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Iv£:K;-p rsas?®! •S<'&•'£>. * kJ •*?.»* 75?® Jjrtafc&T7& W i* «•/» s V . - '<*• V AUTOMOBILE LAW BE ENFORCED OOtftRNOR EDWARD P. DUNNE WRITES SHERIFFS AND POLICE CHIEFS. FREQUENT COMPLAINTS MADE 77tekw8 -£y<37i$ Jtop at CUbsn Cbmfxign IFTEEN years ago George Dewey stood on the bridge of the famous TpiympUt and won the battle of Manila bay, William T. Sampson from the bridge of the armored cruiser New York directed the operations before Santiago, and the pennant of Winfleld Scott Schley fluttered from the mast­ head of the beautiful three-fun- %- neled armored cruiser Brooklyn. The world acclaimed the com­ manders of the squadrons of which these vessels were the flag­ ships, while all America joined in one grand hur­ rah for a navy that was admittedly one of the bast on the seven sew. The American navy to,still among the best, but the ships that were fought by Dewey and by Sampson and by Schley are no longer figured In the line-up that makes the great fleet under com­ mand of Rear Admiral Badger one of the most powerful fighting organisations the world has ever seen. Every one of the famous ships of 1898 Is today ^officially admitted to be obsolete, and a\l of them put together would not be as powerful as Is the giant superdreadnaught Wyoming, or the Arkan­ sas, or the Florida, or the Utah, any one of which would be a match for all the ships that fought under Dewey and Sampson combined. If g<uch a test should be made. Just a year ago the then secretary of the navy, George von L. Meyer, publicly called attention to the fact that the American navy had more than its full quota of battleships whose day in the first line had passed and the places of which would have to be taken by more modern ships of the Wyoming and Florida classes if the United States was to retain 'its position as the world's second naval power. The other day the observa­ tion of the ex-naval secretary was recalled by a naval officer in New York, who took pfencil and pad and, going back fifteen and twenty and twenty-five years, figured out Just what the obso­ lete ships now adorning the naval lists originally cost the United States government. It was so ridiculously easy, the computation of that total value of famous ships that are ready to die a naval death of old age. The result was astounding, and when at last the navy man wiped his brow and announced the result of that little mathematical feat of his lie had proved that the value of those ships, some of them still leBS than a dozen years old, reached the stupendous total of more than $100,000,000, or, to be exact 9129.932.814. Of this $130,000,000 fleet that was, it is inter­ esting. and in a way sad, to note that it Includes the Saratoga, the name given Sampson's old flag­ ship New York when her name was taken so that it could be given to the mighty superdread­ naught New York, now nearlng completion in the navy yard In Brooklyn; Schley's flagship, the Brooklyn; the Olympia, from the bridge of which Dewey uttered his famous order to Captain Grid- ley, "You may flre when ready, Gridley;" the Iowa, that was "Bob" Evans' ship in 1898; the Indiana, and the Massachusetts, sister ships, which won fame and glory before Santiago, and the Oregon, which won the plaudits of an admir­ ing world by her great run around the Horn, and which In her old age will probably be given the honor of being the first American war vessel to pass through the Panama canal In April of next year. Then, of course, there was the old Texas, the ship that was commanded by the beloved Captain Philip, the vessel from the deck of which he offered his prayer of thanksgiving to God when Santiago's battle was ended and the Spanish 16. The battleship Ohio, still in the Atlantic fleet, but slated to leave In the near future never to return. 17. The commerce destroyer Columbia, so long missing In the news of the navy that a genera­ tion has grown up that knows her not, and she was Of the flying squadron of 1898. 18. The commence destroyer Minneapolis, a speed record breaking cruiser of the late nineties, a Bister of the Columbia and, like her, of the flying Bquadron of 1898. 19. The monitor Amphltrite. The monitor Miantonomah. The monitor Monadnock. The monitor Cheyenne, formerly the Wyo- The monitor Osark, formerly the Arkan- The monitor Tonopah, formerly the Ne- Letter Is 8ent Out at the Request of Secretary of State Woode, Who "Says Statute Is Being ' Violated. jtoi&.T-' ' . Springfield.