Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1905 — Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN

Opportunities are like fish; all the £'i rge o;us got away. ; ulio best cure for a 'farm mortgage Is plenty elbow grease and a little of self-denial. Lay plans to-day, look over them morrow for defects and be ready to put them into practice at the earliest possible moment. Some men in buying breeding animals look upon bigness, fatness and a huge prioeness as essentials. Live .stock improvement means more. Most of the available farm lands that are for sale by the government are placed on the bargain counter and will be sold at bargain counter prices. To be able to do anything js like eating a doughnut. To be able to halfdo it is like eating the hole in the doughnut: one can watch the hole grow. The man who has a clay or gravelly soil need -give but little care to liis plow in winter to keep it bright, but the man with an alluvial soil will need to keep a close tab on the brightness of the mold-board. The early laying pullet should be marked and kept for the breeding pen next season, provided she is otherwise a good bird. In nearly all cases the pullet that begins to lay early in life is the one that will lay the largest number of eggs in a year. The horse that lias served his master faithfully for many years is entitled to consideration in his old age. it Is a practice too common to sell the old horse to some peddler or other person that will have no interest in him beyond'the work that can lie obtained from him. We've had the lioresless carriage, cowless milk, Imtterlc ss butter and the seedless apple and now a Kansas man threatens us with a featherless chicken to complicate the task of tlm boarder who insists on knowing if it was picked before it was ripe. No, we don't want the featherless chicken, for that would necessitate clothing in a cold climate. To the man who takes great pains with his seed corn all seed corn schooling seems silly, but the man who is careless about it is very much in not'd of the best way to increase the stand. Many farmers have farmed for years and yet the yield of corn they get is about one-half wlmt it ought to lie. This is largely on account of poor stands. The Canadian government is employing special measures to induce former Canadians who have settled in the United States to return to Canada and occupy land in the northwestern provinces, which are now very attractive to many farmers inclined to migrate. .An agent has been instructed to open offices in Boston and to reach llio farmers of New' England, those of former Canadian experience preferred.

A Pennsylvania fanner says he cured a balky horse of that pernicious habit by the use of electricity. lie purchased a small storage battery, connected the wires to the bit and the crupper, and placed it in his vehicle. When it was anticipated that the horse was about to balk, lie pressed the button, the horse would feel a shock and would snort and try to get out of the way of the unusual feeling, which, of course, would cease when ‘he got started. lie was thoroughly broken of the habit, so the writer says. Referring to the disease' ‘dlttle peaches.” Secretary Wilson in his annual report says: “The efforts made by the department in the matter of demonstrating the feasibility of eradicating the little-peach disease from the orchards of Michigan and other States have been continued on a large scale. A section 3 miles square in Michigan was selected for this work and the orchards were thoroughly gone over three times during the months of July, August and September, and all of the affected trees were destroyed. Th object of this experiment is to demonstrate what is believed to be a sact —viz., that the disease can be entirely eradicated by the extirpation process.” One of the most profitable lines of stock breeding is raising mules, yet there seems to be a decline in this industry; this, too, in the fnce of the fact that mules have steadily risen in value in the past few years. The first stimulus In recent years to mule breeding was the Boer War, which was followed rapidly by the war in the Philippines. When construction work on the Panama Cannl begins in earnest there will be a big demand for nudes, which are the only which can stand the intense heat of that section and keep working. Mules pay the breeder better than horses because they can be put on the market a year or so quicker, are not as expensive to raise nor to maintain. At twe years old the mule can be put Into the field and kept there until

