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HIGHLAND RECORDER VOL. XXXII MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY VA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 28.1910 NO. 43 Faultless Style Plus Perfect Wear Some shoes always look neat and nifty. Some shoes look shabby in short order after they be^in to see service. The woman whose shoes retain their fine lines and good looks after two months of wear, either paid four or five dollars for them or else she wears The SOUTHER!, GIRL This same shoe in our ' 'A ut agra ph'' Brand, $2. SO -S3.00, is Goodyear Welt Sewed: in our College Woman's Walking Shoe it equals the best custom make. $2.00 Shoe $2.50 Ordinarily a $2.00 shoe is very ordinary. When the looks are gone the shoe is gone. The Southern Girl Shoe at $2.00 is an extraordinary value. It looks good as long as you wear it, and you will still be wear? ing it when your neighbor who may have bought some other shoe at the same time is obliged to buy new ones. We use only the best hides for vamps and tops, and the best sole leather money can buy. We have a dealer in your town. Look for the Red Bell on the box. CRADDOCK-TERRY CO. Lynchburg, Va. THE 5TH SESSION OF THE MONTEREY HIGH SCHOOL will open Sept. 19, 1910. Trained and experienced faculty. EDUCATE AT HOME Fee for students outside of district $2.30 per month. Robert Sterrett, A. B., Principal The Store That Makes the bargain prces Good Umbrella for $1, worth $1.25 Corsets for $1, the kind you pay 1.25 for. Ladies' underwear at 5 to 15c, pants 25c. Yoi should come and see them. Men's and Boys' Shirts, Collars, Ties and Pants al unheard of prices. You should see our hats?don't forget to ask the price Arbuckle's Coffee 17c, Sugar 6 1-2, nails 3 1-2 If you are getting these prices anywhere else we are the cause of it. All kinds of Country Produce Bought and Sold You get more for $1, dozen eggs or 1 lb butter here than any where else. L. B. BYRD & CO Prize Offers from Leading Manufacturers Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Inventions needed." "Why some inventors fail." Send rough sketch or model for search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly. Acting Commissioner of Patents, and as such had full charge of the U. S. Patent Office. GREELEY & MANURE Patent Attorneys Washington, D. C. Pale-Faced Women You ladies, who have pale faces, sallow complexions, dark circles under eyes, drawn features and tired, worn out expressions, you need a tonic. The tonic you need is Cardui, the woman's tonic. It is the best tonic for women, because its ingredients are specifically adapted for women's needs. They act on the womanly organs and help to give needed strength and vitality to the worn-out womanly frame. Cardui is a vegetable medicine. It contains no min? erals, no iron, no potassium, no lime, no glycerin, no dan? gerous, or habit-forming drugs of any kind. It is perfectly harmless and safe, for young and old to use. Take J 43 The Womans Tonic "After my doctor had done all he said he could for me," writes Mrs. Wm. Hilliard, of Mountainburg, Ark., "I took Car? dui, on the advice of a friend, and it helped me so much. "Before taking Cardui, I had suffered from female troubles for five years, but since taking it, I am in good health. "I think there is some of the best advice in your book that I ever saw." Your druggist sells Cardui. Try it Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Special Instructions, and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women," sent free. NOISE OF THUNDER. Due to Heating of Gases Along the Line of Electric Discharge. To Professor Troubridge we owe an experiment to explain the noise of tbunder. It luis usually beeu. thought that tlie noise ts caused by the clos? ing up ol tlie vacuum created by the passage of lightning, tlie air rushing in from ull sides with a clap, but the intensity of tlie noise is rather dis? proportionate, and lt is now supposed lian the thunder is due to tlie intense beating of tlie gases, especially the gas of water vapor along the line of the electric discharge, and the conse? quent conversion of suspended mois ture into steam at enormous pressure. In this way the crackle with which a peal of thunder sometimes begins might be regarded ns tlie sound of steam explosions on a small scale, caused by Inductive discharges before the main flash The rumble would be the overlapping steam explosions, and the final clap, which soundest loudest, would be the steam explosion nearest to the auditor. In the case of rum tiling (bunder the lightning ls passing from cloud to cloud