The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 12, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 July 1931 — Page 3

The Plains of Abraham « « « « By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD . . . » gby Doubleday Doran Co, Inc. ( “ WNU Service.

CHAPTER Xlll—Continued Tartans waved and bagpipe* • screamed defiance as Montcalm waited for. reinforcements which never earner and the bushes <nd knolls and cornfields were taken by fifteen hundred Canadians and Indians whose guns answertsl with' a roar. Back and forth the battle raged, and France began to crumble. Then came ten o’clock. Something must have broken In Xfontcalm’s heart His judgment wavered, and he gave the fatal command which raised England to the supremacy of the world. The French had formed with bayonets fixed in five short thick lines, four white and one blue; the English stood with double-shotted guns in a long, six-jointed thin red line. Level ground lay between. Had England advanced, history might have written Itself differently. But England waited. France advancedr Jeems went with her. He was already hit. A shot had caught him In the shoulder, and blood ran down his arm and dripped from his fingers. He felt no pain, bujt a slumberous feeling was creeping over him as he staggered on with the lint's. He saw Montcalm ride along the front of ids men. cheering them rin to victory; he noted the gold-embroidered green goat he wore, tlie polished 1 cuirass at his breast. the white HnCn of his wristband* and he heard his voice as he asked. "Don’t you want a little rest before you begin?*' The answer. "We’re never tired before a battle!" rose about him. Jeems’ lips framed the Words which were repeated like Increasing blasts lu a storm. But the eun was .growing less bright to his eyes. = An advance of forty or fifty paces, then a pause, another advance, another pause, in the way regulars fought at that lime on flat and open battlefields, and Jeems measured the distance between liJniself [and the red line of the British. At each halt he fired with Ids comrades then loaded and advanced. The red line had broken precedent. It made no move to play Its part in the. prescribed routine of ■war, 'and continued to stand like a wal-j. Openings came In It where crimson Notches sank to the ground, but those who, remained were unmoved and steadfast ns they waited with their double-shotted guns. A tremor ran through the French, a thickening of men’s breaths, a quickening of their heartbeat*, a crumbling under strain, ■while the melody of the bell stole softly over the Plains of Abraham. They halted again less than a hundred paces away, and still England’s thinning line did not fire, A man cIom» to, Jeems laughed as’ if nerves had tracked inside his head. Another gasped as if he had been struck. J»M|*ms tried; to hold himself erect. •Th® J weird sensation came over him tbijit; the armies were not going to fight, after all. Then he heard his name. It was' til* mother calling him. He answered with a cry arid would have swayed toward her if hands had not dragged him back. “Mad!'* he heard a voice say. He dropped his gun as he tried to wipe the blindness from his eyes. Things cleared There were the red line, the open space, sunlight—something passing. Those who lived did not forget what they saw. England took the story home with her, France gave it a little place in her history. Jg>r a few seconds men were not looking at death but at a dog. An old. decrepit dog who limped as he walked, a dog with one foot missing. ; Jeems made an effort to eall. ”VHld— Odd— ’’ Then came Montcalm’s command — •[Forward!” He marched with the others Into the Jaws of death, blind, groping, straining to make the dog bear words which i I ssed his lips. There was no longer a day.” No sun.. No red wall before him. But his ears still caught the tramp of feet and the melody of the bell. These died in a roar, the roar of double-shotted guns. England tired at forty paces, and France went down In a shapeless mass of dead. With the front line tell Jeems. CHAPTER XIV It was a long time before Jeems again heard the melody of the belt "When he broke through the blackness which had overtaken him on the Plains of Abraham, he found himself In the general hospital under the care of the nuns of that institution. It seemed as if only a few minutes had passed since the crash of the English guns. But it was the middle of October. Montcalm and Wolfe were dead, Quebec lay in a mass of ruins, and England was supreme in the New ■world, although the battle of Salnte Foy had not been fought From then until late in November, when he was strong enough to take advantage of the freedom of movement the British gave to French soldiers who had been •wounded, he thought frequently of the three-legged dog that had passed between the French and English lines. He said nothing of the incident not seven to Mere de Stainte-Claude, the Superior, who took a special interest In him, nor to any of her virgin sisters who cared for him so tenderly tn the dark hours of his straggle for life and the more hopeful ones of his convalescence. Each day of increasing strength added to his suspicion that what he had seen and heard were the Illusions of senses crumbling under the effects of hurt and shock, and be kept to himself whatever faith be had tn them. When at last he was able to mingle with the disarmed populace and the crowds of soldiers in the streets, be

