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The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-08-08
Drawing the ''S'ciety" Line.

why bress me Miss Simmons,
you pears ter be in mighty hur-
ry dis mawin.'
It's right yer is, Uncle Nose,
lie got a power O biznis to 'tend
to. We's gwine to hab pahty
down to our house, an I wants yer
fur to come
All right chile, III be dar shuah.
Who's gwine to be invited?'
on, everybody watts got any
'tenshun to bein' fust-class.'
'Boliver Smifs folks?'
Yes
AM Juniper Jones?
Yes
An de Bucktown gang
oh, yes
An Carpreshus Johnsing's?'
No, dey's lef' out
Huh WY Miss Simmons, how
is dat?
Cause dis pahty's gwine to be
sclec' an on'y de 'stocracy's gwine
to be 'vited. We can't low too
much mixin' ob low down niggers
wild de fust family blood, no how.
Dem Johnsings warnt nuthin' but
common tiel' hans fore de wah.'
Yes, but now dcy owns a tater
patch an a cow
Oats SO, Uncle Nose; / dident
tink OBJ dat. Reckon Wen hab to
let 'em in. If dey got a COW dat
makes renee
How about dem Clacks?
Huh! Dey aint got no COW. is
dey?'
No.
Den dat settles hit. Dcy kaint
come. | tells you, Uncle Nose,
s'ciety's got to purtect itsef.
Oats right, Miss Simmons; et
dc ole culled 'stocracy didn't look
out monsus peert, de fust ting dey
knowed dey'd hab some ob de poor
white trash a comm to their pah-
ties. Good mawin', Miss Sim
mons. Be mighty keerful bout
dem invites.
lie gwine to, Uncle Nose. We
has to make a 'stinction some
where. Reckon we'll draw de line
on de cow. Good mawin'.'
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-08-08

A little Rhode Island girl was
taken by her mother to dentist.
who removed q tooth. OF course
the operation caused a good deal
of pain. How deeply the feelings
OF the little one were involved, ap-
peared when in repeating the even
ing prayer, she said: Forgive us
our debts as we forgive our dent
ists.'
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-08-08

COT n for the working class.
WILL Send 10 cents for
postage. and we will mail you free a
royal, valuable box Of sample goods that
will put you in the way Of making more
money in a few days than you ever
thought possible at any business. Capt.
tai not required. We will start you. You
can work all the time or in spare time
only. The work is universally adapted
to both sexes,young and old. You can
easily earn from 80 cents to $5 every
evening. That all who want work may
test the business, we make this unpar-
allcled offer; to all who are not well
satisfied we will send 81 to pay for the
trouble OF writing us. Full particulars,
directions, etc. free. Fortunes will
be made by those who give their whole
time to the work. Great success abso
lutely sure. Don't delay. Start now
Address STINsON & Co.. Portland
Maine. may23 1y
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-08-08

IT WAS AN ACC1DENr.-'The
world owes it's greatest achieve
ments to accidents remarked Col.
Swiffle to his wife, as they sat on
the back gallery enjoying a cool
breeze. Nearly all great discov-
cries were purely accidental, and
Mrs. Switile,' added the colonel,
1T was by mere chance that we
met
Yes, the lady replied, 1T was an
accident that. caused caused our
marriage.'
The colonel didn't very much
like this reply, and, with elevated
eyebrows, rejoined:
Accident! Why, my dear, l
hardly understand you. What do
You mean|
oh! / mean that if Tom Benson
had not accidentally shot himself,
| would never have married YOU.
You would like Tor me to think
that you married me hv accident,
but don't want to think that it
was accident that caused me to
marry you. Wish you'd draw a
bucket of fresh
Traveller.
His SAFE.-'My boy he said to
the young man who was aboutI
starting out in life, when you hear:
a man telling about backward
spring, too much ram, cold waves
and all that, remember that he isl
trying to bull the wheat market.
i see,'
And when you hear another
hurrahing over an opposite state off
affairs you can set him down for a
bear who wants to smash prices
and rip up things. Trust neither.
but strike a medium
Exactly. sir-that's just what
have done, replied the young man.
'Pve just put :.lI my money into
glue factory
THE PEDDLERs.-An elder in
one of the churches was last week
making up clnb Of subscribers for
"a Sunday school paper. In his
rounds he called at Il house where
he found a little girl of seven at
home. He explained his errand
to her, hoping to get her name on
the list, and she replied:
well, I'll ask mother, and I'm
quite sure she'll give me the mon
ey, for she says we must patronize
the peddlers who come along or
they will be driven to steal and
rob =
He hasn't gone back to see if she
succeeded. .-Detroit Press.
A DEBATABLE QUEsTIoN.-Mrs.
FinkS-'DO YOU remcmher Mr.
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-08-08

