The Clinton News Record, 1919-8-21, Page 3:sii T O "QHS ADRIFT ON Id FLOE
CUT OFF BY MILES OF WATER
.Storkersen, Second .in Command of the Steransstn Expeditiott,
Arrives at I+qi .toi6ton.--•Proves Keenan Land to be a Myth
—No Permanent Currents in A,'retie 1Scla.
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A despatch• f«om ladmailton, Alta„ lanes, whale they fell in with Captain
say :—Six months adrift on an lee Anderson, from whom they got nip -
'floe in the Arctic Sea, cut off from all piles for the Winter of 1010, The trip
civilization by miles of deep. water— .was absolutely the first of its kind,
such was f'he experience Of Stoker T. No other, living man has ever deliber-
Storkersen, who has arrived in tills ately set himself. adrift on an ice floe
city from the great Northern wastes, for scientific purposes `„Caking overy-
`OhServatiens of greet 8nientitic value thing into cora:Adoration, the journey
were made while the patty was on the was most jatisfactovy,
ice floe, but these wilinolabe fully alis- In the that place it vias found
cussed until Storkersen meets his thattherewere • no permanent cur-
•chief, Vilhjelmur Stefansson, in Banff' rents in the sea, The lee floe drift -
and prepares his full report. ea .with the wind and its( coarse tip
Stefansson was taken ill at, the last peered to be Determined by thryt agent
moment, and Storkersen, being sec- alone,
and in domtnand,. wae forced to take Owing to certain phenomena ob-
.command pf the party and proceed served by Mr. Storkersen, be was ih-
•'without the otherexplorer.' dined to think that there was land
'So, in the Spiting of 1918, after all to the, north of the point reached.
preliminary erranngemeits had, been The reason for this supposition was
'made, he set out from Boder" Island the -faet that in this six months the
on March15 with 13 men, S0 doge and floe turned completely around.
'eight sleds. The huge floe was seven miles in
The object before the daring little' length and at least fifteen miles in
party was to, stay for one year if pos- width. Seals, polar bears, ducks,
• Bible 'on an ice floe.and drift clueing gulls and land birds abounded on it,
this time. They wished to determine while shrimps and small fish appeared
the currents .if any, in I3eauf,ort.Sea, to be the chief food of the seals.
/to take soundings and to discover any As a result of the strange voyage,
new land that might not have been much ]important information was
sighted before. gleaned. Keenan Land, which Was
Four months 'after the party went supposed to be discovered by Captain
adrift on the floe, Storkersen was Keenan, was found to be non-existent.
taken i11 with asthma, brought on"by At least, there was no land on latitude
the extreme cold, and' it was decided '74 and between longitude 140 W 52,
to return to shore, The 'fest of the which was where Keenan placed his
party then being; at latitude 74, find. Instead of land was water from
longitude 147 W., started again for 500 metres to 4,500 metres deep.
the American Continent and 'arrived Mr. Storkersen strongly recon-
at Cape Halkett on Npv, 7. From Cape mended the Government's plan of corn-
Halkett they • proceeded to Boder Is- mercializing the musk ox.
Ful !ILL 'OLDIES LAND SET -
TRAVEL 8,800 MILES TLEMENT INCREASE
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BROKEN DOWN.
Catalog wagons may be all right to look at. But catalog repairs are a different thing. Particularly when
you're in a hurry. It is then you learn the additional advantage in trading at home, Not only has the home
town dealer the best goods that can be obtained, ,Taut he offers you HOME SERVICE as well, Your time is too
valuable to risk one of these expensive break -downs. Buy your implements from your home dealer antg take
advantage of the HOME SERVICE he can offer you.
Markets of the World
Breadatuffa.
Lard—Pure, tierces, 30 to 362c;
tubs, 872 to 38c; pails, 37% to 382c;
prints, 381/2 to 39c. Compound tierces,
311/2 to 32c• tubs, 32 to 3212c; pails,
3212. to 32%c; prints, 33 to 831/2c.
Toronto, Aug.9.—Man.' Wheat— Montreal Markets+. —
g Montreal Aug.9,—Oats, extra No.
