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THE DAILY BEE--~WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 1882. 7 COUNCIL BLUFKES COMMISSION MERCHANTS, City Market, Couneil Blufts, Tows, WHOLESALE FLOUR HOUSE, General Agents for the Celebrated Mills of H, D, Rush & Co. @olden Eagle Flour, Leavenworth Kansas, and Queen Bee Mills, Sioux Falls, Dakota. Reference, Smith & Crittenden, Council Blufts, ia. WHOLESALE STATIONERY AND AND RETAIL PRINTER'S CGOODS, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. TITLE ABSTRACI Lands and Lots Bou MONEY TO LOAN AT LOW RATES. NOTARIES PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCERS. COUNGIL BLUFFS - - IOWA: iy . dENEISY G AN | 15 North Main Street. WHOLESALE DEALER Roady-fitted uppers, in calt skin and kip. 0ods appertaining to the shoe trado. Go ds sold as cheap s in the East GO MBS, :NORRIS' NEW FOR STYLISH SPRING MILLINE IN SHOE FINDINGS. Onk and Hemlock SOLE LEATHER, and al TO MILLINERY STORE IRY PATTERN BONNETS AND CHILDREN'S HATS A SPECIALTY. 106 South Main Street. - W AT EIR That never require crimping, at Mrs. J. J. Go any other hair dealer. silver and colored nets. olsewhore. All goods warranted as ropresented. Bethesda BATHING HOUSE! At Bryant’s 8pring, Qor. Broadway and Union Sts. COUNCIL BLUFFS. Plain, Medioated, Vapor, Electrle, Plunge, Douch,' Bhower, 1ot and Cold Baths. Com: potent’ male and female vurees and attondants always on hand, and the best of ca'e and atten- #lon given patrons, Special att.ntion given to batalng children. Inyestigation aud patronage wolicited. DR. A. H SrupLey & Co., 106 Upper Broadway. Dr. Btudley: Treatment of chrouic discases made a specialty. CANCER REMOVED without _the drawing of blood o use of C M pelas, Salt Rhoum, Scald Head, Catarrh o inflamed and granulated Eyes, - crofulous Ulee's and Fe- malo Discaso- of all 'kinds. Alio Kidney and Venerial discases. Homorrhoids or Piles cured money refunded. All diseasos treated upon the principle of veget- able reform, without the use of mercurial pois- was or the Knife. Electro Vapor or M-dicated Baths, furnished who desire them. Also a full line of switches, Waves made from Iadies' own hair. - - - - Council Bluffs Ia W AVES od's Halr Btars, st prices never boforo touched by te., at kroatly reduced pricea. Also gold, Do not fail to vall betore purchasing MRS, J. J. GOOD, 29 Maln streos, Council Bluffs, lows. HAIR GOODS. WATER WAVES, In Stock an_d Manufactur- ed to Order. Waves Made From Your Own Hair. TOILET ARTICLES, All Goods Warranted as Represented, and Price: Guaranteed. MRS. D. A BENEDICT, 337 W. Broadway, Council Bluffs; - - - Iowa MRS, E. J. HARDING, M. D., Medical Electrician AND Heornla or Rupture radically cured by the use the Elastic belt Truss and Plaster, which has superior in the worla. CONSULTATION FREE CALL ON OR ADDRESS Drs, B. Rice and F. C. Miller,, COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia. LIVERY, Feed and Sale Stables, 18 North First Street, Bouquet's old stand, Council Blufts, lowa. WILLAKD SMITH, Prop. W.D.STILLMAN, ulting Practitioner of Hemeopathy, Plg icianand Surgeon. SINION & WEST. DENTISTS. GYGNECOLOGIST. Graduate of Electropathic Inetitution, Phila- delphia, Penna. Office Cur, Broadway & Glenn Ave, COUNCIL BLUFFS, I0WA. The treatment of all diseases and pelnful dif- flculties peculiar to females o specialty. J. G. TIPTON, Attorney & Counsellor, Office over First National Bank, Council B'uffs, Tows. Will practice In tno state and feleral courts FRESH FISH! Game and Poultry, 8. DANEHY'3, 136 Upper Broadway JNO. JAY FRAINEY, Can always be found a 14 Pearl Street, Council Bluffs. Exteactingand filling a specialty, First-class work guarantoed, DR. A. P. HANCHETT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, No. 14 Pearl Streot. Houss, 9 n, m, 2.,ad 2 p,m, to b p, m, Residence, Baneroft street. Telephonic connection ' with Central office, F. T. SEYBERT, M. D, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, COUNCIL BLUFFS, - - IA. Office No. 5, Everett Block, Broad- way, over A. Louie’s Restaurant, Merchants Rostaurant J. A. RO38, Proprietor. Corner Broadway «nd Fourth Streets, to 120 Good accommodations, ood fare and cour- toous treatment. S. E. MAXON, AR O EL X T, ¥ 43 W Office over eavings bauk. QOUNOIL BLUFFS, - " REAL ESTATE. W. . James, lu connection with his law wnd eollection busineas buys and eclis real estate Porsons wishing to buy or sell clty propert, call o4 hts office, over Bushuell's book store, Pearl stroct EDWIN J. ABBOTT. Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. - Towa Justice -of the Peace, 314 BROADWAY, Council Bluffs, W B. MAYES, Loans and Real Estate. Proprietor of abstracts of Pottawattamic county, Office corner of Broadway and Main strects, Council Blufls, Tows. JOHN STEINER, M. D, (Deutscher Arzt.) ROOM 5, EVERETT'S BLOCK, Council Bluffs, wiseasos of woien and children o spocialty. P, J. HONTGOMERY M. D. FREE DISPENSARY EVERY SATURDAY, Towa, Office in Everett's block, Pesrl trect. ~ Hosl) dence €48 Fourih stveet. Ofice hours trom 0 to $a m, 2todand 7 0fp.m. Council | luffs i F. 6. CLARK, |PRACT/CAL DENTIST. i One of ot prastitioners {n Council Bluffs. Batia opposite the postoffice. DR. F. P. BELLINGER, EYE AND EAR SURCEON, WITIl DR, CHARLES DEETKEN, Office over druy store, 414 Bro Al discases of the dway, Councll eye and ecar most approved method snd all JOHN LINOT, 416Broadway, Council Bluffs Dosdejandmortgages drawn and ackoowl vmlw“{,‘& practice in alll Btate and ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Usited States Bpoaks German Langusge, ht and Sold. CARIFORNIA, Riding to The Yo Semite—Out- door Life—The Big Trees —Nature's Wondere, The Travelers' Tribute Climbing the Mountaine- Camped in the Valley. Yo Semite Letter to Buftalo Express. Our stay of threo days at Clark's Station was well filled with sight-see ing and resting, Our camp was in an amphitheatre of pine covered moun- tains with hero and there a patch of snow gleaming on their rugged sides. Tho swift-running Merced river rushed maily along over the rocksnt far away, and the magnificent pines reared their 260 or 300 feet of height over our heads., It was a decided compensation: for all the dreary and unpleasant camps we had had on the journey tluther. Two miles away were the beautiful Falls of Chinualdo. Friday we spont the day by them, driving as far as_wo could, then fol- lowing a toot trail the rest of the way. The falls are really a succession of cascades, tumbling over the different ledges in threo distinct stroams —vary- ing in height from 50 to 200 feet— pausing as they fall, and resting for a single instaut on each ledge, then uniting in their last leap in a shower of glistening dinmonde, AMONG THE BIG TREES, In the evening we strolled over to a Digger Indian camp accoss the 1iver. There was but one man who could speak Englieh, and he aypeared quite intelligent (for an Indiav), but the rost of the men and the squaws were squatted around on the ground or lying at full Jength in their bark wg- wams, looking about as intelligently a8 80 many piccos of animated putty. A slam deer, shot that day and half- dressed, was to us the most interest- ing feature of the camp. Saturday we spent the day among tho Mariposa Grove of Big 'Trecs, and found, just as we expected, a lot of overgrown forest giants, that arous.d our won- der and admiration to the highest de- gree. Itis useless to undertake much of a description of them for every one is familiar with their peculiar characteristics and enormous propor- tions Bat a few facts concerning them may not be out of placey Th) “Grove’ embraces (48 acres (f land in the mountains, 7,000 feet above sea level, but is not entirely composed of the “*Sequoia Gigantea,” o8 is generally eupposed, for these trees stand ir groups of two or three, and even singly, among pines, and spruce, and fice. It is difticult to ap- preciate their colossal dimensions until accurate measurement is taken and a comparison made with other objects. Every one has heard of the “‘Grizzly Giant,” with its 92 7 feet of circum- ference and 260 feet of height, with a limb 120 feet from