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38* • •"' , ' it- - i" • } *v fPSF* . *vjv fy " • ' * 5 ' " 1 in I'MERfON HODti H ^-WO» or THi MI^f!yflFPT ILlU5rPAriON5 iiy MAGNUif u.kt a ii*£R~ COPVRIOHT .?9C,9 ir JJOBJEKT-'MERRlt.JU COrJPAwy SYNOPSIS. Senator John Calhoun Is Invited to b^-j rnma co.'rt-l.'ir1* Of St£tC in Tylsf's CSr~ Inet. He Jeciares-that if he accepts Texas and Ort'Knn must be added to the Union. He semis nls secretary, Nicholas Trist, to ask the Baroness von Ritz, spy of the British ambassador, Pakenham, to call at his Apartments. While searching for the baron.-sri' home, a carriage drives up And Nicholas is invited to enter. The occupant is the baroneBs, and she asks Nicholas to assist in evading pursuers. Nicholas notes that the baroness has lost a slipper. ,She gives him the remaining slipper as a pledge that she will tell Calhoun what he wants to know regarding England's In­ tentions toward Mexico. As security Nicholas gives her a trinket he intended for lu.t sweothes^ft, Elizabeth Churchill. Calhoun bocomfs'Secretary o? •*«<•' He orders Nicholas to Montreal on state business, nnd tne latter plans to be mar­ ried that night. The baroness savs she Will try to prevent the marriage. A drunken congressman whom Nicholas (%sks to assist in the wedding arrange­ ments sends the baroness' slipper to Elizabeth, by mistake, and the wedding Is declared off. Nicholas finds the baron- in Montreal, she having succeeded, where he failed, In discovering England's intentions regarding Oregon. She tells him that the slipper he had in his pos­ session contained a note from the attache of Texas to the British ambassador, say­ ing that if the Tnited States did not an­ nex Texas within 3D days, she would lose both Texas and Oregon. Nicholas meets a naturalist. Von Itittenliofen, who gives him information about Oregon. The baroness and a British warship dtsappear from Montreal simultaneously. Calhoun ^r<1ovs? Nirhol'is Ticrtd n ^urty of set tiers bound for Oregon. Calhoun excites the jealousy of Senora Yturrio and there­ by secures the signature of the Texas at­ tache to a treaty of annexation. Nicholas starts for Oregon. He wins the racff'Over the British party. A British warship ar­ rives with the baroness as a passenger. She tells Nicholas that she placed a note In the slipper which caused the breaking off of his marriage, and that she intends to return to WaqJjington to repair thq damage'she has done. Nicholas decides to follow her. The baroness beats him to Washington. He learns Polk Is elected find Texas annexed, and that there Is to be war * with Mexico. The baroness tells Nicholas that In return for a compromise of the Oregon boundary on the line of the forty-ninth degree, she has sold her­ self to Pakenham. Nicholas tears up the agreement. CHAPTER XXXIII. The Story of Helena von Ritz. There is In every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adver­ sity.--Washington Irving. "But madam; but madam--" I tried to begin. At last, after moments which seemed to me ages long, I broke out: "But pnee, at least, you promised to tell me who and what you are. Will you do that now?" "Yes! yes!" she said. "Now I shall finish the clearing of my soul. You, after all, shall be my confessor." We heard again a faltering footfall In the hallway. I raised an eyebrow in query. "It is my father. Yes, but let him come. He also must hear. He is in­ deed the author of my story, such as it is. "Father," she added, "come, sit you here. I have something to jsay to Mr. Trist." She seated herself now on one of the low couches, her hands clasped across its arm, her eyes looking far away out of the little window, beyond ' which could be seen the bills across the wide Potomac. "We are foreigners," she went on, "'as you can tell. I speak your lan­ guage better fhan my father does, be­ cause I was younger when I learned. It is quite true he is my father. He Is an Austrian nobleman, of one of the old families. He was educated in Ger­ many, and of late has lived there." "I could have told most Of that of you both," 1 said. She bowed and resumed: "My father was always a student. As a young man in the university, he was devoted to certain theories of his own. N" est-ce pas vrai, mon drole?" she asked, turning to put her arm on her father's shoulder as he dropped weakly on the couch beside her. He nodded. "Yes, I wass student," he said. "T wass not content with the ways of my people." "So, my father, you will see," said she, smiling at him, "being much de­ termined on anything which he at­ tempted, decided, with five others, to make a certain experiment. It was the (strangest experiment, I presume, ever made in the interest of what