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BUSINESS TROUBLES.
Petition in Bankruptcy Filed Against the
Muncie Pulp Company,

A petition In bankruptcy has been filed
here against the Muncie Pulp Company OF 81
Mulberry street. this city. and Munoie, Ind.
by the following creditors: Gustave J.. Jaeger
$4,000 for money loaned: Stahl 4 Jaeger
$3Ot: j. l.. 4 ID. s. Riker, 81, ,888 for bleach ing
powder and II. f. Poggensburg Co. &542
They alleee that the company is insolvent
permitted the Corn Exchange Bank Of Chicago
to obtain preference by attachment on its
property at Deans Island. Ark. made pay
ments to various creditors and defaulted on
the payment OF 81, $50 interest on its outstand-
ing bonds Of ss4. 900.
The company Is n Now York corporation
incorporated on Feb ~. 1888. with capital
stock Of $3.50. 900. and Gustave l.. Jaeger Is
treasurer. Henry Blaokman Is president and
the inventor Of the process used by the COM
pany which manufactured chemical wood
pulp known as cellulose or soda fibre. Five
years aao the company issued bonds to the
amount Of $3.50, 600. OF which $4,000 are out
standing. Some months ago the company
proposed to issue $3.50. 900 bonds to take up
paper mill at Muncie. .
June i, 1904. showed assets 81. .7es. .oss and liza
william Allen. referee in bankruptcy. has
made a report recommending that a dis
Cohn and Reuben Robinowitz. who composed
the frm OF Cohn Robnowtz. manufao-
turers OF clothlnH, formerly at "a ana "
Walker street. against whom a creditors
petition In bankruptcy was filed on Oct 22,
1907. The report Ia based on specifications.
The referee concludes that the bankrupts
sold merchandise industriously in the ten
months before their failure. and fraudulently,
while bankrupts. concealed large amount OF
money or property from their trustee. The
amount OF shrinkage In the assets il put at
about 100000. The referee gives as an addi-
tional reason for denying their discharge
that they collected two checks amounting to
si2s after the petition in bankruptcy was was
money to their own use: The bankrupts
ment by returning the money to the trustee.
but the referee hold that the fact that they
returned the money does not alter the fact
that they have been guilty Of conceallng the
money from their creditors and trustee and
handed II over only when they we're dis
covered
A. creditors petition in bankruptcy has been
filed against the Independent Sponging
Works at 30 Greenwich avenue.
Albert r. Rae of Mount kisoo has filed
petition In bankruptcy here with liabilities
tli.a35 and nominal assets ~ ,04t. He was
formerly Of the firm of Merritt a Rae. who
kept hotel at ss4 Columbus avenue. this
August Elbert. formerly commission NOR
chant and now employed in the Produce
Exchange Building, has filed a petition IN
bankruptcy with liabilities S77.o56, Of which
ga, ,35l are secured, and assets S.122, Qon-
etstina Of Produce Exchange u1embership,
S?so: debt due. go. and two unliauidated
claims. G.ss7. az 9. i
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MEMORIAL TO JACOB ABBOTT.
Movement TO Purchase the Old Home Of the
Author OF the Rollo Books.

Movement to Purchase the Old Home Of the
Author OF the Rollo Books.
FARMINaToN, Me-. July 30.-A movement
has been started here to purchase the old
home Of the Rev. Jacob Abbott. author Of
the Rollo books, restore it as nearly as posi-
BILE to Its condition when the clergyman
author occupied it, and preserve it as
memorial to him. In 1889, Mr. Abbott,
who was then pastor Of the Eliot Church
in Roxbury. Mass, and just at that time
attracting attention as an auth or of books
for the young removed to this town to
continue his literary work. In the out
skirts Of the village, directly opposite his
fathers home. he bought four acres Of
wild land and laid them out as Little Blue.
spending some years there.
About 1870, he returned to Farmington
to spend his remaining years peacefully,
making his home with his two sisters at
what had been his fathers home, then
tied once or twice yearly ever since his de-
parture from Little Blue, and many Of
his later books were written there. For
nearly twenty years Fewacres has been
In the hands OF strangers to his family,
but arrangements have been completed TO
transfer the property to trustees to hold
for memorial purposes. The features OF
the rambling old cottage and the shady
grounds especially associated with Jacob
Abbott, are to be carefully protected, and
1t is believed that the property can be ad
vantageously used in connection with the
Abbott School, just across the old highway.
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slit OVER WARD RELICS.
Letters From Washington. webster ana
Others Among Them.