old ago overtakes it. The mule is healthier than the horse and is not as likely to have blemishes which destroy or injure the value of the colt. A mule will stand greater hardships, lias more vitality, and when properly instructed is steadier and more reliable.—Farm and Home. Feeding Horses and Mules. Probably more horses and mules dia from diseases of the digestive organs than from any other cause. These diseases are almost entirely the result of errors in feeding and work. For instance, if a harder day’s w<sk than usual is expected of a horse he is given a larger feed, while he should be fed less, or perhaps the change is made from farm work to the road, when it should have been decreased. A large feed should never be given just before nor immediately after severe exercise or hard work, and especially should large quantities of hay and water be avoided just before fast work. —Dr. Talf Butler, North Carolina State Veterinarian. The corn crop in the seven surplus States Is 1,438,000,000 bushels, or 1G7.(XX),000 bushels more than in 1903 and compared with 1,703,000,000 bushels in 1902. The principal changes in the official figures from the estimates made in November are an increase of 23,000,000 bushels in lowa, a decrease of 8.000,000 bushels in Kansas. The detailed figures compare as follows: 1904. 1903. Ohio 100.000,000 88,000,000 Indiana 143,000,000 143,000,000 Illinois 344,000,000 204,000,000 Missouri .... 152,000,000 203,000,000 Kansas 135,000,000 172,000,000 lowa ■. . 303,000,000 229,000,000 Nebraska .. . 201,000,000 172,000,000 Total bu.. . .1,438,000,000 1,271,000,000 Setting Apple Trees. The distance apart at which apple trees should be set is treated in n recent bulletin of the Pennsylvania Citato Experiment Station. The argument is for planting at wider distances apart than has usually been the custom. It starts out with the promise that the best soils are none too good for the apple orchard and that such will develop much larger trees than will the poorer hillsides so commonly chosen for orchard sites in the past. For the stronger-growing kinds, like the Rhode Island Greening, Bellflower and Baldwin, a distance of 40 feet is none too much, while those with less spreading heads, like the Northern Spy and Ben Davis, should have 30 feet space each way. This assumes that the orchards are regularly to be cultivated, a practice that now prevails in all good orcharding. About Buying Nut Trees. It behooves every person who buys nut-bearing trees to make certain that he receives budded or grafted trees. The Interest that has been created in favor of planting pecan and other nut-bearing trees has led unscrupulous men to travel over the country and take orders for grafted or budded nut trees of approved and wellknown varieties, and fill these orders with worthless seedling stock. Before the buyer discovers that he is the victim of a swindler, the agent Is out of reach. To avoid being imposed upon every person who contemplates planting nut trees should buy only of those agents who represent reliable nurserymen or firms, and carry credeneials, and even then it is well to make inquiry of the firm represented, and verify the agent’s statement. It Is only by such precaution that the unscrupulous can be prevented from foisting on the purchaser of nut-bear-ing trees worthless seedlings that have no value as nut producers, and even if they had, may require half a lifetime before they reach a full-bearing age.— The Nut Grower.

Western Sheep Fence. Take the road scraper and make a ridge of earth from 8 to 10 feet broad, and raise to the height of about 12 inches in the center. In the center of the ridge plant posts two rods apart. String along these posts, from the ground upward, some kind of woven wire about 2 feet high, or a little more than that. In the center between the posts drive down a short stake, which when driven will be of the same height as the top of the wire; staple the wire to these stakes. Above the woven wire string n couple of strands of barb wire, the top one being near the top of the posts. Such a fence should lie put up ut a cost not much exceeding 20 cents per rod for material; but this, of course, would not include the labor of building the fence. If posts were put in high enough and the fence were Intended to turn cattle, another barb wire would answer the purpose. Such a fence would not only readily confine sheep where this might be desired, but on level Btretches of land the ridges thus formed would exercise a salutary Influence on drainage. The depressions thus formed should not be filled In plowing the field, and the ridge on which the fence Is built should be seeded down to some kinds of grass, so -that It could be cut each year with tlie mower aud Unis kept free from jaeda.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Nitroglycerin Explosion Shakes Town Fifty Miles Away—No Indictments Against Murder Suspects—Frenzied Convert Attempts Suicide.

