Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 20 February 1880 — Page 2

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SEAMAN, LEWIS & CO, PtnuBtitM Publication Office, 5014 Ohio Street, corner Fifth. Votmrai .to. a.

Entered at the Poet OAee at Terre Haute, Indiana, aa Becood-cla»j» puttier. Jc. i.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY SO, I88O.

'THE DAILY NEWS is printed every day Afternoon, and delivered by carriers throughout the city at 10 cents per week—collections made weekly. By mail {postage paid by the Publisher) one m&nth 46 cents three months $135 six months $2,50 one year 5.00.— MaU *ubscriptio7i8 in advance.

AN application has been filed at Department headquarters, this city, for the charter for a Post of the Grand Army at Logansport. The application is signed by over 100 old veterans. The new Post will be instituted next Friday evening, February 26.

WHIN Senator Voorhees concludes his Exodus investigation he will take up the thread of his argument where he left off and proceed to demonstrate that resumption is a failure.—Express.

Did Mr. Voorhees ever have at any time an argument to "take up the thread of"? /'Word*, words, words, my lord."

IN the teBtimony of Anson M: Sperry, genera] agent of the branches of the Freedmen's Bank, before the Senate Committee, which will be found on first page, he says "I have never known the Bank to sustain a loss through the dishonesty ot the colored men in charge of any of the branches/' This speaks volumes for the "nigger" and affords a lesson in honesty that many white men could .study with profit to their fellow citizens.

THE Terre Haute & Logansport RR. will run a special train to Crawfordsville on Wednesday, February 85, for the accommodation of the delegates and others desiring to attend the Eighth District Republican Congressional convention. Halffare rates will be charged—one fare the round trip. The DAILY NEWS would remark that Crawfordsville is a good place to go to, on any occasion, and wc know the Republicans up there will welcome cordially all who attend the convention.

JAMKH LKNNO^, whose death was announced in the DAILY NKWS yesterday, was one of New York city's most public spirited and liberal citizens. His benefactions to the Presbyterian hospitals, the Presbyterian Home for Aged Women, the Lennox library and the Phillips Memorial church, represents more than $2,000,000. Ho attended Dr. Paxton's Presbyterian church, at Fifth avenue and Twelfth street, and was one of its largest and most solid pillars. In person he was a quiet, unassuming gentleman, of medium height, more for the company of book and art treasures than of the society of his follows.

TIIK following extract from the census law will prove of interest. The penalties of obstructing the census takers, who begin their labors on the first Monday in June, arc severe. The law says:

AU persons above the age of twenty-one years who shall refuse to furnish the in-, formation required by the Supervisor of Enumeration shall .forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding $100. to be recovered in an action of debt. Presidents, directors, or other officials of private corporations who refuse to furnish information required of thom are made liable to a penalty not to exceed $10,000.

Only two weeks are. allowed for the completion of the census. The compensation for the enumerators is as follows: Two cents for each living inhabitant: two cents for each death reported: ten cents for each farm fifteen cents for each manufactory, which is to be in full for all services, and! no mileage or traveling expenses. The subdivision assigned to each enumerator must not exceed 4,000 inhabitants*

THE following appears in the Express of this morning. The DAILY NEAVS cheerfully compiles with a request to copy, and would ask every Republican who reads to try and be present. The suggestion of 8 o'clock as the hour of meeting should be adopted, for the reason stated.

The General Bcptibllean CInb. The resolution adopted at the First Ward meeting on Wednesday evening calling for a mass meeting of ail the Re-

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tfbllcans of the city and town&iip, next evening for the purpose of organiiing a General Republican Club for the city and Harrison township, was certainly a verc wise and commendable move, and it is hoped that it .will be thoroughly advertised, and that every Republican and every other dtbten, regardless of former political affiliations, who desire to become members of the Club to advance the interest* of the good old Republican cause, will be present to-morrow evening. *'Xet the Central Committee of the township. or others having the matter in charge, give thorough notice of the meetins through the papers and hand-bills.

The Young Mens Republican Club Is doing noble work so is also the Colored Club, and this general club, embracing all ages, will in no war interfere with the dub# already organized, but will be a support and encouragement to them.

