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The Signal, 1892-8-25, Page 66 OEM BI(, NAL: GOD$ICIL TAT, AUGUST 36, 1e92. THE WILD NORTH LAND, sorb OF Tit KAROMM1P11 OR INDIAN MISIION WORK. 1•e• ninsatt•i Ter.g•s etapeeteres tin nese\. and ebb neeaawes•-T,s,s - BLe r e lass ..• ea.w- ..e •eases. The foliewieg wttusts ere cal=l tram an duress delivered before Sieves& Christina isas•ver Cenv. IN resortb held i. New York, by Rev. llgsrtes R. Yoe& To- mato : Ili, I msmiesioa.y from the Wild North sa .tbi.g of peern herersonal to tell protea Ibiimns of the i.r mirth_ To tell of the rem tamale' Ms of the years yss sip, myy young bland is the brightness se our happy day', left our hapgpy h eir to ca tied went far away ao w too Mums and abodes of the poet bedlam, hundreds of taiise north of the lase voltages of civilis.tioa ser bore was in Lw.etm, the laud of the north wind, n orth of tics Province of Manitoba Se greet was Ilse distance, joined to difficulties .f travel in those days, that we were two .oaths and ai.stew days jssr.yirg towards that land. When we reached oar destsmat1us we found ourselves 400 miles the mere* white Chemise fatally • miles f o.0 the doctor or post -Dios. Oely twice a yer did we bear from the oat - side world. la this fur -away place and with these Indians we lived for many years. Gathering them, together we explaised the abject of our comma, and told theta that no matter what otbere might say or thiak v ekiri them we were going to trust them std aeleve in them. So we deliber- ately took the bolts off the doors, and re e mbed every fastening from the windows of oar little home, and let it be known that n othing in our p...sion was under look and key. M the remit of this confidence in them we never, in all those Jens, had anything stolen front at We felt safer in our live and property there than we ever wt since in the so-called lands of civi- ngies. God wonderful!] blessed our labors t>•eeg them, and that of other faithful toil- ers, and soon there were many hundreds of averted Indians gathered into the mis- dans. There live are pure and true, and OMR every daywalk shows the gemination of the marvelous uutransformation wrought by t:M l's power. la • had w isolated,there were of oust,., ninny trials and some her ships. So remaeb- were we from civilization that often menthe btaggeether, we were obliged to live as did the Indian. almost destitute of the blessing of erdisary civilized life. Fish, 21 titles a week for six months was sometimes our principal food The other six months we • had great variety of game. from bear's meat t.. inusk rat, and from version to wild at. Soo importunate did the pagan Indians become to her the Gospel, that in tarry - jag the glad tidings of a Saviour's love to them, i kept enlarging my mitaion Geld u ntil it was over rive I1C.irn=D MILES LONG, and over Mt wide Over this vast field I travelled in summer in a hir•h canoe, lied in winter with my dog train& Our sum- mers in those high latitudes are short and brilliant. As in my canoe, managed by my skilful renoemen, we travelled on those great lakes and riveraa,w.did not ms a house For weeks together. The crania rocks were our bed, and the star -decked canopy of heaven our aovernng. Sometimes it we vaned when the drenching showers fell upon es, end we were for days without a dry stitch upon us. Kut in patience we toiled on, and rejoiosd when the bleared sunshine carne ..nt again and dried our dapping gar- miente. In winter we travelled by dog train There is absolutely no other way of travelling in that land in those long, cold. dreadful winters, except going on foot sad dog travel means that 10 a gaster or lees degree. The cold was often temble. Sometimes it was from 40 to 60 below zero. At times every part of my face exposed to the pitiless blast was frozen. When night overtook us on thine Tong j..unne/., often of many days duration, we dug • hole in the .now, cooked our supper of bit meat and strong tea, fed our faith- ful dogs, and then after prayer wrapped eareelves up in our blanketatnd far robe,, and then alter to the lullaby of the bowl- ines of the great grey wolves of the north, lay down in that snowy bed with so roof above us but the starry heavens and tried to sleep. Often it we hard work to keep from freezing to