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APPLE BLOSSOMS.

"Gittin' putty old. both on us. old tree;
Guess we're glad it's Spring again, you an me
Winter hard on old folk. Well, swow!
You don't look old Them blossoms, now,
Kind o. kiver up the scars as time has made
Wouldn't no one guess quite how long you've
stayed.
CROWN right out thar, seein' you to day.
Thought you'd get Spring suit, now it's May?
Jes' like ye goin get picture took?
Cant fool me- old cheat, braggin how ye look.
l seen ye, long in March, desolate and bare,
Hollow down one side. a-showin' of me where,
Ye lost that big limb, back in 'Seventy-t1ve-
Guess remember Then-she-was-alive.
All. me. Theys storms for mems hearts wells
trees
Thet storm nigh killed me. Guess He who SEES
What's in all hearts knows mine is hollow, too,
Scared an tore like your'n, trom thet awful
blow.
Well, well, Russet, don't min tn old man.
This is May, so bloom away's long as ye can
My. Amt ye fine! Wisht she cd see ye now,
Thousands o pearly petals, tremblin' on every
bough,
Falln' when the breeze blows, tuttern' sof an
SOW,
Spreadin' a snowy carpet on the groun' below.
An all pink buds, peepin' through the green,
A flow rim, apple trees the purtiest thing ever
seen.
An the hain't no perfume in the shops at II
18th tie smell o them blossoms, swayin up there
compare.
They's nothin' half SO putty as an apple tree in
May,
When the blossoms scent the air agin, an Spring
has come to stay.
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Mrs. Meredith grew pale with
chagrin, Maude burst into tears, and
Reuben Gray, who had heard all
from the door, announced his inten-
ton of breaking such an unjust will.
You may try it, was all Lawyer
Fay said to the threat.
Will came Slowly forward and con-
graduated Margie on her good for
tune.
And my congratulations are none
the less sincere that with them |
resign the sweetest hope of my life,
he said.
Resign a fiddlestick! muttered the
old lawyer. Margie, that boy refus-
ed to be made Miss Demorest's heir,
insisting that it would be all injustice
to those nearer of kin. Then she
made him blow these cups of tinted
glass, with the central cavity and
spring. She inserted ruby in each
cup, which, combined with the diff
ferent tins, gave them their rich
coloring He watched her hide the
rubies, and he has kept the secret.
Does he not merit some reward?
Margie flushed and glanced tim
idly at Will; then she looked round
for her aunt and cousin. Both had
disappeared.
Take her, Will, said the old law.
yer, with twinkling eyes, and bless
ye, my children.
With melodramatlc gesture he
too vanished, and l think the young
people were not long in coming to
an understanding; for cards are now
out for their wedding.
The disappointed relatives mali
ciously declare that the whole thing
was neither more nor less than an
infamous conspiracy between Will
Demorest and Lawyer Fay. But
Margie says the property is rightly
Wills as he was the old maids
favorite, and in wedding him she is
but giving him back his own.
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some of her friends that she mas any
more illusions about her cause than
has the hardest headed man in Wall
steet. Since she has taken it up, how
ever, she has met many pleasant people
has been invited out a good deal, life
has been less m -notonous than it need
to be, and the advocate gets her rev ard
one reward at least-whether the
cause triumphs or fails.
There is the same sort of excitement
IN running hospital successfully that
there is managing a railroad, and there
are women who throw then strength
just as recklessly into piling up fortunes.
There is one woman IN the city who
has made public enterprise pay
where half dozen men have failed.
She works at it so persistentlv that
once or twice year she has TO 60 off
into solitude and rest her overstrained
nerves, and all tie reward she gets out
of it is the knowledge that she is
succeeding. Men who are associated
with her declare that she might make
her fortune in private business, yet
surety of $4,000 year probably
would not tempt her to take up busi-
ness on purely business basis.
Among the specially feminine things
which characterize the business methods
of these women are the parentheses
and digressions which mark their talk.
The personal element is sure to crop
out somewhere, and one can hardly
listen to one of them 10 minutes with
out hearing "a list OF her prominent and
influential friends. Indeed they re-
mind one of the ungallant remark of
the late Bishop Hopkins of the Epis.
copal Church, who said {: ga woman's
mind moves like grasshopper jumping
for gate. 1t gets there, regardless OF
straight lines" The woman with the
most business like directness in her
methods of all those in semlpublic life
In the city is the one of probably the
highest social position. She talks
straight from the shoulder as a man
would do, and she has recently come
out victor in long and bitter fight in
one OF her pet charities, in which she
displayed as much courage and resolu-
ton as would be needed to control
military barracks.
These remarks so far apply to the
women who run public enterprises and
causes successfully. There is larger
and less interesting class who try to do
the same thing and fail. They pro-
badly have the same ambitions, but
they have less shrewdness in gratifying
them, and certainly some of this sister
hood lack the personal charm which
marks the successful woman. Some of
them are cranks pure and simple, and
others are of the class that send their
own names to the newspaper offices. an
almost sure road if they did but know
it to the wastebasket. Whether their
lack of success is more due to lack of
charm or lack of sense is a question
which it would probably require a
successful woman to decide.-Brook.
Ln EagLe.
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To Preserve

