*A*- "kJllilii. ''i k'v-' R. Pfe#srlc THE BALANCE UE POWER. 'J'k Harrison knew they would do, and he Three Odd Names. nature better now? His son and #"1*41' thawed perceptibly as he said: daughter were talking together and David Kerr in Harper'B Magazine. A. (Company of old &ea captains were "Yes, yes, I know you've got a his attention was soon drawn to "Curious, isn't it, that we should ithered at Linton's grocery awaiting Springfield Republican. Dealer in mighty smart lot of chicks coming on them by hearing his own nameso he all meet in this way, going to different arrival of the mail during the late It was New-year's eveand by the smarter than the old folks, I do listened more closely' and learned MS places, and all three belonging to dif-s orm. The boat was late in starting think, but Maria isn't any prettier their intentions concerning his bedrooom hearth of an open fire-place sat an than her grandma wasp'r'aps not and the open fire-place, etc. ferent countries?" &% it that morning, and all knew its arsral old iran, musing on the past, and nigh on as pretty. Yes, yes, I think Again he mused upon the knowledge It was curious, undoubtedly! The CANNED, DRIED & GREEN would be quite delayed and watching the tongues of flame as they lots of my grandchildren and I'll think he was gaining. But when his son three hungry guests who were doing nie time elapse before the mail was reduced the maple sticks to burning ^^RUITS, about this matter. I'll do what's had left the room he joined him in justice to the good cheer of the Black ac*- for distribution, so, adjusting right, Tom. You are my only son the stables and said, "I will take the coals and as he gazed upon them he Lion were a Londoner on his summer how I do remember you as a baby! old mare to the village and will tell FlOTor and Peed* quid, one of the captains remarkon holiday, a Scotchman from the mouth sang, in cracked tones, a stanza of a Your mother sot by you more than my old friend that I know the nature of the Clyde and an American tourist the height of the wa\e3then hymn which was one of his favorites: by her daughter, I do believe. Well! of four-legged animals better than he from New England taking a undenng on the beach, which led the Father' I thank thee, may no thoughts STOXK.WOODKN AND *Wt ILLOW I'll see whatTll do to-morrow. What but he is my master concerning the K*B T:-.%",.*\ WAK E- ff^l% hasty run to Europe and back. They E'er deem thy chastisements severe, nversation into the height, of waves do they say in the village about this two-legged." bad encountered one another in front And may this heart by folly taught, Carlisle as speaker of the House? I "Why father! what do you mean?" Cape Horn and the Cape of Good NEWTJLM, Mmi$.\ of the snug little wayside inn, at a Calm each wild wish, each frantic fear. believe he is tha right man in the right cried Tom. point where several roads met, and had ^5e. Each one in turn told what he Fr. In his youth, he had led the choir, place, and he will fix this revenue "Mean?" echoed the old man. agreed to dine together in honor of the arded the biggest yarn, when one of I mean to hold the balance in the village churchand in his age, business straight, I bet." so the "Mean9 coincidence. |e old salts, after making a "dead he still liked to hear the sound of his father and son talked politics amicably of power while I live, and not to give The dinner lasted a good while, for and both slept "the sleep of the t" into the middle of the spittoon, up my possessions until the Lord voice, attuned to praising the Lord. all three had walked far that morning. just" that night. Commands me to lay them down. I'll But nothing can last forever, except d- As he sang he thought of those who Next morning the old man had his give you two-thirds of the profits of a lawsuit or a serial which is paid had gone before him to join the invisible 'I saw a wave once off Cape Good Manufacturer of and Dealer in old white mare, which he kept for his the farm, but it belongs to me,the for by the sheet, and at length out pe. We were a scuddin' before the choir that sings the praises of the own use, harnessed into the sleigh, fields and flocks and forests,and my heroes showed signs of having had CIGARS, hd in a heavy gale. I was standin' and drove her to the village, and saw old bedroom and fire-place are mine Lamb amid the throng of the blessed 5 enough. the old lawyer, who had been his while I live. And unless you and Mary when the ship went off, and I could "Well," said the American, casting which he hoped so soon to join, for TOBACCOS, treat me as I like to be treated I the next wave as high as the bowcrinkle a glance through the open window at death had lost all its sting for him, 'friend forhi more than errand,f hal a century, and told his and in spite shall will half of it to my daughter and he awaited its summons with the the western sun, "I don't know how of