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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-01

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isfed goods. per gallon Ills.
New York. January @.-F-our market
inactive but firmly held: city mil patents
wheas-Syot easy: No. . red r.o-: OPP
tons opened steady on Er1g1sh cables and
big weekly c2earaTces and further ad-
vanced by Clique interest but suffered n
final relapse general rea.ixing and
easier pubic continental cabes. The close
was easy at knLc net decline: foreign
houses Old No. ? red January closed a
SLosi-: May closed at ssi-c.
Corr-Spot steady: No. ?. $50: options
at first were steady on heavy c~learanres
and better Liverpool news bur eventually
turned easy under hong selling and csosed
sc net COVER: January cosed Sic; May
coSed 34-c.
OaSs-Spot quiet: No, .. @snes4c: OPP
tons DUH ard about steady. closing isc
net lower: May Closed 2sAc.
Lard-Steady: western steamed 10:
refined steady: continent SIS.
Pcrk-FfTm: mess s.. 15fiie.oo: New mess
short Gear sl0.eer1a.a.
~Eggs-Steady: State and Pennsylvania
2c: western fresh Iac.
Petroseum-Dul: United closed no mar
ket: refined New York $50: Philadelphia
and Baltimore SIS: dc. in bu1k KS.
Rice-Ste2dy; domestic fair TO extra
izsI6l2c: Japan 5a5Ac.
Enthusiastically.
Cotton Seed Oil-Dua and rather weak
at a shade hover price; prime crude Iac:
prime Sunmer yellow 22sI22Ixc: OF surI-
mel yellow &c: but ter OIL a4a DC. mime
winter yellow 27i-T1ac.
Cofe>Options opened steady at un-
changed prices TO ) points advance. ruled
exceptionally quiet without further
Change: generally n little Steadaer on
covering. following higher European
cabes. decidedly smaller receipts at Rio
and Santos and Indifference OF spot Sel-
ers; closed steady at unchanged prices 10
. points net advance; pot coffee Rio dull:
No inI-nfsA EIo- NJ s.Hhs,- So.
mild quiet: Cordova SLa1l5c.
Sugar-Raw steady: fair refining 3 9-l6c:
refined steady; mould A 52c: tandard A
5Ssc; confectioners 4 sc: granu,ated Sic.
NAVAL STORES.
New York-Rosin steady: strained COM
mon to good S.42lenl45. Turpentsne
steady at 344G 3iiLc.
Charleston-Spirits turpentine firm at
&c; sales none. Rosin lirm and un-
changed: sales none.
Savannah-Spirits turpentine firm at
&c: sales 80; receipts 21S. Rosin firm
and unchanged; sales 515; receipts ESQ.
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Cotton Futurea
Especial to The Messenger.)

