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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01
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ScHAAF'S GRADUATION GIFTS.
$3.50 AND UP. SOLID GOLD Ia VAL
ileres lo.!nch Chains; beautiful Sc
$3.50. IA yALLlEREs, with genuine
full cut diamond and pearls
SEQ 4Np rr. FINEST AND BEST
$3.50 AND UP. SOLID GOLD s1GNEr
ring. Special.
$3.50 AND UP, LOCKETs AND CHAINS.
$1,?5 AND UP. STERLING MANICURE
Sis AND ur. FINE Lor GOLD
brooches, stickpins. Tie Clasps Cun
S5i,oe AND uP DIAMOND SOLITAIRE
HArrlNs, % CENTS AND UP.
$500 AND Ur. GUARANTEED LINE
of best Watches made
BRACELET WATCHES. OPERA
tionaily low prices ScHAAF'ss. H JeW
el"rs. i26 East Broad. AT Fifth
SHOE REPAIRING.
RuBRER WHOLE soLEs AND
spring heels put on $3.50. All kinds
Trio SHOE F'AcToRY. 7is Main Main
Street
WE CARRY y LARGE STOCK OF
wagons for laundry and general de :
livery purposes: also carriages.
phactonS, business bugEies. run
abouts r. II BoSHER'S SONS.
WATCH REPAIRING.
YOUR WATCH REPAIRED OR
cleaned by WM TOBIEN. JR.. IS y
guarantee that ii Is done properly:
20 years experience. Cleaning. 81
main springs. 81. 40S Eas, Broad
street
TYPEWRITERs FOR RENT.
REMINGTON. SMITH PREMIER. MON
condition. PROMPT sci vice. REAIINC;-
TON TYPEW RITTER CO. Clio East
Main Street
STOP. LOOK, AND THINK.
JOHN LA TOUCHE. JR.. NEW PLACE
33l West Ma!r Monroe l452. French
and steam cleaning; ladies princess
and dresses cleaned, $l.50: plated
skirt cleaned, 75c; plain, soc gloves
cleaned. any length, DC per pair:
gents suit dry cleaned soc; French
cleaned. u. reduction in all work.
BUILDING MATERIAL.
USE FIREPROOF HERCULES PI,AS-
ter Board in place OF laths and pias-
tcrS: Sl.15 pc" l00 square feet yVrjt a
for sample. HERCULES PLAS'rIcI,
BOARD Co, Hampton. Va.
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NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS FOK
two ladies'; bath. phone electric
lights ii9 West Main S,reat
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w ANTEp. GENERAL MANAGER FOR
large business having Offices iu Rich
mona ana two other Southern cities
MUST be good booiSkcepcr and he able
!" invest }3,VrO 49, q cooperative in
tcrcst j. l32. care Timer piGpatch
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NICELY FURNISHED, WITH OR
without hoard. us Eas, Marshall
Street
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TYPEwRITERs FOR RENT.

: EAIINGTON. SMITH PREMIER. MON
arch. direct from manufacturer: Al
condition. Prompt lVice REAINC;
TON TYPEW RITTER CO. clio East
Main Street.
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W ANTED, PARTNER WITH 10000
possessing executive ability. who can
take active interest in business nav
ihg good salary and - per cent a
xchi on tho investment Il 5S. care
Times Dispatch
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ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS, 1913.
MAY, IAN
JAN i TO MAY 81.

and reports
January
Total amount to
Total amount of s31o1Os
Decrease in
th month OF May 1912
1912 Sl7S
'''' " N'"!' i'i-' OF
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Weldon is to spend $4,000 in enlarg-
ing its water works and sewer sys-
tenn.
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Rooms For lSent

HANDSOMELY FURNIsHED ROOMS:
central references exchanged. THE
ROANOk +. ia North Eighth.
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The Wautauga Democrat tells this
cheering story;
Less than two weeks ago we were
most of us, convinced that all the
fruit in the county had been killed
But now, after diligent inquiry, We
find that there is thought to be an
abundance of fruit in the county for
home consumption. regardless OF the
heavy frost and freeze. If humanity
could only trust more and srumble
less it would certainly be a different
world"
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TWO LARGE BRIGHT. FURNISHED
rooms soparately. or FOR light house
fr"Qlue Moderate rent TO adults.
a0i North Meadow Stveet
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WANTED. ONE OR TWO GENTLEMEN
20 Join me in the purchase of one Of
the most attractive deyclopment
properties around Richmond can
bc purchased at Very low figure on
easy terms, and II is possible that
other real estate OF securities might
ne used as part payment a 20 care
Times Dispatch
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01

NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS FOR
gentlemen, convenient To bath: all
convenienccH. Monroe 1861.
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TWO BEAUTIFUL. CONNECTING;
rooms furnished. one front. Win al
cove lNOl West Main
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WANTED. CNFNBI.E BUSINESS
man who can invest several thou
sand dollars. with services, to be-
come MANAGER Of = local enterprise.
Good position; commensurate salary:
investment secured give references.
Address - 1856 care Times Dispatch.
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BUILDING MATERIAL.

jSE FIREPROOF HERCULES PLAS-
ter Board in place Of laths and pias-
ters: $l.73 pc" loo square feet Write
for sample. HERCULES PLASTEE
kOAkD 90. HAMPTON. Va
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CAPITAL FURNISHED For MERJT0
rious enterprises: stocks and bonds
sold on commission: facilities for in
cooperating and reorganization Of
son & co. Madison and LaSalIc,
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sTor. LooK. NE THINK-.

JOHN LA TOUCHE. JR.. NEW PLACE
3Sl West Ma;r. Monroe i52. French
and dresses cleaned. Sl.50: plated
skirt cleaned, 15c. plain, soc: gloves
cleaned. any length. Toe per pair:
cleaned, 81: reduction in all work.
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NICELY FURNISHED ROOM FOR
Young man. cenitaliy located Phone
Monroe y9al-
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IF YCi HAVE ANYTHING FOR RENT
o. quick sale list with GEE BROS.
lNb Porter street. Phone Madison
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The Hadloy- Peoples Manufacturing
Co. Of silver City, has awarded con-
tracts for the enlargement OF its cot
ton factory.
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WATCH NNpAIRING.

YOUR WATCH REPA!RED OR
cleaned by WIN ToBlEN, JR.. is a
20 years experience. Cleaning. 81:
main springs. 81. 40S Eas. Broad
street
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WANTED. a GOOD FARM IN EN-
change Tor preferred stock in pros
porous Virginia corporation earning
20 per cent G 90. care Times Dis =
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WANTED, FIFTEEN TO FIFTY
ten miles below Richmond: state
price, terms and full particulars IN
first letter. Il A3. care Times Dis
patch.
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WANTED TO RENT HOUSE rs
iiighland Park or Barton Heights.
Possession September / Give full
particulars. Address j, 81 care
rlfneg- ID sft.ltri
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WANTED. \ FARM ~ EXCHANGE
care Times Dispatch
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w :. Stroup is building and equip
ping a new knitting mill Al Hickory
The Charlotte Observer boasts as
follows:
From the viewpoint of agricultural
resources, there is practically nothing
left TO he desired in North Carolina.
And just now. when the Importance OF
lime on some soils Is being realized for
leguminous and other crops. great
lime deposits have been discovered
near Newborn and Wilmington Yer
lily. North Carolina is Gods own coun-
try
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EXCLUSIVE COUNTY RIGHTS FOR
"Wondercloth" now being allotted
everEbody buys; big profits: repeat
orders. come fast opportunity to
star, local, mall sales and jobbing
business; new selling method: small
capital. Particulars and sample
free. BETHLEHEM UTILITIES Co
63 Pine Street New York
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05

tells throughout the republic among
maids and pOrters. but nothing was ever
missed Zachary Taylor said Mexico was
"a nation of blanketed thieves" but he
was fighting them and they were not
friends of his.
As a mechanic the Indian or the half
blood is initiative and slow. He does well,
however, in stone, bricks, and mortar.
because he has been working with such
building materials for centuries. He lays
90 bricks a day. An American mason
lays .,UH. Contractors say that 1t is
cheaper to dig cellars with Indians than
TO employ mules and scraPers. An In
dian. though small. can easily carry two
bushels and a half Of wet sand out of
a deep hole in the ground.
Barefooted Women in Velvet.
Matias Romero was for many years the
Mexican Minister in Washington. He
said that he knew OF Indians in the high
lands OF OaXaCa, a State In South Mex
leo, who raised corn and vegetables in
the lowIands thirty miles distant and
brought all OF their crops home on their
backs
The holland Indian is wretchedly poor.
but he has meyer been in slavery and is
free man now, provided he is not in
debt He has water and he uses it In
Tehauntepec. a city on the Pacific Ocean,
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05

