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VOL. XX. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1897. NO. 2!.
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B ROAD STREET CLOTHING HOUSE.
which will b© on February 1st,
the line of every article in
Winter Wear must be turned
into cash. In order to carry
out this plan, I have concluded
to sell for cash at astonishing-ly
low figures. Time and space
will not permit me to give the
prices, but can prove the fact
by your calling and inspecting
for yourself.
8AYED Y R o ä THE SEA
W.H.
BUCH,
W. H.
BUCH,
Proprietor of the
Broad • Street • Clothing • House,
"Record" Building, LITITZ, PA.
H ATS, CAPS OR GLOVES.
THREE
TIPS.
TIP ONE—If you want a STIFF or SOFT HAT see
ours at $i.oo to $3 00.
TIP TWO-If you want a PLUSH, WOOL or CLOTH
CAP, see ours at 25c to $1.50.
TIP THREE—If you want a WARM and SERVICEABLE
PAIR OF GLOVES, see ours at 25c to $1.00.
Cut Prices on All Winter Goods.
H. L. BOÄS,
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N E W T . W I N G E R T . M A N A G E R.
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN.
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AND NEED TREATMENT. THEY
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1 2 N o r t b Q û € « o S t r ^ t , - L A N C A S T E R , PA
T T H E end of a large pier in a
large seaport, to which I had
gone to get a smell of the salt
water, I found sitting on the string-piece
a man whose dress and general
appearance bespoke him an old tar.
Interested in that class of men, having
formerly been myself a say lor, I fell
into conversation with him, when he
related an adventure which I will give
as near aa I can in his own quaint style
and language.
" I was in an English transport,
afore the mast. I've followed the sea
nigh on to sixty years, man and boy,
but I never got higher nor that, for
the reason I had no edicatioa. We'd
a lot o' sodgers aboard, takin' 'em to
the West Ingees, an' a sicker lot I
never see. There's no braver men
than British sodgers. They've showed
that all the world over. But the idee
of yellow jack aod the land crabs give
these chaps the horrors.
"There was women au' children
among 'em. Oae o' the women was a
beauty. If she was 25 she was no
more; as trim a craft as ever floated,
staunch too, and true to her colors.
"She had a little one, a 4-year-old
kid, the pictur' of her mammy. I've
always loved little children, maybe on
account on never bavin'any of my own.
I never married. A man that's always
knockin' 'round the world, here to day
and gone to-morrow, 's got no right to
marry. But I'm runnin' off my
course.
Mrs. Dean—which was the beauty's
name, as she an' I got very friendly,
all along 0' my takin' to her little
Molly—I've observed the shortest way
to a woman's favor is through her chil-dren.
He hubby wa'nt a jealous mac.
Jealousy, they say, goes with strong
love. Not that he did not love her.
That wa'nt much for him to boast on,
howe'ever. Nobody could help doing
that. Bat he was one 0' them chaps
more for the men, and spend pretty
nigh all his time playin' cards with his
comrades. So it came that bis wife
and I had many long chats. Wheu
she found I'd been in the West Ingees
she got me to talk about the islands.
She'd look so sorrowful and lovin' at
her little Molly when she'd aak me
about the yellow fever, an' if it was
true the land crabs eat the dead
sodgers, you may be sure I didn't
stretch it to frighten her. I could tell
the truth and say the country was well
nigh on to a paradise, 'specially the
Wind'ard Islands.
" We was in the nor'east trade, well
along. The vessel, with Ler starboard
tacks aboard, had her stern sails on
tow an' aloft. The breeze was stiffanin'.
She bad it two points on her starboard
quarter, an' was bo'lin off her 'ieven
knots. The hooker could sail afor the
wind. It was Sunday, so none 0' the
men was at work. Four bells in the
arternoon watch had been struck.
Well nigh all hands was in the fore-castle.
What was on deck was sittin'
to le'ward. Some o' the sodgers was
there, too, chattin' with 'em. The
others was below on the berth deck,
which was kept cool with a win' sail
Two or three of the sodgers' officers
was on the poop, stretched on settees.
One had a spyglass lookin' to wind'ard.
