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YOL.TJME XI. LENOIR, N. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1885. NUMBER 9. Wallace Bros., STATESVILLE,- N. C Whole salE Dealers General Mer chandise. -tot- Largest Warehouse and best facili ties for han dling Dried Fruit. Ber- ries, etc., in " : ' i ' '.. . .- I '' - 1 - the State. RESPECTFULLY Wallace Bros. August 27th, 1884. 0.1 COTi BOCK Kfery ttraia or cold atUeka tket weak feu ana Benny pronruce yen. THE o DESTTOIIiC Strengthena thm Bm den, Steadies the Herret, EaricliM tli Blood, Gtrea New Vigor. D. J. L. MTZxa. Fairfield, low, Mr: -Brown'. Iron Bitten to the beat boa medicine I have known ia my 80 rauV practice. I have f ootid lion, and In ail debUitatin ailment that bear to heavily on the vhmlUn it treaty in my own family." Genuine haa trade mark and croeaed red Una on wrapper. Take ether. Hade only by BBOWN CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE, MS. Lascm HaJH) Book naefni and attractive, eon U in Wit Uet of pruea tor reoipea. information about eotna. eve . tin away by alt dealer, in nedietne, ee tattee e tw .daaw ea raoeip of to. etam. apeeiauy Mnenciu in nwrooi or pnjnoai .inmi- CLINTOir A. CILLEY, Attornoy-At-La7, 1111 l mi rs 51 lri-l 11 iiff'iils liliJI HI U nsticp t3 &I.TI10 Courts. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. What Walter H. Page, the Wilmington Star and tba Baltimore Sun Think of it. Ealelgh Chronicle. New York, Nov. 2. You must pardon me for not writing this week such news and gossip as happen to be floating about and allow me with all earnestness to congratulate you on the Chronicle's manly and right position on Civil Service Reform. It is the only public movement of the time that has moral force in it, and it has all the moral force that every other great Democratic movement has had. 'Ifmust be classed not with the transitory doctrines and fitful efforts of mere politicians, nor with the temporary problems of one campaign or of one administration which are forgotten before the next one comes. It is to be compared with the movement which Jefferson led in the very beginning of the century for the broadest Democratic Government, with the movement which condemned slavery, and with the subsequent movement which condemned the carpet-bag rule in the South.- It is not a cry of to-day which will not be heard to-morrow. It is the gulf stream of great public sentiment which is flowing now. It is absurd to talk about the great doctrinal difference between the po litical parties : there is no such dif ference. The difference is in the way they administer the ' Govern ment, and that is the only difference. The great man now in the White House has caused a greater revolu tion in our governmental affairs than any other President, except Lincoln, ever caused ; and he has done it by Civil Service Reform. No thief jobber or scoundrel can hold public office if Grover Cleveland knows it and has power to help it. Yet both Democrats and Republi cans do hold office under him and will continue to hold office. He is a good Democrat, the best Democrat living, because he does riot care a fig whether an officer (other than those great ones which determine the pol icy of the administration) is a Dem ocrat or whether he . is a Republican, whether he have blue eyes or black eyes. "Now the crucial test is coming, and every txan will be found at some time or other to answer this ques tion : To fill all subordinate places do you care a fig whether men who are appointed; are of one pavty or of the other ? Do you think that a man ought to be given office because he works for a party ? It is becoming sharp because our own greatest public man has declar ed himself on the wrong side. For once in his life his great influence is against the moral sense of the time. With him, of course, are such in stitutions as the Wilmington' Star and the Trustees of the University -r-venerable, influential, worthy of our filial love. With him is Mr. Kitchen, to be sure 1 With him is the Charlotte Democrat, of course. It need not be said that all these elements of our life and thought, however incongruous they may be in many ways, find the tame and en tertaining approval of the News and Observer. ; ... ' . No man in North Carolina more heartily appreciates the good work these institutions have done than I ; and nobody is so sure that I appre ciate it as the editors of the Star and of the News and Observer. But if you will allow me I desire with all modesty but with all earnestness to record my conviction that on moral grounds (and a man that has one code of morals in politics and another in the church or in daily life has no code at all) on moral grounds, there is no possible defence for the doctrine that a'man has the slightest claim to an office because he has worked for a party. Yet this is a question not to do argued. It is simply a question of moral per ception. ' . Let me draw a 1 parallel. Before you or I or many of our readers were born the moral sentiment of all English speaking Christianity . had declared slavery a moral wrong. I am not speaking of slavery in its so cial or religious aspects, but only on moral grounds. There were good and holy men in our North Carolina pulpits who