:Seventy -Day Tourney Through Majority Able to Begin Life on No. 1 Nartheyn, $2,241/.; No. 2 North- ' g c
Canada Includes Many Western _Farris Without ern, $2.211/2.; No. 3 Northern, $2.171/,; lrade,l 11 o2,'ll lour, new lled oats, bad Trainloads of Sugar hRushed to
Too✓lis, , Aid of Govt. Loan. No. 4 wheat, $2,11, in store, Fort Wil- 90 lbs., $4.95$ to $5.25. Bran, $42 Nest to Preserve lag Crop.
The Canadian itinerary of'his Royal A despatch from Ottawa says:— 1n Manitoba oats—No. 2 CW, 921,2 e; Shorts, $44 Hay, fiNonest
2, per ton, car Immediateetcrel h from
mIn the difficult
lots, $'Z8. Cheese, finest easterns, 26c.
Highness - the Prince of Wales, so far Three thousand seven hundred and No. 3 CW, 9112c; extra No. 1 feed, Butter, choicest creamery, 54 to 541/2c, sugar situation in the West may be
as it can be definitely announced, is sixty -night soldier grant entries have 911c; No. 1 feed, 90%c; No. 2 feed, Egg's, fresh ^G2 to 64e; do, saleetocl looked for as a result of a eonfezeneel Also PoS5e5SeS the Biggest Cell
been monde on lands in the Western 8$1/I,c, in store at Fort William. ' between re nenentatives of the British Fields in the 'V�/orid,
as follows: 58 to GOc; do IQo. 1 stock, SGc; do No,
Provinces under the Soldier Settle- Manitoba barley—No. 8 CW, $1.40; 2 stock 43 to 45c. Potatoesp
tirrive Quebec August 21; Toronto, No. 4 CW, $1.36; rejected, $1.27; feed per bag, Gol,nn st Fruit Gravers' Association
August 24; Ottawa, August 27; leave anent legislation of the Federal Gov- $1.27, .in store Port William, ' car lots, killed,
�6 to $33. Lard, Dressed hogs, and Eastern sug'ac refiners with mein- A despatch from Calgary says:—
capital September 1st; visit North mnentent, By Provinces: American corn—No, 3yellow,nom- abattoir killed, pure, wood Dr. A. B. acct slum, Chairman of the
Manitoba 858 pails, 20 lbs. net, 36c, hers of the Cabinet, held at the invite- Council of Scientific and Industrial
Bay, Cobalt and Timmins, returninginal; No. 4 yellow, nominal tion of the Canadian Trade Commis -
to North Bay, and thence to "Soo,' Saskatchewan ... 1,124 Ontario oats—No, 8 white, 87 to 90c, Live Stock Markets. Research, sad at the, recent meeting
sl:on.
Nipigon, where he will flsh for trout. Alberta 1,702 according to freights outside, of the Industrial Congress that Al -
September. 8; Winnie September There has been a considerable in- car lot, nominal; No, 2, do, $2.03 to steers, $14 to 3.50; ; goodhr heavy -rally in trainloads,spcal will arrangements nt
1 g, p steers, $18 to $13.b0• Uutchers cattlefive thousand years with the present
9; Saskatoon, September 11; Edmon- crease in the settlement on Dominion r-
$° 0S; No. 3, ccdoorcl n nominal, t fr b ship -choice, $12.75 Co $13.25; do, good, the refiners, and the railways. with population and two thousand years
ton, September 12; Calgary, Soptem• lands by soldiers . in the past four ping pontes, a g o freights. $11,75 to $12; do, med., $11,36 to 1 y No with a population of twenty millions.
her 13. Four days will be spent in months, In April there were 346 en- Ontario wheat—No. 1, 2 and 3 811.G0; do, con., $7 to $8; bulls, choice, doubt exists that the supply will reach Canada needed sit organized institu-
tries; in May, 463; in June, 813;. Spring, nominal. $10 to $10.75; do, med„ $10 25 to its destination in time to save the Canada
that would direct the develo
• Calgary and its vicinity, including a Barley—Malting, $1.35 to 1,39, ac- ."develop -
and in July, 941, The Porcupine
"� $10.75; do, rough, $8 to $8.25; but- British Columbus fruit crop from beteg
visit to the celebrated horse ranch of pine cording to freights outside. chess' cows, choice, $10 to 10:75• do, wasted. _ ment of her natural resources.