--A circular ^tter was seat out to every sheriff and chief of police in the state by Gov. Edward F. Dunne, urging them to enforce the law relative to automobiles strictly and vigorously. Secretary of .State Woods wrote the governor stating that frequent complaints had been made to his department of the failure on the part of the officers of the coun­ ties and cities of the state to enforce the law requiring owners and drivers of motor vehicles, to secure licenses previous to operating their machines, and that he had appointed investigat­ ors in same of the large cities and that reports to him indicate that a very large percentage of automobile drivers are openly and wilfully violat­ ing the law in this regard. He states that his office force is wholly inade­ quate to compel observance of the law without the co-operation of all the offi­ cers of the state, and asks the gover­ nor to use the means at his command, and as authorized by law, to require these officers to do their duty in the enforcement of the law. Governor Dvtnne in his letter to the sheriffs find chiefs of police calls at­ tention to the various provisions of the automobile law, and says, In part: "I shall rely upon you to see that the law is enforced in these particu­ lars in your county. A failure to com­ ply with the law is depriving the state of a large amount of legitimate in­ come which Is to be used, under the new road and bridge act, for the im­ provement of the roads of the state." monitor formerly §h|ps met their doom--the same ship fro® which Philip ordered his men not to cheer when the Vizcaya, the Cristobal Colon, the Maria Ther­ esa, the flower of Cervera's squadron, were burn­ ing and sinking down into the grave to which the deadly shots of Sampson's gunners had consigned them. But the o& Texas, which, like the New York, was renamed so that the name of the Lone Star state might adorn that of the new New York's Bister, has long since met her fate. Ripped, riddled and torn by the shells of the newer and more modern ships, to prove the marksmanship of whose men the Texas was de­ stroyed, the hulk of that old ship--a sister of the Maine that went down In Havana harbor, and which going down hastened the conflict with Spain--still half floats In Chesapeake bay. Just enough of her left to provide another marksman* ship test for some mighty dreadnaught of the fleet under Admiral Badger. As went the old Texas, so will go some of the * other ships of the fleet that is obsolete. Already the Indiana is mentioned as the next martyr ship for the Atlantic fleet, and after her the Massa­ chusetts, and then the Iowa, and perhaps within a year or two the Kearsarge and the Kentucky, the Alabama, the Illinois, and the Wisconsin, all of them beyond all question or doubt now of the obsolete type of fighting craft. But let's call the roll of the obsolete fleet, and the flagships shall lead off just as they did at Manila and at Santiago; 1. The cruiser Olympia, flagship of Dewey si Manila. 2. The armored cruiser Saratoga, flagship of Sampson at Santiago. 8. The armored cruiser Brooklyn, flagship of 8chley at Santiago. 4. The battleship Oregon, Clark's Immortal around-the-Horn ship. 6. The battleship Iowa, "Fighting Bob" Evans* last command as a captain. 6. The battleship Texas, already gone, "Jack- Philip's old ship. 7. The battleship Massachusetts, another fa­ mous Santiago memory. f. The battleship Indiana, sister ship of the Oregon and Massachusetts, and, like them, one ot Santiago's,famous contenders. 9. The "%ttle8hlp Kearsarge, first of superim­ posed turret ships 1 !' 10. The battleship Kentucky, sister ship of tii* Kearsarge. 11. The battleship Illinois, one of the around- the-world voyage ships. The battleship Alabama, also of the fleet 12. that went around the world under Evans ,and / ton Roads in December, 24. vada. 15. The Florida. • f |6. The mlnotor Puritan. 17. The monitor Terror. ,18. The monitor Monterey. il9. The protected cruiser St. Louis. 99. The protected cruiser Charleston; il. The proteoied cruiser Milwaukee. 92. The protected cruiser Newark. 18. The protected cruiser Chicago. 14. The protected cruiser Cincinnati. ; |S. The protected cruiser Raleigh, Coghlan's ship at Manila. 86. Twenty-eight torpedo boats. Twenty years ago this fleet of sixty-three ships would have, been a match for any naval organisa­ tion then afloat, with the exception of the fleet of Oreat Britain. Today all the vessels In it could not last half an hour in a battle with the five dreadnaughts that constitute the great first divi­ sion of the United States Atlantic fleet. And this mighty fleet of "naval has-beens" cost the United States government more than $129,- 000,000 and the oldest among them, not Including the old monitors, is not yet twenty-five years old. The battleships In it to build and equip cost the government $64,485,225, and the cruisers, mon­ itors and torpedo craft raise the total to the 9189,000,000. What will become of these ships? Some are now in reserve and there they will stay until their end is decided upon. Will that end be the target range or the auction block and the Junk iftle, or will they be permitted to rust away in navy yards nominally as units in reeerve fleets but in reality