Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 October 1885 — Page 1

'Vol. r6.—No.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR TKB PEOPLE.

NOTES AND COMMENT.

This has not been a very good week,' as only one policeman was suspended from our truly wonderful police force,

Many are*called but none are chosen, at the Baptist church. At present Rev F. L. WilMns, of Auburn, N. Y., ii preaching several trial sermons. Th Baptist brethren mast-«elect an exceptionally bright man ifstbey would haver him shine in oor brilliant galaxy ministers.

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A man in this city who deserted his wife and children and ran away with .grass widow has returned, and his wife instead of receiving him with a bucket of scalding water, took bkn again into the fold. QCbie will give Wen license to run away with the nasi fascinating ,grass widow who comes across his path

What can Capt. Hook, Br. Pence and the vest of tho Pence Hall "Committee" be doing? We are having no spiritual manifestations here, and are'being outdone by the spiritualists of Boston, who, at a dedication of a hall this week, had a poem contributed especially for the oocasion by 4he spirit of Longfellow Cs^t. Hook and his committee uiu6t be up and at them!

Kvaosville never did have much love for Terre Haute, and she has been getting even with us tills week in a wsy that is truly deeplsablo. They have a branch station of the weather bureau down there now, and the first experi ment attempted with Old Probabilities was to try and flood us out. But as customary with thiugs attempted by Evansvllle, it failed.

In his sermon Sunday evening on The Faith Cure, Rev. H. O. Breeden stated that in the controversy between the faith cure fanatics and physicians he was on the side of the physicians. This is just what we should expect from a man of Mr. Breeden's excellent good sense and progressive ideas. Two such men as Mr. Breeden and Dr. Corning ought to convert all the infidels in the city.

At last Emory P. Beauchamp's head rolls into the basket. He journeyed over here when Cleveland was inaugurated and sailed wp.y with assurance from the President that he would not be reremoved from the place he has so well filled as Consul at St. Galle. But, alas, time makes changes, and so do the dispensers of spoils. Kmory is now in Washington, and Voorhees i9 said to be up In arms for his friend.

Now-a-days a man should thank heaven if he is permitted to enjoy private life and is not dragged into politics. The candidate for any office from that of constable to that of president becomes a target at which every body feels at liberty to fire a shot. Whether he be successful or unsuccessful his character is dangerously wounded and his reputatlou a total wreck, and be has caused for thankfulness if his whole family and all his intimate fiiends have not gone down in the general destruction.

The rain of the past week was exceedingly wet, one of the kind that defies waterproofs and umbrellas and just soaks through and through. The whole house seems damp, the closets are like cellars, the window curtains grow limp, everything feels sticky, the spirits fall with the barometer, business lags, time drags, friends are dull, the whole world seems moist and disagreeable. At such times there nothing to do but literally to wade through the difficulties and wait patiently for the blessed sunshine which lifts every cloud and takes all the dark -color out of the "blue."

The careful reader who endeavors to keep the run of European affairs will be obliged to neglect home news entirely and concentrate his mental energy upon foreign problems. By a diligent study of the geography we succeeded in getting acquainted with the war in Egypt. A similar straggle enabled us to obtain control of the situation at Tonquin. By a heroic wrestle with the maps we gained a smattering of knowledge regarding affklrs on the Afghan frontier which made the Caroline matter quite «aay to master. But now comes this Bulgarian-Roumelian controversy and, by Jupiter, we give it up!

Perhaps there hi no animal that suffers •o seventy from cruel treatment as the canary bird. They are tender, delicate birds, very sensitive to beat or cold, and yet the manner in which they ate usually treated is little less than criminal. They are exposed to alt aorta of weather, maeUmes hanging for boors and even alt night exposed to a cold north wind, when their masters and mistresses are aittlng by Are, Often they they are

left hanging in a blazing summer tsan until their tin cages are hissing hot and frequently tbey gcrtblind from the heat. In ms.ny instances they suffer .tortures from hunger and thirst. They go 'Icr days with only a little seed and warm water and sometimes one of these gives out. They ought to have fresh water, bread, potato, fruit, lettuce and cabbage leaves and a variety tit food. It is the rhight of cruelty to imprison an aaimai and then mistreat it. Many of these little warblers, praised for their song, are singing their lives away and their notes 41 re those of sorrow and distress

Republicans ais very much pleased* with the manner in which the Democrats are running the -city government. They say it means Republican victory •next spring. It always looks that way to the party out of power tbey think •surely the people will rice up en masse and turn the rascals out. Meanwhile the unhappy constituency are between •two fires, knowing full well that they have not much to hope for in the way of reform from either party, and really caring very little which candidate is entitled to the serenade.

