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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-29
CHAPTER III

stood watching Sir John, who seemed
nearly mad with grief and rage, and dozen
times over my lips opened to speak, but
without a sound being heard. At last he
looked up at me and saw what l wanted to
do, but which respect kept back.
"Well, he said, what do you propose do
mgr
l remained silent for a moment, and then,
feeling that even if he was offended, was
doing right, i said to him what was in my
heart.
''Sir John, 1 never married, and never
had a son. It's all mystery to me"
"Nan, you are saved from curse" he
cried fiercely.
''No, dear master, no, said, as laid my
hand upon his arm ''You don't believe
that / only wanted to say that if l had had
a boy-a fine, handsome, brave lad like Mr.
Barclay
"Finel-brave" he says contemptuously.
"Who had never done thing wrong, or
been disobedient in any way till he fell into
temptation that was too strong for him
"Bahl l could have forgiven that, But
for him to have turned thiefr'
was silent, for his words seemed to take
away my breath.
MAN, mani he cried, chow could you be
such an idiot as to write that document and
leave it where it could be foundF'
~ did it for the best, sir" said humbly.
"Besta The worst" he cried. mo, no;
cannot forgive, Disgrace or no disgrace,
must have in the police"
"No, no, no,n / cried piteously. 'He is
your own son, Sir John, your own SON. and
it Is that wretched woman who has driven
him mad
"Mads Burden, mad7 No; it is something
worsen
but it is not too late / said humbly.
ayes, too late-too late. l disown him
| He is no longer son of minen
"And you sit there in that dining room
every night, Sir john" l said, with all us
servants gathered round, and read that half
chapter and then say, AS we forgive them
| that trespass against u.s. Sir John-master
he is your own son, and love him as if he
was my own"
| There wasn't sound in that place for a
minute, and then he drew his breath in a
| catching way that startled me, Tor it was as
| if he was going to have fit. But his face
was very calm and stern now, as he says to
me gently, "You are right, old friendn-and
my heart gave quite a bound-"old friend"
Lets go to him and save him, master,
from his sin"
Two weak old men, Burden, and him
strong, desperate, and taken by surprise.
| My good fellow, what would follow thenp
| 81 don't know, Sir John. ! can only see
one thing, and that is, that we should have
done our duty by the lad. Let's leave the
rest to him.
He drew long deep breath.
yes he says. Come alongn
We went back in the darkness to the cellar
door and listened; but all seemed very still
and turned the key in the patent Bramaf
lock without sound We went in, ant
stood there on the sawdust, with that ho
smell of burnt oil seeming to get stronger
and there was faint light in the inner Gel
lar now, and curious rustling, painting
sound. We crept forward, one on each sid
of the opening; and as we looked in my hant
went down on one of the sherry bottles II
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the bin by my arm, and it made IA faint click

the bin by my arm, and it made a faint click
which sounded quite loud.
l forgot all about Sir John; l didn't
even know that he was there, as | stared in
from the darkness at the scene before me.
They-I say they, for the whispering had
taught me that there was more than one
had got the stone up while we had been
away. had been pushed aside onto the saw
dust, and soft yellow light shone up now
out of the hole, showing me my young mas
ter, looking so strange and staring eyed and
ghastly that | could hardly believe it was he
But it was, sure enough, though dressed in
rough workman's clothes, and stained and
daubed with clay.
1t wasn't that, though, which took my at
tention, but his face; and as l looked |
thought of what had been said little while
ago in my place, and felt that it was true,
and that he was mad. He had just crept out
of the hole, when he uttered low groan and
sank down on his knses, and then fell side
wise across the hole in the floor. He was not
there many moments before there was low
angry whispering: he seemed to be heaved
up, and big workman looking fellow came
struggling up till he sat on the sawdust with
his legs in the hole, and spoke down TO some
oY1e
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CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL.
RACINE AND :. W. DIVISION.

FAST MIL TRAIN with Vestjbuled trains be-
tween Chicago. Milwaukee, 81. PAUL and Mime
Apolis.
NTAL ROUTE between Chi
cago, Council Bluff. Omaha and the Pacific
Coast.
GREAT NATIONAL ROUTE between Chicago
Kansas City and ST. Joseph, Mo.
$40 MILES OF ROAD reaching all principal
Joints in Illinois. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa.
Missouri and Dakota.
For maps. time tables, rates Of passage and
freight, etc, apply 10 the nearest station agent
OF the Chicago. Milwaukee Il s.. Paul Railway. or
TO any railroad agent any where in the world.
ROSWELL MILLER, A V. II. CARPENTER.
General Manag r. Gent Pass. Il T. Agt.
IL For information in reference TO Lands and
Sowns owned by by the Chicago. Milwaukee Il
It. Paul Railway c, mpany. write to Ii u Hsa-
gen, Land commissioner Milwaukee. Wisconsin.
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The Highest Advantages are
offered.

