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Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22

A Jest is q Jest, but the following
letter, received by Ills Honor, the
Mayor" next morning. suggested a
straw too much for the Asiatie rumi.
nant's back. Tersely, 1t said:
"Squirrai Inn,
Sunday Morning.
"Mr. Walter Bedlght,
Mayor OF Ossian:
Dear Sir: The levity Of your DC
meanor at yesterdays trial and the
ostensibiy nonchalant attitude you
chose 10 take OF the sentence infict-
ed. leads me- to believe that you arc
considering this very serious matter
altogether too lightly. Under ordinary
circumstances q handsome triHer
might ride into @ woman's camp like
|lochinyar. boldly grasp q pretty girl
In his arms and kiss her, without pay
Ing a moro severe penalty than tho
scorn Of the camp and q few surface
scratches. And even you, evidently a
gentleman as we'll as q politician.
might have escaped with q fitting re-
buke had you been iuckier. Unen-
numbered by baggage and feeling I'm
bound by our court to remain, you
could have drlfted away into the eve.
ming shadows and laughed at Jul Of
forts to restrain you.
nut. MT, Bedight. as a candidate
{or representative at the coming cleo
fots xhdfh ga8Esatss evidently re-
ecuping your vital forces in this tran
gull spot you will scarcely desert
Nhite We have In our possession a
SO discriminating as that
by us yesterday In your wake
Through the dogwood swamp.
"The document itself Is evidence
enough. II given publicity. to lose You
the votes Of almost every woman in
the district. Such treachery as You
pave In mind-the drafting Of o bill
against woman's snfrage-wili not be
Icountenanced by the fair voters OF
this lnnd. once the facts are In their
Possession!
Il trust you realize the enormity OF
your crime and the hold VIC have on
you. Should you be unwise enough
10 violate the sentence Of this court.
The news OF your duplicity will be
sent to the women's clubs of your dis
trict. to be followed by unimpesch-
able evidence in your own handwrit.
3ng-the bill Itself. / am satisfied that
your better Judgment will prevail and
That you Will serve your sentence as
becomes q gentleman and q candidate.
This being Sunday, you will BIO al,
lowed your liberty to 30 and cone as
bdR please and fortify your mind
against the ordsal you + about to
Experience. On Monday morning you
kill inaugurate your sentence by be-
Timing With Mae, Andrews. wtiose
5nme appears first on the alphabetical
3st Mae Is a stunning blonde with
lair like spun fax and cheeks like
.hs down Of an Alberta peach. She Is
nty broke and q high stopper, has 0
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22
Relic OF ,nterest to scotsmen.

= razor which belonged to Bob
bic" Burns was sold in London the
other day. 1T had & bone handle bear
ing silver plates giving its pedigree
"The last razor that Robert Burma
ever shaved With" Each successive
owner since 1t was presented by Rob-
ort Burns, Jr., to William Dunbar, In
1889, has added q plate indicating the
purchase.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22
Mementoes Of Sir Walter Scott.

Mementoes Of Sir Walter Scott.
The Edinburgh Corporation museum
mas been enriched by the presentation
10 II OF two letters written BY Sir
waiter Scott, the quill the great
novelist used, 2 lock of his hair. and
a box Of Quill points with portrait Of
Sir Walter on the lid.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22
Meaningless

"Your father called me q timber
vol. What did he mean by that?"
"Oh, that's just Il Of pas political
expressions. He used to live out
west. you know and nothing ever
n'eased him SO much as to shoot O
timber wolf before breakfast. OF
course he didn't mean anything ny
it."
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22
Device 10 Brighten Balloons.

