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DEWEY HOMEWARD BOUND.
He Leaves Manila Admidst Deafening Din of
Cannon and Cheers of Thousands.
ALL VESSELS IN HARBOR FIRE ADMIRAL’S SALUTE.
Bands Rendered “Home, Sweet Home,” and Flags
Signaled Many Good Byes aod Bon Voyage.
Tlie cruiser Olympia with Admiral
Dewey on board left Manila on her
homeward journey to the United
States at 4 o’clock last Saturday after
noon. As she steamed away the Ore
gon, Baltimore and Concord fired an
admiral’s salute. At the first shot the
band on the flagship’s aft deck played
a lively air and her white clad sailors
crowded the decksjand gave a tremen
dous cheer. As the Olympia passed
the Oregon, the crew of that battleship
gave nine cheers for the Olympians,
who responded by throwing their caps
so high that dozens of them were left
bobbing in the wake of the cruiser.
Then followed the noisiest half hour
know'n in the Manila harbot since the
battle which linked its name with that
of Dewey. The din of guns and brass
bands echoed through the smoke, a
fleet of steam launches shrieked their
whistles, the musicians of the Balti
more played “Home, Sweet Home,”
her flags signaled “good-by” and those
of the Oregon said “pleasant voyage.”
The merchant vessels in these waters
dipped their flags, the ladies on the
decks of the vessels of the fleet waved
handkerchiefs and the great, black
British cruiser Powerful, which lay
the furtherest, saluted the Olympia.
The latter’s band then played “God
Save the Queen,” and to this the crew
of the Powerful responded with hearty
cheers for the Olympia. Admiral
The last music heard from
Dewey’s ship was “Auld Lang Syne,”
while the guns from the forts at Cav
ite and from the Monterey, on guard
off Paranaque, too far to be audible,
puffed white clouds of smoke.
The Olympia was disappearing past
Corregidor island when a battery be
fore the walled city spoke Manila’s
last word of farewell.
Admiral Dewey sat on the deck of
the Olympia and received the adieu of
his friends during the most of the’day.
The launch of Major General Otis was
the first to arrive alongside the cruiser
at 7 o’clock Saturday morning and
terwards the admiral landed and called
upon the major general and the United
States Philippine commissioners. enthusiastic
Admiral Dewey was
over his home going, but wlien
tion was made of the welcome to be
extended to him he said he appreciated
the friendship of his countrymen
deeply, but hoped they would not be
too demonstrative. He intends to go
directly to bis home at Montpelier,
Vt., and live there. On it being said
that the people wanted him to go home
by the way of San Francisco and across
the continent, the admiral replied:
“If I was twenty years younger and had
ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION
Placed to the Forefront at tlie Peace
Conference.
The second sitting of the peace con
ference at The Hague took place Sat
urday morning and lasted thirty-five
minutes.
The president of the conference,
Baron De Staal, read the replies of the
czar and Queen Wilhelmina to the
telegrams sent to them by the confer
ence on Thursday.
The president, M. De Staal, then
addressed the delegates on the subject
of the labors before them, and it was
decided not to publish the speech. It
was learned during the day that he
placed the question of mediation and
arbitration in the forefront during bis
speech. The question of the laws of
war rendering war as humane as pos
sible by the extension of the regula
tions already existing was then touch
ed upon by the president and he rel
egated the question of the reduction
of armaments to the third place.
ORDER IS FINALLY RIVEN
for the Payment of Cuban Army—Work
Begins May 2*th,
A special from Havana says: The
order for the payment of the Cuban
troops and the delivery of their arms
to the mayors of the various munici
palities under the supervision of the
civil governors was signed by Governor
General Brooke Saturday.
The first payment of the troops has
been set for May 27th at the foot of
the Prado in Havana, and the second
for May 30th at Santiago de las Vegas,
in Havana province. The payments
will be continued at other places in
the provin ce day b y day thereafter.
HAMPTON DECLINES GIFT.
OKI General Will Not Accept the Home
Offered Him. ■
General W<wle Hampton has written
a card to the people of 1-outh Carolina
in which he feelingly and gratefully
declines to accept the home it was pro
posed to build for him, replacing the
horne recently destroyed by lire.
