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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1900)
——* SCENES IN THE WHEAT COUNTRY O SHE WAS A BEAUTEOUS LADY.” aid t •torr, bt o* velvety carpets; rich drap- "Mamma has been telling me a story '■ rare old paintings in deep Do you like stories?” Ij’frames; quaint cabinets, rich- "Sometimes. Was this a good story?” tilled with treasures from Not very,” said the child, frankly; The air was heavy with mamma almost cried about it, but I »ace of hothouse flowers; the didu't think it was sad. No oue died n t.” ^unuur of a fountain made a uuy melody. "What was it about, Mlgnonne?” man reclined tn a wide easy “Well, it was about a poor little girl gllt> was in perfect harmony with bare feet"—glancing at her own e beauty of her surroundings, dainty slippers—“only mamma said she ulslte face, outlined against the was rich.” ckground, looked like a rare "Indeed! Why?” Jewels gleamed at the snowy “Well, ’cause she had love and flow »nd In the golden hair, dressed ers by a spring, and had a farm. Did looking, in the dim light, like you ever see a farm, Mr. Barnett?" "Yes; but the littlo girl?” •» coronet. rtieres parted and a little girl "Well, she loved a little boy. Ing into the room; a little “Ah!” \ such blue eyes, such golden "Yes, 'cause he knew all about flow d such tiny, satin-shod feet, ers. and had brown eyes. Mamma said looked more like a fairy than they were about like yours. He loved child. As she rested her dim- the little girl, too, and be bad au awful ws on the woman's lap aud great heart.” with childish eyes into the face "What became of the girl?" her own, oue knew at once that “A prince came along—she was grow- ere mother and daughter. ed up then—and told her that she could ma. hasn’t Annette made me have everything she wanted-diamonds tty?” and laces and things----- ” dear.” "Did she marry the prince?” 't papa and the company come "Yes; and mamma said hla gold wasn't real gold at all.’ ntly.” "What was it?” niauima. may I have all the “Just misery.” I want? Oh, dear! It’B so stupid, "Did—did you say the princess loved they would come. Mamma"— the little boy?” y, as the lady did not Speak— “Ob, more'n anything.” are you thinking about? I’m so “And wasn’t she happy with the e. Annette said we would have prince?” time; but----- ” The blue eyes “Oh,” said the child, looking up with II of tears. eyes that were strangely like those 't cry, dearie; they will come which bad looked into bis from beneath Shall I tell you a story?" tlie hood of a checked sunbonnet in the se do, mamma.” springtime of a long past youth: "no. 1, sit here—so. Once upon a her heart was always aching for the began the lady. In a low, musical boy; and I guess heartache must be “there lived a little girl who had awful bad, ’cause mamma just about es and yellow curls, like yours, cried when she told me.” ut she didn't have such pretty "What did she say?” No; she wore little gingham “She said.” began the child, toying and sunlvonnets, and ran all day Idly with her bit of a lace hnndkerehlef. er little feet bare----- ” and looking rather longingly at the mamma,” Interrupted the child group at the other end of the room, for tly, "I don’t want to hear about she was tired of the story—"she said file girls.” the girl's heart was broken.” child, she was not poor, but "Come, Mlgnonne, you will tire Mr. b, so rich.” Barnett with your chatter,” called the sweet voice of the lady. “I think I she had bare feet!” . But she was rich, for she pos- I hear a carriage. The others will soon earth's rarest Jewels—youth and be here.” “Mlgnonne has been telling me a ce aud love. There was a boy— noble little boy—who always story.” Mr. Barnett said to tlie lady; with this little girl. lie always then, reaching out h'.s hand to detain where the first spring flowers tlie clrld. as her mother moved away, The violets came first, in the "listen, dear; I will te!l you the rest of sture, where an old, mossy log tlie story. I know It.” "Do you ? 1 them from the wind. And Mamma hadn't finished ttercups! How they grew around when you came,” replied the child. with returning interest, thinking that ng---- ” mma. what did the little girl do?” perhaps tlie story would yet prove iu teresting. pted the child. "Tell your mamma that the rest of Miguonne, mother forgets. Well, tie girl loved the little boy. He th»' story Is----- ” He paused and glanced I ha great, good heart. And the at the beautiful lady. “What?” question«! tlie child lm|>a- est eyes—oh, such beautiful tiently. Rtooplng down nnd whispering softly re they like Mr. Barnett’s, mam- In the child's ¡link ear, he said: “That the boy's lieart is dead.”