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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-16

Moss Bros. II co. sell the best S
cent cigar in town-the 'sSmokette.
Four thousand and eight hundred
bales of cotton were shipped from
Broussardville during the season OF
1898. In the following season,
1894, $500 bales were shipped.
This year there had been only 1916
bales shipped up to Nov. 12-not
half of what was SHIPPED up to that
date last year. A gentleman, who is
weliposted in such matters, inform
ed The Gazette that the number
of bales shipped from that point this
year would hardly amount to much
over 1000. These figures give an
idea of the shortage.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-16
Protection to Ga me and Poultry.

The undersigned will pay $50 bounty to
| the persons making the highest number of
points by killing predatory animals and
birds of prey in the parish of Lafayette,
La, before the Ist day of January, 1896,
as follows:
s25 to the one making greatest number
points.
SIS to the one making next greatest num-
Der Of points.
$40 to the one making next greatest num-
Der Of points.
Value of different heals are to be counted
by points as fellows.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-16

DAVIS WILD CHERRY AND TAR will cure
your Cough or Cold. soc. and 500.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-16

Heads Of birds Of prey and scalps OF ami
mails be delivered to VIM. Clcgg who will
give receipt for points, bounty to be paid
for less than FIVE hundred points.
r. +. MYLES.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-16

Moss Bros. & Co. sell the best s
cent cigar in toWn-the eeSmokette. -
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-16

Miss Dora Domengeaux,H OF
Breaux Bridge, was in Lafayette
last week.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-16
THE GAZETTE.

THE GAZETTE. !
.Su6se,spfio1 Prize. 81 Per YraS
Buy pure medicines1a and have
youraphysjcianb prescriptions filled
at the Moss Pharmacy.
Miss Dora Domengeaux, of
Breaux Bridge, was in Lafayette
last week.
Exquisite perfumes and toilet
soaps ut Moss Bros. & Co.'s (Drug
Department.
Remember that all kinds of COM
mercial printing will be promptly
and neatly done at this Office.
The Otto Krouse Company has a
first-class band.
Alexis VOORHEES,, the well-known
representative of A. Baldwin & Co.,
of New Orleans, was in Lafayette
this week.
James d. Cotter, who had been
at work in New Orleans, is spend
ing some time with his family in
Lafayette.
The popular actress, Emma War
rem, will appear at Falk's hall on the
10Th of December.
Arthur VOORHEES,, the genial drum
mer from the Crescent City, was
calling on his Lafayette friends this, }
week.
Mrs. J. J. Davidson returned last
Saturday from New Orleans where
she was on a visit to relatives.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21

Trains Nos. 33 and 36 carry Pullman vesti- buie sleapers between Port Tampa and Cin- cnnati.
 1rd1ns Nos oI and 5e carry Pullman vesti- bule sleepers between Jacksonville anu St Louis
 Double daily Pullman Seepers between Montgomery and Jacksonville. Double daily Pullman sleepers between Montgomery and Waycross and Waycross and Brunswick. Free reclining chair cars through between Mont gomery and Savannah on trains 57-5S. Doubls.daily Pullman sleepers Montgomery 10 Dupont and Dupont tG Port Tampa Train leaving Montgomery at 7:i0 D. m. connects al Port Tampa with the Plant Steam ship line for Key West aud Havana. Any information regarding routes, rates and schedules over the Plant System will be furnished on application to any agent of the company or to-
 L. A. BELL, D. P. A.,
 Montgomery, Ala.
 B. W. WRENN, r. T. M.,
 Savannah, Ga.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21
H;s $40. 900. .ooo Head.

Said wise man of Wall street: "That's s Russell Sage, and he is afraid of running his straw hat Watch him." The aged, spry man looked at the heavens, saw that the rain was getting serious and carefully took off his hat. He held it by the brim so that it exposed the least possible surface to the wet, and walked along bareheaded with happier expression.
 That's Russell Sage," said the wise man of the street. "That head cost him nothing; so he exposes it to save the hat, which probably cost him SIPS. But if l had that head wouldn't let any rain fall on it. It's worth $40, 900, 900, and it will earn good many million more before it dies. Think of exposing it to save sl.25 hatr' The wise man of the street sighed deeply. York World.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21
Mind and Music.

suppose tho relation between mind and music is pretty generally admitted and recognized. On the susceptible person the influence of music Is often most marked in producing pleasant frame of mind, in calming irritation and even in inducing sleep. The man that hath no music in himself" is of course exempt from such effects and results, but 1t would indeed be a strange and anomalous thing if one of the oldest of the arts should have exhibited no direct relations to the mental phases of individuals and nations alike. On the body and working through the mind, of 5 course, or rather through the nervous sys- item, l should say, the influence of music has been but imperfectly studied.
 My readers will probably remember how Canon Hartford undertook of late days to induce repose in hospital patients by the playing of soft music. His offorts in many cases werc crowned with success, and l
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21
Ship Stabbed by a swordfish.

