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' " prising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and in the
!, * Meriwether, Clayton. Fayette and Coweta.
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t w.jct <uirt nt the United states lor the Northern and
"ti rr" Itistricts of Georgia
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if f 1 'hire, at night at the formerrest-
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| KKDDING. Attorooy at Law.
f * ®* n,Mv 'l e. Pike co, Oa. Will practice in the
H - c " n, i , riMng the Flint Judicial Circuit, nnd
»t> ,t . iV T '* u ontr ret Al lmsiness promptly
7!a Store ** ,n Elder's budding, over Chamber’s
attgfi- y
1 ALL. Attorney at Low,
eult •ndriAeS:.' s !' U ' iU P r,lct *?e ir » l l' e K,int (' i r-
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J. "h ' YEII. Attorney at. Law.
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J HALL. Attorney and Counsellor
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Lk lp District Court of tire United States for the
tk" irn * n, l Southern Districts of (Georgia.
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r" snd bupreme Court of th« State.
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tae united States District Courts,
1^ The systoins of liver
complaint are uneasiness
and pain in the side
Sometimes the pain is in
the shoulder, and is mi»-
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The stomach is affected « Ufa loss of appetite and sick
m*ss, bowel* in general cost!ve, -omerimes alternating
with lax. Ihe head is troubled with r»aln and dull
heavy Bcnsation considerable loss of memorr acrora
panied with painful sensation of having left* undone
something which ought to have been done. Often com-
and low spirits Some
times, some of the above
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ill Li II very few of them; but
the Liver is generally the
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THOM ASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1871.
jVIISCELLANEOUS.
«‘Tl»e Gospel of a Cotton Pres..**
We make the following extract from an I
eloquent sermon recently delivered in !
Memphis, Term., as it contains “food for j
reflection” for thinking men of every com
munity. I hat there are hundreds and
thousands in every locality of the Sonth.
now idling away precious moments and
rushing down the road to perdition, who
would he reclaimed and converted into pro*
ducers where there are noyv only ugly ulcers
upon the prosperity of the community, by
the establishment of cotton and other fac
tories, there can be no doubia. Idleness
and vice go hand in hand. Read, reflect,
and take heed:
temporal wants of the poor.
When we look around us, and note the
various objects of charity with which our
city abounds ; when we count the widows
and orphans; when we consider the aged
and infirm ; and last, hut by no means
least, when we contempla e the alarming
number of fallen women for whose tempor
al and spiritual salvatioo nothing is done,
the question of Christian philanthropby
assumes huge and startling proportions.
Well may the good mao tremble, in view of
his responsibilities to his race and to his
God. Every day—every hour—applica
tions are privately made for relief—and
si ill the real necessities of the case are not
met. We may give and give, in our loose,
slipshod and unsystematic wav, and still the
crp of want is never hushed; the pleading
for mercy never ceases.
To day but repeats the hi-tory of yester
day, and to morrow will repeat the history
of to-day—and so it will continue until we
change our tactics, and adopt wiser and
better and (in the end) more economical
methods, Memphis is, to-day, the gate to
the great S mthwest, and Memphis, twenty
years hence, will be oue of the foremost
cities on this continent. Iler population
will rapidly increase—and with the mighty
and irres'stahle tide of commerce, there
will drift to our streets a vast army of
paupers and beggars. We have them now 7
—we shall have more of them—and now the
question is:
. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THEM ?
What shall we do with the widows and
orphans? What shall we do with the
brigade of young savages whom you style
‘mackerels” What should we do with
the poor, homeless wanderers who have no
where to lay their heads? These are ques
tions that deeply concern every good citizen
of Memphis, and I will at least hint at their
solution :
THE PLAN OF INDUSTRIAL REDEMPTION.
1 have, in connection with other gentle
men, a plan which I w T ish to submit to the
intelligent-, philanthropic people of Mem
phis? a plan whieh, I think, deserves the
gravest consideration. For myself, I desire
to direct public attention to the matter. I
seek neither to inaugurate nor to control
the enterprise. Ido not want to he either
president, secretary, treasurer, or even
director of the company. Any unpaid
drudgery that is to he done, I am willing to
and >, hut beyond this I have n<> aspirations.
