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The Opelousas courier., 1882-07-15


The Board of Supervisors of the Lou
isiana State University and Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical College, concluded
their labors on yesterday at 2 o'clock
p. m, Col. Johnston, the President and
the entire Faculty were unanimously
re- elected. Hon. Samuel NJ. Robertson
was assigned the duties of cemmandant
of Cadets, and will take up his quarters
at the University building. The fnan-
cial condition is good, showing that
after all liabilities will have been met,
there will still remain i'm the treasury
some four thousand dollars, with which
to open the next session, on a sound
basis. An Executive Committee was
organized, composed of vice. President
J~astremski. Superintendent of Educa-
ton Fay. and Gen. Allen Thomas, in
whose hands the entire business man.
agement will be placed. The Univer-
sity can now BIO said to be on the per-
manent road to success. All the mem
bers of the Board were present.-B. r.
CapitoliGB- AdUOcate, 9th.
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THE
Mathushek Upright.
The only Upright Piano which will remain
permanently in tune.

During the past five years makers of Piano
Fortes have been making great efforts to pro-
duce an Upright which will stand our severe
climate. They have used several devices, and
have even tried tbut have given it upl double
iron plates. They have made their cases
strong with immense bookings of wood, and
still most of the Upright Pianos have not
proved satisfactory for this reason: That the
Tuning Pins in all of them are placed into a
wooden plank which is wedged up to the iron
plate, and which, at every change of weather,
will shrink or swell, thus causing the piano to
get out of order and out Of tune.
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trough on chUlsss

Cures 5 cases for % cts. il cash or stamps,
Mailed by John PaIham, Atlanta, Ga,
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Colossal.
SOME OF THE GREATEST. THINGS ON
EARTH.

The highest range Of mountains is
the Himalayas, the mean elevation
being estimated at from 10000 to
5000 feet.
The leftiest mountain is Monnt Ever
est or Guarisanker, of the Himalaya
Range, having an elevation of 29,0O2
feet above the sea level.
The largest theater is in the new
Opera House in Paris. It covers nearly
three acressof ground. Its cubit
10 4,2s7, 900 feet. 1t cost about 100,
600 francs.
The largest suspension bridge will
be the one now building between New
York and Brooklyn. The length of
the main span is 1895 feet 6 inches /;
the entire length of the bridge $3.50
feet.
The ~loftiest active volcano is Pope
catapetl - " smoking mountain
thirty five miles south west of Pueblo,
Mexico. 1t 10 1884 feet above the sea
level, and has a crater three miles in
cffe0mfersnce and / 600 feet deep.
The largest island in the world, which
is also regarded as a continent, is Aus
tralia. 1t is 2 800 miles in length from
east to west, and measures 1850 miles
from north to south. Its area is 1884,
257 square miles.
The len gest span Of wire in the world
is used for q telegraph in India, over
the river Kistnah, between Bezerah app
Sectanagrund. 1t is mere than 5000
feet long, Gnd is stretched between two
hills, each of which is 1000 feet high.
The largest ship in the world is the
Great Eastern. She is $50 feet long,
SO feet broad and so feet deep, being
22,g27 toms burden, 1876 gress and
/ 1884 net register. She was bnilt at
Millwall, on the Thames, and was
launched January 81, 1857.
The largest university is Oxford, in
England, in the city of the same name,
ffty.fve miles from London. 1t con.
sists of twenty one colleges. and five
halls. Oxford was a seat of learning as
early as the time of Edward the Con-
fessor. University College claims to
have been founded by Alfred.
The largest body of fresh water or
the glebe is Lake Superior-490 miles
long, 100 miles wide are its greatest
breadth, and having an area of $1,000
square miles. Its mean depth is said
to be 100, and its greatest depth about
200 fathoMs. It's surface il about 636
feet above the level of the sea.
The most extensive park ia Deer
Park, in the environs of Copenhagen,
Denmark. The Enclosure contains
abont 4,200 acres, and Id divided by a
small river. The largest pleasure
ground in the country, and Que of the
largestin the world, is Paramount Park.
Philadelphia, which coutaina 2,740
acres.
The largest tunnel in the world is
that of st. Gothard, ON the line of rail
road between Lucerne and Milan. The
summit of the tunnel is 900 feet below
the surface at Audsrmatt, and 6,6O0|
feet beneath the peak of KastelhOrn,
OF the 80. Gothard group. The tunnel
Ii 265 feet wide, and 10 feet 10 in
ches from the floor to the crown of the
aTclled roof. It is 81 miles long-lB
miles longer than Mt. Gents tunnel.
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The Pension Steal.
St. Louis lMo.) Republican.