New York, January 29.-The weeks
been a little activity and the indi-
trading in the cotton market has beer
by no e exciting, but there has
been a little activity and the indi-
cations seem to point to the probable
ity that which ever way the market
moves a %1uctuation of some extent
will not now be long delayed. Today
the market was quiet and lower. Liv-
erpool declined 1-64d and the opening
here was 1 to 2 points down. From
these figures moderate liquidation af-
ter the opening caused a slight furth-
er easing. May opened at 5.79, de-
clined to SIT and closed at SIS to
5.79, with the one of the market
steady. There are no essential fac
tors in sight at present that have not
been discussed owe and over again
since prices struck their present level.
The movement continues to warrant
belief in a crop of hardly less than
1O,750,O 900 bales with the possibility
Of much more, and the demand is still
unprecedented in character. The
southern markets stand firmly and
there is 40 pressure in that quarter
yet. If the taking Of spot cotton o n
tinues on it's present scale, as the
bulls claim that it will, the market
will be in a position to respond quick
~ to any influence favorable to high
er prices. That there will be some
reduction in acreage and great reduc-
finn in Tho ,.cn nf fnrfili,nrc fharA Sc
no doubt. Money is cheap and plenti-
full at the commercial centres and Wall
street is disposed to take an optlmis-
tic view of the value of securities and
comodities. The New England strike
amounts to little and the political
troubles in the Orient will probably
be adjusted before long. But these and
all other favorable features that can
develop in the neal future are more
than offset, we think, if there is too
much cotton. We believe that to be
the case and that values must tempo
rarily decline, whatever happens in the
long run.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, January 29.-The cotton
market opened steady with prices l to
4 points lower, Eu1eO quiet, Will llltle
further change in quotations. Liver
pool cables were disappointing and,
with the estimate for a free port
movement, caused the early decline.
Favorable accounts from southern
spot markets and New England print
cloth markets, however, checked SELL
ing. 1t was a waiting market with
the larger share of transactions for
the evening up of accounts. Foreign
representatives received a few orders,
| but at limits which prohibited their
execution. Crop news was too con-
ficting to have much weight either
way. For the rest of the session the
market ruled irregular, first weaken
ing. under local liquidation, but rally
ing on covering, following fears OF
higher cables Monday. At IL o'clock
M, the market was steady with prices
showing a net loss of 2 to 8 points.
Total sales were 60, 500 bales. Port
receipts were estimated for the day al
2 5000 bales, aginst 20,757 last week
and 1928 last year. Port receipts
were estimated for the week at 200, 0OC
bales against 212,S23 last week and
100, 1873 last year.
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THE LABRATORY.

Before leaving the hospital, DR.. Wer-
~tenbaker showed us through his babra-
tory in the executive building. He has
there a powerful microscope and other
appliances for scientific work. Under the
microscope he allOWed the scribe to look
ait blood c~orpuscles containing "plasmo>
dunn malariae." Drops Of blood are taken
from patients and are examined for ma
laria. The ''plasmodium malariae'' APP
pear like white fields in the blood and
are the microbes, so to speak, that cause
malaria. The blood c~orpuscles are placed
on small glass slides and they are then
put under a microscopic view multiplied
1000 times.
Among DR.. Wertenbaker'S curios, he
showed the Messenger representative a
Japanese sword that is known to be more
than 200 year sold. 1t belonged to a
nobleman and bears his coat of arms, as
we'll as the makers stamp. 1t is "a fine
blade and the hilt is silk woven and
in gold and silver. He also has
a bad looking knife captured from an
Arab at Port Said, a peculiar Javanese
knife, and a couple of hood cobra
|. candlesticks made of brass and repre-
senting the cobra in coil. They were
made in CeylOn, China.
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X Arnica Salve

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum.
Fever Sores. letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tons. and positively cures Piles. or no
nav reouire1. It Is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction of money refunded.
Price Is cents per box. For sale by
r. r. Bell ~
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MARKETS By TELEGRAPH
INANCIA

New York, January 29.-Money on call
easy at ia per cent, last loan at Ia per
cent; prime mercantile paper 3G+ per
cent: sterling exchange steady with ac-
tual business in bills at $4.S5s
for demand and at AS21AG4.S2A for sixty
days; posted rates A.S3d4S31a and A.Sl2G
4.S6: commercial bills A.S1hd4.S2; silver
certificates 56AG57Ac; bar silver 56Ac;
Mexican dollars 45&c; state bonds dull;
railroad bonds firth; government bonds ir-
regular.
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V

