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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-09

The Lady Minstrels, by request,
will repeat their entertainment at the
Grand Tuesday, May 18th. New
songs and jokes and various mirth
provoking features will be added.
All for % cents.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-09

The exercises given by the gradu-
ating class, on Wednesday evening,
came too late for any particular men
ton in this issue. We will speak on
this subject more fully next week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-09

ALL OTHER GOODS =. SAME RATIO
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-28
rayLEvg1 Asp 20 sQCARE.

We meet upon th= Level aud We part upon
the Square,
Wrst words sublinnely beauEiul those words
A.sonic are;
They fall Ike strains OF melody upon the
listening ears,
And they've sounded Eallelujahs tc the sorId
three thousand year.
We meet upon the Le7el though from every
station brought
The monarch from his palace, the laborer
from his Cot.
For the king mus drop his dignity when
knocking E. or door,
And the poorest is biz equal 81 he walks toe
checkered floor.
We zet upon the Plumb, It's the order CT our
Guide,
We walk uprshs in virtues way and lean 70
neither side:
The AlI-seeing Ere kat Eeads our hearts viii
bear us witness tzue.
Tat We always =! 10 honor God and give
eaeh nan ss due
We pr. rpoa the SQUARE. fcr ths world nuzt
hzve II. dus:
Te rningle with tie noltitude, bar keep car
secrets true;
tR9 the infrsaes OF o1E gatherings IN mem
og Is green,
Aei re lorg upon The Level TO renew ths
happy scaus-
ThereIA xortd where al ere egsai; we are
huuyiuz toward IL ms-
We shall nae. upoe tie Level tsey>, Ehea the
Htes Of death are pszea
Te zhau Stand before TIE Orient. and cur
gas;eS VII &c stere,
01r works 20 ". CIR HTes 70 psore, BY hia
oru uns-Hns Square
T5ea We Eees upoa Il. LeTel there, "a
ueTer shall 6elar;
The-s's AHca-':is Al ready for each
CrstI1z, Gthfai bArt.
There's an everlasting re.eou. fruo The hosza
rejoicing there,
Who L Ehis ro,id OF .iosh and sin hare parted
on u. SQUARE
L.s u meet upoa ~ Le7eI thea, rtiIs IA
bo-ez psslenf tere;
Let - meet AID ies y abor, thoosh tLe k5o-
E%Eers-
Jook. n Hs rs. Z. c7ea1g ahads Do I'D
lsG1icf p-e1a.e
To E1.LC Up oc- yc-Guz soo5 AID pz;t Epoz
re sGo1Ts-
aa15s -o1r6, then, Hfsaf1l Brotherhood, jon
II TIE goidn edA
We pat uPoa TIE sg4r- 5e,or % 1ees u
EATz 2E1
Esca INK sizs hH beea 5.oiez as-e .isl II
Wsa5 Etc-e,
4z6 zone te Ioss s-c1zd fse thzUze zEo
Far1a1 O -cs sq~e
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TIE LEVEL AND THE SQUARE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., NoY. @


To The Editor of the AIezandria Gazette
Ny D4.r Sir-Allhough l know that
sour spsca is valuable, can not refrain
from asking you, on behalf OF many
other Mascns. SIS well as for my own
sake, to publish the enclosed letter and
poem. They will appeal 10 the heart
OF every Mason, and they are beautiful
enough TO touch tue soul Of those who
have not yet known the true meaning
Of the Mystic Tie.
l may add 10 the very destructive let
Ter of WorShipful Master Crocker,
that Brother Morris was born in Mis-
sissippi. His poem has gone where
ever the Eaglish language is spoken, as
the following will illustrate: About
three years ago Dr.. ". T. Wrsy. rep
resentative IN England OF the Bureau
OF Animal Industry, .. 5. Department
Of Agriculture, in personal letter TO
the then Assistant Chief OF rhe Bureau,
The late Dr.. c. B. Michener. quoted a
part OF this poem. which he had found
in mis- travels abroad, and which, in its
beauty, appealed 20 him, rs it does TO
every Mason 8ho reads It.
I may add, also, that these verses
were read, with great applause, recent-
IL. at Fairfax Court House, Va. by
Brother Crocker. who Is Wo!shipful
Master Of Crescent Lodge OF Lewins
vile. Very sincerely,
FRANK E. ANDERSON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-28
Tne g q Mr. Leonard WelIa-

