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Marshall Business BROKERS,

ooMINc HOUSE; 8 rooms; low rent: good
come: price res sonable. Apply BET ana W
. ff, 517 4th st. NV.
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NEW SINGERS s. per month. Big bargains
in used machines. all makes Renting. Re-
pairing Hemstitchins- Plating. Butto,s
uade to order. Open evenings.
HOPKINS, 1926 14th st. NV. Col. I7Os.
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AUTOMOBILE
OPPORTUNITY.

Well established automobile
agency has opening for all
around Office man; preferably
with sales experience. A splen-
did opening for a live wire"
who can invest $1,000. Address
Box 291-M, Star office.
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.S575 CASH

-$575 CASH
MAXWELL SEDAN.
1917. Run 1900 miles. Power plant thor
oughly oyerhauled. Tires and battery good.
Body excellent. Car always carefully handled
Ov,ner has left town. An honest offer. No
deaIers Phone Columbia 1917.
FORD touring. 1920 starter. a. T st. NV.
North 5244.
FORD touring car. 1918, with starter. $3.50
Apply 729 18th st. 19'
DODGE coupe. one year old perfect condition
Inauirea 2l27 LIE Roy place. Tel. North 6519.
20s
OLDSMOBILE 8, 5-pass. winter aud summer
tops new tires and battery; fine shape; bar
gain for quick sale. 1928 Wis. are.
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REMINGTON (Visiblel. No. 10, $43 PRACTICAL
ly brand new; also large Hat-top sanitary desk.
dark oak, $40 account moving North 1913. lS'
TYPEWRITER-R Remington, No. IL perfect
condition cost $1"0 new: sell for $55.. IL q
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Special. Beautiful rooming house; 10 rooms:
18th and Eye Srce sts goo oSo seenpe
this barYain today: exclusively for sale at
this office
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In listing with us you have the advantage
of an aycJnsive office: your place is not m1xed
Nm and ciassed with places every one ~
irving TO sell: list your place and save tlme'
Nfarsh.u BUSINESS Brokers. 913 New YORK ave.
SIcpIr1f,E SALE-Hotel 80 rooms, complete
iy furnished; all rented; steam heated: gas
and elcctricity: near Union station Phone s
7 ipcolp G161 -
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RAISE GAPIEAL-->Best methods; avoid per.
sonsI or partnership liability from business
obligations: begin or expand your business; &C.
4uire prestige and credit; capitalize your ideas
easily, quickly, legally. through incorporation.
Corporations organized everywhere; liberal
terms; information free. Established 1903. U.
& Legal Corporation. Bond bldg.
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% ToN ICE PLANT. located on steam and
electric railroad. at Bethesda. Md. including
a well built brick building and two acres OF
ground big opening for laundry or othel sup,
nlv business in connection with same; tins Is
one Of The best business opportunities around
Washington the price is right and reasonable
terms can be arranged. For fuil paruGMlals
annly to Lewis Keiser Bethesda. Nd. Phone
appH 70 IacS oOs
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ORIENTAL. RUGS.
! antique Turkish, : #. by 10 II.
l cashmere, > ft ty q It.
1 cashmere, 1T. by 10 TT.
.Mosul runner. Il #. by #.
Telephone North 5715.
LARGE COAL RANGE. 400 It.. board fence
Army suits and leggins tspiral' leafherp.
Call after 5. f7I3 Willard st. NV.
SEVERAL GAS STOVES, steam table and soda
fixtures. Tyndall 9el NV. 19s
SEWING MACHINE; two solid mahogany
chairs. one lynx fur. 1413 14th. 1Ss
ovERCOATS-A few good used ones raincoat
and mackinaw; 81. IS and 81. e
PLUMBER'S TOOIS-Pipe-fttinE outfit. in
clndng wrenches. stocks and dies. furnace, wise
and several pounds of lead. SIS.
CADET SUIT. used. to ft a 9 It. Slim.
waist boy $3.50. Call any time Sunday or
after 8 80 pm on Monday. Wednesday or Fri
day. 1924 Cfittenden ct: NV. 1Ss
MANURE for sale. car lots. R. Philpot, Alex
andria. va. 1se
FUR COATs-Three handsome; S6-inch length !;
also two 82-inch length must be sold make
your own price. $40 Shepherd st. NV. 9Th st.
cars. 18e
u C. E. z. LIGHTS, perfect condition: cheap
Phone n. 52S9. .1Se
CIGARETTE CASE. new. $50; cost $s1. North
2742 1Se
SEAL COATEE-Never worm worth $3.50; sell
for S75. 1874 Euclid NV, Apt. p.
BRASS BEDS: 2; full size: Cox spring; Crafts
man conch morris chair; armchair; table
lamp; 9x12, 6x9 Administer rugs; all perfect.
Phone Col. 202l.
FOR SALE-Pawn ticket for . diamond neck
lace in for $3.50; will sell ticket for so. Ad-
dress Box 3S-P, Star Office. 12e
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ROOMISG HOUSE, well furnished. consisting &
OF 10 rooms; also well equipped dining room !;
will lease reasonable with Iens lease. Cal at
l1lH Pa .;LNn. IL ". 1kt
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FOR sAIE-M1sCELLANE0Us.

