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The record-union., 1892-11-26
PANAMA CANAL CASE.
None of the Defendants Present When
1t Came Up Court.

1t Came Up Court.
PARIS, Nov. 25.-The case of the Gov
ernment against the Panama Canal Com
pany was called in the Court Of Appeals
to-day. The defendants are NJ. Ferdi-
nand de Lesseps, Chairman Of the Board
Of Directors; M. Charles de Lesseps, his
son, Vice Chirman; NJ. Marcus Fantanes
and Baron Gotta, directors of the com
pany, and NJ. Eihel the well-known con-
tractor. None of the defendants were
present.
The case was adjourned until January
Josh, counsel for defense guaranteeing
that they would then make their appear
ance.
The President of the Court Of Appeals
reserved his decision on the question
whether he would enforce the presence
Of Nj. ferdinand de Lesseps. The charges
that appear in the indictment, which IS .
very voluminous document, are breach
of trust and malversation Of funds.
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wire-Poisouing case.

DEs MONIES (Ia.), Nov. 25.-The people
Of Riverton are still in stale ol great OK
element over an alleged W Vife- poisoning
case. William Mayhor, VINO has had nve
wives in the past few years, all OF whom
have died under mysterious circum-
stances, as related in former dispatches,
mas been placed under arrest 10 await the
action OF the Grand Jury. Mayho~ is
worth $4,000.
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snicIde OF a Dentist.

SAN JOSE. Nov. 25.-This morning at
1;45 o'clock i. S. Whipple, dentist, aged
n, resident since 1864, and practicing
for twenty-siX years, was found dead in
his Office in the Safe Deposit block. on
the floor. a rubber tube connected with
a gas-jet, wide open, was i'll his mouth
A basket was over his head and an over
coat under his head. The room was full
OF gas. Deceased was married and leaves
a widow and two children. No cause is
assigned for the suicide
The record-union., 1892-11-26
A sheepherder Killed by a Farmer.

PENDLEToN or, Nov. 25. = John
Alexander, a farmer, shot and killed
Len Mccarthy, sheepherder. to-day on
Birch Greek, ten miles from here. The
men got into an alteration over the
grazing OF sheep i'll that vicinity, and
Alexander claims that Mccarthy lnade
motion as if tc draw a revolver, when he
fired and killed him. There were no
witnesses to the affair, and very little can
be learned about il. Alex ander was re-
Gently discharged from an asylum.
The record-union., 1892-11-26
A Hotel Beat.

Los ANGELES, Nov. 25.-One week ago
j. Porter and woman he claimed for his
wife registered at the Naticl Hotel. Por-
ter said he came from San Diego and was
a hotel-keeper in search of proper hotel
to purchase. He staid here one week,
went Off without paying his board and
carried with him valuable lace curtains
and lot Of hotel linen.
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EX-SECREHARY BLAINE.
The Reports as to His Condition
Said to be Exaggerated.
HIS LIFE NOT BELIEVED TO BE IN
IMMINENT DANGER.

snow, Accompanied by sleet, Falling
Throughout the Northwest, Being
Particularly Severe in South Da-
kota-The Whole Country n GIaro
of Ice Telegraph and Telephone
Lines About Sioux Falls Frustrated
by Loads of Ice.
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Mrs. Parnell's Estate.

LONDON, Nov. 25.-Mrs. Parne1, who
recently took advantage of the Bank
ruptcy Acts, has offered her creditors ten
shillings on the pound. She admits that
she has net an annual income of 5000
Her liabilities are 46, $50, and her assets
e, ,425. A compromise with her creditors
at ten shillings on the pound will, there
fore, be very favorable to her, leaving her
81 ,3y1 Of her assets.
The record-union., 1892-11-26
THREE MASKED ROBBERS
Hold Up a Passenger Train on
the Northern Pacific.
OCCUPANTS OF A PULLMAN CAR
RELIEVED OF THEIR WEALTH.

A Robber Guards Each Door, While
the Third Gathers in the Money
and JeweIry of the Male Passen-
gers-One Shot Fired, But No One
Injured - After They Had Secured
What Plunder Was to be Found
They stop the Train and Disappear
I'm the Darkness.
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HarrIson Electors ProhebIr Cno.en. /.

BISMARCK IN. d., Nov. 25.--Harrison
electors il North Dakota are probably
chosen. Complete returns from twenty
eight out Of thirty-nine counties give the
Weaver electors 40 majority, but seven
Of the counties yet to be heard from are
surely for Harrison. Tie official count
may be required TO settle the matter.
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Escaped from Prison.