the ground meas- uring six feet and four inches in diameter. Nenrly all of tho largost trees are named. Wo passed the Faithful Couple, Grant and Colfax, Bowles and Lafayette; took off our hats to grand old Lincoln and greeted 1t with three rousing cheers; bowed in admiration before Longfellow and Whittier, a stately pair standing side by side; drove through the heart of Wahwonah with our large covered wagon; and stood, twenty-feur of us, besides a horso and rider, in the hol- low trunk of the Smoke Stack, while we looked up 200 feet to the blue sky aboye. We paced the length of the fallen monarch, poor Andy Johnson, 80 named because it leaned toward the south about the time Andy inclined in that direction, and fell whon he fell. Our martyred Garfield is also repre- gented by a beautiful sequoia, perfect in 1ts graceful proportions, and appar- ently just in its prime, measuring but b7 feev around. Many other famous names wero there, Of course we all invested our loose change in the in- evitable pincushions made of thebark, which is ono und one-half to two feet in thickness. A FLORAL WONDER, Our day's delight was increased ten- fold by the diecovery of the snow plavt,” which we all agreed was the moest beautful flower we had ever soen. 1t was *‘a thing of beauty and a joy forever,” with its rich rose, mad- der-tinted flower drooping gracefully from the shapely stalk of the same color, and the whole delicately tinged with a frosty someihing that is impos- sible to describe. Some one said that it looked delicious enough to eat, and it certainly was a most tempting and refreshing sight on a hot day, We found upon pulling up the bulb that ice was clinging o it, and the whole plant as cold to the touch as if it had just come oft a snow bank, and yet no snow was visible anywhere around. INFAMOUS EXTORTION, After a quict Sunday spent in camp we wero ready for the luat stage of our journey to the Yo Semito. But first wo had to settle the perplexing ques- tions of toll-rates, about which we had heard such conflicting accounts, There was evidently no uniformity in the charges, and the printed bulletin of rates, naled up In a conspicuous place, was a dead letter as far as we could see. According to'it we should have paid €8 (81 per avimal), but we wero obliged to pay $14, wit the comfort- ing assurance from the collector that he had let un off casy, for he could have demanded $26. Kithefour heads were very thivk, or he by a différent arithmetic than we stuied, for we failed to be o f of the right or justice of the demand. We have since learned that the are whatever the collsctor can get out of a party, and there has been &0 much complaint about the little “‘irregular- ity" that the matter is under investi- gation now and will be well ventila for the benefit of the traveling public THE LAST CLIMB, From Clark’s we crossed the south fork of the Merced river, and began the ascent of the last grade of our 500 mile journey, The country grew wilder and more rugged at every step. Densely wouded mountying and sharp peaks towered on all sides, while dark ravines and sunny canops lay thou- sands of feet below us. Wo met hhe six-horse stage on one dizzy precipi and only succeeded in passing it afte " | violently with this bl of interest, ete. We asked him if he didn’t tire of answering so many questiona_for every new-comer. He replied good-naturedly that he liked to impart information whenever he could, but that senseless quoestions wero often asked that amused him mightily. One of out over-the.way cousing appeared on the summit once clothed in the regulation Englieh hunting costume and armed with a little fancy rifla, The latter pleasod our friend s0 muph that he asked Cousin John what 1e intended to do withit. “Aw! T didn't know but what T might got a shot at a ranch, you know!" THE JOURNEY'S END. Our 15-mile ride in the afternoon was mostly down the mountain The sconery grew grander at every step, until we reached Inspiration Point, five miles from the valley, where one never-to-be forgotten view of the Yo somite burst upon our vision, and filled us with an awe that left no room for words. 