Briefly stated, my plan would be something
like the following : A number of wealthy
and influeneial citizens shall obtain a char
ier, authorizing the establishment of an
industrial organization—a home of industry
having for its primary object the ameli
oration of the condition of the worthy poor
and needy, as well as the idle and vicious
classes of society
IN ALL OASES GIVING PREFERENCE TO POOR
WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Sav, for instance, tha't a good cotton mill
fie “Stahlished ; and then, instead of send
ing all our cotton to Europe, let us detai' a
few thousand bales at home to be mauufac
tored into cloth, thread, yarn and other
products of the staple, by the very people
who are now living in idleness, vice and
poverty. Suppose that instead of paying
for the support of those who need help, we
place them in a position where they will be
able to support themselves. The organiza
tion shall he under the control of responsi
ble parties ; an eligible lot of ground shall
he obtained ; suitable buildings—not only
for manufacturing purposes, but also for
houses for the operatives—shall be erected.
Then let us clear our streets of ‘'mackerels,”
and set them to work.^
INSTEAD OF TAKING BOYS T> THE STATION
HOUSE, TAKE THEM TO THE C iTTON MILL.
"When a poor widow, or a fallen woman,
or helpless child, applies to me for aid, let
me be authorized to send them to the cotton
mill. A debt and credit account shall be
kept with each inmate ; and let them under
stand that so far from being objects of
charity, they are really earning their living,
and are consequently independent. This
will be a most wholesome lesson. Instead
of asylums of idleness for those who are
able to work at all, let us have a huge hive
of industry. Schools and churches will
spring up in the immediate vicinity as by
magic; and in this way thousands of our
race will be reclaimed and saved, who
would otherwise be an incuous upon the
body politic and a curse to society. The
great want of our city to-day is, to know
what to with the abandoned and helpiess
classes. We have no place for them
Houses of correction do little or no good.
Privatg. unsystematic relief has to be eter
nally repeated, and at the very last is hut
temporary, and unsatisfaet ry. Let us have
a great, permanent
INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE,
where all who cannot obtain more profita
ble employment elsewhere, especially wo
men and children, may find' the means of
providing for themselves. This I believe I
to bo feasible ; and I am fuliy persuaded i
that could this or some other similar plan !
becarried out its success would demonstrate
its wisdom. Aod this is w hat i call the
“GOSPEL OF a COTTON MILL.”
Gospel means glad tidings, good news ; and
would the call to such a home be good news
to the poor and needy ?
Os course, ail the details of such an enter- |
prise cnnnot*now be given, nor is this at all
necessary, home things most be left to the
arbitrament of time, and many other things
will adjust themselves. I may be peririt
ted to suggest, however, that a charter must
bo* obtained;’ cubcriptfonff mart be solicited:'
a committee of thoroughly responsible gen
tlemen must be chosen ; an executive
committee must be selected ; and the moral
pecuni: ry aid of all the churches most be
invoked. I may be pardoned for the furth
er suggestivin, that this imiostrial scheme
should be absolutely and unqualifidely anti
sectarhm. It should be of such a charxc
t*r as to commend it to the hearty sympa
thy and support of all religious denomina
tions, as well as those individuals who have
no special religious or denominational
pVedikotiors.
The Wisdom oft lie Egyptians.
The moderns are accustomed to pooh
pooh a good deal at people so unfortunate
as to live before this nineteonthc entury ;
butjust think what some of these remote
people and times did manage to find out
ar.u accomplish for themselves. There was
Egypt—oldest and wisest of the nationp—
what a record for her is deciphered, in the
last fifty years, of her past.