death. Are you sur- prised when 1 tell you that once in such a bed, 1 from my nose and both ears! But in so other way could these gxor sheep in the wilderness, an isolated and w long neg- lected, he reached with the (:nspeL These single tripe often required eight to ninedays e ach way, of severest toil. As I herd the happy testimony and • presstooed wort of Now for years they led lest faith in the religionof their forefathers, and that the religion of the Book d Hwep. was just what they had bow {miles for, I Forgot all about my chided lin be and axeM<u Aare AND rROOT-m'RiN race, and rejoiced that 1 was seated 'rattily to go as • pioneer missionary among so interesting a potpie, and ser such enc - ems. d Rous! some of thew bands all pagans they .re to day all Threaten. I found some of them brutal and cruel in the extreme to the mother and wives . ed daughters, ,ams of them even going e n far as to strangle their own mothers to death, and then burn the bodies to ashes for the crime of growing old, and beiag arable to ware rabbits or build fires. filo . hoot ora the wintry days in those "high latitudes" where for years we toilet) that on our bongg trip with our MP mid Indians we More nbbgsci to rouse ourselves up frees Ube e w r emeryemerybed! in e amid tad dreary Frosts, boon beton day. Aided by the tight of our ramp Gro we conked our morn tug_ meal, packed up our robe. roband blankets, sea tied them, with oar pn,visions end ket- tle, en oar dog sleds. Before starting we sang in the ('rose Indian language, one of the sweet songs of 7.io s. and then (wowing at the mercy seat. with grateful hearts we offered n our preto the loving Pro - Mem was had watched over and shielded ea from all barn, although our lodging S aco was a the "forest primeval" std S wee 10 the mow, with the tempera- ture from 40 to 110 degas.below sent. Our lest camp duty was the eapturing and h rieesang of our dogs, whit& was an easy or olfglcuit teak, according to their eaten end training.Wnder• .1 . Tea .f 0e.1. Rsidss gas a is of yield =owls ".,t coker t we ' cis srs�iwi. water sad 1411 pmmi e earl tar. Deetrestion of the tar gives as 16.s pomade of patch, 17 ponn& of eremite, 14 pounds of heavy cal., 9 .. pounds ofNaphtha ye!low, 6 3 ado of naphthalins, 4.73 pomade of 2 26 e1 solvent ponds d alimr4., 2.4 pearl naphtha. 1.A pomade of phwol, 1. Ypo..r!s tf narine, 1. b. poaa& of esildbe, 0.77spoatd. oft 1t 4e pnaa& of antisstls. and 0.6 pounds of toi...m INN the itw wood prods= sri\ari.. is Hid V 7l9 iimes awsdw thc. o - Rasa WHAT R TifIJCIAIT• ham bad August IA will � �L Get thee, w waded, thinned •rd aye voted ori • great Mal of food will M pro- dosed eedosed to the red, feed el which .1 yrrtisi Wei and mimesis ora sena. Half t dense pians a lost high will be waw by fowls shoo= es middy es by • ow. &abbe, Edi nam be p=ored with Imo aipditare .1 muse= just after the grain is taken from Hoa 11 left to be dried la the sa • few weeks it will be al - mese imposeiW to tam them over and fro. tly ruin ham to be awaited ther iia tabs moms of Um woosadtis • Do not tarn tcows into a rank g�e�th of rowan, ter most of it will be keddse ander foot and some good cows may be is- jur.d by overeating. A batter way is to scow it and Garry it to • meter. or meager in reasonable quantities. • The mower skins tie sod too closely of- tentimes. A larva stubble will hold sow and help the roots winter safely. • (beater Ices occurs by late cutt of Cavanta than by too early cutting. lora the ins be dose as moo. •• practicable end stookisg at once follow leading.loth grain and straw dry faster leo thee Wig gat. Bundles left out .of the stook NW the bands get brittle have often to be bound the mooed time. Lenge stooks are beim than small .ones, as less surface is exposed. The bay cape are useful m the grain field. Harvest' ug oats with hay machinery end without binding is beonmmg snore comsnom. It is a good sign •til cheapens greatly the cost of the crop. Don't neglect the oat straw. Cut it when the grain is in the milk and get at in bright sa possible. Cut and fed with ground grain it is as gavel as hay for horses and will largely save the mows. so 4.o in for • good lot of taraips. They will make the hay spend well. ('hawse a piece of hied that is strew end don't he Brad N OM it down with