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COMMENT AND NEWS.
«yro the girls locked up for the
ight, wife?”
“Yes.”
w(Coachman chained ?”
«Yes.”
«Has the patent butcher-catcher
in the front yard been oiled so
{hat it works well ?”
WYes.”
«Well, we might as well chloro
form the gardner and go to sleep.”
One negro in Athens has lost
gver two hundred dollars on
Blaine.
The ficst time you see two wo
men kissing each other see how
quick they let go. }
There will be a terrible rattling ‘
among the dry bones of the G. O.
P. after the 4th of March next.
The idea of such a mass of po
litieal putrifaction as Blaine and
his party accusing the Democrats
of fmud! l
A Toceon lawyer got the bulki
ot foo of the season, viz: Five
pashels of apples and a bushel of
chasnuts,
L ooaug il in Georgia is said
o hive hair “that sweeps the
foor.” She will probably teach it
1, wash and fron. '
gt A B
{[uralson Adair, of Henry
euaty, has u}lpture\l one huadred
D this season. He also
enht two polecats by mistake.
The Damboeratic rooster is still
nising his shrill clarion on the
morning air. The Democratie
post 1 is now undoubtedly the
wock of the walk.” '
A local paper says, rather am
pewonsly, that the Cornell fresh
mn class this yaar will embrace
teenty women. We would like to
by a fresh:nan daring the em
bracing exercises.
The wife of a Methodist preach
in Georgia takes turns with him
atpreaching. When his parish
joners see the old gentleman dig
ging worms in the back yard they
kwow that it is his day off.
Maggie Fergusom, a pretty girl
of 15 years, has just made the trip
foim St. Louis to Atlanta in a box
ar, stealing her way like a tramp.
she had no money, but wished to
lh-:;ch re:atives at Georgia's capi
al,
The Athe's negroes now say
that Cleveland is elected, but Gen.
trant will see that Blaine is seat
¢l They firmly believe that
Demoeratic saccess means slavery
titheir race, and several have al
raly picked their masters.
The eolored citizens are already
beginning to feast on "possum and
taters in every part of the State,
They are likewise supplementing
their rations with occasional mess
&of coon, althongh they are by
no means eavmnibals,
At the recent term of Superior
Court in- Oglethorpe county the
irst verdict was granted in the di
voree suit hetween Joe and Has
st Stewart. 1t will be remem
berad that this couple were uucle
e and their marriage ere
“gaite a sensation. '
Cortersvilie hins bven visited by
3'l wars, il gart and Seobel, from
'l‘l':'\.tn, Cavada.,, with the view
" establishing settlements for a
vl eluss of emigrants, who,
Hample means, sre secking a
e congenial elimatoe in which
W liake permanent homes.
‘he ramor comes from seross
Weosea that Mary Anderson
“harts very mach under the re-
Ut ceritieisms of Labouehors in
Crati, 1f Hary had only a six
foot Kentucky swoothenrt to put
fter the critic! But she seems to
hive f Tgotien the jand of her na
‘u\l‘.\,
Itis claimed that & new specios
% hippopotamus has been discov
tred on o remote part of the Riv
¢ Nile. This intelligence will be
received with degree of great
tisfaction, Next o another pro
fessional baseball club there was
Mothing this country yearned for
Sith & mope yearning yearnfalness
than g gy species of hippopota
nysg,
The T‘;(Tmm-‘i_h‘:lys “1\[01111“)7
“Yening i men, Martin Rogers
M 1 Elishy Rogers, were arrested
2 Marshq Rainey and Constable
HMitt g g instance of Mary El-
T, l’ln-y were charged with
'Ht@"““‘!" 30 bundles of foddor.
“I*‘)’ Wora tl-i.;d beful'fl Justice J.
C Zacln-(-.\,y the dsial fat e
" 10 o'elook & m. and ending at
hduight. g Court released
tho I)risoners.n
THE DAWSON JOURNAL
YOl 15
MY JERSEY LILY.
Round and deep her liquid eye—
Window of the heart—
Looking in I think I spy
My own eounterpart.
Silken laghes drooping o'er,
Frame my portrait there.
Dare I tell her I adore Ler?
Duare I stroke her hair?