ISVF9c ." .'110eSH
A. navel method of trying to get ria
Of the baboon nuisance In the Grasf-
geinet district, Cape Colony, vas re.
Gently put into operation by a farmer.
This man conceived the idea of get
ting rid Of the nuisance by capturing
a %full-grown male bahoon, dressing
him in all the colors OF the rainbow,
putting @ sheep-hell round his neck,
and turning him loose to join the
troop to which he belongs. TIE
farmer believes that by SO doing there
will be nc baboons seen iii his neigh.
horhood for a good many years.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22

TO shore in his arms, whers he linger.
ingly deposited her on the warm sand.
The outraged warden. fully believ.
Ing that Providence had become bis
ally. and delivered into bis hands the
resisting criminal. strobe forward and
tapped Bedight authoritatiyely on tho
shoulder.
Serves ye right. darn We. Now you
come along with mel"
For answer Bedight pirouetted III
Ito b. Continuei.l
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22
S.. va Non

sonny--"Aw, pop, / doAt wantef
study arithmetic" Pop-"What! a
son OF mine grow up ano not De aoie
TO figure up baseball scores and oao'
ting averages? Naver!!"
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22
S3JS.5HU


When said bends are thus issued as hevei.t
provided, same shall be sold by the I'lcst.
delt OF the Board Of Conlmi% :sioners as tie
needs Of the Jefferson md plaQupG,:nes
Drainage District iaay require. for not les,
ihan ply. and The proceeds realized froii
the said sale OF said bonds shall Constitute
Il trust fund and he useI exclusively 70.
draining and reelaiming s;gid lands %lereir-
above tcstliatd ard tie c.nsiru ton %
such wor';s AS are necessary ilsr.in. il &c.
cordanee with law and TIE said le.,Drt III
Ike Board 81 STATE Engineers.
SIG. !. Hf II i'RftAer Aeaalfe',; EAe,
TIA; the original # his nn:lt;sinn shall ie
:ecofdea IN Tive Mortgage LeeJrs.s u :}e
Parishes & .;rTers,a sld .laqiiemints. AID
also published in the official Journals OF tf,a
Parishes of jefferson ami i'iagu:nit .rs iu
...e matlrr W.,itcd by Scctiol :, Ct het
BIZ CT tie Atta ct the General - c'eh;.y g!
We st.tr of Louisiana for iAe Year l1iG.
and II shall! bc the duty OF the President
Of tie I:oaid OF Commissioner Il the JEFF.
tcrson end Ila1uemines Drainage District
70 tau." said .ecord.t.na and pMhli, al u
20 &c made.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22

Find Market IN United States.
OF the exports Of Jamaica, 81 per
cent. go to the United States.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22
Getting There

Ine fellow Miio gets there doesn't
depend SO much on inspiration as on
MISUNDERSTANDING Record,
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22
souIisy, l Say. and Proud ss4t.

Guilty. ! Say. and Proud st4t~
zen Beau Brummels infatuatsd and
f. 70 see enanored men turn SOM
aults In the service OF the queenly
You will do what she tells you
Iysn 10 jumping through q HOOP,
buId she demand II.
ror purposes Of assignment, l give
herewith the list Of your owners
the days Of your servitude. as
lows:
MONDAY. Mae Andrews.
Tuesday, Mabel Arney
"wednesday. Harriet Brooks
Er
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22

Personally came md appeared brfo'r me-.
lhc n:derslgned authority. AI.ESIS 4.
III Mi;sTR;. who being by ne frs. du'y
worn, der, Srs and says: That he Is the
n rr'aiy-Tisa.a ,le: of the Jefferson ara
i~":a.uemincs Drainage N't"ict; ttat said
lttainam district h.. no ven, ;:tgst,lat.. r.,
as VI aa' itresatng rcssf"F:s;i IL the ss:essfd
{ fdiu!nis toner's Il ting .icI3. sou :nd Ra,
'li,rElines D...,in! 90 District vi. Introduced
in T,laarn.t. and uaa:imhns.y adopted by
tie Hoard of commissioners Of The .Ist:cr-
an n. / Ilaanrmines Drainage ris!rist 1t y
regular meeting held in the Police .!uEy
loom oe the Courthaute in the Town ef
G,ett a Parish of jefferson, on Tuesday. No
vrE.er T.. 1872, and tha. the foreFcing Is
n"r .: 'ip qHadraple originals of sid reso.
lMtt3n.
4. e. DrM.srR:.,
Sworn TO and subscribed before me ca
this 18th dry Of November. 1912.
7. j.. TILLoIseS.
Notary Pablo.
i,epu.y. Clerk 2s.h judicial District
Court, Parish Of Jefferson, lac.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22
NUMBER

