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Whore the singers are.
Burlington Hawkeye.l

DuliAuBtOu hdHhtyosl
"What has become of the sing
ers?" asks the Montreal Gazette,
All, yes; you can't see from where
you are sitting; move up toward
this end of the pew and we will
show you. That is the soprano,
the one nearest the end of the
choir, letting the young fellow with
the camel's-hair mUstaohe and curl
ing hair, squeeze her hand. lie is
the tenor. There is the alto in the
opposite corner, and the meek look
ing little man with Burnside whis-
kcrs, who is feeding her with gum
drops, and neryously looking out
for his Wife's eye (the big, high
complexioned woman, near the
third window on the right-hand
side of the church, with a wart on
her cheek, is the baritone, and the
burly-looking fellow, who looks like
Barbary coast pirate, and who
has just stepped around behind the
organ to take a drink with the
blower, that is the bassQ. Oh, il
you just want to kpow what has
become Of the singers, ask us.
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a sporting Pnp.

George W. Peck, editor of the
Lacrosse Sun, Il sportsman of much
enthusiasm in WISCONSIN, gives his
experience trying to Faise q dog.
The following is his Storyi
We had never been as proud of
anything in the dog line as we were
of that Peruvian retriever pup
Time passed on and the pup began
to grow. lie did not grow tall, but
spread out lengthwise aud sidewise,
and his feet got big. There never
was so long a dog of his age as that
ono was. And talk about tail a
kangaroo's tail would be nowhere.
One wiggle Of his tail would sweep
eleven old-fashioned lOwer-pots off
the yerandah, and you might kick
him as lnUoh as you pleased and he
was the same long dog. You
couldn't telescope him together an
inch. lie was lDe mOSU c0waEdly
dog that eyer was. If a COW came
along and scratched against a tree,
be would crawl under the house
and howl all the afternoon. 0gce
a little girl came in the gate after
swill, and when he looked at her
she dropped the swill-pail and ran.
lie heard her and ran the other
way, and 10 was two days before We
got him home, and tbep we had to
carry him in u basket He WIS q
retriever. His best "holt" was hens.
He got acquainted with Mr.. Man
chester's chickens carly in the sea-
son, and he retrieved them re-
gardles Of expense. He would
occasionally come back from
Mr.. Manchester's without q
hen, but it was net the dogs
fault. If Manchester had not
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-04
F,mnIe Lawrsrs in EnEIand

The council of University Col
lege, London, have awarded the
Joseph Hume Scholarship in Juris-
prudence to a lady who has already
taken the first PLACE in all tbs
classes that women are permitted to
attend at this institution, and who
is now making her way in such ao-
tive business at the law asis allowed
10 persons who ape not called to the
bar. 1t may be q long time before
the Benchers Of the Inns wilfgrant
the g call" to women, but if they
prove themselves worthy of it it
can only be q question Of time.
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FunernItana.

A worthy army surgeon desired
those who saw him to his grave to
wear anything but black, and to
carry white flowers in their button
holes, as he wished the ceremony to
be considered more an occasion for
rejoicing than one for mourning.
A yet more merry-minded man was
so-called misanthrope," who
died at Mont Gaillard in 1922. He
left instructions that all the musi-
clans in the place were to be invited
to his funeral to tighten the march
to the churchyard by playing min
uets, waltzes and hunting tunes.
His house and the church were to
be decorated with evergreens and
flowers in honor of the event, and
his property was to 90 to the rela-
tive who laughed the heartiest dur
ing the celebration of the burial
rites Another eccentric French
man, who had spent his life in col
lecting gems and coins, wished his
obsequies to be performed with
every accompaniment calculated to
inspire mirthful feelings. His body
was to be wrapped in tanned pig.
skin, and buried cofiinless in a
standing nosition unon a nile of
charcoal. The followers" were
to carry laurel branches, and upon
their return from the church the
doors Of his treasure chamber were
to be thrown open to all corners,
that they might help themselves to
its contents at discretion. His'b
hests were hardly likely to be
obeyed; for, in anticipation of the
general scramble, before the collec-
tors breath was out Of his body, his
servants decamped with everything
that was portable.
Dame Margaret Thompson, who
lived and died in Boyle street, in
the days of Queen Anne, was of a
different way of thinking. She
had never found any flowers so
gratifying to her sense of smell as
good Scotch snuff, and therefore de-
sired her old servant, Sarah, to see
that her body was covered with it
before the cofiin-lid was screwed
down. She was also to strew the
threshold with two bushels of snuff
preparatory to her dead mistress be-
ing carried across it by six of the
greatest snuf-takers to be found in
the parish, and to secure the same
number Of old maids for pall-bear-
ers, and supply them with boxes of
snuff for use on the road; Sarah
herself, walking before the coffin,
and distributing "every twenty
yards, a large handful of Scotch
snuff to the ground and upon the
ground" while the clergyman was
expected to take a certain quantity
of the same, not exceeding a pound,
as he walked in the PROFESSIONALS
fee of four pounds depending upon
his carrying out the DANES whim
in that respect.
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Muscular ChristInuity.


