Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 February 1885 — Page 4

THE MAIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

FCFBUOAXTOH OTWICK,

J) OS. 20 and 22 Sooth Filth Street, Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 14 1886.

COMPLAINT is made that the Legislature baa spent $1,000 wofth of time in wrangling over the subject of pages, bat after all that is abortt as harmless an amusement as they could engage in. It is much better than passing riotous laws.

SIB GARNSTT JOSEPH WOMBLEY is of the opinion the tbe name of Gen. Robert E. Lee will live forever in American hlntory "when that of Mr. U. 8. Grant shall have loag been forgotten." New what ails Sir Garnett? He talks very Much like one who has had a cor* stepped npon.

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SKNATOB FOULKE'S bill prohibiting the manufacture and use of dynamite in tbe destruction of life and property has been engrossed and will probably be passed. Tbe dynamiters, (of whom let us bope there are none in this State,) tried to frighten Mr. Foulke from urging the bill but he is a man who doesn't iscare easily when he is in the line of duty and ritht and of course he went •traight ahead with bis bill.

THK pre-eminence of New York' as tbe money center of the oountry is illustrated by a comparison of its clearinghouse exchanges with those of the other 3esding cities of the country. For tbe -week ending last Saturday tbe New York exchanges amounted to upwards of $500,000,000, which was more than three times the amount of the aggiegate exchange of Boston, Philadelphia And Chicago for the same time. ,r ii "BUT little more than two weeks remain of tbe present Congress and there .Is yet a good deal of work to be done.

The House is putting everything else aside in order to get all the appropriation Wlls passed so as to avoid the necessity •of an extra session. Mr. Cleveland is much opposed to an extra session and -so is the country. If both houses do their duty there will be no need of an •extra session, and there seems at present little probability that there will be one.

IT is to be hoped that the national house and senate will not make their differences on the inter-State commerce bills so irreconcilable as to cause the defeat of any such legislation at the present session. A good law for the protection of tbe public against tbe extortions and unfair discriminations of the railroads is greatly needed and whether the house or the senate bill is absolutely the wisest measure is of less importance than that there be a start made in the ^ir$$tion of such legislation.

ALL well-to-do people art?

UUL heart

less, selfish and thoughtless of tbe comfort of others. Mr. Byram, a prominent wholesale merchant of Indianapolis, who lives on Illinois street in the north -edge of tbe eity, gave notice on last Tuesday that there would be a warm tire in bis dining room until midnight, and plenty of hot coffee and doughnuts, and that all the street car drivers on the line were welcome to go in and help themselves. Such aotions require BO comment. They speak for themselves wUh convincing eloquence.

SINCE the first of the year factories in and aroand Chattanooga employing nearly 900 men have resumed work and othera are preparing to start up which will employ 600 hands. The Indianapolis manufacturers generally report increasing orders and greatly improved prospects for the spring trade. On the whole the business outlook is encouraging and when the severe weattier breaks and bnght spring sunshine puts in an appearance there will undoubtedly be a marked improvement all along tbe line.

TH investigation of the affairs of the 8kldiers' Orphans' Home and Asylum for feeble minded children at Knightatown, ia bringing out some shocking developments of immoral and licentious conduct on the part of both the superintendent White and the trustee Goar, if the testimony of witnesses are to be believed. In any event enough has been shown to require the prompt dismissal of both these men. Tbey are manifestly unfit to be in charge of such an institution and the sooner they are put out the better.

TUB Englisb in Egypt under General Gordon has met with tbe miserable fate wbiob haa so often befallen English expeditions in semi-civilised oouatriea. They were betrayed by the natives into the hands of the enemy, and Gordon and most of hiMroops were massacred. In any event Gordon's force was too small to cope with the Mabdi's troops, and the folly of sending a handful of soldiers into the heart of an enemy* eauntry thousands of miles distant, is Again demonstrated as it haa been many times before. As usual the English people will now arouse themselves to the importance of th occasion, and a sufficient force will be sent oat to subdue the rebellious MakdS and avenge tbe blood of their slaughtered soldiers. If this policy had been pursued from tbe outset tbe disaster which overtook Gordon might have been averted,

BOB. IWOBBSOLL,on tbe strength of the 960,000 which he drew out of the Doraey cattle ranche in New Mexico, as his profits for isst year, and the prospect of similar dividends to come, proposes to spend five years in Europe. Bob can make money almost faater than he can spend it, and ean live in princely style wherever he plssses. AB he is a generous liver tbe "effete dynasties of the old world" will give him and his money a hearty weloome.

