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"THE CITY'S most exclusivé cornfield is located floor, had become a patient in her own hospitai—in | ~630—Cummings

‘only a few feet off Monurient Circle, My agent, |X. Spy, reports there's a flourishing stalk of corn, maybe a foot and a hall tall, growing on the lawn ‘of Christ church, It’s on the Meridian st. side, near © the alley. ... The mystery of thehaunting odor stirring the curiosity of persons in the vicinity of the 4200 block N. Meridian is solved—at least to my satisfaction. It seems to be slippery elm, First to supply the answer was Miss Alice Hawk, who acquired the knowledge from a guide during . & mountain trip several years ago. Several others verified the infore mation, including. Lt. Clinton Scott, home on leave from NeaA braska. . ., The George Miller item the other day produced results. The right George called the C. of C. and got the message from is old friend in the army who was seeking him. . Miller lives at 3930 Graceland. .., The Misses Verga Hylton and Gloria Groff and Mrs. Ruth Wilson went out to the Fairview Presbyterian church Tuesday evening to attend the marriage of Miss Mar~ garet Ann Poppenseaker to Ensign George R. Wat kins. As they approached the church, they saw a crowd standing around a fire plug. .Joining the crowd, they saw’ the object of the excitement, It was eight dimes tastefully arranged around the top of the plug. How they got there was a big mystery. ’ Might as well take them, suggested someone. “Oh, no,” protested someone else. “They've been here some time. They're probably a symbol, or something. Maybe it’s a ‘test of people’s honesty.” For all I know, the dimes may still be there.

Nurse Becomes Patient LLOYD CUMMINGS, water company employee, and Robert Hedges, roommates in B-628 at Methodist hospital, are neighborly souls. Learning that Miss Martha Waltz, assistant supervisor of nurses on the

ON ANY CLEAR NIGHT, a persistent watcher of the sky will see five or six “falling stars” an hour. But the nights of Friday through Sunday, Aug. 10-11, 11-12 and 12-13, promise a good display of celestial fireworks,

for that is when the annual shower of -Perseid meteors occurs: - Look in the northeast sky after midnight and you can see, seemingly radiating from the constellation of Perseus, from 50 to 100 flashing meteors an hour. The Perseid group of stars is just above the star Capella, one of the brighest in “the northeastern heavens. The “shooting stars” are not stars at all, but tiny bullets from space which burn up through friction after they enter the upper layers of the earth's atmosphere, ' } Some of the meteors that make the bright flashes across the sky are about the size .of a pea, others _are no ldrger than grains of sand. Meteors as a rule appear in a blaze of glory about 70 miles and disappear about 50 miles above the earth's surface, Meteor swarms have been found to move around the sun in elliptical orbits and many. have been proved to have been identical with the orbits of known comets. : The Perseid meteors follow in the orbit of Tuttle's comet of 1862, which is expected to return in 198% This comet is probably the last large fragment, just as the meteors are smaller debris of some super-comet.

A Necklace Around the Sun

THE PERSEID meteors form a gigantic necklace around the sun, extending to three billion miles in one direction, farther away than any planet except Pluto. On the other side of the sun they come within eighty million miles, closer than the earth. © Each August the earth plunges through it as its orbit cuts that of Perseus. ® : The meteors do not necessarily flash in the constellation after which -they are named, but you will find that by extending the bright track. of light backward you pass through the Perseids. In the same way that parallel railroad tracks seem to meet in the distance, so parallel meteor tracks seem to meet at some point in the sky called the radiant point, ~

Aviati AMERICAN AIRMEN get a thin grin out of OWTI'S recent bust in the article for. the information of the people of Russia about our prairie states— Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska. : Excerpts: “This region , . almost exclusively farmers , . . livestock raising in only the mountainous parts, Montana and Wyoming . . . industry almost non«~ existent, , , . raw materials and fabricated goods must be imported from other states . .. rich natural resources of region yet undeveloped . , , climate very dry . . . sometimes drought lasts 10 years.” This region yearly produces hundreds of millions -of bushels of wheat, 60 to 70 million pounds of butter, millions of hogs, millions of cattle, a million sheep, 10 to 14 million chickens. So much for the agricultural wealth of this desert. Now for the “nornexistent” industries: Plastics, cement, boiler factories, vast oil producing and refining facilities along with the rich’ mining, greatest natural gas fields in the world and great helium resources. And,all these resources are developed to maximum production in the war effort. .