Mexican planters, half-bloods, quarter
-bloods, and pure white, cultivate ma
guey in almost every part OF the re-
public. They wear tall, pointed hats.
short coats or jackets and skin-tight
pantaloons. Clay walls inclose their
adobe mansions, their breweries, sta
bles, and the square huts Of their In
dian workmen. These men will be Of
ficers in the armies which go forth TO
hurl back the invaders.
When Porfirio Diaz became President
in -1S77, there were but two classes in
Mexico-the rich and the poor. mid
die class, composed OF merchants ana
professional men, arose in time between
the poems and the land monopolists. 80
began danger to piaz and his plans for
peaceful and prosperous nation. lie
told the interviewer that he meant grad
uaIIy to uplift the peon, to take him out
of his hovel, put him into a house, and
send his children to school. The mid
die class, however, developed agitators.
For fifty years We had politicians
and demagogues,' a man once eminent
under DiaZ said to the Interviewer. IN
their intrigues to get offices the dema-
gogues brought on revolutions. Then
appeared DiaZ, the man OF iron He
knew the Mexicaus. He had the army.
II a demagogue conspired against the
peace of the country or harangued the
people unwiseIy, Disz had him shot.
Soon there were no more demagogues.
But Diaz grew old and infiTm. The
trade OF the demagogue was revived.
Diaz fell Since then politicians and
demagogues have tried 10 rule. Some
of them may be on the firing line when
a foreign enemy lands on Mexican soil.
Copyright, 1913. By James h. Morrow
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05
MEXICAN CITIZENSHIP REPRESENTS POOR
FIELD FIR ON WHICH ARMY CAN BE RECRUITED

paid. Their wants, one is assured, are
few-corn and beans daily, the backbone
and CHASTITY head of a goat twice week,
and a dram of pulque, the Mexican in
toxicant. when they are thirsty. Higher
wages, so the philosophy of the educated
class runs, would mean an increase OF
drunkenness and idleness, and civiliza'
ton condemns such things
The voices of the cargadores are gen.
tie; so even are the voices of the news
boys and hucksters. Many of them wear
loose cotton trousers, others wear tight
trousers, which spring at the instep over
the feet, and are never clean. Rarely
does one see bowlegged Indian in Mex
leo. The men are slender and wei
formed; the women are plump and
shapeless.
Women drink pulque and smoke Gig
arettes. II employed az a hotel. they are
taken to the front door at night-there
are no back doors in NMexicO-and
searched for spoons, small dishes, knives
and forks, and Z other concealable and
portable property. They stand in line
look not abashed, and make no objection
to the procedure.
The interviewer who is writing this ar.
ticle left his baggage open in many no.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05
CURIOUS HOWDYDo's.

From the Kansas City Star.
The kiss, the handshake, and the bow
are the salutations that are in the most
universal use at the present day. Yet
there exist races TO whom these forms
of greeting would seem as ludlcrous as
their own customs seem to US. In this,
connection Reclam's Universum describes
some curious customs that the people Of
various races observe when they greet
one another.
The prostration and the salaam, saluta-
tons that many Orientals use, are only
more pronounced forms of the bow. So
there is a connection between the en-
brace. so common in civilized countries,
and the greeting of a member of the
Koiari tribe of British New GuiHfea, who,
in saluting missionary, placed one arm
about his neck and stroked him under
the chin,
Among the Nasal and the Ukerewe
it is a mark of respect to greet an ac-
quaintancc of a stranger by splitting at
him Almost as strange is the custom
ascribed to the TibeTans Of sticking out
the tongue by way of salutation. Rub
bling noses is quite common. The Bur-
mese and many tribes of Eskimos, Lap.
landers, and Malays do so.
Stranger than any of the customs is
the weeping salutation that has been
observed among Central South American
Indians. This form Of greeting occurs,
too. in the ALBANIAN Island, New Zealand,
Polynesia. A Portuguese explorer de-
scribes the custom as he saw It used
among a tribe of South American In
dams:
Whenever a guest enters a hut he Is
Immediately honored, and made welcome
by being wept over. Without a word be-
ing spoken he is lead to the hammock
As soon as he is seated the hostess and
her daughter, and any Of their girl
friends who happen to be in the house
at the time come and sit about the
guest. touch him lightly with their fin
gers, and commence to weep loudly and
to shed many tears. During this cere-
mony, in sort Of connected discourse,
they recite everything that has happened
20 them recently, and talk of the hard
ships of the road that the visitor has suf-
fered and Of anything that can arouse
compassion and tears The guest. his
hand before his face, pretends to weep,
and does not speak until the crying has
gone on for some time. Then they all
wipe away their tears and become as,
lively and merry as II they had never
cried in all their lives
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05
Songs OF Today.

