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TflE rEXLOW THAT LOST UIS OBI P.
It's a long hard road V travel, . - .
The one I'v journeyed on, , -:
Over the, rough, sham gravel
Frftfn. weary dflsk to dawn. J" V'
Jbt now T am overtaken ;
Booked" for jtn outbound trip, "
' Ail shattered and sorrow -shaken
fellow that's lost his gripjf
r ' , i U . 1 -
1 wm alwavs ooantwl ploc3iT ---
"And tUddndent too, - " ' . i
Till I became unlucky, I
Then everything fell through ; ' i
I never did any shirking ,.: m
But somehow missed my tip, . '
And it kills a man for working .
When he feels he's lost his grip.
We're all of us men and brothers
While there's an even race,
I struggled like the others
But couldn't make the pace ; . i
And now in a stranger city,1 i
,v ly life, like a ainking ship, . t ,
Goes down, with none to pity ' X ; "..
The' fellow that lost his grip.
And to-day I heard the clinking
Of rain -drops on the. glass,
Their patter through the chinking 1
Made some dull moments pass - i
Mere quickly, for they brought me !
Relief in their -cooling drip, 1
.Some little patience taught me r
A fellow that's lost his grip.
t I've been a wandering rovpr, J
- r A stone without the moss,
If I could live it over
' Would life be such a loss ? .
( Would misfortunes still befall me
, Till they had me on the hip ?
And would the world then call me i
' Tho fellow that lost his grip ?
'TX, swift th time is flying,
iWgnal is almost won ;
I am dyinc. dviflK. dying.-
v iiewept
n, bemoaned b
y none.
I hear the surf on unknown strands.
I feel mv moo riders slin.
'Christ I reach out thy saving hands,
I'm a fellow that lost his grip.
Ernest McGaffey, in Current.
THE QPKN DRAW.
"Now, promise we, Royal ! please
promise l" ''-'-K' -'-"i V '
. Grace Arden Iookc up into her i
Jrirr' fuca ; withi-tfi'f.f'ul ' ftvea arid I
f- -JiOTer s . iace witn-tsistfui eyc
y i heeki stained with faint crimson.
Royal Mertam looked at her with 1
4 ine laugn 01 conscious superiurny.
. "What honaerise, Grace ! ; As if
there were any real danger T (
"There. is, always danger, Royal
in your business, and ith with'
4hathabitf" - , !
"Hahit, Gracie ? Now you are go
ing: a little too far. I don't drink
anr more than other men. It is not
a confirmed habit with me and nev-
.rwill be,!' J-.cu. O C
-Good-bye, Royal - -
rr"Toti; W6n'llclsS'me l. ,you are
.Vexcd?"r
! marry;
Royal Meriam turned on his heel,
" juid he strode away, muttering some
thing f about 'narrow-minded . old
,fot)ls, who expected every : one Jq be
cut after, their own pattern.''
J But. he had walked only little
distance when the cloud cleared
careless, eood-naturea smile once
Aiore came back. ' j
"Dear little Gracie 1" he said, to
himselC: "Perhaps she's right, after
all. I believe I am getting to be
fonder of a stray glass than$ qught to
be, - butrof course theres no danger.
A man can always control himself.
Still 111 co ' back to-morrow and
7 u ' '.v .jr v i irnu nr ninii vt w iihiip:i i.ii i.iiR iiim.iinTifi iinuiiv 11
u ' ; ;J driver. :rU Last night
know mat papa wm never, m. me Thesignait And he had not seen patient, who
:k to-morrow and ana mere loosing out ut w niu- w--w-----the
little blue-eyed dows, all unconscious that they, were son was placed f here the
wants me to prom- going on to Death ! have an opportunity to be
make peace' with
jNJt anct 11 sne wants me to prom
lie, wnyrjl promise. '
The 'Shepherd's Arms" was an
unpretending little village hostelry, snow-flakes clicking against the win
through whose drawn, red curtains dow-panes, a wood fire crackling on
tha evening lights shone cheerily.
and Koval Meriam'e boon comnan-
iona welcomed him unroriouslv-
. r I
, "YouVe coming to the end of your
Tone, old fellow " said one. The
superintendent is going to strike ev
.. .1
C?rybody that drinks a social glass off
. (IX ne list, oays n aim, ousinesi
' TiI-SsrarVt afford to run any risks."