French and German are spoken; special atten
ton is given to literary studies. Every pupil IL
cared for as daughter in the family, a. to her
health. manners conversation and character. All
sleeping apartments are
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The building is Of brick heated by four large
boilers lighted by gas; interior finished in natur-
al wood; furniture new and elegant; water sup
ply unlimited; bath rooms on every floor; the best
skill and material have been employed I'D securing
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WIN. NcESIRI.


ATTORNEY At LAN-lo5ns money CT eoNr
isscuriry, mike cotlerti M, Rei'renne, Miich
eu&I.ynde. bankers. Office in Pos,oihce block
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DIR. ]. W. IRELAND. V. s..

GRADUATE OF TIE ONTARIO VETERINA-
Ury College Toronto, Csnads. and member Of the
Illinois Veterinary Medical Association; Office first
door east of LOTIONS sale stable, Davenport
Calls by telephone or otherwise promptly attead-
ad 10
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Perfect Ventilation and
Drainage.

Il is believed that st. Mary's is unsurpassed in
its refining influences, in the high standing of its
it, appointments, in the thorourhnes- and variety
of Its instruction. in the spirit of order and indus
try that pervades it. st Marys school is recon-
mended to parents who wish 10 place their daugh-
tor
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THE END,

Mobile is to have an orphsn asylum for
colored children.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW. Solicitor in ChaEcery an
Il Notary Public, Abstracts, Loans and couec
IONS. Once, Bafo lis Block, ii avenue, ovel
Bakers Jewetry store.
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EHICAGO MUSICAL SEMINARY, o. LOOMS
USt., established 1870; tue largest and most com
plete music school in the northwest: furnace heat
and gas throughout the tntire building; music
and all the fne arts. By their new and easy
method of musical instruction, pupils, Young
or guitar in 20 lessons what requires years by the
old method; pupils wishing 10 attend from dis
lance will find all he comforts Of home at the
seminary; room with board reasonable. send for
new catalogue. j. H. MACDONALD.
june 23 G3m President
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BUSINESS CARBS.
T.. ". HURST.

ATTORNEY AID CnCNNELLuR AT LAW
4 05ioc IN Masonic femrIe 1acz. over Roc Is
Ana " 7n0r. Bauk FN0zf siaui-
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The Location is Perfectly
Healthy.

1t is also easy Of access from all parts Of the
country; on the C., b & Y railroad, at knoxville,
Illinois, between Galesburg and Peoria. The es-
tablishment is first class throughout, the result OF
twenty years experience and an expenditure of
S2DO.t00 An extensive course of study is provi-
ded. and
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THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

CHICAGO, Rock ISLAND & PACIFIC
7rdias Ledue for CbjeGGo.
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ITO Third Ave-, Moline, Ill.
~wIn give lessons in healing IL desirsd-
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
THE LATEST

