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: THE SAN FRANCIS 30 CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 190 American merchandise and establishing routes and ALt e iniie md sty otte o (COMPETITION: IN GAS . PERMITTED N | we cannot possess or enjoy our inheritance. ~When 3 UNDER PROVISIONS OF CHARTER the isthmian canal is opened, built, owned and con- Enrron The Call—Sir: Will you please inform a sub- KEEP COOL. ‘ THIS is a good time for the American people to The—Slmena Call. THURSDAY B keep cool and conserve their wits on the sub- ject of tariff, free trade and reciprocity. = A strong and energetic movement is being made by Cuba to break into ‘our markets, compete with our agriculture, obsolete certain of our valuable crops, disuse our land and labor and strike a blow at pro- ..DECEMBER 12, 1901 competition. The charter provides that the Supervisors shall fix a gas rate. The Supervisors have fixed it at $140, but if a company is willing to grant a reduction to consumers who will sign & contract for three years there IS nothing to prevent such reduction. If the three-year contract at $1 % should later trolled, as it will be, by the United States, our pov- erty on the ocean will make it the opportunity of our . scriber through your paper whether the gas company has a right under the law and the franchise it holds to rivals.” No intelligent man will question the truth of those charge different rates for supplying gas to Its custom- ers? Some of the residents of this section are paying statements. We are losing markets solely because we JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adtress All Communiestions to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE. .......Telephone Press 204 B et . - f P H s S $125 per 1000 feet, while the writer is obliged to pay $145 clash with a still lower rate, say $120, the Mayor believes that 5 tection at .the precise point where it needs friends have abandoned the seas to European shipping. e L ratiee e iofinaa 16 Homgllah i Tl g bl &P“ ftom the comsumer signing it would still have the right to claim PUBLICATION ::l'::l::“-l"k“ and Third, * | our rural interests and people. is time to put an end to that foolish policy. ~The | the Pacific Gas- Improvement Company for a term of years the rate fixed by the Supervisors. - Remembering their success in driving this country or otherwise to continue to take from the Pacific providing an EDITORIAL -»32-'-- ...317 to 331 Stevensen St |, . \war that was avoidable and was being avoided opposition company lays mains and offers to supply to con- sumers. If all of the gaspayers would fooMshly sign the con- whether any cutting of rates “js an interesting Does Frye bill, therefore, even if not absolutely satisfactory to everybody, should be enacted. The country needs “The question, however. should be allowed,” said Mayor Phelan, = r one. The charter says the Supervisors shall fix ‘a rate.” Dellverea by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. AUCTION SALES . H. Umbsen—Mondsay, December 16, Real Estate, at By G. 14 Montgomery street. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. RIGHT as if it season sunshine and an air as crisp and cool B were ordered by Santa Claus to fit the of his coming have brought the Christ- mas shoppers already from their homes to the streets and the shops where the holiday goods are gleaming. The larger stores are already thronged with seekers after novelties and with purchasers, for the wise shop- per does not at this season postpone buying to an- other day. The shops that are thronged now will be crowded next week. The article that most attracts may be sold by to-morrow. This, therefore, is the time to buy promptly and avoid the rush. Every aspect of the time promises a Christmas sea- son of unsurpassed merriment and happiness. The people are prosperous and have bright prospects of a greater prosperity ahead. They are in harmony with -the festival season. We are at peace with the world and with one another. In politics an era of good feeling has set in. Virtually there is but one party in the country.” No formidable attack is now being made upon sound money, protection or any other feature of the legislation upon which our industries are based. So, too, for a time at least, the strife be- tween labor and capital that disturbed both the East and the West a few months ago has passed away. The mills are running, the wage-earners have money for a merry Christmas, and among all classes there is that cheerful contentment which is more potent than money in making a glad holiday. The merchants of the country have foreseen the increased demand for Christmas goods and haye pro- vided the shoppers with an ampler stock from which to choose than ever before. The advertising columns of The Call reflect the increased and increasing business of the timg. Persons who cannot make*up their minds what to buy cap find a multitude of sug- gestions from our advertisements. There are novel- ties or useful gifts for all kinds of people. Santa Claus is a great manufacturer. He