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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-26
rouNp cHuKcn DOORS LooKED

YORK. Pa. Oct. 26.--Rev w. j.
EIonck of Washington. ID. c.. appoint
cd a week ago pastor of tn" Allison
Memorial United Brethren church to
succeed the Rev. l.. Rhoads, found
the church doors locked against him.
The congregation want their old pas
tor back.
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GAME POSTPONED.

GRAFTON. Oct. 26-%The football
game scheduled here for Saturday be-
tween the Shinston high school and
the local team was not played. The
game has been postponed and will be
played later In the season. Neither
team was in shape for the game Sat
urday.
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BIG CONCERN FAILS.

QUINCY, H.. Oct. 26-Joseph b.
Linehan. secretary and general man
ager of the Battle Creek Breakfast
Food Company, Ltd, manufacturers
of Egg-O-See, was today appointed
receiver of the company. The COM
pany is capitalized at million dol
larS,
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PET1TIoN FoK RECEIvERs

CLEVELAND. o., Oct 26-Twenty
creditors of Mayor Johnson's Mu-
nicipaI Traction Company which OPP
Grated three cent fare have Joined
in a suit that the company be placed
In the hands of receivers. They
claim the concern is grossly insolvcnt.
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PASTOR cREATEs a sENsATIoN

TOLEDO. O.. Oct. 26-Rev. Cyrus
Townsend Brady, clergyman, author
and playwright created a sensation by
announcing from his pulpit at Trinity
Episcopal church that he would be
obliged to tender his resignation as
pastor because the church is not un-
der the canon laws OF divorce of the
general convention. He has accept
ed a cali to Kansas City.
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A SENSATION ExPDorDD.

PITTSBURG. Pa. Oct. 26-Wll-
liam Montgomery. former cashier Of
the Allegheny National Bank, says ne
intends taking the stand himself a
sensation is expected.
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CANCELS ENGAGEMENT.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Oct. 26-
Because of Ill health Secretary OF the
Navy Metcalf has been Obliged 20 can
eel his engagement TO speak at Cnar-
lesion. w. Va, next Friday
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-26

A. $. blair is here from Parkers-
burg.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
HOTELS IN CHINA.
First-Class Houses Much Needed in Asia
An Opportunity for Good Hostelry.

The following report the need of modern
inns in China and the Far East is transmitted
bv Wilbur T. Gracey, American Consul at
TSingtau:
There Is an excellent opportunity in emma
for establishing good, modern hotels, and posi-
tions are frequently open to first-class hotel
managers In Tsngtau there two hotels of
the first grade run under the same manage
ment and owned by limited liability COM
panv During the past summer several hundred
and this port is becoming the great summer re-
obliged to live in the hotels, there being prac-
tically no boarding houses, and one hotel, To-
Gated on the bathing beach, has secured most
of the trade This hotel Is provided with forty
rooms only and has been continually filled dur
ing the summer months. Many persons nave
come here from the other ports of China, ex-
pecting to secure accommodations, and nave
been obliged to put up at the town branch OF
this hotel, three miles distant. continual COM
plaints have been made of the inadequacy or
the accommodation. and il is stated that prac-
ticaIly all the rooms engaged for the sum-
mer of 1908 Most of the guests patronzing
this hotel are British from Shanghai and Tien-
tsin though occasional guests come for the
SIMMER from as far south as Hongkong and
rs far north as NewChWans.
THE charges in Tsingtau hotels amount TO
approximately 81 to S4 30 gold per day, ana
other incidentals bring this up to probably an
average of 50 to Sc gold per guest per cay
'In Shanghai there are three good hotels. ana
new one in process of construction. but tney
are all much inferior to the hotels of the United
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05

older members thought to draw fire. as it
were and voted. not to make the commons op-
tional, but TO abolish the institution altogether
for that term. 1t came a tremendous surprise
to Us, but we could i'll conceal our satisfaction.
We were nightly pleased. but said little in
public. letting the students know about it only
gradually and without great proclamation The
student body seemed greatly pleased, and the
plan was tried. We had the most peaceabe
term ever known. / do not recall that a single
complaint made. Everything was lovely
and the goose hung high. 1t was great joke
on the Older members of the faculty. Never
after that was commons compulsory.
II went down to Yale not long ago, and one
of the college officials took to the big dining
hall there and showed me how they feed twelve
hundred students there at a time. 1t is wonder
full The contrast to my student days is most
marked. The management is like that of a great
hotel
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
SAILORS BLAME KIPLING..
Say the Author "Hoodooed" the Gloucester
Fleet with Story.

