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Oiling the Harness.

In these times of poor leather we
should clean and oil the harness at least
once year, to keep it in good condition
and to reduce the wear and tear as much
as possible. Don't let the job out to
the harness maker, but some of these
stormy days when the harness is not in
use Just take it into the workshop and
commence operations. Take the har-
ness all apart, and scrape off all scurf,
hairs, and dirt, and wash the leather
clean with soap and hot water. Then
heat two or three quarts of neatsfoot
oil in a long, shallow pan, and draw
each piece of leather through it slowly,
bending the leather backward and for
ward and rubbing the oil in with cloth
or sopnge. Hang near the fire to dry,
and repeat the process until the leather
is saturated with oil mix little lamp
black with clean tallOw, and with a
cloth rub it into the leather while
warm, until the pores are filled and the
surface becomes smooth and glossy. If
a harness is oiled in this way it is never
gummy, and will therefore keep clean a
long time. Sometimes hpseed oil or
adulterated oils are used, but they dry
on the leather and make it gummy, dirt
and hair stick to it, and the harness
gets so filthy as to soil everything it
touches. After the harness has had a
good oiling, an occasional rubbing with
tallow and lampblack will keep the
leather tough and pliable, and prevent
it from breaking.
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Rheumatism

A correspondent in the English Me-
chanic gives the following remedy for
curing rheumatic govt, of which he had
long been a sufferer. He insulated his
bedstead from the door, by placing I'M
derneath each post broken-off bottom
of glass bot lie. He says the effect
was magical, that he had not been free
from rheumatic govt for fifteen years,
and that he began to improve immedi-
ately after the application of the insul-
ators. We are reminded, by this para
graph from our English contemporary,
of patent obtained through this office
for physician some twelve or more
years ago, which created considerable
interest at the time. The patent con-
sisted in placing glass cups under the
bedposts in a similar manner to the
above. The patentee claimed to have
effected some remarkable cures by the
use of his glass insulators, but we have
not heard from him for some time. We
cannot vouch for any merit in the idea,
but it is one easily tried f; and as no
harm can arise from the experiment, We
hope some one will test it and give us
the result of his experience.-Scie,atifc
american.
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Josh Billings on "Dispepshe.

DEAR BARKER:-I hav been a prakti-
kal dispeptik for 81 years and four
months, and it would hav been mummy
in mi pocket if had been born without
enney slummuck.
/ hav prayed upward of one thousand
times to be on the inside like an oss-
trich, or a travelling colporter.
hav seen travelling colporters who
could eat az mulch az goose.
1 hav seen a goose eat till they
couldn't stand up emmy more, and then
set down and eat sum, and then lay
down and eat sum, and then roll over
and eat sum more.
1 hav tried living on filtered water,
and going barefoot for the dispepshy,
and that didn't hit the spot.
hav soaked at water-cure establish
ments until waz so timber that i
kouldn't git myself bak agin inside ov
mi Baldwin apparel.
bought saddle-hoss once, who was
got up expressly to kure the dispepshy
he waz warranted to kure the disseaze
in 80 days, or kill the horse.
He waz warranted to trot harder than
trip hammer, pull wusser on the bits,
stumble safer down hill than emmy
/ rode the boss until waz all ov a
Jelly, and then sold him bride and all
for sixty-eight dollars and got sued by
dollars and sum 'ents damage. bekauze
the boss had the "Nimshys," diseaze
knu nothing about.
The boss and fxings kost me 45O dol
lars gold.
kontrakted for eleven kords ov hik-
DRY wood, kross grained, and az phuH
of wrinkles as an old cows horn, and
sawed away 3 months on it, and the pile
seemed to grow bigger every day.
finally gave away the saw, and what
wood thare waz left, to save mi lite,
and sat down discouraged, a square
victim to the everlasting dispepshe.
I hav lived at the sea side, and gam
boiled in the saline food, until waz az
we'll picked az a number one salt
makrel.
hav dwelt at Saratoga, and taken
the water like a mill race, and still had
the dispepshe.
hav walked 2 miles before breakfast,
and then EFT a slice ov dri toast, and
half the yeIk ov pullet's eg, and felt
az weak az kitten that had just come
out ov fit.
hav laid down more than 2 thou
sand times, and rooled over once a
minitt all night long, and got up in the
morning like korpse, and thare DIDN'T
nothing seem to all me emmy where in
partiklar.
1 hav red whole libarys on the stun
muk and liver, and when igOt thru
KIM great deal less what was the mat
ter ov me than when begun.
/ hav drank whiskee with roots in it
enuff to carry off emmy bridge or saw
mill dam in the country.
hav worked on farm for mi vittles
and board, and dieted on fride pork
and ri bred until was az thin az the
sermon ov Z day baptiss preacher.
hav dun all theze things and 10
thousand other things just az ridikilus,
and hav got the old dispepshe yet,
Just az natral and as thik az the PIN
pies on four year old goose.
If yu git good holt ov the dyspep-
she once yu kant never looze it en-
tirely; it will cum around once in n
while like ghost, and if it don't skare
yu so mulch az it did once, and make
yu think yu are going to die tomorrow,
it will make yu feel just az sorry.
Yures. JOSH BILLINGS.
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ASPIRATIONS.