Vancouver (B. g., Nov. 25.-Two
convicts, Rogers, fourteen-year man,
and Gilbert, three-year man. escaped
from the penitentiary at New West
minister yesterday by climbing the wall,
aided by ladder used in the repair of
the Warden's house. Gilbert was cap
tured, but Rogers is still at large.
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TatnI Freirht NNrecI,-

INDIANAPoLIs, Nov. Pin a freight
wreck on the indianapolis division OF the
Panhandle road this morning Fireman
w. j.. Beermaun was killed and Engineer
Ii. IL. Meyer and brakeman Harry He'd
ricks probably fatally injured.
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Verdict for Defendant.

MODESTO, Nov. 25.--After three-days'
trial, the jury in the $4,000 damage case
of e.. A. Lovett VS.. Byron Jackson
brought in a verdict for the defendant
this afternoon. Loyett sued for damages
for a broken leg received on a harvest
machine in August last.
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California Sends the First Exhibit.

CHICAGO, Nov. 25.-lhe first exhibit
received at the Worlds Fair grounds is
an immense redwood tree, which was cut
by tine Kings River Lumber Company,
near Sanger, Fresno County, California
The sections are being placed in order in
the Government Building.
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Fire at ISeddiu0

REDD1NG, Nov. 25.-The residence of
Henry Bartosh was partially consumed
by fire this morning. Most OF the furni-
ture was saved. Loss about $500. COW
ered by insurance. An abundant supply
OF water saved the lower portion OF the
building.
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Car Works DESTROYED.

DETROIT, Nov. 25. - The Michigan
Peninsula Car Company's works of West
Detroit were destroyed by fire this after
noon. Loss, hail a million.
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Hanging Bee mt EI Paso.

Ell PAso, Nov. 25.-Rosalio Costello. a
Mexican, was hanged here to-day for out
raging little Mexican girl last year. he
having treated her SO brutally that she
never fully recovered.
The record-union., 1892-11-26

ceived telegram from the United States
Marshal in the Creek Nation, Indian
Territory, announcing that Edwin Ray
mond, the man who escaped from jail
here last May. after being convicted of
murder, had been arrested there. Mar
shal Severing was positive that he has
the right man. The reward for his arrest
is about 81. 900
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Three skaters Drowned.

GREEN BAY wis.,, Nov. 25.-James
Fox. aged T. years, and john and Ken
nedy Cotton, aged II and years. re-
| spectively, were drowned about 8 O'Clock
this morning while skating on Fox
RiNnr-
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An Old Miner Killed.

MARYsvILLE, Nov. PA brief tele-
gram from Smartsville announced that
George Need, an Old miner, was killed
there this afternoon by the Bank Point
mine caving in ON him.
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Fire at Pomona.

POMONA, Nov. pa fire in Browne &
Co.'s drug store at ii o'clock last night
damaged stock $1,000 or more; fully in
sured. The fire was caused by phos-
phorus.
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Indian school Rurned.

PENsoN lMinn.l, Nov. 25.-The building
of the Indian Industrial School at Clon-
tard, eight miles west, was burned this
morning.
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Opium smuggIers Captured.

SAN RAFAEL, Nov. 25.-This morning
about o'clock two ex-convicts, Fred
Smith and John Lewis, from Soano
County, were arrested for carrying con-
cealed opium into the prison grounds.
They were taken to san Rafael this after
noon and lodged in the County Jail.
where they await examination before
Justice Du1ficy tonight.
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news FROM ABROAD.
English Delegates Try to Break
Up the Monetary Conference.
THEY RECEIVE A DECISIVE CHECK,
HOWEVER.

senator's Allison and Jones Set Forth
the American Suggestions, Basing
Them on the General View of the
Monetary Situation in This Coun-
try - An Apparently Prosperous
Canadian Farmer Turns Out to be
Cunning SwindIer.
The record-union., 1892-11-26

OGDEN Utah, Nov. 25.-Mrs. General
Nathan kimball died this morning. She
was born at Llvonia, Indiana. January
70, 1873. General kimball himself is very
feeble.
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ROOLYN BANK-ROBBERS.
Three Members of the Gang Run
Down by Officers in Oregon.
DESPERATE CHARACTERS WHO TER.
RORIzED THE PEOPLE.

An Unknown Young Man Makes
Probably Successful Attempt at
Suicide Near MarysviIIe by Cut
ting His Throat From Ear. to Ear
Stabbing ARRAY at Wheatland A
Sheepherder Shot and Killed by
Farmer.
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stabbing ARRAY at wheatIand.

