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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04
The Kansas Republicans declare that rail.

The Kansas Republicans declare that rail-
roads are thingsthat "exist by the breath
Of legislative enactment The same philo-
isophers hold tbat'money is something crea-
ted by governmental fat. Why, then, should
men labor to get money, and why pay out
money for labor and iron and other things
used intbuilding railroads? Why not fill
the valleys to the mountain tops With money
by government, fat, and call railroad to
every farmhouse into existence by the
- breath OF legislative enactment? ~ CHI.
cdgo Times. t'j ]. n
We are ready to resume, and business.
will improve by resumption, say the BUSH
ness-men OF Cincinnati. No more tinker
ing With the currency andmnnetarysystem
lot the country, lis the sentiment OF business
men in CincinnatL- tRncinndi' Gonnadrt!
lciol.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04

Sn,eeef, by which he IS made to say that re,
dnndant circulation should 90 into United
STATES bonds bonds bearing too low an itl-
5fa s for Investment. But he omitted to
foil us who would be tho holders OF the
currency es chat would agree theirs was re-
dnndant, and particularly 50 much 80 as 70
fa1sa bonds without compromising interest.
The truth lis people have less sense about
money than about .anYtn inc. else. II part IS
redundant all is-iu this, that all Is worm OF
only the saI1e. htssis ".
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04
RACES.
COMPETITIVE DRIE.L.
COMPETITIVE DRILL.
PREMIUMS 5000.

A COMPETITIVE DRILL, by the white military
com panies of the State, Will take place the Fair
Grounds Of the State Agricultural Society on the
third day of the next Fair. The following premiums
will be awarded: $500 to the bcst-dried company,
$500 to The second best, and 500 To the third best
The awards will be made by committee OF officers
In the active service Of the United States army.
Arrangements will also be made for Il SHAM Dat
TIE on the next day. If deemed practicable by the
For special information, apply to Cap
Richmond, Va. W. G. KNIGHT
Secretary Virginia State Agricultural Society.
AUGUST 80, 1878. au 31-S5t
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04

Whenever anybody attempts to drive you
out Of the party on account OF your imam
cial views, Just quietly advise him to PACK
up his buds and leave himself.-Chlcdgo
Inter- Ocean (Rep.)
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04
HOTELS.
T;H STER HOUSE,
''"' CHESTER, VA.
JOSEPH II. sNEAD, PROPRIETOR

This house Is located on the Richmond and Peters
burg railroad, thirteen miles from Kichmond, and
nine from Petersburg. .'E:t a'E..i"@t.I} 8 -
TERMS Per day, $3.50 to s2-according to loea-
ton OF rooms, length OF STAY, &c.
The railroad authorities furnish hoarders at this
house passes TO and from ether city IS per month;
and to persons building on The Chester Tractn u
free pass for ten years each dwelinghouse erected
and pied by . family OF white persons.
au 10-lm n. !. -. sy.se - U.-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04

! The. INTEREST ON THE PUBLIC DEBT
For the benefit OF Mr.. NEwBERRY let us look
into this matter. The recapitulation OF the
statement OF the public debt of the United
States for the month of August, 1878, just
issued, Is as follows: ,,...ss -.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04

h VILLAGES ard Village life, scith Hints ffor.
/ their Improvement. ByNATHASIEL HILL
YER EGI.EsToN, New York !: HARPER s.
4 BROTHERS.
This is n work OF value that is calculated
to improve the popular ideas about the
beauties sof. thescenesthat nature has spread
Tor the qualification and comfort OF man,
and furthermore to Improve the taste and
practical skill OF people for making the most
oinaturai beauties and advantage sof hill and
dale, OF ,eliff, and dell, and stream and foun-
faint Tiles asthor develops his theme IN q
deailed and -skiltnl smanns q, and Offers sulg:.,
gestions about the Improvement Of grounds
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04
SPECIAL sgrrc,,
a1 COHEN BROTHERS ARE NOW
OFFERING UNsURPAssEDIS INDUCEMENTS
-. IN A LARGE STOCK OF KfD.GLOyEs
OF ELEGANT QUALITY.

