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IN THE HAREM.
The Slave is Submissive and Obedient |
to Her Lord and Master.

The Slave is Submissive and Obedient
to Her Lord and Master.
From the Nineteenth Century.
For the selvice of the harem as at pres
emit constituted slaves are indispensable. it
being unlawful fer free Moslem woman
to appear unveiled before any man not a
near relative, while to a slave, who is the
property of her master or mistress, no
such restriction attaches so far as they are
concerned. Stree the abolition of the pub
lie slave market the private trade in slaves
has become much more general and widely
spread than it formerly was, and is carried
on to great extent by ladies of rank,
some of whom are themselves emancipated
slaves.
In addition to the negresses and other
women Of unattractive exterior, to whom
the mental duties of the household are as
signed, these lady dealers pay large sums
for pretty children Of from six to ten years
of age, who are carefully trained for the
higher positions they will probably be call
ed upon to occupy. Many Turks prefer, for
various reasons, to marry women who have
been brought up as slaves. Marriage with
a free woman is, Indeed, a very expensive
parents, owing to the lavish outlay in pres
ents and entertainments required by GUS
tom on such occasions. Consequently if a
father cannot afford to marry his son to
maiden of his own rank, he purchases for
him slave girl who has been educated in
some great lady's harem, and no expense
is incurred beyond the purchase money.
A slave, having no position of her own. is
submissive and cbedient to and anxious to
please her lord and master, has no trouble
some pretensions or caprices and no inter-
fering relatives to take her part against
him. A free woman, on the other hand, is
by no means always disposed to have, ac-
cording to her own expression, neither
mouth nor tongue" She is fully aware of
her rights aad inclined to assert them, and
the moral support afforded by her family
gives her an assurance which the husband
often finds extremely inconvenient.
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each side of the table. Now, try to re-
member where Mr.. Laroue and Mr.. Mar
Dor sat when they We're killed"
IL think it was there, sir" indicating
the side nearest the windows.
We'll, you're mistaken; 1T was here
said the detective, moving in front of the
oaken mantel AT least, SO the other
gentlemen who We're present testified at
the inquest.
perhaps it was. sir; my memory is not
good
want you to sit there for moment" and
Stacey pointed to the fatal chair, with its
back to the mantel
'.I-certainly, sir, if you wish" said AL
fonse, with some hesitation. He cast
furtiye glance once more up into the i'm
passive face of the Roman woman, and
took the chair
Stacey took from his pocket two dia-
grams procured from the coroner's ply
scian, showing the location of the wound
ard the direction taken by the bullet in
each of the victims. With these as guide
he located upon Alfonse's head the spot
marked by the wounds, and plao ed a fin
ger upon it.
AS he did SO he felt that the man trem-
bied slightly, but he appeared not to no.
tice il.
He next gauged the track Of the bullets
by means of his walking stick, which he
held against Alfonse's head. regulating its
angle by means of the diagrams This
done Stacey felt certain that he had Sc
cured the line along which the fatal square
bullets had Travelled.
And, therefore. he was greatly surprised
when, upon prolonging the line thus mark
ed in. the air by his walking stick, he found
that the other end terminated in the face
of the Beatrice Cenci
Having very little of the artistic in his
soul, the detective had heretofore paid
but slight attention to the picture, except
ing one of the component parts of the
room a whole, possessing about the
same relative Importance in his eyes as
O " n1rit
suddenly leaped into prominence as the
ore single feature OF the apartment worthy
of his attention. He dismissed Alfonso and
turned to the picture.
1t hung about eight feet from the floor
level and three feet above the oallen man
te! The canvas appeared to be about
2l by 80 inches, and was surrounded by
heavy gilt frame. Having observed this
much from the vantage ground of the car
pet Stacey rang the electric bell and de-
manded a stepiadder. When this was
brought and he was again alone he pro-
ceeded to make a closer inspection of the
picture. He was no sooner at the top of
the ladder and his face upon a level with
the portrait than he made an important
discovery.
There was no pupil in the left eve of
Beatrice Cenci.
A little round hole had been cut through
the canvas-a hole hardly large enough to
admit the end Of a lead pencil. otherwise
1t would have been noticeable from the
floor of the room, but quite large enough
to permit the passage of a weapon of suth-
cient caiiber 10 carry the little bullets
which had been found imbedded in the
victims brains.
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY.

