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SALISBUR Y. ELK LICK POSTOFFIC ¥, PA
+. THURSDAY,
JANU ARY 10, 1901.
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Clearance Sale!
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Preparatory to invoicing we go over our
stock and offer broken lots of goods at great
reductions, for the purpose of reducing our
stock. These goods are all first class in
every respect, worth double what we ask
you for them during this sale.
Note Our Reductions!
Men's and Boys’ Heavy Kersey Suits at
from $2.75 to 6.00, worth $5.00 to 10.00.
Children’s Suits, 75 cts. to $2.00, worth $1.-
50 to 3.50. We have some special valuesin
Fancy Check Suits. It will pay you to sce
them. In wraps we have some handsome
Golf Capes at $3, $5, and 6.00, worth 4.50,
7.00 and 8.00. Also some Black Beaver and
Jersey Cloth Capes from $2, to 5.00,cheap at
4.00 to 8.00. We also have a few Coats
left which we are selling cheap. Children’s
School Coats 1.25 to 2.00.
The winter is long yet, and we are giv-
ing you the advantage of reduced prices
early in the winter, so that you can get the
worth of your garment this season.
We also have some drives in Shoes that
we are closing out, as well as in many oth-
er articles, that are to your interest. Come
early to get the choice of these inducements.
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Elk Lick Supply Co.
Clearance Sale!
Vo. !
Men’s $2.50 and 3.00 Shoes reduced to $1.50.
Men’s 1.50 and 2.00 Shoes reduced 75 cents
and 1.00. :
Women’s Shoes formerly 1.50, 2.00 and 2.50,
reduced to 75 cents, 1.00 and 1.25.
Boys’ and Girls’ 1.00 and 2.00 Shoes, reduced
to 50 cents and 1.00.
Oi YOU HVER Bek
Almost giving Shoes away, are we not?
You're bound to admit it when you see the
goods, and when you call we will tell you about
many bargains in other lines.
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Attorneys-At-Law,
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Office opposite Court House.
FrAXCIS J. KOOSER. ERNEST 0. KOOSER.
KOOSER & KOOSER,
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SOMERSET, PA.
J. A. BERKEY »
Attorney-at-I.axw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office over Post Office.
R. E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Attorney-at-T.inw,
SOMERSET, A.
Office opposite Cook & Beerits® Store.
A. M. LICHTY,
Physician and Surgeon,
SALISBURY, PENN’A.
Office one door east of P. S. Hay’s store.
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Physician and Surgeon,
SALISBURY, PENNA.
Office corner Grant and Union Streets.
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Christmas time is again close
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will find a fine line of Christ-
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Doll Go-Carts, Doll Carriages,
Hobby Horses mounted with
saddles and stirrups, also a fine
lot of Pictures, Children’s Rock-
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ete,
I also have a fine assortment
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Thanking you for past patron-
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tinuance of the Wish-
ing you all a merry Christmas
and a happy New Year, I am
yours for bargains,
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PHILADELPHIA, PA,
MARSHALL WINS
BY DEMOCRATIC AID
The Machine Achieves a Tempo-
rary Victory in Organization.
QUAY STILL SHORT OF VOTES.
Renegade Democrats and False Fua-
sionists Help the Machine—Senator
Washburn Joins the Quayites and
Is Rend Out of His Party—Machine
Victory an Question of Cash in the
End.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Harrisburg, Jan. 8.—The machine
forces, with the aid of five Democratic
votes and one anti-Quay Republican
vote, elected William T. Marshall
speaker of the house on a ballot which
stood Marshall 100, Koontz (fusion) 99.
John P. McTighe, who had been
elected as an anti-Quay Republican in
the Second district of Pittsburg, who
had been instructed against Quay by
his convention, and who had signed
the agreement to vote against Quay,
deserted to the machine side the day
before the election for speaker. The
five Democrats who voted for Marshall
were Galvin of Schuylkill, Garvin of
Adams and Shutt, Kain and Fake of
York.