— lady started, and a soft pluk flush Into her cheeks. Slie glanced Munsey’s Magazine. y at the child; it was only a l thoughtless question. 1, they were like—and yet so un- the little boy love the little girl, a?" so much, Mlgnonnef But the lit- 1 grew up, and every one told her she was beautiful. And—and ■ when she looked at other girls, en at her own reflection In the r, she saw how much more beau- she was than they. Well, one day prince came, and he told the girl she was too lovely to stay ou the with the brown-eyed boy. He her to go with hint, and promised he should have every pleasure the held; gowns and laces and Jew- nd operas and balls—everything her foolish heart longed for. Aud iguonue, she married the prince went away with him, far away the boy, and----- ” Id the prince give her the nice », mamma?” , child, they were not nice! The gold was in the buttercups by the ring; the real diamonds were the rops that grew along the lane; the test music was the singing of the brook over the pebbles; the only iness w as by bis side.” hose? The prince’s?” ; there was nothing there but mis baby, misery! She saw always the • brown eyes; she listened always 1» voice. Oh, child! To think that famous now; and she----- ” *»n't the princess happy, mam- I Oh, no! Her heart was always c She would laugh and dance, dre.s In costly laces and jewels; •be never could forget the aclie, t>e- yr «cause her heart was broken." • mamma! Here they come!" ex 1 the child, forgetting all al>oiit ‘Dry, as a murmur of voices broke * ■••..'•p. Again the portiere parted • Ik'Iy entered, follow«! by two in evening dress; one w as a thick m*n. with cold, gray eyes and Iron •■hlskers— the master of this pa- ' home; the other a tall, dlstln bed-looking man. with dark, curi aair and deep brown eyes. •ady arose as they entered and •r«d to greet them. Hhe was love she looked radiant now. The «yes shone, and the fair face *'l with pleasure or perhaps ex »ent--for her hands trembled. gentleman took a seat and a taking to the cb‘ld. Washington and tlie Corporal. With great trouble a small body of men were busy hoisting a heavy log to tlie top of tlie blockhouse that was be ing repaired after an assault In one of the campaigns of tlie war of America u IndejH-ndence. By and by there rode past in plain clothes, who asked mail why lie did not help tlie others. "Sir,” was the pompous reply, "1 am a corporal!” "Indeed!” said tin,- other; "I did not know that; 1 ask your pardon, Mr. Corporal.” Dismounting without further ado, the officer lent a willing bund till the Job was done. Then, willing tlie hottest sweat from off ilia brow, he turned to the little man aud remarked: "The next time, Mr. t'orisiral. you have a bit of work like that In hand, and too few men to do it. send for the commander-in-chief, aud 1'11 come again and assist you.” With which offer and rebuke (Jen. Washington left tho astounded cor- poral to his own reflections. New Word» in English Language. | J ’ Every week seems to witness the ad dition of some new word to the Eng lish language. If we go on developing at the present rate and in the present manner, a reading book for upi>er stand- ards- say standard X. In the next century will present such a lesson as the following: “It was no use lsiycotting her; she was not to be burked. Where we went, her trilbies eagerly followed She scorned no hypocrisy; she would !>e- tray us as readily as smile at us; nay, she would dreyfus us the while she professed the fondest friendship. "No mafeklng on festival holiday. !>nt her scowling face krugered ut»>u us. She was slim, and we knew it. but we could not home the fact; she deweyed tH-fore us as a hero, but in private »he mobiled. She steadl«l her speech with sentiment, but her actions were incom prehensibly browning«!, and. as re gards tbeir definite purpose, ruthlessly kltcbenered." - Liverpool (England) Post 2MOVING THE WHEAT CROP.? A Gigantic Industry Employing Millions of Capital and Countless Hands. Women enjoy so mm-h the telling of Pro<re»sivv Wheat Grower». the "true »tory of their lives." It must The American aud Canadian farmer, be a terrible affliction to one of them and ¡»articalarly th« Northwestern to have a past »he can’t talk about. wheat farmer, who ploughs aud reaps •------------ and threshes by machinery without »<> R, f.,re th» undertaker’» bill is paid, much »• touching bls product with hl» the average widower begin» to »peak hands. Is becoming pre-eminently a of himself as a "boy ” man of business. The Governments hare supplied colleges for educating The I«»* request a woman usually him. and £ • | ► I : - tat have you been doing to amua« make* to her nc-st intimate frivud, I» tins con taming the results of 1—j v— if. fairy r h« a.»