When the flash passes from the earth to the clouds the dap ls loudest at the beginning. Professor Trowbridge gave sub stance to these suppositions by caus lng electric flushes to pass from point to point through terminals clothed In soaked cotton wool, and he succeeded In magnifying the crack of the elec? tric spark to a terrifying extent.?Lon don Graphic. THE BIG DIPPER. lt lt the Hour Hand of the Woodman's Celestial Clock. The pole star ls really the most Im? portant of the stars In our sky. lt marks the north at nil times. It alone is fixed in the heavens. All the other stars seem to swing around it once In twenty-four hours. But the pole star of Polaris is not a very bright one, aud lt would be hard to identify but for tbe help of the so called pointers in the "Big Dipper," or "Great Bear." The outer rim of the dipper poiufs nearly to Polaris at a distance equal to three times tbe space that separates the two stars of the dipper's outer side. Various Indians called the pole star the "Home Star" and the "Star That Xever Moves," and thedipper they call the "Broken Back." Tlie "Great Bear" is also to be remem? bered as the pointers for another reu son. lt is the hour baud of the wood? man's clock lt goes once around the north star lu about twenty-four hours, the reverse way of the halals of a watch?that ls. it goes the same wa.v as the sun?and for the same reason that lt is tlie earth that is going and leaving them behind.?Country Life lu America. A Blow Arrested. An organist who on the eve of n fer* tival was taken suddenly 111 slured a deputy to take his place. The depu ty, on the authority of St. .lames Budget, was a gentleman who played a very full organ, playing full rtmnl** where his principal played only single notes, and consequently using a much larger quantity of wind. Wheu about three parts through with the "Hallelujah Chorus" the wind sud deuly gave out. Going round to the back of the organ to ascertain the rea? son, the deputy found the blower In the act of putting on his coat prepara? tory to going home. "What do you mean by such behav? ior?" the deputy angrily expostulated. "Look here, sir," tlie blower returned with warmth, "if you think I don't know 'ow many puffs it takes to blow the "Allelujah Chorus' you make a big mistake!" Helped the Thief. "A simple, honest Scotch farmer had taken a sack of meal to dispose of In Aberdeen castle market," says Mrs Mayo in her "Uecollectlons of Fifty Years." "It was in the days when people were hanged for any petty theft, and an ex<*cution was In prog? ress, the culprit being a sheep stealer Tbe worthy countryman stood aghast when a stranger bustled up with the question: " 'What's ado?' M 'A hanging.' said the other, awed, for stealing a sheep.' " 'Eh. what won't folks risk for gear!' cried tbe stranger. 'Will ye j Just give me a hand up with this nek ?' "The farmer promptly compiled. It was only afterward that he discov? ered he had helped a thief to make off witb the sack of meal he had brought to sell!" Force of an Oil Well. Oil has beeu ejected from the Baku wells with such force and accompanied with so much sand that steel blocks twelve inches thick placed over the mouth of the well to deflect the flow were perforated In a few hours aud had to be replaced The Rising with which the wells were \tllf9 was often torn to shreds and eventually collaps? ed, and hundreds of thousands of IOU! of sand which accumulated in the vi? cinity neces-sitated tlie services^of large bodies of workmen.- London Mail. A Safe Bet. A man can never guess how big the hats or sleeves or skirts of women will be next season, but he stands ready to bet that no fashion center can make big shoes for women popu lar.?Atchison Globe. A Misnomer. It is becoming daily more dangerous to refer to "the weaker sex" on ac? count of the increasing doubt tn the reader's mind which sex ls meant? London Saturday Review. The public is hornby notified that I will not be responsible for the debts of my son Hubert Halter man. Uriah Halterman. Oct. 1, 1910 PICKING HUSBANDS. A Woman's Cynical View of the Ger. man Marriage Market. The men In Germany do not marry They are married. They are more ot less passive articles of sale, wtilct aJtand lu rows in the matrimonial shor window witb their price labeled ir large letters In their buttonhole, walt Ing patiently for a purchaser. Tnej are perfectly willing, even eager, vie tims. They want to be bought, bul their position does not allow them tc grasp the initiative, and tbey are thankful when at last some one comes along and declares herself capable and willing to pay the price. The