as useless reminders of a navy •K«t in Its day was great but which, owing to marvelous progress in naval construction, has reached quickly but surely that state of obsolete­ ness from which there can be no ' come-back. The Oregon and the Olympia will probably be retained for generations to come as glorious re­ minders to Americans of future years of the •naVy that won immortality in the brief conflict that wiped Spain ofT the map of the western world and which added to American territory an island empire in the far east and won for this country for the first time a full, free recognition by all the nations of the world of the right to be numbered among those powers whose mission and Influence, is "world wide." In the line-up of the "has been" fleet it will be noted that there is included the entire fourth division of the great fleet that circumnavigated the globe in 1907 and 1908. This division was made up^f the Alabama, the flagship of Sperry when he began the voyage as a division com­ mander; the Kentucky, the Kearsarge and the Illinois. In that fleet three of the vessels of the third division are now also listed among the obsolete fighters, the ships in question being the Ohio, the Missouri and the Maine, all Bister ships and in their day held up to the world as em­ bodying all that was best In the construction and equipment of modern men-of-warof the battle­ ship class. The Atlantic fleet when it sailed out of Hamp- 1907, was made up of Thomas and Sperry. 13. The battleship Wisconsin, with the Ala­ bama and Illinois the only battleships of the navy whose twin funnels are arranged in parallel fash­ ion, one to the port and the other to the star­ board. 14. The battleship Maine, built in memory of the martyr ship of 1898, and yet a ship that is already obsolete and has been missing from the Atlantic fleet for several years. 15. The battleship Missouri, another chrand* the-world voyager. sixteen flrst-class battleships, and a look at the make-up of the organization shows that in a pe­ riod of less than six years seven, or lacking one of exactly half of those famous ships, have been relegated into the reserve, the first stepping- stone that leads to Junk pile and oblivion. LESS FOLIAGE. "This is a great age." "What has struck you now?" "The fact that so many doctors are successful without whiskers. It wasn't so thirty years ago." ACROSS THE SAHARA FOR FUN Retired General's Peculiar Pleasure From Algiers to the Gulf .. =, &&*•' of Guinea. j Last winter Gen. Bailloud, chief of ^ the 19th French Army corps, stationed 1 In Algiers, was retired under the age * limit law. But to show that he was not yet ready to quit active life, he planned a trip across the Sahara to Tlmbuctoo and on to the Gulf of Guinea. 1%, His party Included a young officer and two corporals with apparatus for receiving wireless messages, with a small eecort. The time has passed when man had to fight his way through the desert. The railway took them to Biskra and automobile and horse to Onargia. On Christmas day they were at In Salah, in the desert, and here the na­ tives saw for the first time a Christ­ mas tree; the children of the village enjoyed both the candles and tke pres­ ents. The party Was not trying to make a record. Through the mountain passes of the Southern Sahara they took their time, reaching the Niger at Bamba, about 2,000 miles, In three months. At Tlmbuctoo old friends were met. "Down the Niger they started by boat. At least, that was the plan. But the general fretted at the Inac­ tivity and went off on a hunting trip at every chaitee, Joining the boats lower down. It was not long tyefOre modern jneans of transportation were reached --automobile and railroad to the coast. The whole Journey took about five months; the only casualty was the death of a pet dog. The native chiefs were friendly, and ther# was nothing to mar the pleasure irtp of a email party, including a general retired for One of the world's largest church organs Is an electrical instrument at Hamburg, which has 12,178 plpMt some of which are 37 feet long. Fair Will Open October 3. The greatest fair on earth will open its gates to thousands of visitors Oc­ tober 3-11, beginning on Friday*of one week and closing on Saturday of the next week. The Illinois state fair has added a flew title to its already formidable list. It is now knowil as the Two Mill­ ion Dollar fair. Secretary Dickirson two years ago had an inventory made of the value of exhibits and the total ran up to approximately $2,000,000. The magnitude of this the greatest ag­ ricultural exhibition in the world can be appreciated with this appraisal of exhibits, which was made by experts who inspected each animal and article on the grounds. For the first time in nineteen years "Governor's day" will be Democratic day. The state board of agriculture is not a partisan society and