"I don't know what the world is
coming to, for my part," said anoth
I er, looking into the bowl of his short
black pipe, "A man might as well
be a slave and be done with it"
"I've heard something of it before,"
aaid Meriam, carelessly. "I don't
know but what it is a wise enough
regulation, on the whole. But there
is one thing certain : I'll drink the
superintendent's health to-night if I
never do again."
A general laugh echoed this assei
tion of Meriam ; and in the hour or
tiro that followed, poor Grace Ar-
den's piteous request, Grace ArdefTs
ear-brimming blue eyes were entire
ly forgotten. . .
. "Drunk I ,4runk! Nerer- was
more sober in 'rny-'life res, yes, I
know it's Ume tolrt, and here I
am as fresh as a cricket'.' f j :
-Royal Meriam swung jUinselt to
hia "place" oh the flittering,' fire
throated locomotive with the careless
ease and lightness of a mountaineer-
"Go'ahead," he called out :''
The depot master looked curious
ly at him.
"You may not be drunk," said he
otto voce, "but you have been drink
ing my fine fellow, and you'll get re
ported to headquarjers before the
world is twenty-four hours older.1
So saying; he drew a little leather
memorandum-hook out of his vest
pochet, and wrote down the words,
"Meriam, engineer Flying Dart,' up
on it, with the slow mechanical ac
curacy of one who considers in his
own mind. V
Meriam fully believed his own asi
sertion that he was not drunk, He
had been drinking a good deal, but
then he knew that his brains could
stand, more than the average of
brains. He felt a sort of lightness
a jocular content--as he sat there at
his post. The lights along the road
sparkled more prominent than usu
al ; the stars seemed to shine with
unwonted brightness, and once or
twice he caught himself huskly an
swering some one who had not spo
ken; i . i ; , . , ' . ':
All of a sudden he grew sleepy
his brain seamed to become confus-
"All right," said he "all right
T'll VmrV tVim TT1 vintr Dart onrinaf bp
engine on uie jroaa i w ay fte
couldn'tgo wrong if sfie was to tfy.l
Are wearewe far from the draV-
brjjge
The fireman suddenly started to J
his feet, with a hoarse, gasping cry.Jand after remaining there atfew mo-
"The signal! shouted he. The
red light ! ?Stop her foyjuod s sake 1
Sound down brakes 1 We are on the
bridge and the draw is open !.
In less than a second the mists
and drowiness, and fatal lethargy,
seemed to clear away from the en
gineer's brain, and he had fully com
preherided the awful terror of their
position the'express'traiiT rushing
aij uizzy speca;waruwi jawiwiigjiurn communicaieu it io anomer,
. ir L' L 1 . - U.. tk'i kl. aI.
it .' ,. :y :'" ':-::n: i
Mechanically he sounded the
whistle, shrp, and .shrill two brief,
unearthly shrieks and then sprang
out into the darkness, through which
the red light streamed like an eye of
sullen firey ::':'- -'-?
He had done .what he could to
save the fated train, and he grasped appearance of the rat have any ef
blindly - at the ' one chance in 'five J feet in hastening hb death were un-
hundred for his own life.
"He sprang, and striking against!
tha Umo Wi all nnnMonness in
the instant that the train skipped by
him, its long array of lights gleam-1
imr and vanishing, and faces here!
and there looking out of the win-
J A bleak December day, with the
I 4Vio ViaoWVi rrl Clmt Ardens lifht
finr mihff and croin? like a little
i 1 n ' O CJ
A Si.rnf fihuritv Rov-
I j j
al MerianVB eyes vaguely took in
I (Km th?nor iv-incamenp- his Dillows.
D J J o o
Wat h- mpmKrl
Remembered ! Remembered, . that
w n nntnast amomr men a
murderer !
4Gracen He gasped,"UlIme 1 ' How
came I here? - How was I saved ?"
t "They found you on the bridge,
dear. Hush 1 You must not talk
much. You are very weak and fee-
ble. You were quite
unconscious
and terribly bruised."
"Andthe train?
Was it totallv
wrecked ?"
"It wasn't wrecked at all," said
Grace, with brightened face. "For
the draw was not opened."
"Not open?"
"No; it had been, but was just
closed again, and the men had not
yet taken down the open signal when
the express rushed on without any
warningivrhateTen Theysiopped it
on th$ vjther side and missed you "
Ncl&neAwas ifledlthW?fe he
shudderjdfeeihfi asjf a mountain
of horror was lifteoffrom his breast.
