Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 22, Number 24, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 June 1880 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

C. IHMNi:. PubtUher, INDIANA. SrXTKKiV AM) SIXTY, ' Oh. trnunhn.-i ttU In M?rmkcn ehidr, .nl!n We M-sl with twiKloi hsdr, "I'm to li? Hinrrlixl, nU. xriuiilmamma! 1 in ifi'liw " untitled I Kit. Int. ' hut hitl" !i,niiititni whUh out lr kjuob Mrlng: Im mai know, my dear, 'tin u mImiui thlnj."' 'Tit M4'iUfi" ' to, KrwiuliitMinwH, I'm Kotnjr to Ihj tunrrltil. Hit, hu! hu! ha!" Then tni'!ma looks throtiifli km-fitly vi-ars, AhiMiuh m a woman hi"J ami tnr: Siof ' in living iitiit two of Vm ; (ininlM bclph ami tied to nU l.iJ. fiiwh'n to Hv whon lbt bouse burned ijown: Y-awof fivktlux with old Mother llrown; S iw lctnu to darn ami Itrcoul to twice, jpfebes to vrunh mul lire! to nmkc. put tlifii thiimnstiMif ntt''rlnsr feet, tiratuli :i s hif-i- m lend titi'l wevt, fitnn uil tmittlo the livelottir tlay, Jt y mul kinm Jove Hlwuy. nb. irnni'l'MU smoolli out Uttr apron string, Ami pwn down irt hr ! Ilnif ritijr, Ait'lMI mtl" iis.Jjr ltitn a tear: "1 I svlemiier not t. Ye. inyiWr." liar; ll'tcMy. THE WIPE'S wa;es. "Well, Nettie, what do you want?" said .Mr, Jarvis to hi wife, who stood looking rather anxiously at him after he luut paid tbo factory hands their week's waces I thouirht "Wlv Donald," she said, as I had worked for you all the week, I would Come for my wages, too! Yoh pay .lane two dollars x week, surely I earn that, and 1 would like vc'rv much to h'tve it as my own." I'jihaw, !Nettio, how ridiculously you titlk! You know that all I have belongs to vou and the childrenaud don't I furnish the house and everything? What under the sun would you do with money if you had it?" "J know, Donald, that you buy the Decenaries for us all, and I am williti that you should do so still, but I should like a little money of my very own. We have been married fifteen years, and in all that tune I do not seem to have earned a dollar. As far a money is concerned I might as well Ihj a slave. I cannot buy a quart of berries, nor a book, wkhout asking you for the money, and I should like to be a little more independent." Mr. .larvis. proprietor of Jam's Mil!, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, laughed derisively. "You're a tine "one to talk of independence," he said. "If vou should .tart out to make your own iivingyou'd fetch up in the joorhou.e soon trough, for what could you do to earn a fivhig? The girls in the factory know how to do their work, and thev earn their duty clothe you girl nionev " Donald, I gave up a gootutrado when I married you. ror live years 1 1 had supjiorted myself by it, and many a

na"L'.. li n v ii l nxvu mini iiii'm mr tun iiiim iiiil il ?f?iiii in iiii'iiiat. h i iwiniinrro r tta tmnniii lurtMti nit hot. n. i..,ti. :u n.-. . r. .

is done; but I have to board xnd woman who left parents and brothers tor than Massa Brown? lm'uM !nnifln.ift..c ;,0r0..u .iLJ

you, and take care of vou when and sixers, and all her friends, to make i His brain seemed to bo in a muddle. 1 la I

are sick. If I had to do that for the a Uoim for you among strangers, a and he looked so strangely that hrs 1 well abuse d." " s they would have precious little i woman who has gven her whole life to wife, anxious to break the spell, took 1 Miss Louisa M. Alcott when nearlv