The meeting should be held at 8 o'clock so as to give business and laboring men time to arrange their Saturday evening affairs.

The meeting will be held in the oung Men's club room, on Main street, between Sixth and Seventh streets.

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THE following note was sent to the office of the DAILY NJSWS this morning. The initials will be recognized ,by many. Coming, as it does* from the oldest Terre Haute editor, with one exception, and a man who has honored the Supreme Bench of Indiana., it is appreciated by him to whom it is addressed: Editor Daily

When I read your neat, bright and sprightly paper, and took the matter into thoughtful consideration, I said to mjrself: It will take good Seaman to run this craft. 8. B. G.

AT the Parke county Republican convention last Saturday, the convention, by unanimous vote, instructed for Gen Hunter for Governor. The delegates to the State convention were also instructed to cast first ballot for Hon A. D. Thomas, of Montgomery county, for nomination as Judge of Supreme Court.

WHAT has become of the Covington Journal? We haven't seen it for three weeks?—Attiea Ledger.

The original "Covington Journal" was discontinued in March, 1870, by the editor of the DAILY NEWS. Didn't know the paper had been revived.

The Modern Xewttpaper. New York Herald.

"In a Christian land," said the Rev. R. Hcwton at Anthon Memorial church last evening, "the church is nominally within reach or all but how few do come under its ministrations as compared with the universal throng who read the papers, and this power of the press is unique in that it is the least affected by criticism. While the press is the censor of all other efforts and persons and things, It must act as its own judge. There is a sort of mutual eriticisims in the sections of the press, but is not always the ideal of calm, careful judgment. Remember what an American village was before the railroad brought the newspapers to it with each succeeding morning—how the narrowness of views has been driven out—and you can see how newspapers minister to the education of the people. The grandest popularization of science has been-through the pages of the daily press. Our democratic surroundings are such that every question of philanthropy, every question of concern to every man comes in some way to turn on politics, and in the press these questions are met. It is a perpetual town meeting. It is not the speeches of the congressmen—however much they may be spread by a free mail—but the constant dropping of the press which is influencing the popular mind. Our land has passed through a critical period, and it is to the press of the East that we can adjudge the saving of the national honor and credit. Civil service reform was the cry of demagogues until the press laid bare the prostitution which the name had suffered.

As a Christian it is the duty of every young man present to interest himself in polities, and you will find no better guide than the newspapers. In asocial way the press is fully as effective. It is a constant preacher, a pulpit of great power filled with a throng of orators spouting in one continuous tone. It is eyes for all, and hands and feet for all. In the middle ages the function of the priesthood was to keep its eye on every man, woman and child. The confessional gave this power but this duty is to-day that of the press. In it we have an influence more penetrating. It the light of the full noon-day sun on every bit of scandal. No corrupting'secresy can escape it. We are living in glass-houses to-day. in the full glare of publicity which has so often been styled the true citadel of power. The press is the people's great Court where dvery one is cited great and small, and it is impossible to escape the summons. What a mirror of life it is and this alone is a lessou of tremendous import. Read the morning sheets carefully, and see between the lines the most powerful sermons preached in utter unconsciousness by the reporters, who tell the story as they see it before them. Every interview is an exposure of the inner life of a fellow-being from which we may get a life* lesson. Only this week the papers told the sad story*of a young girl. You heard the story "from her lips as she lay dying before the reporters. Did not that terrible story of misery and suffering cut to the quick? Rut the press has it flaws as the pulpit has, and the evils of the press grow out of its good, as good exaggerated becomes an evil. It is an evil when we take the mental stimulus and suggestiveness of the newspaper for the more sinewy culture of hard study. 1 reoice to see a laboring man read lus paper, like to see the ubiquitous press, but I "want every one of vou to make of something a mastery and to it bend the mind.

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Fair Rl#y for the Indian. Dctro(t News. .... The most doleful and sympathetic apeals for the poor Indian comes to-day. om those communities. which were, then'iselves the most cruel and merciless" to the .red man when they had to deal with him. From no place do we hear so much verbal indignation at the Indian wrongs, and ^o much mushy sympathy for his sad fate, as from Massachusetts, which has been careful not to leave alive Indian on her soil whose early Indian policy is celebrated in her literature as a classic man hunt where Miles Standish, who was to her what the cotemporary miners are to Colorado, went out from day to day with his mailed army of a dozen warriors, from whose armor the petty missiles of the poor Indians glanced harmless, and slaughtered the poor savas we would slaughter partridge— "ving all the glory to toe Lord God of

lost*, in whose nostrils the pious Puritans believed the blood of the pagan was a sweet perfume. There's nothing like doing what murder comes to your band, for God's sake.

