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GOLDSBOBO, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1899.
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ens; the cough disap
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sumption but cut short
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Pectoral!
Hliat Is Life!
A worthless stone sinks in the sea.
N) sinks a gem of sparkling light:
A ninment's riple there will be,
J hen all is lost from sight.
The mendicant and millionaire,
lhe solx-r man and senseless sot,
lhe mother and her child at raver.
Here yesterday, are not.
The world moves on just as of old;
Men work and war, and children plav
Kings covet fame, ami misers gold,
And women weep and pray.
Hut God knows where is hid the gem,
here all Ins precious jewels sleep-'
And on some day will gather them
.rrom tomb and grave and deep.
Curiosity.
Men, as well as some of the lower
animals, suffer from what is some
times fatal curiosity. Hunters of
wild animals have various devices by
which they excite the curiosity of
deer, ducks and other game and lure
them to death. Hunters of men act
on precisely the same principal, and
the human animal does not differ
greatly from the innocent moose,
who, seeing something out of the
ordinary, approaches to learn what
it is. The lonij suffering of the
human race is attributed to curiosity,
and it has been the fruitful cause of
siti and suffering for centuries. Well
directed curiosity leads, on the other
hand, to an increase of useful knowl
edge. The desire to investigate the
forces of nature leads to discovery
and invention; curiosity on the part
of children promotes the acquisition
of knowledge, but curiosity to be
beneficial must be directed to proper
channels.
Curiosity respecting forbidden
things, such as vice, is extremely
dangerous. One may begin his re
searches with the purest and best of
motives, but vice, familiar grown,
becomes tolerable, and may in the
end master the curious investigator.
Passion may get the better of reason,
uader strong temptation, and one
who thought to view vice from the
outside is inspired by his passions to
seek an experience that can be gained
oily by persona! indulgence. For
this reason, among others, it has
been found desirable to forestall
curiosity in the young by teaching
them all that they should know about
the weaknesses of humanity, instead
of leaving them to gain such knowl
edge by themselves. The doctrine
of heredity has suffered by con
spicuous exceptions to its rules,
mainly because the elfects of curios
ity, or its absence, have not been
taken into account.
The child of strictly virtuous and
respectable parents goes astray some
times becauseof unsatisfied curiosity.
Knowledge is withheld from him that
ought to have been imparted, and he
falls, while seeking it, unguided and
unguarded. On the other hand, the
child of vicious parents may reject
their example. The outer world has
nothing to teach him in the way of
vice. He learns at an early age all
that can be taught, and hence does
not become the victim of an un
healthy curiosity. He may not be
virtuous and respectable from high
motives, but because he has noted in
time the evil effects of vice, and is
not to be allured by its false prom
ises. Recognizing the potential force
of curiosity for good or evil, it is
important that the curiosity of chil
dren should be,in a measure, satis
fied and directed into the right
channels. Children, as a rule, are
of an inquiring turn of mind, and,
except in rare instances, have plas
tic minds. They can be interested
in studies and researches that will
be beneficial to them just as easily
as they can be interested in forms of
vicious entertainment. The impor
tant thing to do is to give proper
direction to their activities, and this
should be done at a very early age.
Ordinarily parents do not give
much thought to the future of their
children until the latter have attain
ed the age of U or 1G years, yet,
before this age, the children's habits
of thought may have been formed.
One is a book worm, another is in
terested in sports, still another is an
idler, easily led away by bad asso
ciates. It is an easy matter to keep
the good boy in the right path, but
it is exceedingly difficult to reform
the one who has gone wrong. Curi
osity guides them all, but in very
different directions, and the aim of
parents and guardians should be to
arouse in the very young a curiosity
respecting good or, at least, harm
less things, to the exclusion of curi
osity about the things which are
vicious in their influences. Thus
may the curiosity of childhood, so
pernicious at times when left un
guided, be turned into proper chan
nels and made helpful to them.
A good character is more easily
lost than gained.
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Why ot You?
Mv wife has been using Chamberlain's
lVm Halm, with good results, for a lame
shoulder that has pained her continual ly
f mine Years. We have tried all kinds
f medicines and doctors without re
ceiv iff any benefit from any of them
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AS BAD AS ANANIAS
Are Some Men, Says Bill Arp, the
Georgia Philosopher.