ABOUT 200 tons Of silver dollars are now
stored in the new vaults of the Treasury
Department at Washington.
New BEDFORD, MASS, was visited by
two wen-deined earthquake shocks on the
night Of the 2sth.
THIS Dallas (Texas) Cotton Mill, employ
ing 250 hands and operating 1900 spindles
and 200 looms, was started on the 18th in
the presence Of large gathering.
IN the hearing of the A. 7. Stewart will
case at New York on the 29th, the fact was
developed that the estate had been charged
bS6, ,S0I 81 for funeral expenses of the mill
hona1re. = u p ss - r.-- - -.--. e
P. S. MATTHEW'S, the wealthiest saw-miIl
owner ana Iumbernan in that section, was
stabbed and it is thought fatally wounded
by negro employe at his mill and lumber
yards, eight miles south of Texarkana,
Ark, on the 29th.
CLIFTON & Co, of Chicago, whose failure
was the heaviest resulting from the Hutch
insou wheat corner, have liabilities of
$3.50, 900, with assets of only $4,000, Ieav-
ing deficit of S150,0O0.
AT Winchester, Ky. .,on the 2Sth, Eli Per-
Eius, the lecturer, got into a quarrel with
Andrew Mitchell, who owns a restaurant
over the inattention of the walters. He
called Mitchell an ugly name and was
promptly knocked down, whereuPOn he re-
tired TO the cars.
NRs. JACKSON and Miss Nellie Norris,
of Cleveland, Ohio, poured gasoline on the
kitchen floor on the 2Sth to kill reaches.
The gas was ignited by the fire on the
range aud an explosion resulted. Both
women were severely burned.
THE following postmasters were ap-
pointed on the 9th Arkansas-W. F..
Lady, Dosy; T. b. Goldsby, Groveland.
Tennessee-W. J. Smiley, Belfast; X. s.
Suite, Hillside; J. F. Webster, WestervilIe.
TIE registration in New York City on
the 2Tth was 3S,Oi5, making a total Of 2s6,-
547 for the four days The fourth days
registration in 1854 was 3, 2,616, and in 1887,
43,272.
TBE jeweIry store Of A. Ketterer at
Helena, Aux, was closed on the27th by the
sheriff, Attachments 10 the amount of
$1,000 were run against the stock.
GEoRGE GoULD is beginning to be af-
flcted with bis fathers tormenting com
plant Of neuralgia.
Is one Of the Italian quarters in New
York a shave can now be had for three
cents.
Or th&4908 brfclda ayers in Chicago who,
hy thesluttips Z doSvn ofvvork are thrown
outof en1ployansent, nearly one-half have
left the city. They go 60 Southern cities
to work a. their trade during the winter.
AlULHKIL hus broken the worlds swim
: IN as record la Eugland. LIS sNNaW 100l
yaras in lam. II Is.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
GENERAL.

ALL the European bourSes were de-
pressed on the esd because of the French
proposal to tax incomes and the announce
ment that large sums would be needed to
improve the eastern defeuscs OF France.
FIRES were started in five different
places in the Fontainebleau forest near
Paris, last week, and was eNtingujshed
with difficulty. A large quantity of forage
was consumed. The loss was L253 600
francs. Two men We're arrested.
KING MILAN was enraged because the
Servian Bishops did not meet him a. the
station on his return from Austria It is
inferred that the Bishops side with Queen
Natalie.
A COMMITTEE Of the French Chamber OF
Deputies will inquire into the scheme for q
canal from Rouen 20 Paris.
THE Judicial Commission investigating
the TimeS-Parpeu charges commenced the
case at London on the 22d. .
THE Swiss Socialists are circulating. q
petition for a revision of the Federal Con,
stitution.e . 'r .a .... Eh IS. ~ Is.
A wHoLEsAL system Of freight rob
berry has been discovered on the Mexican
Central road, and il o. believed that tie
total loss 10 the company Is in the ueigh-
borhood Of $4,000
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02

ARGUMENT on the appeal OK the Iowa
Railroad Commissioners from the injunc-
ton issued by Judge Fairal to prevent
the putting into force of the new schedule
Of freight rates has commenced in the Iowa
Supreme Court
GEORGE JOHNSON and William Aiken
were crushed to death by the fall of a
huge rock in a quarry at Evansville, Ind,
recently.
FOREST fires are reported raging in Santa
Cruz. Alameda and San Juan Counties,
Cal. Much wheat and fruit has been de-
stroyed. -A
JUDGE SAWYER has allowed ten Chinese
sailors of an American vessel to land at
San Francisco. They had shipped from
that port on a round trip.
THE Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen
at Columbus, o., elected the following Of
fcers: W. G. Edens, of Bucyrus, first vice
grand master; S. G. Foster, Of Ithica, N.
Y, second vice grand master; 7. 7. Slat-
terry, of Butte City, Mont, third vice grand
master.
THE Cheyennes living seventy-five miles
south of Fort Buford, Oak, are reported in
a starving condition. t.a. f#'
THE first train through the Wicks tun-
mel on the Montana Central road passed
through on the oath. The tunnel is 6,2O0
feet long.
PRAIRIE wolves in Northern Montana
have recently killed hundreds of sheep
and colts and have even attacked trav-
elers.
THE will of the late John Wentworth, Of
Chicago divides the estate, which is
worth 81, 0)0, equally between &1is
daughter BOxana and his nephew Moses
THE public schools of Athens, o., have
been closed because of the prevalence of
diphtheria. @.S
THE largest single shipment of opium
that ever reached San Francisco arrived
there last week aboard the steamer City of
New Y YOrk from Hong Kong. 1t weighed
Is $50 pounds and at SO per pound netted
the Government in duty Sl64, 600.
BENJAMIN 4. CARTER, a cowboy, was
hanged on the 2Gth sat Rawlihgs, Wyo.,
for the murder of John Jeffrey, a farmer,
in October, 1888 The murder grew out of
the quarrelss between .stockmen and set
tiers. be -H
QUARANTINE against cattle from Mexico,
except at two points, has been established
for Arizona because of Texas fever.
By q collision between freight and an
empty passenger train near San Jose, H.,
recently, both locomotives and seventeen
cars were destroyed and Fireman Baum
killed.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WAsrITNGTON NOTFg.