st. Louis MOI Republican.
The chairman of the house committee
on invalid pensions estimates that ac-
cording to ordinary mortality tables.
there must still be expended on the
pension account about 81, 300. 600, 900.
This enormous sum-which is practi-
cally beyond the reach of human ina
gination-is t o be taken out of the
public pocket in annual appropriations
like that of the SIoO,O 900 900 voted away
in less than thirty minutes by the house
a few days ago. The American people
are proverbially patient, particularly
in regard to pensions, but if they sit
down and permit this colossal robbery
to go on they deserve to be pauperized.
We say robbery" because there is
every reason to believe that if the pen
sion list we're cut down to its legiti-
mate dimensions, SO that none but
those entitled to this aid could get a
cent, the aggregate would be less than
$500. OOO, 900. It 10 verse than ridicu-
lous to suppose that righteous pension
claims amount to $1,000, 900 900, yet
every nickel of it will go unless there
is az unmistakable popular protest.
All the piundering rings of the last
twenty years are as nothing compared
with this pension ring, which is able
to get a 800, 100000 appropriation
through the house in less time and with
less trouble than is usually required TO
pass a bill involving $4,000 Nobody
desires to deprive our veterans of
what they have fairly earned, but
everybody should oppose a system
which, in the name of these veterans,
enriches unscrupulous agents and their
fraudulent clients.
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The Distinguishing Charm.

A delightful fragrance of freshly gathered
flowers and spices is the distinguishing charm
of Floreston Cologne.
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IF you are suffering from indigestion
or any complaint of the Stomach or Bow
els, you will obtain great relief BY using
the PRIcKLY ASH B1TTERs, as they have
the property of gently relieving these
organs and placing them in a good
sound healthy condition. Purely veg
etable in their composition, they car do
you nc possible harm.
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Money for a RAINY Day.

For six years my daughter was sick from
and other disorders. We had used up
Dur savings on doctors, when our dominic ad-
vised us TO try Parker's Ginger Tonic. Four
effected a cure. and as q dollars worth
has kept cur family we'll over a year, We have
heen able to lay by money again for a rainy
day."-A Poor Mans Wife.
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Nervous debility, melancholy, catarrh Of
tne bladder, leucorrhea, etc., are quickly
The Opelousas courier., 1882-07-15

Up in Maine Democrats are prepar-
ing to support the Greenbaek State
ticket and the Grssnback nominee fer
Congress. The theory is that the end
justifies tho means. In Missouri the
Republicans will vote the Greenback
ticket on the same broad and compre-
hsnsive theory. This il 4 great coun-
y-St. Louis Post Dispatch, Dem.
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THE
UPRIGHT PIANOS.

In this particular, are made with a thick iron
plate drilled to receive woeden bushings nj
which the tuning pins are placed; thus the
iron pins are held directly in the tuning plate
and cannot move by any change in the wood
work.
From the tuning pin the string passes
through a strong brass agraffe screwed into
the iron plate, thence across the sounding
board bridge, and is fastened to a pin at the
other end of the iron plate, thus producing the
MOST SOLID and STRONGEST PIANO
EVER MADE.
finish, the Mathushek Upright cannot be ex-
celled, and is now rapidly coming into use,
and it's popularity constantly increases. We
will be very much obliged if You will call and
examine these pianos. We also take old pianos
in exchange at fair value.
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SALOON.

