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The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-07

Beef Fritters-Make n batter OF ols
,upful of flour, one pint of milk and
three eggs. Chop lean c%oldroasSh beef
very fine, season with salt and pep
per, and stir into the batter. Drop
by spoonfuls into boiling lard and Try
a rich brown.
Chicken Soup-Take the bones yor
removed in making the pressed
chicken, crack the larger ones, plaza
over the fire in a quart of cold water
and let boil one hour. Strain out thu
bones by passing through a colander-
Return to the fire, season and add
one cup rich milk.
Ice Cream Cake-Beat to a cream
three-fourths cup butter and two cups
sugar; and cup rich milk. Slit two
large teaspoons sugar twice with tive
cups pastry flour and one small cup
corn starch. Add to first mixture
and slowly fold in the whites of seven
eggs, beaten stiff. Bake in layers
For filling: Have pint of cream
whipped stiff, to which has been add
ed one tablespoon gelatine Noaked tive
hours in tablespoon cold water, and
dissolve in tablespoon boiling water
Sweeten flavor, spread between two
layers and then frost the top, o. cover
with powdered sugar.
Peach SponGe-Soak a half box OF
yelatine in half a cupiul of cold water
until it is soft. Pare enough suftrips
peaches to make two %teGcupfuls OK
pulp, after they have been rubbed
through a colander, and sprinkle had
a cupful of sugar over it. Boil n
cupful of water and half a cupful Of
sugar together fifteen minutes; add
the gelatine, stir till dissolved; add
the juice of one lemon, strain it over
the prepared peach pulp and stir Wei
together. Set the bowl in q pan Ok
cracked ice and beat with an egg
beater for five minutes. Add the
whites of four eggs beaten stiff, aud
beat the whole uatil in begins To-
thicken. Pour into wet moulds and
set in q cold place for several hours to
harden. Serve cold, with whipped
cream.
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1t has been matter of observation
these many years that the ocean could
do any amount of work if only a har-
ness could be devised that it would
work in. The tides rise and fall, but
it is only in rare cases that tide.water
turns a wheel. The waves are never
at rest, and motion is force, but the
motion OF the waves is rarely put to
harder work than blowing a horn or
ringing q bell on a buoy. AT this
time, when the state of business tavors
all sorts OF new industrial ventures, it
is interesting to notice the appearance
of two schemes for making the ocean
furnish power for use ashore. One is
al invention patented on January 81,
which aspires to turn the tides to ac-
count as a power for driving water
wheels, running electric motors. and
making compressed air. 1t calls tor
an inlet or pond which the tide shall
fill, and in which the water shall be
retained by a dam. A big float, with
a series of reservoirs on it, supported
by a frame work, is part of its appa-
ratus, and the general idea is to fill
the floating reservoirs from the pond
at low tide, and get power as long as
the tide continues to ebb from the
waters thus stored. The other scheme
for the utilization of wave-motion pro-
vides for a collection of buoys
anchored off shore, which are to com
press air which is to be stored in q
reservoir and used to run engines.
Some large buoys are making now for
use in testing this plan, and it is an
nounced that the device is to have an
elaborate trial next summer On the
south shore of Long Island. Both of
these schemes are said to have enough
capital behind them to make a thor
ough test of their possibilities .-Har-
per's Weekly.
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There are many girls who, by the
wey, are exceedingly happy, whose
married life is one long study Of the
science of economy, with its various
branches of ways and means" and
chow to make two ends meet" aud
'the possibility of 81 doing the duty
of So" There is not, however. the
study of economy in money matters
alone, but there are also the economy
of labor, the economy of time and the
economy of health to be considered.
When we start housekeeping and
begin to buy the necessary furniture
for our future dwelling places, We
women, one and all, have the same in
tense desire to make our homes as
beautiful and pleasant to look upon AZ
it lies in our power to do, say 50 writer
in the New York Press,
Unless one can afford to keepp!eutY
of domestics it is well to avoid fuyai-
ture that has much carving upon it
Simple decorative designs have a bet
ter ''bred" air about them and, what
is more important, are much easier ia
make clean ana keep so. Nothing
looks worse than little gray heaps of
dust accumulated in difficult corners
Of an deliberately ornamented piece of
woodwork, especially if it belongs to
the cheap aud common order of
things.
1t does not follow by any mean
that furniture must be costly to be
beautiful, but it is we'll when pur-
chasing to remember that it is not
only the amount of money paid that
constitutes Saving" Therefore one
must exercise the greatest discretion
Crowding rooms with furniture is
not only a sign of bad taste, but it il
positively unhealthy. All the space
taken up by chattles means so less air
for breathing purposes.
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Perhaps in no other country o earth
are there to be found so many varie-
ties OF birds and beasts as in Burmah.
OF birds alone there have been classi,
fed, according to travellers. 773 diff,
ferent species. Enormous numbers
of animals abound, from tigers to buf
falo. There are four sorts OF eroG~
dies, and no less than seventy sorts
of serpents, fifteen of which are poi,
sonoUs. The reason for this vast pro-
fusion OF creatures is no doubt the i'm.
mense variety OF soil, climate and
vegetation to be found in Burmah.
On the coast swamps the steaming
heas is terrible, but from there you
run up through every graduation Of eli.
mate to snow,clsd tain ueaks.
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CATER the surrender on August 49,"
says Corporal E. V. Montslvo, OF the
Utah battery, 10 in the Philippines,
'the Colorado men in port advanced
on a company Of Spaniards which
still held out. General Hale sum-
moned to his command what Spanish
he knew and demanded a surrender.
Great was his surprise when the reply
came in a broad Irish brogue, 'Divll
a bit I'll surrender The Spanish
captain was en- Irishman. l met him
a%fterward, subsequent to the sur-
render, which occurred, despite his
protestations. He had married a
Spanish woman, and so found his way
into the Spanish army. There are
many Irish in Spain. Any number of
Irishmen have married the fair daugh-
tiers of the proud Castilian race. Be-
cause of this incident the officers
around General Otis came to regard
as a proverb that the only Spaniards
who cal fight are Irishinen, New
York Tribune.
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COINS OF BIBLE LANDS:


