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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24
NEGRO NAMED FOR HIGH POST

One Of the leading negroes of the
country is William Henry Lewis of
Boston, who was nominated by Pres
ident Taft to be assistant attorney
general of the United States. From
obscurity and from the lowly condi.
tions of a slave he has thus risen to his
present position of trust and RESPONSE.
bility. He was born Of slave parents
in Berkeley, Va, in 1868, while the
Civil war was raging in all its fierce
intensity. At the age of % he went
to New England and entered Am
herst college, where he made rapid
progress in his studies and became
captain of the football team. He was
the class orator at commencement,
and won two of the main prizes of
the college. He then entered Har-
ward, where he upheld his record of
proficiency in his studies and develop
ed into an athlete. For two years he
played center in the football team
and was later one of the coaches. On
being admitted to the bar he began
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24
Tho Modern Chile

The Modern Child.
my little dear, are you crying be-
cause your doll is stuffed with saw
dust?"
mo, sir. I'm crying because they
found the lace my mamma was trying
to smuggle in on her,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24

The lament is made that the supply
of crabs is going backward. But that
Is the nature of crabs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24
Handicapped.

How did your show go on the
road?"
BAD. We were fearfully handi-
capped by the plays we selected"
Eth! Why, l thought the dramas
in your repertory were the finest you
could secure"
"Yes, but we couldn't play EN-"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24

Advocates of universal language
seem to forget that we have an effec-
tive one already-the language OF the
eyes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24

It is a good idea to stay away from
powder magazine, even when you
know it isn't loaded.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24
The Reason,

The Reason,
your wife tells me that you al
ways give way to her in an argu-
ment."
YES"
rs she always rightT'
mo, but she's always present."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24


President assistant district attorney
Lewis would be appointed
his United said
Washington respective abilities
along somewhat different lines.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24

The campaign bitter Halt the Seattle who
enrolling
election majority
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24
Distinctions.

distinctions.
did you say that actress had a bad
temper?
NO." replied the manager. I'VE
used to call It bad temper, but now
her salary has become 80 large that
We have 70 refer to Il q tempsrar
mont 8 $3.50.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24
The favorite,

The Favorite.
What is your favorite fower?" ask
ed the clam
If l like one more than anotb
err" responded the oyster. 1T is tn.
R-Butus.''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24
Say what you think, but not all.
Harvard Is after $1,200,000." So
are several other people.

A Russian doctor has confessed that
he killed forty people. Few doctors
are as frank.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-24
Extensive Paradox.

Expensive Paradox.
"A funny thing about that stag
party"
whats funny about it."
1T turned out to be a>dear affair.""
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-07-28
:Isaae Dreyfus eompl

Big sale opens tomorrow ar Null
likins Department Store.
Pine Bluff Lodge No. So. will e2n'
fer the third degree tonight on Hunter
H. Knox.
District Attorney T. HaVis Nixon
was confined to his home on West
Sixth avenue yesterday with fever.
Our first big clearance sale be-
gins Monday, July 81. It will be the
bargain event of the city in furniture.
Reap and Crawford Fern. Co.
Mailing lists for any purpose in
any business. Up to date and cor
rect.-Collier Advertising Agency.
20 If.
Mems Straw Hats, soc to $500
values 19c to CSC at Mullikin's De-
partment store. Sale opens at 9
o'clock tomorrow morning.
DIR. ]. C. ODaniel. Dentist Uses
gas for extracting. Office. Citizens
Bank bldg. Room 316. cd 2hoas 2U2.
Pine Bluff. Ark. tt.
FOR RENT-Two connecting rooms
furnished for light housekeeping. APP
ply to 612 West Sixth avenue
7-20 St.
Commencing tomorrow al
o'clock, We will sell for one hour, La
dies Hats up to $3.50 values only Zoe
Follow the crowd to Mullikin's Big
sale.
Clearance sale begins Monday,
July 81 and prices will certainly be
slaughtered because We need the
room for the biggest and best fall
stock we ever purchased. Reap &
Crawford Furn. Co.
The body of little James McFad-
den, the four-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs J. n McFadden OF Altheimer, who
died at that place Wednesday, was
| laid to rest in the Bellwood cemetery
yesterday morning at II o'clock, with
services at hte grave by Rev. A. B
Few. The pail bearers were J. S. Nc
Donald, DR.. R. P. Wood, w J. Clary
and Frank Berry.
Might Chief of Police Gus Reeves
told a Graphic representative yester-
day that many owners OF automobiles
and buggies carelessly leave their
teams and machines standing in the
downtown streets all night and ex-
plains that this is against the law.
Assistant Chief Reeves complains on
account of the trouble given the street
sweeper at nights when it is forced to
go around these teams or machines In
sweeping the streets. Col. Reeves
states that unless this practice is dis
continued he will take up the standing
teams and the owners will have to
pay forfeit to secure their release
from the pound.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-07-28

Cost and less than cost, begin
ming Monday, July 81. Don't miss this
opportunity-Re and Crawford
Furn. Co.
Everything goes in our remodel
ing sale in the way of summer con-
yeniences.- CIeveland- Matthews Hdw.
Co
Cost will not be considered on
many goods that go into our clear
ance sale, beginning Monday, July 81.
Reap & era wford Furn Co.
Mems Straw Hats, SOC to $500
values 19c to CSC at Mullikin's De-
partment store. Sale opens at
O'Clock tomorrow morning.
WANTED-15 travelling men. We
have authority to place i men in
good paying positions. Work agree
able Advertising and selling.-Col-
lier Adv Agency. 304 Citizens Bank.
Sanitary Steam pressing kills th
germs and enliyens the goods.-CaS
er's Dry Cleaning and Dye Works. Oh,
phone 861. s % In
Commencing tomorrow at
o'clock, We will sell for one hour, La
dies Hats up to $50 values only Toe
Follow the crowd to Mullikin's BIZ
sale.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-07-28

Big sale opens tomorrow at Null.
likin's partment Store.
Monday, July 81, begins our first
big clearance sale. Enormous re-
auctions on everything.-Re &
Crawford Furn. Co.
AUTO FOR HIRE.
New five passenger car. Rates rea-
sonable. Phone W. F. Clarke, No.
1902. tt.
Mems Straw Hats, soc to $500
values 19c to CSC at Mullikin's De-
partment store. Sale opens at 3
o'clock tomorrow morning.
"A fine baby girl, weighing ten and
a half pounds, was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Hanf at the Florence
Sanitarium yesterday evening.
j will be in Pine Bluff July 81
for three days and will repair all
typewriters, clean, adjust, align sup
ply ribbons, etc. Kindly drop me a
postal and | will call on you. Wal
ter McRaven, 211 Center ST., Little
Rock
Our electric service IL at your
command any hour OF the day OF
night. No mater when the hour OF
your need. the electric servant re.
spends instantly. 1t is never OF duty
Citizens Light and Transit Com.
pany.
"A new store With 1 fresh line OF
staple and fancy groceries. Up-to-
date meat market in connection ant
handles only the best meats. Promp'
deliveries. Prices reasonable. Give
me trial. D. Mcdonald 315 Beech
ST., old phone $50. s "a In
Certainly kerosene Is somewha
cheaper than electricity; 1t Is alst
much less convenient. cieanly ant
aealthful. After you have once used
electric lights, 1t Is "nevermore" TO-
4erosine Citizens Light and Transi
Company.
Commencing tomorrow at
o'clock, we will sell for one hour, La
dies Hats up to $3.50 values only 1oc
/ Follow the crowd to Mullikins Big
sale.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-07-28
FOR RENT

ZIG East 18th, 6 rooms and hall, bath,
electric lights.
$40 Walnut, I rooms, bath, electric
lights.
1923 Olive St., rooms and hail. bath
and electric lights.
5t8 West 18th, new, rooms oatn'
electric lights, hot and cold water.
RIG Cherry, 4 rooms, city water.
300 East rooms, city water.
304 East, 4 rooms, city water
105 East, rooms, city water.
1O4 East, rooms, city water.
7o5 Plum, rooms, electric lights
city water.
713 Plum, 4 rooms, electric lights city
water.
7fO East 6th, 5 rooms. electric
lights, city water.
GOA West 4th, Z rooms and hail. oath'
electric lights.
1907 West 5th, 5 rooms, bath, gas,
lights.
pIyCHBACK TAYLOR. Insurance 4
gency.
PHONE. NO. 1882.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-07-28

Z y ED-Party from Memphis "
cart an tack aa2 I % st.
.sf sale opens tomorrow at Null
liki4,z apartment Store.
II = al reductions on refrigeratora
A. r \ Bros. Hardware Co. 7-13-lm
DO you need mailing list? 1t
en- be had at Collier Adv. Agency,
7-2O If.
foRN-To Mr.. and Yrs C. c. Green
tx pound baby girl, Wednesday
nj r.
ear Roofing with nails, Caps
sud cement. / ply at 81 . per square
at cleveland Matthews Hardware
Co.
Mems Straw Hats. SOC to $500
values lsc to CSC at Mullikin's De-
nartment store. Sale opens at }
O'Clock tomorrow morning
Commencing tomorrow al
o'clock. we will sell for one hour, La
eses Hats UP to 81 50 values only Toe.
- low the crowd to Mallikin's Big
SIC.
The bleeding shrinkage and loss
Of brilliancy of garments avoided by
our process Caver's Dry Cleaning &
Dye Works.
-Athol Townsend, we'll known
fireman on the Cotton Belt out of this
city, left yesterday afternoon for Lit
tie Rock, where be will run in the
Cotton Belt yards in .Argenta
Ned Ballard. well known yong
man of this city. was fined S. in the
city police court yesterday morning
for exceeding the speed limit in an
automobile
When you buy mailing list that
Is corrected to date, the price paid is
more than saved in stamps and stat
ionary-Collier Advertising Agency,
7-20 t.
-Remodeling prices: Mrs. Potts
Sad Irons &c per set. Family Scales
88c, Waffle Iron 78c, 10 ct. Galvaniz-
ed Buckets 14c. and Brass Wash
Boards worth CSC at 1ac.-Cleveland
Matthews Hdw. Co.
The case of J II. Stafford a ne
gro, charged with enhbezZliug about
$40 from Joe Dillon, was heard III
Magistrate W. d. Vance's court yes
terday morning and Stafford was ac-
quilted Attorney Fl. K. Toney de-
Tended Stafford and Tom Parham rep
resented the state.
WANTED-One cook and fifteen
wagons and teams to haul logs and
lumber Call On T. Fl. Ezel at the
mill, four miles west of Tamo or at
Hastings and Thomas store at Tarry
Also several good mill hands. Pay
every two weeks. 7-19 2w
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-07-28
PHONE NO. 1892.

Big sale opens tomorrow at Null
ilkin's Department Store.
Enormous savings to be realiz-
ed at our first big clearance sale,
beginning Monday July 31.-Reap 6
Crawford Furn. Co.
Our Remodeling Sale is now on.
You can buy any seasonable article at
a great Observation-Disclosures
theWs HdW Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-07-28
WANTED 100 FAMILIES

to take advantage of our Baked Bean
Sale next Monday and Tuesday. We
will sell regular 10c size cans OF
Campbells Baked Beans as follows:
Cans ioc
Il cans o0N
Just received a shipment OF new
dill pickles and they are fine.
THE LLOYD GROCERY COMPANY.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-07-28
Breyfus Store Talk
Show Windows

And newspaper ads must 60 hand in hand
as to give the best advertising results. Some
read an ad in newspaper but slightly, but if TN
see the goods displayed in the show windo,
they can better see what values are being adv
tised. In our Second Avenue Window we are Al
playing line of white goods specially priced
12c, consisting of dimities, flaxons, india lino1
long cloth, nainsooks and linette. The savngo
this is fully one fourth of their real value.
Our sale is still on, everything underpriced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19

would forget to light his pipe after supper gazing up
instead dreamily from the armchair; while the old
WIFE bent her sewing, silent too thinking of
Christie.
NNE day as Sam Ford was opening his San Francisco
~ exchanges staring headlines caught his eyes
that stunned him. The paper shook in his hand. What
all this about Christie? Accused of poisoning her
h,1sbndocked in cell of the city prsonherh husband
dead and his body held for examination Three columns
of it, gloatngly sensational, and in its
mulated evidence of previous quarels, anilicit
love affair, blazoned shamelessy to the universe
the frustrated attempt to make the murder pass for
suicide! The against her grew deadlier and more
discriminating with every line. Great God! she
guilty!
There was note from her that had arrived in the
mail. Ford tore it open, breathless and trem-
bling:
Sam, dear SAM you will have the papers, and know
the horror But it is the thought of them that kills
me-Papa and Mama Sam, they must not know! You
them from knowing Surely it be managed
and SAM you must must for the sake of the wretchedes
alive. CHRISTIE!
Ford caught UP his hat and walked out with the idea
of getting badly needed bracer at the Good Fellows
Grotto the street; but happening to Father
ORourke, the Catholic priest he called to him to STOP
and brokenly read Christic's letter aloud. Father
ORourke took fire with it. Mrs Rothmuller had once
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nursed him through smallpox when not soul would
him. and he had for her gratitude,
ton, that transcribed words. Sam got no bracer but
carried off to the Rev. Wolfert Schneider the
Lutheran minister. Now, if the devil, in whom he i'm
picitly believed had suddenly appeared before the
Rev. Wolfert Schneider, breathing birthstone and lash
ing forked TAIL he could not have been surprised
affroned than at the sight of Father ORourke
his front stoop.
But the priest, deeply moved, ignored the others
sulen repidaton. They both men, he said, both
which surely all Christians could agree. The three
left the house together eager conederates austere
Mr. Schneider in his badly fitting frockcoat, the burly
1rishman, the PALE red nosed journalistic self con-
stituted committee to carry out Chrsties wish and
force boycott of silence on SAINT Inez.
They invaded the stores and offices, the high school,
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the bank, the livery stables, the Chinese quarter
the creamery, winery, and gasworks They stopped
farmers the street, talked laborers resting pick
and Shovel entered the three saloons and gained
the white coated barkeepers. Everywhere they were
met with the good WILL with the Deep hearty
sympathy. Who there indeed who did not respect
the Rothmullers? Who there who did not love
them? Many who listened reused to condolences
that gave fresh impetus to the movement.
Help" exclaimed Rosenberg, the lew clothier
"Why, dat old Teller used to feed when l hadn't
cent earth!"-"I guess Mrs. Rothmuller all same
God, said All Chong the aundryman artessly irrever-
ent. ALWAYS oh, welly good lady to sick Chinaman-
all same sick Chinaboy's mother
Thus started, the spread to the hills, reaching
every farmhouse, cabin, and tent within ten miles of
SAINT Inez. Farmers carried it their big, high
wagons school children carried it. brakemen carried it
the length of their dvision swarthy Mexlcans jingling
huge spurs, carried it, 1umbermen gathered pictur-
esquely about their fires, farther camps
The Rothmullers to be protected; the valley
from end to end in conspiracy to keep them in
ignorance of Chnsties dishonor and fight for life.
Over six thousand men, women, and children, of
every nationality and every creed enlisted in that
single purpose. Surely the Rothmullers had not lived
vain nor been foolish in their belief many thought
when six thousand people, not all of them good by
any means, and some exceptionally rough and 1awless
could pay such homage to old man and in an
adobe hut!
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more than kept. She was of a striking beauty that
arrested attention everywhere and conscious OF it to
her ngertips, she bore herself with reckless saucy air.
as of who knew her power. The beggar maid of
SAINT Inez dressed i'll the poor evngs of the neighbours
outshone every girl in the place, and kept the young
men in turmoil But that small, shapelv head had
other ambitions than to marry young rancher,-ac-
quaintance with the seamy side of life had sharpened
her faculties; of forty could have been colder
or more calculating Nor this altogether selfish
The increasing taught her oappreciate her parents
as she had done child; her heart ached for
them in their nworldlncss she perceived them growing
old, with refuge but the poorhouse, they who had
ranked high in the valley, and had abandoned
everything to be like Christ. Of course the exaspera
ton was still there; but it that of mother for
erng children touched with tears, and sacred in its
tenderness.
To provide for them much part of her desire
any advancement for herself. Her richer wooers
astonshed at her calm, clear demands. She meant
to be pcnnicss drudge she said, having to ask for
every dollar What did Willie or Tommy or Eddie in
tend to settle her? This scndaous attitude toward
matrmony caused her to be savagcy criticized 1t was
called unwomanly and Parents in control of
pursesrings horrfcd and said no, with Pennsyl
vania Dutch firncss and fnity. But Christie hiding
her time and conscious of her value at last justified;
though accepting in the meanwhile, and with the same
sweet smiles all the candy gloves and little offerings that
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widow of the late George H. Bender. and only beloved
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Rotmuer of this town.
who passed away her heavenly March 18th, 10
The dirnnutive train brought back her body, which
beneath the rosewood coffin still the prison dress
1t lay in in the adobe hut buried in flowers from
every garden in the valley, and was followed to the
grave by almost the whole population. Never in the
history of SAINT Inez had there been such funeral
Not only the townspeople there, the local band
the remen, the raterna organizations in their regala,
the ranchers from far and near but the Chinese
too, the Mexcans the forest rangers, the Italian
structon gangs from the reservoir the lumbermen
and sheep herders.
The Rothmullers accepted it all tribute to
Christie
Everybody loved her." they said simply 1.-THE
angels knew she was one of them and now they have
called her back
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sympathy and appreciation of the little drama in which
he was so lncongruous element
Every year two Christie paid short visit to SAINT
Inez, dazzling, richly clad appartion from another
existence. She had grown excessively fashionable and
elegant; Paris and London were as familiar her as San
Francisco; she Travelled in special imperial suites
the great liners; the beautiful Mrs. Bender OF
the press Yet she came to the little cottage without
maid; rolled up her sleeves, and helped in the
houscwork; sat on the of her fathers chair at
night with her round his neck, unmindful of his
pipe calloused hands; ordered about her
mother with playful imperjousness and winning that
old heart with her saucy charm and tender pretty
Then she gone again, and the cottage awakened
for week by her sparkling presence, subsidized
into its usual calm: though her memory fingered
under the low rafters, and sometimes Papa Rothmuer
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and some exceptionally rough and 1awless,
uch homage to an old man and woman in an
ldobe hut!
OF course Sam Ford had to print full
report of the case in the Banner"
1t was stirring all California; was hold
ing everyone in daily suspense; was tele-
graphed and cabled broadcast everywhere.
But he called Christie Mrs. Bell; and
preferably, as often as he could alluded
to her as the accused" or the accused
woman" The Rothmullers followed the
case as assiduously as anyone, little sus-
pecting it was their own daughter who
stood in the dock. The night they read
the judges sentence of death, they prayed
for that unknown woman-for Christie,
huddled and fainting on her hard plank
bed.
1--WE implore Thy compassion for this
unhappy creature" said the old man on
his knees. In this dreadful hour, when
all have forsaken her, be Thou with her,
0 Jehovah; be Thou with her, o Christ the
merclful!"
The next morning they received a post
card from Christie with, Dearest, dearest
love to both of you, my darling Papa and
Mama" This made them exceedingly
happy, as it had been SO long since they
had heard from her, and as they went
about their work they spoke of it to their
silent, shrinking neighbors.
MO woman has ever been hanged in
~ California, and Christie's sentence was
accordingly committed to penal servitude
for life. For three years she languished in
San Quentin Prison, contriving as before
to keep her secret from her parents. All
SAINT Inez supported her, and not whisper
of her fate was allowed to reach the Roth
mullers. They thought it a little hard that
she should cease her visits; but she always
had some excuse to offer, and kept brightly
promising that next year" she should
certainly come. Utterly broken, she had
contracted consumption in prison, and
with Sam Fords cooperation was already
planning the last phase of the tragedy.
She died. and the old people, helpless
in their grief, acquiesced humbly in Sans
arrangements. While the San Francisco
papers were black with scareheads, the
Banner bore but this four-line announce
ment:
Died, in San Francisco, Christina Bender,
: late George H. Bender. and only beloved
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-03-11

Fear Concerning Iessian Fly in Hi
nois and Indiana Tactor--
Other Grains up.

Chicago, March 10.-WHEA-T--
Fear concerning the Hessian fly in
parts of Illinois and Indiana sent
wheat up today. In consequence the
market closed strong, IA to ~ high
er. Latest figures showed an advances
in every other leading staple; corn
n to IA; oats 4 to "a
Good buying of wheat was in evil
dence all day. Shorts who sold on
Yesterdays slump were uneasy from
the start In addition larger profes-
eional spectators roiowed the
course gof commission purchasin
which in itself reached big total
New investors directed their eTorts
in The min to the July delivery. AS.
result that month mace peter
relative gain than MAY.
Little heed was laid to the 'ac'
that the Fessian fly infection had
been found only in a few counties in
either Illinois or Indiana. The feel.
ing Of apprehension aroused was sup
plemcntei by talk of alarming posi-
bilities from excessive heat in Texas,
Eesides primary receipts the world
supply exhibited substantial reduc-
ton as comTaEcG with last year, and
there was cIiy the faintest resporsc
by Liverpool to yesterdays hard
smash at prices in america. From
the opening till the pit was closed
the advance suffered no important
stpT.
May opened S9t$@9oM; high 9O7s
low S9h; closed 90% No. 2 red s.
d9O%; No. red S769o; No. 2 nara
S9d91: No. 3 hard S715J,
CORN-Corn strength was ceepiy
speculative,
May opened 4S7s6i9; high so; low
1873 closed 1913; July No 5O9s
No. white 47@471h; No. 2 yellow
AN 64715; No. 2 yellow f7A 017M A,
No. 8 4504Gts No, : white 4512 04(
Y No 3 yellow 45h 146h.,
OATS-Roso in sympathy VITA corr
May opened 30aS @3Oh; high g1A;
low 3O9s; closed 3oH; July No. :
31ih; No, 2wnite 3lN32; no. 2 white
30A 030H; standard 3oN T31.