Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 17, 1917, Page 4

H; g T = year. at the Postoffice at Norwich, second-class matter. i ‘Telephose Calls: Do % i LPe Wi CIRCULATION 1901, VErage....eeceecee.os G412, February 10......oecco 9,230 TIME FOR GOVERNMENT AID. With American liners tied up in our own ports because of the German threat, while those of other neutral mations are leaving for Europe to- Sether. with @hose of the belligerent mations, it is evident that something must be done before long for the Purpose of relieving the large amount of freight which is accumulating on this side of the water. And that something should be more than an embargo which will prevent the for- warding of freight to the ocean ter- minals. Tha government has informed the ‘American line officials that they have mot been denied any of their rights 0 sail the high seas by the intensified warfare of Germany. They have been 0la that they can arm their ships for protection against unjustified attacks, but it has been announced that the government will not use its warships for the purpose of convoying such merchantmen. In an effort to secure guns for the purpose of insisting upon their rights the American line officials have met with a flat fallure. Thereisnons to be bad outside of those in the possession of the government, so that lacking con- voys and lacking guns the ships are bed up in accordance with the desires Bf Germany. i Under such a state of affairs it ap- pears to be time for the government to take a hand in the matter and pro- vide the defense guns which . are néeded to bring about the resumption ©of thelr transatlantic trips by these liners, and from the freight congestion such a step cannot be taken any too soon. Inasmuch as this government doesn’t intend to knuckle 0 the German demands it is time that it got busy and gave the ships fiying its flag the protection they are enti- tled to and clamoring for. POWERLESS AND DOESN'T CARE. From all indications our troubles mlong the border have not ceased with the withdrawal of Pershing’s expedi- tion, and it is decidedly uncertain as to what can be expected from Car- ranza In the way of curbing the rebel gangs who have already commenced operations by carrying off cattle, loot- jng stores and capturing men and women and holding them for ransom br killing them, besides making the Ihreat that an attack which will delipse Columbus is about to be made. There is naturally much concern as to what Carranza is going ta do un- Ser the circumstances. He main- tained, from a time before he was rec- by this government, that he was in a position to exercise control on this side of the border, but when was relied.upon to do it a com- faflure resulted. He was a man of when it came to controlling Bhe bandits on his own soil and to protection this country was forsed recognize the necessity of teking punishment of Villa into its own then, when he was recei assistance which he so m €arranza balked worse than antagonizing the punitive and forcing the abandonment the purpose of this government. now that Pershing is back in this and we have sent a diplo- Tepresentative to Mexieo, the raiding operations have been re- This gives the impression Carranza is powerless to prevent or doesn't care, and it is more Jkely that both of the Teasons point or another as time overtakes them on their trip through the park. ‘The difficulty which has stood in the ‘way of more resorting to this plan has been the inability to get supplies with- out cerrying large amounts with them, bt upon the matter being called to the attention of deprtment of the in- terior such stations are to be estab- lished under the department's super there has been wing about the mud which has been ‘splashed upon sidewalk users by the fast moving ve- hicles in the but the time is coming when that nuisance will again return, and not-so far in the future. a suit has been badly sofled if not ruined by /the carelessness which Is exhibited by certain drivers of vehi- cles ang’ autos in going through mud puddles without slackening their speed or giving any consideration to those ‘who may be within reach of the spat- ter. In dealing with this matter, which ® worse in some places than others, a writer in the Providenoce Journal re- cently heid that when such a stream of dirty water is projected across a sidewalk it should be accepted by the poliee as prima facie evidence that the speed law is being violated and that a definite relation between the rate of speed and the length of the splash may be calculated and as- sumed. It/ is not to be supposed of course that an auto driver, or the driver of any vehicle for that matter, deliber- ately rushes through a puddie of wa- ter for the purpose of seeing how far he can scatter it or how much dam- age he can do to the clothing of those in the neighborhood. That would be le.