the topsel." Thisroused PIPES. of his endeavors to the contrary, he and the other half to Tom and Maria. peaceful happiness with only belongs you feel, gentlemen, but it seems to me fourth and oldest sailor of the had a title-deed drawn up conveying Fathers must not give up the reins to the evening of a well-spent life. that it's just about time to be starting ty, who, having adjusted his quid all the property to his son, Thomas until they drop from their hands." Mr. Harrison had lost his wife eight again." the port side, related the following Harrison, on condition of supporting years before, his only daughter was Cor. Minnesota and Centre "And before we go," suggested the Sifting and wonderful incident: him comfortably for the remainder of comtortably settled in a home of her Englishman, "let's toss up for who The Moon Tliroujrli the Lick j-n the year 1857 I was in the good his life. The lawyer had urged him to own, but his only son had biought shall pay for the dinner." IUa NEW ULM, Neuman,.MINN- Telescope. make provisions for the use of a horse Jno. Minstrel, homeward bound from his family to the old homestead and "Aweel," remarked the canny Scott, and the occupancy of his bedroom, and just off the Cape of Good Among other larsie and noble benefactions, had arranged with his father to carry "I'm thinkin' the best way wad be foi which was the largest in the house, an accident happened I snail on the farm "to halves," the old man each man to pay his ain share." James Lick, the California with the open fire-place to be supplied r~er foract. For several days we retaining the management, ostensibly, "No I'll tell you how we'll do it," millionaire, a few years ago, devoted Dealer in with fuel, and a lamp for his own special blowing and gloomy weather, and and doing what work he pleased. He interposed the Yankee. "We haven't TD-RTZ- Q-OOIDS, a generous sum of money to the erection use and also a clause that he add to the gloom my steward was had kept the old nursery for his bedrooitt told each other our names yet. so should receive what visitors he pleased of a gigantic telescope. cen crazy and I had him below in and shared the sitting-room Hats, Caps, Notions, whichever of us has got the oldest to invite to the farm. Squire Bacon ns. I put his place the cabin-boy, and dining-room with his son's family. name shall go free, and the other two This telescope, which will soon be Groceries, Provisions^ was better versed in the intricacies righ lad who had shippd with me, But as age crept over him he had shall have the score between 'em." placed in the observatory on the Crockery and Glassware, of the human heart than Mr. Harrison, belonged to Cleveland, O. found the quiet of his own room more "Done'" cried his two companions summit of Mount Hamilton, near San for he had dealt with men for i were beating by the cape, with agreeable to him, and he was accustomed Green, Dried and Canned with one voice, and the Englishman over 60 years, while the latter Francisco, is the largest instrument of id southwest, blowing a" gale. I to sit there during the long winter thrusting his hand into his pocket, Fruits* etc, etc. had wrestled with the forests and is in my room preparing for break1 evenings and lead the daily newspaper, its kind which has ever been constructed produced, with a confident smile, a the fields and the cattle in his about 7 30, when I heard the cry: while his son would often join card inscribed "Richard Eve." on the earth, and, if successfully stalls, and knew not that unless I will always take farm produce in exchange fjph overboard'' You all know who him to discussthe business of the farm "My name's as old as humanity itself, completed, will undoubtedly reveal to for goods, aad pay the highest market price for all he held the balance of power he might I5ve been on the water the feehn' and to talk ujjon the politics of the anyhow," said he. kinds of paper rags. be forced to yield up his possessions the eye for the first time many a secret \|en o.ie of our little number steps day, for Mr. Harrison's mind still retained "Ay but before Eve there was against his inclinations. But Mr. guth so short a notice. My first its vigor. And as he sat and of the sky. Adam, ye ken," observed the gentleman In connection with my store Ihaie a first-clao* Harrison would not charge his determination ight was, 'It is brother Henry,' mused and hummed the tunes he used from Clydesdale, with a dry saloon furnished with a splendid billiard table am) When at last the Lick telescope is to relinquish all his belongings to delight in singing, Thomas, his son, all sailors have a superstition chuckle, as he displayed the name oi my customers will tilways find good liquors and set up on Mount Hamilton, and is to his son, with only a general it when two brothers sail on a ship opened the door and the old man said. "Adam McTageart." "Can ye beat cigars, and every