The richness, color, and beauty of the
hair, the greatest care is necessary.
much harm being done by the use of
worthless dressings. To hc sure Of hay
ing a first-claSs article. ask your drug
gist or perfumcr for Ayers Hair Visor.
1t is absolutely superior to any other
preparation of the kind. 1t restores the
original color and fullnesS to hair which
has become thin, faded, or gray. 1t
keeps the scalp cool, moist, and free
from dandrutf. 1t heals itching humors,
prevents badness, and imparts to
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EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING.
There are just Three Kinds of
ThunG 1rbolts. Sheet, Globe
and FOrked

The Etruscans of old believed in
three kinds of lightning-one incapable
of doing any injury, another more mis-
chievous in Its character and conse-
quently only to be issued with the con
sent Of quorum of twelve gods, and
third carving mischief in its train and
for which regular decree was required
from the highest divinites in the Etrus-
can skies. Curiously enough, modern
scientists, following the lead taken by
Arago, have also decreed that the
varieties of lightning are threefold. The
first comprehends that IN which the
discharge appears like long luminous
line, bent into angles and zigzags and
varying in complexion from white to
blue, purple or red. This kind is
known as forked lightning, because it
sometimes divides in two or more
branches before reaching the earth.
The second differs from the first in the
range of surface over which the flash is
d!ffused. From this circumstance the
discharge is designated sheet lightning.
The third class differs so widely from
the more ordinary manifestations that
many meteorologists have denied their
right to be treated as legitimate light
nings. They neither assume the form
of flong lines on the one hand nor sheets
of fame on the other, but exhibit
themselves as balls or globular Jumps of
fire.
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RES0LUTE WOMEN,
characteristics of Women who
Succeed in Many Ways.