NAVAL SIORES.
Spirits turpent1n>Noth1ng doing
Rosin firm at sl15 and s1.20.
Tar steady al $1.Oo.
Crude turpentine steady: hard, $40.
yellow dip $50: virgin $50.
Prices same day last year-Spirits tur-
pentine GItc and ei4c: rosin $1.1 and
$50; tar ?oc; crude turpentine $50 and
$50.
Receipts Toaay-0 casks spirits tur-
peftine. S27 barrels rOSin, 22i barrels tar.
is barrels crude turpentine.
Receipts same day hast year-0 casks
spirits turpentine, 19 barrels rosin. a
barrels tar.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Peanuts-North Carolina. prime 55Ge0c
per bushel: extra prime. Csc: fancy. 72i2c.
Nirginia-Extra prime. 40d45S.
R~ice-Uplands. 65fgS0c; loWlands, s1.104
Sis.
Corn-71zG50c.
North Carolina Bacon-Hams, 10G1lc;
shoulders, 6d611c: sides, 7h0sc.
Chickens-Firm: spring 10a1Sc; hens
1Sd25c; roosters, 1SQ22c.
Turkeys-CLive), Z to 10c per pound.
EggS5Quiet at 10 to lie.
Shingles-Per 1,00o five inch. hearts and
saps, S1.50l2. 10; six inch, S2.50G3.50.
Timber at Sc. 90 to 500 per 900 feet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-01

Liverpool, January 29.-1 p. m.-Cotton
Spot moderate demand prices steady:
American middIing 3 7-32d; The sales of
the day We're 5000 bales, of which 800
were for speculation and export and in
Guided 1900 American; receipts 10,0o0
bales; including 200 American. Futures
opened and closed quiet with a moderate
demand.
American middling, low mIdjling clause:
January 3 10-64d3 11-64d, sellers; January
and February 9-64G3 1O-64d, sellers;
February and March 8 9-64d, buyers;
March and April 3 9-64G3 1O-64d, sellers;
April and May 8 1O-64d, sellers; May and
June 3 10-6+u3 11-64d, sellers; June and
July 3 11-64G3 12-64d, sellers: July and
August 8 12-64d, buyers: August and Sep
TENDER 8 13-64d, sellers; September and
October 8 13-64G3 HID, buyers; October
and November 8 HID. buyers: Novem-
Der and December 3 14-64d3 15-64d. buyers.
New York, January 29.-Cotton quiet
mfddling D l5-16c; net receipts 81; gross
receipts 1,34: Forwarded 295; sales 3l4;
S~pinners IA; stock 161, III.
Total today and cOnSO Iidated-Net re-
ceipts q, 191; exports to Great Britain 15,-
23; to THE continent 1852; STOCK 1,251,-
154.
Futures closed steady; sales 60, 800 bales;
February 5.6S: March 5.72; April 5.75:
May SIS: June 5.S1; July SIS; August
SIS; September SIS; October $50; Novem-
Der $50.
Spot cotton closed quiet: middhng up
lands 5 15-16c; middling gulf 6 3-16c; sales
314 bales.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston-Quiet at size; net receipts
1856.
Norfolk-Quiet at 51zc; net receipts 667.
Observation-Disclosures at 5hc; gross re-
ceipts 1,6E.
~Boston-Quiet at 5 15-16c; net receipts
901: gross receipts 9S.
Wilmington-Ffrm at 5ssc: net receipts
ISL.
Philade-pEla-Quiet at 6 3-16c; net re-
ceipts 1876.
| Savannah-Steady ats 3-16c; net receipts
2,316.
New Or1ean+Steady at SIC; net re-
| ceipts 11,626.
Mobile-Steady at SIC; net receipts 1,9S5
Nemphis-FIrm at 5 5-16c; net receipts
2,061: gross receipts 2,S9.
Cncinnati-Steady at SIC; net receipt.
966.
Louisvi1ie-Fair at 5 7-1Sc.
st. Louis-Quiet at 5asc; net receipts 433
gross receipts 4,335.
Houstol-Easy at SIG; net receipt
6,797.
Augusta-Steady at SIG; net receipt
4S1: gross receipts 499.
Charleston-Steady at 5 slice; net re
ceipts 1,d3.
GPAIN AND PROVISION.
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PRICES CURRENT.

