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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22
His Truthful statement.

"You told me-" she said, tearfully,
"that i was the only girl you ever
loved"
Its true" he asserted.
.'But 1 have just learned that you
were once engaged to Maud Mug
gins"
"Well," he replied, ''I never told you
that you were the only girl l ever
thought / loved, did I|'-Chicago
Post.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

Dorothy had never seen any pump
kin pic until her first visit TO the
country, and to her grandmother's
asking her If she'd have piece the
little girl replied mo, 1 thank you.
/ never eat pie without roof on it,"
-.Judoe
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

New York Mani hear you've had
prosperous times in the west.
Ohio MAXWELL, I should say so!
Why, potatoes grew so large this year,
that they're mistaliin' 'em for pump
kins.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22
A,nn,- ALFALFA

'"Nfrs. Skinner has had TO give up
all the five clubs she belongs to-"
"IIas she nervous prostration"
mo; but every time she went out
of the house her husband moved all
the furniture around. d."-ludiarapolis
journal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

Pat--An honest man is the noblest
work nv God.
Mike-Thrue fer ye! But there's
lots av honest men that wouldn't be
so honest il they would only tell the
truth about imsilves!-Puck.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

The young man tried to kiss the girl.
And she, fearing he might fail,
Did just what he intended to
She gently drew the veil.
Chicago DAilY News
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

Nell--"Mrs Bargansales is the worst
woman I ever saw TO hagglc over prices.
She wants everything cheaper than any
body else " lelle--"Yes Pvc noticed that
she eve make. her husband look cheap"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22
An Iden TO ReyOlye.

pauline, what made you cut young
Noodleton just now?"
"Oh, his face looked so vacuous; l
thought I'd give him something to
think ut."-Detroit Free Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

Houlihan-Clancy is forever tackling
bigger mon than himself and get
ting licked!
Cahill-Yis! Clancy is his own worst
inimy!-Puck.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

ITS influence that counts in poll
tics" said the voter.
"Yes," answered the practical poll
tician; "but not so much as affluence.'
Washington Star.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

Giles-Don't you think she is rather
statuesque?
DeGarry-Decidedly. When l pro-
posed to her last night she gave me
the marble heart.-Town Topics.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22
Relief Came Promptly

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM II had been
under treatment with the doctors for
four years, and seemed to get no better,
l thought would try your medicine
My trouble was change of life, and /
must say that / never had anything
help me so much as Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. Relief
came almost Immediately. have
better health now than l ever had. l
feel like new woman, perfectly
strong. 1 give Lydia f. Pinkham's
Compound all the credit, and would
not do without her medicine for any
thing. / have recommended it to
several of my friends. There is no
need of women suffering so much for
Mrs. Pinkham's remedies are sure
cure" ~ MAHALA BUTLER, Bridge
water, III.
Another Woman Helped
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM II took Lydia
r. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
during change of life and derived great
benefit from its use. MARY II. JAMES,
1870 Coydon St., Bradford, Pa.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22
I'm usual.

Dora-I wonder why Ernest has
never thought seriously of getting
married?
Fred-Perhaps he has thought of it
too seriously.-Brooklyn Life.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

ut is some consolation to know"
gasped the dying man with his last
breath, "that it took three doctors to
kill me."-N. Y. journal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22
THE VOICE or JEALOUSY.

"IIe thinks her lips are sweet as
sugar, does he? Well, dey oughter be,
stuck up wild Is cents wort of me
candy."-N. Y. Journal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22
TiD-BiTS FOR MA HONEY

TID-BiTS FOR MA HONEY!
and tender little juicelets for the chill.
dren, are all right. but papa and ''the
boys" want a good, big, juicy steak,
roast or chop when business or school
duties are over, and we can cater to
them all. Our stock Of prime meats is
unexcelled for quality, and we send
them home in fine shape.
J.E. KEIFER.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

There seems to be something at
tractive in the word "subsidy" for the
average man in Congress. The House
Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce has decided by vote OF
8 to S, In favor of the bill authorizing
the laying of Pacific cable by prl-
vate corporation and the payment OF
a subsidy by the Government for a
period of twenty years.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-22

Republican hints of their intention
to do something that will remove the
trust question from this years cam
paign induced Representative Ball, OF
Texas, to call the bluff, He did so
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
GILLIGAN TRIAL
OCCURS TO-DAY
Mrs. Isabel Turner VIII Wear Three
Wells TO Shield Her Face From
the Curious Crowd.