"Honesty is the best policy," said
Ben Franklin, and Richard Whatley,
the great theologian, added, "But
he who acts on that principle is not
an honest man."
The truth is, that real, genuine
honesty is not a policy at all, for
policy requires thought, plan and
generally some dissimulation. It
comes from the head, the brain;
whereas honesty is a moral principle
that comes from the heart, and takes
no time for thought. Policy is a
cold, hard word; honesty a warm,
genial, neighborly one. The poets
like it next best to love Hearns
says, "It's guid to be honest aud
true," and Pope says "An honest
man's the noblest work of God."
The best definition of the word is,
"free from deceit, just in speech and
action, fair in dealing and worthy to
be trusted."
I was ruminating about this be
cause a clever country boy from
whom I buy my lightwood brought
me a load to-day and the top layers
and all that was in sight were rich
in rosin and clean and attractive.
He wanted a dollar and a half, and I
told him it was too much; but he
pleaded like a lawyer, and said he
had hauled it ten miles, and that
kind of pine was getting awful
scarce; that he could have sold it
down town, but knew that I liked
rich, clean split pine, and so he
brought it to me. He is a good
looking, hard-working boy, aud so I
bought it and stood by while he
threw it off. The top was all right,
but that out of sight was black knots
or half-rotten pieces, and disgusted
me. "Look here, Felton," said I,
"do you know of a bo3' who would
put his best pine in the bottom of
the wagon, or who would even mix
it about half and half?'' "No, sir, I
don't," said he: "we havent got any
of that sort in the piney woods."
"Don't you kuow," said I, "that I
wouldent have given you your price
if I had seen into the bottom of your
wagon?" He smiled complacently,
and replied : "That's just the reason
we put the best on top; we couldent
get more'n half price if we dident,
and you know, major, we get mighty
little for a hard day's work, any
how." "But, Felton, that way of
doing is cheating, and the- say that
cheating never thrives. I should
think you would feel ashamed to
throw your load off right here before
me." "Well, now, major, to tell you
the truth, I was in hopes you would
go in the house before I thro wed it
off; but everybody has to put the
best on top," and he smiled all over
his face.
What kind of a boy is that? Well,
he is a little better than the average
of boys, or of men either, as to that,
for he smiles at you while he deceives
you. I heard a blind phrenologist
tell a man once that his bump of
covetousness was so large he would
steal if he had a fair chance that is,
if he found a man asleep with his
pocketbook under his pillow he would
take it, but at the same time he had
sympathy so largely developed that
he would kiss his sleeping victim be
fore he left him. I like that boy for
his good nature, and had rather he
would cheat me than a boy who
wouldent own up to an'thing, and
go off and brag how he got me. Yes,
everybody puts the best on top, and
everybody tries to get the advantage
in a trade not everybody, but the
exceptions are very few. A man can
tell a lie by concealing the truth
when I was a lad I heard old Dr.
Nathan Hoyt, of Athens, preach a
sermon in our town, and have not
forgotten how he looked straight at
me and said : "Little boy, you can
tell a lie by winking your eye."
My wife says she was in a store
one day when a country woman came
in and asked the merchant if he could
match that scrap of gingham which
she showed him. He said no, but he
had something very like it, and pret
tier, and he finally sold it to her.
After she left, my wife remarked
that she might have matched it at
the next door, for she noticed the
identical goods in the window as she
passed. "Yes, I knew it," said the
merchant, "but it wascnt my busi
ness to tell her; I must sell my own
goods if I can." That was the kind
of honesty that was policy, but it
wasent fair or neighborly it wasent
doing as you would be done by. The
trading world is very busy conceal
ing the truth. I bought a fine sow
from a neighbor once, and she eat
up a dozen chickens the day I got
her. When I asked him why he
dident tell me that she was a chicken
eater, he smiled and said he thought
I would find it out soon enough. A
merchant may know that a certain
piece of prints will fade when washed,
but he does not tell it. You can
hardly find a real linen bosom shirt
nowadays, but they are all sold for
linen. These are not frauds of much
consequence, but they illustrate the
Scripture, which saith "A lie sticketh
close in the joints between buyer and
seller," and "It is naught it is
naught saith the buyer, but he
goeth his way and rejoice th." That
was in a horse trade, I reckon.