forenoon a splendid lancfe. turned toward the heavens, it will be a condition of maintenance for life. one will come home alive. I was "Come in, Tom' Come right in! I'm that freend?" added he turning to the new and striking era in the history of deck in an instant, but every man thinking of the old times when you When the deed was prepared Mr. All goods pnrcbased of me will be delivered W New Englander. astronomy. What will be seen the ship was there before me and were a baby, and mother sat here Bacon said: "Mr. Harrison, lam very any part of the city free of cost. "Seems to me I can," replied the unmoved through thehugelens may,perhaps, be Minnesota Street New Ulm, Minn thrown o\erboard anything they and she and I sang together the old busy to-day suppose you carry home Yankee, "for my name is the best judged by the revelation it will xight would help save the man, tunes we learned at singing-school, this deed and read it to your son, and oldest in the world." give of the moon. The moon is two these were of no advantage to a where we fell in love with each other. tell him what your wants will be, and Meat Market, And so it was for the card that ha hundred and forty thousand miles )d swimmer, and would only hasi Oh, how happy we were' Of course, have him and his wife agree to supply threw upon the tableat which the from the earth. The Lick telescope the drowning of a man who couldn't we had our crosses to bearshouldn't them, and then come in some day two others gazed with a stare oj will bring it, in vision, to within one im. been human if we hadn't. 'Taint the with Mr. Craig, the merchant, to witness blank bewilderment that gradually M. EPPLE, Prop'r. hundred miles. lot ol mortals to enjoy all sunshine, your signature with me?" It appears that the cabin-boy broadened into a hearty laughbora MnonssoiA ST. NEW ULM,MINN. or bear all storms. And I was set in That is, whatever we can now discover "Can't finish it all to-day squire?" gone to the cook house for the the name of "Mr. B. Ginning." my way. 1 know that I wouldn't with the nated eye, in a very asked Mr. Harrison. "Now,I lotted up ?akfast, and the ship at that unky give in easy. Suthin' of the bull-dog dry and cleai atmosphere, a hundred TNewnndersignevicinity on carrying it home to Tom as a New moment went down into one HE desire toin'orm the people or The Ways of Russia. about me, and you, too, for that miles away, will be descried on the Year's present. But if you can't, you tjie heavy seas which swept the Ulm and thai ie ha* re establish ed his meat murket and is now preapaied to ai moon through the mammoth telescope. An instance of the way in which th and took him ever the side, can't, that,s all' So good day to you," matter. We've both of us got the on nis eld customers and triends wiUi only th* It will not be possible, to be sure, and he left the office. Russian government manager its affairs, i-4Bfcd the deck just in time to see square jaw that tells of the *have- best fresh and cured meats, uisages, lard and everything: to perceive living th ngs moving on the usually kept i first class market Th And Mr. Bacon laughed in his sleeve and of the rigor with which it represses pass the quarter, and it seemed your own-way folks,' haven't we, highest market pi ice will be paid for PAT CAT, suriace of the moon, it such living things at the ruse he had played upon his what it considers objectionable me I never saw the ship fly through Tom? TLE, HIDES, WOOL, ETC. exist there. But, if the moon is actually old friend, trusting that before he came 3 water so swiftly. The boy was "But she was as likely a woman as displays of public feeling, was shown M. EPPLE. inhabited, and if the people to the village again he might know a rave cool lad, and I could see that lever got my eyes on,pretty as a a short time ago at St. Peteisburg in NEW the suppression of an attempt, on the there by any chance traverse the peak little more of human nature,as regards was battling manfully with the picter and smart as chain lightnms' ~jy^ Meat Market. and craters in large bodies, the balance of power, and would be ves. No boat could live snch a Yet when she began to dispute part of the students of the university, means, for instance, as great ships or I willing to take his advise upon the t, and there was but one chance in she wouldn't hold out long and al to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary conveyance,smch movements may subject. lers let me have the last word, so thousand to save him, that was to of the death of the poet Bogolinboff. possibly be discerned through the JOS. SCMOBRICH, Prop'r., Mr. Harrison's old mare trotted there were not long quarrelhngs 'k ship. Of course this depended It was arranged that this celebration Lick lens. home slowly, the lines lying upon her the boy's keepin' above the waves. 