Area Has Vast Production

I HAVE BEEN saving this choice industrial item. From the wheat fields of Kansas drose the Boeing B-29 plant—a colossus of air-power production—in 23 months and 2 days from the breaking of ground to the flight delivery of the first B-29. Late in 1944 this plant had’ delivered its thousandth B-29 and its 10,000th trainer. As a sample of the industrial magnitude of such a project remember that there is 10 miles of electrical wiring in a single B-20. In a. single year this B-29 brooder paid an electric power bill of $426,313, a natutral gas heating bill for one

HYDE PARK, Wednesday.—Over the radio ‘this

morning I heard the sad tales of the losses from floods in the western part of our state. I know that

Room-B and Hedges sent downtown

and had a friend bring out a big bouquet, “You can imagine Miss Waltz’ surprise. . . . The driver of a big concrete delivery truck made an embarrassing mistake yesterday. He was taking sothe fresh concréte to the rear part of the Hotel Lincoln where some remodeling is going on. Pulling up beside the Lincoln, on Kentucky ave, he saw a big excavation across the street. Ah, that must be where. they wanted the concrete, he thought. And, backing up, he dumped the concrete. Then he learned the excavation was one left by a light company repair crew. He“had to go back and get some more concrete for the hotel. ,.. The Indiana Real Estate Journal seems to have scooped me on an item. The Journal reports: “Only last week did we hear of County Clerk Jack Tilson's Hccident. He was crossing Delaware at Court st, when a meat truck backed into him knocking him to the pavement. As a result he is carrying many bruises. He told us he offered to

"SECOND SECTION :

By S. BURTON HEATH ’ NEA Staft Writer

(AMP GRANT, Ill.—“Give ‘me a French box car, That's solid comfort com-

settle witly the packing company for five hams five slabs of bacon, but ‘no go.” =

Steak's All Gone - -

SOMETIMES AN innocent little item in a news paper column can get things all stirred up. Not long ago I recounted a local quintet’s adventure in eatin’ at Eaton, O. On a business trip, they stopped in the They liked its eatin’, too—good steak, real butter and all the The item seemed innocent enough. But George M. Gahagan, the horse expert, relays the complaint of one of his cohorts, E. L. Churchill, over in Eaton. Mr. Churchill says the eatin’s not so good in Eaton, nowadays. As George describes it: “Within 24 hours after the item was published, Churchill telis me, a frenzied stampede, supposedly from the Indiana side of the line, descended on the demure Buckeye town. Within a brief time, not only was the civic orderliness of Eaton overturned; but the natives began Now there's no Very bad—especially since I didn’t get

Ohio town because they liked its name.

trimmings.

to experience ‘the pangs of hunger. more steak.” over there myself before that steak was all gone,

4 .’ » : By Science Service Although meteors are frequently referred to as “falling stars,” as many appear to move upward as

downward.

The most spectacular meteor showers are the -Perseids in August; be seen around Nov. 16; the Geminids, visible about Dec.’ 12, and the Oeionids, which present their fiery

the Leonids,

brightness around Oct. 9. ‘

When two observers a few miles apart record the same meteor, it seems to take a different path From a statement of the position of the observers, the two apparent paths and the apparent speed of the meteor, it is possible to calculate the meteor’s height, position and velocity in

across the heavens.

relation to the earth's surface.

No Interference by the Moon

AS THE MOON will be new only a few days before the shower, it will set early in the evening and will not interfere with your view of the meteors. Select a dark place away from city lights and enjoy. the.

meteors flashing across the heavens.

To. make observations of meteors that will be useful to science, no telescope is needed. Just count thé number of shooting stars you see during half-hour

intervals, beginning on the hour or half-hour.

Record the time of night and number seen, note your exact location and weather conditions and send your report to Dr. Charles P. Olivier, president of the American Meteor society, at its headquarters in the Flower observatory of the University of Pennsylvania

in Upper Darby, Pa.

The Perseid meteors have been observed practically every year for more than a century, and some records of them were made, though contemporary writers misunderstood their meaning and failed to realize]

their importance, as far back as 830 A. D.