SUFFOLK. VA. May 7-speciaL-Law-
yers on each side said to-day that the
Gilligan trial would be gone into at Isle
of Wight Courthouse tomorrow unless
the unforeseen happens. Miss Turner will
go into court heavily yelled.
She does not propose TO be stared at by
the great crowd of morbid persons wno
will attend the trial Miss Turner told
an attorney she would wear three wells.
At the last effort to try the case she
did not appear in the cotr thorse, but
was present on the scene with her moth
er, both heavily veiied and seated in q
closed carriage, waiting TO be summoned
as witnesses. AS soon as 1t was learned
that their evidence would not be re-
auired. they drove hastily nome. Since
the murder of her father. Miss Turner
has confined herself very closely to her
home, and has seen almost no one.
Judge Drury a. Hinton and AIr. S. H
Edwards will defend GilEigau. while the
prosecution will be conducted by Cox Il.
E Boylsin and ". S. Holland.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
GENERAL MOVEMENT
Capture of WinburG Result of Admir-
able Strategy.

sAIAIIDEE5L, Sunday. May 6.-The
movement that eliminated In tine capture
of Wliuburg and SrlztIdeel was part OF a
great general movement extending from
General Hunter on the west TO General
Rumble ON the cast Lord Roberts afi-
nsirabIe strategy resulted in placing every
where five British TO ONE Boer.
What is more Important the British are
now enabled TO unite.
The front and fanbs of their columns
will now advance and olltflanlS the Beers.
General Hamifton's arrival at Winburg,
although not directly outffankiug the
Beers, made their position extremely un-
comfortable. General Hutton's movement
on the left was even moro successful than
at first imagined. Forty Beers were
killed.
General fuckers division is marching
on our left to-day and General AfaNwtell's s
brigade will he able TO cross the river be-
fore night
AN along the railroad the culverts,
wherever of any size. have been utterly
destroyed.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
TEXAS VISITED
BY SEVERE STORM
The Winds Velocity Was Sixty Miles
an Hour and Great Damage Was
Wrought--Brazos River Full.

SAN ANTONIO, TEX. May IA de-
structive cyclone wrecked the San An
tonic Loan and Trust Company's dve-story
steel and terra Gotta building this morn
ing. The loss is about $4,000. The building
was not insured.
The winds velocity was sixty miles an
hour. Two box-cars were blown across
the tracks of the main line of the Aransas
Pass Railway in the yards here, and caused
the wrecking of an incoming excursion
train for Corpus Christi. The fireman was
the only one hurt.
GALVESTON, TEX, May THE tele-
graph service to the interior of the State
IS pros trated, owing to the serious wind,
rain and electrical storm this morning.
The Brazos River Is bankful near Tomp-
son, and the loWlands for miles either
side are flooded.
DALLAS. TEX. May THE destructive
wind and rain-storm that struck San An
tonic this morning seems to have been
general in utflwestern Texas. AT Bas-
ztror1t1. the Midland Hotel was wrecked, and
Charles and Lizzie Wilkes, children Of the
proprietor, were badly hurt by falling tim
5bers.
aIle hardware store of r, & G.. Stark
was partly destroyed Fears are felt as to
the result in the surrounding countx.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08

sGonfcsence be eliminated from the Daily
tadvocate. and q resolution by former
Congressman NJ. w. johnson, north Da-
kota. giving the approval OF the Confer
ence TO the use of individual communion
cups. was cried down without the tor-
malty of a discussion.
Z D. D. Thompson, manager of :ne paper.
explained that the papers sold were back
numbers. that the sale vas not Authorized
and that it would not occur again.
DIR. Buckiey's resolution concerning the
suppression of certain articles was passed
by a vote OF 323 to 279. but not until sew
eral delegates had expressed themselves
very freely
An attack on The amusement clause in
the Book of Discipline was made in an
unlocked for way, by Or. j. r. Price. OF
New York. during the session He aues-
toned the constitutionality of the amuse-
fuent paragraph t2+9 and asked that the
Committee on Judiciary look into the mat
ter In explanation DIR. Price said:
81 do not believe the paragraph is con-
stitutional because it is a judicial ruling.
hut was not delivered in case on trial.
The paragraph was adopted in 1877 and
not as the result OF a trial.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
Virginia Bills.
Washington Bureau, The Times.


