UnleFB —do you like me very
much, Airs. Warner? You have been so
kind to me, but then your heart is so
big. Do you like me personally ?”
“Of course I do. You know that.”
“Then willynu be my wife?”
Airs. Warner blushed as she had not
blushed for ten years.
“Ch, Dick!”
“Will you?” and Headley took her
hand—not in a lover-like fashion, but
very affectionately.
“How could I, Dick? Pm old enough
to be your mother. People would call
me the Baroness Burdett-Coutts: and I
wouldn’t mind that; but they’d call you
Ashmead Burdett-Coutts. Bartlett Bur
dett-Coutts, or whatever it is.”
“You are only seven years older
than I. ”
“But lam a widow. You wouldn’t
feel comfortable, Dick—your friends
wou’d chaff you.
“I don’t think they would; men don’t
chaff me very much. I don’t pretend to
be in any Romeo condition, Dut I am
very, very fond of you. I don’t say that
if you had uo money I Would ask you to
marry me; for I am not in a position to
marry any woman; I may be looking for
work a week from now. Lut if my posi
tion on the Journal were an assured one,
I don’t know any woman in tho world
whom I’d rather" make my wife. You
see I feel a good deal older than I am,
and I can’t i ear the society girls, the
bread and butter kind bore me to death,
and the other* I remember my mother
too well to many.”
“Oh, Dickl Dick! I don’t know what
to say. I love you as well as I love any
thing in the world. But it must be only
mother love alter all. I'm such an old
woman, Dick, such a very old woman.
Pll marry you on three conditions—that
you take the editorship of the Journal:
that we are to be engaged for a year; and
that no one is to know anything about it;
till a month before we are married. I
know we shall be laughed at, DLk; but
I shall be proud of you. us pro id as can be,
and perhaps we shall be happy. No,
don’t kiss me, Dick; there must be none
of that nonsense between us dear Dick.” j
“I will make you happy if it is in me
to do it, and I know I can make the
Journal such a paper as you would like i
to own.”
Ten months later the Warner palace
was again the scene of unlimited festiv
ity, and Richard Headley and Mrs.
Warner again sat on a tete-a-tete sofa
under the great red camellia
“Well, Dick,” said Mrs. Warner, “and
how is everything down town to
day?”
“Very much as usual. I have finally
committed myself to the irrigation
scheme. It is such big money for us that
I was a little afraid of being prejudiced.
But on the who e I think it is right.
1 ut there’s another sell me which wo
must talk about before the end
of the month, and that is our mar
riage.”
“It i-n’t the end of the month for a
long while yet, Dick, and you must go
and dance with Nellie now; isn’t sha a
dear girl, Dick? She grows more and
more like my poor little sister every day.
You must be very nice to her Dick. It
Las been dull work for her at the Sacro
Cueur; I want her to brighten up now
that we have got her.”
Dick obeyed like a duti'ul fiance, and
more than one of the guests remai ked
how fine a couple he and the tall and
slender Nel.ie Keane made. During the
next night lie tried to talk several times
with Airs. Warner about the announce
ment of their coming n arriage; but she
put him off with the merry declaration
that she was too young and pretty a
woman to tie herself down any before the
necessary time.
“I think at any rate,” said Dick one
night, "that you ought to know a little
sooner thiin anybody else. Don’t you
think so?”
“I don’t know, Dick. Tell me, what
do you think nbout Nellie? I do go want
her to have a happy life, and she is such
a dear, sensitiv e child that I can’t help
worrying about her sometimes. I"he’s
been a iittle distrait and odd for the last
few days, and I hoped she had outgrown
all that here with us. She will make
seme nice fellow a dear, good w fe, won’t
she, Dicki”
“Oh, yes. By the way, are you going
to the benefit to-morrow night? ’
“I bought a box, but I don’t care
much for ‘Fedora.’ It’a too heartbreak
ing, somehow, Dick; and we old women
don't like to be harrowed. Miss Dacre
will play it very nicely, though. Isn’t
she pretty, Dick?—her eyes ju-t like Nel
lie's—or are they not so dark?”
“About the same, I fancy. Well, if
you arc not going I will run up here for
about half an hour, at S) o’clock.
