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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08
CARPET RAGS.
A leading articles locomotive
The rest of the week-Sunday.

Inc rest OF the Week-Sunday.
How to prevent milk turning
into cream-buy it of a city milk
man.
''Oh, for q thousand tongues ~
said the lad when he crawled into a
molasses barrel.
The last sensation novel is, we
hear, to be entitled "The Poisoned
Gum Drop, or the Candy WomaR's
Revenge"
A Connecticut man has named O
prize rooster Robinson, because
Robinson Crusoe.
A Cleveland coroner has adopted
as q badge miniature kerosene
can. .
The Cleveland Leader says that q
musician who tried to blow a brass
horn, on recent cold day, will not
be able to let go until navigation
opens.
Among the indirect losses which
John Bull is called upon to settle is
the failure to smother George Fran.
els Train in the tower of London.
High and dry-many of the public
lecturers.
The last remark made by a man
while separating under the infiu-
ence of nitro-glycerine was, "Let
me collect myself"
The DanbUry News tells of q big
man who lately visited that town
whose shadow was nearly two inch
es thick.
A Welsh farmer, residing near
Utica, while being run away with
by pair of frightened horses,
shouted, 81 leave my wife $4,000;
no time to make q will" He is
still alive, but badly bruised.
Eli Perkins says that Albany was
named after the Albany Evening
Journal. "Mr. Weed" he says,
started the journal there q great
many years before a house was
built, and people came and settled
near by, SO as to be where they
could read the newspaper"
Josh Billings says that the differ
ence between blunder and a mis-
take is this: When q man puts
down bad umbrella and takes up
a good one, he makes a mistake;
but when he puts down a good one
and takes up bad one, he makes a
blunder.
Martha, my DEAR" said a loving
husband to his spouse, who was
several years his Junior, "what do
you say to moving to the far West 2"
"Oh, I'm delighted with the idea!
You recollect when Mr.. Morgan
moved out there he was as poor as
we are and in three years he died,
leaving his widow worth q hun
dred thousand dollars
"Do You allow any reduction to
ministers ?" said a young lady TO a
salesman in a well-known sewing
machine agency on Washington
street, Boston, the other day, where
she had been trying to drive bar
gain. "Oh, yes, always. Are you
a minister's wife ?" .fOh, no, 7 am
not married" said the lady, blush
ing. Daughter, then ?" "No."
The salesman looked puzzled. 81
am engaged to a theological stu
dent" The reduction was made.
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GOING WEST.
BY II. II. HoAGER.

Since Adams time mans discomfort
Has forced him DER this mundane sphere
Till he on rambling steady bent
Has scanned the world both far and nesr;
Not yet eentent he thinks 1t best
As bills come in and stamps decrease
To go little farther west,
Where zephyrs can't make such = breeze,
Where creditors wont make such row,
And Italy's soft breezes fan
The gentle brow, that don't know how :
To sweat for any man.
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"CHEEK1-ScESE A RAILWAY CAR
RIAGE.-Cemmercial gent Ito swell
who was smoking fragrant Hs-
vana). Would you oblige ne by
changing into another car, or put
ting ont your cigar pro tenn z"
Swell (nonchalantly), 20, certain-
~" Throws his cigar out of the
Window.l
Commercial gent-lcomplaeeEtly
producing and filing his meer.
schaum). s.Sorry to trouble you, bal
I never can enjoy my pipe when
there's . bad weed a-gcin
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TERRIBLE FIGHT BETWEEN BOYS.

For week or two past the boys
of the rival villages BeIlaire, on the
Ohio side of the river, and Ben.
wood, on the West Virginia side,
have been engaged In fighting.
Whenever Beliaire boy was found
on this side of the river he was I'm.
mereifull beaten, and when a Ben.
wood boy was discovered in Bel.
laire the logging was repaid with
interest. Not longer than last Sat.
urday week the boys of the two
places met on the ice, and engaged
In regular pitch battle, using
stones and even pistols. Some oi
the eombatants are now in the Mar.
shall County Jail, awaiting trial
fer riot On Saturday last q vast
number of boys, about one humid.
red and fifty on each side, met on
the ice by appointment it would
seem, and engaged in q most terriE.
lie fight. Every conceivable missile
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08
ANOTHER CITY HEARD PROM-HOW
READING WAS MADE, AND WHAT 1T
DOING.
WEST READING, LYON Cost
KAs, Mich. z. 1872. {