By the explosion of 2.250 quarts of nitroglycerin in one of the magazines of the American Glycerin Cotupuuy. three miles north of Montpelier, two men were seriously injured and the concussion was felt for nearly fifty miles. John JaCfltt, foreman of the Corey Oil Company, and Fred Bain, a pumper, were at work 300 feet from the magazine when it exploded. They were hurled sonic distance and badly bruised. Both will recover. A -hole thirty feet deep was torn in the ground. Several farm houses within a radius of two miles were slightly damaged. Trees 500 feet away were uprooted and stripped. The explosion was heard distinctly at Ohio City, fifty miles away. Several windows were broken at Geneva, twentytwo miles away. On the Albert Spaulding farm, near Upland, twenty miles from the magazine, all -the windows on one side of the house were shattered. The explosion was caused by the increased pressure in a burning gas jet. Murder Suspects Freed. The discharge of the grand jury in L* Porte, with the failure to return indictments against William and Mary Davis and Frank and George Montague, who were arrested because of the belief that they were implicated in the murder of Jacob Harmon Effertz of Chicago, has given the four suspects their, liberty and has brought to a close the State’s investigation of the sensational killing of the young man. The State failed to uncover evidence warranting the voting indictments. The body of Effertz was found the morning of Oct. 4 in the Machler ditch near an old dugout, which was occupied by Davis and his wife. There was a bullet hole in the back of the head. The coroner’s verdict disproved the theory of suicide. The suspects disappeared soon after the tragedy. Miss Mahoney of Lemont, 111., will arrive to-morrow. She was the fiancee of Efferts and will seek to prevail on the county commissioners to offer a reward of SSOO, to which she will add SSOO, for the apprehension of her lover’s slayers. Prays, Then Tries Suicide. ' “I anr a doomed man and cannot be saved,” shouted Edward Johnson during a service at the holiness church in Marion, and at tiie same time he drew a knife and attempted suicide by cutting his throat. Johnson was frenzied with religion- - He had- cons essed ivis sins and prayers were being offered for him when he suddenly jumped up from his kneeling position at the altar and tried to kill himself. The worshipers were panicstricken by the tragic scene. Woman’s Slayer la Freed. The Terre Haute jury which considered Edward’ Cooper’s story that when Ethel Kelley tickled him as he was putting iiis revolver in his pocket he spasmodically threw his arm around and accidentally discharged the weapon, killing her instantly, after nineteen hours' deliberation acquitted him because the State had not proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Minor State Matter*. Rev. Jacob Beck, the oldest active minister, in Indiana, was killed by a railway train. Airs. Cephas Gauger, wife of a farmer, bung herself in a barn at her home near Miilersburg because of ill health. A. B. Howland of Titusville, l’a., a millionaire oil producer, became suddenly demented at a hotel in Hartford C : fv, Stephen Clinton, a furniture dealer r I Wheatland, blew out his brains beer X of financial troubles. lie was 50 y old. i— — One man was killed and two wer badly burned that they cannot live 1 gas-tank explosion at the American 1 factory, four miles south of Hamm <

The Christian church, which was e ed in Brazil three years ago at a co; $20,000, caught fire from the fur and was destroyed, together with a pipe organ. Airs. Charm Thomas, a pretty y< married woman, who was kissed Grant Gordon, a traveling picture de caused liis arrest apd lie was fine' the police court in Newcastle. Edward Williams is dying from 1 wounds and liis father, George Will is suffering from serious iujuries in

<*d with n soldering iron in the hand, his son during a fight in Huntsville. Carrot Holloway and Harry Bush nan were entombed by a cavern at the shale pit at tlie Sheridan brick plant at Brazil. After an hour workmen reached them, but Holloway was dead and Bushman badly hurt. Gertie Beck, 18, and Martha Musselman, 17, were struck by an Erie passenger train at Athens while on their way to church. Miss Beck has her shoulder broken, while Miss Musselmnu's ‘skull is crushed, and she will die. Thomas L. Tomey was divorced from 1 his wife in Washington and a few minutes later Mrs. Madison Purcell was granted a divorce from her husband. The same afternoon Tomey and Mrs. Purcell were united in marriage.

Attorneys who have been consulted by the Indiana syndicate controlling thousands of acres of land bordering on Lake Michigan between New Buffalo and the Illinois State line say that the claim of Samuel Biddison of New York to tlie"' title of the land is without legal basis. The Indiana owners of lake front land have retained attorneys to contest any claim which Biddison may try to establish in the courts. Fire destroyed the packing room of tlie United Box Board aud I’aper factory at Marion, causing a loss of $50,000, covered by insurance. Berkley Smith of Indianapolis has been received at .the prison north at Michigan City to be confined until lie is hanged on the uight of May lit. Smith killed his wife. Following the argument in tlie case of Clay Dusang of Chesterfield, indicted for the murder of Hiram Staley, which occurred in May last, the jury retired, returned n verdict of guilty of manslaughter.