1f an unexpected glimpso of “the Beautiful City” had been vouchsafod us, we could not have been more overshelmed. As we slowly descended the mountain into the val ley, as down a winding stairway, the beauty and prandeur of the scene grow almost oppressive. If we had had a hundrod eyes we could have used them all to good advantage, and if we had been endowed with the ‘gift of tongues,” they could have done but feeble justico to the subjeot. Wo wero under a spoll, that was not unpleasantly broken by the stopping of our teams and the introduction to our permanent camp, under the Royal Arches and bencath the shadows of the grand old South Dome that lifted its bald head 5,000 feot above us and the valley. Nil Desperandum. When your girl gives you the mitten, and your heart is broke, Don't give way to black despair, but treat it as o joke, Get your healthin firstclass order, a bottle of SPRING BLOSSOM buy, And gaily join a singing class, and for an- other sweetheart try. Price 50 cents, trial bottles 10 cents, aug?-dlw After a Star Route Witness. Virginia City Enterpnse Doputy United States Marshal A, H. Ricketts yesterday returned from a trip among the towns and camps of Eastern Nevada, whither he went in company with Deputy United States Marshal Seybolt, of Nebraska, in search of a defaulting witness in the star route cases, now pending in the oat more if I had them, S5 when I arrived at the Metropolitan hotel T ordered my dinner to be served in my room, and told the waiter to bring with my dinner a strong cup of coffee and 100 raw ogsters. Ho looked at me a moment and then said “Did I understand you to say 100 opsters]” “Yes," T answered; ‘‘raw, on the half shell, with vinegar; no lemons; and as soon as you can, for I am very hungry.” ‘‘Ahem! Miss, do you want 1007 “‘Yes, 1do. What are you waiting for? Must I pay for them in advance/ T want nice large ones.” “No, no, Miss, All right, you shall have them,” and he went out, 1 continued my writing, and forgot all about my dinner till he knooked and came in with my dinner on a tray, but 10 oysters, “How is this?" said T no oysters.” “*Dey’s comin’, Miss, dey's comin’,” and the door opened and in filod throe more sons of Afric's burning sands, oach with a big tray of oysters on the half shell. T was staggered, but only for a moment, for 1 saw the waiters were grinning, so 1 calmly dircoted them to place eno tray on a chair, one on the washstand and one on the bed, and said “Thoy are very small, aren't they (" “Oh! no, Miss, do berry largost we'za got.” “Very well,” said I, “‘yon oan go. It 1 want any more Uil ring.” When they got into the hall one said to the other: “Fore God, Jo, if she eats all them oysters tho's dend woman 1 did not feel hungry any longer, 1 drank my ccffoo and looked at the oysters, every one of fthom as big as my hand, and they all seemed looking at me with their horrible white faces and out of their one dinbolioal eye, until I could not have eaten one any more than I could have carved up a live baby. They leered at me and seemed to dare mo to attack thom Our California oysters are smail, and with no more individual character about them than grains of rice, but these detestable creatures wero in- stinct with evil intentions, and I dared not swallow one for fear of the dis- turbance he m'ght raise in my #- terior, 80 I set about getting rid of them, for I was nover going give up beaten before those wsitors, 1 hung a dress over the key-hole after I locked the door, and just outside my window found a tin water spout that had a hole in it. I carefully enlarged it, and then slid overy ono_of those *‘Thero are supreme court at Washington, in order to serve on him a warrant of attachment. The man of whom they were in search is an ex-United States senator. They did not find him, and for the very good reason that he had thought better of the business and had turned about and gone to Wash- ington of his own accord; in fact, was in Washington two days before the two deputy marshals left this