1t is generally conceded that women
are the most interesting objects IN
creation, and OF all sorts and conditions
of women none is more interesting
than that large and increasing class,
the women who "run things" All
hospitals and charitable institutions and
almost every organization for the ad
vancement of culture-like literary. art
and music societies-have women
among their boards OF trustees on
whom much of the work falls, and
many women conduct large business
enterprises of public character.
These women are Of many types and
varieties of temperament, and they
are as widely diverse in appearance and
manner as the same number of men of
equal ability are, bu, pretty wide
acquaintance among them shows
that they all have some traits ia
common.
To begin with, they are all charming.
1t may be that woman without per
sonal charm could run big public
enterprise, but the writer suspects that
that it would be easier for her to
acquire the missing attribute than to
achieve success without it. This charm
is very subtle thing-as diverse as
are the women who possess it; some
thing to be felt rather than seen and
difficult to describe. but about whose
presence thereare seldom two opinions.
To begin with, It has very little to do
with beauty. Some of the women in
semipublic life in Brooklyn-to be less
polite than they ever allow themselves
to be-more nearly resemble Queen
Elizabeth in appearance than her
hated rival on the Scottish thron..
But the plainest of them could give
pretty woman points and beat her,
unless the beauty happened to BE-
charming, too-a combination which
is less common in life than in novels.
1t is commonly said that women
work to the front of public enterprises
lust as men do to the head of large
business houses, because they have
great executive ability. That is often
true, but the most business like Of
them have adorably feminine ways OF
showing their talent which would send
a business man TO the Flatbush asylum
in a year, or perhaps to Sing Sing.
The writer recalls one woman-whose
name is known not only IN New York
and Brooklyn, but all over America
who wished to make public statement
who wrote out half of it and then left it
after 10 minutes interview in the
hands of man who, as she thought,
had injured her. The charming
woman went off without qualm of
conscience, and that man filled out
the statement precisely as the woman
wanted It, signed her name to it and
had it published. Other traits which
almost all these women have in common
are ambition, love of excitement and
love of power. The ambition is of
various sorts, but chiefly social. Public
affairs bring them in contact with
brilliant and interesting people, and
given personal charm in the first place
the woman thrown into such circle
has good time.
There is woman who is regarded
by the public as crank because she
i. Unidentified with cause which, il not
hopeless, is at the best of the twentieth
century, while the woman is OF the
nineteenth. The woman is very level
headed about other matters, and 1t
would be very difficult to convince
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RARE AMERICAN COINS.
Dollars Which Have Sold for
Eight Hundred Times Their
Value.