- But there are plenty of instances where it is evident that no thought is given to the results of such driving and the proper amount of thought glven to it would once and for all put an end to the complaint. It doesn’t seem as though auto driv- ers ought to be beyond the reach of such an appeal. . o, o S N O TOO MUCH TIME WASTED. Regardiess of the fact that there has been a great waste of time during the present short session of congress no particular effort is being made to make the most of the short period which is left. Conditions have made it necessary to abandon much of the schedule that was arranged by the president at the opening but there are matters of vital importance which need to be acted upon and they ought not to be left until the day or the night before adjournment. They are due for the proper consideration even though they are imperative and they ought not to be rushed through blind- Iy. There ave now but two weeks more in which the present congress can dea) with such measures and it ought to be realized that conscientious effort should be Dyl forward to pass them instead of fobling away the valuable time bickering over partisan matters or needless bills. Too much time is being devoted to the crowding into appropriation bills of the undesirable riders, while much ‘better use could be made of it by getting down to the real business which congress has yet to attend to. In spite of the brief time that re- mains there are those who are confi- dent that there will be no special ses- sion of congress. But i such is to be avoided it ought not to be brought about by the dilatory tactics which allows action on the important bills to pile up until the last minute and then rush them through without giving them the consideration which they need. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the cormer says: Joy that cometh with a full stomach is a feeting shadow. Thers is something inspiring about the wave of the stars and stripes, whether it happens to be hot or cold. With Villa forces within six miles of the border it looks as if Carranza ‘might have an early chance to dis- play his control. Pl TR Now that General Pershing’s forces are all over on this side of the border it remains for Villa to keep the Mexi- can question alive. Even Greece considers that it has troubles enough already without at- tempting to comply with the request of President Wilson. Regardiess of the demands of Ger- many, it is the opinion of the Unitea States that the stars should accom- pany the stripes, when our ships put out to sea. It that plan of convoying fleets of merehantmen through the war zone succeeds, Germany will have to ook to some other method of increasing its ruthlessness. — e Even though Thomas A. Edison has reached his 70th anniversary; he still works 18 hours a day. There's one thing about the electrical wizard, he doesn’t shirk what he is interested in. It is not surprising that the Massa- chusetts grange, or any other grange for that matter, should be opposed to the new daylight saving’ Dlan. The farmers have been saving daylight for ages and ages. It the kaiser will rensw his pledges withdraw his or- der, there will be no need of resum- ing negotiations on neutral rights, un- ul the next violation shows up. ‘With dsaths being reported almost every day as the result of people be- ing struck by motor vehicles, it is plai ddent that the automobile is’ ‘weather one would better e and of cause of the multiplication of organ- izations of all sorts where every one added weakens rather than strength- ens the cause. And there is less said about this relic. of barbarism ‘which brought extermination to many tribes of men before man got a gieam of better customs than nomadic customs: and which is wiping out nations to- day, than is said upon any subject begotten If we have many doubts about the germs _which medical men say pro- duce disease, we have no reason to question the germs of heavenly prin- les implanted in every human mind wl are struggling to be a blessing to mortals not an injury. These are the kind of germs I like to believe the Lord creates. They jannot be fig- ured- out by the microscope of _the and it seems as if some but they do not. They are there, as well as the angels ‘who stand ready to reveal them to us when we open our hearts to spiritual light. Some of us do not act as it we believed we had any souls; and as to opening our hearts, we grope about as if ‘we had lost the key. These germs of heavenly origin are spiritual manna which give us trength in weakness, comfort in sor- row and hope in despair. It is time we forgot the germs used to terrorize us and come into a knowledge of the germs which have power to lift us above fear, and to assure us that di- vine power holds us in love secure from all our enemies. something like these that Abraham Lincoln declared: “I shail do nothing in malice, what 1 deal with”is too rast for malicious dealing.” In this he did not wholly express his eplendid nature, for we realize from his honorable realing with the affairs of the humblest citi zen that he was too pure and con- siderate to let malice control him in anything. As a chief magistrate his yirtues loom up heside those of Wash- ington, and his influence will be felt for countless generations. We are in no danger now of having anything done in malice. A nation