TIE wife CT Mr. Leonard Wells. o:
E.ss Briufsld. Mass, had been suffer
ng from 1saralzia fo- two days, Eos be-
ing able 70 sleep o. bardIy keep Sill
Then III Holden, tie merchant there,
sect h=- bostIe O. Cnanbe-iains Pain
Balm and @Eed that she give Il z
thorough tziaL On Esesi1g Ar. Wells
the n@ day he VS. told thzt ie
vas I'll Czhs- the pain lad Ieft her Wiz
N two hours. s1d tEzt sae bottle G:
Pain BsIu Ess EoEEh $500 Il i eoald
roS 5s tad sor lM- Fog szIs az 81
cs1a pe- bostIa b. L SlahIe< & CO..
drEzgsl-
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Alexauaria 9azette.
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Gazette Building. $40 & s12 Prince st.
Daily one year, So; six months 50 ;one month
so cents.
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three months 81.
All transient advertisements must be paid fer
in advance.
Contract advertisers viii not be allowed to ex-
eeed their space unless the excess Is paid for
ST transient rates, and under no circum-
Stances viii they be allowed TO advertise
other than their legitimate business IN the
space contracted for.
Marriage and death notices must Be paid for
in advance
Resolutions in memoriam, Of thanks, tributes
of respect resolutions adopted by societies
or persons, unless of public concern, VIII
only be printed il this paper as advertise
ments.
fho GAZETTE Office is connected with the
Telephone Exchange. Advertisements, or
ders for the paper, news or any information
or business can be sent by telephone.
Entecsd 81 the Possofics Alexandria Virgin.
L. IS seeond-class matter.l
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-28

the 18th day Of August, 1892, and duly re-
corded in Hber P, No 4 folio 81, Of the Conn
~ Clerks Office Of Alezahdriz county, Viz
ginis, the undersigned, substituted trustee IN
Eaid deed OF trust viii offer for sale zs 2
O'Clock p. N on the
4TH DAY Or DECEMBER, 1895,
on the land, ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND
situzte, lying aid being In the county Of Alex
andria, Virgins, and which is bounded Is fol-
.oBs to-yit: Beginning g. stake forty poles
north thirteen aud half degrees east from 2
Etone planted On tie west side OF the George
t17Sn T0sd thence so1th eighty-tvo end
a-ilzf degrees west t0enty-foCr poles 70 2
stake near gpdDg: thence north eighty
seyen degrees vest twenty poles 70 2 stake
and pie o. stones; thence north foTty-eight
degrees ives, twelve srd thrce-Guzrter poles
10 stzke and pile OF stones; thence south
eighty-Eour and a-haE degTez west sixty
niLe poles 70 stake north seven and three
fourths degrees west twenty even and a-half
poies 70 q sake aud pile of stones lear q
marked chestnut oek; thence north eighty
four znd a-hzh degrees east one hundred and
5sSeEty.nins poies 20 stake On the wee. eide
Of the Georgetown Toed thence with sid
roa1 south twenty eight and a-half degrees
1est forty nine poles 70 the center Of a gzte
9n ths Esid road; thencs south eighty-tTo
and s-half degrees Bss tTenty-four and
z-hzlf poies 70 the place Of beginning and con-
rzining thirty four zcyes, one yood and fifteen
perehes and being the szme land conveyed
oy william Ager and otheZz % Aouroe L.
Fo1 By deed duly recorded N the County
Court Clerks Office 81 Alexandra county,
Virginia
This bezutifrE tIact Of lznd i zit1ate about
tEo sld z-hzh uilss soathTes. OF Wzzhing-
tpn city, On thzt magnificent range OF hiIls
just 5cuth Of the historic Arlington estate,
and L z prominent and iupo=ing pLzee for z
grand Suburban hnne for z pe-son desiring 70
attend to b1zinssz II iae city and 70 yezide =
short distance u the co1nEE. Or y would nake
: VARIABLE and accessible Subdivision being
about ozs-hzf EuIle frou the Mount Vernon
ElecEc RziIEzy and about three-C1z,tez Of
: niie from TIE zseam rzilroad from Tazhirg-
ton 70 Ll=IzndrA L e 5tlz.ed high and
Healthy E vel drzined. and Z in zood zud
zpidIy growing eonuunity, rA- churches
aud sehnos. sr6 possass one g tts sn2s
Tiswz around tds National Capital Tie
=hole city of Washington and The Potonzc
riTeE fo- sPsce of eizns uIa u length,
sooTz up n Eaiss-ie and pauo-znie 5sAC.y
tro1 thH uoes favored Iocztio1.
Temz Of Sale: Czza s1Ecssu. 20 FAY oE
brd $3.50 wiki intersgs shereoa >: Ez
pe- esut per surou frou 4Eguzs 1TEh, 1884
and TIE coes of executing tha trr. and "a 70
ihs rsGdEs tsls ~in II Ezde noTn q
the caT a. 2le.
A.T. sECLlIR.
Substituted TEzees, Nznaaaz. Va
Fo- further information cu on JAMES z
CLEIESTS, 1921 z ssress, z ~, TzsLiug-
soo, D. c. sto Viii zaor lie property.
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MEETINGS.