The chief mate had the watcb, but he
was sittin' galin' with the officers, lettin'
the ship take care of herself. Nobody
was on the lookout but me. She
weathers that steady in the " trades;"
vessel don't need to start tack or
sheet for days, unless to get it home
when it stretches. Nobody was on the
weather side 0' the deck but Mrs-
Dean. She was standin' aloft the fore
riggin', holdin' on to little Molly, who
was sittin' on the rail with her legs
over the side. It was a danger'us
place for a little un like her. But she
was a ventursome child, and that
willful that her mammy had to let her
have her own way. It seems nobody
noticed 'em but me. I was sittin'
for'ard on the cathead keepin' an eye
out foa 'om.
" A school 0' flying-fish started up to
wind'ard. Them schools sometimes
cover a mile 0' the sea. This was a
big un. Mrs. Dean watchin' the fish
as they rose an' dropped back in the
water when their wings begun to git
dry, forgot herself; an' the child playin'
see-saw with the ship as she rolled, got
loose of her mammy an' fell overboard
" I see her go, an' heard a scream,
never any like it afore or since. Sail-ors
larn to rig an' strip in a hurry.
'Sides my shoes an' hat, I'd nothin' on
but a pair 0' thin duck trousers an' a
loose frock. Off went shoes, hat an
frock quick as winkin', au' over I went
arter Molly.
" The ship was low in the water, an
the wind gettin' under the child's pet
ticoats she came down easy; so she
was afloat when I reached her. She
was that frightened she couldn't bawl.
I took her on one arm with her head
over my shoulders, an' with the other
arm an' my legs kept both our heads
'bove water. There was a smart bit 0
sea on, but it wa3 runnin' reg'lar.
" I looked to see the ship brought to.
But she went tearin' ahead without a
face lookin' over the side. I waited
an' waited. If my hair bad turned
gray the while I wouldn't have won
dered, it 'peared so long. ' My G ; d !'
I cried, 1 somethin's happened the
mammy so she can't speak to tell 'em
an' they mayn't miss us till we sink.'
0 , the fool I was not to pass the word
afore I went over ! The idea made my
heart so heavy it nearly took me down.
" Oue 0' my shipmates told arter-
'ards how it was. That scream, as I
was sure it wo Id, brought all hands
around her. But she'd fainted dead
away, an' the sodger doctor had quite
a spell at it afore he brought her to,
an' then she'd only breath to c r y , ' My
child ! My child !' afore she went off
again. ' Her child—where is it?
Where's Jack Head ?' the captain
asked, lookin' round. He knowed I 'd
be there if I was in the ship, au' not
seein' me he cried : ' They're both
overboad. Down with the helm there
Jump to the braces, men, port and
starboard, an' lower stu'n' sail. Never
mind the others ; if the booms snap let
em go; round with the yards lively.
Clear away the larboard quarter boat,
some 0' you.' There was a rush for
the poop. 1 Oat knives, boys, and cut
the gripes,' cried the chief mate, a
slashin' at the canvas that kivercd the
boat to keep the sun from splittin' her.
Jump in, six o' pou,' he said as soon
as she swung clear, gettin' in himself,
followed by the sodgers' officer with
the spyglass, ' Davy ackles all clear?"
the mate asked. ' All clear, sir:'
' Lower away, then, roundly,' an' down
she went into the water. ' I t would
make any man's head swim, Jack,
'cept a sailor's it was all done so quick,'
said my shipmate when he told me.
' I see the ship brought to all stand-in'
but 1 couldn't see the boat; she
was too low in the water and the ship
mile away. I knowed she was a-comin',
though; and if ever I strained
my eyesight it was a-wathin' for her.
All this time the child was a worryin'
and a-growin' heavier. She was a lump
of a thing. My arm around her be-gan
to stiffen. The other seemed to be
tanglin' into knots. A cold sweat
came out on my forehead. I grew
sick an' faint. I was just going down
when the boat hove in view.
" The sodger officer was standin' on
the starn-sheets steadyin' himself with
his knees again' the mate, keepin' me
in the field o' the glass. The sight
give me fresh strength, an' I raised
the child above my head with both
hands. The officer told the men, an'
they cheered to give me courage. I
heard 'em, an' I knowed they'd strain
the ash. But, oh, how slow the boat
peared to move! The officer could
ee I was nearly done for, an' he had
another reason for urgin' the men to
do their best. The flyin' fish was
comin' down afore the wind with a fleet
0' dolphins and barracoutas in chase,
an' a swarm o' sharks followin' on.