"No one." ; . ' -
i'Gace,,, he whispered lioarseIy,
drawing her down to him. "I was
drunk I If that train had been
wrecked the blood of all the helpless
passengers, men, women arid chil
dren, would have been on my head.
God be thanked that lie has not
punished "ml" as I deserve HK tJ
Royal Meriam, a prematurely old
and crippled man, lived to atone for
all .the faults and follies of his youth.
He never re-entered the old profess
ion he had not netve enough for
that, he was want to say, even if
they would have trusted him again ;
but he worked hard; and? honestly
for his bread, with Grace, his'wife,
standing loyally by his side.." And
never in all the long years that' fol
lowed did a drop of ardent; spirits
ever pass his lips. j
"I have had my lesson," he said.-
: .1
A Deatli AVatch.
From Philadelphia New3.
For some months past hot only
.the nurses but many of the patients
in one of the wards of the West
Penn hospital have noticed a re
markable coincidence, aniJ one
which many of them' regarjj with
more or less superstitious fear, :
A large nrt, whose appearance at
T?t icaused only a passing' notice,
t a time was treated as
fl !
e nave a com.
r. W. T,-Rainwaters, lTt
ViJ?J
attenttojf: - ljgsyrS4 rUHfri
this chabnthe nurses discovered
that a short time previous to the 1
death of a patient the rat would ap-
pear, quietly jun under the cot and I
ments without any demonstrations
1 whatever, would run away and dis- I
I appear. In every instance the per-1
son in that cot died within 36 hours
after the occurrence. j
The coincidence became the mat
ter of much gossip among all the at
tendants and while it Was ticing dis-
cussed one day the story was over-
j heard by'one of the patients, who in
I 1 f H i t 1 x- 11
oecaine kuowu io an.
Hans J akow, a German
was in the last stage, of
I consumption, saw the rat under his
cot He became dreadfully excited,
I and cried
'Doctor, oh, doctor, don't let me
die."
His pleadings were very distress-
ing and all efforts to convince him
that by no possible means could the
1 availing, and in less than 36 hours
he died.
lhis is only one of a number ot
instances that have been referred to
by those intonncd of the history of
the mysterious j rat; This finally
caused such consternation that poi-
rat would
boL tempted,
i : . ii . " i. :j
ed with remarkable intelligence
dainties that rats are believed to be
tremendously fond of, although oth-
er rats with apparently less highly
endowed minds fell victims to the
seoucuve morseis. in ine mean-
I - . T A v
I.. . i a
limc ine penouicai visits oiiue rav
1 nc,taj "1WV-" "
I uiai wara, anu its appearance is now
. T
rded with such fear that its ap-
Proaca quicwy ncnuueu among
the patients and the greatest con
sternation prevails until its . fatal
choice is made.
Mr. Baxter was about to take ins
wife and children out for a sail.
'Come on,' he said, "there i a
j spanking freeze and we musn't miss
S .
"I'apa, mterruptea Ms iiiuc son, j
with his hands firmly folded behind
him, "take the rest of the family and
go. lin luai Kinu oi a urcew: uiow
ing I don't want to be caught on a
little boat with mama until ! havel
learned to swim." I
TUETABBJZLS, ri.i,
BUI Arp Like the Old Vort State.
From the Atlanta Constitution. i ;
Pride of place and pride of people.
I love to hear these tar-heels boast
of what they have got and what they
have had. Every town I visit lias
something special soraethmg ihal
the other towns have not got' '. I
don't know how many 'claim to be
the great tobacco centre of the State.
Durham and Henderson and Oxford
and Warrenton all claim the cham
pion belt I don't know how many
more that I have not visited. Ox
ford claims to have a soil that pro
duces the finest leaf -in the world,
and I wasfs:hown a memorandum of
a ten acre crop of last year that real
ized a net profit of $3,125. It was
not the quantity but the quality that
made the money. One town claims
that Nathaniel Macon lived. there,
and they tell you many traditions of
that very good man, that man who
never made a speech in Congress,
but it is said controlled legislation
for twenty-five years controlled it
by his splendid, well-balanced judg
ment and the power of his will.
