Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 September 1883 — Page 1

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THK NRW COURT BODSR.

When anew courv house was proposed a few years ago the war against it waxed 'warmer and warmer until the project finally met with an ignominous defeat.

When the new board of commissioners organised the project was revived, but it does not seem to cause a ripple of excitement. The commissioner who opposed it a few years ago, nearly suffered defeat last year on account of his opposition, and in all probability would have met with defeat had he not "drawn in his horns." Public sentiment seems to have greatly changed in this matter. All opposition seems to have died out, and a new court bouse now seems to be one of the necessities of the preeent generation. The price talked of is $300,000, but no one is iuclined to objeet if it should cost $300,000. Thecouuty is in good shape. It is out of debt. A court house built now would be expected to do duty for at least a hundred yea»,and no on® will find fault with the commissioners for making good job of it. The plana have been in course of construction for months, and probably more is expected of the Architect than will be realised. Tbe commisaioners are making haste slowly in *he matter, and when they finally decide *helr judgment will probably be commended, that is, as far as the work of any public man ia commended. It will be remembered that in 1878 plans for a new court boose were adopted by Joseph Blake's board of commissioners. The contract «n lei, but the legislature, a kicking oorAmlasioner and a committee of fifteen spoiled tbesoheme. The architect since recovered over 918,000 for* his plana, but T. B. Snapp never sought to anforoe his contract for tbe building. A

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abort time before bis death the latter

A ThniL t, was heard to say that he would never FOR THE PEOPt, trouble the county on account of his contract that be was a citizen of the county,

TYyirrn To 1 )r "felted to live and die here, and would

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j\do anything in that connection of & A citizens could complain

is a favorite topic with the average farm- present install11w 8 *n chaages, but er whose land does not lie close to some railroad station. Periodically the press takes up the question, and after consid-j probably be found ti5 ©ruble agitation the citizens take the ried out without changl

matter in hand. Meetings are called, speeches are made, resolutions are passed ®nd published—and there the matter .ends. Citizens who are opposed to gravel roads are few and far between—in fact, all are in favor of them, but it seems as though they cannot be made a matter of ^general public interest. All favor them, but none r-e to be found who are willing to leao off In the matter. It is adknitted on all hands that gravel roads from the city to the county line on all sides would be an immense benefit to the city. This question has been agitat ed for years, but after fill it seems as though it is to be left to work out its owu salvation. Agitation of the ques tion ha9 done no. good sc far as the Boatd of County Commissioners is con rned. They have heard all the argu ments in favor of such improvements^ but have moved so slowly in the matter that their work amounts to almost noth ing. The trustee of Harrison township seems to be the only official who appreciates the situation. When Louis Fink biner was elected nearly four years ago there were no gravel roads in this township worthy of mention, but the same cannot be said to-day. He has made the most of the fund at his disposal for that purpose, and there is no road of any im portanee whatever leading from the city, but is graded and graveled to the boundaries of Harrison township. The time ill .it no road leading ffom the city was passable in rot wuthaii sucn roads are scarce. Gravel pits have been opened several places south and east of the city, and nearly all the roads leading out are in excellent condition. The farmers who use them are all highly pleased with the situation, and the city is benefitted thereby. Outside Harrison township matters are different. The trustees seem to take little or no interest in such matters. No gravel roads are found within their boundaries. There are other* counties which are not backward. Parke county, on the north, has a system of gravel roads which can not be excelled. The consequence is that her fanners can drive to the county seat at all times, no matter how bad the weather, and the merchants of Rockville are always sure of a good trade from their own county. The good roads of Parke oounty take away from Terre Haute a good trade from tbo northern portion of the county. This should not be. The law of the Stato is now such that all counties can have good roads if they want them. Terre Haute would be greatly benefitted by them, and it behooves her citizens to be moviug in the matter. If thotrusteeoj Hurrison township ha* been able to construct fifteen milus of gravel roads in the last four years, certainly the trustees of the other townships of the county should do their share, and the sooner they commence the better.