NUMBER
NAME OF ACRES.
Geo. =. 1850
Belle Chase Land Co. Ltd. 800. 1881
Per YIN. a. Collins, Pres.
II. c. Yarmouth. 4,lSS
c. Grabert, II. :: J. Ecer ........ 3433
Louis JeanIrau az
John 3. Meyers. .......... 1,03i
Geo. L. Baker. 23
l.. {. Spencer. Al
Hero Company, Geo. j. Hero, Pres. 1870
H. Leopold. 9S3
II. * B. Beer. SOS
G. W. Herman and VIM. W. WALL. 100
IIcrOwall Co.. G.. i. Hero, Pres..... 1000
J. 7. Hanson. 343
pres. ......................... 1890
VIM. Gardese 800
Mrs. D. Il. Millisen, c. II. Farrell,
Atty. 81
Brooklyn Land Co.. G. s. Weis. Pres. 300
The Orleans Plantation CO., Ltd. Per
Jos. >Mawmus, res............. 1874
Harvey Canal Land s. improy. Co.,
by Henry 7. Dart, Pres. ....... 1,539
Mrs. J. L. Dauteriye, l.. d. Dauter-
i've. V. L. Dauteriye, CASTOR Dau-
Mrs. ss'' Il. K. Bender, By ;wH ". Z. Ben. -
der, 10
N. :. Freed and q. +. STAFFORD, BY Il. -
r.. StTiord lis
Louisiana 3ea!ty Co., lad, BY Edw.
Siatttry. OF
Valley Realty Co, j. ]. Manson,
Est, Thomas liic;lles, Ey j. ii. iial.
lsdaS' So
90 Ara
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22
CHAPTER III.

A Jest is q Jest, but the following
letter, received by His Honor, the
Mayor" next morning. suggested a
straw too much for the AsIatie runi.
nsnt's back. Tersely, 1t said:
"Squirrai Inn,
Sunday Morning.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-22

by GEO. a. I{sko,
President OF tie Board o. commissioners
Of tho Jefferson and ''!aGaemines Drain.
age District.
4. G. ,tCMIstHp,
Secretary OF the Board tf Commits
aioners Of the Jeffrrsan and ria
Yur!u!ncs Drainage District.
INTEREST COTTON
On The first day of
Jefferson and lialucmines Drainage District
OF the Parishes Of Jefferson and plaque
mines. Louisiana, doIDici,ed In Greina. Ia
the Perish OF Jefferson, will pay to bearer
twelve and $1,000 dollars t$12.50} at t;.r
at the option &c tie h0.fnr. lsfing the semi
interest Cue on Bond 10. 49,.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-10-29

The oldest royal dynasty in the
world is that of Japan, which goes
back unbroken 1900 years.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-10-29
lAIBOWLINGIN
GINEW 81 Z

Duck Pin Scores.
The following are the scores made
in the games rolled on the Gore alleys
last evening.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-10-29

The job you probably ought to have
IS apt TO be advertised any day now.
Whether or not you find and answer
thai special help wanted" ad. may
change the whole course of.your life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08

ness life cannot be essentially an old
fashioned woman. We know better
than that, don't we? We have seen
too many business women puttering
away at self-imposed domestic tasks
after their working day, because the
call of the cave woman was in them,
not to know better than that.
Mrs. Tavenner has a modest home
in the suburban part of the great and
fashionable city of Washington in a
two-story and basement brick house
in row of similar houses with one
unbroken street wall. porches side by
side and no dooryards, except at the
rear. There she keeps house and
adds to her home treasures bit by bit
as the household purse permits, as wo-
men love to do. She 1,-ut uays, for
example, sitting the shops for the din,
me- set that should last the Taven.
ner's lifetime-and settled upon a
lovely pattern in trailing arbutus.
me beautiful embroidered center
piece that has the place OF honor or
her dining room table is the work OF
her hands. She loves to embroider
The lace that edges the centerpiece
she made at odd times. 1t took a yeal
to complete the piece
Though Mrs. Tavenner is a quiet
thoughtful young woman, with rathol
serious tastes, who reads only the
best books, ponders earnestly tn,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08

