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BILL ARP’S LETTER.
I was ruminating about snakes.
If there is any one thing that gets
up more excitement iti a country
family than another, it is a snake.
Snakes are the great horror of wo
men and children, and the men are
not far behind, though they don’t
take on quite so much about ’em.
earth, with all his angels. Well,
they are here yet, T reckon, keep
ing up a commotion, and maybe
their souls are in the snakes, as
Cube says. One thing is certaiu,
the seed of the woman don’t like
snakes, and whether they are poi
son or not, they slip around so sly
ly, and always take us unawares,
that we hunch the whole breed to-
3Iy little girl wrote her first compo-j gether, and declare war, and we
sition on snakes, and the first sen- j love to kill ’em, souls or no souls,
tenee was: “A snake is a very long The snake that beguiled old moth-
insect.” The other day, when the
children were all standing up in the
er Eve must have been a very sty
lish creature, and could walk about
school-room to spell, my little hoy, ;im i strut and talk sweetly, and had
who is always looking about for n spite against the Creator, and so
something, saw a snake crawling i K , <r 0 t transmogrified into a craw-
upon the beam over their heads, | ji n g reptile, and has to hide out in
and just such a racket as it created ] ln ] es and rocks, and every time he
never was heard in a school-house, pokes his head out we mash it.
for the teacher is a young lady, and
most of the scholars are girls. They
Some folks say that all this account
the creation, and the serpent,
fled like a ynller-jaeket’s nest had a nd the fall of man that was writ-
broke loose, but the little hoys
armed themselves with rocks, and
sticks, and thrash-poles, and sacri
ficed him. My wife, Mrs. Arp,
found a snake in the basement one
day, where the cooking is done, and
and she liked to have run clean off
the plantation. It was only a chick
en-snake, that was hunting mice
and roaches, but it didn’t matter.
One snake is as bad as another to a
woman, and sometimes 1 get to ru
minating about the serpent that
fooled mother Eve so bad, and I
ten by Moses is an allegory, and
some don’t believe anything they
cant account for on natural laws,
and they make sport of miracles;
hut all creation is a miracle right
now, and no man can tell why one
little seed will make a tree and an
other a flower. It is just as much
a miracle for a man to have come
from an ape as to have been made
from dust and a woman from Ad
am’s rib. The Jews have preserved
history better than any people, and | breathless eager for an
their hook gives us pretty much The reply, deliberately:
JOHN B. STEWAltT
wonder if that very sad cireum-j^], e same accounts of the creation
and the part that a fallen angel
named Satan played in the form of
a serpent that stood erect and
could walk and had the gift of
speech before Adam was made. It
wasent so far back from Moses to
stance don’t have something to do
with it. It looks so, considering
their natural hostility to the pesky
things. One day a town hoy came
<mt to my house and brought one
of these artificial snakes in his
pocket, and slyly put it down on Adam no how, that is by genera-
the carpet, and my women folks a
set up a scream vhen they saw it,
and that young man had to retire
... .... prematurelv to keep the broom off
Wishes to say to the public that lie is j ' * 1
•till prepared to do all kinds of of him, and I think it broke up his
PHOTOGRAPHING and PERROTYPING ! < nances for matrimony in my fam-
in the latest style and at reasonable pri- il>\ if he ever had any.
cen. Also keeps on hand a fair stock of Cube come over the other day
ind told me that he had killed an- reckon Moses had it pretty straight,
*r rattlesnake, a whopper, and
he would have brought me the rat-
Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc.! ^
Copying and enlarging a specialty—
ran make all sizes from locket to Sn1(»
Inches. Remember that two dollars will
buy a fine, large picture, framed ready
for your parlor, at my gallery, Xewnan
street, Carrollton. Ga.
tions, for Adam lived sixty-six
years after Noah’s father was born,
and Noah lived sixty years after
Abraham was horn, and Abraham
lived to tell Jacob all about it, and
Jacob lived to tell his great grand
son Antrum all about it, and Am-
ram was the father of Moses. >So I
considering it came through only
five generations, and they hadent
ties hut they was powerfully \ learned howto lie and exaggerate
smashed up with rocks that he i then like they do now.
