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Minister to Switzerland. , A Bsm for Former Henedeler Why J. Bcnataln Dlminlck Should and Maybe the Micky Man. i ,f pvi,v' K-nton Tribune de- .u. , . i, VUlUllllirc nt.,UUH.uv, and a half of its valuable space to t , wniriwina ooom iot a conspicuous ap pointtnent of J. Benjamin Dimmick, the mayor of that city. It hails him at the outeet as "Minister Dimmick," and then, in a breezy, way gives us the pa- L-si, .i . n.-AJ? i, Tf i,t i bet" that Pre, dent-elect Taft oufiht to , and will mate him United States Mm- ISier to CWlI7.erianu mien or mnivn into his kingdom. The Tribune boils the proposition down as follows for a beginning : ".1. Benjamin Dimmick, minister to Switzerland 3" Itisin the cards; it may, witn tiie i buUt aitb0ugh civic improvement so advent of the Taft administration, be , fa hard t work ln elr on the cards Mayor Dimmick's and, , , ... w.,.n. hrendes. it looks cood What is the basis of the hypothesis? Well, let's see. It takes some figuring. It's quite a story. Let's put it this wav: First, the mayor likes Switzerland. That's a beginning. Second, the mayor knows Mr. Taft knows him well. But, better still : Third, Mr. Taft knows Mayor Dim mick knows him well. Fourth, Mayor Dimmick ought to get what he wants, because : Fifth, Mayor Dimmick is worthy of what he wants. And there it is in tabloid. After this bit of logic, the Tribune tells us how Mayor Dimmick has al ready been proposed for Senator to suc ceed Penrose; how he journeyed to Philadelphia, invaded the lair of the boom-busters, and caused the "smug and complacent non-partisan reformers" ic sit up and take notice; how he call ed on Governor Stuart, and outlined the legislation he desired him to recommend in the interests of the Anthracite region in his next message; how he impressed his views as to a required revision of the school laws on the honnst leaders of Philadelphia sentiment; how he figured in the cave-in campaign, and finally how his name was mentioned by the New York Sun as a guest of the recent Ps. Upsilon dinner in the Metropolis , between those of such distinguished people as Rev, C. B. Smith and Chester ( N. Fair, Jr., in connection with wincii event he is alluded to as "the coal baron of Scranton." The article closes as follows : Mavor Dimmick is a graduate of Yale; his brother who died, was a class mate of the next president, who will have the doling out of the honors. Also, the mavor himself can shake hands with President Taft and need not say ; "You remember me?" They arefriends. Lastlv, Switzerland isThePlacn; the navor has been there, spent a Summer there and fell in love with the country. He is actually a "Swiss-American," as his speeches have frequently shown, an enthusiast, a learned, diplomatic, polish ed, scholarly, capable man. Of course, we don't know that the mayor w ants to go to Switzerland, or that Mr. Taft wants him to go to Switzerland. Maybe he would rather be governor. But it's in the cards. And there von are. A Home Industry. An industry by which the woman liv ing in the country can add to the family income, without going to any great out lay of capital, is the weaving of willow baskets. If in addition the willow wands can be raised on the farm, she is able to p"rovidp another source of income, since there is a readv sale for the willow- at the rate of one and one quarter cents a pound unpeeled, or seven cents a xund peeled. The rate of production is about 2,500 pounds of rods to the acre, and the willow requires little labor either in cultivating or gathering. The Department of Agriculture at Washington has prepared a booklet on the subject, which will be sent out to inquirers, arid not only this, they will furnish in the spring, cuttings from the best varieties of basket willows free to those who desire to establish what are known as "holts," that is, willow plan tations. There arc 1(0 manufacturers of willow-ware in this country, but still the supply docs not meet the full demand, as mav he seen from the fact that only lately a dealer in Chicago advertised in German papers for one million willow clothes baskets. The home grown rods are equal to the imported ones, and un like most plantat ions, tlx holts vicld a profit the first year, although of course the yield of succeeding years is much greater. There arc a dozen or more varieties of willows which grow snccs Jully m this country, and all of them are available in the basket work. The weaving itself is pleasant work, light and clean, and can be made profit able even if engaged in but a portion of the time. Tin: Harrisburg Telegraph vnys : "There is increasing sentiment through out the state in the proposition to ch tablish a permanent State fair. The more this subject is discussed the bet ter the people understand the import ance of agriculture in Pennsylvania. It U believed that such an exposition will revive interest in the fanner and send hack lo the depopulated country dis tricts ninny of llio young men who have