city. Mr. Ricketts says that at one ume there were in Washington from Ne- vada, California gnd Oregon 130 star route witnesses, Ho and Mr. Scy- bolt met quite & number of them who were stringing along back to their homee, Each of theso men received from $400 to $600 as expenses for appearing before the grand jury alone, and they will have to go oast again in the fall. Messrs. Ricketts and Seybolt, of course, kept close mouths about their business. On their arrival at Cherry Creek they were put down by the resideats of the camp as eastern capitalists looking, on the sly, for bargains in mines Nothirg was too good for them, The landlady of their hotel was all smiles and jokes. They lefc the hotel and went out on a biv of a scout, When they returned all was changed. The landlady wanted coin in advance for everything, and looked as black asa budding cyclone. They expressed some surprise at the turn things had taken, ‘‘Ah,” said the landlady, “‘I hear you are a couple of sneaking government detectives, When you first came here we all had a better opinion of you,” That settled it, and they made their coin visible, An 01d Friend. He was afflicted with a lame back and general debility; he was rccommended TromAs' } oLkcTRIC O1L which cured hiuo at once, This famous specitic is a J)onilive remey for bodily pain. aul-dlw r— The Bug kxterminator, Texas 8i'tings. In the spring of last year a smooth- tongued, glib-mouthed young man who had gone through the lightning- rod course and graduated in the book agency business, passed through Wash- ington and the adjoining counties, in- troducing what he called the ‘*bug ex- terminator.” He was very fair aud reasonable, and as he was only taking orders for his invention he merely re- quired one-third (50 cents) cash and the rest he would collect in the fall when he passed through. In case the exterminator failed to kill every bug upon which it was used, according to accompanying directions, he would res} fund the money. Nothing could-be fairer than that, so he was well re- coived everywhere, gnd” went away with about ’MM pocket, leving his address-with every purchasér in cano-h® should neglect. to send the ex- runuinntur. Weh;in due course of lookitig little package labeled “‘Bug Exterminator - certain death—due §1 ~none. genuing without signature,” ete. Upon opening it, the farmer dis- covered two nice, snooth little equare blocks, containing the following direc tion on No. 1: “Piace the bug on this block;" aud on No. 2; * Strike the bug """ The farm- ers woro ready for him when the time came for him to return, but I need not say the time came on alone, A pure strengthoning tonic, freo from ~ whiskey and alcohol, cures dyspopsia, and similar diseases, It has nover been equaled, Brown's Iron Bitter AN OYSTER YARN, A Caiifornia Laay’s kxperience of the Now York Biyalves, I never found anything but once here in excess of my expoctations, or even approaching them, and that was locking wheels and creatng consider- able commotion, Eleves miles of up bill pulling found us on the summit just at noon, Here we }lied the sta: the New York oysters. 1 had just then come from California, where opyters aro very small and unimpor- tanjt, not to say insignificant, and I tion keeper with questions innumera. ble as t the altitude, disiance, points had often eaten a hundred there at a tiide, and had always felt that I could ) wail, evesy firmor receivod & neat- | boastly creaturos down one by one— one hundred aud two of them—the all the time eycing me with that cold, sty lcok of maligoity, When the f:u one was ovt of sight I stopped trembling, and finished my dinner in eace, avd then rang for the waiters. ou should have seen their faces! Quo of the waiters asked if T would have some more. May bo never know the internal pang he iuflicted upon me, but I replied, calmly: “Nct now. I think too many at once might be hurtful.” Au effoctive medicine for kidnoy disoases, low fevers and nervous pros- tration, and well worthy of a trial, is Iron Bitters. Murray Iron Works Burlington lowa. Semi Portable Engines, FOR