They will tell you how he lived in a
a storm-proof house that had sills
sixteen inches square, and corner
posts nearly as large, and plates and
girders and braces and studding, all
pinned and drawbound and he
weather-boarded the inside just like
he. did the outside, except he begun
at the top of the room and boarded
downwards, so as to have the lap
show at the top of the plank instead
of at the bottom; and this was done
so as to have a fair chance to pour
hot water into the cracks and kill
tlio rhinrph '
v -, Ji
-Andthw towtiwKZnotot
or Mangumaor
m.
msom or Vatce;
and I found the crood people of Iiou-
isburs justly proud of Joe Davis.tthe
lawyer and statesman whom every
body loves and loves to honor. In
some places they say, "we have got
the finest schools and the best teach-
ers in the State," and all declare they
have got the prettiest women in the
world, which I always endorse, for
it seems to me that the last I see are
the prettiest always. I thought for
a while that I would never get recon
ciled to these new convexities they
I are wearing on their backs, but now
1 1 am conteni ana acquiesce in any
i tiling xnai nas a woman in u.
1.1 4 ii i 1
I ; It is an admirable trait in any peo-
pie to stand up for their own. It
I begets contentment, and content-
ment is a blessed thing in this life.
I think that North Carolina is con-
tented, and has good reason to be.
'I like North Carolina. It may be
that my regard is something like
that Aleck Stephens had for his dir
ty, mangy little dog. He said he
loved the dog because the dog loved
him, and that is reason enough.-
Bill Ramsey talks with gush and
unction about his fine horse, and
will tell you of his admirable quali
ties, and will stroke his mane and
hi3 face, and comb down his beauti
ful hips with quite a fondling aflec
tion ; but just as soon as he sells him
and gets anotherhe last is the best
That is evolution for you ; practical.
speedy evolution, and it is right. I
wish everybody felt that way about
their property, their home, their
J children, their neighbors, and their
preacher. It is a happy disposi
tion.
I-V
i saw a one-ieggea man noemg
I , i t -r .
corn yesieraay, ana i saia to my
I w'uu'u"'
f t . r t . -r , i
i ieueratc poor ienowi ii ne naa
fought on the other side he would be
a rawing a gooa pension, neiougu
for patriotism for true love of coun
trv, and .geta' nothing, while thou
sands of them-feller3 up North fough
for money only and arc drawing
pensions, aud we have to help pay
them.
"That man," said my friend,
is
drawing a pension a small one, bu
it helps mm, uur state pensions
her crippled and maimed soldiers
and this county adds a small amount
to it, so our soldiers are not forgot
- 1 k ui iicjcv-wi
j . Why does not old Georgia do that?
I tell you, these Carolinians are
game. They have got an orphan
asvlum at Oxford that is an honor
to her people. Over 200 clindren
are there. , I saw them swinging and
romping in a beautiful grove during
their recess, and I thought what a
good mother this State is to her chil
dren. The asylum is not altogether
supported jith e Stated, uTconfr
butions come from many sources,
and there is no lack of funds to sus
tain it What a feeling of comfort
it must be to a poor widow upon
her last bed to know that her little
children will be cared for when she
is gone reared for, not by the uncer
tain charity of strangers, but by . the
State that loves her and will contin
ue to love her children.
I have been on Albemarle Sound
and seen the fisheries and the long
nets and the shad and big sturgeons
that weighed from 150 to 200 pounds,
and they sold for a dollar apiece; I
have been in the good old town of
Elizabeth City, on the eastern coast,
and two years ago I was in Asho
ville, on the western extreme the
two only 500 miles apart. It is a
long State, and has a pleasant varie
ty of climate and soil and scenery
and: products. It used to be dis
membered by its mountains, but it
is not now, I have seen the Gov
ernor with his noble, classic face,
and the Judges of the Supreme Court
and many of the circuit courts, and
I have seen the farmers in their
homes and shared their generous
welcome, and I can truly say I have
never mingled with a better people.
Ha Had It.
Among the passengers on the St.
l 4 r w ver-uressea, accom-j
it"fw uriKuwooKin? nurse.
girlan aseh,?le4 tyrannical boy
ot about tnree years. :
lhe ooy aroused tnc mai;
of the passengers by his continued
shrieks and kicks and screams, and
lis viciousncss toward the patient
nurse. He tore her bonnet, scratch
ed her hands, and finally spat in her
r ii . el . I
race wnnoui a wora oi remonsirance
rom the mother. .
