The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, January 18, 1894, Image 1

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I.1 -. , '. . 11 . p - Y PICKENS, S.C Vol. 44 IKNS , THURSDAY, JANUARY 1S, 1891 U. 0. DoWN. L. E. CnILDRES JOWEN & CHIU DiRESS, AAtr ys a O17. A. MOGAN Lawyer, Greenvill., , . V. Practiee in .al Courts. E peelal attention given to P okens Cpwut. Cas. Jan. 7,92 D J W NRWOD Denit Dr. W. M. Ni.nwoop" Asssanlt, Osle* 8.1 Main Street, Greenvile, S. C. ville, 8. 1D.. ofice over Addison & McGods'Drug Store. - 11l4J.I. W1iI,;llMS is now Pwrni iptitly located at Ilickel, and)eI eLles' tile Prtsslomal Sorvlcei -to tihe pleoplA of tlhe town apld surroundiiig cotry. Of fieu aid residerice at Lite 0 riflin lion-c. ct. 26--311; The Exchange Hotel, GREENVILLE, S. C. 0. W. ,XENDERSON, Proprietor. Marn Improvmeits. Targo R'ons. speciatattention to Comnercial Tr'avel an Tourists. Ta41c Fare Unsurpassed. Fine Climate the.ycar ropnd.. Ap. 7, 9'2 J.'. AQ00OD,. J. 1,. T1HoRN LEY, Ju - L. C. THIORNLEY. HAGQ0D &, THORNLEY BROS., Livery; Teed, -01 & I.cbge gtablli, kasley -and Pickens, S. C.. .- (Oppoilte I lotel.) Carrilges, Jlnggles.' and Saddle Horses, at reasonable rates. *@!.-Your Patronage solicited. ARNE CLA K. Guo. E. Coorna ClArk & Cooper, Deelers iit TOM1SSTONZS8, of every description Also. MAqTHEB. S''ATUARY, VASES and Wrought Iron -FENCING, Greenville, S. 0. . Sept. 19, '91. If you want the finest PICTURE$ made In the State, go to Wheeler's Studio, 113 McBee Aveune Greenville, S. C XRW Crayon Portraits a peciallty A pril 7-y. 06isses c0yag Hlats ready for inspection. Latest styles in Walking Hats for Ladies and Children. Infits- aps and Hats, All the Noveliti "All Goods at Cost for 80 days." PRIZE WjNNfR:, Ftrimshed oti 15 daa i'A tem. when he rt ier % \tct. is siglnid4). If yotu wiatu an org:au of. Repuratiop Bly tl Carpenter Organ.. 1,OW E14T P'RIC.i OR.UAKif, W. J., B, S'-ILES. Nov 9, 93 Dealer in Wa~tches D~olands & IoweIk, GR~EENVTLLE, S. C. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Oct. 19.-3m To I~~ty the best~ DRU(GS, at thet lowest priccs. Fullhlne of BLANk BOOKS, STA TIONERIY and S C I10 0 L SUP PLIES. Closing ont our PAily TS, A T A full line of AR T IST'S MATE. RIALS. DuT.-BACOT & CO., 'West Greetzville, S. 0. Oct. 5, 1893.--6m. $100 Reward For the Merchant that gives you more Goods for your money thun I will. Just notice the following pri ces : CLOTHING--NEw STOCK. Youth's Suita at *3.74 Do. Aop 4.75 Do. "do 5.50 Men's' - o - .7 Do. do * 6.50 Do. do - . 7.00 and upto $15.00. Cfe, 10 pounda to the dollar., 1r3its, all styles, frotn.4 l'-2.to'6c. all c<iors 7c. Good Brogan Shoes 75 cents-eii er Shoces ins proportion. A lot of' Shoes, small 'and large Nos., at cost.' Childrens course .shoes 12i .cents per pahs-. Jeans at 18, 20, 24 and 80 cents. Can't, bp beat at the pr'ice. 1 will buy your lint Cotton, Seed Cotton, and Cotton: S'3ed, at inarketI prices. Also, dr y or green Hides. Mr. C. IL Parkins, and Rlichard T. I1alinni/ar6 nowv with me, atnd will be glad t9 tueet their ftiends. . RspectfuUy, J. HI. Brown - lry 8.n . 0. Oct 1B 189. Smith c Smith, Is the Place for EP -lFURNITURE1 Split Bottom Chairs, Cribs.. Cradles, Tables, Waslistands, Wardrobes, Bureaus, Bedsteads, Mat trasses, Carpets, Cofihns and Caskets, 1) ay and Night. Telephone No. C- and 38. Night culls will be answored by Tele. phioue No. 38. SMITH & SMITH1, 03 and 65 Miin Street, Greenville, S. C The Best WI lrgest STOCK or AH D0088 AND BLINDS BOTH WHITE AND YELLOW PINE, ;EILING, FLOORING, WEATH ERBOARDING, BOX-BOARDS,z WASH-BOARDS. PARTITION MOULDING, &C. lOT-BED SASH, 3 FEET BY 6 F E ET, at $1.75 Each. 07- Please give us a call when you ieed Building Material, T. C. GOWER & SON. 101 Washi1 ntoin Street, Oct. 19. Greemille, S. C --DEAIIS MN All Kinds of Staple and T~aucy Groceries, Grain, Jiay md Feed, We are mak'ng a SPEC.. [ALTY of Flour, and can :ertainly please as to quality md price, Our Christms