' Ielt. I esn tell vnti I VOU lor the iv.int liftci'n vnars. niiciit tin ! Iit ami. car nir I.iit- a im lin.,i. :,.. ..r . i I

time since have I envied myself the turn them on without help. Perhaps I ; ran joyously to meet them. The yard purse of those days. As for my not would be more successful if I appealed i was so'fredt and green, and the llowcarning anything, now 1 leave It to you ' to you as a beggar. I might say, Kind era so many and bright, that ho wouto say whether it would bo iKs-Vblo to i sir, please allow to rac out of your tiered he had never thanked Nettie for

hire another to take my place; and how ranch do you supino it would ciit vou in uu nunuiit. me a yearr i kiiow tne I girls have but little left after navimr their excuses, but they enjoy that lit- i tie o mucli I Ajlie V ilson supports her-elf and her mother with her wage, and tluy both dress better than 1 do. Jejune Hart is helpinir her father payoff the mortgage on his farm, ami .-he is m happy that she can do so. Kven Jane, the kitchen-irirl has more freedom than I, for out of her own nionev she is layiti" by presents for her relatives-. and will send them Christmas, as mueli to her own pleasure as theiis. Yesterday au Indian woman was at the house with such handsome bead-work to sell, a'ud, although I wanted some money so ranch. I had not a dollar ! I felt like crying when Jane brought in her week's wagt's antl bought half a dozen articles I wanted so much. You often sav that all you have is mine, but live dollars would have given me more pleasure yesterday tnan your hundreds of thousands of dollars Worth of property did." "No douM of that, Mrs. .Iarvu. You have no idea of the value of money, and would have enjoyed buying a lot of bead trash that wouldn't" be worth a cent to anylKMly. Jane needs a guardian if she fools away her money like that. She will be in'tlie county house yet if she don't look out. It s lucky that men do hold the money, for there's hot one woman in a hundred who knows bow to use tU" "lor shame, Donald Jarvis! You know better! Look at Jerry and Milly t'reg, will you, and say that he mak s the best use of his money. She is at home with her parents every night, making her wages go as far as tossiblo toward making Uiem comfortable, while he is drinking and carousing In the village, wasting his time and money, and making a bnilo of himself besides. Anil why does Mrs. Sarton come to receive her husband's wages herself; aunpiy oecausu he cannot get uy tne saVmn with money in his lwckot, and if she did not get the money they would all go hungry to bed tho dav after his wages are paid. And I believe that every woman who earns money here spends It as wisely as the average of wen. ami I have vet to hoar of one of them being in debt." Mr. Jarvis knew that ho could not gainsay a word his wife had saki, for thev were all true. Luckily ho thought of Jane. " Well, how much do you sujmose Jane will Imvo left when New Year comes? If she should gel sick how

