Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 27, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 September 1908 — Page 3

‘ IN THE ‘ . L] : s 1} € ! MOHAWK CLUB § kS - . i 6 . By THEODORE ROBERTS . -~ r~ 5 -' (Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.) The Mohawk club house stands on the bank of a famous river, and at the edge of a famous though sleepy old town. The town is known in other lands as a place of culture and literary - prestige, but The Onlooker, that mortai who seems to do nothing but brood over the world with smiling mouth and dreamy eyes, says that for its own part it appreciates the maker_of a horseshoe thore than the maker of a ballad. Why this is he doesn’t attempt to say. But fo return to the club house. ~Most of the interior is taken up by one large room with a good floor, a fireplace, and a billiard table. There are many easy-chairs, also, and card tables in convenieniz places. When the winds churn the river into white ecaps and rain pelts the roof, The Onlooker finds a strange fascination in sitting by the fire and studyving the men around him. But he does it with a careless air, as if sitting out in the rain would amuse him fully as much, and the men, who are all his friends, sometimes forget that he is there. A month ago Tke Onlooker's attention was drawn from the general crowd who played cribbage, clicked the ivory bdalls, and told stories, to the most active members of the club, Bertram Smfth and Dick Nevers. At first, iike a philosopher, He accounted for the slight change in their manners by the choice of Nevers as master of

ceremonies for Ladies’ night, but the rumor that both were in love with the same girl caused him to think it over. He watched thfm closely when they met, making a note of the faint flush on Nevers’ cheek, and the sullen light in Smith's black eyes. Sometimes their greeting was too warm for his taste—at other times they failed to see each other.

“I wish they would fight it out like men,” he said to the andirons; but he tcok that back, for Nevers was big enough-to eat his rival without inconvenience. a

Smith, who was the son of a wealthy merchant, was in a fair way of running a large medical practice before many vears. Dick Nevers, the cadet of a broken family once renowned for {is horses and style in entertaining, was a writer of poems and stories, sometimes even condescending to newspaper work, at three cents a line. The Onlooker thought from the first that Nevers had the Fates against him.

As they all revolved in the same social circle, The Onlooker made it his duty to follow their little romance beyvond the fireside of the Mohawk club. So, after a week’s consideration as to whether or not it were worth while, he obtained an introduction to the lady -of their hearts’ desire. We will call her Miss Marjorie, which, may or may not be her name. From the corner to which he had fled after thé introduction he looked at her carefully, as she was the chief character in the little story -he was following. Her eyes were the first thing he noticed; then her mouth, which was large, but fatally atfractive; then her hair. He did net altogether blame his friends, but it puzzled him to think that Nevers, wrapped up in his_books and dreams, should allow a pair of eves and a moderately charming smile to spoil his pace. . The Onlooker flatters himself with the bel;e&thai he has a keen insight into ch ter and human nature, and on the strength of this he was not long in deciding that Miss Marjorie was a- flirt. . He enjoyed flirts to a certain extent (no one would think so), therefore this discovery did not lower her far in his philosophical eyes. He further noticed that when her eyes were gray, Smith was in favor, but when they softened to a wonderful blue, Dick Nevers, with his maiden rhymes, had the inside track. They both came in for rebuffs and hours of indifference at the lady’s hands. Nevers swallowed these repulses and tried to look. delighted, while Smith scowled. s For_awhile The Onlooker seemed to find dévelopments slow, for he kept away from his usual seat by the fire, and people wondered what he was dofmg. If it had been Nevers who lay low they would have sald, “He is writing poetry.” About this time Smith and Nevers began to criticise one another’s breedfng and attire, and Smith developed a perpetual sneer. .