Schedule in effect March 4, 1895.
Trains leave daily from Union Station (B. and
P,, 9th md Is SITS.
through the srandcst scenery in America with
the nandsoniest and most complete solid train
ice west from Washington
2:25 pm. DAILY.~"Cincinnati and St Louis
spccial''-Solid Nesiibuled, newly Equipped, Flee.
tric-liChted, Steamheated Train. Pullman's finest
sleeping cars Washington to Cincinnati Indianapo-
lis and st. Louis without change. Dining Car
from Washington. Arrive Cincinnati, 500 a. m. !:
indianapolis. LAO An. and Chicsgo. $3.50 pm.
lilo PM. DAILY.-The famous '.F. +. V. Linn.
tted" solid vcstibuled train, with dining car
aud Pullman sleepers for CINCINNATI. Lexington and
I1uisyiIle without change. Pullman Sleeper WASH
incton to Virginia Hot Springs, without change.
week days. Observation car from Hinton. Arrives
Cincinnati, $3.50 p.m.; Lexington GOO D. IN; Louis
Vile, 9S5 pm. Indianapolis II 20 pm; Chicago,
7;3O am, and st. Louis Csc am; connects in
Union Depot for all points
1851 AM, EXCEPT SUNDAY.-For Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk. Only rail line.
OBS PM. DAlLY.-Express for Gordonsvine,
Charlottcsyillc, Waynesboro. Staunton and princi-
pal Virginia points. daily; for RicLno CID, daily,
Pullman locations and tickets at oompany's OF.
fees 5l3 and lA2l Pennsylvania avcine.
II. W. FULLER,
mb4 General Passenger Agent.
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THE EYE OF BEATRICE
BY EDWARD ]. WHEELOCK.
Copyright 1895, by Bachelor, johnson Bacheler)


/.
Shortly before o'clock on the morning
of the Tth of May. 1881, four young men
sat playing whist in an upper room of one
of the best-known clubs of New York.
For obvious reasons we vii. in the pres
ent narrative, disguise the title of this or
ganization under the name of THE Myr-
tie"
OF the four young men we are concerned
with but one. This was Roger Laroue. a
black-haired. black-eyed young fellow with
a shifting gaze and uncommonly good luck
at cards. He was dressed faultiessly, APP
peared sufficiently wealthy for all mum
dane purposes. lived in state of careless
bacheloIhoo had no known relatives liv
ing, and had dropped into Gotham society
a year or SO before from Paris or Berlin or
some otter place where it would be equally
impossels to hunt up his antecedents.
In London such man would be prompt
ly blackbalied at any respectable club.
But in New York things are done differ
fe-ently. and Rogers application for mem
bership in 1.-The Myrtles" had been backed
by two Of the foremost leaders Of the
ultra-gilded set.
The room in which the quartet sat was
In nowise different from dozens of such
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coo
-JOs-

Partisan artist, had been in New York but
a few months on Il visit, and was not a
member of The Myrtle" but had free en-
tree there on a privilege card.
He, too, had sat with his back to the
oaken maHtel and the Beatrice Cenci: he
too, had fallen dead with jagged wound
In the head with a square bullet; and his
death had been preceded by the same mys-
ferrous swishing sound that had been
heard before Roger Laroue's fall
About this time there lived amid the
wilderness of upper 9Th avenue the Count
ess Claire Brodsky OF st. Petersburg.
The Countess Claire about thirty
five. blond, supple, wealthy and widowed
Her social status was undoubted, because
Travelled Americans had attended her salon
IN the cars capital, had met her late hus-
band. who was of the cars diplomatic
suite, AID all the world had heard of the
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Schedule in effect May II. 1895.
Leave Washington from station corner OF