Whenever the nurse manifested
any nrmness, the mother would
chide her sharply, and say :
"Let him have it, Mary? Let him
alone." , . ., ,
Finally the mother composed her
self for a nap, and about the time
the boy had slapped the nurse for
the fiftieth time, a wasp came sailing
in ana new on tno winaow oi the
nurse's seat. The boy at once tried
to catch it '
The nurse caught his hand and
said, coaxingly :
'tHarry musn't touch! Bug will
bite Harry 1"
Harry screamed savagely, and be
gan to kick and pound the nurse.
.The mother, without opening her
eyes or lifting heir head, cried out
sharply :
"Why will you tease that child so,
Mary ? Let him have what he wants
at once.
"But, ma'am, it's a"
"Let him have it, I say."
Thus encouraged, Harry clutched
at the wasp, and caught it The yell
that followed brought tears of joy to.
the passengers.
"Mary P she cried, "Let him have
it" Mary turned in her seat and
said, confusedly :
"He's got it, ma'am l"
Simple words are best, either in
speaking or writing. Here is a case
thatprovesit: ,
"You are fishing with persistence,'
said , a gentleman to an urchin who
had thrashed a stream without ap
parent reward a whole afternoon.
"Oh, no, sir; only jest angle
worms," replied the youth, pleasant
ly. y
I mean you have a gooddeal of
perseverance, exclaimed the other.
1No, them's suckers. Guess ye
aint never lived in these parts, bev
yef " ,.
Physicians recommend Shriner's
Indian Vermifuge in their practice
as a superior article for destroying
and expelling worms. Only 25 eta.
a bottle.1
JL Dctectir Captoret m Coaatrflter.
Ottawa, Ont; July 40ne of the?
neatest and' most Successful pieces of
detective work reported for years was
performed on Friday - by 'Detective
Daniel OXeary,; Inspector of the Do
minion police. 1 . He : wen t " to Otter-
ville arid, getting? information -there
regarding ? counterfeUers rsuided.
one of the gang to accompany him
to Brighton on the representation
that there were certain persons there
who wished to engage in the busi
ness.' Additional particulars were
obtained from this man to the effect
that the bogus money was made by
John Rogers, who had left Otterville
for another pirtdf the country. The
detective traced Rogers to Otterville
and visited him, being introduced to
the alleged counterfeiter as Mr. John
son. Rogers was given to under
stand that Mr. Johnson wished to
engage in the business of - making
money. Rogers told the detective
that he had the necessary plates for
making $60 Quebec Bank bills, $20
United States bills, and $10 bills of
the Merchants' Bank of Canada.-
Rogers also said he had been accom
panied by William Duncan, Thomas
Brown and-Capt Clenderining to
Rochester, where they had gone on
a schooner, about a month ago, and
procured paper, ink - and brushes
with which to make the bogus bills;
that they had cruised around the
lake for some time and had passed
between $900 and 61,000 in bogus
bills. The paper procured in Roch
ester, Rogers said, was equal to any
bank-note! paper that , could be got.
Ho also stated that he made the
bogus bills by photographing origi
nal; bills, and that be had jthe proh
cess t doviv o fine' that i be could
produce a bill which it was almost I
impossible to detect. havinir wo-T0
at the business in'Austri--c 00,1,0
- . 1 J f
a mm fh"n,iber8 on bills so
that it would be difficult to detect
the alteration. Brown and Duncan
had the notes he had made. He in
tended to go to Ottawa, get a photo
graphers' gallery and start the same
business there. Mr. J ohnson agreed
with Rogers to go into partnership
with him. The latter promised to
supply the detective with bogus bills
representing a large amount of mon
ey. r "; -ft
His pocket book' was secured. It
was lound i to t contain counteneit
twenty-dollar bills of the National
Mohawk Valley Bank,of 3Iohawk
N- Y Duncan iwas; arrested nd
made a full confession..' lie had a
set of plates for making fifty-dollar
bills of the Lower Canada Bank, a
set for Hwentjr-dollar United States
bills three sets for twenty-dollar bills
of the. Merchants' Bank, and a set of
Dominion of Canada one-dollar bills.
