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Wayne County Organ
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Weekly Founded, 1844
REPUBLICAN PARTY j
66th YEAR.
HONBSDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 12", 1909.
NO. 21
TAFT F PEACE.
Seeks Harmony Between
Gannon and Insurgents.
ANXIOUS ABOUT THE TARIFF.
Confers With Both Sides Wants
His Cabinet Officers to Be Su
preme In Their Various
Departments.
Washington, March 10. President
Toft la earnestly desirous that har
mony he restored In the house of rep
resentatives on the evo of the Impor
tant session to revise the tariff. There
were reports lu Washington that Sir.
Taft hnd arrayed himself squarely on
the side of Speaker Cannon In the con
test which he is waging with the In
surgent Republican members. It is ccr
tuln that these reports were largely
exaggerated. The indications are that,
while the president is working to pre
vent a continuance of the fight, ho Is
trying to do so without offense to the
insurgents and without expressing any
opinion over the contest.
The position of the new president is
simply that the majority party In con
gress should by every means within Its
power seek to prevent an unfriendly
nnd damaging contest within its own
ranks. The vital import of the tariff
legislation, he believes, would be great
ly hindered by a continuance of the
factional light, and it Is even within
the range of possibility that the ex
traordinary session which Is to begin
on the 15th of this month would be
protracted far beyond the date upon
which It might readily be expected to
adjourn with all its important work
finished.
Representative Payne of New York,
chairman of the committee on ways
and means, called at the White House
and talked with Mr. Taft for the exist
ing order of things. Whence lf V the
White Houso, Mr. Payne -'sa Id 1-be
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the session, but that' he could not
prophecy what would happen if the
present chaotic conditions in the house
were to continue.
Congressmen Gardner of Massachu
setts, Madison of Kansas and Nelson
of Wisconsin, representing the Insur
gents, were also In conference with the
president. When they came out of the
executive offices Sir. Gardner declared
that the Insurgents were no longer In
a compromising mood.
"We are firmly Impressed that Mr.
Taft Is not opposed to a change of the
rules," said Sir. Gardner, "but he is a
little fearful that a contest now would
cross the line and Interfere with the
passage of the tariff bill."
An effort was made by Sir. Sladlson
to show that there is no such danger
in the fight they are conducting. Ho
said that he had told Sir. Taft that be
and his colleugues were not disposed
to Interfere with the continuance of
the present ways and means commit
tee and that he thought he could prom
ise that no objection would be made to
the continuance of the old committees
on any subjects that the president
feels Inclined to ask legislation at the
present session.
President Taft's cabinet Is to be
clothed with powers the like of which
have not been known In Washington
for many years. Under Sir. Roosevelt
the cabinet members were hardly more
than figureheads In some cases. With
Mr. Taft It will be different. The new
president's plan Is to rid himself as fat
as possible of the petty worries of dis
pensation of small patronage. He In
tends to put responsibilities on the
cabinet members not only as to this,
but lu many other ways, and he ex
pects each cabinet minister to be big
enough to handle the burdens of his
department
PLOT BY TRAIN WRECKERS.
Another Attempt Made by Placing Ties
In Front of Express.
Oil City, Po Slarch 10. An attempt
was made to wreck the Pittsburg ex
press on the Pennsylvania railroad
thirty miles north of here.
Six ties were placed across the
tracks, but they were seen by the en
gineer in time to stop the heavy train,
which was filled with passengers.
Several previous attempts have been
made to wreck trains at the same
place.
MRS. WILHELM INDICTED.
Slca Alto Accused of Share In Murder
of Real Estate Broker.
Newark, N. J Slarch 10. The grand
Jury returned an Indictment charging
Mrs. Slary Jane Wllhelm nnd Sllchael
Slca with the murder of the woman's
husband, Frank Wllhelm, a real es
tate broker, who was found dead In
the basement of bis home on Feb. 1.
Slca was arrested on the day follow
ing the murder and has been in Jail
here ever slno,
INCOME TAX FOR FRANCE.
Chamber of Deputies Passes New and
Radical Measure.
Paris, Slarch JO. The chamber of
deputies passed the radical Income tax
bill by a vote of 407 to 1G0, and It will
become n law on April 1.
