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rsth 8 i4 t» CtTh tils:MNITYNtrION MADE IN THE DOMINION READY !RUSSIAN MEMBERS
FOR SHIPMENT TO THE SOLDIERS IN FLANDERS.
ARE BEARDED
OY BOTH VOICE AND SIGHT BY
WIRELESS SYSTEM.
Nikola Testa Thinks His Plan Win
Allow Us to Talk Through
the Earth.
one another, not only by voiee, but by
sight, It's surely coming',"
DESTITUTION IN POLAND.
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NO
BARBERS WANTED WHERE
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Poverty Is Driving Poles to Street DT,1111A, MEETS.
Begging.
Members Stand on Tribune When
They Wish to AddreSs the
House,
The Petrograd porrespondent of the
London Dally Mail sends an interest-
ing account of -a session cif the Duane.
Imagine a large oblong hall, the
correspondent continues. In the mid-
dle of the side which faces you as you
enter is the president's dais. Hera he
sits raised above every one else, with
a vice-president on either side of him,
Below him is the platform for the
orator who is addressing the House.
No member speaks from his place.
He goes to the tribune. Here he is a
little above his audience, which makes
speaking more easy. It also Makes.'
him more easily heard.
The members' seats are arranged in
a send -circle facing the President and
the speaker's platform. The floor is
slightly "raked," that is to say, it
slopes upward. Each member has a
seat of his own. •None has to stand,
as many of our members of Parlia-
ment do whenever there is a big de-
Date
The Hairiest Assembly.
Duma, by the way, means literally
not a talking assembly (Parliament)
but a council of thinkers (from doo-
mat, to think). Do not assume, how-
ever, that it is a more thoughtful
body than others of its kind. A
glance round at its members shows
that they are no different for the
most part from those who sit in pub-
lic assemblies everywhere else. Only
in one outward aspect do they claim
unique distinction. They 'must be
quite the hairiest assembly in the
world. There are bald, heads to be
seen, but not nearly so many as at
Westminster, for instance, or in the
•Capitol at Washington. The clean-
shaven can be counted; there are not
half a dozen of them. The greater
number of Deputies have beards as
well as moustaches, and then there
are the priests with their long hair
flowing from their heads about their
shoulders, in addition to that which
issues from their chins and cheeks.
Most of these priestly members are
on the extreme right. Here sits the
party which opposes all change. AV
first sight the desks in this quarter
appear to be occupied entirely by ec-
clesiastics. They look very fine in
their cassocks of blue or grey or mul-
berry silk, with gold or silver chains
round their necks and crossed on their
breasts.
Most of Them are Big Men,
broad as well as tall, with a stolid
dignity which seems to defy the world
to alter.
'Yet it moves in spite of them. Here
is Mr. Rodzianko, President of the
Durna, burly himself, more than com-
mon tall, with a; noble voice and prac-
tised oratory, declaring in his opening
discourse that not only have there
been changes in the Ministry of late,
but that the whole spirit of the Ad-
ministration has become different.
On his right sits the Ministers. Not
the same who were there when the
Diuna last met The "old gang" have
nearly all disappeared. For the blood
of one of that gang even the Nation-
alists are now clamoring. The Na-
tionalists before the war had only one
principle, which was that the acts of
the "old gang" must be supported!
There are a new War Minister, a new
Home Secretary, a new head of the
Church, new Ministers of Education,
Justice, Trade and Industry,
An increased number of beggars is
a sight common to all cities in Polish
territory occupied by the military
forces, but nowhere in the other cities
visited by the Associated Press cur -
respondent who writes this are there
Nikola Tesla, of New York, an soh numbers nor •do they display
flounced recently that he has received such pertinacity as in Lodz. They
a patent on an invention which will follow the pedestrian for squares,
not eliminate static interference, the hands stretched out, whining coil -
present bugaboo of wireless tele- stathly. They await one outside the
phony, but would enable thousands of shops which he enters; they even en -
persons to talk at once between wire- ter the shops and restaurants.
less stations and make it possible for This is but one of the signs of the
those talking to see one another by, appalling destitution which has al -
wireless, regardless of the distance ready come upon many of the inhabit -
separating them. He said also that ants. Actual hunger is a daily guest
with his wireless station now in the in thousands of homes; in other
process of construction on Long Is- thousands it stands at the door. If
land he hoped to make New York one
of the central exchanges in a world
system of wireless telephony.