“You work too hard, Dick; why don’t
you have a managing editor? You used
to do all the work for Mr. ( ashman.
“Oh, work does me good. It’s about
the best tb ng in life, after all, isn’t it?”
“That doe n’t sound like a happy man,
Dick. Are you quite sure that you are
linupy? You know you coerctd me into
thf< engagement anyway, Dick, and I
reully think you might let me off now.
You ;e I got you to take care of the
Jou-nal for me. And now that you have
made such a lot of money for me, I want
to back ont of my b rgain.”
“You a e the most stiocious jilt in the
world, madam; but I'm not at all the
ao of araao to be jilted. Suppose we
go down to the supper room now.”
“No, Dick. I don’t wea’t any wp.
per. I have been hewiadby all day, end
I em go.ng to clip off quietly and go to
hed There ie Mute Luque now; aek
her to come up-itaintome fora moment.
Good-Bight, Dick, dear —let me kiM you.
I hare never kissed you, and to m rrow
will be your birthday. There, good
night. dear Dick.” And Mra. Warner
went up the broad steps to her bedroom,
when Mme. Luque came bustling up to
her. with expressions of alarm anil offers
of care. Mrs. Warner laughed at her.
“It’s nothing but fatigu", Marie, and
yet I don’t feel as if I could sleep, l.et
me have jour chloral, will you! fend
it to me, and you must go. dear, and do
the honors. 1 know the dose, and a
night's sleep is just what I need.”
Mme. Luque went down-stairs; the
maid came with the bottle of chloral and
Mrs. Warner sat down by the fire while
her hair was brushed.
“Please, ma'am, will you have Ed
monds telephone for the doctor? You're
not well, ma’am.”
“Quite well, Jane. I’m a little tired,
that’s all—a little tired, and I want
sleep.”
“And the chloral to do itl Isn't it
wonderful, mu’am? A sup out of a hot
tie, snd you go to sleep. Doctors urr
wonderful, mu’ara."
“Yes—they do a great deal for us.
Good night, Jane; you need not wake
me in the morning, but let the doctor
come to my room when he calls.”
“les. ma’am;” ami Airs. Warner knelt
! by her bedside: “ ur Father, who art
in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Lead
us not into timptation, but deliver us
from all evil. 1 orgive us our trespasses
—forgive us our trespasses ’ —the prayer
was not finished, and Mrs. Warner lay
down on the sofa by the fire dressed in
her wrapper. Dick's picture stood on n
little table beside her. She looked at it
thoughtfully. Then she took a picture
of Nellie from the mnntelpie e and placed
it by Dick s. They were a handsome
couple—as people said. Dear Dick.
What a splendid fellow he was; true
as steel 1 She kissed his picture. Thev
were waltzing down stairs. She cou and
hear the cade ce of the Minola. Then a
fire bell sounded from the next street.
Joy and sorrow—feasts and disaster. She
went to the window and raised the cur
| tain.
The eky was red with flame—a fire
down near the mission. Poor men's
houses destroyed, perhnps. Ah! Dick
was always good to the poor. .’oy and
sorrow, feast and di aster - light nnd
darkness in every life—new wine in old
bottles and old wine in new.
She poured some chloral into the glass.
Sleep was the best of life—after all.
When Mrs. Warner was found dead in
her bed from an overdose of chloral
everyone who knew her mourned, “hich
people like her arc rare,” said the poor
—and her friends remembered how
pleasant her home had been.
A year later Dick Headley married
Nellie. They are happy enough, but
they have no children. The uournnl,
bequeathed to him. flourishes and pros
pers, but Link worked at it as hard as
e.er. And every Sunday morning, early
and alone, he walks out to a tomb at
Lono .Mountain, opens the door, and lays
on the stone within a red rose and a copy
of the Sunday Morning Journ il. It is a
great edition now —the Sunday Journal.
Hut there is room in the tomb for many
more of the closely-folded papers. No
one can see them through the door, and
they lie there—unopened—bought by the
dead.
T he Death of General Barksdale.