No 515 Fourteenth Street
WASHINGTON. May .-Special-Sena-
tor Martin today introduced the follow
ing bins:
Directing the Secretary of the Treasury
to pay to William E. Bailey, of Norfolk,
Va, $4,000 for the loss of an eye caused
by negligence on the part of a. target
I7srty of United Sta tes sailors and marines
at target practice ait ST Helena, near
Norfolk in 1890: authorizing the payment
OF s. COO TO the Shiloh Methodist Church
for value of church property DESTROYED by
Federal forces during civil war; providing
for payment Of $4,000 TO Edward Watkins,
Chesterfield county, Va. for stores de-
stroyed by Union troops; for relief OF
James T Caldwell, of Richmond, Va,
g. 500 for supplies seized by Union army
during civil war; for William Crosby, of
Augusta county, Va. s2.o5S for stores and
supplies seized by Federal troops during
civil war: providing for payment of s1.40o
10 Joshua Sherwood and Elizabeth Gray.
of Virginia. for supplies seized by Federal
troops. also a similar ibill for the estate
of Henry Baker, Fredericksburg, Va, in
the amount of $500.
Representative Lassiter to-day introduc-
ed a bill authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury TO pay to William E. Anderson,
of Virginia. S219.3i a balance due him as
captain IN United States army during the
late Spanish war. This was Representa-
tive Iassiter's maiden bill.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
SUMMARY OF T0-DAY'S NEWS.
Local.

Local.
Teacher OF history in Richmond scloo!
said to be q John Brown syrnpatfszer
Pickett Camp elects delegates TO ST.
Louis.
Meeting of National Pharmaceutical
Association.
Important work of the City Council.
DIR. Guthrie addresses Y NJ. c. A.
Lively contest for King of the Car
-Fffteen-year-oidC Carrie DuIin commit.
suicide because her father weds tn.
second time.
-oPera House in Lexington burned
Not likely TO be rebuilt
Seven oysterrnen fined at Suffolk fo,
rough culIing.
The claremont. Norfolk and Richmone.
Steamboat Line has purchased a boat.
and will run her on James River
An enthusiastic mass meeting In Char
lottesville in advocacy OF a Constitutions.
Convention.
The Washington Guards. Frede-icks-
burg. organized, with Captain Rowe again
in command.
TO be erected near Portsmouth.
General.
--appropr.ation for National Guard in
creased TO s1,oo0-0oo by House bill passed
Mr.. Teller paid high tribute to the
Beers in urging Senate To extend to them
its sympathy.
-popu,ists assembling for their conven-
ton in Sioux Falls Charles a. Towns
may be nominee for Flce-PresIdency.
Big fire IN New York.
Foreign.
--Roers in retreat before advancing
British.
Kroonstadt.
--Rs.ief of aiafeking now in sight.
--Asuiuaido reap2ears on tue scene IL
Philippines. .--.z-ss ~
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
BOERS RETIRING
BEFORE BRITISH
They Will Probably Bat
tie at KroOnstadt.
GENERAL MOVEMENT
Occupation of Winburg Was the Cul-
mination Of Roberts Strategy.
RELIEF OF MAFEKING IN SIGHT
Nothing Formidable Between War
renton and the Beleasuered Town
but the Distance-Roberts and
Kitcberer Personally Direct
ed Artillery in Vet River
Engagement.
RELIEF OF MAFEKING IN SIGHT

r.GNDON. May $40 A. M.-lha
Beers are everywhere retiring oeiofe e'e
British except on the Natal frontier and
- ,rafekinr to the inner circle of their
defences. They appear determined not 10
fight until the Koonstadt hills are
reached.
Lord Roberts is expected TO 90 1iio'i'el
forty or fifty miles, and then to wait Tor
a time in order to bring up SuppAe' anu
70 renair the railway. There are one or
, two hints in the dispatches from the front
that he may rest for d few days at
Smaldeei.
General French's 10000 cavalry have
not been mentioned in the ofhclal OF uii-
ofHcial dispatches for four days II IS
~, 40 means likely that he is idle, and
the conjecture is that he is either ue-
touring toward Koonstadt or raidlng the
Ladybrand district
Fifteen thousand British are no" opei-
atine on the western frontier OF the free
state AS the deadlock at Warrentoi.
has been broken and the Boers are re-
treating, there is nothing forinioapie e> ),
cent distance between Warrenton ana
Mafeking. The most hopeful advices from
Nafeking, on April ed. We're that the
garrison would be barely able to hold
ont for a month. At that time the fever
was spreading,
According TO dispatch from Maseru,
Rasutoland, several thousand Free Staters
are north of Ladybrand, where they have
collected great herds. The district IS rch
in food for men and horses ana ..le
Beers seem resolved not TO move NORTH
ward but TO be preparing TO resist Where
they are. If they are let alone they VIII
menace the line OF communications aiter
the main British army mas passed INTO
the Transvaal.
Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener per-
sonallv directed the artillery in the Vet
River enga cement
Queen Victoria will send signed Pho
tograpn to Colonel Kekewich, the hero
OF Kimberley.
Six thousand four hundred and fifty
eight troops are now at sea on the way
to South Africa. No others are under
orders to go, except as recruits TO I'LL up
the losses of regiments at the front.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
FILIPlNOS AGGRESSIVE.
Two Attacks on American Garrisons
REFUSED.