When the steamer Pasadena was taken out on the marine railway the other day, a curious discovery was made. swordfish had evidently taken the vessel for whale and had given it what to the tacean would have been deathblow. The mis- take of the marine swordsman must have startled and jared him somewhat from the suddenness with which he had been placed hors dc combat, for he left a foot of his weapon sticking in the side of the yes sel.
 The sword was found sticking from the port side of the vessel about three feet above the keel in the run at tho stern of the vessel, and the force of the blow was apparent by the fact that the bony weapon had gono through four inches of planking between the timbcrs.
 The weapon was cut out by the carpen- ters, and Captain Hamilton will keep it as a memento of the time when his vessel was stabbed without his knowing it, Humboldt Gal. Times.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21
WESTERN SYSTEM.

TOT luIlher lhIormatlon. sleeping car reser yation, etc.. call on or address
 w: H. GREEN, W. A. TURK, G.PA
 wSsI;ns GsnsraI SuPt. 5 wasshRDgsSn6 D; o. J. N. ROSS, Supt., A. F. A..
 blrmlnebam. Ala. Knoxville, Tenn, L. A. SHIPMAG. T. P. A.. Birmingham, Ala.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21
PLANT SYSTEM.

Direct line to Florida and Cuba. Schedule in effect June 10, 1895,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21
His Compliment to Lillian.

It was very pretty compliment that was paid Lillian Russell for giving from her store of wealth s150 to Great Neck, N. Y., to enable it to celebrate the Fourth be- comingly. The orator of the day pro claimed among other things to which he gave vent in his fervor of gratitude that Lillian herself has great neck.-Boston Herald.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21

suppose we may now rank music among those aids in mental therapeutics the ac- ton of which deserves to be more promi- nently studied than has hitherto been pos sible.-James Psyn in Illustrated London
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21

aLeave college.
 Train No. l, arrives lake Il 45, and goesD tlop. shop. a14tt
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21

P. CAMPBELL. General Manager.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21

Solid trains through between Birmingha n and Macon, making close connection for Sa- vannah.
 Connect ions at Savannah with Ocean Steam ship comp any steamers for New York. Bos- ton ani The east. Sleeping cars on night trains. Macon to Savannah.
 lor further information relative to rates. tttCdUles, etc., apply to
 |. A. CAMP, T. P. A.. Columbus, Ga. kCION JACOBS, C. A., Birmingh gham. Ala. A. Il. STEVENS, Agent, Birmingham, Ala.
 JACK W. JOHNSON, U. T. A.,
 Birmingham, Al1. ". F. sHELLMAN, Traffic Manager,
 Savannah, Gh. J. c. HALLE, Gen. Pass. Agent,
 savannah, Ga.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21
EAST LAKE RAILROAD. In effect Monday, November 8, 1893.

Leave Lake. Leave Birmingham.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-21
RAILROAD TIME TABLE

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE. In effect November Is, 1se4. at 2 g. m.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
Practical Poultry Papers.

An important factor toward success
in keeping poultry is proper feeding
and watering. Fowls which have a
free range of wood and instinctively
select what meets their physical re-
quirments. Under ordinary circum-
stances, in a condition of freedom, a
fowl travels immense distances in eff
feet, before it gets all the food it
needs, being on foot all day. The
nearer one can come to nature in
treating poultry in confinement the
better. Nature does not feed in bulk.
Grain grows high on slender stalks,
swayed by every puff of air A hen,
if she had free access to growing oats,
would have to jump up and down un-
til exhausted before she could eat oats
to repletion; indeed, she would have
to stop long before she could fill her
crop. The lesson of this is, whenever
you feed grain to fowl, scatter it far
and wide among short dry litter of
some sort, SO that they will have to
hunt and scratch for it, the more the
better, as this furnishes healthful ex-
ercise. Wheat, barley, oats, and corn,
named in the order of their value, are
good poultry foods. Wheat heads the
list as richest in the phosphate, min
eral, and heterogeneous principles so
necessary for building up and repair
ing the waste to which the lazy hen
is subject.
In summer fowls in confinement
need plenty of green food. If the
''runs" are sufficiently spacious to keep
up a supply of grass it will be a great
advantage, otherwise it will be well to
buy periodically supplies of fresh
grass and clover to be chopped up
| fine; also to have all the vegetable
remnants from the kitchen boiled and
chopped for the fowls. In the early
morning give a mixture of middlings,
bran, boiled vegetable peelings, and
other remnants, such as bread, meat,
and scraps from the table. Scald the
middlings and bran, and then incor.
porate with the vegetables; add a heap.
ing teaspoon Of salt for twenty-foul
hens. Let this meal be made damp,
not sloppy, and allow a tablespoonful
to each fowl. Middlings contain al
the phosphates and the principles Of
the best wheat kernel, and therefore
it makes a fine reproducing food
At noon, if the "runs" do not produce
enough grass, give fine chopped grass
and clover, and if worms and insects
are not accessible, twice week finely
chopped meat. Before sunset give
the heartiest meal of the day-a grair
supper, wheat one day, oats the next
then barley; but no corn for laying
hens in summer, as it is too fattennine
and heating. Harper's Basar.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
Treatment of Eczema and Salt Rheum.