knows how to suit every taste, and this season he has done his best Christmas shopping is enough like haymaking to make it worth while doing it while the sun shines. We cannot count on the continuance of such bright weather through all the days from now to Christmas. Next week the streets may be wet and sloppy with rain, and then the shopping will have to be done un- der conditions that make it disagreeable and to some extent difficult. For the present evérything is pro- pitious to the shopper. So pleasant is the weather and so bright the stores that it is a temptation to wander among them fof the mere pleasure of the outing. Just now neither the park nor the public art galleries show up so attractively as the shops, and under the conditions that prevail the shopping itself may be accounted one of the best pleasures of the holiday season. It is questionable whether any other city in the world presents such a picturesque and radiant ap- pearance as does San Francisco in these afternoons and evenings when the shoppers and the sightseers are out in something like full force. The San Fran- cisco type of feminine beauty shows well in walking costume. Forms of lissome grace animated with California vigor, faces that glow with the beauty of rosy cheeks and starry eyes, do not need the acces- sory of ballroom dress and ornaments to give them an attractiveness that delights every faculty of the mind. Consequently their presence on the streets in such numbers as are now to be seen during busi- ness hours give to the city a truly festal brightness. We are evidently about to celebrate the merriest Christmas in our history, and are making ready for it early. . A curious story comes from New York City to the effect that a thief went into a police station and stole a pair of fine shoes belonging to the head of the de- tective force in that district. It would seem that in looking for clews the chief must have been going round barefooted. by the splendid diplomacy of President McKinley, the Cubans have organized another junta in New York. It is full jeweled, well stocked in etiquette and exchequer and was on the ground in Washington before Congress arrived, picking off the individual members as they arrived. Thé cry of this junta is, “Open your markets to our sugar,and tobacco, or we will have a panic!” The old junta cried, “Spend your blood and money for our liberty, or we perish!” We did both. We spent a half billion of dollars, and lives that we could ill spare. Now they demand that our taxpayers do- nate to them a clear profit of $200 per acre on ‘their sugar and tobacco lands, or they will have a panic! General Wood, our military Governor of the island, is away from his post in aid of this anti-panic gift to Cuba. He is alleged to have said to Senators that Cuban sugar and tobacco should occupy our markets as “essential to giving Cuba that degree of stability which was contemplated when the United States dispossessed Spanish rule.” With all due respect to General Wood in his ca- pacity as a soldier, we remark that he is uttering non- sense, rank, defiled and gibbering nonsense. The American people resent it. What folly fo say that we assumed the duty of always making Cuba prosperous, of always assuring a profit on her staple crops, of always filling her dinner pail! Yet that is our obligation as interpreted by General Wood and the junta. They have been encouraged by President- Roosevelt’'s message on reciprocity. We think they have read that message with their greed rather than with their undérstanding. The President says that “reciprocity is the handmaid of protection.” We all favor reciprocity, as did President McKin- léy, when and where it leaves protection unbreached and unweakened. Otherwise it is the same as free trade to us and we reject it. The precise point at which we can least afford to smite protection is the point attacked by this new junta, which presents its appetite as patriotism and comes holding out its hat for alms. “Reciprocity is the handmaid of protec- tion.” Cuba wants o borrow our handmaid because we are bound to make Cuba prosperous and prevent panies! It is as much as we can do by careful legislation to preserve the conditions of prosperity for our own people. We are not abroad on any such Quixotic errand as that of Sahta-Clausing prosperity into the stockings of people who don’t wear stockings. The | junta has misread President Roosevelt. The hand- maid they want to borrow is in our service, not in theirs. — President Roosevelt’s cordial indorsement of the policy of providing for extensive irrigation of the arid lands of the West has had the effect of awakening the Eastern people to a consciousness that sooner or later the Govérnment will adopt the policy, and ac- cordingly they are getting ready to accept it. As the Philadelphia Ledger puts it, “the West is bound to have irrigation and the East may as well be good- natured about it.” THE MERCHANT MARINE BILL. ENATOR FRYE is reported to have stated S that he has reason to believe his merchant marine bill will be found to