IMPROVED New Baltimore range, No. &;
water back; good for anything except baking: ::
sell cheap; also registers and new galvanized
iron cold air duct for hot-air furnace. 1s2o
Park road
HUDSON SEAL COAT-Knee length: large col
lar and cuffs Of skunk; new; less than half
price. Call Col. 265l.
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Ola New SorR ave.
Grocery, meat and delca lessen s,o,es: Gin Hne
Of host located and paying stores uptown; Nv
Inv r,soms. inSDect and you VIII Duy.
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MONEY-SAVING TRUCKS.

We aim TO repair your
~ generator or starter the
Fl 8 same day. All brushes
and repair parts .ias stock J
Electric Repair Work
o0ek4n1 u6heAS only. -
CARLY HELMS COMPANY. -.
l4O7 l4th Street Franklin Iasl.
az
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Garage for rent; also cars for sale; To-
Gated northwest, death cause TOT seiihs' pfNe'
81 nOn. unusual oppOrtunlty.
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posrdi,o .ra roaming. near 18th and Yer
mont ave- % rooms; s baths; price reasonable
Rooming and boarding house, near Zo.n a Ian anu
2 sts.; furniture good as new large s"i"se'
price, 5000. ...,, +,-,ishod
Rooming house: 9 rooms; well 1urnisheo'
rent only S35; price, 81 600; lease.
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FOR SALE-Pawn ticket for . diamond neck
lace in for $3.50; will sell ticket for so. Ad-
dress Box 3S-P. Star Office. 19e.
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LARGE BOOMING HOUSE and cafe norti1-
west location: price is right and rent reason
able. from 81 900 to $500 cash. Address
Rox Star office
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Kahn Optical Co,
ST. 7th STREET NV.

DIAMOND RING. 1s carat: very fine stone 70
$500. All day Sunday 1908 Eye ST. NV. IS
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Exclusive right for territory near WASH.
ington to distribute Pieis oark' shaii "''
price, 81, 800.
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-.,o0o. nrice q OD0
this city; living rooms, gaf"se' p'
Candy and ice cream; bakery IN rear iN
ing rooms. prjcp 81 400
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FOR sALE--M1sCELLANEous
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

METAL TYPE, stands and cases; good as new.
Also job press and some type cabiHets. Fof
sale cheap. The Mutual Press. 6le Ia. ave-
Phone Main 14S.
SEALfNE COAT, epossum collar: never wor.
size IS; reduced rate. After pm. IL sfh st.
Sc. Line. 1881. IS
FEATHER pillows and comforts: several. rea-
sonabe; no dealers. n. 1876.
FUR SET, muff and scarf; used
only month; cost SlO0; will
sell for $50. 2O3O 9TH NV. North
1876. North 1859.
NEW SPRING DRESSES.
Advance models 3nst received. Exxefesess
but not expensive. Coats at sacrince prices.
MRS SERBY. Apt 81. 1872 3 e ~
FURS-Beautifnl skunk stole. nun to match;
new; custom made. 10l5 18th. IS
ELECTRIC RANGE. Westinghouse make: 8
burner and oven; sell reasonable. Inquire Mr..
Cannon, 14l6 ST. NV, east basement. lSs
STOLE AND MUFf; nearly new and very at
tracti~e; reasonable for quick sale. G1la 4th
10
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Auto accessories and gas station; connected
with one of the largest garages In city;
Auto accessories and gas station; 18th ST.;
nrice 81 $50
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

NIoIIN-wanted. to buy good handmade
instrument from private parties: no dealers.
North 6fTl 1Ss
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EXTRA MONEY for your spare time. We
will pay you from So to $50 per month for
few minutes each day: no experience required;
open to young men in government employ;
write only. W. &. Boone, 31S Colorado bldg.
49, - -
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Hotel heart of business section: about oo
rooms: rooms all filled; price. S6,0Oo
The Aberdeen weekly., 1920-11-05
r. fheLi1neli9hf
Device to Talk With the Dead