contended that it was morally right and was sanctioned by the Bible. Those same men now thank God it is gone, and if a cargo of slaves were landed at Wilmington to be sold, these same preachers out of the same Bible would cry out what a moral shame H Look at Civil Service ; Reform in the same way, and you will catch my meaning. And I am looking at this on moral grounds. The Observer, the Star, the Democrat areas clearly against the moral sentiment of the time as the old preachers wer. Viewed as a moral sentiment apart from the punishment and an nihilation it brings not to party men but to party slaves there is not now in the Republic a sentiment of such vitality and aggression in church or State or society as the sentiment to reform our governmental adminis trations and to put them clean out of and above the warring, snarling, malodorous and pestilential little men who fancy that they rule the nation, and who as a matter of fact have ruled it. It sweeps our politi cal avenues clean of the impudent mediocrity that has bo long fought and fed therein, and makes the way clear once more for conscience to drive out trickery from the places of government. W ith .thongs to chas tise, this reform enters (or will en ter) the temple and purify it of them that make it a mart of offices i n - 1 . a . 1 f av e and influence : ana patriotism can again become a religion. In Heav en's name, I can't see why our preachers should not preach it from: the pulpits. The dry-rot of oldpar ty quibblings is deadening. In Wake county itself with all the wealth and power and intelligence and religion and social dignity (broadly speaking) in the Democratic party, we have not kept ourselves decent enough to keep Jgamblers and drunkards and imbeciles from promiuent participa tion in the most honorable of all callings the calling of the public service. To howl then about any "principle" that keeps us from get tiug the best men for public places without regard to party services, so called, and to decry this surging moral movement in political thought, is doing over again precisely what onr old preachers did when they de- fended slavery as a christian institu tion. - You had just as well draw the line, now and be done with it . This is a movement that forty thousand dig nified obstructors cannot hinder. It; will move and conquer if all North Carolina opposes it ; and the ques- tion you have is simply whether you will lead or be driven. In ten years J no man will be willing togetupand say that he opposed this reform. In less than ten years most men who now hate it will be swearing by all J they are worth (and that is not much) that they were always in fa vor of it. The most respectable man that has set himself against it is Senator Vance. Throughout the whole Nation the men who lead the Nation are in the stream that flows reformward and there is no steni ing it. Its most active enemies are the men who voted for General But ler last year, and they are consistent in their enmity to it. The present experimental law does not touch with its letter a single office in North Carolina. But laws will be sure to come and come soon i that will cover every appointive of-s. flee (other than purely and highly' administrative ones) in North Caro lina, which will forbid any questions being asked as to the work a man has done for his party. To advocate a Civil Service Reform law for North Carolina such as the States of New York and Massachusetts have adopt- j ed is now in order. And with a 1 dozen columns, instead of one if I i had them ; I should say, Let us have it. You know that the good old State has always been a slow sister. Sh6 did not cuter the Union until Wash ington become President and the United States had got fairly going. She has always followed other States in important improvements, and never led. Yet why shouldn't she lead ? why ? Because somebody who stands high in the Church or in of-' fice or in the Board of Trustees of the University says "Bah !" Allow me to give you an example. I beg Eardon for its personal character, ut it is the best example I have ever seen. When some time ago I wrote to the Boston Post how pro gressive movements were, discourag ed in North Carolina unconsciously by the dignified ignorance of a few men who think their approval a ne cessity for any movement, the News and Observer declared with all its. amusing emphasis that 1 was misin formed. I have as a result of that kind remark a big pile of letters from North Carolinians in North Carolina and in four j other States who took the trouble to write to me to thank me for telling the, truth. I fancy that a largo number of the Observer's readers must have written to me In the past we have followed well, But it is braver to lead. ' . So, lead ! Rather, follow that brave and great man, the foremost Democrat living and among the first: that ever lived, who in the White! House is setting the Democratic! Standard higher than it has ever been set, and making the party the invincible leader of Government re-! form. As for them that will not follow, let them be lost on the way.! But above all things never argue with anti-Civil Service Reformeru.1 They can be left to defeat them-; selves. Walter II. Page. The South and Civil Service. Wilmington 