OFFICE OF THE VIRGINIA MIDLAND
" RAILWAY COMPANY, 4le1zudra,
Va. November y, 1885.
The annual Eestinz OF the stockholders Of
The TTRGTSIA MIDLAND RAILWAY
COMPANY VIII be held ss the oAee OF the
company. No 1909 Prince Eeyeet, Als1an-
dria- virginia OF WEDNESDAY, the eight
eenth (1sshJ dag of December, 1885, zt u
o'eIock rool, for the transaction q al b1zi-
usa OF general o. speciN nz.u-e thzs Rzy
5e submitted 20 the meeting
josiah 2. HILL
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A NEEISG ot tie ssoeSaol6sz O. :te
- CEELPELEE LED COLTNgA II
yEsIIEST COMPANY Vii ts is6 az ste
oEes ot sSe cnlYuy N 4ieurd-A Va, CT
gEID4T. DeeSzter 6si- zs o'eic.I ? Il
TECN4S n. syTIH. Przi6sct
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CEzs z Col t1T- Co roT. 1As41
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AUCTION SALES.
By 2. F. Kno1. Auc.ioneer.

TRUsTEE's SALE OF yALUABLRREAI
Il ESTATE IN ALEXANDRIA COUNTY
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yT5HE ANNUAL EEETISG of shs Stock
toIdszs Of tte LISCOLE HALL AsSO-
cI4TIoS ior ths eiscGor Of dEec.ors viii te
teId .. re oSce of .he zzaocz.iol, No. III
sozth EGrI Eczset, AIenrdris- Va, on
TUESDAY. December 1Oeh- 1895, q.
oiescek D. GEO 2 gEPETTI,
roT2I q seze.zT.
SToC6EoLDERs MEETING.
Sc.ies e here5y gi7ea tiAs tte znn1sl
meeting cs the stockholders o. the ANGLO
AMERICAN COMPANY, LIMITED, vii be
bad a. u oie,ocL roou. CT MONDAY, De-
csnbe- 2cd, l. D., 1895, II re principal
oEee o. ste cnupzry, 80 ZIG Eirz street.
4ieH-dEA- Virgins, az tie pUpose Of eIsrs-
inz thrss 81 DErecoz iSz ye-iod ot tnee
yea-z- AID s1rt oshsr b1Ezaz n Hy be
rs,eAy srd pnpe-iy brcozis betors Aid
Cz1tnE. 2? o-ds- ofeIsczdTe cnuEisses
CEIgLE5 2 NEWMAN,
roT14-21GS Ss-ssz-y.
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By virtue Of s deed Of trrst executed OF
the 18th day Of August, 1892, and duly re-
corded in Hber P, No 4 folio 81, of the Conn
~ Clerks Office Of Alezahdriz county, Viz
giniz, the undersigned, substituted trustee IN
said deed Of trust viii offer for sale ~ 2
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d ~. sINJLAlk-
Substituted TEseee, Aznaaaz. Va
Fo- tHZsne- information czu on JAMES z
GRETTs, 1921 2 ssress, T. ~, Waxing
soo. D. c. sho vii za,r tie property.
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FsSET zee CEzsE -sIrl s1-szr y 1
Il = G MSEEE.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-07-31

Mrs Elizabeth e. Hutter, who recent
ly died In Philadelphia, was widely
known MS tho pioneer in many philan-
thropic movements In Pennsylvania
She was the widow OF tho Rev. DR.. i.
W. Hutter, once editor Of tho Lancaster
Intelligencer and afterward private sec
rotary Of President Buchanan and as
sistant secretary Of state During the
war Mrs. Hutter frequently went to tho
front, rendering valuable service to tho
wounded and suffering. She took a con-
spicuous part in tho great sanitary fair
held in Philadelphia in 1861, acting as
president Of the committee of labor, in
come and revenue. She is credited with
having raised $3.50, 900 for the fair. She
was tho first woman to cross tho limo
after tho desperate three days battle OF
Gettysburg. She went in car provided
by President Scott of the Pennsylvania
railroad and by special permission OF
President Lincoln New York Tribune.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-07-31
VIVA. Makes Niagara Falls, powerq

What makes Niagara falls power pos
sible is the fact that Lake Superior,
Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake
Erie, with combined area of 90, 900
square miles, representing the reservoirs
Of some 900, 900 square miles of water
shed, are situated 600 feet above the sea
level The great volume of water fall
ing over the vast territory flows ON its
natural course to the Atlantic ocean
with but slight descent, until it is
brought into the narrow Niagara river,
when, in the rapids just above the falls,
it declines SO feet and then, with sim
gle plunge, drops into the abyss, 1875 feet
below. Eminent engineers have COM
puted that 375, 600 cubic feet of water
pass over the falls every second, repre-
senting in theoretical energy over 5000,
900 horsepower. -Cassier Magazine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-07-31
CONSERVATIVE.
The First Use of the Word as an English
Political Term.