the harrow. The scam rutabagas go in the letter. For English varieties. red or bine tops, strap - I..1. sow-hsrn,ute-., late this month will do. Ons peed d awed per acre u the rule, but tabo anop tieeld afterward be abused at thin teals vs Theta need be no hesitancy about plowing for felt as soon as time ean be obtained after harvest. The work will kill many weeds that would otherwise ripen seed and early plowed sal produces more bemuse rotted better before text season's cropping time. It will be a good move to sow rye upon all this lend in middle or late August. It is easily plowed in at the crone -plowing next spring and benefits the land both by preventing washing and adding to its fer- tility. The chid profit, however, will be found in the late and early feed for stock. It must he closely pastured this fall to pre- vent healing out. sea My fare, coat•ina fu sates, of which 25 is devoted to pasture, '.S to mops, such as corn, oats, etc., and the renmming 15 to fruit. I keep a dairy of 12 to 15 cows, and in April sold 2•Oti u quarts of milk to the creamery from seven cow. My feed is 4 quarts of corn cob nasal and Use sante quan- tity of corn meal and wheat bran twee. • day, with all the hay they will est clam I give corn stalks once • day, and what they do not eat scatter in the yard to make ma- nure. which goo on to the cora ground late in the fall I always seed down with arts, sowing about g bushels to the acre, and 8 !parts of clover seal and 4 quarts of timothy. My grapevine are set 9 feet apart in rows 12 feet distant. Between the rows I put two rows of raspberries and strawberries, and in the grape rows I put • currant or gooseberry bush between each vine, so I get four crops from the sane genet Around the fences 1 set cherry tree. My ne,ghbors wonder at Mi large crops, but 1 tell them to stop harping on hard times and med- dlitt; with polities. -F. Barnes, Orange Co., N.1. • Then are many ways of removing stump. Probably the mot practical method, in the majority of cases, is by physical means. stump pullers, mattocks and axes. Where the stumps are large and refractory, dyna- mite, in the hands of one skilled 10 its use, . quick, cheap and effective. As pine and fir stumps born readily fire may be employ- ed to destroy them. To do this easily and thoroughly, bore one or more holm in the top of the stomp, the number depending upon its size, using a two-inch auger. four about a quart of onal oil in each hole, plug it apa.d let stand a few days until the oil gots tato the wood. Vet here to Rome rota bastible material in or around the holes and the weak is dose. Treated in this manner the rots will oft*. burn far down into the ground. Whatever method is followed the surface roots willsfterward have to bewerk- ed wt by hand. -R. C. Buffem, Wyo. Exp. Station. nee Good cora silage- that is, t hat well -grown, out at the proper stage .of growth and pro- perly ea.iloed will not injure nulk or .dairy products- It hes bee proven time and again that it does not injure the keirOsig qualities of milk ; on the contrary, the horst of milk. hatter and cheese are made from it, nor doss it cause or in snv'wsy effect the disease known as abortion in oows. That disease was fully sa prevalent when no silos were known es it . now. Modem silage is grown from matured owns, planted as il for grain, each stalk having an ear of cora a it and all cut and e.rdoliy pre- served in the silo. There is .o batter fond for the rust, nor none that will pr.riuca hatter result. It has also bees found a good feel for horses when modenitely fed, end we have • pair of mules that tbnve e it woederfully. --A. R. Sadtdan. i eucc dud in growing 1,000 be. of Gol- den Tankard mamgel wane!, from one acre, st at) Ihw to the bushel, last year. 