He says the reward of a citizen who ;
has has done done work work for for the, the state state is is “well!
done, good and faithful servant. ” He
prized the people’s commen lat’.ou .
more than any gift. I
political ambitions I would not miss that
chance,”
Speaking of the situation, Admiral
Dewey said:
‘‘I believe we are near the end. The in
surgents are fast going to pieces. The send
ing of a third co–mission shows that they
believe this commission moans business.”
Captain Walker, of the Concord,
the last of the commanders in battle
at Manila, went to the admiral and
said:
“Don’t leave me behind.”
So he was relieved and went home
on the Olympia along with Admiral
Dewey.
DEWEY ITINERARY.
Navy Department Will Soon Issue a Bul
letin for the Public. ,
A Washington special says: So far the
navy department knows nothing except
in the most general way of the itinera
ry of Admiral Dewey’s cruise from
Manila to New York. He has reported
that he will .. come by the Suez
canal route and has not indicated
officially how long he will take in mak
ing the trip. The actual departure of
the Olympia was made known in the
following five words coming by cable
from Captain Baker at Manila:
“Olympia, Hong Kong. Assumed
cammand.”
The understanding at the navy de
partment is that the admiral will spend
about two weeks at Hong Hong, for
the Olympia is to be docked and her
drab war paint must be covered with
the spotless white which makes the
American naval ship the most beauti
ful in the world.
In the absence of other information,
it is assumed that the Olympia from
Hong Kong will follow the usual
course of the warships coming home
by way of the Suez canal. She will
touch first after Hong Kong at Singa
pore, then at Columbo, then, perhaps,
at Aden, at the entrance of th“ Red
sea, to take on a crew of Lascars to
fire the boilers in the intensely hot
passage through the sea and the Suez
canal.
Stops will be made of necessity at
Suez and at Port Said. It is assumed
that Malta will be touched, and per
baps Genoa or Nice before reaching
Gibraltar. Leaving the MlSditerra
nead, the Olympia will stand straight
across the Atlantic, though she may
put in at Azores for two days,
The time that should be occupied by
! such a trip is variously estimated by
naval officers, but the average is about
seventy days from date. However, the
public will soon be able to get a more
accurate knowledge of the itinerary, for
within a few days the navy department
will be in possession of the schedule
of the ship’s movements.
IN OLD SHENANDOAH.
President HIcXLinley Reviews Battlefields
Whereon He Fought.
The president and Mrs. McKinley,
with the friends who accompanied
them, reached Washington at 5:30 Sat
urday afternoon. The outing has been
of great benefit to the president and
he resumes his official duties thor
oughly refreshed and invigorated.
Ihe party left Hot Springs, 1 ! a., Fri- .
day night and Saturday traveled slow
ly through the Shenandoah valley, rich
in beautiful scenery and points of his
interest. Thirty-five years adjutant ago
Mr. McKinley, as assistant
general on the staff of General Crook,
marched through the same valley par
ticipatiug in the heavy fighting which
occurred during Sheridan s famous
ra ^
The president went over this ground
and from the rear idatform of the spe
cial train which carried him recalled
with great distinctiveness the places
which saw so much bloodshed. The
roadways and stations were lined with
people to catch a glimpse of the chief
of the nation or to warmly grasp his
hand where brief stops were made.
SCHLEY IN OMAHA.
Bear Admiral Given Reception and Ten
Thousand People Shake Hid Hand.
In the face of a biting wind of a
raw day, 10,000 people attended a
public reception tendered Bear Ad
miral Sebley in Omaha Saturday. The
rotunda of the city hall was elaborately
decorated and from 4 until 6 o’elock a
constant stream of humanity passed
through. for closing the
When the hour re
ception came there wero still people in
line. As he drove away in a carriage
a large crowd around the city ball
cheered him vigorously. In the even
ing Admiral Schley was banqueted
by tbe members of the Loyal Legion.
BRYAN TO NORWEGIANS.
XebrRskaII Entertain* Forel C ner* At Clil
caffo With a Speech.
Norwegians of Chicago celebrated
the e ighty-fifth anniversary of the
Norwegian declaration of independence
Wednesday. A banquet was held at the
An ditorium at night and representa
fives 0 f a n the Norwegian societies of
c j(y (shared in the programme,
Among the speakers was Colonel
william Jennings Bryan, who took
f 0 r his subject, “Our Adopted Citizens
in Peace and War.”
