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Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

THE application Of Mrs. Mary Mil
ler for a license as the master of a
steamboat has been referred by the
Secretary of the Treasury to the local
inspectors Of the New Orleans district,
with instructions, if she is found COM
petent on examination, to issue to her
the desired license. This is just as it
should be. Mrs. Miller took charge Of
her husbands steamboat during his
protracted illness and ran it as
well as anybody could. When her
husband died she applied for license
as master, and, if she can pass the
proper examination, she should have it.
We see no reason why a woman cannot
be a successful chief officer on steam
boat as well as in some other places.
Time and again woman has proved her
self a successful chief officer in the
household. Whatever woman does,
she generally does well, and that is
more than we can say of man. We are
in favor of woman's right to earn her
living in any honest way she may
select.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

R. B. HAYES, who was about the
White House at Washington for four
years, does not talk politics to reporters.
When reporter calls to interview him
his wife comes in and asks Ruther-
ford to go out and see if two turkeys
aren't missing from her flock, and
Rutherford ambles away in hurry.
Then the reporter is asked to state his
business. When he says he will wait for
MI. Hayes, she tells him it is not
necessary, and that Rutherford will not
be back till he has seen the chickens
safely to roost, MIXED the COWS, and
cut off the kindlings. The reporter
then decides to retire, and bows him
self out.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
Items.

The Mississippi River Convention
met on Tuesday in Washington, about
500 delegates being present.
THE strike at Fall River, Massachu-
setts, was begun on Tuesday, the spin
ners quitting work in ten Of the mills.
CARL PRETzEL's WEEKLY has a
tasty new head with picture of Carl
in the centre, brooding over his troubles.
THE Government surveyors report
that there are five hundred geysers and
five hundred hot springs in Y Yellowstone
National Park.
THE aggregate militia force of the
United States, officers and men, num-
bers 5000; the total of men available
for duty but unorganized, is 6,S27, ,921.
RICHARD A. ELMER, Second Assist
ant Postmaster General, resigned on
Monday to accept the Presidency of the
American Surety Company of New
York.
HENRY IRVING closed his engage
ment in the Grand Opera House, in
Cincinnati, on Saturday night. The
receipts for the week were slightly over
$4,000.
ANDREW JOHNSON, a dissipated
young man, shot and killed Bertha
Brassman and then killed himself, in
Racine, Wisconsin, on Sunday. She
did not return his love.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM A. KIRKLAND,
now commanding the receiving ship
Colorado at New Y ork, has volunteered
to command the proposed Greely relief
expedition, and will probably be as
signed to that duty.
THE bill of Senator Blair "to pro-
vide for the free circulation of news
papers and other periodical publications
within the State where they are pub
lished," is regarded with favor by many
Members of the House.
J. G. BLACKBURN was on Tuesday
evening nominated for U. S. Senator
by the Democratic caucus of the Ken
tucky Legislature. He received 63
votes to 81 for Williams. Speaker Car
isles name was withdrawn, in accord
ance with his request.
LATEST advices from the Ohio
Valley indicate that the swollen rivers,
although threatening life and property
at some places along their banks, will
scarcely repeat the experiences of last
year. The water does not seem to be
rising anywhere, the rains have ceased
and the weather is growing colder.
Mrs. CATHARINE P. PATTIsoN,
mother of Governor Pattison, of Penn
sylvania, died on Tuesday at her SON
in-law's residence in Alexandria, Vir-
ginia, at the age Of So years. She was
the granddaughter of Colonel Thomas
Woolford, who commanded the Mary
land Line during the Revolution.
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Stlistellanfous Sduer's.
1861.
1861. 1854.
S.M. ReynOlds&Co.