A DEBATABLE QUEsTIoN.-Mrs.
Finks-'Do you remember Mr..
Blinks?
Mr.. Finks-'Perfectly.
well, he went tc Europe be-
cause he wished to avoid proba-
BILE leepyear proposal
well, what Of it?'
HE got caught in one of the re-
cent disasters and was lost. Just
think what 81 fool he was. If he
had married he couldn't have been
worse off than be is now, could
hep
well, my dear, that depends on
which place he went to-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13
CRIMINAL,

A BURGLAR was shot and killed at Satunga,
Pa, on the night of the Of the 9Th, while at
tempting to force an entrance into Stauffer's
factory.
MARY SABLE, aged 70, suicided at Toledo on
the 9Th inst.
A CHANGE of venue was granted in the Fora
Burns murder case on the 5th. The trial will
take place at Petersburg, ILL.,, m March.
The last Of the famous whisky cases was de-
cided at Milwaukee on the 5th, in favor of the
government.
On the night Of the 5th VIM. Munson was
fonnd murdered by Indian cattle thieves in IN
dian Territory.
JOHN NASH, OF Lancaster, Tex, was mur-
dered on the 22d inst, by maniac brother.
ANDREW JOHNSON shot and killed Bertha
Brassman and himself at Racine on the Sd
inst. Jealousy.
On the 31st the military captured IS men en-
gagged in cutting and carrying away timbers on
Sibley Island, Oak.
AT Wood Haven, L. l., on the LIST, fish
peddler became enraged because Mrs. julia
Keller would not purchase his wares. and
choked and beat her. He was caught and
barely escaped lynching.
On the 1st George Brown and A. C. Gibson,
two notorious counterfeiters, were arrested at
| st. Louis, Mo.
OYSTER pirates are so bold in Ches lpeake
Bay as to defy tho authorities.
On the 3lst, at Mt. Auburn, O., Patrick Hart
nett killed his wife with an axe.
| AT Arcadia, O., owing to past actions of a
Mr.. Askcome, his daughter, who is q school
teach, was threatened with murder if she did
not resign.
STUDENTS Of the University of Pennsylvania
in engaging on the 31st in the annual bowl.
breaking, carried their sport into the streets
and after damaging other peoples property
two students were arrested.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13
MURDER At FLORENCE.

A Bartender in q Disreputable House
Riddled With Bullets.
NORWAY, Mich, February 1.-1nfor-
nation has reached this place of fatal
shooting affray which occurred at Flor
ence. twenty miles from here, just across
the Menominee River in Wisconsin,
Tuesday night or early Wednesday morn
ing. The name of the victim, who died
this morning, cannot be ascertained,
but the assailant is Thomas Will
liams, a resident Of Iron Mountain,
Mich, who prefers to be known by the
cognomen of " Lost Charley Ross" The
shooting was done in a dance-hall, kept
by low character named Lew Nudge.
Williams was visitor, while his victim
was the bartender in the place, a tough
who had but recently been released
from the state prison at Waupun.
The two engaged in a SEEM
ingly harmless dispute, when Will
liams asked the other man, "Where
will you have it ?" and without further
ceremony drew a self-cocking revolver
and emptied its seven chambers at the
bartender. -Four Of the balls took effect,
the last shot entering the left breast i'm
mediately above the heart, and probably
causing death. Williams escaped and Is
in successful hiding, though every effort
| is be Jog made to find him.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13