is called science. ^It was wholly the most curious and the most cruel thing ever done." She hesitated now. All I could do -was to look from one to the other, wonderingly. "This dear old dreamer, my father, then, and five others--" "I name them!" he interrupted. "There were Karl von Goertz. Al- brecht Hardman, Adolph zu Stern- bern, Karl von Starnack, and Rudolph von Wardberg. We were all friends--" Yes," she said softly, "all friends, nnd all fools. Sometimes I think of my mother." My dear, your mother!" "But. I must tell this as it was! TLien. sir, these six, all Heidelberg men, all well born, men of fortune, all men devoted to science, and interested in the study of the hopelessness of the average human being in central Eu­ rope--these fools, or heroes, I say not which--they decided to do something in the interest of science. They were of the belief that human beings were becoming poor in type. So they de­ termined to marry^r" "Naturally," sdfd I, seeking to re­ lieve a delicate situation--"they scorned the marriage of convenience --they came to our American way of thinking, that they would marry for love." "You do them too much credit!" said she slowly. "That would have meant no sacrifice on either side. They married with the deliberate in­ tention pf improving individuals of the ftuiaan species! Father, is it not so?" * Some speech stumbled on his tongue; but she raised her hand. "Listen to me. I will be fair to you, -father, fairer than you were either to yourself or to my mother. "Yes. these six concluded to Im­ prove the grade of human animals! They resolved to marry among,the I li law. v -'V "Yes; It Wat My Father," She Said at Length. peasantry--because thus they could select finer specimens of womiankind, younger, stronger, more fit to bring children into the world. Is not that the truth, my father?" "It wass the way we thought," he whispered. "It wass the way we thought wass wise." - -- "And perhaps it was wise. It was selection. So now they selected. Two of them married German working girls, and those two are dead, but there is no child of them alive. Two-married in Austria, and of these one died, and the other is in a madhouse. One mar­ ried a young Galician girl, and so ' fond of her did he become that she took him down from his station to hers, and he was lost. The other--" "Yes; it was my father," she said, at length. "There he sits, my father. Yes, I love him. I would forfeit my life for him now--I would lay it down gladly for him. Better had I done so. But in my time I have hated him. "He, the last one, searched long for this fitting animal to lead ^o the altar. He was tall and young and handsome and rich, do you see? He could have chosen among his owl people any woman he liked. Instead, he searched among the Galicians, the lower Aus- trians, the Prussians. He examined Bavaria and Saxony. Many he found, but still none to suit his scientific ideas. He bethought him then of searching among the Hungarians, where, it is said, the most beautiful women of the world are found. So at last he found her, that peasant, my mother!" The silence in the room was broken at last by her low, even, hopeless voice as she went on: "Now, the Hungarians are slaves to Austria. They do as they are bid, those who live on the great estates. They have no hope. If they rebel, they ai% cut down. They are not a people. They belong to no one, not even to themselves." "My God!" said I, a sigh breaking from me in spite of myself. I raised my hand as though to beseech her not to go on. But she persisted. "Yes, we, too, called upon our gods! So. now, my father came among that people and found there a young girl, one much younger than himself. She was the most beautiful, so t^ey say, of all those people, many of whom are very beautiful." ' Yes--proof of that!" sahl I. She knew 1 meant no idle flattery. "Yes, she was beautiful. But at first she did not fancy to marr.v this Aus­ trian student nobleman. She said no to him, even when, she found who he was and what his station--even when she found that he meant her no dis­ honor. But our ruler heard of It, and, being displeased at this mockery of the traditions of the court, and wish­ ing in his sardonic mind to teach these fanatical young nobles to rue well their bargain, he sent word to the girl that she must marry this man --my father. It was made an imperial order! "And so now, at last, since he was half crazed by her beauty, as men are sometimes by the beauty of women, and since at last this had its effect with her, as sometimes it does with women, and since it was perhaps death or some severe punishment if she d'-d not obey, she married him-- my father." "And loved me all her life!',' the