The United States coins are OF all
coins the hardest for one to secure
complete collection. Ire coinage of
1898 is very rare and sells easily at SIS
and a dollar OF 1894 has been sold for
as much as much as SIoo, and not in
the best state OF preservation.
The half cent of 1896 is very rarely
seen and sells readily for SIS, while the
silver dollar Of the same date is valued
al from S. to S.
The halt dollar of 1906 Is worth $50,
and that Of 1877 is worth sas.
Tne cent Of 1899 is bargain at So
or even $40. and the half dime of 1907
is extremely rare, specimen that was
bent and badly worn having been sold
in 1875 for S35; whereas fine specl-
men would probably command double
that sum: All the coins of 1904 are
rare except the e cent, which is COM
mon. The dollar of 1904, of which
1870 were coined, is, for come IN
known reason, the rarest of all Ameri'
coins, but eight copies being known
exist. This coin has been lars
counterfeited, and will sell for f "A
$500 to a sum unknown, according {
its condition. The half dollar, of W.: q
ss6,519 were struck, is extremely
and is seldom sold. Probably til
no limit to its value beyond the
of the buyer to acquire it. The
OF 1904 can be bought for S. an
quarter of the same period TO -
The silver quarter Of 1898 is alse
rare, a fine specimen being SO,
SIS, though one good enough
pocket piece can be purchased +
The quarter for 1927 is one
rarest OF quarters. A very nm
sold for s1o5, and an ordinary
purchased by dealers for $40.
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A very singular story is told concern
ing the vagaries OF one mass of globe
lightning. A tailor in the Rue St.
Jacques, in the neighborhood of the
Val de Grace, was getting his dinner
one day during a thunder storm, when
he heard a loud clap, and soon the
chimney hoard fell down and globe
of fire as big as a chid's head came
out quietly and moved slowly about the
room at a small height above the floor.
The spectator, in conversation after
ward with M. Rabbinet, of the
Academic des Sciences, said it looked
like good sizad kitten rolled up into
a ball and moving without showing its
paws. 1t was bright and and shining
vet he felt no sensation of heat. The
globe came near his feet, but, by NOV
ing them aside he avoided the
contact. After trying several excur-
sions in different directions it rose
vertically to the height of his head
which he threw back to prevent it
touching him, steered toward hole in
the chimney above the mantlepiece and
made its way into the fue Shortly
aiterward--"when | supposed it had
had time to reach the top" the tailor
said-their were a terrible explosion,
which destroyed the upper part of the
chimney and threw the fragments on to
the roofs of some adjoining buildings,
which they broke through. In the
forest of Nemours tree was once
struck. Two pieces were rent from its
trunk. The smaller was tossed to a
distance of so feet, and the larger,
which eighteen men could not move
to distance of 20 feet or so in an
opposite tack. In 1898 the topgallan'
mast of II. M. S. Rodney was hit by a
flash and literally cutsup into chips,
the sea being strewn with the fragments
as if the carpenters had beeen sweep
ing their shavings overheard. Shortly
before the topmasts of H. M. S. Hyac
inthe had suffered in a similar manner
and when the Thetis underwent like
visitation in Rio Harbor Captain Fitz
roy described the foretop mast as "s
mere collection of long spllnters, almos
like reeds"
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These are few of the examples of
the mechanical effects of lightning. 1t
works chemically as well. 1t has the
power of developing peculiar odor,
which has been variously compared to
that of phosphorus, nitrous gas and
most frequently burning sulphur
Wafen mentions a storm on the Isthmus
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What has this water tar
with the furnace? asked Mrs
as she and hear husband j
their little house.
That's the damper, my d
Nuwed, with the air OF
knew he was right.-Ha,pei
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of Darien which diffused such a sui
Phurous stencil through the atmosphere
that he and his marauding companions
could scarcely breathe, particularly
when they plunged into the wood.
The magnetic effects produced are
often very curious. A chest containing
large assortment of knives, forks and
other cutlery was, not many years ago,
struck in the house of a Wakefield
tradesman and magnetism impaired to
the whole of the articles. Arago, in
his Meteorological Essays" speaks OF
a shoemaker in Swadla whose tools
were thus treated to his indescribable
annoyance. "He had to be constant
ly freeing his hammer, plncers and
knife from his nails, needles and avis,
which we're constatly getting caught by
them as they lay together on the
bench" The same authority knew of
Genoese ship which was wrecked
near Algiers in consequence of some
pranks played by lightning among the
compasses, the captain innocently sup
posing that he was sailing toward the
north, when, as a matter of fact, he was
steering due south.
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Subterranean thunders have occasion
ally been heard preparatory to an
aerial eruption. The sea has cast up
volumes of water, as if volcanoes were
exploding beloW. The ground has
burst open and floods of water have
gushed forth from the sides of hills or
from fssures in the rocks. Taking
another class of effects, cures have
been performed by lightning-gouty
men have been enabled to walk freely,
epileptic persons have been healed,
amaurosis has been removed and
rheumatism dlspelled by fash. But
one dare not look too closely into the
subject of medical electricity nor ven,
ture to recommend any one to tempt
lightning in the hope of experiencing
its curative effects.
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The festive poet mays.
he pleases about the feathAe'
sters of the forest; but
every day use there are
the spring chicken. 1
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% DehoIning Catt|eR

HAVING PURCHASED AN OUTFIT FOR
DEHORNINCi CATTLE, | am prepared to do
ALI this class of work at short notice, and at
reasonable prices. For particulars, address
NORRIS b. SLACK,
OILS Strickersyille, ChesterCO,Pa.
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School Commissioners.

fNHE School Commissioners of Cecil
Il County will meet at their office, in Elkten,
t he transaction of current school business, on
Sc COND TUESDAY in each and every
tn GEORGE BIDDLE,
Secretary
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THE HAIR

a silken texture and lasting fragrance.
No toilet can be considered complete
without this most popular and elegant
of all hair-dresSings.
MY hair began turning gray and fall
ing out when | was about % wears of
age. I have lately been using Ayers
Hair Vigor. and il is causing new
growth of hair of the natural color.''-
Il. J. Lowry, Jones Prairie, Texas.
cover a year ago | had a severe fever.
and when | recovered, my hair began to
fall out, and what little remained turned
gray. l tried various remedies. but
without success, till at last l began to
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TO LOAN