The Texas legislature on the 5th agreed on
law to punish the fence-cutters.
COTTON weavers at Lawrence, Mass, to the
number Of 1000, struck on the 9th.
The excitement over the nickel in Mexico is
over, and the government is redeemiDg the
coin.
WENDELL PHILLIPS, the well known orator
and abolitionist, died at Boston on the I'd
inst.
FOWLER BROTHERS, grain brokers, Chicago,
began suit against the McGeoch house on the
I'd inst. for sander. Damages $500,000
HARRY E. PACKER, president Of the L. '. r.
r., died at Mauch Chunk, Pa, on the LIST.
The business failures for the week ending
February LIST, number S73.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., is preparing for another
grand exposition next fall.
LEE & Son, grocers, A]legan, Mich., closed
on the 31st. Liabilities $24, 1000.
J. T. WARREN &C.,, wholesale grocers, Gin
cinnati. O.. assigned on the s1st. Liabilities
100000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13
4 MICHIGAN TRAGEDY.

Deputy Postmaster Elmer Schuler, of
Union City, Murdered.
DETROIT, February 5. - About II
o'clock last night Deputy Postmaster
Shuler was shot in the streets of Union
City, Branch County, by James Soy.
The latter reached that town yesterday
forenoon and during the afternoon was
drinking freely and fourishing a re-
volver and vaguely threatened to shoot
somebody. At the hour named he met
Shuler and friend walking toward the
postoffice, when he ordered them to halt
and Immediately began firing. Two
balls took effect in the neck and head
of Shuler. Small hopes are entertained
of his recovery. He is a young man
of 21, of excellent character. They fed
and had not yet been arrested. He was
in the employ of Dan Holcomb at the
time of the Cranch murder in Jack
son County and it is said the pistol used
yesterday was of the same calibre as that
used in that famous tragedy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13
CASUALTIES.

DURING the burning of Crossman l. Klaunt-
mann's furniture factory at Allentown, Pa, on
the 9Th, falling walls killed five fremen and in
jured several others.
A BROKEN rail near Apple River, Ill.,, threw
ten cars down an embankment on the 9Th.
Eight persons were injured.
N1B1ocK's flour mill at Rcckport, Ind, burned
on the 9th. Loss $15,000.
FIVE men were killed by q collision of q
freight train with caboose at Farmer Station,
KY, on the 9Th.
SAN FRANCISCO had 1926, 900 blaze on the
9Th.
Stamford Depot, Conn.,, were consumed by fire
on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
FRED WALTER, an oiler at Conway's planning
mill, Milwaukee, was killed by loose belt on
the 9Th.
The house of William Morrison, in Pocahon-
tas County, W. Va, was burned on the 18th, two
young girls perishing in the flames.
By the upsetting Of boat at Baltimore, on
the 5tb, Paul Autmann and Louis Roth were
drowned.
PALMER l. CASES Touring mill, at South
Toledo, burned on the 5th. Loss $4,000.
By fire on the 9Th inst, the Hanford Oi
Company's works, at Englewood, were dam
aged to the extent of $4,000.
A GRAIN warehouse at Fergus Falls, Minn.,
burst on the I'd inst, involving loss Of $7O,-
600.
ABoY Of Auburn, N. Y, on the I'd, received
Judgment against the Central Road for $1O,-
500 for the loss Of foot.
FIRE at Gowands, N. Y, on the Sd inst, de-
etroyed -four mill and planning mill. Loss
| $35, 1000.
FIRE at Belmont, Wis, on the 1st, destroyed
| business property valued at $25,0UQ.
Two Goodwin Oak hotels the Rosa Hotel
and the Lawrence House-burned on the LIST.
| Loss $4,000.
| BUSINESS property to the value of $40, 900
was destroyed by fire at searcy, Ark, on the
lst.
| On the lst an explosion occurred in the brick
block Of F. NJ. Orr, stoves and tinware, ALI
ance, o. F. NJ. Orr, his son, Mrs. Hight and
daughter, Mrs. F. Evans and two children
we're killed, and nine others seriously injured.
HIGH water caused considerable damage on
the LIST, at Allegheny, Pa. A number Of boats
we're sunk by contact with ice, The river rose
% feet in three hours.
On the 31tt q passenger train on the Indian
apolis and Chicago Air Line went through q
bridge into White River, which was swollen by
q freshet. -Four train men and six passenger
we're killed.
On the 3lst . large sleigh containing twenty
seven ladies, was upset near Pottstown, Pa
Mrs. VIM. Hummel and Mrs. Frederick wert
killed, and several others seriously injured.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, on the 31st, John Butlel
and Thomes Lney were killed by the breaking
Of q platform on which was seventy tons o.
iron. .a H.. = " IL. .''
! AT Mattoon. H., on the 3lst, the clothing o.
Miss Cary. aged IA, caught fire accidental,
and she was fatally burned.
AN aged couple named Clinton we're incin
Grated in their house at Utica, N. Y, on ,h
31st. -..
FIRES on the S1st, A three-story business
block a: Peo,ia, ILL.,, loss 4115, 600; three stores
the postofice and several dwellings, at Uvalde
Tex.e, loss 1000; . storage warehouse 4
Minneapolis, Mimi, loss $4,000. ~. ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13
THE FRUIT CROP.
Reports from Various Points In the Mis-
sissippi Valley.

