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f/,Y P: I mourn no more my vanish'd years; Beneath a tender rain. An April rain of smiles and tears, My heart is young again. The west winds blow. and. singing iow I hear the glad streams ran : The windows of my soul 1 throw Wide open to the sun. No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear: But. grateful, take the good I I'.nd, The best of now and here. I plow no more a desert land. To harvest weed and tare: The manna dropping from Cod's hand Rebukes my painful care. I break my pilgrim staT?I lay Aside the toiling car: The angel sought so tar away I welcome at my door. The airs of Spring may never play Among the ripening corn. Nor freshness of the flowers of May Blow through the Autumn morn. ^ Yet shall the blue-eyed gentian lock Through fYinced lids to Hiavcn, And the nale aster in the brook Shall see its image given:? The woods shall wear their robes of praise, The south wind softly sigh. And sweet, calm days in sr?>!den haze Melt down the amber sky. 0- ' J * - ? t -t-.t t '?-,f,aTf itaftaAiTi 1T1 iti -v-1" r A VT f I VVV'f W i V r r A' 'A' I rVTTTV < p i i "Can't We Try Eacl I W444W ! ** ! ! ?W>?* * ****** It was almost time for the Phila- f delphia express to be called, and in the waiting room the usual quota of travelers had gathered. It was a comImon enough scene, but full of absorbing interest to a serious mite of a child sitting like an obedient little statue on the seat where her companions had placed h.er, hands sedately folded in her lap and her plump little legs barely long enough to dangle over the edge. Her wide eyes questioned each face about her with wistful intentness, and there were occasional evidences of a mighty struggle of cogitation in her little mind. The man with her was -r*. v;? *,?f juna ^uuugu, <utt?r ins u w u n^uto uu<, he was not used to children, and this child was not used to him, and she was lonely. The Desbrosses street ferry had just come in, and among the string of passengers who hurried into the wait% ; ing room were a man and woman, upon whom the child's eyes fixed themselves in speculative admiration. This was a stately and beautiful lady, ft; The man was large, and perhaps would some day be larger, but now he carried his bigness of height and breadth with an enviably easy swing. He went to the window and bought one single ticket, and then the two came and and sat diagonally opposite the child and her companion. The ?>1 . woman was speaking in a constrainedly polite tone. "There are but a few moments to wait. I beg that you will not consider it necessary to stay. There was no occasion for your coming at all." "You forget that there are still ' some appearances to maintain," he answered stiffly. "There is no occasion to create any more gossip than is necessary, and this is an absurd hour for you to start." "Isn't it a little late to consider apt pearances?" she asked, with a touch ip . of scorn in her voice, chafing at his cold supervision of her actions, which he did not attempt to explain by any m warmer motive than conventionality. [ She knew what he meant?that it put him in the light of a brute that she should be fleeing from his home unat. tended at a particularly inconvenient hour. She knew that it was an absurd journey, bringing her at her destination at midnight, but she could not endure that silent house for another minute. The fever to be among her v own people?the few, the very few, who would sympathize and ask no rrnel mie&tions"?had rushed irresisti bly upon her a few hours before, and she had recklessly made her preparations and started. What matter? They had agreed that the hollow sham of their married life had better end at once, and that later they would - be legally separated. It soon would be known to the world, and New York had become a cell of torment to her. ['.. And he?when he was coldest he was always punctiliously polite, and ?v . he had insisted on seeing her off if she was determined to take this foolish journey. His face had been hard and indifferent as the door?their door? had closed upon them as man and wife, and the ride to the ferry had been made in rigid silence. Her eyes caught the child's unwavering gaze, and her face softened from its flinty composure. She had no children of her own, and u*is was such an unconsciously pathetic figure, with its primly folded hands and solemn eyes. The little traveler smiled faintly and looked shyly away. Then the eyes crept back again, and friendly communication was established. For a few moments she sat in sober consideration, weighing some mighty problem in her mind, and ever and anon slipping a tentative glance toward the stately lady; then there was a cautious peep at the caretaker's face, and with the anxious haste of one who gathers all his courage for a desperate leap, she slid swiftly down and was across the way before her companion could realize what had happened. "Won't you, please," she bsgan, ?agerlv, her eyes searching the woman's face, "wont you please tell me what a diworce is?" Ttiere: 11 was oui.?max awiux, uu* angered question which had been tormenting her small soul for d&vs upon days?and her bolstered-up courage suddenly subsided into flatness as she realized the magnitude of her temerity in asking this strange and 3ALIY1. Not kss shall manly d*r<I and word Kebnke an a:c of wrong: Tin- graven floors that wreathe the sword Make not the blade less strong. rat smiting hands shall learn to Imai? To build as to destroy : Nor loss my heart for others feel That I tlie mare enjoy. Mr.ou.rrh that blessings undeserved Have mark'd my erring track:? That wkeresoYr my feet have swerved, liis eh.isttitinj turn'd me bark;? That more and more a Providence (?f love is understood. Makin.tr the springs of time and sense Sweet with" eternal good :? Thar death seems l>:it a eovor'd way \\ hieh opens into light. Wherein no blinded child can stray Beyond the Father's sight:? Thar care and trial seem at last. Through memory's sur.set air, Like mountain ranges overpast, In purple distance fair:? That all the jarring notes of life Scorn M"i:ding in a psalm. And ail the angles of its strife Slow rounding into calm.. And so the shadows fall annrt. And so the west winds play: And ail the windows of my heart I open to the day. ?John Gree-nleaf Whittier. . .1"!' *K' > i Other Once Mere." | uJn*. TuTiTaiTi>TiiTiit. iT..T?>T.iThi*.>T? f,,f,t "4" "4" I V 4 x V WliV 1 i VV 7 u V 1 * r * beautiful lady a question which had invariably met with a startled rebuff from others. Her eyes went to the floor and she dropped obviously. The effect was electrical. The two faces before her seemed suddenly immobilizd. The woman looked ahead of her with hard, unseeing eyes, and winced as though struck; but the man, with a man's distaste for a scene, was the first to treat this, conversational bomb as a casual matter. He leaned forward in the most friendly manner possible, although his ruddy skin had taken on a still warmer tint, and forced a smile as he looked into the wide eyes that gazed wonderingly into his own. "Well, now, what makes you ask such a funny question?" he queried. "I wanted to know so bad," she said, appealingly. "Mamma's got one, but she's gone away, an' everybody says 'Be still,' w'en I ask them. Nobody will tell me what a diworce is. Did it hurt maram?" she cried. Her eyes still urged their question?the question that she had asked again and again, but to which no one had given her an answer. The woman leaned forward, gathered the little bundle of loneliness into her arms and held her close. "Where has mamma gone, dear?" she asked. Her husband had leaned back again and was staring at the floor. Husband and wife ignored each other. "Gone to be an angel," was the prompt answer. "Papa went away first, but he didn't go to be angel. Cook said so. An' mamma cried and cried, an' got sick and went to bed, an' I heard nurse tell cook that mamma had a diworce. An' w'en I asked mamma w'ot that was she jus' cried and hugged me; and I asked nurse, an' she cried, an' she scolded me an' said I mustn't ever say such a thing again. Then they took mamma away in a long carriage with flowers in it, an' the lady next door came in an' said the divorce killed. mamma. An' today I asked the lawyer-man over there an' he just jumped an' said, 'My good gracious, chile!' I do so want to know what a diworce is." It was a long speech for a small girl, but the words tripped over each other in their haste to escape, and there were plenty more waiting to be released. The woman's voice was calm and even as she answered; the curve of her cheek vouchsafed her husband's view was as fair and cold as the snow, but the eyes fixed on the child burned like living coals. "But who takes care of you, dear?" "I don't know," she said, slowly, as though this were a new idea to her. "Mamma did, but she went to be an angel so awful soon; an' nurse an' cook did, but they kissed me an' cried an' went away the day that lots of people came to our house an' bought things. Now the lawyer-man is taking me away to live with mamma's auntie.* I guess," brightening up, "she'll take care of me now." She lifted a supplicating face to the woman bending over her, and with a child's unwearied insistence again sought an answer to the question that lay so heavily on her little soul. "Won't you please tell me w'ot a diworce is?" It was a delicate situation. The man leaned forward and answered for his wife, who had mutely turned her head away. He was fond of children. ^ "Now see here; suppose I tell you, will you promise not to worry about it any more?" A vigorous nod. He remained silent a moment, trying to formulate an answer so simple that the child's mind could grasp it, then spoke to the anxious face: "Well, a divorce is?a divorce?well, two people it married, you know; and sometimes it doesn't work as well as they thought it would, so they go | to the lawyer-man like yours over there and get unmarried." I He floundered hopelessly over his | definition, ending it with an uncomfortably red face, for it was harder than he had anticipated, and two searching eyes glued to your face are apt to be disconcerting. The little one nestled back against the bosom which exhaled the same faint, imcatchable sweet odor that had always clung to mamma's dresses, and, with her inquiring eyes still searching the man's face, propounded the next link in mo endless chain of a child's interrogations. "Please, w'y do they want to get unmarried?" The face above her was white, the arm about her trembled. The husband studied the floor intently a few moments before answering, a frown gathering between his eyes and a little droop of seem?self-sccrn?pulling clown the corners of his mouth. "God knows," lie said slowly, and stared at the floor again. A stentorian voice was intoning the departure of the Philadelphia express, and with a nervous start the woman looked up from the child on her lap to see the "lawyer-man" approaching them. "Pardon me for interrupting you, but the little girl must be going now." he said, raising his hat and bowing. The child clung silently to heF new friend before leaving, and in the woman's eyes there were hot tears, and in her threat an aching dryness, as she gave the upturned face a lingering kiss and let her go. Her husband stood at her elbow as lawyer and charge passed through the doorway, the child twisting around for a last look. - Would she rebuff him, turning the lew- scorn of her eyes on him? Had he been a fool to detect any feeling for him in the whiteness of her face as she bent over the child? i Would he only make himself ridiculous? The stubborn pride which had helped to drive them so far 'apart tingled at the notion. But wasn't it worth the risk? "Your train goes next," he reminded her, watching her face intently. "I want to go with you, Honora. Of course, I won't go if it is offensive to * *- J you, DUt tnis IS SUCli a wrew;ucu uuaine?s. Do you know what w? are trying to do, dear? Can't we try each other once more? I know I've been a hidebound brute; it was just cursed pride all through; but I love you, dear, and can't give you up. Let me come with you, just part way if you like, Honora, dear!" In his heart he cursed the public waiting room and passing people, forcing him to stand like a miserable automaton and cautiously mumble the words that came rushing into his mind. Her band touched his arm' for an instant, her e}res looked into his, and she turned toward him like a weary child.' "Oh, no," she whispered back, a sob catching her voice, "I don't want to go away, dear! Oh, my husband, I want to go back with you! I want to go home!"?Agnes Louise Provost, iD Woman's Home Companion. QUAINT AND CURIOUG. The biggest gas meter in the world is at East Greenwich. When filled it contains twelve million cubic feet of gas. The ancient custom of putting a coin in the hand of the dead is still occasionally followed in the rural districts of France. The query of Cassius concerning the origin of Caesar's greatness is one often repeated in these days regarding the Japanese. Upon what meat doth the little Jap feed that he has Ac r.r?r>oorna his ma givnil au givat, no vvuvv.^. terial food, it has been many times stated, to the amazement of the world, that he does his fighting on that mild and insipid cereal, rice. The kite, according to ornithological authorities, is declared to be extinct, and it is practically so. But a vigilance committee has nevertheless been formed in Wales for the protection of the bird. A photographer recently traced one of the only pair of kites known to exist in South Wales to a cave in the mountains and with a lucky shapshot secured a photograph. There are about ten millions of migratory sheep in Spain, which each year travel as much as two hundred' miles from the plains to the mountains. Their m^rch, resting places and behavior are governed by special regulations, dating from the fourteenth century. At certain times no one may travel the same route as the sheep, which have the right to graze on all open and common land on the way. For this purpose a road ninety yards wide must be left on all enclosed and private property. The shepherds lead their flocks, which are accompanied by provision mules, and by large dogs, to guard against a night attack by wolves. Large Families in Great Britain. In St. Botolph's church, Aldgate, there is a monument to the memory of Agnes, widow of winiam rsuuu, who "bore him 1G children, eight boys and eight girls." That was in the spacious lGth century, but it is noteworthy that John Gully, grandfather of the late speak: er of the Commons, had 24 children. A .year or two ago a Northampton shoemaker entered*as his plea in the police court that he was the father of 32 children, of whom 27 were living: while 20 years ago Chester boasted of a couple who were "the happy father and delighted mother of 33 children," ten of them being alive in 1890. But the record in family numbers belongs to Scotland. It is that of a Scotch weaver in the 16th century whose wife bore him G2 children. Only 12 died in childhood, 46 sons and four daughters living to be 21 and upward. This almost incredible record is fully and absolutely authenticated. Sir John Bowes and three other gentlemen each adopted ana reared ten of this prodigious family.?London Daily Chronicle. 1 I A A A ; Palmetto State News; ^rv wWWVWVWWWWi Farmer Found Dead. Philip Hambright, a farmer 60 years old, was found dead near Kings' . Creek, Cherokee county, a few days ago. It is not known whether his death was caused by accident or vi? lence. * Clemson to Have Good Team. John W. McMackin, a former pitch er on Clerason's baseball team, and now with the Montgomery Southern League te^m, will coach the Clemson nine this year. That means tha> Clemscn will have a good team. * * * Ssuadron Goes^to New Orleans. Admiral F. W. Dickens announced that he had received orders to take the coast defense squadron, which consists of the battleship Texas, the monitors Arkansas, Florida and Ne\ada and six torpedo boats for a cruise in the gulf of Mexico, leaving Charleston February 12. The squadron is understood to be bound for New Orleans and will take part in the Mardi Gras celebration. Information received from the bureau of navigation is to the effect that the squadron will return to Charleston after the festivities in the Crescent City and probably will remain until the spring gun practice, which usually takes place near ixorioiK. * * Seeks to Repeal Charter. Senator Butler of Cherokee has Introduced a bill in the legislature to repeal the charter of the Richland Distilling company, which does a million dollar a year business with the state dispensary. Among the directors are N. M. Block of Macon, Sam Lanahan of Baltimore and J. S. Farnum of Charleston. Senator Butler will urge the passage of his bill on the ground that that concern's mean whiskey and its grafting practices are debauching the citizenship of the state. Representative Irby's scheme to free the farmers from the grasp of the fertilizer trust by allowing the counties to engage in fertilizer making, was promptly killed by the house after he had delivered hours of an impassioned speech on it. s ' * * * Alleged Poisoning Case. W. Cleare Dickinson, twenty-eight years of age, was jailed at Bamberg a few days ago, charged by the coroner's jury with responsibility for the death of B. F. Reid by arsenic poisoning, January 13. Reid, a young farmer and widower, that day complained of illness, and that he believed he had been poisoned. He died after a few minutes. The coroner's Jury Had tne Doay exnuineu <iuu caarained. Arsenic was discovered more than sufficient to kill a man. Eliza Bunch said that Reid came to her house, January 13, and while there Cleare Dickinson came in, and, taking a bottle of whiskey from his pocket, offered Reid a drink, but took none himself. Later in the evenihg he returned, and said that he "reck* ODed he had gotten rid of Reid." Sbe said that about two weeks before Dickinson had told her that he would kill Reid if he did not desist from hi3 attentions to her. Reid was a prosperous farmer, and Dickinson is bro ther to the mayor of Bamberg. * * ? f Anent Dispensary Matters. There are fifteen various and conflicting propositions relative to the dispensary on the house calendar, and some of these touch only on minor phases of the general situation. The outlook just now is that the real fight will be on two bills. First, on the bill proposed by the dispensary committee?this committee is largely composed of pronounced friends of the system?and then on the Morgan local option bill. It will be on these two bills that the chief fire will be centered. The former bill proposes to patch up the present system and provide for a slight change in the methods of doing business. The Morgan bill; on the other hand, starts out with the abolition of the state disDensary. The corner stone of the en tire fight is the state dispensary, and it is on this that the fight is to be made. If the house decides to abolish the state dispensary then the sailing will be easier, and the outlook now is thai a majority of the members of the bouse favor the abolition of the state dispensary and are not worrying them selves very much about what is coming afterwards. If the state dispensary is abolished, then even those who favor the retention of that branch of the system will perforce go to the Morgan bill to retain county dispensaries rather than give up the dispensary altogether. There are entire delegations that take this position, and it is a sensible position. They argue that if the general assembly adjourns without having done something to remedy the conditions as they are and do not respond to the demands of the public, then the danger is - w sSsa&ris a tidal wave of prohibition, and they do not want to be swept into the sea of prohibition, and it is better for those who want dispensaries to fall into line ai.d take county dispensaries rathei than run the danger of state prohioi tion. There is general consternation with lcgard to the order to Commissioner ' Tatum to withhold the payment of alj claims against the dispensary. Th last published statement shows thai the dispensary owes $455,000. This may have been reduced, but there is no public information available since tae import of the committee appointed by Governor Heyward issued its figures. * * Committee of Editors Meet. A meeting of the executive committee of the State Press Association was held in the state library at Columbia, a few days ago, to consider the time for the next meeting of the association, and also to discuss the program and other matters pertaining to the annual meeting. There were present Colonel William Banks, vice president; C. C. Langston, secretary; August Kohn, treasurer, and Mr. C. M. Galoway. Messrs. J. W. Doar and J. P. Gibson, members of the legislature, also met with the executive committee. It was decided that the program would be left open for a subsequent meeting of the committee, inasmuch as there was not a full attendance of the committee. In view of the fact that it is not probable that the association will undertake an extensive trip during the summer, it was suggested that a short trip be taken in connection with the annual meeting, so that those members who do not feel that they,have the time to spare from their offices, might be able to unite a little outing with the annual meeting, and In view of this suggestion, the president and secretary were requested to arrange for the annual meeting at some place outside the state. It is probable that the date for the annual meeting will be fixed the latter part of August, so as not to .Interfere with those members who desire to be at home during the progress of the state and county campaigns, which take place during the summer. STATEHOOD BILL PASSED. As Result of Voting Rule Measure is Cinched in the House. By a vote of 194 ayes to 150 nays, J cne siaieaooa diii was passeu oy uic house Thursday afternoon. - % Tie house at 11 o'clock sharp took up its special order on statehood. The debate was to run until 3 o'clock, when a vete on the bill was taken. As an echo of Wednesday's battle Mr. Lloyd of Missouri, the democrat "whip," made an explanation regarding the thirteen democrats who were absent when the vote was taken on the statehood rule. "A report is current," he Said, "to the effect that some of the democrats got away without voting and did so corruptly." He then proceeded to give the cause of the absence of the members in question. The three 'reasons, business, politics and sickness, covered all the cases. Those absent included Bell of Georgia, Brouse of Louisiana, Byrd of Mississippi, Cockran of New .ork, Hearst of New York, Hill of Mississippi, Little of Arkansas, McDermott of New Jersey, Patterson of Tennessee, Southall of Virginia, Sullivan of New York, Van Duser of Nevada and Senor of Indiana. Basing his prediction of the great future development of Arizona and New Mexico on the accomplishment of his own state, Mr. Kahn of California depicted the wrong that was being done in these two territories as one state. Mr. Mondell of Wyoming followed in the same line. He predicted the time when the representatives of the flourishing west would object to the representation accorded the dead and dying east because of its past prosperity. A brief speech also in opposition was made by Mr. Floyd of Arkansas. The debate shifted to the other side at this point. Mr. Cole of Ohio was heard briefly, and Mr. Capron of Rhode Island began a speech in favor of the bill, and then he said he would yield to Mr. Hepburn if he would recount the experiences of the territories of Iowa and Maine. Three times, Mr. Hepburn said, the people of Iowa rejected statehood, and when she accepted it was by the barest majority. 'Should the people of the territories now in question vote against coming in they would not be dragged in. Asserting that 98 per cent of the people of Arizona were opposed to becoming a state with New Mexico Mr. Webb of North Carolina based an argument against the bill. Negro Mutineers Gives Respites. Two of the three negro mutineers who were sentenced to be hanged in Wilmington, N. C., last Friday, perfected appeals to the supreme court ot the United States and the third, being the principal witness for the government against the other two, has been respited until July 1. r - "... i . * /.. V v.-r WHEELER FUNERAL | In New York Marked by Most Impressive Services. ..J AN IMPOSING PAGEANT. M * Great Throngs Lined Streets Through Which Procession Passed?Rider less norse uea oenma xne Funeral Car. , yfjtm f- -J*33?9S ? An imposing military pageant pass- * -id .. - . "r -[ ing across Brooklyn bridge, brief ser- ; vices at St. Thomas Episcopal church .-gl on Fifth avenue and an escort across ^ the North river ferry to Jersey City, where the body was placed on a train ' to be taken to Washington for inter- I ment in the national cemetery at Arlington, marked the funeral in NewYork city Sunday of Brigadier General Joseph Wheeler, cavalry leader of the? . confederacy and later one of the most prominent figures among the generals * of the Spanish-American war. The body or the dead soldier Was wrapped in the flags under which he had served with almost equal vigor and distinction?the stars and bars 'urala of the confederate states and the stars ^??1 and stripes. Veterans of the south ern and northern armies mingled,; together in paying tribute to General >-j| ^ .Wheeler, with the younger veterans / . of the Cuban and Philippines campaigns of 1893 and 1899. The route > of the funeral cortege was lined with" ^ -? ereat crowds, most of whom stood with bared heads as the funeral The funeral took place from the \ . home of General Wheeler's slater, a Mrs. Sterling Smith, in Brooklyn, $$ ' where General Wheeler died. ^Th> ' '.H , body was borne from the house /by ^ % eighty non-commiseloned officers of ' || infantry and placed upon a fiag-drap&J ":m artillery caisson. The seventy-first* | commanded by Colonel W. G. <Bale& ; / served under General Wheeler la Cuba, and on this occasion was girea ; : ? the post of honor, infantry from Gov- '*M ernor's Island, headquarters of the-46- l J partment of the east, United States Army, also joined the procession;^ A riderless horse, with boots re^ versed in the stirrups and a cavaJhy^/^' sword dangling from the saddle^ waa^? ^ led just behind the caisson. IgggjHI -isj The church edifice was throMDedgj^B'ja Seats had been reserved for memhere^ of the Southern Society, the Confed- / ^Jg erate Veterans' Association, the'So* ciety of the War of 1812 and several, other friends of the family. Reservations also had been inado> v^B"| for the honorary pallbearers, the staff ^ of Frederick D. Grant, United 8tet#J^ij -<i Army, and the officers of the escort ' r The altar of the church was almost/ hidden beneath the floral offierlnyt v^ among them a great wreath sent by President Roosevelt. _ % The brief services were conducted _ \ by the Rev. Ernest S tires, rector of . \ the church, who was formerly rector ; of the Church of the Good Shepherd ' ^ in Augusta, Ga., which Is situated near ^ the birthplace of General Wheeler, assisted by Rev. Morgan DIx, rector of Trinity church. Br. Stires, in beginning his sermon, 'This is one of the great occasion# . /jSB of our lives. For we are met to hon- '"'slsPi or the memory of a rare man. I do V noit speak to you of him principally ' as a citizen, statesman or soldier, for the mere record of his deeds is far more eloquent than any praise of ours --. could be. It is of the man I think at this hour. Was he entitled to be called great? It is not difficult you to decide. He was distinguished ? by courage without rashness, by wisdom without pride, by gentleness without weakness, by patience witkout heedlessness and by Justice with* ^ which always leaned toward mercy. The body arrived in Washington ~t^?| 10:55 Sunday night, and was at once I taken to St John church. A detach-\ 'lM. ment of Spanish war veterans formed an escort from the station and con- j stituted a guard of honor at the ca?- ' ' VICTIMS OF EXPLOSION. 1 Further Particulars of Coal Mine 01#aster In Indian Territory. | (Fourteen lives were lost in the ex- ' ' stajB plosion Wednesday in the WattviHe ~:'Jj mine, near Poteau, I. T. The explosion was caused by fire damp. Three " IflS *h/v fnn^non VtrullAa haVA hPPn rft. \ Ui uxu i^vu > -? 'y-'riKrf covered, but it is impossible to enter 'V*8K the mine because of gas to attempt .vUjg a recovery of other bodies. The explosion occurred in entry No. 4,' where sixteen men were at ?*jg fl work. Two of the men were able to make their escape. 3 DAMAGE SUITS A PROBABILITY. J:fM Judge Speer Comments on Macon's New City Chaingang. Judge Etaory Speer of the United States court says that the city coun- f M cil of Macon, Ga., should inquire if '"'.J? they have not violated another tradition of the constitution in the re-sen- JH tencing of a number of prisoners, who were on the county chaingang, and, <|?9 according to Judge Speer, entitled to ^99 a discharge from custody. 19