The inducements which led these
men to desert their party and throw to
the wind all sense of obligation and
political honor are known to them-
selves. Dr. Rothrock, of Mifflin coun-
ty, left the house before the vote was
taken, otherwise the result would have
been a tie on the speakership. The
Philadelphia Press, in speaking of this
unparalleled Pent, said:
“While disappointing to all sincere
Republicans and friends of decent puli-
tics, the result itself is not decisive.
of Quay men without the leastattemptto
vantage did not aid Mr. Quay in the
subsequent balloting for senator and he
was not elected. He has had it demon-
strated to him by the events of the
past two days at Harrisburg—and it
has been demonstrated to the whole
state—that his claim to control 150
members of the legislature was with-
out basis of fact and a false claim. In
a house having 154 Republican mem-
bers and only 49 Democrats it has re-
quired the votes of five Democrats to
secure the election of the machine
speaker by cne majority.
DEMOCRATS DID IT.
“The five Democrats who did this
work aye Gal -f Schuylkill, Garvin
of Adams, aL. rake, Shutt and Kain
of York, with assistance given by Roth-
rock of Mifflin in leaving the house at
a vital moment. The constituents of
these gentlemen may be safely left to
deal with them. It is nearly two weeks
before a vote on the senatorship will
be taken. It is possible they have been
secured to vote for Mr. Quay as well
as for his candidate for speaker, but
as there will be a Democratic candidate
for senator to vote for the situation
will be different with them. They will
not be able to pretend that it was a
choice between two Republicans.
“So far as shown by the votes of yes-
terday there are not ens igh Quay Re-
publicans in the legislzZare to elect Mr.
Quay to the senatorsaip. It remains
to be seen how many Democrats he can
get, or whether he can.nrocure enough
Republicans pledged in op) sition to
him to violate those ple£ jes and help
him out. The majorit, of the legisla-
ture was elected against him.’
The timely aid given to the machine
by the Democrats gained the dearly
bought victory for Mr. Marshall, and it
now is to see, as The Press
plain, puts it, whether these men will
continue true to their new allegiance
or whether Mr. Quay’s election can be
made possible by the desertion of anti-
Quay votes.
Of course all political plans, all pe-
litical forecasts, fall t> the ground
when men prove false to their word
and their pledges. As it stands now,
with the assistance of the Democracy,
Mr. Quay is three votes short of the
number necessary to return him to the
senate. If arguments potent enough
to seduce Democrats to desert their
party can secure votes for the machine,
the same arguments may be utilized to
secure the additional three.
REV. WASHBURN’'S TREACHERY.
The first and most startling feature
of the campaign developed on the day
preceding the caucus. State Senator
Rev. O. R. Washburn, of Crawford
county, who had been elected as a
Democrat and Populist, and who voted
all last session with the Democrats, an-
nounced that he would vote with
the machine in organizing the senate
and for United States senator. Rev.
Washburn at the former session had
developed ultra-conscientious scruples.
He refused to ride on a railroad pass
on account of conscience and otherwise
attracted attention by his supposed
Jeffersonian simplicity.
His desertion of the Democratic
party, and his quoted declaration that
“last session he looked after Crawford
county, but this session he proposed to
look after Washburn,” led the Demo-
crats to hold an indignation meeting.
It was held at the rooms of Col. J. M.
Guffey, and a set of vigorous resolu-
tions were adopted denouncing Wash-
burn and reading him out of the Der
ocratic party.
It is almost impossible to desc ibe
the indignation with which the an-
nouncement that Washburn had been
induced to join the machine forces was
received by the Democrats and fusion-
ists.
IT WAS UNEXPECTED.
The action was unexpected, and the
evidence of inducement so apparent
that the announcement fell like a
thunderbolt. In speaking of the ac-
tion of the Democrats who voted for
Mr. Marshall in an editorial the Phila-
delphia North American said:
“The capture of the house, though it
showed the weakness of the machine
in Republican support, was, neverthe-
less, a surprise and disappointment to
the anti-machine forces. The machine
caucus of the night before, attended by
anly 96 members, instead of the 102
claimed in advance, seemed to make it
certain that the organization would be
in the hands of Quay’s opponents. The
Democratic leaders were sure of their
followers, and pledged an unbroken
line. Relying upon these assurances,
undoubtedly sincere, the anti-Quay Re-
publicans were confident that the house
would be theirs.