girl and her mother, with theil purse In hand, pass the articles In ro? vie w and choose out the one which baal suits their means mid fancy. "I shall marry an ofllcer." one girl told me some time ago with the easy confidence of a person nboi.t to order a new dress, and. lo and behold, be? fore the year was ont she was walking proudly on the arm of a dragoon lieu? tenant! I even knew of three women who swore to each other that they would marry only geniuses, nnd hero also tbey had their will. One married a great painter, one a poet and another a famous diplomatist. That they were nil three peculiarly unhappy Is not a witness ngainst the system, but a proof that geniuses may occasionally be very uncomfortable partners. In this case the purchasers were rich and popular and could therefore make their choice. Others of lesser means would have had to content themselves with an officer, cavalry or infantry, accord? ing to tbe "dot." or a lawyer, or a doc? tor, or a merchant, and so on down the scale.?Miss Wylie's "My German Year." ODDLY EXPRESSED. Queer Ways In Which Ideas Are Sometimes Put Into Words. Curious ways of expressing ideas tn English may be expected from foreign? ers, as. for Instance, when the French? man, who made a call in the country and was about to be introduced to the family, said: "Ah. ze ladies! Zen I vou ld before, If you please, vish to purify mine 'uuds and to sweep mine hair." A Scotch publican was complaining of his servant maid Ele said that she could never be found when want? ed. "She'll gang oot o' the house," he said, "twenty tiuies for once she'll come lu." A countryman went to a menagerie to examine the wild beasts. Several gentlemen expressed the opinion that the orang outang was a lower order of the human species. Hodge did not like this Idea and, striding up to the gentleman, expressed his contempt for lt in these words: ""ooh! He's no more of the human species than I !*?e." "Mamma, ls that a sp*lod child?" asked a little boy on seeing a negro baby for the first time. A shop exhibits a card warning ev? erybody against unscrupulous persons "who infringe our title to deceive the public." Tlie shopmau does not quite say what he means any more than the proprietor of an eating house near the dock, on the door of which may be read the following announcement con? veying fearful intelligence to tbe gal? lant tars who frequent this port: "Sailors' vitals cooked here."-Phila delphla .Vonh American. Definition of True Humor. The sense of humor is the "saving PPtise" principally because it saves Bf from ourselves. The person who can? not laugh at himself now and then ls to be pitted. Moreover, the person who cannot take good naturedly the occasional bantering of others ls in the same class of disagreeables. A weil directed shaft of raillery will often find the vulnerable point in our armor of self complacency and show us where our self satisfaction Is all wrong True hu mor. however, must spring as inuc'i from the heart as from the head Its essence must be truth and friendliness, not contempt. There never was a good joke yet that told a Ile or besmirched a reputation Humor whl h carries with lt a sting to wound the sensitiveness or delicacy of one who does not deserve tn suffer ls not true humor San I'ranclsco Chrouicle. Professional Instinct. "Borneo and Juliet." with the orlgl na) cotnpatiy. had reached ifs crucial moment. Juliet was staggering about the stage, regarding lier alllieted lover. "Olh cruel poisoii!" she wailed. She raised her lover for a moment In her arms A wildly excited medical student In the gallery sprang to his feet. "Keep him up. Juliet- keep him up!" he bellowed. "I'll run out and fetch the stomach pump!" A Run of Luck. Violet-! nevei had such a streak of luck. He fell iu love in Paris, proposed In Borne and bongin the ring in Na? ples. Pierrot-Did your link end there? Violet-Oh. no! While we were at Monte Carlo he won enough from papa for us to get married on.?London Il? lustrated Pits The SH jer Lining. In life tl-Mlliles will tome which look as If they would ncvei pass away The night and the storm look as If they ?-vnuid last forcvei. but the coming of the calm ami the morning cannot oe b( ay cd The reward ?*f ""*? ?Ult.* 1<5 'he power to fulfill -moth**! I hive rlweided to stnv in Monte? rey this winter and will tench mn. sin lessons to those desiring them 2t Blanche Matheny. A DEED OF DARING. ? aV?..ty-sevt*n Lives Saved by One Man In a Ship.-.