s.A-''Sh h$<aispi< SIDth w .hID-GLOVES
OF ELEGANT QUALITY.
120 dozen LADIES' DARK SHADES Two.prr-
% dozen LADIES' BLACK Two-BtrTTov >,
--s go and 75c.: ~ -
so dozen LADIES' BLACK TuPEE-Br,rrov =,
75c., formerly sold al 1925:
81 dozen LADIES' TWO-BCTToS OPERA and
WHITE at 75c.
10 dozen LADIES' FOUR-BUTTOS WHITE and
OPERA at 81, reduced from $3.50.
% dozen GENTLEMEN's OPERA SHADES. in
elegant quality. at Soc:
= dozen GENTLEMEN'sD OG-sKIS DRIVING.
GLOVES at 81, formerly sold aI.7;
The best $3.50 SILKS tBonne,'s ,nsnafuc,nrs,
ever offered in this city +, now coli =,
COHEN BROTHERS, for =. o5 n.r ya, u.
GUINET'S CACHEMIRE satin rnt,! ."'n'
s1.90, real valuc of which - s2.70:
Is pieces various qualities of tie most ,,,,,...
BRANDS Just received
Full assortment OF C0LonED sILHs ant
SATINS ''''
BLACK CASHMERE at zoe. reduced from 60.
at 6Oc. reduced from 75c., al Co. reduce. ,..'
Soc, ut S7'4c. sold last season Il: 20: Euppts
CLOTH at SOC. warranted worth SOC . pOun,
ZINE HENRIETTA CLOTH. TANlsF ,rt
TRAL1AN GRAPES. ALL-WoUL MoI.<r
LAME, ana other MOURNING GOODS 1t CoIIrv
BROTHERS at considerable reelection from, H..
season the largest aud best asscrtulcE: Of corr.
FAULTS ENGLISH GRAPES ever offered f., ,t,.
city; 40-BONE HlP-GOEE CGi.sETS =, CORY
BROTHERS for zoe; l1G-HuNF SILK rr
BROIDERED at SIZE: 7j-BONf. eirsam, gr,I;,,.
1t Csc: DIR. WARMERS HEALTH CorSFTS
ABDOMINAL. NURSERY. ROMAN. CORK mai
many other styles constantly oH hand: A largo .,t
OF SMYRNA, TORClION. and VAL TNEIFEZES
LACES just received 40 dozen LADIES' pf,pt,
LINEN UhNDKERCTlEFS ~ &C.: loo ro,.r
LADIES' PURE LINEN MANUFACTURERS -.
Gle: Il large stock of LADIES and GENT J.
MEMS LINEN ltANDkERCiiiEF> IN yario,i.
qualities 1t great bargain: s,-",> Of lOO.Y an
SEW 1NG-SILk, equal To The bc,. for pc j,. lm,,
LADIES WHITE HOSE 1T D.. pair II ,IuI -"
LADIES STRIPED HOSE az lUc. ii pair: ifIn
largest assortment of ENGLISH HOSE in Co,io"
Isle Thread, ahd SILK now Offered il the city ar re-,
duced rates; 2 bales Of real RUSSIA CRASH a.
&C.; case Of FRENCH DAMA>K TOWFL>,,
50 and 1880 per c0Zcn. worth fully :lJ: 80 doc.
FRENCH DAMASk TOWELS Il. $50 former,
sold at $3.50.
Many other great bargains. aa3l
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04
90

II Miss Polly MALONE will name one
businessman, or one prominent man "a 9, OF any
class, in Virginia, who, with that ancient
beldame, favors the issue Of greenbacks IRE
deemable in' nothing" and holds that by
such a course Of suicidal folly this country
could fix its own prices for wheat, cotton,
tobacco, gold, silver, and oil others Of our
native products, then NE will consider the
p orl Of discussing the silly proposition
which Miss PoLLY maintains as to the infu-
ence 81 the Bank Of England. 49,. y.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04

lJT SILKSl SILKS! SILKS "A large
assortment of BLACK, COLORED, STRIPED, and
PLAID SILKS can now be had very cheap at
seq LEVY BROTHERS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04
MEETINGS..

RICHMOND, FRED'G AND POTOMAC X. X. Co.,
- - SECEETARY'S OFFICE,
RICHMOND. VA, August 20. 1878.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a
~ CALLED MEETING of the stockholders OF
ths company VIII ne held ut It's Office. in the city of
Richmond, Va on FRIDAY, September 20, 1875,
Of / O'Clock, A. NJ.
j. i. WINSTON,
an 2O-td Secretary.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04

The company now there is a .a.-e one. AMI MANY
of them will remain until the sea- II. clo>,.,.
au 3l-lw join l.. EUEANk
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04

CLorns'
CASSIMEEES, AMI
vE-TiNG>.
LARGE STOCK or All II"
DESIRABLE STYLES
ENGLISH AND FEENtN
SUrTINGS.
AND WILL III
MADETo ORDER IN RICHMOND, VA"
BOTTOM PRICES.
GIVE Us \ CALL.
+. b. SPENCE K son.
aule Merchant Tailor. 1890 Main street
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04
MT SYCLE BROTHERS.
SYCLE BROTHERS

SYCLE BROTHERS
are now receiving NEW GOODS daily; will open
new goods daily from now until 10th Of September.
We just opened 60:
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04
spECIIAL NOTICES.