long could Mite pay for care such a you have?" -

"It m iot likely sho will lay up many dollars out of a hundred h year; but she is laying up something better, I think. Last winter hbe sent her mother a warm hawl anil a pair of slioos, and to her brother and sister money to buy new oliool hooks, and the warm, loving letters they send her do her more good than twice the amount of money in the bank would. This year she h laying by a number of useful and pretty thing" for them, and if anv misfortune should happen to .Jane they would oulv be too "lad to help her." "Well, who do vou suppose would help you if you needed help?" said .Mr. .larvis, for want of a better question. Mrs. .larvis' eyes sparkled angrily as she answered: " Nobody. If vou should lose your property to-day I should be a beggar, without claim on any onu for help. Vou have always held your purse-Strings so tightly that it has been hard enough to ask for my own necessities, leaving others out altogether. Many a time a dollar or two would have enabled mo to do Mime poor man or woman untoM good, but although you have always said that all yojur property was mine I never eould and cannot now command a dollar of it." "Luekv you couldn't, if you wanted to .-spend it on beggars." JJOiiald. you know that I would ! spond money as wiely as you do. Who was it that, only last week, gave a poor I Jme beggar live dollars to pay his faro ! to Burton, and then saw him throw his crutches aside and make for the near est saloon? l our wife could not do worse, if trusted with a few dollars. You say that the money is all mine, yet you Spend it as you please, while I cannot spend a dollar without asking you for it, and telling vou what I want it for. Any beggar can get it m the same for us and expected us to be very grate-! ful for them. A shawl for me" of the f very color I cannot wear, a set of furs for Lucy that she did not need, a drum j irn-ni. 1 for liobm that has been a nuisance ever , since, and a lot of worthless toys that 1 ; were all broken up in a week. There i was fort v or fifty dollars ot my nionev just the same as thrown awav, yet when I ask you to trust mc with two dollars a week you cannot imagine what use I have for it and fear it will be wasted. I am sure ire I could not spend foolishly if I tried to." Jd the proprietor, " 1 fifty dollars more en," snappe gues u is my own money, ana l can spend it as 1 please. I guess you'll know it, too, when you get another present." " Oh, it is your money then, I understood you to say it was all mine, and intended to protest against your spending it so foolishly. If it is vour own, of course, you have a right to spend it as LiHwcd utKu with as much favor as you i give to beggars, who are very likely to be itnposters. I know that you seldom j abundant means a small pittance for my comfort. It is true I have enough iu hui aimer tcir t although 1 work for my fro morning till night, and, if hischil dren happen to le sick, from night until morning again, yet he does not pay me as much as he does his cook, and I am often greatly distressed for want of a trilling sum which he would not miud giving to a perfect stranger! The other day while he was from home, 1 had to go to tne next station to see a dear menu who was in, and not Having a dollar of my own I was obliged to borrow the money from his cook. I was so mortified! "And not long since the berry-woman came with such nice berries to sell, and my little girl, who was not well, wanted some very badly, but I had not even five cents to pay for a handful for her, Yesterday a friend came to ask me to assist in a work of charity. It was a worthy object and 1 longed so much to give her a little money for so good a purpose, but though the wife of a rich man I had no money. Of course I might ask my husband "for money, and if I told him all about what I wanted with it, and bo approved of my purpose, and was in a good humor, he would give it to me; but, sir, it is terribly slavish to have to do so, even if I could run to him every timu I wanted anything. People say i am a fortunate woman because my husband is rich, but I often envy the factory girls their ability to cam and spend their own money. And sometimes I got so wild thinking about my helplessness that if it was not for my children I think I should just drop info the river " Nettie! Kettle Jarvis! What arc I you saying?" cried the startled hitsbaud aX last, for the far away look in her eves as if she did not ee him hut was lookinir to some Higher power to help her, touched his pride, if itdidnot ins ncart, ior no uau a goou deal of pride m a selfish sort or way. i. , .......... i . Ho was proud to be able to support his m well a ho did. Ho was p Utmk he did it all himself. I family roud to Ho was proud that when the children needed new shoes lie could tell his wifo to take them to Crispin's and get what they needed. And he was very proud to ' call and settle tho bin. He did it with ' a flourish. Ho was not ono of tho , Stinsfy kind he liked to spend money; ....... . .f:' and wnen .ncuic, wno was once me most spirited young lady of his acnuaintancc. came meekly to him for a dress or cloak, ho was sometimes . 1 a " tempted to refuse tkf mopey just to I

show her how Judples alio w,v without

nun. ies, im was proud or his power over his family, and wanted them to feel how much (hey dojMitiik'd upon bin). He would have felt airirrioved if any one liad left his wife a leiracv. thus allowing her to be independent of his purse. The idea of hcrearninsr nionev. as his other work folks did, never entered his mind. He "Mipportod her," that wa his idea of their relations! Ho never had happened to think that it was very good of her to take his nionev anil spend it for the good of himself anil ma uiuureu, no never Had thought Mint uy moor woman wanted big pay for dolus I 7 nuum nave iu lie nan even uiougni himself If very jrenerous for 2S tfi treonifL11' l It Wh !'m J"st now, ouiit it be that lie was not von erous, not even just to his wife! Tied he paid her so poorly for her fifteen years of faithful labor for him that if ahe had been obliged to begin the world for herself that day, it would have been a.s a penniless woman, notwithstanding the houses, and lauds, and mills, that be had so often told her were all hers; for he knew, as every one else did, that not ono dollar of all ho hud, would the law allow her to call her own. How fast he thought, standing there at the ofiiee-window looking down at the little houses where the mill-hands lived. Could it bo nossibln that In ' wife envied them anvthinr? Could it lie that he was not rs cronil m-m U,

thought? He had fqlt deeply the ' wool I)H,I remarked, in reference to wrongs of the slaves whoie labors had 1 tllu l)russ t,1!it 1,0 forty-one been appropriated by their masters, years' experience in journalism in New and when a negro who had worked ork Citi': all(I during that time had twenty years for liis muster before the j secn tne wrth and death of ono hunemancipatiou freed him, came to .larvis ' (,re'1 .an(1 twenty-five daily papers in Mills friendless and penniless, the heart t,iat eity H,,a tn1 l,,ur ar to-dav but of the proprietor swelled with indi'na-J tnreo papers in existence there that