The new measure divides the taxes
Into seven categories. The first three
pay 4 per cent and Include real prop
erty and the Income from capital,
stocks, bonds, etc., except savings de
posits; the next two categories pay 3V&
per cent and cover the Income from
the profits from commercial and In
dustrial undertakings and farm pro
duction; the sixth nnd seventh cate
gories pay a per cent and include sala
ries, pensions and life annuities above
1,250 francs.
In addition, there Is a complemen
tary tax Imposed upon all persons en
joying nn Income above 5,000 francs.
This Is progressive, ranging from 10
francs for 5,000 francs up to 4 per cent
upon Incomes above 100,000 francs.
The government's estimate of (he
revenue from the new tax Is $140,000,
000 a year.
STANDARD OIL OUSTED.
Missouri Supreme Court Denies Re
hearing to Trust.
Jefferson City. Mo., March 10. SIo
tlons by the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana and the Republic Oil Company
of Ohio for a reheating of the ouster
suit recently decided against them
and for the modification of the Judg
ment were overruled by the Missouri
supreme court, but the motion to oust
the Waters-Pierce Oil company was
denied.
The effect of this decision Is to ex
pel the Indiana and Ohio companies
from Sllssouti and to restore to the
Waters-Pierce company the right to do
business within the state.
The decision Is considered a great
victory for the Waters-Pierce compa
ny and Incidentally for the minority
Interest of that concern, who claimed
to have been making unavailing ef
forts to free the company from con
trol by the New Jersey corporation.
GOULD'S SON A DIRECTOR.
St. Louis, Mnrcn 10. Less than u
year out of college, Klngdon Gould,
eldest son of George J. Gould, was
elected a director of the Sllssouri Pa
cific railroad, of which his father Is
president. He succeeds Stuyvesant
Fish.
Only a yearago Sir. Fish lost the
presidency of the Illinois Central aft
er a long nnd bitter fight with E. H.
Harrlmnn. Announcement of the sev
erance of his relations with the Slls
souri Pacific occasioned considerable
surprise.
Klngdon Gould had four years'
training in Columbia, where he took
up n scientific course. He did not re
celve a diploma because he failed to
put In his vacations at the university's
summer surveying enmp at Litchfield,
Conn.
JAIL FOR MRS. BEN TEAL.
Stay Refused to Woman Who Plotted
Against Frank Gould.
New York, Slarch 10. Supreme Court
Justice O'Gorman denied the applica
tion of Sirs. Ben Teal for a certificate
of reasonable doubt from her convic
tion of attempted subornation of per
Jury. .
No stay was granted, so Mrs. Teal,
even If nn appeal Is taken, will have to
go to the ponltentlary to begin her
term of a year.
Sirs. Teal was convicted of endeaV'
orlug to secure false testimony in fa
vor. of Sirs. Helen K. Gould In her suit
for divorce against her husband.
Frank J. Gould. Julia A. Fleming and
Harry Siousley, who were Jointly In
dieted with 'Sirs. Teal, turned state's
evidence.
LABOR LEADER SHOT DEAD.
Contractor Kills Him In Quarrel Over
Strikebreakers.
Roswell, N. St., March lO.-OUIc S.
Shirley, a labor leader, was shot and
killed here by W. T. Wells, a wealthy
contractor and capitalist, as a result
of a quarrel over the employment of
a nonunion man on some construction
work.
Wells refused to discharge the man,
and eight union men struck. Negroes
and Slexlcaus were engaged to fill
their places. This brought Shirley to
the scene, and the shooting followed
MORE GRAFT INDICTMENTS.
Charges of Attempting to Bribe Jurors
In Councllmen's Trial.
rittsburg, March 10. True bills
have been returned by the, grand Jury
in the cases or uuaries ana Jonu Col
bcrt, accused of attempting to bribe
Jurors In connection with recent coun
cllmanlc graft trials,
The bills charge the two meu Joint
ly with conspiracy, nnd there is one
against each of them charging em
bracery
SLAYERCONFESSES
Story of Robbers Killing
Miss Reed Was a Fable.
HER SWEETHEART SHOT GIRL.
Story of Threatening Letter and
Poisoned Candy Now Believed
to Have Been Fart of
Murder Plot.