Though the mate knowed by the way
they was runnin' they'd pass me quite
a piece away, sailors believe a shark
can smeil a man a mile off. And sure
enough one o' them left the chase an'
started for me. The officer see its back
fin rise out 0' the water in range
tween me an' the others. When I
heard him an' the mate keep on a
shoutin' as loud as they could bellow I
knowed what was comin', an' my heart
began to thump again' my ribs as if to
break a way through, then rose in my
throat an' choked me. A thousand
bees 'peared to be bussin' in my ears,
I grew sick again an' began to sink.
I thought 0' the child an' made a des-p'rate
struggle. That's the last I re-member.
What happened arter'ards
was told me.
" There was a race atween the boat
an' the shark. That the boat reached
me first is what I needn't say. The
shark was only twenty fathoms away
when they pulled the child and me out
0' the water. The child's flesh was
warm an' they could feel its heart beat.
As for me, I was cold as a corpse and
my heart was still.
" When they got on board the ship
the doctor overhauled me an' said I
was dead as a herrin'. But he took
me in hand. He said it was to try a
new scheme he'd heard on for bringin'
the dead to life. Whatever it was I
was told he had a hard job of it, but he
was that perseverin' he stuck to it, an'
here I am, you see."
" And the child ?" I asked.
" T h e y had little trouble to bring
her to. She's a grown woman, married
now, and has a little shaver she calls
Jack Head. Her hubby, a well to-do
merchant, an' she has a snug harbor,
where I am at anchor, waitin' to be
taken into dock."
I congratulated him on the happy
termination of the adventure, and
when I had thanked him for telling it,
we exchanged good wishes and parted,
BY THE WAY.
Interesting Notes and Comments on
Persons. Places a n d Things.
WHILE THE inventive genius of man
has brought princely fortunes to the
conceiyer of ideas in many cases, there
are on record numerous instances of
the inventor's gullibility that allowed
his ideas to be stolen before taking the
precaution to protect them, and instead
of reaping the rich reward of his labors,
he has been compelled to endure the bit-ter
stings of regret as a result of his care-lessness
in business matters. Just why
these two go together it is hard to say.
Certain it is that inventors are the most
guileless individuals in their dealings
with others on business matters, and
fall easy yictims to the spiders who lie
in wait for such flies. The number of
clever men who walk to-day, while
those who ride owe their luxury to the
other man's genius and their own
shrewdness is an interesting one. Here
are a few cases of inventions that failed
to benefit the inventor, or at least pro-duce
for him but a trifle of what was
his due.
* * *
IT IS NOT necessary to go back very
far to remember when those convenient
little hooks were first put on men's
shoes in the place of holes, in order to
save time in lacing the shoe at the top.
That was a brilliant idea, and a very
simple one, too, and should have
brought a fortune to the inventor.
While he bad brains enough to form
the idea, he was anything but a shrewd
business man. He hadn't sense enough
to keep his idea to himself until the
Patent Office padlock had secured it
against theft. Had the inventor been
a woman, there might have been some
excuse for confiding the idea to a
friend. But he wasn't. While in a
ferryboat crossing the North river, that
separates New York from Jersey City,
in the exuberance of his joy, he told a
friend of his idea. His friend wasn't
an inventor, but he possessed keen
business instinct that led him to excuse
himself the minute the boat tied up in
Jersey City, started back to New York
and went on a dead run for a patent
lawyer in order to haye the idea se-cured
for his own especial benefit.
Another man is known to-day as the
inventor of those useful little lace
hooks. He owes a splendid bouse
and is wealthy, while tne confiding in-ventor
got nothing.
* ^ *
IT SEEMS somewhat remarkable
what a fortune there is in a simple
little thiDg but in the simplicity seems
to lie the money. The inventor of a
patent stopper for beer bottles, some-thing
that had long been wanted by
the trade, sold the invention for ten
thousand dollars to a man who recog-nized
its great money making value.