has care­ fully kept politics in the background. From time immemorial Thursday has been set apart and recognized as the day when the governor of the state shall be received with especial honor. The supreme court and state officers always have been included in the spe­ cial invitation list, which was closed with the executive and judiciary branches of the etate government. Illinois broke a precedent last year and elected a complete set of Demo­ cratic state officers. Hence Governor's day will be Democratic day. All the big chiefs of the dominant party will participate in the great do­ ings on Thursday. There will be pow-wows and combinations and plen­ ty of talk, talk, talk, all of which will be fed to the rank an\I file of Illinois yeomanry by the dally press. It is certain that United States Senator James Hamilton Lew's will lend the occasion the honor of his presence and will shine equally with Gov. Edward F. Dunne as an attraction for the vis­ itors. It was hoped by many that Secre­ tary of State Bryan also would Join his Illinois brethren in their day of thanksgiving and praise, but word from Washington has leached some of his friends that the grfeat Nebraskan will not be able to attend. However, a roll call of the senate and house of the Illinois leglslatuie undoubtedly will develop a quorum of both branches. * The Republicans and the Progress­ ives and the Prohibitionists and the Socialists and the su3ragets all may have their days, and ihey will have the privilege of designating them through their party organizations. The state board of agriculture will not do it. That is one thing that would not be tolerated by the bet.rd. After all Is said, it certain that visitors to the state fair do not attend to see statesmen, or politicians, or of­ ficeholders. Will Make Headquarters In Chicago. The state Industrial commission, created by the last legislature, will es­ tablish headquarters in Chicago. A de­ cision to this effect Mas reached at a meeting In Springfield of the two members now compor.ing the commis­ sion, H. S. Tanner of Paris, chairman, and Peter Angsten of Chicago. The fact that three-fourths of the business of the commission, most of which will arise under the workingman's compen­ sation act, is expected to come from Chicago, led the commission to make its decision. Improvement on 8tate House Skylights The skylights a% the state capitol building are undergoing a transforma­ tion at the hands of workmen under the direction of Secretary of State Harry Woods. Beautiful amber colored glass, with a decorative border, has taken the place of the dingy panes which formerly adorned the skylights over the stairways on the third floor. The glass domes of the senate and house chambers axe also being re­ paired, while new lights are also being placed above the broad. marble stair­ way in the welt wing. Cash for Boy Corn Growers. An Illinois boy and an er.r of corn, rather ten ears of corn-- and the boy will be given a place of honor among the farmers of the world. The state fair this year--the opening day is Friday, October 3, and the clos­ ing day is Saturday, October 11-- Offers to tile Industrious boys of the state $184 in gold for the best ten ears of corn grown by a boy. The state is divided into three grand divisions, northern, central and southern, and the best ten ears in each division will receive prises, and then there Is a championship prise between these three. No safer or better method of arousing the latent talent and indus­ try of a farmer boy could be devised. Th^ boys' school at the fair this year will be enlarged and improved over previous years. This splendid feature was inaugurated three years ago by Col. Charles F. Mills of Spring­ field, Secretary J. *K. Dickirson and Superintendent of Public Instruction Francis G. Blair, and received the hearty indorsement and co-operation of President J. T. Montgomery, then a member of the board ,and in -fact the entire board of agriculture. It has become one of the great features of every fair. • The boys live in tents furnished by Governor Dunne from the militia equipment, mess like soldlero, listen tqA lectures by able instructors on farm** topics, inspect live stock, machinery, j and poultry, and write papers for home consumption on what they see and what they have learned. Arrange­ ments have been made this year for an increased number of boys, and the lists are full and running over. It hai been the great annual treat for a bat­ talion of the rising generation gath­ ered from every county in the state. Colonel Mills, it Is said, is endeavor­ ing to add Bome special attractions for the youngsters this year, and for one thing is contemplating marching them to some Springfield church for divine services on Sunday of the fair. This year they will be better provided for and entertained than ever before. Their tenta will be