Canning, and not Croker, was the
first to use in English politics the word
conservative in its present sense, and
too long has Thackeray's ''Mr. Wen
ham" (Disraeh's Mr.. Rigby") had the
credit which belongs to far more bril-
liant man. The general assumption has
been that the term was earliest employ
ed in The Quarterly Review for January,
1880 (No. SO, page 276), in an article
which has been commonly said, but upon
no specified authority, to have been
written by Croker, but its true first use
was five years and half previously.
On June 8, 1924, dinner was given
to George HILBERT, the chairman of the
West India Merchants of London, by the
members Of that body, and several of the
leading ministers then serving under
Lord Liverpool, the Tory premier, were
present. In the course Of the proceed
ings, says q contemporary account, IAN
observation which fell from Mr.. Can
ming was that tho spirit of the present
government, as that Of all governments
ought to be, was essentially conserva-
tive. "
This appeared in John Bull of June
IS, 1894 (page 1887, and the apt word was
80 obviously remarked that 1t was itali-
sized. Years passed, and Canning had
died before the word is again to be met
in English politics, but on March IA,
1929, Charles Grevi1le noted in his dia-
ry that "Herries told Hyde Villiers that
their (the Tories') policy was conserva-
tive, that of the Wings subversiye, and
that they never could act together. -
1.-THE Greville Memoirs, volume 1, part
1, page 1919.
Tho word, employed by both Canning
and Herries, was thus Sin the air" be-
fore it was given in The Quarterly, and
this accords with statement made in
the course of correspondence ON the
"Etymology of the Word Conservative"
which appeared in The Standard ut the
end of October, 1882, wherein it was
said to have been first used in 1899,
during the closing controversies upon
Roman Catholic emancipation. Notes
and Queries
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-07-31
popularity of the Bicycle.

Some definite idea Of the growth OF
the bicycle business in this country may
be gained from tho fact that whereas
the total number Of bicycle manufacto-
ries in the United States was but six in
1885, with an output Of only 1000
wheels, and in 1890 but II, with an
output Of 10000, at tho present time
there are 1875 factories, which will make
an aggregate of nearly or quito half a
million machines this year. The In
crease in the last five years has been
nothing short Of marvellous, and 1t Is
probable that the next five years will
see very great advance upon the pres
emit product Of these fast multiplying
concerns. And now that bicycling is be-
coming so much moro general than hith-
erto there is added reason why we
should improve our country roads. Ii
road reform was necessary five years
ago, it is far more necessary end desira-
BILE now.-Providence Journal
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-07-31
Eonp Bubbles.

NJ. Izarn has communicated to tho
Academy Of Sciences a now method for
obtaining soap bubbles lasting much
longer timo than those obtained from
the soap water generally used. He has
recourse to resinous soap made by the
following formula; Pulverize together
10 grams Of pure rosin and 10 parts
of carbonate Of potash add 100 parts of
water and boil until complete solution.
We obtain in this way thick solution
which may be kept in stock to be diluted
for use with from four to five times its
volume Of water 1t can be kept indefi-
nitely oven when exposed to the air. The
bubbles produced arc very persistent and
consequently can be made useful in the
study of phenomena relating to thin
laminm and in making photographs in
which soap bubbles play part.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-07-31
PLANET COLLISIONS.
Should Stars Knock Together tho Fire
Would BE Understandable.