If you stay up after midnight, you will be rewarded | by seeing about twice as many meteors as earlier in the evening. This is because, in the latter half of the night, we are riding on the front side of the earth 2s it moves along its obit and meet the meteors

ead-on.

Just as you can see more autos coming from the opposite direction than traveling in the same direc- | tion in which you are going, so you can see more meteors in the early morning hours, :

By Maj. Al Williams

winter month of $36,000, plus 20,000 gallons of fuel oil

and

which can best

pared to this.” That in a nutshell sums up G. 1. opinion of the old, hard, dirty, packed coaches in which 167 officers and 625 enlisted men travelled from Camp Kilmer, outside New Bruns wick, N.J., to Camp Grant, 85 miles beyond Chicago. An exasperating two-hour wait on a siding in Indiana, while seven de luxe passenger trains were given the right of way to Chicago, added nothing to the pleasures of the trip, ” ” » THERE WERE 18 cars — 15 coaches and three baggage-kitchen cars—as far as Pittsburgh. There 10 cars were detached to head toward St. Louis and our eight

On the average, there were 53 officers and men in each coach, from 10:30 Wednesday morning until shortly after 5:30 Thursday evening. " » » THE CARS'literally were filthy. Notwithstanding occasional polieing, they were littered . with discarded newspapers, cigaret and candy ‘wrappings and miscellany, Over everything lay a coating of black dirt, so thick that when you washed your hands—-provided you could get a turn at. the single toilet~ washroom in most cars—your hands were blackened again just by opening the toilet door to come out. The aisles had been swept before our contingent boarded the cars, and the paper and other trash had been scattered en route. That is just about inevitable on such a trip. Much grime had come through the windows, opened to get a breeze into thé cars that otherwise would have been unbearable. » o » EVEN when we first went aboard, the cars were. not clean, and the windows were actually dirty. The toilets were uninviting, and one was so clogged that it could not be flushed, though more than 50 men had to use it for 30 hours. From the moment we eased onto the main line of the Pennsylvania near New Brunswick, until we hit a siding near Ft. Wayne, our troop special—so far as speed was concerned—might have been a scheduled civilian limited in good standing. To that siding we were only four hours behind the running time of [the Pennsylvania's prize New York-to-Chicago Broadway Limited, ~ " » IT TOOK almost three hours to get from the siding to- Columbia City, 19 miles west of Ft. Wayne.

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By CHARLES T. HALLINAN United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, July 26.—The kalideo-

—along with a water bill of $26487 for 36 million SCopic career of Winston Spencer

gallons of water,

Pretty fair for an area of 10-year droughts and today with the counting non-existent industrial development. Ask Berlin and

Tokyo. They both know now.

Selling America short through ignorance of purpose is what leads foreign nations to misunderstand our great country and then make foolish . decisions After world war I the Germans freely admitted that their master plan had been based upon the belief that they could settle that whole show before we could even get started to build, equip and train The result .convinced them . that there had been some-

about it.

an army and navy of adequate proportions, thing Wrong with their dope on America. Nazis Erred Again

IN WORLD WAR II, depending solely upon a blitzkrieg type of warfare and preponderantly strong air power, they again thought they could sweep the skies and whip all the nations of Europe before we could get started. Hitler's snoopers must at one time or another have traveled through or over Kansas. There they must have noted the broad rolling fields. As a sample of what they did not see, and what eventually played such a vital role in putting the Nazi war machine out of order and winning the war for the U. S. A, was such vast industrial plants which produced the major

portion of. our B-29 bombers.

There is something dead wrong with the scouting system of Europe. The loss of two wars ought to prove that. The key that they have never found is that they look at the physical America of peacetime and never

| Churchill touches another climax of the votes ‘in Britain. Churchill has been in British public life for 46 years. He will remain in public life for some time to come — probably as long as he desires. This was assured, whatever the outcome of today's balloting. Churchill's career began in 1899 when he first ran for parliament as a conservative—and was defeated. Then the grandson of the seventh duke of Marlborough went off to South Africa as a war correspondent, engaged in a series of thrilling adventures. He came back to win his seat in commons the next year. 5 R&R IN HIS 46 years of publie life, Churchill has stood for parliament 16° times—mostly under banners of his own devising. He has run as a “Tory Democrat,” a “Unionist”—meaning that he opposed home rule for Ireland; a Free Trader, a Liberal, a coalition Liberal, an “Anti-Socialist,” a Consti+ tutionalist, a Conservative, and now a National Conservative. After abandoning the Conserva-

continued westward toward Chicago.