was strangely unlike the old Jeems. He had been badly wounded and real- . Ized that nothing less than a miraculous intervention which the nuns ascribed to the mercy of God could have kept him beyond the reach of death. A ball had passed through his shoulder when three, others struck him at the discharge (>f the English guns. That they had [failed to kill him he did not accept als a blessing. The impression grew lin him that he had been very close to his mother and Toinette and that a fate not satisfied with his unhappiness had drawn him back fr< m them. This thought established his belief that Odds appearance as well as his mother’s voice and the nearness of Tolnette had been purely spiritual. But wheneveir he saw a dog In the streets of Quebec he looked to see If one foot was missingHis excursions were short and he wandered alone. He saw a number of his comrades, but they did not recognize him and did not feel the Impulse to let them know who he was. Flesh had dropped from his bones until he resembled one approaching death instead .of escaping It, He walked with stooped shoulders. His qsu- h R 1 AUE| rJF 8 - His Excursions Were Short and He Wandered Alone. eyes were sunken, anti his hands, in one of which he carried a staff, were emaciated to the thinness of extreme ■ge, The small interest life had held for him seemed to have shriveled with the strength of his body. The English rekindled the spark, his mother’s English, the half of himself which he had tried to lhate. They were not acting the part of conquerors. They Were —unbelievably—friends. From the gallant Brigadier Murray to the comUkODeaf soldier, they were courteous, humane, generous. dividing their rations with, tlhc* starved citizens, sharing their tobacco with them, helping without payjto build up ruined homes, each day working themselyes deeper into the gockl will of those who had been cheated and despoiled by Governor Vaudreuil and bis degenerate crowd and by the weakness of the king of France. Even the nuns and the priests welcomed them, men and women of God who for two hundred years had ; fought indefatigably for New France!. Honor and chivalry had come to conquer Quebec and had brought such friendship for its i»eople that a Brit sh soldier was hanged In the public Square for stealing from a resident of [the town. Jeems felt this comradeship of his enemies. At first he was taciturn and aloof and talked only When courtesy

“Quacks” Reap Harvest From Gullible Public

Burning a rabbit's heart op the fire to bring a, mate for a lonely woman; paying half a crown for a quack consultation ahd a pennyworth of herbs; buying charms to ward off evil; burning Incense* at fortune-telling tea parties, and Reading teacups to discover whether husbands are faithful to their wives! These are among the many amazing performances carried on In the West tiding of Yorkshire. Leeds and Bradford, tn particular, are infested with these places, where people are Induced to-undergo “treatment" for all sorts of ailments and for all sorts of reasons. Incompetent people calling themselves “herbalists" or “advisers” make examinations of men and women and then prescribe some herb. Charms of various kinds are sold to neurotic women suffering from a fear complex. At Leeds one woman paid 75 cents for a rat's tail that was supposed to have been possessed of special powers. Many homes have Potter* Long in Um Actually the poster or placard can trace its ancestry back almost to the dawn of civilization. Egyptian wall paintings, mural decorations and Inscriptions, produced more than 3.0U0 years B. Q, have been discovered by archeologists. The modern poster began with Jules Cheret, a Frenchman, born in Paris in 1836, self-taught as a draughtsman. He served his apprenticeship us a lithographer in England, and when thirty years old became interested in announcements of theatrical managers and placards put out about that time urging recruiting for armies. In 1867 the world saw the first modem poster of Cheret’s, an announcement of a play enacted by Sarah Bernhardt, then twenty-two years old. The poster announced a fairy piay. entitled “La Biche au Bolz."