have met all the ob- jections made by certain Republicans to the measure submitted at the last session of Congress, and con- sequently he looks forward to a prompt adoption of it by both houses. That the Senator is over- sanguine is made evident by criticisms which have al- ready been pronounced upon the measure by Re- publican critics. It is clear, then, that once more we are to have a prolonged discussion on the subject, and it may be another postponement of the adoption of a system of promoting our merchant marine. It is not easy to understand why loyal Republicans should persist year after year in demanding a mer- | chant marine bill that will suit everybody. No such demand was made of the framers of the tariff de- signed to protect our industries upon land. Had it | been made and insisted upon there would never have been a tariff. Party unanimity can be attained on matters of detail only by mutual concessions, and such concessions are right and proper. When men are agreed that a certain policy is wise, right and needful it would be foolish for them to refuse to undertake it solely because no practical measure of accomplishing it could be devised which in every de- tail and respect accorded with the judgment or wishes of every individual. The Republican party has been able to enact legislation wupon every important issue except that of providing for our merchant marine. Every | pledge made in the platform upon which McKinley | was first elected to the Presidency has been fulfilled except that relating to American shipping. Mem- bers of Congress managed to agree upon every other subject, but upon this there has been a persistent disagreement, and now, after the stanch advocates of upbuilding our marine have endeavored to conciliate all, there arises once mare the old cry that the bill is objectionable in this feature or in that. A merchant marine bill that will suit the individual ideas of every Republican in Congress is not to be expected. If we are to wait until such a bill be framed we shall never have an American merchant marine upon the high seas that is at all commensurate with our needs. In making up a tariff Republicans did not wrangle over particular schedules. They de- sired a protective tariff, and in due time they enacted one. It may be objectionable fo this man or that in some one or more parficulars, but as a whole it sat- isfies the country, It protects our industries. It brought an immediate return of prosperity to capital and to labor. If, however, that policy had been created in the same way as the principle of protecting American commerce on the seas has been treated we should be to this day exposed to the competition of European cheap labor, and our. prosperity would be measured by a much lower standard than it is. ¥ In his address at the Gharleston exposition Sena- tor Depew, in referring to the failure of the United States to obtain a fair share of South American trade, said: “Our failure to capture or hold what is legitimately our own is due to the fact that we have abandoned the sea. Our country, with its superb energy and limitless productive powers, but without an adequate merchant marine, is like Hercules chained to his forge, or an eagle clipped of its wings. it, the Republican party has promised it, and the people demand it. Senator Warren of Wyoming is quoted as having said recently of the reciprocity treaties: “These treaties expired by limitation and cannot be revived. It is questionable even whether new treaties can be negotiated and submitted under the two year restric- tion of the Dingley act.” It is said that other Sena- tors hold the same view, and it is therefore possible we may see the reciprocity question settled satisfac- torily by being dismissed from our politics altogether. e m THE NEW YORK PROGRAMME. HEN on the eve of the assembling of Con- \;\’ gress the Democratic caucus met for the purpose of nominating candidates for the Speakership and other offices, there was presented from the New York delegation a set of resolutions outlining a policy for the party to pursue in dealing with the prindipal issues that are to come up during the session. As the resolutions made no mention of silver, a member from Texas promptly moved to sub- stitute the Kansas City platiorm. A wrangle ensued and then the whole thing was referred to a° com- mittee. To the general public the affair appeared to be nothing more than another of those factional fights which have now become something like a regular part of the proceedings of every Democratic meet- ing. It was therefore passed over as an incident of no particular import, and comparatively little atten- tion was paid to it.’ ‘It now appears, however, by reports from New York, that the incident has a larger significanice than appeared on the surface. The resolutions, which are now spoken of as “the New York programme,” were part of a plan devised for the purpose of harmonizing the gold and the silver wings of the party and putting the “programmers” in a position where they ‘would have advantage over all rivals in the struggle for party control. It seems to be conceded that the resolu- tions were not written in Washington, but were drawn up and discussed in New York and sent on to Washington for presentation to the caucus. Had it not been for the vigilance of the silver man from Texas the scheme might have gone through, and Democracy might now be half-way pledged to some- thing in the way of a programme that would leave Bryanism omt of sight long before the next Presi- dential election. There was, moreover, a_certain amount of New York politics involved in the programme. It is stated that the scheme was worked out by Tammany politicians, though it is by no means certain that Croker dictated it. According to these authorities the plan was designed for the purpose of displacing David Bennett Hill as the leader of Democracy in New York, and consequently a possible nominee for the Presidency in 1904. Hill has repeatedly said that at this time the Democratic party should not adopt a platform, but await developments, and had the New York Congressmen succeeded in getting the repre- sentatives of the party in the House to accept the programme offered them Hill would have been side- tracked and would have been compelled either to follow the Tammany lead or fall out of the Demo- cratic procession. The scheme failed because the Southern and West- ern Democrats in Congress do not like to accept a New York leadership. They resent the assumption of the New Yorkers and are still sore because of the failure of New York Democracy to support Bryan. That feeling led to the rejection of the programme as presented to the caucus. The fight, however, is not yet over. The committee to which the caucus resolutions were referred is to report as soon as Con- gress reassembles after the holidays, and then we may hear much more of the programme and get a further understanding of what it means and whom it is de- signed to crush. Em—— e —e Democratic members of Congress are”said to be waiting impatiently for Gorman to return to the Sen- ate, an event which is expected to take place next March. It is their belief that once in the Senate he can formulate a policy for the party, and should he succeed they are ready to support him for the Presi- dential nomination in 1904. It is hardly likely the proposed Congressional in- vestigation of Maclay’s “History of the Navy” will amount to anything. The charges made against Schley have caused it to be excluded from the list of text-books at Annapolis, and if Congress will abstain from advertising it the thing will soon be out of print and forgotten. According to reports from New York the outward manifestations of the recent copper deal were nothing to the true inwardness of it, and there is talk of get- ting up some kind of legal investigation that will turn it inside out and show how the wheels worked in the interior. If Tom Johnson can aspire to the Presidency be- cause he was elected Mayor of Cleveland, why should not General Patrick Collins of Boston have a boom and proceed to order a hat so much too large for him that it can accommodate a Presidential bee? The way in which the whirligig of time brings about its revenges is going to be shown by the fact that those who did not share in the rapture and the cost of the opera season are going to have a fatter Christmas than many of those who did. Secretary Gage hit the nail squarely on the head when in referring to the policy of granting subsidies to build up the American merchant marine he said: “The expedient is temporary, and prompt results are desirable.” / Count Boni de Castellane has appeared again in a debtors’ court in Paris. It is perhaps not interesting to observe that the Count, as usual, had a wealth of nerve and an appalling poverty of money. There are said to’ be more than 300 applications for divorce on file in the courts of Washington City, so the capital is evidently getting something of a Chicago gait on. o The decisiohs in the island cases make it certain that the constitution follows Justice Brown, but Until ships under the American flag are carrying |leave it uncertain whether Brown follows the flag. ! tract this enterprising Pacific Company submits we never ‘would have an oppesition company, for the good reason that the new company would have no customers to look to for the Some districts are getting gas as low as 50 cents a thousand, while all in this district outside those who have already bowed to the will of the gas monopoly are pay- ing $140. Does the law and the franchise under which this company exists allow of such discrimination? E. DUNN, §62 Ninth avenue, Richmond District. sale of its gas. San Francisco, Dec. 9, 1901. TS T Mayor Phelan said last evening that the Pacific Gas Im- provement Company’s three-year conttacts with consumers were valid under the charter and legitimate as a form of Respectfully, be no reductions.” L e e e e o ANSWERS TO QUERIES. A TEN-CENT PIECE-L. A., City. A dime of 1835 is not a premium coin. BISPHAM—Subscriber, City. David S. Bispham, principal barytone of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London, was