which has made itself the land of the free and the heme of the brave doesn’t produce rulers who are subject to prejudice or malevolent practices. Our leaders are well aware that magnamity carries with it the balm which will cure mal- ignity. It is tyranny which acts with malice and which suffers death from the venom of its ungodly and unman- 1y acts. One of the fathers of this republic Pproclaimed “had it not been for America, there had been no such thing- as freedom left throughout the whole universe”” Whatever our pri- vate opinion may be of the Puritans we cannot deny that they furnisbed the leaven which gave strength to. democracy everywhere under the sun; that gave a new hope to the oppressed of every nation; and that established an open door and an asylum to which the persecuted of all nations ecould flee and find a freedom and a com- fort they never had enjoyed before, as well as protection for their families. To Europe we are a nation of aliens, but beneath our dear old flag with hat in hand we stand as tyranny defying freemen and patriots. The nobler we stand, the more generously are we hated abroad; and we should not for- get whitever blood courses in our veins we are only safe when we are true to the principles of _sovereign democracy and loyal to the flag and to one another. We possess what mon- archy would destroy; and in unity rests our strength and our hope. ‘The sympathy which would diride us is ‘what the world's potentates deride as a weakness; and we should exercise it with care. A celebrated clergyman of New York told his congregatie; thefe was no such thing as teaching patience unless the sermon was made long enough to test their patience; and perhaps we are now being taught patience in the most practical and endurable way. It has been sald that “to bear is to con- quer our fate:” and we may be doing this as a nation or individuals today. It was Buffon who warned us: “Nevar think that God's delays are God's de- nials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out! For patience is genius.” When every- body on earth seems to be hot is a £00d time to keep cool. Patience cor- rectly directed is never anything less than a strengthening of force. Ryery- thing comes to him who waits—he gets hard hit as well as caressed. The world has been notified for generations to “beware the fury of a patient man. Where patience ends persistence be. gins, and failure is given a back seat! Eastern Connecticut bird lovers are interested in ‘The Bird Lore census of the winter birds in this state, and if it only touches 11 points in a possible 168, it is-a_dependable pointer as to the number of species which endure the cold months. In 11 towns where ob- servations were made in the last week of December, 1916, there were seen as many as 32’ species with a total of 4,597 birds. The birds seen were: Starlings 737, crows 300, tree sparrows 379, bluejays 107, red polls 197, chicka- dees 120, juncos 86, and horned larks $8. If in a half day’s walk 4,597 birds were seen in 11 Connecticut towns, it would not seem to be a rash conchu- | sion that at least 75,000 birds winter in the state. Among the odd sights here in Connecticut was a cardinal and a brown thrasher seen at Norwalk, and a Dhoebe bird at West Hartford, and at Cohasset, Mass., a Baltimore oriole was seen on Dec. Sth, and also 14 or- ange-crowned warblers. It is not prob- able that the starlings outnumber the crows in the state, although they are most numerous in the censused dis- ricts. The starlings were imported from England about 1887 and have multiplied until they are one of the most abundant winter birds in New England. A near-philosopher says: “About the only time a henpecked husband is al- lowed to head the procession js whén his wife thinks she hears burglars down stairs.” It is in the face of troy- ble that the overbearing woman trie: to play her husband as a hero, and he finds it the supreme moment when he hopes if her fears are confirmed that the burglars wilj make no mistake in the selection of their victim. It excites all the generosity in him to see the boss cowering and shedding a few tears, and if he is ehrewd he doesn’t hurry to calm her shrinking spirit; in fact, he would like to have it shfink. beéyond recognition or recovery. It is such a delightful moment w! cked husm: is conscious- cation has meant and is m for he_ bl esr ot Somele. oa S always the spirit is the same—it is an adaptation of the old axiom of the Latin book studied in that willing to do time for the miscreants if they would make an end of his ‘woes. The head of the procession séems £00d to him whether it 1s the fear of a mouse or a robber which compels the recognition of his merits. Ben Franklin told his generation “to make haste slowly,” and this has been good advice in every generation since it was first uttercd, and will be to thé end of time, because it represents the essence of wisdow. “Be sure you are right, then go " is a more mod- ern maxim, more to the point and en- folds the sense which can never £row. old or wear out. Haste fosters care- lessness, and carelessness