Mr. Tesla has been working on
wireless problems for many years.
He has exhibited an article publihsed
in the Electrical World eleven years
ago, in which he predicted not only very dear, and other necessaries of
wireless telephony on a commercial life have increased greatly in cost.
basis, but that it would be possible to To have a pair of shoes half -soled,
identify the voice of an acquaintance for instance,'costs $4,50. It used to
over any distance. That its operator cost $1.25.
in Hawaii was able to distinguish the Rabbi Treistmann, chief rabbi of
voice of an engineer friend at Arling- the Lodz district, told the Associated
ton, Va., was announced by the Amer- Press representative that the destitu-
ican Telephone and Telegraph Com- tion prevailing among the poorer peo-
pany as the most marked triumph of ple was beginning to show, particu-
its communication by wireless tele- larly in the great increase of the in -
phone from the naval radio station at flint death rate.
Arlington to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a
distance of 4,600 miles.
The inventor, who has won fame by
his electrical inventions, dictated this
statement:
"The experts carrying out this bril-
liant experiment are naturally deserv-
ing of great credit for the skill they the resultant unemployment of
have shown in perfecting the devices. thousands and countless small shops
These are of two kinds: First, those went to the wall. Many persons
serving to control transmission; and, turned to peddling the streets, selling
second, those magnifying the received mainly cigarettes, cigars and matches.
impulse. That the control of trans- But this month an order goes into ef-
the coming winter sees the war still
going on there will be misery and
want indescribable. The city grants
weekly payments to the needy, but
they are only a drop to the bucket,
amounting to from $1. to $1,50 a
week for a family. Provisions are
Lodz is pre-eminently a manufac-
turing city. The great bulk of its in-
habitants normally work in factories,
and these are now closed. There are,
for one thing, no raw materials to
work on.
The closing of these factories and
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The above picture, reproduced from a photograph taken "somewhere in Canada," shows
Cape dian:malde ammunition st,ored and beiN: shi.pped to the front.
HINDENBURG NOT
KNOWNUP TO WAR The fiumiture is also of antique pat-
tures-- paintings, copper -plate en- BABIES' WARD IN RAID.
gravings, lithographs—give a flavor
of olden times to the small rooms. Zeppelin Night at Children's Hospital
In London Gay.
terns and not Et few heirlooms be-
speak his love for his line. At one of the hospitals in the
At
counties and London dis-
And he is a deeply religious man
WAS RETIRED FOUR YEARS AND Not Cromwell himself was more firm-. trict" the ready resource of a nurse
discovered a way of dealing with Zep--
LIVING QUIETLY. ly convinced of being an instrument in
pelin raids which would lessen the
the hands of God than is Hindenburg.
mission is perfect is plain to experts feet forbidding this free trade in to- --- Prof. Vogel, the portrait painter, glee of the baby -killers if it were
from the fact that the Arlington, bocce and placing the business "en
Mare Island, and Pearl Harbor regle"; that is, under the exclusive
Writing His Reminiscences When who spent nearly two months at Him! Icnown in Berlin.
denburg's•
headquarters making stud- all
Withthe firstdeafening crash
plants are all inefficient and that the control of the Government. Called to Fight the ies for a portrait, has given us a first- the little inmates, frightened out of
distance of, telephonic communication ---4.----
is equal to that of telephoneic trans- hand description of the field marshal Cher sleep, cried for "Sister."
in his hilllife, with ob-
Russians. "We'll have a Guy Fawkes night,"
1 cy interesting
mission. It is also perfectly apparent
DUELING IN HUNGARY.