Others Among Them.
Charles 81. Ward and his niece. Mise Maria
z. G. Ward. are engaged in legal contro-
versy over a number Of historical letters
and other documents that formerly be-
)onged to John Ward, who died ir 1895.
The collection is said to include autograph
letters written by George Washington and
other colonial heroes to John Wards great
grandfather Gov. Samuel Ward, and also
letters written by Daniel Webster and other
public men to Samuel's son, Lieut.-Col.
samuel Ward There are, besides, various
journals, diaries and notes belonging to
the Ward ancestors.
John Ward was a brother of Charl es,
and when he died another brother, William.
who lived for years in the Same house as
Miss Eliza Ann Partridge, at ss West Thirty
seventh street, became administrator of
Johns estate. Miss Partridge was a
wealthy spinster. She inherited her fort
une from Henry H. Ward, her cousin, with
whom she was in love, though they were
prevented from marrying because OF their
relationship.
William Ward died on Jan. 10, 1901, and
then Charles became administrator. He
says that his niece Maria, daughter Of
William, took possession OF the valua BILE
father. He says that she refuses to give
them up, though he, as administrator OF
John Wards estate, is entitled to the pos
session of them.
Miss Ward. through her counsel, Wilson
Wallis, says that in 1893 her father
made an agreement transferring to Miss
Partridge all his brother Johns personal
property. including these relics, in consid-
Grafton Of S3,2s7. Miss Ward therefore
denies that her uncle has any right to the
relics.
Miss Ward inherited considerable share
Of Miss Partridge's estate.
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WOMAN ASLEEP on A ROCK.
Mrs. Quinn Found Niarooned in theHudson
-Doesn't Know How She Got There.

Mrs. Quinn Found Marooned in theHudson
Doesn't Know How She Got There.
Mrs. Bridget Quinn, SO years old, who
said her home was at Tarrytown was
found yesterday morning lying on a rock
IN the Hudson River about seventy-fve
feet from shore, opposite the Columbia
Boat Club house, at the foot Of West 1ieth
street. She was first seen by members
of the club. She was lying with her body
partly under water, Some Of the men
from the boathouse brought her ashore,
and revived her with .restoratives,
She told the police that two weeks ago
she had buried her two sons at Ia rrytown,
and that she came here last Thursday.
She stopped at the Salvation Army rooms
on the Bowery for one night and since then
she has been wandering around the streets,
sleeping in parks and wherever she could.
She said she walked along the river front on
Friday night, and lay down to rest on rock
near the shore at the foot Of 1l6th street.
When she woke up in the morning she was
about seventy-five feet from the shore. She
couldn't tell how she got there unless she
had floated out In her sleep.
She told policeman that she had $2 and
a pair Of goldrimmed eyeglasses when she
went to sleep. The police think the woman
is demented.
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ACCUSED IN HAWAII.
Post Omce Employee OF Hilo Arrested on
an Arriving Steam amship.

