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REFINED couple with child desire one or two furnished rooms within two blocks of Five Points. References; state particulars. NJ, care Age-Herald
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s450 per week gets nice rooms, hot and cold bath. F'irst-class table board. Day board also at reasonable rates. 26O0 7th avenue
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ALL kinds of new and second hand machinery, building materials, mine and mill supplies. Jefferson Iron company. Phones, 63. North Birmingham.
 11-14-sII- t1l -tf1-tf
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WANTED-Colored man cook Apply American Radiator Co.,, 29th street and Ed avenue. 11-H-2t
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FOR SALE-At once, s7B piano certificate for s15; good until 11th day of Decen- Der, 1909 Call Bell phone 1902, East Lake
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woman to work Tn mailing department in payment for course, Call at office and ask for secre-
 tarv: do not telephone. The Massey
 Business College u-2s-u
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WANTED-At once, both white and col ored laborers for mining work. Ad- dress Hotel Wylam, Wylam. Ala
 11-H-3t
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WANTED-Three or four partly furnished rooms for light housekeeping in or near Norwood, must be cheap; no children References exchanged. Address E-1. care Age-Herald.
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WANTED-Rooms furnished or unfur- nished for light housekeeping, or will rent part of house. Address G-1, care Age-Herald.
 WANTED-Rooms for light housekeeping. 4th or 9th avenue. Address D, care Roberts Printing Co.
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FOR SALELTwo 40-acre tracts of land within half mile of steel plant at Gads- den, Ala; an Al subdivision proposi- ton; nothing better; one 40-acre tract at $500 per acre, the other at $500. Sewall- Rains Agency Co.,, 20o4 Sd avenue.
 11-28-15t
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WANTED GARDNBR-Also man to keep up hotel grounds, and golf links; per- manent jobs and homes for competent men. Tate Spring Co.,, Tate Spring,
 Tenn. 11-14-su-4t
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MIR. GRocERYMAN-Do you need a frst-ciass salesman7 Ten years exper- fence; nrst-class references. Address HI, care Age-Herald- 1-2s-3t wANTED-widow lady would like to have charge of rooming house; no ob- lection to leaving city. Address s-1, care Age-Herald.
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EXTRA large room, southern exposure,
 convenient to bath, with good table board, on car line, blocks from Five Points. 1928 18th street, south. Bell phone l6sI. 11-25-4t
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MoLER BARBER COLLEGE, Atlanta,
 Ga, wants men to learn the trade;
 write for particulars now; few weeks completes by free clinic and expert in structions; positions waiting; don't de- lay. 11-27-et
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FOR SALE-Hanover Placei most attrac- tive lot on circle. s4x141i easy terms. Apply Peoples phone 726.
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WANTED-Young men for railroad fire men, brakemen. baggagemen; s75-s1O0 to start early promotion; experience un- necessary; state age, weight and height
 Address Railway Bureau, b5s Panama building St. Louis, Mo. 2-14-52t-su
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HORSES and mules; good western and Indian horses, broke and unbroke; this stuff must sell; come quick and get something cheap: NeilPs Stock Yard, corner Morris and 24th st.
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FOR sALE-T1ne young milch COW. Bell
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WANTED-Experience marker af once;
 salary SIS week. Domestic Laundry.
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-03-14
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The years that Saint Gaudcps wns a stu
dent at Cooper Institute and the National
Academy OF Design marked the span OF
the Civil War. and tho boy. Just at no
age to be mentally sensitive te the drn-
matte events Of the period. wns deeply
Impressed by the spectacle OF troops de-
parting for the front. and n glimpse of
the immortal Lincoln In the streets OF
New Sork-viyid mind pictures in which
mny be found something OF the ground.
InGS OF that inspiration which later pro-
duccd those m9tchlcss 0gurcs OF Lincoln,
Furragut, Sherman and Logan.
A couple OF years after tho close OF the
war Saint Gnudcns' life in New York
came to on end for a time lie went
abroad to study, working his way, az 1t
were by cutting cameOs and for fourteen
years. or from the time he was eighteen
ycorS OF age until he wns thirty-two. he
was almost continuously hard at work In
the art centcrs of Europe He went Mt
irst to Paris md there, thanks To bis
foadness for two boon companions. he
came near enllstlng I'm the French army
when tho Franco-P PrusSlan War broke out.
However. letter from his Irish mother,
who seems for once TO have been devoid
of traditional trait OF her race deferred
him and he went to Rome, where for four
years he waged n continual 0ght with
poverty in the effort To complete bis train
Ing.