throwed at him. He says the chi I- One thing is certain, the world
dren found him and clum a tree and
hollered, and he ran there, and the
snake looked so venmous he was
afeerd to attack him with a stick,
and so he rocked him untell he
was peopled from over there in
Asia somewhere, and mankind had
a start and it was a miracle that
started him, and they were the
same sort of people we are—that is
"Piratic TH-ip .TpYUpIpF eouldent travel, and tlnm got a rail they had their failings, even the
U V d/LLo, liJ-C UCVYC ’ j a nd killed him. “I tell you,” said | best of cm, for Jacob cheated Esau,
In now in the southeast corner of the j i, e> “that snake was a whopper, and,
public sqinre, where he will he glad to ! to my opinion, lie has something to
. tl . do with tne old devil. I believe
see lii* friends and the public generally. | <,nkes h i'
11c keeps on hand a full line of goods,
consisting of plated ware of all kinds.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
a specialty.
jsy* All kinds ofrepairing* in his line,
done promptly and in good style.
To Those Interested.
You have been indulged twelve months,
and surely can pay what yon owe the old
Ann of Stewart & Soil. The estate
must be settled. I greatly prefer settling j the snakes. I never rend so much
mV own business, hut will have to put
that snakes has souls, and they
used to he folks. I heart) an old
preacher tel! as how the first snake
stood up and walked about, and
talked and was an enemy to the
Lord, and the Lord ' cursed the
whole breed, and put ’em to crawl
ing, and there is something in it its
sure as you are born. The preacher
said that if it hade’nt been for a
snake we woulden’t have had to
work nary lick, and everything
would have just growed right along
and one man would have been just
as rich as another man, and richer
too, I reckon. I helive in my soul
them snakes I’ve been a killin’
brought all this dry drouth on my
land and ruined my crop.”
Well, there is something very pe
culiar about snakes, and mankind
are full of superstition about ’em.
There are some folks can charm
’em, and handle ’em, and put ’em in
their bosoms, and I don’t like them
sort of folks much better than I do
the. cliiims belonging to the estate of J.
W. Stewart A Son, in the hands of an at
torney, If not settled soon.
W. J. STEWART.
| about snakes as we do this year.
Every paper is full of them. I read
yesterday that there was a whole
lot of snakes got in somehow among
two thousand people ata campmeet-
ing in North Carolina, last week,
and hit several persons, and nobody
knew how they got there, or where
they come from. Some of the folks
said the old devij got scared be
cause so many were getting relig
ion, and took that way of break
ing up the meeting. Maybe our
preachers are not sanctified enough,
i They say that the good St. Patrick
■ whipped out all the snakes in Ire
land, more than a thousand years
itgo. I reckon he thought the poor
I Irish had trouble enough without
j snakes, ft may be all a supersti-
ti<.'», hut snakes have played a cu
rious part in the world ever since
1 we have had any history. Moses
I made a serpent of brass that cured
! th
; rod
.. . . . .. trv.i lowed all the serpent-rods of the
luiytlitng in their ime, then. «trial | • _ *
Egyptians. A serpent came out of
:tinl they think you "ill ttade.. Hie rtn( | fastened onto Paul’s
\\V would say to those owing wS that hand, and the people who saw it
; said “This man is a murderer, who
! has escaped the sea, hut vengeance
will not suffer him to live.” The
scriptures say that there was war
in heaven, and that old serpent
TURNER and CHAMBERS,
CAKIIOLLTON, G KOIMJIA
— Dealers in—
General Merchandise,
Arc still at iheir old stand oil Rom*’
street, ready to sell you goods as cheap
or rhcjqwr than anybody. If von want
WE MUST HAVE
t . / •» • I
due us. We have indulged
and Aaron set up a calf, and David
fell from grace, and Solomon turned
fool in his old age. They all sinned
and repented and sinned again,
just like we do, and I’m not pre
pared to say that the doctrine of
sanctification lots ever yet been es
tablished on any very satisfactory
basis. The old primmer says that
u ln Adam's fall
We sinned all,"
and I reckon we did, for it looks
like the old hoy is in us from our
childhood and we live on it strain
to keep from doing wrong all the
time. I don’t feel much responsi
bility for original sin, for my own
account is piled up so high I never
think about Adam’s. Something
devclish must have broke loose
away hack yonder or we would till
have been good and kind and
truthful, which would have been a
heap better for us I know. The
world is getting a heap smarter,
but I (lout believe it is getting any
better than it was 4,000 years ago.