The Germans have erected in front ! servations the nurse declared, .comfortingly, and on Ids character. He says
that the chief merit of the application — of the Reichstag a colossal statue of ; he had to rise every morning at 6 or all who were well enough and old
lies in the magnification of the micro- No Case Has Been Recorded SinceGeneral von Hindenburg, the corn- 6.30 o'clock; that Hindenburg toler-
enough to understand cheered. Choco-
phonic impulse. Last Spring. mender of the German eastern army,
I
ates no loafers around him, and is lates in abundance—the chocolates
Not New Discoveries. In suppression of the dueling maniawho gave it new life. Who is this himself incredibly busy. He was
that ordinarily are given out one at
i
"It must not be imagined that we in Hungary the war has accomplished Von Hindenburg A most readable ; found to have a keen knowledge of a time as a reward for taking nasty
more in six months than the law had answer is given by W. 0, Dreher, in I men; he was cautious in his speech,
medicine—and a few crackers left
deal here with new discoveries. The the Atlantic Monthly, as follows; ibut at the same time frank and open. over from last Christmas, provided a
improvement simply concerns the been able to do in 20 years. Up to a On the night of August 29, 1914, a The walls of his cottage at Han- touch of festivity, and with the crash
control of the transmitted and the year ago it seemed that nothing could of each bomb or shell the chorus of
be done to stop dueling. Notwith- German writer strolled into the office over are decorated with the antlers
magnification of the received impulse, "The Fifth of November" rose higher
standing all legal prohibitions, such of a newspaper of Hamburg to learn of stags slain by his rifle.
but the wireless system is the same.
This can never be changed. an important personage as the Mini- the news from the front. The day's When Hindenburg retired to that and higher.
"That it is practicable to prnient ster President, Count Stephen Tisza, bulletin of the general staff had just cottage only four years ago he Only a bonfire was needed to make
the human voice not only to a dis- continued fighting duels, having had a arrived, with the following passage: thought that his career was ended, things perfect, some of the elder dill -
tame of 5,000 miles, but clear across dozen to his credit, six of them dur- "Our troops in Prussia under the and he began to write his reminis.. dren complained, but this want was
the globe, I demonstrated by experi- ing his term of office, and openly de- command of Colonel -General von Hin- cences. They were intended only for supplied when the flames of some of
ments in Colorado in 1899. Among fying all the penalties threatened by denburg have defeated, after three his children, as he did not think that
days' fighting in the region of Gilgen-
my publications I would refer to an law' burg and Ortelsburg, the Russian
a
rticle in the Electrical World of In the first six months of the war
March 5, 1904, but describing really i the change was so marked that fewer Narew army, consisting of five army
. it,'ind corps and three cavalry divisions, and
are now pursuing it across the fron-
tier."
The editor, upon reading this,
reaches for the army list to see who
tests I made in 1899. The facts which 'le were ° g
I pointed out in the article were of than had ordinarily taken place in a
single week before. Since last spring
much greater significance than that
I not a single case of dueling has been
of the experiments reported, although
reported, in contrast with the fact
this should be taken in a scientific
the burning buildings in front .of the
his life would interest a wider public. hospital lit up the ward like daylight.
The war rudely interrupted his work. Altogether, far from causing panic,
Perhaps he will resume his writing one small section of the community at
after it is over. any rate found the Zeppelin raid en-
joyable.
UNIQUE ILLUSTRATION. dead bodies of five children were ta-
.1 To another yable.
her hospital, however, the,
— ken. The eldest was 15; others were
sense, as the experiments were simply tnat auring •one weeK itt July, 1914, Hindenburg is, finds that he has been Showing That Germany Is Not Even 10, 7 and 5, and the youngest, a baby.
out then that the modulations of the alone. retired and living at Hanover. Then Nothing would give me greater WANT TO GET SOME.
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a commanding general, but is now Efficient.
scientific demonstrations. I pointed 1 50 duels were recorded in Budapest
human voice can be reproduced more How public opinion has changed on he addresses Ms visitor:
ture before the public of Berlin. I —
satisfaction than to be invited to lea -
clearly through the earth than this question of dueling is shown in a Living on Pension. German Soldiers Are Longing for the
th h ' document recently published in the , •
• would risk internment in a German •
Hungarian papers. A provincial law, And how did "this man from Han- concentration camp to deliver my led- •The difference between the British
"These tests made between Wash-
yer made some disparaging remarks over" come to be in command? He ture, said a professor of some repute- volunteer and the German.conscript is
apparent in nothing more conspicu-
ously than in the diversity of opinion
with regard to the duration of the
t about the army in the presence of a himself gives this answer: "A few tion. And this is what I would say to
immense stimulus to wireless tele- wounded officer, who resented his weeks ago I was living on my pen- the people of Germany:
phony, and wouuld be of much more conduct in very sharp language. The sion at Hanover. Of course, I had
value to the world if the principles lawyer sent a challenge, but the sec- tendered my services immediately af-
of the transmission were understood.
