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-f wr. ?"v- ' " *:> * . jjC * TO-DAY. >4 Other suns "will shine as golden, Other skies he just as blue, ^ Other south winds blow as soltly, Oentlv drinking up the dew; Othei goldenrods and asters With the sun and sky agree. These for other men and womenJust to-day tor you and me. Other fruit of winey flavor < Wanderers will pluck and eat. ; Other birds with winsome voices Other songs will sing?as sweet; O'er the dappled brook will midges Dance an nour. then cease to be. 4 71 4'. - 1.1 ! 4 ? me wurjii nun na\e lu-iiiuiiow? | But to-day's for you and me. Other gardens will he planted 1 Fair as thts which we call ours. Other blooms will put- to shaming , These benign, old-fashioned flowers; All the glories of the sunset ' In the sunrise one may see. That which others call the dawning 1 Is the night for ycu and me. ?Success, j ! ?< _ " 1 AMONG j |j J THE i i JPICTURESk ; Scene: A West End picture gal- 1 levy. Gerald Markham, a young man ! < of thirty, is walking about in an aim- ? ~ , less way. engaged in the bewildering occupation of trying to forget. On < . - the previous evening he had made a 3 proposal of marriage to Dorothy 1 -; - War grave, and had been politely rejg:%: jected. s As he turns from one of the pic- i tures, he finds himself face to face i "with Dorothy and her aunt. Mrs. Ar. > buthnot. He is about to pass them ? , with an elaborate bow. when Mrs. Arbuthnot. who knows nothing cf bis ? rejection, stops hini. ? Mrs'. Arbuthnot: O Mr. Markham, t I'm so glad we met you. There's Mrs. t Waring in the next room, and I do '? so want a moment's chat with her. - .Would you mind taking Dorothy < round while I'm gone? Thanks, so *| , ' much. < Bustles away, beaming with i Jk smiles.) 1 Gerald (after contemplating his I boots for some seconds): Very de? . pressing weather for this time of the year, Miss Wargrave? Dorothy: Do you think so? Why, 5 the sun was shining as we came in. .Gerald: Was it, indeed? I didn't notice it. You must be sorry you ffpSp;-."icanie in> now. Dorothy: 0 not at all. I enjoy '.pictures. Will you show me some of ?|||: the best? Gerald: Certainly, if you wish it. This fas they stop before a large r canvas) is quite a masterpiece. It's a beautiful allegory of Death breaking the chains of tired souls weary of i,. the world. I think it's the most sat } - isfying picture I have ever Dorothy: It's rather depressing, isn't it? Gerald: Do you find it sc? 0 I am ill ?>? > s Tlftrnthr <3 *.hirj'r . - " V?. ***C5 J It seems all sunshine and brightness. s Do you know what it is? Number _ bN -19' i Gerald (referring to the cata r logue): Yes, 1 thought so. It's a r <' maypole dance of the fifteenth cen- j. |V:- turv. .If you look at it you will see that th? coloring is very convention- . al. The laughter of the dancers ^ seem to lack reality. One would say t V t that their merriment is forced and y h hollow. " Nov.* liere is a really fine j ^ piece of work, vThe Death of Ophe- . lia." J Dorothy: 0. and I suppose that's . _:"Hamlet bending over her? _ Gerald: Yes. You will notice what t a beautifully peaceful expression the artist has given her. as if death had ^ brought her happiness at last. The suggestion cf tears upon Hamlet's p-' ' eyelashes is quite masterly; and ihe " grief of that woman in the back- ^ ? ,-rj ground with her face buried in her', hands. You can almost see her frame ' jtJei ? TV; fet.v shaking with the sobs that ^ . - Dorothy: This locks nice: Number J p- * 25. I-like the gill's face awfully. ( :> Gerald (referring to catalogue): ( O yes. They simply call it "Be- ( * y trothed" here. It's rather showy a?nd 1 not very effective. Now the-next pic- ; ture, "The Dyins^ " Dorothy: O, do let me look at this j one a little longer, please. They look j so happy together, h Gerald: O. if it gives you any pleasure. I shall be only too delight- i ed. I'm sure. Dorothy: If you really think the | picture is a poor one, I'll pass it by. Gerald: Xot on my account, please. I am sorry if I seemed to be forcing an unweicome opinion upon you. - Dorothy: O, I hope I've done noth- j ing to suggest that your opinion is \ unweicome, Mr. Markham. I am sure there is a great deal in what you say, only Gerald: Perhaps I am a little prejudiced this morning. After all, the contemplating of other people's happiness, when one is Dorothy: Then you admit that they look happy? That's all I j claimed for the picture. Gerald (softening his voice a little): Yes, they look very happy. They have reason to be. They are? betrothed. Dorothy (speaking hurriedly) "What's this one. number 31 ? It i^ an I ' impressionist picture, I should think. Gerald (referring to catalogue): O yes. It's called the "Garden of Death.