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onnncoek; Va, August Miss Mis-. Jennie
OF Georgetown Del, are guests at tho home
OF Mrs w. =. Powell.
Powell Hopkins of Brooklyn. Is visiting
| his grandmother. Mrs. Alicia Hopkins.
Miss Bessie p Taylor has returned from
mer home at Buckroe Beach
Mrs. George II Powell is With her mother.
Mrs w N Thomas, of Cape Charles:
port News were the Weekend guests OF
Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Duncan,
Mrs. Virginia Parker went to Baltimore
Saturday to spend two weeks with her
Miss Hazel Moore. after n two weeks
stay with relatives in onancock and vicinity.
left for Baltimore Monday.
MIR and Mrs. Mallory l.. Fletcher OF
rs M Snd Mn. E
Mrs. L. r.. Finney has as her guest Mrs.
Arthur Bowdoln. of New York.
Mrs. Ollie L. Parker Is in Salisbury. the
guest OF her cousin, Mrs Morris.
Miss Catherine 4. Parker is visiting her
cousin. Misses Salie and Dorothy Bishop,
OF Snow I'M Md.
Misses Helen and Virginia Griffith. of
Washington. lately visited their aunt. Mrs.
Mrs W p Powell. w NJ. Powell and Miss
Elizabeth +. Powell back from visit
70 Mrs. Charles NJ. Cullen. OF Georgetown
Mrs n ". Mock has with her Mrs
Florence Howe. of Camden. y: J..
| j. NJ. Bratten and family. who have been
! residents OF Onancock for three years. will
| leave FOR their new home at Early. n. c..
Monday
Mrs Spencer F. Rogers and daughter. Miss
| Elizabeth. are home from Blue Ridge Sum
| nit.
Miss Kate Bratten came home from Phil
| adephia Friday.
DR.. George lie Fosque called to Bel
! Air. Md. Monday by the extreme illness OF
! his sister Mrs. william Cox
! Mrs T. O. +. Curtis is at the home OF her
! sister Mrs William Cox. OF Eastville
/ Mrs y b Rich. who spent a month with
her father. Abel c. Kelley. left for Nor
| folk "Wednesday.
Thomas Evans. of Horntown, spent several
days this week with his daughter. Mrs
burlington.
Dr. Mosby c. Perrow. OF Lynchburg is a
guest at the home OF Superintendent q. O.
! Joynes.
Mr.. and Mrs W. C. woodward and son.
Gamble are nj Fairview. the guests OF
Nh and Mrs w. 5. Nelson.
Miss Faith Biok OF Newbern ~ c., Is
the house guest of Mrs j. $. Mills
Mrs, J. NJ. FosQue and son have returned
from sojourn AT Ocean City.
VIII Beach, OF Concord. was lately the
guest OF his aunt. Mrs. George Elmore.
Mayor and Mira. l.. Il. Doughty are enter
;aining Mr.. and Mrs. Mcknight, OF Oregon
MIR and Mrs. J. G. ". Leatherbury are
back from ,flp TO Winterport, Me.
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| There are all kinds Of estimates
see that one big steamship line is adj
yertising that 1t will send tourists
through on'a 1e,ooo-ton steamship
early In February. 1914. I will only
say. however. that it seems certain
that 1t will be possible to pass ships
through the canal several months be-
fore the date of tho official opening
that Is, considerably In advance of jan
uary 1, 1915"
The Men mt Work.
What force have you now at Pana-
ma? suppose that the men will soon
be leaving to find other Jobs"
! During the past year we have had
more men ut work than over before.
May /. 1913, tho number was $4,000
Ihat Is tho largest In the history of
the canal"
What can Uncle Sam do with the
men he has trained in this work."
know OF no large public under
taxing now authorized where they
could be used. You understand that the
great mass of our employees there are
comparatively unskilled. That is so OF
the Jamaicans and other natives of the
tropics Our total number OF Ameri-
cans Is only about 5000. Some of them
! VIII remain on the permanent oper-
ating force of the shops and canal
others Will leave tho government SER
vice, and find work under contractors
or with private firms. a large number
OF steam shovel mon and locomotive
engineers Will be ready for employ
ment elsewhere"
Uncle Sans Old Machinery.