MARYsvILLE, Nov. 25.-There was
stabbing at1ray at Wheatland this after
noon, wherein Dora Little cut and seri-
ousIy wounded a man named Holmes.
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The NihiIists Mt Work.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 25.-The Mill
lists are trying to stir up the Volga peas
antry by means of pamphlets and letters
to revolt against the Government. The
police has been instructed to suppress
any insurrectionary attempts.
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Two Record breakers

Woodland, Nov. 25.-Belle Button
aud Tom Rider paced mile yesterday in
2:l6, breaking their record of2:l6!.
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The Emperor Congratulates Canrivi

BERLIN, Nov. 25.-Emperor William
has warmly congratulated Count Won Ca
privi upon the success of his speech in
the Reichstag
The record-union., 1892-11-26

Thinks He Has Raymond.
MARYsvILLE, Nov. 25.-Sheriff Saul re-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-20
TEE LAUREL CHERRY.

Not long ago there appeared in your de-
partment of The GAZETTE an article highly
commencing an ornamental evergreen
shrub to which you affixed the botanical
name of Prunus caroliniana. You men
toned property in Fort Worth where a
beautiful specimen might be seen growing
in the front yard. I went to the place and
was greatly pleased with the shrub. TAX
ing a small branch from the shrub l showed
it to one of our nurSerymen and asked if he
kept the same thing in stock. He claimed
to have it in abundance, so l ordered two
plants. They have just arrived marked
with the botanical name of CeraSuS caroli-
mana. Of course it cannot be. the same
thing described by you as Prunus carolini-
ana, unless the nurserymen has some way
got his Latin mixed up. l think it looks a
good deal like the specimen pointed out;
to make sure I send you twig with leaves
for your examination. Please let me hear
from you through TIE GAZETTE, for others
than myself are interested in the same mat
ter. AMATEUR.
Fort Worth, Tex.
1t is the same, and the nurseryman is not
particularly off in his botanical name, ow-
ing TO an existing confusion among bot
anists. The shrub, as you understand, is a
species of cherry. Linnaus in naming the
cherries and plums put them both into the
same genus, hence according to Linneus
this laurel cherry, first seen in South Car
DINA, is Prunus caroliniana. An attempt
was made by Jussien to remove the cher
ries from the plums and sail them under
the generic name of Cerasus. 1t was only
partial success. Wood and few other
botanists seem to have accepted the JUS
sien name for the cherry, while Gray.
Chapman and many others hold to the Lin
neus name. The nurseryman who follows
Wood for his botany puts down the laure ell
cherry as Cerasus caroliniana, while the
nurseryman who follows either Gray or
Chapman puts it down as Prpnus carolin-
lana. And this is all there is of it. We
prefer the latter name for the reason that
Gray is considered our highest botanical
authority for the whole United States,
while Chapman, author of Flora of the
Southern United States, is our highest au-
thority in the South.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-20

South. the Fort Worth fTex.) GAZETTE
pays the governor quite : compliment. But
in doing So TIE GAZETTE Internationally
falls into an error in intimating that the
governor writes for the agricultural press
Governor W. J. Northea writes exclusively
for the Southern Cultivation. -TSouthern
Cultivator, Atlanta, Ga.
We cannot own up to having fallen into
much of an error on the occasion named.
Governor Northen writes exclusively lfor
the Southern Cultivator, very well The
Southern Cultivator is not only of the agri-
cultural press, but its leader, therefore,
Governor Northen writes for the agricultu-
raj press. We did not say he was writing
for the agricultural press, generally, but
even had we done this the error would not
have been q serious one, for when the gov
ernor has written an article for the South
ern Cultivator it is so extensively copied
that it soon becomes the property of all
who read the agricultural press; in other
words, when Governor Northen writes an
article for the Southern Cultivator he well
knows that he is writing it indirectly for
all the better class of Southern agricultural
papers. The better way to put it, perhaps,
would be that Governor Northen writes
for the agricultural press. generally, but
starts all his articles through the Southern
Cultiyator.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-20