pitched on the knoll near the southwest entrance. ILLINOIS NEWS TERSELY TOLD m Fire Marshal Opens Crusade. A crusade was opened by Acting State Fire Marshal Morgaridge against dealers who have failed to comply tolth the ordinance in placing gasoline in cans not -properly labeled and painted red. Warrants were is­ sued for several companies and indi­ viduals, and many more are expected to follow. The campaign has been progressing secretly for some time and follows the increasing list of casualties which have resulted from fires and explo­ sions through careless handling of gasoline. With Springfield as a nu­ cleus for the movement, the state fire marshal intends to extend the move­ ment over the entire state and prose­ cute every case. Bulletins have been Bent to the police authorities in every city with a copy of the ordinance re­ garding receptacles for gasoline, and directions to arrest every person vio­ lating the act. The work of gathering evidence against the local dealers has been conducted by Deputy Fire Marshal J. E. Galavin and the testimony will be presented at the hearing before Jus­ tice of the Peace Reilly September 26. The majority of individuals and rep­ resentatives or companies for whom warrants were issued gave bond for their "appearance on that date. They were as follows: People's Oil company, Standard Oil company, N. B. Chrlatman, Leslie Rob- bine, George Solle, J. W. Hunter, J. W> Wlneman, R. M. Dockum and Fred H. Rhuden. Miners Predict Warm Election. The coming election of the Illinois Mine Workers of America promises to be one of the hottest contested in years. Announcement was made at the headquarters in Springfield that nomination blanks have already been sent out to several hundred locals In the state. It was also learned that Joseph Pope of Belleville, the presi­ dent of the organization, will have strong opposition for re-election. James Lord of Farmington, the pres­ ent vice-president of the mine work­ ers, has decided to make the race. A hot contest for vice-president is also expected. The position is being sought for by Daniel Clark, who has for many years been a member of the executive board of the Springfield dis­ trict, Paul Smith of Marlon, who was last year defeated In the race for presi­ dent, and Adolph Germer of Belleville. It is expected by the members of the organization that Duncan McDonald, the present secretary-treasurer of the mine workers, will be reflected with­ out opposition. Frank Farrington of Streator Is a candidate for re-election on the inter­ national board, and so far in the race has no opposition. In addition to the regular election of officers this year, the organization will elect a scale com­ mittee. The committee will next year form an agreement with the operators. The nominations must be in at the state headquarters not later than-Oc­ tober 10. The election, which is by referendum vote of 78,000 miners of the^state, will take place December 9. Changes Are Announced. The board of directors of 1 Ae Illi­ nois Children Home and Aid society, which controls homes for dependent children at Duquoin, Evanston and Po­ tomac, has announced various changes In the management of that society. Dr. Tastins H. Hart, formerly secre­ tary of the state board of charities and corrections of Minnesota, has been succeeded as superintendent by Wil­ fred S. Reynolds of Chicago, executive secretary of the Cook county board of visitors. State Highway Commissioners Adjourn Illinois highway commissioners at their concluding se3sion in Blooming- ton discussed possible improvement In the new Tice roads law. A. D. Gash, Chicago, president of the new state highway commission, made a etirring appeal In behalf of good roads. John Gornsey of Champaign urged harmony as essential to good results in promot­ ing highway improvement. Mrs. Dan­ iel Smalley of Streator. aged slxty-flvs, was killed by an automobile while .crossing a street. Sh» fraa* [warning by the driver. Y '• u -tlVw • ̂j .. . j * vu , „ Rockford.--A golf ball driven by: Mayor Bennett In a fog hit Alderman! Ernest Smith In the face, breaking hi* nose. Smith was playing with th® mayor and had gone ahead to look for his own ball. Free port.--George Wiegand and Pat­ rick Galvin were the first men arrest­ ed for illegal fishing in the Pecaton- lea river since that stream waa mad* a fish preserve. They were found fishing with a not Galesburg.--Despite the death of Max Lillie here, De Lloyd Thompson! of Chicago, his partner, made a suc­ cessful flight, notwithstanding ai strong breeze. Before his ascent b* telephoned to his sweetheart in Chica­ go and bade her good-by. Rockford.--Announcement that has decided to quit the ministry in or­ der to enter business, Rev. G. L. Leake of Pecatonica, near here, has handed In his resignation to the Methodist Episcopal district superintendent to ' ' t&ke effect October 1., i - Benton.