Hypocrisy, deceit, exaggeration
are not confined to traders; profes
sional men and politicians use all
these to gain their ends. Yes, and
even some preachers will make up a
pathetic story to move their hearers
to tears, or to give a sensational ef
fect to the sermon. Then, there are
the white lies that the women have
to tell every day : "Oh, I am so glad
to see you; you are looking so well;
your little girl is a dear little thing,
and as pretty as a pink ; do sit longer;
won't you take dinner with us?"
Sometimes she is not glad, nor is the
little girl pretty, nor does she want
the visitor to sit longer or stay to
dinner. But these are social decep
tions, and keep up good will. What
an awful thing it would be for a lady
to tell her visitor that she had stayed
about long enough, and had better
go. Not long ago a lady of our town
told two boys who came to see her
boys that they had .better go home,
for they had stayed long enough, and
it raised a rumpus that is not yet
allayed.
But the most numerous and pro
voking of all deceivers are the adver
tisers of patent medicines. Every
body knows that nine-tenths of their
nostrums are humbugs and their
certificates of wonderful cures are
either made up or paid for, and yet
the sick or the diseased will strain
their credulity and take another
chance to be restored. That's all
right if there is no harm in the medi
cine, but we do get very tired look
ing at the conspicuous heads and
faces of doctors and patients in the
newspapers. Ordinary lying that
has no malice in it is not a cardinal
sin. It is not forbidden in the ten
commandments. Ananias was not
suddenly punished for lying unto
men, but he had lied unto God. He
sought to defraud the Lord's treas
ury and there is many a church
member doing the same thing now.
They make no sacrifice. They with
hold a part and lie unto their own
consciences. The poor widow's mite
is still a bigger thing than a rich
man's large donation.
I wonder what kind of a world we
would have if everybody was good.
I don't mean religious, but kind and
just aud honest. Our courts and
prisons would be abolished. Just
think of it. But it cannot be. Ordi
nal sin and total depravity and moral
turpitude are still in the way. The
mystery of evil still hangs over us.
John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer
and other great thinkers say that the
Creator made the very best world
and the best inhabitants that He
could out of the material that He
had, but that it is improving as the
centuries roll on. And John Fiske
says that evil is necessary to teach
us what good is. That if there was
no crime or pain or grief we would
have no joy or happiness and would
not know what it was. Plato said
2,000 years ago that we had to limit
God's omnipotence or His goodness,
one or the other, and many learned
and sincere men, like Calvin and
Edwards, have tried to reconcile
predestination with free agency, but
it is all incomprehensible to me and
I have to fall back and entrench my
self on those injunctions which say
"Deal justly love mercy and obey
the Lord thy God," and the later
one which says, "Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart and
thy neighbor as thyself," and then
accept David's faith, which saith,
"Though He slay me yet will I trust
in Him."
I'm not going to strain my mind
over perplexing problems that have
never been solved. Mr. Fiske is a
beautiful writer, but if evil was cre
ated as a contrast so that we might
know what good is then how can we
enjoy heaven where there is no evil,
no crime or grief or affliction. One
thing I do know, that this is a beau
tiful world and this life is a happy
one to those who choose to make it
so. President Dabney, of the Uni
versity of Tennessee, said in a recent
speech at Hunlsville: "England is
about to perpetrate a great crime
against the Boers in expelling them
from their own domain. But this is
progress and is inevitable. It is the
law of nature and the law of nature
is the law of God." That sounds like
a strange doctrine to those who be
lieve that God is love. The Savior
said, "Offenses must needs come,
but woe unto them by whom they
come." Then what peril are those
rulers in who have the power to op
press and use it to carry out a selfish
policy. After all it is safest to be
an humble, honest citizen and have
no policy. Bill Arp.
The shoals in the Yadkin river a
mile above Elkin are being surveyed
with a view of locating an electric
plant to furnish power for a number
of manufacturing plants in Elkin.
lied by Ilrittsh Soldier In Africa.