Yes; hex face is close to mine—
Breath like new-morn hay
Fans my cheek. My arms Il twine
"Round her neck and say:
Lily, dear, thou'rt mine for life,
Tell me, Lily, now,
What, though I may have a wife—
Can’t I love my eow? . 1
:?___::
STOP, YOUNG MAN.
Stop, pause and reflect before
you handle your reputation with
unhallowed hands. If a woman
must be stoned, let not the missile
be hurled by the hand of a man—
it is cowardly and contemptible
for the stronger to triumph over
the wlaker. This is a growing
evil over the sex, and they forget
that a wife, mother, or sister may
be a vietim of some open_ asper
sions or sly innuendo that may
cost a life in avenging the injury.
The estimate you put upon fe
male integrity is too low at best
to take advantegs of every un
guwrded point to make your at
tack, and where no invasion is sus
pected no defense will be made.
It is troe you may sometimes be
thrown into the society of thought
less, even debased women, bnt
you must not judge of the whole
sex by the deliuguences of a few
any more than you would judge
of the valor and resistance of an
entire army by the cowardly sur
render of a small garrison, or
judge of the character of honora
ble and reputable citizens by the
humiliating and startling develop
ments of the police court. Many
a spotless character has been for
ever wrecked in this indiserimi
nate juldgement, and many a man’s
happiness destroyed by this lack
of faith in woman.
Never speak lightly of your fe
male friends, for the blows of an
open, direct attack are more easi
ly parried than those oblique, un
looked for shafts that strike us
sideways. An innocent woman
never recovers from a wound -
flicted upon her reputation. No
balsam, however soothing and po
tont, heals the fatal stab, and its
ache and fever are ever present,
reminding the poor vietim that
a canker worm is ever prey i up
on vitality and snapping the roots
of life and happiness.
Horse Robbers in Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga , Journal. :
A young man by the name of
A. J. Smith was brought to the
city F'riday evening by Mr. Tuarner,
of the penitentiary department.
Smith goes up for four yvears, from
Lumpkin county for horse steal
ing. Smith confessed his guilt,
and said there was a regular or
oanized band of horse thieves
operating in Georgia, Tennessee
and Alabama, and that he was
one of the leaders of the band.
He further sail that the young
man Willoughbery, arrested by
Marshal Ware, of LaCrosse, and
Capt. Couaeh, of this place, wasa
member of it. He said they had
got in some good work in these
States, and when it breame neces
sary they were prepared to ran
their horses off as far as Texas.
To him, he said, thelife of a horse
thief was @ fascinating one, and
when a man onee joined the gang
Ihz‘ could not go back on them.
The band has been operating
many years, and they hud com
muuications with other bauds in
different Statos, Mr. Turner car
ried him Friday night to the Dade
| coal mines.
The Youuy Farmer.
Mr. Beecher thinks a young
farmer’s head ought to be good
for somoething more than merely
to hang his hat on, and we thiuk
sO, too. 1t ought to be filled with
usefal knowledge, such as will
give him the advantage of the dolt
and and enable him not only to
“make his way in the world,” but
to accomplish great good among
his fellow men. He should have
too much pride to be ignorant;
but if he has no pride yet his love
of monay or desire to be rich
should detevmnine him to take all
the chances of suceess, —Lx.
Dawson, Ga., Thursday, November 20, 1884.
KISS ME, TOO, PAPA.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
“Hand me that collar-button,”
demanded Mzr. Geo. Welsby, tura
ing with an air annoyed toward his
little girl. “Learn to let things
alone, will you? There now, tune
up and howl.”
“George, don't speak to the
child that way,” said Mrs. Welsby,
depositing a shirt on a chair.
“Well, why can't she behave
herself? Every time sifo sees
that T am getting ready to go to
any place she makesa point of
hindering me. Let that cravat
alone.”
I “Put down papar’s cravat , dar
ling. She’s too young to know
any better.”
“No, she isn’t. Other people’s
i children know how to behave. T'll
| bet I'll miss the train. I am some
[times tempted to wish she had
'never been born.”
§ “Oh, George!” exelaimed the
‘wife. T wouldn't say that.”
