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$1.00 a Year, "This Argus o'er the people's rights Doth an eternal vigil keep ; No soothingstrains of Maia's son Shall lull itshundred eyes to sleep." $1.00 a Year VOL. XXIV GOLDSBOEO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1909. NO. 67 - i i i ,3 ! l I LETTER TO 'SUTTON REVEALS ILL WILL It Is Bdiev? dy That Lieuten ant Was Challenged For a Duel. STRENGTHENS OfftN'S STORY Gives Evidence Conclusively Clash Previous to Young Man's Death Was the Result of a Prear ranged Fight. Annapolis, Md., July 19. The board of officers appointed to reinvestigate lie dentb. of Second Lieut Jams Sixt- ton, of the Marine Corps, who was mysteriously shot in ' Annapolis Oi. October 13, 1907, met here today to begin the taking of testimony. The board is composed of Commander John Wood, U. S. N.; Maj. W. C. Ne ville, U. S. M. C; Lieut. H. M. Jen sen, U. S. N., and Maj. Harry eLonard, U. S. M. C, Judge-Advocate-General iJlvulvlm'1" "Ullu" " pistol shot after an alleged quarrel with a brother officer. Sutton, ac companied by several other officers, was returning to the Naval Academy after attending a dance at Carvel TIall in Annapolis. A quarrel developed on the way, which later led to a fist fight. The evidence adduced by the first coo i t of Inquiry showed t hat. Sutton went to his quarters and obtained his service revolver with the intention of .snooting his antagonist. He lirc-J at one of his former companions, Second Lieut. R. E. Adams, but did not strike him. Lieutenant Roelker, another member of the party, went to Acams' -assistance and was dazed by a bullet from Sutton's pistol, whien struck Koelker in the chest but lid not pen .ertate his body. Somebody cal'ed out 'Loelker is dead!" Then Sutton ac Grding to the evidence, drew a:ioth"i e - ver and t; hm'isHf in ti e head. He was hurried to the Academy hos pital, but died within a short time. The court of inquiry held shortly .after Lieutenant Sutton's death de .cided that he had committed suicide. .Mrs. James N.v Sutton, the young offi .cer's mother, was diSsatisfied with ,the verdict of the court, and at her re quest the Navy Department ordered a : second investigation of the affair. One iof the principal witnesses in the in quirj, Lieut. R. E. Adams, has recent ly been stationed at Sea Girt, N. J. Lieutenant Roelker, who also figured prominently in the affray, disappeared shoitly after the affair and his pres ent whereabouts are said to be un known. There is no doubt that the investi gating board which assembled today will make every effort to bring out of the facts of the tragedy, and either substantiate the finding of the first board that Lieutenant Sutton commit ted suicide, that the public mind will be satisfied, or to trial any who may have had a hand in his death, if it should be found that it was by other than his own hands. William Owens, the chauffeur who drove the party on the fatal night, will be an important witness. He has stated positively that Sutton did not attack Lieutenant Adams first, but that Lieutenant Ad ams attacked Lieutenant Sutton and repeated the attack before Lieutenant . Sutton agreed to fight him. Other civilian witnesses will be at least two of the employes of Carvai Hall, where Lieutenant Sutton and liis brother officers attended a dance v the n'tf'-t of he tragedy The m ployes will, it is reliably understood, contradict the testimony before the first investigators In several impor tant matters and make statements tending to show that Lieutenant Sut ton was sought out by the other offi cers that night instead of forcing him self on "them, as was understood. Evidence that Lieutenant Sutton received a challenge to fight a duel with revolvers has come to light. Two prominent men of Annapolis, and persons of unquestioned veracity, who naturally sk that their names be not used, confirm the ixetsecnha3 be not used, confirm the existence of cerrfin documentary evidence show ing almost conclusively that Suttcn, whr. met his death on October 12, 190f. had been challenged to fight one of his feUow officers. . The statement of Owns, the chaul feur. makes it very probable that this is the explanation of the -attack which the latter declares Lieutenant Adams made upon Sutton when; the party alighted from the automobile. Owens has all along said that the affair had every resemblance to a pre-arranged fight. . ; v.