WASHINGTON NOTES
THE President held Cabinet meeting
on the 23d Only three of the Secretaries
we're present.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
declared dividends in favor of the credit
ors of the Fifth National Bank Of st.
Louis, which failed November 7, 1887, Of
% per cent, making in all so per cent. on
claims proved, amounting to sos, ,41O.
The Secretary of the Interior has pre-
pared his estimates OF appropriations for
the Interior Department for the fiscal
year ended Juno l, 1883. They aggregate
S94, ,220, ,369. Those for the current year
aggregate Sof 733 13S.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON has writ
ten to the Governor OF Florida suggesting
the enactment of "a law for the establish
ment OF state Board Of Health and aux
iliary boards in each Of the counties. He
submitted tho draft of a bill.
ALREADY inquiries are being made from
various sections Of the country in behalf
Of organizations for quarters at Washing
ton during The Presidential inauguration
next March.
A CABINET meeting was held on the 2jth,
the principal suhjact under discussion
being the njudiciou5 letter of Minister
West to British American elector of
California.
THE military court of inquiry, appointed
by the President to investigate and report
upon "the entire subject of the lining of
the tunnel extension Of the Washington
aqueduct," convened on the 2jth.
THE Chief # the Bureau o4&3tatistics re-
ports that tho t).al numbersoi immigrants
that arrived at ports Of the United States
from the priacipal foreign countries, ex-
cept from the Dominion Of Canada and
Mexico, during tho nine months ended Sep
tember 3D. less was 1872, SO2, against All, ,2S2
during the slmo period last year.
THE inquiry into the aqueduct scandal
commenced ct Washington on the 26th.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02

Thomas ANwORTHy, city treasurer Of
Cleveland, o., is reported missing with
defalcations amounting TO 100000. His
surcties are United States Senator II. b.
Payne and J. II. Wade, Jr.
JUDGE ALLYN, of the United States Dis
trict Court at Tacoma, w. T., has decided
that the Chinese from Alaska who arrived
recently on the American vessel have not
really been out OF the United States.
OLE q. LoMspALEN, prominent farmer
and stock raiser of Fergus Falls, Mimi,
has gone to Canada with $4,000 Of bor-
rowed money and g0odly sum obtained
from the sale of his property.
Further reports of extreme distress in
Ramsey County, Oak, have been pub
lishcd. The worst sufferers are said to be
a settlement of Polish Jews, numbering
25s souls
The General Missionary Society Of the
Christian Church began it's annual session
at Springfield, H., on the oath. Reports
showed 2S3 missionaries q. work in this
and other countries.
TIE Chicago, Burlington s. Quincy rail-
road bridge ntSterling lu., was destroyed
by fire recently. Loss, S25 100.
JOAQUIN MILLER, the noted poet. shot
himself through the feshy part OF his left
hand while hunting near san Francisco
the sther day.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
Workmen Hurt.

KANSAS CITY, No, Oct. 25.-WhiIe six
u1en. employed by the Kansas City Hay
Company, were loading hay presses upon
s fat car north of the Kansas City cable
railway depot about five O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, a Missouri Pacific switch en-
gine backed into the train, throwing sew
eral Of the machines OF by the shock and
hurling them onto the men. Frank Hall
and William Foster were crushed to the
earth beneath the weight Of the machines
and internally injured. George Lecken-
hey was badly bruised and cut about the
face and scalp. The men were taken to
the Sisters hospital, where the physicians
in attendance said the injuries received
by Hall and Foster might prove fatal.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
CoIored Men and Iiouor.

PROVIDENCE, r, l., Oct. 25.-Atthe meet
ing of the American Missionary Society
last night Few. J. r. Mclean, colored, of
Paris, Tex, said: we do not drink as much
as the whites because we could not pay for
it, and we do not inherit, as do they, an
appetite for it. l think that one of the
chief reasons for our race voting against
prohibition is that they consider the lib
erty to drink an attribute to freedom. An
other reason is that it seems to promote
social equality, dissOlute whites often con-
descending to drink with negroes. Then
again, many colored preachers and church
members think liquor favors the flow of
religious feeling.n
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
Betrayed by a Laugh.

