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VOL-XV.
gliTE NEWS ITEMS
CII.LED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
Eiaggold is to have telephone con¬
nection with Chattanooga, Dalton and
Cliickamanga Park.
* * *
There is probably more home-raised
meat packed away in Stewart county
smokehouses at this time than in any
year since the war.
The city council of Barnesville has
decided to get out a pamphlet putting
forth the advantages of the city and
surrounding country.
Chipley is to have a cheese factory,
Griffin is to have an addition to her
cotton factory and Valdosta is to have
a largo pork packing establishment.
Other places throughout the state are
booked for various enterprises.
There are over 1,700 names on the
tax defaulter’s list in Columbia comity
from 1877 to 1894, ranging from one
year np. If all the defaulters pay up
and register it will give the county a
gum which will be quite acceptable at
this time.
Quite an acrerge is being planted in
Irish potatoes around McIntosh, and
all hope for a large yield and good
prices. The LeConte pear trees are
looking well, but there are no blooms
yet. A good crop is looked for this
season, and many think the severe
, winter has been an advantage to them
and will destroy the blight.
The arrangements for the Ocmulgee
ohautauqua for 1895 are being made,
and every indication points to a most
successful assembly. The manage¬
ment has been busy for the past few
weeks corresponding with lecturers,
educators, orchestras and elocutionists
in various parts of the country, and
contracts have been entered into whioh
insure an attractive, entertaining and
instructive programme.
The most unique testament ever filed
in Chatham county was received by the
ordinary reoently. George W. Shaf¬
fer, who died something over a week
ago, left an estate of ten thousand
dollars. Among other things he be¬
queathed several shares of Central
railroad stock to some of the charita¬
ble institutions and churches of the
city, providing that they should use
the income only and denying them the
power to sell or transfer it. At last
accounts Cential railroad stoekB were
selling looked for $10 and dividends are not
for again.
The centennial of the Richmond
Hussars, of Augusta, will occur in the
early summer of this year, and will,
in all probability, be celebrated in
June. It has been pretty well settled
on to have a three days’ encampment
and to invite the other three troops of
the battalion, and possibly several
other troops. Prizes will be offered
for the best shot, and this will be open
to Colonel W. E. Jones’ Sixth regi
ment of infantry, allowing each com
pany to enter five men. Also, prizes
™1 be offered for the best tilting
teams among the cavalry. All old
bers, Hussars, and particularly war mem¬
will be invited to participate in
the centennial exercises proper, for
riuch a special day will be set apart.
A party of prominent Tennessee law.
Efflers arrived in Atlanta a few days
a go and will spend several days mak-
1D g a Btudy of the revenno and assess¬
ment laws of this state with particular
reference to court costs. They are
members of a joint committee from the
ennessee house of representatives and
senate, appointed to make a complete
s udy of the conditions that confront
He people of that state with respect
o internal economics. Speaking of
e matter a member of the committee
said: ‘ ‘We came to Georgia to obtain
m urination on criminal cost laws, be
a use the amount paid out by the state
s so small. For instance, in Tennes
ee w e have paid out nearly $500,000
oar yearg, while in Georgia you
,T erag e $10,000
a year.
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\ The city
of Augusta has sold $88,000
IRas 6mption bonds dated April 1,
, t ™’ Payable April 1, 1925, interest
? per cen ^ P er annum, payable
? I ‘-annually. J The bonds are of
; ’, ®ach. The purpose of the issue
oesiw edem P tion of 338,000 7 per
” d , ® now outstanding, of date
a , d
*?. ’ * be falling due April 1,
app able proceeds of this issue
i ? to this purpose and no
oth e f' Lhere twelve bidders,
k n , were
in, hid of Mr. Colden Rhind,
Jo.’: Wa8 1 or tbe 389,821.60 for the entire
T ’ one that got them alL
tbe o' 4 ! issued a larger
than this time and each thou
sanl ° llar bond brought
Thio ^ year each $1,007.80.
#1,000 brought $1,-
Conyers Weekly.
CONYERS, GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 1G. 1895.
020.70, showing an increase of $12.90
on each thousand-dollar bond. The
new issue is floated at 4 2-5 per oent.