tional Museum at Washington.
In the National Museum at Wash.
ington is an interesting collection OF
coins Of Bible lands. Coined money
did not circulate among the Israelites
previous to their return from the
Babylonian captivity but specific
weights of gold and silver were used
in commercial transactions from a
very early period and the term
'shekel, which is the name OF the
piece of money most frequently oc-
curing in the Bible, literally means
weight" Some historians attribute
the first coinage to Ecra, but the
earliest Jewish coins known were
struck by Simon Maccabeus about
146 B. G.. Greek and Roman money
was current in Palestine.
Among the coins III the museum
are shekels Of silver of the first issue
attributed to Simon Maccabaus. The
design represents on oae side a cup
Of mama, with a legend: "Shekel Of
Israel" On the reverse is the bud
ding rod of Aaron, with the legend:
Jerusalem the Holy" The value
Of the coin in our currency is about
siXty-four cents.
"'The widows mite" is a coin of
copper issued by Alexander Jannaus
(105 to IT'S B. C.), bearing q wreath
of olives, with the inscription: jon
athGn the High Priest and the Con
federation of the Jews" On the re-
verse are two c~ornueopias and the
head OF poppy. The mite was the
smallest current coin in the time of
Jesus, and its value was about one
eighth of ~one-cent.
There is also a coin issued by Herod
Antipas, te.rarch of Galilee, who be
headed John the Baptist and to whom
Jesus was sent for examination by
PLATE. Aggrippa, the last Jewish
king, issued a bronze coin, of which
there is m example. Tt was he with
whom the apostle Paul had an inter
view in the presence of the Roman
Governor, Festus.
The coin found by Peter in the
mouth of n fish and used to pay the
temple tribute for Jesus and himself
was a STARTER, of which there are
two specimens in silver issued at
Antioch, bearing the words Caesar
Augustus" under the head Of
the Roman Emperor, and on
the reverse a figure of Tyche, the
genias of Antioch, with her foot on
the river god Orontes.
There are also in the museum col
I%ections of coins struck by Alexander
the Great, King of Macedonia, who is
mentioned by Daniel; also coins of
Babylon, Damascus, Tyre, Sidon and
other ancient cities, and one of the
most interesting objects is o child's
savings bank made of pottery, with a
slit in the top, through which money
was dropped. 1t vas found by Dr.,
Thomas Wilson, of the Smithsonian
Institution, while e%xcayatiug in the
ruins Of Ostia, n seaport of ancient
Rome, in 1866, and contained 145
silver coins issued from 200 to 10
B, c., so hat it is presumed that the
bank was buried q short time before
the Christian era,-ChicGgo Record
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WISE WORDS.