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not within the memory of the disapptfontract, and the man who oldest inhabitant when the question of their figtrfwob^ly meet with many gravel roads has not been discussed. It the man Jk

formidable com pe-

Contractors

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put down

The commission^11

c^ao8ee

t^e

adopt plans, and ^obably

no hurry to do so it will jvill be car-

A Woman's Op

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THB "MECCA'

UPSET.

mit her to be married in her rooms at ?f

Pence's Hall, which she has occupied for

years, but compelled her to go to a

neighbor'* to have the ceremony per-

formed. Scores of letters, asking for

private seances, had been carefully filed

spirits this winter. And to have tbe

medium go squarely back on spirits, Iand

Committee and dupes is really too bad.

To be sure she is a poor woman with I

several children to support, has lived a

hard-working and sorrowful life, and Jthe

has mat ried, they say, a wealthy and I

kind-hearted man, yet what comfort is

this to the disappointed, left-out-in-the-

cold Committee? In gloomy silence I

they form a circle around the vacant

sic box, sing the mournful refrain,)

"Empty is the cupboard, Minnie's

gone." The seance room will hence-

forth be filled only by its own ghostly I

visitants, who do not pay fifty cents a I

head. It is said that the room was

fift O&t^TTat nlgmf

eaten candy at the expense of the audi-1

ence N' mnw »«o uear, Qepai tcu spirits call their friends to tbe cabinet door and then wrestle with them to prevent a kiss. No more will the medium's dead brother, George, walk around among the audience with his hair done up in a French twist. No more wiil Alice Belle Perley stand on the threshbold of the cabinet, while the medium's hoopskirt and petticoats hang peacefully over a chair in the corner. No moi-e, when the lights are turned up, will be found on the medium's bands the same lampblack which a wicked drummer rubbed'over a spirit's cold and clammy fingers. No more? O, yes, a great mauy times. These seances are too profitable to be abandoned. A new medium will soon be made to orderand business again renewed at tbe old stand. Still will tbe fool and his money be parted at the door.Still will the skeptic be sandwiched between two members of tbe Committee. Still will he be invited to "investigate," and then, figuratively, gagged and handcuffed. The gas will be turned down till it makes less light than a match the music box will grind the medium will be heard banging around the cabinet, putting on immortality the Indian spirit or some other will make the usual vulgar and silly expressions the spirits will pop their heads through the curtains and the credulous spectators will ask, with breathless eagerness, "Is it for me?' The success of the seance will depend upon the audience. If it is very skeptical it will be discovered that there is "something wrong with the conditions." If only believers are present, the show will be immense. Never, at any time, is it equal to even an average sleight of hand performance, and it would not be patronised at all did it not appeal to superstition, the love of the mysterious and the curiosity regarding a future life.

There is scarcely a medium of any consequence that has not been thoroughly exposed and proved to be an impostor. There is not on record a so-called spiritual communication that has been of vital importance. Tbe messages from the most distinguished dead are utterly trivial and nn worthy. The words of our departed friends are devoid of comfort or benefit. It would be hard to tell wherein Spiritualism has improved tbe condition of mankind. There is nothing in the language or appearance of the returned spirits to indicate any advancement on "the other side," but rather retrogression. We, ourselves, with all onr earthly imperfections, feel ashamed to be found in tbe seance room with its ooanw surroundings. What then are our emotions at seeing what pretend to be the spirits of those pare, innocent and refined ones who, we love to imagine, are dwelling tar above in spheres of purity and holiness.

As a rale, we do not find persons of intelligence and cultivation "Investigating" Spiritnalism until after they have

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suffered some severe loss by death. Then, tjbere is but one supreme, agonizing desire, to see again the beloved. The consolation of the Scriptures, which promise an everlasting reunion in Heaven, is not satisfying. They cannot waifc It may be years before death shall bring this meeting. There is the horrible thought that it may never come. The heart cries out for just one glance from thn«e sweet eyes, only a loving word, "a touch of the vanished hnadl" Into the dreadful darkness oOmes a ray of light, too faint to be called a hope. People whisper of spirits that return. Tbe lonely and longing mourners catch at the phantom promise with a desperate strength. They grasp at a shadow which may graut their soul's desire.