INDIANA LAWMAKERS.

In the House Monday the bill on criminal code drawn by the codification commission was up for second reading. The House refused to approve the recommendation of the committee on criminal code that the law on provoke tie repeated. In the Senate the Newhouse lull for—a southeastern hospital for the insane was up on second reading ami ns a special order. Senator Kimbrough introduced a Dill to establish a State workhouse for women at the women's prison, and to require separation of women from men in jails. An amendment to Senator Wickwire’s Inheritance tax bill was ndopted under which bequests to religions, educational and charitable institutions are exempted. The Dill to give public library commission a permanent, room in the State House was passed. The criminal code was stiff on second reading in the House Tuesday. An amendment offered by Mr. Condo (Grant county) to abolish capital punishment was defeated, after a long debate. Mr. Legler’s amendment to strike out tho section which prohibits Sunday baseball for pay was defeated, but Air. Ruick will still push Dis separate Dill to accomplish that purpose. In the Senate the Alilbufn hill to prevent frequent revision of school books passed, less stringent than Batman hill, passed by the House. Strieler introduced n bill to place candidates for Congress on the State instead of the county ballots. Talcott introduced a .bill defining delinquent?children and providing punishment, by the juvenile court, of adults that, cause the delinquency. Purviance hill for State institution for epileptics passed late Monday afternoon. In the Senate... Wednesday. Ihe Hugg fail was passed to allow aliens to Fold 040 acres of land, and legalizing certain titles now defective. Report in favor of hill to put candidates for Congress on State instead of county ballots was adopted. Committee on banks reported substitute hill to regulate private banks drawn by private bankers. Bill to punish vote buyers instead of sellers and bill to reduce amount that may be voted as railroad subsidies were killed. In the House Auhle introduced a bill for the sale of nominations for county and township offices to the bidder willing to serve the public for the least amount of money. The morals committee reported unanimously in favor of Senator Parks’ antieigarette bill.

In the Senate Thursday Senator Farber’s bill to repeal the law allowing the voting of railroad subsidies was killed; several Senators making strong speeches in favor of subsidies. The railroad commission hill, up on second reading, caused hours of debate over amendments. In. the House Shively introduced a Dill to increase salaries of County Commissioners in every county. Tlio Mountz bill against freight trains-of over fifty cars was .killed. The committee on rights and privileges reported on Boyd's marriage bill, substituting Senator Smith’s bill, but striking out of the latter the provision for a ten days’ notice by banns in a churejj or Dy notice in a newspaper that application will lie made for license.

Bills Signed by Governor.

S. B. 15. Kirkman. Fixing time of holding court in Seventeenth judicial circuit at first Monday in January, April and October. Emergency clause. Bills Passed—-House. 11. B. 18. McDonald. To repeal railroad subsidy act. Passed, 57 to 30. H. B. 30. Legler. Providing for the immediate entry by county recorders of all satisfactions, cancellations and assignPt V ’ ' nr 'o , ilty of $5 for failL 1 IVI & I H at Tn experienced farmer gr ‘ itlo has learned that some aQ lo re grains require far differ- th* to ent soil than others; j a ; some crops need differ- j ent handling than ethers. , j el _ He knows that a great deal depends upon right ed ti )e planting at the right R‘'° ,u time, and that the soil ru tlie must be kept enriched. gifli.V, No use cf complaining “ , in summer about amis- .the take made in the spring. at iSUe Decide before the seed hP', y Olt lndfOlt'llD*.'"* i.m *,*• tUU lalUlH and to erect new buildings. Emergency. Passed. 83 to 0. 11. B. 132. Batman. To legalize the incorporation of Nashville, Brown county. Passed. 71 to 0. 11. B. 18*2. Wilson of Jasper. To reimburse Samuel R. Nichols, treasurer of Jasper county, for loss in bank failure. Passed, 71 to 7. H. B. 73. Clifford. To regulate court proceedings with reference to taking exceptions. Passed, 79 to 3. S. B. 54. Wood of Tippecanoe. To * amend the law pertaining to publishing acts, providing for subheads instead of marginal notes. Passed, 75 to 0. 11. B. 21. Batman. To provide for revision of school books not oftener than every ten years, no more than two books to be revised in any one year. Passed, 79 to 17.