lion at such in ust ce. He was e oonont on the subject at home and abroad, and , nuniififu now any one count no so any cruel and selfish jus to commit such an outrage against justice. He had called htm a robber many a time, but now Donald Jarvis looked to himself very much like that old slave-holder ! Massa Brown had taken the. proceeds of Cuflee's labor for his own without even a "thank you" for it. True, when Cuffee must eat he had given htm food, when he was sick he had given him medicine, and he had clothed him, too, just as he himself thought best. Mr. Jarvis had married , a lovmg, conscientious woman, and for j liftecn years had appropriated her la- ! bors. Her recompense had been food and clothes, such as ho thought best for her. A little better than CufTeo'a perhaps, but the similarity did hot please him. Ho had expected his wife to be very grateful for what he had done for her, but now he wondered that sho had not rebelled long ago. Had his life been a mistake? Had his wife no more dear, tea must be waitinrr for us." He took his hat in a dreamy way and they walked home in silence. The children them all. Hitherto ho had looked upon them as his, but now he felt that his intercst in them was only a few dollars, that would not have amounted to anything without his wife's care. His children weru tidy and sweet. everything around and in the house had that cheery look that rested him fo after the hard, dull day at the mill. I They sat again at the table, which had been a source of comfort and pleasure to mm so many years, ami lie wondered ; how he could "have enjoyed it so long ' without even thanking the woman who had provided it. True she had used his money in bringing it all about, but how else could his money be of use to , him! Who else could have turnedit , into just what he needed day after day for years? And he began to have au 1 undefined feeling that it took more than money to make a home. Ho glanced at his wife's face as he buttered his last slice of bread. ' It was not that of tho fair, rosy bride whom ho had brought to the mills years before, but at that moment hu realized , that it was far dearer to him, for ho knew that she had given the bloom and freshness of her youth to mako his home what it was." His daughters had her rose-leaf cheeks, his sons Tier youthful vitality, all had her cheerful, win some ways, and comforted him now as ' sue nan in tnosc days wnen, unruly knowing what caro meant, she had lived ; for him alone : came to him. And a new thoucht

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w no was condoning iier now when , upon new-comers in search of the goldshe had so much care?" Was that not I en treasures. One story is told of some what he promised to do when ho Americm associates who hail been brought her from her old home? Ho! working at nu iMirolitablc spot, put-

signedas lie tlionzut how far ho had drifted from her while holding her in ; bondage equal toCufleo's. Nay, ho felt ' that her chains were far more binding ' , than any which had ever held tho negro. and that his obligations to hor were so much the greater. boniothinsr called tho children out doors, ami Mr. Jarvis took his easy chair. His wifo came and stood beside him. " I fc:fr you are not well, Donald, or are you displeased with me?" He drew her into his arms and told lur lum- nor wntiln timl nfimvnil Mm what manner of man he wits, and there wcro words spoken that need not bo written; but from that day forth a mflcrent man was proprietor of Jarvis - in i .t 1 ..... ,. ,. . . Mills, and thoro was a brighter light in Mrs. Jarvis' eyes, for at last sho had something of hor very own. nor has wie over reeretted that she "applied for wagoa." Woman" s Jourltal.

persoxal amiutekart. Mk. Hkxkv Jamm, Jk., m engaged on a new novel, which will apjvear m a serial form on both sides of the Atlantic simultaneously. About one hundred and fifty utudeHts of Cornell University have idgned a paper asking Colonel Hobert II, Ingersoll '.o lecture before them. Sknatok Hlaivk says that, though he studied law for two years in the office of one of the jiKwt'onfmont practitioners in the United State, he has never been in ennrt. m yiiArnnv