old man broke out. "Nefer had man love like hers, I will haf it said. I will haf it said that she loved me, always and always; and I loved her always, with all my heart!" "Yes," said Helena von Ritx, "they two loved each other, even as tiiey were. So here am I. born of that love." Now we all sat silent for a time. "That birth was at my father's es­ tates," resumed the same even, merci­ less voice. "After some short time of travels, they returned to the estates; and. yes, there 1 was born, half noble, half peasant; and then there began the most cruel thing the world has ever known. "The nobles of the court and of the country all around began to make ex­ istence hideous for my mother. The aristocracy, insulted by the repub­ licanism of these young noblemen, made life a hell for the most gentle woman of Hungary. Ah, they found new ways to make her suffer. They allowed her to share in my father's estates, allowed her to appear with him when he could prevail upon her to do so. Then they twitted and taunted her and mocked her in all the devilish ways of their class. She was more beautiful than any court beauty of them all, and they hated her for that. She had a good mind, and they hated her for that. She had a faith­ ful, loyal heart, and they hated her for that." "But your father resented this?" She nodded. "Duel after duel he fought, man after man he killed, thanks to his love for her and his manhood. He would not release what he loved. He would not allow his class to separate him from his choice. But the women! Ah, he could not fight them! So I have hated women, and made war on them all my life. My fa­ ther could not placate his emperor. So. in short, that scientific experiment ended in misery--and lue!" The room had grown dimmer. The sun was sinking as she talked. There was silence, I know, for a long time before she spoke again. " In time, then, my father left his es­ tates and went out to a small place in the country; but my mother--tier heart was broken. Malice pursued her. Those who were called her su­ periors would not let her alone. See, he weeps, my father, us he thinks of these things. "There was cause, then, to weep For two years, they tell me. iny moth­ er wept. Then she died. She gave me. a baljy. to her friend, a woman of her village--Tlnelka Mazoff. You have seen her. She has been my mother ever since. She has been the sole guardian I have known all my life. She has not been able to do with me as she would have liked." "You did not live at your own home with your father?" I asked "For a time. I grew up. But my father, I think, was permanently shocked by the loss of the woman he had loved and whom he had brought into all this cruelty. She had been so lovable, so beautiful--she was so beau­ tiful, my mother.! So they sent me away tc France, to the schools. I grew up, I presume, proof in part of the excellence of my father's theory. They told me that I was a beautiful animal!" The contempt, the scorn, the pathos -- the whole tragedy of her voice and bearing--were such as J cflhnot set down on paper, and such as I scarce could endure to hear. Never in my life b%fore have I felt such a pity for a human being, never so much desire to do what I might in sheer compas­ sion. But now, how clear it all became to me! I could understand many strange things about the character of this singular woman, her whims, her un­ accountable moods, her seeming care­ lessness, yet withal, her dignity and sweetness and air of breeding--above all her mvsterlousness. Let others judge her for themselves. There was only longing tti my heart that 1 might find some word of comfort. What could comfort her? Was not life, in­ deed, for her to remain a perpetual tragedy? "But. madam," said I. at length, "you must not wrong your father and your mother and yourself. These two loved each other devotedly. Well, what more? You are the result of a happy tnarriage. You are beautiful, you are splendid, by that reason." "Perhaps. Even when 1 was 16 I was beautiful," she mused. "I have heard rumors of that. But I say to you that then I was only a beautiful animal. Also, I was a vicious animHl. I had in my heart all the malice which my mother never spoke. I felt in my soul the wish to injure women, to punish men, to torment them, to make them pay! To set even those balances of torture! -- ah, that was my ambition! I had not forgotten that, when I first met you, when I first heard of--her, the woman whom you love, whom already in your sav­ age, strong way you have wedded-- the woman whose vows I spoke with her--I--I, Helena von Ritz, with his­ tory such as mine! "Father, father"--she turned to him swiftly; "rise--go! I cannot now speak before you. Leave