•The policemen will give a ball at Dowling's Hall, Oct. 27, the proceeds to purchase new over-coats for the force. This is a good idea and if it proves a success we shall advocate a concert or a sparring match or a fight without gloves or some other moral entertainment to buy some warm clothing for 4i*e poor editors, who view the approaching winter with .sad forebodings. Nor should the poor ministers, with their meager salaries of $2600 a year, be forgotten. The policeman protects our physical welfare, the minister is our spiritual guardian, while the editor looks after our mental and moral interests. Each is very useful in his way and no wellregulated community should be without all three.

At a meeting of the police commissioners Mr. Clift moved that some recognition be made of the eleven o'clock law. Coffin and Brinkman voted to postpone, Clift and Finkbiner voted in opposition. The Mayor had the casting vote which he gave in favor of postponement. The heel of tbe liquor dealer comes down heavily but his wishes must be obeyed. We have a very go0d law which says the saloons shall close Tit eleven o'clock. The unwritten law of public morality demands that this dangerous traffic shall be stopped at that hour. Our Circuit Judge orders that law enforced. The policemen are willing and able to do it. The Democratic majority of ihe Commissioners prevent any action in the matter. They are preparing for the next election and the people should also be prepared.

A rainy day is a perfect God-send to the busy housewife. On that day she ia secure from interruption. She may wear an old dress from morning till night without fear of being mortified by callers. She may carry into action several long cherished purposes. She visits the attic, unpacks tbe winter apparel, sorts over tbe scraps, ransacks tbe bureau drawers and puts them in order, rips up an old drees, folds the summer clothes and lays them away. The long, long rainy day is all too short for her. She thinks anxiously of that long neglected letter she would like to write, and she looks at the magazine she longs to read, she glances sadly at the piano whose keys she never has time to touch, she half resents the endless round of household duties which never leave her a moment for the things she loves. She resolves to hurry through the routine and have one delicious half hour for the pastimes of her youth. But before the task is finished, the children come rushing home from school, the supper hour is at band, the huaband comes in, tired aud impatient for a meal, the opportunity has vaniabed. And when she realizes that "other to-morrows shall be as to-day," it takes all her philosophy and all her domestic lore to reconcile her to such a commonplace existence. And yet it has its pleasures, and tbe good wife, mother and housekeeper, who is contented and happy, ia really to be envied and may congratulate herself that her "lines have fallen in pleasant places." _____________

For the opening season a dance teacher has devised what he calls the derviah. Itconsists of a few slow, measured, stately revolutions in ordinary waltz time, followed by a doaen rapid waits ones, done so suddenly that the couples look like wild dervishes of the desert, who ought to bowl as well as whirl.

"The great discovery of tbe age ia woman" says Doctor Paul Blocker in the Atlantic Monthly. "It did well enough for the crusading times" he adds, to bold them as angels in theory and practice as in these rough-and-tumble days we'd better give 'em their places aa flesh and blood, with exactly such wants and passions as men."

Miss St. Pierre, a Tennessee heiress, ia devoting bar fortune to tbe elevation of tbe poor whites ot the SouUu

TBRRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 3. 1885. ,,

QUEEBL MARKED FAMILY.

SIX PERSONS WITH DISTINGUISHING PECULIARITIES.

There passed through this city a few days since, a very peculiar family. They were from Mattoon, 111., on their way to aNew York

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hohsehold is Jobs T. Galvln,.and has a wife and four children, each of whom baa some strange physical mark which will well bear being recorded.