Finally, however. his skin In cameo
cutting Inspired some OF tho young man 8
customers With his own confidence In his
future IN n lnTGeT sphere and ono of these
(Ir Montgomery Gibbs. ao American,
gave Saint GaudcnS the opportunity to
nnlsh bis FIRST statue-''Hiaw thn'-to eS-
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and the rcvcrberation could be heard
blocks distant The silcncer was then
screwed on to the muzzle OF the guns
nnd with the same cartridsc the report
wnS scarcely loud enough to be audible
at all. the only noise resulting being that
of the whirring OF the bullet and its
punk" os IL buried Itself in the sopa.
pit
The silencer Itself is cylindrical bit
OF gunmctal For an ordinary sporting
ride the silcnccr is four Inches long
about an Inch aud an eighth 10 diameter
and weighs but Ave ounces. 1t Ia sufl-
ciently small to be carried In ones vest
pocket without the slightest lnconycn-
ience. and IL can be adjusted to. or re-
moved from. the gun in less than Ave
seconds few threads cut into the mug
zlc end OF the gun is all that Ia neccs.
sary. and about three twists of tho
wrist and the silcnccr Is ready for busl.
pcss.
There Is no Interference with the shoot.
Ing qualities OF u gun. since the bore OF
the barrel Is not disturbed In any man.
ncr The bore of the slencer Is Isrger
than the bullet which passes through IL,
giving O clearance which avoids any pos
eiblc effect on accuracy or penetration.
Owing to the location Of the sllcncer on
the end of the barrel II ls apparent that
the bullet has acquired Its full impetus
before the discharge gases are slowed
down, hence there c0p he no sacrifice Of
velocity, By way Of demonstrating that
tho air at the muZzle Of the rihe tx dIs
turbcJ alone by the passage OF the bullet.
and not by the explosion Of Ros Mr.
Maxim held visiting card few Inches
In front OF the silenear Then one OF his
assistants discharged the gun. with tho
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proSsic one OF the shoe trade, and nc
cordlngly Augustus had carly to take
hand In the battle for livelihood The
first dozen ycnrs Of his life. during which
he received the ordinary common school
education of the New York boy OF half
a century ago. were spent In sordld sur
roundIngs. but after he left school at
the ngc OF thirteen years md wos npprcn-
tlced To n cnmeo.cutter his nrtlstic talent
developed rapidly, and this despite the
fact that the man Avet, 10 whom he was
Approximation Of the nrst stone cameo
cutters In Amerlca-was anything but an
agreeable employer.
After several years Of miserable life
under this lll-tCmpercG master Saint Gau-
dcns rcbclled aud found employment with
a more tolerant cameo cutter. Jules lie
Brethon by name All the while he was
studying drawing nt the Cooper Institute
In the evenings. giving rein 10 a talent
TINT had nrSt manifested itself In char
coal scrnwiS on the fences near bis homo
and which had Instantly arrested the at
tcntion OF some OF the customers OF tho
shoc- making fother A little later the
talented lad left the Cooper institution TO
take up life work at the National Acnd-
envy OF Design
Soon the young man was not only self
supporting. thanks 10 blS skill In cameo
cutting but easily cXccllcd all his fellow
students NJ the urt school Just here it
may he mentioned that Saint Goudcns
canoes were as remarkable In their wny
as were HIS later achievements In marble
and bronze. This was cloIucntly nttcstcd
by the specimens shown In the memorial
exhibitions of the work of Saint Gasdcns
recently held In Now York and Chicago
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character of his subject An unexpected
dlGcuity appeared In tho execution Of this
1gurc or Parncll. Only few photo
graphs OF the Irish leader could be found.
md those available were very uns0tlsfnc-
tory MS n basis from which the sculptor
should work So St Gaudcns turned for
his inspiration TO the caricaturcs of Par
nell published from time To time In tho
English funmaEcr. Punch, and thus the
cartoons TINT had been drawn originally
Ia rdioulc the Irish patriot came In the
end to serve m exactly opposite purpose
Readers who delight Ia note the un-
promising beginnings Of genius cannot
fall to he interested In the environment
which uurtUrcd thls exponent of Irish
poetry In marble aud bronze The father
of tho sculptor Bernard Paul Ernest
S1lut-GauGcnS wmS q native OF the south
~ Franc" and there learned his trGdo OF
shoemaker. As 4 young man he over
Cuic the Incidence of that sunny cline
and hc'Hme iu effect n tramp shoemaker.