'I'hsy east res 4e. per he. put in aha oelkar. i am satisfied that they ve me more milk than throe sere, of m ..d d bettor quality. My rows sever looked batter. I aged barnyard manure anew to grow this crop. -H. Mallett, Orange Co., Ir Y. Thi •bout pie possibilities el on-ope a- tiea t A practical Mimeos a miller says the daaesrs of this state sod the Dakotas isms e111,000,00o sa lad year's whet crop add Wore i eromhcr tl 11is takes the gl0ed that their failure to UMW their own eltl` en ops atively sad minted their wheat, Ormsby leering gl peer bushel her it, Insides • too of feed Ger every 10I bush- es ground and soots miner advantages, proem) their weakness and folly. "Any enmssu.ity that ora deliver 73,tasi bash** .4 whom coo keeps sO.hW mill running far • rev, .ed the Deet et abs builds and equines. mill will scot mesad raoles Fifty cants per Irbl wadd p y for tab. bend ging of 1h* Weir and the Weeds cwt abroad to =pens d A o winter mild/ be the itw ars' sea. e-Holise0 am& • ti., Ham than halflanallimediallimageoi tha infilios within thilisioseia awed The government of New Sosid is -- 410i the pmlisn d lying • shin to �aslwga Mar estimated suet of 1711140041 Wilma= has • bake white le estimated la ve=nds e� wot� q1 mss, ad N has add la • tv.iitw�. ue Rae The mum .4 India, just aempisdd, shows that country to have • population of two Mried sod eighty millions, • gain of 11 per cwt. uvw 1881. (runes, storks and wild gems fly fast awash to snake the trip from aerthgttliar- sp to Africa in a week, but mut of them rest north of the M.diterr.aena By a iagesionsapparatuslataly iave.ted it has bow show. taut In Glasgow on a wet mwwng there are 7,500,000 dust particles hill orbic inch of air. Out of • tot.{ of over 811,0001000,000 el capital invested 10 ma.ufactunag i. the United Staten, patents form the breis for iavesta.t of .bout $6,000,000,000. A Shasta Iodise broke the egg -eating record by devouring thirty-two new mr., at ass sitting. He would pat an egg in his mouth, crunch it, and swallow it ebell and all. The bicycle was perfected in 1870 accord- ing t... well-known authority, sad thous\ many improvements have been added Maas times, they hove been more for beauty thee aaything eke A share of stook in the Chemical N•- tioe•1 bath d Neer York, par valve X100, is worth 14,600. That is, every dollar in- vested by its asokbolises paossmee an earning power m.t6oieet to m•Isa it worth Se(. A Memphis man has just been granted • patent for • car window dud, and cinder protector which ma be oarrid is the pocket or reline of every passenger, and quickly and easilyas Mestai d. in poottioe to serve Its purpose A very elastic and durable horseshoe is male in France by compressing cowhide in a steel mold and then subjecting it 10 • chemical proem. It is said to last longer than iron and needs no o.lka, u it adhere readily to any surface however smooth. Two Indian gentlemen have invented w anti -collision apparatus. It is worked by electricity, the principle being tic t when one train gets un the same pair of melds as another train within a certain distance, the current so acts as to bring them to • standstill. A Freud actress has just obtained dam- age* from a biscuit manufacturer who ad. vertisd her portrait with his wares and which the lady maintained was a perfect libel The judge agreed with her and the lady's womdal vanity was cosseted by a NM of cash. A ee=brated feast give. by Vkeilius, • Raman emperor of those degenerate days, to kis brother Lanius, cost a little over 1600,000. Sueteaius says that this banquet consisted of 2,000 different dishes of fish and 7,000 different fowls, betides other courses in proportion. The ten penny as applied to nils is ggoeon• orally supposed to have been dei{rod fran. pound. It original! meant so many pounds to the thousand, t� is, nix -penny meant six pomade of nails to the thou.aad nails The thousand was always understood, sad six pound, ten pound, etc., were gradually shortened until the present term pommy has entirely taken the place of pound. A carious end beentiful superstition pre- vails among the Arms8tns that when any one is seriously ill abs sickroom is filled with angels who are sent to watch over the patient. For this reason the room is beau- tifully draped an.l furnished with flowers, sweets. dried fruits and cakes, and each visitor on entering strikes • chorl on a musical instrument which hangs at the heal of the sickbed. Washington city contains in its streets ant squares over seventy theme's.] trees, al- though the work of systamtatic planting was not began until 1872. There are 330 little parks at the intersections of the streets and avenues, besides the great consolidated government reservation extending westward from the capitol to the Washington monu- ment, two mile away. About 175,000 annually is expended by