“When this article is being written
these men (the six Democrats) have
not been heard from in attempted ex-
planation of their conduct, but it is
easy to anticipate their plea in excul-
pation. They will say that when there
were two Republican candidates for
they did for nothing, rendered a ser-
vice to the machine for which they
could have got $60,000 at the ruling
minimum Harrisburg price for machine
votes.”
The senatorial caucus which was held
on Tuesday night last developed that
two more anti-Quay Republicans had
violated their agreement and had en-
tered the caucus. These were Messrs.
Hill and Tiffany, of Susquehanna coun-
ty. This action on their part in fol-
lowing McTighe lessened the number
of votes to elect Quay. On Wednesday
the legislature adjourned until the 14th,
when the final struggle for the senator-
ship begins.
The anti-Quay Republican forces
have been met in this battle at every
turn by all the power that the machine
could muster. That there have been
one or two weak members in their
ranks has been no fault of theirs. It
has always been maintained that if the
Democrats remained true to their party
and pledges the defeat of Mr. Quay was
a foregone conclusion.
Mr. Quay is not yet elected, and noth-
ing but the final ballot will decide that
point. This much appears to be recog-
nized by the machine leaders them-
selves, that unless Mr. Quay can win
on the first ballot he cannot win at all.
i
State Legislatures of 1901.
This being an odd numbered year
more State Legislatures than usual
will convene to consider bills and enact
laws. Thirty-seven of these bodies will
be in session some time during the
year 1901, and of these thirty-three will
have met before the close of January.
Only six states now have annual ses-
sions of the Legislature and of the
thirty-nine states with biennial ses-
sions only eight meet in even number-
ed years. This gives the odd number-
ed years a pre-eminence in the amount
of legislation enacted.
What number of laws the thirty-
Legislatures which meet this
year will grind out will have to be left
to the future statisticians to complete.
Judging from what has been done in
this way in the past the amount will. be
large. If it compares with the charac-
ter of the legislation in past sessions,
however, its usefulness will be in iv-
verse ratio to its size. It has been the
custom to load up the calendar of ev-
ery Legislature with a mess of bills,not
more than one-tenth of which can be
fully considered and passed upon. A
fraction of these propositions are so
considered and passed or rejected, an-
other fraction get through with little
or no consideration, and the remainder
dies when the session ends. Enough
are enacted into laws, however, to lum-
ber up the statute books of the states
and make it necessary to employ the
proverbial Philadelphia lawyer to sift
them out.
If the Legislatures of 1901 wish to
make a record that willcommend them
and the political party controlling them
to the public they will begin a radical
change in these respects. What the
people want is not a confusing mass of
ill-digested legislation, but a few well-
prepared laws dealing practically with
pertinent subjects. One law of this
character will redound more to the
credit of the man proposing it and car-
ing it safely through the pitfalls of leg-
islation than a score of buncombe
speeches and as many bills on the sub-
jects that interest no one but the pro-
seven
poser. The public will wateh the re-
sult of this Winter’s sessions as the
work of no l.egislatures were ever
watched before. and it will weigh with
a critical eye the fruit of their discuss-
ions and votes. And it will distribute
the praise and the blame with an im-
partial hand.
As most of these Legislatures will
have Republican majorities that party
will be held responsible for most of
this legislation. This is right. Where
there is party government there must
be party responsibility. But thestand-
ard according to which the legislation
will be judged is its benefit to the pub-
lic and not its advantage to the party.
A good road law or the abolition of use-
less offices or economy in making ap-
propriations will go further to win ap-
plause than the most zealous advocacy
of measures that can only benefit the
party or a few favored individuals. If
the Republican majorities in the State
Legistatures will bear this fact in mind
and shape their course accordingly
they will give the voters the most
cogent reasons tor continuing their
party in power at the next election.—
Philade Iphia . Press.