*' Some girl, crossed in love, filled her room full of flowers, and then laid down and died from the poisoned atmosphere. Rather dis" mal sort of subject, isn't it? Dorothy (shuddering): Horrid.1 Let's get away from it. (Takes his arm with an apparently unconscious V" movement.) \ v " Gerald: That's funny, isn't it? Number 53, "The Christmas Hamper." Somebody's sent the old boy a hamper, and he's found nothing in it but a heap of bricks and straw. Do look at the comical way he's holding the empty basket up and peering inside it. Dorothy (laughing): It's awfully clever, isn't it? I must bring auntie round and show it to her. She's very fond of anything that's really funny. There's a big picture over there. It iuuivs i<iiiirri wen iiuiii ucic. ? nviAder what it is. Gerald (as they walk up to it): 0 res! that's that celebrated picture, 'The Village Bride." Magnificent piece of work, isn't it? Kow the light seems to sparkle on her face! Dorothy: She's a very pretty girl, loo. Gerald: O, I don't know. I've met it least one who is far prettier. Besides, a girl never looks so pretty as ivhen she is wearing her bridal dress. Dorothy (a little embarrassed): rhat's a striking picture?the knight in armor and the lady and the solliers; what is it? Gerald: 0, that's Jackson's cele* ^ J ' Tf (N O ! uraictl yiL'lUIC, V JV.IU1 jr. n o a. knight who has come back from the tvar and is returning to his lady the scarf she tied on his arm as a talisnan. It's a great painting. Such a ' ine air of animation and rejoicing lbout it. See how glad she looks it meeting him again, and how j Mrs. Arbuthnot (hurrying up): My 'ear Dorothy, I've been looking for 1 *ou everywhere. I began to be afraid j [ had lost you. Dorothy: Mr. Markham has-been' ;howing me the pictures and explain- j ng them, auntie. And I've been so j nterested. Gerald: Not more so than I, I am ! ;ure, Mrs. Arbuthnot. Mrs. Arbuthnot: Well, we must be j joing. Are you disengaged this; evening, Mr. Markham? We are j lining alone, and should be delighted j o see you. Dorothy is staying with j is over Sunday. Gerald: I should be very happy in- J leed, if (looks at Dorothy) Dorothy (coloring a little and hold- ' ng out her hand with a smile): Au ; evoir, Mr. Markham.?G. A., iv Mack and White. , \\?. j IBxiJUiiiJUS. ^ j loving Parts Which Arc the "Brains of Plant Life." There are two classes of plants vliich are incited by man's presence .o describe certain definite move- ; nenis. One class, the sensitive )lants, retract their leaflets as we ap- ! >roach them as if they resented any j ittempt at closer intimacy, while the j >ther class, comprising all those vines ' rhich develop climbing organs called J endrils, will reach out toward us if | ve place our hands in contact with i hem, and will even use a finger as c ] ;upport to climb upon. We know i hat these tendrils will wind just as i eadily about a twig or a grass stem. : >ut as one feels these sensitive ; itrands multiply their encircling coils Lbout one's fingers there almost i ;ecms to be established between us ; md the vegetable world a more inti- ! nate : elatiouship than has ever exsted before. Tendrils are indeed capable of ex- j libiting faculties and going through : solutions more wonderful perhaps i han many of us realize. It is only i ifter we have seen them at work, esting with their sensitive tips the >bjeets they come in contact with, ipparently considering their suitabil- j ty as a support and then accepting or ejecting them, as the case may be? i is only then that we realize how ustly they have been called the brains of plant life." The thoroughness with which these vandering tips explore their sur oundings is illustrated by an instance I observed in a grapevine teniril. A cherry branch, whose leaves tad been variously punctured and scalloped by insects, hung near the enaril, and a particular leaf had i.ust one small hole in its blade, not jver three-sixteenths of an inch in liameter. So careful had been the exploration of the leaf's surface that .his one small hole had been discovered by the tendril, which had thrust itself nearly three ?incbes through :he opening.?Harper's Magazine. flood Snail Year, Good Sheep Year. ' Most people would be horrified to learn that the finest mutton in the world comes from sheep fattened on snails." rays a large breeder of Southdown sheep; "nevertheless it is a fact. In seasons when snails are plentiful the mutton from our sheep has a delicious flavor which it never acquires from the most scientific form of feeding. On the continent a diet of snails is a regular cure for consumption .and is said to fatten and nourish the body in a wonderful way. "There is a popular superstition/ - *? j- j-*? a j-i: ne aaus, "mac me unique auu ueucate flavor of Southdown mutton is due largely to the quantity of wild thyme which- they crop with the grass in their pastures. But personally I give the snails the greater part of the credit for the soft, plump flesh and the sweetness of flavor in our celebrated sheep. So much in their the case that the saying, "Good snail year, good sheep year,*' has become almost a proverb among shepherds and breeders."