BRAVE WOMAN
DEFENDS HOME
Negro Tries to Enter Her Room
And Is Shot Dead.
USED HER TRUSTY WINCHESTER
Mrs. Wood Was Alone In the Farm
House During Husband’s Ab
sence at Midnight Hour.
Mrs. James Wood, of Esom Hill
district, Paulding county, Ga., sent a
ball crashing into a negro’s brain
shortly after midnight Thursday night
and thereby* escaped the clutches of a
negro assailant who was seeking to
enter her bedroom.
A few hours after the fearless use of
the winchester Mrs. Wood’s husband
found the dead body of the negro lying
under the window through which he
was trying to enter when the brave
woman pulled the trigger in self
defense.
Mrs. Wood is the wife of one of the
most successful and prominent plant
ers in that section of Paulding county.
He is a progressive man and finds it
necessary to be away from home a good
deal. He and his f amily are close
readers of the papers, and of course
have not overlooked the many assaults
upon defenseless women throughout
the south by law-defying negroes.
More than once the matter has been
discussed by the man and his wife, and
as a precaution Mr. Wood taught his
wife how to handle the pistol and the
gun and has kept good weapons with
in her reach at all times when he was
away from home.
It was Mrs. Wood’s custom to keep all
her winchester in one place at
times. This was near the head of her
bed.
Thursday Mr. Wood found it neces
sary to leave home. He knew he could
not return until late at night, and so
informed his wife. At the usual hour
Mrs. Wood, after seeing that the doors
and windows of her home were all se
curely locked, retired. Her winches
ter was near her bed, and though
alone, she felt no uneasiness and soon
fell asleep. How long she slept she
does not know, but it must have been
late in the night when she was awak
ened by a noise at one of the windows
of her bedroom The room was dark,
but outside there was some light, the
night being clear.
Leaning ^against the side of the
bouse, she saw plainly the head and
shoulders of a man.
She could not tell at first whether it
was a white man or a negro, but she
knew no one had any business there
at that hour. Quietly she reached for
her winchester.
Just then both hands outside the
window were raised so as to catch the
sash. There was a movement as
though an effort was being made to
hoist the window.
Mrs, Wood watched all this closely
and then cautiously raising her gun,
but without moving her head from the
pillow, she pulled the trigger. Not
knowing what was half the expected effect of her
shot, Mrs. Wood every
second to seo the face appear at the
window again, and had made up her
mind to try a second shot the instant it
came up. But no face appeared.
Mrs. Wood did not feel safe in leav
i ug bei . bed for the purpose of making
an investigation, and decided the best
thing she could do would be to remain
quiet until her husband should return.
During the interval she bore up well,
rea i izi n g that if danger were still pres-
6 ut she would need all her self-control.
An bour or more passed—it seemed
an age to the lonely woman—before
ber husband came. Then it was that
sbe gavo way. Her husband finally
quieted her aud listened to the recital
of her horrible experience. Mr. Wood
quickly found the hole the bullet had
made through the window, and then
left Ihe house to investigate. Under
the window he found the body of a ne
gro already growing stiff. The ball
had struck him in the center of the
forehead and buried itself deep in
the negro’s brain, causing instant
death.
BOUNDARY ISSUE DROPPED.
High Joint Commission l«To Meet Again
In the Pull.
As a result of a conference held at
the foreign office in London between
Lord Salisbury, Sir Julian Pauncefote
and Ambassador Choate, tbe latter
acting under direct instructions from
Secretary Hay, it can now be predicted
that the high joint commission to ad
just tho issues between the United
States and Canada will be reassembled
during the coming summer or early
fall.
The negotiations have taken a new
turn by the suggestion that the Alas
kan boundary question be submitted
to arbitration.
Consolidation Encouraged.
The Missouri house of representa
tives has finally passed the senate re
vised bill which allows street ruilroads
of cities to consolidate. It now goes
to the governor for his signature to
become a law.
G. A. R. Men Invite Wheeler.
General Wheeler has accepted the
invitation of Kinsley post, Grand
Army of the Republic, in Boston,
Mass., to deliver an address on me
morial day.
THE MANIFESTO
OF OLD fiOMEZ
Long Expected Letter Is Finally
Issued to the Cubans.
