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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-10-10
Certificate of Partnership

nF THE FIRM OF EUGENE GERMAN
~ & CO, doing business in the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State OF Cal
ifornia.
We. the undersigned persons, hereby cer-
tify that the above described Partnership is
composed of the following persons and no
others, whose names and places of residence
are as follows, to wit:
G.. III. Matfield, Los Angeles.
+. Germain, Los Angeles.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto az
fixed our hands and seals this 2lst day of
September, 1874
G. II. MATFIELD, SEAL.
T.. GERMAN, SEAL.
STATE OF CALIFoRNIA,
County of Los Angeles.
on this, 2lst day of September, in the year
1874, before me A. w. Potts, County Clerk, per-
sonally appeared q. H. Matfield and Eugene
German, known TO me to be the persons
whose names are subscribed to the within in
strument, and acknowledged to me that they
executed the same.
Witness my hand and official seal this Dist
day of September, 1874.
SEAL. A. w. POTTS,
sep22-lm County Clerk.
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A. w. POTTS.....Co Co. Clerk and Clerk of Courts
j. w. W.GILLETTE....Co Co. Re co rder and Auditor
e. ROW treasurer
". X. ROWLAND..Co. Sheriff and Tax Coll.
GEO. II. PECK Co. Supt OF Schools
DIONICI0 BOTILLER.............-Co Assessor
l SERGI Go. Surveyor
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VETERINARY SURGEON.

OSCAR c. BALDY, V. s., TREATS ALL
~ diseases of the horse Can be found
at corner Fourth and Fort streets. Los Ange-
les Cal. au2 tf-2
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NOTICE.

rINHE DELINQUENT LISTS of the various
l. counties of the State, for the 2ith and 25th
Fiscal years, (lS723-lS73-D are now in my
hands for collection. Many persons are de-
linguent for small sums upon personal pro-
perty, and are urged to examine the rolls in
the hands of the Tax Collector oftheir respec-
tive counties and to make immediate pay
ment. The law is imperative, that the pay
ment of the State tax for these years must De
enforced, and unless voluntary payments are
made at once, heavy costs will be incurred by
the delnquents, J. j. GREEN,
se pl-3m Controller OF state.
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Justices Courts
Los Angeles library Associa
National Officials.

j. r. MCCONNELL................ President
j. c. LITTLEFIELD......... Librarian
Library, Downey Block.
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Board Of Education
County Directory.

Ii. D. BARROWS, President.
NJ. KREMER, Sec'y. q. w. SMITH.
WM. b. PRIDHAM. j. Z. WIDNEI.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
GOLD REPORT.
SAN FRANCISCO, october 9.
Gold, ITO.
Greenbacks-Buying, al; selling, 9lIs.
san Francisco Markets By Telegraph

SAN FRANCISCO, october 9.
FLOUR-s4 SLIGO 1917.
WHEAT-SI 40al A..
BARLEY-S1 %.
OATS-Sl 40al co.
RYE-Sl 0215.
HAYS OO9S14 %.
WOOIr-l9d2215c.
ONIONS--0jd70c
CORN-SI 80.
BEANS-2d5c.
HOPS 30d3215c.
COTTON-sl419.
POTATOES-S0 S71atdSl 1917.
SWEET P0TATOES-sl 50al 621..
BUTTER-40d50c.
CHEESE-ll@l5c.
EGGS-2Sd42I5c. per doz.
PEACH ES-Sl@l rs u box.
APPLES-Sl9Sl IS d box
FIGS-37d50c. p 10.
HONEY -20d27c. q ID.
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fsoar.; Of Supervisors

j. y. GRIFFITH, EDWARD EVEY,
Il. PALOMARES, +. MACHACO,
JUAN J. GARLIC, Interpreter.
Regular Meetings-First Monday OF each
month
Judicial Directory:
Z. SEPULVEDA. District Judge
Terms of Court-First Monday of Feb,
May, Aug, and Nov.
II. X. ). O'MELVENY Judge of Probate and
County Courts.
Terms of COurt-First Monday of JAM,
Mar, May, July. Sept, and Nov.
d D.BICKNELL..Dist.C Court Commissioner
Office, No. 80. Temple Block.
Justices Courts:
VIM. H. GRAY. Temple Block, over w. +. &
Co.'s Office.
JOHN TRAFFORD. .Downey Block, Temple
Street.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, that the
~ Common Council will receive bids ut its
session of October22d for so much of the $500
In City Bonds, bearing per cent. per annum,
as will produce $1,000 in gold coin.
NJ. KREMER,
Octl-G0d Clerk OfCOmmon Council.
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City and County Official Directory.
City Directory.