'twixtus. Then I allers felt shamed should take place in the Volkoff NT,ew 13 lm, back as she pulled the sleigh up the Many questions otherwise concerning when I thought about it, as I plowed 'To wear around would bring the cemetery, and at the time agreed Minn- the planetary system will undoubtedly long hill that lay between the "Hillside or mowed or reaped or drove so far to le'ward of the boy that upon some six or seven hundred stu be solved by the far greater Farm" and the village, while he the oxen, and when I went to human aid could save him. There dents, of whom about one hundred nearness which the Lick telescope sang triumphantantly the hymn commencing the village I'd bring her suthin', no time to think much, so I gave A large supply of fresh meats, saujage, were young women studying in the will bring to us the heavenly orbsYouth's with, order- 'Bout ship every man to praps a new dress or a ribbin, if nothing haras, lard, etc., constantly on higher medical school, assembled at Companion. else a quarter pound of candy. "'Station.' Sailors you know, are Joy to the world' the Lord hath come, land. All orders from the country the gates of the cemetery, with wreaths Jc to feel, and in cases like this are Wimmem folks like sweet things, you to the glorious old tune of "Corona- promptly attended to. and mementoe3 of one kind or another. JCK to act. I was proud of my ship, know, Tom, and they would allers do tion," and was very happy in the A Conscientious Surgeon. Possibly, the affair may have had CASH PAID FOR HIDES li felt that she had no superior and the business for me and she'd give me thoughts of making others hapby. a political significance at least, the A remarkable suicide has recently few equalsrin hert sailn' qualities, a kiss inereturn, uand so it was all At tea-time he produced the deed being unde shor sail and a high honey pi with again. An I'v government officials chose to put 1 been committed in St. Petersbury. A and showed it to his son and his sons this interpretation uygn it, an hence THE IKW E was very much against us. How- been thinking and thinking about her short time ago a woman, aged 23, wife, and told them its coatBts. the police ordered the as&embiy to I watched for a smooth time, this New year's eve. Sixty-two years came to consult Dr. Botkino, who "But it is not signed/' Said Thomas. disperse. Theie was some objection 1, as by magic, she came up and ago I married herand yet she comes found that she was Suffering from a "No," replied his, father, "the squire CITY PLANING MILL to this, and a display of feeling made it around. I went up the mizzen to me to-night as young and fresh tuberculous ulcer. An operation being hadn't time to get another witness which gave the excuse for the arrest 1 in', and could see where the boy or and blooming as on that happy day. and I am. going down in a few days to deemed necessary, Dr. Botkinesenb of forty or fifty of tbe male students hat was by the larae flock of cape And I forget the years that have past, have il*. executed all right, you know. her to M. Kolominne, a surgeon of considerable MANUFACTURES and eighteen oi the females. The persons aons fTymg over him as they do my heart forgets all its aches and ails, HJ* Wanted me to put in it that I shall repute. He administered to -n anything is thrown from, the and I dream that we areyoune tosrelh* thus arrested were in a few casea DOORS, WINDOW SASH* feiiers have the old mare, or another her a slight dose of saline acid of cocaine, o. Being now to windward of him er, and when you opened the ddOr 4 released. Those not thus treated were as good, for my use and I should have i and, finding this did not take could shape our eOurse direct for I was a talkina with her. didn't you VENETIAN BLINDSV simply exiled without the least form my bedroom and tbe open fire-place, effect, he increased the dose and performed v, bub how to t?et near enough to hear me? Do you think I'm losing my i of trial. No one of their friends or and my own lamp, and your sister the operation with complete hini in passing and not let the senses that I say these tb'*agSr I the public has the least idea where MOULDINGS AND FRAMES Tom? and the others could come to visit me, success, but a few hours afterward i they were sent. Probab'y they were and a lot oi such stuff, for he had 0 strike,MM was the next problem Not a bit' NOG a bit! I r'el[ \f yo he received a message to say Planing, turning and aff scattered and sent to distant country seen human nature turn against its yo livue ?olve. While btandin' on the rail live TO be 83 years old you will that his patient seemed to be own folks enough times to look out villages to be kept under strict police 1 guicttel' the ship it occupied to me* the past more than in the present. work with rih-sawpromp #'y dying, and h6 found, upon for it. I laughed well at that idea supervision for an indefinite period of li'tAe boy was weak he could nob i I am old,dropping down luce a sere and neatly