DEAR NEWS: AS this portion of
our county has not had an airing in
the public prints for a couple of
years, l thought it might not be
amiss to let the readers of the News
know what progress is being made.
During the past year there has
been -
A NEW TOWN SHIP
organized here, formed out of
the south part of Waterloo and
the north part of Jackson, taking in
the old TOWNSHIP of Waterloo and
the Post Office of that nIme. This
new township is called Reading.
1t contains 6S square mites, nearly
one half of which f3l F aare miles)
was until quite recently on an Indi-
an Reserve, and upoG which the
white people were not allowed to
settle.
WHEN IT WAS FINALLY SOLD
by the government for the benefit
of the Indians it mostly fell into
the hands of one man or company
who held it at prices above the
views of settlers and so it mostly
lay vacant until the A. I. & S. Fe-
r. r was bailt about two years ago.
Since then most of of the desirable
locations, those having timber and
water on, have been purchased and
occupied by an industrious and thrift
ty class of citizcne, many of whom
have but up good substantial bnild-
ings. Large tracts of land are being
fenced and put under cultivation.
THE VILLAGE OF READING
is situated on the A. T. =. Fc. r. r.
at a point where that road enters
our county. There is depot there,
and there is established the voting
precinct of our new township of
Reading.
Elm creek and l42 creek form a
junction about three miles north of
Reading depot, and two miles fur
ther down Duck creek comes in,
thus forming what is called the
Maries des Cygnes. This stream
passes out of Lyon county about
about one mile north of Reading
depot. The north eastern part OF
GU township it well watered and well
timberd and has a goodly portion of
fine bottom lands. Along those
streams there is every
INDICATION OF COAL.
In fact some small veins have
been discovered, number of loads
of coal have been dug by individ-
uals in this vicinity. i am of the
opinion that we have just as good
coal in this vicinity as they have a
short distance east of us in Usage
county. 1t may lie little deeper,
but nevertheless we expect to find
it some Of these days. Q
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08

The Hon. S. S. Cox sometimes
enlivens his political discourses
with passages of rare learning. In
his recent speech on the Syndicate
he uses with effect a quotation from
Sir John Vaudeville, which few-if
any-persOns have ever read: IA
satisfactory account of this great
nondescript is given by Sir John
Vaudeville in his famous travels in
Cathas. While passing many coun-
trees, both by land and sea, cherch-
ed on the Chinese wall a strange
animal of the lizard kind. He was
known in-anciente books as q cham
eleon. When the sun did shine he
took various colors; sometimes it
wore a golden hue, and sometimes
had green back. Laughter.l /
caught him by means of steele
mirror, which SO bedazzlcd his eyne
that he was easily caught. bring
him home as strange beaste. 1t is
called by the natives q scindcat.'
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ERoN CHASE CatSFY.
An Old Ssttler-Kaasas-The Herd
Law, &c.
CorToSwooD FAIRS, KAN,
A.. GA


| CoTToNwooD FAILS, KAN,
Mar. Z, 1ST2.f
EDIToR News: / have been q
resident of Kansas since 1856.
have seen as much as any one of the
hardships and privatioHs endured
by many who have settled as / did,
but when consult the history OF
pioneer settlers in the older States,
1 find it far worse than anything re-
corded of Kansas. There Is moth
ing, after all, so easy 10 break and
cultivate as
OUR FERTILE PRAiRiKs.
1 find people who happen to leave
and go east, most universally return
again, and settle down for sod.
People once settled in Kansas are
more satisfied than any where else.
1 have known some to go by wagon
clear to Oregon, but they came back
to stay here, as their choice of all
the States. I feel like saying TO the
homeless,
COME TO KANSAS.
TIE think here that the present
Legislature has been the most use
less and expensive one that has dis
graced the State since 1856. It
started out extravagantly, and has
kept it up. When the people can
hardly pay their taxes, it raises the
salaries of officers. l noticed one
proposition to pay large sum for
portraits of murderers, to be hung
up in the hall at the capitol. Ihope
it was defeated. And as to
THAT HERD LAW,
its worse than the Lecompton con-
stitution or the border ruffian reso-
lutions. Take the section that re-
lates to a brute "about to trespass."
Its only nischievous. Many of US
can't even turn our cattle out of
corrals without such trespassing.
w here shall we herd on the public
domain? Arc we to pen up our
cattle in this great grazing country,
and leave our gardens without q
fence? 1t takes more land to sum-
mer than to winter a brute. That
law will be a stencil in the nostrils
of those who passed it, until next
year, when it will be repealed.
W. NJ. S.
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HOT HOUSE PLANTS.