New Jersey avenue and st.
For Chicago and Northwest. vestibuie3 Limited
For Cincinnati, St. Louis and Louisville, vesti-
buled Limited 8 10 pm, express l2.o1 night
For PiIisburg and Cleveland. express daily, ll.So
For lexington i and staunton 11.3o am.
For Laray. Natural Bridge, Roanose, Knoxville,
Chattanooga, Memphis and New orieans' ii-0
pm daily; sleeping cars through
. Fs5 s saio 500 week as ss'
aiiso am, xis10: 1lzSo, lIls; Is.eS; a. a.
am. 10. 1i2ao, 100. 1900 s.s5. 4sl aSo..
For Annapolis, no and $50 am. 12.l5 and as
pm. sundays, $40 am, 4.si pm.
For Frederick. bseo. as.sV. ail.1o am. bl.1s'
For Hascrstown. also am. and $3.50 pm.
For For sSas aaa way a PSns .s
am; al2Sc. as.oo a4.sS' $780, '1o' 's'1'
asso am. bis pm. Express trains stopping at
psI snE Iny roR REV gohk AND
All trains Illuminated with Piutsch light
East. week u days i.5S Dining Carr. G:os Dining
Carr, 500 1000 AIN Dining Carr. lilo Q23o
Dnins Carr 5000 So s.Ss Dining s .. Car, 90 80? pm
Am: Dining 6aTl, 80 Dining Sars $50, ls,os
for psss sa; loo P.M s"'' eps ~ 'pe-
Puffet Parior Cars all day trains.
i--'0 a Exc, Sunday :Daiiy. bsanday only
Baggage called for and nd checked from hotels and
residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left
Ct TICKET a Ss see and at n~
r. b. CAMPBELL. CHAS. o. SCULI,
Gen Manager. Gen Pass. Agt.
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Stacey felt that species of elation which
comes to the mathematician who sees
ahead of him the end of a difficult problem
in calculus.
He carefully lifted the heavy picture from
its fastenings. In the wall where it had
hung was an orif1ce about the size of sill
through the maroon-colored paper and the
plaster. And the wall sounded hollow
when Stacey tapped it with his cane. Care
fully replacing the picture, he rang again.
had the stepladder removed then, calling
the steward, demanded to be shown into
the apartment adjoining the maroon-paper-
ed room.
This proved to be meagerly furnished
place, fitted with plain bedstead, bureau
and a washstand, and intended for the use
Of the day servants who might be called
upon to stay at the clubhouse all night.
Left alone, Stacey locked the door upon
the inside.
In the wall at the end of the apartment
next to the maroon-papered room was a
narrow closet reaching nearly to the cell
fastened. Rather than further divulge
what he was doing by making another call
upon the servants he cleverly forced the
lock. In tho, top of the closet was a board
shelf. BY sounding with his cane Stacey
quickly located hollow in the wall above
one end of this shelf, and by the light Of
wax vesta he found that piece of thin
beard. painted white, had been rather
roughly fitted into aperture about six
inches square cut through the plaster.
Upon removing this there was revealed an
opening of the same size cut nearly through
the entire thickness of lath and plaster.
upon the other side of which shone little
round point of light from the eye of
Beatrice.
But what interested the detective most
was peculiar piece of compact mechanism
which was mounted upon species Of rough
foundation placed in the opening Taking
this out he examined 1t closely.
1t was sort of miniature cannon with
barrel Of FURNISHED steel about seven inches
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SEALING WAX.