«l, amUlng tlnued experiments conducted by the IieiNirtmeut of Agriculture, lie Is a wide reader, sometimes a thinker, and always a politician. Every morning during the days of harvest he receives the reimrts of the Board of Trade or the Chamber of Commerce where his wheat Is likely to be sold. He has also on Ills dewk daily prices and a general advisory letter from bls commission men. The primary movement of wheat is the natural flow to the local flour mill, where It Is ground to feed the farmer’s family, and toward the granary, where It Is stored up for seed. The pro|*or- tlon of wheat thus actually retained and consumed in the country where it is grown is very large. When the farmer has amply provided for himself, lie begins to think of sell ing Ills surplus—which In 1H9H, for the United States and Canada, amounted to the enormous total of 450,(»»),<»Ml bushels. Of this, something less than half Is consumed in the cities of the United States and Canada, and some thing more than half is exiiorted to foreign countries, either as w heat or as flour. The wheat crop of the average year 1». therefore, divided into tbree more or less equal parts, the first being con sumed by the farmer and his immedl- ate neighbors of the smaller towns and villages, the second going to supply the concentrated masses of population in the great cities, and the third Itelng ex ported as wheat or flour to feed the foreigner. Mr. Hay Stannard Baker, in an article on the Movement of Wheat, In Mc Clure's Magaslne, tells of the manner In which the wheat crop Is dls[>o»ed of by the wheat farmer. There are three general methods by which this 1» done. In the prolific Northwest, where large numbers of farmers are cultivating from 3,0t<> to 10,000 acres of wheat a year, where the various farm buildings are con nect«! by telephone, where the plough Ing Is done by complicated machinery, where the farmer owns from two to ten threshlug machine», from twenty to fifty reajiers and hundred» of cattle and horses, the sale of a crop become» a large business proposition. But the great mass of smaller farm ers. especially throughout the w nter wheat districts, still »ell In the Cd- fashioned way, to the local elevator mau or buyer, They keep themselves so thoroughly informed, however, a* to the reigning price» In the great marts an<l the probabilities as to rise or fall, that the commission« of the lo<-al dealer have been scaled to the ;. we«t witch. Indeed. In this day of • »■!• If the all wheat grower is dissatisfied with local prices. he can MMktM with hJs nefglds.rs ■ n .t infrequent occurrence and ship directly by carload Iota to some city commission man. who is only too will ng to uy bls st the highest pos slble price. At the present time the quantity of wheat which is sent abroad from the United States and Canada annually is about 250,000,000. Yet this, large as It is, will certainly be more than dou bled within the next ten years. Sir William Crookes, the distinguish ed president of the British Association for the Advancement of -Science, writ ing recently of the profiortlou between wheat production and wheat consump tion, ventured to name the year 1931 as a date when the world's bread-eat ers would cry for more wheat than the world’s farmers could produce. This may lie an overestimate, yet the statis tics from which such prophecies are drawn show how very closely tlie con sumer treads upon the heels of the pro ducer, and how Imperative Is the neces sity of distributing the crop—grown perhaps half a world away from the centers of consumption—as soon as It Is shaken from tlie threshers In a mill ion fields, in order that every white man shall have bls loaf, and have it before his last supply has run out. Great Britain eats her entire wheat crop In about thirteen weeks, and then she must lie supplied Immediately with the products of America or Central Itussia or India, or else she must suffer. If the United Kingdom lie completely blockaded, say by the ships of allied Europe, her population would probably be totally extinguished by starvation within three months. The like is true of every country In western Europe, although in some of them actual star ration could lie much longer averted. Generally «¡leaking, the vast tides of wheat sent to the east and north from the emigrant farmers on the edge of civilization to the cities of the old conn tries; from the American