These two complaints are so tena.
cious that the readers Of the CoLUM
BIAN should know of the success OBJ
tanned by using DR.. David Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy. Where all treat
ments have failed, it has made com.
plete cure.
Perhaps no more horrible case OF
Salt Rheum was ever reported than
that of Wilbur L. Hale, quartermaster,
Pratt Post, G.. A. r., Rondout, N. Y
Several physicians utterly failed to
render him any relief; finally one Of
the physicians suggested that DR.
Kennedy's Favorite Remedy be tried
and steady improvement followed its
use, and permanent cure resulted
1t is used with similar success in
cases of scrofula, nervousness, kidney
and liver complaints, and in all disease:
brought about by bad blood and
shattered nerves.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
A KINGDOM FOR A HORSE.

The fair always leaves in the mind
of some people, a desire to own a fast
horse. If they happen to be the own
er OF one, it must develop more speed,
and if they are not so fortunate they
are not satisfied until they secure one.
One of our business men caught the
fever few days since, and he was
just in the midst of receiving the CON
gratulations of his friends over his &C
QUESTION, when he received the intel
ligence that, his newly acquired horse
and its former owner were going
toward Espy as fast as the thorough
bred runner could travel Horse deals
were at discount in a minute. Per
haps it might be interesting to know
just how he came to be possessed of
the animal, and by what means he
nearly became deprived of it. Tues
day afternoon, October IS, the busi-
ness man referred to, received visit
from colored man who informed him
that he had shipped running horse
to Bloomsburg on Wednesday October
which he had intended entering in
the races at the fair, but that when he
arrived on Thursday the entries had
closed and the Penna. R. r. Co. had
levied on the horse for the freight due
on its transportation from Harrisburg.
That he desired to take the animal
out of the hands of the officers, and
return home to secure money to pay
the costs, and the keeping of the ami
NAL to this time. That the amount
of money necessary to do all this was
about $50, which, ifthe said busines:
man would advance him, he woult
leave as security the horse, blankets
saddle and his watch. The fellow ap
pearing to be honest, and the security
ample, he sent one of his clerks witt
him to pay the bills, and take the
horse to his stable. Everything wen
off according to program until it came
to the point when the horse was to be
delivered, when instead of doing tina
he gave him cut and started up the
Espy road on his back. The clerl
who was in buggy, went in immedi
ate pursuit, and the way old "Bob'
took him up the road was a caution. A
Espy, inquiries were made as to tht
direction taken by the man, a new
horse secured, and with the assistance
Of two men the chase was continued
He was finally captured on the hil
back of Espy, brought to that place
and the business man informed b.
telephone that the man and horse haC
been secured. 1t was subsequent,
brought to this place, and is now safe
ly housed in a burglar proof stable
No other horse dealers need apply.
Note-Since the above was writer
the business man referred to, has re
ceived the money advanced by him
and the horse has been turned over
to party in Light Street under tn
same conditions.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
A Great Offer.

The "Twice-a- Week" edition of the
New York World formerly the Week
ly) has proved a phenomenal success.
1t is a Semi-Weekly of six pages,
mailed Tuesdays and Fridays; eight
columns to the page; iorty-eight col.
umns each issue. 1t gives the news
fully half week ahead of any weekly
paper, and, at the same time, retains
all the literary, agricultural, miscellany
and other features which made the
Weekly World so popular. Yet the
price is only $r.oo year. For sam
pie copies address THE WORLD, N. Y.
Arrangements have been made by
which we can furnish this paper and
the Twice-a-W New York World
all for $r.75 year. Take advantage
of this offer and get your own local
paper and the Twice-a. Week World
at this special rate. If.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
Great Boom in Lace Making.
Republican Calamity Howlers Said the Mill
Would Have to Close.