Some Interesting Facts as to It's
Make, Color and Fashion.
From the Station er and Printer.
1t is singular enough that the oldest
known printed receipt for making common
sealing wax, published at Augsburg in 1872,
describes the use Of almost the same in
gradients as those at present employed.
Rosin, the whitest that can he obtained,
Venice turpentine and vermiliol are the
components. For black wax lampblack is
to be added, for blue wax smalt and for
yellow orpiment. When sealing wax was
more widely used than is the case at pres
ent. scented wax was an article frequently
on sale at fancy stationers, but in this
epoch of feverish impatience and hurry, al
though our Gallo neighbors may nave their
sealing wax code with different significa-
ton for each color, We rarely go beyond
the employment of black wax for an
nouncements of a funeral and mortuary
kind and of red wax for business lattars
On the whole, it may be said of sealing
wax as Of quill pens-nine out of ten pre-
fer steel pen to Quill one, and abou. the
same proportion prefer using a gummed
envelope to the trouble of sealing a letter
with wax.
Before the Introduction Of the penny post
envelopes were rarely used, because extra
postage was charged for every paper in
closed in another, and for years afterward
a four-page quarto letter was folded so as
to be self-contained. When envelopes We're
first sold they were not gummed so sealing
wax was used. When such letters went
across the equator, mostly in sailing YES
sells, the wax used to run and stick all the
letters together. especially wnen the ship
got into the doldrums" and friZzled be-
Gained near the equator for days at
stretch. 1t is quite within modern memory
when postage stamps were first perforated.
Before that they had to be cut apart with
scissors or a knife or to be torn from the
sheet, to the disadvantage of a clumsy
operator. The little discs called "wafers''
seem to have gone right out of fashion,
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
STATION CORNER OF SIXTH AND STREETS.
In effect May 90, 1906


STATION CORNER OF SIXTH AND d STREETS.
In effect May 90. 1895.
1880 AN. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED Pullman
Hssr iIs; Dining, Smoking and Observation Cars
St Louis Cleveland and Taieao Baifei isnof
1885 es5 :. An harFTl asT ISEpum,n nur.t p,,
Car to Harrisburg. Parior and Dining Cars. Har-
s GsD Pk to cn ait!ss15s AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS
Ing aud Dining Cars. Iarrisbars e to s.. LOUIS
7:ioPM. WESTERN EXiREss.spullmnn Sleep
ing Car to Chicago, and Harrisburg to Cleveland
7:lo Pm. so tSu1TMiWSfS;rER ExrREss.-ralman
S; SIC, and Dining cars 70 ST. Louis, and Sleep
lo:so Pm TacJFi5 E ( sasssi Sleep
7:S4 AM for Kane. Canandaigua, Rochester and
,o Niasara I, Falls gu, daily except sunday
SUNDAY. For Miliamsi,ort daily. 3:aO PM.
7;,9 PM for wIlliansIort, Rochester. Buffalo aad
ing Car Washington TO Suspension Bridge VIA
1910 Pm. for Erie Canandaigua, Rochester, Buff
falo and Niagara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash
FOR PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND THE
4.opu .coxcpr.si EAST; LIMITED " al Par.
oas via nn er f aSh IS.
s:i5. 3:so, 6:4o 1900 and i:ss I. ~ On sun
s;i;. i:so, $40. 1890 and il $! Pm; For PM
S Ssslpna x Sn T5s' ,n mSprsas 40 nm wee
For Boston, without change, 1859 AN. weekdays,
For Baltimore, 6:25, 7o5. 7:eo $50. 800. 1900
1890. II 90 and II 80 AN, 12:15, 2:0l, BIS.
$40 600 Limited, 40, 4:36. $40, Cos $40,
T:1O, 1000. 1870, li:l5 and l:35 Pm: On
Sunday, 05 100. 900. 9:o5. 1880. IL 90 An.
1918, 1:i5, Eel, BIS, $40 ti:00 Limited, 4:9.
$40. 6:o5. $40, 7:l0, l0:0U, 10:4o and lbs
Pm.
For Pope's Greek Line, 7:so AN. and 4:as PM
For Annapolis, 30, 800 AM. 1918 and 4:2o
PM daily. except Sunday. Sundays, 900 An.
and 40 Pm.
Atlantic Coast Line Express for Richmond, Jack
sonville and Tampa, 4:S0 AM, $3.50 Pm. daily.
Richmond and Atlanta, $40 PM. daily. Rich-
nnond only, lO:57 AN. weekdays.
Accommodation for Quantico, 1:35 AL daily, and
4:25 PM weekdays.
For AIexantlria 400 6:35, 1:45. $40 9:45, 1851,
Il:5O AN, 1850, 1:i9, 800, 4:2a, 500. 5;Ss,
G:i5, S:02 1910 and ii :39 I'm. On Sunday at
400 1:i5, 9:45 AN, 2:i5, 6:15, S:02 and 1910
PM
Leave Alexandria for Washington. Cos. 6:i3. !05
500, 9:lO, 1915 10:2S AN, leo. 2:l5, 3:oo
1928 500, $50, 6:13, 100, 40 9:1o, 1882 and
HOS PM On Sunday at 6:43 9:1G. los AM,
2:l5 $50 700, TO. 9:1o and 1852 Pm.
Ticket Offices northeast corner OF 18th street and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue, and at the station. 9th and
streets where orders be left for the checking
of baEgace to destination from hotels and resi-
dences. n ..-..l- :. ...z.xS-.-.
s. NJ. PROVOST. J. r. WOOD.
General Manager. General Passenger Agent.
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Another New Industry.