an Arriving Steamsnip.
WILMINGTON, Del, July 3o.-Charged
with the theft Of a Panama hat mailed
by Lustig Bros. Of Greene street, New
York city to NJ. F. Mcdonnell Of Hilo,
Hawaii, Edwin Rose, about 10 years old,
native Of Hawaii, was brought to this city
at noon to-day in the custody Of Deputy
United States Marshal James l.. Hawkins
and United States Post Once Inspector
William j. Maxwell, having been arrested
by Hawkins this morning on the steamship
Susquehanna at Lewes
The boat arrived at the breakwater dur
ing the night. Rose had hearing this
afternoon before United States Commis-
sioner William G. Mahaffy.
Rose was a sub-clerk in the post oface
at Hilo, and 1t is alleged that he purloined the
hat while working there. The hat, which Is
said to be worth something like $40, was sent
by registered mail from NewYork on Jan. 10.
Upon its arrival at Hilo, 1t is said, 1t was
somewhat mutilated, and the consignee re-
fused to accept it.
The hat remained in the office about
two months, and when arrangements had
been made to send it back, the discovery
was made that nothing but the empty box
remained Rose shipped from Hilo on the
Susquehanna on March 49,
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R10Hr To rfsH IN PUBLIC.
LAmorA Gets Backing In His Fight with
Rockefeller In the Adlrondaeks.


Rockefeller In the Adlrondaeks.
sARANAo LAKE, July so.-Oliver Lamora,
the old soldier who has been striving to
maintain his legal rights TO fish In public
waters In the Adirondacks, single handed,
against William Rockefeller, the Millionaire.
who has tried to establish private parks
In the Adirondacks and exclude the people
from catching fish placed in the streams
by the State, Ia now likely to have some
financial back ing Of influential New Workers
whose attention has been called to the
matter. The object, 1t is alleged, Of the
lawyers Of William Rockefeller was to
wear out the resources OF the old soldier,
who has only his small pension money to
use against millions.
In the county papers just out appears
an open letter from j. H. Griffin Of New
York city to Fred Mcneil. In 1t Mr.. Griffin
says that he Is prepared to assist Lamora
to maintain his legal rights to fish in public
waters In the Adirondacks. In postscript
he desires to know II II be actually true
that William Rockefeller has posted park
notices along the New York and Ottawa
Railroad, prohibiting the public from shoot
ing game and flshing from the right of way
Of said railroad in lawful season, and ex-
presses his surprise that the railroad COM
pany, depending on public traffic. should
attempt to deprive the public Of It's rights
by allowing one private Individual to con-
troll public fish and game within the boun-
daries OF said railroad
Mr.. Griffin further says that 1t is bad
enough for a man to attempt to convert
public fish and game to his own private
use and benefit on his own land, but when
he attempts to control the fish and game
IN ha hN, da r{A ~ rnt1 N 10 i0l1
time that the people here claim their rights.
Mr. Griffin says that 1t is certainly viola
ton of the law to allow a man to corral
fish by enclosing them with unlawful notices
and warning the general public from en-
joying what they have been compelled to
pay for in taxes.
The people Of the Adirondacks are now
rejoicing at the prospect that Lamora's
rights, and theirs, too, are likely to be es-
tablished and protected.
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NEW ROCKEFELLER BUILDING.
Plans for S82S 900 Laboratory for tho
Institute OF Medical Research.

Plans have been filed with Building Super
intendent Hopper for the new laboratory
building to be erected on Exterior street.
east Of Avenue A, for the Rockefeller In
stitute Of Medical Research. 1t is to be
a five story edihce, l3e feet wide and 90
feet Deep with facade OF limestone and
brick, decorated with pilasters Of brick
and having a porch entrance hanked With
decorative columns for the support Of
electric lights. s'
On the first floor will be an assembly
hall, a library and study and the directors
room. The upper floors will contain
series of large general and special labora-
tories and research rooms. The fifth floor
will have a dining hall and living quarters,
and the roof will have special operating
room and quarters for the animals under
examination. Adjoining the main build
ing will be two story building for the
animals used by the doctors and power
house.
The cost Of the buildings is estimated
at 1925 900.
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Early Hop Crop.