Human nature is about the same.
Knowledge is power hut it aint vir
tue. Pope says that Lord Bacon
Boston Post.
Valuable Newspaper Items.
There never have been more than
three men who have cared a snap
what the paper said about them.
We recall to mind a New Hamp
shire man who said he hadn’t the
least interest in anything of the
sort. And when he heard that a
certain weekly had spoken of him
as a prominent citizen, lie drove
seventeen miles, in * pouring rain
and over a muddy road to get a
copy of that paper, because he
wanted to see the market reports
in it. We have had that little
transaction in mind for some time,
and it suggested to us a racket
which we have worked with great
success. We select as a victim
some man, ambitious of fame out
who never lias had the privilege of
gazing upon his name in print more
than two or three times in his life.
We goto him and say: “Did you
see that item about you in the paper
the other day. Great skid, wasn’t
it?” Immediately his face lights
up. He is all interest. There is an
eager look in his eye. “No” he
says, “I didn’t see it! Didn’t know
of it! When was it? What paper
was it in ? What did it say?” And
we reply: “Oh! hold on! One
question at a time.” “Well, what
paper was it in?” he asks. He is
Answer.
“What
paper ? Well, we don’t exactly re
member. Think it was one of the
city papers, but wouldn’t he cer
tain. It may have been a.suburban
paper. Possibly it was a western
exchange.” He looks gloomy, hut
hope springs eternal in the human
breast. “You think it was a city
paper,” he asks. “Yes.” “How
long ago did it appear?” “Don’t
know exactly. Saw it only two or
three days ago, hut it might have
been an old paper.” “Well, what
did it say?” he asks in desperation.
‘Oh, it was a very pleasant little
item.” “Yes, hut what did it say?”
“Oh, we don’t remember what it
said. Just remember seeing it.”
“Why didn’t you save it forme?”
“Why, thought, of course, you’d see
it.” “Well, I’ll go and look over
the files of the city papers and set
if I can find it.” “Dear boy,” wc
say, “you’ll find it much easier to
find it needle in a bundle of hay.
Think of the interminable task of
examining the files of seven or
eight daily papers for a month
back.” The utter hopelessness of his
ever seeing the paragraph dawns
upon him. I Iis face assumes a look
of abject misery, despair and baf
fled curiosity. When we meet him
three days later, he is just getting
over the feelings of gloom, and set
tling down to solid hatred of us for
not saving the item for him.
The Teeth.
At birth, the germs of both sets of
teeth—the temporary and the per
manent—are already in the jaw.—
The permanent teeth lie in a line
under the temporary ones, and,
when the permanent ones begin to
move forward to make their ap-
pearence, they push the milk teeth
out. This is the natural order.
To secure a good start for the
permanent teeth, the first or tem
porary ones must receive good care,
and he kept in their places until
the permanent ones push them
out.
Man has thirty-two teeth. They
are of three sorts—the Jincisors,
canine and molars. The inscisors
are the front or cutting teeth, four
in each jaw. The canine or eye
teeth are two in each jaw. The
molar or grinding teeth are ten in
eaeli jaw.
The back teeth in both jaws are
known as the wisdom teeth. They
are called wisdom teeth because
they appear at a period when man
is possessed of the largest and ripest
wisdom—or when he thinks so.
Good teeth constitute the finest
ornament of the face; they are
necessary to good articulation; they
are indispensable to good digestion
and sweeth breath.
On the whole, their importance
justifies the advertisement of the
South Carolina gentleman, which
appeared in the New York Herald,
as follows :•
“Wanted, by a planter in South
Carolina, a wife. She must he un
der thirty years of age, must have
a good disposition and good teeth.”
I really dont blame the girls for
talking in the streets with their
mouth wide open, for although
sometimes they may not speak
quite so plain they do show their
teeth to good advantage; and es
pecially when they give one of
those little, short open mouth
laughs now so common among girls,
in which they open the mouth so
wide that you can see the entire
thirty-two teeth—I do not blame
them, for a. mouthful of pearls is
so very beautiful. I don’t care
what the nose or eyes may be, if
the mouth shows complete rows of
the brilliant gems, that face is a
fine one—a sweet, wholesome one.