Tluey Apply by Hundred*. Fraukfort Crescent, 18th.

While interviewing Hon. I. N. Davis, a reporter of the Crescent was informed that MR Davis ha* not yet received his commission hence, he was making no appointments of enumerators of the census. Applicants names come In by the hundred, each is filed away for future reference, but as yet no appointment has been made further than to give to some applicants friendly assurance^.

IK CCIAAJP MEXICO.

Letter flrMu L^ §cvre|i,«f the WWMI, The DAILT NKWS copies the following letter from the State Normal News for F$brpaiy:

MSSSBS EDITORS: In" my short trip thrqogh oui Southern States, and across the Qall to Cuba and Mexico, I saw more new things, got more new ideas, and confirmed or Corrected more old ones, .than ever before in so short a time. I found, in western Kentucky and Tennessee, in central Alabama and Mississippi, and in Southern Louisiana, iarge areas of poor and waste land. In Louisiana it was marshy and swampy, but in the other states the soil was a peculiar mixture of sand and clay, usually colored red with iron. This soil is easily acted upon by water, and soon after the land is cleared, it begin^ to wash away, and the fields are traversed by deep gulleys which ruin them for cultivation. In several instances 1 saw fields that had been ditched and terraced to prevent this washing. In the valleyB of the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers there was a fine soil, and the country had a prosperous look, but in most parts the farms, fences, houses, mules, hogs, horses, cattle and people all gave evidence. of the poverty of the soil. So, in Cuba and in Mexico, I found a larger proportion of poor waste land than in Indiana, and more than I expected. The climate was much as I expected, warm days, cool night#, northeast winds and dry winters. In the matter of the vegetation there was some disappointment the forests were not so dense, and did not differ in appearance from ours as much as I supposed they did. There are said to be 27 species of palms in Cuba, while in Mexico 1 saw none. In Cuba and in Mexico there are many, kinds of wood valuable for their beauty, strength and durability. The most beautiful view I saw in Cuba was a tract of country 15 or 20 miles in extent, covered with growing sugar-cane, and thickly studded with the graceful cocoanut palm, the whole fading away into a back ground of thickly wooded mountains. In Mexico there is some grand mountain scenery, but nothing that quite equals the view from Denver, Colorado looking westward. The railway from Vera Cruz to Mexico is quite a wonderful piece of engineering work. It is very crooked and very steep for many m.-les'the grade is one foot in twenty-live and the curves are very sharp. Our ordinary engines could not pull themselves over the road. Special engines of an English patent are used. A ride of eigthty miles on the cow-catcher, through some of the wildest and most nigged parts of thfe route helped me to realize something of man's power over nature. In the part of Cuba I visited the cultivation of the sugar cane was the chief industry in other parts tobacco and coffee are cultivated. Jn Mexico, on the coast lands, coffee and bananas were cultivated, with some sugar-cane and tobacco on the higher lands, corn and barley were grown, and on the poorer soils the agave, a kind of cactus, is cultivated. From the agave an intoxicating drink is made, one plant furnishing as much as 1000 pounds of juice in six mouths.— From the leaves of this cactus a very strong fibre is obtained, which supplies the place of hemp and flax.

The wild animals of Cuba and Mexico are not numerous. The domestic animals are similar to ours, but less varied—better in Cuba than in Mexico. Found many birds in Cuba that spend their summers with us. The native Cuban birds, are as a rule, no more beautiful than those common with ua. The birds of Mexico, however, are both numerous and beautiful. Saw more beautiful plants in Cuba than in Mexico. Found a few very beautiful ferns. The markets of* Cuba and Mexico were very interesting. More than a hundred different kinds of things for. sale, most of them new tome and I-was especially interested in the great number of queer and bewutifal -things exhibited for sale in the fish market.