The prices herewith quoted are given
as accurately as possible, and are cor
rected weekly, but The Messenger Will
not be responsible for the actual market
price or any variations.
The quotations represent wholesale
prices generally. and higher prices are
charged for smaller orders.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-01

The Salisbury Word prints n story OF
a hog I'm that vicinity which fs only two
years old and weighs nine undre
pounds.
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USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS.

Among the improvements to be added
to the hospital will be electric lights to
be placed throughout the buildings and
grounds. A telephone has already been
added by DR.. Wertenbaker since his ar
rival here a month ago, and he has just
induced Postmaster Geo. l.. Morton to
put up a mail box in front of the hos
pital.
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WARD.

DR.. Wertenbaker states that in the
event that smallpox patients are sent to
the hospital they will be ISOLATED in a
tent or temporary building to be erected
in a distant part of the grounds. They
will be isolated and strictly Q~uarantined
and placed in charge of a physician who
will DE kept with the patient until he is
6iSrh9 ro~a1
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Chicago, January 9-The leading fu-
lures were as follows:
Omen. High. LOW. Clos

Cash quotations wer as follows: -Four
steady: winter wheat patents A-10I4s0:
straights $I30G4e0: spring specials SIS:
spring patents A.5eG4S: suaights SfapG
40: baker $3.50d3.s0; No. 2 spring whea
s1da5c: No. 3 spring wheat s1G94&c: No. 2
red 991.c: No. 2 corn Z7hc; No. 2 oats ~
ate; No. 3 white fob 2ikG251c: mess
pounds A.S2h64S; short ribs sides
(iooee) a. ThG4s7h: dry salted shoulders
(boxed) A75QS.0o: short clear stdes
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The sEMrWEEKLY MESSENGER: TUESDAY. FEBRUARY l. 1891

dfsinfected from bottom TO top. and at
fording the best facility for keeping It
aDSolutefy clean. Large electric lights
IN enclosed globes are to be put in the
ceiling and on the walls there are to be
smaH electric lamps that can be turned
In any direction. The room is aso SUD
piled with hot and cold water and other
cOnvenienceS. In this room we saw a
Kny-Sheerer Company sterihzer. It is a
device for steriIizing dressings and ban
cages oy s~uperheated steam or hot water.
LII Is heated by gas and the cylinder viii
stand a steam pressure of 200 degrees. It
Is operated with gas, and cost s275. In
this room We also saw the new tables
which have just been received to be used
as bed tables in the hospital. They have
enameAed iron frames and the tops and
middle pieces are glass, SO they can be
thoroughly cleansed and disinfected.
The second floor of the new hospital
building is to be fitted up as quarters for
the There are three large
large rooms and several store rooms and
clothes closets. In the bick basement
Gus rooms that can be turned TO good
account when needed.
CONSUMPTION HOSPITAL.
On the hospital grounds is another nice
building which is Gne first to be erected
by the United States government as a
tubercu.ar hospital. 1t is to have
ename.led walls Will contain ten
beds. 1t is fitted with a bath room, Law
tory and attendant s room. and VIII be
surrounded with a wide piazza for the
patients to lounge upon in good weather.
AT the rear of the building is an airtigiht
room for disinfecting clothing and effects
by nomaldehyde, one of the most power
full disinfectants known. The finest fab
RIGS can be disinfected without injury.
DR.. Wertenbaker tells US the govern
ment has made this a hospital for tuber-
cular patients to be sent here from the
Atlantic ports. The station heretofore
has been for the care and treatment
of sailors who were taken sick at this
port. Now the consumptive patients
from adj other stations on the Atlantic
coast are to be sent here. Consumption
is considered as an infectious disease, and
patients will be isolated and treated as in
other infectious diseases. Wilmington
has been selected for the tubercular hos
pItal because it is regarded as the best
place on the coast for persons suffering
with consumption. The equitable and
genial climate was. the principal reason
for establishing this branch of the ma
rine hospital service, and the healthful
location Of the hospital grounds here also
was a feature to be considered. The
grounds consist of about forty acres OF
| sand 1OtS
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-01

There have been many improvements
of late at the United States marine hos
pital in Wilmington.
Yesterday afternoon a Messenger rep
r~esentative called at the hospital and
found DR.. G.. p. Wertenbaker, the sur
geon in charge, III full dress uniform and
sword at his side, preparing for his first
inspection of the hospital corps. This Is
not a new thing in the service but the
regulation has never prevailed here and
DR.. Wertenbaker Is introducing 1t. He
proposes to have inspection every Satur-
DAY
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-03
The Wool Market.