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One would suppose they would shrink

Spiritual circle* have been quite a^from wishing the dear, dead friends to ated lately over tbe unexpected

of Mrs. Stewart, "the greatest medium tong the doubtful crowd which aton earth." It is said the "Committee' seance to have them brought were so indignant they would not per-1

ro*^venly

Cabinet, and to the grinding of the mu- Points

—or perhaps Mr. S. was full of spirits Iand

What will become of Minnie, tbe free I

(yes, very free,) and untamed Indian I

girl who, for years, has made jokes and I

existence

a solat5on

with

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 29. 1883.

the dark, unwholesome room,

shores back to the sor-

*\th, through the mediumship

is ifc

n^f

Iadian•

And»

dead

our grief

altogether,

frooafish

desire to recall the

anW?f

happiness to witness

relieve We

t*ry which they cannot

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away and arrangements had been made out tbe\ed. for an unusually jolly time with the Iper8titioU8'

while tbly spared them,such

tt,e

sorat^oated,

Spirituali8m an

erav*ng

the su-

amuseitfbo

sett*ng

find in

aside those\°r

thro.ugh

their

ga*n

credulity or t\

believe

f°r anything which

mvestigate is to

wf$ntense

theirloved and lost we

will fiiHj®681

overP°wering

desire of

those^at

satisfy themselves^

«fter death. This has a5-

ways been the

Problem of life, no nearer

to-day than it was a\ the crea-

tion' Tberear«8ome

incomprehensible

aboutthis

but tbe

not

so-called SpiAtuaii8m

Averse is full

m*V8terie8'

modern

must acceri with

Spiritualism so much offalse-

hood and

deception and receive frto it

C0Q8()lat't'0

or profit trijt it

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Tbe most

fesfcat,ioiJ*

on the sinble

wonderful spIftfotbersX

records have been proJd^t,

by mediuras

who were afterwards proved

itnpost®r?i_?,69^i'VJl^h'xtapfoard

full

of tambourines and bells, stalk about anions strangers, converse in hollow, ungrammatical whispers aid fall to pieces when tbe light is turned up, is enough to make us pray for annihilation.

When have these ghosts ever told of approaching danger, or revealed tbe secret of the past or described clearly the future existence or commanded a pure and honest life if we would inherit the kingdom? What practical, profitable lesson is taught by Spiritualism? Where is the virtue in spirits eating peanuts, playing on tbe organ or putting wood into tbe stove

It is a thousand times more important to be certain we are living right in this world than to be sure we shall live at all in the next. All our praying and striving and searching cannot obtain a glimpse into that forever impenetrable future. This world is ours, to benefit or injure by our daily life. If we are faithful and conscientious there will come to out heart a peace and contentment that will say to our unquiet soul, "Fear not, Whether thy future be one of dreamless sleep or endless life, all will be well." And this is Faith.

IDA A. HARPBR.

A WOMAN'S OLOVES. A critical observer makes this sensible remark: "A woman's glove is to her what a vest is to a man." Precisely. When a man is agitated or perplexed be at once attacks his vest buttons, thus giving occasion for a certain very impressive slang phrase. A woman's vest does not admit of this sort df "pulling down" but her glove is always a source of inspiration and a refuge from any embarrassment. She smooths on tbe fingers, rearranges the buttons, drags out the wrinkles, looks critically at the fit, and does a dosen little things with her glove that betray or allay nervousness and quite sustain the truth of tbe above quotation. .s

Tbe wealthy Mrs. Mary Isehauneer, of West Bay (Sty, Mich., is in jail on the charge of kleptomaniacking to the amount of several thousand dollars, her weakness bring silks, laces, and jewelry. She was arrested once before, and jumped her bail. Her husband refuses to go OQ her bond a aenond time. It is lucky she was not poor enough tosteaL

The sermon of a prominent minister that recently came into the possession of a vandal was annotated along the margin thus: "Deliver this passage in solemn tone* "Scornful smile after the word 'never'" "Pause long enough to oount twenty-five after this passage "Close Bible with violent slam after this passage," "Contemplate celling in atfiitude of adoration at this point "Sarcastic wave of hand." etc. And yet ministers declaim against tbe theatric art.

WOMEN'S WAYS.

RULES FOR SPOILING A HUSBAND

^Always have the last word. Be subject to fits of "the Dlues," Make np your mind to be boss.,

Wear ont your temper with trifles. Let love-making cease with your marriage.

Look on your husband's relatives as enemies. Get out of the habit of saying sweet things to eaoh other once the molasses moon is over.

Once yon have sucoeeded in catching a husband take no special pains to please him.

Consider housework a drudgery ana home cares a bore, and begin to wonder why you allow yourself to. Im tied down anyway.

Make up your mind to two things— that a woman's tongue was| made to wag, and a man's to keep still.

Hold your husband responsible for being a hnman being and not the white winged, triple-crowned angel you thought he was. vS-,

Don't think it worth while to fix tip for your husband as you did for your lover.

Spend the majority of the morning reading a novel or gossip with a neighbor, and set down a half-cooked, harried-ly-gotten-ufl dinner when your husband gets home ffom work.

Grumbleftnd growl from morning till night because you can't have as fine clothes af some neighboring women whose huibands earn just five times as muchasykurs.

Rememler that it was all well enough fore mairiage to make an awful time our adoed got ajspiinter in his finger we^ no cures like kisses in those

days\

thinglwe can'

°°mprebend. The Bible, a!

to 1)6 a

gu'doa"d revelation, is inwoven

Af tdmarriage if he gets his hand

half sawed cr, ^all him a f^ol if he wants to be petted] Let your nonth's grocery bill run up to & couple of dollars more than the month's saliry. It may help to keep your husband out of mischief and busy* planning how he's going to pay his debts.

Take it for granted that men are made out vf very tame patent clay, and that they scoldinf wiKgfir mind saying in tbe hearing of the cfiildren what a good-for-nothing

jackanapes their father is. This will be one way of teaching them how to honor their father (and mother,) that their days may be long in the land.

Learii to look on & man as a machine that never gets tired. Tell him that a mode] husband ought to work from tbe 1st of January to the 31st of December without taking a single day for rest or recreation. If be gives out, works out, or wtars out—put him out and get along withbut him.

Have some sort of a hobby about your hoirie, a stylish home, a princely home, a neat, tidy, dustless, noiseless home, but don't bother remembering that it is a happy home a husband loves best.

When your husband comes home wearied and worried about business matters don't pretend to notice it. He may have had heavy losses, bad debts, absconding clerks, down-fall in prices,etc., but give him to understand you bad mora trouble in putting one block of your patchwork quilt together than he ever had in his life.

If you find your husband less loverlike than be was in bis courting days— more apt to seek outside society than yours—don't take any gentle, quiet, womanly way of winning him back. Tell all the neighbors what a wretch he is, and study up the hardest names in the dictionary to fire at him every time be comes home. When you find he comes home less than ever, double your doses and you'll soon be rid of him entirely.

When you see a duck of a bonnet that suits your complexion have it sent home at ali hazards and tbe bill with it. If your husbnnd storms and says he can't afford the price, call him an old grizxly bear. Then kiss him and sit down and have a good cry* You'll get the bonnet. This rale will work with anything from asetofdisbestossetof diamonds. All men have a soft spot in them, and when you reach it they'll give you anything even if they have to borrow money to get it.

Do nothing but work, and soour,'&tfd clean^tnd turn things inside out and upside down from daylight till dark, and when your husband comes home at night be so tired out and nervous and cross that you cant bear to speak or be spoken to. If be speaks civilly snarl at him if be goes ont to find pleasant companionship in a crowd of jolly fellows in bar-room, snarl at him when he comes in and be sure to tell him it's a nice way of treating a bard working woman like yon*.

Jay Rial, tbe "Uncle Tom's Cabin" manager, walked arm in arm between Gen. Grant and William M. Bvarts to witness the Northern Pacific spike-d riving. He ks sent to Siberia for half a dmen more bloodhounds, and his halfaheet postets will hereafter be printed in ndlnk.

8A TINGS AND DOINGS.

The deuce of diamonds is their expensiveness. A tramp called his shoes corporations, because they had no soled.

One hundred and twenty-nine life convicts have entered the prison in Joliet, 111., since 1868, and fifty-three are still there.

The man who painted the spire of the Roman Catholic church in Omaha was photographed standing on the cross, 210 feet above the pavement.

Will Carleton is a genuine poet he has managed to write a pretty good poem on a mortgage. People generally find more truth than poetry in a mortgage.

A real estate dealer in Spirit Lake, Iowa, has given up the business, saying that a man cannot be a successful land speculaton and a christian at the same time.

The Boston Post says that a Vermonter who stole- a cow from bis neighbor's barn found on getting her home that it was his own oow, which bis neighbor had stolenjearlier in the night.

As Rev. Dr. Bowman was about to begin his sermon at Ocean Grove the other day he remarked "Many of you have never seen me before, and, in all probability, many of you will never see me agaiu." "Amen!" shouted an enthusiastic brother. The minister smiled with the congregation.

There is no romance about Cuban slavery. A girl who made her escape from bondage says she was branded on tbe back like cattle, and was hitched to a plow with two other slaves and made to plow a field, one of the three having a bit in her mouth, all of them being whipped along as though they were horses. By way of exercise she was whipped three times a day.

Ruskin is covertly aiming blows at matrimony. He says people should not marry until they have courted for seven years. That is the average limit of warm friendships, and after courting that length of time it is very probable the couple would find marriage to be tbe °ot..1?.aDk„er

afier-

ing of advice does not necessitate its acceptance. Mr. Talmage is made sick because he finds it is the disposition of Christians now to ride to heaven in Pullman palace cars to go in on soft plush and have the beds made up early so they can sleep all the way and have the black porter death wake them up in time to enter the golden city. His nostrils ache with the scent of eau de cologne in the baptismal font, and he prays for a little more of the spirit of Knox and Wesley in tho modern church. Mr. Talmage is not altogether in tbe wrong of it, either.

A scientific man has been examining coated tongues through a microscope, and reports as follows of some of the loose property there found: "Fibres of wood, linen and cotton fibres of muscle, in one case eight hours after eating starch grains, cheese mold, portions of potato skins, scales, moths, etc. hairs from legs of bees and ol spiders, pollen of various fiowers and their stamens hairs of cats are quite commonly found, but of mice in only one instance hairs from various leaves in one case the wing of a mosquito fragments of the leaves of tobacco very frequently, and of camomile flowers, etc., occur repeatedly." ,. "ui

George F. Barstow, of San Francisco, who left an estate valued at $80,000, gave tbese injunctions in his will: "Having observed that ostentation and expensive funerals are injurious to the people,after absorbing money which poverty cannot well spare to vanity and pride, therefore, by way of example, for which I beg pardon of tbe undertakers, let my coffin be a plain redwood box, put together with common nailsor screws,without paint or varnish, with plain iron handles, and all else about the funeral to correspond with this plainer. Let there be a cheap shroud and no flowers. What is a dead man bnt a handful of dust? Instead of a hearse I may just as well be carried to the grave upon some ordinary vehicle in every day uae. since life is but a journey and the day of death tbe final rest."

LITTLE SERMONS.

A man can no more protect himself against tbe influence of evil company than be can dive into a barrel of tar and come out unsoiled.

To some people religion is like tbe fresh air which it ia always a delight to breathe, and to others it is like a blue pill which one takes because be must.

No man ever regretted that be was virtuous and honest in bis youth, and kept away from idle companions.

The darkest chapter in the nature of mmn is the tendency to pull down the reputation of his fellow man.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer then to feel oitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Fourteenth Yea

ABOUT WOMEN.

An elderly female twined her arms about Henry Ward Beecher in California recently and planted one on his ruby lips before he could get away.