CREAMERIES, Printing Offices” Ete., pagni A Spocialty, The Largest Tron Working Establish- ment in the State, Steam Engines, To the Consumers of Carriages & Bupgies. I have a conplate stock of all the Latis’ Stylex of Carriages, Phaetons and Ope1 and Top Bugges, Consisting of The Celebrated Brewster 8ids Bar, The Hamlin 8ide Bar, The Whitney Side Bar, and The Mullhalland Spring. The Dexter Queen Buggy and Phaeton. Als) the Old Reliable Eliptic S8priog Bugsies and Phaetons. They are 1l made ot ths best ma‘erials, and un- der my own supervision, I should be Pleased to have those desirous of pur- chasing to call and ezamine my stock. I will guar- antes satisfaction and warrant all work. H. F. HATTENHAUER, Broadway and Seventh Streets, — |, 1] 1 ALEL. MAY NIE & CO., (Successors to J. W. Rodefer) WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN LACKAWANNA, LEHIGH, BLOSSBURG AND ALL JOWA GOALS ALSO CONNELLSVILLE COKE, GEMENT, LIME, PLASTER, ETC. Office No, 84 Pearl Street, Yards Oor, Bighth Street and leventh Avenue, Oouncil Bluffs, P, T. MAYNE. 0. E. MAYNE COUNGIL BLUFFS STEAM FAGCTORY MANUFACTURE Corner BROOMS, BROOM HANDLES, CORN MEAL, GRAHAM FLOUR AND GHOPPED FEED The Very Best of Brooms Oonstantly on Hand. The Highest Market Price Paid for Corn, Oats, Rye, ' Barley £ ™ ID BROOM CORIN {Parties Wishing to Sell Broom}Cora Will r"l ? -8end Sample, / MATYNE & CO. GENERAL ;;XOHINERY. The Howard Automatic Cut-0f Steam Engine. Sond forclvoulsr, 1880, SHORT LINE. 1380, KANSAS CITY, 3t. Joe & Council Bluffs TRAXTITO.LHXD . T e oy Direct Line to 8T, LOUI® AND THK EAST trom Owmahaand the Weat, A Sreins leavo B. & M. Dopot, Omukiri Nob, No charge of oate bebween Omship bnd ds. Lont N b o, botmoun OMBTLA sud NEW YOHK, 5 X I nger Traine oliman o rabed ace VLA n4s FAR NUIL DLUESS Ba sl wikh ace Uy Conchios, ki ipior, and ho o PERFUME y & Lanman’s R Dest for TOILET, BATH GO T0 536 BROADWAY Voth In wilk and line, hoso of all ‘kinds, throad, pne, 1l and seo our stock of goods ab 689 nm-:Iuy before go' COFor | kinds pe fancy ' 140 Landkorchiofs, fiphe "u“uf'.?é.""w.:-.mfi ‘tho Inalcs will ca i “*METCALF BROS, ~——WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— Hats, Straw Goods, and Buck Gloves. OHICAGO PRICES DUPLICATED, UNOIL: BILOEE" RUDD'S LAUNDRY. On Avenue B, No. 1902. (NBAR BROADWAY.) Caps, STARR & BUNCH, HOUSE, SIGN, AND ORNAMENTAL PAINTERS. PAPER HANGING,:, [ EALSOMINING AND GRAINING, A SPEOLALIT Y. Shop—Corner Broadway and Soott 8¢ Clothos gathered up and delivered promptly, Best of fatisfaction Gruaranteel. Lost Clothes mado good, NOBETTER LAUNDRY WEST OF CH{OAGO. e A O BT DXD. STEAM LAUNDRY. 723 W. Broadway. LARSON & ANDERSON, P.oprietors, S HUGHES & TOWSLEE, DEALERS IN Confectionery, Fruits,Nuts Cigars and Tobacco. Fresh wysters and Ice Cream im Hoason, 12 MAIN 8%, Council. Bluffa, One of the best s coud-class: Hotels (n the Weat s the BROADWAY HOTEL. A. E DROWN, Proprictar, Nos. 684 and 686 Brosdway, « ouncll Blufs, lows. Table supplied with tho best the markes af~ Terms ‘i laun 1 fall k y Wi e nes, work h ey colirs, e want wveryboty t opecicl give us a ARSON & ANDERSON, 1D KUMUNDEON, K. L WHUVART, A, W. BTRRKT, President, Vi M Cashicr, OITIZENS BANK Of Council Blufls, 5 P TR (IVIL, MECHANICAL AND MINING EN ( ) GINEERING, at the Nunhnuly‘ur Polytech. fost englueor bogius Sep- or 1852 contaios o o pa b 66 years, with of tudy, require nic Institute, T w:hool in & tember 14th, ¥ list the geduste their positions; al wente, sxponses, Ravio u Grgen, | W tords, Good rooms and first-clags beda, (rganized under the laws of tho Stete of lowa. | very reasonable. ekt 5% UNION AVENUE HOTEL. [ tntorost paid on time deposite. Dratta issucd ¢ the principsl citios of the United Btates nud wope. Special ttention given to collockions 2l correspondence with prompt returns, 817 Lower Broadway, Mrs. C. Gerspacher & Son. DIRECTORS, .:Illt:"l‘ u"‘l“ll“:flfil“.‘;lfl’lli ‘AT KREASONABLE . PRICES, 7 CCOMMODATED J. D. Edmundson, E. L. Bhugart, J. T, Hart, ) BALE, GOO | W W Walla, 0 Vo, Rodior, 4 A, ] D REASANS FOB. BAW. Hbreot, Jyiau =