While no matter how fine the eyes
and nose if the mouth shows de
cayed and blackened teeth, or arti
ficial ones, that face can’t be a fine
one—it is not sweet and wholesome.
The better class of Americans
are now exhibiting perfect teeth.—
Fashion demands it. They keep
them clean which never fails to
preserve them.—Dio Lewis, in Gol
den Rule.
Words of Wisdom.
Chance usually favors the
dent.
Iron chain or silken cord,
are bonds.
To know how to wait is the great
secret of success.
Those who can command them
selves command others.
Honesty provides the most cer
tain conditions for safety.
Sadness is a disease; the best
remedy for it is occupation.
The poor are kept poor to supply
the demands of paradise.
It is better that we are not in
formed than to he misinformed.
Patience is the panascea; but
where does it grow, or who can
swallow it.
Time once passed never returns ;
the moment wnich is lost is lost
forever.
A man may talk continually and
not be eloquent ; sound and sub
stance are not twins.
Thou must not he lord and mas
ter to thine own actions ; not a ser
vant or a heirling.
Neglected calumny soon expires;
show that you are hurt and give it
the apperance of truth.
A Positive Cure for Warts.
If you want to get rid of your
warts, get a little chromic acid and
a camel’s hair brush, dip the brush
in the acid, n ot too deep—as you
withdraw the brush from the acid
wipe it gently on the edge of the
bottle, rinse it off in some warm wa
ter and wipe dry bn a clean towel.
Be careful to replace the cork in
the bottle with the dark side of the
cork to the north. Should the bot
tle he stopped with a glass stopper,
take the stopper between the
thumb and forefinger, being careful
that none of the other fingers touch
it, and put the stopper gently in
place so as not to disturb the liqued,
which should on no account he al
lowed to become agitated, as fric
tion with the inner circumference
of tin* vessel would he sure to follow.
This is written for the special in
formation of thr chemist onCotton-
woolandiron. Acid is a certainty,
warts to prevent a cure?
2sTO. 2.
A Mistake,
There are numerous ways in
which young folks can make 1 them
selves unpleasant to society, and
one of the most successful In this
direction is an attempt to be origi-
inal. They imagine they can turn
the world round by some eccentric
ity of dress or behavior, or by some
method or speech. In general, they
offend their friends, and delight
their enemies. As a matter of fact,
people had better let well enough
alone, take up the customs of those
about them, and rest assured that
what the collective wisdom of the
world agrees to do, is on the whole
best. Here and there may be room
for change, and possibly for im
provement. It might he better, for
instance, that engagements only
lasted six months; that drawing
rooms should be abolished as use
less, or nearly so; that wedding-
breakfasts were improved off the
face of the earth, and that a dozen
other alterations were made in our
social customs. It is very noble,
possibly very heroic, to pose as a
regenerator of society. All the
same, people who are content to
taKe things as they are, will find
the world wag more easily with
them than if they themselves
troubled to try to regulate the laws
of gravitation. In nine eases out of
ten, young people will find the path
of safety in following customs
which are the rule. Originality
may he exciting, hut in the majori
ty of cases where it is tried, it will
he found to entail a good deal of
trouble, and not a little personal
\\orry.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Artemus Ward’s Programme.
We have before us a relie of Art-
emus Witnl. It is one of the pro
grammes of his “Among the Mor
mons” entertainment, dated San
dusky, May S (probably 1 S<>4). We
copy a few specimens: “The music
on the grand piano will comprise,
‘Dear mother I have come home to
die by request,” etc. “Washoe, the
Land of Silver—Good quarters to
he found there. Playful popula
tion, fond of high-low-jack and
homicide.” “Heber C. Kimball’s
Harem—Mr. Kimball is a kind
husband and numerous father.”
“Selections from the Grand Piano
with Gottsehalk. The man who
kept the hoarding-house rement
Mr. Forrester—Mr. Forrester
was the “wisest, brightest, meanest j once hoarded in the same street
of mankind.” Boh Ingersol seems
to think he has found a new faith
that will make everybody good,
and Boh is mighty smart, hut they
say he loves money awfully and
charges his clients such big fees
that when they settle with him
they don’t know whether they have
gained their ease or lost it. Bob
knows bow to pull down the old
temples of our fathers, but he
hasent built up a new one yet that
will stand, and I reckon he never
will. Bill Arp.