sought more rapid advancement in crowded industrial centers. A visit to Mr.NXKit 4- Co's Cloak and Suit department will convince buyers of the style and cloth qualities of their season's suit. --'itf WASHINGTON LETTER (Sped! Oorrcaponacnoe.3 Many Americans, possibly a number ( ,t WaBhlngtoulans, Trill be surprised to learn tfcat In the national capital. often called "the city beautiful" and declared to surpass the capitals of Eu- J M, nrc were are mium vi the White Honse, beautifully trim In Its Immediate surroundings, large areas where rubbish, filth and tangled Basses of wild brush growth abound. To many visitors to Washington It would be hardly believable to think that almost within a stone's throw of clcan Honse thcTC ashe8 and lrash a wide area of sluggish marsh land and a matted wilderness of trees and scrub undergrowth. Yet this is the fact Ugly Spot In Capital. "Although a hundred years have rolled by since the White House was efforts to bring reform In the beautiu- cation of our American cities and al though the national capital has had handsome improvements made in some directions as far away as five miles from the White House," said a well known official the other day, yet off to the southwest, Just beyond the site where the palatial home of the bureau of American republics is rising In Use air, there are views which for nnslght llness would be hard to surpass. Great Piles of Rubbish. Great piles of old water pipe, old wagons and long piles of manure add the air the north pole Is warmer than their nnslghtllness to the neighborhood, the equator. "'If there is any part of the District Professor Hergescll of Strassburg uni whlch should be kept handsome not ' verslty claims that he has proved this merely for the sake of cleanliness it- to be a fact by means of balloon as self and the health of the citizens of censlons made under the auspices of the District, but more especially for the international committee which has the sake of creating with foreigners I been Investigating the atmosphere at and other visitors a favorable lmpres-1 varying altitudes. Unmanned balloons si on of America's great capital. It Is with recording instruments attached that section of the city within a short t were sent up, reaching altitudes of ten radius of the White House." to twelve miles. Senator Smith's New Home. In the tropics the temperature at this Senator William Alden Smith or i Michigan has had the old property which he purchased a few months ago at the northwest corner of Sixteenth and L streets northwest remodeled so extensively that it looks like an en tirely new house. The entrance hall extends across the of house on baK;mcnt , . t f w h , . are Btalr halli wltn jroaa stairs leading to the main floor. Across the front of the 1 main floor Is a spacious drawing room, finished ln elaborate decorative plas ter work. The dining room, on this floor, back of the central stair hall. Is finished ln mahogany, the paneled wainscoting reaching almost to the celling, which is beamed in mahogany. The library, which is Immediately back of the ccn , tral stair hall on the basement floor, is to be finished lu oak. To Pasteurize Milk Supply. In view of the definite tracing of the outbreak of typhoid fever iu George town to the owner of a dairy farm, the health oflBcors of the District of Columbia and of the federal govern ment have renewed their efforts to have all milk pasteurized, so as to make it safe for use as food. In the case of Georgetown It was found that the germs of the disease were conveyed to the milk by a wom an who had typhoid fever eighteen years ago and whose body still gives off virulent typhoid germs. Surgeon General Walter Wyman of i the public health service says that It i was established that at least 2 per j cent of the recovered cases of typhoid ' were bacilli carriers for a longer or ' fehorter period and that if they han- i died milk they would Infect it, but pasteurization would kill the germs. Laundry War Planned, The war which has been waged against unclean lunch rooms and Icdg- ing houses by the District health office for the last several months is to be turned in a npw direction. Announce ment has been made by the officials that a crusade against the violators of the regulation which requires all per- sons conducting laundry establish ments at their homes to register with the department will be started. The law was framed some weeks ago and is now In effect It is esti mated that 10,000 persons in the Dis trict each week take to their homes soiled linen, which is washed. Ironed nud returned to the owners. Only 1V of these have registered with the healtl office aud obtained permits to conduct such a business. Buds to Dance. All society knows iu respect of Ethel Roosevelt's coming out is that she will be presented to It on Dec. 2S at a little dance w hich is to be oue of the most exclusive affairs of the season. Few man-led folk will be present, the ex ceptions, outside the parents of the debutante, being Admiral and Mrs. Cowles, the