From the sales of this little patent
stopper the purchaser realized five
million dollars. Being slightly gener-ous,
he presented the original owner of
the patent with thirty thousand dollars,
so that this man got forty thousand
dollars in all for his five million dollar
idea. While this figure may seem in-credulous,
it is only neGessary to state
that when the patent expired, and
others began selling the stopper, the
price came down from one dollar to
seven cents a gross, and even at this
enormous reduclion a good profit can
be made.
*
THE inventor of this bottle stopper
fared remarkably well in comparison
with the genius who brought to light
the interlocking horns, with balls at
the end that snap shut with a slight
pressure and used as a pocketbook clasp.
The idea was afterward applied to
gloves, and became very much in
favor. For the magnificent-reward of
a kidney stew and fifty cents, the latter
to pay the inventor's expenses from
Newark to New York, the inventor
relinquished his prize to a man who
instantly recognized its worth. After
the idea was patented the shrewd man
realized a big fortune out of it, while it
is not known what became of the in-ventor.
Perhaps he is looking for
more kidney stews.
* * *
YET another example of the lack of
wariness in the average inventor's
make-up is to be found in the man who
has onceived almost as many noyel
ideas in a different way as has Edison
in the electrical world. Although he
has made several fortunes and lost
them, to-day he is as poor as the pro-verbial
church mouse. Notwithstand-ing
his adversities, he is hard at work
on many new inventions, and promises
to make a sensation with some of them.
This novel inventor came into promi-nence
some years ago in connection
with the nickel-in-the-slot machine that
was patented in almost eyery country
in the world. While traveling through
the country selling state rights he had
a partner whose business it was to look
after the interests of the firm in New
York. These state rights were readily
disposed of, and $125,000 was shipped
in various sums to the New York
office. But matters weren't as rosy as
they seemed, for one day the inventor
received a telegram stating that the
sheriff was in possession of the Nickel-in-
the Slot Company's plant, and the
firm was being sued by creditors The
inventor hurried back only to find that
the $125,000 had been quietly secured
by his partner in his own name, while
the inventor had nothing but the plant
and the debts of a clamoring army of
creditors. The courts were powerless
to do anything for the inventor. His
partner is now traveling through
Europe on the money he secured,
while the poor inventor is trying to re-trieve
his fortune ia a little four by
six office in New York. If you have
an idea that is worth patenting, always
attend to that first before confiding
your secret to a friend, a3 friendship
don't count for much when it comes to
making a fortune.
* * *
UP TO THE present time it looks as
if we are going to have one of those
" o p e n " winters which are becoming
very monotonous of late years. It is
not necessary to go back so many
years to remember a winter that was
of the opposite kind. The winter of
'72 and '73 will never be forgotten,
not alone for the intense cold that pre-vailed,
but the amount of snow that
fell during the entire winter was such
as to mark that winter as somewhat of
a record-breaker. Especially around
the holidays was the fall of the beauti-ful
remarkable. So deep was the snow
that a funeral, which was to have
taken place in t h e Moravian Cemetery;
had to be postponed. In connection
with this an incident occurred that
will never be forgotten by those who
composed the party. There were many
deaths that winter, many more than in
any previous3; year. One of the vil-lage's
oldest inhabitants had died
(Lititz was still a village then), and,
as stated above, the funeral had to be
postponed. The corpse was taken to
the stone building in the rear of the
church, known by the sepulchral name
of " corpse house," to await the making
of a passage way to the cemetery.
Another death occurred the next day,
and as it was customary to keep the
" cooling board" in this " corpse
house," the party whose duty it was to
go after it wheu a death occurred,
started on their mission, but ignorant
of the fact that a corpse was at that
time reposing in the " dead house"
Their surprise when they opened the
doors of the gruesome place can better
be imagined than described.