When Kfpling wrote Captains Courage geous'
sea tale Of the deep sea fishing industry as
practised on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
by the hardy mariners of Gloucester, Mass. and
the other New England ports, the hoary headed
salts of these places declare that he perpetrated
the worst "hoodoo" against the industry in
the annals of the fishing business in the North
Atlantic
Soon after the publication of Kiplings book
the fleet of fishing sohooners began to diminish
alarmingly. The Amy Knight figured in the book
as the Carrie Pitman She was pictured as the
comedian of the fleet. that was always in trouble
and would break adrift the banks on every
conceivable occasion, compelling vessels at an
chor to leeward of her to trip their hedges
and seek new moorings 1T unearthly hours lest
they he damaged, if not sunk, by her Fisher
folk were represented saying of her: she
dout do much 'cep' drift; there amt no anchor
made to held her. She sank while on voyage
along shore frfom Bucksport to Rockland. She
was within a mile of the beach, when she met
her fate and there not wind enough to
enable the crew to run her aground The
Martha NJ. another vessel which did service
in Kiplings volume. really the Mary N,
we'll known schooner from Bucksport Whlch
sank with all hands on a frozen herring voyage
from Newfoundland in the spring of 1902. The
We're Here, the centre of the little sea drama
which the book embodies, was really the Anda-
lusia Gloucester trawler which sank some
where off Sable Island in equinoctial gale
and carried down her whole crew with her. A
third of his group to meet this disaster was the
Hope of Prague, identified by the fact that
Nick Brady's her skipper, the meanest man
on the banks"
So might the category be continued-twenty
strong At least that number have vanished be-
meath the wave since Captains Courageous
was written. The last of the fleet he named
therein-the Prince LaBOo-went down two
wears ago, and her disastrous end marked the
extinction of all the "hoodoo' fleet, they
came to be known.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05

States. largely owing to the lack of knowledge
the part of the managers. Prices charged
guests are high, probably more than double
those of the same grade of hotel in America,
and the cost of servants food. ETC.. very much
less than at home.
at Shanghai Hongkong Tientsin, Yokohama,
Kobe and possibly Nagasaki. Peking and Ma
Mia, with good managers in each port ana
general manager spending portion OF the year
in each hotel. modern American lines
with all conveniences, ought to pay well for
the investment. The question of cost is not
of great Importance to the travelling public.
who are willing to pay well for frst-ciass ac-
comrnodations but at the present time no
traveller will say that there is really hrst-
class hotel in the Far East.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
SPORTS WERE FROWNED ON.

OF the game of football as it used to be played
two generations ago at Yale, Mr.. Ely was par
ticularly fond but he recalled little OF baseball
games or other sports. There was no keen
rivalry the diamond or gridiron between
picked teams of colleges, to-day. Even with
Harvard there were athletic relations. Foot
ball of the old-fashioned kind was all that was
played. according to Mr. Ely in the 30's and 40s,
and then the game nothing like the scen-
tific struggle of this day and generation.
No there weren't any such amusements
are In vogue now" he went "All that is
now encouraged in that line was then frowned
upon and barred. We couldn't play billiards,
or even nnepins. Cards never allowed
and were played only under cover. There was
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
A WILLIAMS ALUMNUS OF 81.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: On the first page of the issue of Saturday.
December 28, read an article headed, in large
tyre oldest Living Graduate of Yale Fol
lowing this was a statement concerning Will
lam Davis Ely of the class of SO. 1t may be of
interest to you to know that there graduated
from Williams College in the class of 81, or five
wears before Mr. Ely. William Rankin who is
now residing with his son, Professor w. NJ
Rankin of Princeton University. Mr.. Rankin
was horn in 1910 and is now in his nety-eighth
wear. Until few weeks ago he was well, and
daily enjoyed as he has for years, reading The
Tribune He is just recovering from an
attack of pneumonia. So far as is known. he
is the oldest living graduate of any of our Am
ar;car colleges J. j. RANKIN.
Scranton, Penn, Jan. 2.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
THE WAR ON COMMONS.