xeci%teZ. i yellow leafsoon to be trodden 'No,' says I, 'I'll let thatalone.'" hurrying to her,that, judging by the timethat is, years, or perhaps their an( Oft to a rope if it reached him. ap4 feebleness of the pulse and bluish lifetimethus breaking up any plan or I-ordered a number of men to be underfoot." And Thomas and Mary joined in his I hope for the future which the students pearance of the face, she was suffering And the old man sighed heavily, as over the side secured by strong All work guaranteed. Rates reasonable. laugh, but not very heartily, for when may have formed. In an American from the effects of poison. All the efforts toat the awakening from a pleasant es fastened to the mast lashed they had talked toeether about own university a demonstration of this dream to a sad reality. waist of the ship. You know, maue to save her were of no effect, ing the farm and its appurtenances, C. ZELLER, Prop'r. kind might have been attended with a "Yes, father, yes!" said Tom "you Linton, that merchantmen alys Mary had said: 'We must have father's and she died the same evening. M. NEWBOODSI LOWEST PRIGESI are growing old and feeble, and Mary reprimand, a suspension, or at the carry spars lashed securely to bedroom, our smaller one is big Kolominne was so overcome that he and I have been thinking that you side, so I hoped these men could most, an expulsion from the college. enough for him, but with the children denounced himself as her murderer, ought not to do any more work, but ch him as the ship passed. I One cannot help having some degree ol we need it." And her husband had though all his colleagues assured him led out in a fim voice, 'Boys don't' just sit beside the fire-place, and let agreed with her that it must be theirs sympathy for the nihilists, when one that he was in no way to blame. But Eenry J. LucUrs, us take care of you." miss him,' and they knew from that winter. takes into account the many causes he would not listen to them, and a few "Well, well," said the old man testily way I said it I meant it. He was And Thomas had said: "I shall have they have for the hatred of their government days afterward he blew his brains out, "I don't know about that. I've drawing near* and the ship flying to sell the old mare, for she eats her and their governors. leaving a note in which he said: "I must Dealer ia got some muscle leftain't quite antiquated br the water. The man in the fore head off every winter. Father don't have been the victim of some temporary yet, like old Scott, who is 92. "xins missed him, then the next man drive her more than once a week in DRY GOODS, i 4 aberration, and,this has caused I guess there's some work left in my i the next, and an audible groan A Wonder of Theatrical Mechanism. the winter, and in the summer she old bones still. What are you aiming the catastrophe which drives me to GROCERIES*...! ht up from every one. The fourth can,t work much." at, Tom? Out with it! I'm allers \,n in the mizaen chains was a strong despair. I am not gnilty, for my intentions Then Mary had proposed that a The scenic splendors of the second -V NOTIONS, ETC downright and to the point. You ght fellow.-Mttd with my heart in my stove should be put up in a room upstairs were good, but I cannot live." act of "Merlin", Goldmark's new opera, know I don't beat round the bush." |-oat I saw Mm place his feet against in a chamber for him,and the fireplace, Mr at the Metropolitan opera house, ship's sad* and push him3eli off "Well, father, we thought," said Kieiliog,i Block, J&ptig- by which the old man had sat have never been surpassed in New the sharp just as the boy came up Tom, "Mary and Ithat perhaps for over 60 years, should be closed up Removed to his Home from the MINK. York. The scene is laid in the magic a wave, 'Saved!' hurrahed the men, you'd deed us the farm and its appurtenances, excepting when she was ill, and needed NEW ULM, far Cemetery a Man RejrainsLife. gardens of Merlin, whither the demon they hauled him on board. Now, and let us promise to ^LAND&CnW it for her ownchildnren's comfort. Henry Weichman, aged 45, of Red has guided Vivien, whose business it is \i know ut took a great deal of take care of you while you live." But they held their peace and bade to prevent the hero from going to the Lion, York county, Pa., died suddenly length lor that voung man to catch I "I don't know about that," said their father "good-night with thanks assistance ot King Arthur in short, and was prepared for burial. A large m. hold the boy as fast as the ship Mr. Harrison. "I've hearn tell of such boy as last as tn ship for his kindness. The next day brought to bring him within the power of Satan. bargains where they fairly druve the concourse of people attended the funeral gcring through the water. The a snow-storm, and on the next the The entire act is given up to enchantment. old man to the grave, or wus than and followed" the