j. X. Mayor
Office, No. 43 Spring street.
b. F. HARTLEE.. Marshal and Chiefof Police
Office, No. 40 Spring street.
GEO. X. .BUTLER............ City treasurer
Office, Fashion Stables Main street.
A. W. ii UTTON City Attorney
Office, No. 81 Temple Block.
NJ. OleTh
Office, No. 10 Spring street.
NJ. h.
Office, Cor. Spring and First streets.
DR.. w. T. LUCKY.....City Supt Pub. schools
j. II. MCKEE, Nj. D................... Health Ofncer
Office. No. /. Spring street. I'D stairs.
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Common Council:
Chamber Of Commerce /:

Meets every Thursday p. NJ. at 3 o'clock, al
Its room, 40 Spring street.
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Judicial Directory;

Regular Meetings-First Monday OF each
month
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-27
CONGRESSIONAL.

JUNE 3.---Senate.-Mr. Sherman from the
Committee on Finance reported fayorably on the
House bill, explanatory OF the act of June 30,
1854, in regard to savings banks, with an amend
ment, which was agreed to, and the bill passed
It reads as follows: That all deposits made
in institutions now existing, which do bus1-
ness only as saviBgs-banks, and are recog-
niZed as such by the laws of their respective
States or by Congress, are hereby deciar-
ed to be exempt from taxation, the SAM as
deposits In saving institutions having no capital,
and although they have capital stock or bonds
for additional security of their depnsirors, and
pay dividends thereon, no tax shall be assessed
upon deposits made in such institutions or col
Iected of them on said deposits otherwise than
as herein provided; that all profits of such saw
ings. banks, less aforementioned dividends on
stock not exceeding per certum per annum,
are divided among the depositors. and that the
capital stock is invested only in the same class Of
securities as invested for deposits; that interest
at the rate of not less than AZ per cent be paid
in all cases to their depositnrs, TO be made good
if necessary from the capital stock The PEN
sion Appropriation bill passed. Mr. Windom
then called up the Cheap Transportation resoIu-
ton submitted by him on the 18th OF May, ami Il
was discussed at some length hut no action TAX
en-. Adjourned House.-The Army Appro-
priation bill was reported with some amendments
and referred to the conference committee line
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prevented, can, at least, be greatly mitigated.
Indeed, / question whether it would have
been found necessary to depart from the
standard of specie in the trying days which
gave birth to the first legal-tender act, had
bills as early as 1850. Again, would pro-
vide an excess of revenue over current
expenditures. l would do this by rigid
economy and by taxation where taxa
ton can best be borne. sIncreased rev.
enue would work constant reduction
of the debt and interest, and would provide
coin to meet the demands of the Treasury for
redemption of its new and thereby diminish
ing amount of bonds needed for that purpose.
All taxes after redemption begins should be
paid in coin or United States notes. This
would force redemption on national banks.
With measures like these, or measures
danger in authorizing free banking without
limit
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-27
Police Court Sketches.

"Marier Jane!o called Bijah, as he
handed out a lone woman and led her
around to the chalk-mark.
{" And Marier was drunk" added his
Honor, in sad voice 6 forty-three years
old. going rapidly to the grave, and yet so
drunk that you had to be hauled down
here on wheelbarrow.n
ssOn hand-cart, sir" she corrected,
showing considerable interest.
"Well, there is difference between a
hand-cart and dawheelbarrow." he went on,
"but it doesn't make any difference in this
case. In fact the hand-cart was the easiest
thing to draw you on, and more small
boys could gather aroundit. will alter the
complaint to make it read 'hand-cart,' and
now want to know what you have to say
about it 2"
Tears came to her eyes. her corset gave
heave or two, and she whispered:
81 wanted to go to the circus J"
"Ahi that touches a tender chord, -
sighed the Court, as he leaned back and
listened to the music of the brass band
floating on the early morning air, and saw
in Imagination the trick mule, the elephant,
and the rhinoceros ambling around the saw
dust ing-admission fifty cents.
s'Marier," he said at last, in changed
voice, syou'll die In three or four years,
anyhow, and perhaps it's just as well TO
let you 60 to the circus as to send you to
the Work-house. Mayhap the growl of
the sea lion, the snarl of the tiger, the
warble of the ostrich, and the gymnastic
exercises of the monkeys, together with
the stirring air of sOld Dan Tucker as
rendered by the band, may put thoughts
of reformation into your head. Go, aged
female, and remember it's fifty cents saved
every time one craWls under the canvas
John Maroney said it wasn't his fault
that he had been arrested for yagrancy.
He has hunted the town over to secure a
situation, but everybody turned cold
shoulder. Bank Presidents said it wasn't
a good day for hiring cashiers; wholesale
merchants said they didn't want head
book-keeper tnat day and leading jewelers.
advised him to 60 and learn how to hang
himself. Thus he was rebuffed and dis
couraged at every turn. His ducats went
one by one, his clothing gave out, and
when found he was sitting upon pile OF
clam-shells in an alley. straw in his hair,
tears in his eyes, and general lonesome
ness about his face that made the policeman
think of the time he was lost in a Whortle-
berry swamp in the north woods.
'sI'd like to take you off one side and sit
down and struggle with you," said his
Honor, "but there's others to come, and
the struggling business is adjourned sine
die. Have you anything to say why
shouldn't send you up for three months ?,
81 want three lawyers and a jury" re.
piled the prisoner.
81 could send out and get you dozen
lawyers and hundred jurymen,o said the
Court, {" but it isn't necessary. You have
had fair trial, been convicted, and as soon
as Biiah seats you in the buggy the curtain
falls. .''-Detroit Free Press.
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Etiquette at st. James@