.~~-o,,- ,,-ae an institution that had been
handed down TO US for generations Ihefe
,-as q tradition that President Dwight mac saio
.bo+ the college couldn't be governed without
.or,r,ons Some of us thought differently ana
we proved our theory
81 WAS a tutor when the change came SOME
of the Younger professors and tutors thoush'
+,7a. instead of being aid to college dlsclpiiie
l-,,,,,o,s was the source of half the deviment
in college II afforded an opportunity lot lHe
students to get together under a compulsory
institution; and when the food WASH IirSl cla'S
they raised trouble at times
..1-,,a undergraduates sat by classes in com
ns which occupied a big building IN the
,o,,+-a of th. back campus. believe il has beeh
a,a5 long since At the time OF which speak
,,arbaps four or five hundred men gathered there
three times day. The manager OF the CUM
mons was the college steward. HIS name WAS
rvyining and he was the grandfather oi Ai'iui
Tyining Hadley. the present president lie WAS
a fine man and substantial citizen On d
raised dais stood the tables al which the facu!ty
were seated while in the halls were the stu
dents tables If they made disturbance at
their tables they were likely to be disciplined
&C thew were under the eyes OF their instructors.
There was the same bin Of fare apparently
for the same day of every week. and the young
men could generally tell what was coming al
lowing, of course, somewhat for the changing
seasons 1 remember one day we almost always
had oysters. 1 don't recall whether 1t was
Tuesday or Wednesday We were generally weii
satisfied then, because the oysters in those days
were fine Corned beef day was often the slgnai
for trouble. Sometimes it came on rather blue
not properly corned. suppose, and rather poorly
salted Then the diners would raise their voices
in protest No, don't suppose il was 'embalmed
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
WANTED MORE LIBERTY.

We'll the faculty at last became divided as
,o tre desirability of keeping UP the institution
of commons The younger members almost 10
q man, were constantly pressing for greater I'D
erty They pleaded that the students De al
lovved TO ioin clubs and 10 make such arrange
n,en,s as they could with boarding houses for
,,,o,r meals II was deemed undesirable that
thew all he REQUIRED to eat at the same place.
I, yss pointed out TO President jeremiah Day
taat q watch could be kept upon the students
the names and personnel of the various clubs
kent. and If any trouble arose ii could easily
be traced 10 its source
at r. meeting of the faculty one day the
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05

practically gambling of any sort. Some OF
the lively youngsters who sent north from
Virginia and other Southern states, more to be
governed than anything else because their
parents couldn't do it, would occasionally play
cards: but they had to be very secret about it
About the worst dissipation a Yale man
engaged in at that time was breaking window
in another students room. When the young
fellows felt if they had to let off steam. they
would occasionally shatter few panes of glass
The Southerners the most troublesome
in this respect also. Still. I counted some Of
them among my closest friends. Public Opin
ion among the students largely governed and
exerted deterring influences over the lawlessly
inclined.
The old-fashioned game of football was the
real sport. 1t wasn't played at all college
boys play it now. There was nothing worse
than barked shins in those days. with an occa-
sional bruise or confusion. 1t wasn't a case
of breaking limbs every little while and Juggling
men half dead off the CORY field.
Still, it plenty lively enough. Two of
the best players would be delegated to choose
up sides. Sometimes half the college would
engage in a game which consisted chiefly of
kicking, not another but the ball. That
was entirely round, not elliptcal. and was made
of an OK bladder blown up hard possible
and covered with a leather jacket. After the
sides had been chosen they would retire to their
bounds and the ball would be put in play. The
game became general fight for all and the
side which got the ball over the other sides
line won. The field was usually the whole
length of the front campus and the fence at
either end was the goal. 1t was very exciting,
and by no means a tame sport, even compared
4 ic r1l1 1zraIt law"
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05

Iandady (srniling)-You don't taste any veal IN
Roarder-Thats right. What are they made OF
these chicken croquettes.
Goldfish ?-Illustrated BitA-
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
FATHER AND GRANDFATHER ALUMNI.

Mr. Ely was the third of the name, represent
ing three generations, to graduate from Yale.
His father, William Ely, was graduated in the
class of 1887, and his grandfather, Rev. Richard
Ely. Of Saybrook, Conn, in 1854. William Davis
E,v was born in Hartford. June 16, 1915, and
prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar
School in that city He entered Yale in 1892
and after four years was graduated with the
degree Of Bachelor Of Arts. Three years later
his alma mater conferred him the degree
of Master of Arts after resident study and re-
college Four years later he took class in the
university, but at the close Of 1S43 he was ad
mitted to the bar in Connecticut and to prac-
tise in the federal courts III 1849. He practised
law in Hartford until 1866 and then came TO
this city to live. Two years earlier he had
married Miss Anne Crawford Allen, daughter
of DR. Zachariah Allen. of Providence. She died
practice after his removal to Providence, but
continued TO be associated officer with
several corporations and institutions. To-day
he still carries considerable legal business
docking out for the affairs of some of the fam
fly" he slnilingly explained. On his fathers
side he is a descendant of one of the Oldest
families in Connecticut, while ~on his mothers
he traces his ancestry to Major Robert Davis.
of the Boston Tea Party" With early thirst
for knowledge, he attended lectures at Yale in,
both the theological and medical courses, and
was licensed TO preach, but never occupied
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
". D. ELY, YALES
OLDEST ALUMNUS.
RECALLS COLLEGE DAYS
1T THE AGE OF 92.
Football and WiRdo1cs Smashing the
Leading Sports Commons
Then Com puIsory.