Goods are~ rriving and we invite you to aall and sees themi. Spera E RS rgusog~s. Corner Pendleton and River Street~. Greenville, S. C, Drugs! Drugs! I HEAVE on band at all thues~ a tull line of pure DltUJGS, CllEM1(CALS, TOL f1&T AlR TICLE8, FA NCY (1 0 0 1) R, PEIlIFUMEltY, FINEl STfATlIONElUY. A large stock of COU~li S-YRUPD) that will cure yonr Conghs and Col'ds. A u-of Djamnata EYIN GLASSES a 8A(LES for y'our eyes'.'l Ill (t y'OU up so that It. will be0 a: pleasure for t~e n eao to go to Garderinug Gardeit Seeds, Will keep a fqi. line op hand. Then thdr are PAINTS and OILS -inm ul rluoe n Devery thing usually found a g"* Physlelana' Preaemript ions carefully compond:, day or nIght. W~hen you come toliaIsly giveme a call. Res~pectfually. C. N. Wyatt, MA - Easie. 8.O.. Fb.9ila n's Old Stand WATTERSON ON THE TARIFF. a LOUISVILLE, Jan. 8.--At the an nual meeting ot the Wattorson Club, the great Democratic asso ciatioi of this city, Mr. Henry t Watterson was the chief speaker. After some introductory remarks P Mr. Watterson said: c If history wore fiction, and poli- c tics a game of blind-man's buff, d poots would be statesmen, and e only children would vote. Thoro t was never a more deliberative act h done by a deliberative body than C the substitution of tho Neal plank a for'tho Vilas plank by the Nation- J al Democratic Convention of 1892. s It was the logical culmination of vN a campaign of education covering a ten years. It was an act of the a people setting aside a subterfuge of the politicans. It was not dono at the (lead of night, under whip t and spur, but between the hours I of 6 and 9 o'clock in tho ovoning, p) when the Convention was wide n awako and know perfectly what n it was about. It was not jlanned, f to obstruct the nomination of Mr. Cleveland ; though, if the Conven tion had suspected that Mr. Clove- a land had any hand in the original 0 tariff plank, which it struck out, I be would not havo received one- 1 third of its votes. Both Mr. Vilas 1) and Mr. Whitney were assured by t myself and others that no obstruc- a bion was meditated ; and it is well i known that, averse as I was to the tj iamination of Mr. Cleveland, I c cogardod it as a foregono conclu ;ion before the Convention mot, imd had consed to disturb any- -r ,)ody or to be disturbed on that P iccount. In short, in the most locisivo and, as far as anything in American potitics can be solemn. in the most solomn-at least in the most serious way-the Con vention ended, as I hoped finially and forever, the long struggle be twoon the forces of light and dark ness in the Democratic party by ( stamping out. a double-tongued I assertion of its tariff policy and t inserting a declaration which no C hluman being could miisunderstand s or misreport. Randallism was dead-Carlislo- IV ism was rampant. And with Clove- I land for Moses-Cleveland, and d is message of 1887-Clovoland, y is the Democrats' -ideal of tariff it reform-we wont to the country. It We mot the onset of tho Ropubli- P Caans full iln tront. Th ey madc tI Ltheir fight directly on our tariff " plank. They described 'it a a I slip out of the Confederate Coi-- a atitution-. They denounceed i6 as a Ca 1hI otu n' is m, redivivijs. There A was nothing that could be said of a it, or of us that they did not say. ih All thle worn out pleas of protoc- $ Lion, all tile exploded shells of r sectionalism, were throwvn into tile t; breach wve had made ill tihe wall of d the robber castle. But thley didl o not suffice to save it. In spite of all, withl our tariff-for-revenue-on- _ ly flag flying and our down-with- c protection dIrumns beating, we (drovo e the robber barnos out of their t earth-works, across tlaoir moats ej and dikes, into their lair, and out o again, remaining, for tihe first time i since 1857, comloto mal~stors of v tihe situation, every dlepairtmoneut of t tile Government ill our possess- a ion. THE MORAL OF THE~ VICTORY.. a Eithler we were righut, or we w~ere v wrong. Tile vote