Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 November 1889 — Page 1

Vol. 20.-No. 23.

THE_MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Twelve Pages.

Notes and Comment.

A Cincinnati pawn broker bu made an assignment. What will happen next-?

A che«A« trust is the latest financial experiment. Like the product, it is a lively composition.

Congress convenes next Wednesday. May Its session prove profitab'e to the extent that it will be expensive.

By tbo new law of Fran**, a Frenchman's mm born in a foreign land is a citizen of France. This is an extremely liberal interpretation of the term citizenship.

Metrphis baa a "keep ofl tbo corner" boys'club organized .for mutual benefit and moral improvement. Such an institution could well be established in very city in the country.

John R. McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, bas offered prizes aggregating (200 to the pupils in

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Cincinnati for proficiency in their studies. No, it is not true that Mr. McLean is working for the Ohio senatorship.

The Missouri supreme court has decided that merely reading a newspaper account crimes does not disqualfy the reader to sit as a juror. This decision is a long step in the direction of improving bhe jury system of court trials.

Not long since, a London association advortisod for a secretary, and six hundred candidates rouponded. This number includod Cambridge and Oxford graduates, lawyers, teachers, etc. Is this what it will come to in this country?

Muskegon, Mich., is agitating the quoijtion of an ordinance requiring the hitching of horses when left standing on the streets. The necessity for such an ordinance in Terre Haute has been frequently illustrated at the expense of both life and property.

There bas been so much smuggling Into New York of late by vessels coming through Hell Gate and along the sound that Uncle Ham is going to patrol the sound with two revenue cutters^ It would also be well do plaoe a safeguard on the crows of the revenue cutters.

The Australian legislature has passed a law taxing all married couples living with their mothers-in-law—$900 If living with the husband's mother-in-law, and #120 if with the wife's. The Australian legislators evidently have the wel fare of their constituency at heart.

During the Paris exposition 249 pick pockets were arrested, of whom 138 were French, twenty-throe English and sevon American. The small number of Americans arrested would tend to prove the claim that anything we undertake to do is generally done well or not at all.

Fairland, Ind., saloonists have been given until Dec. 1st to get out of town. At that time, If thoy fall to disappear, Momothing wAl happen which will not bo altogether pleasant for them. This is an effective way of enforcing liquor lawi* that would w,rk much good if given a fuir trial in other .immunities.

Canada is to modify her Chinese immigration restricting act whon Parliament meets in .lanuary. The development British Columbia depends almost exclusively upon Chinese labor, aud the members from that section ate determined that Chinamen shall come in in largo numbers.

Reports of college athletic contest?1 now occupy considerable space in dally i|H«rs. This is an Indication of general interest In the contests aud warrants the frtculty of colleges in encourageing the games. It is undeniably tru& that physical exorvi"*o und mental progress go h»ml in hand.

The Philadelphia Time* remarks that 111 the light of recent developments it wouldn't l-o a bad notion for New York, is she sn*pect.H she is going to lose the world's f.iir to sandbag it. This would .•.•nattily he in keeping with the popular method cf stvuciuii anything desired u.u there.

During tin xpeiulctl ni x\ r'.s re«!5si' tir^iii.lU iZ h" amount as

year the United states tsc for mor« than to run every branch of the »eminent. In the one case in the other in one ca«e the money

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rho i'«Mm Saturday v?r5* appro5 nately remark*: 15 is probable that jivismont day. hen planets are eollitimg in sp»«v.and the sun fas rapidly .ding and Uahriel is whetting his Hps t. blow 'light* out," the Oovestor of Pennsylvania will aak for a halt while the tinal distribution is made of the fund to tbo Johnstown imflfetera.1"

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Corporal Tanner and Colonel W. W. Dudley, both ex-commiasicnerf of pensions, have formed a co-partnership in Washington for pension and claims business. The new firm should combine ail the latest meathods in pension bureau scheming. Gen. Alger ia furnishing Corp. Tanner with money the corporal will, do his own talking.