Two Attacks on american GaffiSOiiS
Repulsed.
MANILA, May Two attacks on the
American garrisons in the Nisayans have
resulted in the killing of los Filipinos
and the wounding OF two Americans.
A, daybreak May 4th 400 rebels, some
armed with rifles, attacked Carman in
North Zoanara, in the vicinity OF Catubig.
Company r, OF the Forty-third Regiment.
was garrisoning the place. The enemy
built trenches on the outskirts OF the
Town during the night and fred rolleys
persistently into it, until the Americans,
charging the trenches. scattered the Fill
pinos and killed 155 of them. Two Ameri-
cans were wounded. This attack was pre-
cip;,ated by the enemy's recent success
full fight at Catubig. The garrison OF
Chairman has been removed 10 the sea-
port of Laguan.
A force of Fiiipinos, estimated TO num-
ber 200 men, armed with rifles, and 600
armed with bolos and operating four
,nuzzIe-Ioad!ng cannon. attacked Jaro. on
Leyie Island. April 18TH which place was
garrisoned by twenty-five men of Com
pany B. of the Forty-tllird Regiment.
Lieutenant Estes commanding. Estes left
fifteen men to protect the town. and with
the remaining ten men he advanced on
the enemy in two squads. sheltered by the
ridges south of the town. whence they
stood off the Fillpines for three hours
Then twenty armed members of the
local police force sailed out to help
Estes Americans The latter, with the
police. charged the enemy. and altogether
they dispersed the Fiipinos. and after the
fight was over buried 125 OF them. There
were no American casualties.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
ADVANCE TO PRETORIA.
The Capture Of Ninburg by the Brit
iSh Confirmed.

LONDON. MAY THE capture OF WIN
burg by the British is confirmed, and the
main advance TO Pretoria continues Win
the nlachine-like precision ana rapidity
which has characterized all Lord Roberts
forward movements
BY the occupa ton Of Winbers, GENERA
Ian Hamilton puts himself parallel Win
Lord Roberts and only tWenty-nlile tllieS
eastward while he has the additional
advantage OF being connected with his
chief bv means of the railroad that runs
from Smaldeel to Winburg Road Station.
as it is sometimes called, to Wlnhurs.
THE only feature of the carefully-deVlsed
plan, or general advance, which IS not
disclosed by the swift developments IS
that part General sBuller has elected 10
take in the operations.
A. present there are no indications of
any movement on the part of the Natal
army. Doubtless a few days or less Will
hiring out the British line OF action before
the Biggarsberg Lord Roberts Is now
nine miles north of the Vet, and sixty
three miles of Bioemfontein. Evidently
ne is not letting grass grow under ms
feet, though the Beers seem equaliy
anxious to retreat towards kroonstadt'
and are so doing.
A. the time this despatch is sent there
is nothing new from General Hunter,
but it is presumed he is pushing steadily
forward in the direction OF Mafeking,
aided by the aggressiveness of Barton $
and Paget's brigadeS. The critics OF the
African newspapers view the situation
with the greatest satisfaction.
A special despatch from Smaldee1 (Win-
burg Road Station) dated 9:4o F. NJ sun
day. May 9th, gives details of the occupa-
ton of Winburg by the British. 1t says:
"News has Just come here that General
Hamilton is giving the Boe-s no rest,
and that they are falling back hurried
sly. He entered Winburs to-day after
brisk fight, in which the Beers fell back
so quickly that one of their guns, in ad-
dition to Maxim, was abandoned.
The same despatch. describing the
crossing of the Vet river by the British
says: 1.-THE Boer forces entrenched on
the opposite bank prepared to contest
the crossing. Our guns were brought into
play and terrific shell-fire was direct
ed on the Boer lines. AT the same time.
the Queenlanders, under a heavy fire.,
dashed across the river, and advancing
In the open. completely turned the Roer
right 1t was dusk but nothing could
sion the gallant Australians. They push.
ed on again, secured a commanding kopje.
and by brilliant movements and continu-
Gus rife fire, drove off the enemy in the
darkness.
.tThe first CLEAN of dawn this morning
found the enemy In full flight, and our
men after them and by nine o'clock this
morning we entered this important STRAIT
egetic point.
4 despa tch. from Boshof, dated Friday.
Nav 4th. says General Methuen made a
reconnaissance from there the day pre-
viously to the neighborhood of START
sKopnies-Fontein. locating the Boer laas-;
er. After an untmportant exchange of
FIRE the Beers removed their laager. a
iairlx strong farca aS Beers was seen
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
THE DEMOCRATS
OF ALBEMARLE.
A Mass Meeting in Advocacy of the
Constitutional Convention Sen
ator Morris True Blue.