During the late tariff discussion, in
formation received from Wilkesbarre
states Republican orators claimed that
if the Mckinley bill was repealed, the
Wilkesbarre Lace Factory, the largest
plant of its kind in the country, would
have to suspend operations. Just the
contrary has happened. The mill was
never so busy as it is now, and owing
to the increased demand for the pro
ducts of the mill, an order was placed
recently with New England manu-
facturer for 5000 new splndles and
other additional machinery. This ad
dition will increase the capacity 50
per cent.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
Pain in the Stomach.

81 suffered great distress with pain
in my stomach after eating and had
no appetite. My husband got ne
some of Hoods Pills and in a few
days the pain was gone and now
have good appetite. / have also
taken Hoods Sarsaparila with bene'
fit" Mrs. M. A. Ash, Rohrsburg, Pa.
Hoods Pills cure biliousness, indi.
pestion.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
Printing in Oolors.

The prices of colored printing inks
have gone down with everything else,
and it costs no more to do printing in
colors than it does in black. THE
COLUMBIAN office is prepared to print
in any of the following colors: Black,
orange, deep cherry, brown lake, light
blue, ultra marine blue, bronze red,
violet, dark red, green, jacqueminot,
purple, garnet, peacock blue Print
ing in more than one color is done at
slight advance for the additional
press work. If.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
Use it in Time.

Catarrh starts in the nasal passages,
affecting eyes, ears and throat, and
is in fact, the great enemy OF the
mucous membrance. Neglected colds
in the head almost invariably precede
catarrh, causing an excessive flow OF
mucus, and if the mucous discharge
becomes interrupted the disagreeable
results of catarrh will follow, such as
bad breath, severe pain across fore,
head and about the eyes, roaring
and buzzing sound in the ears and
oftentimes a very offensive discharge
!.Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowl
!, edged cure for these troubles.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
A Minister'S Experience With Hear
Disease,

Rev. L. w. Showers, Elderton, Pa:
"For many years my greatest enemy
has been organic heart disease. From
uneasiness about the heart, with pal
pitation, it had developed into thump-
ing, fluttering, and choking sensations.
DR.. Agnew's Cure for the Heart gave
instant relief. A few bottles have rid
me of almost every symptom of heart
disease. 1t is wonder-worker." Sold
by VIM. 5. Rishton. 6-I5-Iy.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25

The water is now all out of the
Ebervale mine, the tunnel having sue
cessfully emptied the mine which was
flooded eight'years ago by the break
Jog in of creek. The mine will be
reopened at once.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25

1t is now given out that Quay and
Hastings have buried the hatchet, and
that both are cunning for Magee and
the Philadelphia end of the combine
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25

Hutchips & Co, pipe. 80. 3i.sa
{. T.. Hover, hauling. .... r.Ss
f. Maier, Police Caps. 49,. 16.ao
ID. J. Waller, Est. Bal. due
on culvert .......... 77s.o7
Special police during fair
Frank Boice 4 nights. ..... 500
Arlington Shultz S nights. :. 6.as
J. f. Welliver 3 nights. -. 7.7s
Peter Kehoe nights. -. a.so
Car Mfg. Co., smithng &C., COS
R.'H. Ringler, envelopes &c liz
" =" Salary one
month ...... 1000
Wesley Knorr, Chief Police 1000
Frank Drake, Police. 800
+. 2. Baum, .... 500
Jno. w. Fry, ...... 500
rneo. smith, ...." 500
Dan'l Laycock High Con-
S'aOie' ....... All
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
D8EADlNG
IL \ RAILROAD SYSTEM
In eject May. I2. 1895.
tn VHtCU May, II, leV5.
TRAINS LEAVE BLOOMSBURY