- One of the persons who saw the documentary proof said today that it was in the form of a letter or nte ofound in Lieutenant Sutton's effects and now in possession of Mrs. Parker, his sister. This letter, he said, showed conclu sively that an arrangement for a pitched fight or duel existed between Lieutenant Sutton and another offi cer, whose name was signed to the communication, but which he could not remember. The letter closed, he stated, with these words: "Let's call the gun play off." This is understood to indicate that there was an intention to have a duel with revolvers, but that the foe of Sutton did not favor it. There have been persistent rumors ever since the affair that there was a regular duel, or pitched battle of some t . . i Thatlklnd- between Lieutenant Sutton and pome other of the party that Owens drove to the grounds of the marine camp that night. Owens himself, an intelligent young man, is confident that something of the sort took place He denied that he had said that Sot ton was knocked down and shot, stat ins xnat ne am not even near any shots fired. i r e wieory runt upon tnis new evi dence suggests tnat, altnouga a char?e of murder is unlikely t.o :rov.- out ot the new Investigation, there m be charges of a lesser degree of homicide. There is no doubt that if it can be shown that Lieutenant Sutton was forced to fight an unequal battle, or was attacked bv ereater numhvs nn.1 attempted to shoot in his own defense, and in so doing accidentally shot himself, the legal requirement to make up manslaughter or some other crime of a like nature were present. This is a new phase of the affair, based upon a theory which has more to support it than any other which has been advanced, unless the find ing of the first board of investigation is taken. At the same time it would relieve Lieutenant Sutton's memory of the opprobrium of suicide. The More New Wrinkles a Woman Ac quires, the Smoother She Becomes. Rotundity is a patent charm; as for smoothness the more new wrinkles a woman acquires, the smoother she becomes. Ileen was a strictly vegetable com- pound, guaranteed under the Pure ui ti e year 01 tne iail or Adam. She was R fruit stanrt hlntlHo c?lro nrhoi.!ii, I . . peaches, cherries, etc. Her eyes were wide apart, and she possessed the aim that precedes a storm that never omes. But it seems to me that words ;at any rate per) are wasted in an ffort to describe the beautiful. Like 'ancy, "It is engendered in the eyes." There are three kinds of beauties I as foreordained to be homiletic; I an never stick to a story. The first is the freckle-faced, snub- osed girl whom you like. The second Maude Adams. The third is, or re, the ladies in Bouguereau's paint- tgs. Ileen Hinkle was the fourth. '.he was the mayoress of Spotless I'own. There were a thousand gcjl !en apples coming to her as Helen of Me Troy laundries. O. Henry in Au- ust Everybody's. FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO FLY ACROSS ENGLISH CHANNEL Aeroplane Became Unmanageable and Hubert Latham' Lands on the Water. Calais, July 19. Hubert Latham in his aeroplane, today attempted to fly across the English channel. When he had covered but a part of the distance his aeroplane became unmanageable and plunged into the sea. Latham was picked up by the French destroy er Harpoon and taken to Calais. Great crowds welcomed him and he was mobbed by a dozen girls, who kissed and embraced him. Latham showed great coolness when picked up 1 by the warship. He was sitting on the floating aeroplane care lessly smoking a cigarette, and says he will try again. The machine start ed off well and was soon out of sight, but did not get in sight f Dover. The accident was due to the motor slow ing down. Great crowds saw the start and were also watching across the channel at Dover. Why Men Wear Trousers. No living man of this age ever de- liberately chose to "adopt trousers." He was forced into them and all other eccentricities of dress by women, says the Providence Journal. In the very earliest sartorial experience of every man he is swathed In a queer bundle of incoherent bandages by woman. Later she puts him into cute little dresses so that the neighbors can't tell him from his little sister. Still later she cuts off his curls and puts him into knickerbockers, and he puts on "long pants" when she gives the word and not before. That is all that man has to do or ever had to do with wearing trousers. Woman forced him into them in the first place, and now he is afraid to wear anything else for fear of making a sensation. HOMICIDE SUNDAY NEAR PATETOWN Brother Kills Brother in De fense of Attacked Wife. David Bivens Attacks James Bivens' Wjife and Is Dead From Blow on Head Brothers Married Sisters and Resided in Adjoining Homes. Patetown, eight miles from this city, was the scene of a terrible tragedy &unaay evening about six o'clock, and as a result of which David Bivens is dead and his brother, James Bivens, was neia unaer ?2uu justified bond for the August term of court, charged with the killing of his