While thanking our numerous friends for
their liberal patronage in the past, we take
great pleasure at the beginning of our new
year in announcing to thsm and the public
generally that our arrangements for business
are now much better than they have hereto
fore been, enabling us to offer better bargains
and advantages to purchasers than before.
Our general stock is and will ever be found
compile in all the novelties of the season and
in every description of goods in the most
desirable styles and qualities.
On our Bargain Tables will be found new
bargains every week for the next sixty days
of which our friends should take the benefit
We commence this week with: -
Five Ladies Black Coats reduced from $500
to 1878.
Four Ladies' Black Beaver Coats trimmed,
reduced from $6 90 to S4.5O.
Five Ladies' Black Beaver Coats fur trim
med, reduced from 500 to $500.
Four Ladies' Black Beaver Coats, satin trim
med, reduced from $500 to $3.50.
Three Ladies' Black Beaver Coats plush trim.
med, reduced from $S 80 to $500.
Three Ladies' Black Beaver Coats plush trim
med, reduced from $l0.50 to 800.
Three Ladies' Black Pilot Cloth Coats, re-
duced from $ll 90 to $50.
Four Ladies' Black Pilot Cloth Coats, reduced
from $500 to $3.50
Two Ladies' Corkscrew Cloth Dolmans, re-
duced from Sl200 to s. 80.
Four Ladies' Beaver Dolmans, handsomely
trimmed, reduced from $500 to $lI.ON
One Ladies' Fancy Colored Coat, reduced
from $500 to $3.50.
One Ladies' Fancy trimmed Coat, reduced
from 500 to $500
Three Ladies' Fancy trimmed Coats, reduced
from $3.50 to $5.75.
Four Ladies' Fancy-trimmed Plush Coats, re
duced from $500 to $500.
Three Ladies' Fancy-trimmed Plush Goats,
reduced from 500 10 500.
Three Ladies, Fancy-trimmed Plush Coats,
reduced from $3.50 to $3.50.
Two Ladies' Fancy-trimmed Plush Coats, re-
duced from $l1.00 to $3.50.
Two Ladies' Fancy trimmed Plush Coats, re-
duced from $500 to $500.
Four Black Stockinette Coats, reduced from
500 to $3.50.
Three Black stockinette Coats, reduced from
$3.50 to $3.50.
Two Black Stockinette Coats, reduced from
1890 to 5000.
Five Black Stockinette Coats, reduced from
$500 to 1890.
One Black StOckinette Coat, reduced from
$3.50 to 50 75
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

THOSE about to start agricultural
associations for the purpose Of holding
fairs should take warning at the fate
Of the late Peninsular Agricultural and
Pathological Association and not start
out with such a name. A big name is
a burden to man or an association.
We know a man whose long name has
made him unhappy all through his life.
He is in constant fear that it will fall
over on him at some time when he ism It
looking, and crush him.
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AN observing railroad conductor has
given it out as his opinion that the
safest position during an accident to a
railroad train is the middle seat of the
middle car, and on the right hand side.
Bill Nye has named a better position
than that for person to occupy during
an accident to a railroad train. 1t is a
seat on rail fence about fifty yards
from the place where the accident
occurs.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

A SUBCOMMITTEE Of the House
Committee on Coinage has reported a
bill for the withdrawal of the trade
dollars. 1t provides that until Janu-
ary first, 1886, trade dollars shall be
received at their face value in payment
of all dues to the United States, and
shall not be again paid out, OF in any
other manner reissued. The bill also
provides that the trade dollars shall be
recoined in any other coin Of the gov
ernment. Mr.. Bland has given notice
that lie will insist upon an amendment
providing for the recoinage Of the
trade dollars into standard dollars only.
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"I see,'' said Mrs. Mulberry, the other
evening at the supper table, "that they
are going to have very fine African at
the Pythian Bazar.' "And what in the
name of Jupiter Olympus are they going
to do with him? ~ asked Mr.. Mulberry.
"Oh it isn't him; it is one of those
pretty things you have over your lap
when you go driving "That's it, is it.
I always thought an African was nigger.
1t seems to me, Mrs. Mulberry, that you
are getting little wild in your use Of Ian
guage. You ought to take strange word
to the light and look into its mouth before
you use it." "You used to say before
I married you that I talked we'll, and
you know you did, eyes, Mrs. Null
berry, and you talk well yet; on occasions,
I may say, you talk extremely well, but
your words sometimes have strange,
thrilling, post mortem sound about them" !"
At this point the meeting adjourned.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

KEELY, the motor man, has prom
ised the holders of Keely Motor stock
that he will give a public exhibition
of the practical workings of his new
engine some time during the present
month. 1t is a matter to be regretted
that Keely did not begin to make his
motor in some community of the impa-
tient and severely practical Vest
They would have had him standing
upon the precarious intangibleness
under cottonwood tree long ago.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

WE would like one of the explainers
of the apparently inexplainable to tell
US why our most loved exchanges have
habit of straying away and failing to
turn up according to appointment,
while few that are of no value to us
come to hand with astonishing regu-
larity. There is one paperin particular
that we have in our mind eye, Horatio.
1t comes in brown wrapper directed
with pen. 1t never to our knowledge
contained an original thought and
never stole an article worth reproduc-
ing. And in six years it has never
reached this Office day behind time.
It is the most punctual paper on our
exchange list. We have felt time and
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
AN attempt has been made at Read.