TAFT’S SPIRITUAL ADVISER

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One morning The Onlocker entered the club with his old-time stride-and found six fellows standing around the billiard table. The rivals were having a game. Smith was playing spot ball. Nevers chalked his cue hurriedly and- glanced. at the balls. His was close against the cushion and called for a strong draw. His face was flushed when he shot, and his eyes expressed more joy than one would have thought the occasion demanded - when he scored. His next three were easy ones, then his cue scratched and twisted and the ball rolled karmlessly a few inches. He marked up his four and then watched with a wan smile while Smith made a run of ten. )

_The Onlooker asked if they Lad anything up on the game. Nevers nodded. The other fellows exchanged glances. Smith swore easi® to himself as Dick made a run of difficult ‘shots. The Onlooker, feigning a great indifference, stood back, while the others closed in around the table. It was close now, with three on one string and five on the other.. But The Onlooker sat in his chair and picked up a paper. Presently Dick put his cue in the rack and went out, keeping his back to the crowd. e Smith smiled softly when the door closed, then, producing his cigar-case, he passed it around. With a condescending smile he went over to The Onlocker; but that harmless individual was thoughtfully pulling at his pipe, and would not take a cigar. Early next morning Dick Nevers, accompanied by ,an Indian guide, started for the woods after big game. WWhen. The Onlooker heard of it he swore, and Smith, Who was near by cringed. He did not like the way The Onlooker’'s eye blazed wide and scrutinized him. - | Once young Peeble entered the club room noiselessly and, going over to the fire, glanced over The Onlocker's

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~ She looked at him merrily. Her eyes were neither blue nor gray, but of a shade he had never seen before. “I am quite indifferent as to who got the game,” she answered, “but my preference is for poets rather than other men.” ) f ~The Onlooker cast a quizzical glanee, but her face was averted. And of a sudden, he remembered that he too was a maker of ballads. Then this hafmless, dreaming Mohawk watched the red tinge the clear cheek of La Belle Dame Sans Merci. A great glow pervaded his heart and soul. - Poor Nevers—poor Smith!

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The American lemon industry has become permanently established on a firm foundation within the last few years, the seasons since 1904 having proved unusually profitable. It commenced to assume a commercial aspect 25 years ago, but for a score of years. it was a question whether it would become established permanently or whether the American supply of lemons would continue to be derived, as in the past, from foreign sources. ;

The lemon is grown in the citrusfruit belt of California, where at the present time the annual production is from 3,000 to 4,000 carloads, which represents approximately 100,000,000 pounds, or from one-third to two-fifths of the total -quantity used in. the United States. There are imported annually into the United States about 150,000,000 pounds of lemons, mostly from the island of Sicily. If this amount of - fruit were expressed in terms of the California method of packing aad shipping it would represent more than 1,750,000 boxes, ot about 6,000 carloads. -

In the early days of the industry there were no precedents to follow that were applicable to the handling of the lemon in California. The pioneer growers made many mistakes. Each step forward in the culture of the groves and in the handling and shipment of the fruit was gained by costly experience. Groves were located in unsuitable places, on frosty areas, on uncongenial soils, in localities dependent upon an inadequate supply of irrigation water, or on soil that was overcharged with alkali. The growers had to learn about the handling of the soil, the irrigation and fertilizing of the crop, and the maintenance of soil fertility by cover crops and other sources of humus. The methods of pruning have only recently begun to emerge from a chaotic condition. The losses from decay until recently were so large and so universally ‘expected that the California lemon was generally supposed to have poor keeping qualities, and dealers were cautious about handling the fruit. .

Bhe American lemon industry is located. principally in southern California, which includes .the counties south of the Sierra Madre mountains. The most important region north of these mountains is in Tulare county.

The Ilemons imported into the United States are grown principally in Italy, the fruit coming mainly from May to September from the island of Sicily, with a small quantity from the vicinity of Naples. A few lemons, are imported from Spain, Mexico and the West Indies. The industry is being developed to a limited extent in Cuba

RESCUED FROM SHARKS

Narrow Escape of Filipino Sailors from a Wrecked Vessel. Capt. Carlos Krebbs, commander of the steamship Dalupaon, reports that while en route from Tudela to Iligan the ship sighted four Filipinos clinging to a submerged banca surrounded by a school of sharks, which, even after the vessel had come alongside, pergisted in hovering about the banca.’ The four men upon being picked up related a terrible tale of suffering and zgony. They stated that they had left Basac, Negros, bound for Barili, Cebu, and that they ran into heavy weather which caused the banca to fill, sinking to the water’s edge and washing away their food and drink. ‘ Shortly after that the weather cleared, leaving these poor mariners under the glare of a tropical sun. Then the sharks appeared and to the agony of thirst and the pangs of hunger was added the terrible fate of becoming a worsel for a shark’s tooth. =~ They had despaired of relief and