What VIII Uncle Sam do with his
machinery?
Some Of 1t will be kept ut Pana-
ma, but great deal will have to be
sold or otherwise disposed OF. Take
the cars and other rolling stock We
have 80 much down there that IL IT
were placed as closely as possible on
q single track II would take up thirty
TWO miles. The rolling stock in the
central division, which includes the
Culebra Cut. would FIJI track nine
teen mileG long. This machinery will
be stored ard sold az fast as possible
/ Much OF IL Is In excellent condition."
Can you give inc any idea OF It's
valuer'
No. The machinery which we have
In tho central division cost us about
$4,000. 600, but a comparatively small
percentage OF that will be realized on
final sale The shovels, cars and en-
gines are in excellent shape"
should not the canal be tested be-
fore ships are allowed TO GO through
it?"
II suppose that will be done. It is
important that the operating force
should be thoroughly trained, and all
the machinery brought up to tho high
est pitch of efficiency. before CONNER
c!ai and war vessels are allowed to
pass through. This may be done by
experimenting with such craft as be-
long TO tho canal commission and are
no longer needed for other work With
these vessels We could train the oper-
tating force, and try out the machinery
The safety appliances should also bo
tested. and doubt not they will be-"
Copyright, 1913, by Frank G.. Car
Deuter)
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Christiansburg, Va. August 2S.-Thc mar
rage OF Mrs. Mary Hall Carico TO John
L. Sarles was celebrated very quietly Tues
day evening al s o clock by Rev John Ham
mond. OF st. Paurs Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Miss Reba Best entertained Tuesday IN
honor OF Misses Polly and Frances Shell
burne. Tho guests included Misses Mary
and Suo Wall, OF BTacksburB; Fannie James
Hail. Thompson and William Pierce. Henry
Spindle and Robert Wood
Miss Meleta Miller is entertaining mum
Der OF young people ut q house party. Miss
Augusta Stuart. OF Roanoke. Irene Tinsiey.
CT Lynchburg and Angelina Harvey. of Dub
lin are among the guests.
Miss Dorothy Sewer, OF Bristol, Tenn, and
Mrs Lou Stone of st. Louis. No. guests
of Mrs. Emma s. Trigg.
The home carnival given under tho d!rec-
ton OF tho Music Lovers Club and the
Daughters OF the Confedcracy quite q
success. The street parndes and attrnc-
lions was largely attended and the sum OF
$500 was realized The Daughters OF the
Confederacy will their share for the
relief fund and the Music Club Will pur-
chase victroa.
J. w Pepper returned Wednesday from n
six weeks stay at the Virginia Mineral
Springs.
from a visit TO Mrs John II. Eon. OF
Washington.
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Malvern Hill. Va. August 23-AIiss Mag
gle Walden has returned to her home. Buck
HIN. from visit to Mrs A H brewery
at "Edgewood."
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh T. Harrison and lit
tie daughter. Dorothea, have returned home
from visit to Mr.. Lavellette at Hamp-
ton.
Miss Emily HarriSon. Of Bay View. left
Friday last for Gloucester where she is one
OF Miss Sallie Catletts guests at a house
party.
Vaughan Baker has returned to his homo
I'm Richmond from a visit to Beverley Car
ter. at THE Mill"
Miss Mary Sparrow, of Richmond is the
Hills"
MIR and Mrs Herbert s Saunders and
Foster Saunders, of Upper Shirley" and
Rnllie Ruflln OF weyanoke stock Farm.
hominy River. to spend a week fishing They
rnade the trip and Will Ave aboard MIR.
saunders's beautiful launch. the Rosal!e.
William T. Hewitt, of North Bend" Is
the guest OF his friend. Leslie Blair. OF
Albemarle County.