Are there not aspirations in each heart
After better, brighter world than this?
Longings for beings nObler in each part,
Things more exalted. STEPPED in deeper bliss
Who gave us these7 What are they? Soul, in thee
The bud is budding now for Immortality.
Death comes to bear me where long to be:
One pang, and bright blooms the immortal flower;
Death comes to lead me from mortality
To lands which know not one unhappy hour.
have hope, faith from sorrow here
I'm led by Death away. Why should I start and
fear?
If have loved the forest and the field.
Can not love them deeper, better, there
II all that power hath made me doth yield
Something of good and beauty, something fair,
Freed from the grOssness of mortality,
May not love them all, and better all enjoy?
change from woe to joy, from Earth to Heaven
Death gives me this; IL leads me calmly where
The souls that long ago from mine riven
May meet again. Death answers many prayer.
Bright day, shine on be glad days brlRhter far
Are stretched before my eyes than those OF mortals
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THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF AN
MIN KV1H7

Mrs winslows Soothing So rup is the prescrip-
tion of of the best female physicians and nurses
in the United States and has been used for thirty
years with never failing safety and success by mil
lions of mothers and children. from the feeble in
FAINT of one week old to the adult. 1t corrects acid
ity of the stomach relieves wind collie, regulates
the bowels, and gives rest, health and comfort to
mother and child We believe it to be the best and
surest remedy in the world in all cases of dysen-
terry and diarrhoea in children, whether 1t arises
from teething or from any other cause. Full di.
rections for using will accompany each bottle
None genuine unless the fac-simile of CURTIS &
PERKINS is on the outside wrapper.
Sold by all medicine dealers.
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SIX MILLIONS. two years ago,
DR.. J. Walker, an old and prominent
physician of California, discovered, by
actual experience upon his own system,
a medicine which may honestly be term
ed { a boon to suffering humanity Be-
ing a combination of herbalistic ex-
tracts, pungent and sour to the taste,
and yet possessed of gentle stimulative
aIacteristics- although entirely free
from alcoholic named it Vinegar Bit
tiers, and despite the prejudice existing
among his profession, against II paten-
ted medicines, he determined to brave
the jeers of his brother practitioners,
and give to suffering humanity the ben
eft of his accidental discovery. He did
so, and the benefits from its use became
known. The demand increased, and
immense quantities were sold, at a
merely nominal price. Its merit is told
in the fact that . in two years over six
millions of bottles have been sold ; and
still the demand increases. Surely,
such man should he ranked among the
benefactors of the human race.
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seen in company with Gen. Bonaparte
-ould Napoleon himself"
/ now began to comprehend the state
of the case. The denizens of the hum
BILE village of B lllyvaughan evidently
had lost sight of the historical facts of
the list half century, and from the reg
ular nd heavy firing supposed that the
formidable Bonaparte was landing his
army, with the idea OF freeing Ireland
from English rule. The words of the
old song:
The French are ON the say,
Says the Shan Van Vocht,
The French are on the say,
They'll be here without delay,
And the Orange will delay,
Says the Shan Van Vocht,
were still fresh in our minds.
After long address I succeeded in
reassuring Mihaul's female relatives
that Napoleon was not landing on the
coast, but was dead and buried in St.
Helena. His appearance raised the
siege in the other cabins, and we had
soon a strong force on hand. The ship
proved to be one of her majesty's gun
boats, and although she went to pi ces
in few hours, the men were all rescued,
without the loss of single life. The
joke of the landing of Bonaparte is still
told with gusto at the dinner of many a
gentl man on the west coast of Glare.
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MANY persons say that thew have tried

MANY persons say that they have tried
almost every remedy that has been re-
commended for hnmors, and they are
no better now than when they COM
menced them, and they have no conf
dence in anything that is advertised to
cure salt rheum, erysipelas, and all
similar humors. We would say to these
that there is now remedy that as yet
has never failed of curing those diseases.
1t acts upon an entirely different princi-
pie from anything ever offered for them;
it throws humor out of the blood
channel through which the system can
be entirely freed from them. If You
will try it, you will not say of this as
you have by the others, for it will cure
you. We refer to DIR. Weaver's Salt
Rheum Syrup. For sale by all drug
nists
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-13

Every person who has ever met
commercial tourist, with his little
satchel. will a opreciate the following
"The drummers came down like wolves
on the fold, their toes were I'll frosted,
their noses all cold. Their weather
peeled bugles soon shone through the
town, they gobbled the money and
sailed it down, then took few orders
and lit out of here, with their heads
full of business and skins full of beer. "
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How John BrOugham Cried Quarter.

A good story is told of John Broug-
ham, who was once in the first rehearsal
of a new piece, where the actors were
reading their parts from a somewhat ILL
written manuscript. John, when his
part came round, somewhat surprised
his brother actors by shouting at the
wrongful heir" in the piece, "Anl
thou bad quarter ?"
Whats that ?" interrupted the stage
manager.
$50 set down in my part" replied
the comedian, referring to his manu-
script.
mo such thing-Inever wrote that, !"
said the irate author, who was present.
1T makes arrant nonsense of the speech.
Bad quarter, indeed"
"See for yourself, said the actor,
handing the manuscript to the author.
"This, why" said the literary man,
adjusting his eyeglasses, this reads,
thou base counterfeit. >"
"Ah is that it ?" said the comedisn.
with a sly twinkle of the eye. "Well,
the terms are Synonymous. A bad
quarter is q base counterfeit.
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NEW ORLEANS.

FIour-Treble extra, $7.OO@8.CO; family
$8.5O@9.5O. Corn-White, 73@99c; yellow,
CSC. Oats frmer; SEC. Bran, $1.05. Hay
Prime, $1,000; choice scarce at $24 90. Mess
pork dull; $1625. Shoulders, SIC; clear
rib sides, 95sc; clear sides, 1OAc; hams. 12c
@61(c; fair to fully fair, 619@7s4c; prime to
choice, S083lc. Whisky quiet. Louisiana. 99c !;
Cincinnati, $1.03. Coffee quiet; 24@29c.
Corn meal So %.
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NASHVILLE.

Cotton is steady, with moderate demand,
at 12s4@123sc. Flour is quiet, 1T $6 50@S.7 IS.
Wheat is quiet and unchanged, at $1.35O1S5
Corn is quiet and unchanged. Oats are quiet
and unchanged. Coffee-Demand good at
full prices, 29@3216c. Provisions Demand
good at full prices. Lard, 1Oc. Bulk meats
Shoulders, &c; clear rib sides, csc; clear
sides, &c. Shoulders, 794c. Hams
sugar-cured, new, 1910. Whisky
good at full prices, 81.
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How TO BIND THE Widest HORSE
FOR SHoEING AND THE Widest Cow
FOR MILKING. The way to do it is sim.
ply this Put around them just back
of the fore legs, a strong rope or chain
into this twist stick, so that at every
turn the rope will be drawn tighter,
until the animal will submit to being
handled at your pleasure. The most
unmanageable animals can be subdued
in few minutes in this manner.
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ST. LOUIS.

Wheat-No. 2 spring, $1.2501. 2519; No. 8
red winter, $1.48. Corn-No. 2 mixed, 81 &c
Oats, 45@46. Mess pork, $15.00@15.25 Bacon
firm. Jobbing and order lots of shoulders,
72S@71kc; clear rib sides, $1,000 clear sides,
6I@95s. Hogs finer. Shipping lots, 81, 80
$5.6O@570. Cattle-Good to choice native
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Ministers and Public Speakers

Who are so often af1icted with throat diseases
will hnd a sure remeuy In this Balsam. Lozenges
and waters some lines give relief but this Bal
sam, taken few times, VIII insure q permanent
cure.
VIII all those afiicted with coughs or consump-
ton give this Balsam q fair trial; they will be
pleased with the result and confess that the SURF
REMEDY Is FOUND AT LAST.
READ THE FOLLOWING
What the St. Louis Journal has to say:
READ AND REFLECT-Tos such may desire
remedy for this curse of humanity, consumption
Aliens Lug Baisam gives the anchor Of hope.
Allen Lung RalsRm has been tried by thou
sands, who give evidence, not only by writing tes
timonials that they have been cured, but by their
physical appearance.
The Recommendations this valuable remedy has
received from those who know the good Ii has
done for them place Aliens Lung Balsam in the
front rank of the healing and Mfe-restoring RENE
dies Of this century.
CAUTION.
Do net be deceived. Call for and be sure you Te-
ceive Aliens Lung Ralsam-try experiment
with worthless remedies.
J.. HARRIS 8 CO, Pr0prietors,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
For sale by all southern druggists and genera
dealer"
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LOUISVILLE.