* * *
WHILE it was supposed to be bit.
terly cold here that winter, it was
nothing compared to the winter they
experienced in Dakota. -That must
be the starting place of all our bliz-zards,
for whether there is one on the
tapis you can make up your mind that
Dakota is in it with both feet. Oar
winters here must seem like Fourth of
J u l y to them if any reliance can be
placed on the yarns that come from
that direction. This is how they tell
i t : " I am not an old man, and there-fore,
the winter I speak of is familiar to
all of you—that of 1873, Five of us,
with our wives, had gone to Dakota in
order to obtain homesteads, and set-tled
twenty-five miles from the then
small village of Fargo, near where
the city of Castleton is now situated,
but then a wild, desolate prairie, with
mo neighbors nearer than Fargo, and
bands of Indians or droves of wolves
placing us in constant peril, The
five families, although having sod
houses of their own, all lived in one
house for companionship and protec-tion.
Well, at 10:30 o'clock Wednes-day
night, October 2, it turned so cold
t h a t we could see the walk moving in
and the house growing smaller from
the natural contraction caused by the
atmosphere. It grew colder constantly
till morning, and then remained as it
was,"
^
" WHAT was the degree?" some one
asked. " To tell the truth, gentlemen,
I do not know," was the response1
" We had half a dozsn thermometers
but they were of the mercury kind,
and mercury froza so solid within an
hour that the children used the bulbs
to play marbles with all that winter
and until they thawed out the follow-ing
F o u r t h of J u l y . We had plenty ol
fuel, and wore heavy winter wraps in
the house, in this way keeping from
freezing. After a few weeks we be-came
used to it. Oae of the ladies
discovered how • beautiful the icicles
were that grew upon the windows,
They then wore them as jewels, and
diamonds never looked prettier,
There was no danger of their melting,
even in the house, and it was actually
a source of sorrow to the ladies when
the weather grew warm enough for us
to go out doors and to melt the dia
monds with which they had decorated
themselves. That was the coldest
winter I ever experienced, but I can-not
tell just how cold it was, owing to
having no spirit thermometer.
* * *
WHAT'S the use of talking about
winter in this section after that, PHIL,
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gie, in his lecture at Johnstown, Pa.,
said: "The business of this country
for the past few years has been at low
ebb. Never, perhaps in our day, has
there been such continued depression
Taking capital as a whole, invested in
manfacturing in the United States, I
doubt if it has earned one dollar of
profit for three years past; that is to
say, the losses have balanced any pos-sible
gains.
" Why is it that business has not
revived as was expected after the re-sult
ot the national election was de-clared
? Well, I think people expected
too much or too early a recovery,
l h e season of the year for recovery is
after spring opens, and we could
scarcely expect sufficient momentum
in J a n u a r y to overcome the inertia of
the mass which lay immovable, but the
conditions are all most favorable and
business as a whole is upon a sound
foundation. There is no inflation io
anything; prices are all low. Unless
some surprise is sprung upon the
country nothing can hold it back from
a period of genuine prosperity. I am
optimistic to a degree in regard to the
future." ^
No Comic Operas for Them.
The organizing of feminine societies
has developed into a fad of quite re-spectable
proportions. A recent out-break
of the craze occurred at an
afternoon tea one day recently, when
a number of the young matrons in at-tendance
banded themselves into a club
" for the discouragement of comic
opera." Under this generic term, it is
understood, are comprised all those
forms of vaudeville and other stage
shows which derive their powers of
attraction from their display of female
loveliness more or less unadorned.
This sort of entertainment, the promo-ters
of the new club declare, is produc-tive
of domestic infelicity and divorces,
and every successful light opera leaves
a trail of abandoned wives in its track.
I t is asserted that a show of this cha-racter,
which had a run of only two
weeks in Philadelphia, resulted in the
breaking up of three happy homes.
The fair reformers are in dead earnest
and there is trouble just ahead for their
respective husbands, — Philadelphia
Record.
•Poisons engendered by food ferment-ing
in a dyspeptic stomach are the di-rect
cause of rheumatism, gout, bron-chitis,
liver and kidney complaints,
asthma, pneumonia and many nervous
ailments.
These results are prevented by the
use of the Shaker Digestive Cordial, a
remedy discovered and prepared by
the Shakers of Mount Lebanon, N. Y.
I t is in itself a food and has power to
digest other food taken with it, Thus
it rests the diseased stomach and finally
masters the worst cases of dyspepsia.
I t acts promptly and fresh strength
and increase of weight soon follows.
The first dose, taken immediately after
eating, abates the pain and distress so
dreaded by dyspeptics. Trial bottles
—enough to prove its merit—10 cents.