William T. Adams, of north Geor¬
gia, was arrested a few days ago and
placed in Fulton county jail on a
charge of attempting to defraud the
United States government by obtain¬
ing a pension to which he was not en¬
titled. Adams is about seventy-five
years old, and has been a fugitive from
justice for nearly three years, the
crime which it is alleged that he com¬
mitted, occurring in September, 1892.
Adams is charged with having imper¬
sonated Martin Crawford, a soldier of
the Seminole Indian war of 1888, In
that he sighed an affidavit that be had
entered that war and served a suffi¬
cient length of time to entitle him to
a pension, but upon investigation by
tho pension department at Washing¬
ton, where the affidavit went before
the pension could bo granted, it was
discovered that Adam’s declaration
that he was Martin Crawford was un¬
true and that he had never served in
the war, as claimed in the affidavit.
Attorney Brown Discharged.
Attorney Julius Brown has been re¬
moved from the attorneyship of the
Western and Atlantic railroad, and the
charging of fees against the receiver
is said to have been the cause. For
nearly twenty years Mr. Brown has
been the attorney for this road. When
the road was under the management
of Hon. Joseph E. Brown, Mr. Julius
Brown was the attorney. When it
was placed in the hands of receivers,
his father and Major E. B. Stahlman
were given the appointment as re¬
ceivers.
These two gentlemen immediately
appointed 'Mr. Julius Brown as their
legal adviser. He, it is said, at the
timo accepted the position with the un¬
derstanding that the amount of his
compensation was to be fixed by g
special master. This appointment was
made in 1891, and since that time, un¬
til his removal, Mr. Brown has held
the position. During the period that
he acted as attorney for the receivers,
$700,000 is said to have passed through
the hands of Major Stahlman.
Several weeks ago a special master
was appointed to fix the fee of Mr.
Brown for his four years’ services.
This special master is said to have al¬
lowed him on his claim $35,000, or 5
per cent of the total amount that was
handled by the receivers in the four
years. . This amount is said to have
surprised Major Stahlman, and he at
once relieved Mr. Brown from further
service, and will, it is said, attempt to
manage his affairs without the aid of
an attorney.
Independent Fanning.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
The losses of the Florida orange
growers during the recent ccld spell
will cause them to turn their attention
to diversified farming. They should
now be convinced that while a cash
crop is a desirable thing it should not
receive their entire attention to the
exclusion of other crops. Nor is this
proposition confined to the Florida
farmers alono. It is equally applica¬
ble to the tillers of the soil here in
Georgia. The necessity of planting
for ourselves rather than for others
has been forced upon our attention in
more than one rude lesson, and it is
time for us to profit by our expe¬
rience. In order to hold our own
against occasional periods of bard
times we should first supply
our own wants from our
own farms. A cash crop should be
cultivated, but if everything is subor¬
dinated to it, our farmers will fre¬
quently find themseives without cash
and without supplies. The farmer
who would be independent should first
provide for the wants of his family
with diversified food crops, With a
comfortable living assured he may
then devote his spare time to a cash
crop to provide money for his running
expenses, but the living crop should
always take precedence. This should
be the rule with our Georgia cotton
planters. They should plant first for
themselves and then plant for cash.
When a farmer produces everything
that his family and live stock eat he
is virtually independent of the mar
kets, and it will be no great task for
him to produce a cash crop that will
supply him with enough money to
satisfy his modest wants.
The Atlanta Exposition.
The Exporters and Importers' Jour¬
nal, New York, says:
The month of September, 1895, will
mark the beginning of a new epoch for
the southern states of this republic.
Ever since the civil war of 1861-1865
the south has been, in many ways,
handicapped in her industrial pursuits.
But always enterprising and energetic,
she has struggled manfully against the
stream, gaining strength, courage and
riches with each year, until at last a
point has been reached where she is
prepared to show to the world what
she has done and wha t she can yet do.