--Fire hundred and seventy votes were cast in the special city election here on a proposition to e*» ' ̂ *4' tend the city limits. Four hundred $ and eighty-seven voted for and 88 "-Tlta? against the proposition. Of these 230 were women, twenty of whom voted against the proposition. Champaign.--Optimism concerning crop conditions exists at the College of Agriculture at the State university. Prof. A. E. White, Prof. Fred H. Ran- J-. ;i kin and Prof. I. W. Dickerson of the " twi ^ college all say that reports of a condi- tion that nearly approaches famine are "fM; entirely without foundation. Rockford.--Seized with a ootfghipg • |r^ spell while at work, John Magnussom, an employe of the Forest City Furni- 4 ture company, bled to death before a .'rim: physician, who had been summoned, <^#1 arrived. His death was very unusual .' 1 in that it is believed that he ruptured the sorta, the biggest artery In the >5^1 body, and which leads into the heart. Chicago.--The first woman ever vidll" chosen a delegate to the confer- • snce of the fourth Episcopal district of the African Methodist Episcopal church was seated by that body here. ; Julia Folk of Burlington, la., waa the ' > delegate: Bishop Benjamin F. Leo issued instructions that she be re- ceived as a lay member of the confer- ::||| snce. ' Carlo.--Work of driving the steel „ ^ piling to protect the base of the Ohio river levee from being undermined by water, and to stop the seepage through the base of the levee, was . |||; started by the General Railroad Con- V|j! struction company, the subsidiary ^ company which is handling the Carlo -* levee contract for the Walsh Construe- tlon -company. . Jacksonville.--The sixty-eighth year of the Illinois Woman's college begaa , with the largest attendance in the hi* tory of the school. This Is the largest , school exclusively for girls In the west and now holds full collegiate • . rank by reason of having raised an endowment fund of $180,000 in the last year as required by the Methodist •'Jp^ churchr which has jurisdiction owl the college. .';V$§|g Murphysboro.--A Jury returned a verdict finding Coram Beavers, Roy , ' Hopkins and Mike Williams guilty of ^ stacking a young woman and fixed their punishment at ten years in pris­ on. Ralph Cundiff and Will Christian pleaded guilty and Fred Geistofer did so just before the case went to the jury. Edith Gray, eighteen years old*, was their victim, and the crime oo- curred on the night of June 18 last. Centralia.--Two wrecks occurred on the Southern railroad near here. A car of meat wtfs derailed one mile west, and at Dix three cars and an engine were derailed. One of the cars waa loaded with stock, which was uploaded. The wrecker - from Princeton turned over the cars so trains could pass. No. 85 was delayed five hours, and No. 2 detoured to St. Louis over the I. A N. from Mount Vernon. No one was injured. Qulnoy.--Two years after a crime of embezzlement was committed, the grand Jury returned an indictment against Joseph Woodruff, formerly of Clayton, who is alleged to have stolen $400 from the Modern Woodmen lodge of Clayton. He has been arrested at Springfield. Woodruff averred that he was held up by two masked men, and to substantiate his statement the de- W- fendant showed several head. Jpliet.--Edmund M. Allen, warden of the state penitentiary here, dis­ charged three more prison employes, and it is rumored that a fourth offi­ cial has tendered his resignation to the executive. The three to lose their positions are G. A. P. Cummings and N. E. Cederholmea, wall guards, and Alexander Barrowmnn, an inside guard. It is rumored that H. E. Witte, superintendent of the receiving and discharging department, has volun­ tarily resigned. Joliet.--After a desperate hand-to- hand fight, six revolting convicts em­ ployed in the penitentiary chair fac­ tory were overcome by guards and driven to the solitary cells, where tney now are in confinement. The convicts threw down their tools. When their guard. H. M. Stoddard, ordered them to resume work they refused and threatened "to do" him. Before they could attack hiic. however. Stoddard called for help and emergency guards came to his aid. Following a desper­ ate struggle, the revolters finally were placed under control and were placed In solitary conflement. Centralia.--A number of important casee will be appealed from the Marion county circut court to the Octo­ ber term of the supreme court, among which will be the case against Ernest Harrison, -now In the penitentiary Cheater on a charge of kidnaping Dorothy Holt of Saleiu for ransom. Aurora.--Frank Board man. a boy. became champion plowman when Be wrested the laurels from William FRirweather who won the title last year and held the championship six times previously. He lost his titU by a narrow margins lioardmaa Us a etralgbler and truer furrow, 1