Remoucd to Bellevue Street, betcee's MITE D~e
and Geo. W. Moriartys Shops.
SHAVING, Hair-Cutting,. Dyelng, Sn"'
y pooling, &c, done in the latest ssyr "tsed.
Prices moderate satisfaction guarantee
~ Hair-cutting by machinery; ,,rr.1 r
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and at an annual rental OLA cents per acre.
The bill, in its character, is experimental,
and is designed to bring individual capital
TO the reclamation of what Is now conceded
to be awaste. No loss can possibly attend
this experiment, either on the part of the
lessee or the United States.
The Kaufman Star says: French & Porter
have bought within the last four weeks
over seventy-tiye tons of bones, for which
trey have paid IS ton, thus circulating
over 5000 in the county among the people
They still want several hundred tons, and
we make note of the fact for the benefit of
our readers so that they may gather if they
so desire. There can be made from So to SIS
per day at the business.
That it does not pay to deal unfairly with
our foreign customers is strikingly shown
as an exchange observes in the great fall
ing oil in our export trade of butter and
cheese, large proportion of this decrease
being unquestionably due to adulteration
IN the manufacture of these articles, and to
the fact that large quantities of oleomarger-
inc and lard cheese have been sold by shin
pers to Europe as genuine butter and mix
cheese. The average export of cheese dur
ing 1850 was over 100000 pounds a week
Last year the average was scarcely over L.
OOO,OOO pounds a week. During 1880 the ey-
ports of butter averaged about $4,000
100000 pounds week. Last year the aver
age was less than 100000 pounds week.
The export trade in oeomargerine sold I'M.
der Its lawful name, has also declined.
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He leaves the stock at the end -
p per at tne ports and the mills Al all =, sept,
o oa,e 80 whereas, last year this ,.aiY W
242,ooo, and was found ouite too item vasI'
mills OF all Great Britain wer vo on Slhsl, Is 1,
ABOUT 25,0O0 bales, and one M N.Y. ureuiiel u
corner Liverpool market ana in was ali,
or $40 per bale out of English saueels I
long-crop shorts 'sn splnnen !,
80 much for Ellison and b;s
figures. ~iu MS way fVS.
"A word now as to some ,o..
lact lthat Is Ellison says sol tIo, ,S; 1t d
cotton SoIo averaged last year 456 1, name Ansis
a, Also a fact wide Financial N
tnat TO January | this cron bas NnfOng
ABOUT twelve pounds per bala n ~. Teiss
on a hye ,and-one-half million o ess' Mat,1
ence of l39, 900 bales. '" crop adistJ
1t is a fact that the coror..
. America, Canada and Mckee, wil IPuoa 4
2,l5O,00O bales. 'N'Vo VIII nql|
Here, then, are 80 600 baIos -,
Eillson must virtually add TO hi SIS g. Y
american crop-that is, in o,das o-iaA|
Europe the same small stock oS !, y y Isa|
OF September last year, an Asa Hs !. Ties
OF G,i54, 900 bales.will be reoni n%,If''aA q
~ IS also fact that the onlv al.
which last year made a close os sialAo'e|
the crop, this year, after fairlv e eSiL,Ilaal
al sources of information. now ' aal'
lts carrier estimate of O. 5.n00 Ooo "uues
1T is a further fact thai INK o stup
substantially confirmed nyaij otb es.' i,
lties, and, more important still i Is, auiae|
ca by the current movement and nr OUIls
able indications. "'iu ulnisa
substantial confirmation, of
mate OF cotton crop is to come S n;,i =
per cent. Of the out-turn, We wil' Sa ,I
fore, give Mr. Ellison and his fr %,,ii 'lea
are sorely in need the benefit Of w "
o,Zo0 200 bales. From such cron th uVl
get . l0O, 600 bales, He said thew To MY
100 GOO bales of ass lbs, equal ~ VIS sG NJ
DaleS OF such as we are sending To, ~,
IS deficiency Of l,19O,OO0 bales '''
Figures may be made to fllith,,
time, but nothing but cotton Will s asa
the purpose after short while.H @A
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GRAIN AND BREADSTUFfS.