The people we Spaniards, Negroes and Chinamen in Cuba in Mexico, Spaniards and Indians. All speak Spanish but few read or write it.:A.ll are Roman Catholics. The majority of them are cruel, treacherous and lazy. Their utensils are usually of the most primitive kind. Wooden plows, awkward axes, clumsy carts, no farm machinery, no mills for grinding grain and few good mads. The governments are oppressive for those who submit to them, and powerless to punish those who defy them. Property is not safe a low estimate is set upon human life gambling is carried on openly lotteries are legalised. and patronized very hugely everything indicating a low grade of moral and intellectual culture*

The first thing that come® to me when 1 think of my trip is a feeling of thankfulness that I was bom aa American and not a Spaniard, a Cuban nor a Mexican, and that being horn an American, I was bom north of the Ohio rim rather than swath of it J. T. Scowuu

Atwat Xeetfles. Beading Times.

A reporter of this paper has visited the needle factory on "Pigeon creek," which empties into the Schuylkill near Lawrenceville, Pa. He says:

This factory Is the only one of the kind in this country. It is not a factory for manufacturing the ordinary sewing needle, but knitting needles of nearly 500 different kinds. They are used in this country at the different mills, for the manufacture of stockings,- drawers, shirts, caps, shawls of all kinds ana sizes, and many other articles of a knitted character.

The manufacturing department is on the second floor, and but one large room, about 49 by 80 feet is occupied for this purpose. In this room the different machines and benches for the workmen are arranged—mostly along the southern and western sides. "The machines are peculiar in construction, and an explanation would not prve sufficiently satisfactory to render the manufacturing process intelligible. One machine can be so arranged as to cut many different kinds of needles, though not at one time, each kind requiring a certain arrangement. Some needles pass through a number of machines and require great care to finish them. Others are very simple, being cut or stamped by a single machine. The wire from which they are manufactured is made in England and imported. It is steel, and rather soft in nature. That manufactured in this country will not answer the purpose.

In the process of manufacturing the needle, the steel wire is first cut into the required length by.one of tne machines, which, by the way, is quite simple in construction. It is composed of a stout steel blade, fastened to an iron lever, to be worked by the hand', opposite which there is an iron" gauge, capable of being slid to to regulate the intervening distance or the length of the needle and these are fastened upon an iron plane or base in which there is an opening below the blade for dropping the cut wires into a movable receiver underneath. The whole—excepting the receiver—is placed upon a small wooden table about three feet high. Then the cut wires are taken to the different machines, according to the kind ane nature of the needh\ The wires for one kind of needle are flattened towards one end, which is bent like a hook, and eyes are sawed into the flattened part by a very small circular saw, after which a very small is punched through the sides for the purpose of fastening a Very small piece of wire at one end, so "that the other is loose and capable of being easily worked to and trom the hooked end of the needle.

After the needles are made into the required shapes, they are then passed tlirough a peculiar process of annealing. An iron cylindrical cup, about three inches in diameter and six inches in length, is dropped, and likewise heated lo a certain high temperature, when the needles, about 100 of a kind at a a time, depending upou the size and kind, are dropped into the opening of the smaller and heated to a certain temperature. Then they are carefully removed to a small iron pan and shaken moderately by hand, so that they do not lose their shape or become united, until they have cooled off sufficiently, when they are dropped into a vessel containing sperm oil. And after remaining in this a while, they are taken out, placed in sawdust, deposited in a small oven over the furnace, and baked for a day or so. From the oven they are removed into a tight, wooden hexagonal box, which is about two feet in diameter and turned by water power, in which they are polished by friction. In the box, besides the needles—a large number being placed in generally—there are small stones dust ana oil. From this, after having been polished,

curved, others still hooked, with very many variations in shape and size. Some are worked alone in manufacturing goods, others in sets of two or more. From 2,000 to 12,000 needles are manufactured in a week, the number depending upon the kind and the order for them, and in a year about. 400,000—this number including every kind. They arc manufactured at various prices, depending upon the kind, some at less than a cent apiece, others at a cent, three and five cents apiece and upwards. Several hundred dollars' worth can easily be carried in a coat pocket. Orders from different parts of this country are filled and forwarded by express.

The factory gives employment to eight persons—the"proprietor, a superintendent, and six young men under twenty-one years of age. The young men are apprentices. They arc required to serve an apprenticeship of five, seven, and more years before they can become proficient in this peculiar branch of industry. Their wages are comparatively small.

A Self-Made .Han, Terre Ilaute Expre**, !Wth.

LeibuCl Moss, D. D„ President of the State University at Bloomington, was in the city last night and leaves this mornlug for Bvansville, where he delivers a lecture this evening. He will probably return cm Saturday afternoon and pass next Sabbr.ih in this city. Dr Moss worked at the printer's case with the writer of this in the days of "lang syne." He was a good typographical workman £ave himself a thorough education from his earnings was for years.a prominent minister of the Baptist church and able writer for the religious press, and is now one of the best educators in the west. His career forms an excellent example for young men.

"The Ex-0oldter Element." Indianapolis Corregp. Cin. Enquirer. Party organization is being rapidly perfected and in better shape than ever before. Both sides are depending somewhat on the census officials for a poll of the State, but the Republicans are making one now and giving special attention to the ex-soldier element.. Colonel New wants to have nfs* own statistics-and then compare them with, the others.

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Congress proposes to investigate the United States courts. If the Cnited States courts had the'power to investigate Congress we might have some rich disclosures. There is nothing in this country that more needs Investigating. ^-^-Subscription to the DAILY HKWI only 10 cents per week.

THE TRACK.

Fastest Time Made In Harness sua* I)M« |gp (Mile. ,'••• Kew York Star.

One mile—3:13& Buffalo, N. Y., August 3,1878 fey Rarus a match to beat Goldsmith Maid's 2:14, the then fastest on record. Two miles—4:50W made by Flora Temple at Fashion Course, Long Island, August 15, 1859. Three miles—• made by Huntress^at Prospect Park on September »8,1873. Four miles—11:06 made by Trustee on the Union Race Course, Long Island, June 18,1849. Five miles—13:00 made by Lady Mack at San Francisco, Cal., on April 8, 1874. Ten miles—27:28J^ made by Controller at San Francisco, Cal.. November 38, 1878. Twelve miles—88:00 ^made by Top Gallant at Philadelphia, July 34, 1880. Fifteen miles—47:90 made by Girda at San Francisco. August 8, 1874. Twenty miles— 58:25 by Captain McGowan, at Riverside Race Course, Boston, Mass.. 1865. Fifty miles—3h. 53m. 40^s.,' by Ariel. The driver weighed eighty pounds, and the feat was accomplished on the Albany Race Course, Albany, N. Y., October, 1848. One hundred miles—8h. 55m. 58s., by Conqueror, at the Union Race Course, Long Island, on November 13, 1868. Fastest first heat—3:14^ by Rarus. at Cleveland. 'on July 87, 1878. Fastest second heat— 2:13J£ made by Rarus, at Hartford, on August 23, 1878. Fastest third heat— 3:18& made by Raru9, on August 33,1878, at Hartford, Conn. Fastest fourth heat on record—2:183$ made by Rarus, at Buffalo, on August 8, 1878*. Fastest fifth heat—2:17^ made by Smuggler, at Cleveland, Ohio, July 87, 1878. Fastest sixth heat—2:19^, made by Goldsmith Maid at Hartford, Conn., August 31, 1876. Fastest seventh heat—2:323$' by Sam Purdy, made at Hartford, Conn., August 31,1876. Fastest eighth heat—8:193^'. made by Croxie at Buffalo, N. Y., August 2, 1878. Fastest two consecutive heats—8:18^'. 2:1834 made by Rarus (second and third heats), at Hartford, Coun., August 1878. Fastest three consecutive heats2:15, 2:18£, 2:18.^4' first, second and third heats made by Rarus at Hartford, Conn., on August 23, 1878. This was classed one of the greatest trotting performances of the past season, but does not excel Hopeful's splendid performance at Chicago on October 12, 1878 when he trotted to a wagon three heats in 2:16J^, 2:17, 9:17. the fastest four consecutive heats on record are 2:10^4. 2:173d. 3:18, 3:l9j&, made by Goldsmith Maid at Hartford, Conn., August 31, 1876. The best threeheat race on record is 2:16, 2:153a, 3:15 by Goldsmith Maid, made at Buffalo, 2sT. Y., on August 8, 187(5. The best four-heat race on recot|l is credited to Lulu. 2:15)4, 2:16J£, 2:15)^, iit Rochester. N. Y., August 14. 1875.. (joldsmith Maid won first heat. The best five-lieat racei on record, was accomplished by the stallion Smuggler in 2:15H\ 2:1734, 2:1634, 3:1#4, 2:17^, at Cleveland, Ohio, July 26, 1876. Gobismith Maid won first and second heats. The best six-heat race—2:15 W, 3:17,2:16^, 2:1734. 2:18, 2:18%. by Goldsmith Maid. Smuggler won first and second heats, and made the third a dead heat between himself and the Maid. The best seven-heat, race—2:24^, 2:28}$, 2^,2:22,2:22.2 ^8^, made by Powers at Rochester, N. Y., August ft and 10, 1878. John won the first heat, Bauquo second, May Queen third, and Adelaide the fourth. The best eightheat race on record—2:22, 2:223^, 2:28j^, 2:24%, 2:24, 2:38, 2:25, made by Jersey Boy. W'olford won the first heat, Lady Voorhees the third, Boleman the fourth, Nancy Hacketl the fifth and sixth, and Jersey Boy the second, seventh and eighth.