Tndolonce is the mother OF misery
Burton.
There IS nothing that costs less than
swiftly -Cervantes.
Sls0p c. makes the heart grow
'1u3FE-J. H. Bailey.
Affection is the broadest basis OF .
coed life. George Eliot.
He overcomes a stout enemy who
oyercomes his own anger.-Chilo.
That which we acquire with most
iiilculty we retain the longest.-Col
ton.
Adversely borrows its shnrpest
stings flom its impotence Bishop
Horne.
The wise and the active conquer
difficulties by daring to attempt them.
Rowe.
Mischief Turks in the beginning; a
good beginning is half the task
Euripides.
The greatest affection that can be-
iall a man is the unkindness of a
.rlend.-flelding.
Avarice sheds 4 blasting influence
over the fairest and sweetest of man
nd.-George Washington.
An able man shows his spirit by
gentle words aud resolute actions.
He is neither hot nor timid.-Chester.
field.
Be not too brief in conversation
est you be not understood, nor too
liffuse lest you be troublesome.-Prc
tagoras. q
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-07

A friend of Andrew Carnegie says
that the latter has given altogether
SO, TIA, 500 for the establishment of
twenty-four free libraries or institutes
in this country or Scotland, and his
conditional offers now outstanding, all
of which will be accepted, will take
50, 900, 900 20 fromTrhis purse. The
list of gifts shows that So, 100, 900 was
expended in founding the institutes
and libraries at P~ittsburg, Allegheny.
Braddock, Homestead, Duquesne and
YOUNGSTOWN, the cities or towns in
Pennsylvania where his employees live.
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Ants and Their Antidotes.

A young girl from the East Indian
Islands, after having travelled many
thousands of miles through storm and
stress, reachedsAmerican shores a few
weeks ago. She was q sickly looking
girl, and the physicians who took her
in charge soon after her arrival de-
cided that she was suffering from an
aggravated case of stomach trouble.
Her symptoms we're the most peculiar
they had ever come across in their
wide experience, however, and it re-
quired mueh study and many con-
situations to trace the deplorable
effects back to their cause. Finally
they learned that the girls disordered
digestion was brought about by eat
ing too freely of white ants. These
ants are an important article of food
in some portions of the East Indies.
The natives skim them off the top of
the water, where they lie like a coat
OF thick cream, and parch them in lit
tie iron pots. After being parohed
some of them are made into a drink,
like coffee; others are ground into
-four and mixed into bread, while still
others are eaten like popcorn. But
too much of an ant diet is bad for the
system, and now that little girl from
the Indies will have to swallow a
small drug store of American antidotes
to bring back her health. Chicago
Record. .J
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FRIENDS.


Not he that counts my errors,
Not he that holds me back
With doubling words to show me :
Wherein and how / lack;
Nor he that sees my failings;
And, seeing them, is free
To take my measure by them
He's not the friend for me.
But he that learns my virtues,
Who takes me at my best;
Who notes my greatest failings -
And overlooks the rest;
Who, after | have striven
And have moi failed, is free
With words of commendation-
He is the friend for me.
He that forever warns me
OF dangers in my way,
Nh9doubts my strength to meet them
And ever bids me stay,
May truly seek to shield me,
=, May wish me we'll, but he
Whose faith is Inspiration
He is the friend for me.
Chicago News.
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CHARACTER oE The TAcALEs.



