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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-19

Nv. DIcEIrsox. Wv. WILLIAMS.
On. \. '. DICKINSON.
DICKINSON, WILLIAMS d co.,

(succesrors 10 J. W. Dickinson 4 Bro..l
COTTON FACTORS AND GENERAL
" Commission and Produce Merchants,
40. 2Io Front strees, Memphis, Tenn.
We have aWarehcuss Of cur orn. In which
ue viii handle AL Cotton confirmed 70 ~. and
VI crAEAETEr THEEE lnaLL Er 70 rr.E--s-
SAM loss m WIGHT. barrirr ard Rope fur
rifhed our customerl. IF1al commissions
charred. All conlirnmertt ~ river insured,
unless afhersisa instructed.
50 Liberal advances made o. conrrn-
meats 81
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THE ENGLISH QTAK ERS AND TIE
IRISH CHURCH

The English SoCie'y Of Friends have is
sued an address strongly advocating the
separation Of Church and State, and con-
GLIDING in the following terms:
Do any really imagine that in removing
the existing legal establishment the State
would cease to he Christian Can there
be greater fallacy? 1t is not the State
that makes the Chriztiln it ia rather the
Christian that moulds the character of the
State. So far As the people themselves are
brought under the power Of the Gospel,
Christianity will reign supreme in the ma
tional councils and influence the admins
tration Of the law. Were this truly the
case with every professor Of the Christian
name in this land, how much cause would
there be for hope that the churches Of Eng
land, no longer severed by State inter
ference, bu; united in a true sense Of their
high calling in Christ Jesus, become more
faithful witnesses of His power and redeem
ing love to 4he world around them, and H.
lustrate, more than they have ever yet
done, the truth and blessedness Of the pro-
mise, "All thy children shall be taught Of
the Lord, and great shall be the peace Of
thy children. la righteousness shalt thou
be established"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-18
MUSCULAR CHRISTIAN OF SPRIN G.
FIELDS OLDEN TIME

Dr.. Alfred Booth, in his "reminiscences of
Springfield, gives this rare account Of Il
rare man of muscle in the last century,
Deacon John Hitchcock, grandfather ofIhe
living Mr.. Levi Hitchcock, Of Springfield:
"Born in 1922 in the North Main street
region, he moved, while a young man, into
the eastern part Of the town, row known a.
South WilbrahaIn married in 1743. and
was the first deacon of the church there,
continuing in office many years. He is well
remembered by Hon. Oliver B. Morris as
occupying the deaCOn's seat at meetings, his
whitened locks giving him quite a venera-
bic appearance. During 4 long lie he was
Of wonderful strength, agility and endu-
rance and had he lived in the palmy DAYS
Of Greece, he would have been a worthy
competitor in the games of those days. 1t
Is related Of him that on one occasion a
man riding by the field where he was at
work, and boasting of the speed of his
horse, was challeged by the deacon, who
said he could run 10 Springfield quicker on
foot than the horse with his rider could.
The test resulted in the triumph OF the
deacon distance ten miles time not stated
He would lit a CARLOAD Of hay, by getting
his shoulders under the axle in stoopigg
posture, and throw "a empty cart over with
one hand, by taking hold of the end Of the
axlelree. When loading grain in 4 cart,
he would take a bag by the teeth, and with
a swing and the aud Of a push from the
knee, throw it into the cart He had dou-
Die teeth in front, and would hold tea
penny nail 10y them aud break it of with
MS fingers. lie used 10 say he did not
know a man lac could not whip OF run away
from. The day he was seventy years old
he remarked TO has wife that when they
were frat married he was wont to amusC
her by taking down his nat with his toes,
aud adde's, 4 wonder is | could do it now q
IhereuPon he jumped from the floor, tool,
/ of his hat with his toes, came down on hi;
feet like cat, hung up the hat on the mai t.
/ turned 10 the table, asked a.blessing, and
/ ate Of the repast then ready"
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YFFANgGSGTVING.
= Hay ~ Thank Civ ing for the whole
COuutr, Appointed by thc Presi-