He said he had destroyed the plates
about ten days previous. In a bed
room occupied by the accused were
found paints and brushes used in
makincr the bogus notes, fin the
house was found an agreement dated
LachineL February, 18SG," and sign
ed by a number of persons, pledging
themselves by a solemn oath not to
divulge the secrets of the counter
feiting gang "under pain of death,
Other arresto are ex pected.
Wbt tli Train B? Wattid Oto.
From tie Chicago Ilerald.
If 1 1 . was worth aa much money
as Boh Garrett,'1'1; 'said a Baltimore
and Ohio train boy, do you know
what I would do?"
Run a railroad?" quoted the
brakeman.
'. "Xawp." .rs :-" '
'"Racehorses?" -
"Nawp." : -
"Travel in YurripV'
"Kawp
"Yacht?" ,
"Xawp."
ttWhat then ?' f
"I'd hire fifteen of the best base ball
players in the United States, pay
Wn $10,000 a vekr-apiece. take em
- - . '
round the country by special train
and knock the stnffinVout of all the
chain nions in the business. That's
what' I'd call doin' somthin for
one's country, but none of our rich
men seem to liave sny desire to have
their names handed do wu to pos-
TT-
iiEiaj wn Wei
After man came women. ' , v
And she This been after him erer
since.
, She is a person free of extraction
being roade orman's ribi ' '
dont know why Adam WanUd"
to .fol away-his ribs in that way,'
6&t Tsuppose he" was not ' accounta
ble for all he did.
It costs more to
keep a
women
a shot-
thaii'it cloes three doss and
But she pays you back with In
terest by giving you a house full of
children to keep yon uwake all
night,' and smear molasses candy
over your Sunday coat Besides, wo
men is a very convenient article to
have around the house.
She Is bandy to swear at whenev
er you cut yourself with a raror.and
don feel like i' blaming yourself.
Woman is a superior being in
Massachusetts. j ;
There are. about 70,000 moro of
her sex than males in that State. 1 . ,
This accounts for the terrified,
hunted-down expression of single
men who have emigrated from the
East :,x f :::
Woman was ' not created perfect.
She has her faults such, as false
hair, false complexion, and' so on.
-,But she is a great deal better than
her neighbor, and she knows it.
Eve was a woman.
She must have been a model wife,
too, for itcost Adam nothing tokep -her
in clothes. (
Still, I don't think'bhe w P"
py . - ' ,
She" coulditf .w sewing circles
AnA (. u' VTormatmn about every '
tSSfc! fadrejT wfanrinV berlfe ,
i ui viiirt. . -
v? oonncl t0 cnur9n-
Neither could she nang over the
.. t m . .1
pack lence and talk
neighbor. '
with her neat
All; these blessed privileges were
denied her. -
' A BipNtM Bojr.
An exchange gives the. , following
instance of a lad's politeness. Such
thoughtfulness for others, by young
people, is a most winning trait of
character. '"
An bid man entered a railroad car
and was looking for a seat, when a
boy ten or twelve years of age rose
up and said, "Take my seat, sir.? i
The offer was accepted and the in
firm old man sat down. r
Why did you give me your scat?
he inquired of the boy.
Because yoU are old, sir, and I
am a boy!" was the reply. '
K hundred years ago Uierd would
have been httle need to record as re
markablo a similar incident Among
things that are good or hopeful in a
rising generation, there is one great
change for the worse manifest to
every body a declining reverence to
ward age and toward God. j"Thou
shalt rwo up before the hoary head,
and honor the face of the old man,
and fear thy God ; I am the Lord."
Aftemll the hi aster on the part of
Congressmen about the Prcgnt'i 'a
acuon m vcwing prirabe
bills and Uie threats that they would
be passed oyer his veto, it looks very
much as though be would bo at
tained in nearly every instance.
What is of more, importance, too,
the unflinching manner b which he
has dared to say. no to these petty
raids on the Treasury has served to
call a halt in the passage of the great
mass of these billsyet unacted upon.
It is beginning to dawn on the
minds of a good many Congressmen
that to pass bills of tliu kind indefi
nitely only 16 be vetoed is to give
the President a chance to increase
his own popularity amazingly at
their expense. They would like to 1
get Jthe money for their pensior
seeking constituents if they could do
it without attracting too much at
tention, but to have the public at
tention directed to their prodigality
and then not get their schemes
through after all is a losing game
that they will probably abandon as
obn7as'pcble.niiU.- 'tinges, ..
I SuUcrtle for THE Rocket,
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