What did the old Egyptian know about
the oldest of the arts, about farming? lie
knew’ how to manage his great river—the
one source of moisture and fertility in that
climate—so as to turn the deserts beyoti 1
its hanks into a garden, and make Egypt a
storehouse and granary for the surounding
nation. He built reservoirs so huge as to
retain sufficient water from the overfl iw ing
river to feed it when it subsided —a lake
four hundred and fifty miles around and
three hundred feet deep—and this fitted up
with a skillful system of floodgates, dams,
and pick*. These were water-works on a
stupendous scale, truly
As to what he knew about building, who
has not heard of his pyramids, those vast
masses, some of which wore old in the time
of Abraham, and yet built with such faith
fulness arid skill that the masonry is still
perfect ? He knew how to quarry and
move huge blocks of stone, ninety feet in
length and then cover them with accu r ate
and b°auriful chiseling. The whole land
was full of these beautiful statues, obelisk.*,
tombs and temples.
About manufacturing, he knew how to
weave linen so fine that each seperate thread
was composed of three hundred and sixty
five small threads twisted together. He
knew how to dve it purple, and blue, and
scarlet, and how to embroider it. He knew
how to ger iron and copper from mines at
Sinai, and how to make useful tools of tneui
when obtained.
But what did he how about science ? He
understood geometry well enough, at least,
for land surveying. He understood the ro-*
tundity of the earth, the sun’s central place
in the solar system, the ooliquity of the
eliptic. He could foretell eclipses, the posi
tion of the planets, the true length of the
year. He had found out a method of nota*
tion—two of them, indeed, the decimal and
duodecimal. As for chemistry, its very
name—from Cberni, which means Egypt
tells us where it, was first studied. No
wonder that the Egyptians got the reputa
tion, among their more ignorant neighbors,
■>f being magicians. As for hooks, tho old
Egyptians made paper and wrote on it, and
we have now papyrus rolls made in the
time of ihe early Pharaohs, but he went on
further to turn his buildings, his obelisks,
even his coffins into books, inscribing them
with histories and biographies by represent
on them, through paintings and sculpture,
all his occupations aud beliets; his hopes
and fears.
One asks in wonder where he got all this
knowledge. Ancient Greece went to him
for it, just as the American goes to Ger
many.
We can traoo the germs, at least, of our
science and' art to nations removed from us
i'7 ages ; hut whom did tne Egyptians learn
from ? Were these sons of Ham the first
to develop to such a marvellous degree the
arts rs life? Did they find out by original
observation what has been transmitted to
us? And through what remote antiquity
were they slowly accummulating the expe
rience which qualified them to establish
such stable institutions, such settled tradi.
tions, such attainments in science and art ?
No one can tell. At a point beyond our
furtherest tradition her records show her to
us rich, powerful, cultivated, skillful. Os
the long ages before she was able to record
her changes, time has long ob iterated all
traces. The world had long forgotten all
about her, till the researches!*if the last half
century brought to life her long buried life
Strange enough it is to he brought face to
face with the monuments of a civilization
compared to which all European history is
but of yesterday—which was old in the days
of Abraham—and to find there so much in
common with our own.
The Two Plagues.
The Louisville Courier Journal, in its
notice of a lecture recently delivered in that
city, by John G Saxe, says :
“Mr. Saxe brought down the house with
his anecdotes of French wit and vixacity,
illustrative of the former? Several gentle
men, not long sinoe, a Frenchman among
the number, were discussing Gen. Ben.
Butler, each expressing his own views of
that illustrious personage. Said one, and
nnd admirer of the man. ‘You may say
what you please of General Butler, but he
did one good thing while at New Orleans;
by his wise sanitary measures he saved that
city from the plague of yellow fever during
his reign there. ‘Mv good fellow,’ respon
ued the F’-enchrnnm, ‘do you not belive in
a God ? How can you talk so ? Do you think
tha Almighty would suffer one city to be
cursed at the same time bv two such plagues
as Gen. Butler and the yellow fever? No !
no! (Test impossible! C’est impossible!’
[Prolonged laughter and nppplause.]’’
Dress.
In dress, as in everything eLe, exagger
ation is one thing to be avoided Yet there
are those who cannot be happy unless they
are launching into some extreme. In the
young this is unpardonable, because they
always look best in the m »st simo'e attire.