8Ur. !j The Southern Democrats are much misrepresented, we believe, by even some Southern papers as to the Civil Service. Whether this is done from ignorance or not we may not deter mine. We believe the true attitude of a very large majority of the Southern white voters is about this: They are disgusted with the Civil Service as administered by the Re publicans. As such it was an un mixed curse, v The whole public service was abused to the oppression of themselves. Unscrupulous men for the most part were put in con trol, and active partisans were; the chief instruments employed to carry out the designs of the meanest, most wicked, most persecuting and cor ,mpt party known to modern history. Every office in the South; was filled by an active, earnest partisan, and, ! as the Southern Bivouac says, be came "a centre of infection." 4 J The Southern people demanded, therefore, a thorough, radical change in all this and for the best of rea- ea ' . e 1 e e sons, to this end, they nave lnsis- -ted that all Republican officials -for il j a 1 -7 thev were all partisans and claaueurs should be turned out at the earli est possible day. They expected and demanded more than this ; that in turning out Republican wire pullers care should be taken that their places should not be supplied by other; Republican agents, but by honest, trustworthy, capable Demo crats. If thisis not common sense we know not what it is. It is the most natural and Reasonable thing in the j world that a people who had been outraged and oppressed for twenty years in their rights by active parti san workers should be restless and jresolved that the curse and affliction should cease whenever the Demo crats got in power, i There is a class of political senti mentalists in the South. They are so extremely elevated in their no tions of the dignity and purity of party, that it shocks them in their tenderest sensibilities whei you talk of giving the offices to Democra ts only. Oh, no, say these men of high views, that is awful. It is a great wrong upon the South to have any thing whatever to do with the ."spoils." That sort of thing will damn the party, blast civilization and ruin the public . service. Let there bo a civil service law put to work in good faith and what if it keeps in thousands upon thousands of the Republicans, that doesn't a hfount to anything, for they are -'thoroughly competent, are a pretty clever set oi leiiows and nave oeen faithful. ' All the years of persecution and active partisanship are thus forgot ten, and these sentimental theorists, see no danger in importing the Bri tish system into these United States that fastens a regular set of officials upon, the country in perpetuity, creates an aristocracy of Govern ment fed officials,- and makes per manent a system that has not one element of true republican-democracy in it.. i The Civil Service law began to operate with all of the offices of the country in possession of one party .' To have it work fair and without fraction and free from party bias the offices should have been first equally divided between the two old parties and then have started the civil ser vice machinery. As it is, the ar rangement was unfair and wrong. Who believes that one solitary Republican in all the North, who is now blatant in his advocacy of the Civil Service system, would have tolerate! it for a moment if the Democrats had held possession, of the 115,000 offices and under the law would be able to retain a con siderable proportion of them ? Now the white votersinthe South are firm believers in Civil Service Reform. But what kind ? They believe in a system that keeps only honorable, honest, faithful, qualified men in office, and who are not to be meddlers in politics, much less ring manipulators and ward managers. They accept the statement that it is demoralizing to the country to have a partisan civil service. They know in their own sad experience from 1865 to 1885, that it is worse than demoralizing that it is dangerous to the very liberties of the people. The South wants no fine-spun 1 theory, but a practical, honest, eco 1 nomical, thorough system. The South knows that in all the Presi dential elections until 1884, the ac tive partisan officials of the Repub lican party in the United States decided the elections. But for this large and paid army of workers the country would have been spared a vast amount of humiliation, degra dation and oppression. So down with a Civil Service that retains working partisans in office and. makes them the agents and ma nipulators of party in elections. J Here is the place for true reform. To' have an efficient Democratic Ad ministration there must be men in office who are in sympathy with Democratic policy and principles. Democratic Civil-Service Reform. Baltimore San. I ; - It hardly admits of dispute that the question whether the civil-service law was being fairly ad minis te red was one of the issues before the people in the political campaigns that were brought to a close by the elections of Tuesday last. The issue may be said, in fact, to have j been raised in the first place" by the mug wumps. They contended that the the working of the civil-service law, even under a democratic adminis tration, must be such as to retain