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I23 Bjunlnn Street. u-we vs wan-u van] , - .-r-.._- \c- -.-v-.... -. __ V TREAMS-. BARRIE LOCAL Boatiii. pk E. DONNELL,_ Note Heads, Bill Heads, Letter Heads, -Lot 25. Statements, Envelopes, Dodgers, Shipping Tags Posters, Etc., Eta, THE HWI I Calls attention to the V[oAo.:s Phosphodlne, _..A I.`|.. Alla}. Dnunnnp \ND8 I23 Dunlap Street. ilullkl CHI Block) Ihen all : in bud and the last still qntoldlps, _ When there are ruby points` still on the lp_l'l__y5 when that prim school gown your churn : -ll withholding; T V _ _ - Then. Manuela, child. well muyyon nay: - Hutu Manama! Busts Manual I Until tomorrow, amigo." clway. And Man uela, when crimson and yellow Peep through groan sepals the roar of Ray, - And through black lace: the bloom of your lung in when all : in bloom and the rose in its pnsuion. Warmed on your bosom. would never lay my, Still it is wise-in your own country fuhlon-A. Under your opening tan only to lay: Hnsta Manama! Hutu Manana! Until tomorrow, amigo, alway. Phrase of Caatilian lands! Speech that in 1311- ` guor . Softly procrast-inates for aye or nay- " From Seville : orange groves to remote Yun- guea, Beat heard from rosy lips-let thy wordl lay: Easta Manama! Haste Mananal ' Until tomorrow, amigo, alway. __`l2v-of-. 'FTn-ha in l".nnu-nnnn'Ii.nn, When all is gray and the roses are scattered, Hearts may have broken that brooked no do- lay . V` . Yet will tomorrow Iurceaso of sorta Bring unto eyes andlips that still can It]: Hasta Mansnal Hasta Mananal Until tomorrow is best for today." There is no place on earth where ut- ter helplessness comes out so strongly,` where the ceremonies in human use fall so powerless before the majesty of -the occasion, as at a funeral. It need not be that one s heart shall be interested. The obsequies of a stranger conducted with all the pomp and vanity of church and state, with the melancholy rolling drum of the military funeral, or the gorgeous- ness of the Masonic regalia apron--all' are alike inadequate and unavailing. fl; -__- ._ ._ 'l.'.D.. l....... T -.--'4--`nu-an.` (I10 udanu auuuvxiuuuv nu uuu-ovum--- But once in my life have I witnessed % a ceremony that was so grand, impress- ive and appropriate to the silen_t, awful occasion. . II ,A - .A.___ .___I _L.Q_'I. IIUUGDLUI-Io I will tell you of a funeral which lingers in my memory as the grandest, most solemn and betting ceremony that was ever given to the dead. "A. _._- .__...-....,'l ...-__.. -comings gs-A `Janin- VVIID uvvn Bavvnn vv on-v uvuuuu It was rumored many years ago that ' a poor widowed woman, leading a hard life of unending labor, was called to part with the one thing dear to her-her ` only child. Mother and daughter had 1 toiled together for 15 years, and the` only bit of sunshine falling ' into their : dark lives was that shed by their loving companionship. But the girl had al- 1 ways been sicklyi Under, the heart- broken mother s eyes she had faded and wasted away with consumption, and at last the day came when the Wan face failed to answer with its ghastly smile the anxious, tear blinded eyes of the mother. ___ _ L____- ___- .`I--.'l ll-IVJIJI-IVA o The poor young creature was dead. For many months the pair had been sup- ported by' the elder woman : sewing, and it was in the character of employer I had become acquainted with Mrs. Cramp and her story. By an occasional visit to the awful heights of an east side tenement where they lived, by a few books and with some comforting words, I had won the love of the dying girl. Her grateful thoughts turned in her last hours to the small number of friends she possessed, and she besought her mother to notify me of the day of her guneral and ask me to attend. VI`!-ms csrrvnrnnrln 1-cmnhn mks 'n'nn'n nnn A TRIBUTE OF SONG. nnu uuvugu nu-van uvvvw Ilnv up-v--- cu gun- face 1: Fresh an these roles. child. still you any say. Through your mantllla. coy Manuela, h East: Manama! amigo." nlivay. . uunauosan as-nun Ia-Inn --\r vv -v-v-__. ' The summons reached me upon one ' of the wildest days of winter. A sleet that wa not rain and a rain that was not snow came pelting from all points of the compass. A wind that wailed in the chimney and howled in the street , told how truly dreadful for outdoor pur- ` poses was the weather of the day. I piled the glowing grates, I drew closer the curtains and shut out the gloom of the December afternoon. I turned on the gas and sat down, devoutly thankful that I had cut all connection with the witched weather, when an installment of it burst in on me? in -the shape of Parepa Rosa. She was Euphrosyne Parepa at that time, and the operatic idol of the city. Muied with tippets, ocked with snow, glowing with the short encounter she had had with the elements rushing up the steps from her carriage, she threw herself into an easy chair and proclaimed the horrors of the outer world to be beyond description. 