Bills Passed—Senate. S. It. 144. Ilnggo. Amending the juvenile court law in several particulars, ineluding a provision empowering tlie judge tp turn children over to probation officers who sefve without pay, and one empowering the judge to appoint a substitute for himself, when off tlie bench. Emergency, l'hssed, 42 to 1. S. B. 0~- Beardsley. Prohibiting the shooting of live pigeons from traps. Passed, H 4 to 10. S. It. 145. Ulrey. Providing a means for the improvement of streets and boulevards iu Fort Wayne that border on streams. Passed, 85 to 0. S. B. 141. Coots. Act limiting to ten years’ time in which omitted property may be listed for taxation. Passed, 40 to 2.*“ ft. B. 102- Durre. To change time of holding Evansville eity election from April to November of same years. Emergency. Passed, 3S to 7.

PULSE of the PRESS

The Czar probably regretsnow that he did not carry out any of liis plans for going to the front with the arm yT —Washington Post. Russia's third fleet should take along the guns'from the Bourse Esplanade, so that the people at home would be safe.—Montreal Star. The man-fn-a-hurry at the railroad crossing, who crawls under a moving train, reaches the Other Side, all right.—Newport News Press. In view of his public spirit in owning up to $5,000,000, perhaps one of the Carnegie hero medals ought to go to Air. Carnegie —New York Mail. It is said the late Governor Lowndes, of Maryland, never used an oath. And yet lie was an unusually successful politician.—Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. Bread 2,000 years old Ims been discovered in the ruins of Pompeii. That must be where some of our American restaurants get their supply.—Atlanta Journal. It may be well for the Russian authorities to court-martial Sloessel, but it would be better for Stoessel to courtmartial the authorities.—Toronto Mail and Empire. If Cassie gets out on bail there is no hope for the remaining Ohio bankers, uulcss they get in their safes and pull the doors shut after them. —Birmingham Age-HeraUl. A diamond worth $4.(X»0,000 has been found near Pretoria. This beats all records. But wait until it is lost by a popular actress or a Wall street broker.—Chicago Inter Ocean. It might be well to force every automobile to carry a crew consisting of a licensed chauffeur, conductor, brakoman, flagman, doctor and claim agent.—lndianapolis Star. It is stated that practically every man, woman and child in Japan smokes cigarettes. The Japanese don’t tight like a people addicted to hitting the pipe —Newport News Press: A Chicago man with sixteen children complains that lie is not able to sendjfix of them to school. He might get a blackboard and start a school of his own.—Birmingham Age-Herald. A woman reformer declares that ’’the bachelor is an evil.” It is woman's business to eradicate evils like that, and they are the only ones that can do it. —Wilmington (N. C.) Star. The Cuban Senate lias appropriated $300,000 to clean lift tlig island. If the officeholders down there do not clean up the appropriation, Cuba may yet get a good hath.—Atlanta Journal. Some of the kind Russian manufacturers have offered to advance their help's wages to $lO a month. Is it quite safe to enrich the uneducated classes so suddenly?—-Ohio State Journal. -• A London policeman lias been discharged for stealing milk front doorsteps on his* beat and drinking it. Still, why sacrifice a policeman with that iml of a thirst?—Milwaukee SentLne..

American farm products were worth approximately $5,000,000,000 last year. This is why panics may come and panics may go on Wall street, but the country goes on forever. —Atlanta Constitution. Boat rocker* can have almost as much fun in winter by conducting slmiing parties over thin ice and steering bobsleds down bills crossed by railroad tracks. —Columbus (O.) State Journal. The Herman Emperor bas intervened to settle the coal strike in his imperial domain, perhaps being fully cognizant of the fact that his act is not an original one. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Japanese are still a simple, primitive people. They have not as yet acquired the habit of throwing mud at their heroes when the latter attempt to return home.—r Chicago Rec-ord-Herald. Tom Lawson says, and comes very near to proving, that the trust is the money power's “magic jimmy” for breaking into the strongholds where tin* people's savings are * stored.— Charleston (S. C.) Post. There arc no skyscrapers in Berlin. No house erected in that city is allowed to he over seventy-three feet in height. This rule is to preserve ”the architectural unity and beauty of the city."—Nashville Banner. The thieves that made away with the jewels of some of those in attendance at Chicago's charity ball belong to that'school of charity which teaches that “tlie Lord helps those that help themselves.”—lndianapolis Star. A brave man, a ruler of truly royal mold, would have asked no greater opportunity in lift* than to have stepped out among his aggrieved people upon the palace square and met them face to face, in kindness and in trust. — Columbia (8. C.j State. Before the investigation of the Colorado election frauds is ended it will probably be discovered that some of tin* women voted ballots with esealloped edges, or medallions opposite tin* names.—St. Ixmis (Hope-Democrat. A Daviess County school teacher, who used to let .his boys bri)g their dogs to school with them, had to order the canines left at home last week, j Dog fights were taking up about half the daily session.—Kansas City JourI Ml.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Because lie is chairman of the Committee on Interstate Commerce Congressman William P. Hepburn will be