breeds a world of trouble. No one would sus- pect from the biind way i n _which progress of every kind is made that “the doors-of wisdom are never shut.” Man's haste and waste are_the cause of two-thirds of his woes. Those who are cautious in the world's affairs are always the tarsets of the impulsive; but their achievements usually win the praise of their enemies. We all like to speak up too well, and we re- main ignorant of the value of silence. No good subject was ever spoiled by a man's talk, but a man’s talk on a great subject has sometimes ruined the speaker, as premature action has not infrequéntly made an end of the actor. “Make baste slowly.” Sunday Morning Talk NO RESPECTOR OF PERSONS A curious, ancien? rite was observed at the burial of Emperor Francis Jo- Seph of Austria in the Crypt of Capu- chin. At the entrapce to the vauit the funeral procession’was halted by a challenge from within: “ ‘Who is there? The reply wa: ‘His most serene majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph.” The challenger then replied: ‘I know him not’ Responding to a second challenge the announce- ment was made: ‘The Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hun- gary is outside’ Again the challeng- er answered: ‘ I know him not. Again for the third time the voice ask- ed who it was that demanded admis- sion, the master.of ceremonies replied: * A sinful man, our brother Francis Joseph.” The portals were then open- ed and the procession entered. If this be but the funeral etiquette of a royal house, it nevertheless con- tains a mighty teaching. It reminds us of the equality of all men in the presence of the fundamental human experiences. We realize anew that old discovery of the Apostle Peter when he declared: “Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respector of persons. The inequalities among men are so many and so marked that It is not strange that we should incline to mag- nify and perpetuate them. Various lines divide society. into a countless number of segments. A newspaper correspondent in Indian writes from that land of fixed social classes: ‘By the caste system the inhabitants of India are differentiated into over 2,000 species of mankind, which in the physical relations of life have as little in common as_the inmates of a zoo- logical garden.” It has been about so all through the course of human history. We have be- lieved that men are of different orders of being. Some are born to rule and others to be ruled. Some are made for silk and some for rags. Some men come into the world booted, spurred. and ready to ride; and some saddle, bridled and ready 'to be ridden. The theory of the divine right of kings arose from men’s observation of spe- cial privileges that seemed to indicate divine favoritism. Strength and weakness, wealth and poverty, noble birth and _plebeian blood, all these have ranged people in- to classes and separated them by abysses that mone might pass over Not even the Christian church has been quite able to ignore material distine- tions. It was not able to do so even in the first Christian century. Wit- ness the story the Apostle James told. Into the congregation there came one day a man in gorgeous apparel splen- did in color and ornamentation. He had also golden rings on his fingers aft- er the manner of the rich dandies of that day. He was evidently a person of means and importance. There came in another man in rather dirty, squallid a) as though from work or wear. In the Christian assembly the two found a reception corresponding to their evident stations in life. The one arrayed in the “say clothing” was treated with instant respect. _The sidesman or elder in charge found a stall for him while the other was told that, he could stand, or, if he chose, cotld sit on the floor. Have the standards of the apostle’s day been wholly revised in our own? There is a good deal of baptized snobbery vis- ible still. As a matter of fact, we have been a long time in learning that none of the adventitious conditions of life such as separate men into parties and castes and classes go an inch beneath the surface. External circumsances do not signify. The environment either splendid or sordid, of life must not be confused with the life itself. All men are human beings made in the divine imgge. All men are children of the Heavenly Father and, therefore, broth- ers. ‘What tho' on hamely fare we dine, ‘Wear hoddin gray, and a’ that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man’s a'man for a’ that. Into what impréssive ~democracy come all sorts and conditions of memn as they face the ultimate facts of life! We are all candidates for certain uni- versal human experiences—birth death, joy, sorrow. We depend for our ex: istence on-a few simple -elements. We breathe the same air, eat thie food, walk in the.same sun, die at 1ast of the same disorders. Looking at life in the largest way we begin to perceive- that under ail -the inequalities there is -M’Wfllfl-- - s, ular ds was pretty Mary Mackie, who is now a resident Newburgh-on-the-Hudson, /1 As much of the subscribed fund for the Academy