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PRIV A TE VIEW CARD YOURSELF AND FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO THE

FIRST VIEW OF THE OIL PAINTINGS AT

THE FIFTH AVENUE ART GALLERIES 366 FIFTH A VENUE, NEAR 34TH STREET

FRIDA Y, MARCH I iTH , 1892 , FROM THREE TO TEN O'CLOCK, P. M.

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EXHIBITION OPEN FREE SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 12TH

ORTGIES & CO. SAMUEL P. AVERY, JR.

H . W . WALKER , ACCOUNTANT.

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY OF CANADA

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Chal~les H. Babcock. I Edwi~ C. Garrigues. "

BABCOCK & GARRIGUES,

ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

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One A. W. ,Edwards, in a letta from New 'tork to hfa papet in tbi& city, sa,..:

' 'MaJpr Shaw says he / has not wrttten &D7 letr.era-only td :Mr. Johnson (me~ <lqDg1'eI8 man Johnson)-when he &eeB some lha;I"e.,-he'll -WIsh he hadn't."

This fellow Edwards, in • pnvioua oommunioation not long ago, said that; , he bad been making a collection ell Shaw's private leHers, and has Billoe, been throwing out dark, my.terioua hints to the effect that he has.eoured some letters whioh oontain som.tb.ins ' very damaging. This is jast; abon' Ed. wards' gait-sneaking aroun4 prying into somebody's private oomIBpondenoe and playingtbe oontemptible role of 8p1. Ifhehassuoh letterswhydoem't hepub­liBh them instead of beating around the bush. and throwing out his dirty inBinu-

_ atione? If he is making a bId to ex­, t9rt blackmail, he Is waating his time. . If he is out for boodle he had better strike somebody else-the New York demoontio Murphy, for instanee-or lOme of his former ~timB.The pres­ent editor ot The Argus positively de­olines to'put up a oentof hush moner. If Edwards has sot; any ,of our letters let him publish them-uot them right out-print every line and' word-no garbling. Then the pu~lio om judge whether they are creditable or discred­itable to the writer-and ther can alaq form their opinion of . the blaokgaarc'l who furnishes a copy of a private letter to Edwafda for the purpose of aiding him in his bUBineBB of defamation .d his profeBBion of bJaokman. , ,

The statemenUhat ",Major B~w says "he has nol written an7 letten-o.-ly to "Mr. JohDlOn," !s. o~~ Ed. wards lie. MajOr Shaw JiM ~ hundreds of letters linoe he oame 'to North Dakota, on aU80rfisof subjects; to all sorts of peeple. Ther~: ID&yble wise or foolish-but there , isa't one of tbem that; he is ashamed to have pub­liBbed in ~ Let the huge jourQl­istio braggart advertise himself as ;. PeepiDg Tom who has adopted the pu­silanimous but (to him) oongenial VOOlk,

tion of peeping into people's private let;. fieri!, by publishing all that he oan get hold ot from the cads . .,ho betray private oorrespoudenoe. The self- respecting portion of the pnblio will be able to size up the performooe at.out as it de-

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WHITEHEAD & SUYDAM,

No. 206 BR.OADWAY,

NEW Y OR.K CITY.

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P. O. ADDRESS, PIOKERT, N. D.

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