Reports from Various Points In the Mis-
sissippi Valley.
ST.. Louis, February 5.-The Post
Dispatch published this afternoon ex-
haustive reports of the condition of the
fruit crop in the Mississippi Valley,
which it summarizes as follows:
1llinois-Peach crop entirely killed; cherries
badly injured; blackberries and black rasp-
berries killed to the snow line; pears touched
to some extent; but red raspberries, straw
berries, apples and other fruits are in good
condition.
Kentucky-Peach crop severly blighted.
Mississippi buds all right, but fears
felt for wet frosts in the spring.
Louisiana prospects-Better than they have
been for six years.
Alabama-The winter has been so severe as
to almost ruin the fret crop and gardeners have
turned their attention to cultivating vegetables.
Te1as-Peach and other fruit bids are in
splendid conditions, fears are felt for the frosts
in the spring.
Arkansas part of the peach crops in.
jured; Strawberries promise splendidly and
other fruits are in good condition with the
exception of grapes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13

"No, indeed, answered Mrs. Pyrkins,
bustling around. 'It is young man
who is probably looking for board. Go
down into the parlor and be playing a
dreamy air on the piano when he comes
in.
eyes, know but some one must at
tend to the door, There goes the bell
now"
"Well, I will run to the kitchen and
send Jane to open the door, and while
you are playing and Jane is showing him
in will be pounding on the table with
rolling pin"
"But what for, map"
"It will sound as if we had two SER
wants and We were going to have beef
steak for lunch"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

FuNERAL services we're held at Hamburg,
Germany, over the bodies Of the Jeanette
victims on the 9Th. They were then shipped
for America on the Frisia.
DISPATCHES on the 9Th report a revolution in
Algeria. Three men were killed and q large
number wounded in an engagement with the
military.
TEwF1K BEY. and 400 followers in the Sou.
dan, have been gobbled by the rebels.
THERE is trouble in Vienna again. On tho
9Th plots to clean out the the royal family with
dynamite were unearthed, and the city is under
martial law.
A DISPATCH from Cairo, Egypt, of the lst
says Toksr is in desperate strait. The wells
outside of the town have been filled up by the
rebels and the water inside is brackish and bad.
Only twenty rounds of ammunition per man
are left, and tho rebels continue firing night
and day.
A LACE factory, several coal depots and
shops. and five dwellings, were destroyed by
fire on the 1st at Paris. Loss ,000, 900 francs.
AT Bloomington, Neb., on the 1st, Henry B.
Holms was burned to death in his barn.
The Denver and Rio Grande round-house
and six engines at Leadville, Co.., were de.
stroyed by fire on the LIST. Loss $3.50, 1000.
SIX residences and livery stable al Pueblo,
COL, fell q prey to the flames on the 1st.
Twelve horses persisted. Loss $4,000.
On the 31st Thomas Cook l. Son, who control
the steamboat traffic on the Nile, in Egypt,
were engaged by England to transport troops,
stores and munitions of war, and also take
people down the river in case Of evacuation
of KhartOum.
The failure of the American Lumber Com
pany Of Toronto, Canada, Is causing suffering
and "a OF 10
Mich, many of whom have not been paid for
several months.
P. M. THOMAS, Sons X Co., stock brokers,
London, Eng, failed on the 3lst. Liabilities
E835 0GO.
On the 31st, at Toronto, CAn., Adamson's
Chapman & Sons elevators burned. Loss
| $253, 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13