ON FIRST MORTGAGE-Sl6OO; $l2O0: $1,000
$1,000; $1,000; $1,000; $500; $500.
GEORGE A. BLAKE
i23 Elkton, Md.
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US E

Ayers Hair Nigor, and now my hair is
growing rapidly and is restored to its
original color. = Mrs. Annie Collins,
Dighton, Mass.
81 have used Ayers Hair Vigor for
nearly five years, and my hair is moist,
glossy, and in an excellent state of pres
ervation. / am forty years old, and
have ridden the plains for twenty-five
years. WIN. Henry OFT, alias "NIus-
tang Bill" Newcastle, Wyo.
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{ Special
Sale
Mems and Young
Mems S Suits Extra
ordinary.

iormer selling price-dsregarding cost-make
unhearcl-of price that will interest every buyer W
IL not already bought Spring Clothing
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To WHOM CONCERNED: Phila., Oct 4th.92
Owing to I'll health, nave been compelled TO
give up business to seek milder climate. My
partner, Mr.. Frank Brinkerhot, will continue
the business in his own name. The public Will
find in Mr.. BrinkerhOt one who is well posted IN
Refracton, and who fully understands how to
meet the wants OF his patients. G. Z. JACOBS.
The herald., 1893-05-25
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
wrpNnsnAr. Man 24. 1sa

WEDNESDAY, May "a, 1893.
9 Thomas ct ux to c stose--Lot IL, Thomas
Falris sub blk l., San PasGuai tract, Paaade-
r Dirkson ct NIX to A1lison--Lot on Los Ro-
biesa.enue paiedena; 1880.
Smear to smith -Loi 9d, Nichener's g
$3.50.
D curtis to J NJ Fushia-rots % and "a,
tract, Pasadena; $500
Hermann to mis- wife-Lot 7, Kosher tract,
Pasadena; gilt
Dillon et Ok TO o Tullis--LOt p, blk 167
Santa Monica; $A25.
M Seofeld to NJ oole--Lots 8, 9, IL, / 3,
blk P, Glendola: $3.50.
Fan Jose Ranch Go 20 w Hervey Part blk
21S, La Verne tract; $3400.
w Mills ct ux 10 ssme-Lots 81 and 28, blk
la Long Beach, 5000.
d Stephen. ct ux 10 & G Nelson--Lot IA, blk
G, Central Park tract; $3.50.
MY McQuigg-Lot 3, Meserve's sub blk 1866,
Pomone $1,000.
Durett ct ux to ] Bartle-Lot 25, Myers
tracb $500.
J L Trsinor TO D Coyne-Lot l, blk IT. Ivan
hoe tract; $40.
Il Townsend ct ux to H Dobbins-Lot IA
blk 2, Gle ndnle B75.
A Townsend to L & Wilson-Lot "a, weisen-
L II Curtis to NJ M shirley--N Il lot IL, Hy-
man tract Ro san Antonio $500.
S Pratt 70 A Pratt-s Il lot 49, Glendale
tract; $1,000.
A 4 Butler to same-same property as above
$40.
Rosedale Cemetery assocn to W M Sheldon
Lot 8, blk /. emetery; $500.
r a Brown ct ux to w Adams-Agreement to
convey lot IL, blk West Rosss tract; $1050
Washburn et ux to Foster-W lot
500.
Los Angeles Cemetery assn to D white
NWlz lot 1442 cemetery; $50.
Br0psOn.et ux to Trumsn-L0t u, blk
SO, Sanla Monica; $170.
ri Bastiani ct con to A J Peck-Lot g. Pecks
sub blk Y, MI Pleasant tract; $3.50,
Avf1ca 1 aud n IN nafnf mi - ofe
to Al, blk So, azusa; 5000.
SINE 10 d Cieminson-Lots 10 and IL, blk
ID, lot 10 blk 81 lot IL, blk IA, Azusa; 1870
tract Pssad en- a. @s75os
+ Z Harris ct ux 10 G Pentz -Lotr IL, 10
and 19 Palmateet's sub, Pasadena: $4,000.
D Newhart ct TX TO q ii Davis-Lots So, 81,
go, 81, blk ?, Ivsnhoe; $1,000
A Neuhait ct con to NJ Davis-Lot ~,
Weisendanger trt; 5000.
w B Heryey to San Jose Ro Co-50 acres San
Jose Ro; $1,000.
cor Grand ave and Washington ST.: 1880
Harvey to D CsmPbell--W X x W 20 acs
sec r1sR9w; $3.50,
q w Tubbs ct ux to Frasef-Lot 19, Daman
& MillsId trt; $3.50
VII Hsrrelson TO H Bell-Los 165 to I80,
Eadeau Vineyard trt: $l25.
Ii a Roberts eli con to NJ II Perry-Lot 2, blk
A. Paule, Is sub blk rs. H 8; So.
Hancock to J Musslin-5 acres Ro Los
PERI 70 p Bracancontes 35. Bsaudrys
sub Abils trt; $125.
N Miller TO A Miller-Lot 81, Waverly
trt $3.50.
A J Mcclellan to ssme-Lot 33, wayerly
trt: 81,
II, q Anderson to L A Terminal R Co-Psrt
lot 4, pix IS, Sycamore Grove tri; 81.
SUMMARY.
Deeds. ds...............a ........... 60
Nominal. .......................... 30
Total. ............., s 37,6S3 81
Nots-Flgures separated by a dash indicate
page and number of book Of miscellaneous
records.
The herald., 1893-05-25
Dairy Products