permanently in officeUn the depart ments at Washington, and ; in the larger custom-houses and postoffices throughout the country, tne repub licans who happened to be in office when the law was passed, and that, too, although the fitness of these officials haa not been tested by the competitive examinations to j which all applicants for office have since that event been required to undergo. They could not be brought to admit the injustice of this view, ; which has been the one practically enforc ed by the civil-service commission. They pronounced inadmissable the democratic claim that there ought, in common fairness, under a demo cratic administration, to be at least as many democrats as republicans in the public service, and, in order to approximate equality, the ins should be subjected to the same examina tions as the outs. As if to confirm the disproportion between the re publicans and democrats in the ser-: vice, the commission, though aware that the first examinations were at-; ' tended almost wholly by republicans made a rule prolonging the "period of eligibility of persons who first got on the list of eligibles, To this improper ruling the mugwump press, made no objection until a democrat ic President canceled it. What; perhaps, most offended the public sense of fairness was the constant and systematic effort made by self chosen champions of civil-service reform to make it appear that re movals were forbidden by the law. When it was shown that the letter of the law was silent on this point, it was then asserted with righteous confidence that its spirit forbade re movals. Upon the issues, thus ob truded upon the publio notice the democratic conventions of Virginia, Maryland and New York pronounc ed in emphatic terms, and the elec tions of the 3d of the present month strongly confirm their verdicti While favorable to the civil-service law, and anxious to see the seivice reformed, the majority of the peo ple of these States wish to see the reform p oceed under democratic auspices, and in a manner consistent with democratic idca3 of the nature of our institutions. The fact that under republican" administrations the civil service grew to bo intolera bly corrupt, inefficient and extrava gant does not appear to democrats to be a sufficient reason for annihi lating the Presidents constitutional power over the appointment and re moval of public servants, and thus altering wholly the relation the lat ter have hitherto sustained to their employer. It is not necessary to go quite o far merely to get honest and capable employes. The people are in accord with the President in this matter. "I cannot rid myself," said the President the" other day, "of the idea this civil-service reform intended to do practical good, and not a mere sentiment invented for the purpose of affordingopportuuity to ventilate high-soundipg notions and fine phrases." It is quite pos sible, democratic reformers think, to have a good civil-service composed in part, or even wholly, of demo crats, and the administration of President Cleveland is not disposed to maintain the opposite view. Gov. xiill, of New York, describes no doubt with tolerable correctness the attitude of the victors in the recent fight when he says : "We have not promised a non-partisan administra tion. The people do not expect it," and it is almost impossible under the true theory of our institutions. We will, however, give the people honest, efficient and competent ser vants devoted to the public weal." WASHINGTON LETTER. " Washington, Nov. 7. To the Editor of the Lenoir Topic: Everything points to an unusually brilliant and intereating winter in Washington, The new Congress is already gathering in the city, and early next month it will be called to order and organized.! An unusual number of visitors are coming to the city. Besides those connected with government affairs, many will be drawn here by a desire to enjoy Washington official society under Democratic auspices, and leadership. In the coming Congress there will be 184 Democrats and 141 Republi cans. But forty three is a good working majority. - ' As Mr. Randall hasisignified his determination not to enter the con test for Speaker of the House, there is little doubt that Mr. Carlisle will be re-elected without contest in cau cus. In this case the launching of the Forty Ninth Congress will be., without a ripple. Afterwards, how-" ever, smooth sailing is not to be ex pected. Not only will the House continue to be antagonized by a Re publican Senate, andthe free course of legislation correspondingly im peded ; but a new antagonism will be presented. " A Democratic Presi dent will be opposed by a Republi can Senate, in certain important nominations. ' ' Mr. Cleveland expresses much gratification at the result of the Vir ginia and New York elections, as does everyone prominently connect ed with the Administration. He interprets the result in 1 New York as a deliberate indorsement by the people of his reform Administration, and it is impossible to dwarf its sig nificance. While rejoicing over the more im portant political results, and larger issues than hung. upon the Virginia elections there is no single event of the moment that sinks into the Democratic heart with such swtet and "lingering ecstacy as the final obliteration of Senator William Ma hone. Democratic gains elsewhere may be fraught with deeper signifi cance, and may throw a brighter light upon the future of reform. ; But the human heart is human, and it. will dwell with obstinate delight upon the political death of the "lit tle boss." It is already evident that there will be more social entertaining in Washington this winter than usual. The demand from wealthy strangers f or houses is very large. 