The difficult task of climbing the extinct volcano of Iztacoibuati, 18,000 feet higfc, has just been accomplished by H. Rem sen Wbitebouse, United States Charge d'Affaira at the City of Mexico. He bad to cut two thousand steps in •olid ice in making the ascent, and camped one night itr* cave at a height of 14,000 feet. Score one more victory for the Yankee. m.

The Richmond Independent says that when it comes to booming the city the people are indifferent, but when a scandal is on top, every body wants a hand. This is unfortunately true to a certain extent in Terre Haute. A spicy scandal receives an encourageing word on every band, while a busness men's enterprise, it sometimes seems, is taken hold of most unwillingly.

General Lew Wallace in his forthcoming report as a member of the board of visitors to West Point, advocates the selection of limited number of enlisted men, say 300 or f00, who should be sent there each year for one year's instruction in connection with the academy. The general believes in putting West Point to the greatest possible use and therein he is to be commended.

A German scientist proposes to determine, by means of photography, if the moon is inhabited, and it is said that the King of Wurtemburg has decided, in order if possible to solve this interesting problem, to photograph the moon, then enlarge the negative 100,000 times. After the German scientist completes his in vestigation and proves the moon to be inhabited, the Yankee genius will be set to work to provide a method of commu nication.

Tne flags which are now used by the revolutionary party in Brazil were ordered in Paris last summer, and many of the plans for the declaration of the republic were discussed there during the exhibition. It is believed that Dom Pedro bad private information that hia deposition would take place tms autumn and that he knew the terms which were to be accorded him and that for this reason he gave up his favorite idea of abdication. The revolution was no doubt not so suddenly accomplished as popularly supposed.

Town Talk.

AN KYWTO THK FlTl'RK.

Lafayette Is just now very happy over a beautiful new library and high school building which is to be built. The designs for the structure indicate that it will be a great advance in architecture for that city, as great an sdvanco in fact as was the new Normal building for Terre Haute. The discussion on the adoption of plans developed many points of interest, one of whioh was the devisability of rooms for the public library completely under the control of the school trustees. In this direction Terre Haute will soon need to make an advancement. Our library is growing so rapidly that it is only a question of a year or two until it will be necessary to be used exclusively for library purposes. How this is to be ocured is just now not quite evident, but the anticipated success should make the trustees active on the subject. No step could be wiser than to provide a site for a suitable building in the very near future. Very few suitable locations now remain. The most desirable lot for such a purpose, not considering its high value, is that at the corner of Seventh and Ohio streets. But its purchase would involve outside aid for the board, and no volunteers on

THK OU JOKB.

It Is the same old joke but it is neverthe less worth rrr»t!^:r.ia a strictly true local »pplk*..~o. IiiC incident relating thereto was as folio***: A telephone message came to the l.ASt.L depot, "Is there a policeman ar-mmli?" "Don't know, but will see," tt.'.-. Ueket agent. Whereupon r.m .u the street to the Exchange returning immediately, and answered: "So officer in end of town at the

present time." 'ii» prr^ape ^rri«r •o far as always bcui*? Lui Is nevertheless the truec •••.!.: of af&irs as it exists occasionally. The in ident

was related to a gentleman noted close observation, and his comment Pretty near the truth, but I would that if tfee saloon falls keep an eye for the passing street car. The polio#* man rides free." This suggestion ma* prove of assistance to the citizen who 00casionally needs the service of on ofttoe*.

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There have been few days when tm attendance at chorch services in Haute has been smaller than on fitM Sunday. The matter was the subject of ooai wation is a circle of gentlemen a tow evenings ago, and one member of the party said that the congregation fit the morning service be attended numbered just-twenty-seven, including the minister. Another remarked that at the church he visited the audience could not have numbered over ilfty, while he had heafd the attendance at one or two of the other churches was uot much larger. Of course the weather very materially reduced the usual Sunday morn-, ing outpouring, but then even rain and mud should not have cut large congregations down to such small representations. '*1 should think it would be very discouraging for the minister," was the comment of one, and all will agree with him that such must be the oase. It i® easy to realize the effect produced on a theatrical company by small attendance from the oharacter of the performance given. With a minister it is different. It is bis duty to preaoh and work as though he felt the heartiest encouragement, when in reality his feelings are such as would compel any ordinary individual to not only openly express his sentiments, but roundly criticize those responsible for his embarrassing position. He must go on as though all was serene. Verily the minister is not to be envied in his position of attempting to please a public which expects everything but makes no attempt to do its share bringing about the desired end.