! “Confound it, she worries me
'so. T havew’t more than time to
i cateh the train,” harriedly kissing
ihis wife.
| “Kiss me, too, pape.”
| “I ought not to, you areso bad,”
stooping aud kissing her. “Good
bye. Will be back in three or
four days.” |
| Mr. Welsby is a commereial
traveler, a kind and tender-heart
ed man, but subjected at times to
nervousness. Seated with sever
al vivacions acquaintances, spoad
irg over the eountry, a-little voice
would steal in between the roars
i“f merry laughter and say:
“Kiss me, too, papa.”. .
In the sample room of the vil
lage hotel,between the inquiries of
purchasers, he could hear the
voice, and at night when he lay
down he could see the little hands
reaching toward him and could
hear, “Igiss me, too, papa.”
At morning, when the sunbeams
stole across his bed, he thought of
the bright little face at home and
said:
| “God forgive me for wishing
| that she never had been born.”
; “Welsby, what is the matter, old
| fellow?” askéd a companion.
| They were ina conveyance, rid
i ing towards an interior town.
{ “I don’t feel very well to-day.”
| “Do any basiness back here?”
' “Yes, did very well.”
E “I didn’t do anything, butl
lwon't let it weight me down. Got
'a letter from the house this morn
ing. The old boy iskicking about
‘expenses. Got a bottle of cock
| tail here.”
' “I don’t care for any.”
“Then there mustbe something
i the matter with you.”
On a night train going home,
! he could see the little hands.
“(lack, elack, clack—kiss me, too;
Liss me, too.”
| ‘What's the vews?” he asked of
; a friend, when he stopped upon the
'platform and ealled a hackman.
| “Nothing, I believe; everything's
| quiet.”
; “No scarlet fever or diptheria
raging, is there?” i
“No, not that I have heard.” i
The familiar scenes brought ‘
rest to bis mind. He looked back :
oa his trip with a shadder, lilmi
one who awakes and econtemplates |
a nightmave through which he
has just puassed. l
“Good-night,” he said paying
the hackman. “A light burning!
Julia is expeecting me,” he mased,
ascending the steps.
A ghastly face met him at the
door. A volce in agony whisper
ed: “Oh, George, our little girl
is dead!”
Wilfully Silent For Ten Years.
Georgia Exchange.
Olivia Jenkins, of Gwinnette
county,petulantly refused to speak
to her father ten years ago.
Al'hough living in the same house
with him ever since, she has never
attered a word to him, acting at
the table and elsewhere like some
one damb. She would nct even
speak to others while he was in
hearivg. She was frequently re
monstrated with for this course,
but she explained that in his pres
enee she was really dumb, aud
could not by any effort use her
tongue till be went out of sight.
She died on Tuesday night with
out having ever opened her lips to
him,
THE GOVERNOR’'S MESSAGE.
The Savannah News furnishes
the following synopsis of Gov.
McDaniel's message to the Legis
lature. Our columns forbid a
more extended notice:
The Governor shows that he is
thoroughly acquainted, not only
with the financial condition and
demands of the State, but with its
every interest, and he has present
ed them in a manner so thorough
and simple that the most illiterate
ought to be able to understand
them.
In regard to the payment of the
bonded indebtness of the State
due in 1886, the Governor recom
mends the refunding thereof in
bonds to run not less than 30 years
at not over 5 per cent. interest.
The reason for this is that long
term bonds are eagerly sought
after by investors at low rates of
interest.
The message calls especial at
tention to the necessity of provid
ing for the proper valunation of
property for taxation, and ex
plains the causes of the defieit
which appears in the estimate of
the Treasure’s receipt’s and expen
ditares for 1854
In reference to the Railroad
Commission, it recommends the
passage of a law authorizing ap
peals from its decissions to the
courts of the State.
~ Theaction of the Capitol Com
missioners in adopting politie
limestone for facing the exterior
walls of the new ecapitol is ex
plained, and, in the Governor’s
opinion, should be satisfactory to
every disinterested and reasonable
citizen of the State.
It earnestly recommends the es
tablishing of a house of eorrection
for the reception of youthful felons
—of whom quite a number are now
serving in the penitentiary camps
—as suggested by Capt. Nelms,
the efficient Principal Keeper of
the Penitentiary —and appended
to the message the Governor pre
sents a list of seprieves and par
dons granted by him, and gives
the reason for clemency in each
case as ' rovided by law.
The State Agricultural Depart
ment is commended and the pro
priety of establishing an experi
mental farm urged on the attention
of the General Assembly, and the
information given that the farm of
the University of Georgia has
been tenderad to the State for that
purpose.
