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THE NOBLE AMERICAN GAME OF "SEVEN UP,"

that's a game, well, I'll explain that by-and-by. Some of you, perhaps, know all about it, and the rest must guess (laughter)—but, in their playing of that really noble and intellectual game the dealer deals to his right instead of to his left, and what is insufferably worse—the ten always takes the ace! (Prolonged laughter.) Now, such abject ignorance as that is reprehensible, and, for one, I am glad the missionaires have gone there. (Laughter.)

Now, you see what kind of voters you will have if you take these Islands away from these people as we are pretty sure to do some day. They will do everything wrong end first. They will make a deal of trouble here too. Instead of fostering and encouraging