Professor Ledger of London, whose
series of Gresham astronomy lectures on
'tKnocks III Their Relation to Astrono-
my" has been completed, i'll his last dis
course pointed out that the universe,
instead Of being fixed, is alive with mo-
ton, each star with its attendant plan
cts hurrying through space. If star were
to knock against star the intense heat
and fierce fire generated by the enor-
nous velocity and vast momentum Of
tho two masses would be such as to pass
human conception.
1t may DO that the sun wasIformed by
tho collision of two stars. Tho effect of
two such bodies attracting each other
and meeting would be to reduce them
to violently agitated gaseous mass,
which would oscillate, first inward, pro-
ducing inconceivable heat, and then out
ward again, ultimately assuming the
condition of the sun. The general re-
suit would be that tho two bodies would
revolve around their common center OF
| gravity-that is to say, around each 9TH
er-creating double star. Lord KEEL
vim has calculated that if $4,000, 900
solid globes, each of the mass of the
moon, should be scattered over a spher-
| ical surface 100 times the radius Of the
earth 8 orbit, they would come together
and be raised to a temperature Of
100, 900 degrees They would oscillate
outward and inward, reaching to q less
distance each time, and ultimately set
Ting down into sphere.
Tho nebulB we see around us may,
Professor Ledger suggests, have been
produced by the knocking together Of
two great bodies rather than by the ag-
gregation of many smaller ones The
collision of two hugo suns would thus
lead to rejuvenescenco and tho formation
of new systems. Phenomena indicating
that something very much i'll the nature
OF a collision had occurred are the out
bursts Of temporary stars such MS those
observed by Tycho Brahe In 1879, by
Kepler In 1904 and those of ls49, 1866,
1915, 1885 and 1909. the last being the
now star Auriga, which declined through
| ten magnitudes, on became 100, 900
| times less bright in two months The
great increase in tho light of comet as
it approaches tho sun may be duo to q
tidal disturbance in the bodies forming
it, causing them to knock against each
other, and thus generate heat and light
In tho Same way the twinkling of the
stars may be caused by tho knocks Of
the molecules of the atmosphere ON the
ether, whose undulations carry their
light to us. Tho excessively great md
the exceedingly small are all interde-
pendent, and the past, present and prob
able future of nebulous bodies all hinge
ON tho relations they boar to the knocks
of the molecules of their gases, while
the knocks Of immense bodies depend
ultimately ON the knocks of their constit-
| uent atoms.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-07-31

River steamers won't down to City
Point occasionally, during the war,
with prisoners to exchange. AS there
were torpedoes in the river anywhere
from Drury's bluff to Trent's beach,
and below. their captains ran great
risks. On ono occasion two boats were
returning from City Point, fortunately
with no passengers. whom ono of them
struck torpedo and Immediately went
down. A boat went from tho other
steamer and found tho captain strug-
Cling in the water, with Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary in his arms. AS
he was pulled into the boat no said, Il
did not have time to get it on" He
thought he had seized life preserver.
New York Dispatch.
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wHITrlER,s BoYHooD.
The Quaker Poet Had but Scant Instrue-
tion In His Youth.

In his boyhood Whittier had scant in
struction, for the district school was
open only few weeks in winter. He
had but few books; there were scarcely
80 in the house. The one book he read
and read again until he had it by heart
almost was the Bible, and the Bible was
always the book which exerted the
strongest literary influence upon him.
But when he was IA a teacher came
who lent him books Of travel and opened
q new world to him. 1t was this teach
er who brought to the Whittiers one
evening volume of Burns and read
aloud some of the poems, after explain
ing the Scottish dialect
Whittier begged to borrow the book,
which was almost the first poetry he
had ever read. 1t was this volume of
Burns which set Whittier to making
verses himself, serving both as the in
SEPARATION and the model of his earlier
poetic efforts, The Scottish poet, with
his homely pictures of life as bare and
as hardy as that of New England then,
first revealed to the American poet what
poetry really was and how it might be
made out of the actual facts of his own
life.
That book of Burns poems had an
even stronger influence ON Whittier than
tho odd volume of The Spectator which
fell into the hands Of Franklin had on
the American author whose boyhood is
most like Whittier's. Franklin also was
born in humble and Woodworking fam
lily, doing early his share of the labor
and having but meager education, al
though always longing for learning. 1t
is true that Irving and Cooper and Bry-
ant did not graduate from college, but
they could have done SO had they perse
vered, and Emerson and Longfellow
and Hawthorne did get rs much of tho
higher education as was then possible
In America But neither Franklin nor
Whittier ever had the chance; it was as
much as they could do to pick up tho
merest elements of an education. Pro
fessor Brander Matthews in ST. Nicho-
las
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r,,a..ror,n.. ON Nature.

Horrors exclaimed tho beautiful
society woman. "Do you moan to try TIC
sell me that picture as IN artistic pros
entation Of group of horses?"
Tho great artist paused moment be-
wildered. Then light broke in upon
him, and with few rapid strokes he
painted out all the long, graceful tails
on tho horses and substituted for each q
locked tuft that stuck out straight like
pump handle.
"Ah," said the society woman, clap
ping her hands with pleasure, "now that
is a picture worth having. Chicago
Record.