- ck. ?I A historic case of danna and endur c ance rarely equuled in * e saving an 1 mils was that of the rescue of twenty ', seven souls by one man In 1S(I7. The ', fishing schooner Sea Clipper was diiv "i en by the tempest against a reef uear 'j the .Spotted Islands on that coast and "i speedily went to pieces. Captain Wll : liam Jackman, In charge of a fishing 1 crew at these Islands, had wandered 1 In a direction he had never been be 1 fore as If by Inspiration and suddenly 'j saw the whole tragedy enacted before j bis eyes. Hurrying his one compan 'i lon back to the fishing station to sum I mon help, he plunged Into the howling ' swirl himself and eleven times swam j to the ship. Each time ho took back ! a human being to safety, battling splendidly against wind and tide. Then bel]) arrived, but no means was j available of communicating with the i vessel, so Jackman fastened a rope | around lils waist and made fifteen more trips, returning with a castaway on each occasion. It was then discov? ered that a woman had been overlook- j ed and left on board, and the belief was expressed that she was dead, but he declared that he would not leave her there, living or dead. Accordingly be plunged Into the surf again and soon bore the hapless creature to the 6hore. where, divesting himself of his flannels, he wrapped hem round ber. as sbe was almost at death's door. She expired a few hours later, but lived long enough to thank her preserver for his noble efforts In her behalf.? Wide World Magazine. BROUGHT UP HOT WATER. The Friction of the Goat Made the Ocean Almost Boil. The steamship was speeding over seas witb a record breaking list of passengers when one of the gay. young and inquiring girls who are found on every trip skipped up to tbe captain and asked: "Captain, are we really going fast? It seems as If we were Just crawling." "Fast." answered the captain gruff ly. "of course we're going fast. With nothing to see but water and sky you can't Judge our speed, but. my dear young lady, tlie friction of the boat Is so great lt makes the irater bot aft" "1 don't believe If." giggled the girl, and the captain, with a great show of indignation, called for a rope and bucket to prove his words. These brought, he slung the pall down aft of the vessel directly under the drainpipe of the ga.iey, where hot water runs all day. and brought lt up smoking, to tbe astonishment of the awstruck girl. A long, lean Yankee who had been watching the performance then came forward and drawled. "Say. cap. that must make you change your course mighty often." "Chauge my course?" blustered the captain. "What would I change ray course for?" "Well." said the Yankee slowly, "so darn much friction as that must wear tbe ocean out mighty quick."?Phila? delphia Times. Sugar. Our word "sugar" ls said to be de? rived from the A ri'hie "snkkar." tbe article itself ha vin:, got Into Europe through the Arabian Mohammedans, who overran a great part of the world In the seventh, eighth md ninth cen? turies. According K) Dr. Van Llpp man.a Hutch writer, as a result of the Arab invasion of Persia sugar found ' Its way into Arabia, whence again j Its culture was carried to Cyprus. | Rhodes. Sicily nnd Egypt. In the last 1 named country the preparation of sng ! ar was greatly improved, and the j Egyptian product became widely fa ! mons. Prom Egypt the industry ? spread along the northern coasts of j Africa and so entered Spain, where. j about the year 1150. some fourteen re | fineries were In operation. Columbus j Introduced sugar eaue Into tbe new world?Argonaut. His Bad Dream. Truly orieutal was the defense put I forward by a prtmnef at Allpore. 1 Charged witli stealing a Hindu Idol | with ifs ornaments, he stated that tbe goddess told him In a dream the night . before that, as she was not properly I worshiped by the Hindu priest, sbe ? would be better taken care of by him. a Mohammedan, and that un ess he i took charge of her worship she would I lu her wrath destroy his whole family. j The magistrate, however, was not sat . lsfled with the story and sentenced the j accused to two months' rigorous lin ! prisonment aud to pay a flue.?Bom bay Gazette. FARM FOR SALE. I will offer for sale my farm on Knapps Creek. Farm cnntairis 158L acres, of which 70 acres are im? proved, 50 acres are fertile bottom land, and the ballance is timbered. .There are more than 100,000 feet j of white pine and a lot of good oak. Good sugar and ripple orchard. .Well fenced and well watered. A , new, ten-room honse, barn and all jnecessaary out buildings. Conven? ient to store and chut ches, and new public school building on farm. To induce a quick sale, I will I make the price $0,000, on easy j terms. If interested, apply al i once to Ellis