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Deserved Prominence of a Young
Man from Garrett County, Md.
In its issue of Jan. 2nd, 1901, the Ro-
anoke (Va.) Daily Times pays a fine
compliment to Mr. John H. Yost, a
son of Mr. Henry Yost, a prominent
Garrett county farmer. John H. Yost
is well known to many of our readers,
and Tie Star congratulates him on his
great success as a business man. The
Roanoke Daily Times of the aforesaid
date has the following to say concern-
ing him:
Mr. J. II. Yost has tendered his resig-
nation as secretary of Yost-Huff Co,
and will accept today the position of
secretary of the Roanoke Cotton Mill
Company. Mr. Yost is one of the most
enterprising and successful young
business men of the city, and by his
untiring energy and ability, and that
of his associates, Yost-Huff Co. has be-
come one of the strongest and most
popular business houses of Roanoke.
Though Mr. Yost will no longer take
part in the active management of the
company, he will retain his interest
therein, and hopes his friends will con-
tinue to give their support.
The cotton mill is to be congratulat-
ed upon securing the services of a
secretary who will so zealously guard
her welfare and faithfully discharge
the duties of the office. The many
friends of Mr. Yost wish him contin-
ued success in his new field of labor.
Ly
Tried Five Doetors.
Mrs. Francee L. Sales, of Missouri
speaker and no Democratic candidate,
they had a right to choose, and in so
doing violated no party duty. The an-
swer to that technical and transparent
defense is that the six. if they did what
Valley, Ia., writes: “I had severe kid-
ney trouble for vears, had tried five
| doctors without benefit, but three bot-
WAR REMINISCENCES.
A former Citzen of Salisbury Writes
Entertainingly on Fighting
During the Great
Rebellion.
(Continued from Dee. 27, 1900.)
The morning of the 2d day of April,
1865, was ushered in with great joy
and excitement, and it was near mid-
day before our scouts could find out
what direction the Rebel army had
taken. It is all important for a.gener-
al to know the movements of the ene-
my, in order to checkmate them. As
soon as this was ascertained our forces
were put forward in haste, and it was a
fox chase for seven days before we
wound up at Appomattox. We march-
ed most of the time through fields,
woods and swamps. It the afternoon
of April 8 we got order todouble-quick,
and for three miles we kept up this
run over hills and across ravines,
through brambles that were almost
impassable, sweltering, and a great
many swearing, for it was a very warm
day for the time of year. A great
many poor fellows fell by the wayside
unable to go any further.
Shortly before where we were want-
ed we passed some dead cavalrymen,
and they were stripped of everything,
except shirt and drawers. This sight
had the effect of augmenting our fight-
ing spirit, and it wae not long until we
had all the fight we were looking for.
Coming to where there were three bat-
teries unlimbered ready for action, we
were halted, and every man fell to the
ground for a moment’s rest, and it was
only for a moment, for just as we lay
down General Sheridan and staff came
dashing along and met General Wright,
our corps commander. By the wave of
his hand I could surmise that he had
the Rebels surrounded, but who they
were, and how many, we were unable
to say, but as Sheridan’s whole cavalry
force was held at bay, we knew it was
no small number, which you will learn
subsequently.
The bugle sounded attention, and our
corps was put in position and went for-
ward from where we were laying, down
a steep hill, and lined up along a quick
sand swamp. As soon as I put my foot
on the edge of the swamp I knew what
it was, and I also knew if we would all
attempt to go over in a body some
would be submerged. To make sure it
wouldn’t be me, I went forward amid a
scattering volley of musketry from one
bunch of grass to another, and got over
dry shod, and lay down and waited on
the rest to follow. It was a laughable
sight to see the boys trying to get
through. Some were in mud up under
their arms, and one poor fellow who
had enlisted in April, 1861, and went
through all the 25 battles of the regi-
ment unhurt, was shot through the
head while sticking fast in this swamp.