Thomas a. Edison said recently
that he was working on device 20
enable the dead TO talk With the liv-
ing.
The American Magazine. in which
the announcement of Mr. Edison's ex-
periments is made, has obtained the
eminent inventors theories of present
and future life. Ii is upon these
theories that Edison bases the plaus-
ibility OF the epoch-making device
which he hopes 10 construct.
In the experiments he is making
for the purpose of constructing an
apparatus 10 Ink the living and dead.
Edison is proceeding upon the theory
that personality continues TO exist al
ter what We call life" leaves our pres
ent bodies But the degree OF mate
rial or physical power possessed oy
those beyond the grave must he eS-
tremely slight, he believes. and the ~
strulnent used for communication must
be super-delicate. The mechanical
disclosed
The Aberdeen weekly., 1920-11-05

he has been like-this. The knife he
must have taken from the person thar
shot him. for he had none of his own.
1t was clutched tight in mis- hand when
| found him-the knife and this"
She beckoned him across the room
TO the book case. 1t was the first car
pet the Pearl Hunter had ever walked
over. He set his feet down like a man
crossing thin ice.
She fumbled out from behind row
of books a small packet. with the eau
ton:
You mustn't let Daddy see 1t. He
VIII go wild if you do. usel 10 keep
1t stuck behind the picture, but it
worked out into sight one day, and he
drove the knife through 1t before 1
could get it away from him II he
ever finds the man IL belongs to he'll
serve him the same way, I'm afraid
Sometimes 1 think that's why he
haunts the woods-to see If he can find
him. There. you can see where the
knife went through"
She had been unwrapping a fold of
paper as she talked. The sight of its
contents surprised low exclamation
from the Pearlhunter. 1t was a red
mask
The Pearlhunter fingered the bit
of stiff cloth lying across the girls
palm with such quick eagerness thar
her eyes sought his face euriously. The
red mask The slit of the knife near
an eye hole-no man in the FlatwoodS
better able to read the story it told
none better able to piece together the
fragments Of that seven-year-old trag-
edy.
Up through the eye holes there
seemed to glow pair of eyes-bIue.
like blue ice; eyes that glow black
when reused. He knew what they
looked like when the blue turned to
black
Suddenly. without warning. deep
groan set the silence ashiver. The
girl crammed the packet back behind
the books; the Pearlhunter whirIed.
The Wild Man had risen from his
chair and stood peering toward him
with wide, weird eyes. With a step
that was ghostly noiseless he crossed
the floor Quite close he came, his
dulled senses seeming TO need the
stimulus Of close contact His bony
The Aberdeen weekly., 1920-11-05
CHAPTER IV-continued.