Laxol is the best medicine for chil-dren.
Doctors recommend it in place
of Castor Oil.
A' T H TIBER'S.
Over the State.
Hazslton is overrun with dangerous
counterfeit silver dollars.
About $70,000 of the estate of the
late Miss Maria Von Neida, of Read-ing,
was left to local charities.
Charles and Georgo Taylor became
unconscious and nearly died of coal
gas asphyxiation at Bloomsburg.
Common Councilman John K
Funck was badiy burned at Lebanon
while heating alcohol over a gas jet.
An ordinance will be introduced in
the Harrisburg Councils requiring all
electric wires to bs buried under
ground.
The Scranton Traction Company
caused the arret t and fining of two
young women for giving away trolley
transfers.
Mrs. D. N. C. Brock, of Mount Leb-
My advertisement this week,
next week and all the other weeks.
It will pay you. Yen will see
genuine bargains. A few items
t h i s week :
2-quart Kettle (ic, j-quart 5c, perfect goods.
Very p r e t t y Tray—something new, 6c.
Large tize Sauca-Pan, 8c ; or.e trifle small-er,
6c.
Pails, 7,10 a n d 14c.
Tin Teaspoons, 6c doz ; Tablespoons, 10c
doz. More prices n e x t week.
•83-ASK FOR A CASH CAF.D.
J". L . H T J B E B ,
Miksch's Old Stand. Main Street, Lititx
anon, presideuf of the State Federation
of Women's Clubs, organized such a
club at Lebanon.
A Pittsburg man, arrested for not
taking off his hat in a theatre, explain-ed
his act by saying he feared a cold,
and was discharged.
While trying to rescue her two chil-dren
Mrs. William Croyie perished-with
them in their burning home at
Bedford on Saturday.
Large crowds attended the funerals,
at Shenanhoah, of Engineer Jonas
Shoup and Fireman William Har-mann,
who were killed in a collision at
Pottsville.
Contagious diseases exist to such an
extent in Hazleton that pastors of
churches requested parishioners in
whose families there was sickness to
remain at home.
Five head of cattle owned by John
F. Fisher, of Middlstown, were killed
on Thursday by order of the State
Veterinary Board, as they were suffer*
ing from tuberculosis.
The petitions of the State Grand
Army men to the Legislature for an
appropriation for a monument to mark
Camp Curtin will likely be presented
early in February. The petitions are
rapidly being signed all over the^tate.
Coal and Iron police patrol the
Colebrook Furnace Plant at West
Lebanon day and night to protect the
owners, the Lackawanna Iron <is Steel
Company's frequently plundered pro-perty.
Forged assignments of contractors'
estimates on city work have been dis-covered
in Pittsburg, on which $19,500
was raised. Contractor W. J . Dunn
places the blame on a confidential
clerk, whose relatives will probably
make the loss good.
Tne executive committee of thé
Pennsylvania State Christian En-deavor
Union met for the annual
meeting at Harrisburg on Thursday
and arranged for the state convention,
to be held at Easton on October 5, and
for transportation to the international
convention, at S i n Francisco in J u l y.
The Board of Trade of Wilkesbarre
has taken hold of the project for the
erection of a mammoth hotel on the
site of the Music Hall, A New York
man has offered to lease the hotel for
ten years, put $100,000 worth of furni-ture
in it. and guarantee the stockhold-ers
7 per cent, on their investment.
One hundred and forty thousand
dollars has already been subscribed.
A Polander named John Bunya
procured some medicine recently at a
drug store in Wilkesbarre for a head-ache
and ia less than half an hour was
raving with pain. Finally he lapsed
into unconsciousness and remained in
this state for seyeral days, when a
physician was called in. He had
evidently been given the wrong medi-cine
by the drug store clerk and an
investigation will be made-
Philip Fisher has been arrested in
Hartford, Conn, for the larceny of
$118. Mis. Annie Bierman, a South
Bethlehem widow, is the procecutor,
and she alleges that she was to be
married to Fisher last October. One
day, howeyer, she counted out some
money before him, and he, leaving the
house ostensibly to get shaved, disap-peared.
The money went with him
and now she doesn't loye him any
more.