The first bale Of hops Of the crop OF 1904
arrived in New York yesterday consigned
to s. d F. Uhlmann. hop merchants Of 80
Broad street. Shortly after arrival the bale
was sold to the F. d NJ. Schaefer Brewing
Company at 40 cents a pound. The bale
came from the hopyards Of John c. Gross,
a large grower at oriskany Falls, Oneida
the first bale Of hops has been received in
New York in many years. 1t Is estimated
that the New York Statescrop Of hops will
yield about rs per cent. more than the crop
OF last year. d.
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W. Il. WOODENDS SCHEDULES.
Six Suits Of Clothes. Three Stickpins and
Two Gun Buttons Reserved.

Six Suits Of Clothes. Three Stickpins and
Two Gun Buttons Reserved.
Schedules in bankruptcy OF DR.. W. Z.
Woodend, who did business as W. E. Wood
end 4 Co., stock brokers, at rs Broad street,
show liabilities Sl9e.774. and nominal as
sets sls2. 100, consisting OF notes. Sc, ,45S
outstanding accounts. Se4 1888; stocks, Ss7,-
600, and cash in bank, $500. Personally.
DR.. Woodend has six suits Of clothes, q
gold cuff buttons all valued at $500. which
he thinks are exempt Among the creditors
are Doty Il Sutton, Pittsburg. Pa. y, ,le7;
George A. McMullin, Pittsburg, 81, ,739;
GOODWIN, Petersburg, Va, LIZA F.. G.
Frantzell, Newark, N,O47; W. B. Crawford,
San Antonio. A,2e2; George H. Butler,
Syracuse, 81 ,39o; Anna L. Humphries,
formerly of the Merchants Bank, Brook
lyn, Sll,563.
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us. STEEL'S NEW VENTURES.
SECURES WIRE PLANT or THE
TRENTON IRON COMPANY.
Organizes Four New Concerns to Develop
Iron Lands in Minnesota Under Lease
shipments From Lake Region for
season May Reach 70, 1000, 600 Tons.

Organizes Four New Concerns to Develop
Iron Lands in Minnesota Under Lease
shipments From Lake Region for
season May Reach 10000. 900 Tons.
The United States Steel Corporation paid
$3.50 900 in its second mortgage per cent.
bonds for the wire plant OF the Trenton
Iron Company. In other words. since
there is only $500 900 Of the e., 900 900 total
authorized stock issue outstanding, the
price paid to the Cooper and Hewitt families,
the principal owners. for the plant was at
the rate Of $50 q share.
The United States Steel Corporation has
organized four new iron ore companies
to acquire under lease and operate iron
ore lands in Minnesota. The companies
are all incorporated under the laws Of
Minnesota, have headquarters at Duluth
and are to be known by the following names:
The Braddock Iron Company, the Du-
quesne Iron Company. the Homestead Iron
Company and the Allegheny Iron Company.
Each company will have a capitalization
OF $50 900.
The State OF Minnesota owns In fee lands
containing estimated deposits OF iron ore
to the amount of between 5O,00C 600 and
200 600 600 tons. A great part OF these
lands has never been fully explored. Under
extremely liberal leases tne State iHihS
out it's iron ore lands to development com,
panies 1t Is supposed that the Steel
Corporation has concluded to make the
most OF its opportunities under such liberal
terms
The indications now are that the ship.
ments of ore from the Lake Superior region
for July will be much larger than ex-
pected, even larger perhaps. than the ship
ments made in july year ago
The corporation, over its own ore roads, Is
sending iron ore to Lake ports at the rate OF
about 10 900 tons day. OF this amount 40 900
tons have been shipped daily over theDuluth,
Mesaba and Northern Railroad, and 10000
tons day over the Duluth and Iron Range.
The Great Northern and its subsidiary
lines are sending to Lake ports about 5000
tons a day. making the total estimated
monthly output from the Minnesota mines
alone at 2, 500 900 tons, or about IL 100000
tons for the open season ending Dec. /.
The roads In Michigan are carrying ore
to the ports OF Escanaba, Marquette and
Ashland at a rate which makes the total
estimated output from the Michigan mines
for the same season 100000 tons. On
basis OF the July operation the total output
Of iron ore for the season from the region
would be about 20 900 900 tons.
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ADOPTED DAUGHTER RAN AWAY.
Her Father Thought She Had Taken =
YOUNG Man With Her.