remains to the after getting on deck shook himarad winds had piled up the snow into such that the poor-house. I don't know The first is the appearance quietly remarked, 'I declare, grave. "Ashes to ashes and dust drifts that Mr Harrison could not go about that, Tom. What's the matter of a mysterious and magical veil lost ray hat,' a ten-cent hat he to th village and attend to executing to dust" was pronounced r^by with Mary and you? Hain't you got which the demon throws into the air bought in Penang. the deed, but there had been much the clergyman, and the sexton enough to live on now, to be able to where it remains floating, and aglow of I busied myself the next quarter conversation in the family concerning dropped the customary shovel wait till my death for the rest? I allers or afire, while sounds of sweet, mysterious hour in getting the ship round and tbe farm and its arrangements, some ot earth upon the rough box lid. One calkilated to give you the farm, and music are heard from unseen je course again, and saw that of which he had not enjoyed at all. of the sons of Weichman, who stodd Maria my bank stock and coupon instruments- and singers. Suddenly hing was snue, when upeame Changes were to be made in various among the weeping mourners, suddenly bonds, and that's giving you double clouds descend upon the scene, and and said. 'Breakfast isread^ way8,and a forest, which the old man exclaimed, "I must see father once portion, too, which boys allers got in when these disappear the enchanted I was astonished. I supposed had seen grow up since his boj hood, more! Something tells me he is not hoy, who had been in the water my day. Now where does the shoe garden is occupied by the ballet, representing was doomed to the ax. This announcement dead." The people were startled, but pinch you and Mary?" an hour was charge of the spirits of water, air and drew from the father a the undertaker, order to gratify the "Why father, it don't pin-ob," said oer below, rolling him on a barrel protest, and he said: flowers, finally the spirit of ocean coming son's wishes, ordered the coffin to be Tom, "only you know we have got et the water out of him and rubhim "I cannot see those trees hewed upon the* scene drawn in a shell several children and others may come, raised from thegrave and carried to the with flannels, and for a week down, Tom: let them stand till I am by dolphins and surrounded by her and John your namesake, aist go to aid require careful nursing. tool house of the sexton, where the gone, and you will be the gainer in the attendants. It is a beautiful scene and school this next year. It won't do A.t breakfast I asked him why \v lid was removed. A doctor was summoned,and amount of timber." the ballet is the feature of the act, not to school him, for he is smart, una away from the ship. He said whenthebody was examinedit But, no, Thomas iiad decided that says the New York World. The result just like you, father, and teacher says jund i had to swim before the sea they must fall, and fall they should. was found to be quite warm. The of all the bewildering charm of keep from beinc rolled over, and he mus go to the academy at Meriden, Next morning he said: doctor lanced the deceased and blood the ballet is to make Vivien's conquest the big waves approached I div-hrough and Maria, mother's namesake, is just "Father, I could sell the old mare commenced flowing as if from a live of Merlin complete, an event which is them.'' 'Old, you suppose as pretty as she was, an4 she needs for 30. Mr. Parker will buy her, and 'No but I deter celebrated in a love duet between person. Thecoffin was carried back to you? eouldget i schooling, and other thiugs, you she only eats her head-off now. So I tbe two. Finally the lovers sink upon the house of mourning and the supposed icd to keep above water as long as Know. sfe,' wgy t-w told him ha might have her to .draw a mossy bank, likeWagner's lovers, SODA corpse, still in its shroud, carried '.strength lasted.' *IIow near did i He did not dare say "a piano, for his wood this winter." f\ *& and there remain until Merlin awakens up stairs to bed. The man is irds come to you?' 'So near I feai his father might object. Yet the "Never whiie I live," sa^iieiathlrf to the awful consciousness that he now slowly recovering and there is to fight them off and scream to I old man's fondness for hymns would angrily- and he went into his own has sacrificed duty to love. At tbe hem know I was alive. Onesassj great rejoicing in the family, whose have carried the day upon that point. room and closed th door, andanused close the scene is suddenly transformed came near picking a hole in at} gloomy holiday has thus been turned i But the references to himself and his Beat in the World sadly upon the advice his old lawyer into a wjJ&enieiSteJIew York Paper. into a ery happy New Year. wife pleased him highly, as Thomas MA he fcn&w human #5