required the effort of him. He ob- ■ served that many eyes regarded him • with a pity which added shame to the • burden of his distress, and at times • when he was struggling to hold his stooped shoulders erect, sympathetic hands came to help him in spite of himself. His health returned slowly, but in the second week of his freedom an incident occurred which sent a warmer glow through his veins. He heard two soldiers talking on the street. They were talking about a dog —a three-legged dog that passed in ■front of their line as they had stood ready to tire upon the French. When he returned to the little room which he still occupied in the general hospital Mere de Sainte-Claude thought fever had set itself upon him again. The next day, he went out looking for the dog arid found others who had beheld what his own eyes had seen. But he asked no questions except in a casual way, and did not reveal the reason for his interest. He knew the dog could not be Odd, yet It was Odd for whom he was seeking. This paradoxical state of mind bothered him. and he wondered if his illness had left him entirely sane. To think Odd had escaped Tiaoga’s vengeance and had wandered through hundreds of miles of wilderness to Quebec would surely be an indication that it had not. He continued to seek, trying to believe he was making the quest a diversion which was healthful for his « body, and that curiosity, not hope or faith, was encouraging him to find the three-legged dog. As Lower Town was the home of most of the dogs, he spent much of his time among its ruins, hut without success. His search came to an unexpected end in St. Louis street where many aristocratic families of the city lived. Nancy Gagnon, who had been Nancy ixnbiniere before her marriage to Peter Gagnon, and a dearly loved ladle of the town, described the incident soon afterward in a tetter to Anne St. Denis-Kock, and this letter, partly unintelligible because of its age. is a ’ cherished possession of that family. “I had come out of the house (she [■ Wrote) in time to see a strange figure pause near the’ iron gate which shut [ him out from the plot of ground where j the dog was watching little Jeems at play with some blocks and sticks. He was a soldier in a faded uniform of France, with a hospital badge on his arm. and had apparently just risen from a terrible sickness. • As he staggered against the gate with a strange cry, I thought he was about to falnt.and hurried toward him. Then a most amazing thing happened. The dog sprang straight at him. and so frightened was 1 by the unexpectedness of his attack that I screamed at the top of my voice and snatched up one of the baby's sticks with which I was about to beat the animal from his victim when, to my still greater astonishment, I saw that both man and beast were overcome by what appeared to be a paroxysm of recognition and joy. . The action of the dog together with my scream set little Jeems to crying lustily and my terrified voice brought Toinette and my father to the door. Shall I ever forget what happened then? Toinette , started tirst toward her baby, then saw 8 the man at the gate, and the cry which came from her lips will remain with me until my dying day. In a moment she was in that poor wreck of a soldier’s arms, kissing him and sobbing, until, with the antics of the dog and the fiercer shrieking of the child, to say nothing of my own wild appearance with the stick, we were beginning to attract the attention of the public. : . .*• (TO BE CONTINUED.)

been destroyed by the suspicions aroused in the minds of wives concerning their husbands. The police experience great difficulty in securing prosecutions, because people who have been gulled are ashamed to come forward to give evidence.—London TitBits. Cintra the Beautiful Cintra lies at the foot of steep wooded hills and is one ot the most beautiful and historic spots In Portugal. Byron wrote of Cintra: “If there be any place In the world entitled to the appellation of an enchanted region, it is surely Cintra; Tivoli is a beautiful and picturesque place, but it quickly fades from the mind of those who have seen the Portuguese paradise. When speaking of Cintra, it must not for a moment be supposed that nothing more is meant than the little town or city ; by Cintra must be understood the entire i region, town, palace, quintas, forests, crags, Moorish ruin which suddenly burst on the view on rounding the side , of a bleak, savage and sterile-looking mountain. The other*side is a mingled scene of fairy beauty, artificial elegance, savage grandeur, domes, turrets, enormous trees, flowers and waterfalls. such as is met with nowhere else beneath the sun." Gave Name to University, Howard university at Washington, Important negro college, was named . for O. O. Howard, a native of Maine, a brigadier general and corps com- ' mander In the Union army tn the Civil war and in subsequent Indian wars. . He was commissioner of the Freedmen's bureau in reconstruction days j and was noted for his interest in the elevation <ff the colored race. He was a leading donor of the university’s ew dowmenL