The following is thjvirsion of the
death of the Confederate o llccr. General
Barksdale, given by C. E. Livingston,
who commanded the Scvcnty-s xth ,\ew
New York Volunteers at Letty-burg:
“Alter the charge of July ad. made
about 5:30 p. m., in the bright light of
that season of the year, some time, after,
when the coming darkne-s made it safe
{ to venture out—tor our picket lino was
not far advanced—l f mnd (1 think iu
General Mnnn.ird s front) the rebel Gen
eral. William Barksdale, of Mci.aws’ di
vision, Long-treet’s corps. I was in
front with au orderly and canteens of
water, giving the dying and wounded
drink, wbicu they always greatly crave.
I went in for a stretcher, and met t to
remove him; got one, returned; met a
party who had got him on another
stretcher. He wns very heavy; cer
ta n y two hundred and fifty pounds, if
not more. I took <ha go of the party;
conveyed him di ect to my tent, at Dou
bl.day’s headquarters; remained with
him, gave him brandy, pi gged the ba 1
holes with rags to | ermit iuhal ition, did
what I could. He knew he must die.
He gave me his last message to hiß wife
and children; told me to send h s cuff
buttons, studs, watch and som > hair to
his wife—thi9 in brief, disjointed sen
tences, paroxysms of pain preventing
longer utterances. 1 think lie died more
casi y, from loss of blood, but do not
distinctly renember. Ifo nd his watch
gone, but traced it to an officer in an ad
joining division, who gave it to me and
{ I gave him a receipt, ihe small artcles
and messages I sent Mrs Barks la!e by
mail, and received several letters of
thanks from her iu reply. The watch I
afterward delivered by her direction to
his brother, then member of Congress
from Mississippi, at my house in Twenty
first street, New York, to which he was
directed by Roger A. Pryor.”
A Surprising Case.
Dickens has been much criticised for
his apparent acceptance of the fact of
human spontaneous combustion, but Sir
W. Gull lati ly testified to a surprising
case before the Comm ttee of the House
of Lords on Intemperance. A large,
bloated man, who was suffering from
eli.l.culty of breathing and great (listen
sion of the venous system, died at Guy's
Hospital. At the post mortem on the
following day there was no sign of and
-and the body was believed
to be distended with gas. “When
punctures were made into the skin,”
said Sir William, ‘‘and a lighted match
applied, the gas which esc ped burned
widt the ordinary flame of carbur tted
hydrogen. As many as a dozen of those
■mall flames were burning at the same
time.” _____ I '
Norway pine, which until lately has
been neglected by Michigan lumbermen
in favor of the softer white pine, is com
ing into favor with railroad-car builders
on account of it* greater strength.
A, boy and scribing a kitten taid - “A
kitten is rom >dcnt>te for rushing like
mnd nt nothing whntevsr. sod stopping
before it get* there ”
OKS DOLLAK Psr , U Uvaaea
THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS.
Long ace, in ages olden,
Flasbad tbs sunlight warm and golds*
Ob a world but gray, unsmiling,
Jovlcas cold and unbeguiling,
In its wealth of plain and mountain.
Dashing stream and sparkling fountain,
And the birds of song grew weary
In a land eo pale and dreary.
From fair cloudland, softer, sadder,
Angels down the sun’s long ladder
Gazed upon an earth forsaken.
Whore sweet hues forgot to waken*
And their starry eyes grew mistful.
With a longing deep and wistful,
TUI, a rain of diamonds flashing.
Fell their bright tears earthward dashing
Each prismatic drop some Bower
Kissed to life; and. from that hour,
Crimson, orange, yellow, green.
Blue, soft violet s melting sheen.
Asa million rainbows broken
O'er the world in loving token,
Sprung the flowers to gladsome duty,
Tears of pity raised to beauty.
—Alma E. Lewis, in Huston Folio.
PITH AND_ POINT.
A mill race—Pugilists.
A circus bill is generally stuck up.
The season of frog opera is now on
in the country pla es.
False Bangs —Firing blank cartridges
at the enemy.— B\ftingv
Hardly anybody would care to change
places with the turtle and yet he has a
great snap.— New Haven News.
Fvery dog has his day. bit many oi
them, from the howling which they keep
up, insist on having the night too. —
Philadelphia Call.
He atood under the window and sang,
“How Can I Leave Thee.” But he did
leave, and so suddenly that the dog went
back of the house and wept.— Bt. Louie
Chronicle.