?London Mail A Boy Topsy. Out in Downs a little Swede boy went to school and the teacher asked his name. "Yonny Olsen," he replied. "How old are you?" asked the teacher. "Ay not no how old ay bane." "Well, when were you born?" continued the teacher. "Ay not torn at all, ay got s'epmutter."?Kansaf City Star : ~y~~- ~ v^". ~ r ~ illlSgiratCB j ^/p5>^ J i A German invention promises a new area in the production of lead j pencils. In the new process o* raanu! facture a composition made princi- j j pally from the potato takes the place of the cedar in the pencil. "People everywhere are going ! blind because of the glare of white j cement sidewalks," says Dr. Frank I Foster, of Warsaw, Ind., in a letter to ! in? uitv uouncn. ne uui iuuirs j increased number of spectacles to j J this cause, and suggests that dark- J j colored material be used in the con- I i struction of walks. j The highest tree in the world, so | far as has been ascertained, is an ! Australian gum tree of the species of | eucalyptus regnans. which stands in i the Cape Otway range. It is no less ; than 4ir> feet high. Gum trees grow I very fast. There is one in Florida j which shot up forty feet in four j years, and another in Guatemala, ; which grew 120 feet in twelve years, j This corresponds to a rise of ten feet i in a year, or nearly one foot a month, i i October always begins on the same : day of the week as January, April as. j July, September as December. Febj ruary, Maxell and November begin on * 9 T %w1 I the same aays. may, juiib uuu auj gust always begin on different days j from each other and every other | month in the year. The first and I last days of the year are always the j same. These rules do not apply to l(eap year. I Experiments have shown that, as a general rule, Australian coals are not specially liable to spontaneous combustion, with the exception of those coals that are rich in iron pyrites. If the pyritous portion, commonly known as "brassy tops," is exposed to the weather there is then a liability of spontaneous combustion, and it is important for the working of the coal that these "brassy tops" be absolutely got rid of in the mine if air be admitted at all to the seam. The American Institute of Social Service has received from Berlin an exhibit containing forty-five specimens of different kinds of dust? mineral, animal and vegetable?produced in various industries, and likely to be inhaled by workmen. Also the same number of photographs showing the microscopical characteristics of these various dusts. Models in wax represent human lungs as they are affected by occupational dusts; other models show normal lungs for comparison, while still v.r.v,o?7 +110 offoptc of industrial ULUCi O OUUU tiiv vmvvvm w poisons on the system. . H .Jury Was Sceptical. Judge Fox, of the Supremi Court, killed a turkey in southeast ' Missouri the day after- the hunting season closed. When his attention was called to his violation of the la./- he went before the grand jury and made a complaint, telling how lie had made a wonderfully long shot and did not expect to kill the turkey, but instructed the jurors that it was their" duty 10 indict him, especially as it was tils i duty to know the law, and his ov\.I sight was therefore the more inex! cusable. j When he afterward inquired why he was not fined for the misdemeanor j he -was informed that the jury did not believe he could have killed a | turkey as far as he claimed to have ! shot.?Linn Creek Review.^ i 4 Vr j Growth of Canada. j Canada, like the widow's cruse of i oil, seems to grow with the using, j One supposes there is an ultimate ; frontier somewhere Detween w.iwi I fields and eternal ice, but where shall we find it? The old geographers fixed it at the international boundary. Then it was supposed to be at Winnipeg. For years Edmonton was the "Last House." ar.d yet 4 00 miles north of Edmonton good wheat is grown and milled. The fact ie that no attempt has yet bem made to fix the northern limit of the soil which incites agriculture and offers rich reward to the willing farmer.?National Magazine. Peary Buys a Marine Belie. Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., has purchased of her D.imariscotta owners the ancient piukey schooner Mary, and will have her restored in an effort to perpetuate this vanishing style of craft. The Mary is strongly built and in good condition. She is the second oldest merchant vessel under the American flag, having been built at Portsmouth in 1811. Commander Peary is mueh interested in these ancient crafts, and has for some time been attempting to secure one to preserve as a type examniP. as the Dinkey build will soon be extinct.?Kennebec Journal. Crazy. "Why did you dismiss that employe?" asked one railway official. "He became annoying," answered the other; "he insisted on trying to figure out how much we could save by economizing on wreckages instead of on the payroll of signal operators."?Washington Star. A Just Jlcbuk<v Dying Magnate?"At this solemn moment I want to transfer to you a great trust " Pastor?"Hush, hush, my dear sir! At such a time vou should be turning your thoughts heavenward, instead of trying to unload on an unsuspecting minister cf the gospel."?Puck. X "r vl" r> A dh ' ;PalmettoStateflewsfj i 1 r ^ ^ f y f < Lumber Men to Meet Again. The North Carolina Pine Asosciaticn, controlling all the leading lumber j mils in that state and South Carolina, Virginia and eastern Maryland, which discussed, without action, at a meeting early in August, the question of a curtailment of the lumber output by thee losing down of the mills of the association, has been called to meet at Wilmington, X. C., September 4th for final action in the matter. ? * * Merchants Register a Kick. The Merchants' Exchange of Charleston has addrsae'sd a communication to Labor Commissioner Charles I-\ Neil! in New York, asking him to interfere in the strike of the telegraphers and improve the situation. The merchants all assert that they are losing money under the present unsatisfactory telegraph service and they have tired waiting for the companies to improve it. The exchange desires j to add to its telegraphic reports of the provision markets and cannot do so as long as the strike continues. * * w I To Frobe Discriminations. The special commission cf the legislature appointed at the last session to investigate the railroad discriminations against South Carolina and especially Charleston will ni'et in conference with the sta*.-^ railroad commissioners. The legislative commission has held several sittings in Charleston and done much work in examining the freight rates, conditions of tie roadbeds, tracks, equipments, finances, etc., and after the conference with the commisoirmor? tho lp?ns1?tr?rwill hp:r?n the preparation of their report for the 1-gi islature at its next session." * * Tillman Out With Iowa. A DesMoines dispatch says: Senai tbr Tillman is angry, not at the ne| grces this time, but ?.t Icwa, and particularly the Iowa newspapers. Senator Tillman dclivend a lecture at DesMoines, and since the lecture he has been assailed right and left by the [ Iowr. press. At Washington, la., he was threatened with lynching and numerous Iowa towns have threatened to do h m harm if he shows up there. Several lecture dates have been canceled because of the objections on the pan of the churches to his speaking. ? . In the address at Washing on the other evening Tillman came back at his enemies. He declared there was a gigantic plot to put him in bad odor with the administration and with friends at home, so as to defeat him if he came up for re-election. * * * Status of Telegraphers' Strike. Manager Sudu* of the Western Un135? * *1. P n -o era i or ion omce <tt ntueiio, i;, UbuiU j work at the Charleston office, in" ac- j cordance with orders of District Manager Dillon, supplementing thd force of the local operators. Mrs. Suder is also at a key, being probably the first time in the history of telegraphing in Charleston that a woman has had ' charge of a key in a local office. Operator Kennedy of Brunswick is also at work in the Charleston office. J. A. Cooper, formerly manager of the Brunswick office, who has been assisting in the Charleston office, has gone to Albany, Ga., to reopen the office at that point. The telegraph situation has improved somewhat in Charleston, but the merchants and business interests generally are still oomplaining vigorously. * * * German Baron Investigating. Baron von Pilis, director of the North German Lloyd Steamship com ? ~ *i ? ? . ? rt l'Mrt r\f Immi. psuy, now pi a ixuc grant and freight vessels to Mediterranean ports, arrived in Charleston last. Monday for a conference with J local interests, looking towards the j establishment of Charleston as the terminus of the line for the supply of immigrants to all this section of the south. Indications are favorable for the establishment of the line and a definite announcement to this effect j is expected. Baron von Pilis was the guest of the commercial organizations on an excursion around the harbor Monday night, and a banquet was given in his honor. Speeches were made by prominent men and much enthusiasm expressed over the project. * * * Political Fling at Capers. A Washington dispatch says: E. W. Screven, deputy collector of internal * ^ a Vv/arwi revenue in. ooum Liin-una, nas utcu appointed revenue agen't for North and South Carolina, with headquarters at Greensboro. Screven, who will assume the duties of the position during the next few weeks, was a candidate - r . f. . 