the government and the District ufL'olnmbu in planting and caring for trees. . A clever piece of work was recently done by the telegraph battalion of an English regimmeut in the course of mine night ex- periment.. A cable was rapidly laid over the rughtest pruable ground, and that, too, without the 'lightest asaiatance front searchlights, and the general in oontmeal was thus enabled not onlyto find a lost brigade, but to control tsimultaneous advance and attack on ea earthwork at night. The te{mrspk, is Gut, reedsred • rood difficult and doubtful operation coet- parstirely elm and certain. With large scale maps,a b.a)lona and increassd obs. ving staff, it is likely to be made a most impor- tant aid to the sttategst and the tactician The oft-rau.d question as to Queen Vic- toria's ic- toriis surname is thus answered by • recent writer : "She is, of course, a t; an- cestral lineage, which is treethe gi d me aloggista from the F.mprese tat. consort to the Kmperor SL Henry II. A. D. 1024. Both are canonised mints and both were solemnly crowned at Rents by P4. Benedict V1II. Bat all this relates merely to the pedigree of Princess Alamo - dries Victoria prior to her marriage in 1640 te Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha This prime was of the ancient hoar of Saxony. whose family name ia, and has day ing more than four cwturls hem, Wettia. Obviously, therefore, the Guelph premium became upon her 'marriage Mrs. Wettir. In days of old whom mach distinction win had in meeting.ho se. the spelling of our weedpe w was pee. In Frmck it was i ppenye, 10 (S sttisb it was poye, • brach ; in , Latin it was podinm, • balcony or elevated i piece tart to the mesa, where the emperor sat, std in Greek mt woo ports, the foot - and in all ams where the feet of the wor- shipper mated --a reeled place en the finny ns Y of a church where o` sit or might stand or seiOt kneel Ir puritan meeting. houses the elsoiee pore wen round about the walls, one step up, and tic discoed seats noir the pulpit two wive up, amid the„ of the rulielders one step higl1w yet. In these later days the beet pews are in the center .d the church --tic wall pews fetch loss 1t hoe been wgasted that in be made as to whether or sot i=1;661. a moms diem* are snore ,�v!�t derirg .4 groat oat nsti' ormorean� ass at ether times. Iberia' the see_epot marl - mem bagiaei.g in RIK eases of sudden le- mony seemed to he very prevalent. At the prosiest tuts, whirl is one of intones nag - nate unrest, • large number of mem of sad- der a. isitp are repcled. Many peopie e>tpeyissided that (sinker sounat- km the howl whin\ is • warains�g of M ing thunder stores. Alt`sugb =he "rely temporary .a.tie., yet - }eedbi. that Y carried to ene.miw it might .. emelt hi has ►w' .flea • \. soy A 6.N Ile gee-dl`.Y.t l y. ran Syrup'Tbosswase not A Throat used Boachee's Ger- ard Luras man Syrup for nose severe and chronic %peelaity. trouble of the Throat and Lungs can hard- ly appreciate what a truly wonder- ful medicine it is. The delicious sensations of healing, easing, clear- ing. strength-gatbe ung and recover- ing are unknown joys. For Ger- man Syrup we do not ask easy cases. Sugar and water tory smooth a throat or stop a tickling --for a while. This is as far as the ordinary cough medicine goes. Boechee's German Syrup is a discovery, a great Throat and bung Specialty. Where for years there have been sensitiveness, pain, coughing, spitting, hemorr- hage, voice failure. weakness, slip- ping down hill, where doctors and medicine and advice have been swal- lowed and followed to the gulf of despair, where there is the sickening conviction that all is over and the end is inevitable. there we place German Syrup. It cures. Yon are a live n1kn yet if you take it. • 91 CRISP AND CASUAL. tgr•rf's Wi.se.S. LursMemaa's ?rte.& Then are fifty "maim of electric Bah. The bible is being translated 1010 the Carom language. A um of Sevres wan, only =Olt inches high, ma sold 10lo.do. for 07.906. P e"man'. WHIN Powders destroy mid remove wornms without injury to adult or infant. 