“and Porto Rico. > The lemon is shipped from Califor ‘nia every month of the year. The dis itr,ibution is regulated somewhat by . holding the fruit pickéd in Wirflt]er and -spring in common storage for several - weeks or months before shipment. The lemon tree when handled properly is ever bearing, a tree containing at any time fruit in all stages of develop ment from the blossom to the ripe lemon. The fruit ripens most abund antly during the late fall, winter and spring, the heaviest harvest occurring from February to June in the coast region and beginning in Novembet and December in the inland regions It is the aim of the lemon grower to have the harvest as heavy as possi ble in the summer, when the fruit is in greatest demand, and he endeavors to influence the season of bearing ta some extent by pruning and by irri gation, though not to the extent at tempted by foreign lemon /growers. The most profitable months in the lemon market are during hot weather from May to September, the condition of the market at any time during this period depending on the temperature at the point of consumption and the supply of imported fruit. The shipments from California. are largest from March to July, about 60 per cent, of the crop going forward during that period. The shipments in the last few years have been greatest in the months of May, June and July. The fruit ‘- shipped in the spring and symmer may include winter and spring lemons that have been stored, as well as the fruit that is picked during the spring and summer months.

The lemon is picked, irrespective of the degree of maturity of the fruit. when it reaches the approximate size desired by the market. If it is al lowed to ripen on the ‘tree the fruit is likely to be overgrown, coarse in tex: ture, lacking in acidity, and of poor keeping quality. In order to judge accurately, each picker is provided with a ring to be used in testing the size of the lemons. If the fruit is to be held several weeks or months before shipment, the ring generally has a diameter of 25-16 inches, which allows for considerable shrinkage while the fruit is in the storage house. If the lemons are to be shipped sopn after picking, the ring usually has a diameter of 21-4 inches. With size rather than maturity as the leading factor in determining when the fruit shall be picked, the lemons vary in color from dark green to yellow, and in texture from the thin skin of the tree-ripened lemons to the coarse green lemons that grow on. the out side branches. It is necessary to pick a vigorous-growing grove once a month, on the average. :

every vestige of hope was gone when they ' sighted the Dalupaon.—Cebu Courier. ; Petroleum for European Locomotives, Consul General Norman Hutchinson of %ucharest reports that several high officials of the Austrian railways have arrived in Roumania for the purpose of studying the question of petroleum as a railway locomotive combustible. The consul general adds: “If it is found that the use of petroleum as ‘a locomotive combustilile is wor'klng satisfactorily upon the Roumanian railways, it is intended to introduce the use of petroleum. upon the Austrian railways. “It appears to the writer that petroleum seems to answer the purposes for the making of sufficient steam, and does away with coal dust and cinders; on the other hand, the odor of the smoke issuing from the locomotives is offensive to many persons, while others consider it more or Ileas healthy.” ;

‘THOMAS F. RYAN PREPARING TO QUIT WALL STREET. e Will Leave Turmoill of New York City for Quiet of His Beautiful Virginia Estate—Planning Mil-lion-Dollar Residence. Richmond, Va.—Wall street and the Stock Exchange are full of men of obscure origin. Horace Greeley once | said that if the stream of fresh country life which each year is poured into !New York from the rural sections | were stopped, in 50 years grass would ‘be growing in Wall street. ‘ Among the men who have thus gone | from the country and attained prominence in the great center of finance | Virginia and the south have furnished | more than their shares. Of southern ~men prominent in financial circles in New York, Thomas Fortune Ryan, born in Nelson county, Virginia, and ! gtill a resident of that county, is the leader. Had the genius of Ryan been

turned to politics, literature or the law, instead -of money-making, he no

doubt would have obtained ' prominence in any one of them, for the same qualities that have brought him such a large measure of success in the financial world also would have

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Ryan always has taken 'a deep interest in Richménd -and in Virginia. Several years ago he financed the enterprise that resulted in the erection in Richmond of one of the most magnificent Catholic cathedrals. in the south and in the country. -