1-3 A---. -- -- .__...-..A...I.L..I A-- vi-nun 11 van: uv wv nr\1J\In-VII no-vu---rv-v-u And even as we congratulated our- selves on the prospect of a delightful day together there oame the summons for me to go to the humble funeral of the poor sewing woman s daughter. I- turned the little tear blotted note over and groaned. -A - urn|.._ .`.. L..-.:I..1- 9 _n.I 1' (`Thin -'-at I-Ant! an vuaavsne This is terrible, said 1. It's just the one errand that could take me out today, but I must go. And then I told Parepa. the circumstances and speculated , on the length of time I should. be `gone and suggested means of amusement in my absence. ' lll)...A. T ..L-I1 `A --3`-In quasi I-`en III (I UDVI-IUD 3 But I mu go with-yoAu, said the great, good hearted creature. l\T..._... LL _ . . . .....I .12 I)n&nnnnn ant` `IUCIU, BVUKI IAIUQL UULI VOVKUCIVO Your throat and old Bateman `and your concert tonight? I pleaded. urn 1' ..-L -_.-..|--.. a..-.......! ....L- {in canto '93` UUIJUULU UUIIIGI-III! i r VVVVV "" If I get another `froggy note in my voice, it won't matter much; I'm hoarse as a raven now, she returned. G- -1... _-__--__.1 1.-.. :.I...--4. ...:4.I. LI... 13 II IZVCX IIUVV ll? GU$IllW$l So she rewound her throat with the long, white comforter, pulled on `her worsted gloves, and oi! in the storm we` went together. We climbed ight after night of narrow, dark stairs to the top oor, where the _widow dwelt in a mis- erable little room not more than 3 dozen feet square. The canvaebeek hearle, pe- culiar to the 825 funeral, Itood in the street below, and the awful cherry stained box, with its rume of glazed white muslin, stood on uncovered tree-` tleiin the center of the room ebcye. V "'vi3r"I"s'S "u3`e'.'TeZSEi.?u in her grief, before that box-a group of hard working, kindly hearted neighbors sitting about. It was` uolougto any the h poor woman -was prepared for the in- ovitublo end-it was cold comfort to speak to her of the dn3htor |`-roleauo from pain and rnoring. 7'l.`ho creature, in hot nttor lonolimils was thinking of haul!" and tho uwtnlhtl. _.ul AL- -__.."..-.`.L.I...."-A.-'-.'....b"1EAn V--CCIXE VI: IICICCII XII TC XVVQCI -of tho npprouqhing monontMw.h'o';; that boxurd In pxfhdoul 1)II{(l`In,;_woulI -btlhll any and ` loan MARCH 3, 1898, HASTA MAN ANA. terms. UUILIUJ L U W , uaulgug (Inn (1; u -Bret Harte in Cosmopolitan. .9..,eb;.. am .`;i.,`g.. ;;.;en;t '_ the cusp 01535999-r. worn". bcwhend, gv. set to o ttend= the era." '- ' ' b ` The unaeruknn. men, with n ...m. V driver in.his_`he_nd, jumped about in the passage to keep worm. The orelki bcofl or the 'minister belonging to _the be funeral were hell h the stsirs. There was 3 oeterrhul oonversntion held out- side between them as to the enormity of the weather, and probably the bad taste of the deceased in selecting such a bad time to die wae_,disensaed. Then th A minister came in with a pious enii! an stood revealed, .3 regular Stiggins as to get.up-a dry, self suloient man, ioier than the day and colder than the storm. ff- A....-..:A.-.'I L2- I.-l. _-..I `I-.I..-I- ..`.u-A- ICC: I01`! $3 VVOIQVO was - -vvu-:2: He depoeirtei:-`his hat miixoi gloves and wet umbrella ._on the poor little bed" `in the oorner: he slapped his hand: vig- orously together; he took" himself in well merited fashion by the `ear: and V pulled them into the glowing Ienaation, end after thawing out for a moment he plunged into business. C- --LL1.\.I -u-Ann!