brother. The two brothers lived within one hundred yards of each other, and the tragedy occurred in a cotton field between the two homes. James Bivens had just left his jiuiuc nucu ne ucaiu ms wiie scream - mg in the cotton field and running towards the scene, grabbed a hoe at tne tooacco Darn. He was startled to see his wife being choked to death by his brother, David Bivens, and struck his brother on the head, rendering mm senseless, He oiea niteen minutes later. As his brother fell from the blow, James Bivens carried his wife to her home and by vigorous efforts saved her. She had been nearly strangled to death, being black in the face. Upon his return to the scene IYiThESSED BYWIFES SISTER 01 ine attacK ne found his brother well, suppose we did lose two rents which results in those danger dead. The only witness to the trag- games to Fayetteville. Haven't we ous gusts that have proved fatal to edy was the dead mans wife, who was a sister of the woman attacked. James Bivens surrendered to the authorities late Sunday night and was given a hearing before Justice of the Pparfl J fl fJinn thlc mnrninw Tho widow of David Bivens testified that her brother-in-law was justified in testimony the defendant was released under $200 bond for his appearance at the August term of court. France Forced to Adopt Modern For estry. France will he dpstrnvpH fnr larV., . j . I ,a, .,1 uuC ui uer Breesi statesmen and the prophecy was very m.iv iu.ui.eu. just nicy years nave passed since unprecedented floods in the valley of the Loire called the at tention of the government to the fact that the central plateau had been al most entirely denuded, that the fertile soil was being destroyed, the reser- voir.lnS effeet ot the forest lost. and a ,liaae iwara me creation or ueseri m tue neart 01 me nation. iot only the loire was affected; on ine renees tne Protection of the Ga- ronne was Sne and m Savoy that of tne tnone. l he stripping away of the trees on the mountainsides of Savoy had released the mountain brooks and turntd them into torrents. The bind-1 mg roots rotted, away, and tiny streams became gashes, continually widening to chasms. Literally the whole slope of the mountain began to slide down into the valley, - impelled by an unrestrained deluge of water. The Rhode, always a swift stream, filled its bed with moving gravel and sand, and with unprecedented rapidity extended its delta out four miles into the deep water of the Mediterranean. Navigation was impeded or Tendered impossible; villages which had grown wealthy on an orderly waterpower, awoke after a storm in the mountains to find their brook beyond control and their streets piled many feet deep in gravel and bowlders. The prospect of the. continuation of sueh calamities aroused the whole people. The engineers, after experi mentation, discovered that in many places masonry dams must be eret ted at short intervals, not in order to hold up the water, but to check the deeont Uf the stream's bed itself. The rcda- mation is still going on ; and in r any parts of France public and privat en ergy is Demg concentrated toaa on this work. Three million acres of public forest and fifteen millions of private w ods are now stand in sr. but. them etili I main sixteen million acres absoh'tely I uaucu' mucu U1 wmcn must oe con- querea by bunchgrass before It can be n I an ten in trees Franco haa lanrnut I l!l?Lfllb3rt, 13 tW!d: . w .... uj j forestry, and to "provide a domestic ' supply of timber. She is achieving both ends rapidly, and"her utmost ef- forts are repair promptly in Cash re- J turns. John L. Mathews in August' Eeverybody , j I Kat.t; I This is good baseball weather. We've a new third baseman on the way. Steinbach is in the game all the time. We're still in the lead. Get busy, boys, and maintain your position. -. - s Doak made as pretty a throw from I left field ta home plate as one ever sees. We watt three straight from Wil mington this week and we're going to get them. The Highlanders preferred to stop here over Sunday to going to Wilson, J where they play the first three days of me ween. Goldsboro's Giants have Jonahs just liKe other giants. Even the cy- J clops had Jonahs. Fayetteville's team is our Giants' Jonah. That's all there is to it. Aint it so. GrandnaD? Everybody should go out to the games nere these three days and help Goldsboro hold first place sure by tak- 1 me mice gaums irom v linimgton. bome folks say that there isn't any- I thing m the papers these days but baseball. That is not true; but the J truth is that the great majority of the population don't want to read any - tning else but baseball. Aint it so. I Grandpap? I Was there any ball played in Golds boro Saturday? Ask Fayetteville Don't ask us