In this connection it is. stated that Ryan is as fast as possible breaking his son, Allen A. Ryan, to take his place in the financial world. Thomas Fortune Ryan was born in 1851 in a modest brick building, which still stands at Lovingston, Va., the county seat of Nelson county. The building is a hotel, and is known as the Virginia house. = His father, George Ryan, was a tailor, and at one time plied his trade at Amherst courthouse, in the adjoining county to Nelson. His mother was a Miss Fortune. A brother, William, died several years ago. His mother died when he was 14 years old. - o Between the ages of 14 and 17, while he was living with the Fortunes, Ryan worked on a farm. One year he hired out, and!the old man for whom he worked, and to whom he gave a year of faithful labor, still lives in the cove, near the Fortune place, containing 1,000 acres, which Ryan recently bought and is now rapidly improving. Here it is that the cattle and stock of Oak Ridge are sent for the summer season, and to this place Ryan always goea when he visits his Nelson home.

In 1868, with his clothes and a railway ticket to Baltimore, $l7 and a letter of introduction to some business people in Baltimore from Taylor Berry, of Amherst county, who was his guardian, Ryan left Nelson county for the Maryland city. For three days he walked the streets in Baltimore looking for work. At last he went into the office of John S. Barry, who employed him and afterwards promoted him. He married Barry’s daughter, Miss Ida M. Barry. After several years in Baltimore, he removed to New York. The Sorrow of It. “It’s too bad,” observed the man who seemed to be thinking aloud. “What'’s too bad?” quétied the party who had overheard the observation. “That our neighbors always know when we have fried onions for supper, but never get next when we have strawberries and ice cream,” explained the noisy thinker.—Chicago Daliy News. : _ : A Withering Glance. I once had a doggie named Spark, ‘Who met with an auto at dark. : It gave him a glance That pressed out his pants, And tore off a part of his bark. & . —Judge,

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The only pull that can land a man in the employ of the United States secret service is that of successfully passing the preliminary examination, submitting to a personal interview with Chief Wilkie ,and showing his nerve and ability during a month of testing out in the real business of detective work for Uncle Sam.

Here is the civil service slip that must first be filled out:

“Sec. T 79. Secret Service.—Application for positions in the secret service of the treasury department should forward, addressed to the secretary of the treasury and marked ‘personal’ form 304, properly executed, and such evidence as to their experience, training, qualifications and personal characteristics as they may be able to obtain, without any reference to their political or religious afliliations, which may be considered as proof of their fitness for employment in this service. This examination shall be confined to experience and personal fitness. Applicants should give the names and addresses of the persons to whom they refer as to ‘their character and qualifications for employment in this service.” :

If the answers are satisfactory the next test of the applicant is made and he is permitted a personal interview with Chief Wilkie, who is able after a few minutes’ conversation to size up a man’s possibilities pretty accurately. If he seems to be a likely man he is put on the eligible list, and when the appointment division certifies him he is assigned a 30-day tryout in actual service in the 26 districts into which the United States is divided. If the man makes good he goes on the rolls permanently, and in the course of his career-there is no telling what great and important cases he may be asked to help unravel. Chief Wilkie is proud of the character of the men he has under him. In speaking concerning the matter he said: “The men of our service are gathered from greatly differing sources. We have college graduates, mostly the sons of criminal lawyers, who seem to have the appetite of their fathers bred in the bone; musicians, stenographers, linguists, bank clerks, identification experts, telegraph operators, a commissioned officer of the army, and non-commissioned or petty. officers of both the army and navy, newspaper men, a couple of sheriffs, one or two wardens and in one case an ex-mayor. “While all of our men must measure up to a certain standard, I believe experience has shown that our best operators are those who have done work in the claims department of a railroad or performed similar duties for a life insurance company. :

“You see, what is needed in the secret service is initiative and ability to look far ahead and take into ac: count all possibilities. It requires no little intelligence to work up a case without putting your foot into it and to weave together the strands so that they can be presented as legal evidence. The former experience of the railroad and insurance men who have come into the service makes them expert in such matters. “There have been two or three ingtances in which failure to exercise a little caution has upset all the welllaid plans of the bureau. There was the case of Robyns out in Omaha, at the time of the Spanish war. To understand it you must know that the department takes the ground that we are organized for the suppression of