THE DRUGGISTS' !IHA«RERMKNT. The disagreement between the local druggists on the Sunday closing ques* tion is to be regretted. When the contract to close all drugstores during the entire day on Sundays was entered into, it was hoped the agreement would be permanent. This hope was entertained for several reasons, one of the strongest being that the example thus set for other buiiiness men would be such as to promote »More ganoml 4 the day. Indeed it looked very much as though this eflect was being rapidly brought about. But now there will be a backsliding, and all because one druggist saw fit to break his pledge and thus demolish the entire Sunday closing scheme. It seems strange that six days out of seven are not enough for conducting an ordinary business. One would suppose that the trade oould be so educated as to make all purchases during the week instead of waiting for Sunday, but according to the argument of this one druggist such a condition of affaire cannot be brought about. It is a severe reflection upon the population to make such a claim, in truth a reflection that the majority will oonsider unwarranted. It may at present be true that a great many people are accustomed to buying on {Sunday, but no one doubts that they could easily be cultivated into making their purchases on week days. The' druggists are making a serious mistake in aot standing by their agreement.

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this score have yet been heard from. The matter is at. least worth keeping in regular weather, not such as mind.

FtKL HAS.

It looks very much as though the fuel gas company will have a rough experience is getting their plant in working order. The winter is closing in and a greater part of the preparation* for supplying the trade with fuel ren in to be made. The laying of pipes practically Just begun. But then the company is energetic and means business so there is no reason tor saying they delayed active work too long, until there is good evidence that such statement is true.

HU8INKSS IS GOOD.

It is encourageing to note that the retall business all over the city is now in a most flourishing condition, with prospects for the heaviest holiday trade ever known in the history of local mercantile interests. One well known dry goods merchant said a few days ago that while bis year's sales would fall several thousand dollars short of what he had calculated, on account of recent bad weather, the total would show an inerease of SO per cent, over the trade of 1880. Other business men speak in the same well pleased strain, and in al« the report is highly satisfactory and gratifying. Nothing is needed now to make the climax of the season a crowning victory

will confine people to the house, but such as will impel them with a desire to get out and enjoy the exhilarating air. May it be so.

The Brazil strike is at an end. 'At a mass meeting of miners yesterday a vote on the question was taken and resulted I.10 to in favor of accepting the company's' offers and returning to work. This ^!!I pot an end to mn privation and s. :R*rhig among the miners and •J-eir

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Cold weather is here in earnest. FriBii"rr inc at 7 ovwfc the thermometer tu n.iu'.nt^ regj^fr-nl fU dap*** acvve er •, tn this morumg 10 degree?. This is eolder ibatt any day of either November or Swasher test jrawr..

*r Hora lair is exp 'ed 60 retire f»»v pitiLiw^ ifahu .tftnold eater a store rr-ttataorant where men are oongrega She waits until they havetran-•v-ieted their bniineaa and departed. I -idles seldom arise in Spain to receive a aiate visitor, and they rarely accompany him to the door. A. gentleman does not offer to shake a Spanish lady's hand. if j-7* &

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TERRE HATJTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING,. NOVEMBER 30, 1889.

Geraldine's Letter.