The Breeders Gazette says the effects of
feeds on stock are largely influenced by
combining or mixing the feeds. There are
comparatively few feeds that do entirely
well If fed alone. Wheat bran, for exam
pie, is by many regarded as perfect feed,
hence not few buy and feed wheat bran
to their milk-giving COWS alone. There is
but one case by which the feeder could save
himself by so feeding wheat bran: if he
wants rich manure, he may save himself
on the manure If he does not want manure,
then he cannot feed wheat bran alone with
out heavy loss, as the proportion of the
bran assimilated by the animal is compare
lively small
Combined with good hay, cut up, or sheaf
oats chopped fine, wheat bran makes very
good ration for either cattle, horses or
sheep but not alone, as it packs too closely
in the stomach to be well digested. 1t is
still better combined with cottonseed meal,
sheaf oats, hay and corn-fodder, but the
''roughness" must be there to secure thor
ough assimilation. Corn or cornmeal can
be accepted as of no special advantage to
wheat bran where the fodder, hay or other
suitable ''roughness" is combined with it.
With the ordinary rough feeds, such as
corn fodder, shesf oats and hay, the best
results can always be secured if these are
first run through feed cutter. They can
be more thoroughly mixed together than if
the roughness is fed whole, while there
will be,less waste in feeding the roughness.
OF course this roughness can be raised
by all farmers, an6 all farmers are sup
posed to well understand how it should be
kept but to the village feeder who has to
purchase his supplies, there may be no thing
amiss in stating that it must be stored in
perfectly dry place to insure keeping with
out damage. A damp atmosphere circulat-
ing freely through fodder or hay damages
it rapidly, even though it may be under a
roof entirely tight This fact puts feather
in the cap of North or Northwest Texas as
an advantageous feeding section, for the
comparatively dry atmosphere here causes
most rough feeds to retain their good
qualities much longer than they would do
in a region where the atmosphere was more
humid. All of which would seem to argue
that nature has made this section ex-
pressly to become the greatest stock coun-
try in the world We have moisture
enough to raise the crops needed, but not |
enough to damage them after they have |
been harvested and housed.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-20
PRoPAGAr1NG ROSES.

In a paper lately read before and in
dorsed by the California state horticultural
society, Miss M B. Pratt says layering is
one of the surest and easiest methods
within reach OF the masses for increasing
ones stock of roses. OF course the nur-
seryman would resort to methods better
for him, but he is a nurseryman and knows
how to do it, while anybody can propagate
by layers.
Layering is usually performed by taking
a long shoot and bending it to the ground.
a slanting cut is made about half through
the shoot from the top, and it is then bent
little to one side and pruned down to the
ground. A piece of wire can be bent like
hairpin to fasten it in place. 1t will take
root in the course of the season and next
year can be removed from the parent stalk
and set out as new plant, It will be fin
ished and ready for sitting out by fall.
You will find it having an advantage over
the nursery-produced stock in thefact that,
having grown in the open air, it is more
hardy.
We desire to add a little to this based
upon our own experience. Not a few people
who undertake to propagate roses on the
plan suggested by Miss Pratt find them
selves in trouble over the cutting of layers,
as proposed by her-they are apt to cut a
little to deep and thus iniure the layer.
We never cut at ali, but merely bend the
shoot to the ground, peg or wire it down,
cover it with soil and then keep the soil
moderately damp by watering through the
season. Never yet have we had shoot SO
treated to fail of taking root.
If the shoot is up so that we cannot get it
to the ground we layer it in a flower pot, old
bucket or tin can on the plan suggested by
US last week forlayering the new ''wee ping
CEDAR found near Egan, Tex. Rose
layers Of this character always succeed with
us-we have made hundreds Of them with
out having met with single failure. Of
course everything depends upon close
attention-the soil in the pot must never be
allowed to become perfectly dry.
Referring to propagation of the rose by
budding Miss Pratt says budding can be
done whenever the bark will slip or lift
readily. Make straight cut lengthwise of
about an inch. Across the top make
another at right angles with the first, and
carefully loosen and raise the bark. Then
cut leaf bud from the variety you wish to
propagate, and after removing any wood
that may remain on it, slip the bud under
the bark Of the stock. Cut on the upper
end of the slip carrying the bud so that the
bark of bud and stock will join and tie
firmly. In about two weeks, or when the
bud shows signs Of growth, cut the string
on the opposite side from the bud. The
top of the stock can be cut OF or bent over,
leaving two or more eyes to help draw up
the sap and nourish the new bud.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-20
.rHE RosEDALE HYRRID.p