TELLS OF HIS LOYE AND TRIALS.
Insurgent L.eader Recounts His
Work and Strongly Justifies
His Position.
A special from Havana says: The
expected manifesto of General Maximo
Gomez was issued Thursday evening.
It reviews his part in tho negotiations
with Governor General Brooke and
speaks of his love for Cuba and his
sufferings „ . ....... her behalf the past.
on in r
General ~ Gomez part:
says in
Ihe , hour , has now arrived . for me
to raise my voice in justification of my
position and to describe the arduous
work I have done since my first visit
to General Brooke. I protested to
him ngainst the sum offered by the
United States as insufficient to accom
plish the good intended. Awaiting an
answer to my protest I songht a solu
tion of the question. General Brookg,
representing the chief magistrate of
the United States, announced his in
ability to add to the sum already set
tied upon.
“Speculators then attempted to in
tervene, offering suggestions which
were refused by me. They presented
a proposition to the military assem
bly, but the scheme was frustrated by
President McKinley’s refusal to rec
ognize that body. I deemed the for
mation of militia a practical solution,
and General Brooke, who approved
the idea, asked me for a summary of
my views on the subject. To this I
replied that 10,000 men were all it
would be possible to get from the Cu
ban army without distinction as to
race. My answer was sent to Presi
dent McKinley, together with a per
sonal letter giving explicit reasons
why such a course was necessary.
“I had mauy conferences with Gen
eral Brooke in my endeavors to dis
cover such a plan of payment as would
not exclude the men who had never
carried arms.
“General Brooke insisted upon the
surrender of same before the receipt
of money, and I also desired that such
arms as had already been surrendered
«nd such as should be surrendered
hereafter, might be delivered to ware
Jiouses in the care of Cubau armorers?
to be paid out of the Cuban treasury.
I do not think it a diegrace that the
Cuban soldiers should receive from a
government which is able to pay, sums
that will relieve their immediate needs.
I am convinced that it is compatible
with obtaining peace to have an army
with arms reserved to defend Cuba
against her enemies, and in the mean
time to be guarded as the relics of a
glorious struggle.
“In my judgment, whether the arms
were disposed of to the municipal au
tborities or to armorers, it would be
all the same under the intervening
government. The Cuban commission
ers, however, refused to agree with
General Brooke and tb® Americans,
and declined to fix dates and places
where the Cuban soldiery could de-
liver up arms aiid receive payment
from the American paymasters after
identification by their respective
chiefs.”
After further praise of “Genera!
Brooke’s consideration” and a decla
ration of hi3 own desire to correct an
error existing in Cuba, with respect to
the United States, he goes on to say:
“I did not act alone, as seems to be
popularly believed, but always con
sulted with our officers.
“My advice to you now is to return
to your homes with the amounts offered
by the intervening government and to
practice patience, which will be an ad
ditional proof of your heroism.
“In this way we shall reconstruct
most rapidly the homes consecrated by
the blood of martyrs, blood poured out
in behalf of a purpose now attained
and thus begin this cycle of liberty,
with tho grandest prospects, preceded
by the heralds of future prosperity and
peace. This work is your portion.”
PUSHING BIG COMBINE.
Promoters of the Carnegie Consolidation
Hold a Conference.
H. C. Frick arrived in New York
city Thursday from Pittsburg and was
in conference at the Holland house
with W, H. Moore, of Chicago, and
other men interested in effecting the
consolidation of the Carnegie Steel
Company, limited and the H. C. Frick
Coke Company, in the now $625,000,
000 Carnegie Steel Company.
It is understood that the plans for
financing the gigantic combination
were carefully gone over and effected,
and the public announcement of them
will soon be made.
TO DISCUSS LYNCHING.
Women of Boston, Mass., Will Meet to
File a Protest.
The women of Boston, headed by
Mrs. ( issued
Julia Ward Howe, have a
call for a meeting to be held to pro
test agaiust “the barbarism of lynch
ing.”
Besides Mrs. Howe, the call for the
meeting was signed by many women
well known in connection with tin
leading reform movemeut of the day.
AT THE HAGUE
-
Powers’ Peace Representatives Gather in Dutch
Town to Discuss Disarmament.
EVERY NATION REPRESENTED IN THE CONFERENCE.
Little City Is Gaily Decorated For the Occasion—M.