The steady growth of our public
school system is stated, and the
increased prosperity of the uni
versity under the new order of
things adopted in 1881 is com
mented on. It is recommended to
enlarge the scope of the school of
agriculture and mechanic arts in
the ‘university so as to make it
really a school of technology,
This is an important matier, and
doubtless one that will receive
muoch attention by the General
Assambly.
The message calls at'ention {o
the necessity for rigid inspection
and regulation of saving instita
tions and banks of deposit, and for
the presevrvatiov and protection of
trust funds.
Attention is called to the neces- |
sity of & well-equipped and regu- 1
lated malitia, and the movement
to increase the efliciency of our
volunteer malitia will doubtless
command theattention of the uen
eral Asseinbly.
The necesrity for amending the
constitution is urged on the Gen
eral Assembly, but the Governor
does not fuvor the general revis
ion of that instrument by a State
convention,
There is little doubt that the
suggestion contained in the mes
sage will serve as valnable guides
to the General Assembly in de
termining what course to pursue
on many questions that will come
up before it. The Governor has
been in the service of the State
for many years, and is familliar,
not only with the outlines, but the
details of every department of the
governmeant.
“Is anybody waiting on you?”
said a polite dry goods clerk to «
young lady from the country.
“Yes, sir,” rveplied the blushing
damsel, “that's my fellow out
side-~he would not come in the
store.”
' CHINESE MOB CHRISTIANS.
\
~ Women Outraged and Buildings
Looted.
SAN Fraxcisco, Nov. 10.—The
steamer City of Rio de Janeiro,
which arrived here last night,
brings Hong Kong advices to Oet.
22, The ecities of Tokio and Yoko
hama were visiled by a severe earth
quake on Oct. 15. The shock was
the heaviest experienced since
Feb. 22,1880, but the damage was
comparatively slight. The first
shock lasted two minutes,and was
followed by several minor shocks.
The Overland China Mail, of
Hong Kong, publishes a full text
of an interview between John Rus
sell Young, the American Minis
ter, and the Viceroy, Li Hung
Chang,on the subject of medintion
between France and China. The
closing portion of the interview,
not previously reported, is as fol
lows:
Mr. Young—“lf France propos
ed American mediation, will China
aceept it.”
Li Hung Chang—*“She might,
but will certainly not again pro
pose it.”
Mr. Young—“ May I inform my
government to this effect?”
Li Hung Chang—“ You may.”
FEARFUL WORK BY MOBS.
Chinese mobs have been com
mitling fearful outrages on per
sons and places of Christian wor
ship at Canton and iaterior points.
In the province of Kwang Tung
alone four Roman Catholic and
four Protestant churches have
been destroyed. Oue hundred
and twenty houses of resident
Christians have been looted and
their occupants driven away. At
Nam Hoi three Catholic chapels
were piilaged, as were also the
houses of converts Priests and
converts were beaten and females
outraged. At Shi Hung the
Churchof Euvgland Chapel was
destroyed. The Chinese tore the
clothing from the preacher’s wife
and treated her shamefully. At
Chant Sung the Wesleyvan Chapel
was destroyed. Christians are
flecing from the province to Hong
Kong. The Chinese gave them
the alternative of suaerificing to
idols or leaving their houses.
They preferred the laiter, but
while leaving many of the women
were caught and outraged.
15 CHURCHES DESTROYED.
The authorities of the Twelve
Cantonese villages have already
been destroyed and several stores
looted. Many persons are home
loss.
Although the attention of the
Chinese Government Las been
called to these barbarous aects,
no aetion has been taken to pre
vent them or or to punish the per
petrators. At Kit Young a mob
destroyed all the Roman Catholie
and Buglish ehurches. At Swatoa
the Catholie priests were ordered
to leave, and after they had left
Chinese soldiers broke into the
houses and ravished the female
converts.
Smoked Him Down,
Perry, Ga., Home Journal.
Armed with a warrant, and ac
companied by two young men,
Bailiff Tuttle went out to Toomer
& Bruuson’s plantation last Sun
day night in search of a negro
named Anderson Johnsen. :
They surrounded the cabin in
whiel the uegro was supposed to
be, but admittance was at first re
fused, and thoy were told that An
derson was not in the house.