us alone un­ til I call!" Obedient as though he had been the child and she the parent, the old man rose and tottered feebly from th? room. "There are things a woman cannot say in the presence of a parent," she said, turning to me. Her face twitched "It takes all my bravery to talk to you." "Why should you? There is not need. Do not!" "Ah, I must, because it is fair," 6ald she. "I have lost, lost! I have told you I would pay my wager." After a time she turned her fact straight toward mine and went OG with her old splendid bravery. "So, now, you see, when I wa« young and beautiful I had r&qk and money. I had brainB. I had hatred of men. I had contempt for the ariff- tocracy. My heart was peasant after ail. My principles were tuose Oi urs republican. Revolution was in my soul. I say. Thwarted, distorted, wretched, unscrupulous, I did what I could to make hell for those who had made hell for us. I have set dozens of men by the ears. I have been promised in marriage to I know Hot how many. A dozen men have fought to the death in duels over me. For each such death I had not even a thought. The more troubles I made, the happier I was. Oh, yes, in time I became known--I had a reputation; there is no doubt of that. "But still the organized aristo^acy had its revenge--it had its will of me, after all. There came to me, as there had to my mother, an imperial order. In punishment for my fancies and va­ garies, 1 was condemned to marry n certain nobleman. That was the whim of the new emperor, Ferdinand, the degenerate. He took the throne when 1 was but 16 years of age. He chose for me a degenerate mate from hln own sort." She choked now. "You did marry him?" (To BK CONTINUED.) STATE NEWS ' IN BRIEF True to Master's Teaching Generous Deed of Dr. Marcus Whit­ man, Missionary Physician of the Pacific Coast. For Isome things there can be no adequate payment in money. Dr. Mar­ cus Whitman, the missionary physici­ an of the Pacific coast, knew that very well, says his biographer. Rev. Myron Eells. Once on the Wallawalla river a poor, sick immigrant, weak from eating "blue mass," was taken to see the doctor. The" story Is best told in his own words. Mother Whitman came and raised the wagon cover and said: "What is the matter with you, my brother?" "I am.sick, and I don't want to be pestered much, either." "Bub, bub, my young friend, my husband is a doctor, and can prob­ ably cure your ailment. I'll go and call him." So off she clattered, and pretty soon Doc came, and they packed me in the cabin, and soon he bad me on my feet I eat up a whole band of cattle for him, as I had tp winter with him. I told him I'd like to work for him to kinder pay part of my bill. Well, Doc set me to making rails, but I only made 200 before spring, and I got to worrying 'cause I had only >50 and a saddle horse, and I reckoned I owed the doctor $400 or $500 for my life. Now, maybe I wasn't knocked ont when I went and told the doctor ] wanted to go on to Webfoot, and asked him how we stood: and doctor p'inted to a cayuse pony, and says. "Money I have not, but you can take that horse and call it even, if you will."--Youth's Companion. When you sling mud, sling it at tb< fence. Moline.--Team owners in this city have joined, and hereafter the scale for a team will be five dollars a day, instead of $4.50, as heretofore. Maryville.--Paul Seiberlick was in­ stantly killed when twenty tons of slate fell upon him in a local mine, breaking his neck and mangling his body. Mattoon.--A trunk belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Brewster of Pana, newly-weds, created much amusement at the local railroad 6tation, decorated with nursing bottles and tender mes­ sages, such as "Not yet, but soon." Moiine.--caught making love to the beautiful young wife of M. A. Gregor- son In the Gregorson home, Roy Pil- lery was given a terrible beating ty the enraged husband, who stepped within the home while the handsome affinity was tendering his fondest ca­ resses. Sterling.--Miss Emma Koch met with a painful accident while oper­ ating a meat grinder, when somehow 1 she got the fingers of her left hand in the machine. It quickly took ofJ a large piece of one of her fingers. Freeport --Albert Bede, an employe at the Illinois Central roundhouse, wss severely scalded when he fell into a cinder pit partly filled with hot water. Sycamore.--Elsie Paroubek, who was kidnaped from her home in Chi­ cago, is reported to have been found in a camp of gypsies near here. The officers have gone to the camp to res­ cue her. Sterling --The fact has just become public at Ancona that Mrs. Olga Strong and Marcen Butcher of that locality worn married in BloonjingtoTJ April 4, by Elder DeWeese, a form« r pastor of Ancona. On their return to Ancona the couple kept their marriage a secret. Chicago.