Capt. C. (J. Dennison is well known
all over Africa as commander of the
forces that captured the famous rebel
(Jalishe. Under date of Nov. 4, lN'JT,
from Vryburg, Hechuanaland, he writes:
"Before starting on the lasf campaign I
bought a quantity of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
which 1 used myself when troubled with
bowel complaint, and had given to 1113'
men, and in every case it proved most
beuelicial." For sale by M. E. Robin
son & Bro., J. 11. Hill & Son, and Mil
ler's Drug Store, Goldsboro; and J. It.
Smith, Mount Olive.
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A NATION'S DOINGS.
The News From Everywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
Kansas City, Mo., had a $200,000
fire early Sunday morning.
Thirteen persons were badly in
jured in a railroad accident near
Hillsville, Miss., Monday.
Near Lester Manor, Va., Monday,
Riley Bradby, chief of the Pamunky
Indians, was struck by a train and
instantly killed.
In a wreck on the Michigan Cen
tral Railway, at Alexis, Mich.,
Thursday night, 32 people were
killed and CO injured.
The Schley home fund committee
hopes tt have a sufficient fund in
hand on January 1 to buy a house for
the admiral in Washington.
Mistakiug him for a burglar, Sam
Brock fatally stabbed his son at
Owenton, Ky., Friday night, and is
believed to have killed himself.
Near Dunlap, Tenn., Friday night,
R. M. Robinson, a merchant, was
shot and robbed of 3.500 by masked
men while returning to his home.
Chicago women have inaugurated
a movement for substantially recog
nizing the services of Gens. Fitzhugh
Lee and Joseph Wheeler in the recent
Spanish war.
Beri-beri, a tropical disease of rare
occurrence in northern latitudes, has
caused the death of Nichols Fernan
deyo, cook of the steamer Needles,
at New York.
At Allentown, Pa., Friday morn
ing, George W. Kern, proprietor of
the Hotel Mecca, shot and instantly
killed his wife aud then himself.
They had quarreled.
In his annual report, Assistant
Postmaster General Heath says the
rural free mail delivery system has
proved very successful and will be
established permanently.
At Richmond, Va., Thursday, me
morials in Hollywood cemetery to
Presideut Davis and his daughter,
Miss Winnie, were unveiled in the
presence of a vast assemb'age.
A band of robbers opened two
safes in Clarkesviile, Ga., Friday
night and secured about $1,000 in
cash, checks amounting to a large
sum, aud many valuable papers.
While cleaning windows in the
fifth story of a building in Philadel
phia, Pa., Friday afternoon, William
Ruland lost his balance, fell to the
ground and was instantly killed.
Fire at Memphis, Tenn., Thursday
night, destroyed the Planters ware
house, Wood's Chickamaw warehouse
and the plant of the Louisiana Mo
lasses Company. The loss is esti
mated at $250,000.
Word has reached Chattanooga
from Ducktown, Tenn., that serious
trouble is brewing there betweeu the
miners and operators. Six hundred
miners are out on a strike and the
company has arranged to put men in
their places.
Nine of a gang of 30 men, who
were cleaning boilers at a Bethlehem
Steel Company blast furnace, at
Bethlehem, Pa., Friday morning,
were overcome by gas. One of them,
Frederick Lintner, 50 years of age,
died before he could be rescued.
Foreign Affairs.
There was a violent earthquake at
Leghorn, Italy, Saturday morning.
The Prince of Monaco has given
$2,000 to the Boer Ambulance Fund.
The danger of war between Russia
and Japan is regarded as more immi
nent. The Berlin Bundesrath has con
sented to the establishment there of
an Ottoman legation.
Captain Stephen Slocum, American
representative, sailed Saturday from
England to see the Transvaal war.
There are several cases of bubonic
plague in Spain, and two sailors have
died of the malady at Bordeaux,
France.
General Joubert, the Boer com
mander in Natal, has taken steps to
head off the expected British rein
forcements. To alleviate alarm stirred up by
Adventists in Germany the Berlin
Observatory director denies that the
world will end on November 13.