Douglas Robinsons of New York and Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Ijongworth. Almost all the invitations are to be restricted to the season's buds, a few of last winter and several close friends of the president's daughters who have been out two or more years. Wild Gtese on the Potomac Several flocks of wild geese have been seen on the river by the officers of the Washington and Potomac line steamer Wakefield recently. One flock of ubout a dozen was seen near Cedar Point, and a still larger flock was no ticed off the mouth of Totomac creek, about forty miles below this city. The hunters say that It is seldom that wild geese come to the Potomac ho early, and the indications point to a good season this winter. Wild ducks are also reported to be more numer ous, and Jt is thought they will also be plentiful with the coming of cold weather. CARL SCHOFIELD. CHOICE MISCELLANY Man Six Thousand Years Ago.- At a recent race tins of scientists U Dublin Professor G. Elliott Smith, the Egyptologist, said that the earliest known human remains found In the vie vallcr when compared with those I . . . - . .... - . or later times ucmousiraieu iuc iacr. that at a very remote period Egypt and Nubia were inhabited by the same race, which had persisted In Egypt with little or no change in physical characteristics throughout the inter vening aOOO years until the present day. They had been and still were a small people, the average height of the men being about five feet three inches at every erlod of their history. Their hair was very dark brown or black, usually wavy, but not "woolly" or ln any sense negroid. Their heads were long and narrow, usually ovoid or pcntagonold or ""coffin shaped," or the result of a frequent presence of n protuberant occiput. On the whole they shared those characteristics which distinguished, the majority of the p pics fringing the Mediterranean. As would be expected in a group of people that had lived from the dawn of history on the fringe of the negro territory, there was some slight evl- deuce of an infusion of black blood. but this was very small In amount. Science In the Upper Air. Still another of science's unsolved problems has been brought to light the fact that if you get high enough in neigni was ita degrees oeiow aero. while In middle Europe and farther north at the same height the instra ments only recorded 50 to 83 degrees below zero. Another theory heretofore accepted by scientists, but which now has been contradicted, is that the temperature diminishes as the height Increases. The balloon ascensions are said to have shown that the coldest temperature Is reached at heights of six to seven miles. Above that height It has been found that the atmosphere becomes warmer. Scrap Book. As to Mr. Maugham. They were discussing the proper pro nunciation of the name of W. Somerset Maugham, the new English dramatist. "That name is pronounced JIawm, " declared one who had been in Loudon. "No, it's surely "Mawum,"' opined somebody else. "'Mahra' Is better," declared an other. "Why not 'MuggumT " said one who inclined to the facetious. And they grew quite heated about it. "Why, of course It's 'Mawinl' " "Rats'. It's 'Mawum:'" "No: M.ihmr" " 'Muggum' by all means!" Until finally one who had done noth ing so far but show signs of growing Impatience and ennui suddenly brought ! his fist down on the table. "'Mum's' the word!" he shouted. That ended the discussion. "ovt' ork Times. The Best Dressed Man. "The best dressed man in the world is the young king of Spain," said a tailor. "Look at his photographs in the weeklies. For grace and correct ness his clothes are unique. "Everything is right in this young man's getup. His hair, his hat, his h0Q 1Jle flt and belght' of hls collar) the knotting of his tie, the cut of his coat, the hang of his trousers every - thing is right and makes a rule that the world goes by. "King Edward for fifteen years has been hopelessly out of it as au arbiter of fashion. The Trlnce of Wales, lit tle and inelegant, had never any In fluence. King Alfonso fills a long felt want. Indeed, before he grew up the world was paradoxically saying that the only well dressed man was Miss Vesta Tilley, the male impersonator." Cincinnati Enquirer. Changing Australian Speech. The rapprochement between our selves and the Americans will certain ly have one effect We shall find our language enriched by -new words and our pronunciation of old words under go revision. Already our speech is leaving our chest and mouutlng to our head, and in a little whilo we'll bo able to do most of our talking with our lips closed as well as the most facile visitors from Vermont "Say!" is established as an arrestlve, and we are beginning to "guess" with the best of them. For awhile the American accent Is bound to have as great a vogue In conversation as have the stars and stripes in decorative schemes. Sydney (N. S. W.) Mall, Extravagance In Coal. Professor Henry E. Armstrong of the London Central Technical college In an address recently sounded a warning against the wasteful methods now ln use ln connection with the con sumption of coal. "No comment is provoked," he said, "by the fact that occaM giants such as the Lusltanlaand the Mauretanla ueed feeding dolly with some thousand or more tons of coal nplece on their voyages across the Atlantic, Such extravagance Is glo ried in as a great engineering achieve ment and not anathematized as it should be If we were in any way mindful of the Interests of poterity," Timber For Next Cabinet. UuUd - IJUL.t.JII.C i v mn mnnm nq auan oiuciajum, GMnM HksoKk aMhoakB. A I, MO ST the moment that a new presi dent of the United States is chosen talk begins about who will be invited into his cabinet. Had Mr. Bryan been elected there would naturally have been mi en tire change in the personnel of the cabinet as well as In Its political com- wiujaii loos, Ja. pjeilon. The suc- cess of Judge Taft means that no such 1 radical change ueed be expected. The president elect will probably retain some of Mr. Roosevelt's official ad visers, at least for a time. It is generally believed that the head i of the cabinet. Secretary Ellhu Root of the state department, can remain in this place under the next president If be so desires. He and Judge Taft have always hcen on the best of terms, and the president elect has a high opinion of the abilities of Mr. Root as a diplo- ... , ... .. mat. He is credited with the belief that Mr. Root would make the foreign policy of the government a conspicu ously successful feature of his admin istration, especially ln the cultivation of closer relations with South Ameri can countries, a matter deemed of much importance by Judge Taft But llr. Root is understood to Incline to I ward a return to private life and con- Unuatlon of his formerly remunerative J (Practice as a lawyer. Then, again, there Is the New York senatorshlp. .which may be pressed upon him. Mr. j Boot has let It be understood that he ; would not make any canvass for .Thomas C Tlatt's seat In the senate, but many of his friends think he I would take it if the lecislature could ,not agree upon any of the less con splcuous men who are seeking the post nd should turn to him for aid In the FRANK B. ELXLOOG. dilemma. If Mr. Root should take the senatorshlp or if he should retire from public life it is considered likely that Vhitclaw Reid, now ambassador at :hc court of St. James, would be In rited to the vacant cabinet seat. Mr. Hold's successes as American repre sentative at several of the leading Eu ropean courts have given him much prestlge as a diplomat. Whatever other changes there may , De, it is regarded as almost a foregone ronclusion that Frank II. Hitchcock will be Invited Into Judge Taft's cabi net The post he would be most likely to take Is that of postmaster general, ow held by George von L. Meyer. Mr. Hitchcock was first assistant post master general before be undertook the management of Judge Taft's can vass for the presidential nomination. His success In this work made him the logical man for running the campaign for Judge Taft's election. As for Mr. Meyer, It is predicted that he will suc-;-oed George B. Cortelyou as secrctiry Df the treasury. Another new figure in the cabinet of President Taft besides Mr. Hitchcock will probably be Frank li. Kellogg of Minnesota, who Is slated to succeed to Charles J. Bonaparte's shoes as attor ney general. As an assistant attorney general engaged In the prosecution of suits against trusts Mr. Kellogg has made an especially brilliant record, and Judge Taft is understood to feel that he would strengthen his adminis tration greatly by having an aggres sive "trust buster" like Mr. Kellogg ln charge of the legal affairs of the government during a period which will (be crowded with important actions tgalust big industrial combinations. Another new member will probably be William Loeb, Jr., secretary to Pres ( ident Roosevelt Sir. Loeb could prob ably have had cabinet honors before, but he preferred to stay ln his place as the president's right hand man. Mr. Roosevelt considers him invalua ble, and Judge Taft shares the presi dent's opinion as to Mr. Loeb's excep tional executive qualities. The secre tary has had the opportunity several times, to take business positions offer ling much greater financial lnduee . ments than his present post but has I declined them to stay by the president It is believed that he will succeed Vlc- itor H ,navy. Mctcalf as secretary of the BaaaaaBaRBaV BaVaVBll 'JHav !'" (r irl i FACTS IN FEW LINES Denmark Is the original borne of the cream separator. About 00 per cent of the gold prod act of the world Is handled by Great 11 ri tain. A man who once had fame as a chef has been picked up starving in New York city. Formic add Is coming Into vogue In Germany and England as a remedy .for tuberculosis and kidney troubles. Turkey has more aged people in proportion to the population than any other European country. In England and Wales oat of every 100,000 girls and boys