From the New York Weekly.
Visitor cat Blind Asylum)-'1 thought
this institution was for both sexes, but l
see only men here. Have you no female
inmates -
Matron-"Oh, plenty of them but they've
all been rented out for chaperons."
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STORIES FROM ASIA
How John W. Foster 8 e Entered Upon a
DIPLOMATIC Career.
some UNVRlFqEH bits OF HISTORY
The Value of Nerve and Patriotism
in Foreign. Minister.
G o L D I N @ o r E A
SOME UNVRlfTEN BITS OF HISTORY
G o L D IN co r E A
Copyrighted. 1895, by Frank C. Carpenter,

r. JOHN w. FOS-
ter Is now on his way
home from China.
He has done good
work in arranging a
treaty of peace, and
/ understand that it
was largely through
his influence that
China got such ex-
cellent terms from
Japan. He worked
en- tirely in the back
ground. He was the
confidential adviser
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RAILROADS.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Riedmcrt Air I.ireA
oCueuuIe III elltCt May 10, IoJo'
All trains arrive and leave at Pennsyivaala
Passenger Station.


Schedule in effect May 10. 1895.
All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania
Passenger Station.
,o:uo AM.-Daily-Local for Danville. Connects at
MaHissas Tor Strssburg, daily. except Sunday, and
at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Western daily,
Clifton Forge.
ii;1o A.M.-Daily-The UNITED STATES FAST
anu washington TO Jacksonville, uniting at Char
lote with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta; also Pull
n ,aa sleeper 81, New York to Montsoinery with con-
nectioh Tor New Orleans connects at Atlanta with
Louis.
4:o1 P.M.-LocaI for strasburg, daily, except Sun
day. 10y
Az P;M.-Daily-Local for Charlottesville
49, 10 10 r N: aily-wASHINGToN AND SOUTH
WE,SIEuN FESTIBULED LIMITED, composed Of
iuihlah Nestibnied Sleepers and Dining Cars Pull
man Sieepers Washington to Chattanooga via Sails
bury, Ashaville and Knoxville. New York TO Menu
phis via Bir1ninsham New York to New Orleans via
Atlanta and Montgomery, and New YORK to Tamna
via Charlotte Columbia and jacksonville Day
Coach Washington to Jacksonville. rarlor Car Co
iunnla 10 Augusta. Dining Car from Greensboro
TRAINS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ROUND
HILL leave Washington 9:01 A. NJ. daily. 90
PM ana sn,d s;ss Pm daily except Sunday, and 81
9aily except Sunday for Leesburg; G:25 Pm. daily
tor Herncoh. returning arrive at Washington S:25
AZ. m and zoo Pm daily and Fps N. daily ex-
cept Sunday from Leesburg and 1905 AN. daily,
except Sunday, from Herndon only.
aafoash trains from the south arrive at Washing
Manassas Division 9:4o AN. daily, except Sunday.
anG $40 An daily from Charlottesville.
f,n Sleeping Car reservation and information
nue, and at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta
W; II; GREEN, General Superintendent.
J. NJ GULF. Traffic Manager.
w. A TURK, General Passenger Agent.
Ey0 L. s. BROWN, Gen. Agt Pass. Dept.
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South Carolina Correspondence of Chicago Record.
Everybody notices the statuesque appear
aEce and dignified carriage of the negro
women who tote" burdens On their heads.
cnce heard an accomplished artist say
that the most graceful beings lie ever saw
were the negro amazons who carry coal in
gr6a at baskets on their heads to load the
steamers in the harbor of St. Thomas
West Indies. There is something in the art
of carrying a burden which gives poise
and muscular movement that cannot be
otherN .se obtained.
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The Doctors Remark.