THE operations in grain to-day wen
large, and were confined to one car'9il
oats shipped to Toyah Tor Fort lAls|
There were few wagon.loads OF oats v T.
market, which were readily taken al alo-
tons. AS will be seen below, flour hs
clined in this market ten cents per sl'A4'
is fra ut the decline.
To-DAY's QUOTATIONS.
WHEAT-sl GOAL %. rs per grade; Nl'nN7
81 90 TO ! IL on street. 10 from store
CoRS-ln ear, Sif90 shclled corn, u "
0ATs-ln bulk, 52@5jc "a.
RYE-Scarce. We quote per bushel ,i .t'
BARLEY-SCnrce. Good demand, IVa ~
BRAN--We quote at mills 81 .Oal " W."
FLoUR-we quote City Mills rs follows xu|
81 90 XXXN, sS G.; extra 81 20 wv q
Imported: Xxx, per cwL 81 ~ MA
XNNX 50 SIS choice family, 81 % fancy -
CoRSNgAl-Per bushel. 81 10 ,,s~|
In Chicago there was maictll' Nv
in wheat. II opened on the eNoh9sS
l.20 for March, and closed @ l'..s n
cents and thrcc.cighths neluNyessI.
Corn opened at 572 for March I'd e'0SN
5IA, u cent under the DAY before, :, ID,
LONDON, February 0--The MAR :,
Express, in It's review OF the Brlusa
trade, the past week, says Tue 9o t..s,
Of the wheat plant is very sausi,''gy
The native grain trade is unchangeNi
cign hrcadsiuirs are nominally puNsV Az
There Is an ample supply oi iOitls" M
but trade il very slow. There y h, 7,
small spot supply. Maize Is praeu,,l9 6 \
changed. Oats are very du OF saw
goes of coas, nrc dull; closing Nsis
Saturday. The casterly winds d, q
California ships, and the rise ~ p.u .,.,, I'd
prejudice business. finoen carfOe,s, a i.,s;
Of which six were sold and one WI'aIiila N
On Friday 52s 6d was refused lor ~, W. N
fornia, and his for Oregon. lra1ps rs.is
ward is very inanimate. sales o. -, ~,
wheat during the week, 5O'QsV Mad
i6s Id per quarter. against SV,o4 l,sli,
at i2s "a per quarter the corie'F
week last year. al, I'D
A wool and wheat grower says
belief that the real reason why VVh s n
crops only yield halfas much Is - -, n
glish crop, Is, that IN England ia au ,s
i1c sheep as grain growers, whl,s r,Sksr
consider them wool and mutton mi ma
The wheat farmers are plowing W.
with the weather MS warm q We III
there Is plenty Of time for cold snaL M
A good field OF corn Is growing y A,
sia county, Florida. II was rlah'eN
of December.
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FUTURES.

The sales of futures in this CITY wa,s d,
bales ofcotton, 1000 bushels of co,n v
l,2OO bushels of wheat. wan q
There seems to be general demo,,y,
tion OF the future cotton business bot5 !.
this country and Europe. In New vi
the decline to-day was twenty-five nsis,,
Tor April, and seven points in NpFT VA M
leans, In Liverpool there was a decIi,s n
q sixteenth. The sales in New YorE n,
New Orleans were enormous. reacbip,Sl
OoO bales. A larger portion of tbe,e III,
were probably made to cover former oc ~,
tions. '''D''' VFaF
As an evidence of the immense amou,i N
futures sold in New York. it is onlv 'I Ts :
essary TO say that those of cotton AIM,
reached last year the enormous sum Of Il.
700,000000. -"' " "
NEW YORK, February 0.-Future, o,-,l
weak at u decline since last evening n !,
pOints-April II &c. They advanced three Nm
during the day, but the reaction was shcriivJ
and al the close Aprils sold at ii&adsSs
since yesterday OF twenty.four points as
l01, 0jq.
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PROVISIONS