00,','. mnmmmmmmammmmmmm?mmmmmmmmmmm?mmm for the postmastership in Columbia, John G. Capers, the temporary commissioner of internal revenue, who retires next December, is accused of forcing Screven on the government so as to tighten his hold on the southern political situation. It is also alleged that he was forced to appoint John H. Huggins as postmaster at Columbia and to square himself, he created J Corovoti ] UltJ JWU iUi i^w ^ URGED PEOPLE'S RIGHTS. For This Cause Governor Smith Su* pended Him, Says Deposed Rail* read Commissioner Brown. When Railroad Commissioner Jo rcph M. Brown received notice of his dismissal at the hands of Governor Smith, he was iri his office at the capital answering a number of requests for his recent pamphlet showing that reduced freight rates have been ac companied by an increase in the price cf all articles upon which reductions were secured. When asked about the order of the governor and his plans, Commissioner Brawn staV:d that he had recently received numerous requests for this pamphlet, not only frcm Georgia, but from Alabama, and eight or ten other states. "I have had no intimation from the governor as to his purpose," Commissioner Brown said,, "and hence can only judge from the logic of past events as to what his reasons were. "To begin with, when I came on the board in August, 1904, there was pending before it. a petition from the Atlanta freight bureau, asking th commission to put in the well known port rate. There was also' pending a Petition for reductions in interstate rates, which was of vastly more importance to all cities and sections of the state than the question of rates between Atlanta and the ports alone. The mere important petition was ta ken up first and resulted in the agree* ment secured in February, 1905, which was followed by the announcement of the reductions made in May following. "Then the port rate question was taken up, and Governor Smith, then as an attorney, appeared before the beard and strongly urged that it be granted. Decisions of the United States suprtme- court, so far as I could read them, put it out of the power of the board to grant the reductions asked in this petition; hence I, with another member of the board, felt that we had to deny it. "A fsw weeks after that time, Mr. Smith made public speeches, in which he announced that, if elected governor, he would suspend me. "After we reduced freight rates, I noticed that the prices of everything on which rates were reduced had adtanced. I got from the United States bureal of labor office figures showing the prices before the rates were reduced, and also the prices in Decern ber, 1906, and I showed in a pampmet which I isued that this reduction of $2,000,000 in the freight rates had been all absorbed by manufacturers and jobbers, and that farmers and the other laboring people of Georgia not j only received no share of the reduclion in rates which had been promised J them, but that Governor Smith's foriner clients and other manufacturers and jobbers throughout the state were absorbing the reductions and then raising the prices until they were higher than before the rates were reduced. 1 naturally assume that Governor Smith's feeling of loyalty to his former clients, the manufacturers and the jobbers has caused him to take the action toward me wihch has just been made public.'" Asked as to whether he would take any steps to contest the action of the governor in ordering his suspension, Mr. Brown replied: "Being an official of the state, appointed by the proper power and clothed with certain duties of momentous interest to the people of Georgia, I I .1...-.? T ts7/->5tM ho rofrpanf to mv UCCUi UIU.I. x n?uiu ?- ? ?? duty if I consented to the proposed subversion of their rights equally with Oiy own. In brief, the question for the people to determine, is whether the prejudice or whim of the governi or shall, or shall not, supplant the constitution and the statute laws of the state." Commissioner Brown stated that he would be at his office in the capitol, as usual, and as to his future conduct would be guided by whatever his cou& sel advised. CAN SEND TELEGRAMS BY MAIL. I Question of Illegality Passed Upon by United States District Attorney. It is not illegal to send telegrams , through the mail, is the statement j made by United States District Attorney Lyman M. Bass, at Buffalo. Efforts were made by the striking telegraphers' to bring the managements of the Western Union and Pctsal companies into court for receiving messages at the regular rates and then sending them by mail. Mr. Bass says that there is no fed eral law covering the case. V . - " ? " ' :V----yS?l ft - " SITHMS BROWN * Georgia Governor Suspends Railroad Commissioner. i .