H. Moore. Frost, YV. Xa. Your cough annoys you. Keep on hacking and tearing the delicate membranes of your throat if yon want to be annoyed. But if yoi want relief, want to be outed, take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Sob' by Dr. K. H. Trimble. Dr. Miles' Anti-1'ain Tills relieve nala TAR AND FEATHERS. A Coat of These Means Excruc***. ting Torture to the Victim. People who read of tarring and feathering know that the punlAroent is a very unpleasant one, but few Im? agine how terribly painful and dan? gerous lt ls. Hardened tar is very T bard to remove from the skin, and when feathers are added It forms a kind of cement that sticks closer than a brother. As soon as the tar sets the victim's suffering begins. It contracts e as it cools, and every one of the little ( veins on the body ls pulled, causing the most exquisite agony. The perspira? tion is entirely stopped, and unless the t tar ls removed death ls certain to en- { sue. But the removal ts no easy task and requires several days. The tar cannot be softened by the application of beat -* and must be peeled off bit by blt. c sweet oil being used to make the proc? ess less painful. The Irritation to the G skin ls very great, as the hairs cannot e be disengaged, but must be pulled out j. or cut off. No man can be cleaned of tar in a single day. as the pain of the s operation would be too excruciating t for endurance, and until this ls done he r has to suffer from a pain like that of 10,000 pin pricks. Numbers of men a have died under the torture, and none t who have gone through lt regard tar a aud feathering as anything but a most fearful infliction. TOBACCO IN THE ARCTIC. v t Reaource of Miners When They Can e Neither Chew Nor 8moke. t "When the wind ls blowing thirty miles an hour and the temperature ls Jl 40 below it ls some cold." said a man fi from Alaska. "If a man used tobacco n In tbe ordinary way out of doors dur? ing such weather and got bis lips wet through smoking a pipe or chewing he C would be apt to get into trouble. First S( thing he knew he'd have his lips crack? ed, and they would be raw all winter a long. li "The regulars stationed at the mill- j tary posts up In Alaska found that if they tied a tobacco leaf in their arm? pit previous to undesired duty they o would become very sick and could pass j tbe post surgeon for hospital, getting rid of detail work they wanted to avoid "The miners up there learned some? thing of this and found that the tobac? co craving could be satisfied by bind- " lng a quantity of the leaf either In the tl armpit or against tbe solar plexus. This avoided broken and bleeding lips during the winter, aud they weren't prevented from smoking indoors as q well If they wanted to. lt was the out? door smoking or chewing that made all the trouble."?New York Sun. M d Way to Treat Venison. | ^ The sportsman was explaining to a , few of bis uniuitiated friends. "If you don't like venison," he said, "lt ls because lt has not been prepared properly. 1 think 1 kuow tbe kind you have tried to eat, and 1 agree with you lt is uot fit. After the deer has been shot the carcass probably bas been allowed to lie around until tbe blood bas discolored the meat and ICl really has almost tainted IL Few ei bunters dress their game carefully i enough. As soon as a deer ls killed the carcass should be thoroughly bled, skinned, the entrails removed and tbe meat bung up lu tbe dry air for some hours Thorough and prompt bleeding ls of tlie utmost Importance. Venison prepared tu this way ls comparatively light in color?that ls, lt ls a clear, bright red. and the fat ls white and clean. There ls no strong, rank taste." New York Tress. \\ it f( Revenge. "Stop!" Tbe brakes of the motor were suddenly applied, a pandemonium of whirling wheels ensued, and the mo? torist came face to face with Consta? ble Coppem. who had been biding In the hedge. "Excuse me. slr." said the portly po? liceman, taking out his notebook and pencil, "but you exceeded the speed limit by two miles over a measured piece of road." ? "1 have done nothing of the kind," retorted the motorist, "and. besides"? "Well, if you don't believe me I'll call the sergeanL bein' as lt was 'lm as took the time. He's In the pigsty yonder." "Don't trouble, Robert" the other hastened to reply. "1 would sooner pay fifty fines than disturb tbe ser? geant at bis meals!"