Mrs. Galvin was born with only one eye. She is one of the very few such persons known to medical history. She has no socket where the left eyeball ought to be, and only a faint eyebrow. -Otherwise she is a comely woman, thirty years of age, and quite intelligent, though uneducated. She said that with her one eye she could see better tban most people can with two. She wears a light green shade over the spot where the left eye ought to be.

The husband has nothing very curlone in his appearance, and until attention is called to the fact the man's left arm is six inches longer than his right. "I was born that way," said Galvin. "My father's left arm was also the longest, hut only two inches. He said his come that way from choppin' wood from the ttane he was seven years old. In ohoppio' wood you use the left hand the most. I've been a wood chopper all my life also, and p'raps that's why my son over thar has got such a monstrous long arm. Come right over here, Jimmie."

These last words were addressed to a boy that the father said was eleven years old, but whose face indicates a greater number of years. He wore along linen duster buttoned tightly around his neck, covering the arms in such a wny as to conceal them from view. At the request of his father he removed his duster, us ing his right hand. When this outer garment was taken off there was revealed, to tho utter amazement cf several persons standing by, a left arm that extended along tbe entire length of the body, with the palm ot the hand resting flatly on tbe floor. It looked, in fact, like a boy with three legs. Just after pulling off bis duster, one of his little brothers let an apple fall on the floor and it came rolUng by. Reaching out about two feet in front "of him, the-loug* armed boy picked up the apple, without apparently bending his body, and handed to his bother three feet to the rear, ail without moving from his tracks. On examination, the arm was found to be very large and [muscular, and the left hand was almost twice as large as the right. The elbow, which is said to bo double jointed, reaches mid way between the hip and the knee, the forearm extending to the ground. Tbe fingers are large and bony, and the boy's fist is as large as that of an average man. By way of showing how strong this abnormal member is, he lifted his two I'eet from tbe floor at the same time and stood on his hand as firmly as a roan would stand on one leg. The boy's height is five feet one inch, and the length of bis left arm, from the base of his shoulder to the tip of his third finger, is exactly four feet.

The next two children of this strangely marked family are girls, aged nine and seven. The left arm of each of these is about nine or ten inches longer than tbe right.

Probably the oddest member of this odd collection of persons is the youngest child, a boy of four. He has inherited the qualities of both father and mother. He has two eyes, but one of them is not much larger than a black-eyed pea, while the other is large and full, like his mother's. It was noted as a circumstance that the lid of the small eye winked twice as often as that of the large one. Tbe mother said that at a short distance tbe boy sees better with bis small eye, and at along distance better with bis large one. The little fellow's left arm, like his older brother's, is also unnaturally long, his left hand being now only eight inches from tbe ground. As if Nature had expres8ly selected this unfortuate chap for apedal disfigurement, in addition to his other blemishes a bright green spot, perfectly round and as large as a silver dollar, has recently appeared on his right cheek and is slowly extending. Two other similar spots have appeared on his body—one between the shoulder blades and one at the small of the back. These qneer people will certainly attract attention at the museums in which tbey will be exhibited.

Advocates of woman's rights will net approve of Julian Hawthorne's book, "Love—A Name," for in it be states in substance, that if women ever really enter the lists against men, home will be

abolished, in which ease man had better chase woman off tbe faoe of tbe earth

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a weaker imitation of himself, and in that place useless. It may be that in tbe solution of that phase of affairs rests tbe possibility of the annihilation of tbe human race.

A modern scribe says that the chief end of man—no matter what It ought to be—la to get enough to eat and drink and a place to sleep.

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half bushel of letters and papers now reaches Mrs. Grant daily. The secret of Boston's superiority lies in the fact that she has 18,000 more women than men.

A far-seeing lady scrap book made up almost entirely of cholera cure recipes.

A woman who had a bed-quilt at a Kentucky county fair and flailed to take a prize went home and stabbed her bus-, band as a consolation.

A Canadian professor says that the Montreal girl's highest and noblest ambition is to "catch on" to an American bank thief with a fat wallet.

Belva Lock wood, after a successful lecturing tour in the West, is sgain attracting attention in Washington as she annihilates distance on a tricycle.