As will be seen by our reports t ,s,.
been n lirht advance IN meats IN wv
but not enough to affect sales. ln,I1
steady demand here for meats ny, ~ u
which Is gradually enlarging. wv y
to-day;
MRATs AND LARD. IA
PAcoS-fons clear sides l2SV ~
i2,,, breakfast bacon isac a.. .Aoa 4
DRy sALr--Long clear sides III
iihc.
HAss-Canvas.ed isI. -, ,,sll
LARp-Ticre i2seslsc; hall ri,s,asi,s
pr,ls. 9 IA ~ lbs. l3a "a lac. = lhs ~ irhictf
The stock OF lard on hand 10 w
s,imated at il0, 600 to iil.vp tieroe a |
II Is expected that the receips ~
during the coming week will '"'
10000 10 10000.
Continued on Third fags.
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COMMERCIAL.

DALLAS, February g-Perhaps few Of our
people know the quality OF beef they eat
In Texas. In conversation with one OF our
most prominent butchers on this subject
he informed the HkRALp that the beef
hutchcred and sold 10 this city is not above
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-10

The, best cattle that are brought to this
market brings about four and half cents.
ana they are all shipped to st. Louis, Chi.
cago, Memphis or New Orleans. In those
cities these cattle are graded and sorted and
the smoothest and latest are sent to New
York and Boston, where they
again undergo inspection and the
choicest are shipped to the European mar
kets or slaughtered and sent across the
ocean in relrigerating vessels. In this city
the cattle killed for home consumption are
bought at figures ranging from three and
quarter TO three and three-quartpr cents,
and are below an average of those sent
north; The denizens of st. Louis and Chi
cago do not thrive on the best beef brought
there for sale, but revel ON the loins of those
cattle that will not do for shipment to the
more favored people living on the
soaboard, and they in turn
smack their lips over the
beet that Europeans would discard as I'M
suitable to their beef-eating tastes. In CON
templatlng these facts, is it any wonder that
the people OF Texas, state noted for its
vast herds of flowing kline and browsing
sheep should tax their stomachs by digest
ing ham aud bacon, shipped from the
porcine localities of the north?
The retail business of our CITY. for the
past two days, has been rather Quiet, but
the fair weather Of to-day was 700 tempting
tor ladies to remain at home, and Il goodly
number were on the streets indulging in
the destinations of shopping. In the whole
sale trade there was nothing developed be-
yond the usual shipments on orders by
man, few country merchants were in
the city purchasing, principally from the
western counties
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THERE were very few bales of cotton 70.
ceived in this city to-day Dallas, at this
season, never for day, fails to get some of
the fleecy staple, but the amount is too
small to be worthy OF notice. Prices are
nominal and UNCHANGED
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Whereas last year during the same
period there was received from these sources
but l,5S5, 900 bales, and the movement from
them all is VIGOROUSLY earlier, and for the
same reason that II had been earlier In this
country, to-wi,; earlier maturity and
greatly. increased facilities for transportn.
ton. BY this trick of figures he gains ana.
600 bales easily.
Then he as easily and as quietly gains
5000 by figuring European CONSUMPTION
at 1000 bales per week less than he esti.
mated II in October, and In the same way
gains 1000 bales at the expense of Ameri.
can consumption and 1000 by taking Il
from the new crop.
In this convenient way he supplies 400.
900 bales Of the deficiency. but even this
will not answer. his purpose Of making a
8, 500 900 crop suffice.
"Yet, he Is equal 10. the necessity, and
mark how cleverly he hides the remaining
efficiency Of GO,00e 10 $1,000 bales. Ii
ok mo some time 20 and how Il was done.
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Trains arrive and leave Austin station as fol.
lows: No mail and express arrives ut Cat m. (;
No 4 mail and express leaves ut $50 am.
Connectons--N TcNarkana, with all trains on
81, Louis, Iron Mountain n Southern Railroad,
for all points North, East and Southeast. Al
Longviow Junction and Mincola, with all trains
for International Railroad for Tyler Palestine
Houston, Austin, Galveston and san Antonio
AZ Dallas, with trains Of the Houston & Texas
Central Rwy, for CorSicana, MeNin, Bremond
Waco. Calvert BRYAN, Hampstead, Brrnham
and all points N Middle and southern Texas
at sherman, with II Il 4 q R'y, for all points
on the line of that road. At Fort Worth. with
stages for all points In Western Texas. Al
shreveport with Red River steamers fot
New Orleans fullman's Palace sleeping Cars
nom Fort Worth, Dallas and sherman 10 81
Louis. ANY Information In regard To rates for
ucights or passage, time and connections will
be Cheeriully given on application To Geo.
Noble ucn'l supL Marshall, Texas; w. New.
man, q. J, A., Marshall, Texas or Il. W, Thomp.
son, q. r. 4 T. A. Marshall Texas.
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New ORLEANS, February 9.-Fuures Oyri
veal ut decline since yesterday OF ten piz
ON the second Gull they recovered the 10, a
closed steady at II GO, seven points uadg N
day before. Sales 2O7, COO
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-09
Fidelity to Party.