1 Nearly all of the better class of houses in the fashionable quarters of the city have been taken. Many old Democratic' families who have done but little so-' cially for years past, have prepared to emerge from their retirement and help to make .the winter jone to be remembered, j j At least two members of the Cab- j inet will entertain extensivel j ; Sec retary Whitney; who has had a com raodious ball room arranged n his! residence, " and Secretary Manning, who has taken a house constructed suitable for hospitable purposes, "the other members will doubtless keep pace with the usual record of Cabinet officers. ! The Diplomatic Corps : is always an important adjunct to the social season. They have ample leisure and the amenities of polite, society jlife is theirchief occupation. Some of the largest banquets which take place in the city are given by the ; Foreign Legations. Already - they ! have commenced their roundj of en tertainments. The Japanese Minis ter gave two dinners ; during the week, one to! the Cabinet and anoth er to the Diplomatic Corps in com memoration of the anniversary of the Mikado's birthday. The army and navy are also highly . important factors in a Washington season, and some of the most elaborate enter tainments are given by them. What will be done socially at the White House this winter is not known, Mr. Cleveland . is not a President likely j to plunge wildly into society's carnival.; Still h is not probable that he will be inclined to depart from those social amenities with which custom and tradition have associated the Executive Man siom ;. '. 1 J -; I . MR. aUNTON MARBLE'S MISSION. B iitimore Sun. It is the most plausible article of the bimetalists creed that if all the great commercial States of the world Great Britain,1 1 France, Germany and the United States could be in duced to a treaty fixings a jcertain ratio of silver to gold, at which ei ther metal could be turned into le- gal-tehder coins at their respective mines, silver would cease to decline in price and the addition of the ex isting mass of it to the world's stock of international money would im mensely benefit commerce land in dustry.! The if, jhowever, is a large one, and there (is reason to think that a long time will ' elaspe before the conditions of; universal bimetal ism will prevail! In all the coun tries named above gold ' alone is en titled to free coinage; silver, is bought and sold j but its coinage is restricted. In England gold alone is legal tender inj large sumsl With in the ; limits of ! France, Germany and the United States silver coin is legal tender in Unlimited amounts, but beyond their borders it has only a bullion value. In short, silver does not at present constitute part of the international money of the world J I For silver and gold to be simultaneously international money, there must be uniformity of legisla tion as regards the ratio jof value between gold and silver, and to leg islation on this subject England and Germany are opposed. Our silver men have not been unaware of this fact. They induced the United States government' in 1876-77, and again in 1881, td( send representa tives to Europe to meet the repre sentatives .of other powers with a v iew of reaching by discussion a basis on which the free coinage of silver might receive general sanc tion. On the failure of the silver commission of 1876-77 to obtain a favorable . response from England and Germany, Congress undertook by the Bland act of 1878; to solve the problem tot itself. It has suc ceeded in getting out over) 200,000, 000 silver dollars, but it has not been able to keep the values of silver and gold at a fixed ratio. Silver has continued to fall in pricej with the result that the so-called standard'' d ollar is today of less value py 20 cents than the gold dollar, which, to the great, disappointment of the silver men, continues to be the sole stand ard. Is thereany prospept that the great commercial nations can be in duced,; by uniformity of legislation, to internationalize silver as a money metal and stay its decline in value? If there is not j j it is evidently the duty of Congress to. stop . its futile and costly effort! to accomplish what is confessedly j impossible without the co-operatipn of all the great commercial powers. M. Henri Cer nuschi, the distinguished pimetalist, himself says: '(4So long as the bime talic treaty, proposed in 1881 by the United States and Franeej, is not ac cepted, either ,by. England of by Germany, not! one ; silver 5-franc piece should , be coined by France, not one silver dollar should be coin ed in the United Stated. In no "form, under no pretext, should sil ver currencybe increased in France or inihe united States. M As re spects the 200,000,000 of standard dollars already