An ex-Confederate* surgeon re-
Lcader.
once during the war, While a ter-
"b
hers it.” ‘‘Those of the audience
who do not feel offended with Arte
mus Ward are cordially invited to
call upon him often, at his fine new
house in Chicago. His house is on
the right hand side as you cross the
ferry, and may be easily distin
guished from the other houses by
its having a cupola and mortgage
on it.” Answers to correspondents
Laura Matilda—‘I have an unfor
tunate tendency, even on trivial oc
casions, to shed tears. How can I
, , „ , , . , ,. ., prevent it ?’ ‘Lock up the shed.’ ”
!■>*«• 111 ( , ' 0 " d< ‘ n ,,mt ! *Troveler—‘How long »•«, Arte-
| niUM Ward in California?’ ‘Five
feet ten and a half.’” “Citizen—‘I
rilHe thunder storm Was raging,
“Stonewall” Jackson orderded Gen.
Mahone to take bis men and charge
the Union forces. Then, tired out,
Jackson lay down under a tree and
feel asleep. Soon he was aroused
e Jews who were bitten. AaronV,Shy one of Mahone’s aids, who said : Rules of the house: Dadic*
d turned into a serpent and swal- •‘•General, I am sent by Gen, .'La- gentlemen will, pi ease report
Whit
you
oar n
long :ts we cum and we now want
called Satan, was cast out upon the
tun getting bald. What will make
my hair come out?’ ‘Oil of vitriol
will make all of your hair come
out/”
Ladies or
any
negligence or disobedience on the
has wet the ammun ition of his part of the lecturer. Artemus
troops, and wants to know whctli- Ward will not he responsible for
er lie shall return.” Replied Jack- money,jewelry or valuables, unless
ion: Ask Gen. Mahone if tiie same left with him—to be returned in a
rain which God sends to wet his | week or iu Persons who think
aminunltioniwill not also wet that they enjoy themselves more by
of the enemy ? Tell him to charge j leaving the hull early in the eve-
tliem with col-1 Icel." Id • lion ■ ning, are requested to do o with
made the charge. j as little poise as possible.”
hone for orders,
h
lie says the rain
ot
Josh Billings’ Guide to Health.
Never run into debt if you can
find anything else to run into.
Be honest if you can; if you kan’t
bo honest, pray for help.
Marry yung, and if you make a
hit, keep cool and don’t brag about
it.
Be kind to your mother-in-law,
and, if necessary, pay her hoard at
some good hotel.
Bathe thoroly once a week in soft
water and kasteel soap and avoid
tite butes.
Exercise in open air, hut don’t
saw wood until you are obliged to.
Laff every time you feel tickled,
and laff once in a while ennyhow.
Eat hasli washing days, and he
thankful, if you have to shut your
eyes to do it.
Hold the baby half the time, and
always start the fire in the morn
ing and put on the teakettle.
Don’t jaw back—it proves tnat
you are as big a pliool as the other
phello.
Never borrow what you are able
to buy, and always have something
vou^yon’t lend.
Never git in a hurry; you kan
walk a good deal further in a day
than you kan run.
Don’t swear; it may convince
you, but it is sure not to convince
others.
If you have dawters, let your
wife bring them up; if she has com-
monsense she kan beat all of your
theories.
Don’t drink too much new eider,
and however mean you may be,
don’t abuse a kow.
Luv and respect your wife enny-
way; it i.- a good deal cheaper than
to he all the time wishing she was
someho'w different.
Every day is a little life, and our
whole is hut a day repeated.—
Therefore five every day as if it
would be the last.
Despise* not any man, ami do not
spurn anything; for there is no man
that hath not his hour, nor is there
ot
Wall Street Daily News.
The Laws of Trade.
“Twenty-three dollars for that
’ere stove!” she exclaimed before a
Wall Street News man, as she
held up her hands in horror.
Yes’m—twenty- three.”
“But iron is down.”
“Yes.”
“I’ve seen in the papers during
the last month where as many as
six big iron companies have fail
ed.”
“Well?”
That ought to make stoves chea
per, and I know it.”
“Madame in the last two months
death has laid his hand upon as
many as twenty-five youg ’un?
this town.”
“Yes, poor things.”