AN investigation of the State records of Kentucky is reported to have disclosed the fact that a system of robbery bas been carried on by tbe public officers during the past fifteen years which has cost tbe Suite in the neighborhood of two million dollars. In the department of criminal prosecutions the stealings have amounted to a million, in tbe keeping of idiots half as much, while the other half million is distributed among various other departments. If these reports are true it is high time they were being ventilated, the "books opened" and the "rascals turned out." Perhaps it weald be a good thing for Kentucky to try RepublioaB officers for S while.

IT would not be a pleasant thing to see tbe New Orleans exposition turn oat a financial failure. It has in it the elements of good to the whole country by bringing people from all sections together. So far the attendance has been unexpectedly small. This bas no doubt been due largely, as Gov. Hendricks sagged Is, to the rainy weather at New Orleans and the severity of tbe winter in the north. Indeed they are beginning to go in considerable numbers. Those wbo have visited the" exposition speak in the highest terms of the exhibit and the charge of extortionate prises for board and lodging does not seem to be borne out by tbe facts. This matter must depend very much apon the kind of accomodations demanded by the visitors.

IT is to be hoped that the Indiana senate will not concur in tbe niggardly action of the hoase in cutting the appropriation for the State University from f(0,000 to 980,000. This appropriation is for the purpose of refitting the buildings which were destroyed by fire, and which the people of Monroe county have rebuilt at an expense to them of 950,000. The whole amount is absolutely necessary for that purpose and ought to be given in full or withheld in toto. As the Indianapolis Journal well says: "Either the State University should be abandoned altogether or it should be properly supported." The senate has so far shown itself to be much more liberal than tbe house, and when the bill reaches that body it is probable the full amount asked for for will be granted.

WE submit that the columns upon columns of gossip telegraphed from Washington about Joe McDonald's cabinet prospects are getting drearily monotonous. He bas been talked of for attorney general, secretary of war, interior and treasury now he was to have one thing and the next day it was something else and the aext all his prospects bad vanished "like the baseless fabric of a dream." All the various phrases «f his relations with Mr. Hendricks have been written threadbare and the latter has been paraded as his evil genius, parsuing him with a relentless determination to ksep Mr. McDonald eat of thecabinet, as he is pepnlarly supposed to have kept him out of the Whits House. The people are tired of this kind of stuff or at least of the quality and quantity of it. Please give us a rest.

THE Republican newspapers are inconsistent in complaining of the few bills so far enacted by the General Assembly, because these same papers are continually declaring that there is entirely too much law-making. If this is true, as it is, the present Legislature ought to be commended rather than condemned for its slow progress in passing bills. Besides, it should be remembered that the first half of the session must of necessity be mainly given to the work of carefully examining the many measures brought before if, for to do this well requires much time and labor in the committee rooms. When the hundreds of bills offered have been carefully sifted and the vicious ones, (which constitute the great majority,) thrown out, and the few good ones modified in necessary particulars, the mere matter of passing them need not occupy much time. Towards the close of the session the grist is always distressingly liberal, and will doubtless be sufficiently so in the present case, without any prodding of the newspapers.