After the line got over, my captain
called on me to pick five men out of the
company and go out on the skirmish
line. 1 called on five to volunteer, and
four men came forward. I picked on
another young fellow that was noted for
his cowardice, and he came forward
with tears running down his cheeks,
saying, ‘I will go and let these other
fellows know I am not afraid.”
I deployed my men, keeping the gun-
shy boy along side of me. The Rebel
skirmishers fired on us when we were
crossing the swamp, then fell back to
their line of battle, which was only
about 200 yards in our front. As soon
as I discovered their position I report-
ed back that the Rebel line of battle
was about 200 yards in front, in force,
and waited for the line to come up.
The Rebels were proue on the ground,
and almost obscured by scrub pines
and other undergrowth, waiting for us
to come on. The sight was enough to
strike verroi to the stoutest heart, and
all for $13.00 per month. Now, stand
up, you pension growlers and soldier
haters, and let us put a volley into
your ranks, just to let you know how
it feels.
When the regiment came up to where
we were standing, we took our places
in the ranks, and the order was given
to charge. We gave a yell, and away
we went, the Rebels holding their fire
until within 100 yards of their line. It
was a terrible fire, and men fell all
along the line. It was an old field
grown up with scrub pine, green briars
and grape vines where they had form-
ed their line, but we soon routed them
out into big timber, where we could
see them better. We were halted at
the edged of the big timber, and my
captain ordered me to go forward with
my skirmishers. We wentdown through
the woods about 100 yards, when I no-
ticed the Rebels all going towards our
left. I turned around to call the at-
tention of the other skirmishers to the
movements of the Rebels, but there
were no skirmishers to be seen. 1
walked back a few steps, wondering
what had become of everybody so
quickly, when I«chanced to see my
regimental flag away back near the
swamp. I then surmised that the
movement of the Rebels was to flank
us on the left, and our line was with-
drawn to prevent an enfilading fire.
I started back to where I saw my regi-
ment, and when I got into the serub
pines I saw a man off to my right
whom I took for one of our men, for he
was dressed in blue. I called to him
to come this way, that I believed the
Rebeis were flanking on the left.
me:
ab., or I will blow your heart out.”
I had know who he
gulped down like a hungry dog.
in by this fellow I was so frighte
tlesof Forey’s Kipyey Cure cured me.”
Miller & Shaler.
that I— well, I can’t tell how
was frightened ; it wouldnt lo
He
did come, but when he was within
reach of me raised his gun and said to
“Drop that gun you Yankee s. of
1f
was when I first
saw him,I could hove shot him or gotten
away, but his blue uniform fooled me,
and all I had to do was to obey orders.
He took my haversack from me, but he
didn’t get much, for all I had in it was
a small piece of fresh meat, which he
I always said that I never would be |
taken prisoner, and when I was pulled
in print, but if you want to kn.
ask my brother, R. S. Johns, 0%
Lick, and he will tell you.
B. F. Jouxs,
Co. A, 49th Pa. Vols, 3d Brigade, 1st
Div., 6th Corps.
( (To be Continued.)
“The Bribed Legislator.”
(Abstracts from a poem entitled “The
Bribed Legislator,” by William B. Con-
way, editor of “The American Manu-
facturer.”):
Of all the crimes with which the tempter’s
art
Has blackened
heart,
The meanest meanness and the vilest vile,
The basest baseness and the deepcst guile,
That ever tingedjthe conscious cheek with
shame
Destroyed a character or damned a name;
The crime of crimes is clearly that which
must
Result per se from every violated trust.
* * *
If that base man detestable appears,
On whom the orphans’ eries and widow's
tears
Make no impression—from
heart
No sigh of pity or remorse doth start;
Who basely cheats the mute, confiding
dead,
And drives
bread,
In sorrow and in wretchedness to roam,
Expelled by fraud from happiness and
home!
If fraud llke this must ever be despised,
Can greater frauds tho, artfully disguised,
Be less detested, less abhored, because
The fraud in making, not in hreaking laws
Has been committed? They, if this ke true
The world may bid integrity adicu.