It is interesting to know that the cot¬
ton states are a unit in this enterprise,
and they promise, in many respects, to
rival the world’s fair at Chicago in the
excellence, scope and character of
their exposition. is worth remarking
‘En passant,’ it
that the world possesses no educator
that is worthy of comparison with
these mammoth expositions. Manu¬
facturing and natural products from
all parts of the globe are grouped and
analyzed. Interchange of trade be¬
tween widely separated countries re¬
ceives an impetus which nothing else
would give it, and the whole world is
made wiser, better and richer and
bolder by the knowledge that is glean¬
ed, the methods that are learned, the
suggestions that are formulated and
the histories that are told by the ex¬
hibits. The wool growers of Australia
meets the cotton planter of the south;
the miner and farmer from Cape Col¬
ony rubs shoulders with the mechanio
and the factory owner of the new
world; the merchant from Eng¬
land, France, Germany, etc.,
hobnobs with the merchants
from other quarters of the globe, and
each of these sees in the other not on¬
ly a purchaser and a consumer, but a
dealer and a seller. In other words,
he sees a trader—he scents trade, and,
when all is said, trade, not gold, is the
real basis of values. World’s Pairs
are only exchanges on a large scale—
rendezvous for the meeting of ex¬
porter and importer, and in the ex¬
change the exporter becomes an im¬
porter and the importer becomes an
•xporter. Such expositions are edu¬
cators, because they teach a man the
wisdom of being both, and show him
conclusively where he can find the
best markets for purchasers as well as
for sales.
NOT EVEN ON OATH.
Prof. Smith Says He Would Not Be¬
lieve Secretary Morton’s Assistant.
It has just become known that the
educational committee of the Tennes¬
see legislature, in session at Chatta¬
nooga, was treated to a tremondons
sensation during a star chamber ses¬
sion in which the state university at
Knoxville was under investigalion.
The state superintendent of education,
Frank Smith, appeared before them
and declared that he would not believe
President Dabney, who is also assist¬
ant to the secretary of agriculture,
Morton, on oath.
The professor testified that local
trustees called a meeting of the board
without giving previous notice to the
trustees at large, and then voted the
president a leave of absence to accept
a high government position, still con¬
tinuing bis salary as president. Presi¬
dent Smith further charged that he
was present at a later meeting of the
trustees with enough proxies to defeat
the board’s former action, but that
the right to vote these proxies was de¬
nied him in conflict with tho institu-
tion’s rules.
The committee will report favorably
on the conduct of the state university,
especially on the recent introduction
of co-education. The fact that Presi¬
dent Dabney once disapproved of
Smith’s appointment to a chair in the
school gives bis charges a selfish col¬
oring. Nevertheless they have pro¬
duced a decided sensation. Superin¬
tendent Smith insists that Dabney be
made to r< sign as president of the uni¬
versity.
SPAIN’S EXCUSE.
Unofficial Statements in Regard to tho
Action of the Gunboat.
A special cable dispatch from Ha¬
vana, signed by the editor of Im Lucha,
says: firing
“No official report of upon a
merchantman flying the American flag
by a Spanish man-of-war has been made
here. It is thought that since the Cu¬
ban coast is being watched by Spanish
naval vessels, one of them fired on a
suspicious vessel which did not obey
its signals to stop.”
A special cablegram from Colon, re¬
ferring to the same rpisode, says:
“The Colombia line steamship Al
lianca, which was fired on by a Span¬
ish war vessel off' the eastern point of
Cuba, on March 8th, took no war ma¬
terials when she sailed on March 5tb.
Her 1,700 tons of general freight and
200 tons of bananas quite filled her.
Cubans here say the Allianca was fired
on probably in the belief that she was
» ■filibuster. They say it is an old
Spanish custom to fire on any suspi
sious vessel.”
THE STRIKERS CONFIDF1NT.
They Consider Their Fight for Union
Rates Practically Won.
The strike of the miners of the Pitts¬
burg, Pa., district is but one week old
and there are nearly two-thirds of the
miners of the district at work at union
rates—69 cents per ton. The strikers
consider the fight practically won, but
they may yet bump up against some of
adverse circumstances in the person
obstinate railroad operators. conceded
The river operators have
the demands of the miners and there
has been a general resumption of work
at all tbe river mines. All the river
crafts are being loaded, and as long as
this rush continues there will be work
not only for the full number of river
miners, but also for a large number of
extra men from the railroad mines.
On the other hand, the railrond op¬
erators refuse to pay more than 55
cents per ton, and the majority of
their mines are idle. They claim that
they are compelled to refuse orders
because they cannot fill them at prices
quoted by competitors.