FOR all the talk afloat respecting oiganised societies of anarchists in this country there mast be some foundation in fact. While many of the statements made are sensational and exaggerated, still where there is so much smoke there must be some fire, and we are confronted with the question of bow to deal with bands of secretly organised men namtge^ng perhaps thousands in tbe lrrge cities of tbe country, whose avowed aim and purpose is the destruction of the lives and property of the rich, by tbe me of fire, dynamite and deadly weapons. Tbe men who stand at the bead of these organisations represent the very same elements as the nihilists, socialists and other malcontents of tbe old world pestiferous,n oisy braggarts like Schwate, Most and Rosea. With the unbridled liberty of speech snd of the press which this country permits, it offers special attractions for these professional malcontents from all parts of the world. In Enrope they are suppressed and their

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incendiary 'organs confiscated. The United States alone, of all tbe nations of Christendom, offers a safe asylum to these workers of social disorder and gives them unlimited license to disseminate their vicious doctrines to the four ends of tbe earth. It may be a matter for inquiry whether or not this kind of liberty of speech and of the press makes for the well-being of society, and whether certain limitations in this respect are not desirable. It is not a question for debate that many evils in organized society exist. This is admitted on all bands. There are too many poor pie and there are too many rich people. The strong do oppress the weak. They always have done so they probably always will do so. Grant «U this and the question remains, how are things to be made better? How is the poor man to get equal with tbe rich man By blowing up his houses, his ships, bis factories? By the destruction of life and property Does the anarchist not see that such a couiseof conduct can only result in making all men poorer? When the vandals from northern Europe surged down upon tbe Roman empire and destroyed in a brief space works of art which it took centuries to produce, the whole world wss poorer for their vandalism, but the barbarians were none the richer. So it always is and must be. The spoliation of the rich will not help the poor. It may barm them terribly but it can not help tbem. The real working people of the country have no sympathy with assassins, dynamiters and incendiaries. They hsve intelligence enough to know that no good can come to them through such agencies and even if they believed otherwise they would disdain to use tbem.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

Tbe United States senste, after March 4, will have three gentienaen named Jones, but not a single Smith. "How to be Your Own Lawyer" is the title of a book just published. The Boston Post wenders what a man wants to rob himself for. .. "Always go to bed on a cracker or a crust of bread," says a hygienic writer. No, thank you. We have slept on crumbs and know just how they feel.

A prohibitory law is tersely characterized by a Philadelphia opronent as "an attempt to protect drunkards against themselves at the expense of sober people."

A brute in Kenton, O., hung his nine-year-old daughter up by the thumbeand slashed the flesh from'her naked body in ribbons with a bull whip. A stern and awful Justice of the Peace fined him 926.

The Palatka (Fla.) Herald says "A man and family arrived here one day last week the next morning he paid 9450 for a lot, and that evening he had a shanty erected, a stove put up, and he and family slept in it that night. This man WSB from Maine."

There must be novelties in weddings. At a recent wedding in New York one minister married the bride to the groom and the other married the groom to the bride. If they want to get divorced wonder if it will take two judges to make out the decree

A dog in Wanaqua, N. J., who for some time bad been noticed to take bis breakfast in bis mouth and run away with it uneaten, was followed, when it was discovered that he took his meal to a decrepit and emaciated old dog in a covert in tbe field, who eagerly devoured the food thus provided for him.

A Frenchman bas made the discovery that tbe two buttons plaeed on the backs of men's coats are a remnant of barbarism. He says for three hundred and nine years men have given np wearing belts, yet tbe said battons were meant to support tbem, and have c6me down to us from a sword-wearing and bestrapped ancestry.

An appeal for clergymen to go there is published in a Houston, Idaho, paper, which says: "Among our people are many who desire an opportunity to attend religious services, and they are already making arrangement for the construction of suitable edifices in which to hold them. First come beet served therefore Gospel men should hot delay, for "now is the acoepted time.'"

A Macon,Ga., paper says:^'Twenty years ago, next Fourth of Jnly, the first troupe of genuine negro minstrels that ever appeared on any stage gave their initial performance in Macon. It was here that tbe members grew up, gained their freedom, were organised Into a professional troupe, and it was from here that tbey started on their tour through the North and tbence to Eogland. The members were the petted servants of rich Southern people^

There is a good deal of dignified satire launched at the head of the Rev. Adirondack Murray, because be has opened a restaurant in Montreal. He ia acknowledged to be a splendid oook, and hence tbe Snow-hboe Cafe of Montreal is becoming quite famous. Good people say, "Oh, what a falling off! what a come down!" We don't see it in that light at all. What tbe world wants almost as badly as anything, is good cooks and thousands of men who are serving up poor theological hash in tbe pulpit, would do the world good service if tbey would oome down and learn how to cook pork and beans.