which / will take up 1t any time during
the spring and start them again in first
class condition anywhere, at prices so low
that all can well afford to indulge in
choice Collection OF these beautiful pro-
ductionS.
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10000 BULBS,

hyacinths, tulips, etc. Also the largest
and finest stock west of the MISSISSIPPI ri
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The SUMS first duty on rising

The suns hrst duty on rising
To strike light.
A wicked fellow was desperate
" sick, and lying at deaths door,
when he was called upon by a
minister, who urged, in view of
his probable early departure from
the shores of time, to "wrestie with
the Lord" The sick man looked
at his emaciated limbs and I'M
strung muscles, and said: do I
look like wrestling with the Lord
Why, he would trip me into hell
the first pass.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08
Oldest and Most Reliable.
P. G. HALLBERG'S
SPRING of 1R7 =!

Having Cor some years made specially
of builds and hot house plants, have now
on hand, and for sale At very moderate
figures, over
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08

We invite all our old friends to call and
examine our goods. We feel confident
that our prices will compare with the
lowest. Our determination is to merit q
q fair share Of patronage by sIrict stten-
ton to business and right treatment of
customers.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08

A RCHIrECr and BUILDER, Is prepared
IA 70 furnish plans and specifications for all
Kinds of mechanical structures. is prepared
TO do carpenter and joiner work, either By
tb0day or contract. shop on the corner OF
Sixth avenue ana Constitution street.
IanITQIf
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J. 3. CLEvELAND's

OENTRAL LIVERY, FEED AND SALE
~ STA BILE, on 6th Avenue, between Com
nlorciAl and Mechanics Street, Is now open ~
and ready for business, and will furnish teams
~ any time during the day or night. Pas
ssngers conveyed TO any part u the country
on liberal terms. Particular attention pAiu to
boarding transient stock. jHniT2tf
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TEMPERANCE.

EMPoRIA DIVISION No. 20. Sons q
Ia Daughters Of Temperance. NICE 10 ..
o'clock. Mem osrs in good standing are inVit-
cd to attend.
MOUNTAIN LODGE, I. o. G. T.. NJ lAo
u Meets every Wedne day evening In ESk-
ridge Hall TX O'Clock. All members oil
the order Ia good standing are invited TO at
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Advertisements calculated by the inch, in
lcagth of column. For cuts and double col
umn display, add . per cent. to above table
OF rates. An legal and transient advertising
10 be paid for in advance, except when order
cd by our regular patrons Our rates are
Eerg Lolo in proportion 10 our circulation, and
must be strictly adhered to.
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H. A. CHAMPLIN. B.F. HUGH

CTONE CUTTERS AND CONTRACTORS.
= We are prepared TO do alRkinds OF stone
outting, such m window sills, circular caps
OF any design, 1oor ellis, columns, mouldlngs,
and all work In theytone cutting line that
builders may desire. They also furnish bases
and sockets for tombstones. Orders promptly
nlled Shop on the corner of Fourth Avenue
and Constitution Street, EmPoria, kansss.
lanl12tI
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Onn FELLOWs.

"NIoN LODGE No. IS. Meets ut Odd Eel
" ows' Hall, over Emporia Bank, ever
Tuesday evening ut 8 O'Clock. Members Il
good standing ip vited to attend.
A. s. TAHDY, n. q.
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ROBINSON HOUSE,
LIVERY STABLES.

j. II. DAVIS,
v livery, FEED AND SALE STABLE, on
Fourth avenue between ommercial and
Mechanics street, Is now prepared to let
livery teams, carriages, sleighs and saddle
horses, at living prices. Good care taken In
boarding transient stock. Also good wagon
ward ianltf
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EGoods delivered anywhere IN The
city promptly and free Of charge. JanItf
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EMPoRIA SOCIETIES.
= MASONIC.