continent. Chill, and Argentine to Europe. Then- are lesser tides to the west and south, as from (kdlfornia to China, from Rus sia and India to England, from the United States to Brazil. A few years may make a groat many changes In these tides. The rice-eating Chinaman has fast«! the food of the white man and be finds It good. He could consume the present world's crop and still go hungry. Silterfa, open«! by the Busslan railroad, may yet lie one of the greati-st wheat prodii- -Ing countries. Australia has been farmed only around Its fringes. When a European thinks of food he thinks in terms of wheat, Ke 1» the greatest of bread-eaters, Yet In the beet of years Europe never produces enough, even including the croj»« from the vast fields of Hussla, to supply her own n»-«L*. She Is tnerefort* absolute ly dependent on the Unit«! Ktate«. Canada, India, Australia and Argen tine. uot to tell ber agw. O 0 i speetor w ho ha ! be» <>me so expert that, according to humorous rejiort, he could tell what county 'u the West a car ot wheat came from merely by sniffing a pinch of the grain At present the four great wheat ele vator eeuters are Minneapolis. Duluth. Chicago aud Buffalo, lu the lust named city some of the elevators have a slot age c:»n«clty of tiom hs>.vKM> to 2. ■ iso bushels, some f them built of steel operated by electricity from Niagara Falls, protected from tire by pueu tuatlc water systems, and having com plete machinery for (leaning drying aud scouring the wheat, when that 1» uecessary. The elevators are provided with «o CJllltHl loug COhtllltilllU •novlug bucket I m UV s . which are lowered into the hold of a grain laden vessel. Here tlie wheat Is* shoxeled by ^runy workmen, tolling in a cloud of du*t. into the pathway of huge stem i <>v- ela, which, iu turn, draw the yellow load It looks from above like so much sand to the ends of the ”1 ‘¿s.” where the buckets svlae It and - i . iv it up wards Into the elevator, an I (l.-ir'liute it among the various bln«. A cargo of tso.tsst bushels can thus be unloaded In a few hours, while legs on the other side of tlie elevator will reload It lnt< cars, six at a time In live minute-., or it an hour till a canal boat. The cost of all these operations lia- l»eeu reduced to a ridiculously low tig u.'e- the entire work of unloading storing nnd reloading rarely adding more than one cent to the price of a bushel of wheat. FREAK HOUSES, For ShKh ttowi* tiversmbltiou» Am ateur Architect» Are Ueepousible. Amateur« are everywhere and In ev- etytiiing. but none of them »bine more conspicuously than the amateur archi tect. There 1» -x growing desire among »ollie people to decline the professional assistance of capable architects and to fill up the plans for edifices they con template erecting with tbeir own hands. Speculative builders are partic ularly inclined this way, and conse quently some peculiar freak houses are the result. Au old established speculative builder recently ran up a row of ten or twelve modest cottages u ; h > ii ¡dans which he Lad himself drawn up to avoid the somewhat high fees of a professional architect. Tlie row was almost com plete. w Leu. to the chagrin aud aston ishment of Mr. A. Architect, his fore man suddenly discover«! that, while ample chimneys Lad beeu built to each cottage, uot a room in the row had a tlr«-¡>!a-nor stovepipe hole. How such au oversight could have In-en made it is dlttieult to iuiagiue, but It proved very ex|>enslve and made the specula tion a sorry one. A very opposite mistake was made by a lawyer, who drew his own plans for the house he contemplated building. This geutleman provided for every thing on an elaborate scale, except tires, tn which connection he entirely over looked tlie necessity for chimneys. a fact which hla builder at once pointed out. much to the amateur architect's disgust. Carriage to Senboartl. \n ex|H*rleuei*d builder and contrac- The transportation of wheat from the 1 I tor says that, durlug the forty-odd West to the seaboard Is a business of years he had been lu the trade, he had almost lueoucelvable uiagultude. It had some most wonderful freaks of means mlllious of dollar» u year to amateur architects put before hlpi. In railroad ami ship owner*. ami during one case a two story house was to lie the rush season of the late fall, so great ' built without any facilities for getting is the demand for transportation that to the upper floors beyond an exterior shippers find difficulty in obtaining gutter pip«»; no staircases whatever euougb cars and vessels. were allowed lu the ¡dun«. Owing to Most of the wheat of the Northwest an oversight