The editor of a Georgia paper thanks God that the maidens of the South have more modesty than to display their underclothes in some store window just previous to marriagev-^}

The Courier-Journal thinks that "\tie Pennsylvania lady who has beheaded ber husband's aged aunt is doubtless one of those women who are always ready to do any thing for peaco."

The all-absorbing question in Buffalo just now is: "Should a lady thank the gentleman who gives her his seat in the car?" If she should she won't, and it's no use to discuss the matter.

Semi-military regulations are to be adopted at Vassar College. The silent drill will probably be unpopular, but dress parades will be a feature that will redeem a multitude of discomforts.

Altoona, Pa., evidently has its quota in the way of affectionate ladies. The hope that the etreet-cars shall be plentifully placarded to the effect that "This car can't wait for ladies to kiss good-by.

ANew York paper seriously doubts if a pretty woman can be convicted of murder in the courts of that city, no matter how strong the evideace against her. Pretty wives should take their husbands there to get rid of them.

A wealthy New York lady's will provides that her numerous dogs, cats, and blrdsshallbo Cremated and that their ashes shall be scattered upon ber grave. The neighbors are eager for the provisions of the will to be carried out at once.

Two Milwaukee mothers in an evil moment agreed to bathe their baby boys together. The children were of the same age and looked alike. Somehow the babies got mixed so badly that the mothers were unable to sort them, and the women are crying night and day lest each should be caring for the wrong heir.

A lady scientist physician, the wife of the leading doctor in Clinton, Me., has bedn in the healing business for two months, and has secured a practice greatly overtowering that of her husband in the most palmy days of his profession. She has surely come into possesion of a talisman of the family, if not of even a wider circle. She averages fifty-two professional calls per day, and some of her patients now go miles to see her, who until a few weeks have been confined invalids.

A Georgia exchange sounds the praise of a washed girl as follows: Women are just too lovely in newly lanndered lawn dresses. When fresh from the close communion with toilet soap and crystal water she has the ripe peach fragrance of paradise. When a fellow passes to the windward of a lovely woman who is filling the air with sweetness and purity as she gracefully trips along he delicately sniffs the air as if he had got a snatch of heavenly perfume. God bless the women! If there were none on earth, bald-headed men would be scarce.

THE DEAR ~QIRL8.

Red-haired girls can now rejoice with exceeding great joy, for "strawberry blondes'* are in fashion.

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Lots of Philadelphfa^gfrls have "caught on" to the banjo craze and now play like regular old plantation minstrels.

A Philadelphia man says tbe banker Drexel*s daughters will receive 16,000,000 apiece from his estate when it comes to them.

A Detroit girl drew a door mat with a crayon on the front door-step, and it was so natural that several callers tried to give it a wipe.

Seven hundred and fifty dollar fans are very common in New York, but sensible girls don't look for such presents. Tbey take a fifty cent ian and $749.50 in ice cream and soda water.

Ed. Stokes and Josie Mansfield no longer speak to each other, rays a New York writer. The woman for whose sake Flak was killed is tbe shadow of ber former mlf. Occasionally she may be seen on Broadway,and ber well-worn black silk indicates that ber parse is not as well supplied as in Flak's palmy days. Sues Stokes killed Fisk and went to prison for it be has never spoken to tbe woman wbose fetal fascinations led him on to his crime.

"The Ivy Leaf" is the title of a new Irish drama to be presented at the opera house Monday aud Tuesday evenings, nnder the management of W. H. Power, one of the wealthiest theatrical managers in the country. To properly present it he carries a car load of scenery, a monster eagle measuring seven feet six inches from tip to tip of wings, and a genuine Irish piper, said to be the best in America. Speaking of its presentation at Indianapolis, ^lMt weekJ? the Journal says

The amusement loving public have beoome so accustomed to the glaring inoensistencies and conventional plots of so-called Irish dramas, that but little had been expected of "The Ivy Leaf," but those who saw tbe pieco last night witnessed the prod notion of a play of true artistic excellence, which requires only a company ot capable people to make it a most deemed success. The play Is the joint production of Mi. Con T. Murphy and W. H. Power, and does credit to its authors. There is little or nothiug of the conventional bosh that has characterized most of the Irish plays produced during the past few years in the play, bat it is a plain, simple, Irish love story, well told ana excellently mounted. The scone* and ii.ec'innica) effects,partR-mari me tower transformation scene and the eagles nest, are new and beautiful.