Miss Christine Mccain. of Portsmouth. Is
visiting Miss Riddn Carter. at Tho MIL
Mrs. Richard Johnson. who has been In
Richmond. returned TO her home at Glendale
this week. much improved in health
Philip Browder and two little children
with Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Clark. at Hardens
John Harrison left for his home In Rich
mond- after visit to his sister. Mrs y
| Fl. Drewry. at Edgewood.
her TWO guests. Miss Christine Mccain. OF
Portsmouth. and Miss Mary Belle Moore. Of
Client. Norfolk. spent Monday in Rich
| rnond
| j. 81 Bell. of Richmond. was the week
end guest of his sister, Mrs. II. s. Saunders
! at Upper Shirley.
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AVALANCFES AT PANANAATALK WITH d. GAMIARD ABOU

yards you may figure that it would
take two good listed horses to haul II
in wagon uphill and down over tho
ordinary farm road OF our country.
During my talk with Colonel Gail
lard. the question as to tho actual
/ amount OF material which had been
handled under his supervision at Pana-
ma came up. and he said:
| When l first went to Panama I was
in charge OF the dredging in the At
lantic and Pacific divisions, and there
took out something like 100000 Gu
bic yards of material In addition,
had the Culebra Cut. That was In
April. 1907. just about six years ago
Since then we have eXcavated more
than 1o6, 100000 cubic yards. When
took charge 100000 cubic yards had
been taken out, and was told that
there were only 65.o0o,OOo yet
to dig. The actual amount taken out
has been 0pcr cent above that. and
there are about 100000 cubic yards
still to he moved before the Culebra
Cut Will be finished
The Andes Versus the Desert.
please tell mo In simple language
what 1o6 100000 cubic yards mean?"
1T means SO much" replied Colonel
Gaillard. that it is hard to compre
bend. When the French first opened
the Sucz Canal they had taken out T2,-
100000 cubic yards. What we have OK
c;ivatcd in the Culebra Cut alone is one
and one-half times as much. Besides,
the excavations in Egypt were mostly
made up OF soft material and the sands
of the desert. The greater part of our
material has been rock, which we had
TO blast out with dynamite and carry
miles away to the dumps.
"In simple language. if what We have
taken out could be piled with vertical
sides in square inside the building
lines OF Il Washington city block it
would make shaft reaching to a
height of over six miles, and If 1t
were loaded in railroad trains, al 400
cubic yards to the train the cars hold
ing the stuff would fill one continuous
track reaching twice around the world
at tho equator. If you could put the
material into a railroad embankment
forty-five feet wide at the bottom
fifteen feet high and wide enough at
the top for a double track line. that
Washington to many miles beyond Chi
cago and still it would not hold all the
earth"
How much moro digging have YOU
had to do than was calculated at the
beginning?"
II have shown You that we have al
ready taken out over 100000 cubic
yards more at Culebra than was esti-
mated when we began work there. In
the whole canal tho excavation will
be moro than double the original csti-
mate. The international board of con-
sultinE engineers figured the total eX-
cavation for the completed lock at
sc, 000,0 cubic yards. and it is now
known that the excavation will be in
the neighborhood of 22o.000,000 cubic
yards Some of this increase has come
from the widening OF the canal. and
a great deal is due to the additional
work caused by slides and breaks"
\ nrla Snv 10 I.Al. linn
What have the slides amounted to-"
$50 far they have added over co.
10000 cubic yards to the material in
! the Culebrn Cut alone. million cubic
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ny FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Washington. d. c

washing ION, ~. ".
HAVE just had long chat with
Colonel David d. Gaillard, the en-
gineer commissioner. who for the
past six years has had charge OF the
mighty excavations of the Culebra Cut
i nrst met him when ! wrote up tho
Panama Canal. now more than year
neo I then went with him on foot
through the mighty cash which he was
making in the Andes. We walked to-
sether from gang to gang of the thou
SANDS Of men who were EouElng out
the Garth, blasting the rocks and carry
ing The mighty trains OF spoil down to
the ocean We investigated the petty
volcanoes and studied the slides At
one place in the canal Mother Earth
had bumped up her back and thrown n
railroad half way down to the bottom.