The two great men Of the Brook
lyn pulpit are splendid men physi-
cally, and they never could have
been the powers they are had they
been otherwise. DR.. Chaplin and
Robert Collyer, though fine and
strong in intellectual fiber, are not
so exceedingly remarkable in that
particular as to account for their
long, strong hold upon the public
mind. The two Boston preacher;
who drew the largest crowds, Mr.
Phillips Brooks and Mr.. Murray
are men of entirely exceptiona.
| phisique--hard to be matched any
where in the world for size and
strength. 1t is an inspiration tc
look at them. Their presence i;
magnetic. They exercise a charm
which can only come from complete
manhood-the equipoise of thought
and intent with voice aud might
If We turn to our own city, and see
where the crowds are, we shall fnd
them at Dr. Halls and DR.. Taylor's
Mr.. Hepworth's church, too, i;
usually a crowded one. 1t is nc
dishonor to these men to say that
the people do not flock to them be-
cause they preach the best sermons
to be heard in New York. There
are a dozen pulpits furnished with
as good brains as these. The
simple truth is that if they
were called upon to preach
with a slender physique md a
weak voice, their crowds would
leave them. They are large, strong,
healthy men. America does not
produce enough of them, and so we
were obliged to import some OF
them. The Brick church has called
a pastor from London, and he is
one of the same kind-strong
enough not only to do an immense
amount of pastoral work, but to
preach without fatigue, perform the
duties of profeSsorship, take charge
of school matters in his own dis
trict, and carry through all the side
work that comes to a man in his
position. The church went for
that man simply because it could
not find him here. 1t is no dis
honor to the theological institutions
to go out of the country for such
men, because America does not
raise enough of them for her own
use. When we produce them in
sufficient numbers, we shall not be
obliged to import them. And when
we fully comprehend the fact
that the body has quite as much to
do with pulpit usefulness as the
heart and the mind, and that one
of the frst conditions of that use
fulness is high Thysical vitality, We
shall give physical culture the at
tention that it demands, and ulti-
mateiy raise ONT own preachers
[pr J. G. Holland, In seFibner for
January.
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Enect o. sunerstIlioas LIlerature.

The Paris correspondent OF the
London Standard furnishes the
following: A strange case of mur-
der which shows the fatal effect Of
superstitious literature on weak
minds, has Just come before the
Assizes of the Bante-Sayoie. 1t
appeared from the evidence that Oh
Falm Sunday last widow, named
Jordan, called Gu her sister-in-law
during vespers, and asked her to
come and help her find q piece Of
money sbe said she had lost in the
hay-l5f5. Fhe sisteg-in-law consent
ed to do so, and the couple proceeded
to search for the missing money;
A few minutes, however, had
hardly elapsed when the widow
Jordan, taking advantage of the
position of her ster-in-law as she
stopped down to look under.a heap
of wood, suddenly dealt har 0 fear
full blow on the back of the head
with u heavy log. The woman fell
stunned to the ground. Jordan
then knelt on her and completely
smashed her skull to pieces with a
large stone. Having committed the
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WITH SEVEN CHAMBERS
LOTTERY.
-~~~~e-~-~----.-~>>~>-~>~~-
A FORTUEE FOR ONLY ONE mn

A FORTUNE FQR ONLY ONE mol.
"A LAR FIRST DOLLAR OUARTERIY Y
uary 2, 1877, A"'
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
gais Institution was regularly Incorporated
BY the Legislature of the State for Eduea
tional purposes in 1868, with a Capital OF
Sl,OOOCOO, to which il has since added re-
ser1Xe eI1,9 ipnS % OF SSo9 800. ITS GRAND SINGLE
monthly. The season of 1877 opens with tho
following scheme:
CAPITAL PRIZE, sI5, 900.
100000 Tickets n ssne SOLAR Zach
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HOMEOPATHIC MEDl
CINE COMPANY,
Office and Depot, $50 Broadway, NY.
For sale by Druggists Everywhere.
NEpVOTrc OpD1T INV