Some one walked across the floor
and direetly the deor was opened,
and one of the young inen went
into the house, while XMr. Tutile
and the other remained outside
;tn intercept if he should attempt
l to escape by the door or window.
l Anderson’s wife was inside the
cabin, but the mnegro sought for
could not be found. After a com
plete and fruitless seavch of the
cabin was made, a fire was built
in the hearth, and it blazed up, a
scuflling noise wus heard up the
chimuey, soot began falling, and
and finally & negro came down,
land Anderson Jolnson become
ttho prisbuer of the ofticers. He
had gone up the chimney to hide,
‘aud was smoked out. He pre
(seutc«l a most ludirous appearunce
when he came down the chimney.
NO. 28.
BOTH ARE MOURNING.
They Don’t Know Which Won Their
Election Bets. ;
Last Tuesday Gobblepie, who
is a staunch Democrat, bet his
roommate, Bugfighter, a gecod Re
publican, $5 on ‘he result of ' the
election, says the Cincinnatt;
Times-Star. On Wednesday Gob
blepie came down stairs, his face
lit up with a four-inch smile, and
asked Bugfighter, who sat discon
solate in a corner, for the “fiver.’
He turned it over with an"ill gracs,
and muttered curses on the “ blast
ed Democrats.” (lobblepie went
down to the office, 4nd, getting
his fellow Demeocrats ‘together,
went out and spent every last cent
of Bugfighter’s hard-earned mon
ey. Thursday morning the loser
arose early and got a glimpse of
his paper. Running up the stair
case four . steps at a juwp, he
awoke the sleeping Demoerat and
demanded a “fiver” on the strength
of Blaine being elected. Gobble-.
pie, thunderstricken, forked it
over and filled the air with good,
solid Democrat blessings. Buog- |
fighter also went down town, and }
gathering a band of Prohibition- ‘
ist about him, they went to a sa
loon and invested that “sneaking}
Demoeraties $5” in extract of
drunk. This morning they b(xth‘
descended to the breakfast room
in feverish haste, and each seized
Lis party journal. They read in
tently for a while, when Gobble
pie broke forth:
“Look here, Bugfighter, you
bulldozed me out of that casli yes.
terday morning.” “What! You—
Why, you cold-blooded swimllm-,‘
you actually stole my five dollars
Wednesday morning,” was Bug
fighter's hot reply.
“Don’t call me a swindler!”
“lf you call me bulldozer I'll
knoek you down!”
“Balidozer!"”
“Bwindlerl'. 1 1] %0 s ]
The rest of the boarders, after
a hard s!ruggle, pulled them
apart, and untwisted Gobblepie's
hand from DBugfighter’s haiv
while others wrested Gobblepie's
shirt bosom out of Buglighter's
band. They are roommales no
longer, and each mowrns hLis five
dollars as lost.
A Sad Sight,
The depth of depravity to which
children, in some of our larges cit.
ies, sometimes sink i 3 painfully il
lustrated in the case of the little
girls arrested in Chicago the oti
er day, whose ages ran between
fourteen and sixteen. A number
of these poor outeasts had ‘organ
ized themselves into a band who
made the robbing of Chinese laun
dry establishments their special
work. They waould ehloroform
the Chinaman and then rob them,
besides doing other deeds of
erime. Filthy in speeeh, shabily
dressed and profligate beyond de
scription, they formed a hideous
index to the degradstien into
which the vagabonds and neglect
ed children of our great and lus
urious cities may fall. The ar
rested children confessed their
evil deeds, and under fines of one
hundred dollars each, they were
gent to the house of correction.
Whata sad commentary upon cur
civilazation.
Good Society. |
Union and Recorder.
Many parents who have eous
and daughiers growing up are
amvious for them to get into good ‘
society. This isan hour ef anxiety
Purents, your daughter is in good
sociely when she is with girls who
are pure and true-learted; who
are not vain and frivolous; who
think of scwething else bLesides
dress, flirting and marriage; be
tween whomn and tleir parents
there is confidence; who are use
ful s well as ‘orncmental in the
house; who eultivate their minds,
and train their haunds to use ful and
skillful workmanship. Neither
wealth nor fine clothes make good
society-—-they are counterfeits
without character to back themn.