`-n L`ncn\u-maul: an-nuns- DIV lid Ibllavun at V\I Ulnbollv-we He rattled merrily through someone- lected sentences from the Bible. He gave no a prayer that sounded like pear in a dried bladder, and he came to amen with a jerk that brought me up like a patent enap. He pulled on his old glove: and grabbed his rusty hat, and, with his umbrella dripping inky tears over the well scrubbed door, he oered a set form of condolence to the broken hearted mother. He tcld"her'cf her sin in rebel- ; ling against the decree 0!. Providence. ` Heasaured her that nothing could bring the dead back. He inveighed against the folly of theworld in general, and then he made a horrible blunder and showed he didn t know even the sex of the dead by saying, He cannot come to you, but i you must go to. him. n-n.:.. r... .. .....u.1.... 1.... n..-..a... .....: .....; JVII nnannuv av vv. aann.-n This was a settler for Parepa and my- self. We looked at the departing minis- ter in blank. astonishment. ` ' . __ __, LL A In All II-ltd:-lull-DU\ll-Aswan:-AJVJAAIII The dooreawung wide;we saw the screwdriver waving in the air as the] undertaker : man held converse with! the clergyman. A hush fell on every- body gathered in the little room. Not one word had been uttered of consola- tion. It was the emptieat, hollowest, most unsatisfactory moment I ever re- member. , I, -_, _!__I_ ._I1.!__.. II-IULLI VIC Then Parepa arose, her cloak falling about her noble. gure like mourning drapery. She stood beside that miser- able cherry wood box. She looked a moment on the pinched, wasted, ashy face upturned toward her from within it. She laid her soft, white hand on the ` discolored forehead of the dead girl, ` and she lifted up that matchless voice ` in the beautiful melody: Angels. ever bright and fair, Take, oh, take lfer, to your care. The screwdriver paused in describing an airy circle. The wet umbrella stood pointing down the stairs. The two men with astonished faces were foremost in a crowd that instantly lled the passage. The noble voice welled toward heaven, and if ever the choir of paradise paused to listen to earth s music it was when Parepa sang so gloriously beside that poor dead girl. ` KT.-. --Auuln nan plan:-nud'I-un `I-n nnnf An ""o"v"Jr5'&n describe its eeot on those gathered there. The sad mourner- sank on her knees,eand with clasped hands and streaming eyes the little band stood reverently about her.. 11-- ..._-.... .._'... ...-...4. J... L-.. ........- -.. DUUUIA Avvvavnlunv -wvI-v u-v-u . N .0 queen ever went to her grave no- companied `by a grander ceremony. To this day Parepa s glorious tribute of song rings with solemn melody in my memory as the only re,al,eimpreasive funeral service I ever heard.-Planete and People. Remarkable Musical lfemories. Possibly the greatest case on record is that wonder of wonders, the most in- tellectual of interpreters, the late Dr. Hans von Bulow. He not only played all of Beethoven by heart upon the pi- ano. but, knew all the symphonies in the same manner, and .practioally the whole Wagnerian output of musical metal, and it is claimed that so great was the mass of the piano music which Bulow retain- ed within the book and volume of his brain, inscribed in mysterious hiero- glyphios somewhere`, among" the mole- cules of the gray matter constituting the cortex 0! hi cerebral organ, that he could have played 25 piano recital pro- grammes without repeating and without a printed page. Since there go about 4 2,000 measures to the hour and two solid hours to an ordinary Bulow pro- gramme this would represent 100,000 measures of music, or about 4,000 large pages, something like eight or ten thick volumes. ` - 1 ,_,,,. .,,rs__. ;_ 'I\_L.l._ ' Vi 1LKC-I Even Bulow was outdone by Rabin- stein, in the field of piano music at least, if we can trust the anecdote mon- gers, for it is claimed that in one season at St. Petersburg he played a series of recitals which exhausted the literature of the piano and embraced 1,800 dis- tinct compositions. It is mentioned 01 Mendelsohn that on one occasion, the score of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony? having been misplaced, he raised his baton and directed the work from mem-` cry, but this does not seem to me a test I in the least remarkable, for the pastoral ; symphony is so extremely lucid and so i bewitohingly beautiful that the only thing diicult or .- remarkable would be the -forgetting of it. Mme. Patti knew to opera roles, and -Yaresi, the baritone. knew 80.-Jehn 8. Van Cleave in Illu- sio. V- Bots Inian. A A A The writer was `astonished on visit- ing the houseof the inhabitantsof Siam` (says a traveler) to see a huge rat walk- ing quietly around the room and crawl- ing up the master's legs in a cool, ta- miliar manner.-' Instead of repulsingit or giving 'an`alau_n he took it up inhis ; hand and. caressed -it and then we 1 learned for` the nut time, to bar attsr? astonishment, that it was a1 custom in Banghokto hesp__pe__t rats. "rhisearsi taken very yoant carefully reared sang |fthsyattain`a'naonstro`as Iii: and`plentii'al`-tesding; :` % T?-.T.7i.... = ~` lho-I doubt I who in dwau Iliiltflh; .- 2 ' ` I a;-41vo9_;xun.svhoaVI -` ; llneyh. when shujcaey otthe nu. ma? W . 3 In `In-okqa-down by 1-u1n'ou.old_ age. V ,V And nofone upon any plliz-image ' ' Oonoi knocking, -no one for an audience wait: And no, A t, toroyinn troops of hondit ; Bide out on the brave folly of onybqneet ; But woaqnese, the roatlede shadow of rest. Eoverlngly upon the oity.1aroods- .18 may be, thenffhat those remembering * _ And eleepleu watchers on the crumbling a tower: . V . . ~.- Shall lose the count of the disastrous hours _Which God may have grown tired of reckoning. ' -Arthur Symon: in Athenmum. As a pontofce inspector`! did not hear of the doingh at Shelby until two or jhree of my fellow inspectors had tried their hands and made a. failure ` of it. 1 Then I took the case and failed most ig- 1 nominioualy of all because I added blun- der to failure. ` ` W, __ u ._ -1: __--._ '.._...-.1 P7383?" II.` DU I511 Ill. U0 ' The postmaster was anold man named Harper, and for assistants he had_ his two daughter, one being 19 and the_ other 15'ysars of ago. Mr.` Harper had held the ethos for 12 years when the complaints came in. The-postoice was an L of his residence, with a front add- ed. The inspectors who. , preceded me had looked the ground over and left the ` case a mystery. Everybody said that Harper was honesty itself, and the idea `that the girls would tamper with the mails was not to be_erlt_ertained. ' 'l`.hA mail am-rim` was the first man to I-IJIILADJ VV$Il I-l\lU vv wv_v v-u----`. The mail carrier `was the first man to see to. I arrived on the ground without` my identity being revealed and watched him for two weeks. There was oppor- tunity during his eight mile drive to open the bags with a duplicate key, but I watched without result, except to be satised of his honesty. Then I made i the interior of the oice it seemed that myself known to the postmaster and re- ceived a warm welcome. He was very much distressed about the "thefts, and to the best of his knowledge and belief all had taken place in `his cice. There were only about 20 persons who rented boxes, and all other mail was put ' into the general delivery. As the father and ` his two daughters were the only ones handling the mail or having access to one of the three must be the thief, and yet I could not bring myself to believe that. I was given the fullest opportu- A nity to investigate, and I also" did some work outside unbeknown to the post- master.- ' I n I 9',` A. A1,. ___L__L I caused to be mailed to the patent medicine people a large number of let- ters, with a private number on each en- velope. The rst batch of ten came through all right, but out of the second two were missing. The whole ten had left Denton in the mail has, as I well - knew, and the two had either been tak- en en route by the carrier or by some one after their arrival at Shelby. As the carrier had brought over two pas- sengers in his cart that trip he might be considered out of it. The mail had ar- rived at Shelby at 3 o olock and been batch of" six letters came through all right, and so on the next, and oh the ~ third ten were "received. I helped to dis- tribute the mail and counted three let- ters and recorded the number. Father and daughter all knew this, and yet at 5 o clock three of these `letters, together with two for a certain merchant, which ` I had particularly noticed, were missing called for an hour later. Next day I and could not be found. ,lII,, _I,__-,`I THE POSTAL THIEF. $1-III IJ\J$II\L LIUU ICU I-VXI-I30 That evening, after the omce closed, we turned it upside down, as it were, but nothing cameo! it. The old post- master was `in the deepest despair, while his two daugbterslwept and sob- bed over what they believed would be the ruin of all. As an` inspector, and `with such evidence before my eyes, it was my business to believe one of the three guilty, and yet I had to reason