ME- BLANKETS, EFLANNELs, AND
CANTON FLANNELS arc now being sold very
cheap at rse21 LEVY BROTHERS..
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04

1000 PAIRS OF BLANKETS, ...
from 81 to $3.50. The goods were bought lately at
the auction sales Parties Wishing Blankets should
supply themselves before cold weather, and examine
them before purchasing elsewhere.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04

-R; 81 Since writing the above . have seen
in the papers nm extract from Mr.. Douglass
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-11
gte 9ailp Atgas.
Rock rsEAHD,...........xE rrnors
Illinois Patents.

aa e 4lHno1s Patents. sag 4.
List of patents granted to the inventors
OF Illinois, for the week ending, April %,
1873, each patent in the list bearing the
date. Reported expressly for the Rock
Island ARGUS by F. A. Lehman, solicitor
OF patents, Washington. D. c.:
j. y. Wilson-C hicago-trimmers for
sewing machines.
w. MeCarroll- Chicago-fuel boxes,
A. Observation-Disclosures ateh-
l.. Bordewi:eh- Chicago-Stilts,
J. Observation-Disclosures.
U: Eamshaw-Chicago-6re Innings, SC.
for furnaces. ez
r. n. Tooker -Chicago-6re alarm and
signal boxes. = :.
A. B. Lawther -Chicago-Machines for
treating Oleaginous seeds for the extraction
of oil .r,. ~.z.e
M. Lauehlin-Chicaqo--compounds for
lining barrels.
W. Ell. Pitts. -Chicago-mounted horse
powers. ~ - - -
". d. Pltts-Chieago-grain separator.
Il. Observation-Disclosures.
), 1. Smith-Aurora-harness pads.
n. Burnham-Amboy-staple hooks.
J. II. Bar-Redmond-- harrows.
j. Smith-Oswego-corn cultivators,
j. a. Risdon-Sycamore-horse shoes.
J; Observation-Disclosures.
w. X. White-Neogo-fences.
Il. ?. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for
stenciling pens.
j.. Il K. Shane-Pecatomica-a 6. W.
Notwithstanding devices.
u. I'll. Observation-Disclosures ac-
coutrements.
T. Ii. Observation-Disclosures p,anters
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-11
ALLAN LINE

OCEAN MAIL STEAM6kdlRSs
VIA QUEBEC, VIA BALTIMORE.
PASSAGE al classes between princIpal points In
Europe and Amerca aG lowest rates Aec0mmGa na
Cabin, $50 20 $685. lntermediase SO Enld- steer
shortest Sea Route superior Ships Experienced Of
aeers. Disciplined Crews. safety the governing
,EMigrant and steerage PASSENGERS. through
20 al points at special rates. ssr t4{s5ass5 ,aes9
Hrms as ourselves. ~ IL ssgB ~ ika 81 fas "
.ARpiyte ALLAN q GO. Gen Agenta sus
~ LszNale-st. Chicago
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-11
OPINIONS OF PRESS

~4 A4SAONS O6 MISS
From st. Louis Globe DezsocrGt1
DIR. WHITTIER, GIT St. Charles street, reg.
ular graduate of medicine, has been longer
engaged in the treatment of chronic diseases
than any other physician in the city. Nervous
debility, blood diseases, al impediments to
marriage. Cali or write. Circular FREQ. Safe
medicines; moderate charges.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-11
Avery -Galesburg-corn planters.
Abandoned at Sea.

At all times ships of one kind or another
are floating about at sea, abandoned by
officers and crew. in what seems hope
less condition. Some are dismantled and
mere huiks. some are swimming keel up
wards, some are water logged, but being
laden with timber will not sink, but are
driven hither and thither as the wind and
waves may direct. So people afflicted with
catarrh, bronchitis, aad consumption, are
abandoned by physicians and friends as in
durable. yet thousands of such are annually
restored to perfect health by the use of DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy and DR.. Pierce S
Golden Medical Discovery. The Catarrh
Remedy is unequaled as a soothing and
healing local application, while the Discov-
cry purifes and enriches the blood and im-
parts tone and yigor to the whole system.
VIDoLIA, La, Aaoril l7tb 1877.
DIR. PIERCE:
Dear Sir suffered for twelve years with
that most offensive and loathsome OF all
disease-catarrh. My taste and smell
were completely destroyed. I procured a
supply of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and
your Golden Medical Discovery, which
used according to directions, and a COM
plste and permanent cure was speedily af-
fected. take pleasure in recommending
them to all afflicted.
Ever thankfully yours,
CLARA E. HUNT.
WADING RIVER, Burlington Co.. " j.
Feb. 2Sth. 1877.
DR.. PIERCE:
Dear Sr-Your Goulden Medical Dis
covery is the best medicine for coughs,
colds, and consumption. | ever knew. It
has saved my life.
Respectfully yours,
HELEN B. MCANNEY.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-11
You Can be Happy