?London Answers. is M faithful Woman. I tell you ibat women, as a rule, are more faithful than men?ten times more faithful. I never Baw a man pursue his wife Into the very ditch and dust of degradation and take ber In bis arms. I never saw a man stand at the shore where sbe was wrecked, walting for tbe waves to bring back D her corpse to his arms, but I have seen a woman with her white arms lift a man from the mire of degradation and , " hold him to her bosom as ii be were an angeL?IngersolL His Way of Doing. "Could tho cashier of that company explain the muddle in tbe books?" "He said he would clear it all up." "Did he?" "No, he didn't clear lt np. He cleared ouL"? Baltimore American. Ungallant. Henderson-Ever met %wlth any Rerl ons accident while traveling? Cen peck-Did I? I met my wife while traveling abroad TrnnMe springs from Idleness nnd grievous tull I rom needless ease.? Franklin APPLES. Fine fall and winter a pries for sale by C. N. Moyers and Mt.Laugh'' . in, Lone Fountain, Va. 9-9-Gt J n c a Ii el tl o b tl i s r s> M CORN GROWING IN VIRGINIA. The first thing to consider in aising a crop of corn is the land. One should have a field of good ertile land. In preparing land for orn it should be plowed in the late rinter or early spring so it will get he adyantage of the freezes. This 5 a great advantage to the farmer sit loosens the soil and makes it asier to harrow down smooth when be time comes for seeding. The one important thing now is 3 harrow and re-harrow theground ll the surface is perfectly smooth nd free from clods. The next in importance is the jed we aie going to plant in this eld which has been so well prepar J. We must have a variety suit j to our climate and soil condi ons, as there are many kinds of )il and a varieties of climates in tis country. Now we have a well repared seed bed and the seed we re going to plant. The next thing tat confronts us is the distance part to plant this corn, lt has been proven at the Virgin Experiment Farm, Blacksburg, a., that the best results are ob lined by checking it 3 feet9 inches tch way. By planting in this way ie plants have more earth in which > send their many roots, and the rmer has a better chance to give s crop a thorough cultivation, hich is so necessary in the case of >rn production. By so doing the iii can be kept in perfect condition id free from weeds etc, with less bor and expense than when it is ?Hied. Corn sheuld be cultivated three ? four times, according to the eola? tions of the soil, the number of eeds, etc. As Mr. Gordon said, We cannot successfully grow a op of corn and weeds at the same me." Therefore we should let ie cultivator have its share of stir g the soil in our corn fields. In case of a very dry season fre lent workings are necessary to rm a dust or mulch on the sur ce, which will draw moisture from ?ep down in the ground and will :ep the roots moist and in the con? don to make a good growth. The harvesting and storing away the corn is of great importance. )rn should not be cut until it is pe. If cut and put in shock when tripe it will mold, and moldy ?rn is of no value as nothing will t it, not even hogs. Corn should i stored in a dry place where there plenty of ventilation. The above is a composition by a onterey High School pupil. For Sale -Privately. A valuable farm, situated in the sst part of the grazing district of ?abbottom. 150 acres, all im oved, title perfect, and price set. rare chance. For further infor ation apply to the County Sur syor, LL. Beverage, Monterey, a. 9-23-4ts. IPORTANT EVENTS BOILED DOWN. Postmaster General Hitchcock ceived from the auditor of the )stoffice department corrected r;ures for the last fiscal showing at the postal deficit amounted to 1,881,482. The deficit for the ?eceding fiscal year was $17,497, ?0. The saving is $11,596,288: President Taft has arranged to rite his message to congress while i the Panama trip. Five lives were lost and property ilued at millions of dollars was de royed by the West Indian hurri ine along thesouth .Atlantic coast. Glenn H. Curtiss announces he ill have two single surface areo anes in the American cup elimi ition races at Belmont park. Many messages of sympathy ere received by the family of Mrs. ilia Ward Howe at Middletown, . I. Steps were taken to have a com ission appointed to study the so? ul evil in this country and Europe i recommended by the so-called ockefeller grand jury. Walter Wellman and party, in uding the cat, were rescued by ie coast liner Trent 400 miles east Cape Hatteras having been own hopelessly far south from icir course. They abandoned the rabip America, escaping in the nail bott. The ballon's equilib i!~r. fTr-'-'o,} to add safety, was > tossed by the waves as to mo ientarily imperil their lives. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pill* reUert MuUehes, Neuralgia and eil rsl*.