, - - - - - - -' " - - w ..WW, iiHuuui, ueieniiaut, witness or juror. Miss Kmily FAiTiiu-irif vim v!tt..t ! n.ta ...Ulntra . . ' ... turning Vo lh. MS" sBS orn Kxtravagiinee-Its Cause ami Cure," which has been received with favor all over England, and, it is said, lias not been witlrout good results. Mil II. J. HvKUrf, the dramatic writer, is of the family to which the poet Uyrou belonged. His father, Henry Byron, was a irntndsou of William. fourth Lord Byron, who was the poet's gieju-giaiiwainer. wr. xu j. iiyron s great-uncle, the Admiral John Byron, whoso books of voyages are still popular, was the poet's grandfather. Mil Kka-Vtus Biiooks, in a speech before the Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, a few days since, on the necessity of taking off the twenty per cent, duty on " nuousnou m . It is now definitely settled that the ' wr. . iiiiain m. Baker, of Boston. is the author of "His Majesty, Myself." This is the third in the second series of the "No-Name" novels. The other two arc by wrhers already known " The Colonel's Onera Cloak"." by Mrs. I)ruh, the daughter of the Key. Dr. T. J. Conant, and "Signor Monaldini's Ncice," by .Miss Mary Agnes Thicker. The authorship of the novels in the lirst series is not so well known, though the names of .several have already beeu correciiv guesseu. Loud Buaconskield's humor is very keenly appreciated in Kn-land.both by : friends and foes. Coin" mto his break-fast-room one morning, lie found one of xu? guests tooling mr a newspaper. " What arc you looking for?" he asked, i " Well, I was trying to find a paper." , "A paper? Oh, I don't take in any papers. Mrs. Disraeli. I believe, takes tne uourl Journal. But do you want to ! see anything in particular?" " Ye: I rather wished to" " W!ell. there's teach. She was successful, and much liked by her scholars. Some of these she now meets frequently in the streets of Hoston staid professional men with families, who always greet her with, i" Hallo, Miss Ollie! just as they did , But she 'ave up U storv-wrftiii" in w wnen uiey were rosy-cneeKed urchins. ig and took to slin b.i Imon ermallv successful. At nnn timn atw. eanie vorv near rnn nn tlii..sj.r n,t had secretly made the arrangements for her first appearance, intending to 1 discovery frustrated her purpose. ; , , . 1 slorIes Krom lc Ihcs. surprise ner menus, out an untimely manv stones are told ot tlie manner in which the first discoveries of gold in California were turned to account bv ingenious speculators, and among them are tne following: In one district the , gold-dust was mixed with large quantities of lino black sand, which the miners most of whom were raw hands 'blew off from tho gold in their anxiety to arrive at the oro itself. A keen old man turned their impatience to account by shamming lameness, and pre- ' tending that in his weakly state he was not equal to the toil of mining, and wi.s thus compelled to resort to the poor , and profitless branch of gathering the black sand, which he sold as a substitute for emery. He used to go about on an evening with a largo bag and a tin trav, requesting the miners to blow their black sand upon it. ami returning with it to his hut lty the aid of onicksilver he was able to extract the gold, double m quantity to tliat which was obtained by the hardest-working miner at the washings, Tricks of every kind were plavcd tine up a notice that their "valuable site" was for sale, as they were going elsewhere. A few Germans who had just arrived offered themselves as pur chasers. 1 ho price asked was exorbitant, as the proprietors stated that the "diggings" returned a large amount of gohl, and tho following day was appointed for the Germans to come and seo what could bo produced in the course of a few hours' working. The sellers went during the night and secreted the gold-dust- in tho banks, so that it would come to light, as a natural deposit, when the earth was turned up. Tho following morning tho poor Germans were so delighted with the apparent richness of the place that they gavo a largo sum of money and two valuable gold watches for the property. Tho Germans wcro laughed at; but they went to work, and actually succeeded in raising a large amount of gold beneath tho spot where the others had

left oC Tim Airr".atw wars tUm outwiUl la turn, and tndtMirortsl to get reiKM-ies.sk of tbw place by foroe: Cut