“But are nursing bottles any
cheaper than three months ago?”
“N-o,” she slowly addmitt(*d N
“Of course not, madame. The
laws of trade are immutable. The
best I can do is to throw in a horse
radish grater, if you take the stove
at $23.”
anything that
A German savant named Grusel-
bach, professor of Chemical science
in the University of Upsala, has
been devoting a considerable time
to perfecting an apparatus to
freeze living people, and keep
them in a torpid state for a year
or two. In any case he announces
that he will'undertake by his pro
cess to freeze any lady or gentlman
willing to submit to the experi
ment, and benumb them, deprive
them to all appearances of vitality,
pledging his word to bring them
round again at the expiration of
a couple of years, with no prejudi
cial effects to mind or body. As
no adventurous person has come
forward to supply the savant with
the desired opportunity, lie has sub
mitted his invention to the Swe
dish goverment, with the request
that a criminal condemned to
deatli shall be provided to enable
him to ttemonVtate the efficacy of
. his discovery.
Those who give are wise both for
: time and eternity. Joaquim Mil-
I ler’s poem on Peter Cooper carries
jdeei^truth in its finest stanzas :
I reckon him greater than any man
That ever drew sword in war;
I reckon him nobler than king or khan,
j Braver and better by far.
And wisest he in this whole wide land
| Of hoarding till bent and gray ;
For all you can hold in your cold dead
hand
In his first lecture in this country
Matthew Arnold asserted that the
majority is always wrong. In a
public address last Wednesday, Mr.
Charles A. Dana, the editor of the
New York Sun took issue with Mr.
Arnold. The doctrine of Mr. Ar
nold, he said, “is a very deploraale
doctrine. It raises in my mind the
question as to whether there is such
a thing as progress, or whether
there is to be a perpetual recur
ring of mistakes. I believe in pro
gress, hut is it to he Ik* found ?
What is the force that makes pro
gress ? It is the acquistion of con
trol over the forces of nature.—
The lecomotive is progres, the tele
graph is progress. If we consider
all these conquests made by man
in the province of nature we see
that there is the condition of pro
gress. This is a work going on in
dependent of poets and essayists
like 31 r. Arnold. It is a condition of
progress that no Iwxly of men can
work each for his own selfish ends.
•Such an occasion as this shows there
is good in numbers. It contradicts
Mr. Arnold’s theory.”
3Ir. Dana appears to have the
best of the argument thus far. 3Ir.
Arnold ought to reply for two rea
sons : First, to sustain himself if he
can, second, because a controver-
in sv with Mr. Dana will l»e a good
| advertising card for him, and help
to give him an audience when he
lectures.
Hon. J. T. Henderson Commis
sioner of Agriculture for the State
of Georgia, who was in Augusta
Wednesday, in an interview with
the Chronicle, said he thought from
present appearances that cotton
might turn out about WO jht cent,
of an average crop in this State.—
Our crop would probably Ik* in
Georgia 530,000 hales or alxiut 2U0,-
000 short. He said if the present
fine weather continues there will
be little increase by the second
crop’s maturing. In some localities
new bolls are forming and if frost
is delayed two weeKs those bolls
may open. In regard to the fall
sowing of grain he thought the
prospect decidedly promising. The
demand for seed oats is heavy, and
the same is true of wheat and small
grain generally. Spring sowings
are less satisfactory, but the fall
grain planting is almost a certainty.
The oat yield this year was re
duced on account of the. smaller
acreage.
In answer to the question as to
as to the condition of the Georgia
farmer this yesir, he remar Red:
From the long and disastrous
drought, the hill and upland crop i*
a failure. This has cut of the yield
to the farmer. The hog crop * this
year is larger than ever lH*fore.—
There will he no scarcity of meat
in the country. Com is in good
quantity ; the potato crop is fair ;
the sugar cane yield is good, anil
husbandry is more diversified,
showing a more healthy tone
in the planting worlil. <>*'
trucK he would shortly l>e able to
report fully and accurately. Re
port.- of profitableness of it so far
conflict. The fertilizer season ”
said Judge Henderson, “is a little
backward. Last season’s tota',
120,000 tons, sold iu Georgia, show*
a falling off from ’*2, wden theiu-
spection indicated J 27,linn Ions. 'I he
heaviest season was in ’M, when
were distributed in