tor from Rock Island. YVES business
caller here Friday
Bert Rosemond was Davenport
business caller Monday.
James Benson was a Moline bust
ness caller Saturday.
Mrs Harry Black and grandson,
Lester Black, of LaSaiie are visiting
at the home Of her daughter, Mrs.
Harry Frymeyer
Lewis Sickler visited Monday with
his mother, Mrs. Carrie Sicbler of
Davenport.
Mrs. W. J. Lloyd and daughters
we're CoIona visitors
6. F. Holland was a Davenport bust,
ness caller Saturday
Miss Ellen Settles visited at Moline
Mrs. Steve Mitten was Moline
visitor last week.
Mrs Charles Belowski spent Mon.
day at Moline
Mrs. David Moncor and children
Genevieve and Keith Of Miller. S. D.
and I-s. James Fairlie OF Geneseo
are visiting at the home Of their
brother, Scott Kennedy. and otne'
relatives here a5d also az Milan.
Revoe J. PhelDs returned home Sat
urday from Giliett Grove Iowa- for :
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08

largest social and political problems,
and knows American politics like
book, her life is not all of the study
and the office.
She loves the open road and the
green fields.
She swims and boats and nothing
pleases her better than a drive behind
her horse, Dan. or a hard mornings
work in the garden.
The Tavenner Washington home is
on a corner There is a bit of park
in front and at the side. The yard
faces west and south. Mrs. Taven-
ner is making it into a rose garden.
surrounded by a hedge of California
privet 1t is plain she contemplates
a lonsy, long residence in Washington
as the wife of an American statesman
and therefore is setting ont a garden
that shall be increasingly beautiful
with tie years.
81 suppose am what you might call
a supremacy happy woman" she says
u always look on the bright side of
life My dearest pleasure is to help
my husband in his work and my great
est happiness | find within the walls
of my home. | wish | never had to
+ fo- the heroine of simon-pue Amer
icaT romance?
Isn't that Just lovely point of view
60 away from it again"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08

army of self-reliant women stenogra-
piers.
Let us glance for a moment at the
fate which befelI young Clyde Taven-
ner.
Yes. that is his name. Sounds as
IL it came out of Duchess" novel,
but it did not.
Clyde had long since recognized
that 81 a week printing shop was
entirely too snail basis for the mag
niiCent pyramid of a career he intend
Ell 20 erect.
So he shook il and went west TO
make his fortune.
OF course, he didn't 20 west as fast
as that. But your cnronicler finds him
in 1906, at the age of "a, Jared out of
house and home by the San Francisco
earthquake and rustling around like a
good fellow to get his story on the
wire"
For Clyde became 4 newspaper man.
\ little while later our clairvoyant
eye sec our young hero tramping
AlasEaward in search of gold and 10
cal coloring for stories ana behold him
later coming back minus tho first, bat
with plenty of the second. He then
takes ship for Honolulu, where he does
nothing much else, it seems, than send
:. O. S. S 10 American friends for help
to get out Of that pitiless country back
into Illi-.ois and a job.
Let u return TO Isabel
e.
about her
But if it weren't for Clyde it
wouldn't be the same story. so there
yoL are.
Clyde really has handicap Of ten
years on Isabel in age, which makes
il awkward for the narrator.
To jump right back TO Isabel at the
time of the San Francisco earthquake
would be to find her playing with her
dolls. probably So let US jump, say
backward and sidewise over four years
at the same time. to find her where
she actually was, as a matter of truth
occupying the vastly impressive po-
sition of stenographer TO United States
, Senator Robert NJ La Toilette.
or course, she hadn't reached that
station all in a day
After holding minor positions as ste
noErapher she had reached out for big
ger things. She took the civil service
/ examinations. got a good clerical posi-
/ ton under the government in Wash
! ington, and then the post with La Fol-
lette who. Il need not be told, could
teach anybody a great deal about
! American politics.
More OF Miss Martins political lore
/ later
We must return again to Clyde.
Clyde had been busy, too, since he
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08
BY MARY o'coNNoR NEWELL
In Chicago Reeord-HeraId.

HERE is a genuine romance Of
American life, not a single for
- eign thread in its whole fab
ric-web and wool guaranteed Amer
ican-made"
There was once little girl named
Isabel Martin. She was very much
like other little American girls. She
meant when she was grown up to be
the most wonderfully talented and
highly educated young lady that ever
was and to marry a statesman.
And once upon a time, and that not
so very long ago, there was a little
boy who also had dreams This little
boy lived in Cordova, Ill, and worked
In q printing office at 81 week. His
dream was to 20 out west somewhere
and make his fortune and hen run
for congress.
Isabel's parents were poor. As lsa-
bel grew up and her dream Of being
tn, most terribly accomplished young
woman anybody ever knew could be
expressed definitely in the phrase. a
college course she found the same
conditions confronted her that CON
front hundreds of thousands % duti-
ful American daughters. She had to
support herself and helm to support her
parents She faced around brayely TO
meet life as it was and joined the great
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08

GIT back TO Illinois from Honolulu, re-
solved to cling to home and native land
with ali the cling that was in him
Clyde has returned to CorGova to
look over the chances for accomplish
ing there the other half Of his dream
building up a career as a statesman
The first half hadn't been attained,
exactly. He hadn't made a fortune in
cash. But he had become a full
fledged newspaper man and who has
more of the world in fee than such a
ore?
Between whites Of covering newspa-
PEI assignments in the metropolis Of
Illinois and in Washington, Clyde stud
led the political aspects of the district
surrounding his home town. He de-
cided that they offered decided encour-
agement for just the sort of hustling
young American with political ambi-
tions he was.
He threw his hat into the ring. He
ran for congressman in the Fourteenth
Illinois district, that lovely strip of
country along the Mississippi river,
dotted over with such cities as Rock
Island. Moline, Monmouth, Macomb
and Carthage
He got 1880 votes against his op-
pouents 1904
Which is a pleasant way of saying
he wasn't elected.
The reason was far to seeS-as far
as Washington.
Let us follow Clyde. therefore. TO
Washington, a familiar country to him
as newspaper correspondent Let US
leave him in a nice political job there.
thai Of financial clerk in the office of
the sergeant-at-arms, while we go to
| seek the other half of the sketch.
She doesn't know it as yet, but that
| is what she is
We will find her no longer with Sen
ator La Toilette, but stenographer for
! thu board of army engineers.
Our Clyde's newspaper duties often
| in the past took him to the Office of
Senator La Toilette. There he had
met the young, fair and able stenogra-
pher
| So when he got back to Washing
! ton realizing what was short in his
campaign for the suffrage of the vot-
ers OF the Fourteenth Illinois congress
SIGNAL district, he betook himself
/ stTaightway to the boar5 of army en-
! gineers and laid the situation before
Miss Martin
Would she or would she not help
/ him To write his name high on the
role OF American statesmen?
/ In other words. would she or would
I she not become Mrs Clyde Fl. Tav-
I ennere
This chroricler does not pretend I.
know first hand. but thinks IL extreme
! ly probable that young Isabel be-
/ thought herself fortnight that here
/ was the concrete presentment Of the
other half OF her dream Of youth. Here
her fate was indeed decided for her.
/ She should he the wife Of a statesman,
, as foreseen.
This was last July. The political
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08

pot was boiling hot in the Fourteenth
congressional district, Il was now or
never for our young Eero-or at least
he thought il was SO did our young
heroine. Tho name Of Clyde II. Tav-
eDncr. democratic nominee for the sec
on,l time for congressman was al
ready before the electorate in the Miss
issiFpi valley lands.
Come he begged of Isabel. Como.
Place yourself at tkc head Of a trusty
group OF IL clerks. which | shall give
to you, and we shah smite the philis-
tine republicans hip and trigh in the
valley Of the Mississippi that is the
Fourteenth district. and behold, when
another winter is fed and gone you
snail return to Washington and reign
even as an American queen. for shall
you not be the wife OF Clyde H. Tav-
enr er, one of the elders of the peo-
ple?"
Maybe he didn't say it just that way,
but what's the pleasure Of telling a
story if you cannot tell it in your own
way Anyhow. Miss Isabel Martin. our
young heroine, stenographer of the
board of army engineers. did marry
"Tav," otherwise young Clyde II. Tav-
eEner. our young hero, and on her
honeymoon did fly with him to the
fertile land of western Illinois and the
six counties that are the Fourteenth
district
And while Clyde went up and down
the land telling how mighty was his
cause. which was democratic and how
measly was that of the republican foe,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08

Isabel organized strong Office machin-
cry of political warfare
For decades will the story be told
down in the Fourteenth district.
How q district that for 90 years had
been arrogantiy and solidly republican
was won to the democratic camp by
tho combined onslaught of a young
American couple on their honeymoon.
4 few weeks of Napoieonic cam
raigning by our hero and our heroine
ant the battle was over.
Clyde H. Tavenner was elected rep
resentative from the Fourteenth CON
gres sional district by a margin of
1,210 votes. The republican working
majority of 5000 in the district was
beaten fiat as pancake. To prove
the political acumen of our young
heroine, the night before the returns
came in she forecast the election of
her husband by 1855 votes-which
was only "a votes off from the returns
All the more remarkable when it is
known that the total vote of the dis
trict is around $4,000.
Now that we've got them married
and in congress-she the youngest wife
of any member of congress and he
possibly the youngest congressman, for
Mrs Tavenner only turned q last No
vember, and Mr. Tavenner has just
rounded his 31st year-let's talk lit
tie about Mrs. Tavenner on the per.
soEal side
She is what one would call an old
/ fashioned woman. There are many
who think woman trained in bust.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08

Of East Moline were entertained Sun
day at the John Holland home.
Mr. and Mrs James Perine of Day-
export were entertained Sunday at
the Frank McKenrick home.
Mr. and Mrs Peter Lorenz were
East Moline visitors last week.
Perry Kennedy of Geneseo spent
Sunday with his brother, Scott Ken
nedy.
Mrs Lewis Sickler returned home
Saturday from Annawan. H.. where
she had been called b. the illness of
her brother. Albert Weit5's little son
He IS now much improved
Miss Mildred Beck, vocal instruc-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08

and-powder puff. Yessir, a powder
pun. Il seems that the men OF Chi.
cago have never had a convenient
place 10 put their powder pufTs and
the new handbag is welcomed as just
the thing Chicago is rather warm in
the summer and in consequence the
Chicago mems noses are rather shiny.
SO thar a powder pun is absolutely
necessary. All the men in Chicago
whose noses get shiny are highly
pleased with the introduction of
handbags.
Pretty soon Philadelphia Or Boston
will come to bat with psek-a-boo
waists for men or something CT that
sort. See If they don't Wouldn't IT
be awful II this country had a war?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-08

The past season has offered several
very chic and dainty copceits IN the
way OF mems styles. There have been
hats with bows in tine back and. well
--corsets New Tork men have
started carrying pet poodles in their
arms. and indeed quite a few perfect
~ lovely ideas have found a follow
ing Now il is Chicago's turn and the
men OF the Windy City have struck
upon a new fancy that is really the
prise Of the bunch. Handbags for
men, Isn't that dear?
This new male hanGbag will I'LL a
lcnF-felt want. Il provides room for
car fare and theatre tickets and chew
ing gum and a vanity bag and hand
kercAief and a small looking glass