Vital weakness or depression: A weak ex.
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suit Of mental eyerwOrk, indiscretions or ex-
cesses, or some drain Unon the system, is AZ
ways cured BY HUMPHREYS H0ME0
invigorates the system, dispels the gloom ar d
desponden ", imparts strength and enersy-
stops the drain and rejuVenates the ent:-.
man. Been used twenty years with psrtr CT
success by thousands Sold by dealers Price
81 per single Yial, or S5 per package Of Eve
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE CO.. 562 Broad.
way, New York.
W. N. WILKINSON & CO.,
Wholesale AGENTS
JAMES s. ROBINSON, Ag't,
Cor. Second and Madison Sta, Men phis
lhA-rni-vEziii-lA wills
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RAnRoApe
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
AND
Great Southern Railroad.
sCT1EDULD.

Express train leaves daily tezoept,
SATURDAY. ~ OK - NJ NJ
A III Train lenyes aally 20 r. II
Accom- IN odation leaves daily Tex
cept Sunday )......"!'' ''''''''''''''' 4'lo p'hi
Pullman Palace Sleeping Oars on all nlght
trains. r.Lt
For tickets or information, aPpiy ut Ticket
Ofice, 2S7 Main, northwest corner OF h9dlsop
JOHN I, FLYNN, Sap't Memphis Diy,
JAMEs SPEEB. Ticket Agent. IE
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REeULAR QUAsTsRty DRAWING on February
4, 1877; Tickets slOeach, Capital PriKe sSo,0c9,
eod-S2-l06
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MISSISSIPPI G. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Oh ange OF Schedule.
Mrrnus. Trvs. NOvember 25. l.7a.

AN AND AFTER SUNDAY. NOV. 2srr,
" 1875, trains will run as follows;
Leave. Arrive,
Sew Orleans mail, daily ,"S:S5 PIN. l2:45 pm
Sardis Ac'm'dation, daily n m
Except Sunday ........ll:@ a.m' SVoa ID
freight train, daily lex roo
cept Sunday .""~..Y-7;S9 AM, ee;og
Tat NJ. kkBs pup u
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MEMPHIS AND CAARL esT0N R.R.
Arrives Leaves.

mIssIsSIPPl AND TENNEssEE r. R.
Arrives. Leaves.
g----|--S r---|------.
A.E.F.r A.N.P.E,
y. q. Msil (dsiIyl ............ IL 45 :, =, 3.o'
sardis (daily ex. Sundayls.W oe l5'S 599
ETe,gnt tuaiiy *. SApdayl 0'3O | i.oJ
1snat al foot Of Maia street.
Tiekst cfice, 2S7 Main street. corner OF
@u' M. BURKE, 9sn'l 5up't.
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Capital Stock. ssOO, 600
BOARD OF DIREUTORg
RAILRNAn rlNR TABLES.

aEMPHIs AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
,----A-----, -
AN. Pm. AN. Pm.
Express daily 'xcept
Saturday, ....... ....".... T.40 lid
Nail IrGin..........-......r :. 4,o) ll.lO 80
Account ed n n(exSunsay) 10
Depot at hesQ 0, nslb 5treoh
Ticket Once, 2sI Hain street, corner Of
Madison.
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STOCKS.
----~------~~---~-->--~--~-~----
A Member Of the Stock Exchange

A Member OF the Stock Exchange
viii execute orders for the purchase or sale Of
stocks, bonds and gold on moderate margins.
Commiss ons S5 per each 100 shares. Stock
privileges negotiated on responsible parties
only. Correspondence solicited.
Henry Merriam, Member Am. Mining and
Stock Exchange, IS Wall st., N. Y. kefer-
ence, D. r. Mangam. Esq, President Ma
tional Trust Co.. N. Y. [e0d-d&w-l4-xxiv Is
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1888 Prizes, amounting to...., ..........S ,525
Write for Circulars or aeBd order 70
CIAS. T. HOWARD, New Orleans, La.
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A.N.P.y. I.E.P.N
A,eil Train d9ily.f: fs:vs; liz"
Lo uisville Depot"."--- DIV
Freir, vt and Acconmoda- 90, an
ton 4. .'aily......~.....""". L.lo !
LouisviIIe Depot. 2S7 Main (cor. MadisoRl
and 278 Main street; streedt,,rr1 snDt
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APPROPRIATION PRIZES:
approximation Prizes Of sieO ..... 900.
3 g o. ...... ii5SS
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NEMPHIsAND LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD
Arrives. Leaves.
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D,urc.U AMI MEMPHIs RAILROAD,