The Doctors Remark.
From Life.
The Wife-"I'm afraid there's no hope
for you, JOHN.
''Why?'
1.-THE doctor says he has handsome
young brother he'd like me to meet"
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As TIE NAME INDICATES, HALLS VEGETABLE
SicIn Hair Remover is e remover Of the hair
including its growth, health, youthful color and
beauty. 1t will please you.
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And with all this Gov. Hubbard made in
some respects, very good minister to
japan. HIS enormous appreciation of the
United States and Texas made him believe
that the United States ought to have
share in the contracts which the Japanese
government were giving out to foreigners.
The ministers from France and Germany
insist on their people being respected by
the weaker governments They demand
when they can a share of the foreign bust
ness of the countries for their own peo-
pie, and in this way the English, the
french and the Germans have gotten many
Dig japanese contracts The japanese
have generally used the American min
.sters as they pleased, and have given
them nothing. Hubbard objected to this.
Japan was anxious to revise its treaties,
and the foreign diplomats have been meet
irg off ard on for years in Toxic to agree
upon SUCH a revision. When Gov. Hubbard
found the United States was not getting
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-01
Law us SHE is IN OREGON,


Those who have been lending money
in some of the western States during
the last few years have found that all
is not gold that glitters nor all silver
that shines. And many of them have
not even been allowed to see any
glttering or shining. Those who have
lent money in Oregon, and who have
had experience, win be cheered by a
decision which has Just been made by
the Supreme court Of that State, Ac-
cording to that court 1t is the law that
where attorneys are employed to col
lect an unpaid note, in which 1t Is pro-
vided that costs and attorneys fees
shall be added to the principal and
interest of the note In case of suit,
these attorneys may fix their own COM
pensation for their services, without
consultation with their client, and this
compensation shall be a first lien on the
proceeds of the note. The case In
which this decision was made was a
foreclosure OF mortgage on piece
of real estate that sold at foreclosure
for $4,000. The attorneys who conducted
the foreclosure suit took $500 as their
fee, and after other costs were paid
the owner of the mortgage received
only $4,000. This was the way the law
yers did 1t: Instead Of taking decree
for the foreclosure of the mortgage
with fees and costs, In the name of their
client, the mortgage, they took the
| decree in their own favor, and against
| their client, for the amount they claim.
ed for fees, without notifying theil
client or giving him a chance to con.
| test their claim. The Supreme court oil
Oregon has decided that this trick is
legal, and that a client who is robbed
| in this way has no redress, which
means that any one loaning money or
mortgage in Oregon Is at the mercy Of
| the attorney he may employ to collect
his claim, if foreclosure should be neces-
sary, and must take such portion of the
proceeds of foreclosure sale as the
lattorney chooses to give him.
Moral: Do not lend money in Oregon
Lend 1T in Kansas, and have your los:
guaranteed.