MASONIC.
T1MPORIA LODGE, No. II, A. +. q A. N.
~ Meets At their hall. Ruggles Plumb's
building. on the Thursday Ofor next proceed
ing the full moon OF each month, and every
two weeks thereafter. Master Masons in
good standing arc cordially invited 70 attend.
NoYEs SPfC1R. w. NJ.
Z. T. KKRSs, Secretary
TMPORIA CHAPTER, r. A. n. Meets Al
IL Masonic Hall, on the LIST apd Sd Friday
evenings OF each month, ut TX o'clock. Com
panions In good landing are cordially mytt-
cd TO attend l.. d. JACOBS, II. p
n. II. BATES, Secretary.
TEOSHO VALLEY LODGE, No. Is, 4. r
IN & A. Y. n. Meets first Tuesday evening
In every month, at Eskridge Hall All HA.
sons In good standing arc invited to attend.
w. X. CARSON, w. d.
CIR ALEXANDER Sec'ty iana6- "
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BARBER SHOP,
MN. UUEsrTS.

WIN. HUEsTIS,
TNfRST-CLAS3 SHAVING, HAIR CUT
E TING, etc, in Williams building. cor
nor Commercial street and sixth averne En-
trance both streets. JanlyI3-1y
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HOTELS.
MADISON HOUSE.

ENLFTH AVENUE, Emporia, Kansas, neaa
IL corner OF Commercial Street. Birdsal
. rang, prOprietOrs jAnlI21
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At the "Grand HOTEL" Paris, the
other night a lady, rather excited,
rushed down to the Counting
house." and asked hurrledly of one
of those small tight clad boys,
''Have yon the small pox in the
house? % and the boy, who perfect
ly understands English" replied
'fNo; but we expect it every min
ute, and when it arrives I will send
it up to the chamber of Madame !"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08

ready for market ut low prices and salts
faction guaranteed. Select from the laTg-
est stock and patronize the oldest and
best nursery. Come and sec
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MADI5ON HOUbEs
CIXTH AVENUE east OF Commercial street.
- Il. j. HASkLA, Proprietor. Furnishes
nTst-class accommodations ut most reasOnA-
BILE prices. Stages leave daily for all points
southwest and south OF kmporia. jsn1I2n
ROBINSON HOUSE,
= N. ROBINSON & SON, Proprietors.
IL Corner of Merchants street and Sixth
Avenue. This house has been reftted and
furnished throughout, and is now open to the
public. Stages leave daily and connect with
all Eastern Railroads. janlT2tf
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08
$4,000 FRUIT TREES. .

I2,OOO FRUIT TREES,
5000 GRAPE VINES,
$4,000 STRAWBERRY PLANTS.
10000 ASPARAGUS PLANTS.
$4,000 RHUBARB PLANTS,
10000 BLACLBERRES and
RASPBERRIES,
1000 EVERGREEN and
ORNAMENTAL TREES.
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The man who can't afford pa
per. generally affords tobacco. etc.
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JEWELER.

T. NJ. FRY.
DEALHR IN CLOCKS, WATCHES AND
IL JEwELkY, corner room, Bancroft
block. Commercial street. Repairing done o.
short notice and In u satisfactory style.
JAnlT3It
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BUILDERS. ARcHITEcTs. As.
LAMBS MEANS,

Z. r SPhAUUEB
CARPENTER AND BUILDER. Shop on
. TIN Avenue, between commercial and
street. All calls promptly attend
~ IN inuI72 II
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CHARLES WHEE LOCK.

TONTRACToR for stone work and plAst
~ ing Is ready ~ furnish materials. Worl
done promptly and satisfaction given. Res
iderce No. AZ I mon street, EmPorIa, Kansas
fahN
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Having closed out all my dry goods slack
/ have filled my store with
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Formerly 1as Commercial st.
WHoLEsALE d RETAIL
GROCERS

Recently removed and re-opened, In adj
dttton TO their old, an entirely new stock
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L. ID. JACOBS, N. D.,
NFFICE in NEWS Block, up stairs.
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The EmpOria Nursery and Garden. "

Send in your orders now. Terms liber-
al. Send for catalogue free.
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j. j. WRIGHT, N. D.,
NFFICE over Emporia Bank. Residences
" on West street. janiT3tf
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HOMEOPATHIC Physician. once in
III BAncroft's Block. residence on Neosho
AIlI, west OF Sormal school. Jnn172tf
MRS. DIR. f. NJ. VAIL,
"YGENIC AND HOMEOPATHIC PHY-
II 81. Ian. once at her residence on Me-
os.IO hill. ieb2i
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PAINTERS.