Photographed tho colonel beside this
great hump. and had just time TO
change my film before another hump
occurred and the railroad again went
dying, being overturned under our
eyes
My talk with Colonel Gaillard last
night was 1T the Monday evening re-
ceptlon OF the Cosmos Club. He wore
black steel-pen coat, n boiled shirt. we'll
hacked shoes. and looked more like q
club man than a civil engineer who is
doing one Of the biggest things upon
earth When we walked together
through the canal at Panama no was
in his WORKING clothes His riding
trousers were wrapped In legGins of
leather, his shirt was of flannel. and
ne looked as much the day laborer as
any steam shovel man or as any ia
maican handling n drill. When at Pan
anna he walks miles through the canal
every day. and there is not n detail of
the excavation of which he has not
practical and sciontihc knowledge. He
knows the work so well that he can
describe II 10 the amateur in plain Eng
lish and the latter will understand
what ne says.
1t was in the same simple language
that we talked last night. had asked
Colonel Gaillard not to deal in figures,
bu; to give mo the story OF what was
going on in round numbers, and in such
terms that the man on the street could
understand.
The Culcbrn Cut.
Every ono knows what the Culebra
Cut Is. 1t is that part OF the canal
where the mountains had to be gouged
out TO make the lock waterway through
which the ships can go. The eXcava-
ton began at a point above sea level
almost as high as the top of the Wash
ington Monument. That was on the
top OF Gold Hill, and on the opposite
site of the pass the digging began. a
little more than 100 feet lower. 1t has
TO 20 down TO forty feet above the sea
level, and the amount of excavation
has been estimated as enough to make
n tunnel to the centre of the earth so
large in size that n railroad train
could run through and not scrape the
walls The total amount of digging
and carrying away OF earth done by
the Americans will DO about 22o,000.000
cubic yards. and the bulk of this vast
sum has come right out of the cut at
Culebra In order to understand what
THIS means. ] would say that yard
OF earth weighs over n ton and half,
and for each OF these millions OF cubic
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Concord Va. August 2a.-Mrs. ]. II. Steele
left Tuesday for staunton. where she viii
spend a month as the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs
II. L. Tyler
Miss GLADYS Haines.( OF Richmond. is
visiting at the homo of Mrs. Sam Anderson.
Mrs. F. II. clark left Friday for visit to
Niles Lizzie Rice left Wednesday for a
visit to Washington and other Northern
points.
Miss Gladys Reams. Of Lynchburg. is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. d. +. Woodson
Miss Louise Akers left TUESDAY for Roam
oke and Botetourt. where she Will he guest
of Miss Mildred Hunter and Professor and
Mira w. c. lkenberry.
Mrs NJ. l.. Perkins. OF Alabama, Is visiting
her mother. Mrs. George franklin.
Theo H. Steele spent the weekend with
his homo people
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Bon Air, Va. August 23-Miss Eleanor
in Client. Norfolk While here she visited
Miss Margaret Mcclure.
Miss Pauline McPhail returned to Ran
dolph this week. after a few days stay
with Colonel and Mrs. Talcott.
Miss Maude Miller is visiting in New
York and Boston
Miss nellie Mcclure returned Monday from
Baltimore, and has as her house guest. Miss
Nancy Darlington, of Lexington.
Randolph Moore left Wednesday for Jack
sonvlle Fla. after couple OF days spent
here with his family.
Miss Clara Powers is visiting in Nelson
County.
Jr returned this week from Houston.
Miss Mary Randolph Lathrop has beer
the guest OF the Misses Moore this week
Miss Olive Moulton Joined the Bon All
be away for fortnight.
Mr. and Mrs william Schmidt spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs Carl Bosehsn.
Miss Mary Burlington has returned from
the Sweet Chalabeate Springs.
Miss Dorothy Smith has returned from
Scottsvlle.
Miss Perkins and Miss Mason are visiting
Mrs Harry Berkioy.