= hay ~ Thanksgiving for the whole
Couutr, Appointed by ihc PrCsi-
dent.
ar THE PKEsIuENToF THE UNITED STATES
"a. AMEEICN-A PROCLAMATION.
I'm the wear which Is now drawing TO its
,rf. the art, the skill and the labor Of the
reop!a OF the [ nited States have been en-
Moved with greater diligence and yigor,
aud on broader Gclds lEan ever before, and
The fruits Of the earth have been gathered
into the grauary and the storehouse 10
marvellous abundance. Our highways have
been heightened. and new and prolific re-
gions have been occupied. We are per
mitt,d 90 hope that long protraCted and
political ara sectional dissensiOns are, at
~. Instant dav, 20 give place TO returning
kNEmonv aud iraternal affection throughout
,I,c republic Many foreign States have
entered into liberal agreements with US,
while nali0na which are far oil, and which,
heretofore, have been unsocial and eXclu-
e,vc have become our friends The annual
rerioi a. na which We have reached in
health and uuDauilitv. ami which is
crowned with 90 many blessings, L., by uni
ver-al consent. convenient and suitable
one for ,.tr.tuug personal piety aHd prac-
ticing mh.,. devotion. |, therefore, re-
commend llrf 4.undag, lhe Goth day of
NuveEtr l utEi, Ice sci apaTl and observed
bv all Jhr Erul'a ul ihc luItrd States "a "A
day for puh.r praise and thanksgiving and
PRAYER 90 the Almighty Creator and Divine
Ruler ui gha Universe. By whose ever
watshfu.. my,rI.i aud gracious providence
alone, sitjss and nations, uo less ih3n iami-
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| shippers, but here at the entrance are gam
| blers, forlune-tellers by the score, quack
| doctors, hucksters of all sorts. Near by
| man is keeping up tremendous racket on
a big drum and calling upon the crowd to
come and see tiger and other curloslteS
which he has on exhibition. On both
sides of the wide passage are rooms con-
tanning plaster images which tell the story
of the future life, as the Bhuddists under
| stand 1.-THE torments of the wicked. One
I man is being ground up 10 a grist mill.
The devils are turning the stone, and the
victim has been pUe in head foremost. You
see only his legs and feet sticking out of
the hole in the stone. These people be-
iieve in the transmigration OF sOnls, that il,
that the wicked will live in the future in
the shape Of oxen, asses, monkeys, snakes
and all sorts Of animals, and here is the
representation of the change. A boy Is
changing TO a dog one man has just be-
gun TO take on the head of an OK; another
has become aH ass-nothing very strange
In that, perhaps you will say. We see no
women or girls taking the form Of dOnkeys
or other shapes, for they believe that
women have no souls.
There is enough about this emple to
keep Us staring by the hour--great gilt
idols, fifteen feet high long crimson stream
ers hanging from the roof; hundreds of
small, gilt imsges-the goddess of flowers,
with her thirty muses.; room after room
hung with flags and banners, covered with
strange devices; rooms where the story
tellers are sitting with listening crowds
around them.
There is a woman worshiping, before the
idol throwing upon theground two pitcesof
wood, which are Hat on one side and round
on the Oiher-they are luck blocks (; if one
flat surface and one round surface Is the re-
suit of the throw, the day will be lucky.
She tries them three timeJ-theyare against
her. She rises, lights paper, touches off
a bundle of fre-crackers and her worship
is done. So many fire-crackers are let off
throughout the city, as acts of worship,
that it is like a Fourth of July all the |
time
Were there time we might have long |
talk aboutLhe temple Of the Five GEM, |
also the Five-storied pagoda, the temple OF
the Five Hundred Gods; also we might |
talk Of the flower gardens, where the shrubs
are trained in the form of goats, horses, /
dragons and great many other shapes. |
We might Tamble through these narrow
streets for a week, and we should all the
time come upon something new and strange,
which would call forth our wonder, and
perhaps make us laugh outright.
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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Chicago has Monday midday prayer
meeting which rivals that of Fulton street,
New York.
The Young Mems Christian Association
At Louisville has commenced a series OF
LILY prayer meetings.
hProG Blydon, Of Liberia college, pro-
poses to substitute Arabic for Latin in the
college course, 60 prepare the young men TO
be missionaries 10 llfe Arabic speaking ma
tions.
The Church Unioa says something is the
matter with the Christianity Of New York.
Il does not DO the work for which it was
established. As a business speculation, the
Christian church in New York Is a failure.
The Religious Herald, Of Richmond, Va,
regrets exceedingly that the Warren Asso-
citation of Rhode Island did not turn out
Mr Malcom fer teaching and preaching
iges continuation.
About one hundred and thirty members
UG the Jewish congregation, which Eorships
at the Synagogue Adas Jeshuruu in thirty
ninth street, New York, decided last sun
asy to abandon public worship on Satur-
day. 4 minority OF twenty members de-
clarel against this resolution. SOmeof the
majority are said 10 contemplate adopting
the Christian Sabbath, but many object 10
this. The Observance Of Saturday as the
Sabbath Is one of the distinguishing fea-
lures of Judaism ~ that Of Sunday is Of
Christianity.
4 number of rlrrgymsn Of evangelical
denominations, aud II lsymen well known
Tor their zeal agdact!yity 10 Christian
WORK. have united In "a call for a mass COO
ventiuu of Christian men, ITO meet on
Tuesdgv Novemher l7th, a, the Raformed
Protestant Church on Fifth avenue, New
York The arll sets forth the present con.
ditiou Of the material md spiritual inter-
e-ts OF the country, and proposes an eff
fort for more uuisCd aud better organized
work among ali evangelical churches.
Rev. Abel Stevens, leading minister Of
the Methodist church, has paid considerable
attention 10 the state Of religion in Ger
many. ard thiui,s !, is accompanied with a
great am0vni Of iGaihtrenlism and free
thinking liz ssys religious Indifference
- The i,adiug Characteristic of The masses
an GERMANY, .1a free thinking that Of the
educated cla---- Few Of the men ever 20
60 church and lew religions services re-
main m families. Sunday is holiday |
disgrac,d by a great amount Of beer-drink- |
iug. Apparently tnc Germans are the |
IA, st moral people in the world.
According 20 the Hebrew calendar the /
l-j inst was liv fifteenth dlyo :heseyenth |
month. Ti-ri ANA Wa accordingly Ccle- |
hratcf Don an tie -yuagogugs as the first day |
Of the Esaat at Iaharu.cles. erioiued in !
Ley. -}i. Tie ceremonies are changed |
with the change OF climate and other cir |
q I
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UNION AND AMERICAN.
ORR cEILDHOOD.


lis sad, yet sweet. to listen
To the soft winds gentle swell.
And think we hear the music
Our childhood knew so well;
To gaze out on the even,
And the bOundless fields of air,
And feel again our boyhoOd's wish
To roam like angels therel
There are many dreams Of gladness
That cling around the past
And from the tomb OF feeling
Old thoughts come thrOnGing fast;
The form we loved so dearly
In the happy days now gone,
The beautiful aud lovely, .
SO fair 10 look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens
Who seemed 50 formed for bliss
Too glorious and too heavenly
For such a world as this;
Whose dark. soft eyes seemed swimming
In sea Of liquid light,
And whose locks Of gold we're streaming
Ger brows 50 sunny bright.
Whose smiles were like the sunshine
In the spring-iime Of the year
Like the changeiul CLEANS of April,
They followed every tear?
They have pasSed-like hOpes-aWay,
And their loneliness has fed:
Oh, many a heart is mourning
That they arc with the dead.
Like the brightest buds of summer,
They have fallen with the stem;
Yet, Oh il Is a lovely death
To fade from earth like them,
And yet the thought is Saddcning
To muse on such rs they.
And feel that oil the beautiful
Are passing fast away
That the fair ones whom we love
Grow to each loving breast
Like the tTendril Of the clinging zine.
Then perish where they rest.
Ard we can but think of these.
In the soft and gentle spring.
When the trees are waving DER ug,
And the flowers are blOssOming;
And we knoW that winters coming
With his cold and stormy sky.
And the glorious beauty round US
Is budding but to die
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-18
WOMAN.