ORANGE, July 3o.-Frank A. Jennings
Of "a fremont place. this city, has reported
to the police that his adopted daughter,
Jennie Louise Jennings. has run away,
taking with her dress suit case filled
with her own clothing and S2s in cash be-
longing to him. Mr.. Jennings also com
municated his belief that the young woman,
who is 1s years old, had included In the
list Of articles which she had taken a GER
tain young man of East Orange who had
been paying her attention. Investigation
shows, however that the young man wasn't
carried of
Miss Jennings is described as feet s
inches tall Of dark complexion and plump
Of figure, with a full faoe. She is pretty
and vivacious. BE-
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OTERIS BACK IN FRUIT TRADE.
Five Years Agreement Not TO Oppose the
United Company Has Expired.

New ORLEANS, July so.-Santo Oteri d
Co., pioneers in the tropical fruit trade, who
sold out for a large sum to the United Fruit
Company on Front street flve years ago,
announce that they will reenter this trade.
They have purchased several steamers.
for Honduras.
The United Fruit Company in buying
out Oteri and the other independent fruit
concerns in 1899, whereby 1t secured the
monopoly of the fruit trade, specified that
Of fruit for five years This term has just
expired. The Oteris will 60 back In the
business, and it is probable that other in
dependent firms win do the same.
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PROPOSALS.
AQUEDUCT COMMISSIONERS OFFICE.
Room 2O7. Stewart Building. No. 2s0 broadway.
New York: July =. 1904

ASUEDUCT CoMMISSlONERS' OFFICE,
Room so7. Stewart building No. 2so broadvsy..
TO CONTRACTORS: ~
Sealed bids or estimates for doing the work and
furnishing the materials called for In the approved
forms Of contracts now on Ale IN the once OF tho
Agueduct Commissioners for: -.
Mo: j. nIRgiLpiNG a HIGHTAy gRIRSE
S 2SS TT ,,,S span h,, ACROSS THE SPiLLtWWAy 2,.
ooErLANpTi WEsFeaESHEE SSYNI{ *
ING SLUicE GATES STOP GoSk AM 4RAiS
s,AGTHHISEGY y, LADP6Ess, EIooRs sEAMS aNh
NS$. ETC, RE9uInEp At THE NEW cRoToN
CHESTER COUNTY, n. Y,
will be received at this once until ~ o'clock
lcly opened by the A9ucduct Commissioners as
soon thereafter as possible. and the award Of the
contracts for doing said work and furnishing the
materials required, will be made by said Conpiis-
sioners as soon thereafter as practicable.
Blank forms OF said approved contracts and
the specifications thereof and bids or proposals.
and proper envelopes for their inclosure, forms
Of bonds. and all other information can be Oh .
tained at the above once OF the Aqueduct Com
misso1srs @ on application to The the IS Secretary.
lisbcd at No. 2 City Hall. -.
WILLIAM H TEN EYCK. President
FRANK H. WARDER. Acting Secretary. a s'-I
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O., n. 4 D. MERGER AGREED 70.
Minority stockholders at Cincinnati with.
draw Opposition.

The semi-official statement was made
yesterday that by an agreement reached
on Friday evening at Cincinnati between
the majority and minority stockholders Of
the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Rail-
road the minority stockholders have agreed
to the merging OF that road with the Pere
Marquette system, and they will take no
steps to enjoin their directors from carry
ing out the plan. The minority stock
holders at first demanded more than 31i0
a share for the preferred stock.
According to the agreement arrived at
the merger syndicate win take over all
the c.. n. and D. preferred stock at no.
less charges Of 1 to ~ per cent. A COM
mittee OF three Cincinnati men will be
appointed to take over the stock and issue
exchange certificates bearing interest at
the rate of s per cent. These certificates
will be held in lieu OF the stock until they
are redeemed In cash. The confereee will
meet again either tomorrow or Tuesday.
when the articles Of agreement will be
signed. In.
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TO REsTOCK B0ER FARMS.
Cargo Of Domestic Animals 70 Leave New
Orleans Tomorrow,