There i» a beauty in youth itself which
needs no adventirii.ug ornament. F>r dow
agers and married women it is another
story. They may have to repair tne rava- 1
gps of time, nr to conceal imperfections •
which in youth were overlooked. But even
they only make matters worse if they at
tract attention to themselves bv the exag
gerated use of any prevailing* fashion, gif i
it is easy for the yocng'to dress well, because
nothing comes ami*s to them, it is difficult '
for their elders to do so, wjm will not accept j
the fact that they are no longer youffg.
Ntwii Item*.
A Great number of Welsh Baptists have
arrived in America within tho last v< ar or
two.
Robprt Love is the first colored man in
the Southern States who has been ordained
to the ministry in the Episcopal Church.
A Sandwich Islands missionary has
translate! Poe s “Raven” iu the Hawaiian
language.
Baltimoro has an elegant new Presbyte
rian Church edifice erected by a ialvjit an
expense of. $150,000. as memorial of her
husband, Mr. George Brown.
The Bantie’P in this country number 1,-
509 69 ). with 9 553 ministers, connected
with 7y3 accociations; and have 18,603
churches.
A practical party in Richmond thinks it
would be more profitable t<> charge an d
mission fee to church service, instead of
selling or renting the pews.
Nine hunired English Episcopal Clergy
men have affixed their names to a solemn
document in which thpy claim the right to
burn incense candles, etc., in their churches
The second largest Preshpterian Church,
in number, in the United States, was start
ed by a young woman, Mary Edward*, in
a private huu*e in Bighampton, New York,
sixty-eight years ago. She kept tip a fe
male prayer meeting regulaly for fifty years.
The Baptists of Chicago have given a
cordial invitation to the leading Baptists
societies of the country to h >id their May
anniversary in that city.
Tho several branches hearing the Metho
dist name in the U ited States have more
than twenty thousand lay preachers— that
is, mechanics, farmers, 1 iwyers, doctors and
otheis. who do secular work on week days,
and church work on Sundays.
Father flecker is reported to have used
this language in a lecture recently deliver
ed at Detroit: “Catholicism rules the City
of New York with 50,000 nrij irity, and the
question is not now, ‘Will the Catholics
ever rule America?’ but,‘llow soon?’”
A careful examination shows that hut
few hundred colored children in tho South
are in Catholic schools, instead of the two
hundred thousand generally credited to
them by the press. The Catholic Directo
ry only makes mention of throe of its
schools as exclusively colored, and they arc
in the Diocese of Natchez. Tennessee.
The Universalists claim 1,000 e.hurches
in the United States. Os these 112 are in
Ohio, together with 50 ministers. They
issue six weeklies, two monthlies and one
quarterly. They have three universities,
two colleges and five or six academies, with
an aggregate endowerment of nearly $2,-
000,000 Their church property is estima
ted at $5,000,000.
Mr. Mundella, M. P. for Sheffield, has
delivered two lectures to his constituents,
describing his late visit to America. Mr.
Mundella, who is a member of the Church
of England, said: - “My experience of the
American people has satisGed me that there
is as deep—l do not know whether I should
not be justified in saying a deeper—religi
ous life in th..t country than in any other
country in the world.”
The great Mormon Tabernacle in Salt
Lake City can seat 12,000 persons comfort
ably, and 15,000 can get within hearing
d'stance of Bringharu Young’s voica. But
this monster structure has little to recom
mend it except size, being disproportion
ately low and destitute of all attempt at
tastefullness or ornamentation. The great
organ of the Tabernacle is nearly completed,
and is already used in the Sunday services.
It is the largest ever built in America.
A M oravian Missionary has recently re
turned from Greenland. His services have
extended over a period of forty years, and
he now becomes a superannuate. He testi
fies to the improvements which have taken
place in many respects during that time
■ among the Greenlander*, cbieflv, it would
seem, as the fruit of educational rff»rt in
counection with the mission. In all Green
land there is but one station in tlie neigh
borhood of which there are hea’hen. With
this exception, all the Greenlanders now
profess Christianity.