W. P. HEPBURN.

respect is paid to his ability by Republicans and Democrats alike. He is an old man who does not look old, with a clear eye and a ruddy cheek and hair rather gray than white. He is bigbodied and strong of frame. He has a homely wit, much like that of “Uncle Joe.” He is a sledge-hammer of dedebate, but liis talents do not stop there. He is a giant in committee work, iu party councils, in all the subterranean fields of action which make up the real work of the House, as distinguished from the obvious surface of debate. Judge Thomas.J. Ilumos, former Alayor of Seattle, who dropped dead recently, was a Mark Twain double. He was something of a humorist, too. 11. M. Felt has been elected president of the New Hampshire Medical Society, recently organized. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who read the decision of the Supreme Court in the beef trust case, has been a

member of that tribunal since Dec. 4, 1902. Previously he had been Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Justice Holmes is a son of the celebrated poet and essayist, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was

horn in Boston in 1841, was graduated from Harvard in 1801, and from the Harvard Law School in 1800, serving meanwhile in the civil war, and being wounded.at Ball's Bluff, Antietam and Fredericksburg. After the war closed Justice Holmes engaged in the practice of law at Boston, and for a time was editor of the American Law Review and also professor in the Harvard Law School. The Rev. T. C. Edwards of Kingston, Pa., is considered one of the greatest of Welsh poets. He is known ns their cynoufardd, or poet laureate. Murat Halstead, veteran editor of Cincinnati. has assumed editorial control of a monthly magazine. Minister Yerrnoloff, who is said to have extorted from the Czar a constitution somewhat similar to the Magna

Clta rt a wrested from King John by the English barons at Runnymede June 15, 1215, has been known for a long time to possess liberal tendencies and a qualified repugnance to bureaucratic rule. This arises in part front the fact that he is Minister of Agri-

MINISTER YERMOLOFF.

culture and State Domains, which position brought him into touch with e.iystmg conditions, more especially as they affected the peasantry’. He also is an actual privy councilor, and has held office since 1593. Out. in Colorado they still remember Guv.--elect Douglas of Massachusetts. When a young man he conducted a little cobbler shop at Gulden. Charles Dickens’ full name was Charles John Huffant Dickens.

Grand Duke Sergius, nnCfq of the Czar and head of the war party In Russia, is declared to have induced

tlie Czar to take the course which resulted in the killing or wounding of thousands of Russian working people. He is also held responsible for Trepoff, for the wholesale arrest of writers and others, and for tin* posting of bulletins in Moscow, blaming Eng

land for the riots, which has brought a protest from England and is giving the Russian foreign office much embarrassment. Tlie liberals call him Russia's evil genius. Col. D. B. Dyer of Augusta. Ga., has presented his collection of Indian relics to the Kansas City, Mo., public library. T. A. Elit of Vishiha, Cal., harvested 170 tons of grapes from ten acres of viges last month, thns breaking the Calh fernia record. J. \V. Ivey of Alaska is in Washington to interest national legislators ia widening and improving trails, tasking of a district for the Yukon, and extension of the lighthouse service.

a conspicuous figure in the House of Representatives if the rebate question is threshed out thoroughly. Hepburn has been publicly described by Democrats as “the big gun of the majority,” and as “the Long Tom of the Republican side.” The most profound

JUSTICE HOLMES.

DUKE SERGIUS.