Ualtlmore, March 10. Under search
ing questioning by the police John J.
.Mueller confessed that it was he who
shot and killed his sweetheart, Miss
Iteulua Reed, and that there was nn
truth In the story he told Immediately
after the shooting, to the effect that
he and SI Iks Reed were held up at a
lonely spot near Slount Washington by
highwaymen, who, after securing
Mueller's money, demnnded a necklace
worn by SIIss Reed.
In his first story Mueller stated that
In response to this demand SIIss Reed
slapped the face of one of the high
waymen and that thereupon the fatal
shot was fired.
Following the Investigation of the
coroner, Slueller made and signed a
statement in which he said that when
the electric car upon which he and
SIIss Reed were riding reached Slount
Washington SIIss Reed, whose mar
riage to him was set for April 14,
said she must leave the car.
They did so, and after they had
walked a short distance, the girl pre
ceding him, he thought he saw n man
emerging from behind a tree and, be
lieving himself to be In danger, fired,
but owing to the unsteadiness of his
aim the bullet struck and killed SIIss
Reed.
Mueller's story is not accepted by
theapllce, who say that tho killing
waffTiremedltated. They believe that
Mueller wished to break .off his en-
tHo Miss Heed, -but had ,not
etecfiveS say that the place where
the shooting took place was dark 'and
that a highwayman could not have
seen the necklace worn by the girl
and that for the same reason Mueller
could not have seen thp alleged high
wayman's pistol glisten, as he claimed.
Further, as against details of Sluel
ler's confession, there nre no trees at
nor near the scene large enough to
conceal a man. SIIss Reed was shot
twice, and three witnesses testified
that there was an Interval of at least
two minutes between tho shots.
Slueller nnd SIIss Reed figured re
cently lu an episode In which an anon
ymous threatening letter and a box
of poisoned candy were Incidents,
A letter which Slueller said he re
ceived threatened him with harm if
he did not cease his attentions to Miss
Reed. He also claimed to have been
made 111 by eating a portion of the
candy, likewise received by him
through the mall, which was found to
have been poisoned.
The police believe that Slueller sent
both the letter and the candy to him
self and that even at that time he was
planning to get rid of SIIss Reed.
To Wrestto For Championship.
Slelbournc, Slarch 10. Frank Gotcb,
the champion heavyweight wrestler,
and George Hackenschmldt, the Rus
sian wrestler, will wrestle for the
world's championship in this city on
Nov. 8 next
PEACE TALK ON CRUISER.
Central American Conference Is Called
by Zelaya.
City of Mexico, Slarch 10. President
Zelaya of Nicaragua has called anoth
er conference between Slexlco, Hon
duras, Guatemala, Salvador and Costa
Rica with the view to arrange perma
nent peace for Central America.
Tho conference Is to be held on one
of the warships of the American Pa
cific squadron now at Amapula.
' Convicted of Cruelties In Kongo.
Brussels, Slarch 10. Lieutenant Ar
nold of the Belgian army, denounced
by the missionaries for burning and
pillaging villages, assassinations and
other atrocities In the Kongo, was
found guilty and sentenced to twelve
years' imprisonment.
STEEL MEN'S PAY REDUCED.
Montour Rolling Mills Announce Cut
of 10 to 15 Per Cent.
Danville, Pa., Slarch 10. General
Manager II. L. Hecht of the Slontour
rolling mills announces reductions in
the wage scale of tho company of from
10 to 15 per cent in different depart
ments. The new puddling basis will be at
the rate of $3.75 per ton. About a
thousand men will he affected by the
:ut.
TORNADO DEATH LIST GROWS
Fifty Killed, 8ixty Injured and $1,000,
000 Damage at Drinkley.
Little Rock, Ark., March 10. Latest
reports show that fifty lives were
killed, sixty others injured and prop
erty worth $1,000,000 was destroyed as
a result of the tornado which wrecked
the town of Brlnkley, Ark.
The Roman Catholic church, stand
ing directly in the path of tho storm,
alone escaped damage or destruction.
The principal thoroughfares are Im
passable and piled high with wreckage
from end to end.