on oue occasion his work now goes by way of the lakes, through men actually built a villa, standing In the Sauli Ste Marie canal, to Buffalo, Its own grounds, without any drains or where It is slilp|n-d by rail or canal to gutters, with two fireplaces tn one New York, Boston, Baltimore and Phil room and none in another. And all this adelphia. bad been done by following the own Few appreciate the magnitude of the er's ¡dans too exactly. lake shipping Interests, which have la-ell developed to a considerable extent RECENT INVENTIONS. by the transportation of wheat. Ihi In Washington a man has patented a lutli Xtqa-rlor Is tlie second port lu the Lulled States lu point of tonnage. la>- new crosscut saw machine, to be work llig exceeded only by New York. The cd by the legs, having two I. shaped Suult Ste. Marie Canal passes two and levers pivoted on a frame, the long end n half times ns much tonnage In eight of one I, propectlng up nnd the other mouths ns tlie Suez. Canal passes In a down, with pi-dala on the short ends, full year. Lake shipping furnishes, which reciprocate a bar attached to the moreover, the cheapest transportation saw. Eor carriages a comfortable foot rest In the world, tlie rate being approxi mately three quarters of a mill per ton lias been designed by a Massachusetts man, comprising a pair of brackets se per mile. Some of the greater lake vessels car cured In the front of the wagon box, ry enormous cargoes up to 250,188) w ith curved sockets In the brackets. In bushels of wheat In a single load. With which spindles are set to enrry a bar. out comparisons. It Is difficult to form which Is raised or lowered to the right any conception of tlie Immensity of a height cargo of this size. In Duluth. 700 bush There hns been patent«! by a New els are estimated as a carload. At that York man a folding ladder comprising rate, a cargo of 252,188) bushels, which n tul>e cut In two sections lengthwise, has actually been transported from Du with a row of pivot |>lns In each half most notably Minneapolis, vast sys luth to Buffalo, would till 300 cars, or to support the rungs, which are loosely tems of elevator» have sprung up, each nlue trains of forty cars each. At Ilf mounted to allow the two parts of (lie controlled by a powerful central house teen bushels to the acre, this cargo tube to shut up nnd coutuin the rungs at the terminal ¡mint. There are no would represent tlie yield of 10, him ) In the Interior. fewer than thirty-six elevator com acres of land. Iu many localities a An Improved spade for breaking up panies In Minneapolis, controlling l,st£l farm of ilk) acres Is looked upon as a earth Into tine particles has a steel country elevators w ith a comt>ln«l ca large one. It would take 105 such farms frame »halted like a shovel blade, with pacity of nearly 50,<88),l mjo bushels of to raise enough wheat to furnish this the Interior portion cut nwny and wheat. one cargo. strung with wires, which are beaded In Until recently New York had the A single company controls 115 conn- the lower edge of the blade, ami have I try elevators having a capacity of I,- lion’s share of the win at export busi si rew threaded ends which are tighten 750.O»M) bushel» of wheat. And the ness; but latterly Boston. Baltimore, ed by nuts to stiffen the spade. bend of this com ¡winy is also the head Philadelphia. New Orleans, Galveston Water can be drawn from a well nnd of other companies there, having lines and Montreal have been large »«porters, of elevators In Minnesota ami tile I >n l-’or the fiscal year 189!) New York took carried to the house by a now appar kolas With a comlrfned storage capacity only 28.8 per cent, w hile New Orleans atus, having a carriage riding on a of nearly 10,188),000 bushel», lie also and Galveston had Hi.!) per eent. each, ■able and carrying a windlass, which Is has lines of elevators In Nebraska ami Boston 12. Baltimore 9.4, and Philadel revolved by a gear wheel, the latter phia <1 per cent., the remainder being being operated by the movement, of the Kansas. Perhaps no one thing so simplifies scattered between Montreal, Portland. cable, which In turn is driven by a •rank to move the carriage and wind ami facilitates the movement of wheat Norfolk and Newport News. To quote again from Mr. linker, the lass In either direction. as the present rigid system of inapeo- tlon and grading. In former times a average yield of wheat per acre Is grad The Others N’ectled It More. load of grain must needs l>e carefully ually creeping up. lit ISIS) It was only The regiment was drawn up for n examined by every ¡>ros|H*ctlve pur 11.1 