AN attempt has been made at Read
ing, Pennsylvania, to prevent fast
sleighing by enforcing {" blue law' of
1894, which prohibits "horse-racing
with sleighs on the public coad," and
provides that upon conviction of the
accused the horses shall be sold and
the proceeds placed in the county trea-
sury. 1t seems to us that this is a
severe penalty for a little squirt with a
lively horse over a crisp road.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

How He DID Not SPECULATE IN NORTHERN
PACIFIc.-He was well posted but specula-
tive business man-had read OF marvellous
fortunes which had been won by little puts
and calls in Northern Pacific preferred
stock. He reflected he drew his little saw
ings ON his way to Wall Street to do the deed.
showing what could be done with S. invested
in ticket in the Monthly Drawing of The
Louisiana State Lottery. He reconsidered,
and sent his s. to NJ. A. Dauphin, New
Orleans, La, and drew 10000 per cent. ($5OO).
He pities those who lost in Northern Pacific
Preferred, but rejoices at Louisiana State
Lottery Preferred. Next opportunity will
be Feb. 18th, when q distribution of over
$265, 600 will be made.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
Public Sale :!

Twelve Cows, the most of them coming in
profit soon.
Two Yoke of good Oxen,
Four very fine Steers,
Thoroughbred Alderney Bull,
coming years old. --AA
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THE PLAN to get free advertising for
a novel by publishing it anonymously,
and stirring up public curiosity over the
authorship of the work, has succeeded
well in the case Of the " Bread Win
ners,'' recently printed in the Century
magazine, and later in book by the
Harpers. 1t is the best advertised
novel that has appeared in long time.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

81 used to run newspaper myself" :"
said bald-headed and earnest-eyed man
who came in one day to sell US map Of
Central Africa; g but some how or other I
never could hit on motto that would
take. First I tried, Be just and fear not; i
next, THE truth is mighty and must pre-
vail; then, The early bird gets the
worm;' and lastly, 'Hew to the line, let
the chips fly where they may While
was running that motto, the foreman acci-
dentally left it out and ran for four weeks
in its place, before discovered the error,
Take Sockdolloger's anti-bilious pills.
Before could think of a motto under
which I could win success the sheriff took
the paper off my hands,
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again that we could weep for joy if 1t
would only get lost, or even stray away
for a day or two, but, alas, we have
not been vouchsafed a single weep on
that account. 1t is as regular as a
tax collector, while several Of the best
exchanges we have on our list fall
frequently among thieves and come
not at tall. It would appear to q
thoughtful and bilious philosopher,
perhaps, that there are men in the rail
way mail service who know good read
ing by surface indications.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

In Boston during the last year two
hundred and eighty persons died Of old
age and four hundred met violent deaths.
1t would seem, therefore, that resident
of Boston has about four chances to
die by violence to two and eighty one
hundreths to die of old age.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

Mrs. Willard is said to have only $500, 900
in her own name. 1t is hard to be poor,
and especially to those who are not used
to it, but we should think that by practic-
ing few plain rules OF domestic economy,
and keeping few hens, and darning
Henry's socks, and sending the rags to
the store when she wants pound of soap,
Mrs. Willard might manage to keep the
wolf from the door.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

An exchange says that Count Bettini,
who was rejected by Miss Leslie Aver
some months ago, upon being refused
"shot himself in the vestibule." The
reader will be surprised to hear that he
rnaovnrnd
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
50 90 "A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.

To CoRREsPoNDENTs.-Co Communication on
topics of local interest are always welcome,
but to insure insertion they mustbe brtefand
to the point. We do not hold ourselves re-
sponsible for the views Of correspondents.
ANONYMOUS articles will receive no attent ton.
tor,
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Ieaal 6Aotites.
nEGIsTER,s ORDER.

ID EGlSTERS . OhDEh.
n REGISTERS OFFICE,
NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DEL,
January 18th. 1884.
Upon the application of KATE F. WELLS,
Administrative of HENRY H. WELLS, late
of BIackbird Hundred, in said county, de-
ceased. it is ordered and directed by the Reg
lister that the Administrators aforesaid give
notice ofgranting of Letters OF administration
upon the estate of the deceased, with the date
of granting thereof, by causing advertise
mentS to be posted within forty days from
the date of such Letters in six of the most
public places of the county of New Castle,
requiring all persons having demands against
the estate to present the same, or abide by an
Act of Assembly in such case made and pro-
vided and also cause the same to be inserted
within the same period in the Mfddletown
TRANSCRIPT, a newspaper published in Mid
dletown and to be continued therein two
months.
Given under the hand and Seal of Office of
the Register aforesaid, at Wilmington, in
New Castle county aforesaid the day and
year above written. S. C. BIGGS, Register.
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arriies Tirht as Air. ;,

elf you wish to make folks unhappy,
give them nothing to do y says wilkins,
of the Whitehall Times. Well, just give
us weeks unhappiness, will you, while
we rest the top of our head.
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TERMS:

All sums of $40 and under, Cash; over that
amount a credit of seven months Will be
given by purchaser giving bankable note
with approved endorser. (The Fat oxen
cash.)
aT No goods TO be removed until the above
terms are complied with.
JNo. F. sTAATs.
Two w NAUDATN Auctioneer febR-ts
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

America should welcome Barnum's
white elephant with open arms. We
can't embrace it, except by installments,
but we can speak well of it and take the
children to see it and feed it on peanuts.
1t is an admirable foreign visitor. It can
neither lecture to us nor write book
about us.
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Valuable Information E! IHn0rtant

ON RECEIPT OF 25 CENTS WE Will
" mail the following interesting pampbIets
of vital Importance TO every citizen g The
History OF Our Public Lands, - " The A r r
of the Railroad Question:" "The ImpendinS
Crisis, "Whai Coal Ought to Cost, ,""CorrupsS
tion, specifications, y" Another New Road
TICE" six weeks on trial
JUSTICE" is sixteen-page weekly tour.
nal, established in 1882 by the late Peter
Cooper and other eminent scholars and p6i.
lanthropie gentlemen of the City of NeI-
York. 1t is printed on the finest paner IN
the latest style OF the art, and devoted ebiefiv
to exposing every form of robbery and co.,
ruption in public matters. NOi
Its principles are ANTI-MONOPOLY the
rights OF all as against especial privileges of
the few. ees VI
1t is also an excellent family paper con.
tanning the most carefully selected miscaI-
lany with view to interest and Instruct
every person, both young and old.
1t Is Independent impartial and el,I,, -.
Quoted, and contains each week much mattaI
OF the greatest Importance and interest," 10
the general inquiring mind eSS "
Price, 81 per year in advance Liberal terms
to agents. Address "JUSTICE.n BoE sIn ;IIS
n. Y. City. wv
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About Adam.

Adam missed great many vexations of
spirit that are common to man Of this
day.
Adam never had to try to maintain a
$4,000 appearance on 500 income.
Adam never in a fit Of abstraction sat
down upon coil OF barbed fence wire.
Adam never had to wear collar with
saw teeth all around the obtrusive edge
it.
Adam never lived next door to man
who was trying to learn to play on an
accordion.
Adam never had to fasten one of his
suspenders with shingle nail and the
other with hair pin.
Adam never got to the depot just in time
to see the rear end of the rear car dissap-
pear around the water tank.
Adam never had to get up at three
o'clock in the morning to chase a brindle
steer out of the garden.
Adam never fell over a rocking chair
while cropping around in the dark after
the bottle of paregoric.
Adam never got nineteen statements
through the post-ofice all in one mail and
all ending, "please remit"
Adam never had to rock the cradle
while Eve ran across the street to borrow
a cup Of sugar from a neighbor.
Adam never had his only pair OF gum
shoes eaten up by dog while he was
spending an evening with friend.
Adam never had to keep the baby while
Eve went out with determined cast of
countenance to reform the world.
Adam never felt the sinister touch of a
wire clothes line just under his chin in
the still small hours of a sombre night.
Adam never sat up till five o'clock i'll
the morniag to get the returns from Ohio
and to at last learn that the other fellows
had carried it.
Adam never came home at a very late
hour from the lodge to discover that he
had left his latch key in a pocket Of his
other pair of pants.
Adam never had tight bureau drawer,
at which he wastugging come out suddenly
and set him down with such vehemence
as to knock four square feet of plastering
off the ceiling.
Adam never had a neighbours calf to
reach over the line fence into the bound
less contiguity of his premises on wash
day and chew off all that part of his other
shirt below the enacting clause.
Adam never went down town trying to
remember an injunction to get wash
board, a pound OF soap, ball of tape, a
bottle of infant food, aspool of garnet sew
ing silk, paper Of hair pins, two yards Of
pink mosquito netting and a mouse trap.
FIFTY TENTS ON ICE, near the head
Of Patterns bay, few miles east Of the
Penobscot, are occupied by fifty or
more Maine farmers, sailors and fisher
men, who are catching smelts. The
industry there is profitable ia January
and February only, and then for only
four hours a day, during the incoming
of the tide. The men fish through
holes in the ice and get an average of
fifty pounds day each. The fish are
laid on boards, limp from the water,
and after they freeze they are packed
in barrels and shipped to the large
| cities.
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FRIDAY AFrERNooN, FEB. 8, 1884.