Mr DEAR RUTH: Thanksgiving has come and gone. We had a union service in the Centenary Church which was fairly well attended, though the congregation made up from five churches was not larger than Centenary sees every Sunday. We listened to a first-class Thanksgiving sermon from the Rev. George R. Pierce listened to some excellent organ playing by Mrs. Allyn Adams, some good music by the choir, and to a most beautiful tenor solo by Ban Davis. Someway the West doesn't seem to care very much for this timeEonored festival, while in the East it is one of the great occasions of the year, and the most elaborate preparations are made for it. The week before Thanksgiving in a New England household is a busy time, though not so busy now as it used to be a tew years ago, when, for a family of ordinary size, it was no uncommon thing to bake one hundred mince pies and fifty squash pies at one time. Think of it but that was when they ate pie three times a day. It isn't stylish to do that any more, so the Thanksgiving baking has assumed lesser proportions. Perhaps you remember how, a few tears ago, the Rev. Mr. Huntington, of the Episcopal Church, left his rioh and fashionable parish, took upon himself a vow of poverty, and went to live in a dirty street in a wretched and wicked neighborhood in New York City. Now, seven college girls, young, handsome and well educated, graduates of .Vaasar, Smith and Wellesly colleges, have done the same thing. They have rented a house in Rivington street, which they propose to make their home. This street is in the Tenth ward in New York. The population is principally foreign, andit is one of the most densely populated wards in the city. Their object is the elevation of the masses, which, they argue, cannot be done except by living among and associating with thettt. The idea is of Boston birth.

A Wsllesiey girl had heard that there was in one of the slums of London-a settlement of university students who ohose to live among the poor and unfor tunate and to give all their leisure time in trying to make them better. They succeeded, and it Is a somewhat similar 4»l*n these girls propose to follow. Thay have given to their home the name of the "College Settlement." Miss Jean nette Gurney Fine is at the bead of it. She is a graduate of Smith college, and it is chiefly to her energy that this philanthropic scheme is at last in operation Although the Rivington street work takes much of her time, she teaches in an aristocratic school up town. Five of her six assistants are also dependent upon themselves for their living. One is studyiug mediolne, another has ifeeeived her diploma as a physician, and the others are teachers in Murray Hill schools. Dr. Caroline Hamilton Las put out her shingle on the Rivington street home, and is trying to build up a practice among the people around her. The one girl who has an independent income ia thoroughly infused with the spirit of father Huntington, and is glad to have her home here, whero she hopes to do much good for her less fortunate sisters tor their work lies with the mothers and the ohlldren, teaching them how to cook, what food to buy, how to furaish their rooms tastefully and with the smallest outlay, how to make over their old clothes, how to plan and make their new ones. They don't preach at them don't tell them that most stupendous of all lies that poverty is a blessing in disguise, but talk to them as they would with their own friends. They talk to them about books and lend them from their own library they show the tenement girl how a college girl furnishes her bed room and makes it dainty for a few dollare. They have toys for the children to play with—picture books to look at. They teach them to like to have clean bands and well brushed hair, and they are trying to teach their neighbors of the Tenth ward what a good home is, and how it is possible to have good homes, even though they never have riches. Wednesday nights they are "at home" to the ward. They often give evening parties, to which the young ladies are specially invited, and who are also allowed the privilege of bringing their best young man. The "College Settlement" took possession of their home the first of last Oct-»bor. It provoked all sorts of comments—has been pronounced by the majority as Quixotic. It certainly is a great undertaking the like of which was never known before, and the out-co me will be watched with interest.

The social rent? ~f the week were the reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Hud nat for Mr. and Mrs. Frank RuJ inson, and Miss Ethel Haymi*' birthday party. The reception was tncxraally l»rH:iani. The arrangement of the Uowe» and foliage plants, of which there was a pn fusion, was extremely artistic.

THE BABY IN THE CAR.

It was midnight in the sleeper, And all had gone to rest: For four long days they'd travelled

Far from the golden West. Weary, tired and wanting sleep, They'd just began to dose, When long and loud, with piercing strength,

A baby's cry arose. Twas only a three months' baby, With lungs enough for ten, And one by one that baby's ery^,

Awoke those sleeping men. t&H* Then some began to curse and swear, And some from curtains peep, With "Darn the child," "Confound the brat," "We paid to get somasleep." Trying to hush the little one,

__ __ A chil- $118 at my mmaixi. I think a woman dren'sparty is always" interesting. They baa a letter cimnce in iM wi-t than in do not tumble themeelves about the, Bnt a .- nhouid never conventTonaiities, simply go in for a we..*t-#SS» iha c*i»ectMlon of «ar»good time, and they certainly had one ing her own witi»o»: br.-yinK at Ethel Havens' Wednesday night.

Eve* yours, OmLOIKBi

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His face with sorrow stamped, Still up and down the sleeping car The youthful father tramped. Then a crusty Western magnate,

With anger In his eye, Burst forth in furious temper At the child's continuous cry "Take the brat back to its mother,

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She is the proper nurse 1 guess she'.* in another car Asleep without this curse Where Is its mother, dam it?"

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But the father sadly Bald, "My wife is In her coffin V, in the baggage car ahead." Then a hush fell on the passengers,

The angry man grew mild. And said, "Go sit with her, my friend* Give me your little child." —The Truth.

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THE PROFITABLE AVENUE8 OPEN TO WOMEN IN WESTERN LIFE AND THE SUCCESS THEY ARE ACHIEVING jIN THEIR PLUCKY WORK

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What can a woman do in the far west? It was Horace Greeley's advice to young men thirty years ago to go west and grow up with the country. But the west has changed the saying to: "Young man, come west, and catch up with the country." But the women 1 What can they dof There are many more women in the east than men, and they must care for themselves and make their own living. But how ungallant of the present age to speak of them as a "surplus."

There is a surplus of money in the United States treasury. There is a surplus of wheat, corn and cattle for export, and in this commercial age the number of women in the east in excess of the men is also considered a surplus, and a wbman who can not or doee not want to marry belongs to this surplus. Hence the moat common, and possibly the cheapest, advice given to the^omenis: "Go west and get married." To the honor of eastern womanhood, but few have followed that advice. Thousands of single women have come to the fiur wflst, but it was to work and provide for themselves, and if they marry in the west it comes around in the old-fashion-ed courtship.

There is also a wrong impression in the east concerning western man. Take the men who for years have lived on "the frontier, drifting from one mining excitement to another, and when they become old bachelors but few of them marry.

A woman is a woman whether in the east or west. She does not lose the gentleness and nobility of her sex by crossing the Mississippi river. If a man wants a wife he has to court her. Your girls lrom Boston, New York and Philadelphia are just as coy in the west as they are in their eastern homes,

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There is one perogatlve a woiBaB always asserts—If a man wants to marry, he must court her. Women don't go gunning for husbands before marriage in the west, although they may do so after marriage in any climate. A woman is just as liable to live single all her life in the west as in the east. It's only your plucky and energetic girl who has the nerve and grit to leave her old home associations and try her fortunes in the west. Or it is yoor eastern girl who marries and then comes west. Hence it is that the welt has as true and noble a womanhood as is found anywhere.

Two things the women can do in the west for which there is no opportunity afforded in the east. They can mine and locate homesteads and file pre-emption claims. A woman who is the head of a family, or is twenty-one years of age, has the same chance of the public domain that man has.

Many a woman owns mining claims in the Rocky Mountains. Some of them arc good prospectors, but that kind of a life is almost seven- for tho «ix, as.d hence tfe» wonv uwuxilr obtaiu mitiM.g jjj' b'1 »?wg pr "g •.)•

staking." One of the pluckicnt women in iJenver is Mrs. P. R. l-'Htvectt, a frr.rn NfrW Ynrk .Mi hej nt'-nev s'rm •'puts into the ni'ii'.s. -i.e tiu ija •me inV're« am! ha.* lea«•*"!» she is quite hopefal ami expects to yet make little j'rtu»e. ••It '.viVisid '.ake to ftrrr mrt my a i' I '..j iuo receaiLly. "iiiid v.-r, wi 11 I*?rivei irs Denver I laVlmt

with her from 1100 to That will I keep ber for awhile, and then if she doe* I not like the country or cannot get the

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work she wants she will have enough money to take her back east." But unless she bas friends here with whom she can live until she gets something to do she should not come west unless she has enough money to pay her board for some time atid then still hare enough left to take her home if she wishes to return to the east. Then 1 also think that women would do better in the west if they would scatter out more, and not so many seek employment in the larger cities.