The Gar of Russia was at unusual pains
to deprive the quidnuncs of any excuse for
clothing his recent visit to England with
political character by leaving behind him
on the continent Prince Gortschakof and
all the other political personages who had
accompanied him from st. Petersburg to
Wurtcmberg to attend to the wedding OF
his neice, the Grand Duchess Vera, sister
of the unlucky Nicholas, who has just been
made so disagreeably notorious in conse-
quence of his experiments upon the jewel
case of his grand-ducal mother. Private
advices from England now intimate pretty
stro gly that the true motive of the 1mpe-
rial journey was the Emperor's dissatls-
faction with the treatment his newly mar
ried daughter, the Duchess of Edinburgh,
has met with from her royal British moth
er-in-law. 1t is well known that Queen
Victoria has always been social martinez
on questions of etiquette and precedence.
She had long battle TO wage III behalf OF
her husband, the Prince Consort, when he
first came to England. The Duke OF Wei
lington told curious story of the art
which her Majesty displayed at the mar
rage of the Princess Augusta OF Cam
bridge to prevent her uncle, the King OF
Hanover, from signing the marriage con-
tract before Prince Albert. AS soon as
the Archbishop of Canterbury handed her
Majesty the pen she suddenly lodged
around the table, placed herself next to her
husband, signed, and handed the pen to
Prince Albert before the King could pre-
vent it. She almost quarreled, too, with
Louis Philippe Oh the occasion OF her flrst
royal visit to France because the Duke Of
Montpensier allowed a chamberlain to hand
her glass of water, instead OF handing II
himself. 1t is understood now that she
insisted on giving all her own daughters
precedence over the Grand Duchess, it be-
| ing the rule of the British Court that born
princesses of England are to have preee'
| dence of the wives of the English princes
always excepting the Princess of Wales
who Immediately follows the Queen: This
| is smallish matter to occupy the time O
the two greatest soyereigns of Europe
But if we are not misinformed similal
questions crumple the rose-leayes in th'
| couches of the wives of republican func
tionaries at Washington. Lord Lord
t.What shadows we are and what shadow
we pursue IN. T. World.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

General Sheridan has forwarded to Army
Headquarters copies of kilograms from Gen.
George A. Custar, dated Fort Abraham Lin
coin, via Bismarck, May 26, announcing that
he is in receipt of dispatches from General
Stanley and the Indian Agent of the Cheyenne
Agency, stating that the Indians are no
longer controllable by their agent.
and, in spite of the efforts of General
Stanley and their agent, have taken
the war-path in formidable numbers. With
regard to the manner of dealing with these
Indians. General Stanley says to General
Custar: 'sThey are not likely to be amenable
to soft words, and you had better use powder
and lead at once" When the proper time
for pursuit of the Indians arrives, General
Custar will take ten days. rations and one
company of infantry-the latter to guard
wagons whenever it becomes necessary for
the cavalry to move rapidly.
A terrible tornado swept through the Will
age of Tampico, Whiteside county, H., on
the night of the 9th. Twenty-one dwellings
were totally destroyed and every house in
the town more or less injured. Strange to
tell, no lives were lost, though number Of
the people were quite seriously injured.
Three cases of trichina were reported al
Buffalo, n. Y, on the 5th.
The annual convention of the American
Medical Association, recently in session a
Detroit, adjourned 10 meet in Louisville, Ky.
May 1, 1875.
In accordance with proclamation of Gov
Baxter, Thursday, June 4, was observed al
day of thanksgiving in Arkansas.
| Governor Kellogg Of Louisiana, on the sth
sent the following dispatch to the Secretar.
of War: 'sThe relief committee report tha
the suffering from the overflow remains una
bated in the Atchafaylaya, Lafourche AM
Ouachita valleys. though there is some abate
ment on the banks of the Mississippi. TIL
committee are issuing fully 10000 ration
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VOLUME III.
POETRY.
CERES.
AYIsInN uE THE DAY