HOTS IN NEW ORLEANS.
A MOB OF WHITES FIRE UPON
NEGRO LABORERS.
lour KM aM EijM Woiied.
TIIE POLICE WERE POWERLESS
TO QUELL THE CONFLICT.
A British Subject Fired Upon and
Wounded—Troops Called Out.
There were two separate and dis
tinot riots at New Orleans Tuesday,
both probably resulting from the same
plan. One occurred on the river front
near the French market, where the
ship Engineer was loading for Liver¬
pool. The other occurred about four
miles distant in the direction of Car¬
rollton, at the foot of Philip street.
Only one man, William Campbell, col¬
ored, was killed in this affair.
The names of the dead are: William
Campbell, Jules Garrabee and two un¬
known negroes, who have not been
identified—four in all.
The wounded are: James A. Bane,
purser of the steamship Engineer, Brown,
dangerously wounded; Henry
colored, will recover; Leonard Mal¬
lard, colored, has since died; Tim
Persten, colored, may recover; Louis
Oast, colored, will recover; Billy
Williams, colored, will recover; Frank
Lighthall, colored, slightly wounded;
Robert Brooks, white, shot in the leg,
not dangerous. other
Doubtless a number of ne¬
groes were slightly wounded, but ran
away and cannot be identified.
The first scene of the conflict was
on the river front between Stann and
Dumaine streets, Three men were
killed almost outright, while a num¬
ber were wounded.
The killing was done by a mob of
white men numbering about 200, who
were armed with pistols and Winches¬
ter rifles. The negroes were about to
start to work on board the steamship
Engineer lying at that point, when
white men approached from all direc¬
tions. All were armed and many took
positions behind box cars and poured
volley upon volley into the negroes.
Those who were on the scene say that
it reminded them of a battlefield so
fast and furious was the firing.
The negroes were given no quarter
and were shot down like dogs. Not
only were the darkies shot down, but
severel innocent persons suffered.
Among those killed was Jules Clice
Carabee, a shoemaker, who happened
to be in the vicinity. James Bane, the
purser of the Engineer, was standing
on the levee, near his ship, when the
attack was made, and he received four
wounds, three in the head and another
in the arm. He was fired upon by
several men who aimed over the heads
of three policemen who were kneeling
behind some freight just on the edge
of the wharf. His wounds may prove
fatal.
As near as can be dated, the shoot¬
ing occurred a few minutes after 7
o’clock. There was a dense fog pre¬
vailing and this afforded the white
men an excellent chance to do their
bloody work, At the time there were
only six policeman on the scene, and
there were no arrests effected, as the
police were as badly frightened as the
negroes. The attackers were composed
of two parties. A large number of
men appeared at the corner of Du¬
maine street, and equally as large a
mob came from the corner at St. Ann
street.
Resulted from Labor Troubles.
The levee riots resulted from an old
quarrel over the loading of cotton ves¬
sels. The business has in the past
been monopolized by the white crew,
who screw or load the cotton bales in¬
to the holds of vessels. They consti¬
tute one of the strongest labor unions
,'r> fiia nonntrv. They have an annual
income of $50,000, and have $160,000
in bonk. They have dictated terms on
the levee, commanding wages of $5 or
$6 a day for their men, although the
work is by no means arduous.
At the beginning of tho present
season, the white laborers, considering
that there was not enough business for
them and the negroes, concluded to
drive the latter from their work. The
ship agents, under orders from the
ship owners abroad, who are mainly
English, stuck to the negroes, and the
result has been a running warfare for
the past three months, in which a
number of levees were sacrificed and
some property destroyed. The war
l egan with incendiary fires, which de¬
stroyed the wharves of the West In¬
dian Steamship Company, with $250,
000 loss; the wharves of the Texas and
Pacific, with 25,000 bales of cotton;
loss $500,000. ineffective,
These measures being
various riots followed directed against
the negroes, mobs of white men raid¬
ing the vessels in port and put¬
ting out the negroes working at them.
Seeing defeat still threatening them,
riots were decided on in order to
bring the matter to a crisis, which has
very thoroughly been done.
To Punish the Rioters.