The prediction made by western wool
dealers, some time past, that the war
would interfere with the sale and ship
ment of western feeces, has been real
lied and the market for that staple has
gone into seclusion, but there is no rea-
son for any large amount of worry by
sheep owners. OF course the unsettled
state of the market coming at the time
when the new clip is ready for the buyer
is causing considerable Inconvenience to
those who had incurred obligations, de-
pending upon the new wool to meet
them, but the present state of affairs can
be only temporary, as the inquiries the
past week Indicate.
In the Boston market, last week, the
inquiries for territorial wool" was a
noticeable feature, and the market is
certainly working into better shape.
This is particularly true in unwashed
woods. The heavy inroads made into
the stocks of these woods have brought
supplies to within moderate dimensions,
and holders have been able to command
full rates. The Chicago and St. Louis
markets show a much firmer tone, and
there Is more inquiry than for some
time past. Mills which have secured
government contracts are large buyers
on the open market, and sales have
been largely increased by the require
ment of the large contracts recently
awarded.
Every condition of manufacture and
demand indicates that in the near future
there will be a return to better prices
and greater activity in movement. The
new clip is beginning to attract the
buyers attention, and the turn in the
lane cannot long be deferred. New
Mexico wool men have no occasion to
feel "blue" over the outlook, by any
means M t
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-03

ters where the different taxable articles
are made and sold
Corporations don't want to be taxed
because they are only aggrcgations OF
individuals: banks having large capital
don't want to pay any tax for the reason
the small banks are not taxed pro rata:
brewers object to an increase of the in
ternal revenue upon beer upon the
ground that the poor consumer will
have to pay the additional tax, either
BY paying more for what is swallowed
or swallowing smaller quantities for a
nickel.
And so 1t goes on through the list,
until it seems as If there was no patriot
ism in the country and the old flag
might go hang itself unless 1t can wave
on the breeze without any other sup
port.
But, by gum, there is n interest in
the country which is ready and willing
to stand up to the rack and pay its share
of the expenses necessary to lick the
Spanish, and that is the chewing gum
industry. Hereafter the girls will be
permitted to chew gum on the streets,
In the home, at church or while riding
the wheel. 1t is pretty tough luck for a
country so grand in every thing that
goes to make an independent nation tc
have to depend upon jaw bone for the
sinews of war, but it is not the first
time in the history of the world that d
victory has been won with that instru'
ment-Sampson, not Admiral Sampson,
but the fellow who let a good looking
girl bamboozle him into getting a hail
cut, once sang veni, vidi, vici after
tourishing an implement of that kind
for a short time.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-03