According to the statistic* of the Baptist
Hand- hook, there are 2.568 B ip’ist church
es in Great Britain and Ireland, with 233.-
675 members, showing .a dectaase rs mem
bership of more than England has
L9fo churches; Wales, 511; Scotland, 110;
Ire|an and. 37. In a’T there are 1 990 Baptist
ministers ; and of these. Dot less than 436
are with a charge. There are 3.b93 chaples
and 307.159 Sunday-school scholars. Ger
many has 72 churches and 13.509 members;
Sweeden 207 churches and 8 12 * members ;
Australia 133 churches and 4 321 members;
Canada 322 churches and 17.042 members ;
the Uni ed States 12,011 churches and 1,-
121 988 members. The total number of
Baptist churches throughout thtv world is
15.879, and of members 1 382,024. *
Legend of the Third Degree-
The legend, a* it i? called, for the Master
Mason, is fine of the r,a st touching and
beautiful in the great drama of life. F >und
ed, as >t is, upon the mysteries arid cere
monies of the Egyptians, it has cm 1 ? to u
as the very embodiment nnd Fahs’anee of
Masonry. It is an impressive exemplifica
tion of the birth, the life, the death and res
urrection of tnao. It stamps upon the in
telligent Mason the sublime doetrin» of the
immortality of the soul, and it was a wi-e
provision of the lodges that this degree
should never he mutilated that it shou'd
he eiven in part only, but should he
completed at every undertaking. To omit
this legend is to omit the degree itself. The
legend is the grand lan imark ; the uof,til
ing beacon of Masonic centuries. It is
never changed: it will admit ol n * removal,
for it is a rallying point of the universal
brotherhood. It conv< ys volume* of thought,
and furnishes food for the reflective mind
down to th* 1 grave. Asa drama, it stands
unequaled be-iie any of the pr ductions of
genius No Mason ever participated in and
forgot it! it left its m-orai upon his soul as
though it were the touch of a divinity, and
when properly understood, it inspires a so
lemnity second only to the scene of death.
L*>t no invention or tinkering genius, there
fore, ever tamper vrith .he be&htifcfilagend
it wants nothing added to it, and wiil allow
nothing taYci fiuna it.
BECOME MECHANICS.
Liiuuj)Sr« of \>n Yorker* AYho II«r«
I>owr Well a. Mechanic*.
Th l ' Now \nrk correspondent nf the II i
ehe*ter Democrat groups these fuels about
wealthy mechanics >« this city :
The late George M Tuuifm, a bui’ l< r of
some not/*, left a fortune of $200.000f,.r his
heirs to quarrel over, which ilutv they ful
filled to the best if their power. U chard F.
Carman, onoe the prominent landed pro
prietors at W ashing ton Heights, Cjuunencvd
life as a house carpenter, and even within
my own day his sign was to be * en at his
shop in New street, “Jlichafd F Carman,
builder.” It war at this trade-that he ma le
a 1 arite part of his enormous estat*‘s, which
amounted to a million. William Bruce, the
late distinguished type f under, also ma 4 e
a large fortune, lie was an enterprising
man. and was disposed *to assist young
printers by soiling them material on credit.
Richard Hoe was another successful
mechanic, and the saw and printing press
establishment which he founded is now
worth a million. William Bvgardus. a
boss painter in Cod r street, although not,
strictly speaking, a money-making ma*-',
has made n< it far from slod.ooo in the
course of his busints* career. Luke Ter
boss. another boss painter in the same
neighborhood, made a fortune, which he
left to his hoys, who soon scattered it by tho
usual dissipation of city 1 if.*. George Law
himself laid the fmndation of his great
wealth while working at the trade of a
stone mason, and is pr J) ihly the most suc
cessful man which the trade has ever pro*
duced.
The printers come in for a share of for
tune's favors. Greeley, as every one knows,
served as “j >ur” f< r two years ip this city,
and was glad to get a j >b on a Greek testa
ment, which tried his defective eyes as well
as his more enduring patience. I have some
times thought that his subsequent turn for
theology may he duo to this practical
induction inti holy writ. But Greeley’s
case is outdone by B inner, who has live
times as much wealth, and the latter set
type for the Hartford Courant not over
twenty years ago, and afterwards read proof
for the Mirror in this city. Alvord, the
master printer iu Vandewater street, is rioh
enough to spend half his timo at hia resi*
denco near Hartford, where he haa a small
but valuable form. John F. Trow, another
master printer, located up in Greene street,
has also become rich, and so haa Sam.