Gedrge Lane. Leaving Calgary on Forest Reserve was opened in July Buckwheat—Nominal.2 ; $ 5geEugene Costo said Alberta had the
September 17, stops will be made at and about 150 soldiers have already Rye—Nominal. _ , good, $d, 5 to coin., 75; too$ ; stockers,
kers, It• was reported that there are at mules oil fields ,in the world, 1,000
1 _ to $9; do, $7 w8; stockers, present in British Columbia 10,000.
Pro -
Banff, Lake Louise and field, in the settled fliers, At the jinstigation of arc7�at11o1To1Honto. Government stand-
ard,
tand- $8.75 to $11,75; feeders, $1L50 to $12; tons of preserving fruits, chiefly miles by 300miles wide.
bCanadian Rockies, the programme at the Soldier Settlement Board, the Pro- $ canners_ and cutters, $4.75 to $6.75
Field including a visit to the beautiful vincial Goveillluent is building roads Ontario flour—Government stand- milkers, good to choice, $110 to $140; plums, prunes, peaches, pears and
Valley; Revelstoke, September into the reserve and constructing steel and $10,25 to $10,60, in bags, Mont- do, con, and seed., $65 to $75 spi}ng- crabapples, These fruits are not ac-
Yoho
20, and Vancouver, September 22, re-� bridges, and prospects are Haat by real prompt shipment; do, $10.25 to ers, $90 t0 $150; light ewes, $8 to $10; tually preserved by the Fruit Grow- BRITAIN WILL LAUNCH
p$10,50, ,in jute bags, Toronto, prompt yearlings, $10.50 to $13; spring lambs, ors' Association, but are shipped fres] WORLD'S LARGEST WARSHIP
turning to Vancouver September 29, next season the area will be pretty shipment. per cwt., $17 to $18.50; calves, good to the Prairie Provinces, where they
well tilled up. A number of the 3,603 111illfeed—Car lots, delivered Mont- to choice, $18 to $22; x hogs, fed and are bought by the consumers, usually A despatch from London says:
returned soldiers who have taken sol" real freights, bags included, bran, perdiers'
watered, $23.78; x do, weighed off cars, In cnse lots, and it was customary f01 Appointments are now being made to
financial naesi tanced entries nnfromlso n the ve 1Gove n. to eceived $50; good fee$42 to d flour,sper, bag, er t$3 25 q44 uoxo,xPacice's' p.
which wbiggestbut groat ableAug. select sugar at the same time i Th11f.5, Hood,
which will be completed
finance themselves and begin Opera- Hay—No. 1, per ton, $22 to $24; hogs, $23 and $24 per�ewt, weighed Distribution of the Eastern supplies�rabout the end of October. This meg-
Government
mixed, per ton, $10 to $19, track, To- $12 ' will be undertaken byniAeent vessel is quite unique, repre-
ttone without the assistance of the off cars. Choice steers, to $19 the refiners
ronto. cwt.;other
Government 1091. Straw—Car' lots, per ton, $10 to $11, per grades, 12; c But-, agents. the
track, Toro,to, esters cattle, best, $8 to $12; canners, Other shipments will go forward ii
$5 to $5,50, Calves, best milk -fed due course, but it is certain that the
Country Produce—Whoiesale. stock, $12 to $15 per cwt, present prompt action mill relieve
Butter—Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36 to ��— what had become.a serious deadlockin
38c; prints, 88 to 40c; creamery, fresh COST OF AID TO RUSSIA the sugar supply. This arrangement
made solids, 51 to 51%e; prints, 511/2 £70,000,000 SINCE JULY is entirely 1n addition to supplies in
to 52c, — excess of the normal consumption
Eggs -46 to 47c. A despatch to London says:—Brei- which have been shipped from Eastern
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, tish expenditures for naval and mili- refiners in the last few days.