BUTTER-Fancy creamery. 26-ounce squares,
40g42hc; fancy dairy, per roll, S714@feci
CHEssESPer ID, eastern, 13a14c; California
large, lie; small, l2c: 3 ib hand, 13c.
Fresh Fruita.
LBMoNs-rured per box $2.50936 90; un.
cured. per box $l.75012. 90
ORANGES -Nayels, per box, $2.5O@2 76i seed
lings, Sl.250D2. 90.
BANANAsSPer bunch, s1.75@225.
Dried Fruits.
APPLES Kvaporated, per n, 12c; sun-dried,
1Oc.
PEAcHEs-Unpesled, per lb. s912I<c; peeled,
APRIcoTs-Evaporated per lb, lie.
PRUN es-Per lb, lI0Dl2c.
RAIsINs-London laI ers, per box, ST. as.
Nuts
AhMosps-soft shell per lb l6@17c paper
shell, l9@24c; hard she'll S0l0e.
PEANUTS = Raw, 4G5e per lb roasted, 7c.
WALNUTs-Hard shell, &c; soft she'll, lie; pa
per shell. 13c.
Honey and Beeswax.
HoEEy;-Comb. b. 109121zc; extracted, white, 8
G9c amber, 7aSc.
BEEswAx-2Om25e.
Vegetables.
~ BEAEs-Navy or small white, per 100 lbs,
% 3og35O; pink, per 100 lb;, SO. BOOB 65 (;
plaek 5 eyed, per 100 lbs, So 509575; Limas, per
100 lbs, $ 00d3 l5.
POTATOES Burbank, per 100 lbs S2.25@
260; early rose new. 81. 2501bO.
BEETs, Per 100 lbs $10O:
CABBAGE-Per 100 lbs, s5c011
CARRoTs-Per 100 lbs, 81
CAULIFLOWER--P Per doz., zoe.
CELERY-Per doz. Soc.
CHILEs-DIy, per string, 75cd$1 90
81 10000
PARsNIPs-Per 100 lbs 81 so.
PEAs-9reen, per ib., 3(04c.
1URNIPs-Per 100 lbs, Soc.
Poultry and Eggs.
POULTRY Hens So 5006 90 per dog; young
roosters, So 50n6.O0; broilers, small, $3 00@
e; large $S 50a4 00i ducks, So 00g6.20;
turkeys, 1916 per lb.
Eggs California ranch, 16@17 per doz.