had been expended for ehoor whs the” Ereat the lower cl Happy and studious to an abnormal degree was the boy whom a kind committed to the behch from which he faced Miss Mary Mackie as his tu- tor pro tem! Commencement of 1860 eame, and when the N. F. A. term opened the following fall there was a painful sense of loss among those boys who had ad- vanced to higher scholastic dignity; for while some of the Mary girls of the graduate class remained in Nor- wich, the comely Mary Mackie had gone. But in that strange happenings small and _significant which we call life, she was not to be lost sight of, or her influence to~ be curtailed by the change of local. In due and proper time, woj came that she had joined the faculty of the wonderful new schoel for the educa- tion of colored youth founded at Hampton as a rather timid and ten- tative undertaking: since there were courageous and liberal citizens who dared to, declare, in works and well as in word$, that the status of the indi- vidual was not a matter of skin alone; that the negro had a right to be taught, and trained, and uplifted, and that aiding him toward this striving for some ideals above those of his then almost helpless state devolved with grave weight upon the white race, through whose cupidity the in- famous slavery of the black man’s an- cestors had come to smirch the na- tion’s history; to result in evils which untold blood and treasure have not yet wholly eradicated. Well, not much was known uj north of pretty Mary Mackie's worl at Hampton; merely that she was teaching and working there; and so the years went on. in a coal mine in West Vir- ginia, when time was ripe, a little ragged colored boy, who didn’t know much about his mother or father, or if he ever had either, and to whom life was a pretty hard proposition, be- tween the alternatives of a man-job daily task and starvation if he should shirk it, heard something which was almost_astounding news: to wit, that somewhere, over in Virginia, there had been created by some benevolent white folks a school for colored boys and girls in which they were taught things just like white boys and girls. Hampton. in Vi y ! the name in his confused little brain, dirty, and outcast, walf that he was, owned by nobody in particular. The idea which sprung from the amaz- ing tidings dropped by chance, in his hearing, as some Dbird of passage drops a strange shore seed upon the barren _strétch of sand far inland, sprouted and grew and was cherished: until at last, stranger than any tale of fiction, that mere child, through his first public manifestation of the greatness of character and indomita- ble will which were to mark his ca reer in later life, actually made his way over the almost five hundred in- tervening miles from his coal-mine to that unknown goal, Hampton. Meantime, before his running away, he had had experiences of stern and strict New England training which were to serve him in good stead. The wife of one of the mine over- seers. who was too particuiar to be satisfied with the careless work of the maids to be procured thereabouts, de- cided to train the little mine-boy to do household tasks after the most ap- proved New England fashion. A grim and fussy lady she wat and one almost aches for the smal boy who had to “sweep square corners” and do other stunts which must have come pretty hard upon a castaway evolved from easy- going slavery. But this boy of rare qualities had it in him even to suit the prim dame—a fact upon which his future mysteriously hinged. When small, wea ington finally arfived at the wondrous school of which he had so long dream- ed, it was to Miss Mary F. Mackie that he was committed, to determine if he had in him anything sufficient to merit retatning him in an already ove: ded school. The former 5 oween. Discipiimed by nia mistrass to v his of the mines he did not call it really finished till he had swept it three or four times and dusted it as many mére: so that when the strange won- derful being upon whose nt his fate was to rest inspected i, she could not find sufficient dust to make an impréssion upon her dainty cambric handkerchief. — WIS S S Gt T m-:a telling. Every Free Academy o, pon Mars’ Mackit's part to 't u 'S making the founder of Tuskegee what 5 ° THE DICTAGRAPH. It the idea of the state board of M;msm-m‘ n R Eooker Wash- (A . One Woman Makes For a Man’s Affsctions SEl 'RIBUN SUPREME FEATURE PHOTOPLAYS - 5 NEXT MONDAY TUESDAY v OLIVER MOROSCO Presents THE IDEAL AMERICAN BEAUTY EDNA GOODRICH in *“The House of Lies” AN USUAL STORY IN AN APPEALING WAY T SE( oatrb ay 7 and 8.45 'ODAY “A WOMAN ALONE” 8 — Parts — 5 ‘”l BASEBALL mvn Comedy . 