Every business houso Is In ruins, and
there Is hardly n home that has not at
least suffered damage. The Arlington
hotel, (he Urlnkley hotel, the Southern
hotel nnd the Kelly hotel were de
troyed. Relief squads are at work all day
caring for the dead and Injured. The
Rock Island and Cotton Kelt railroads
have placed cars at the disposal of the
relief committee.
Governor Donaghey is on the scene
and says food, clothing atld shelter are
most needful. Hundreds of people nre
homeless and nre wandering nbout
seeking a temporary abode. Three
special trains have arrived from
neighboring towns bringing relief
workers, physicians and nurses. The
Catholic church lias been converted
Into a hospital, and here the doctors
nnd nurses are caring for the Injured.
GOT NO KIERAN STOCK.
Father McMahon Answers Suit by Dis
claiming Liability.
Cleveland, O., Starch 10. The Rev.
Father William SIcSIahon filed an
swers to two suits against himself In
connection with the P. J. Kiernn mat
ters In the United States district
court, disclaiming liability to pay
ment In both cases.
In answer to n suit brought by the
American Trust company of New
York on n $5,700 note Father Sic
Slnhon claims that the note was giv
en upon nn agreement to receive stock
of the Fidelity Funding company,
Kieran's concent, which stock, lie de
clares, was never delivered.
The other answer filed was to a suit
by T. S. G. Peplcr upon a guarantee
for $250,000 . signed by Father SIc-
.Mahcn for commission for a. loan of
-fjfcSGO.OdO made to ,tne ..Fidelity Fund
ing company by the. Sterling Bank of
Canada in Toronto.
PREDICTS CUT IN WAGES.
Woolen Trust President Says Tariff
Reduction Will Cause It.
Lawrence, Mass., Slarch 10. "The
one thing to give way If a reduction In
the woolen goods tariff Is made, as
proposed, must be the wages of woolen
mill operatives," said President Wil
liam SI. Wood of the American Woolen
company in regard to the proposed
lowering of the tariff on woolen goods.
President Wood states that the wool
en mills of the country are paying the
highest wages ever paid to woolen
textile workers and that the trust had
strained Itself to maintain this high
schedule through the trying times
since the panic.
The American Woolen company em
ploys 35,000 operatives In thirty plnnts
situated throughout the cast.
FREE LAND IN WYOMING.
Government Opens Up 3,000,000 Acres
to Homesteaders.
Washington, Slarch 10. By an or
der of the Interior department 3,000,
000 acres of land in Wyoming arc to
be thrown open at once to homestead'
era, who will be allowed to take either
100 or 320 acres each.
The land cannot be Irrigated and
will be of use therefore only for dry
forming. Those who take the full 320
acre entries must make an attempt to
cultivate the land, while those who go
In on the smaller holdings will not be
compelled by tho law to do so. The
throwing open of this land Is an ex
perlment to see what can be done with
such land.
TRIAL DIVORCE GRANTED.
Now Husband and Wife Have Two
Years to "Make Up."
Newark, N. J Starch 10. Vice Chan
cellor Howell granted a trial divorce
to Sirs. Paulding Wulbredd of Eliza
beth from Gustave Wulbredd. The
court made the divorce for two years
and said that if the parties could
agree on it reconciliation in tho mean
time he would annul the decree. If
they were still unable to agree he
might make the decree absolute.
Sirs, Wulbredd on the stand testified
that on one occasion her husband put
her on a redhot stove and that on
other occasions be knocked her down
and threatened to kill her.
England Wants Wright Aeroplane
London, March 10. The British war
office has made an offer for the pur
chase of one of Wilbur Wright's aero
llanes, Rarltan Canal Is Opened.
Bordentown, March 10. The Dela
ware and Rarltan canal Iiob been open
ti to navigation,
IRS. LEAVITT FREE
W. J. Bryan's Daughter
Granted a Divorce.
SHE ALSO GETS THE CHILDREN
Both She and Mrs. W. T. Bryan
Testify That Artist Leavitt
Had Ceased to Support
His Wife.
Lincoln, Neb., Slarch 10. Ruth Bry
an Leavitt, eldest daughter of William
Bryan, was granted a divorce from
W. H. Leavitt.
Mrs. Leavitt and her mother op-
peored lu the court of Judge Cornish,
tad both alleged that Leavitt had not
contributed to tho support of his wife.