* * *
Is this base man the guiltiest of men
Who fires some cottoge in the lonely glen?
Is he no baser, Equity exelaims,
Who wraps a city in devouring flames?
And if a watchman, who his guilt can tell?
That lights the torch and utters, “All is
well!”
and defiled the human
whose callous
the orphan forth to beg his
* * *
The man who takes a bribe would sirip The
dead,
Or rob the orphan of his crust of bread.
So lost to justice, equity and right,
That man would steal the aged widow's
mite;
Is well prepared for any kind of fraud;
Would sell his country or betray his God,
Pillage the palace of the King of kings
Or strip the gilding from an angel’s wings,
The man who is unfaithful to a trust,
However small, is vitally unjust;
And he who is unjust in little things,
Would be a villain in the courts of kings.
* * *
and down his virtue falls
Present a bribe
In courts, or camps, or legislative halls.
The bribed apostate! blot his hateful name
From each and every roll of honest fume.
scorn still point her finger and hep
gibes,
Let
“Behold, the consequences of
"
Let guileless children, as he passes by,
Shrink from his touch and shudder at his
eye.
Let lovely women loathe him with dlsgust,
And shun him like the reptile in the dust,
And while he lives let Infamy alone
Claim the bribed Legislator as her own
Until he dies and sinks into the grave
To poison worms who feed {upon ¢he knave,
There, midst the storms, let hideous furies
foul,
old nightly revels and in concert howl;
Let hissing serpents make that spot their
home,
And be the watehful guardians of his tomb,
And when he goes to hel, let devils stare
And ask him who the devil sent him there;
And feel the insult, deep, severe and keen,
To see a friend, pre-eminently mean.
'Mongst other devils rudely ushered in--
A foul, appalling prodigy of sin!
And in hell’s fiercest, hottest
crammed,
Let him be damned—superlatively damned?
And why not damned for such transcend-
ent crimes?
Yes, damned ctertilly, ten thousand times!
omnes
furnace
Berlin's Tom Thumb Engaged to
Marry.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Cook, of the Cook
hotel, Bedford street, have issued invi-
tations announcing the marriage of
their sister, Miss Margaret L. Brubak-
er, to Horace Bunn Philson, of Berlin.
The wedding is to take place Wednes-
day evening, Jan. 18, at 8.30 o'clock, at
the Cook hotel. The Rev. William Al-
fred Shipman, pastor of the First Eng-
lish Lutheran church, will perform the
e -amony. Mr. and Mrs. Philson will
be a pitt Berlin after Feb 1.
Miss , ETS ‘ar is a popular young
lady of this city, ~% 1s formerly in
the cloak departmenc , omas
& Sons. Mr. Philson is aw. :
er at Berlin, and is well kno
He is foosliy celebrated as Somerset
county’s Tom Thumb.—Johnstown Trib-
une.
{rae ee
More Activity in Coal Lands.
For the past several months options
on all available coal fields in the south-
ern end of this county have been taken
quietly by eapitalists from New York,
Philadelphia and other cities which
had the effect of stimulating business
in this particular line to a great ex-
tent. The base of operations has been
changed now to the nothern end of the
county where options are being taken
on lands in and obout the Cove,Grants-
ville and the surrounding country.
Should these lands be developed quite
a boom will be experienced in this
county.
Garrett county is rich in minerals,
and with these developed along with
additional transportation facilities now
under construction along Casselman
river, her wealthgas well as population
will be materially increased. —Oakland
Republican.
-— Sa
Reformed Church Serviges.
Mid-week services, Thursday eve-
ning at 7.30. Senior instruction on
Friday evening at 7.30, and Junior in-
struction on Saturday at 1.30. Sunday
school on Sunday morning at 9.30. Di-
vine services in the evening at 7 o'clock.
The subject of the sermon is, “How
shall I keep the Lord's Dy?”
The Holy Communion will be
ministered on Sunday mornig
20th, at 10.30. Preparatory
Saturday preceding =f
Friday evening r
time new mer’
All are iv
yr: