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[FAMOUS ILLUSIONS. !* SOME SECRETS OF PROFESSIONAL CONJURERS REVEALED. Bow the Mysteries Are Destroyed i and the Tricks Shorn of Their ' s Charm by a Peep at the Mechanism 1 ; Behind the Scenes. ? A behind the scenes view of the fa- j mous illusions with which conjurers j have mystified and delighted genera- j tion after generation has peculiar fasci- ; nations. There are few of us who value our own childish illusions so highly that we will not part with them j for the fun of seeing now we nave Deen fooled. Here are examples of some of the best known tricks: The box trick is a3 clever as well known and as old as any. A heavy, brass bound chest is exhibited. An assistant is placed in a large canvas bag, the mouth of which is securely fas- ' tened, and the bag is placed in the chest, which is locked and roped. The box is concealed for a few seconds, and when it is revealed the occupant is sitting upon it, the closed and sealed bag beside him. The cords and ; seals on the box are intact. This astonishing feat is accomplished thus: The occupant of the bag has inserted a wooden plug in the mouth while the tying is being done. When ( ^ the chest is locked, he pulls it out, slips r out his hand, pulls off the cords, gets out and replaces the cords over the top of the sack. By the time the chest is roped he is j free. The chest has a secret opening, j usually at the end, and while it is hid- j den he crawls out. A slim man is usually employed to do the trick. The vanity fair trick is one of the j most baffling in the repertory of the j black art. A woman stands before a ! large mirror about ten feet high and j placed in a heavy frame. About three j feet from the floor is a small shelf : placed against the mirror, the bottom / of which is about eighteen inches from the floor. The glass having been duly Inspected, the young woman mounts the shelf. }She then turns to arrange her hair by the mirror. She is asked to face the audience, but again and again turns her back, hence the name of the I trick. Finally, losing patience, the perform- j thrn?ta n Rmnll srrppn in front of i her, fires a pistol at the spot where she was standing, snatches away the screen, and she has vanished. The top. bottom and sides of the mirror have been in view all the time and j only the center has been hidden for a few seconds. The secret lies in the fact that the lower part of the. mirror is made double, the bottom of the upper pafrt being concealed by a second sheet of silvered glass placed in front of it. The shelf fits against the line of junction, and enables the mirror to-be | examined by the audience. As soon as j the screen is placed the mirror slides up about a foot into the top of the * frame. The bottom of this mirror is | cut away in the middle, leaving a hole about eighteen inches square, which was previously concealed from view i by the double glass at the tase. Through this hole the lady instantly slips, and escapes by a board which j has been pushed forward from behind the scenes while the vanity fair byplay was going on. The glass then , slides down again, the screen is re- j moved, and the mirror appears just as solid as it was before. Another of the most astounding feats of modern magic is that of making a person or object apparently float in the air. A couple of ordinary chairs are placed on the stage?well toward the back, which is draped with black cloth ?and ujkju these is laid a broad, thick plank. A young lady is then introduced and is assisted to place herself in a recumbent position on the plank. He then draws aside the chairs, and the plank, with the lady on it, remains apparently suspended in the air. To prove that the plank is not supported, the exhibitor takes a large hoop and passes it backward and forward over and around the plank. Yet there is an attachment. As soon as the lady is placed in position on the board a carriage, placed behind the black curtain and supporting a strong iron bar twice bent upon itself, is pushed forward by an assistant so that the iron bar, which is covered with black cloth, comes out through a slit in the curtain while the exhibitor is pretending to mesmerize the lady. The , bar has at its end a very strong clip, and the performer, while making his hypnotic passes, guides this on to the board. The chairs are then removed, and the board remains suspended by the invisible iron bar. The hoop is passed along from one end until it reaches the bend where the bar passes through the curtain. The performer passes it round the end of the board and himself walks behind, passing the ring along in the opposite direction. Next it is brought back again, and the effect is such that the average spectator is convinced that the hoop has really been passed over the lady and the board from end to end. Another very effective illusion, arranged upon the same principle, show3 the head and bust of a lady supported on a three legged stool resting on a small table. One can apparently see not only between the legs of the table to the back of the stage, but through ' At. _ -X 1 ^ 4.-U ^ 4.^ the space Derween tee sukjj auu me iable. ' In this case the three legged stool is arranged with mirrors precisely in the tripod illusion, but the table, which has four legs, is managed differently. A large mirror is placed diagonally under the table, joining to opposite leg*. Thus the spectators really only see# three of the legs, the fourth being simply the reflection of the first.?New .York World. A GOOD PRESCRIPTION. Laughter as a Stomach Care and an Aid to Health. Worry is but one of the many forms of fear, so that vrorrv tends to the production of indigestion. Indigestion tends to put the body of the subject in a condition that favors worry. There is thus established a vicious circle Which tends to perpetuate itself, each element augmentiug the other. It is necessary to secure a cheerful, wholesome atmosphere for the dyspeptic. He should eat his meals at a table where there is good fellowship and where funny stories are told. He should himself make a great effort to contribute his share of this at the table, even if it be necessary, as it was in one case under my care, for him to solemnly and seriously collect funny paragraphs from the press, and at first interject them spasmodically during lulls in the conversation at the table. The very efforts and determination of the mar to correct his own silent habits at table, to correct his feelings of discouragement and worry, were in themselves a promise of success. The effort made was adequate to the obstacles to be overcome. He succeeded, and the spectacle of that man trying to ! be funny at table when he felt tlior- J oughly discouraged and blue is one we j shall never forget. Laughing is in itself also a useful exercise from the standpoint of digestion. It stirs up all the abdominal ! organs, it increases the circulation of | the blood, it increases peristalsis, it increases the secretion of gastric juices. Five minutes' deliberate laughing after each meal would be an excellent pre- , Bcription for some people.?Family Doctor. THE BIRTH OF JAPAN. Curious Legend of tbe Creation Handed Down by the Japanese. The following is the curious legend +K.-. .ivnutinn oo t* ic tnWI in .Tnnsinr Ui LliC V-ita wv/ii U a V aw w.v. ? v Clouds formed the bridge ou which once god Yzanaghi and his spouse Yzanuma stood pondering on the riddle of existence, whether the beginnings of worlds and the beginnings of life lay slumbering in that sea of chaos. Yzanaghi, apparently more enterprising than philosophically inclined, seized his shimmering spear and plunged it into the black and seething flood. Pulling it up again, he discovered seven salt drops on its diamond point, which, dropping, condensed and formed the island of Cusokorosima. Thereupon Yzanaghi and his spouse selected the spot of earth which had thus been created as their permanent dwelling place and peopled it with innumerable genii of animal and. plant life and spirits of the elements. And around this "palace of immortality" rose eight other islands?Awadsit the island of foam: the mountainous Cho, Yamato, blessed with fruit; Yyo, unsurpassed in its beauty; the quinquangular Tslkousi. Sado, rich in copper and gold; Yki, one of the pillars of heaven, and Oko, surrounded by three satellites. Such was the birth of Japan, of that curious land of Fusiyama, with its amiable population of artist artisans, its graceful teahouses, its glistening silks, its grotesque dwarf trees, its rehit^ crsnes and dreamy lotus ponds. ?Harper's Magazine. Brain Food Nonsense. Another ridiculous food fad ha9 been branded by the most competent authorities. They have dispelled the silly notion that od? kind of food is i needed for brain, another for muscles j and still another for bones. A correct diet will not only nourish a par: ticular part of the body, but it will \ sustain every other part. Yet, however good your food may be, its nutriment is destroyed by indigestion or I dyepep9ia. Y.ju muot prepare for j tneir appearance or prevent their ; comiDsr by takiog' regular doses of 1 Green's August Fiower, the favorite ! medicine of the healthy millions. A lew doses aids digestion, stimulates the liver to healthy sctiOD, purifies | the blood, and make4* you feel buoyj snt aDd vigorous. You can get this reliable remedy at KaufmaDn's Drug Srnrp. Get, Grpen's Soccial Almanac. 51?3-2 I The Tired Foot. | A lady was watching a potter at his i work whose one foot was kept with a j "never slackening speed turning his ' swift wheel round" while the other f rested patiently on the ground. When j the lady said to him in sympathizing | tone, "How tired your foot must be!" ! the man raised his eyes and said: "No, i ma'am; it isn't the foot that works that's tired. It's the foot that stands. , That's it" If you want to keep your strength, ! use it. If you want to get tired, do I nothing. As a matter of fact, we all i know that the last man to give a help! Ing hand to any new undertaking is i the man who has plenty of time on his hands. It is the man and woman who : are doing the most who are always i willing to do a little more."?Philadelphia Ledger. : O^es His Life to a Neighbor's Kindness. Mr. D P. Daugberty, well known j throughout; Mercer and Sumner I counties, W. Ya, most likely owes ! l is life to the kindness of a neighbor He was almost hopeless tfHicted with ; diarrhoea; was attended by two phy: sicians who gave bira little, if any, eli?f, when a neighbor learning of bis serious condition, brought him 8 bottle of Chamberlaiu's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which cured him in less than twenty-four hours. For sale by J. E. KaufmaDn. The man on the stage who does the trick of escaping from firmly tied ropes, submits to the bonds with a smile. He knows he can get out of the ropes that are being knotted. Put the same man in the woods and let Indian captors bind him to a tree for torture and he would struggle to the last against the bonds. When the stomach is diseased there are bonds being woven every hour about the organs dependent on the stomach? heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, etc. The folly of mankind is to passively submit to the fastening of these bonds with no effort to escape until the pain they cause arouses fear. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It cures diseases of heart, liver, lungs, kidneys and other organs, when these diseases, as is often the case, have their origin in the diseased stomach. "For a long time I was suffering and was hardly able to get about," writes Mr. Andrew J. Jennings, of Thomas, Tucker Co., W. Va., Box 194.. "Was bothered with kidney trouble and my whole system was out of order; had no appetite. A friend of mine told me to try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. I did so and the first bottle restored my appetite. I took si* bottles of ' Golden Medical Discovery' and some of the * Pleasant Pellets' and feel like a new person." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse ! the clogged system from impurities. OLD MAN SCHMIDT. HE CALLS AGAIN ON HIS FRIEND, THE GERMAN COBBLER. They Talk About n Xetv Book and Snicide, and Finally Agrree to Die Iii Each Other's Arms?A Policeman Spoils Their Plans. [Copyright, 1902. by C. B. Lewis.] I LIKE ilot old man Schmidt. He und me was two Dootchmans together in der old country, und we come by America on der same ship. Sometimes he comes in my place und sits und smokes und groans und don't say nottings, but some other times he vhas full of talk und tells me all his troubles. Dot other day vheu I put a cement patch on a shoe und don't half 140 more work Schmidt comes in und sayS: "Hans, if you look at me do you pelief I vhas some greenhorns?*' "Not 011 her life," I says. "Does somepody calls you greenhorns?" "Yes?my wife. She says 1 vhas so green der cows eat me up. I don't pelief it, und I like to ask you." "Does somet'ings happen to you pooty queek?" "Vbell, maype. Do you ever hear of some pook called 'Dose Americans Who Make America?'" "I don't pelief so. Vhas he like some family almanac mit der full moon in?" "No. She vhas two t'ousand i "gcs big, und she haf two t'ousand pictures of der biggest men in dis country. She vhas bound in calves, mit gold edges, und she last five hoonered years." "By golly, but dot vhas better ash some ice cream! I like to haf a pook for fife hoonered years. Don't she haf more ash two t'ousand big men In him?" "Shust two t'ousand und no moFe. Each one has a picture und a page. It J tells who he vhas und all aboudt him, und vhen he vhas deadt his shildren | read dot pook. I told dot agent to | come down und see you. Maype you vhas big enough to go in dot pook if you like to. Vhas he here?" "If he vhas, I don't see him. Did he lr tnif T-nn i C^'VO-AV AAA J V. ,? VU "He did. Last ^veek lie comes in my place und says vhas I old Schmidt. I vhas. All right. He reads of me in der ' * ' I "OLD SCEMIDT, YOTT VHAS TEX JACKASSES UND FOOLS!" I papers und comes up from Philadelphia to see ine. He don't like to get dot pook oudt unless I vhas in it, und he shows me der names of one t'ousand big men. I see Shorge Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grofer Cleveland und all soocli men." "By George, but dot vhas great! Does he want some money to put you in dot pook?" "Yes?one hoonered dollars. For one hoonered dollars I vhas on page 14. between Lincoln and Grant. Dot makes me ash big ash anybody, und maype I don't haf to pay fare on der street cars no more. I like you to be in dere, too, Hans, if you can pay one hoonered dollars." "But I can't. I can't pay one hoon, ered cents. If I yhas a big mans, no pody vhill find him out." Docs it please your wife dot you go in dot pook?" "No. I speak to her about it, but she says I vhas some fool und vhill get swindled. It was all jealousy. It vhas two t'ousand big men und no women, und dot makes her mad." "But you go in der pook all der same?" I says. "Shust der same. Der price vhas high, but if you vhas a big mans you don't mind it. Yes, I goes in dot pook, und der agent writes me oop. I come in to show you. Listen to dis: " 'Dot oldt man Schmidt vhas porn in Shermany a long while ago, und vhen he vhas a young mans he comes oafer to America mit brass buttons on his coat. " 'He vhas poor und proud und respectables, und he work in a grocery for $8 a month. In two years he vhas like Shorge Washington. "'Vhen he grows oop to own dot grocery, der peoples like to run him for alderman, but ne aon t care ror orfice, und lie vlias some honest man. " 'He has one w'fe, who vhas a treasure, und his only son Joe vhill climb oop to dor top if he keeps on like he vhas. " 'Mr. Schmidt can t ride a bicycle nor cut some pigeon wings on roller skates, but he vhas good natured, cheerful und ready to help others. " 'If some war breaks oudt in America, he vhill be found alongside der patriots, a gun on his shoulder, a flag in his hand und a wish to perish in his enthusiastic heart. Don't you make no mistake on old Schmidt. " 'We like to say aboudt dis great mans dot he vhas some greenhorns when he first comes to America, but by und by he vhas so sharp dot nopody can beat him for two cents. More ash ten peoples try to swindle him eafery day, but it vhas all in vain. "'Finally-we like to say or ais mans dot lie vhas ash big ash Washington, ash good ash Lincoln und ash brave ash Grant und dot at his grocery vhill be found all der best goods at der cheapest prices. If you don't see vhat you wants, ask for her.' " While der old man Schmidt vhas reading all dis to mc dot little Sherman tailor comes in to find out about it. Pooty queek he says: "How mooch you haf to pay for all dot. my frendt?" "One hoonered dollars. Vhy don't you come in dot pook too? You vhas new und secondhand clothes und a big mans." "Vhere vhas dot agent?" "Pie goes home to Philadelphia to get some clean shirts." "Do you pay him one hoonered dollars in adwance?" "Of course. He deals mit two t'ousand big men, but he don't trust, you see. It vhas cash in adwance from eaf erypody." "Old Schmidt, you vhas ten jack* asses und fools!" says der little tailor. "Why vhas I?" "Because dot mans vhas some swindlers und don't neffer come back here again nor publish a pook. You vhas beat. Yrou vhas took in. You vhas done oop." "How can it be?" groans Schmidt. "It can be because your head vhas putty. You shall go und sell him to some paint store, und Hans shall liaf a rattle box und a milk bottle und be a baby again." Yken der tailor vhas gone out. old Schmidt looks at me, und I look at him. After ten minutes tears vhas in his eyes, und he says: "Hans, dis vhas a wicked world." "She vhas," I says. "Und we vhas two good mans." "We vhas." "Und we don't haf some business to oe anvc. "We don't." "Den let us die in each other's arm? ! und go to boafen." "I vhas agreed.'' Und we should not be alife today but for dot fat policeman. lie comes py my shop und takes old Schmidt by der neck und throws him out, und I vhas clubbed through der back door, und he shakes his list at my wife und says: "AVomans, 3*011 look a leetle oudt! If I hear of some more sorrow around here, you shall all go to jail for six months." M. QUAD. A Parson's Noble Act. ' I want all the world to know,'' writes Rev. C 'J. Budlong, of Ashway, R I., "what a thoroughly good and reliable medicine I found in Electric Bitters. Tney cured me of jaundice and liver troubles that had caused me great suffering for maDy years. For a genuine, ail-around cure they excel anything I ever saw/' Electric Bitters are the surprise of all for their wonderful work in Liver, ! Kidaey and btomacn trouoies. jl?od i fail to try them. Oaly 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed by J. E. Kaufmann. The Man and the Wave. Once upon a time a man was telling a tale of woe that unveiled his matrimonial experience. "It was all on account of a little dainty handkerchief," he said. "The first time that I saw the girl and before we had been introduced she waved that bit of lace at me, and I was carried away. It was a fall in love and then matrimony. But, alas, that deli?i n. ?-.o Imlnv tn tho CHIC* lJaiJUM'ItUlCl v> ?io girl's nature, and I found myself wrecked on the sea of matrimony." Moral.?A man may be carried away by a wave and wrecked without going near the water.?New York Herald. Wanted n Lower Key. Spatts?My love, I wish you would alter the key of your voice. Mrs. Spatts?What's the matter with it? Spatts?Oh, nothing; only from the expression of Eliza Jane's face after our recent argument I'm certain it fits every keyhole in the house.?Town and Country. / Mrs. Laura. S. Webb, I Vice-President Woman's Democratic Clubs of Xortbern Ohio. "I dreaded the change of life which I was fast approaching. I noticed Wine I of Cardui, and decfded to try a hot1 tie. I experienced some relief the J I first month, so I kept on taking it for I ) three months and now I menstruate with no pain and I shall take it off and on now until 1 have passed the climax." | Female weakness, disordered I menses, falling of the womb and 1 ovarian troubles do not wear off. 1 They follow a woman to the change 1 of life. Do not wait but take Wine of Cardui now and avoid the trouble. Wine of Cardui never fails I to benefit a suffering woman of I any age. Wine of Cardui relieved I 1 Mrs. Webb when she was in dan- I 1 ger. When you come to the change I I of life Mrs. Webb's letter will I I mean more to you than it does fi I now. But you may now avoid the 1 M suffering she endured. Druggists I sell $1 bottles of Wine of Cardui. 1 VWiNE?rCARDUjJ A Cool Gamcnter. "Lady," said Meandering Mike, "de greatest pleasure dat I could find in life would be to chop some wood for you"? "I don't want any wood chopped." "Or carry some water from de spring"? "I've got a well right at the kitchen /i^,.? UVV1 . "Or shoo de cows in from de pasture"? "I haven't any cows. We buy our milk." "Well, lady, I've made three guesses about what I could do to help you along. Now it's your turn. An' I don't mind givin' you a small hint dat victuals an' clotkes'll be purty near de answer. It's a nice game, lady, an' I t'ink you're goin' to be lucky."?Washington Star. Tlie Taxpayer's Joy. Tnrlrrp?T fpll vnil Klinkers is haDDV. He feels as if he has just found money. Fudge?How's that? "He has employed a lawyer, who has succeeded in having his taxes lowered $b." "What was the lawyer's fee?" "Ten dollars, I believe."?Baltimore Herald. The Problem. "I have a perfect horror of marrying a poor man and living in a small way." "But, darling. I shall grow." "Ah. but will you develop financially as fast as I develop in social ambition?"?Life. Zf the Baby is Cutting Teeth. Be sure and use that old and well tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic and is the best remedy lor aiarrnoes. Twenty-live cents a bottle. It is the best of all. Mistrustful. Lawyer?Iri order to defend you I must know the whole truth. Have you told me everything? Client?Everything except where I hid the money. I want to keep that for myself! First Fall Sons. The summer winds are passing. The cooler days are near; The pert bluejay is sassing And says that fall is near. And soon each hardy 'leven Will punt the ball and train, And in six weeks or seven We'll have football again. ?Chicago Xew*. ? Fortune Favors A Tesan. '-Having distressing pains in bead, ' J on/3 kot'no njillinnf, 08 C tv bCU ft LUUIQIjU) uuu cvj appetite, I began to use Dr. King's New Life Pille," writes W. P. Whitehead, of Kennedale, Tex , "and soon felt like a new mau." Infallible in stomach and liver troubles. Only 25c at J. E. Kaufmann's drug store. / AERIAL POLO. A Qneer Kind of Arannment on Pacillc Ocean Inland. Writing on "Our Equatorial Islands" In the Century, James D. Hague says: It became an amusing diversion to overturn the large flat stones beneath which the rats were hiding in solid masses and watch them as they scampered in all directions, pursued and quickly snatched up by the man-o'-war hawks. These crafty birds were apt to learn that the appearance of a mau walking on the island, especially with a dog, meant rats for them, and any one thus going forth was usually followed by a hovering hock, ready and impatient for the sport they had learned to expect. A rat brought to baud by the dog was quickly tossed in * air. -where the birds were ready to snatch it. sometimes with a contest 011 the wing for the disputed possession. One form of this sport, a sort of aerial polo, which seemed to be as good fun for the birds as for the observers, con sisted in tossing two rats into the air at the same moment, not singly and apart, but tied together with about six feet of strong twine. Instantly the birds made a dash for the rats, and the successful winner of the first prize went sailing oil with one rat in his bill and the other swinging in the air beneath until snatched by the second winner, when, after a quick, sharp struggle and a taut strain on the cord, the bird with the weaker hold was compelled to let go. This then went on as*a continuous performance, with somewhat Jonah-like but rapidly repeated disappearances and reappearances of the little rats, swallowed and reluctantly disgorged by +1\ /-? n 1 A/1 APfil A r* 4r V\ LLiC UHUS Jli 4UH.a BUI.V.CB81UU tllii.ll cue flock, thoroughly exhausted by their Impetuous flight and extraordinary exercise, alighted on the ground for a i short truce, when the two temporary stakeholders would be found sitting face to face, keenly eying each other from opposite ends of the string still connecting them, each anxiously on the sharp lookout for sudden jerks and unpleasant surprises, while all the other pursuers gathered around in a ring, waiting for the two prize birds to- fly. The general aspect of all participants , seemed to verify the familiar adage that the pleasure is not in the game, but in the chase. A Fine Liver Cure. Greenville, TenD. I have thoroughly convinced myself that Dr. Baker's Blood and Liver Cure is the finest medicine made for Indigestion and ConstipatT Viqttq trioil flipm iiin and HUUi uaiu ft A ?vva -w- ? _..y was cured by the use of this medicine, after all others had failed. I most cheerfully and unhesitatingly endorse it. Yours truly, H. N. Baker, Mayor. For sale at the Bazaar. A Safe Agre. The insuring of one's life is one of those things which one is most apt to put off. There are few, however, who postpone what ought to be the inevitable until so late a period in life as did the tough old smack owner of Grimsby. When he presented himself at the insurance office, he was naturally asked his age. His reply was, "Ninety-four." "Why, my good man, we cannot insure you," said the company. "Why not?" he demanded. "Why, you are ninety-four years of age." "What of that?" the old man cried. "Look at statistics, and they will tell you that fewer men die at uinety-four than at any other age."?London Business Illustrated. Their Branch of Service. "To what branch of the military service do captains of industry beloDgV" asked the recognized yet surviving joker of the party. "I give it up," replied his victim wearily. "To the artillery, because they're all 'big guns.' See? Ha, ha, ho, ho!"? Syracuse Herald. Cool Trees. It is not shade alone that makes it cooler under a tree in the summer. The coolness of the tree itself helps, for its temperature is about 45 degrees F. at all times, as that of the human body is a fraction more than US degrees. So a clump of trees cools the air as a piece of ice cools the water in a pitcner. I Rasping:. Barber?How's the razor, sir? Customer?Didn't know I was being shaved. Barber (flattered)?Very glad, I'm sure, sir. Customer?I thought I was being sandpapered.?Pick Me Up. Happily Married. "I hope you have found happiness In marriage, dear." "Ob, yes. I can do lots of things I didn't dare do when I was a girL"? New York Press. Perseverance not only goes far to Insure success, but also obtains honors for those who, although the less fortuuate, have been the most diligent. Lingering Summer Colds. Don't let a cold run at this season. Summer colds are the hardest kind to cure and if neglected may linger along for months. A long siege like ' ?? i 1- - - 1 JL tdis will puJi aown :ne strongest con8titution. One Minute Cough Cure will break up the attack afc once. Safe, sure, acts at once. Cures coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles. The children like it. J. E. Kaufmann. Send us the news for your section. 1