TRAINS LEAVE BLOOMSBURY
For New York, Philadelphia, Reading Potts
VILE; VILE Taim,ia,gna, ma weekdays l:55 9; m.
For Danville and Milton, weekdays, 7.S5 a. M,
3l6.
For Catawissa weekdays 7.s5, 1855 a. m, $780,
For Rupert weekdays .a5, II .bo a. M, 1920, 8a5
'YS For ois Baltimore, washington and the West via
b. o. X. r., through trains leave Reading Ter
minal. philadelphia, 3so, 7;S5. ilae q. m, S4e
$40, l2I p. m. Additional trains from "a and
Chestnut street station, weekdays, la5, 531.
23 p. IN. sundays, lbs, s2s p. m.
TRAINS FOR BLooMsBURG
Leave New York via Philadelphia 500 a
m, and via Easton sl0 q. m.
Leave Philadelphia 1000 a. m.
Leave Reading 11.50 a. m.
Leave Pottsville 1890 p. m.
Leave Tamaqua I 80 a, NJ,
Leave Williamsport weekdays 1910 m. 4.3o p.
Leave Cstawissa weekdays, 700, $40 a. m. 1.so,
Leave Rupert, weekdays 7.os, s.27. a. M, 1906
l.S, $3.50, e.23.
FoRATLANTIc CITY.
Leave Philadelphia. Chestnut street wharf
and South Street wharf for Atlantic city.
WEEK-DAYs-Express, 300, q. m, 200, 400
300 p. m. Accommodation, 500 a. m., 4.sO, 6St
D. m.
SUNDAY-Express. 3 90, 10.00'a. m Accommo.
dalton, 90 a. m. ana AS p IN.
Returning, leave Atlantic City, depot, corner
Atlantic and Arkansas Avenues.
WEEK-DAYS-Express, 735, co. q. m. 30
$40, p. m. Accommodation, $50, S.i5 a. m. 4.ss
p. m.
sunday-Bxpress, 400, 79O, p. m. Accommo-
dalton, 7.15 a. M, T. is p. IN.
Parlor Cars on all Express trains.
I. A. SWEIGARD. q. q. HANCOCK,
Gen1 superintendent. Gen1 Pass. Agt
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
BLOOMSBURY DIVISION.

tsSa Es5 fA EIzlNESS g. HEAD NOISES CUSs,
n. " "a. IN ~ NY Tubular Fushops hslp wen all
pers heard. No pain. Inysbr, II. isc0N, SO B'way
New York; sole depot Send for book and proofs FREE
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25

neck Of the womb, terrible headaches and
backaches. Your medicine completely
cured me-" = MRS. NJ. l.. VERRILL, 223
Newell Ave-, Pawtucket, RI.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25

was female weak
ness. The doctors
U have tried Ave diff
ferent ones) called it
chronic infamma-
ton Of the womb.
~ had leucor-
rhna for over eight
years, ulcers on the
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
TAKING CHANCES.
WOMEN ARE CARELESS.
They Over-Estimate Their Physical
Strength. Advice to Young Women.


Women are very apt to over-cstimate
their strength and overtsx it.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-10-31
Personal.

Ex-senator Van Wyck of Nebraska,
who was stricken with apOplexy in
Washington, is somewhat better.
Ex-Supt. of Police Byrnes of New
York sailed for Europe on the North
German Lloyd liner Havel.
The death of II. b. Cotton. prcsi-
dent of the oxford university boat
club and bow of the university eight
for the last six years, is announced.
Frederick l.. Billion, aged ninety-fvc.
who had resided in st. Louis longer
tran any other inhabitant, is dead.
He was the oldest Mason in the West.
At Portland, Ind, Rev. Seth Wilson,
e~ighty-two years old, and a pioneer.
died after more than fifty years of
service as a minister.
Upon motion Of United States Com
missioner Shields, John NJ. Ward, the
eX-ball player, was admitted to prac-
tice in the United States circuit court
at New York by Judge Lacombe.
E~x-President, Harrison, who was
Quarantined at the Circular street cot
tage of his son-in-law. j. X. Mckee,
In Saratoga, left for New York city,
| where legal business demands his at
tentiOn.
Henry Preserved Smith. the Lane
theological professor tried for heresy,
arrived in New York on La Cham
payne from Egypt, where he has been
studying Oriental languages for sew
eral months.
DIR. Francis W. Gibson aged thirty
two, of the department of chemistry
in the Missouri State university, died
at Columbia. Mo-, of typhoid fever. He
| was a graduate of Harvard and ac-
cepted the chair of chemistry last
year.
John r. Kleyn. one of the most
prominent citizens of Holland, Mich,
died at the age of eighty-four. He
| was proprietor of the Novelty wool
| works, a stakeholder in the Cappon &
Bertsch Leather company and identi-
fed with many other industries there.
Martin M3rsick, the French violinist,
arrived in New York on the French
liner La Touraine. At the Waldorf
the manager and his party, consisting
of the musician and his wife. We're
told no guests playing the violin or
piano were taken. At the Windsor no
objection was made. Mr.. Marsick has
a wonderful collection Of violins two
of which, a Srradivarius and a Mich
Olas Amati, are almost priceless.