*jvS2 ? * I ACTION IS SENSATIONAL 'J 4 S. G. McLendon is Immediately Appointed to Fill Vacancy?Governor Gives No Reason in the Order for His Action. Hen. Joseph M. Brown, one of Georgia's railroad commissioners, was suspended from office Wednesdaymorning by Governor Smith. - - . ' ? ^ non. ?. liuyion Aicijeuaon 01 rncmasville, elected last fall to succeed Commissioner Brown at the expiration of his term, October 15. was immedi' ately appointed to succeed the sus- ' pended official. Commissioner Brown was immediately served with copies of the order in his office. He took the matter very quietly. vMr. McLendon drove to the capitol . about 11;30 o'clock Wednesday morn.ing and was sworn in by Governor Smith. This action placed him in authority in less than two hours' after his appointment. mt - - -< ,V. ..J. ..? J !?W ine secnou 01 c^ue uuucr wu:i,u the governor predicated his action ill . \*S\ suspending Commissioner Brown is as follows: "Any commissioner may be suspended from office by order of the 'v:|P governor who shall report' the fact j- $ of such suspension and the reason therefor to the next general assembly,, and if a majority of each branch of the general assembly declare that said commissioner shall be removed from office, his term of Office shall expire. The governor sh2ll have the same power to fill vacancies in the office of commissioner as to fill other vacan- M cies, and if for any reason said commissioners are not appointed during; / the present session of the general as- % ' sembly, the governor shall appoint thein thereafter and report to the next senate, but the time until then shall not be counted as part of the term. of office of said commissioners, respectively, as herein provided." There are various surmises as tothe causes leading up to Governor Smith's action. In his campaign and ' since his election the governor stated \ , repeatedly that it was his purpose to have a commission in conformity with^ > his views, and that if any commis- fy sioner failed to do his duty he would suspend him from office. Several contributory causes are believed to have actuated the chief execirtive. Commissioner Brown has given out various interviews recently to show that freight reduction means f nothing to the consumer, but that it simply puts the money in the handsof the^ manufacturer and the wholesaler. ^ He also dissented frora the majority opinion of the commission in the passenger rate reduction, effective September 2. He adhered to the zone sys- ' | tern, and when the majority opinion rmt rm record a dissent that agreed only in part with the finding of the other two members. It is believed I that Governor Smith felt t?at Commisi sioner Brown was in the main opposed I to the reforms desired by him, and in- * dorsed by the masses at the polls. ^ Under the act authorizing the removal of a commissioner it will be noted that the governor is required to * * ' . specifically set forth his reason to the general assembly. This canont be done now until the next session. Com. missioner Brown's term would have expired on October 15th next. Commissioner Joseph M. Brown was i elected a member of the railroad corn! mission on August 13, 1904. He came ! to the office with twenty years of railroad experience back of him in th? service of the Western and Atlantic; both when the property was operated by the state and after it passed under v the control of the Louisville and Nashville. As a rate expert, he ranks high, . many considering him one o* the best ' rate experts in the country. He has been a deep student of tariffs^ traffic and all matters apparetaining to the business. While a student in Harvard, Mr, Brown's eyesight failed, and for a long * while it was feared he would be totally blind. It left him with a permanent eye trouble. News of the suspension of Commissioner Brown spread rapidly through the capitol and the city, creating h sensation. . THROWING AWAY MONEY. Uncle Sams Pays Out Much Cash in the Pacification of Cuba. It cost the United States government $2,554,970 in addition to the regular ordinary expense to keep the United States army of Cuban pacification in that island during the fiscal year of 1907. This fact is shown in the annual report of Quartermaster General Aleshire. i