THE PRESIDENT has not yet ap-
pointed a successor to the late Judge
Bradford,
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HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN
TTTT

One large Kitchen Table, lot of Milk Pans,
Reid Butter Worker, 80 yards Rag Carpet,
nearly new; 30 yards of good Ingram Carpet,
Door and Window Screens, and many other
articles not mentioned.
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Mrs. R. B. Hayes has one of the finest
poultry yards in Ohio. Rutherford" :"
she said the other day, with severe look
in her left eye, Rutherford, have you
gathered in the eggs this afternoon ?"
" Yes, ma'am." "Have you tied piece
of red flannel to that brindle hen that is
wanting to set before the accepted time ?''
" Yes, ma'am." "Have you fed the tur-
keys as I directed?" Eyes, ma'am." :"
"Then you may go again and look for
that gray hen that has stolen her nest;
and don't you come back saying you can't
find her, either"
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NoTIcE.-All persons having claims against
the estate of the deceased must present the
same duly attested to the Administrative on or
before the 18th day of January A. D.. 1885, or
abide the Act of Assembly in such case made
and provided. KATE F. WELLS,
jan.lS-2m. Administrative.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

WANTED--LADIEs TO TAKE OUR NEW
w Fancy Work at their homes. in civ w
country, and earn s6 to $l2 per week. maIrfno
goods lor our Winter and Spring trade
SEND l5e ior sample and particulars
HUDSON MFG. CO., 265 Sixth Ave Nv
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FARMING IMPLEMENTS {:

Two Iron-axle Farm Wagons, | Dearborn.
2 No. II Concave, No 50 Advance. and Two
small South Bend Plows, Twin Harrows, 6
Hand CultivatoTs, two Seed and Phosphate
Drills, Champion Self-rake Reaper.
HARNESS.-l set of Wagon Harness, sets
of Plow Gears, Brides and Collars, &c.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

THE post-office at Annapolis, Mary
land, was robbed of $1,000 in money
and Sc, 900 in stamps on Sunday night.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
FARMING IMPLEMENTS

One Germantown Carnage, in good order
gons, in good order; Hay Rigging, nearly
new; l Horse Rake, nearly new; / Wheel
Cultivator, nearly new; Roller, Buckeye Ma
chine, combined; Plows, Harrows, Cultiva-
tors, Double and Single Trees, Forks, Rake,
Shovels, &C. l Fan, nearly new; sets of
Carriage Harness, sets of Wagon Harness,
Plow Harness, Lines, Brides, Collars, &C.
k-HAY BY THE TON.
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9 head of CATTLE:
FARMING IMPLEMENTS:

One good Peach Wagon, iron axle; l good
Farm Wagon, iron axle; Ox-cart, iron axle
all in good order; / Peach Dearborn, l Os-
borne Reaper (Dropper) and Mower, in COM
plete order, a Self-rakc attachment, never
been used; / Champion Grain Drill, good as
new; SteeI-tooth Rake l Eureka Grain Fam
nearly new; PennOck Hand Corn Shelter
Peach Cutler, been used very little; Cider
and Wine Press, in good order; l Grindstone,
good; Iron Age Cultivators, two with corn
Covering attachments; good Wizard Chilled
Castings, Acme Harrow and Clod Crusher
with three-horse attachment; Scythes and
Cradles, Brambling Scythes, Bill Hooks,
Broad-axe, Axes Grubbing Hoes, Wedding
Hoes, Mattocks, Shovels, Spades, Forks,
Double Trees, Single Trees, Peach Springs,
Ice Hooks. HalfbushGl Measures, Cross-cut
Saw, Wood Saw, Ox-yoke Ox-bows. Also,
Carriage and Harness, Buffalo Robe and
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
FOR SALE LOW

ONE NEARLY NEW PIANO.
" Addres, " PIANO" this office.
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HOUSEHOLD GOODS /:

One No. 8 Barley Sheaf Cook Stove, with
lot of Fixtures. nearly new; good Coal
Stove Star Base Burner; Wood Stove. old
Cook Stove. Settee Sofa, Tables. Bedsteads,
Bed and Bed Clothes, set OF Chairs. Pans and
lot of other things not mentioned.
Also, lot of Side Meat, Hogsheads and Bar
rels, lot of first-class Glover Seed, lot OF
Grain Bags, lot OF Honey Bees.
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PHILADEIPHTA MARKETS
BALTIMORE MARKETS

" HEAT TCURN-
Prime red, 123I Isl Yellow, 5S6S
Timothy Seed, 35OI White, 5S6i
Glover Seed, qaBl35S l5cl Oats (Dela'rel. 4064