--Three firemen were over­ come by smoke in a $50,000 blaz^ in the E. J. Lindsey Saddlery company's warehouse, 226-228 West Superior street. They were George Mohr, 1242 Oakdale avenue, engine company No. 11; George Schlska, 430 Sullivan street, engine company No. 11, and Otto Lldl, 2030 Dayton street, truck company No. 3. Other firemen were slightly hurt by falling debris. The Are was the second in the building In six months. Danville.--John HI Pettigrew, a for­ mer deputy sheriff, retired farmer, ac­ tive in local Republican politics for many years, is lying In a critical condi­ tion at his home, the result of a vicious cow kicking him down and tramping on him. Bloomington.--William Bach., Sr., 77 years of age, the last survivor of guards over President Jefferson Davis, when the latter was a prisoner at Fortress Monroe at the close of the Civil war, died In this city. Jacksonville.--Frof. F. L. Stead, who resigned his position last fall as di­ rector of the Illinois College of Music, to take effect the first of June, has completed arrangements to open a school of music iri Peoria. Sterling.--The live weeks old baby girl of Mrs. Robert Kerwln of the west end of Rocky Falls was smothered to death while lying in bed by the ulde of her mother. Mount Carmel-- Rev. J. W. Kil- born, pastor pf the Chritftian church In this city, has resigned, to take effect June 1. He will go to Sullivan, at which place he will have a larger charge than he has had in this city. Rev. J. W. Kilborn has been pastor of the church here for the last five years. Kilbourne.--An accident which shocked the village of Oakford and surrounding country, occurred when Edward Olders, a fifteen-year-old boy, fell from the top of the Turner-Hud- nut elevator, resulting in his death. In his work at the elevator he had gone to the top and in some manner lost his footing, falling to the lower floor, a distance of about sixty feet. Pontiac.--Returning from the fu­ neral of his uncle in Rock Run town­ ship, William June went to the room 6f his brother-in-law and took his own life. Peoria.--With a charge of murder hanging over his head, Frank J. Bif- gins. "the boy alderman" of Peoria, Is a fugitive from justice and all ef­ forts on the part of the authorities to locate him have so far been futile. In a brawl Biggins assaulted Clruide W. Tremble, alias Professor Winifred, a palmist, by striking him in thd back of the head with a beer bottle. Tremble died as the result of the blow. Mount ^ Vernon.--John Mason, s^ed fifty-four, a brakeman, was killed on th% Wabash, Chester & West­ ern road here. He lived in Ches ter and leaves a wife and six chil­ dren. Bloomington. -- Supposed to be poor, Wesley Scriver, an aged rec'i se of Clinton, who died last week, loft $3,000 or more in government bonds The $300 in gold was found buried In the cellar of his hovel and search will be made for other hoards. Springfield.--With the assert, Dn that it is a valid and reasonable ex­ ercise of police power, the suprene court upheld the validity of Chicago's ordinance which prohibits the stori ig of lumber within 100 feet of a dwell­ ing. The decision is anounced in the case of the city of Chicago versus Her­ bert Ripley. The municipal court had decided the ordinance invalid, but Is reversed. The Lincoln park oorrrnls- sioners won their long litigation against William H. Fahrney involving their title to submerged lands deeded the park by the state in a supreme court decision. Sycamore.--Two automobiles vore wrecked in a race. One contained live, the other four men. All of the ocru- pants escaped without serious injuries. The machines were going 60 milea an hour. Alton.--When Frederick B. Bowman, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. H J. Bowman, has attained his majority and has a clear record of never ha\ ;ng touched tobacco in any form, he will receive $500. I'eoria.--The German Ministerial as- so iation of Peoria, composed of 12 ?hurches and as many pastors, weut on record against Sunday funerals. tossro by mm, eiRL MEETS DEATH DRAWN INTO VORTEX OF WHIRL, WIND AND THEN DASHED TO GROUND. London.