But the G.Is were reconciled when they saw the remains of a freight wreck through which we inched our way. The accident was a. day old, but cleaning up might well interfere with the most urgent train movements, We cleared the wreck. The engineer opened the throttle. We began to study time tables and running times. It was 120 miles to Chicago and another 85 to Camp Grant. Even allowing for the yard-shift in Chicago, we still could reach Grant for lunch, and many of the fellows could go through the “processing” routine and sleep at home that night for the first time in years, ; ” ” » A PRIVATE who had been very silent pulled out snapshots of the 18-month-old son he never had seen, studied them a while, and showed them to me. “Then the train stopped again. We were on a siding just west of Columbia City. Many of the boys got out and strolled the tracks. From eastward came a whistle— the boys scurried — and a westbound passenger train flashed by us toward Chicago behind two roaring locomotives. » » » THE TIME TABLE suggested it probably was the Golden Triangle which had passed New Brunswick half an hour before we started. That was all right. We were still holding our own with the de luxe trade. - The train crew stayed on the ground. Andther. express scooted

Men sleep in littered aisles

past toward Chicago. Undoubtedly

AN ARISTOCRAT WHO HAD TO FIGHT HIS

- Churchill: John Bull's Romantic Tory

tive party to join the Liberals, he reversed his tracks, He came back to the Conservatives. They gave the renegade a cool welcome—and kept him out of office for 10 years until 1939. But he wound up by becoming the leader of the Conservative party, ¥

THREE TIMES he tried unsuccessfully to found a party of his own which he wanted to call “the Center party.” It was designed to have no room for “wild men”’—either of right or left. - The party never was born. But many observers believed that this Churchillian party would have been the only one in which he really felt at home, 4 Despite his aristocratic lineage, Churchill fundamentally is a selfmade man. It is to this factor that many attribute his toughness, pugnacity—and his sense of humor.

top. . =» TO A DEGREE which few realize, who have read the classic Churchillian prose or heard the cadence of his oratory, Churchill is largely selfeducated, as well as self-made, He disliked fashionable Harrow school so violently that he never went on to Oxford or Cambridge,

‘lan extent impossible for any other

He had to fight his way up to the |

"| 1939 after 10 years in'the Wilderness

- cheerfulness with which they day- - dreamed about homecomings. That

fF jup the trains that were behind us.

G fhe Pennsylvania Limited, that left!

New York almost four hours after! we. started. Another whistle. This must be the Admiral. ; Then came the General. The boys stayed on the ground and along came the Liberty Limited, first section. It was followed by the second section, » . » THE NEXT train was the Pennsylvania’s pride, the Broadway Limited, that started more than six hours after us but caught up at that siding outside Columbia City, Ind. We still had to wait for the delayed Trail Blazer. For just under two hours, then, our G.I. Special, crowded with fighting men eager to get “processed,” paid, and started home to their families, idled out in the Indiana fields. And seven scheduled flyers roared past without so much as a toot of apology or pity. gy pcg CARI WE CLIMBED aboard. Every man knew now that it would be Friday before he could start home from Camp Grant. Officers and men alike realized

that there are not enough Pullman|something that ought to be brought

beds to go around, and they had lost out in the draw. They realized that there are more old coaches than new; that help is scarce and dirt accumulates fast. They understood that when a troop train starts with cars destined for six different camps, some delays are inevitable in breaking down the train at junction points.

. ¥ al » XI TALKED with and listened to these mén for 30 hours, from -Camp Kilmer to Camp Grant. And noth-

WAY TO THE TOP— °

although he did go to Britain's “West Point” at Sandhurst, ~ x There is little of the. “old school tie” ‘about Churchill. This, many believe, is why during the war he was able repeatedly to voice Britain’s national feeling, either humorously or seriously. He did this to

public figure in the country.