Miss Ellen Meade spent several days thi
week with Mrs. James Gordon. at the Inn.
Miss Jean Berkeley Is visiting Mrs Norwood
bentley.
Miss Julia wherry is home again after {
visit to Goshen.
Mrs. James Hunter has been the recen
guest Of Mrs. Allen Goolsby
u l.. Phippen. Kenneth Phippen and Ton
Phlppen were Weekend guests of Mr. anC
Mrs. Percy Glinn.
people last week with watermelon feas
and dance.
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Blackstone Va. August o3--Mr. and Mrs
Moncure Gravatt arc spending this week
a, ocean View. Miss Anne Moncure is with
them.
Mrs r. B. Spencer has been visiting reln-
t.vcs in Woodstock for the past month
Mr. Peyton. Of jefferson County. in
town this week on business for the Roam
cke Bridge Company.
Miss Ethel Adams. OF Crewe. is staying
with her sister. Mrs Bascon Linney.
Miss Agnes Epes who has been in the
Adirondaeks with her sisters is expected
home.
Mrs. Norman Neblett and her daughter
Mis- Fannie NeSe,t: are IN Pulaski Las. It,
Miss Rche Epes left this week for LeNing
ton where she will stay with relatives
Miss Julia Basley and her guest. Miss
Marie Bagley. with Haynie Seay and DR..
II. c. Neblett, spent the week end with Miss
bridge.
Miss Elise Wallace is visiting Miss sailie
Mrs 7 r Epcs is spending two weeks
MR. M"Gs g. spent NTH several ns1 days In
Mesdnmes c. NJ. Neblett and William Neb-
Mrs c NJ Nss'ct' is very sick with pneu-
carl Adams 81 oxford. n C.. is staying
with relatives here:
for the past week. with her sister. Mrs.
Wright
Mrs Willie Cralle and Miss Ellen Hardy
returned from trip TO waynesvile n c.
Mira sarah Osborne Is spending this month
with Mrs. Miller In Petersburg.
Miss Mary Hardy left this week to Join
her sister. Miss Ellen Hardy. in Phladel-
pha where they will visit friends Miss
Ellen Hardy specializcd in English at Co
luu,bla this summer
MI ard Mrs Rice have Joined their sons
~ Maine. where they Will stay several
weeks They expect 10 return by New
York
Miss Geraldine Wallace is At the Johnston
willis Hospital IN Richmond to undergo
az operation for appendicitis Her brother
Willie Wallace has Just recovered from 4
severe case Of typhoid fever
MISS annie Bosnian and Nj Baum, Of
Norfolk came through here saturday or
their way 10 North Carolina. whore they
We're married
chaperoned an excursion party TO tho Nat
uTai Bridge Thursday.
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KeysVilIe, Va. August 2S-Mrs Bailey en-
rertained last evening in honor OF her Sis
ter Mrs abbott Of Washington
Mrs r : Fitzgerald LETT yesterday for q
weeks stay n Lynchburg.
Mrs. II q Peters entertained Tuesday
evening In honor OF Mrs Elizabeth Hunt,
Of Danv!lle Mrs James Rogers. OF Oxford.
nd Mrs Henry Wilkerson.
Miss Will!e staples is visiting friends In
Richmond
Mrs dudley Rudd 4. visiting friend. IN
Bolona
Misses Elizabeth Peters and Huyler May
gave a hny ride Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs Henry Wiikefscn left here
"Wednesday to make their home In North
Carolina.
Miss PHYLLIS Bailey is .isit!ng her brother
Aubrey Bailey. In Norfolk
The old Maids Convention" was gtvc-
.n the Town Hall Monday night for IN
benefit OF the School League.
Misses Ole Mccormick. Mary Pierce an,
BESSIE Lacy. Of ScottshuFg are guests o
Miss Edna Spencer.
Mrs. John s. WATKINS who has been Il
at 81 Lukes Hospital. has returned
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Gladstone. Va, August 81 c Gentry
and family have returned from extended
visit to Ocean View and Richmond
Miss Mary Doran, of Richmond, IS with
Mise Mary s Pampln
Mrs M Siavin, her Little con Mike"
and Miss Mary Capell have returned home
from Richmond
Mrs. ". v. Parkinson and daughter. Miss
Virginia of Washington. are Waiting the
forner's sister, Mrs. ]. A. Capell.
Lloyd Clemmer. former resident Of this
place passed through here few days ago
en- route 10 Palm Beach. Fla
Miss sylvia Howry. Of East Bank. ".
"a, is a guest OF Mrs II; l. Fisher s
Miss Pearl hanson or Tn i'''' 80 ''''''"s
Miss Emily Nuttycombe is with her aunt
Mrs Bettie Duvai
daughter have returned from visit &c
iiohmopd.
suest Of airs N. j. Turner.
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yards is equal to n solid block 800 feet
square and 500 feet high. Such block
would have n base of more than two
acres. and 1t would rise to the height
OF a twenty five or thirty-story build
Ing. Twenty such blocks would be
equal to solid block of two acres
more than mile high. Talk about
the pyramid of Ghizeh. That is estt-
mated to contain 5000, 900 cubic yards.
Six or seven such pyramids have slid
down into the Culebra Cut and we
have had to move them out"
How the Mountains Flow.
What are these slides?"
They arc of two kinds" said Col
onel Gaillard. One is the slide proper,
which consists OF the movement OF
material lying on the bedrock. They
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Salem. Va. August 2s.-Miss Sadie Bowles
entertained on Thursday morning at mis-
cellaneous shower in honor of Miss Johnsie
Scruggs.. whose marriage TO Samuel Elan
ngan. of Matenan. w. Va. VIII take place
next Tuesday afternoon. Beautiful flowers.
consisting, Of roses and asters and ferns.
bridge were played, at the conclusion of
which an express wagon filled with many
sented the bride-elect. This was followed
with the serving OF charming three-course
luncheon.
afternoon Of a delightful art party COM
plimentary to Mrs. f. NJ. Shank. Miss
Doughty and Miss Walcott. OF Georgia A
color scheme OF pink and white was carried
out in the decorations Fruit punch was
served upon the arrival of tho guests aftor
which a pretty Ice course was served. to-
gcther with minis and nuts The hostess
was assisted In entertaining by Misses Ida
and Maude Kelly.
bridge party Wednesday afternoon AZ
her home on Broad Street. The game was
Mrs. j. A. Thomason and two children.
Lois and Jack. are spending some time at
Caldwells Springs.
Mrs. Katzonberger. OF Baltimore. is tho
guest of her daughter. Mrs. Maurice Jeter,
on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs: F. A. Day and son. Paul.
have returned from visit to Richmond and
Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Anderson. who have
tcr's parents. DR.. and Mrs. j. e. Bushnell
loft Thursday for their new home In Hunts
ville Ala.
Miss Grace Meyer entertained n few friends
Tuesday evening at q nve-courAe dinner In
honor of Miss Katherine Abrahams, OF
Washington. who has been q guest for sew
eral weeks of her aunt. Mrs. w. r. Whites
carver, on Broad Street
The Woma.'s Miesionary Convention OF
the Lutheran Church held In College
Church here this week. There were many
delegates in attendance and moat profit
able and enjoyable session was held. Mrs
| w. r Morchead WAS elected president foi
1.-The coming year AZ the close of the con
vention on Wednesday afternoon tho dele
gates wore taken In automobiles to Wow
tho Roanoke Woman's College buildings.
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are composed of clay and earth, and
MAY have a great deal OF rock mixed
moving by gravity on n smooth in
clined surface of harder underlying
material The other class is known
as the break" 1t comes from the
weakness of the various strata far
under the surface. They are squeezed
out by the enormous weight of the
material lying above them.
Take first the slide proper. In this
case the motion is very like that OF !
glacier. and II ranges in speed from n
few inches Il month to fourteen feet
a day. In the large slides the mo-
ton is uniform. In ono instance the
speed was about ten feet per day,
and the variation during the first ten