Lizzie Evans, calied "the little cricket of the stage,*' will play "Florette" next Saturday evening. Those who have seen this sprighly young lady will agiee with the Detroit Chaff, which says: "She is a little electric battery, and with every twist of the wrist or Jsick of the foot the spf ctator receives a shock that makes him tingle with pleasure."

On accouut of the number of minstrel troupes here this season Barlow, Wilson & Rankin cancelled their engagement for next week, and will go on down to Evansville.

Rice & Barton's minstrels have played to two big houses at Dowling Hall, ami will give the last performance to-night. sr

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SO THEY SAY.

There must come a reaction from this business of making church service depend on tbe season or on the personal convenience of pastors. Tbe Catholic church has always taken a wise stand in this matter, aud it is gratifying to Bee that there is a tendency in the Episcopal church to do the same thing.—[Philadelphia News.^

It needs no special intimation to impress upon the intelligent observer of events the fact that the world is passing through one of those crises which at various times in its history have issued in tbe establishment of new creeds and invested the inextinguishable religions elements in man's complex nature with new integuments.—[Brooklyn Eagle.

Our free thinkers are not such awfully tough citizens as they would have us imagine. They don't accomplish much beyond the advertisement of their possession of tbe half-truth, which makes its possessor rave and bluster. The whole truth can always afford to wait quietly. It makes men free.—[Indianapolis News.

Tbe editorial page is the least read of any page of the paper, yet those who read it are the men who do the thinking for the community, direct its enterprises and control its destinies. There is unquestionably a large amount of editorial writing that is undeserving of attention, but people of education, those endowed with large, or with finely-organized brain, and accustomed to independent thinking, are interested in the thoughts that others have to present, and in an intelligent discussion of current events. —[Linn, Mass., Saturday Union^

THE OLD SETTLERS. Arrangements for tbe Old Settlers' Meeting at the Fair Grounds, on October 6,7 and 8th, are almost completed, and its success Is assured. A novel feature of the oocasion will be an old-fash-ioned barbecue each day, to which the farmers of the county have contributed about a hundred head of cattle, sheep and hogs, all of which will be slaughtered and cooked on the grounds. There will be enough provisions to feed a mul titcde of 50,000 people. Another feature will be rifle ahooting by a number of old settlers, with the old-fashioned sqnirrel rifles. Thomas Parsons and a number of others will compete. Exhibition ahooting matches are also being ar ranged for. Our home shot-gun clubs and many from abroad will participate

There will also be a bicycle race by members of the home dab. These attractions together with addresses each day, music by the Jubilee singers and martial bands furnish a program which will give entire satisfaction to tbe vast concourse who will be sure to attead. No intoxicating liquors will be allowed on the grounds, nor will any charge be made for admision.

Probably tbe most novel suggestion ever advanced in connection with insurance is that made by a Kentucky association, which offers to indemnify married men wben their wives elope.

Daughters of Grace Greenwood, Lydia Thompson, and Jcaquin Miller will act this ceason.

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In the Thalia company, and a son of Salvinl Is In the Davenport support.

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LITTLE SERMONS.

No great characters are formed in this' world without suffering and self-denial. It is more commendable to acknowledge our faults than to boast oor merits.

Look after tbe establishment of a worthy character, and leave its appiedation to others

Adversity is the trial of 'principle: without it a man can hardly know whether bo is honest or not.