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EYELETED LINEN IS POPULAR FABRIC FOR SUMMER FROCKS VASTLY important has the subject i linen. Any remarks about linen would of linen become in the scheme of I be sadly lacking did they not include apparel design for summer. As inter- I at least mention of the fad which is preted in fashions of the moment it ! now at’its height for linen footwear enters into every phase of the mode. I both sports and dress shoes made of There’s the smart printed handker- either plain, eyeleted or fancy embroichief linens, for instance, than which dered linen. there is nothing newer for afternoon Latest Coloring in Prints, frocks, they are too charming for Guess what’s the newest coloring words. You will fall in love with for prints—give it up? Well, here's these sheer linen prints, for they are the answer—accents of gray, black quite out of the ordinary. The best and white on yellow. Sounds Inshops are making a great display of triguing? It is and you will say so, them. too, when you glimpse these new prints. If It is swanky materials you are which recently enrolled in the midlooking up for making the popular pa- summer fabric displays. jama costume ask to be shown the According to fashion’s latest declarf Fi VI 1 j ■ 1 I 1 HI I ■ I j ' •Hw r.. WMi Sh ’ ■ ‘ X1 I ISI ' •' I* I B Simple Little Afternoon Dress

gorgeous printed coarse linens which i are as modernistic in design as they i are in color. It is quite the thing to I make the wide-flaring trousers of the < bizarre linen print, using monotone i linen for the blouse. A stitched wide- j brimmed hat of either the plain or the printed Ijnen completes a thbr- , oughly u[»-to-date beach ensemble. ; However, the printed linens are not ( getting all the glory, not by any , means, for a new star has made its , appearance in the fabric realm, which is none other than eyelet-embroidered linen. When once you have glimpsed it. it’s lure is irresistable. It is extreftiely smart for anything you may , care to make of it, whether a blouse to wear with your chic brown, black or navy linen jacket suit, or a jacket 1 to top your plain linen one-piece frock or separate skirt, or best of all a 1 simple little afternoon dress as is shown in the picture. Every summer wardrobe will be the 1 better equipped to answer the what- i

Two Frocks of Aura Crepe

to-wear question if it holds in readiness a clever eyeleted Irish linen frorik such as this. This is a type of dress Which is as practical as it is voguisb for it is one in which you can be active or enjoy yourself as a spectator at sporte. The neck and armholes of this model have a scalloped treatment which is repeated where the skirt joins the blouse. Milliners also are finding eyeleted . linen to their liking. The new “flop” bats which are so huge of brim and which are the talk of town and country these days are at their handsomest when fashioned of starched eyeleted

Hints of the Mode of Interest to All Women

Patterned fabric, used in suits, are apt to be combined with solid-color jackets. Contrast is almost essential to any enemble. The white evening mode Is by no means an insipid one, but .varied and striking, as colored accessories are brought In the picture. Evening bags are growing simpler. The day when madame carried a glittering gold and pearl embroidered handbag at night has passed.

ntion. the jacket theme for the summer costume, and as every woman knows by this time a jacket with every frock is inevitable, may tie car- : ried out either in contrasting or match- I ing materials. It) the picture both frocks are made ■ of aura crepe which is a tine-grain I French-type crepe. The coloring of the crepe which fashions these costumes answers the call for the inode as above mentioned—gray, black and white on a yellow background. Both models favor the pei>lum silhouette and rever collars, though each gives, its own individual interpretation of these most beguiling style details. The jacket to the left is of black crepe with a softly draped wide collar of the print. The model to the right i adds a matching jacket with yellow | ribbon boW. ’ Another of the new color schemes for prints is that which patterns cream and green and either tiger-lily yellow

or vivid nasturtium upon brown. A jacket of brown transparent velvet adds a convincing tone of elegance to a frock made of a print which carries these colors. A leading thought to keep in mind in selecting prints for the midsummer I frock is that there is a predominance • of white in many of the smartest es- j sects. Either the background is white ‘ j with a single color contrast or the . motif itself is white in striking con- f trast to its navy, black, brown or green background. CHERIE NICHOLAS. ) (©. 1931. We«tern Newspaper Union.)

Short fur jackets, both for day and evening, are approved by fashion for summer. 1 The medium-sized summer hat—and < there Is an infinite variety—is worn a i bit to the side exposing one eye, us- 1 ually the right ' i Ideal for the golfer Is the cotton mesh one-piece frock, sleeveless, surplice closed, and depending only on I stitchery for Its trimming. It, too, looks well with a beret.