os 1890, follow- r ing the passligo of tile McKinley a Act, seemed to indicate that tihe I' people thought we were right. I But the vote of 1892, electing a I Democratic President and a Dom- a :>cratic House. arid Senate, wvasi conlclusfivO onl this point. If it was nmo.t' so then somebody was " most ( gregiousl y dleceived. WVho was it? An einenl~lt member of the pros- 'j ont Governmn I ai Hd to m11 just s after thoe electio'ns of lasit Novem- -i ber. "It seems imp~ossiblo nowa- r (lays for the party loaders to make I I sure of their voters I" JMo spoke in a tone of genuine despondency. "Howi' f aii . 'you expoet any thing olso," I. r'opied, "when you are al-1 ways deceiving and disappointing I them? The voters are 'all right. They know whatethey want and what they moan. It is that as oonk as 01ne of these little great' ) men gets into what lie thinks ai big and a snng place that ho Ca.a I bout to see how he maiy koop t,i rid straightway lie sets up for a itilo tin Jupiter, who knows more han anybody else. Then the poo lo, finding him too groat a man o be good for anything, turn about ud turn him out, often in sheor ervorsity! Mon of real genius, f real courage, of real conviction, f real inspiration, of real worth, o thoir duty first, and count the osts afterward. As a consequonce lio voters believe in them and fol )w thei, even as they followod lay through forty years of sun nd showor; even as they followed ackson through thirty years of borm and battlo; oven as they 'ill follow you, if you daro to be R brave and honest as Jackson ad Clay!" - My friend asked mo what I ou1ld do if I woro chairman of io ways and means committoo. will tell you what I would do, recisely as I told this eminont iomber of the Government, my iuch-loved and very honored riond. A TARIFF FoR lREVENUE ONLY. By the aid of the best experts Ad an .orities I would got togoth all .io noodful statistical data. wou I then find a clean shet of rtpor. I would lay this o1 tho ta le-niot tho little round one, but 10 big, oblong tablo in the ways ad eioaiis coimii)it tee room. Then would open the cupboard con kiling, among other porishablo mtonts, the McKinley bill; I ould take this out-nono too mitly-and pitch it into the fire. lien I would draw upon my clean eco of paper throo linos. Thus: Article. Duty. Revenue. I would begin at tho top of the rat column with sugar. Thon the uty-say one cent a pound. Thon ho .ostimated rovenue-say $35, 00,000. Then I would abolish the agar bounty, making a difference f $45,000,000 in"'the rovenuo. I ould follow with tea and coffee. would continuo, giving preco Ice, as far an possible, to revenuo iolding comnodities not produced i this courtry down through the Irgest revenuo yielding domestic roducts-without the least rega rd > rotectioni, incidental or ot her iso-and when I got $200,000.000 would iltop. -T'hen I would take iother bit of white paper and 1 ould frame an- intorinal Revenue .dt raising $175,000,000 on spirits Lnd tobacco-making $375,000,000 1 all-and the rest, $50,000,000 or 75,000,000, as tile estimates might >quire, I wioul~d raise 011111 iniconLe ux, first oni inheritances and( dlivi ens, anid t heni, it need rei.nired, a big incomes. Theon I wiould~ call tile coinmmittee -the D~emocratic members of the >mlmittoo, I mean-and, when aniy no of them proposed to confuse 1c simp~licity of this perfectly 'ariff-for-revenue-only Act by the ld cant aibout the dlangor of b)eing >o precipitate and extreme, I 'ould knock hull out-not down y saying: "1Road( the (Nation 1 Democratic platform." And, if notheor should try to befog thre is uio, to juggle the rotulrns, as it 'ere, by an effort to revive the old lisleading systonm of schedules nd classifications, I would tako im-not b~y the collar, but, by the utton-and lead him over to the teopublican sido of the table and [Ly to him: "Th'lo Mc~iinloy bill 4 burnti up." Finally, I would say-t~o thomn 1111 Gontlemon, I am a Domiocra t. In coordanco with the Diooeratic