pApUcA4 AND MEMPHIS RAILROAD
80 .;ros ........,,..... ......... 900 q. m
MAIL Train ...,,.,..,...... 90 ,. IN
Freight Train arriyes..'''' '''''' e'e9 S9 ~ n,
leaves......... s'''..''',.'''r 20 o " NJ. q, ~
The mail train Leaves CovAngt0n Ior MEN, u,
phis at 7am. and arrives at No'rIngt;on "a, a,
800 m. The freight train leaves OoDtpgoVn toy
for Memphis at l.3O p m, ana arrives ~, 1his
viii atari from the Underwriters Warehouse
wiz ''''' ]. W. WILBUR, Sup't.
H.H. GIVEN. Asst. Sup't.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
Weekly Public Ledger

Published every Tuesday at 81 per annum lin
advanced. Postage free.
Communications upon subjects Of general
interest to the public are at all times accept
able.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-06-15
srccEssruL FARMING.

The Albany Advertiser says, Dir.
John 3. Acree, of Mitchell county,
returned from the war on the second
Sunday in May, 1865, and started
farming again with l25 acres Of
common open pine land, He had
81 head of cattle, and two old gray
horses, four bales Of cotton, for
which he realized $500, and SIS in
silver. He now owns 625 acres OF
land, having purchased 500 acres
more, for which he paid 81 900, five
good mules and horses, As head of
cattle, and 5000 or $4,000 in mon
ey out at interest. He has ten in
bis family, has lived we'll, and edu-
Gated his Ichildren. He makes an
average Of four 10 Eve bales Of cot
ton to plough, and $50 bushels of
corn to a plough; makes all bis own
syrup, meat, &C., at home. Up to
1869 be did bis own work, and had
no negroes or other help upon bis
place. His cotton crop has always
been a surplus, and hence his sue,
cess. His expenses have been paid
out Of his other crops.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-06-15
farm aud Aonselold.
AGRICULTURE.


A correspondent Of the New York
World says agriculture is emphati>
calIy the thing upon which mainly
.-depends nstiOn's prosperity. Yet,
o the lnge as il may seem, its thorough
rlly and development has been left
ages far behind the most unim
90 portant of arts. The only direct eff
fort towards reducing il TO a perfect
science has been made within the
last fifty yeprs. It is now progress
ing with gigantic strides, but even
now there are comparatively few
who give heed to the many impor-
tant facts relative to agriculture that
are daily coming; hosts there are
who treat with ridicule every ex>
pertinent made by the searcher after
facts. But the world is moving in
the right direction, and a conse-
quence, agriculture must soon be
recognized as the calling of the learn
ed, and the leading calling of the
country.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-06-15

THE Ox.-If loaded revolver
were placed at my head, and was
given one minute in which to name
the most useful piece of four legged
furniture, | should unhesitatingly
answer the cow, and have forty>five
pccondS to spero. 10 speaking Of
the COW | embrace also the OK and
bull. The OK is used on farm in
place of a steam engine. He is
faithful as a box of pills, and some
what slower than lightning. A man
who has driven an OK team all his
life is selected as pail bearer at a
funeral, as he never gets ahead of
the procession. The built is chiefly
celebrated for bis disposition, which
is cut>goring, and gathered in quite
full. He generally wears an ear
ring in his nose, and has curiosity to
know how you are made inside.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-06-15
FOR SALE.

/ DESIRE TO SELL ONE OF TWO, OR
both my farms, situated between FIVE and six
miles north OF Marietta. They contain about
ons hundred and seventy acres of land each.
The one is well improved in good state OF
cultivation has pretty comfortable cottage
dwelling, excellent Clubhouse and stables, good
antbuidings. good fencing with running water
In every field. The other has on it two tenant
houses, is under good fences and also running
water 10 the field. There are about one hun
dred acres Of cleared land on each place. 1
@xbuld also sell with one or both places, some
=. liable sock, horses, cattle and farming i'm
plemenis. Ny sole reason Tor wishing 10 sell
is, to get out of debt.
]. d. WADDELL.
Marietta, Jan. Eth, 1877.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-06-15

How TO MAKE Soar WITH SHucKs,
The Irwinton Southerner learns
that splendid soap can be made by
boiling together shucks and I've. A
man in Putnam county makes all his
family soap in this way, not using
one particle of greaLe. The shucks
are fed to the lyc as long as it will
eat them, and the whole liz saponi'
fed. Col. Carnes suggests that his
readers give this new plan Of making
soap trial.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-06-15