Tbe Japanese dentist doe* not,frigliten his patient with an array of steel instruments. All of his operations in toothdrawing are performed by tbe thumb and forefinger of one hand. Tbe skill necessary to do this is only acquired after long practice, but ooce it is obtain

ed, the operator is able to extract a half dozen teeth in about thirty seconds, without once removing his fingers from tbe patient's month. The dentlsfs education commences with the pulling out of pegs which have been pressed into soft wood. It ends with the drawing of hard pegs which have been driven into an oak plank with a mallet. A writer in the Union Medical says that no human jaw can resist the delicate but powerful manipulations of the Japanese dentist.

David Dudley Field, now eighty years •old "My receipe for self-preservation is exercise. I am atirm believer in exercise. I walk every day from my house to my office, a distance of about three miles and a half, and I feel as well to-day as I ever did in my life. I have taken care of myself, and aa ,1 have a good constitution I suppose that is tbe reason why I am so well."

DOTS FROM DOCTORS.

Many physicians assert that tbe secret of long life after three score years and ten is to keep warm.

Dr. Dio Lewis says that tomatoes are a medicine and not a food, and should only be eaten when prescribed by a physician, *.

A Kansas City physician expresses tbe opinion that hundreds of people in this country are buried alive every year, and that an average of three out of every 100 corpses might be resuscitated.

A Boston physician advises everybody to ascertain what diseases have carried off bis ancestors, with a view of guarding himself against Inherited tendencies by adopting the requisite manner of lite, place of residence, and general treatment..

A medical authority remarks that "nystagmus or oscillation of the eyeballs, is an epileptiform affection of the cerebellular oculomotorial centers."' It would be rather difficult to explain this through the medium of a telephone.

Dr. Dio Lewis believes that plain food, thoroughly masticated, is just as acceptable to the healthy palate as sweet food or that enlivened by condiments and of course it is better for the system. Good digestion depends very largely upon perfect mastication of tbe food.

It appears after all there is no danger in keeping growing plants in bedrooms. At a medical conference recently held in France it was demonstrated to the satisfaction of the wise men present that plants, so long as they are plants only, area positive benefit to tbe air of the sleeping room, on account of the amount of ozone and vapor «vhich tbey exhale. They are also destructive to the microbes which promote consumption. Flowers either growing or cut, were condemned as injurious to health.

Professor Schweninger's method of curing corpulence, which has so greatly benefitted Bismarl(, is not, it seems, a new thing under tbe sun, for Pliny says in tbe twenty-third book of his natural history that "whoever wishes to become stout must drink between the courses while he wbo wishes to become lean must thirst at his meals and afterwards drink but little." Many Germans are adopting these methods at present but as a large number of them take their meals at restaurants, a peculiar difficulty has arisen. The restauranters declare that their only profits are made on the beer and wine they sell, the food being often thrown in below cost. Tbey do not, therefore,look with favor on the Schwenningeriter.

DEBTS OF HONOR. Chicago Sat. Herald.

If all one hears is true there area good many families suffering this winter, not sp mnch from the hardness of the times as from tbe fact that their ohief breadwinners were foolish enough to bet heavily on the results of the November elections, an* having lost, the money that should have gone to make home pleasant through the long nights of winter, had to go to pay these debts of honor! There is nothing more demoralizing than gambling in all its forms. Gambling debts are debts of saered honor, of coarse Yoa may stand off yonr bateker and baker, and candlestickmaker. yoa may pinch yoar family, bat tbess debts of honor! No real gentleman will allow debts of honor to remain unpaid There will come a day sometime when no gentleman will have a debt of hoaer and the sooner the better 1 .aaB=_B=a—

BETTER THAN A CORN-COB. [Deep River, Oena., Era.] Among other new inventions appearing at the brash shop of Mr. George S. Gladding, in Chester, he has joet completed a new flesh-brash, or backscratcher. The chief Improvement at onoe apparent is the long curved handle, so fashioned as to reach over tbe shoulder, with but little effort, and for this purpose it takes tbe place of tbe corn-cob so much used on the back at bedtime.

