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I DUUI. ''.'.. MHM HI HHH,B I l. i p UIHI.M.l 1.1 ll.HAMIHM II It I. 1 1. . t l III!,! . ,,. , fijn i.i 1. i, m."1 .m m w.'.'.''.,lV''V;1'.'.'f-'.'.v Fa'"V'-v.H.vrfrr7'"WTT,,7 T"-,"-"- 'r rr r 'n.i 1 1 , ' v ' ' ' ' ' STATE'S TAX RATE CHANQEDr-NO GENERAL REAS SESSMENT FIVE CENTS EX TRA FOR $CHOOLS. THE UNIVERSITY IS SHORT ' .'.'.i-vv. .-::):;':: I v-sito'Sks SYNOPSIS. 1 Ckwrt fatdval Algernon JonM, vlca . ttrwldmt of th Metropolitan Oriental Rut company of New York, thirsting for romanoa, la in Cairo on a buainaaa trip. Horao Ryann arrtvae at th hotel In Cairo with a oar fully guarded bundle. Rjranna eelle Jonea tba famoua holy Thl ordea rug which ha admit having etolen from a paaha at Bagdad. Jonea meeta Major Callahan and later la Introduced to fortune Cnedaoya -by a woman to whom he ha4 loaned ISO pound at Monta Carlo aome month prevloiuly, and who turn out to be Fortune' mother. CHAPTER V. (Continued.) "Well?- said Mrs. Chedsoye, a qui- ., ucai smile slanting her Hps, Tou wish my opinion T" countered , the daughter. "He is shy. but he la neither stupid nor Billy; end when he miles he Is really good-looking." "My child," replied the woman, drawing off her gloves and examining her shapely hands, "I hate looked In to the very heart of that young man. - A thousand years ago, a red-cross on his surtout, he would have been beat log his flats against the walls of Jerusalem; five hundred years later, he would have been singing chant- royales under lattice-windows; a pa ladin and a poet" "How do you know that? Did he make lore to you?" "No; but I made lore to him with out his knowing It; and that was more to my purpose than having him make love to me," enigmatically. Three days, and he was so guileless . that he never asked my name. But In Monte Carlo, as you know, one asks only your banker's name." "And your purpose?" "It Is still mine, dear. Do you real ise that we haven't seen each other In four months, and that you haven't offered to kiss me " "Did he go away without writing to you about that money?" Mrs. Chedsoye calmly plucked out the lnturned fingers of her gloves. "I .. believe I did receive a note Inclosing bis banker's address, but, unfortu nately, In the confusion ot returning to Paris, I lost It My memory has always been a trial to me," sadly. "Since when r coldly. There Is not a woman living with a keener memory tnan yours. "You flatter me. In affairs that in terest me, perhaps." You never meant to pay him. It Is horrible." , "My dear Fortune, how you Jump at conclusions t Did I not offer him a draft the very first thing?" "Knowing that at such a moment he could not possibly accept it?" de risively. "Sometimes I hate you!" "In these days filial devotion Is a lost art." "No, no; It Is a flower parents have ' ceased to cultivate." And there was In the tone a strained note which described an In tense longing to be loved. For if George Ferclval Algernon Jones was a lonely young man, It was the result of bis own blindness; whereas Fortune Chedsoye turned hither and thither in ' search of that which she never could find. The wide Lyblan desert held upon Its face a loneliness, a desolation. less mournful than that which reigned within her heart. "Hush! We are growing sentiment al." warned the mother. "Besides, I ceueve we are attracting attention." Her glance swept a half-circle com placently. , "Pardon me! I should be sorry to draw attention to you, knowing how you aonor it" "My child, learn from me; temper is me arch-enemy of smooth complex Ions. Jones It makes you laugh.". "It Is a homely, honest name." "I grant that But a Percival Alger non Jones!" Mrs. Chedsoye laughed toftly. It was one of those pleasant sounds that caused persons within hearing to wait for it to occur again. , "Come; let us go np to the room. It Is a dull, dusty Journey in from Port ; Said." . 'f ' v, ,";,:.; Alone, Fortune1 was certain that for '.her mother her heart knew nothing but hate. Neglect, Indifference, In justice, misunderstanding, the chill repellence that always met the least outreachlng of the child's affections, the unaccountable disappearances, the terror of the unknown, the blank wall of Ignorance behind which she was always kept, upon these hate had bnllded her dark and brooding re treat. Yet, never did the mother come within the radius ot her sight that she dtd not fall under the spell of strange fascination, enchaining, fight against It how she might A kindly touch of the hand, a single mother smile, and she would have flung her arms about the other woman's neck. But the touch and the mother-smile never csjne. She knew, she under-t're-i; sue wasn't wanted, she hadn't ' i wanted in the beginning; to her r she was as the young of ani ! teresting only up to that time i t'iey could stand alone. That !ir never made and held f n-T ps ws in nowise 7 e 1 n, sii-h step, a dread which, whenever she strove to analyse It, ran from under ber Investigating touch, as little balls of ..quicksilver run from under the pressure of a thumb. She was never without the comforts of life, well-fed, well-dressed, well- boused, and often her mother flung ber some Jeweled trinket which (again that sense of menace) she put away, but never wore. The bright periods were when they left ber In the little villa near Mentone, with no one but her old and faithful nurse. There, with her horse, her books and her flowers, she was at peace. Week Into week and month Into month she was let be. Never a letter came, save from some former schoolmate who was coming over and wanted letters of introduction to dukes and duchess- If she smiled over these letters It was with melancholy; for the dukes and duchesses, who fell within her singular orbit, were not the sort to whom one gave letters of introduction. Where ber mother went she never had the least idea. She might be in any'hf the great ports ot the world, anywhere between New York and Port Said. The major generally dis appeared at the same time. Then perhaps, she'd come back from pleasant tram-ride over to Nice and find them both at the villa, maid and luggage. Mayhap a night or two, and off they'd go again; never a word about their former Journey, uncom municative, rather quiet These ab sences, together with the undemon strative reappearances, used to hurt Fortune dreadfully. It gave her clear proof of where she stood, exactly nowhere. Tbe hurt had lessened with the years, and now she didn't care much. Like as not, they would drag her out of Eden for a month or two, for what true reason she never could quite fathom, unless It wsb that at times her mother liked to have the daughter near her as a foil. At rare Intervals she saw steel-eyed, grim-mouthed men wandering up and down before tbe gates of tbe Villa Fanny, but they never rang the bell, nor spoke to her when she passed them on the street. If she talked of these men, her mother and the major would exchange amused glances, noth ing more. If, rightly or wrongly, she hated her mother, she despised her uncle, who was ever bringing to the villa men of money, but of coarse fiber, ostensibly with the view of marrying her off. But Fortune had her dreams, and she was quite content to wait There was one man more persistent than the others. Her mother called him Horace, which the major mel lowed Into Hoddy. Ha was tall, blond. OLD MACCiPATH AvrfW of HEARTS AND .MASKS Ofe MAN ON THE BOX c&T llkf e4.4ij--ark Jnf C C W COPYUIOHT 1911 Ay BOBBjS - MERRILL COMPANY Fanny and Immediately vanished, who returned again. And be, too, soon grew to be a part of this unreal drama, arriving mysteriously one day and de parting tbe next That a drama waa being enacted un der her eyes aha no longer doubted; but It was as though she had taken her seat among the audience in the middle of the second act She could make neither head nor tail to It Whenever she accompanied ' her the right sort of women from the wrong sort, from which there is no ap peal to a higher court They could well afford to admit of her beauty, since the dancer was outside what la called the social pale, for all that her newest escort was a prince Incognito. They also discussed the play at bridge, the dullness of this particular season, the possibility of war between Eng land and Germany. And some one asked others who were the two well mother upon these Impromptu jour-1 gowned women down In front, sitting neys, ber character, or rather her at-1 on either side of tbe young chap In titude, underwent a change. She swept aside her dreams; she accepted the world as It was, saw things as they were; laughed, but without merri ment; Jested, but with the venomed point. It was the reverse of her real character to give hurt to any living thing, but during these forced march es, as tbe major humorously termed them, and such they were In truth, she could no more stand against giv lng the cruel stab than, when alone in her garden, she could resist the tender pleasure ot succoring a fallen butterfly. She was especially happy In finding weak spots In her mother's armor, and she never denied herself the thrust Mrs. Chedsoye enjoyed these sharp encounters, for It must be added that she gave as good as she took, and more often than not her thrusts bit deeper and did not always heal, Fortune never asked questions rela tive to the family finances. If she harbored any doubts as to their origin, to tbe source of their comparative lux. ury, she never put these into speech. She had never seen her father, but Bhe had often' heard him referred to that brute' or "that fool" or "that drunken Imbecile." It a portrait of him existed. Fortune had not yet seen it. She visited his lonely grave once pearl-grey. No one knew. Mother and daughter, probably. Anyhow, they knew something about good clothes. George was happy. He was proud. too. He saw the glances, the nods of approval. He basked In a kind of sunshine that was new. What an ass he had been all his life! To have been afraid of women just because be was Percival' Algernon! What he should have done was to have gone forth boldly, taken what pleasures he found, and laughed with the rest of them. There weren't two other women In all Cairo to compare with these two. The mother, shapely, elegant, with tba dark beauty of a high-class Span- lard, possessing humor, trenchant com ment, keen deduction and application; worldly, cynical, high-bred. The stu dent of nations might have tried' in vain to place her. She spoke the French of the Parisians, tbe Italian of the Florentines, the German of tbe Hanoverians, and her English was the envy of Americans and the wonder of the Londoners. The daughter fell be hind her but little, but sbe was more reserved. As Fortune sat beside the young col lector that afternoon, she marveled why they had given htm Percival A solved Itself Into a matter of values, then. . Had his surname been Mont morency, Percival Algernon would have fitted as a key to its lock. She smiled. No onk but a fond mother would be guilty of such a crime. And If she ever grew to know him well enough, she waa going to ask him all about this mother. What interest had ber own mother In this harmless young man? Oh, some day she would burst through this web, this Jungle; some day she would see beyond the second act! What then? she never troubled to ask her self; time enough when the moment arrived. "I had an Interesting adventure last night,-a most Interesting one," began George, who was no longer the shy, blundering recluse. . They were on the way back to town. Tell It me," said Mrs. Chedsoye. He leaned over from bis seat beside the chauffeur of the hired automobile. (Hang the expense on a day like this!) "A fellow brought me a rug last night, one of the rarest outside tbe museums. How and where he got It I'm not fully able to state. But he had been . In a violent ' struggle somewhere, arms slashed, shins bat tered. He admitted that be had gone In where many shapes of death lurked. It was a bit Irregular. I bought the rug, however. Some one else would have snatched if. up If I hadn't I wanted him to recount the adventure, but he smiled and refused. tell you what it is, these eastern ports are great places." How Interesting!" Mrs. Chedsoye's color was not up to the mark. "He was not seriously wounded?" Oh, no. He looks like a tough In dividual. ' I mean, a chap strong and hardy enough to pull himself out of pretty bad holes. He needed the money." Did he give his name?" asked For tune. Yes;' but no doubt It was assumed. Ryanne, and he spelt It with an 'ne.' year. In the Protestant cemetery. and dreamily tried to conjure up what manner of man be had been. One day sbe plied her old Italian nurse with questions. Handsome? Yes, but It was all so long ago, cara mla, that I can not describe him to you. Did he drink r Behind this ques tion there was no sense of moral obloquy as applying to the dead. Sainted Mary! didn't all men drink their very souls into purgatory those unrellgious days?" Had he any relatives?". 'I never heard of any." I i it u f 1 the sensation of being astonished at something she had expected to hap-Pen- - Just before going down to dinner that night. Fortune tuned tos her mother, her chin combative In its angle. "1 gave Mr. Jones a hundred and fifty pounds out ot that money you left In my care. Knowing how forget ful you are, I took the liberty, ot at tending to the affair myself." She expected a storm, but Instead her mother viewed her with apprais ing eyes. Suddenly she laughed mel lowly. Her sense ot humor was too Carolina's Appropriation Is Cut, . This Being the Only Change the House of Representative Made In the 2 497,050 Bill. . Raleigh. After a four hours' wrest ling over the state financial problem this afternoon tbe Joint finance com mittee of the legislature adopted unanimously a resolution . by Repre sentative Dough ton receding from the proposition to have a complete reas sessment of 1 real . property in the state this year, but providing that there be created a separate state tax Commission of three members to have immediate suDervlslon of mattera nf excitable to resist so delectable a alt- taxation the state over, and that the uatlon. . .. machinery act of I90i be adopted as "You told him, ot course, that the ,ar u changed conditions warrant, the money came from me?" demanded county commissioners uamlng th,e tax Mrs. Chedsoye. when aha could eon assessors, but the state tax commis- trol her voice. "Surely, since It did come from you." , ..''. "My dear, my dear, yon are to me like the song In the Mikado;" and aba hummed lightly- . " To make the prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of Innocent merriment Ot Innocent merriment!' " "Am I a prisoner, then?" "Whatever you like; It can not be said that I ever held you on the leash," taking a final look Into the mirror. "What Is the meaning of this rug? You and I know who stole ft" 'I have explicitly warned you, my child, never to meddle with affairs that do not concern you." V ' 'Indirectly, some of yours' do. Yon are In love with Ryanne, as he calls himself." ' ' "My dear, you do not usually stoop to such vulgarity. And are you cer tain that he has any-other name?" "If I were I ahould not tell you." "Oh!" , . , , - "A man will tell the woman ha loves many things lie will not tell the woman he admires." , "As wise-as tbe serpent," bantered the mother; but she looked again Into the mirror to see It her color waa stlU what It should be. "And whom doea he admire?" the Mona Lisa smile hov ering at the corners ot her lips. , "You," evenly. Mrs. Chedsoye thought for a mo ment, thought deeply and with new Insight It was no longer a child but a. woman, and mayhap she had played upon the taut strings of the young heart once too often.' Still, she waa unafraid. "And whom does he love?" "Me. Shall I get you, the rouge, mother?" Still with that unchanging smile, the woman received the stab. "My daughter," aa It speculatively, "you will get on. You haven't been my pu pil all these years for nothing. Let us go down to dinner." Fortune, aa she silently followed, experienced a sense of disconcertion rather than of elation. aion to have control of these assessors and the oversight of the enforcement of tbe whole scheme of assessment and. listing. It Is understood that the machinery bill, In accordance .with this committee action will be forth coming. Tbe bouse has passed ' the gen eral appropriation bill that was Intro duced carrying $2,497,050 appropria tions for the next two years, the only amendment proposed or adopted be ing a cut In the maintenance fund of the state university from $95,000 to $7,600 annually. This was proposed by Ray of Macon and was carried over ' the protest of Chairman Doughton of the appropriation committee, 43 to 39. Mr. Doughton In explaining tbe ap propriations bill and how It waa ar rived at, stated that appropriations have grown aa follows: 1909-10, $1, 969,300; 1911-12, $2,2700,900 and 1913 14, $2,497,050. Of tbe latter amount (387,500 Is proposed to be carried for in the $1,248,625 bond issue for per- J manent improvements. North Carolina New Enterprises. Raleigh. Tbe Bank fcf Angler was chartered with $10,000 capital by W. 0 Tarver, Ector H. Smith and N. O. Dobbins ot Wilmington, for a general and savings bank business.': Another bank charter is to the Bank of Hoff man, capital $10,000 authorised and $7,500 subscribed by F. T. Giles and others. The Elks' Home Corporation. Salisbury, is chartered with $50,000 capital authorized and $2,000 subscrib ed by J. M. Maupin and others for pro viding an Elks' Home for tbe lodge of that city, Other charters are for tbe Progressive Real Estate Company, capital $20,000, subscribed by C. E. Lightder, W. H. Fuller and others, and the Woodland Electrio Light & Pow er Co. of., Woodland, Northampton county, capital $2,000, subscribed by R. C. Benthall and others. ' "I Expect Every Hour to Hear of 8ome One Arriving From Bagdad." There Weren't Two Other Women In All Cairo to Compare With These Two. ' . , ' r . gernon. Jones was all right, solid and substantial, but the other two turned It Into ridicule. Still what was the matter with Percival Algernon? His tory had given- men of these names mighty fine things to accomplish. Then why ridicule? Was It due to the perverted angle of vision created by wits and humorists in the comic week lies, who were eternally pillorying these unhappy prefixes to ordinary cognomens? And why this pillorying? She hadn't studied the subject suf ficiently to realize that the business of the , humorist is not so much to amuse aa to warn perions against be coming rldioulous. And Percival Al gernon Jones was all of that It re- and humorously' explained why he did SO."'.'.-;;. . "Is he young, old, good-looking, or what?" ' 'Mrs. Chedsoye eyed her offspring through narrowed lids. "I should say that ,he waa about thirty-five, tall, something of an ath lete; and there remains some Indica tions that In the-flush ot youth be was handsome. Odd. He reminded me of a young man who was on the varsity eleven foot-baller when I entered my freshman year. I didn't know him, but I was a great admirer of his from the grand-stand. Horace Wads worth was his name." Horace Wadsworth. Fortune had CHAPTER VI. 1 " - 'J Moonlight and Poetry. A ball followed dinner that night Wednesday. The ample lounging room filled up rapidly ' after coffee; officers in smart uniforms and spurs, whose principal function in times of peace is to get ' In everybody's way, rowel exposed ankles, and demolish lace ruffles, Egyptians and Turks and sleek Armenlana In somber western frock and scarlet eastern fes or tar boosh, women of all colore (meaning, as course, as applied) and shapes and tastes, the lean and the fat, tbe tall and short, such as Billy Taylor Is said to have 'kissed In all the porta, and tall-coats of as many styles as 'Jo seph's had patches George could dis tinguish his compatriots by the fit of. tbe trousers round the Instep; the Englishman had his fitted at the waist and trusted in Providence for the hang of the rest This trifling de tective work rather pleased George. Tbe women, however,: were all . Eves to his eye; liberal expanses of beauti ful white skin, the bare effect being modified by a string of pearls or dia monds or emeralds, and 'hair which might or might not have been wholly their own. He waited restlessly for the reappearance of Mrs. Chedsoye and her daughter. All was right with Votes For Road Improvement. Lincolnton. In the election held on ' the question of a bond issue of $200, 000 for road improvements in Lincoln county the vote cast is in overwhelm ing majority for the bond issie, which means that Lincoln has joined the progressive procession. While the re turns are not all In, It is safe to say that tbe bond issue carried by eight to one. At the Lincolnton box the vote stands 472 for bonds and only It against. Reports from other pre clncts. throughout tbe county show handsome majorities, v To Reclaim Lowlands. ' Scotland Neck. The government engineer who waa here some time ago looking over Jhe situation on Roanoke River, wlthTa view to building dykes and thus preventing . the disastrous overflows, that frequently come ' on these lands In the spring, has made his report to the authorities and, it is said, recommends the same. He sub mitted with his report a rough map of the part of the lands he went over, showing where the dykes should be built Craig DecNnes Powell Pardon. Raleigh. Governor Craig ; declined the application for the pardon of E. E. Powell, Sr., the Scotland Neck septu argarian, vwho killed Deputy Sheriff C. W, Dunn, Wounded Corporation Com missioner E. L. Travis and severely hurt Paul Kltchin. brother of the ex- the world, exejept that he was to sail governor. Powell is now serving a aitogeiner too soon, mm loan naa term of thirty, years. He was tried been returnea, ana ne anew mat nia I aBa convicted by Judge G. W. Ward, lormer suspicion naa oeen most unr worthy. Mrs. Chedsoye had never received his note.. . v , (TO BBJ CONTINUED.) June 29, 1910. He has since been at' work, though more than 70 years old, and no previous effort had been made . to secure his release, i . good-looking, a devil-may-care, edu cated, witty,, amusing; and In evening dress he appeared to be what it was quite evident he had once been, ; a gentleman. At first she thought It strange that he should make her. In stead of her mother, his confidante. Aa to what vocation he pursued, she did not know, for he kept Sedulous guard over his tongue; but his past up to that fork In the road where man to If ts gnoJ by to youth, wag hers. i t ' d'rectton, clever and artful us t. a r.'