De Staat Will Preside For Czar.
All the delegates to the international
peace conference arrived at the Hogue
(Holland) Wednesday and the first
day was spent in a general exchange
of visits.
The permanent president of the
conference will be M. De Staat, Rus
sian ambassador to Great Britain, and
the bead of the Russian delegation.
The Dutch town was brilliantly dec
orated with foreign flags, denoting , .. the .,
national .. , ? headquarters. , . In _ the
various
evemn S M - TT ^ an Ivarnebook, ... former
Hutch minister of foreign affairs, gave
8 dinner to introduce the foreign del
egates.
0n the convening of the conference
ttree commissions will be named to
grange programmes for discussion,
^ je fir fi t relates to restrictions of
armaments and military expenditure,
Tlje second deals with the laws gov
erning civilized warfare and the third
^'tl 1 mediation and arbitration,
A great mass of diplomatic docu
ments will be submitted on these sub
jects—documents including the mem
orandum of Prince Metternich of
Austria in 181C, regarding the sugges
tion of the prince regent of England,
supported by Alexander I of Russia,
for an international peace conference;
the opinions of David Dudley Field,of
the United States, as to fixing a per
manent limit to military forces; the
argument of M. Merignhac in favor of
simultaneous disarmament; the pro
posals of Napoleon III, to convoke a
European peace conference at Paris in
1863, and similar papers.
The second commission will consid
er the declarations of the congress of
Paris, 18J0, and the Geneva conven
tion, 1864; the unratified clauses of
tho Geneva convention of 1868; the
acts of the St. Petersburg convention
prohibiting the use of certain projec
tiles by civilized nations; the minutes
of the Brussels conference of 1874; the
suggestions of the Oxford manual re
garding the same laws and observances
of war; the rules for the bombardment
of cities adopted for the institute of in
ternational law in Venice in 1896; the
declarations of France aud Great Brit
ain feguiw’2" the Uhadopted rules of
the Geneva convention; the views of
REBEL CAPITAL TAKEN,
Bawton’s Advance Guard Swoops
Upon San Isidro.
A Manila special says: General
Lawton’s advance guard, under Dol.
Summers, of tho Oregon troops, took
San Isidro, the insurgents’ capital, at
8:30 o’clock Wednesday morning,
Colonel Summer’s command, pre
ceded by scouts and accompanied by
Scott’s battery of artillery, advanced
from Baluarte at daylight. The troops
first encountered the enemy two miles
from San Isidro, the rebels retiring
when our artillery opened fire. Just
outside the towu a rebel force, esti
mated to number 2,000 men, was en
trenched. Jt made a slight resistance,
Imt quitted its pOsu.J 11 when our
troops turned its right flank.
The enemy’s loss was 15 men killed
and ”0 wounded. Our troops captnr
ed three prisoners and many rifles.
n tie American side one soldier of
the Oregon regiment and one of the
Minnesota regiment were slightly
wounued.
After capturing the town, Colonel
Sumners’ troops continued their ad
vance, pursuing the retreating rebels
for severai miles.
Chief Scout Young Dies.
The death of William H. Young,
chief of scouts of General Lawton’s
division, reported from Manila, is con
sidered a serious loss as he was very
efficient. Young was one of the scouts
with General Howard in the Nez
Percez campaign in the west some
years ago.
FATAL IOWA CYCLONE.
Sfnriu Whs Worst Ever Experienced In
the State.
A dispatch from Manchester, la.,
says: The details of the cyclone which ,
passed over the northern part of this
county Tuesday mght are most har
rowing. As a result of the storm four
people are dead and three others are
fatally injured.
The storm started on its path of de
struction three miles north of Greely
about 8:30 o’clock, taking a direction
due east for six miles, then veered
northeast for four miles, demolishing
everything in its course. Every farm
house in the track of the storm cloud
for a width of forty rods was either
totally destroyed or wrecked.
VIRGINIA TOWN DEMOLISHED.
Storm at Coliburg Wrought Destruc
tion and Doss of Life.
Colsbnrg, Delaware county, Va.,
was practically destroyed by a storm
Tuesday night. Two men and a child,
names unknown, were killed, It is
feared great damage was done in the
farming district aronnd Colsburg.