There was no defense.
Sirs. Leavitt was granted the cus
ody of the two children.
Papers In the suit for divorce of
Sirs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt from her
artist husband, William Homer Leav
itt, were first filed In Lincoln, Neb., on
RUTH BRYAN LEAVITT.
Jan. 22 last. At that time Sirs. Leavitt
was living at Sir. Bryan's home, Fair
view, while Sir. Leavitt was said to be
in Paris.
Nonsupport was alleged In Sirs.
Leavltt's suit, which was conducted
for her by T. S. Allen as attorney. Sir.'
llen Is Sir. Bryan's brother-in-law.
He went to Paris in December last,
tnd It was reported In Lincoln at the
time that his trip abroad might have
to do with preliminary arrangements
for a divorce for Sirs. Leavitt.
Sir. and Sirs. Leavitt were married
In October, 1003, when the bride was
only eighteen years old. Sir. Leavitt
it that time had been In Lincoln,
where he painted the portrait of Wit
Ham J. Bryan.
At the time papers In Sirs. Leavltt's
suit were filed she asked the custody
nf their two children Ruth, four years
old, and Hrndfield, who is three.
WARSHIPS GOING TO SEATTLE.
Eight
Armored Cruisers Ordered to
Exposition Opening.
Washington, SInrch 10. Eight fine
vessels of the United States navy will
take part In the opening ceremonies
of tho Alaskan-Yukon-Paclflc exposl
tlon. These are the armored cruisers
West Virginia, Colorado, Slaryland,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, California,
South Dakota and Washington, com
prising the first squadron of the Pa
cllic fleet, commnnded by Rear Adml
ral William T. Swinburne.
According to nn order Issued by ScC'
retary Sleyer, by direction of Fresl
dent Taft, the squadron will arrive at
Seattle by Slay 30, In time for tho
opening ceremonies, and will remain
there until June 8.
MURDER FOR 20 YEAR GRUDGE
Customer Kills Hat Clerk Over
Silver Dollar.
Bad
New York, Slarch 10. Norman Bush,
n clerk in a hat store, was shot by
George Leffert of Newark, N, J., and
taken in a dying condition to the hos
pltal. Leffert then put a bullet into
his head, dying Instantly.
On Leffert 'h body was found a letter
In which he charged that twenty years
ago he bought n hat from Bush and
.that lu making change the clerk bad
given htm a plugged silver dollar. The
writer said he had determined to be
avenged,
American 8tudent a 8ulcide In Vienna
Vienna, March 10. Oliver Bray, an
American student of medicine who
ennio hero to continue his studies, has
committed suicide, His father lives
in Pennsylvania.
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EPISCOPAL RECTOR DEPOSED.
Rev. E. 8. Forbes Unablo to Subscribe
to Church Doctrines.
Boston, March f. Because he de
clares that he can no longer subscribe
to all the doctrines held by the Epis
copal church the Rev. Elmer S. Forbes
of Cambridge, well known In New
York and New Jersey, has been de
posed from the priesthood by Bishop
Edwin S. Lines of Newark, to which
Sloceso he was canonically attached.
Tho Rev. Mr. Forbes haB entered the
Unitarian church and has been as
signed work by the American Uni
tarian association, which has Its head-
iiuurters In this city.
Mr. Forbes Bald that while rector of
St. John's church, Summit avenue,
Jersey City, ho decided to leave tho
episcopal church. Under the church
aws a clergyman is glrcn six months
In which to reconsider a decision to
wiver relations with the denomination.
U the expiration of tho six months
cv. Sir. Forbes, not having retracted
his renunciation of tho ministry, his
Aenosltlon wns pronounced.
RUSSIA GRATEFUL TO STOKES;
8enda Memorial In Appreciation of
Aid Given Y. M. C. A.
St. Petersburg, March 8. Premier
Stolypln and M. Khomyakoff, presi
dent of the douma, have signed an ad
dress to Anson Phelps Stokes of New
York In appreciation of his aid In
founding the Russian Young Men's
Christian association.
The address was presented to John
R. Mott, general secretary of tho
World's Student Christian Federation
of New York at the annual meeting of
tho association by a deputation, led by
Countess Shuvaloff.