Flour superfne, $3.50; extra, $5.25; fam
lily, $3.50 Mess pork, si5 26@l6.59, B Sg1
clear sides, S1l@S1Sc, loose. Bacon-Shoul-
ders, TIC; clear rib sides, 9@91s clear sides,
9I@9$Sc, packed; sugar-cured hams, 1214@
121Sc. Lard, 915@634c, in tierces /; 1014 @1019
in kegs Whisky 94Ac
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Room FOR MORE SHEEP.-Statistics
show that there were in 1871 about
1000 600 sheep in the United States,
yielding an average of four pounds of
wool each, or 13S, 900, 900 pounds in the
aggregate. In addition the annual i'm
pOrtatiOn of wool amounts to about
$1,000, 900 pounds at cost of nearly
SlO,OOO,OOO. Then we import wooden
goods to the amount of nearly S44, OOO,-
600 per annum. There is room, there
fore, for an increase of 1900, 600 more
sheep in this country to supply the
home demand for wool. and for about
Il, co., 900 to displace the importation
Of wooden goods.
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A COUGH, COLD OR SORE THROAT
BROWNS Requires immediate attention, and
BRONCHIAL should be checked. If allowed to
TRoCHES continue. IRRITATION OF THE
FOR LUNGS, A PERMANENT THROAT
OoOon0 AFFECTION, OR AN INcURABLE
AND
COLDS. lLUNa DISEASE is often the result.
BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs
having direct influence on the parts, gives imme-
date relief. For BRo4SCHIrIs, ASTHMA, CATARRH,
CONSULTATIVE AND THROAT DISEASES Troches
are used always with good success.
SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS
will find Troches useful in clearing the voice when
taken before singing or speaking and relieving the
throat after an unusual exertiOn of the vocal
organs.
Obtain only BROWNS BRONCHIAL THocHEs,'
and do not take any of the worthless limitations
that may be offered. Sold everywhere.
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MANY people, particularly children,
suffer with the ear ache; and for the benefit
of such we give a sure but simple re1 edy.
Put in two or three drops of Johnson's Ano-
dyne Liniment, stop the ear with undressed
wool, battle the feet in warm water before go
ing 20 bed, and keep the head warm at night.
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NEW YORK.

Flour-Super6ne Western and State, $5.55
$6.7O@11.05. Whisky, $1.00. Wheat-No. 2
spring, $1.52@1.56. Rye, $1.05@1.10. Corn
dull lower. New Western mixed, 8O@s1c.
Oats-Mxed Western, 60@61c. Mess pork,
$3.50. Middles firm. Long clear, 9-16c
short clear, 81. Lard-Prime steam, go.
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PAYING EMPIOYMENT

For aII:havihg spare time in selling our New
Book. : fancy or transient tcork, but neces-
sAty 10 all classes of people, tually saving
money 10 buy rs. Book Agents seekin some
IN ny useful and fabt-sellfmg, and all havin :
anv spare time for pleasant work hOnt risk,
write at once for complete is page d. scriptive cir
& 20 q ineinpati. OHIO. -
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CINCINNATI.

Wheat, s1.s5@1.5O. Corn, 6O@6lc. Oats
4@54c. Mess pork, $1525. Bacon-Market
steady. Shoulders, 71l@79S, clear rib sides
Sc; clear sides, 8sS@9I. Hogs-Light grades
s5.S5@6.OO; heavy grades, $5.2o@5.s0. Wits
Lv Q5c
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We see by the commercial report that
Proctor & Gamble have reduced the price of
their long established and popular brand Ex-
ira Olive Soap, its present price and superior
quality makes it the cheapest as well as the
best soap for consumers.
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In England they are applying the
law against the adulteration of tea so
vigorously, that the dealers have been
driven to the necessity of having sam
pies. analysed before purchasing, in
order to avoid being caught with the
adulterated article on their hands.
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THE HOUSEHOLD PANACKA, AND
FAMILY IMMINENT