bushels to the acre; In 1895 It was ■Lurch parade, but, the edifice being chaser, were he miller or commission 13.7 bushels; while In 1898 It had reach man; and If tills buyer sold again, a ed 155 bitsliels. By the usv of machin miler repair, the accommodation wan second examination became necessary, ery, combined with cheaper rates of limited. The colonel gave orders to the ser- with Its attendant disagreement as to transportation for supplies, (lie farmer quality. The business of wheat buy din produce a larger yield more cheap leant major to tell all who did not Ing. Indeoil. was full of time-consuming ly tlinn ever before, so that, although want to go to church to fall out on the details, and in the end neither party i I the farm prices for wheat do not aver reverse flank. 'Hie day was terribly age higher from year to year, the farm tot, ami In consequence three parts of to a trade was likely to be satisfied. he regiment took advantage of the As a consequence, the State govern er’s profits are larger. privilege and quickly shuttled out of ment. or, In some primary market», the the ranks. local chamber of commerce, stepped In. "Now. sergeant major, dismiss all and assumed charge of the whole sys those who dl«l not fall out nnd march tem of grading ami Inspection; afld the others off to church," shouted tho now no portion of the great whwit bus- ■olonel, to the utter dismay nnd con- iternatlon of the entire regiment— Loudon Spare Moments. linclr Ham as a Printer. One tiling that is mouutliig up rapld- y Is the official I'.teratw* of the govern ment. Most citizens complain if the President's message tills more than one page of the average newspaper, but they fall to remember that behind that message lire thousands of reports and tons of documents. Indeed, If the av erage man were to attempt to read ev erything th* government publishes In >ne year he would have to devote almut naif a century to the task, taking eight lours a day for the work of readlug.— Baltimore American. A» to Divorce. T AKE VESSELS LOADING AT A CUFUAGO ELEVATOR. Ine»« moves with more ease and effi ciency. n degree of care and accuracy simply amazing to the outsider being cuiMviautly maintain«!. The method of grading the whe thus described by Mr. linker, in Clure's: "The deputy Inspector and bis turn are out early In the •»■>rrlug. The «•ar» from the wheat fields have l>een shunt ed to the'r speetal sld'ngt In each of the yards, One man go»-« ahead, re- cording the numlier» and uitials of th» cars, and examining the seals to see that bo one has tampered with them. A second mau breaks th* seals and opens the d<>ors. and th<n comes th»» deputy himself the wheat expert. He 1» quick and keen, long schooled in ob serving the minute dlfferetK-es Wlilrli Hrsteai of Btsvatorw. Ko fl.-rce la the competition among mark the wheat from different parts of tut wheat buyers tlai at some centers th« rountry. I »aw one grizzly old 9 and Dr. I.umbnu. for the purpose of rid ding that town of the mosquitoes with which it Is overrun. The doctors <f- factually destroyed the hirvne l>y dis- trlbutlng large quantities of |M-troleiim In the swamps nnd other spots here t» bred, and the mosquitoes the Im were exterminated by chlorlue »nd other powerfill destructive chemicals. The doctors In their rrport considered It |M»»lble to free any town lufested with mosquitoes by this means, provided the place Is not too unfavorably situated. It Is an economical remedy, costing only about S2M) a year for a town pos sessing a population of about &O.UUV In habitants. Mamma,” said little Ethel, "Mrs. layley's buslmnd Isn't dead, Is he?” "No, dear.” ‘Then what's she going to tie married for?” “Never mlml. dear. Y’ou can't under- itand such things.” "Oh, I know,” exclaimed the little girl. "It's Just like getting vaccinated. It didn’t take the first time, did It?”— Philadelphia Press. Prophecy of Early lloomt-r». Manssseh Cutler of Massachuaett« In a circular lu 1787 "booming” the settle- meat which the New Englanders were it>out to plant on the Ohio at the mouth •>t the Muskingum, declared that "the current down the Ohio and tlie Missis sippi" for produce aud merchandise of all sorts would one day "be more crowded than any other streams on earth." We don’t know what the connection Is between fltiger nails and girls, but ■s soon as a boy gets Interested In the latter, be manta a manicure set. The only Impression an elocution »1 It seems queer that when a mau has makes on her hearer» after all tier tralu lug. Is that she baa a remarkable mem money coming to him be usually has I» go after II several lime* ory.