Sir. Slott read a special message -to
the young men of Russia from ex-
President Roosevelt. Emperor Nicho
las, the empress and other members
of the royal family are taking active
Interest in tho association. The em
peror has contributed liberally, and
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovltch
has given $1,500.
FILIPINO EDITOR SENTENCED.
Goes to Billbld Prison For Libeling
Dean Worcester.
Manila, Slarch 10. Teodoro ICalaw,
editor of El Renaclmlento, organ of
radical Filipinos, has been convicted
of libeling Dean U. Worcester, mem
ber of the Philippine commission, and
sentenced to nine months in the mili
tary prison of Billbld and to pay a fine
of 8,000 pesos.
ICalaw will take an appeal.
COST OF OLD AGE PENSIONS.
Increases Civil Service Expenditure In
Great Britain by $43,500,000.
London, March 10. The estimated
expenditure of $43,500,000 for old age
pensions In the coming year Is respon
sible for an equal Increase in the civil
service figures.
In 1008-0 these were $208,500,000,
while In 1009-10 the sum of $312,000,-
COO will be required.
Weather Probabilities.
Rain or snow; colder; high south
west winds.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Closing Stock Quotations.
New York, March I.
Money on call was 2 per cent; time
money and mercantile paper unchanged
In rates. Closing prices of stocks wsre:
Amal. Copper... 67H Norf. & West... 864
Atchison 103 Northwestern ..176H
13. & 0 107 Penn. R. R 128H
Brooklyn II. T.. 71 Reading 123
Ches. &Ohlo.... C5 Rock Island.... 3
C. ,C.,C.& St.L.. 73 Bt. Paul 141
D. , L. & W 647 Southern Pao...U7
D. & H 173 Southern Ry.... 24
Erie 25 South. Ry. pf... 62
Gen. Electric... 161 Sugar 123
III. Central 141 Texas Paclflo...S2
Int. -Met 15 Union Pacific. ..174
Louis. & Nash.. 123
U. 8. Steel 42
Manhattan 146
U. S. Steel pf...UH
Missouri Pac... 6814 West
N. Y. Central. ...123
union.... 68
Market Reports.
WHEAT Firmer; contract trade,
March, tl.23al.24.
CORN One-half cent higher; March,
71a72c. ,
OATS Steady; No. 2 white, natural, 64
a60c.
DUTTKR Fancy, fresh steady; other
grades weak; receipts, 12,336 packages;
creamery, specials, 29aJ0o. (ofnolsJ,
29c); extras, 28a29c; thirds to firsts,
21a27c; held, common to special, 21a27c;
process, common to special, 17a24c; west
ern factory, 17a20c.; western Imitation
creamery, 20a22e.
CHEEBE Firm; receipts, 1,729 boxes;
state, full cream, special, 16al6c:
small, fancy, 16c; large, fancy, 16c; good
to One, 14c; winter made, best, llc:
common to prime, UaUc; skims, full
to specials, 2al2c.
EGOS Momentarily steady; receipts,
21,963 cases; state, Pennsylvania and near
by, fancy, selected, white, 21c.; fair to
choice, 23a24c; brown and mixed, fancy,
22a21c; fair to choice, 20a21c; western,
nrsta, 20c; seconds, 18c
LIVE POULTRY Weak and unsettled!
official prices not fixed.
DRESSED POULTRY Firm, but QUlet;
turkeys, young, selected, per pound, tic;
poor to good, 16a22c; fowls, boxes, 15c;
barrels, 16c; old roosters, lie; squabs,
white, per dosen, Sl.26a4.2S; frosen turkeys.
No. 1, 23a Wo.; broilers, milk fed, fanoy,
26a28c; corn fed, fancy, SaStc; roasting
chickens, milk fed, 20a26c; corn fed, 17a
too.; fowls, No. 1, I4aisc; old rooster.
12c; ducks, no. i, misc.; geese, no. i,
al4c; capons, 24a27c.
HAY AND STRAW-Steady; timothy,
per hundred, (6a86c.; shipping, t0a(9Hc.;
clover, mixed, 66a75c.s clover, toatoc.i rye
straw, llal.IO; small bales, IU. Ism.