that they wouldn't be idiotic enough to purloin letters` under my very nose. I simply didn t know what to think, and next morning was knocked o my feet to receive a complaint from Washing- ton that three important letters posted at Shelby ten days before for a city only 100 miles away had `been lost en route. I telegraphed for enlarged instructions, and upon. receiving them I told Mr. Harper I must let go of the ease tempo- rarily for another. I shifted my quar- ters over to Denton, through -which all mail to and from Shelby must pass, and made each arrangements with the post- master that every letter was counted and its address taken. Imailed about 30 decoy letters in this time, and at the end of 14 days had the satisfaction of ' knowing that 11 dierent letters _had somehow or other been made away with at Shelby. Thi was adding evidence to evidence, but I did not return to Shelby to lay the matter before the old post- master. . . . a - A A. ,,,, 1-, LL- 1.l_.._.l...- -3- LIAIQDUUI e ' I went back there in the disguise of a farmer s hired man looking for work, and luckily for me no farmer wanted a man. I therefore leafed about the `vil- lage and was in and out of the postoioe hall a dozen times per day-always there when the mail departed or came in. By looking through the glass door of one of the boxes I could see the gen- eral delivery box, mail tables, eto., and carefully scrutinized the conductor the three as they did" their work. I kept up 1 this espionage for a week` before any- thing happened. Then the mail came in one afternoon while the father was tern- porarily absent, and the girls opened the '. _`bag and assorted it. As theypieked up the letters each pocketed one witha sly look, and you `rniy believe me when *I tell you I `turned away with a heavy heart. .- "Instead or one thief there were `two, and 'those_-the"'h'and_'scm,O en_d`w.in- some deughtereot anihoiieltand upright ' old men. . It wouldhreek his heart when 5 he learnedyth truth, -but tell him, I andathosegirls niuet b'e_pinished.. - _ 5 - 1- I'.."1I.".'.LA`I " LLa...-AD >:I_ _ SUJUV lull-I Ulnlvll nvUuo-vu vv Inn. rutiv-1:7: Iomnhow felt that the `girl: ought to `look guilty, but they did not. They gavoymo 9 cordial grouting, hoped`! had done to -my until thunyuny was thou-ouhly dfdg Md nor`pu-noun, could" "*-I-1'--'=**!=-W A-ml` 1:;-oil-`fwn-1'11 din- guiao and than rotujnod to` thy poatomoe. _ ' Igmohgy that `high - |.__L LL ._ .111 ..'-A. II.--n mr cumin 3. wins. F"31to.% om AGI. in1=nz; NORT-HER` Apvemgn n1ght.at,e! ihegofee was closed go the puhliI`ak1';the ifather to myroom `and then went over the case with him. oeulll be in manner of doubt that a or more of lqters had been pur- -loined hem his ooe. There were three of them who had aooessjte. the` mails, and one of the threemust have some * guilty `knowledge of those letters. By no possibility could an outsider reach them. With tears streaming down his turrowed cheeks he acknowledged that my` assertions" and declarations were correct, but who was the thief? `Did I suspect him? Could I suspect either of his daughters? Then I broke it to him as gently as I could-told him what I had seen in the afternoon and what was a fact. I. For some time he argued that I must be mistaken, but nally told me to go ahead and do my duty. and never mind his feelings. He had been father and mother to those girls` for years, and no word or act of theirs had ever before caused him `a moment : uneasiness. --If they had . taken _two letters, they had taken all the others, and he asked me to go to the house and confront them and `extort a confession. Hard hearted , as I thought myself, I hadn t the nerve to do that, but put it off till morning. He gave me, his promise to say nothing overnight, and I was at the house soon after breakfast. I sat down with the girls and went over the` case, as I had with him, hoping to break them down, but they had only anxiety on their faces as they listened. Then I boldly stated what I had seen on the previous day, and the shot told. , Both blushed and stammered and began weeping, and I took it as a confession and told the fa- ther so. He oouldn t speak to them for his emotion, and when I told him they must consider_ themselves under arrest and a search made of their rooms he simply bowed his head in acquiescence. I wanted to keep the girls below while I searched their room, and unfortunate- lyfor me I called in the village consta- ble to sit with them. He had to be told more or less of the case, and as soon as he was at libertyhe went out to spread the news. a In an hour it was known` all over town that the two girl had been caught robbing the postoice, and some I of the excited people even went so f r as to say that the father had probab y I winked at it. _,,___-I-.i L-.