Providence, Jan 4.-Under the very shadow of
the lofty elms of the Brown University campus.
where for half a century he has watched sue
cessive generations OF Brunonians come and 60
dwells the oldest living graduate" of Yale
William Davis Ely, OF the class OF SO.
By a recent decision OF the university officials
the date OF graduation rather than actual age
determines the possession of that title by an
aiunlnus. thus settling a long disputed point. A
few days ago Mr.. Ely was officially notified
by the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes. secretary of
the Yale Corporation, that to him belonged the
unique distinction
In his ninety-third year. William Davis Ely
is not as old in manner and appearance as
many who is twenty years his junior
With elastic step, he takes almost daily walks
abroad from his home. at No. / Magee street.
often descending steep College Hill tq the bust
ness centre OF the town unattended. EIXcepung
a difficulty IN hearing. he is the physical peer
of most men of sixty. With mind unclouded,
his memory harks back over span of years by
ScripturaI warrant measuring the life of man
kind recalling the days when. first an under
graduate and later as a member of the faculty.
he was part and parcel of the ancient institution
which to-day honors him as its oldest son.
Tall and rather slight in build with snow
white hair in abundance and spotless, well kept
beard, keen eyes of blue, verging upon gray, he
is the very embodiment of the traditional Yale
spirit-strong alert. capable. even with the
century milestone in view
Yes. I have been informed that L am the
oldest aI1mnus of Yale he said in an inter
view II believe there are two graduates OF the
college who are about year my senior IN age
but both of them graduated after me-
George T Spencer. of Corning, N Y. was a
81 man. and Chester Dutton, of Concordla'
Kan. was a member of the class of 50
No 1 can't say that it makes me feel any
older TO know that I'm the oldest alumnus I've
known for some time that l am an old man, you
know: but 1 am sensible OF the distinction
which my years thus thrust upon me-
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

yale was a fine place in those days, Mr.
Flv declared, but not much like the great in
stitution it is now. To-day. with its thousands
of students il is a great university In those
davs a class of 100 big one Yale IN my
time was very much what New England high
ecb,oI or academy is to-day. Our class of SO
entered with ninety-eight members, but grad
mated less than half that number-forty-seFen
Now they are all gone excepting me.
I suppose the Young men at Yale now would
think that their lines had not fallen in the pleas
antest of places if they had to pursue the daily
routine which the students went through pack
in the SOS. Then there wasn't much pay
going on and lot of hard work Then the
,-o,,np men mostly went TO college to study and
TO learn something won't say they oon now
hut 1 can speak from experience as to those
+,-,es and only from hearsay as TO the present
.sTo begin with. college prayers came at an
pou- in the morning when I imagine many or
che oresent Yale undergraduate body are just
turning over for a second nap In the winter
we didn't have to turn out for prayers III 'le
chanel until O'Clock, but in the summer IL was
9 o,c,ock Time after time would get up and
stumble over to chapel when it was almost
dark Some cold mornings in November eNeh'
the BOYS on their way 10 prayers would see
rneteors or shooting stars. It was SO oarh'
AFTER prayers-and it behooved one to be
there or 70 take the consequences-there was
,,zuaIlv a recitation or lecture until breakfast
at the commons. I'll tell you more ABOUT the
commons later and how we got rid OF them as
a compulsory institution
"Ae-er breakfast there was a period given over
to study OF to trips to the postoif1ce' OF hAe
,reseing business. Then recitauons or lectures
ha-vpeer, II and u O'Clock, usually, after WHICH,
al about ] o'clock, came dinner The oId-tasii-
ioned supper was the concluding hieal oi t,0
day. and was partaken OF al aoou' oolo.>
~,,o-,, m afternoon of lectures and recita-
.to-s In .he evening most of the young men
+boueht that their studies demanded their at
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-02-21
propiu, DsItprensen.