--The extraordinary death of Mary Bailey, a 16-year-old school-girl, in a school play ground at Bradford, during a recent gale was the subject of a coroner's inquest. To combat a theory of suicide which had been suggested, it was proved that the girl had not been to the top story of the school and that she was in a very eheerful frame of mind. George Parsons, a commercial trav­ eler, said he was near lue echuul wheu he saw the girl in the air with her skirt blown out like a balloon. She was 25 or 30 feet high and she fell with a crash. She was on a level with the : f * Tossed by Wind. school balcony, but she had not come from there. The wind was the worst he had known for 15 years. The mother of the girl said her daughter wore a skirt to just below the knees. Her injuries, a doctor stated, were concussion of the brain, fracture of the right arm, wrist, thigh and jaw. The jury returned a verdict of ac­ cidental death, the result of a fall caused by a sudden just of wind. So severe was the gale in the chan­ nel that the Folkestone-Boulogne steamboat service was diverted to Dover and Calais. While three horses with a farmer's wagon were passing through Great Hallingsbury, Essex, a large elm tree was blown down and fell across the vehicle. The driver, a man named Sapsford, sustained a broken leg and the two shaft horses were felled to the ground and Injured. I Was Cured by Lydia E Piofc. bain's Vegetable Compound Waurika, Okla.--"I had female trou- bles for seven veara, was ail run down, "* " intend so nervous t could n o t do any. SHi thing. The doctors roaffwl ma At* WUW 4V4 MU« erenfc things but id me no good- I got so bad that i ould not sleep day « r night. While in this condition X reatf Lydia E. Pinfc. ham's Vegetable Compound, acq began its use ana wrote to Mrs- Pinkham for advice. In a short rime I had gained my average weight and am now strong' and_vveli." . -- Mru. oAIXTE STEvjtNS, B. i?. JLf., jXO* 5, Bos ax, vv aurika, Okla. 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Whea Judge Huff asked htm if he would "take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife," he was looking out of the window and didn't answer. "If you've any doubts about it we will Btop right here," the bride said defiantly. Adams protested that he had not hesitated at all, but had merely been thinking about something else. The ceremony was completed Without' further hitch. m Willing to Make an Effort. On a large Vstate in the Scottish highlands It was the custom for a. piper to play In front of the housei ^ every week day morning to awaken.) the residents. After an overconviv-! ial Saturday night, however, the piper forgot the day and began his reveille (can it be played on the pipes?) on Sunday morning. The angry master shouted to him from the bedroom win­ dow: "Here, do you not know the iuurth commandment?" And the piper sturdily replied: "Nae, sir, but yell --hie--whustle it I'll--hie--try It. sir." Johnson and the Smart Children. Pull of Indignation against such par­ ents as delight to produce their young ones early into the talking world, Sam­ uel Johnson gave a good deal of pain, by refusing to hear the verses the chil­ dren could recite, or the songs they could sing. One friend told him that his two sons should repeat Gray's Elegy to him alternately, that he might judge who had the happiest car dence. "No, pray, sir," said he, let tftfe dears both speak at once." Likes Fresh Mlik. gan to fail in her. usual supply of milk. Investigation disclosed the fact that the puppy was supplying his own rations three or four times a day bv milking the cow himself. Evidently Deeply In Love. Chedomir Milkovitch, a Belgrade PO llceman, committed suicide after his sweetheart had informed him she could not leave her situation to follow him on his new beat. BIG SWAN IS ROUGH FIGHTER Tom, Sultanic Bird In Central Park, Prevented From Harming Suitors by Use of Bells. New York.--Sleighbells were put upon old Tom. the big swan in Central park, to prevent him from hurting fur­ ther the male birds of his tribe. Tom was a self-appointed sultan of the three pairs of black trumpeter swans from the shores of the Mediterranean and the 60 white or mute fowls. Tom is a trumpeter and a pugna­ cious bird. Recently he tried to drive all the other males out of the water. Several broken wings *howed that the contests were severe. The keeper studied Tom's mode of fighting. It was seen that the big bird began with a rush upon his opponent, flying upon the water's Surface. Often the other swan suspected nothing until the enemy was upon him and he had no chance to escape. The Idea of the Sleighbells then came to the keeper, and he fastened one to each of Tom's wings. The jingle of the silver toned bells made a stir In the colony. The swans were disturbed and swam away at Tom's approach--all but Doll, his proper consort, who stuck with him faithfully. The sleighbells stopped tht fighting. Makes a Good Breakfast Better-- To have some Post Toasties with cream or milk. For a pieasiag change, sprinkle Post Toasties over fresh or stewed (not, then add cream and you have a small feast "The Memory timers" POSTUM CERE AL QJX. Bittl* Creek, Mich.