Prom the Chicago Journal.
Where is the present-day popular
song that may be compared with Annie
Laurie" or MY Old Kentucky Home" o.
sally in Our Alley" Nay, where Is tho
present-day popular song that has more
than an of chance Of being remembered
or sung a single year hence, let alone re-
manning a favorite for a generation? Mol
where. In songs, as in so many other
matters, the one desire just at present
is to get the appiause-and dollars-oS
the moment. II a "bearcat" dance or a
sloppily sentimental ballad attracts at
tention to itself and income to its in
ventor, nothing more Is asked or ex-
pected. So of "cubist art" which is
merely iunacy on canvas; so of tenderloin
plays. The one thing required is mot
that they shall be true, or beautiful,
or thoughtful. or ! enduring; but
that they shall make money. It is
strange that an age like the present,
which has so many superb achievements
to its credit, and which is more deeply
imbued with the sense of human brother
hood than any preceding time in history,
should have come to this sorry pass in
matters of art and recreation.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05

Indian women, each OF whom has several
hundred dollars I'm gold coins necklaced
above her BOSOM can be seen selling
fruits and flowers at the public market.
These women go to dances at night bare
footed, but they wear velvet bodices and
layers of white petticoats stif as plenty
OF starch can make them.
The men will refuse to I carry a
strangers baggage for pay, but they will
live In huts which are. I'm a sense. with
out sides and are rooted with leaves and
palms. Moreover, they will go into debt,
and debt TO them means slavery.
Once in debt, they are in ever-enduring
bondage. Their debts are bought and
sold. The Indians thus change masters
because their debts represent their per-
sons and their labor. and are tangible
and transferable property. Agents OF
Plantation managers visit Lizzie villages
on feast days, loan Indians money with
which TO purchase liquor. and take re-
ceipts for the funds thus advanced.
At the end of the debauch the Indians
must either go to the plantations or 10
Jail. No doubt the invaders, when they
come, will be met in battle array by an
army of the meek and notwithstanding
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05

of ChiapaS, Campeche, and Yucca
tan.
There also Is another flood that covers
Mexico. II looks much like buttermilk,
is sold for cents a quart, and is called
pulQue. The common people of the re-
public. the men who will fight the in
vaders, are Indians and half-hloOds. 1t
can be said that they are intoxicated a
good part Of the time.
when DiaX shot All DrmaRoEucS.
Pulque, the moral s,ourgc of the coun-
try, is brewed from the juice OF the
maguey or American aloe. Mescal. col
orless and with a bite like acid, is made
of its roots. AGuardiente. or burning
water" is distiled-fr sugar cane. No
liquor is stronger. Field hands are given
burning water three times a day in
drafts that would eat holes in granite
and CorrOde steel and iron.
The curse OF these liquors lies heavy
on the land. Pulque is taken daily to
Mexico City in special trains. II is an
important article OF freight. Villagers
and country people buy it>from peddlers,
who store II in pigskins and transport it
from hovel to hOvel on donkeys' backs.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05

! cactuses, heads down. as ever, winding
| in and gut. now in groups, again one
| before the other.
DrnyE of Flesh md Blood.
On the launches of the larger ones
| ride little brown Indians, their zarapes
! folded and slung over their left shoul.
| ders, for the sun, a ball of binding
! gilt, hangs in the blue arch overhead
| and the way is hot and the roads and
| paths are full of white dust
Within the city the Indians them
selves bear on their backs the burdens
| of industry 'and commerce. They are
Mexico's drays of human flesh an6
! blood. A small account is to be settled
You go to your door and clap YOU
| hands together.
| A Cargadore answers you at once. He
! pays your bill and you give him a few
| pennies for his service. He will buy you
a shirt if you will tell him where to &c
and give him the size, color. and price.
| He-will deliver letter or bouquet
If you have trunk at the railway sta
! ton, the cargadore will carry ii a mile
without stopping and charge sou u cents
| When you move your furniture out OF
| one house to another you call him in and
make terms. He employs a half dozen
of his acquaintance, and they come with
WOOuen frames Inal look ike an under
takers bier. Your grand piano will be
borne away on their backs. They are
| passed as they totter down the street by
| automobiles. trolley cars. and bicycles.
A half-naked Indian-and he is the real
inhabitant of the country-his, legs bare
TO the knees, his muscles like ropes,
slowly trots across the plaza in Mexico
City-the plaza where great battles have
been fought and which is now the ter
minus of electric railroads His fine but
| hopeless eyes are on the earth.
There are no sandals on his feet, and
his joints are thick and his nails are
broken and wrenched. In a box on his
back are cans of Standard oil. Another
Cortez came to conquer and the Aztec,
as always bears the burden of the shock.
Such will be his fate when the invaders
appear in ships or swarm on foot across
the frontier
An Argument for Low Wages.
One will be told, however, that all these
poor creatures are merry and contented
that they earn 50 cents in gold a day, and
that they would work less if more were
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05
SLEIGH BELLS CAST IN 1850.

Strings Handed Down Through Sew
eraI Generations of wcsterners.
Milwaukee Correspondents Philadelphia North Amer
lean.
In Prairie du Sac, Wis. are owners Of
a string Of sleigh bells believed TO be
the oldest in the Middle West.
This anent the fact that the old-time
ringers are becoming more and more
valuable as family treasures. Just a
few years ago it had got down to 4
point where three or four small bells
rfveted to a plate and the plate bolted
on the hills of the sleigh were all that
fashion dictated in sleighing time. but
in winter the people, old and young.
are bringing out the old bells. whole
strings OF them and with mettlesome
horses are setting them juggling N many
Iiaces.
For many years the family OF Charles
H. Stoddard, in Prairie du SAT. has
prided itself in owning two vely old
strings of bells Some time ago Mr..
Stoddard said they were brought from
Vermont by Carlos Grow. The Grows
were stage drivers down through several
generations OF the family. At one time
they Operated a stage line between Bara-
hoo and Prairie du Sac. 1t was Mrs.
Grow who presented the bells to the
Stoddards.
The Grows and the StOddards were ac-
customed to hook four horses to big
sled and use a string OF bells on each
pair, and it is told that on frosty nights
the mountains were made to fairly re-
vertebrate with the music of these bells.
They could he heard and Identified four
and five miles distant.
The bells are believed to be rs years
old, they were east in England before
the Revolutionary War. There Is one big
bell about four inches in diameter in the
middle of each string and then they de-
crease in size down to tiny jingler at
each end of the string.
The bells were brought to Chicago in
that city pioneer days.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05

my body, and every little while il rains. -
Brown Flood Covers Mexico.
The planter, no doubt. would lead a
company of his field hands against the
invaders and his friend, the old-time
gamester, might become the colonel of
the regiment Several armies of such
fighters could be assembled in north and
central Mexico-armies of the plain people
who sleep and eat on the earthen floor
of their novels. who are born, who live
and who die on the ground.
A brown flood of ignorant and destitute
men and women covers Mexico; covers
its tabIelands and Iowlands; covers its
cherries and unwatered north and its
green and tungled south.
II is this flood which keeps the country
in motion. Broken into small bands, the
common people of Mexico are now rob
bling planters, miners and one another.
Under DiaZ the common people-Indians
and half-bloods-wOrked the fields and
mines and bore all the burdens of in
dustry and agriculture. They erected the
buildings in towns and cities. Nothing
was done without them; nothing now is
done without them. They are the fighting
men of the ranks.
In Mexico City, everywhere, indeed,
Indians cut ones hair, wait on one at the
table, drive ones carriage, nurse ones
Cnlldren, make one s SnOeS, supply one
with milk and groceries, with flowers
and fuel, and at last bury one and cut
and place a stone on ones grave.
They and their donkeys fill the high
ways and the streets and make the coun-
try prosperous and picturesque. Group a
dozen of them under the gray walls of a
convent and you 'see a living water
color, beautiful in its lights and paints
in its hues and shadows.
Artists and poets, wizards in pigments
and conjurors in words, have gone to
Mexico. There they have seen tints and
shades and wrought in the sunlight and
mists. They have heard strange legends.
A mountain, hung far down its sides in
purple haze, looks well in oil. Sc does
an Indian, slim, erect, a vermillion
sarape thrown across his shoulder.
The Engineer Is "a kindly Mnn.
But words and paint do not catch odors
do not lay hold of feas and worse-do
not sing the song-do not picture the
scene of squalOr. A lowly door among
= the cacti with -barefoOted woman within
the frame may be a poem. Put a black
The Washington herald., 1913-10-05

From the Ada Herald
The State press seems TO be unani-
mousIy in favor of nominating State
auditor lverson as the Republican can
didate for Governor next year. Mr.. LIVER
son stands high with the people Of the
State and has a good clean record as a
State official.