A STRANGE CHOICE. Utica Observer.

Anna Dickinson declares that she had to become either a lecturer or a bouse nervsnt. When one remembers how great a Jonging Anna has for power it seems strange that she should

chosen lecturing..

THE GREAT FEAR. Geneva PatroL

It Is no longer the fear of hanging that deters men from murder it is tbe cost of tbe defense.

A BANK OFFICER.

"What're ye doin' now, Bill f" "Teller in a bank." "The duece! Whs* d'ye have to do?" "Have to tell when the stove needs more coal in it."

CLEVELAND'S SLICK TRICK. [Philadelphia Record.] Mr. Cleveland is like the medium he Insists mi doing the Cabinet trick in the dark.

,A SENSA TION?'

All week the city dailies have been calling attention to the fact Chat on Sunday evening, Miss Ella Dudley, Prof. Dudley and ten ladies and fifteen gentlemen will be on the stage at Bowling Hall in one of tbe most wonderful demonstrations even give in Terre Haute, and that hands, faces, forms and figures will appear in full view of all and that tbe lights will he on at their lull. The parties are from England and such men ss Lord Beaconfield, Gladstone, Ear) of Derby, Duke of Hamilton and hundreds of the nobility have witnessed tbefr surprising powers, and all are unanimousIn the verdict that tbe Dudleys are wonders. All go to Dowling Hall Sunday evening. Every thing refined and in harmony with the day. A small admission to keep out roughs..

—Riddle has money to loan.

STEIN AND H'ECKEZSBER O. This well known firm of dealers in tbe best qualities of boots and* shoee for men, women and children- does not claim to be dosing out, or selling at cost, but their patrons find' that their prices are as lew and goods better than those who hang out big signs. A word to the wise ought to be sufficient.

VALENTINES

Will be Sent and Rfeeeived Among the Young People,

But Their Parents Buy Better Tokens of Affectiont

At Jos Miller's Chestnut street grocery, There's no poetry about GENUINE BUCKWHEAT FLOUR,

SILENT bat SEDUCTIVE OYSTERS CHOICE MAPLE SYRUP, SELECTED TENDERLOINS,

SUCCULENT VEGETABLES.

No, there's no poetry about these and scores of othsr things found at Jos Miller's, but there Is

SOLID COMFORT,

snd so the people sent him their orders.

James M. Ulshon and no other Goes forth in haste With bills and paste, And proclaims to all creation,

Men are wise who advertise, In the present generation. Office516 Printer's avenue. Patent White Paste for sale.

Died.

LUTZ—OB Friday rooming, Feb. 13th, at 9 o'clock, William Lute, aged 26 years. Funeral service will be held at the residence of the mother, Mrs. Catharine Luts» 22 south llth si-eet at nine o'clock Sunday morning. Tbe friends are invited.

OFFLCE.

The ELdtT. H. R. R. will sell round trip tickets to Washington, D. C., on tbe occasion of President Cleveland's inauguration,March 4th next* from Terre Haute, at tl9. Tickets good, going, February 38, March 1, 2 and 3^ returning, le%ve Washington on or before Mareh 10th, list

Wanted.

ANTEIX—RfJBBER STAMPS—Everybody to knotf that Ghas. O. Ebel & Cb manuCactuse all kinds of Rubber Stamps^. Seals, Printing Wheels, etc. All the latest novelties. No. 10 S. 5th St.

For Sale.

IOB. SALE—40 ACRE FARM—Two milee

noJC sat.k OR lHADK—For desirable city property, a small farm one mile noith of Mattoon. Enquire at 818 north 5tt* street, city.

FOR

SAI®—SECOND HAND SCHOOL BOOKS of all kinds, for City and High Schools, for sale cheap, at W. W. SIBItBY% 1100 Mate Street.

*T J. A. fOOTE'S r,j

SEED STORE,

/. WILI IOTTXD

For the Vegetable Garden,

All the good new sorts and the eld standard varieties by the pager, OOMS, .. peund, quart or bushel.

Far the Flower Border,

AH the desirable kinds of flower seeds Including a MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF PANSIES. AlBO-bulba of Gladiolus, Tuberoses, LUfaa, et».