JOu,ucyluE hy easy stages TO Paris, thence
10 London aud nually To Dubl!u Ireland.
whore lc fen under tic wltchcgy OF the
lSi>h hrnuty "f Mary McGuineas. girl
whu hound slippers Ia the shoe store for
which be made hoots 1t seemed for
timr after tho wedding as though the
wcrCurnl ErcnchmHD would settle down
and live happy ever after In the Irish
metropolis but few months after the
thlrl baby came Che old nomadi, spirit
returned, ana 20 the shoemaker. his wife
md family set sail for America
In New York the eccentric Frcncbmon.
hothcadcd nud fanoiful. devoted FAR moro
attention to the cnErossmg subject Of
secret socictic5 than he did to the more
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ecutc his fTst ordered monumcnt-n figure
OF "Silencc'-and ultimately to return to
America with that priceless boon-the
prospect OF q fair amount of de0oite work
Even then 1t was a hard night 10 the couu-
try OF his adoption, but at Lost there came
the order for the statue OF Farragut.
which now stands In Madison Square,
New York, and from that moment the
skies frightened With success seemingly
assured, Snint Gaudcns welded Miss Au-
gusta f. Homer marriage that had long
waited upon the dawn OF financial inde-
Pcndcoce.
For almost sixteen years thereafter
Saint Gaudcus la6ored oonscionti0usly
with splendid results In the studio he cs-
tabllshed In New York and became almost
from tho outset one OF the most con-
splcuous figures in the art life OF the
metropolis While at work upon that
wonderful monument 10 the late wife Of
Henry Adams, the historian a master
piece of sculpture which stnnds In Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, and for
which q score of deficient titles have been
proposed. although Saint Gaudcns would
never give IL onc-tho sculptor frst visited
the picturesque hamlet OF CornHh, New
Hampshire, and therc he soon oftcrwnrd
bought an old brick tavern and converted
IL into II summer home To this haven
In the uplnndS OF New England the physl.
cally broken sculptor came many years
later TO make his permanent residence
and here he did his 0nal work,
The Adams monument, somber and IN
scrutnblc. Is associated with another slg-
niGcaut event in Saint Gaudcns, career.
One October night In 1904 the sculptor S
chief studio burned, carrying TO dcstruc.
ton not only all the sculpture in progress.
but his portfolios containing the records
OF forty ycnrs. On that dreary morning
nfter the hrc the head Of the Adams mon
umcnt faced It's crcator-a seemingly np-
propriute souvenir-the one and only
thing that escaped the tinmea After this
blow Saint Gaudens set bravcly to work
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dcnly. Simply reverse the process In
turbine and you have II. In reality my
Silcnces is n negative turbine"
And such 1t really Is.
Every sportsman will be quick to real
Ize that nolscless. or virtually noise
less rl1e. will add materially TO the de-
lights of hunting But Mr.. Maxim bns
made II clear that such weapon would
not help the pot hunter much ms has
been claimed. The nolso OF the whirrlnJ
bullet through the air will of Itself Startlc
a herd into hight, although the herd Is
quite aS likely To run towurd the gun nS
away from IL The inability 10 locote the
source OF the slight sound made By
gun with n sllencer attached could hive
been FAR better demonstrated In the open
mir than In II close chamber. Even there
the only noise noticeable was that OF
the bullet lattcnipg out or burying itself
IN the snnd box.
The sound OF n thousand or ten thou
sand of these rifles being cred Mt once
would be 90 slight, however, nS to make
IL possible for all orders To be heard by
n regiment when given by its officers IN
the regulation way This accomplished
there has been achieved complete rcyo-
lutlon in mllltnry methods and warfare
With the cracking and roar Of n Yollcy
of rides. dcnfcning everything else au
piDCer III DuttIc OF tutl
the silcncer VIII prove boon In more
ways tbnn one With the sllcnccr In use
the orders cal be given and heard Just
az readily 10 the heat of battle when
Mt drill.
The question has been raised by many
persons. among them the police chiefs OF
the largest cities In the country. that
Mr. MaNim's latest Invention will prove
u serious drawback In detecting crime. iD
reality placing the dctectors of crime at
n great disadvantage and giving asSassins
chances OF getting In their deadly work
and escaping before they can he over
nkcn For this reason, aud this alone,
silenccrs are not to be made so that they
can be adjusted to revolvcrs or small
arms hill Is now pcndlnG In tho New
York Legislature which covers this point.
but this, Mr. Maxim claims. is entirely
unnecessary. as be hns no Intention OF
applying his murt1ers TO pistols
The problem now confronting him. how
ever. Is a sIlcncer for heavy artillery. He
claims that the report from our heaviest
cannon cnn be silenccd quite ns effect
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md In the creative power of his art,
cXuctly those qualities which admirers
OF the Irish race nrc wont 10 pronounce
its dominant racial characteristics That
be always took the greatest pride and In
tcrcst in his native land there Is nm2c
evidence and IL ia significant that the
last pretcntlors piece OF work upoa which
he was engaged was a Stutuc Of Par
ncl destined for his birthplace, Dublin
This figure OF Pnrncll. TcprcScat. the
great Irish orator Just rising pud put
Ting on his ovcrcoat-au unconventional
hut characteristic attitude. hut I'm this.
as In many forcruUncrs, ST. Gnud'ns
conquered not less 10y tho perfection vf
his art than by the daring Of his con.
cepton-
Close friends Of st Gludcns recall that
1t gave him especial pride ana pleasure
when In the afternoon of his lll-too brlct
life there came 10 him the commission Tor
this statue OF Charles Stewart Pnrucll.
Although the sculptor WAS already hcny-
lily handicapped by III health and was not
os free from financial worry Hs the artist
should be. he attacked this new work
with unusual enthusiasm He remarked,
over and over again. that he had enough
Irish In his makeup to appreciate the
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md soop hod recovered In hls work much

and eoon hnd recovered In hls work much
OF the lost ground
One circumstance that, inside from bis
death, give5 Saint Gaudons unusunl promI
neocc In this, the year OF the Lincoln
centenary. Is that the Irish sculptor in
terpreted the martyr president In art IA
no other painter or sculptor has ever been
able TO do. Ills two heroic figures. tho
one representing Lincoln standing, having
plncc In Lincoln Park. Cbicngo. md the
other showing Lincoln. seated. a gift to
the South Side of the city of Chicago by
bequcst of the late John Crcarer, of
that city (tbc latter one of Saint Gau-
deos' last statucs), seem to reacb tho
very apex Of achievement ns counterfeit
prcsentmeots OF the savlor Of the Union
only few weeks ago tho national gov
crnment sclected the Saint Gaudens bend
OF Lincoln as the best portrait cItapt,
for reproduction ou the one hundred mil
lien commemorative postnge stamps which
have been Issued for use this year. Other
notable stntues OF the nations most
prominent men which came from the hand
| OF Saint Gludcns werc the monument to
| General Logan, on the Lake front, Chi
f, cngo: that to James A. GARFIELD, In Fair
mount Park. PhIlodelpbin; and that trl-
umphnnt Sherman. 10 Central Park. Now
York. the horsc md rider preceded by
| that cxultant inspiring female figure OF
Victory which Saint Gnudens modelled
| from the woman whom be always con-
sidercd to be the hondsomest model ho
had ever seen.
Whistler. the painter, and other giants
! OF the world OF nrt who were also con-
| genial and componionoble to Saint Gau
dcns cndcavored to keep up the sculptors
| spirits Ia tho face OF cncroachlng III
health, but from 1900 when he returned
| to America after SoJourn Of three years
| 10 Paris. II was a losing light He lived
as much as possible IN the open, sSntiog
| and goldug while hls strength lasted,
and later sitting by the hour on tho
| porch or being carried about In on impro-
yised Sedan chair. With his cbblng
strength he, at the request OF President
Roosevelt prepared the designs fer the
untIon's now gold coins, and finally death
found him with his hands still molding
| n cherished relief OF his wife. There
is more than ground for hope that the
long American school, OF art
has been founded by this son OF Ire
land. whose birthday we celebrate within
the month dedicated to st. Patrick.
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result that the bullet passed clcooly
through q corner OF the card, leaving not
the slightest trace OF powder marks. or
q discoloration OF any sort. But when he
tried the trick With tho slleuccr on. the
card and the little device that held IL
were reduced to shreds. and these black
encd and burned by the powder.
The simplest smlle is employed bJ
Mr.. Maxim to explain the system of his
eilenccr and along which lines he long
worked before he had perfected bis
muller
Tho reaI principle OF the thing" Mr.
Maxim said. els precisely that which pre-
vents water running out OF n set bowl
when yon pull the stopper out OF the
bowl after the water hns been made to
whlrl or revoIve In tho vessel. The er-
ploded gases after being made to whirl
around In the sileDccs cannot e0capc sud
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lively by applying bis device to thoie
muZZlo as the smaller types OF rides. Tho
handlonp under which he is laboripg just
now ia that OF being unable to hnd
high tension regulation army deld piece
or cannon with which 10 experiment.
These guns cost a small fortune, md SO
far this government has not manifested
sufficient interest In the sllcnccr 10 place
at the inventors disposal one of Its cost.
ly coast defence or bcld pieces.
The inventor claims that with such
gun 10 operate with and the opportunity
afforded him 10 cut threads at the mug
zlc OF tho cannon In less than month no
would he ready 10 make n public demon
stration In which ho would w0gcr all ho
ever expects to have that the noise fol
lowing the discharge would be so slight
that IL would not be audible loo feet dis
tant
Although thoso experts in ordnance,
who were designated by tho War De
partment. have witnessed the tests OF
the Maxim sllcnccr5 and reported favor
nbly on their usefulness In warfare. II
is tho Navy To which the silencer most
appeals Hundreds and thousands of uur
SunncrS have had their ear drums split
while 6rinE tho big guns on shipboard
The same applies To tho big sunS OF our
const defense. Mr. Maxim now claims
ludN ny bPpl9iu6 tuN oifhNNi W '"'
guns In the turrets of our battlcships
tnat the Gunuers could stand 10y and trc
as rapidly as they could reload them
without the slightest Inconvenience
There would be no roar CT reverbcrntion,
The battle could proceed so quietly, the
inventor maintains. that those hundred
yards distant would not know that any.
thing unusual wos transporting And this
is the problem thot has so long per
picked the Naval Board-that OF over
coming the injury to gunncrs In tho tur-
rcts OF battosbips when the guns bark
out 1t is highly probable. now that the
inventor has protected his patents In all
OF the countries of the world. that no
will soon give public test OF his eilcncor
end that Congress will take some action
towards having experiments with tue big
guns aud heavy artillery made.
Mr. Maxim In o wiry little moo OF the
German type. although he is an English
man by birth. He is the son OF SIR
Hiram Maxim. who mas Won intcrua-
tIonnl fame ns nn inventor and manu-
facturer OF big guns OF all types.
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Most Valuable of All Je,uels

RnA oST precious OF all gems IN tho
HUV world Is the ruby-not the dla
D mond and OF rubies the most
valuable are the rare pigeon blood ruoies,
a sort of red-purplc that sporklos ana
glittcrs In truly marvellous fashion.
The ancIcntS treasured rubies far above
dIamonda ns IA shown In the references
to this Jewel Ia the Bible. OF 1t PhiioS-
tratus an ancient Greek author. tells ns
that the nret ruby was presented to man,
kind by stork These birds are related
by the nnclcnts to always place ruby IN
their nests as a charm against seIpepts.
Aeolean, in his ancient Greek treaties on
animals. relates the same story Oh tue
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~ tho worlds greatest historians, but
not until carly 10 the month OF
February OF this year was the public
taken into the inventors confidence and
given an opportunity to sec. or read Of.
the noiscless gun. The noiseless gun Is
here-a reality In every essential, and Its
prnctIcnbility has been made just as pat
cnt ns Its reality.
To the Offices OF bis patent attorneys
10 Park Row, New York. Hiram Percy
Maxim Invited n few newspaper men
and those OF his ultimate friends who nre
interested In firearms, either from tho
viewpoint Of a sportsman or a warrior.
and there exhibited and demonstrated
the simple little device attachnble TO any
gun, whether It be Of the Flobcrt rl0o or
standard army type. which completely
silcnccs the report following the cIplo-
eion Of tho cartridge when the gun is
6red. This dcmenstrRdoD was made on
one OF New York's busiest thoroughfarcs.
within u stones throw Of Broadway aud
easily within earshot Of police hcnd-
quarters,
Not only did the test prove conclusiycly
nll thnt tho inventor claimed for bis de-
vice, but Furthermore. when firing. the
recoil which Invariably follows the 1riug
VI u DtsiSy EUu lb hWby
with. Both the noise and kick" hnye
been eliminated by the same process
process so simple md 50 different from
that which rumor had defined II as 20 be
almost unbelievable, The Inventor dis
charged guns OF various power and stzes,
both with aud without the sileDcer. Ho
shot cartridges which leave the gun with
n velocity OF 200 feet second and
with n power TINT represents an Impact
OF one and a quarter tons to the square
Inch, sufficient 10 knock down and kill
tho largest OF elephants 500 yards dis
tnnt
Rigged up 10 the oflcc wns a gallery
like box ten feet In length. At the rear
OF this box was another Hlled With sand
md this sand heap stopped the bullets
that sped forth from the deadlicst riGos