VS. nKNscH N. O. JONES.
PAINTERS. House, Sign and Carriage
Shop oar sixth avenue, between Mechanics
and Market streets. Emporia, Kansas.
Janl .2f
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j. A. MOORE, n. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. ONCE ut
L the Drug Store Of Moore 4 Weaver.
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physician AND SURGEON, Emporia,
u kAnsAs ONCE corner OF Commercial
street and sixth avenue, over Riggs, Dunlap
4 COS bank. kesIaence corner OF seventh
avenue and Merchant street. AL cAlls in his
profession prong lily attended TO. JanI7lu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-26
"GOING TO DO ABOUT IT.D

II seems to us that The Alta California, a
San Francisco newspaper, must have an ex-
traOrdinary idea of the average personal indie
pendence of the voters of this Republic. 1t
propounds the startling interrogatory: "To
"what will the disgust of Dlr. Carl Schurz at
"the nomination OF Mr.. Greeley lead ~ AS
" the disgust" is not great enough to prevent
Mr.. SchuTz from supporting Mr.. Greeley, it
will not probably lead to anything except
idiOtic cOnjectures in Gen. Grants newspapers,
with an occasional lit of impudence like that
of this Alta when it says: 1--WE have no
"idea that Carl Schuz will vote for Mr..
Greeley !" as if the Senator intended to talk
one way and vote aDother-an eccentricity in
which he has not been in the habit of indulg-
ing. But the GROWING impertinence is in
these queries: "And if Schurz will not vote
"for Greeley, what are Germans going to do
"about itf And if Mr.. Bryant will not sup
sport him, what are the Free Traders going
"to do about itH And if The World will not
Support him, what is that large class of
Democrats that think with The World going
"to dofn
To these questions we ask permission TO APP
pend two or three of our own:
1. Does Mr.. Carl Schurz carry the whole Ger
man vote in his pocket He is too wise to
say so, even if he thought 80; but he is too
wise even to think so. Here is sweet state
of things indeed, if every German, before max
ing up his mind how he will vote, must wait
until he receives his directions from Mr.. Carl
Schurz, or any other gentleman however dis
tinguished! That Mr.. Sbhurz exercises great
proper and legitimate influence over his COM
patriots in the United States, nobody doubts
but that he claims TO be their Political Direc-
tor, We have yet 10 learn. The men who are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-26
FRAMING ABUSES.

Shall we ever come to the end OF the grow
cling frauds of this Administration Nothing
seems too large to be attempted, nothing Is
small enough TO escape their acquisitive fin
gers. A correspondent in Chicago has sent us
an envelope franked by John Delano, Chief
Clerk of the Department of the Interior, in
which was inclosed a voucher from Dir. ID. Z.
Cox, o pension agent in Washington. We
learn that Mr.. Delano is in the habit of using
his official frank in this way Now MIR. Cox
receives fee of 30 cents for each one of these
vouchers, which is fixed by law for the purpose OF
covering the expense of stationery and post
age but he finds it thriftier TO carry these
letters to the Chief Clerk of the Interior De-
partment, who degrades bis Office and violates
the law at three cents time. The franking
privilege is given TO Mr.. Delano purely for
the public business. 1t would not strictly
cover even his own private correspondence.
But he finds no difficulty whatever in saving
a few dollars for friend by sending his
vouchers over the country free of cost.
There has been some criticism in unfriendly
quarters in regard to the action of the Hon.
Robert b. Roosevelt in franlking political
documents, and it is said that a quantity OF
such franked matteris now lying in the New
York Post Office detained by tho Postmaster.
We understand that Mr. Roosevelt has only
used his frank in the way in which
he was entitled by law to use it,
and very much within the precedents set by
Administration members of Congress. Never
theless, we hail with pleasure the indications
on the part of the Postmaster of stricter
construction Of the law in these matters, and
should be glad to see him stop every franked
package that is placed in his POst-0lfice, when
he can find any warrant for doing so. Only
let him keep both his eyes open and not
be vigiant toward Liberal Congressman, and
drowsy when the carloads of COnklng- Murphy
matter pass through his hands. Let his justice
be even, and the sharper it is the better
pleased we shall be. This is great deal to
expect from a Grant Postmaster, but we hope
it is not too much to ask from Gen. Jones.