born in Philadelphia January 5, 1857. RIGHT OF WAY—S. T. D. C., Grass Valley, Cal. In order to answer the ques- tion as to the right of way it would be necessary to know between what dates the road was used by the public. GLEN A. GREEN—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. The Call's index does not show that any one by the name of Glen A. Green was drowned in the wreck of a vessel bound from Alaska to San Francisco sinee July 31, 1901. ACTRESS—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal Letters intended- for actors or actresses who are with a company that is moving from place to place should be directed to either the New York Clipper or the New York Dramatic Mirror to insure de- livery. HUSBAND'S RIGHT-J. D. 8., Paso Robles, Cal. Thirty-five years ago a hus- band in California had the same absolute right over the community property to dis- pose of the same as he would of his sep- arate property or to mortgage the same as he has now. YANKEE SULLIVAN—A. S., Sacra- mento, Cal. “Yankee” Sullivan, pugilist, was confined in the headquarters of the Vigilance Committee of 1856 in San Fran- eisco on Sacramento street, near Drumm, at the time he committed suicide by open- ing a vein in one of his arms. SUPREME COURT—Subscriber, City. What is the cost of taking an appeal from the State Court to the Supreme Court of the United States is a question that can be answered only by a lawyer after an in- vestigation of the facts of the case, as much depends on the preparation of the appeal. GAME OF CARDS—S., City. Before an- swering the question asked as to the right to play certain cards in which high, low, jack and game figures this department would” like to know if the game was seven-up, pedro or pedro sancho. The case is not clearly stated in the letter of inquiry. MINER’S INCH-J. L. H., Shady Run, Cal. A miner’s inch is the amount of water that will pass in twenty-four hours through an opening one inch square un- der a pressure of six inches. With this as a basis for calculation, you can deter- mine the flow of water through any sized aperture, PEARLS—Subscriber, Mayfleld, Cal Pearls are found in all waters where mus- sels or oysters abound. The most exten- sive fisheries are in the Red Sea, the Per- sian Gulf, the Indian Ocean and off the island of Ceylon. The greatest proportion of pearls are found in the oysters fished off the coast of Ceylon; the average is one in every ten oysters. A plan of making pearls grow at will was submitted by one Linnaeus to the Swedish Government, and that was to bore a small hole through the shell of a river mussel and insert a small grain of sand so as to afford a nucleus for a pearl. He established the practicability of his plan and was rewarded by the Gov- ernment with a cash prize of $2200. As a commercial venture it was not a success. SOLAR PLEXUS—Ignorance, Berkeley, Cal. Plexus is the name given in anat- omy to a network of vessels or nerves in the human body. The location of the so- lar plexus is the dorsal of the stomach. It is the largest of the three great sym- pathetic plexuses, situated in the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta. It consists of an intricate network of nerves associated with the ganglia, receiving the upper splanchnic nerves and some branches of the vagus and giving off numerous branches which accompany the arteries to the principal viscera of the abdomen, constituting secondary plexuses. Its two principal masses, right and left, are known from their form as semi-lunar gauglia. ‘WATER RIGHTS—8. T. D. C., Grass Valley, Cal. The Supreme Court of Cali- fornia in the case of the Vernon Irrga- tlon Company vs. the City of Los An- geles, 108 Cal. Reports, says: “The ri- parian owner is entitled to the continuocus flow of the stream as part and parcel of the estate and not as an easement or in- corporeal right issuing out of the land, and he does not own the corpus of the water, but incident to his riparian right has a right to appropriate a certain portion of it, and an appropriator cannot acquire a right to any of the waters of a stream to the prejudice of a riparian owner by any use, except under the statute of lim- itation.” There is also the following de- cision in the case of Hargrave vs. Cook, 108 Cal.: “The right of a riparian owner to the waters of a stream, flowing through or along his land, is not a right of owner- ship in or to the water, but a usufructory right, including a right to make use of a reasonable quantity for irrigation, re- turning the surplus to the matural chan- nel, that it may flow on, in the accus- tomed mode, to the lands bglow.” IN OR ON—A. 8, City. As to the cor- rectness of “‘an accident occurred on Mar- ket street, or an accident occurred in Market street” there is much diversity of opinion. Richard Grant White, in “Words and Their Uses,” has the following in re- gard to the use of in and on: “An en- deavor toward precision has led some folk to say that a man was on Broadway, or that such and such an event tock place on Tremont street, and Mr. Howells