How "a Prince Married an Actress
Color in the New Xork SOrOsis-Thr
Proper Size Of a WOmRn's Foot
women In search of Health Under
Difficulties - The WOman'S Rights
Agitation Taking u Practical Turn.
HOW A PRINCE MARRIED AN ACTRESS.
Mile. Luzgel, the pretty French actress,
was recently married 10 Prince Tolstoi, one
Of the weaithiest young noblemen of ~.
Petersburg. The Prince popped the ques-
ton IN a somewhat unusual manner.
There was a fair at the st. Petersburg
French Theater, for the benefit of the
French Hospital Mile. Luzgel pTe'ided
over one Of the stands at the fair aud
Prince Tolstoi banteringly asked her what
she would take for Mss. She glanced ri
him rather slernly, and replied that She
would not kiss any man but her betrothed.
The Prince passed on, but returned 10
Mile. Luzgers stand a quarter of an hour
alterward, and said rather thOughtiully Ia
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rRomInIrEp MARRIAGEs.

We copy as follows from the New York
Sun:
In addition TO the other topics Of deep
interest which we have already mentioned
as likely TO occupy the attention of the
Episcopal General Convention of the
Church, to be held in this city in October,
a canon concerning marriage is, We hear,
to be brought before it for consideration,
which will probably provoke large and
earnest controversy. At present there are
no regulations in force in the Episcoal
Church on the subject, except that It's men,
bers are bound as citizens to respect the
civil laws Of the States in which they re-
side These laws being thought TO be more
lax in some cases than is consistent with
the iGjuncti Jns Of Scriptures, an effort will
be made TO supplement them by an au-
thoriiative ecclesiastical statute, which shall
clearly detine what marriages are and what
are moi prohibited, and thus furnish
gnide for the conduct of the f4ithfnL
A. we find the proposed canon printed
in last weeks Church Journal, it viii abso-
iutply forbid marriages between
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Louisville and Nashville
K ALL r 0 A D
FALL SCHEDULE, 1868.
SEPTEMBER II, 1865

Trains will run as follows:
Leave Nashville. $50 A. NJ. $50 p. NJ.
Arrive a Louisville I:I5 P. NJ. 400 A. NJ.
Both Trains make direct connection at Louis
Vile with the Jacksonville Railroad for St
Louis. Chicago, Indianapolis Cincinnati, Baltl-
Morning Train from Nashville connects with
United States mail line steamers leaving Louis
Vile at 400 P. NJ, connecting al Cincinnati with
early morning trains East, BAGGAGE CHECKED
from Nashville to St. Louis, Chicago, Cincin-
natl and all principal Eastern cities.
ktRS- Tho 6:2O P. N. Train from Nashville
docs not run on SUNDAY.
Gallatin Accommodation Train leaves Gala
tin nj $3.50 A. NJ, arriving at Nashville at
1885 A. NJ. Returning, leaves Nashville at
S:I5 P. NJ. and arrives at Gallatir at 6i2o Pm.
ALBERT FINK,
Gent Superintendent l.. i n. K. R.
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FOR SALE.