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urtbeiIte ben Better 2etta1,.
@raunspnIbe gu feds Sabren 3udt-
bnlts tpesen 9ranoltiftung un6 ben
BETTER @inter . 4bbar ReuteiG
tpesem 8ranoit:ftlns gu 81 Sabren.
RhsiHpropias.
9euB. Sn 3aorit pitrbe Elm
&neht betm Sernorbolen bon &iiben
aus elmer Mietbe bon Der suiammen.
itiir5enben feitgefrorenen 'Strobs uro
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benz balo Silfe CUR Stelle mar.
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Ter orei 9ergleute eetootet.
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beratb beihloB einitimntig, cine mai.
libe Bride iiber Die Ntoiel oltf Rotten
Ser @emeinhe 5u erbauen. Der Ban
lit su 10000 M. peranihlagt nnS
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bel in Miuoen Bis SerbIt 1909 fer.
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dngenommen.
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&arIsbobe muroe oieier Soge Elm
Subrn1anlt aus MiinIterbuId, ourdJ
flint Meiieritide perIebt erltarrt aufs
gefu1oen. Ra6 ben &b6tern miro
eifrig gefobnbet.
God. Gin eteentbiimIider Sogb.
unfoll bat einem bieIigen @inpobner
6aS Seben 9efoltet. Or bate Dor
f1r5em bel 9l1tsiibuns Der Saao
Iein @emebr ouf ben grbbooen geleet,
itm eiren Kindergarten better iiber.
ipringen 5i f0nnen. Sein SSag6bunb
mltB Die a63ugsborri6tung beriibrt
baben, 10 oaB Elm S6uB losging, oenn
Dem Sdger orang cine 2abung ms
8ein. Grit naGoem er spei Stunoen
lang bilflos gele9en bate, ipliroe er
aufgefmoen; ieiu 3uItano ma6te Die
Nmputotion oes 8eines ~not1tpen6ig.
@egen eiugctretener SGpiis permo1te
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gen bes ltnfalles eeItorben,
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ahtiGbrigen M161cn bon bier bIieb
beim giien Souerfralt I'M Sale
Die ltngliidlifc eritidte, ebe
Oas Salerfraut entfernt peroen
fonnte.
2%inben. gluf Ser 3efe 9oafer.
mlrrDe Der @ergmaun Sc1aer
inter &oblenmuiien beridTttet unS
fonnte troB 30itiinoiger ongeitrengter
ieiner 9ameroOen llift gefun.
Den peroen.
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lbdmbsrlain's Ruten meotsin
bilft Die Udtur.

Mehisinen, bic Die @ntur bettfa
INN Immer nm nirfinmiten. ghnm
rrrioin's Suften. MEbtSn bonhrl
nnh oleiem BInne. Sic holt ben
ouiten Surud, l6h oeu ansnurf uno
hilft 0re giatur, bns Gpitem in etutn
gtiunorp 3uitnnb pieberbersuieqen.
ote II: aSer einen arDBen 9heil Der
.c,olliirteu Welt lbrer unit6tbaren
&'qenidofteu ueeeu berlbmt. Gau-
'enoe haben ibren bpben Bert be,
Seuat. sic pirtt tueeen iebe Gnta.
ue, oaB eine @rtaltuna in cine Gun.
aenent5lnoune iibereebt. Gum Ger,
tnuf BET 8aIfer 8ros.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-02-21
freie staate.

Somburg. Gin idnerer I'm.
sIiidSfau ereignete iid in Dem Sauie
Rarfallee 5. 9as ~21i6briee DENT.
Madden gliiabetb 2iibfe lief Isl Dem
erleuhteten Greppenhouie in GROCER
Gle Die &reppe bimlnter. Dabei ltoI.
perte cS lnb itiir5te Die 15Stufen Der
aellertreppe binunter. Dos Wdohen
Sog iit einen i6meren Sd1oelbrud
al urlo mar auf Der StelIe foot.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-02-21
3idt INNER.

griter Settler: vgea, i'd batpe TIM.
mer iefunOen, oct ct bet Bette iB, beef.
lid 3u De 2eite gu iinoI" - 3neiter
8ettler: ~Sn alIeemin'n madite i9on
redt BAN, cperit oct Itimmt man mid
INNER. Dor Ell paar Dngen ba' id
ben Soobitimnen leipielt, nun bo bat
nter eener iuff5ie 6ennie ieidenft. Sn
meme Sberraidung iage if: ,0anfe
i6een!" mm luut ilooblte, Ser SerI
laBt mir ieitnebmen."
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unglaublparoig

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bon Dem @aIer, Der elm S~pinngepebe
10 funitpp,I unb tGuihertb aui Den
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9eoebcn bcI, aber ein iolde5 Stuben.
md0d)en Riemdls!"