won two, three and four straight games? We cannot win all the time, .flay ball! LITTLE OIEL NEARLY DROWNS IN HOLE ON JAMEJ STREET Narrow Escape From Death While Wading With Companions Sat urday Afternoon, The young daughter of Mr. Millin who resides on North James street. narrowly escaped being drowned Sat urday afternoon while wadiner on this I , .. . ..... . . I inorouenrare. sne ten mtn a hn p i made by the uprooting of a large tree and then washed by the severe rains Friday, and but for the timely arrival of aid would have drowned. BR1DGE WASHED AWAY BY INCESSANT RAIN FRIDAY Crops in Many Parts of County Dam afrtMl by Swollen Streams. The severe rain Friday and Satur- day did considerable damage through- out the county. The swollen streams covered the lowlands and injured crops. The bridge across Stoney Creek at the Prince nlantation was washi away. MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR OUTING OF LOCAL FIREMEN Fire-Fig-hters Will Go to Wrlghtsville Beach to Spend Ten Days. Messrs. Max Cohn and Sol Isaacs spent Sunday at Wrightsville Beach, where they concluded all arrange- ments for the outing of a number of I members of the local fire companies, Tho firnmsn will am r fhia nnnnlav I seasnore resort the latter part of this week to spend ten days. - I NEARBY NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. The Bank of Mount Olive has de- clared a dividend, and has a surplus I of $6,000. ' The Carolina Telephone and Tele graph Company at Kinston will build a handsone two-story building for the installation of their new telephone ex- change. wnson, w. c, July 16. Many will be the farmers in Wilson county who nrn nint , l via iUSleaa oi ?Uttto! lheIr whole P with cot- luu auu wuaccuiu uci many nave put in big patches of this important crop this year, the yields from which have been very encouraging. Mr. T. J. Wiggins, of the Elm -City section, has just tr i-eshed out one hundred and fifty bushels from a five-acre field. MAY FLY TO THE NORTH POLE Zeppelin Has Digli Dopes for northern Expe- III HIS DIRIGIBLE AIRSHIP Object Said to Be to Explore Green land, But Balloon Will Be Ready for Flight to the Limit if Weather J Is Good. . ?"f. J London, July 19. Notwithstanding I the statement given out that Profes sor Hergesell to the effect that the main object of the proposed Zeppelin expedition from Spitzbergen next year would be to explore northern Green I land, there is little doubt that with favorable weather rnnrlitirmQ flight I to the north nnit win vQ I - - uwav tt AAA LVy ulluiiii;lcu The German papers are unanimous in urging Count Zeppelin, on Datriotic I grounds, to plant the German flasr on the pole. Count Zemjelin's friends i iavor the scheme and are confident that the attempt will be successful Dr. Eckener, one og Zemjelin's inti- I mates, is of the opinion that the north pole will be much more easilv attained I by the dirigible airship than the south J pole, for many reasons the first hein I that no such severe s-aleo nro nntivi. pated as at the south pole, which, as Lieutenant Shackleton discovered, Is situated on an elevated plateau. Protuberances on the earth's sur race, sucn as mountain ranges and forests, offer a resistance to air cur many an airshiD. This friction is nnn- existent in the arctic regions, always supposing that the ice covered An tin Ocean extends" beyond the pole itself for whieh-belief there is every ground faeores of experiments carried nut with kites and register balloons, be tween the seventy-second and eighty second degrees north latitude, have shown that wind was only twice ob served at heights exceeding 1,000 faet, above which, as a rule, almost com plete calm reigned. May Be Successful. The same result has been obtained bv Dr. Nansen rhirinp- hie Prom o-, . nition. svpr thnnrioi-otArmc, rains such as encountered by Count Zeppelin on land are not believed to occur with frequency around the pole Assuming that operations would be inadvisable with a wind blowing at the the rate of more than twelve miles an hour, experiments at sea level have shown that in the month of July this rate is rarely reached, while in June also there are lengthy periods of comparative calm. Seeing that the sun in polar regions remains half a vear above th horizon thoro wnilH be no great danger of sudden varia- tions in the temperature, which cause iOSs of gas and ballast Tne shortness of the distance be- tween Snitzhertren and noi ahm,t Ron Ln. , Count Zeppelin's friends think, for a dirigible airship to accomplished the journey during the period of pclar1 calm in twenty hours. The new Zip- pelin airship will have a capacity of 150 horsepower bezine motors, two of which could keep the airship afloat for seventy hours, or