Improved Uniform Internationa) SiindaySchool ' Lesson ’ (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER. D. D.. Mem. ber ot Faculty. Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. > ((El 19>1, Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for July 19 SOCIAL SERVICE IN THE EARLY CHURCH LESSON TEXT—Acts 4:32-35; 6:1-4; 9:36-39; II Cor. 9:1-7. GOLDEN TEXT—I have shewed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, now he said. It Is more blessed to give than to receive. PRIMARY TOPlC—Sharing With Friends. JUNIOR TOPIC — Sharing With Friends. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPlC—Christians Sharing With Others. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—The Generosity of the Early Christians. Social service as such was not a department of church activity. However," the early church was most ready to discharge its social obligations. Members of the body of Christ are sympathetically related. Therefore, there will be co-operation between its members. 1. Characteristics of the Early Church (Acts 4:31-35). L It was a praying church (v. 31). These early Christians for every need betook themselves to God in prayer. 2. It was a Spirit-filled (v. 31). When they prayed, the place wherein they were gathered together was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit 3. It was a church with a bold testimony (v. 31). The ministers of the early church did not offer any apology for the Bible, but expended their energy in fearlessly preaching it. 4. It was a united church (v. 32). They were all of one heart and soul. 5. It was a generous church (v. 32). They held nothing back from those ‘ who had need, 6. Its ministers had a powerful testimony (v. 33). 7. Its members bad an unblemished. character (v. 33). 11. Appointment of Deacons (Acts 6:1-4). 1. The occasion (v. 1). The church was threatened with disruption over suspected partiality in the distribution of alms. The Grecians felt discriminated against in tfiat their widows were neglected in the “daily ministrations.” 2. The issue met (vv. 2-6). A congregational meeting was called, the case placed before the church, and the church instructed to select seven men of good report, filled with the Holy Spirit and wisdom to administer the temporalities of the church, leaving the apostles the necessary freedom for prayer and the ministry of God’s Word. 3. The ministry of the deacons (v. 7). They looked after the poor, but while distributing alms, they were witnessing for Christ Social service is a by-product of Christianity and not Christianity itself. 111. The Raising of Dorcas (Acts 9:36-39). * 1. Her ministry (v. 36 Cf. v. 39). Her life was full of good works, such as making coats and garments for the poor. Her noble ministry has set tn motion countless numbers of needles, and has given incentive to many noble women to follow her example. The good deeds were not merely thos«P which she intended to do. but “which' she did.” 2. Her death (v.-37). In the midst of a life full of good works she was overtaken by death. At the appointed time the righteous as well as the wicked are taken away. 3. Peter sent for (v. 38). In their distress the disciples sent two men urgently to request Peter to come to them. Having heard of the healing of Aeneas at Lydda, which was near, they no doubt believed that he could restore Dorcas to life. 4. Dorcas raised (w. 39-41). In answer to' Peter’s prayer Dorcas was “presented alive to the saints and widows.” 6. The effect (v. 42). So astounding was this miracle that “many believed tn the Lord.” IV. Ministering to the Saints (II Cor. 9:1-7). The saints in need were Christians at Jerusalem. Many were impoverished because of embracing Christianity. Sending money to the saints at Jerusalem was an expression of affection o% the part of these Gentile Christians for the Jews. As an incentive to giving Paul shows: 1. That the volume of reaping is based upon the volume of sowing (▼. 6). 2. There should be a heart purpose (▼. 7). This calls for intelligence as to the object In giving. 3. Giving should not be of necessity (v. 7). No particular value accrues to the giver who only responds under pressure. 4. God loves R cheerful giver (v. 7). Right understanding of responsibility toward God with reference to temporal possessions will make giving • glorious privilege. A Try»ting Place With God No Christian can afford to live constantly in a whirl. Daniel needed to have an Olivet in his chamber amid Babylon’s roar and impiety. Peter found his on a housetop in Joppa. Every child of Jesus should resolve that be will have a time and a place for meeting his dear master alone, and be will go forth from such holy Interviews with his face shining and his strength renewed. —Cuyler. Fire of Divio® Love Fire is the symbol of love, and the love of God Is the principle and end of all ojr good works; but as truth surpasses figure, the fire of divine love has this advantage over material fire, that it can reascend to Its source and raise thither with it ail good works which it produces; and by this means it prevents their being corrupted by pride, vanity, or any evil mixture.— John Wesley.