As soon as the details of the trouble
were received, steps were taken to re¬
assert the authority of the law and
punish the riotert. The ootton ex¬
change, the board of trade, produce
exchange, maritime association, sugar
and rice exchange, fruit exchange,
young men’s business league, mechan¬
ics, dealers and lumbermen’s exchange,
the clearing house, the bureau of
freight and transportation and the
wholesale grocers’ association at onoe
held called meetings and appointed
delegates to a conference to consider
the situation and decide upon what ac¬
tion should be taken, tlie universal
sentiment being that great vigor was
needed. Governor Foster was at once
telegraphed, and he left Baton Rouge
on the earliest train. He reached New
Orleans at 6 p. m., and agreed to meet
a delegation from the joint conference
committee of the exchanges.
British Consul Takes It Up.
In the meanwhile, in anticipation of
more trouble, the militia was ordered
to be in readiness to be called out at a
moment’s notice. The firing on the
British steamer Engineer and Niagara
and the fatal shooting of the purser of
the former vessel, was brought to the
attention of the British consul, and
he, as well as the British ship agents
in New Orleans telegraphed to the
British ambassador, notifying him of
the outrage and calling on him for
protection to the lives and property
of British subjects in tho city. The
riot was also called to tho attention of
the grand jury by Judge Moise, of the
criminal district court, and it began an
investigation, particularly in regard to
the failure of the authorities and the po¬
lice to preserve order, suppress tho
riot and arrest the rioters. Mayor
Fitzpatrick, Chief of Police Jouruee
and others were summoned before tho
grand jury and testified. The general
disposition is to lay tho blame for the
loss of life on the mayor, who was
warned of the probability of trouble,
but refused to take action. Nor is
the governor held blameless, us the
present troubles have existed for four
months, and no attempt has been made
in all that time to suppress them.
The Governor In Conference.
The conference between the gover¬
nor and representatives of commercial
bodies lasted till midnight. The gov¬
ernor stated to a reporter that the
whole situation had been carefully
considered. He will remain in tho
city as long as necessary, personally in
charge of affairs. He said the only
definite plan he would pursue would be
the maintenance of law and order, and
that it must and shall be maintained at
all hazards. Vigorous and effective
measures will be put into operatiou for
this pursose. He is assured of the
hearty eo-operation of all good citi¬
zens. In the meantime he issued a
proclamation calling the militia out to
preserve order.
Appealed to Sir Julian.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
ambassador at Washington, has received
a telegram from tho British consul at
New Orleans, informing him of the
shooting, daring the riot, of Purser
Bain, of tho British steamer, Engin¬
eer. The consul added in his telegram
that tho city was in a terrible state of
excitement and the men of the Engin¬
eer were fearful that they might be
attacked. He, therefore, earnestly re¬
quested that some action be taken to
insure their safety. Speaking of the
matter, Sir Julian said:
“You know, the city of New Orleans
is very much pertulbed just now, bu
the governor of the state, I am ast
sured, is able to quell the disturbance.
As soon as I received the telegram
from Consul St. John, I turned the
matter over to the secretary of state,
and he informed me that he would
communicate with the governor of
Louisiana, and that the matter may be
investigated.”
London News on the Riot.
The London Daily News, comment¬
ing on the race riot in New Orleans,
says: being lynch¬
“The negroes are now
ed in bulk in New Orleans. If it were
not for the looks of things, they might
as well return to their ancestral seats
in Dahomey. New Orleans is a more
respectable address than Dahomey,
but the citizens of the two localities
are much the same.”
EVANS LOSING VOTES.
The Investigating Committee Reduc
in His Majority for Governor.
A Nashville special says: Hon. Thos.
R. Myers, of counsel for Governor Tur¬
ney, hau returned from East Tennessee,
where ne has been working with one
of the subcommittees investigating the
governor’s election. He says that in
the counties already investigated in
that section Evans’ net loss will be
6,000 votes, and four of the worst
counties—Roane, Morgan, Campbell
and Scott—are yet to be investigated.
He says that the Houk-Gibson race
in the second district was responsible
for much crookedness, as the judges
administered the poll tax law loosely, by
being influenced in their decisions
the interests of the candidates they
favored. In the counties investigated
by Mr. Caldwell's committee, Mr. Ev¬
an’s net loss will be approximately as
follows: Cocke, 240; Hamblen, 340;
Granger, 440; Union, 700; Claiborne,
800; Knox, 100.