The Prince of Wales celebrated bis
fifty-eighth birthday at Sandringhara
Thursday, entertaining Lord Rose
bery and other distinguished guests.
Recent meetings in Santa Clara
province, Cuba, are said to have
shown that the natives are much dis
satisfied with American rule in the
island.
Gen. Cipriano Castro, leader of the
revolutionary movement in Venezue
la, took Puerto Cabello after killing
or wounding G.")0 persons in an attack
upon the town.
Irishmen at East Mayo have adopt
ed resolutions commending the 1,000
British mules that stampeded near
Ladysmith. The sons of Erin also
seek to prevent British enlistments
in Ireland.
A new levy of troops has been
made in the Department of Cauca,
Colombia, by which all citizens from
18 to CO years of age are called to
the support of the government
against the revolution.
National Capital .Matters.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington', Nov, 14, 1899.
"A Bryan triumph" is what nearly
every democrat and many republi
cans see in the results of the State
elections, and it is not likely that
there will be any more serious talk
of anybody else for the head of the
democratic ticket, next year. Col.
Bryan's magnificent success in his
own State, where he largely increas
ed the fusion majority in the face of
many obstacles, including the influ
ence of the Federal administration
and the lavish expenditure of money
by the republicans, aroused admira
tion even among his opponents.
Boss Hanna's success in Ohio, prob
ably the most costly campaign ever
carried on in a single State, is ac
cepted as having knocked the bottom
out of all the schemes to spring an
anti-McKinley candidate on the re
publicans, and, unless something of
a scandalous nature should be fasten
ed upon his administration between
now and the meeting of the republi
can national convention, Mr. McKin
ley will not be opposed for renomi na
tion; but a strong element in the
republican party, including many of
its most prominent men in Congress,
have already begun to demand of
Mr. McKinley that lie depose King
Hanna before the Presidential cam
paign opens. That will not be an
easy job, as Hanna has as much justi
fication in claiming his dearly paid
for victory in Ohio as a personal
vindication as Mr. McKinley has in
claiming it as an endorsement of
imperialism by the country.
Imperialism run mad may be look
ed for in future acts of the adminis
tration, as Mr. McKinley and all his
cabinet have succeeded in persuading
themselves into believing that the
State elections were an endorsement
of imperialism by the people, not
withstanding the anti-imperialist
victories in Nebraska, and in Mary
land. The result in Ohio was not an
endorsement of anything except the
power of money corruptly spent.
Owing to the large number of
Maryland democrats engaged in
business in Washington there has
been unusual rejoicing at the Nation
al capital on account of the return
of that State to the democratic fold,
from which it would never have
strayed had there not been a bitter
family row in the democratic camp.
Mar-land democrats are very posi
tive in saying that they can keep the
State in line now that the party is
again united.
Now that there is no campaign to
influence, it is admitted by members
of the administration that the move
ment to capture Aguinaldo and his
army, which it was officially an
nounced the day before election
could not possibly fail, has met with
delays which it is feared will give
Aguinaldo time enough to get
away.
Gen. Joe Wheeler has written that
he will take his seat in the House
during the coming session of Con
gress, but as he has not left Manila
3et, so far as known in Washington,
and it will take between six and
eight weeks for him to make the
trip, he cannot be at the opening of
Congress. Constitutional experts
say that should Gen. Wheeler appear
in. the House to take the oath his
status would be entirely different to
that occupied by him when objection
was raised to his resuming his seat
in the House while holding the com
mission of a major general of volun
teers, on the ground that his accept
ance of a commission in the army
vacated his seat in the House, an
objection which was sustained by the
committee of which Speaker-to-be
Henderson was chairman, and which
would have been sustained by the
House had not the personal popular
ity of Gen. Wheeler been so great
that House declined to consider the
report on the plea that there was
not time enough, owing to the near
ness of the end of the session. When
Gen. Wheeler's present commission
brigadier general of volunteers was
given him he was not a member of
the House, although he had been
elected as such. Consequently no
objection will be made to his being
sworn in as a member whenever he
presents himself, but the moment he
takes the oath as a member of the
House he will cease to be a brigadier
general.
Secretary Gage says he thinks the
State elections were an order to the
republicans in Congress to put the
single gold standard into a law.