To wagon—one mile—2:16% made by Hopeful at Chicago, 111., on October 12, 1878. Fastest second heat—2:17 by Hopeful, same place. Fastest third heat—2:17 by Hopeful, same lime and place. Fastest three consecutive heats—2:16^,2:17, 2:17 made by Hopeful at Chicago, Qctober 13, 1878. Two miles, 4:563^ made by Dexter at the Fashion Course, L: I. October 27, 1878. General Butler made the same record on June 16, 1868. Three miles—8.-03 by Kemble Jackson on June 1, 1868. Four miles—10 MJ4' made by Longfellow (not the famous running horse) at California, December 81, 1869. Five miles—18:48K: made by Little Mac, on* October 29, 1868, at California. Twenty miles—58:57 by Controller, at San Francisco, April 20,1878. Twenty miles—59:28 by John Stewart., at Fashion Course, L.I., September 22, 1868. Fifty miles—8h 59m 4s by Spangler (driver wesghing 400pounds), at Lnion Course, L. 1., October 15. 1866.

The following is the fastest time on record made by troUing horses under saddle: -y One mile—215% made by Great Eastern, at Fleetwood Park, New York. September 37, 1877. Two miles—5:00% bv Dexter at Fashion Course, Long Island, October, 1865. Three miles—7 made by Dutchman, at Beacon Course, Hoboken, New Jersey, August 1, 1839. Four miles—10:51 by Dutchman, at Hoboken, May 7, 1886. Ten miles—27:56# by Steel Gray, at Yorkshire. England, April 14. 1875.

The best one mile time on rccord for a team to harness is 2:27% made by Jessie Wales and Darkness at Cranston, Rhode Island, June 23, 1870. Both W. H. Van derbilt and Mr Robert Bonner own double teams that are capable, bv their records, of beating the time made Jessie Wales and Darkness by eight or nine seconds but private trials do not constitute a record. ,«

The fastest mile made by a stallion is 2:16k by Smuggler the fastest mile by a gelcfing, Rarus, 2:183$ the fastest mile ever made by a mare, 2:14, by Goldsmith Maid the fastest mile by a double team, made by Vanderbilt's Small Hopes and Lady Mac at Fleetwood Park (which is a slow track) on September 11, 1877 the fastest mile ever made by a yesrling, 2.50%, by Memento at Lexington, October 10, 1877, not a record the fastest two-year old record, 2:31, by So So at Lexington, October 7, 1877 the fastest record for a, tbree-year old, 2.28, Elaine, at Hartford, Conn., September 9, 1877 the best fouryear old old record. 2:24, by Elaine, at Hartford, Coun., on October 26, 1878 the

son it is expected that quite a number of the trotters will again lower their records, and noted turfmen claim that before two years there will be mam horses, which^n trot in 2:14. -t •-•Bright and newsy, cheap and cbeer ful. we will try to make the DAII.V NKWS.

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