Full many a man, both yonng and old.
Is sent to his sarcophagus,
By pouring watsr ley cold,
Adown his warm oesophagus.
—Merchant Traveler.
“I ockjaw has been successfully
treated, lsee,” remarked a wife to her
h isbaiid. “Yei, the patient was a
woman and of course couldn’t keep her
mouth shut,” the unfeeling husband re
plied.— Arlcaneaw Traveler.
With scythe In his hand,
Time speeds o er the land;
H.s harvest how maDy deplore!
His scythe he will carry,
And never will tarry,
Till Time shall be no mower.
— Lynn Union.
A Western paper speaks of “Dakota
as n summer resort." When the ther
mometer in that part of the country
reach ‘8 120 degrees in the shade, we
should say that altogether too much
summer resorts there for comfort.— Nor
ristown, HeraM.
Soft is the breath of tha summer breeae
After the summer s rowers..
Sweet is the hum of the honey beee
As they flit among the flowers.
But to feel the lorty million power
That lies in the wild bee's sting.
Or be dren hed to the skin by the sum
mer (bower,
Is a very different thing.
—New York New*.
“You don’t ride horseback as muebaa
you did earlier in the summer, Mr.
Swell." sa;d Miss Sweetness. “New,
I’ve given it up, don cher know,” re
pll and Air. Swell. “It’s getting toodcuced
common. Any cad can ride horseback
nowadnvs.” “Who hae that beautiful
horse that you used to ride?” “The
Sberi 1 has got him, don cher know, and
the cad won’t give him back.”—St. Paul
OloLe.
Three L’nlqne New York Clnbs. -
There sre three rather un que clubs iu
New York that, judg eg by the r recent
growth, will in time be>one quite cele
brated. One is th • Tuirt eiC u>, which
meets at diner ut i:iß o'c ock o i the
lhthof each mouth, to and. prove the
popi lir superstition th t one of every
th rtcen who sit down to a table will die
before the year is out. Thr club stai ted
.' evcral years ago with thirteen at a table,
but so popular have the r dinners be
come by r. ason of the feast of w t and
wisdom, n it to say viands provid and, that
at the r and nner next week at Brighton
Biach, th rteen tables, each seating thir
teen, will be p;ov dd. There nrethr
teen cour-es oa the menu, 1 1. rteen at
table, thirteen speeches n ode, and the
number thirteen introduced in every pos
sible way and shape. Not beieg able to
make the menu card in the shape of the
numeral, the suggeetive form of a coffin
is adopted.
The necrology of the club effectually
explodes the theory of the fatality of the
number and the club 1s gaining recruits
every and nner, and will have a headquar
ters and take its place among the social
cl ibs next season.
The other club is the Twilight Club,
which mo ts at a dinner every fortnight,
and after the cl th has been removed,
discusses the leading questions of the
day, pro and con, according to the pre
dictions of the speakers, who are gen
erally selected because they are known
to be an’agonistic. The antagonism of
the speakers prevents the club from ever
being a mtuai admiration society, and
consequently ;ts and nuers have become
very attractive to a large class who en
joy this species of intellectual sparring.
The third club is the least known of
the three; indeed, though with a larger
membership thin either, lit'le it known
of it outside of its raembe.s. It it
known as the Peanut Club, and the
badge of membership—a peanut—must
be worn on every ocCision as an orna
ment or amulet, in metal, jew:dry ot
carved w od. Any mem era- co-ting
another who cannot display the badge
can i all on him for a dinner for as many
of the club as he likes. It .may be the
call may be made in the middle of the
night and the challenged party aroused
from his slumbers; nr it may be that the
demand may be made in the breakers off
Coney Island or Long Branch- -no mat
ter when or where,"if the coun erfeit
peanut is not produced the penalty is es
tablished. '1 he result is that many oi
the members carry their emblem of mem
bership atta hed to a string around the
aeck. uni wear it night and day. The
gentleman who was aroused from hit
slumbers wore his in this way If the
challenging party cannot produce the
emblem f required by one who has, be
is cal ed on to par the penalty, and is
this case it took Vc bum'of every elabo
rate dinner at the Wo.t god Hotel.--
PKiltuhlphU fWA
NO. 33.