HIS SUNDAY SUIT

«The line which separates those who ‘dress for dinner’ from those who do not is an invisible crack compared with the yawning gulf that divides those people of London who ‘dress theirselves of a Sunday’ from those who have none but their workaday clothes.” So writes a district nurse in “The Next Street But One.” “‘My word,’ exclaimed a scandalized boy of four, catching sight of his elder brother one Sunday morning, ‘my word, if that isn’t our Tom walking in the road fer ev'ry one to see, and not dressed nor nothing!’ “I had often noticed,” continues the writer, “that one highly respectable old agricultural laborer Wwore very much the same clothes at all times, put unfortunately it was not until after his death that I heard of the tragedy that had darkened all the Sundays of his later life and bitterly mortified his wife and daughters. - “ “Thirteen year ago his clo’es was stole by a tramp and us never had no monsy for to put ‘em back. Us did feel

cor.interfeit money, we shall not, even in the interests of justice, have a hand in its making or .its floating. Wel, thiF Robyns trouble came along when, in |addition to our regular work, we had our hands pretty fulb with looking after Spanish spies .and other secrjt matters connected with the war. fßobyns was a German, and what we needed in his business was a man \\qo could speak tHe language. I picked up a young fellow who could do this, and sent him out west. - He qun’t the kind of operator I wanted, but he was the best I could get at the tirpe. He did very well for awhile—got in with Robyns, saw him make his spurious dollars and all that sort of thing—but one day. he tripped. Robyns wanted some acid and asl‘(cgld_ our man to buy it. The operator. consented, and when his report reached the office he was recalled and the case aiainst Robyns dropped. We could not afford to make the government’s agents particeps criminis. Three g];)nths later, however, we jugged obyns on an entirely: new charge. “By the way,” Chief Wilkie observed, as a new angle of "filought struck him, ““did you know that, sieight-of-hand is figuring more and more in the operations of the secret service? I am trying to get the art dJiown to a thorougly practical. working bllzis'rs,' and so far have had good results. Yes, it’s a little hobby of mine —this ‘hand is quicker than the eye’ business—but I believe T have several r‘pén in this bureau 'who have me beaten at it. e Ca

| “One of our men who is pretty handy with his fingers was trying to L;‘and a gang of counteffeiters‘and succeeded in establishing friendly relations with the bunch. -Every newcomer is naturally looked upon with ‘suspicion until he commits some overt “act, and in this instance the gang de‘termined to have a showdown. . In ‘floating bad money each man is given Uso much of it and keeps half of the rigood money he gets hold of, turning ‘the remainder in to the riakers. The ~operator was given a lot of one-dollar jr’rimitations and told to get rid of them, ‘another of the gang going along to see that he made good. Each time he en tered a store to make a small purchase, as the real crook thought, he lcame out with the ‘proper change. |But for some reason his companion lwas not satisfied and adopted the pok licy of entering the place with him, \watching him closely as he bought. i‘lt was a pretty trying situation, but lour man managed to do the sleight-Jof-hand trick so well that good Amerlican dollars found their way to the JCash drawer, while the ‘phony’ enes |disappeared somewhere on. his per (son; as evidence against the count: | erfeiters: &= e

“Shadowing and roping,” said Chief Wilkie, “may seem mighty easy fo an outsider; this thing of merely following a man, but any one who has ever turned his hand seriously to it will tell a different story. - It’s hardly putting it too strongly to say th_s?.t it is an art in itself. ; - ) “Roping is accompanied by more danger than -shadowing. The term embraces worming oneself into the ac. quaintance of a gang for the purpose of effecting arrests. Of course a man’s life isn’t worth much if he’s “eaught at such a game and has the goods on those whose confidence he has won.