onds met and drew up a document set- ter the war broke out; but since then
But they are not. Even now, fifteen ting forth that an officer ready to I had heard nothing. Then suddenly
years after the fundamental princi- sacrifice his life for his country was came a despatch informing me that
pies have been demonstrated and the not obliged to give the so-called "sat- his Majesty had given me the com,
possibilities shown, there are many isfaction" and that in the present war mend of the eastern army. I had
experts in the dark. Quite recently I the life of every soldier, and of every time only to get together the most ne-
have described in a patent circuits civilian, was too precious to be risked cessary articles of clothing and have
which are absolutely immune to static in dueling.
my old uniform put in condition for
and other interferences—so much so The Anti -Dueling League, which service."
that when a telephone is attached
has long existed in Hungary, ex- Late that night—it "was August 22
there is absolute silence, even light' presses the hope that this evil has —an extra train came through with
ning in the immediate vicinity not
been overcome, not only for war- his chief of staff and bore him to the
producing a click of the diaphragm,
times, but also in peace.
while in the ordinary telephonic con-
versation there are all kinds of
noises. SEVERE WINTER AHEAD.
A World System.
Troops Face a Hard Season, Says a
French Scientist.
"Another contention is that there
can be no secrecy in wireless tele-
phone conversation. I say it is ab-
surd to raise this contention, when it will have on the campaign, interest in it with all his heart, He comes, you have been neither. First, what is
is positively demonstrated by experi- has been aroused by the prediction of too, of a family of soldiers, and grew success?
ments that the earth is more suitable Augustin Rey, the French naturalist up in a distinctly military atmos- Efficiency means doing a useful
f or transmission than any wire could and meteorologist, that the winter ph ere. thing well. Germany is not efficient
ever be, A wireless telephone con- will be an exceptionally severe one. Wherever we get a view of Hin- because, she is doing an unuseful
versatiOn can be made as secret as a M. Rey has communicated to the denburg's inner life during bis active thing well.
thought. French Government the reasons on military career it is that of a Marl Efficiency means achieving a useful
"I have myself erected a Plant for which he bases his opinion. He points absorbed iii his profession, taking aim by the shortest road; it does not
the purpose of connecting by wireerg to the premature snowfalls in the serious view of Ms wok, and ever mean a short Out to bankruptcy.
less telephone the chief centres of Alps, which began early- and reached occupied with the possible teaks that Germany is not efficient because all
Let me tell you a little story. In a
small town where I happened to be war, says the London Express. "Tom -
there was a cobbler who grew more my" is under no delusions with regard
and more jealous of his rival across to the 'matter. It is, no doubt, "a
the street. One night the cobbler got long, long way;" but he is prepared
drunk, smashed the other man's win- to march it, even if ie should finish
dows, and ran. amuck generally. He on his socks. Germans who have ta-
was dragged to the nearest lock-up ken advantage of the proximity of
and the next morning fined. When the hostile lines to converse with Bel -
his friends asked him about the ex- glans confidently expect that they will
ploit he remarked: "Well, it took be at home by Christmas, and are
three policemen to get me to the sta- longing for the time to come. They
tion." He didn't mind that his repute- talk no more of conquest or victory—
they leave it to the Kaiser to make
the best terms he can. He has said
they are -to get home before Christ-
mas. They believe him, and will be
glad to see the last of Belgium and
the horrible trenche.,. No doubt the
tion was gone, or his business ruined;
east. He arrived at the front on the the main thought in his mind was
following afternoon. that it took three policemen to drag
The field marshal's lull name is him to the cells. The only consolation
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Be- that you Germans will have—for you
neckendorff und von Hindenburg— will never lose your habit of bragging
thus twice a nobleman. Hindenburg —is that it took ten nations to get
is a soldier pure and simple. He has you down.