CsHARLOTTESvILLE VA. May l.
special-A large mass-meeting of the
Democrats of Alhemarle was held in the
courthouse this afternoon, endorsing a
Constitutional Convention.
The meeting was called to order by the
Hon. John B. Moon, county chairman OF
the Democratic Coqlmittee. Mr.. Moon en-
dorsed the actions of the recent State con-
vention and pledged himself to use his
efforts as chairman to secure large ma
ioritv In favor of revising the present Con-
stitution He urged the people to vote for
the convention on The 2ith of May.
Hon. John E. Massey made the opening
speech to a packed audience. lie Favored
convention and now Constitution;
urged the people to turn out on the fourth
Thursday in this month and vote for the
convention Said he: I'VE want Con-
stitutional Convention, and we are going
to have il; we want a Constitution framed
by Virgintans; we want the people to have a
voice il, selecting their officers, from con-
stable up to United states senator. and
we want the convention to abolish that
iniuuitous system of Eoting-favored the
open ballot He said that he was a "a
friend to education, but did not want the
white man taxed to educate colored chill
II.
from commencement to finish.
Mr.. Massey was followed by the Hon.
George ". Morris. who opened his re-
marks by stating that he had always
been opposed to a convention. but, as he
had fought it. and had been whipped, he
was there TO say that ne was with the peo-
pie and would do all he could for the Con-
stiturional Convention and new Con-
stisupon.
The Hon. Nat B. early also made a
ronsing speech in favor of a convention,
and would go to his home IN Greene
county fired with new zeal to accomplish
the object
Enthusiastic addresses were made by the
Hon. R W. Duke and others There is
not the least doubt but what .Aihemarle will
vote overwhelmingly In favor of a con-
vention on the fourth Thursday In May.
Among the many WHO were on the court
green to-day was Jonathan Pitts, aged
eigaty-tive years, the man who .sheaded-
up a barrel of Albemarle p.pptn apples
sixty years ago. which was presented TO
Queen Victoria by Andrew Stevenson,
Minister 10 England. The apples were
raised on tBlenheiIn. :. the farm Of Mr.
Stevens. twelve miles south OF ehlyls ties
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
moving northwards. General Methuen
then returned to Boshof.
BOERS IN RETREAT.
British Gross the Vet River i'll a Dash
ing StyIc.


LONDON, May iii a. M.-Lord Rob
erss reports to the War Office, in dis
patch. dated Snaldeel, May g. afternoon,
as follows:
eve crossed the Vet river this morning
and are now encamped at Smaldeel juno
ton. The enemy is in full retreat to-
ward Zand river and kroonstadt. The
turning movement was made by the
mounted infantry. just before dark yes
terday. It was a very daShing affair
.'Tne Canadians. New South Wales.
New Zealand Rifles. and Queensland
Mounted Infantry. wed with each other
in the determination to close with the
enemy Captain Anley. of the Essex
regiment. commanding the Third Infantry
battalion, behaved in a very gallant
manner
The naval guns and the artillery made
excellent practice. particularly two five
inch guns used for the first time with this
force.
I'VE captured a Maxim and twenty-five
prisoners. Our casualties are few-only
fifteen wounded. one killed and three
lniSSsinE.''
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
MAYOR ASKED TO RESIGN.
Violent Attack From Pulpit on Allan
ta's Chief Executive.

ATLANTA, GA, May THE City Coun-
Gil tonight adopted a resolution calling
on Mayor James G. woodward to resign
his office The resolution was the culmi-
nation of d sensational sermon last night
by Rev. L. G. Brouehton, in which the
minister made violent attack on the
Mayors personal habits. The resolution
calls upon the Mayor to resign before the
next meeting of the Council, two weeks
from to-day.
The leader of the opposition to Mr..
Woodward says he is in honor bound,
under the terms of a statement made last
summer. to resign. The Mayor tonight
declined TO say what his action would
be- His term expires January lst next.