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it, going to chapel and all. There’s a ‘many as would have stopped at home, but he wasn’t that sort, the old man wasn’t. “It's the garmients of our souls as matters,” he'd say. But fer all that, he was ashamed to wear his week-day ones. He couldn’t_never-get used to it. : ' - “ ‘His proper suit was made by an Irish tailor who came over to these parts in a cattle-boat, and stayed a month or two, earning what he could all ‘round about.. Twenty-nine years they’'d lasted him, and they’d bhave seen him through to the end. Yes, he was always a good -dresser, and pretty careful with his things, too.”™ - The Only Way. A man who wanted to be known for his taking ways rfust first learn te take advice and a joke.—Detroit ‘Free Press. Z b 2 e ——————— ik A man can always get excited over politics unless he understands what Rimsbonte- - . . . >

fO MARK HISTORIC BATTLEFIELD Granite Arch Will Be Erected at : Stony Point. | New York.—Stony Point, around which were fought many battles in the war for American independence, is shortly to be adorned with a triumphal arch. The historic battlefield on the Hudson .not far from H:;;i straw is now reserved as a state ag‘d‘ is inclosed and guarded. It has g?’en permitted to remain all these 1 = . v A - . fivfig e g ,‘J " ¢ e 20, ’ &,‘:’, G ok ;;f,/ci',/z%.:gw;ew/,»;; o g ;'://"/4.44’,%‘5'?; 5L P Vg TSI SR Y e TR sI [ &{. h édh ‘o ‘g,"? Ay - /‘f’f !% o] eAR “.) L 7 .? y A"f‘.';z fi’?rfizi:’ A oA BAEHEULs W 7R YRk AR T k. KT 22t g 1 il ¥lk 41 ‘* ' =35 e ;“”Ej fi/;\ ; ~ Stony Point Memorial Arch. years practically as it was in the days when tllze nation was young. - .The Daughters of the American Revolution are to erect the arch. The structure will be of rough-cut granite, 30 feet wide and 28 feet high, while the span through which visitors enter will be 12 feet in width. The sculptor is H. K. Bush-Brown, and the builder Calvin Allison. - .Over the archway will be the inscription: “Enter here with reverent step, for this is sacred ground.” Stony Point in the war of more than a.-century ago was fortified by the American patriots. Sir Henry Clinton took it, and he in turn was dislodged by the attack of Gen. Wayne, Eknown to fame as “Mad Anthony.” THEN NO ONE WILL SNUB HER. Mrs. Von Claussen, Who Coulidn’t Get Presented at Court, May Bz Princess. New York.—lt was leiarnvd from New York friends of Mrs. Ida. Vom Claussen, the beautiful American who unsuccessfully attempted'to get herself presented at the Swedish court in 1907, that she will soon be persona grata at any court in Europe. -, Mme. Von Claussen is now in Rome, and it is rumored that she will shortly become a princess. She can be

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either one of two kinds—Russian or Italian. Report has it that Prince Paul Ourousoff of Russia and Prince Sforza Caesarina of Rome are in a close race for her hand: ; Mrs. Von Claussen in April of last year besieged President. Roosevelt and the state department in Washington in an effort to have Charles H. Graves, American minister to Sweden, recalled from his post for snubbing her. o Not Needed. Dr. Joshua Babcock of Westerly, R. 1., was a friend of Benjamin Franklin, and was often the host of the ‘philosopher on his frequent journeys to and from Boston. Those were the days of warmingpans, and on the occasion of a passing visit of this sort in the bitter winter weather Mrs. Babcock, according to the author of “A History of the Episcopal Church in N tt, Rhode Island,” asked Dr. E‘;‘:xslklm if he would have his bed warmed. -

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The tallest chimney in the world is now under construction at the Great Copper Falls (Mont) smelter of the Amalgamated Copper Company. It has a foundation 74 feet im .diameter-and 506 feet high, with a 54foot diameter top. Connections with the furnaces will be made by a flae 20 feet high, 48 feet wide, and 1,800 feet long. The tallest chimney hitherto built is that of the Halsbrucker Hutte, near Freiberg, Germany, 450 feet in height. Those Busy Bees. e He—Did you hear about the Busy Bee’s fair? | " ! She—No; what about it? “Oh, the Busy Bees had a fair, and the girls went about charging one doilar for -a kiss.” ! e “I suppose you got stung several times.”—Yonkers Statesman. | He Did. | Mr. Woody—Music is a most fas-