with one work ing for 140 hours. Back to Spitzbergen. Thus it would be possible to reach the pole and come back to Spitzber gen or effect a landing in eastern Si- beria, Greenland or northern Alaska, distances of, say, 1,800 miles. The re- turn frnTn fhes( inhnsnitahla rsirinno would, however, be an expedition in itself; hence preference is given to the idea of returning to the base on Spitzbergen. - Fog is another enemy to be reck oned with, though it is held that it is never so dense in the polar regions a? to obstruct the view of the ice" be ; neath, and stefering can be effp'ted with the aid of a compass by d -nd with the help of the stars by night. Asked for his opinion, Lien t pant Shackleton says that he is no aero naut and knows nothing 7 about the north 'pole. This,4 however, Le des know,, that it would be impossible. owing to the severe gales prevailing in the antarctic, for an airship to con cmer the south pole. But from a meteorological view-' ... point he thinks It Is quit? within tl e , bounds of possibility that success would attend ZeppeMn's dash on the j north pole. He advises, however, that sledges be. taken on board for x use in ans emergency, n: -dedjre motors, he says, never gave Liiii' any trouble, al though the sle-rf themselves nrot',1 useless in hummock strewn regions. I GTT 1 TT tl'TT V n . m . I " . 1 fTXAdu iav.E 1JSKSIA. I Refused to Receive a rom lent 1 w 17. Mohammed All dethrone Shah, now In the Russian summer legation, has declined to re ceive a deputation to irfform himj of his deposition. Sipahdar and Sardar asad, the leaders in the Nationalist movement, sent the following tele gram to the British and Russian lega tions last night "In accordance with the decision of the National Council, which met to day at. Baharistan, It will be neces sary for a deputation from the Council to wait upon his majesty, Mohammed Ali, to notify him of the change of sovereign. As his majesty is at pres ent a refugee in the Russian legation under British and Russian protection, we request your excelleies to fix time tomorrow when his majesty may receive the deputation.1 The ex-Shah replied this morning turougn tne legation as follows: "His majesty states that having taken ref uge In the Russian legation, be has ipso facto abdicated, therefore, he does not wish to receive a deputation which comes for the purpose of in forming him of the fact Mohamimed Ali probably will depart shortly from Persia, It it: believed the queen is desirous of accompanying him, taking with her the t rown prince, who is the newly proclaimed Shah. LATHAM'S COTTON LETTER, A Reliable and Intelligent Review of the Crop and Mret. Greensboro, N. C, July 17. Thir teen cents and above has be.n paid for cotton by the mills this week and nex' crop options have sold at practicallj this price on the exchanges. A reaction has since set in and i cent a pound of the recent advance has been lost, but partially recovered. The crop outlook is not by any means satisfactory, and a large yield is not to be expected, but the small figures indulged in by some are sen sational. The crop start was "bad and some acreage reduction is admitted, but the crop has not lost all of its recup. na tive power and the development an 1 final issue rests larerelv with t weather from now on, which no r.r. can accurately forecast, not even almanac man. The condition has certainly improv ed since June 25, when the last gov ernment report was gathered. The- invisible supply (that is. cot ton in the mill stores) is very large, and a glance at the world's sup-ly and the world's consumption for the past few years, will show that t-if; tendency among spinners is in the !i rection of carrying larger reserves all the time. In the recent excitement, these fig ures have been overlooked or ignored. It seem? in order to say tnt those who merchandise in or manufacture cotton, should not keep too close to statistics because other elements are constantly claiming at I., ntion and in fluencing prices. Sentiment in many campaigns is made to out-distance son :iess. The crop outlook is for record- breaking yields in everything except cotton, and in the financial sky there s not a cloud; ther-fore, everybody is opeful and the foeling about general usiness is optimistic. I believe cotton has gone up for ood reasons and will remain high, but the present price discounts a great i!. and in all probability more than discounts the real situation as it tands today. The excitement is not over, and errratic nervous markets Tiay be expected. J. E. LATHAM. TnE CLARENDON BRIDGE. Structure at Fayetteville Just Opened to Traffic. . Fayetteville, N. C, July 15.. The new steel Clarendon bridge construct ed across the Cape Fear river to re place the famous old bridge known by that name, has .just been opened to traflic. having been practically com pt d some days ago, but awaiting t' e approval of the county commis ' 'nors. The bridge was built at a cost of 539,000, partially borne by a bond is sue. It is a handsome structure, well built and modern in design. Its com pletion is of great importance to this community and section as a ferry has been the only means of communica tion with Eastern. Cumberland since the burning of the old bridge in Feb- rnary. Jones-Carnor. F.m M.