The storm covered a large area, and
many towns north of Colsburg report
severe damage.
the Amsterdam chamber of commerce,
appproved by successive Netherlands
foreign ministers, urging the adoption
of the minutes of the Brussels confer
ence of 1894 deaiing with the laws and
observances or war, which did not
lead to the conclusion of any conven
tion, anc] the circular of the Dutch
minister of foreign affairs in 1871 re
lating to the adoption of the princi
ples of inviolability of private proper
ty, and urging a clearer definition of
the the term “contraband of war.”
The third commission will consider
the proposals of Lord Clarendon at
the Paris congress in 1856, for the in
termediation of a friendly state pre
vious to a recourse fer force, the mo
tion of Signor Mancy, in the Italian
chamber of deputies in 1875, in favor
of arbitration, the acts of the Berlin
and Zurich conferences on compromise
and mediation; David Dudley Field’s
plan for an arbitration tribunal; the
proposals for an arbitration tribunal
for the north, central and South Amer
ican states adopted in Washington in
1890; the Marquis of Salisbury’s let
ters to Sir Julian Pauncefote in 1896,
relating to the conclusion of an arbi
tration treaty between Great Britain
and the United States, and the terms
of the ratified Anglo-American treaty,
and many similar documents.
M. De Staat will open the confer
ence by summarizing the objects of
the gathering and expressing the con
fidence of Emperor Nicholas that the
powers will support the beneficent
work of the conference. After the ap
pointment of the commissions the con
ference will adjourn for a week.
The American delegates, it is un
derstood, will carefully abstain from
mixing in purely European questions,
but will take an earnest part in the dis
cussion of the application of arbitra
tion and improvements in the general
rules fer the protection of field hos
pitals, giving also specialattention and tho to
the abolition of privateering from
exemption of all private property
seizure, except contraband of war,
this policy being the same as .hat
adopted by Benjamin FranLiiu in ne
gotiating tlie treaty with Frederick
the Great, and successively urged by
Presidents James Monroe, James
Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison and
William McKinley.
ALLEGED CONSPIRATORS TRIED.
Affidavits Alioi;e That TtSVd Thousand
Men Were Implicated.
Advices from Pretoria, Transvaal,
state that the alleged revolutionists
who presented the appearance of ordi
nary loafers, were arraigned in court
Wednesday charged with the capital
offense of high treason. They were
remanded for a fortnight.
Sworn affidavits allege that 2,000
men have been enrolled for military
service and that it was intended to
arm them in Natal, to return them to
the Rand and, at a given signal, to
seize and hold the fort of Johannes
burg for twenty-four hours, pending
the arrival of British tro^g,
The Press ZayB the government re
gaftls tlie matter which as will “an unfortunate
local incident not affect the
general political sttutUoti,’*
The government also cofitfrtfls the
report that the arrangements between
President Kruger and the governor of
Cape Colony and the high commis
sioner of South Africftt Sir A)fred
Milner, for a meeting at Bloemfontein, .
capitol of the Orange Free State, are
nearly completed.
To Extend Road.
There is a well defined report that
the Chattanooga, Rome and Southern
railroad, extending from Chattanooga,
Tenn., to Carrollton, Ga., is to be ex
tended to West Point, Ga., there con
necting with the Chattahoochee Valley
railroad, which is to be extended at
once to Columbus, the contract having
been let.
ADMIRAL DEWEY’S SWORD.
Praientatlon Will He Made at Washing
ton By President McKinley.
A notable feature of Admiral
Dewey’s arrival in Washington will
be the presentation by tbe president
of the superb jeweled sword made by
authority of congress as a testimonial
from the government.
The sword was completed some time
since, but owing to its delicacy and
great value, it was deemed best not to
send it to the admiral. It is now in a
safe deposit vault awaiting his coming.
The presentation to the officers and
men of the admiral’s flagship of the
handsome medals authorized by con
gress will occur probably at the same
time.
THREE NEW “ADMIRALS.”
In Till* Ca»e, However, They Were Born,
Not Made.
On Wednesday Dight Mrs. John
O’Keefe, wife of a well known and
popular sign artist, of Norfolk, Va.,
presented her hdsband with three
sons.
Tbe proud father has named them
Dewey, Sampson and Schley, in honor
of the three naval heroes of the late
war. The mother and the three young
rear admirals were doing well.