eighty-six, or forty eight on q Creed |
moor target, 200 yards off-hand with
Creedmoor regulation rifles and Ameri-
can decimal target.
The dog show season, which at one
time did not promise well, has already
been filled in with the following fixtures:
Cincinnati, March 4th to 7th; New
Haven, Conn.,, March 18th to 14th; To-
ronto, Ont, March 26th to 28th; Cleve-
land. OHIO, beginning of April, and
Westminster Kennel Club, New York,
the end of April.
The Western League of ball players
was organized at Rock Island on the
30th. Delegates were present from
Kansas City, Omaha and Quincy, and
communications were received from
Atchison, St. Joseph, Ohillioothe and
Keokuk. The league adjourned to meet
at Kansas City or st. Joseph in March,
subject to the call of the president.
THE directors of the National Horse
Show Association have decided to hold
another grand horse.show in New York
during the last week of May. The prize
list has been very carefully revised, the
premiums in the regular classes amount
ing to nearly $15, 900, which, with the
special prizes that will be offered, will
make the amount of premiums over
$40, 1000.
THE race of the ice yachts of the
Shrewsbury Club took place at Red
Bank, N. j.. on tie 29th. The wind was
blowing at the rate of 80 miles an hour
and there was binding snow-storm,
which made the boats Look like phan-
toms while at the lower end Of the
course. The Scud, Uncle Bob, Cyclone
and Dreadnaught went off together.
The Dreadnaught soon took the lead,
and at the finish was mile ahead. The
following is the order in which the boats
finished: Dreadnaught, Uncle Bob, Scud
and Cyclone.
The Columbia County curriers' held
their annual bonspiel for the Johnston
medal at Portage on the 31st ult.
Eleven rinks on q side contended for
prizes. The sides were composed of the
north and south of the county, after the
Scottish fashion, the Rocky run beng
our river Clyde or the Firth of Forth.
The north was victorious by 81 points.
The following officers of the club were
elected for the ensuing year: President,
A. j.. Turner; secretary, J. 81. Wells
vice presidents, Alex. Treeland, Charles
McLeish. The secretary was directed
TO notify Jas. Morgan, of Milwaukee, thai
Columbia County would play Milwaukee
and Chicago rinks next year for the Nor
gan medal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13
SPORTING.