» » = HE HAD a flair for military action as a youngster. He entered the army in 1895, He served with Spanish forces in Cuba in 1895, in. India and Egypt in the late "90s, and then in the Boer war in South Africa. In world war I he was first lord of the admiralty for the first two years, He took an active part— some of his critics held too active a part—in planning operations. Later he was munitions, - war and air minister. . » w

IT WAS as first lord of the admiralty that he returned to office in

of non-recognition by the Baldwin and Chamberlain governments — who ignored his constant harping on the topic of Germany preparing for war. When the crisis of the German

try to analyze or understand the prodigious potential ities in the imagination, the vigor and determination in the heart of America. But when we hire people and pay them to tell the Russians about America, we certainly are contributing to the sad “business” of putting funny ideas into the heads of Europeans, thus

THE DOCTOR SAYS: You're Cooler If You Watch Diet, Sleep Well

tempting them to think funny things about us,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

meanwhile singing in unmusical fashion and as loudly as possible all the hymns I can remember from my

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.

ity to stand hot weather.

WE DIFFER greatly in our abil«

Some of us-like it, while others find it dificult to take and are always wishing for cooler days to

What to Do About the Heat

cooler parts of the day, .and rest during the midday. Young children and older persons should always rest after the noon hour as the tendency toward heat upsets is greater in the young and in the old.

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driye in. the west broke in the

If in addition the air is charged with extra moisture cooling is made more difficult. . : It is on such days that heat production in the body should be kept at as low a rate as possible To increase perspiration, drink an excessive amount of water.

Se “THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1945 TROOP TRAIN (An ‘Ace Reporter Rides in Filth With Returning

Luxury Trains

(First of two articles.) ¥

Heroes)

Whiz by G. |: Joe

ing got them down, 6r dimmed the

is, nothing until the two hours we

spent on a sidetrack watching seven|’

civilian expresses whiz past. The G. L's never did understand why we could not have kept going, at least to Chicago, without holding

AT CHICAGO our train split into

sections going to three different] .

cdmps, The largest unit, three cars, was for Grant. r At 11:35 a. m. in the Chicag yards, we were told that we must

wait for the 3:30 regular Illinois|

Central train to haul us to Rockford. Up to that time I had never, as soldier or reporter, seen such a quiet, well-behaved military contingent, . sd Before Chicago I saw only three bottles ‘of beer during the entire trip, and no evidence of anything stronger. ] Then word came of the four hour wait, which meant definitely that no I. could possibly go through “processing” and get his papers in time to start for home that night. » "= » THE ATMOSPHERE changed. There was a little grumbling. The men conceded that probably a locomotive could not be spared to haul three cars 85 miles, when there was a train going that way soon, but this was the last straw, ] So beer-appeared by the case and whisky by the bottle. Forbidden? Sure, and what would one harassed lieutenant do trying to stop the whisky from flowing in two cars while he was checking the occupants of a third? » » » THERE WAS no intoxication, no roughhouse, nothing to Qffend any purist except a prohibitionist. The men still would make anybody proud that they were American citizen soldiers. : The tragedy was in watching men who had cheerfully withstood great

jdiscomfort and disgusting filth, as|

they tried to drown their disappointment at another day's delay in seeing their loved ones.

THAT. CHANGE and its reason is

home to every railroader who is in position to decide: Whether civilians, riding - clean, air-conditioned, cross-country limited trains are to be glen the right of way.. Or whether weary G. I's in dirty, uncomfortable coach trains should be kept rolling toward the families they have not seen for months or years... The families they must leave again, in 30 days, to’ fight Japan in the Pacific. :

spring of 1840, Churchill took over the prime ministership. Another factor enters into Churchill's makeup in addition to the common touch achieved by yéars of struggle. : This is the aristocratic strain epitomized by his statement that “I did not become his majesty’s first minister to preside over the dissolution of the empire.” ¥ » ” % BUT HE is regarded as having his own special brand of “romantic Toryism,” symbolized by: “The king! The far-flung empire! The fighting forces!” In his long career Churchill has acquired a host of contradictions. He was vitriolic in his attacks on Russia for years and his attitude had not changed as late as the Russo-Finnish war. But the moment Germany attacked the Soviet, Churchill welcomed Russia whole-heartedly as an ally in the fight.