If you will stop all of your extravagapt and
wrong notions in doctoring yourself aud
families with expensive doctors or humbug
cure alls, that do harm always. and use
only natures simple remedies for all your
aim ents-you will be wise. well and happy.
and save great expense The greatest
remedy for this, the great. wise and good
will tell you. is Hop Bitters believe it.
See Proverbs" in another column.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-11
Scratch No More-."Etching Piles

symptoms of which are moisture, like per-
SEPARATION. intense itching. particularly
when undressing, OF after getting warm in
bed. increased by scratching, might think
rin worms were crawling in and about the
rectam, oftentimes shows itself around the
private parts A pleasant and safe cure
in every case is "Swayne's Ointment. J"
If allowed to continue. very serious results
may follow. 1t also cures letter, BARRIERS
itch, scald head. ring worm, blotches. all
scaly, crusty, itchy skin eruptiens Sent
by mail to any address on receipt of price,
so cents box, or three boxes for $l.25.
by DR.. Swayne & Son. Philadelphia. Sold
by all leading druggists. At wholesale and
retail by John Bengston, Rock Island.
Printing and binding executed neat
quick and CHEAP at THE ARGUS HpFGR.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-11

Printing and binding executed neal
quick and cheap at THE ARGUS HEFGE.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-11
Or. BONAPARTE & co.

N@ Great combinations OF pro-
M#IMEIN sseaRANAAaaSA fessional talent and exper-
hsNllhs ssaWlA fence OF Europe and America
EEzH# %akiH are the men 10 consult. This
EEEMSs%sAES is the only Office in the city
stSSM ~ M VIII re permanent cure Of Pri
vate Diseases can be obtained without the use of
Mercury or change of diet or business,
We guarantee to cure gon0rrhea, gleet, syphilis,
impotency noctural emissions, female complaints,
in short every posrfbe form and variety of Sexual
Disease Cures rapid thorough and permanent, ano
fees moderate We will admit ali persons to onr
museum free who purchase either of our books.
Medical Treatise. price so cents; the Vado Meeum
OF Nature, price 81. Pocket Guide sent for TIVE
three cent stamps Gail or address
Drs. BONAPAhTE q REYNOLDS,
1872 Sycamore St., CINCINNATI. OHIO.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-11

The committee on elections on Wednes-
day disposed of the South Carolinn con-
tested election case of Richardson, dem
ocrat, against Rainey the sitting member.
A majority report CT the committee will be
presented declaring the seat vacant, and a
minority report in favor of retaining the
present incumbent
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-11
.sss-
PALM SOAP.
PURE PALM SOAP
A PaTLADELpHIA SPECIALITY,

a PHILADELPHIA SPECIALITY
forty years. and for sale by more than
equal in quality or cheapness, for Bath and Toilet
use, being made OF IIBERIAN OIL from the
PALM TREE. Packed in boxes containing two,
three, five or eight dozen. liberal discount to
Wholesale Dealers. Manufactured by GRAVES q
SON. 1905 Christian street, Philadelphia. Ii is
used by the Oldest resident families. physicians,
and many public Institutions the American Hotel
Baths, Public Ledger Post Office, Water De-
partment, and the Turkish Baths.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-30
Make Home Bright.