In view of the near approach of devoted his whole life to the military You have called yourselves effi-
the winter season and the effect it profession, and he loves and believes dent and successful. I tell you that
the world, and from this plant as
many as a hundred will be able to
talk absolutely without interference
and with absolute secrecy. The plant
would simply be connected with the
telephone central exchange of New
York city, and any subscriber will be
able to talk to any. other telephone
subscriber in the world, and all this
without any 'change' in his appara-
tus.
"Wssil it wonderful thing-. Wire-
less is coming to mankind in its full
meaning like a hurricane some of
these days. Some day there will be,
say, six great Viireless telephone sta-
to low altitudes, and to the behavior the future might bring. that she is doing now ia to, prepare
of vegetation, such as the fact that with marvellous skill for the Official
the beeches began to lose their leaves Home and Religion.
Receiver.
in August, while heather blossoms
have contracted at the base of the
stem.
Animals, too, says the mountaineerncturaiist,
naturalist, have began to prepare
early or the winter,
"My conclusion," declares the na-
turalist, "is that the winter of 1915-
16 by its earlinexis, length and low
temperatures it will bring wilt resent-
ble the winter of 187041."
The latter winter ha ff been remem-
bered for its extreme Agee,
When his only son was an infant, A plan is efficient -when it is rea-
the proud father once teased him up lized at the estimated cost and in the
and addressed him thus: "Boy, I am estimated time. Germany is not Off -
already rejoicing at the thought of
oe
seeing you with me around the bivou-
as flin a war with Ruesia."
On the walls of his little home at
Hanover hang reproductions of the quest.
Sistine Madonna and ab antique head
of juno, as foils to.portraite of the
dent•
because she planned to conquer
Europe in half the time and at half
the cost the war has entailed upon
her, and she is still far from con -
old Emperor 'Willitiro Frederick M. •Phreaology was at one tiro for -
PRISONERS OF THE TURKS.
- -
Submarine Men Breaking Stones and
Are Poorly Fed.
A story of the manner in which
British submarine men fare as pris-
oners of war in the hands of the
Turks is furnished in a letter just
received from Mr. S. B. Todd, chief
E15,
E,R,A. of the British submarine
FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT THE WESTERN rEOPLE
ARE DOING.
Progress of the Great West Told
' In a Pew Pointed
Paragraphs.
A rock slide pear Landon- killed
three pack horses,
Thi year 90,000 tons of potatoes
were Ta aloB,C.
The curfew at*Roelanel, B.C„ novif
rings at 8 instead of 9 p,m,
Within a week three Austrians
caped from the detention camp at
Pernie.
More than 1,000 beef cattle a Month
are being shipped from the Nivola
-Valley,
During August 15,1.21,500 pounds of
fish, 'mostly salmon, wore handled at
Prince Rupert.
The ladies of. Greenwood have p4e-
sented the home guard company with
a set of colors.
An order has been received in B.C.
from Smith America for 1,000 tons of
potatoes.
Recently in Princeton, B.C., a coyote
stole 18 „turkeys. Probably getting
ready for Christmas,
Coyotes are becoming a source of
menace to public safety in the neigh-
borhood of Cranbrook,
At Kalemalka Lake in the Okana-
gan, Mrs. Edgar killed a black bear
by shooting it with a 22 rifle.
Fot itssize Fernie is now supply-
ing More men for overseas service
than any point in the province,
180 families at Vernon are being
assisted from the Patriotic Fund, the
August payments being $2,668.
Ten miles from Vittoria, B.C.,- this.
year one farmer raised 70'bushels of
wheat to the acre and 110 of oats.
John Strachan succeeds the late D.
C. McGregor as mayor of Raslo. He
beat Ald. Strathearn by 2 votes.
Lee Yeun, a Rossland Chinaman, is
the first Chinese auto owner in the
Kootenay. • He runs his own car. •
Penticton, B.C., will nbt accept va-
cant lots from property owners in
payment of taxes on other real estate.
Among the exhibits at the New
Denver fruit fair was an Alexander
apple grown at an elevation of 3,488
feet.
Among the Grand Forks, B.C., fruit
shipments this year are twelve cars of
Italian prunes from the Sunnyside
ranch. .
Regular buyers of milk are now
paying 12% cents a quart for it at.
Rossland, B.C. If you buy only occa-
sionally the price is 15 cents.