An authority on laughter says: Il has
been observed that laughter Ia indicative
Of particular temper and character, ac-
cording 10 the sound Of the vowel that pre-
walls in cachinuation. Persons that laugh
in q broad Latin "A' are open hearted.
honest people, fond Of noise, jocundity,
but perhaps Of voluble mood. Excessive
jerking laughter, however, to an evidence
Of vulgarity Those laughing in dry "a"
are respectable, but little expansive, and
a hard lot Of people. When tho Latin +" r -
prevails there prevails also phlegmatics
melan ch oily temper. Timorous, unsteady
people, also those imbued with malignity,
laugh in a kind Of swelling 81" Laugh
ter in "O'' Is the utterance Of proud bold
imperative, somewhat bantering people
Beware Of those who laugh with 100
(ul. They are traitors, haters, scorners--
~ r. Sun.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
Picknnekcts Arrested.

ITHACA, n. Y, Oct. 25.-The pickpock-
cts who were following Governor Hill on
his speaking tour, and who were &c sue
cessful at Watertown, left Norwich and
fiIched a score of pocketbooks here last
night, but met with disaster in the end.
One was arrested after breaking Police
man Donovan's thumb and striking the
officer on the head with a revolver. and
three of the four who boarded the Lehigh
Valley New York bound express train
were captured iater-tyvo at East WaVeriy
and one at Sayre. In taking these men,
Alderman Babcock, of this city. had his
nose broken. Many gutted pocketbooks
were found in alleys and cellar ways.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
PoIltIeaI Assassination.

LEBANON, Ind, Oct. 25.-George Purdy
was riddled with bullets and killed one
mile northeast of this city last evening,
aud persons who witnessed the shooting
from a distance say it was political
murder. Purdy was shouting tor Harrison,
and some unknown men driving up from
bshind commenced firing their reYolvers
e him. Purdy lived near Kirkhn and was
tvyerfN.- one veara Of age
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02

BERLIN Oct. 26.-The I1sichsaHzejger says
that an official report from Zanzibar de-
clares that the actual opponents of the
Germans in East Africa are Arab leaders
who are interested in the slave trade.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02

OLD age Is as natural and oeautl4ul
part Of LID, when rightfullY understood as
youth or middle life. Il Las its own inter-
ests, pleasure ard opportunities OF uselui-
ness, which are different from those q any
other period, but are not less Important
CofgregatiOndlssL
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-19
BUILDING UP THE NAVY.
A board to Prepare Plans for tho Now
Vessels,
Correspondence ofne Baltimore Sun.


Correspondence ofhe Baltimore Sun.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-The Secrc.
tary of the Navy has designated Commo.
dore Schley, chief of the Equipment
Bureau; Commodore Sicard, chief Of
Ordnance; Engineer-in-Chief Melville
and Chief Naval Constructor Wilson as
board to prepare plans for the vessels
appropriated for by Congress during its
last session. A few months ago when
asked if he would appoint board to con.
slider plans submitted the Secretary re-
piled: mo; do not, think shall. 1
will look into the matter myself, study
carefully all the plSnssin my office, and
will satisfy myself, mo- matter who may
be dissatisfied" N
He had several seta OF plans on his
desk, some of thenptho work of foreign
designers. Sir Thomas Reed, the famous
English designer, submitted n plan for
the 7500-ton vessel. The plans upon
which the Queen Regent of the Spanish
navy was constructed we're also before
him. The foreign plans did not meet.
with favor, and Secretary Whitney some
time ago had decided to reject them
and trust to American ingenuity to pro.
duce acceptable designs. Now he will
leave the selection. Of the designs to his
successor. ....
The board just appointed will prepare
plans for all the vessels appropriated for
except tine steel practice vessel. The
plans for that vessel are being made at
the Naval Academy. The board will
submit the results. OF their labor to Mr..
Whltney's successor, who will in this
way find much of the work looking to
the carrying out ofthe provisions for the
increase of the navy in the last appropri-
alton act already done. He will be en-
tirely free, however, to act as he secs fit,
for Secretary Whitney does not intend to
approve any plan, or to advertise for bids
to construct any of the vessels.
All this will be left for the next Secrc-
tary of the Navy. 1t is q task of con-
siderable magnitude, and to a new man
one difficult to accomplish. The vessels
authorized. by the last appropriation for
which the board will prepare plans are
two steel cruisers, 5000 tons displace-
ment; one steel cruiser, $500 tons dis
placement; one armored cruiser, $500
tons displacement, and three gunboats or
cruisers, of not more. than 1000 tons
displacement.