NO. 11.
THE INCOME LEVY.
OLNEY PLEADS ITS CONSTITU¬
TIONALITY.
Tlie Matter Being Argued Before the
U. 8. Supreme Court.
The proceedings in the inoome tax
cases in the supreme court at Wash¬
ington Tuesday Attorney opened with argu¬
ment by General Olney on
behalf of the government for the va¬
lidity of the tax.
The oourt room inside the bar was
crowded when the oourt came in at
noon, and thero was no timo when the
limited capaoity of the room was suffi¬
cient to accommodate the audience.
Mr. Olney began by saying that the
chief interest of the government in the
present litigation was limited to the
constitutional questions which the
several plaintiffs allege to be involved.
Whether they were really involved he
would not attempt to determine.
An examination of the plaintiffs’
bills and briefB and arguments seemed
to him to show that many of the al¬
leged objections to the validity of the
income tax are simply perfuuotory in
character.
“They wro taken pro forma,” ho
said, “by way of precaution, because
of the possibility of a point develop¬
ing in some unexpected connection—
and just as good equity pleadc be
his knowledge of his case of the perti¬
nent remedios evor so thorough, never
fails to wind up with the general
prayer for other and further reliof.
“No time need be spent in disouss
ing the averments that the incomo tax
law is an invasion of vested rights or
takes property without due process of
law. Those propositions are pure
generalities, and if there is anything
in them, it is bocauso they compre¬
hend others which are the only real
subjects of probable discussion.
“Again, suppose it is to be true that
the income tax law undertakes to as¬
certain the incomes of citizons by
methods which are not only disagree¬
able, but arc infringements of person¬
al rights. The consequence is not that
the law is void, but that the hotly de¬
nounced inquisitorial methods cannot
be resorted to.
“The like considerations apply to
the question that the law is to apply
to the taxing of the agencies and in¬
strumentalities of these several states.
It is not yet definitely adjudicated
and is by no means to be admitted
that the incomo of the state and mu¬
nicipal securities is not taxable by the
United States when assessed as part of
the total inoome of the owners under
a law assessing incomes generally and
not discriminating against such securi¬
ties, and others of the like character.
“But suppose the contrary, the re¬
sult is not that tho law is bad in toto,
but that it is bad only as to the in¬
come of state and municipal securities.
“If I am right in these observa¬
tions,” he continued, “the constitu¬
tional contention of the plaintiffs sim¬
mers down to two points, Ono is that
an income tax is a direct tax and must
be imposed according to the rule of
apportionment and the other is based
upon the alleged violation of the con¬
stitution with regard to uniformity. ”
He doclarod that whether an income
tax is what the constitution describes
as a “direct” tax, is a question as com¬
pletely concluded by repeated adjuca
tions as any question can be. It is
not a direct tax within tho meaning of
the constitution unless five concurring
judgments of this court have all been
erroneous.”
Speaking on another point raised by
appellants, he said no land tax is aim¬
ed at or attempted land by the statute—
there is no lien on for payment—
and the whole scope and tenor of tho
statute shows the contemplated sub¬
ject of taxation to be nothing else.
Mr. O'ney devoted considerable time
to the meaning of the word “uniform”
as applied to the collection of imposts,
excises, etc., declaring that the word
had a territorial application and no
other.
The power to tax, he said, is for
practical use and is necessarily to be
adapted to the practical conditions of
human life. These are never the same
for any two persons, and as applied to
any community, however small, are in¬
finitely diversified. Regard being
paid to them, nothing is more evident,
nothing has oftener declared by courts
and jurists than that absolute equality
of taxation is impossible, as is charac¬
terized in an opinion of this court, on¬
ly a “baseless dream.”
THE BOOKKEEPER SKIPPED.
And a Firm of Soap Makers are Out
825 , 000 .
For more than seventeen years
Charles A. Sturges was head book¬
keeper and cashier for Froetor A Gam¬
ble, soap manufacturers, at Chicago.
He is now a defaulter and fugitive from
justice. The exact amount of his de¬
falcation will not be given out by the
firm whose money he took, but it is
said the figures will not fall short of
$25, OOP.
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a hab feels relieved when you cal 1
his sin prevar cition.