landato I have prepared here ai 'ar if--for-revenue-only Act. It is :) simple a child may un)dersta1nd ,; it is so plain and' honest that o advantage can bo taikon of it, am11 going to report this bill t. hie H ouse. Vote against it i f you Lareo!" Tlhis is wihat I would (do if 3vro chairmnan-supposi ng, I say, hat I were chairman-of the'wvays mid meanis commllittool. ..THE cOWiARD's REFUG~J~E. Well, anid what wiould happon? Nhy, all the big cowards and thc ittlo cowiardls in tihe party-I mear noffice-wiould hold up thoil mands in holy horror. Som would call mo a lunatic and oth ors a fool. The robber barom would roar back on their haunchoi and howl. It would look for t while as though holl had brok< looso for cortain. That would noi phaso me a particle. I have hears tho wind whislo through the rig ging many a time, and lived t( toll the talo on dry land and ii dry garments. I would stand b3 my guns and fight for my faith and in tho end I would got mor votos for my bi!! than I fear car bo got for the Wilson bill, as orig inally roportod. If passed, w( should have something worth hav ing, and, if it should fail, as il probably would we could go to th( people with a squaro issuo-a plair issuo--an issuo soparating th( lambs from the kids, sending tei cowards to the roar and the wolves in sheop's clothing back into tih Ropublican party whoro they be long-and brnging tho whole question to the finality, whether wo aro to livo under a protective, or a rovonuo system. FROM TIE FEw TO THE MANY. I appoal from tho solfishnoss and timidity of the politicians to the con1non honesty and coninonl sonso of the people. I apl)oal from the rapacity of the American aris tocrat, rolling in luxury an(] wealtb, to simplo and homoly go nius of that Americanism which won tho llovolutiolary battlo fi a liberty and made th Constitution. I do not confuso the issuo. I an: not the slavo of a singlo idea. I knoW that theory is one thing and practice is another thing, and tht~t statesiansihip is a practical sci once'. But ho i; no statosman whC dos not hitch tho stoods of action to the hackney coach of theory, and oven thon-as hto stands with the roms in his hands-ho must look far beforo, seeing not 0111 with tho eyos in his head, but ou1 of thoso eyos of tho mind tha reach much further. I boliove in tho integrity am courage of Grover Clevoland. believo in the patriotism and gon ius of John G. Carlisle. If w< coul( put tho two into one Jacksorl would live again. I am giving fIe Administration the most earnest and disintorested support, becausc I boliovo it is trying to do right and becauso, In the main, my judg mont approves tho fruits of its i tontion. My judgmant doos not apprl)ovO tile WilIsoni bill oither in method or in detail, but if it is thc host that can 110 got out of Con gross so 1)0 it. 1 shall say nothing (10 nothiing, to make its transi I harder. It is, at least, som() (1. groos hotter than tile McKinley bill, since it p)rocoeods upon the lower and1( not upon the highei scale, and faces in tihe right diroc. tion. But it is far, very far, from a mecasuro that can 1)0 truthfully do. scribod as5 omblodying tile idea ol "a tariff for revenue only." It i mloroly hlotter than the McKinloy bill iln dogroe, not inl kinld, and1( ii protectionlismn is ver to hoe dlilodg. (1(, I doubIt tho Trojau-h.lorso strat egy to which it seems to incline) We liv'o in tho ago of th(, Carnogici andl thel Goulds, niot in that of Pri. am and1( En'oas. rTE wHYB ANn) wVHER(EFOREs. Th1e( cry of the poor~ goes upl t< God for work I But there is n work. Why? Becauso we can pro duco mn nine months more thai we consume ini twelve. The rom ody? More consumers; wider mfarl kets; freedom of trade with ali mankind. Let us out of this blac' 1h010 of protoctionismi, where, wit.] ban~ks burstin~g with mnoney amt3 miillioniaires mlitiplyinlg by hun11 and(s. Let us out, out to th worIl, anid, wVith p)lanJts establish od(, pro'cossos por1footed and cheap 01n0d, trade