A Marietta young man recently
indited and sent the following beau>
tiful poem to his sweetheart
If | was hog,
land you dog,)
Roofing away in the yard,
And the old man should say,
Drive that hog away,
Would you worry or bite very hard
To which, she briefly replied
When I'm dog,
And you're hog
Wandering from the stye,
I'd breathe not bark,
But merely remark,
Go it, porky, root hog or die.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-06-15

DoN'T.-Dcn't sit on the fence
and white the hours away while
you passing through life. Shavingi
bring but little profit here and prob,
ably will not be needed to light the
fire where you go TO.
Don't cavort and turn back som
ersault because your industrious
chickens scratch up your squashes
They have as much right to the
bugs as you to the squashes.
Don't leave your gates open and
then blame your pigs for roofing in
the garden. They have perfect
right to go through where they can,
and to root is their nature.
Don't loaf your time away and
expect the grass to quit growing
while you are loa6ng. Grass don't
like loafers well enough for that.
Don't expect your plan.s to thrive
if you starve them to death. Plants
that are not fed viii not feed you.e
Don't starve and rob the land you
live, for if you do in the long run it
will show its appreciation By starry
ing you.
Don't expect water to run up hill
to get out of your lands after you
have filed the bitches with rubbish.
Water is lazy and would rather stay
any where than climb bill.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-06-15
w COL Carding.
WEAVING AND SPINNING.
The Lan5l Mills Manufacturing
OoMPAN Y,


VX7OULD RESPECTFULLY CALL the
w attention OF Wool growers and dealers
in wool to the fact that they are now ready to
ngage in the manufacture of the various grades
Of Jeans. Linseys, &c. We make our
CUSTOM BUSINESS
a speciality. VIII manufacture on shares Zone
half for the other) OF by the yard on rsasona
bic terr~r, and with the experience Of % years
in the manufacture of WOODEN Goods, together
with
FIRST CLASS MACHINERY
to aid us, confident we incur no risk
in warranting satisfaction 10 ali those that may
favor US with their patronage. Wool may be
shipped to Marietta. or Dorayille, (Air Line
Railroad), each package must be plainly mark
ed to this Company (and from whom)-
charges for freight coming to these Mills will
be settled by us, and cloth returned 10 station
free from charge. Merchants would do well to
order their Jeans direct from the Mills--ws
will make it to their interest to do 80. Try us
and see. We will exchange Cloth for Wool on
liberal terms; or pay market price cash. We
shall continue our bushes of Roll CGrding and
make Gas heretofore) No. Roll.
All correspondence must be addressed to
? LAUREL MILLS MANF'G CO.,
ROSWELL, Ga.
j. S. WOOD, President.
August 81 If
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-08-03
Trials for Hersey.

We look back, in these days, upon the
blunders of our fathers with pity; but IS
we turn the pages of colonial history, we
find touch of manliness about the old trials
for heresy which our degenerate heresy.huu-
tiers do not seem to possess. When Mr..
Pynehon Of the Massachusetts Colony wrote
book in which he attempted to prove that
"Christ suffered not for us those unutterable
torments of Gods wrath, commonly called
hell torments," the authorities deposed him
from the magstracy and publicly burned
his book in Boston Market and then they
had the decency to appoint Mr.. Norton of
Ipswich, under very handsome pay, consid-
ering the times. "to write an answer to the
book" Mr.. Pynchon's heresy has become
modern orthodoxy, and now, if any minis
ter dares to assert that Christ suffered gen.
uine hell torments, down goes his house I
The whole matter is pitiful, because it is so
childish. How does this case look, for an
other instanceY Robert Breok, less than a
hundred and fifty years ago, said: What
will become of the heather who never heard
- ~'-S HS'tN't NO NV pfctthu " say Jul
cannot but indulge hope that God, in
his boundless benevolence, will find out
way whereby those heather who act up to
the light they have may be saved" That
utterance was considered such a breach Of
orthodoxy, that he was arrested by an officer
with drawn sword, to be carried from
Massachusetts, 10 Connecticut for trial, and
refused bail on the ground that the offence
with which he was charged was "high treas.
on not only against the King of England
but the King of Heaven And the poo,
ass who made this utterance, and compel.
us to laugh at him, was tremendously In
earnest,-as much in earnest, say, as tn,
bodies that have placed their little ban OF
DIR. Blauvelt and Mr.. Miller And tn,
time is rapidly coming when the action o
those bodies will be regarded precisely a
we regard these mistakes of our fathers.
! Dr. j. g. Holland in "Midsun,naer Roii
| day Scribner.