Intelligence, simplicity, modesty
and goodness ave the true coin—
and the same role; with manliness,
applies to boy =
A bearded girl. six yearsof age,
has appeared i oune of the hoith
ern dune wuseums. Young wen
who are stroggling to bring out
a moustach schould ouee more
take courago.
A WOMAN'S HORRIBLE DEATIH. -
Terrible End of a Gaorgia Girl’s
Adventarous Career.
ja Lo b
‘News-has reached New York,
says the Néw York ‘Timés, thata
‘'woman whose escapade 3 have at
dilferent times startled and shock-"
ed thie-good paopls of Rures eonti
nents, has. at iast met swith a
dreadfpl fate in Japan. This wo
man was knowa to,_New Yorkers
16 or 17 years ago ns Mrs. John
Beecher, afterwards as the Coun
tess Pourtales, latér to the Pari
siang as o lady ®f fashion, and
finul'y 1o thes iniperiak circles of
Yokohaiea as the favorite of the
Japanese Prime _Mjuister. She
was a daughter of a respectable
Georgin fatsily and was brought
to- this eity a blooming ¢irl by
her mother just after the close ef*
the war. Apparently the family
had saved some means from the
wreek caused by the war, for the
mother and ‘Qaughter were able to
live in gdod -style at ‘the ' Astor
House. ] '
~ After awhile they moved to
the Fifth Avennune Hotel, and
there the daughter met Mr. Jchn
Beecher, at that time a wealthy
member of a well-known whole
sale liquor firm, who lived at the
hotel. 1t was net long before she
becameé Mrs. Beecher, and the
young couple left the hotel to oe
capy a laxurious home.” Mrs.
Beecher, soon after her marriage,
manifested a most flirtations and
wayward disposition, which final
ly s¢ compromised her reputation
that Mr. Beecher was forced to
seek a divorce. 'This in course of
time he procured, and shortly af
terwards the eommunity was
startled by the announcement that
My, Eeechor had shot Lloyd Phoe
nix as he ascended the steps of
Lis sister's Fifth Avenue resi
dence. She subsequently went to
Paris, where she had not sojourn
od long before she became the
Countess Pourtales. It was said
that she met the Count on the
steamship in whizh she sailed
from New York. The Count had
been attached to the Irench Les
gation at Washington, and bad
married & daughter of Ben Halli
day, but had been for some time
a widower. 'The first, Countess di
ed on a railroad {rain while near
ing Chicago, whither sho was
jourreyiug. "
After their marriage in Par’s,
Count Pourtales returned to his
post in Washington and carried
his bride with hi, hut, the fame
of the Countess’ escapades having
preceeded her, the “couple- were
not well received, and the Count,
at Liis own request, was speedily
recalled. -~ IFrom Puris they went
to Japan, and there the Countess’
con:lnet was, in essentlal raspects,
similiar to what it had been as
Mrs. Beecher in New York, and
the Count finally abgpdoned her
in disgust. Enventudlly = she
openly became migtress of the
Japunese Prime Minister, and in
course of time attempted to play
as free with him as she had done
with lier husbands.
But among the other barbarous
enstormn of that country is one
that punishes infidelity with
deuth, whether the offender be
wife or mistress. As the story
comes from those distant shores,
one night two masked men enter
ed tha ‘wretched woman's house,
seized and bowstrang her, then
put her body into a sack and flung
it into the river. The informa
tion is undoubtly true, and it has
been known for some time toa
number cf persons in this city,
but has mot heretolore gained
‘publication.
Practicing with Pistols.
Two little boys, aged 16 or 18,
who lived in Eatouton, were out
practicing with a pisto), back of
Judge Lawson's piace last Sunday
afternoon. These little fellows
are evidently getiing -ready to
ghoot something, or to. paint the
town red, or {o receue somebody
from the Indians, - They are dan
gerous. ‘lhey have been reading
novels, and, consequently are ex
tremely brave and are aching to do
something desperate. They were
cut practicing ‘turdey, and mo
doubt they got it done fine, and
they can draw 2 bead en gu In
dian with absolute certainty. In
lthc weantime, while thieir dander
18 up, it weuld be weil for them
|to continue to practiveron Sunday
%uftornoous 0 us to Leeble to meet
|several Indians who will be om
ithe next graud jury.
About the only force some peo
lpleisthe force of babit. o