35 to 40c• roosters, 25c; fowl, 30 to tart' operations in Russia from the
32c; ducklings, 25e; turkeys, 36 to --4,--
40e• squabs, doz,, $6,
TO . SAVE BRITISH
COLUMBIA FRUIT
battleship, s
teen small cruisers, o
stroyers, twenty-one large and forty-
one small.torpedo boats, one special
vessel and one hundred and seventy-
eight submarines. The records con-
cerning the latter show eighty-two
lost in the North Sea and the Atlantic,
seventy-two on the coast of Flanders,
three in the Baltic Sea, sixteen in the
Mediterranean, and five In the Black
Sea,
Vessels destroyed to avoid capture
include twenty-one submarines—of
which ten were sunk in Mediterran-
ean ports, four on the coast of 'alai-
dere,
'larders, and seven in neutral ports, and
six river gunboats and survey vessels.
"Lost" craft include twenty -e' ;ht
mine -sweepers, nine auxiliary cruis-
ers, one hundred trawlers and twenty.
two auxiliary vessels.
The loss of life in connection w
these vessels shows a total of 18,854
officers and 'nen,
ALBERTA AL
HAS �0
FOR 5,000 YEARS
motor to New Westminster through
Southern British Columbia, Penticton
September 29, and steamer trip on
Okanagan Lake, Nelson Ocitbber 1,
through the Crow's Nest Pass, Mac-
lerd October 2, Lethbridge, Medicine
Hat, 1Vloose Jaw, and Regina, October
4. Three days' , duck shooting. Qu' -
Annelle, Brandon, Portage la Prairie,
Winnipeg, October 10; Fort William,
October 11, Dour days,.at Biseotasing
moose hunting. Via Georgian Bay to
Toronto and Hamilton, October '18;
MONTREAL FIRE TRAGEDY
CAUSED BY SMOKERS
A despatch from Montreal says:—
Niagara Falls, October 20; Brant- Fire Commissr.oner La Tulippe has
P6rd, Guelph, Stratford, Woodstock, opened his inquiry into the fire at
Chatham, London, Windsor, Galt, Dominion Park on Sunday last,'and it
Kingston, and Brockville, reaching was brought out in. evidence 'that
Montreal October 27. The total twelve persons hail boarded the boats
length of his 70 -day journey is over
8,800 miles.
$5,000,000 in Gold Ingots
Recovered From Wrecked Ship ing, and his conclusion at the end of
A despatch from Duucrana, Ireland, the inquiry wen that passengers, in
says:—Gold ingots to„ the value of going through the Mystic Rill, had
X1,000,000 sterling have been recover- been responsible for the fire through
ed by salvagers from the wreck of the smoking. No witness was prepared
former White Star -Dominion ' Liner to state that the fire was of an ineen-
Laiuentic, which was sunk January diary nature, The Fire Commissioner
28, 1917, off Easel sight. adjourned the inquiry sine die,, and
The Laureutio a vessel of 14,892 stated that full investigaton into the
tolls, which was acting as a British .°i'tgnn would be continued,
auxiliary cruiser, struck a mine off 9---
the north coast of Ireland and later ANDREW CARNEGIE BURIED
sank, Of a personal of 470 only 120 AT 'I'ARRYTON
were saved —
,.� A despatch from Tarryton, N. Y„
of the Mystic Rill just previous to the
tragedy. Up to the present, clues
showing that eight had lost their lives
had been found. A long list of wit-
nesses was subjected to close question-
says:—The body of Andrew Carnegie,
1 -HONOR ROLL OF steel magnate and philanthropist, was
CANADA'S HEROIC DEAD. laid to test at 5,80 o'clock on Thurs-
• yad afternoon on a hillside in historic
A despatch from Ottawa says:— Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, overlooking
Canada's war toll in men, aceordlhg to the Hudson.
the official figures of the Militia De -
.pertinent, is 54,919 dead, 8,119 report •
-
ed Missing, 2,813 prisoners of war, H,R.H.the Prince of Wales' has ex -
149,709 wounded. pressed the desire to meet some of
The details two as follows: Killed- file Canadian soldiers whose acquaint-
The
notion or diad of wounds --officers, once he made overseas during his stay
2,636;. other ranks, 48,333; died- in Toronto, when he will open the
officers, 234; ouster ranks; 3,700; miss- Canadian National Exhibition on
Ing—oflicei's,, 352; other ranks, 7,767; August 36th. Ile will review 16.000
prisoners of war—officers, 130; other
ranks, 2,688; wounded—olilcers, 6,344;
other ranks, 143,365,
9.
date of the armistice until the end of
Live .poultry—Spring chickens, 30 July amounted to 270,000,000, accord -
to 32c; roosters, 22c; fowl, 26 to 30e; ing to an official "white paper" issued
ducklings, 22c; turkeys, 30c.