Soldier Wants to Stretch Points

DUNN, N. C, July 26 (U, PJ). —The Dunn Dispatch received the following advertisement from an unnamed Erwin, N. C. subscriber: “A young soldier with four and a. half years of duty would like to meet a young widow with three children.’ “Object: .85 points!”

[> HANNAH ¢

Guesses Vary On Group With

Steady Incomes By FRED W. PERKINS

ican industry could apply the principle of guaranteed wages or steady work to its employees. ” Plans for the industry, whic may last a year or more, wert unveiled in a press conferenc: chairmaned by Eric A. Johnston president of the U, S, Chambe of Commerce,

» - ” THE HISTORY of the presen movement - for wage guarantee goes back to general demanc filed in early 1944 by the C. I. ( United Steel Workers. The W: Labor Board referred this pa: ticular item to the President’ The committee now has selec’ ed two co-chairmen of prepar tory and research work. One w have charge of “consultativ: work, mainly conferences betwer leaders of labor and manageme) He is Arthur 8. Meyer of N York, who until 1936 was in t chain-store business, and sir then has been giving most of | time to settlement of industr The other co-chairman, deali ~ with research into what has be done toward was and work, and what the fut: possibilities are, is Murray La mer. He is chairman of the Ra way Retirement Board.

workers now have assurance annual incomes came up wh: Mr, Meyer, describing the 1 plans now in operation for w: earners, estimated the number benefitted individuals at or. 50,000. = » » TED SILVEY, of the C. I. said that the figure ought to i. clude every worker who has a rr © sonable assurance of regular 1. come from salaries as well wages. The present U. 8. working for is about 42,000,000, not includ

s

|= the armed forces mor about 1

000,000 classed as self-employ and farmer. that of the 42,000,000 about 2°. 000,000 have reasonable assurar: of getting paid every week month. This estimate leaves more th 20,000,000 workers without asst ance of steady incomes, and it to the interests of this group tb _ the efforts of Messrs, Meyer a. Latimer will be directed.

We, the Women—— Ration Point | Cheating Seen ; As Sabotage

By RUTH MILLETT THERE is something wrong wi the American conscience. In Ch cago bogus ration stamps have : flooded the city that one offici has pointed out their number enough to sabotage the. nation entire meat rc » tioning prc gram. A chec of stamp turned in by J Chicago me: chants picke at rando: showed that § per cent wer: counterfeit. Certainly th great majorit,” of persons whe turned in those bogus stamps fo: meat wouldn't pass a bogus checi in order to buy fine clothes. ® BUT SOMEHOW they ease thet consciences when it comes ft stealing and sabotaging with ration stamps.

Maybe they haven't enough

folks who play fair and square. And maybe they haven't enough

Some students +:

childhood days. That seems to bring Fala back more quickly than calling him by name. } Our garden has done pretty well and we are getting vegetables in great quantity, but my family has been so large all summer that I have not had a chance to put as much into the freezer ag I otherwise might have done, . In August, however, I shali have to be away from here for a time, and I am counting on putting many things up for the winter months... My freezer, which Is a new makes it possible to plan for the future and use one’s surplus. “Xa Today we have the last of our picnics for the boys at the Wiltwyck school. I am glad to have had them all before my grandchildren leave next month, because they have been such excellent hosts and have helped so much in the games and general en - ment. This is a neverthel

return: 5 Our bodies have a way.of regulating temperature and if given ; half a chance they do a good : job for us.

Our chief de- = fense against heat '# 1s the evaporation of moisture on the skin. Perspiration cools you only evap-

It is better to take small amounts of water frequently than to drink| large amounts at a time. » ” » . EXCESSIVE . perspiration robs the body of salt. Inhabitant of warm climates have always eaten

” » » many of our farmers here in the Hudson valley have IF YOU have to work hard durhad crops ruined by the rain, and in addition are : having great difficulty in getting labor enough to bring in the crops + which they have, : Right here in our own place we have men and women working on jobs which they never did before; and that, I imagine, is duplicated on many farms throughout the

regular intervals. This will, give your body a chance to get rid of extra heat. ” Avold heat producing foods in hot weather. protein are heat pro-

Yet the rain has been wonder-

ue!

: y off in streams there is little cooling effect as far

quiet life we lead up here, but it seems

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