1m A Borba inventor has invented an instill meat which measures the 1,000tb part of a la Mesiad ate perms in every 30 is • pamper; in America the rate is one person an tom 6641 Regulate the liver and bowels by the judicious ors of National Pill., they aro purely vegetable. Im 1 society hes been organised in Iowa whom object it is to posh the pansy as the flower of America. The first book in which the word America appears was printed 10 a little aaons.uc town, St Die, in 1507. Ifi11smr.'. Aromatic Quinine Vilna is1.- tinetly superior to any other es an appetis- ing Mata aid fortifier. lm A Chicago editor offers to pay 84,500,000 for tam'moven* knit dollars provided the fair be open upon Sundays. In a resent appropriation of nearly 63,000,000 for an Indian tribe, attorney., claim agents, etc., get 1'100,000. As a healing, mooching application for cuts, wooed., bruises and sons, there is nothing Latter then Victoria embolic Salve. lm The lerge.t theater in the world is the Olima Houle in Paris. It coven needy three sere of ground, mud cost about 60, 000,000. Macrocy.tis, a seaweed of the South Pacific, often grows to be thirty or forty inches in diameter and 1,500 to 2,000 feet in length. In the Executive Msneiou at Raleigh, N. ('., is a aryl table promoted to Geveresr Bmrnogtoo by King George IL •boat the yeer 1755. An absent-minded barber has a .hop in Philadelphia. He lately tucked s newspap- er under • patron's chin and gave him a towel to red. The usual ?residential year hes has put 10 an appearance. She resides it Bath, Me., and the notate, " B. H.," are clearly mark- ed on her eggs. A Malden man hes invented a daeies 4. gifting the lid of • street letter bat ly =mak- ing • treacle at the foot of the pot t WWII the box *attached. The most recent trustworthy investitntion is that of M. De Chetelier, who fixed the effective temperature of the .a at 12,600 degrees Fabreabeit. How do you pr000uno, ('arm ! Kasily e.oegb, koom. i'snoeaza ! Why. pee -ah• tchent•sab. Tbrondhim ! .1st trona-yem. Krxerscki! Simply kl.)rzh whets -ken The silver dollar. of 1794, 1838, 1836, 1861 and 1862 are worth 626 sash, while that o1 1868 is valued at 615. Silver bolt deltas of 1796 sad 1797 are worth 126 each. In order to dimmer an enemy's move- ment at night an Italian artillery officer has invented • m.obaaical Dandle, which, when sent from s anon, will shed • light equal to 100,000 candles. A chimney piece carved from wood over 6,000 years old ban recently been areoted is 10 • house in F.dmbargh. The wood, au oak trim, was found i. a ••and pit at Man- sdbu.rg, thirteen feet below the surface. The rose (amended r•ow. The four cardinal pants of health are the stomach, liver, bows= sad bleed. Wrong nation in any of time eroding" dimes. Burdock Used Binges mots .pas the leer cardinal pekoe of 1g•hth st one gad the same tiara, to e, strengthen rind purify, time preser health sad remov- ing di..mmg, rrOWL&R'S wig 5 R�' rRAWB + CURB^ GOLF A GHO or CHOLERA— RHO DYDISENT pD� C� , SUMMA 1 afM'enc Nsscrhl e SOHOOL OPENING_ AUG. 29TH, t892 6 Fraser & Porter have something entirely new in School Exercise Scribbling ever Books, n fico:' far best value All Books authoriaedeand recommended for arca, NJBIIC 1111 ZEPARATE SCIIOO al wive kept in stock. September Delineator and Fashion Sheets to hand. Agents for the American Fruit Preserving Powder Liquid. • FRASER & PORTFR, NOW TAMEI BOOTS AND : SROES FOR INSTANCE. .It makes little differ- ence what others say, the leading place in the trade for years and years has been occupied by E. DOWNING, Cor. Bast-et...d Square. P.B.—The latest and beat Spring and Summer designs just to hand. YOU KILL ONE FLY 12 come to the f'meraL TANQLEFOOT STICKY FLY PAPER CATCHES the whole procession. Poison Papers, Insect Powder. PURE PARIS GREEN. LIME JUICE. ---Hire's Root Beer 5 gal& for a delicious Bummer drink. N. C. COOLIE, - THE CHEMIST, AGAIN ON TOP WITH EVERYTHING FOB THE CARDEN IN THE SHAPE OF ntPLEYENTS. + + + + + + + Just arrived, the biggest stock of Lawn Mowers arta shown In this county, and the price will soft every buu��16fr Garden Rose away down Agents fbr R. idge Htc . Everybody:knows they are the best. R. P, WILKINSON & Co. NOTIOE TO THE PUBLIC. We have jest received a vett' cl sive lot d NEW TEAS! -mommo0111111litTING Of -- BLACK, GREEN AND JAPANS Which we guarantee to sell at least 10 Cents per Poland Cheaper Thep can be from truthfulness A trial order will ate' vine you of the trn ess et ibis assertion. sell the best OOFFII obtainable. REES PRICED & ON.