Id HOUSES AND LOTS IN NASHVILLE.
$50 VACANT LOTS in Nashville.
20 HOUSES AND LOTS in Edgefeld.
200 VACANT LOTS in Edgehed,
I3D FAkMSin Davidson county.
100 FARMS in Sumner, Wilson, Many,
Williamson, Giles and other counties Of Zen
nessec and other States.
10000 acres wild lands" scattered through
Tennessee, Alabama and Texas at from fifty
cents TO five dollars per acre.
Call and get a bulletin, giving full descrip-
tiUns of our property.
ARLINGTON. HARRAR & WEAKLEY,
Real Estate Brokers, No. ~ Church Il,
Oct3 dit
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Nashville and Northwestern
r A I L r O a D

I'm AND AFTER WEDNESDAY, 18TH,
~ and until further notice, PASSENHEh
TRAINS will run between Nashville and Mem
phis, Tennessee, and Hickman. kentucky
WEST.
Leave Nashville at $50 A. N, Accommodation.
Arrive Hickman at ll:30 P. N.
Leave Nashville at 3:lOP. M, Express.
Arrive Memphis at $50 A. NJ,
Arrive Hickman at 2;lO AN.
EAST.
Leave Hickman $40 A. NJ. Accommodation.
Leave Union City 40 A. NJ,
Leave Memphis $50 A. NJ,
Arrive Nashville ll:4j P. NJ,
Leave Hickman $40 P. NJ. Express.
Leave Memphis 3:l5P. NJ,
Arrive Nashville $50 4. NJ,
Making close connections at Mckenzie with
Memphis and Louisville Railway for humboldt,
Memphis, Vicksburg. New Orleans. and all
A. Union City with Mobile aud Ohio and New
Orleans and Ohio Railways FOR Paddcah, Jack
son. lem, Mobile. Ala, Cairo, st. Louis chi
cagO, and ali points South and Northwest.
At Hickman with Atlantic and Mississippi
Steamship and Memphis and St. Louis Packet
Companies irst-class steamers. for all points
on Upper and Lower Mississippi Rivers.
At Nashville with Nashville and ChattanOO-
ga, Louisville and Nashville. EdgeGeld and
Kentucky and Nashville and Decatur RAILROADS.
sO2 miles shortest route to st. Louis.
IS miles shortest route to Memphis
81 miles shortest route to New Orleans.
BaggREe checked through 40 RII IIn-
pOrtant points.
Fare as low as the lowest
Tickets for sale at the City Transfer Office.
northwest corner Cherry and Church streets,
and 1t the Nashville and Chattanooga Depot,
Nashville, Tenn.
f. W. COLE,
President N. x Z. x. X.
A. l.. Lands, Gen. Agent N. 4 n. W. r.. r.
scplGtf
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IN BANKRUPTCY.


THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY aIVE4
= notice of his appointment rs assignee l..
Bankruptcy of +. F. ArbuCkle and W. N. Pals
ley, of Rutherford county, Tennessee, who have
been declared bankrupts upon their own petI-
tiuEs. Murtreesb0ro. Tenn, Oct Il. 1868.
EDWARD L. JORDAN, Assignee.
OItl4 laWgt
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FIRST RACE-YoUNG AMERICA STAKE-fOr
two year olds, dash of mile, Subscription S2j;
play or pay. Association to add $500 Five or
more to fill. Closed with the following nOmi-
nations.
F. Bissicks. names b. f.. years old, by Uncle
Wick. dam Young Gipsey Ivy imported Mercer
Also, eh. f.. years old. by Uncle Vie dam Maid
OF Monmouth by Traveller.
Also, b. c., years old, by Bill Cheatham dan
by Lexington.
A. Keene Richards and John Kilgour names
en-. f., years old, by imp. Mickey Free dam
blonde by imp. Glencoe.
Also, b. f.. years old, by imp. Young Faro
letto, dam Glycers by imp. Sovereign.
Gen. Thomas Duncan names ch. c., > years old,
by Lexington. dam llilariot by imp. Glencoe.
Also, b. G., years old, by imp. Bonnie Scot
land, dam WOOdbine by Hamlet.
a. Barnes names VIM. T.. Barnes b. e. Deringer
2years old. by Jim Rogers. dam Sunshine. by
Engineer
Also, b. +. Mamie Douglas. years old. 10y jim
Rogers dam by Wagner.
w, X. Thomas nan eg b. c. LOuisvil years
old. by Lexington, dam Mary Newman By
james NJ. Hinton names eh G., Signal Light.
years old, BY Bill CheItham, dam Nesper
Light by Childe Harold.
+. A. Smith names b. C.. years old. by Nandal, ,
dam Magenta by MahOmet-
Gen. W. Il. Harding names b. f., Brilliant, 2
years old. by Bill Chatham. dana Gaiena. by
Childe Harold.
A. Turner names b. I. Soda. years old. hy jim
Rogers. dam by Ambassador.
A. T.. Franklin names ch. (. Luray. years old,
by Bulletin. dam Sonora Love by imp. Levia-
than.
SECOND RACE-CUIEERLAND STAKE No. l.
For three year olds. Mile heats. Subscription
so; play or pay. Association 70 add 500.
Three or more to fill.
J. ". Grigsby names Minnie Milton, years old,
by Lexington. dam Miss Morgan by York
Theodore Alcock names Oh f. s years Old, by
John Morgan dam by ChOriSter
Gen. a. ButOrd names br. c. Grassland. years
old, by Lexington, dam, pedigree unknown.
A. keene' Richards AZ John KilgOur name b.
t. Bette Boy, 8 years Old, by imp. Australian,
dam Bette Ward by Lexington.
A. heene Richards names b. {. Kitty Free
years old. by imp. Mickey Free dam Brown
Kitty by birmingham.
Z. A. Smith names Queen OF the West, years
DID, by Bonnie Scotland dam Alamode.
T. Bissisks names b. 9. Hazard, 3 years old, By
Lexington, dam Heads Say by Glencoe.
" williamson i Patterson name ch. c. Wisen-
hunt, years old, by Sherrod, dam by John
Hunter.
THIRD RACE-AssOCIATs) PURSE 500
Dash of mile and quarter.
Second Day-Ecdnes,Iay, October FL
FIRST RACE-CoNNERCgA PosT STAKE
For all ages. Two mile heats. Subscription
$50; play or pay. Association to add $1,000
Five or more to FIJI. Entrance money go to se-
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Southern Music Store,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
NO. 33 UNION STREET.

JAMES A. MCCLURE WISHES To An
81 nOunee to his tennessee friends aud tia
general public. that his stock Of Pianos is now
complete. Steinway, knabs, DunhaIl. Weber.
kraushaar, Haines Bros. and A. n. Gale a
Co. are fully represented in his stock, and are
sold at New Y Ork prices, thereby saving freight
and charges to the purchaser.
II IL also Sole Agent for the eeiebratrh Bar
dett Organ. regarded BY the profession -
be the best reed instrument nov made, posses
ing the late improvements in stops. viz. Har-
monte, Celeste" and FOr HiimaHa, that are
projections of mechanical genius Churches
Sabbath Schools, Lodges and Seminaries ars
furnished at very low rates. Circulars and price
lists will be forwarded on application.
I'm sheet Music, (for many years a sps-
eiality in his sstablishBent,l be can offer great
inducements TO the Trade, Schools aad ANA
tours. His stock is the largest and most select
in the South. and will be ways supplied With
the NEW EST and BEST productions Of home
and foreign composers.
In EiOilas. Guitars, Flutes, italian
and other Strings, for all instruments, to-
gether with 4 fine collection Of small Musical
Goods, he dehes competition.
p. S.-Pianos. Organs and other instruments
tuned and repaired by 6rst-elass wOrkmen.
Mr.. D. s. Curls is now with this house. and
will be glad to see his friends.
iy31 lV
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PLANTERS BANK NOTFs

IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN ACT or FHk
4 General Assembly Of the State d Tennessee
approved December Y. lSsS, sntitlo! an act rs
expedite the dis:li0utI'u 81 sns elects Of Banks
Whlcs cave or u-ss LAT aassgnmeuts amOn8
their creditor notice IS hereby given to the
: ldeTa Of the notes Of the Planters Bank u
TenL su0Ss 81 -ssnt them % the undersigned
At tho nank ia NashvilieIur payment between
now and che 6rsl day oil January, lsCg OF they
will be forever barred.
d. WKAVKR Trustee
iV21 ikatiIjanl 90.