Democrats only hope that he will be
able to convince the republican lead
ers in Congress to think the same
way.
The Agricultural reports show
great satisfaction with the govern
ments' experiments with tea raising
in South Carolina and tobacco raising
on the frost bitten orange orchards
of Florida. The latter is equal to
Cuba's best production.
Postmaster General Smith, has
sent a notice to postmasters asking
them to, in some feasible way, call
the attention of their patrons to the
necessity of putting the names of
the Company, Regiment, etc., on the
mail addressed to soldiers at Manila.
Hundreds of letters lie undelivered
on this account.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Summary of Current Events Tor the
Past Seven Days.
Alexander county is to have a
$12,000 court house.
The Baptist State Convention
meets in Asheville December Cth.
So far in 1899 the State has char
tered 29 cotton mills. This breaks
all records.
A Greensboro negro called on a
cook in that town Saturday night
and died from heart disease during
the call.
Andrew Sherrill was accidentally
shot and killed by Ephraim Houser
while hunting near Cherryville one
day last week.
Lucy Vanstorv-, an old negro
woman of Greensboro, died Sunday
night iu church while leaning for
ward in the act of pra3er.
Salisbury and Hickory are rivals
for the location of the North Caro
lina Lutheran college, which is to be
moved from Mount Pleasant.
At Greenville, Friday, Elijah
Joyner, colored, was hanged for the
murder of R. C. Turnage, at Don
gola, in April last. He confessed to
his crime on the gallows.
An interstate association will be
formed at a meeting to be held in
Asheville, next Wednesday, to secure
a national park in some section of the
Blue Ridge or Smoky mountains.
At Alamance court a negro named
McFaden, 14 years old, was sen
tenced by Judge Brown to the peni
tentiary for 12 years, for an attempt
to rape a white girl 3 years of age.
The Blue Ridge Spring and Mat
tress Company's plant at Lenoir was
burned Friday night. The origin of
the fire is unknown. Loss $2,000
with no insurance. J. H. Midby
operated the factorye
Near Maxton, Sunday night, a reg
ular pitched battle occurred among
negroes. George Brown was killed
and John Cook and Shadrack Ward
were mortally wounded. A woman
was at the bottom of the trouble.
While left alone in a room the
three-year-old son of W. T. Herbert,
near Aurelian Springs, Halifax
county, caught on fire Saturda3
and before assistance arrived was so
badly burned that it died that night.
Daniel Lee, colored, shot and mor
tally wounded John Bows, white, at
Roxboro Monday. They were wrest
ling, when Bows threw Lee. Lee
rose and fired, the ball entering the
side. Both men are desperate char
acters. A four-year-old daughter of Frank
Miller was burned to death in For
syth count- Sundaj'. The child's
clothes caught from the fire. In at
tempting to extinguish the flames
the mother of the child had her
hands badly burned.
Charlie Bobo, of Marion, who has
been serving a sentence of two years
in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., peniten
tiar3', lias been pardoned by the
president. He killed a policeman
while serving with his troop in Porto
Rico a few months ago.
The Commonwealth states a fact
that is not generally known, and
that is that Scotland Neck is the
largest peanut market in the world.
That is tosa3', more Spanish peanuts
are handled on that market than on
an3' other market in the world.
A special to the Asheville Citizen
says a fight occurred Tuesday at
Black Mountain between Milt Hamby
and Lawson Dougherty, in which
both parties were seriously injured.
Dougherty was dangerously cut
about the throat and neck. Hamby
received two shots, one in the hip
aud one in the arm.
At last the Southeastern Tariff
Association has decided to reduce
insurance rates in North Carolina.
This reduction, which is about 25
per cent, below the old rate, is made
in recognition of the new insurance
laws of North Carolina, which have
been very beneficial to the compa
nies doing business in the State.
A Laurinburg special to the Ral
eigh News and Observer says a fatal
shooting affray occurred on the plan
tation of Mr. Duncan Southerland, a
few miles from town, Sunday night,
the parties all being colored. One
man is dead, another mortally
wounded and a third more or less in
jured. A woman was at the bottom
of the whole trouble.
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