Grepn, of Frankfort street; Q am. is the eon
of the worthy Beriah Green, of Whiteaboro,
who was for thirty years one of the foremost
Abolitionists (in the pulpit at least) in
Centrul New York.
Common Pluaiseitin the Farweit.
In a mining camp in California, when a
man tenders you a “smile,” or invites you
to take a “blister,” it is etiquette to aay,
“Here’s hoping your dirt’ll pan out giy.”
In Washoe, when you are requested to “put
in a blast,” or invited Pi take your ‘‘regu
lar poison,” etiquetto admonishes you to
touch glasses and say, “Here’s hoping
you’ll strike it rich in the lower
level.” And in Honolulu, when your friend
the whaler asks you to take a “fid” with
him, it is simply etiquette to say, “Here’s
eighteen hundred barrels, old silt.” But
“drink hearty” is universal. This is the
orthodox reply the w rid over. In San
Francisco, sometimes, if you offend a man,
he proposes to take off his coat, and inquires,
“Are you on it ?” If you are, you can take
your coat off, too. In Virginia City, in
former times, the insulted person, if be were
a true man, would lay his hand gently on
hia six-shooter, “Is lie heeled?” But in
Honolulu, if Smith offend Jones, Jones
asks (with a rising inflection on the last
word, which is excessively aggravating),
“How much do you weigh?” “Sixteen
hundred pounds—and you ?” “Two tons to
a dot : at a quarter past eleven this fore
noon ; peel yourself—you're my blubber.”
The sentimental method of asking a person
to drink is in the formular, “Suppose we
shed a tear.” The operation, strange a* it
seems, is identical with “taking a smile.”
There is a frequent toast in some places
which seems to contain considerable truth,
viz: “Well, here’s another nail in my coffin.”
On the Mississippi river they take a very
practical view of the ceremony, aud sav to
their friends, “Won’t you coma and wood
up?” thus implying that strong potations
supply toe fuel of life. In cholera times, a
false motion prevailed that imbition wot Id
prevent one from taking that disease, and
a popular style of,invitation was, “Let’s
disinfect.” This may as well he off-ei by
a mention of the Western bar-rwitn salute,
“Won’t you hist in s ime pizen ?” The last
form, however, is almost too strictly correct
and literal in its character to be approjri*
ate in this article.
Idiom*.
Someone has collected a number of
Pennsylvania idioms, a few of which we
here mention.
Lunch time is spoken of a piececime ; a
bad carver, mommies ; one who is helped
plentifully receives a parcel ; an* unwell
person if brashy ; a de-id body is a corp ; a
reception party after a Wedding i* called an
infaire : a cji;d, in expressing his thanks,
says sadthy (this term, however, cm scarce
ly be said to he confined to Pennsylvania.
It is used, we belteve, in all parts of the
country, and is probably a corruption cf
tbankyy); a fretting person is of a pfotz
tng disposition ; variable weather is brittle ;
to get rid of is to shut (in Maryland, sket) ,
and the wind ewings tt:o door shut. A
gentleman stops to clean his gums on the
doormat before entering ts e house, after
walking through the mud, orhiswifß would
take a sl.uaner (dislike) at him, which if
found to be fouty (trflmg) thing.
Did Htl
The following is published in an exchange
as a “rich joke,” and its richness wuil be
apparent to all upon leirning that Henry
Pead is the editoi of the lowa C«*unty Her
ald. Upon a late electioneering tur be
slept at a farm house with two others in
the same bed, and the next morning the
lady of the bouse inquired how they slept.
“First- rate,” answered or>. “I slept be
hind. Bill sept before, and Henry Pend in
the rhiddie.” “Did he?” exclaimed the old
lady.
AuaC'Tx is experimenting with the Fire
Alarm Telegraph, and proposes, if gatisfao
tory, to a'iop it.
NO. 20.