see in our morning paper (Banner), an
article copied from the Fort Worth GAZETTE
about our new evergreen. You are right
about it in the main, but wrong in two
statements. You say it has been known
only six years. It IS twelve years since I
found it. You say do not know which of
the two trees golden aroor-vitse and Retin-
ospora) the seed came from. do know.
Now, since you take such kindly inter
est in the plant. viii give you the true
history of it had large plant of Biota
SemDervireus aurea, "a rather superior
sort of the Chinese golden arbor-vitse), and
plant OF the Retinospora squarosa Clap
anese cypreSsl, growing almost together,
as you say. The arbor-vitae had fine crop
of seed, and 1 thought we might pos
sibly get something nice from it. I
collected the seed and planted it,
hybrids, as the case may be. We had some
that grew strong and showed the arbor-
vitae most, and others that were dwarf and
showed up the Retinospora. Among them
we had three that were so distinct that we
kept them 1 have the originals yet; one
is not one foot high now, another is about
ten feet high A good feature of their
habits is that they are all easy to propagate
and stand any amount of pruning. Drouth
does not seem to check them, and the hot
test weather we have had or the coolest in
the past eleven years, has not hurt them.
So l now think they may be called hardy
natives"
1t has always been my rule not to push
any novelty on the market There has been
more ungodly swindling in that line, in
our business, than any other. Have lost
hundreds by the game myself, buying new
things and often getting very old and very
worthless articles. AS to that evergreen,
I knew we had a good thing, and so pre-
ferred to let it do its own talking. II it
stood the test of time knew people would
find it out. would rather it held its name
'.Rosedale Hybrid" If it is not hybrid
it is a very remarkable sport. There is no
doubt about its origin-I have watched it
close from its infancy. WIN. WATSON.
Near Brennan, Tex.
The article to which Mr.. Watson refers
appeared in THE GAZETTE of two or three
weeks ago under title of "Another Noble
Texan Born In that article we ex-
pressed the opinion that Mr.. Watson's new
shrub must be sport, but now that we
have allthe facts before US there is little
room left for getting out of the conclusion
that it is undoubtedly hybrid resulting
from a cross between the golden arbor-
vitae and the Japanese cypress. It is GER
tainly most beautiful shrub, and almost
wholly unlike anything else of its class. In
our article we had suggested that it be
named after MIR. Watson, its originator,
but as is seen by the foregoing Mr.. Wat |
son prefers that it be known simply as the |
Hybrid, and, of course, the &C
copied right of priority gives Mr.. Watson
full control in the matter
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-20

the vining squashss; the flowers are small
and of 2 greenish color. Bears heavily,
fruit setting the entire length Of the vine.
The fruit is much priced as a table veget-
able, ans may be cooked as squash. 1t is
also sometimes sliced aRd fried like the egg
plant; also baked with meats. Before it
has attained large size it is often made into
pickles.
The coast country people east Of the
Mississippi river raise the cho-cho to con-
siderable extent, and down there the vine
is perennial; that is, it springs up from
the same root annually for a number of
years. The vine is removed before frost
and the root is protected by piling pine
straw over it to remain through the winter.
1t is not likely that the root would live
through winter at Waco, though the fruit
could be kept over for the next seasons
planting Plant so soon as there is no
longer any danger of frost The fruit is
usually kept in sand, housed away from
the effects of frost. It is best to place
brush for the vines to run over foot or so
above the ground.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-20

very scarce in other sections Of our coun-
try. These two are PHOSPHORUS and pot
ash. These elements come from our rocks,
which, in minute particles, are represented
In our soils, and which by constant disin.
tegration restore to the soils what crops
arc taking from them; but there are other
elements not supplied by these rocks tina.
must be returned to keep the soil perma.
nently fertile Chief among these is humus,
an element due to the decomposition Of
vegetable matter. To keep our soils per.
manently fertile we must turn vegetable
matter into them. If we give them lib
eral supply Of vegetable matter, in soma
form, they will never become exhausted.
but without it they will rapidly wax into
deficient productiveness. Give them plenty
of decomposed vegetable matter and our
soils viii remain inexhaustible.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-20
A FINE FIRE.

Enclosed fine some fibre which came OF
weed which grows here in Wise county.
Do you consider the fibre of any account
I think it superior to anything 1 have seen,
with the exception of fax. The fibre was
taken from the stalk to-day, where the
plant grew last year. If you think it
worth anything please let US know what
you think through The GAZETTE
Alvord, Tex D. II. HODGES.
The fibre is very fiue, very strong and OF
good length. If to be had in abundance it
would certainly be valuable. We cannot
be certain as to the plant upon which it
grew, but incline to the opinion that it is
from some of the ''milk-weeds," possibly
from the Asclepias phytolaccoides of bot
anists. Many of the milk-weeds have fine
and strong fibre. The Indians are said to
have worked them into bow-strings and
other cordage. In early days they went by
the common name of Indian hemp.