FAMILY LINIMENT
is the beht remedy IN the world for the fol1owin
complaints, viz: Cramps;in the limbs and stomach
rain in the stomach, bowels side, rheumatism In
all its FORMS bilious collie, neuralgia cholera, dys-
EMERY colds, flesh wounds, burns, sore throat,
spinal comp aints sprains and bruises, chills and
lever. For internal and external use.
IT'S operation is not only TO relieve the patient,
bat entirely removes the cause of the complaint
l penetrates and pervades the whole system, re
storing healthy action to all its parts and quicken
ing the blood.
The HOUSEHOLD PASAcEA is purely Vegetable
and all hea ing.
CURTIS & BROWN,
IT, No. 2l5 Fulton street, N. Y.
For sale nv all druggists.
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nApn Cu.pnns S.nrn mbo Loo,a

CAPT. CHARLES SAGER, who keeps a
superb stock of livery horses in Portland, Me-,
informed us recently that be uses She1idan's
Cavalry Condition Powders regularly in his
stables, and that the expense is more than off,
set by the diminished amount of grain neces-
sary to keep his horses always in good order.
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CHICAGO.

Wheat market steady No spring, $1.221E
No. spring, S1.22s@. Corn-No. mixed
5811(c. Oats, 49,. Hogs active and higher
$6.5O@6.60, dressed. Mess pork, S14.30
Shoulders, 55S
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Aliens Lung Balsam.
This Great Medicine was First Offer
ed for Sale Ten Years Ago.

Its good qualities were soon made known at home
and very soon Its fame was noised far and near
now IL Is sold In nearly every drug store in the
United States. No similar medicfhe sta nds higher
with the people It is well known on the Pacific
coast: and even from Australia. large orders arr
received for 1t. And throughout Canada IL Is well
and favorably known; and sold everywhere.
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THE MARKETS.

Corn held at 750T6c Bulk meats Market
steady. Shoulders, 61S@654c; clear rib sides,
SIC; clear sides, $50. Lard higher; $50
10Lc.
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THE REPRODUCTION OF PAST STATES
OF CONsCIoUsNEss.-Dr Carpenter, in
the Contemporary Review, gives some
interesting illustrations of physiological
influences on the habits of thought
The reproduction of past states of con-
ciousness is described to be an auto
matte action. The theory is that tie
chemical action of blood in the brain is
a sort of registering process, which, if
1t is properly pursued, leaves an indel-
ible impression that can always be re-
produced under the proper infuenc s.
A case of forgetting and recovering a
language is peculiar illustration OF a
sudden change in the action of the
blood. DR.. Abercrombie tells of a man
who had been put into a state of stupor
by an injury and, in this state, began to
talk as though he had been thirty years
absent from Wales, and had apparently
forgotten the language altogether. Up
on the recovery of his health, the man
began to talk the English language and
completely forgot his Welsh again. A
curious fact within the knowledge of
the writer was the case of q student in
Germany who was exceedingly anxious
to acquire the German language as soon
as possible. He had some knowledge
of it, but was unable to use it in con-
versation. Yet, in his sleep, his mind
evidently engrossed with the study, he
could hold a conversation, understand
perfectly and talk fluently.
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SKIN DISEASES.

A ONE, Cpimples, blackheads) symptoms: Hard
"A small pimp pies, with black points, most Du-
merons on the cheeks forehead and nose.
PRURIGO, UntEnse itching), which beg ins when
the C othing Is removed; increased by the warmth
OF the bed No eruption except that produced by
scratching.
The above aud all skin diseases per nanently
cured. Entire cost of treatment o. so per week on
$500 per mouth. Address DIR. j. NJ. VANDY X f..
iI26 Walnut str ct. Philadelphia, Pa.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.
New TheOrAes-NeNv nIustr~tions-Nexv
Discoveries.

GETTING TO SLEEP.-We have tried
many experiments to induce sleep. The
very best method we have yet discov-
cred is that of counting. Breathe deep
ly and slowly without any strainiDg
efrrt), and with every respiration count
one, two, three, etc., up to a hundred.
Some persons will be asleep before they
count fifty in this manner. Others will
count ten, twenty, or thirty, and then
forget themselves and cease counting.
Very few persons can count a hundred
and find themselves awake; but should
this happen, repeat the dose until cured.
Science of Health,
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CORDIALLY commend Hamilton, H., Water
Cure. Rev. DR.. Wallace, Monmouth College.