another company of Germans arriving, thy wore obliged to decamp. Ah old miner relates thwi story: "While working oa Hock Creek, tke weather being very hot, we always bad, near m a can of water, and etoe to it we put a teacup to hold the partick'S of gold as we colk'cted them. One nioraiHg we were at work a thirsty digger came by, who asked permission to take a draught of M ater, which being granted, he tilled up the cup, and quailed oft th costly drink, without either drinking our healths or leaving tlie least sediment at the bottom, t suspected at first , but j that some trick had been plaved upon us, and he had secreted the gold: from the evident distress- of the. man, and the earnest manner in which he promised to repay m when he got work, I firmly Indie ve that he had swalkiwod the gold, not having noticed it is the cup." Scarcely twenty-three vears have elapsed fcince the gold yield ia California becauMs an undoubted fact, and within that period many mill j m.:i ions of dollars' worth of gold-dost has been added to the wealth of the world. Hut even these results have been eclipsed by the wonderful discoveries of gold in Australia. So extensively are the gold deposit? distributed throujrlHHit that srreat count nr. that Melbourne, the capital, lias been said to be paved with the rich metal, the , broken quartz rocks which have heoa used to make the streets being found to contain gold. Harper1 a Young 1'eople. A Dreamer's Senses. If a strong light be held before the sleeper's eyes he is almost sure to awake, but at the very moment hemay have a dream of some tremendous tire, perhaps that his house is in tlanioe. The ear of the dreamer is generally on the alert, and proves a gong to the mysterious spirit to make its airy rounds. To some sleepers the sound of a llute fills the air with musk, or they dream of a delightful concert. A loud noise will produce terrific thunder and crashings unutterable, and at the same time awake the sleejier. According to Dr. Abercrombie, a gentleman who had been a soldier dreamed that he heard a signal-gun. saw theproceedings for displaying the signals, heard the bustle of the streets, the assembling of troops, etc. Just then he was roused by his wife who had dreamed precisely the same dream, with this addition, that she saw the enemy land, and a lricnd of her husband killed; and 3he awoke in a fright. This occurred at Edinburgh at the j tune wnen a trench invasion was feared, and it had been decided to tire a signal-gun at the first approach of tke ioc. juns nreaiu was caaeo, it appears, by the fall of a pair of tongs m the room above, and tfie excited state of the public mind was quite suiiicieut to account for both dreams turning oh the same subject. An old lady, a friend of the writer, relates a similar dream v. ' I "i. : .1 ...... i ... I which occurred to her just before the battle of Waterloo, when tke fear ot . n invasion by Napoleon was at its j height. She heard the march of troops l 1,1 streets, and the screanis of tne trapuiace. ancy broke mto her own house, ransacked it, and pursued hor with bayonet She fell on the floor and pretended to be dead. After sundry thrusts, which seemed to her "roving spirit" to be quite innocuous. tho soldiers remarked that she was " done for." They departed, and she escaped to consciousness. This dream was no doubt caused in the first instance by a noise in the house or street and tlie painless bayonet thrusts by some slight irritation, such as a hairpin or other adjunct to dress. Whispering in a sleeper's ear will often produce a dream; and there are caes on record in which people who sleep with, their ears open have been led through dreadful agonies at the will of their wakeful tormentors. The vivid description given of a young officer so treated byTiis conirades is both interesting and "suggestive. In changing our position, as wo constantly do in sleep, we touch the bedclothes," etc., perhaps the nose gets tickled or the sole of the foot, ami dreams painful or pleasant are the conseqnence. These may seem trivial causes, but it must bo remembered Uiat the mind is ready to 1TV into tho realms of fancy at the slightest intimation. People have often dreamed of spending the severest winters in Si beria, and of loininsr Uie expeditions to the North Pdle, simply because the bedclothes have been thrown off durinsr sleep. It is said that a moderate heat applied to the soles of the feet will generate dreams of volcanoes, buminr coals, etc. Dr. Gregory dreamed ot walking up the cratcr'of Mount Etna. and that ho felt the earth wann under his feet. He had placed a hot-water bottle at Ins feet on going to bed. Tlie memory of a visit he had once paid to Mount Vesuvius supplied the mental picture. Persons sutlering from toothache imagine that the operator is tug ging at the faulty tooth, and somehow cannot extract it; or, as in Dr. (Iregory s case, ne draws out tne wrong one, and leaves tho aching tooth in statu quo. A blister applied to the head is highly suggostive of being scaljicd by Indians, especially if Mayne Hold's ghastly details are at all fresh fn the memory. TtmfAc Ihtr. Tun angler's theory that a fish does not suffer muoh physical pain from hook in his gills, "or meHtal agony cither, for that matter, is supported by the recent experience of a brratferd. Conn., fisherman. A large trout tere two hooks in quick frocceesien from the line, and wag tiaally pulKsd np on tke third, wkh tie Mrsi twe la kW rtoauek.