Wholesalers are selling to the re-
tail trade at the following prices:
Cheese—New, large, 28 to 29c;
twins, 281/2 to 291/2c; triplets, 29 to
30c; Stilton, 29 to 30c.
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 46 to
48c; creamery; prints, 55 to 60c.
Margarine -36 to 88c.
Eggs—No. l's, 53 to 54c; selects, 57
to 58c.
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens,
45c; roosters, 28 to 30c; fowl, 87 to
38c; turkeys, 40 to 45c; ducklings, ib.,
35 to 36c; squabs, doz., $7; geese, 28
to S9e
Live, poultry—Spring chickens, 35±;
fowl, •30 to 35c; ducks, 27 to 80c.
Beans—Canadian, hand-picked, bus.,
$5 to $5.50; • primes. $4 to $4.50; Im-
ported hand-picked, Bnrinq, 54; Limas,
15 to rale.
Horley—Extracted clover, 5-1b, tins,
24 to 25c; 10 -Ib. tins, 231/2 to 24c;
60-1b, tins, 28 to 24c; buckwheat, 00 -Ib,
tins, 18 to 19e, Carib, 16 -oz,, $4,50 to
$5 doz.; 10 -oz., $3,50 to $4 doz,
Maple products—Syruu, per imper-
ial gallon. $2.45 to $2.50; per 5 frn-
neriel gallons, $2.35 to $2.40; sugar,
lb., 27e.
Prov inions -5l ltolesale> •
.Smcltecl meats—Hams, med. 47 to
48e; do, heavy, 40 to 42c; cooked, 68
to 65c; rolls, 35 to 36c; breakfast
.bacon, 49 to 55o; backs, plain, 50 to
overseas troops on Wednesday, Aug- 51c; boneless, 56 to 58c; clear bellies,
ust 27th, Veterans' Day at the Big 38Cured menus—I on 'clear beoo,i 32
Fair, to 313c; clear bellies, 31 to 32e,
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here to -day. These expenditures in-
cluded assistance given Admiral. Kol-
chalc, head of the Omsk All -Russian
Government, and Gen. Denikine, com-
mander of the anti-Bolsh_evilci forces
on the southern front.
Cayenne pepper is the hest remedy
for ants.
It will cost the Canadian National
Exhibition over $25,000 in salaries
transportation charges and board to
bring the British Grenadier Guards
Band out for the two weeks of the
Big Fair. .
DEATH IN MIDST OF PLEASURE.
A •view of the ruins of the Mystic Rill and Scenic Railway at Do-
minion Park. Montreal, destroyed by fire and in which at least seven
lives were lost,
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of the battleship and battle cruiser,
and having all the gun power of the
former typo combined with the tre-
mendous speed of the latter.
Although official details are still
withheld, sire is known to be by far
the largest warship in the world. Her
displacement is not less than 40,000
tons, 12,500 tons more than the Queen
Elizabeth, and she is almost 900 feet
in length, lin her infill have been em-
bodied all the clearly bought experi-
ences of Jutland in regard to armor
and under -water protection.
Iier armament consists of eight 16
inch guns—not i.8 -inch as some papers
have erroneously stated—which elle
cite bring into action at a speed of
about 38 miles an nous'. The Ilood,
in fact, promises to prove suite as
epoch malting' as tho Dreadnought,
and in naval circles the results of her
trials are awaited with keen interest,
DIRIGIBLE STOWAWAY
PUNISHED 13Y BRITISH NAVY
A despatch from Edinburgh says:—
Ballantyne, the stowaway on the R-34,
on the voyage to America, on his re-
turn to Scotland has been ternlblyI
punished by the British navy.
He was not court-martialed, but,
placed before the officers, urns iec-
tured on the clanger he had incurred,
and informed he would not again be
permitted to act as one of the dir-
igible's crew.