The Santa Fe Railway company is still
hauling thousands of head of stock east
through Colfax county.
Edward O. Eakins and wife, of
Sparta, Ont, have arrived at Springer
and will reside there in the future.
Springer's cemetery is being slicked
up. Special inducements are offered
people who contemplate dying to inspect
that place.
Saturday 81 cars of cattle were loaded
at Springer.
Mrs. H. Wilson, of Ration, has gone to
Las Vegas to reside.
i, Conductor e. E. Stewart, of Ration, is
visiting in Kansas City.
Mrs. S. Lashley, of Ration; has gone
to Las Vegas to reside.
Mrs. Gardner has returned to her
Ration home from a Colorado trip.
Conductor Walter King and family, of
Ration, are visiting in Trenton, Mo.
Mrs. B. North has returned to her
home in Las Vegas from a visit in Ration.
Mrs. William Goodwin and Mrs. James
Connolly, of Ration, are visiting in Ken
lucky.
Mrs. j. w. Barrett. of Ration, has gone
to Columbus Grove, o.. where she will
visit relatives.
James Gillespie and David Mckee
have purchased Oldham Bros livery
stable at Ration.
Mrs. E. M. Tyler, of Topeka, Kas.,
has arrived in Ration, whore she will
make her home in the future.
Union County.
Miss Maggie Davis, of Kenton, is visit
ing in Trinidad.
Miss Maude Messenger, of Kenton, is
visiting Clayton friends.
c. Otto has purchased the Lumpkins
business block in Clayton.
Sam Isaacs has returned to Clayton
from an extended visit east.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Knox, of Clayton,
have a new girl at their home.
Sheriff Gallegos is building u dance
hall addition to his saloon in Clayton.
Mrs. Lippold, mother and daughter,
have returned to Clayton from San An
tonic, Tex.
Mrs. Christian Otto, of Clayton, has
gone to Hot Springs, Ark. whore she
will spend the summer.
Estel Holland has returned to his
home in Clayton from Hot Springs, Ark,
whore he has been attending school.
Oscar Bell, cattle inspector from En-
dee, was attending to business in the
vicinity of Clayton last week.
San Juan County.
G. c. Pinkney reports 80 head of
sheep stolen from his range by Nava-
joes.
Frank Burdick, of Durango, will open
a restaurant and bakery in Pennington.
II. j. Coffee, of Durango, is looking
over the region around Pennington with
a view to locating.
Lester Wallace, q II year-old boy of
Mancos, last week assaulted the 10, year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Niles Even
son.. Wallace has been bound over to
the District court in the SUI of $700
bonds.
The quarterly conference of the Nor
mon church was held at Fruitland last
week. The believers of that faith were
counciled to improve their farms and
keep out of debt and the young folks
were advised to marry. Very good ad-
vice all around.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-03
The New Agent Of the Mescalero Apaches

DIR. Walter Mem. Luttrell, who was
yesterday appointed agent of the Mes
calero Apaches in the southern. part
of the territory, is a native of Tennessee
and a young man a little over 80 years
Of age. He is at present the agency
physician and was appointed to that
position under the civil service rules in
August, 1895. Prior to this appoint
ment he served for several years as a
clerk in the bureau Of pension records
in the War department. While in this
position he studied medicine and was ad-
mitted to practice in Washington.
During his three years service at the
agency, DR.. Luttrell has shown himself
to be a good official and a successful
physician and surgeon. His experience
during these years, together with his in
innate personal acquaintance with every
Indian ON the reservation, will prove
valuable factors In his subsequent hand
ling of the affairs Of the reservation.
The past record Of the %appointee in
government service will be a sufficient
guarantee of q successful and satisfac-
tory administration OF the affairs of the
agency upon the lines laid down by his
predecessor, LIST Lieutenant V. E. Stott-
Ter, U. s. army, who in three years and
q half brought about a most wonderful
change for the better in the moral and
material condition of the Mescalero
Apaches. Lieutenant Stottler himself
informs the NEW MEXICAN, that he con-
siders the appointment most satisfactory
and eminently fit and proper.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-03

If c. P. Huntington, of the Southern
Pacific railroad, the corporation that
transported the 1st U. S. volunteer cav
airy from San Antonio to Tampa, could
have been gotten hold of by the troopers,
Roosevelt's Rough Riders would have
become Roosevelt's Rough Rioters and
taught old Huntington a lesson that
would have lasted him for the remainder
of his life. As usual, that blood-sucking
corporation, the Southern Pacific, cared
nothing for the comfort and the con-
%venience Of the troops it transported; all
it wanted was the business and all the
traffic would stand and ''blowed be the
men