-nday 's Daily. J At the residence of the officiating minister, Elder J. W, Gardner, last night at ten o'clock 'In, this 'city Mr. L. II. Jones, foreman of Messrs. H. V - il & Bros.' brick yard, and Miss , M rtle Carnor, of Lenoir county, ere-happily joined in the holy, bond c f wedlock. The Argus wishes them i abundant joy and prosperity. - TROOPERS FIRED UPON STRIKERS Detachment of State Con stabulary Surprised the Strikers. I HI EKFFS One of Striking Employes of Standard Steel Car Company Fatally Wound ed Many Innocent Bystanders Are Injured. Butler, Pa., July 18. Takine- the striking employes of the standard eel Car Company completely hv surprise, a detachment of State con stabulary arrived here from Punxsu tawney late this afternoon to v the company's property at The strikers, angered by the appear ance of troops, gathered around the Plant yard and in a clash with the mounted troopers one striker was probably fatally shot, two members of the crowd were wounded and over tn injured. Fifteen alleged strike lead ers were arrested by the troopers. According to a report current here tonight the constabulary has been ex pected here since yesterday, despite the statement of the car company of- ciais to the effect that outside police :-otection was not desired. The entrance of 500 employes of the tandard Wheel Company, a concern anufacturing pressed steel wheels, to the ranks of the 2,500 striking n of the Standard Steel Car Com- ny, makes the situation at Butler hi nous. -The wheel company em loyes refused to report for work to day. The men on strike at both plants e unorganized. The principal con tention of the striking men is that both the car and wheel companies are working to their capacity, but refuse o pay wages in proportion to the i mount of work turned out. Pittsburg, Pa., July 18. The tur moil and excitement and general sense of immin-nt uprising and riot which have pervaded McKee's Rocks and the immediate? vicinity of the plant of the Pressed Steel Car Company for the past week gave way today to peace and unbroken quiet. The workingmen's settlement at Preston, which for days has had the appearance of an entrenched camp thrown up at the gates of a barricaded city, was gay with the Sunday finery f the wives and children of the strikers, who flocked to and from church or loitered at play by the riv erside while the men sat at ease on their doorsteps, smoking and enjoying impromptu alfresco concerts furnish ed by harmonicas and accordions. Mrs. Eddy is 88 Years Old. Boston, Mass., July 16. Notwith standing the recent reports alleging her to be dead or very near to death, Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the founder of Ci iistian Science, today added an other milestone to her life's journey, and according to those in closest touch with her. she passed the day in accordance with the routine she has followed for several years. At her beautiful home "in Chestnut Hill she spent the morning in reading and writing and after luncheon she took her customary drive. This daily drive Mrs. Eddy has seldom missed since she removed to Brookline from Con cord, N. H., two years ago. . Naturally enough, Mrs. Eddy does not think much of birthdays or of their cumulative effects and in ac cordance with her wish there was no observance of the anniversary at Chestnut Hill. Her views in regard to the matter are well known to her followers and friends, and as a con sequence she received few congratu latory messages or floral tributes. Mrs. Eddy was born in Bow, N. H., eighty-eight years ago, and those who have, had the privilege and meeting her recently dec lare that for a woman of her age she is remarkably vigorous and active. Crack Shots at Galveston. Galveston, Tex., July 16. The an nual Texas, state shooting tournament, which opened today on the grounds of the Galveston Gun Club, has brought together several score of the best shots of Texas and neighboring states. The tournament is to continue three days. To the several valuable trophies offered in the various events has been added $1,000 in cash prizes. Five novels are published a day in this country, but they are not all "best sellers." QUIE ROCKS n I t, f V