He said he would have preferred -a
year in solitary confinement,
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will
spend an entire day inspecting live-
stock, agriculture and maniefactuning
products of Canada at the Canadian
National Exhibition, Wednesday,
August 27th,
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signatiol,
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pointed a development commlesionoi'
in the placo of Prof. T. 13. Wood, 're-
signed,
George Parrott, a IHort:cantle far-
mer, committee} suicide by thrusting
his head In eight inches et water and
suffhe ocatideatng,
Th is announced at Ellowes
Hall, Sedgley, Stags, of J. L. Gibbons,'
formerly Unionist M,P, for South
Wolverhampton,
Sarah Ilincks, aged 88, and one of
Florence Nightingale's nurses, was
accidently killed at Islington by being
knocked down by a dog.
Charles Arnold, a west end butcher.
while on his way to the National
Sporting Club, fell from a motor om-
nibus and was killed.
The Chiswick li,tstict Council has
purchased two hundred acres of land
from the Duke of Devonshire for an
embankment and 'promenade,
FATE OF OAT
BREMEN � � � at
REMEN SCLOSED
British Submarine Sunk .Giant
Hun Boat Near Kiel Canal.
A despatch from Waslaingtol(
says:—Light was shed to -day on th(
fate of the German submarine Bre(
men, sister of the merchant U -boa,(
Deutschland, which mysteriously dist
appeared on a proposed trip .fro
Bremen to New London, and the los
of which was recalled the other da
by a report, afterwards officially conn
tradicted, that the crew of the Breme(
hnd turned up at Hamburg.
Representative King, recently rel
turned from Europe, sand this version(
of thc•disappearance of the German(
merchant submarine was told him by
Lieut. -Commander Storkbridge, US,
N.,_ who said his information cam(
from Lieut. Langley, of the British
navy, commander of the British under.
water craft that destroyed the
Bram en.
"Lieut. Langley, according to the
story, Lieut, -Commander Stockbridge
told me, cruised in the direction of
the Ifiel Canal one night, Coming to
the surface at dawn, the British craft
saw a huge German submarine not
fifty feet away.
"It was the work of a few moments
to land two torpedoes amidships,
Lieut. Langley explained. He describ'
ed the giant submarine as splitting 113
the middle as the result of the terril
tic explosion, with both ends rising
high in the air, The British como
amender said he read clearly along the
'ow the word 'Bremen' in large let.
ters, and then both ends plunged be-
neath the waves." n>
AZTECS HAD MIRRORS.
British Museum Has An Obsidian Mir-
ror Used by Ancient Mexicans. u.
Crystal gazing and the use of magic
mirrors played an important part in
religion and wizardry In the past, and
though almost every nation had its
own method these slid not vary as
nmlch as it would be supposed:
Thus ,while Japan had in her inner
temples mirrors which only the priest
saw, and which were always to re-
flect the good and the beautiful for
the gods, the ancient Mexicans taught
that their God Texcatlipuco had a
magic mirror in which he saw every-
thing that happened each day in the
words,
A real obsidian mirror with its
strange textile string still attached is
in the British Moseurn now and was
used by the Aztecs and ancient Mexi-
cans for various purposes and very
probably Inc crystal gazing. It is
much the samo as the other crystals
used by so-called ''wizards, SO far as
its shape is concerned, Even in re-
cent years crystal gazing has been
practiced, and it 15 said by those who
have tried it that the mirror or cry-
stal seems to disappear into a mist
after it has been stared at in complete
silence for a great length 0a time, and
then•--il ever --the visions appear.
Tho Cryptic Cable.,
For smartness the following will be
very hard to beat. A well•known pots
soilage in Devonshire had just received
a cable from his soldier son in Mese•
potanla which contained only three,
Words "Two John twelve," At 111.4
the receiver was baffled by the mys'
tenons 10038050 but after touch put
Ming the straining dawned upon him.
Taking down his Bible lie taxied up
the Second lrpistlo .of St total omits
road the twelfih verse witiolt lune aiF
follows:—"Having ninny things to
write unto you, I would not wr ito with
paper and ink, but I trust to wino nn+
to you and speak face to fate that 0U
joy luny be full;' His son was of lz$f
way hornet
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