coun- tenances this folly by writing: ‘There were a few people to be seen on the streets.” Let him and all others who would not be at cnce childish and pe- dantic say in the street, in Broadway, and not be led into the folly of endeav- oring to convey the notion that a man was resting upon or moving over an ex- tended surface between two. lines of houses. A house itself is in Broadway, not on it; but it may stand on the line of the street. An event takes place Ia a certain street, whether the actors are on the pavement, or on the steps, or in the balcony of a house iy that street or in the house itself. We are in or within a limited surface, but on or upon one that is without visible boundaries.” PERSONAL MENTION. A. Duncan, proprietor of Duncan's Mills, is a guest at the Occidental. W. R. Ramsdella, a well known resident of San Diego, is registered at the Palace. H. Marks, a dry goods merchant of Ukiah, is spending a few days at the Lick. Dr. W. J. Walker, a prominent physi- cian of Sacramento, is among the arrivals at the Palace. H. L Seymour, proprietor of the Buffalo Brewing Company of Sacramento, Is a guest at the Palace. Moses S. Wahrhaftig, a lawyer of Sac- ramento, is attending the United States Circuit Court on business. ‘W. Kettner, a prominent officer of the Mystic Shriners and who resides at Visalia, is a guest at the Lick. Isaac Minor, a merchant of Arcata, fs down here on a business trip and has made his headquarters at the Lick. Dr. 1. B. Hamilton, who formerly prac- ticed medicine in Los Angeles, but who is now superintendent of several mines in this State, is staying at the Occidental. Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Shoreham—T. E. Gibbs, Los Angeles; Jo- seph S. Spear Jr. and wife and John L. Howard, San Francisco. National—R. O. Lincoln. Ebbitt—Mre. F. H. Grifith. Wil- lard—S8. E. Slade and family, C. M. Bel- shaw and wife, T. J. Wampeheimer. Raleigh—Willlam M. Bunker and wife, Charles A. Riggs and wife. Arlington— W. H. Seamans, all of San Francisco. e Subscribe for The Daily Call for a period of six months and you will be entitled to receive a copy of Cram’s Superior Atlas of the World, edition cf 1901, at the premium rate of $1 50. —_————————— New French Butter. “Vegetaline” is a new product being manufactured by a Marseilles firm. It is a kind of butter which, it Is stated, is especially adapted to the uses of bakers and confectioners. : The article is harder and whiter than butter, which it only resembles in its fatty nature. It 18 cbtained by refining the oil extract of the dried cocoanut. that mean a maximum rate or a rate that shall prevail in all cases? There would be this reason for the latter interpreta- tion: A uniform rate for the entire city would tend to equal- ize conditions, and a resident downtown near the gas works or the mains would not enjoy the advanmtages of cheap gas at the expense of the consumers in outlying districts.. “The right of a gas company to grant a rate lower than the rate fixed under our charter has never been tested in the courts. So long as we have the competitive system it is for the public good that competition be untrammeled. 1ike to see either.munictpal ownership of gas or a oly with stringent regulation by the Supervisors, form rate for all districts, from which, of course, I should gas monop- with a uni- there would A CHANCE TO SMILE. “1@vouldn't be so concerned about my iooks, Ethelinda,” said the homely hus- band, crossly. “Beauty ‘is only skin “I know it, Melchior,” snapped the pretty wife, still inspecting the effect of hér new hat in the mirror, “but ugliness goes clear through.”"—Chicago Tribune. “Do you see that woman in bathing with the scant bathing clothes?” said the Asbury Park Chief to & patroinfan. “Yes; 1 see her, but she protested that if the suit,was any larger she couldn’t have got it into the stingy little bath- Houses we - furnish them.”—Yonkers Statesman. “] don't see why I keep on getting so muech fatter. 1 only eat two meals a day.” X “); know, my love. But you shouldn’t insist upon crowding your breakfast and luncheon into one meal, and your dinner and a late supper into the other.”—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. The veteran manager sought to discour- age the girl. ¥ ) “My dear young lady,” he said, 'do you know that life on the stage is laborlous, disappointing and full of heartache, Even in the career of a star there is moJ “It ought not to be,” she responded, “with such & man as you to planet.” “Young woman,” replied the manager, frowning darkly, “you shall have your way. I can see that if I den’t give you an opening you will go to writing things for the newspapers.”—Chicago Tribune. “Pa’ sald little Willle, glancing up from his book, “what are ‘sharps and flats’?” £ “Well—er—flats are places like this we'Te living in,” replied Mr. Puirsole. “But what are ‘sharps’?” “] suppose they're the janitors.”—Phile adelphia Press. Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * pretdatipes b Bk Cholce candies. 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