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Show H Like the old lady who thanked the H ! Lord she Had two teeth left and that H they hit, the San Franciscans can H thank their guiding stars that the H j ' eartlniuake did not come at ten or H twelve o'clock In the day time. Then H ' the business section, in which the H j great damage was done, would have H I been crowded with humanity and the H I loss of life must have been terrible. H i While the lire that followed the shock H did a terrible damage to property, It H should be a source of thanksgiving H that no epidemic of disease has fol- fl lowed the disaster. At Lisbon, so H many were killed by an earthquake H that not enough were left to take care M of the dead, and disease resulting m i caught most of those remaining. Sail M Francisco h.-'s iiueh to be tlunl.ftil M I . , for, but probably appreciates this, how- M ' ' ever, more than wo do. HiH |