coined, he considers the money paid for the bullion in them wasted; paper would have been cheaper. With the object of having a basis of ascertained fact for Con gress to proceed upon the dealing with the silver problem this winter, President Cleveland, with the advice and co-operation of Secretary Bay ard, haa had Mr. Manton Marble employed since last May in Europe learning by personal conference with the expert advisers and statesmen of Great Britain, 'France and Germany "the present opinions and purposes of those governments in respect to the establishment, internationally, of a fixed J relative value i of the two metals, a ratio of weight between coins of cold and coins of silver, tht 01 w - , " free coinage of both metals at the mints of all, j and the international use of both metals as money of un limited tender." Mr. Marble ha3 discharged his mission and reported to the State Department and to the President the result of Jiis inquiries. The details are not stated, but it may be safely !assumed f that he "re ceived from neither England nor Germany any encouragement to hope they would join with France and tne United States in carrying out the programme outlined in his letter of instructions. !A negative result was no doubt anticipated. Mr. Marble's facts will, however, bo of service to the President jwhen in writing his first message it becomes his duty to recommend jthe suspension of the coinage of the standard dollar. A Trip to Charlotte. Mount Zion, N. C, Oct. 31. To the Editor of the Lenoir Topic: On the evening of Oct. 27, I set out on a trip to Charlotte, N. C.,i reached Mr. li J. Hendrix's, whero I tarried through the night. 28, set out early,( went down-Buffalo creek, crossed the Yadkin river near Col. J. C. Horton's, crossed the mountain at Indian Grave Gap and arrived in Lenoir about 2 o'clock, p. m where I had the pleasure of meeting a number of friends. Took the 5 o clock trarin for Gastonia and had the pleasure of the company of W. W. Scott, Esq., editor of The Lenoir Topic, as far as Hickory and found him to be quite a pleasant and agreeable! gentleman. Passed Hickory and were detained several hours, waiting for j the train going west to pass us, it being behind time on account of the engine having run off the track. This delay caused us to miss connection at Gastonia, and not wishing to remain till evening, I and Mr. F.l S. Hall, of Newton, procured ah outfit from the livery stable, and went the remainder of the way on a buggy, reaching Char lotte at 1 o'clock, p. m., on the 29th. A little before reaching the 'city we passed the "Striped Brigade," who, armed with their balls- and chains, picks and shovels, were en gaged in repairing the road, and I must confess that I have never, dur ing all my travels, . met a more de graded, detestable or vicious set of men many of them looked as though they were capable of perpe trating the most atrocious crimes without any reluctance or remorse of conscience. Indeed many of them their consciences if looked as if they ever had any were already seared as with a hot iron. Why will men so act as 'to thus degrade them selves ? I This is my first visit to Charlotte "since the cruel war wa3 over" and you may depend there has been a great change ih the appearance of that city from that time to the pres ent. Then, it was a little more than alittle country village, and now it is a city of vast j proportions ,and still growing rapidly. Whilst in Char lotte 1 met a number' of friends, among whom! was C. J. Cowo3 and his estimable family. Whilst looking around over the city I. noticed the followiug sign: "Dr. Cureall' and being desirous of forming the acquaintance of a man who possessed such wonderful curative powers, I stepped into his neatly furnished office and had a little social conversation with the celebrated doctor and was almost as tonished at the recital of the many wonderful cures he had performed. The doctor informed me that he liad medicines which, would cure all dis eases to whiieh the human race are 8ii bject. ! Indeed from his descrip tion of his medicines they must be equal to the " grand elliptical, Asiat ical, pharmaceutical, nervous cordial which cures all diseases incident to humanity." j What a pity it is that Dr. Cureall is not.omnipresent, or that there are not enough such to go around. Had we euough 6irch, what a vast amount of suffering would be relieved. I hope that the .doctor may be able to give instant relief to all his patients and that he may live to enjoy a ripe old age without ever sunenng a misery, i single mnsr of acute r But the train is about due, and I must leave the doctor and city for the present. Took the 1 o'clock train which conveyed me to Gasto nia where I remained till 8 o'clock p. M., when I took the narrow gauge train for Lenoir. On the morning of the 30th I mounted my horse and rode over to the residence of my old friend, Col.1 J. C. Ilorton, where I spent the remainder of the day and night with him and the portion of his estimable family who still reside with him. On the 3.1st, accompani ed by Dr. Houk, I returned to my North Carolina home, which I reach ed in due time, without meeting with auy serious accident. i r T. O.L.
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