2Res ;- Comedy Concert Orchestra ODAY AND TONIGHT LOUISE HUFF N “The Mlflll of Patience” AN APPEALING STORY OF A QUAKER GIAL'S ROMANCE OMEDY e = A RECITALI| BLASTING AT THE ROCK OF AGES IN SLATER HALL Friday Evening, Feb. 23rd. : mgt. MME. POVLA FRISCH DANISH SOPRANO, ASSISTED BY . M. JEAN VERD, Pianist RODERICK WHITE AMERICAN VIOLINIST. Reserved Seats .... $2.00 Now on Sale,at Cranston’s —_— LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Calls For Square Deal. Mr. Editor: 1 have always been reading with much interest the ad- dreses of Rev. Brother Ricketts, so I was surprised this morning when I read nearly two columns-of worn-out arguments against Germany. In _the opening words of his address on “The German Situation,” as he terms it; he differentiates between the German people and the German gov- ernment, when the indisputable fact is that the history of Germany for the last fifty years shows that the govern- ment and the people are one. Napoleon relied_on the South German states to remain passive, or possibly help him in the jnvasion of the Rhine provinces in 1870. He was greatly disappointed when he met South German soldiers by the thousands arrayed against him, side by side with the soldiers of Prus- sia. Mr. Ricketts says that if “a referen- dum had been submitted to the Ger- man people in _relation to the opening of the war, they would have over- whelmingly voted it down.” That statement is simply arrant nonsence, for any one to suppose that the Ger- man people, or any other people would have remained passive when huge armies were gathering on two of the most exposed borders of their coun- try, is the same as supposing that they had lost all sense of love for their country, their homes, thelr wives and chilaren. 1s it at ail likely that this country—the people of this nation would vote against war if Canada on our northern border and Mexico on the south were in league against us, and had mobilized their armies to at- tack us? The attempt to discriminate between the German people and the German government is simply an en- endeavor to “crush” and destroy the nation and divide the “spoils” améong the revengeful, jealous and covetous allies, but the German people and gov- ernment are standing as one man in defense of their Fatherland. The partisans of the allles seem to have great concern for American lives, endangered by the German _blockade. but they are entirely blind to the Eng- lish blockade which seeks to stdrve millions of German women and chil- dren to death, even forbidding the pas- sage of Red Cross suppliés. American lives are destroved here in America by Iynching, and it is hardly noticed, American lives are destroyed by the hundreds in_Mexico and it is passed over as of no moment. England is acquitted for the thousands of Boer women and children she starved to death in South Africa, Belgium ls ex- onerated from blame for the thousands and thousands of natives she murder- ed or multilated in the Congo, and Russia is held blameless for the thous- ands she sent off into Siberia from East Prussia and Poland the first year of the war: all these crimes are made light of so that what Germany does in self defense may be held up @s érimes unheard of. To my mind Germany is justified in using every means.in her power to prevent England and her al- lies from destroying the Central Pow=« ers and thereby delivering Constanti- nople over to the ténder mercles of the i Sunqay Evening LECTURE BY GLENN CARSON RUSSELL Breed Theatre ALL WELCOME 4—-SHOWS TODAY—4 -1, 3.30, 6 and 8.30 THE ATRE DAVIS T THE GREATEST PHOTOPLAY PROGRAM OF THE YEAR MARY PICKFORD in st Vg [The Meost Charming, ¢ Delightful 1 Act o1 [EX TR/ 1. 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OTHER VIEW POINTS Ask anybody what department of the government is getting the least satisfaction and the chances are & hundred to one that he will say the postoffice. The fault lies in the “econ- omy” that cuts down service in order to make a show of income. Then on the increase of income foliows a de- partment made cry for one cent let- ter postage, and it is assumed that’ the whole country will jump for joy at one cent po and land fn the ad- ministration’s waiting lap.—Hartford Courant. There is on phase of this situation that is not easy to stand for with that calmn and sweet composture that we aim at and usually get away with. 1t is this loud noise about “munition makers,” “evil mindefi bankers” and “selfish speculators” have created th tronble for their own beneft. Wo have heard enough of Nothing is more certain than neither the “munition malker: any others of thess favorite boe men bad anything to do with this bu iness, and couldn’t have had Nobody in this country wants Bverybody abhors it. No country e gave such proofs of loyaity and deve tion to the cause of peace. “Munition makers” and the lke ha doubtless theif own sins to answer [ We have nothing to do with that. B this thing of dragging them out ever time an: y suggests that the nat ought to try to preserve fts iif ought not forever to be kicked in face has been carried too far. There {8 such a thing in this c try as unselfish and disinterested triotism. It is not in the slightest d gree incompatible with Egood mora and a lofty altruism, and about per cent. of the people have it The rest don’t ecount—New Times-Leader. t Have A new mailing machine driven an electric motor seals envelopes attaches stamps at the rate of an hour, For either brain or muscle Bakers Cocoa - is refreshing. AR R a contains more nourishment than beef” r & Co. Ltd I