Some bad man reports that the rifbt of women to bare armsin this country is soon to be extended by a French fashion of wearing nothing at all on the left arm and shoulder.

Emma Bond, the victim of the outrage in Christian county, who hung on the verge for so many months, is now reported to be improving in health daily, and bids fair to recover. The trial of her alleged assailants takes place in November.

The Boston Transcript, commenting^ on the obtuseness of many people who run after fashion without regard to how it becomes them, says: "It is now again becoming fashionable toanange the hair high on top of the head, which looks well on a tall, stately woman of symmetrical cranial development but among the first we see adopting it are short women, with perhaps a dumpy bulk and width of head in the middle region from ear to ear."

The girls over in Illinois have a good scheme. When one of them begins to think that maybe she isn making as good time in the race of matrimony as she ought, she gives a "tea," at which everything is prepared by her own bahds. Then tbe local Jenkins writes the affair up and alludes to her thus: '•Miss Smith has thus added to her already fine reputation as one of the best cooks in this town." As it is a fact that the best way to reach the average young man's heart is through his stomach, tbe wisdom of this little scheme

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A Willimantic factory girl wrote her name and address, and a desire to be married in a nice little note, which she placed inside the band of the hat she had just finished. Her father bought the ^4^ bat. On his way home that evening he paused at a house which they were Jj," plastering, and obtained a slender and Ai J* supple lath. The girl will hereafter make hats plain.

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to smoke, on taking a train for a short trip usually prefer a seat in tbo——i, car, says Deacon Smith in the Commercial Gazette. They say that in case of a crowd, when once they get a seat in the smoking car, it is theirs until they choose to give it up. Beside, they like the company there it is free and easy, good natured and jolly. One seldom sees a sour face in a smoking car. If there is one it soon vanishes in tbe rear after it has finished pufflug its own ci-

of the pleasant stories of tbe

train are told in the smoking car, many good songs are there sung, and no one objects to music or hearty laughter. Contagious diseases and insects don't like to hang around in the lobaccosmelling upholstery of the old "smoker" —oftener older and more rickety than it ought to be. The good railroad manager

rovides a comfortably constructed, cheery coach for his cigar-loving passengers, and as they smoke they bless him. The smoking ear is one of

the institutions Long may it roll,

One young lady kleptomaniac manifests her disordered mind in stealing button* everything else is sacred, but she invariably edges up to tbe button counter and slyly slips a card with a dozen or so of buttons into her reticule. The boys at the vuunter all know her, and place tbe commonest buttons within her reach. Any kind satisfies her, still her bill for buttons during a year is something that would surprise you. As her family are good customers, tbe storekeepers make no scandal.

The wife of a well-known np-town pastor is a confirmed kleptomaniac, much to the sorrow o' the good man, her husband. She is never allowed to go out shopping without being accompanied by some one, and a messenger Is employed to returned the purloined articles, which are usually of trifling value.

A venerable old lady, a dout member of tbe Presbyterian cnurcb, and a real motherly old soul, is a victim to the habit. The old lady is wealthy, and not addicted to extravagance in anything. She will steal, regardless of tbe value of tbe article, and if nothing else is handy will fill her pocket with paper. Tbe first time she was detected the salesman took her to tbe private office of the firm and complained that she had stolen some cotton hose. The firm thought it an ordinary case of stealing. bu tbe old lady plead with them until they became convinced it was a true instance of incapacity to resist stealing.

*ib» North Nebraska Methodist Conference has resolved that any member who has fallen into tbe use of tobaoco ought to desist.

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of American travel.

THEY MUST STEAL. HABITS OF KLEPTOMANIACS WHO CAN'T HELP IT.

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There are in St. Louis dozens of ladies, says tbe St. Louis Post-Dispatch, tbe wives or daughters of wealthy citizens, who are addicted to kleptomania. Every prominent dry goods store has several such customers, and, when known, they are followed from the time they enter the store until tbey leave it, and by careful watching every little article they abstract is noted down and Included in their bills, which are always paid without demur.

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