Editor Morning Nea0s: The anecdote
of John Randolph, published in your
issue of Friday, 9th inst, illustrates the
heightened fidelity to political party that
prevailed among the chivalrous gentle
men of that period, whose practice, as
well as theory, was guided by the Dem
cratic maxim, principles, not men. "
ga rat" as Independents and boilers
were then called, was held in as great
contempt as a pickpOcket, and desPlsed
nv the honorable men of both SIDES,
whose social intercourse was not affected
nv differences of political sentiments.
It was this knightly regard for the
constitutional right Of opinion and
faithfulness to party that gave the adj
ministrations of Jefferson, Madison and
Jackson their strength, and mace the
limited States the great and powerful
country it has become-for what nave
fine Wing or Republican, or any other
marty done to advance it to greatnessF
The Democratic party has always been
progressive, keeping time WIN tne n9u!s
as they encircle the earth, Whlie snelr
opponents merely marked time Where
they stood without forging ahead. Snc1
is the summary of parties in the United
States, and now that we have the secu-
rity of federal union as originally pro-
iected by Mr.. Madison, let the South
recognize the fact that its political IN
duence in the National Government Will
depend upon fidelity to the National
Democratic party, and not upon per-
sonal prejudices.
DEMOCRAT OF THE OLD SCHOOL.
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Col George s. Owens.

Col. George S. Owens, who has been
just elected to the State Legislature from
Chatham county, is one Of the most
thoroughly representative men in this
section of the State He is at present
not only one of our most prominent
planters, but he has also had consider
able experience in that profession
which is popularity supposed to specially
educate men in the science of states
manship-the law. While at the bar
he made his mark, though it has been
twenty years or more since he gave up
his practice.
He does not go the State Legislature
as a novice. In 1S65-66, during the first
session of that body after the State had
been reconstructed the first time, and
during Governor Jenkins admins
tration, he served this district as State
Senator, and was regarded as one of the
most competent men in that assembly.
This was an unusual honor, too for in
those days of sore trouble Georgia turned
to her ablest and most eminent sons to
lead her out of her difficulties.
Col. Owens is a forcible and clear head
ed debater, man of strong character,
honest and honorable in every respect, and
fearless in the expression of his opinion
of men or measures. He will reflect
credit upon the county, the Legislature,
and the excellent delegation of which he
is q member.