For the Lawn,

...... Finest mixed Lawn Grass, Ky. Blue Grass. White Clover, etc. Hammond's Sward Food, a fertiliser tor grass.

For Poultry,

Imperial Egg Pood to make bens lay. Ground Oyster Shells and Medicated Nest Eggs which will prevent vermin.

For Horses, Cattle, Hogs,

Linseed Meal and Oilcake Meal, Haas' Hog's Remedy for the prevention and cure o£ Cholera in hogs and poultry.

For Birds,

Best quality of Onary, Hemp, RAP®. Millet and Maw Heed. Mocking Bird Food. Largest Stock of Bird Cages In tbe City.

For Farmers,

Fifty varieties of seeds and potatoes for farm cultuie.

J. A. FOOTE, gMdMarchsak

817 Main Street, Ten* Haute, Ind.

Druiikeness & Opium Habit

These blighting dlsea«s absolutely cured and the sraem restored to a healthy condition by BEERS, M. D., well known here. Send (tamp tor evidence, or mil at residence, 41 Appietoo Street, Boston, Mass.

Excursion to New Orleans.

Tbe E. A T. H. R. bas reduced tbe rate snd extended tbe time on their New Orleans excursion tickets. Tickets good 40 days, only 91835 for tbe rouod trip. Call aa or sddrens R. A. Osmpbell, general agent, «M Main street, Terre Haute. ffyt,

H0BEM, ROOT & CO.

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518 cad 520 Main Street

HOSIERY1!

DEPARTMENT. V1

Extraordinary Bargain#

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85 doBBB Ladies Gtennih® Tiiala 1 Thread Hose, fulP regular, Mack and colors, 'rn & !$

worth. 75c.

100 dort* Ladies Ingraim Derby Ribfeed and Fancy Striped ,J Hbae^,

At 9^0. per g«r, ..

worth iSOc.

85 dozen*. Ladies Span Silk Hose, in stfceet and evening shades, costrnoi less than $1:35 to '"T impost, 1

At* db 1 A per pair, 4 qpJLsU t/worth 1.75.

See them.. They are all bargains and will neTer be offered at these prices again.

OUR WINTER

HOSIERY

TWO NIGHTS.

February 16th and 17tfc.

Shook & Collier's Union Square?*

Lights o' London Combination,,.

In Geo. R. Sim's powerful spectacularmetoarai ram a, The

Presented with all the magnificent.seeaery propertles and mechanical effects used at the Union Square Theatre.

POPULAR PRICES.

No extra charge reserved seals.

WANTED—100for

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UNDERWEAB,

Greatly reduced in prices to make •room for. New Spring Stock*

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$GF Inspection invited.

HOBERG, ROOT fe CGI

Amusements.

OPERA

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HOUSE. '*'11.7—

•-. Wilson Naylor Manager.^

Monday and Tuesday.1

Supernumeraries 1M.

Apply to stage manager, Feb.. 1Mb st 10 a.m.

QPERA HOUSE.

Wilson Nay lor Manager, I

ONE NIGHT ONLY:

Wednesday Eye., Feb.. 18th

Engagement of the Popular Oomedlan, Mr.

Nat Ci Goodwin,

And his select comedy company In the fannlest comedy ever written, entitled

CONFUSION!

Full of Fun Genuine and Hearty

war See our 910,000 Prise Baby ahd Pog.

NO ADVANC® IN PRICES.

Seats on sale at Sutton's Monday morning at 9 o'clock. -. •.

PERA HOUSE. ONE WIGHT OKLX.

Saturday, Feb. 21st. A

An evening of solid fun. A short reign of mirth. greatest of tbesa att&

Evans & HoeyV^'

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Presenting anew tidal wave

A Parlor

mendment*

entitled,

The laughing meeem of Hoyt. author of A BUNCH OF KEYS, Pronounced bythe, nlest p'ay ever written, belna replete wiui.

New Songs, New Made ana Slae Splitting situations, one long tough from hfgninim to end.

Prtoes 75, 50, 36 cents.

No extra charge for rase rv^d s^ats.