y don't know that It's splendid"
ne said. I'm going to buy some
boOfss; and then"
He hesitated. The girl dropped her
eyes and stood toying with the bonnet
strings around her arm. She did not
mention that the storekeeper had told
her the tragedy of the grave at Fallen
Rock of the mother who had died
tha very evening Of success; whose
eyes had not been permitted TO rest
on the fauItless sheen of the jewel for
which she, too, had searched life
time.
"And then" she repeated, when 1t
seemed he was not going on
A tiny breeze fell into the woods
through the gap cut by the road. and
stirred the leaves. There IS death as
well as life in the woods. Death al
ways; even in June. The breeze
found a dead leaf among the living
ones and shook 1t loose. 1t threat
ened to light on the girls bright hair,
but fiuttered down past her face and
fell at her feet.
The breeze; the falling leaf-the
woods. her woods, had whispered; and
she heard
Daddy" she cried suddenly. 1--WE
left him too long"
Her voice had grown serious. She
held out her hand for the basket. The
PearIhunter passed 1t over and she
turned away.
Il was an awkward parting and the
PearIhGnter felt 1t, but he was a man
Of slow speech His words had to be
chipped by hand out of the rough, one
at a time. as men of old fashioned
their arrOwheads-
"Wild Rose -
She turned. The name had brought
the dimples back.
MAY I walk along with your
The words were past recall before
he knew Il.
'.The woods are as much yours as
mine" was her smiling answer.
He never could remember just how
the basket managed TO get from her
arm 10 his as he walked away with
her, the sole recollection that stood
out in his memory being the fact that
the path seemed to fiv up and hit his
feet before he quite had time to set
them down.
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opening led TO another room on the
tain looped back and tied with BIZ
OF ribbon. disclosed a room on the
east. A closed door gave entrance To
the third room, probably the kitch-
en-, logged a little 10 allow for a win
dow near the northwest corner of the
center room.
His gaze travelled TO the fire place.
A revolver very dependable look
ing six-g1n-lay upon the mantel.
Above il, arranged across a draped
American flag, hung a silk sash, a
tasseIed cord, a pair sof silver spurs,
and a sword Looped in the sword
hIlt were two strands of ribbon. one
purple, the other gold. There came
dim remembrance that he had once
heard somewhere these were the col
ors of a famous regiment that great
ly distinguished itself in the Indian
wars.
The half minute or more he had
spent looking over the room had Civ
en- him time TO recover his calm. and
now his glance came back TO the ruin
In the chair
The Wild Man was whetting his
knife against his palm, mumbling and
muttering. He seemed to Nloat over
the glitter of it-and the girl within
easy reach OF his hand. The Pearl
hunter stiffened gathered himself TO
spring. She happened TO look up,
caught his eye, and shook her head.
Seemingly unconscious of any danger.
she came TO the door. picked up her
basket and his hat and put them on
the table beside the vase of wild roses.
You're not afraid?" asked the Pearl
hunter
He wouldn't harm a fly"
but the knife?-
''He plays with it by the hour
That knife" as If weighing the
thought it raised HE keeps it with
him night and day. l fear death will
sometime come of that knife!"
His eyes urged her to go on.
Seven years he's been as you see
him. Up 70 that time he was the most
wonderful father a girl ever had. He
wasn't gray until then, and he didn't
wear a beard. Those who knew him
lilttl NOuiQli hllON lllu uON. II w NdS
seven years ago this June-the twen-
tieth. / remember 1t because it was
my birthday was twelve. That eve
ming I heard a groan at the kitchen
door. I ran out, and there was Dad
dy, holding to the door post TO keep
from falling, his hands covered with
blood, and blood all over his face and
hair. helped him In, washed off the
blood and discovered 1t came from a
wound In his head. I bound 1t up the
best I could and ran to the village for
the doctor.
when he came he said Daddy had
been shot. There was a long scar
like a groove-that the doctor said
was made by the bullet. 1t had caused
concussion of the brain. Since that
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Edge OH "Splendid isolation"

Walter f. Edge, United States
senator from New Jersey, has returned
from Europe with certain definite i'm
pressions of the people of various
countries and their war reconstruction
problems.
up to the outbreak of the World
war" said the senator. 1.-The average
American visitor to Europe returned
with his mind filed with the past
Now such a traveller comes home with
his thoughts turned to the future. the
future of Europe, of America. and the
whole world. He realizes that now
Americas splendid isolation is at an
end: that the future of Europe will
affect the future of the United States,
and the future of the United States
tavoIves the future of all civilization.
"Beyond this. the traveller also
may feel that a measure of idealism
now must be injected into the cOnsid-
GRAFTON of strictly practical affairs.
"Such measure must be "a rea-
sonabIe measure and not sufficient 70 D
The Aberdeen weekly., 1920-11-05
THE RED MASK

Synopsis.-Never having known
his father, and living with his
mother on a housebOat on the Wa
bash river. Pearlhunter-the only
name he has-learns from her
part OF the story OF her sad life
The recital is interrupted by a
fearful fit of coughing and he hur-
ries ashore TO seek a root that az
fords relief. He meets a young
girl whom he mentally christens
the Wild Rose. She eludes him be-
fore he can make her acquatnt-
ance- A vacant cabin on the shore
has attracted the attention of the
ailing woman. and they move into
It Their first meal is interrupted
by the Man-in-the-F Fancy Vest
Pearlhunter strikes him. Gunplay
threatens. The mother dramati-
caIly drives the intruder away
She says he is the "Other Man."
whom she has not seen for %
years. They find a red mask
dropped by the other Man That
night Pearlhunter finds the Blue
Moon, a great freshwater pearl.
His mother dies without revealing
his fathers name. Pearlhunter
and the Other Man meet in the
village; a pistol fight is narrowly
averted. Pearlhunter believes him
to be the Red Mask criminal Pearl
hunter rescues Wild Rose from the
other Man and meets Wild Man.
her father.
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Another man with 1ut a name
CTO BE coNTINUED)
ABSURD NAMES WORK HARM
May Be Witty, But They Too Ere,
quentIy Tend to Put Community
in Disrepute.

Freakish and absurd names given
TO communities. villages and counties
by some waggish wit in the primitive
times. have a way of persisting, cling
ing to the community, so that 1t is
most difficult TO get rid of them when
a new people have succeeded TO resi-
dence there. Some of these absurd
names are so ridiculous they harm the
community tending at all times 10 put
IT in disrepute. make 1t a jest and
byword.
All over the country are to be found
places where the old-tiGs4 wit left his
contribution Of harmful levity. agafsst
which the community struggles. In
the northern part of Missouri was a
little community that was given. In
the days before, the war. the rather
startling name OF Burnshirt. The
name grew out OF an incident that
took place when some big-game hunt
ers were encampeti at the settlement
The name appealed TO the risibilities
of the community and for two genera
tionS 1t was compelled TO bear that
name. II had small degree of COM
fort from the fact that a lesser com
munity, hard by, had won the name
Of Pinhook- Eooppole township 10
Posey county, Indiana. is quite the
most widely known of any township
I'm the HoOsier state. yet strangers
might not be induced to locate there
because of the attractiveness or prom
ise foun" in the name.-Ohio State
Journal
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hands and long arms were quiverfng
his hollow face twitchfng pitifully.
Hes never like this" the girl
whispered.
The young man glanced at her and
stood STILL The thin hands f1uttercd
over his face and head. Even their
lightest touch was heavy with a
strength that must have been prodig-
ious-as if the fires of his malady kin
died a force in him more than human.
Some impulse of compassion must
have reached the heart of the Pearl
hunter, for he stretched his long arm
forth and laid 1t about the old mans
shoulders. Instantly he felt the weight
of the gray giant upon him. 1t might
have been the one thing the stricken
man craved In his dumb way-the
touch of his kind; the prop OF a mans
arm.
The situation embarrassed the Pearl
hunter. 1t was like winning the con-
hdence of a little child. and then not
knowing what to do with il.
The girl was quick to see his embar-
rassment, and. much as a mother
might coax a child away from some
one she imagined it was annoying, she
led the old man back to his chair /;
then. leaving him, she hurried across
the room 10 the book case.
II never saw him so restless before :"
she said. as she passed by. 'He seems
10 like you, though" she continued
while finding the book she wanted
Strange. too. for he's cross usually,
even 70 the doctor. Won't you excuse
me till I quiet him?''
Before he could reply she had found
the book and hurried back TO the chair.
Opening 1t, she laid 1t upon the old
mans knees. He bent his head and
felt over the oren page with his hand,
but the weird eyes could no longer re-
solve the frozen magic of the words.
He fidgeted in his chair and the book
slid 10 the floor
The picture was too distressing, and
the Pearlhunter turned his face
away. From where he stood he had
an almost unobstructed view into the
east room, the girls room, and before
he realized it his eyes had strayed
past the curtains Amazement held
them there a moment In spite of him.
The room, In striking contrast to what
he had seen of the rest of the house.
was almost bare of furniture-a car
petless floor; the rudest of beds;
broken chair. and little else
He heard her walking across the
floor and turned away half guiltily.
She had her hand upon the curtained
entrance of the west room, and he no.
ticed that ii was carpeteG, and was
otherwise furnished quite in keeping
with the room in which he stood, GER
tainly in very decided contrast to the
room upon the east.
But he had no time to reflect on all
these things. for the girl reappeared
in a moment carrying a cello, which
she placed between the old mans
knees. She put the bow In his right
hand and lifted his left to the strings.
He laid his cheek down upon the in
strument; grew quiet. The faltering
bow tried TO wake tie strings. but in
vain. The old mans body seemed to
shrink together. His chin dropped
down upon his breast. But the next
instant he sat upright and rigid; his
wide eyes. groping around found the
Pearlhunter. and he started to rise
grappled up, strained up, as if by
power outside himself.
The Aberdeen weekly., 1920-11-05
First Hundred Years the Hardest

Chicago is 10 he told how 10 live
TO be more than one hundred years
old by "Uncle John" Shell, Ken
tucky's patriarch. al a meeting of fi,,-
Illinois health authorities December II
in Chieago-if the plans of the Windy
City's health commissioner. Or. John
Dill Robertson. are carried OUT. Doe
tor Robertson has requested the Ken.
lucky state board Of health TO arfauz.
to send Uncle John" 10 Chicago.
Uncle john" who has basked in
the spotlight of fate. has lived along
the banks of Greasy. Greek. in Leslie
county. for 132 years. He was mar
ried the second time at tie age Of
ninety-six and has a son BY that mar
riage- The Illinois doctors want 10
hear the modern Methusalem explain
his system.
The average life. according 70
health authorities. is about forty years.
Three years ago II was S3 years. The
Illinois physicians want to make IL
chimes etc they hof,.a ro af.rontnlish