The Okanagan, B.C., selling agency
booked orders for 100 cars of apples
for Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa.
The Crow's Nest Pass Lumber Com-
pany is shipping from eight to twelve
cars of lumber per day by rail from
Galloway.
At Penticton the local -made dairy
butter sells at 40 cents a pound while
the imported prairie article retails at
30 cents.
WOMAN VICTIM OF WAR.
Died in Hospital Eleven Months After
Wounded in Belgium.
An inquest was held at Southwark,
London, England, on a Belgian re-
fugee named Eliza Panen, who died
froth injuries caused by the collapse
of a wall during the bombardment of
Dixmude last October. The woman
was the wife of a police inspector who
was interned in Holland after the
siege of Antwerp,
It was stated that during the bom-
bardment of Dixmude she took refuge
in a cellar with her two children and
mother. A bomb knocked down a
wall of the cellar, and her three -
months -old baby and three adults
were killed. The woman's right thigh
was fractured, and she was uncon-
scious for a week.
Just before the Germans entered
the cellar she was conveyed by Red
Cross workers to a hospital five miles
away, and was under treatment there
for three months. The hospital was
bombarded while she was there, and
many of the patients were killed.
The woman subsequently went to
which went ashore at the Dardanelles
England with her relatives, and she
last April. ,
"We have had to work very hard," was admitted to Guy's Hospital. She
remained there until her death.
m
he writes, "from six in .themorning
until six at night, with only a little The jury retarned a verdict that
bread and cheese for dinner, and death followed injuries caused by a
wall falling on the woman during the
war was very popular throughout
when we get home bread with peas bombardment of Dixmude.
most of the German States for some and water, and twelve of us have to
TIIF, IMITATIVE STARLING.
--__
with the overbearing character of the get the peas,
months. Its grim realities, coupled dip into the same tub with a spoon to
German officers, have thoroughly "Our work has consisted of break-
sickened many of the men, to whom ing stones 4fla making made, One Imitate Whistling or of Rifle Hallett: in
the possibility of a winter campaign week we had to walk sixteen mules France.
is unthinkable. each waY. We were promised some
pay, but have been told that what One can readily believe ,the report
BUSY WITH MERCHANT SHIPS. we had earned Just paid for the shoes that the starliags' in the wooded eon -
they gave us to walk to our work, try about Souchez aro imitating the
whistling of rifle bullets, for the
Activity in British Yards Outside of Just been cutting piece eff
Work for Admiralty. ray coat to mend my trousers with, :darling Is the most imitative of birds,
You can jsce "The rats of many says a writer in London Chronicle, I
Notwithstanding that most of the
s among us, fowever, things have heard him imitating a blaekbird
British. shiphuilding yards are en-
gaged on Admiralty work, there is
still considerable ;Activity in connec-
tion with merchant ship work. The
repairing yards on the northeast
coast have a number of.or els n
hand, Several new vessels are fitting
00t. 011 the Clyde, among them being
th.e Leyland liner Bostonian and the
15,000 -ton passenger eteartiship A o
tearoa, f or i.11 New Zealand trade.
A large number of oil -carrying
yeas& have been ordered recently a
have now much improved since 'a so closely that a casual listener might
Mg pot' from Constantinople has have been deceived, and the blaek-
bon to see how Vid were being bird's. song is not an easy thing to
treated, and we have not been at imitate. The talking starling seems
work sloe,"
Smith fin reetaurant)-."What itt
the world are you after to -night, wait-
er? You brought the fish first, and pathetic cry, "I can't get out; I emit
now the eoup," ' Waiter (In strict get out," moved Sterne to one of the
confidence)—"Well, :dr, the fact is it, truest and' tenderest of his episides.
wail high time you had that fish.' StSIMO'S starling and the raven in
to have gone out of fashion, for which
lovers of birds should be duly thank- '
ful, He haa his place in literature.
No ono can forget the caged starling '
in "The Sentimental Journey," whose
as Crown Prince, Bismarcken, Itifeltke, biddby law
, as being dangerous to various yards is the United ffingdoja,. actor the sent) tt would have been too'"Burnaby Amigo" are the two lords in
and the present Emperor, Othk- plc- religion. for prompt delivery. I fete." (English literuture that :survive.
is •
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