A writer in the Neuesten Nachrich-
ten, Munich, describes the Tagales,
the dominant race in the Philippines,
in the main as follows:
They are not incapable Of adopting
civilization in the modern sense, as
they are a very mixed race. The ad-
mixture of Chinese blood has produced
very good results. The number of
me3tizos whose father was white is
also very large, and it is these descend
ants of the S%paniards who fight the
battle of freedom. Nor are the Tagales
themselves without civilization. They
have shown much natural strength,
have advanced from their original
home in central Luzon to every part
of the Philippines and assimilated
many Malay tribes. Two enemies
they have, which are more dangerous
than either the Spaniard or the Ameri-
cans. They are indolent and their
morals are lax. The Spaniards have
done much to c"iyilize them, but to
this day many return to the life of a
hunter after some years. residence'in
towns and villages. They were,
nevertheless, in a pretty advanced
state of civilization when the Span
iards zane. This is easy to see in the
Igorrotos, a kindred race, which re-
mains heather to this day. The
Igorrotos live in fine villages of we'll
built houses, and their agricultural
system is really worthy OF admiration.
The Tagales themselves are ardent
Catholics, but they retain many
heather customs. Their highest aim
is to get a son into the church, but
they do not observe celibacy very
strictly. Many of the mestizos,
Chinese as well as white, are wealthy
men, and as these lead in the move
ment for independence, it will be diff
fcult to conquer the islands.
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-
one may hot WIN PfoPrlety olctat&
TO ahotnef fegaroihg the klhd OF Tea
10 ouy' Dutlt IS ofder TO mention thas
the great tee-dflnkers OF the world
n experts VINO nave cultivated g
otea-palate-pronounce l favor OF
OoionG. Japan or green tea comes
last on the preference list. for mah~
ing Tea use either " emma or eartherN
pot wnlch you are never to WASH, BUS
cleen by, scaiaing, Foqr boiling
water IN the pot ana STAND II on the
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The Demand For Human Hair.

Five Ions of human hair is required
annually by London dealers in that
commodity. Most of it m from
France aid italy, although there are
consignmests from all over the world.
At Limoges there is an annual hair
market and peasant girls from the
country round dispose of their locks
to the highest bidder. They do not
wait for their hsir to grow very long
before selling it gain, So the aver
age price paid a bound is only about
$3.50. The girls are longing for the
return of the CHG. on, as prices were
doubled during he reign OF that
fashion. Convent do n pretty good
trade in hair, for the tresses of a
novice are always cut off when she
takes the veil. A single convent is
reported to have sold nore than q ton
of hair for about $40, 90. An Eng
lish girls hair bring a very high
price-about $40 beirg the average.
Hair increases in pric according to
its length. New York sun.
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THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY, THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESSa

They All Come Back-A ~Pardonabie
Crime-Knows When to Quit-Fool-
hardy Man-As to the Latest Fad-A
Change of Heart-weu Along in Years
"Still writing for the magazines?"
He asked, as one who yearns
To learn his neighbours ways and means
"Well, what are the returns?"
As one whose voice did lack the ring
OF pure spontaneous glee.
The other said: "Oh, everythingl
They all come back to me-"
Richmond Dispatch.
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. Sacred to the memory Of :.
PLATO, ::
Who gave his life to save :.
+. A FRIEND. e.

Within a few feet OF where I am
writing now, %snoozing snugly in the
evening sunbeams, where they play
upon the floor through the open win
dow, is a large and beautiful Maltese
cat, coiled up, in restful oblivion to
all l am writing, on an immense
bearskin, the wearer of which once
came so near making an end of me
Rufus McClain Fields, in Country
Gentleman.
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Didn't you tell me Swiggles was
seriously contemplating marrying?"
Eyes, he told me he was-but the
more he contemplated it the less he
felt inclined toward it."-Chicagr
Tribune.
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After a recent supper IN the rural
district a tall, clerical-looking indi-
vidual arose to respond to a toast,
"What am l here for t~o-night?'
was the question he opened with,
ITO eati" shouted a hungry small
boy near the door. you've drinked
six cups a coffee an swallowed the
last biscnit on the plater'-Atlanta
Constitution,
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: "Would you give your seat to a
lady in a street carp" she asked of the
mar who prides himself on being a
bear.
Eyes, I would gladly, Tho answered,
''if 1 could find the street ar
Washington Star.
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Bridget, what is that child crying
so wildly for?"
"Sure, mum, he's just drinked all
his soothin' syrup and ate the cork,
and I don't know what ais him unless
it's the bottle he wants to s~wallow!'-
Tit Bits.
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A jeweler of Newburg, n. T., has
invested in a stock of married mems
watches" The popularity OF theaa
watches lies in the fact that they ara
furnished with an alarm attachment
which a mans wife can set at the e1-
act hour when she wishes him to sssst
for home. The alarm going of ss
that time will remind him that kls
wife expects him.
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Mr.. Bronxborough-"Shall we so
to the seaside this summer"
Mrs. Bronxborough-''What's the
use? The girls are all married now.
Let's stay at home and rest."-New
York Journal,
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"Isn't Bellies husband old enough
to be her father?"
Her fatherl Why, my dear, he's
old enough to be a captain in the
the United States Navy!"-Philadel-
pkia North American.
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Teacher-"What's the matter with
you to-day, Tommy? Yon seem to be
nervou and uneasy"
Tommy-"I am. Yesterday was
my pa and mas wooden wedding, and
nearly all the neighbcrs sent 'em
shingles. Chicago News.
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Remember" said the good man,
that there are m in stones,
"Not in those that you run against
with your bike" retorted the cynic,
and the argument was necessarily
an end. Cincinnati. Commercial-Tri-V
bune,
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A young student came to class with
one ear stuffed with cotton.
"What's the NATTER" asked his
neighbor. Got an earache?"
"No-but I don't want what goes in
at one ear to so out at the other
New York Press.
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Wears Daughter-"Oh. Withers,
your mistress tells me you are saving
up to take a little shop and look after
your mother. l think 1t is such a
sweet ideal"
Withers-"Well. yes, miss, l did
think OF it; but I've got the money
I've changed my mind, and I'm going
to buy myself n of these ere BIZ
cycles insteadt"-Punch.
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HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.