VISION OF THE DAY
The wheat was flowing ankle-deep
Across the field from side to side.
And dipping in he emerald waves
The swallows flew in circles wide.
The sun, moment fiaring red,
Shot level rays athwart The world;
Then qQenched his fire behind the mills
With rosy vapors o'er HIM Curled.
A sweet insinuating calm.
A calm just one remove from sleep,
Such as tranquil watcher feels,
Seeing mild stars at midnight sweep
Through splendid purple deep, and swing
Their cid, ripe clusters down the west
To where, on undiscovered hills,
The gods have gathered them to rest
A calm like that hung over all
The dusky groves, and filtered through
The thorny hedges, touched the wheat
Till every blade was bright with dew.
Was it a dreamq We call things dreams
When we must needs do SO, or own
BeiIef in old, exploited myths,
Whose very smoke has long since flown.
Was it dream? Mine own eyes saw,
And Ceres came across the wheat
That like bright water, dinlpled round
The golden sandals other feet.
She came and passed, as wild-birds pass,
BY some rare impulse borne along,
Bright-eYed and sweet with golden hair,
And lips that overfoWed with song.
so tilier of the field,o she said,
be hopeful, L have Come again;
The sun shall shine for thee and thine,
For thee the mists shall gather rain:
"And never more, by man accursed,
Shall droop the corn and faint the vine;
The bins shall groan with yellow grain,
The Vats o'erbrim with generous wine.
HThe rustic maids shall deck their hair
" it'll coronets of wheat for nae;
The whole wide world shall bloom afresh
For grander fruitage yet to be. -
A clash and clang "Go'long, Red-bucki'
Late from their work my boys had come,
And drowned the goddess song the while
They hauled a broken harrow home.
JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON.
journal.
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WE are ruined not by what we really
want. but by what we think we do; there
fore never go abroad in search of your
wants. If they be real wants they will
come home in search of you, for he that
buys what he does not want Will soon
want what he cannot buy.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-27

The Conference Committee on the Currency
reported new bill to the Senate ON the 9th.
The report was signed by all the members of
the committee except Mr.. Clymer. 1t pro-
vides for free banking, and the reduction of
greenbacks to the extent of three-eighths of
the amount of bank notes that may be issued !;
abolishes the bank reserves on circulation !;
provides that the banks shall keep five per
cent. of their circulation in the Treasury of
the United States for the redemption of
their notes, which is to be counted
as a part of their reserves or de-
posits, thus in effect diminishing the
amount of reserves or deposits which they
are required to keep at home to the extent of
five per cent. 1t provides also for the con-
version of greenbacks with five per cent.
bonds on the first of January, 1878, converted
bonds to be issued in the payment or re-
demption of the outstanding fve-twenty
bonds at par or in the payment of the current
expenses of the Government, and if reissued
in the payment of expenses like amount of
gold in the Treasury is to be used in the re-
demption of the fye-twenty bonds at par.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

The jury in the case Gf The People vs.. p.
P. Wintermute, for the murder of Gen. Nc
Cook at Yankton, D. II, in September last,
returned verdict of manslaughter in the
first degree. According to the law of the
Territory this is the highest degree of homi-
eide of which he could be convicted without
having the death penalty affixed, there being
but one degree of murder.
An express train on the Erie Railway, on
the evening of the Sd, ran into wagon while
crossing the track, near Elmira, N. Y, and
killed four persons, naEled John Dashie, Geo.
Dildine, Justine Peat and Jane Dfldine, al
from Smithfield, Pa.
A dispatch from Austin, Nevada, says that
one night recently crowd of thirty masked
men entered the jail at Belmont, bound the
Sheriff, took out two prisoners, McIntyn and
Walker, and hanged them. 1t is not stated
what the men were accused OF.
In Jeffersonville, Ind, on the 9th, John
McDermott, a saloon-keeper, shot his wife and
little child, eight months old, killing the child
instantly, and fatally wounding his wife. and
then blew his own brains out. McDermott
was dissipated and abusive. His wife had
applied for divorce, and failing to persuade
her to abandon the suit, the man became des-
perate.
Mrs. Ann Vandenberg, seventeen years old
and only few days married, was cremated
at Cincinnati, on the Tth, while kindling the
fire with kerosene. Her father, mother and
husband were all present when the explosion
occurred, and were all badly burned in trying
to extinguisil the flames.
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MISCELLANY.
OUR NATIONAL FINANCES.