!c '- i-t was, she sought in vain. 1 it 1 1 j i t from her daughter's i 3- 1 o t'ie moiher. It was really neo t 7 f r Lr to know bo this man r y 1 tj teen, k lowing thor- o; iy aa k. u d;4 what he was now. It.' t Le uiid , !y -was, but rcvr c 'tie nor ru.ld. f'nee that t:;r8 he had come bar' from the r o at T" "'8C...'i,r tbe worse ri ,f'.f "Ml ; ; t, in spite t .'a f ir, E' e tad fir liii a vague I v, : fever id uness 'r'h ' and l . Mlataken Sense of What la Dignified Is a Common Fault of the : '. Times. "Was he rich?" "No; but when the slgnora, your mother, married him she thought he was." It waa not till later years that For tune grasped the true significance ot this statement It illumined many I This Is not an age In which clear die- pages. Sbe dropped all Investigations, Unctions are made la the meaning of concluding wisely that her mother. If I terms. Grotesque errors arise through she were minded to speak at all, could haphazard conclusions drawn T(om supply only tbe incidents, the details, this loose method ot reasoning. One It was warm, balmy, like May. in tbe of the popular misconceptions is that northern latitudes. Women wore the display of emotion on tbe part ot white dresses and carried sunshades men Is belittling and Indicates a weak- over their shoulders. A good band I ness of character, disgraceful and shaming to the victim, says a writer la the Pittsburg Gaiette Times. It Is claimed by some tint tbe natural processes of materially a and the hard ening of men's natures Ly the struggle for success that the a -e demands has brought about this contempt for any. thing like a display of emotion on the part of men. It may t'e qnep'loned, us t ,e as- 1 t -Kt IS t' t s. L Fear to Display Emotion played airs from the new light-operas, and at one side of the ' grand-stand were tea-tables nnder dazzling linen. Fashion was out Not all her votaries enjoyed polo, but it was absolutely nc-esary to pretend 'that they did. "When tbey talkei they discussed the Spanish dancer who paraded back and forth across the tea-lawn. They dlscusaed ter Jewels, her clothes, her however, whether this e escort, and Quite frankly her morals, sumed r-'; -t for cal" wnica ot tne tour was ty ail o;J.ts the m e s a feature tr most p"-' .' 'r theme. All -rrcd tsr-t I There is a f;'se idei i ';e s r - ort H a be' 1 y. 1 :. 4 i ' t "n If, and a r 1 I ' i ,' : i es t) 1 jr 1 t) Hysteria la one of our national dis eases. The excesses into which It leads men and women have become the sub ject of widespread contempt aensible people, feeling, an Instinctive aversion for this sort of exaggerated feeling, have fallen into the error of mistaking sane, human emotion for hysteria and have gone to the extreme in their ef fort to avoid any expression of feel ing as "womanish," puerile and un manly. ." ; anrfirto-aavv Dependent on Wood Pulp. Mr. Frank Lloyd, at the annual dlO ner of the British Wood Pulp associa tion, spoke of the serious effect upon the industry ot tbe drought in Scan dlnavia, and, referring to the rapid development of the industry, pointed out how dependent paper makers now were upon wood pulp. If they had -to rely on straw, etc., as was the case only about twenty-five years ago, his mill at Sittlngbourne "would alone re quire a string of carts over four miles long, and at least 40.000.000 gallons of water every twenty-four hours." A Forced Confession. , "Pshaw! Here's the rain coming down as-ain and somebody's stolen my umb olla." "Somebody's stolen what?" , "Well, the umbrella I've been carry ing for the last week or so." Catho lic Standard and Times. . Poor He'.'-cd cf 'Education. A f.n" -"' -f r-f I y V Is r- ? ;' v. ?tf i 1 . t I IV- Dissatisfied With Route. -. Durham. Reports reached the city- saying that the county commissioners of Orange county laid out the Dur. ham-Hillsboro road at their regular meeting and that the route taken Is causing a good deal or dissatisfaction in that section. Tbey decided to Join the Durham county end of that road and changed .the route aome after crossing tbe railroad. There has been a fight between the people living on the north side of the Southern and those on the south, both wanting the - -new road to come on their side. How He Fixed the Cats. The lawyer was determined to dis credit the witness. , "You are-positive this happened on Wednesday?" he demanded. "I am." "Can't be mistaken?" "No." , "Why couluu't It have been Thurs day or Tup1 y? How is it that you c?n fx iL'.a f r to positively in your r nd?" " f 'fr, i the. witness i f i ' '. e had c If" a ' ' 1 c.-y is v;elj: : f To Repair Gaston County Road. Castonia. Mr. Jcbn E. Leeper, chairman of the board of county com missioners has been ordered to repair ( the public road approaching the new bridge on the Gaston county side at Sloan's ferry, on the Catawba ri" r. This piece of road was built of sui. 1 clay when the new bridge was con structed. It has been in very bad condition during the winter season and there has been much complaint en the rfft of motorists snd t!: t.-sv-r::tsr' r ' t It. !t v ' r-
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