Imitation cloth and silk flowers
filled with sachet powder are novelties
that appear in the stores. Thus rose
stems, leaves and flowers are filed
with rose sachet, and a spray Of hya-
cinth with the hyacinth sachet. They
are made by cutting out the leaves>and
flower petals from stamped cloth or
silk, and then sewing them togetheH
and filling them with the sachet pow
der. They make very pretty and ap
propriate articles for the bureau or
drawer or even for ornamenting the
top of the dressing-table. They CONS
in rose, hyacinth, violet, orchids
heliotrope, lily and tulip odors.
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Mrs. Skimpen-''T think Mr.. Smith
must have liked the beefsteak pie.
He had two helpings of it."
The Tactless Boarder-"Possibly
he did it on a wager. boston Tran
scrint.
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"What is a diplomatic Instrument"
"It is an instrument used by the
members of the European Concert"
"What do they play on it?"
"They play on-the little Powers"
New York Sun.
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Hoax-''So young Goldrox has taken
a wife. What was her maiden name2"
Joax-''Her maiden aim seems to
have been to marry Goldrox, and she
proved an unusually good shot for a
woman. philadelphia Record.
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A HAPPY HOLLOW HUNT.

LAR old Happy
Hollow was u
home - an ideal
little poets valley,
nesting in t h e
mountains of East
Tennessee, a IL d
d by
splendid mountain
ranges. The name
was most appro-
priately given to
that hollow, which
was happy in fact
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"These horseless carriages are
great things"
YES, indeed. I had one once"
"What did you do with it?
"Outg, Few il. "-Jewish Comment.
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Madge -"He stole a kiss from me-"
Mabel -"Well, that was only petit
larceny"
Madge-'It wasn't-it was grand!'
Brooklyn Life.
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During 1898 the Bile Society of
Scotland issued 920,S3 scriptures,
the largest circulation eHr effected in
M year, and 11s,3 lore than in
1897.
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"You told me your son had business
ability
well. hasn't he?"
"All he knows is when the clock
strikes six. Chicago Record.
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A Berlin paper asserts that OF TWEEN
ty-seven royal families in Europe two
thirds are of German extraction.
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The Terrier-"My, but don't wish
I had fifty cents!"-New York jour
nal.
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The employees of State institutions
in Iowa have : sen uniformed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-13

night, considering the state of the
weather The occasion was the fourth
visit to Salt Lake of Lincoln J. Carriers
Heart of Chicago" It's popularity,
particularly with the gallery, seems un-
diminished and last night it would
have been difficult to determine whether
there was more noise on the stage or
in the upper portion of the house. The
tonly Lincoln ]. has concentrated all the
requirements of lurid melodrama into
this production-there seems to be not
a thrilling element missing. This prob
ably is the secret of its popularity, for
any lover of melodrama. can surely get
his moneys worth. The scenic effects
were the same as ever, with the big
climax in the approaching engine scene,
which never fails to send the gallery
wild with delight. There is a company
of players to set off the scenery, and
some of the individual members resort
to specialties at times, greatly to the
enjoyment of the audience. Miss Helen
Dale, Miss Maud, Mr.. Anthem and Mr..
Lee are those who supply the songs
and dances. Several of the actors were
in the company when here last year,
Melodrana is always a good card at
the Grand, and the outlook for the en-
gagement is good. The piece runs for
the remainder of the week, with a mat
inee Saturday.