Filing pre-emptions on the public land* is looked upon with favor by many., women. This is the way school-ma'ms get their start. I cannot give you the exact figures, but at a rough estimate I would say that one out of every fifty filings on the public lands is by a woman.

Most of the women who have made1 filings on the puDlio lands in Colorado have been school-teachers. In the Dakotas and the far northwest, in western Nebraska and Kansas, and eastern Colo- /, rado and Wyoming, and down in the' "i Oklaloma oountry many women owk tarms. Some of them are not of greab value at present but, often, as soon ask the woman has complied with the law, she goes to a town, works as a tea lustres, cooks, teaches school or clerks iu a store. She expects to see hard times for a few years. But these women have beoouie self-reliant. They are learning to take care of themselves. What if for the next five or ten years they only earn-' enough to4 feed and clothe themselveri and make the slow, small payments for their land? They know it will be valuable sometime.

After five or ten years the little farm will be in a thickly settled community. The woman will then have a home of her own. Such a woman becomes inde^ pendent.

Why don't you get married?" I asked of a young woman about thirty years of age who had taken up a home on the public lands. "I can," she replied, "but I don't %ant to. He is a nice fellow, too, but while I have been earning and make a home he bas done nothing but spend his earnings. I have a home of my own and don't care whether I ever marry."

You Bee in this something of the evolution of your eastern girl out west. ', Do you ask if young women really live all alone on these lands way out on the plains? Curtain ly thoy do, I have made inqniries at the land oflioe and of county superintendents of public instruction concerning the experience of lady teachers who have located on the public lands, and I haye failed to learn of a single oase where a woman living on her land claim has been males ted. There would be the quickest lynching: on record if any man should insult a* woman who has taken up a home on the public lands. There are no tramps in the frontier agTieultural settlements, and the farmers are glad to have women settle among them, and would give protection were it needed.

JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY. All phools are poor listeners.

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Young man, don't grind your scythe all on one side. The more you praze a man who don't deserve it the more you abuxe him.

Everybody in this world wants watch* ing, but none more than ourselves. A weak constitushun kan be strengthened, but a weak set ov branes kan't.

Flattery ix liko ice kream to relish it good we want it a little at a time and often. ..

Vanity iz a strange pashun. Rather than be out of a job it will brag ov it* vices.

A wise man It never konfounded bt what he don't understand, but a phoot generally \r...

I don't know ov a more lamentable sight than an old rake. Even repentance looks like weakness In him.

About all it takes tew make a wise man fx tew giv other people's oplnyuns as mutch waight a7. we do our own.

Fust impresbuns are sed tew be lasting. Knny man who hax only been stung bi a hornet once wiil swear to this.

The safest way for most fotks to do iz to do az the rest do. There's but phew who kan navigate without a compact*.

Miss Ume Tsuda, a Japanese young lady who spent eleven years in this country as a government student, is in Washington

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retnrn home in 1882, she became a teacher in a school extabli1-bed by theEmpress of Japan, and she has been granted a Jefjve of abseriee to visit the I'nited States, with a view to perfecting herself In the later methods of normal schools.

M!-- Tr"1tert, who opened an edncaii'.uiti l.uruu in Boston some time ago, bad a career that would have discou ruined a less energetic wo wan. She va* for sottje time a govern' *-, afteruf teber In a jrwrng MW «emly, iL^n turned her mother's MaryIn home into Cedar Hill Seminary, ^niied, auflfered'a hvi4 illness, and then raise to !S -ton with a very thin p«-fcet-ami "-p^rtr-d hot ^mploynient 1,11 use*!. At the emd of seven ru-juik# |-atr"ti" ljjul upon her.

Mrs. Grover Cleveland Is going to l&ra to paint.

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