A tender conscience is an inestimable blessing that is, a conscience not only quick todiscern wbatisevil, but instantly to shun it, as the eyelid closes itself against the mote.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, tbe market, the street, the office, tbe school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front of some great battle, and we knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, itiengtb, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world. -/-v. •$

Of all happy houses, ttiafts the happiest where falsehood is never thought of. All peace is up when it happens that there is a liar in tbe house. All comfort has gone when suspicion baa onoe entered—when there must be a reserve in talk and reservation in belief. AnxiouB parents, who are aware of the pains of suspicion will place general confidence in their children, and receive what they say freely, unless there is strong reason to distrust the truth of any. If such an occasion Bhould unhappily arise, they must keep the suspicion from spreading as long as possible, and not disgrace their poor child while there is a chance of its cure by their confidential assistance.

SHABBY UMBRELLAS. Strange how ashamed a man will be of a shabby umbrella—one of those slouchy, corpulent affairs, with the bleacbed-out covering divorced from a third of the rib-tips, and a shoe-string clasped around its waist in lieu of the long-vanished elastic. How he will hide it as far as possible under his arm, tq^k it away beneath the folds of his coat, keep it between himself and the wall, and when he sets it down how careful he is to dispose of it in the darkest possible corner. And if perchance, anybody spies it out how quickly he is to head off oritlcism by explaining that it is the one be keeps in the office—so convenient to have one there, you know one that you know that nobody will steal—ha! ha! Or maybe he will go a step farther—the lying rascal!—and say he borrowed it, and if be did return it old Grimshaw would never forgive him—ha! ha! But when the clouds lower and the raindrops begin to patter who is so at ease, so envied, so proud and happy, as tbe man with the shabby umbrella, as he stalks along between rows of unprotected men men and women with his despised umbrella dripping its liquid harvest indiscriminately on the just and nnjust? Verily, tbere is nothing in this life wholly good or wholly bad.

The "gentlemanly burglar" will stand pistol shots and a man's call for the police but a woman's screams dismay his soul. In one Detroit burglary tbe lady whose chamber was invaded refused to stop screeching in spite of his threats until be ran away frightened.An Erie widow, so far from being quelled by his threat, to blow ber brains out, "dashed away the weapon and sprang upon tbe robber, screaming for help, and clinging to his neck. In bis efforts to escape tbe man had to carry the lady with him to the door, being unable to shake her off. He finally succeeded in freeing himself, snd escaped." It is more potent than tbe famous "rebel yell."

MARRIAGE LICENSES. The following marriage licenses have oeen issued since our last report:

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Philip Murphy and Lou Holland. Wm. A. Michael and Lizzie Dermody. Simon Archer and Rowena Hatton. Jeme P. York and Susan Clara. John Walsh and Anna A. Roach. Charles W. Marsh and Elizabeth Smith. Daniel Zerewiek and Fannie Merry. Karl Marluck and Lena Schneider. Loren Q. Paulson and Hattie Lee. William F. Waldeck and Mary A. Wilson.

DEATH ROLL.

DOribgtbe month of September interments were made In Woodlawn and Highland Lawn.Cemeteries as follows:

I. no. B. Hager 62 yean, paralysis. i. Infant of Peter Ippen, premature birth. 5. Nicholas Dedrlch,» yr cancer of 11 vei. 5. Wm. Cain, 5 yean drowned.

Berney Snider. 4 months, 6. Edgar Unctll, 24 year* tuberculosis. 8, Lodnda Callahan, 64 years paralysis. 9. Henry Prlehard/M years dUeafle of brain 9. Hamantba Jane Lange, 38 yr* typhoid malaria.

II. Infant of Ernest Fisher, spasms. 12. Caroline Father, 25 yean typhoid fever 14. Lovena Pedlgo, 31 years malarial tax-

15. Littleton Soutbarn, 25 years consumption.

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Mary E. Jackson, 18 yr consumption. 22. Annie Kate Baker, tnflamatkm of the bowels. 23. Mm M. Ketchsun. hemorrhage. 28. Frank Wei chert. 19 years phthisis. 28. Elizabeth K. Kelson, 19 yean typhoid palmonasia. 28. Ernest Ostendorf, 19 yean phthlrls pulmon&dft. -v®

City 10, eoanty 3 Total 19# HIOHI.AITD UWS CKVJSTCinr. 5. Lena Bergbem, 17 years typhoid.

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