THE Providence Base Ball Club made
Sc, 649 last year. It has re-engaged it's
last years players.
WILLIAM 81. CRAFT finished his task
of walking 302 miles in 100 hours, with
out sleep, in Syracuse, N. T., on the
26th.
MANAGER WHITE, of the Green Bay
Base Bali Club, writes that he has en-
gagged five well-known Northwestern
League players and six other local ball
tossers.
The wrestling match at Mazomanie,
on the 18th, between jeffrey Powers. of
Mazomanie, and Evan Lewis, of Ridge
way, resulted in victory of two falls to
one in favor of Powers.
The famous brood mare, Midnight,
dam of Jay-Eye.See and Noontide, died at
Palo Alto on the 18th, aged 10. In the
autumn of 1882 she was sold by David
Bonner to ex Governor Leland Stanford.
THE Marblehead (Mass. Bicycle Club
have road riding record Of l2, $50 miles
for the past season, the leading contrib
utors thereto being: Peabody, $3.50;
Shirley, 2,151; Chinn, I'LL; Hathaway,
1000; Dolifer, 872; Schoff, 920.
The collsr-and-elbow wrestling match
for 800 a tile, at Minneapolis, on the
30th ulr., between Butler, of Minneapo.
lis, and Lane, of San Francisco, was
won by Butler, who secured the first,
second and fourth falls, the last one in
half minute.
The chestnut colt Ascalon, 8 years
o1a .7;o1 <1o 0Akl, o& 41,o fo, of hio
owner, T. j. Megibben, of Lexington,
Ky. He was heavily engaged in the 3
year-old events of both the east and the
west, including the Southern Hotel
stakes at st. Louis.
A1oNzo NORRIS, now the representa-
tive billiardist of the Pacific coast, offers
to play any expert in this country, bar
ring Slosson and Sch@fer, for 81 900 6
side, the game to consist of 1900
straight billiards, 1000 poiuts cham
pions' game, and 800 points 8-inch balk
line. $685..
The suburban stakes, which are to b.
run for at the Coney Island Jockey Club
June meeting, has seventy four entries
George Kinney has 1872 lbs, Iroquoj
13O tbs., Monitor 125 TBS. The distance
is one mile aud quarter, aid 1t is estl
mated that the stakes y i'll be worth $40,
600 to the winner. ~ .-< . ..-z
Ar the recent annual meeting of tn
Minneapolis Rifle Club the following of
ficers were elected for the ensuing year
President, A. F. Elliott; vice president
! G. W. Weeks; secretary and treasurer
i O. NJ. Skinner, who, together with Lev
Harrison and George Harrison, consti
tute the board of directors,
| TIE first of three matches, called tn
decimal prize match, YVES shot at Min
neapolis recently. The prize is a So
gold piece, which is to be won thre
times, with handicap Of one poin
after winning it once and of two point
after winning it the second time. G
] Maudlip won il recently, with score Q
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-13
The Music Boxes Of Geneva.

The River Rhone flows into Lake &C.
neva at it's east end, and then flows out
again on the west. I learned that in
the geography, but I had to cross the
Atlantic ocean to fix the fact in my
mind. Geneva is situated on both sides
of the rushing Rhone, at the point
where it flows out of the lake on the
west. It is a brisk, bright, pretty city
of nearly fifty thousand inhabitants.
Many English and Americans are al
ways to be found there. Geneva is
known to fame on account of jewelry,
music-boxes, John Calvin and Jean
Jacques Rousseau. AS part of the
regular programme, you will be shown
the Protestant cathedral whose walls
once echoed to the tread of that great
man, John Calvin, who burnt Michael
Servetil, It the stake to make good
orthodox Christian out OF him. The
final result is not known.
But the Geneva music-boxes of to-day
will interest the modern tourist far
more than the bones of John Calvin
will. The most wonderful small clock
in the world is shown here at Ii watch
makers, an exquisite little affair in sill
ver-clock and jewel-box in one. When
the hour strikes, tiny, jeweled bird
opens it's throat and sings till mite of
q cat makes dash at it, then it sud-
denly disappears. The music-boxes are
of all sizes, from one which you can
slip into your pocket to another as large
as piano. When some of these large
ones are set going, they give the effect
of whole orchestra playing. The
sound of drum, horn, violin, harp and
cymbal is quite as distinct as if they
were so many separate Instruments:
These music-boxes are, in fact, called
"orchestrions." It is not uncommon to
have them in the Swiss hotel dining
rooms, to play during meals.
There seems sort of magic in these
! strange music-boxes. They are of all
imaginable shapes. You enter shop
and ask to look at them. A monkey be-
gins to sing to you like mocking-bird.
You are politely asked to sit down while
you wait. Suddenly you start as if you
had been shot. The very chair is sing
ing, as though the demon was in it, a
weird melody as sweet as the song OF
the Lorelei. In point of fact the en-
chanted chair is a music-box. Sitting
down in the thing sets it going.-Cor.
| Cincinnati Commercial.