- `ALLA-an `mauve VVILIIUU BI: Illa My search revealed two letters from two different men in New York. They had been directed under other names, but the two girls had opened them. They had stolen these letters and forgot to destroy them. I went out and made inquiries, and then I discovered what a blunderer I was. Both girls were carry- ing on a. clandestine correspondence, us- ing fictitious names, and these were the letters I had seen them pocket. When I asked them to confirm this theory they did so, but it was evident that in their eyes clandestine letter writing was about as bad a crime as robbing the mails. The news had gone forth that they had been detected in purloining V letters, and how could I combat it? I spent the next two days in trying to explain matters to the public, but found not one man or woman who would believe me. Post- oice inspectors didn t bring charges and retract them, they reasoned, and a strong petition was drawn up and sent j to Washington asking that the culprits be duly punished. Letters were also written stating that I must have been bribed to act as I did and declaring that I was not a proper `man for the service. You may well reason that I was sum- moned to report in Washington without delay and that my reception there was anything but attering to me. I had lost my official head before saying 20 words. It was my first and only blunder for ten years, but that didn t count. I! I got a- grain of comfort out of the situ- 'ation,,it was when I heard that several more complaints about lost letters at Shelby had just come in that day. 1- 1-1;. I'!!_..|.:....a...... ...:a.L rats ..-..'a:.u-uhn DLIUAUJ uuu Junu uvauv nu uuuv um`;- I left Washington with no particular aim, but on reaching Denton I made up my mind to go over to Shelby and have one more look around. I went back in my old role as hired man and entered that postoice about half an hour after the mail had been distributed. ,Ldcking . through the glass door of a box, I saw oneof the girls sewing and the other reading. Behind them was an open back windcw,Vand within three feetof this window was the general delivery box. In front of the window and only two feet away was the table on which the mail packages were done up, and a score pad. I had just made out these things when a good sized bird, black in color, plighted on the window sill, hopped along to the delivery box and picked o the top letter and darte away. In 16 seconds the bird was back, and in the course of ten minutes I watched her take away the letters. That bird was a magpie and the re thief, but I had ; ruined the reputation of a family before solving the mystery. I at once made myself known to the father, and we vis- ' ited the back yard to search for the let- ters. There in an old dog kennel which had been tenantlese for years we found them-every single one which had been "missed. The magpie belonged to a` neighbor, and singularly enough shehad neverbeen caught at the trick. As it was summer _the back window was open all day, and there were times when only one person would be _Wa_i,ting on the public.` With the usual cunning ofher . species, the birdwatohed her chance, taking letters; from both the table and the general delivery box, and ,a` doajen otherhiepectors might h_ ave_ been p.'tfo'n of letters were lying there to be wrap- the ease without soliine the mystery. 1 : had that satisfaction, thoughl wfasnet reiuIt`a`te_d,,_and ,I?al_ee 1 take; -great plfe'as- . f i l_n..sa yingthat afteriawliile theipeo,-A . e efi'Shelhy.g'3'am`e.tov. believe the Hat - steam: . ' Not-Ujgto` nag. _ _ .What is little I.Diok..b1lwh; shout?" T A - . T` `- Anudi,II L1- ....-__"__ _.._..- I.l__ '_ ' f:"V`V`o1l, his 31-snaps gave him 3 Qin- gorbrdad horn, and he in and banana mm; a gufgumu wnuu--n.m:t FARM ANIJ TOWN PBUPEBTY A For: SALE. erty in- umber at A; arc. . 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