An Elaborate Expression of the Views
of the President ON the Currency
Question,
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publishes information in relation to the grow
ing crops, OF which the following is a synop-

pu0lSneS mf0rmatl0n IN relatl0n 10 tne grow
ing crops, of which the following is synop-
sis:
The area sown in wheat last season in the States
of Illinois, Indiana. Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota,
Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin is estimated in
round numbers at l3, E00,O ,Ot0 acres. The reports
of correspondents make this increase OF the pTts-
ent crop year ,36l ,753 acres, or total ara of
14,Sl2, ,34 acres. The yield of a good average
season approXimateS, in the States mentioned,
thirteen and four-ifths bushels per acre. At this
rate the yield in these Slater, at harvest, will be
fraction less than2 ,009, bushels. The present
condition of growing wheat being full average,
the probabilities of harvest approXimating the
amount mentioned is very good. The al ea seeded
in oats, in the same States, In 1873, is placed at
4, q, 900 acres; the increase this year is esti-
mated at l59 90 acres, or total OF 0o0 acres,
at the average yield of good season, say S33s
bushels per acre. The total crop at harvest IN
these States will approximate one hundred and
ninety million bushels. Reports received, dated
June l, indicate the appearance, generally, OF
the Colorado beetle in all the States north of the
Ohio River, from and including Central Kansas
to Western Pennsylvania. heir appearance
thus far has been very generally marked by the
more or less entire destruction of the tops OF the
growing crop. While the presence of the chinch-
bug is reported in scattering localities all
through the West, comparatively little danags,
has been reported.
Following is the comparative cotton state
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SAYS the Rev. Henry Ward Bescher in
the Chy5stian Union: ''Itis not easy to re-
alize that religion is losing its hold upon
society. if one but observes the great space
given to reports of religious tliscourses by
our daily newspapers, and considers, also,
that even fashion has begun 70 pray tribute
by inyenting exquisite praying Costumes
for ladies, wherein the fair devotees can
pray to the Lord and make an elegant ap-
pearanee in the sight of man at the same
time
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-23

Josh Billings says: There amt any
thing that will kompletely kure lazyness,
though second wife has been known to
hurry it some"
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-23
Chicago Market.
CHICAGO, Jan. %

Flour-Dull and nothing doing.
Wheat-Fairly active and prices steady through
out, the demand being both firm for shippers and
buyers; No. l, 231a No 2, 222l cash; 800
23a bid February; l 271A March; No 3, 1T1401
171a rejected 1101 l2.
Corn-Opened firm. active and higher, selling up
to 5S14 cash; 5914 February, but under rumors of
lower Liverpool and indications of increased re-
ceipts prices dropped and The market closed dull
and weak, 572I cash; 5s14 February; 59s March
65h May new No 2, 81 rejected old 53G54; new
40.
Oas-Fairly active and steady; No 2, 41A dash
AZ February; rejected 371aGl3S.
kye-Quiet and unchanged fresh No 2, 7T619.
Barley-Active, firm and higher; No :, / 52l1
81: No 3, 800 40 outside for Northwestern re-
ceipts
seeds-steady; clover a405 40; timothy . oO@
8 70.
Dressed Hogs-Dull and nominal at O318 10 bid
6 2Gll6 % asked.
Whisky at 95l4.
Pork-Dull and lower; IA 000l14 10 cash; sales at
ID 10 February.
Lard Dull and lower ats 90 cash options opened
lower, closed steady with the decline recovered al
9 30 March.
Bulk Meats-Firm; shoulders 5ss clear rib ~
Green Meats-Quiet; shoulders 5L ham 16pound
average S14 rough sides 66 long clear 63s shor
| ribs 6l2 shori clear 81.
Buter-Active and firm ;Schoice tub 33G35; good
| roll 2S0g32.
| Eggs-Lower at 1920
LIVE STOCK.
Cattle-Receipts 2, 300 head. Weather bad, max
| ing quiet market but good grades steady at
1000 80 for fair to choice 40G16 So ontsd,
for lot of lis head aging 1860; butchers'stocl
dull and no hing doing.
| Hogs-nece pts 1900 head. Common grade
| du and lower at 65(D5 80 for common to fair
good packing grades eady at 4Dg5 so for fair [,
| choice with few extra at IS.