mnarks andI~ paitonta car rying all tihe protection that 110n esfy ought to desire, and wve car moot andl beat all our comnmercia rivals-yea, England--m over3 neutral market, recovering thosi markets that geographically be long to us, but wvhich have boom stolen from us hy our sensoles p)olicy of restriction. THlE TWO REPORTS. I have read with exceeding car and deop) concern thpo reports ac -companvaag the newly-introducel mieannen of tariia rii. Tn Democratic report bogins by a masterly declaration of tariff-for. revenue-only logic, to end in (n actual exposition of Protectionist practice. Thte Republican report seizes the weak point effectively add both in its sarcasm and its offrontery shows us how impossk. blo it is to placato the implacable. -For the chairman of the ways and moans committee I entertain the very greatest respect. Ho is an able, conscientious, patriotic Doni. ocrat. He has'encountered diffi culties and mado sacrifices and ondnred disappointments, which should earn him the sympathy rather than the criticism of hi, party associates. But with sub mission I think ho has been forcod by pressure and not by his own .consent to bring in a measure that strikos a blow at the cause of gon uine tariff reform, and may et tho p9licy of revonuo only back ior many years to come. FREE TRADE VERSUS PROTECTION. I do not claim nearly so much for froo trade. I claim that it will make more work by creating wider markets. I claim that it will do croaso the costs of living in groat or monsure than it will roduce'oarn ings. Tho question of wagos is a question of supply and domand, puro and simplo. In the crowded cities, wliero mon must work or qtarvo, thoy take what they can ;,'t and wagos or low. In now and less crowded conimunities, where opportunitids aro open to all and good nio are at a promnium, wages aro high. As our wasto placos aro filling up the problom is how shall all who want to work bo kept in stoady 0111 ploy ment? Relatively, wages are bound to go down as popula tion increases and labor-saving ma chinery takes the placo of hand work, and the problem is, how shall wo decrease in fair proportion th< cost of living? My anspor to th< first problem is by breaking dowi ithe barriors that shuit us out fron froo commercial intorcodrso witI the rest of the world, which wantl as much of .ua as wo want of it And to the second, by a fairer dis tribution of tho fruits of labor ho. twoon the emnployeo, and tho om. ployed. But, I am asked, can theose two things b dono withoul ruin to the Amorican manufactur. er? My answer is that they car bo dono and have been done to the eminent good fortune of Ameri can manufactures and comnierco and can be done again to with th< same result ; that we have ha'd good and bad seasons under all tariffs high and lowv; but that tihe low tar iifY offers advantages to the many biy curtailing subsidy and limiting monopoly, while a high tarifi pours wvealth into the lap of the few by the opportunities it offers to combinations and trusts. Fom proof I point to tile operations oi thirty years of protection; enorm one wealth in a few hands; a uni, versal struggle to live among th< many; doeper, darker contrasts o: life, and discontent everywvho. There will not be such excessivi and unequal profits to tile mann facturer. There will not be s< mnany great fortunes accum iul atos by the spoilod children of monop oly. The trusts will be harder ti form anid maintain, and hene few > or in lnmber. Bunt thoerf will be - more general diffusion of the rea i wealth of the country. Therewvil - be more work, and steadier work .. and a greater demand for labor 1 The living of the poor will hi - cheapenod. The living bf all ivil Ibe bottered. Socilismn wuill b)< 1 shorn of its nmost potoxu rgumen - and on10 firobrand at least wvill bc . ex tracteod from tho~ brai n--one b)u'l lot frm'llto weapt1o-of the anar . i ist. I do not predict tihe millonnium No Act of Congress, but God's wvil - alone can hasten that. Bunt ft'e trade may, and I believe it will l witness the realization of the drean r of that statesman who braved th e xocrations of the rich, and li< - cown power, with tile hxodo that hi imight "leave a name someotine I remembered with oxpressions < good will in. the abodes of thou wvhose lot it is to labor and to ear their brow, when they alhall recrm - their exhausted strength with abui .1 dant and untaxed food, the swee e Loontinund on annond namn 'l FAAA *140"O."BRG1.