New ORLEANS July 30.-The steamer
Nordkyn will leave here on Monday for
Cape Town, South Africa, with full cargo
OF sheep, mules, horses and burros to re-
stock the Boer farms In South Africa. She
Is the first vessel OF the new African Ameri-
can Line which will endeavor to turn the
South African trade with this country
from New Yorb, to New Orleans.
During the Boer war nearly all the ship
ments to Cape Colony were made by way
OF New Orleans, but 1t ceased with the war
The restocking Of the Boer farms will be
made through this port, the British Govern
ment having erected large terminals for
handling the business at Chalmette, just
below New Orleans.
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Hen Mothers -Four Kittens.

YORK, Pa. July ao.-At 40 West College
avenue, this city. Joseph Hockberger has
a white leghorn hen that has adopted
a litter of four kittens. The kittens
were abandoned by their mother soon
after they were born. When the hen clucks
to them they follow her like feathered
offspring, and when danger Is scented
they nestle under her protecting wing.
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Safe Burglars Escape In = MIX wagon

Safe Burglars Escape In . MIX wagon.
e BUFFALO, July so-Burglars early this
morning entered the general store at Perry,
N. Y, blew open the safe and stole $3.50 in
cash and several valuable papers. They
then visited farm near by broke open a
barn and stole valuable racehorse and a
milk wagon, in which they made their
escape. Chief Of Detectives Taylor Of this
city received a telegram from the officials
at Perry requesting him to be on the look
out for the burglars. The only description
he has Of them is that they are driving q
pacing horse and riding in milk wagon.
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SUPPOSED DEAD MAN TURNS UP.
"eorge A. Hull Had Been in Africa for
Nearly Twenty Year,.


ORANGE, N. j.. July so.-After an absence
OF nearly a score Of years. George A. Hull.
former well known resident Of this city.
VINO has been mourned as dead. returned
ana walked in on his astonished wife and
omiaren yesterday. When he left town
mf' hull was partner with the late Thomas
" Barber in big woodworking establish
ment here. He went to Africa and Aus
raha to conduct another business enter
pnse' For ten years his family heard
from him at intervals. but after that Mr..
nun worked into the interior and the let
ton
some months ago he reached Brisbane,
ausIana, and wrote to his brother Charles
a Hull. Tho brother was dead, but his
m.oow at once replied. Nothing more
Ms Nss heard from him until he presented
WIIsiisen IN at his home yesterday afternoon.
me ne; mad stopped at San Francisco and had
s,s..eo o the st. Louis exposition en- route
acroes across the continent. He is 90 years old
""u enjoys perfect health
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"eunion Of the Descendants or James
Cameron.

nLtSs FALLS. n. Y, July so.-The third
,euhon OF the descendants Of the Hop.
"s"es Cameron was held here to-day,
aoout seventy OF the clan being present,
among them Laura A. Todd OF Dunellen,
.ne Others being from the West or from
lhis neighborhood. Their common an
,'s nGs.or was the grandson OF james Cameron,
M hno came 70 this country and settled with
pi is wiie and five children on the Hudson
~ ,S'el near l;uzerne and became the owner
VI thousands Of acres along the upper
Ljuason. j.ne,sn. The, younger james served gal
~arL throngh the War Of 1872, and after
tSure. One OF the principal features Of
y tde reunion to-day was the erection upon
~ grave here Of a bronze tablet prepared
q! the Society Of the War Of ISi2. ;. !
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Secretary Burrows OF Rapid Transit Com.
mission Ill.

Secretary Bion l.. Burrows Of the Rapid
Transit Commission Is seriously i'll with
nervous prostration as the result OF over
work. He has not had vacation since
the subway was begun. He was taken a
few days ago to a sanitarium at Summit,
N. j., but there has been no improvement
in his condition.