J Machines That Are I w Almost Human ? I By E. C.TAYLOR J Census Tabulators — HHOW many married men are there in the United States who are under thirty-five years of age, married and own automobiles that cost less than $1,200? Or again, how many heads of families were jobless at the time the last census was taken, have their own homes that cost less than $5,000 hut are not all paid for, have children and were born In the United States? Or, how many farmers are there in the United States who own automobiles, sold their crops at a loss last year, but have some money laid away and are not worrying about the future? • These and many other questions can be answered by the census tabulators, which are electric devices for tabulating statistics. These machines make it possible to learn facts within a few hours or days that formerly took months or years to ascertain when men and women did the work. ' They are operated like adding machines. except that instead of an operator punching keys, holes in cards give off electric impulses that cause the machines automatically to register any requested set of facts. \ When the 1930 census was taken, the people of the United States were asked a £reat many questi\is, not only as to age, sex, place of residence and where they'were born, but as to their economic status. The government wanted to know whether they had jobs, if they lived in cities or towns, whether their farms paid them a profit, whether they owned automobiles and how much they cost, whether they owned their homes, and many other things to which the census enumerators found it hard to get answers. Contrary to the belief of many who were asked such questions the idea was not to make inailing lists of all those In the country who didn’t have automobiles or radios or who had . some money in the bank. The government wanted to know hoW the people of the country were prospering and how they lived. There is nothing like statistics to tell such a story, the government believed, and it set about the task 'of finding out. After previous censuses thousands of men and women spent months and years compiling statistics as to the various groups in the country—how many were farmers, how many residents of the Unitefi/States were born in this country, how many were of school age. The government made no effort to learn how many had radios and automobiles until the census nf 1930. A score of questions were added to the former list asked by* census enumerators.If the old method of sorting all rids data by hand, and adding it all up bv punching adding machines by hand had been followed, the task would have been well-nigh hopeless. It would have required years to total al) that the 1930 census had disclosed about the condition of the people of the United States. • So the electric statistics tabulating device was put to work, and it has greatly simplified the gigantic task of finding out how the 120,000.000 people of the United States live. The answers each man, woman and child in the United States gave, to the * questions asked by the enumerators were recorded by holes on cards. The position of the holes on each card indicated whether the answer was ••yes’’ “or “no” to each question, and also what each question was. Nothing whs written on the cards. They were simply punched with the answers. To find out the answers to any set of questions such as are asked above, the operator of the machine only had to set the. proper triggers and gadgets so that only the facts he wanted to know would be recorded, and start the machine. The cards are dropped into the machine by the 100,000, and shoot through at a whirling pace. The machine selects only the cards bearing the w proper answers and dumps them Into a separate container. They are then run through a counting machine and the task Is completed. . It looks easy when you ’see the machine operating. A task that required hundreds of times as long and hundreds of times as many operators Is performed accurately and simrily. It is another example of how science has produced a machine to do a tedious. difficult and wearying task accurately and with skill, (©. 1931. Western Newspaper Union ) Shrine* alt Weimar Weimar contradicts the old proverbs about the honor which their own cities give to prophets, for here both Goethe and Schiller are revered even »s Shakespeare is at the English Stratford on Avon. Franz Liszt also lived here for twelve years; Kotzebue, rhe dramatist was born here and Nietzsche died here. Goethe made it the cultural center it became, doing as much for It as Wagner did for Bayreuth. His house and the Schiller home are open to all visitors. Cathedral to Seat 60,000 Liverpool, England, has just sold tn to Roman‘Catholic church a site on Brownlow hili for the proposed cathedral, which is to cost $15,000,000 nnd will have a seating capacity of 60.000. The site cost $500,000. The eonstniction will start within two years. Famous “Golden Gate” The “Golden Gate” was so named almost 300 years before gold was discovered tn California. This narrow channel Into San Francisco bay was named by Sir Francis Drake about 1578. Animal Jumping Record The galago, or flying lemur, a native of the Indian archipelago, is said to be the champion jumper of animals, clearing about 300 feet on an ir-'bned plane