In view of the approaching cold, dark
days and nights of winter, we sheald like
to put in plea for warmth and light in
the household. If economy is necessary,
as it will doubtless be in many homes, let
it take some other direction, and though
there be fewer pies and cakes, less trim
ming on the children's dresses, and pipes
are smoked instead of cigars, let there be
good fire on the hearth, and let the sit
ting-room lamp burn brightly. Economy
In these experimenting stinting them
is no economy. Eyesight injured by a
dim light may never be regained, and shiv-
ering over an insufficient fire often causes
sickness or death, ten times as expensive
as the fuel saved would have been.
Fires in sleeping-rooms for young peo-
pie in good health are, we believe, wholly
unnecessary. Plenty Of cover and carpet,
at least at the bedside, will keep up whole
some warmth even with the thermometer
down to zero. But good fire in the sit
ting-rOom in cold weather is essential both
to health and comfort. Well-meaning
men, who do not intend to be unkind, Of
ten grumble over the quantity of fuel con-
sumed, and still more over the cost of it,
forgetting that to "cherish" wife she
must at least be kept warm, and anxious
wives, dreading such grumbling, shiver
over 4 few Goals, hoping to save the ex-
pense in fuel. To what good? Their
work is half done, with numbed fingers,
neuralgia probably sends them to bed if
pneumonia does not, the children are cross
and crying with blue noses and chilblains,
and the comfort of the family is wholly up
set. Sift the elders, save the chips, burn
the corn-cobs, which make a splendid fire
by the way; be as economical as you like
in fuel, but not at the cost of health.
And men and boys, see that the wood is
hauled and cut. 'He that provideth not
for his own household is worse than an
infdel, and the wood pile is as important
as either the pork barrel or meat tub.
There is little choice between being hungry
and cold. Even green wood makes a good
fire if split fine enough, and the boy who
looks out for it is an unspeakable help
to his mother.
Who can tell how much of the fascina-
tion of the country tavern or the city bar
room is due to their bright light and blaz-
ing fires. Think of that wives and moth
ers, and eight the devil with fire."
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-30
Warmth & Ventilation Conducive to Health

Carl Pfeiffer, Of New York, in report
upon Sanitary relations to health princi-
Piles of architecture" published in the
transactions of the American Public Health
Association, Vol. l, page 149, thus treats
of this subject:-"One of the first princi
pies of architecture in its relations to hy
giene is that all the materials of building
should be dry and porous before it is in
habited, and should be subsequently so
kept. The very furniture of house can
chill, and produce rheumatic affections. if
it is damp and has been long in an unheat
ed room, for in that case it acts as a power
OF suction upon our body, drawing out its
vital heat. 1t is one of the barbarisms of
vulgar belief that cold bed rooms are con-
sidered magazines of health; they are
rather breeders of disease, unless they also
have ventilation. People 20 to sleep in
air-tight cold rooms, in the belief that it is
healthy, particularly if they have the bed
room well aired in the morning. Yet all
the night long the air in the room stays
unmoved and gets slowly poisoned, while
the evaporation Of the body settles upon
the walls and makes them more and more
air-tight. If any one fresh from the outer
pure air enters such a room, he is almost
nauseated by the vitiated atmosphere.
Cold rooms in winter time are not only
uncomfortable for the poor, but active
agents of producing disease; and the phe-
nomenon of epidemics in cold weather.
which has excited SO much wonder-is
very natural consequence of neglected VEN
tllation; and it is one of the chief means
of checking these winter diseases and cpl
denies that DR.. Won Pettenkofer urges
governments, above all things, to supply
the poor with fuel in winter. To have
ventilation there must be difference be-
tween the air in the house and the outside
air; just as to get ventilation by means
of chimneys you must have fire in the
chimneys. 1t is only when this difference
exists, when there is cold layer of air
pressing the warmer air upward that ven
tilation results. But in mis- cold room the
poor man has no ventilation, and he is thus
forced by the cold not only to freeze, but
also to breathe vitiated atmosphere"
Cold, free, fresh air outside the house
is indeed quite different thing from cold,
putrid air inside the house; q fact which,
in examining the causes of diseases, is too
often overlooked. Chimneys and fues
that have no fire in them, far from venti-
lating, may rather become the means of
boarding and sweeping down disease into
the room.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-30
What we Note.

We take note of all the rascality which
comes to the surface in public and bust.
ness life, but little account is taken of the
sterling honesty, without which the gigan-
tic business operations of the community
could not be carried on a day. Here aud
there are breaches of trust, but as few,
perhaps, in proportion to population and
the magnitude Of the business conducted
as in any former period. Every day mil.
lions are changing hands on the simple
faith in the verbal promises of men. They
make their promises good. One cannot 20
amiss Of men who have made their prom
ises good when the immediate losses in
CURED thereby have ranged from fifty
thousand up to a quarter of a million oi
dollars. No note is made Of such instan-
ces. But when some petty rascal, or a
great one, possibly, commits a breach of
trust, everybody is made acquainted with
that fact; and not few raise the question,
sis there any honesty in the community
Yes, there is great deal of honesty and a
great deal of morality, and these are at the
foundation of the vast business which is
conducted from day to day. Moreover
there Is great deal of honesty in the
ranks of laboring men, in which may be
included all the wage earning class. Any
person who is experienced in business, EN-
ploying large numbers of men, can testify
to this fact.