(" ]CDT "What do or Bright think of .11A. 47 ary cut down to. $80 Sentinel. Well, neighbor, that deped - what is reqdiIred.-of the.13 Commissioner to do. If,as repo ed, he is only to play clerk i offico, it is too high. Su p wait until we see the law o t subject before we play thp act-that is too common 11o,W you and, I to gain notoriety. - NOTICE TO TRUSTEES. ; Thoroewill be a meeting of all the Trustees of the Free Publio Schools of Pickens county at Pick.' ens C. H., on Saturday, February 8d, 1894. Each and every Trustee is requested to attend, as business of importanco to each and every School District will be discussed, - W. W. F. BRIGHT, S. C. P. C. Teachers and others holding claims against the School Fund for the fiscal year 1892-98 are roquest-. ed to' road the following and gov. orn themselves accordingly: "It shall be the duty of the County School Commissioner, on or before tho first day of Fobruary in each year, to report to the County Treas uror a statement of all school claims by him approved for the fiscal yonr last preceding; and the County Treasurer shall thereupon closo tho school accounts for that yoar, carrying over any balance to the crodit of tho then curreut fiscal year." There are more private schools running in this county now than for soveral years past. The publio schools have not done. what was oxpected of them, and the people are coming to the rescue. Go thou and do likowise. All ia boing done to get books in this county that can, be dQne,, and with all the rapidity that Is possiblo. The followin g is a list of . Abo. nam118 0nd numbers of the School Districts in the coufity: Crosswoll, No. 1; Dayton, 2; Zion, 3; Flat Rock, 4; Ruhamah, 5; Symmes, 6; Tabor, 7; Calhoun 8; Central, 9; Johnstone,s, 10; Liberty, 11; Union, 12; Easley, 18; Mauldin, 14; Lenhardt, 16; Farm's, 16; Lathem, 17; Maynard, 18; Cedar Rock, 19; Bethlehem, 20; Roanke,21; Gates, 22; Long Branch, 23; Garvin, 24; Kings, 2 5;~ Palestine, 26; Six Mile, 27; Pra. tors, 28; Wolf Creek, 29; Town Crook, 30; .Pickens,. C. H., 31; Glassy Mountain, 82; Mica, 83; Carpenter's Creek, 34; Olga,. 85; Oolonoy, 36; Ambler, 37 ;. Hagood, 8; Twelve Mile, 39; Martin, 40; Mile Creek, 41; Gap Hill, 42; Bethel, .43; Shady Grove, 44; An tioch, 45; Hampton, 46; .Holly Springs, 47; Rock, 48; Grove, 49; Rocky Bottomi, 50; Eastatoe, 51; Cano Creek,. 52; Horsie Pasture, 58. - Ricked ei Wrong Man. > A young Poughkeepsian a few 1 days ago pickod up a friend on -Market stroet and took him home >to lunch without notifyings the - formebr's wife. She called him obe i side and explainedl that- there were 1 only a dozeni raw oysters, and when~ 1 thoir friend had eaten his quota ofw~ , four bie mus ino~t bo asked to ,tale .,more. All his the husbapd prgn. i isd to .roinember. '.When their I g'uost 1ggi eaten his .oy.,sters the hiost.pisked him to take some more1'. Th'be wvife looked .distressed and the guest declined. '.The hue -hamd insistled tha .his friend te ould - have .somn oro, , The~ wife fooked as if .sheo.wera in. agony and t 6 .guesit ;fAirmly.refused ,to al~lo* I i'est ;of the oygters. to be bromt., s' from the kitchen. Later jhe wife ,said to the husbanid: * - "How could you .urge m to o have more oysters when.1 Ie plain. 1 ed to you that there w en't any9 a. "Imvery sorry," said the. peni. ftent husband, -"but I forgot all ie about it." . ./ n "Wh~t .do. you an4pose I was it kicking you unfler the table r' i- retoi'ted the wife. t~- "But. you didd6 kick m4," said the husband.