GJS20 arc called Mary and O590 William. The town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, Is supplied with light and power from the waste products of a nearby coal mine. Outside of the steerage there were 2o7,328 passengers carried In and out of New York harbor last year on steamers. A Pittsburg firm is making a spe cialty of glass grave "stones"' which show portraits of the deceased blown in the front. Although glass bottles were made by the Romans as far back as the year TO A. D., their manufacture was not begun In England until 1538. The Mexican people arc very fond of apples, peaches, pears and other northern fruits. They raise some In their uplands, but these are deficient in fine flavor. Belgium Is rich in stone and marble of various kinds. The general quarry- I Ing Industry employs over 37,000 men. and Its annual output exceeds $12,000.- .... 000 in value. t While the galkwar and mabaranee of Eapurthala were driving ln a mo tor car after nightfall through a forest near GlengarUf a stag charged fall tilt at the car and was instantly killed. Among other things the human body ' contains carbons, calcium, phosphorus, tfOdium, sulphur, potassium, magne sium, iron, copper, lead and silicon. lithium. mercury, arsenic and other solids. Charles HautTman, a mall collector I in St Louis, found a new gold watch in a mall box with a note attached , asking that It be sold and the money ( applied to charity, as the watch bad , been stolen. On the railway in Wales the brake- I uiau has to announce such stations as Ffestlulog, Bettws-y-coed, Llandegai aud Pcmnenmawr. As in this country, tourists occasionally fail to understand what the man says. For the last fourteen years a brood of tomtits has been reared each spring in the letter box at Cttoxter work bouse, Maine. Since the parent birds first took possession of the box they have hatched nearly 200 eggs. Parts of Oklahoma are being pros pected, and mineral deposits in varicus districts show that gold, silver and copicr are likely to be found in large quantities. Asphalt is also being found, and this latter mining is likely to be started immediately. If the shah of Tersia were to be de prived of his income he could still make sure of being one of the richest men in the world. He would only have 1 to sell his ornaments, gems and pre cious stones to become possessed of about 33T,000.000, the sum at which the magnificent collection is valued. The French ambassador at Washing ton writes to the London Athenaeum disputing the statement of Sidney Lee that only two cities on the continent of Europe Berlin and Padua possess 'a copy of the Shakespeare first folio. Mr. Jusserand mentions a copy In the National library of Paris, of the au thenticity of which he advances what appear to be convincing proofs. Slarle nellbran of Chicago has In vented a mechanical device which will throw thousands of her sex out of em ployment a letter oiner that will open 400 letters in a minute, or 10,000 In a day, the number that had to be opened at the house In which she for merly worked. Her machine is said to fairly gobble up the letters put into It No girl can open more than thirty a minute by hand. The Moscow correspondent of the Novosll says Mile. Trcfiloff, a Russian actress, has been fined 10 rubles for kissing her mother on a street car. It appears that both in Moscow and St Petersburg it is unlawful to give kisses in public a kiss ln the street being penalized by a fine of 7 rubles, 10 rubles being the fine Inflicted on those who practice osculation In railway 1 trains or in street cars, A recent enact ment even renders persons who send j declarations of love on post cards liable to a fine of 5 rubles. France Is not the ouly country with a falling birth rate. The Hon. J. A. Millar, the minister of labor In New Zealand, has been calling attention to the "staggering statistics" on this sub ject In that part of the empire. The New Zealand birth rate has fallen from forty-one per thousand Iu 1SS0 to twenty-seven last year. The re duction of the attendance at their schools is very noticeable. It is feared that New Zealand's industries Instead of expanding will shrink and disap pear if the population Is not main rained. This kind of paragraph is common in Brltis.li newsiiapers: "A medal and 2 ($10) have been awarded to Henry Jlines of Wellsbourne, Warwickshire, iu recognition of upward of fifty years' service on the Walton estate of the Mordaunt family, .Times, who is eighty-three and commenced work at tho age of six, became connected with the Walton estate under Sir Charles Mordaunt In IKS. For many years ho kept a wife and two children on 8 shillings ($2) a week. The veteran Is still hale and hearty andvoften la bors from daybreak to sunset i I i professional caros.. Attoracys-at-Lanr. RM. SALMON, . ATTORNEY COnXfiELOR-AT-LAW Office Next door to port office. Formerl occupied by V. H. IHmiulcfc. Hcmesdale. Pa WM. 11. LEE, ATTORNEY A COUX8ELOR-AT-LAW. Office over post office. All legal business piumpD-attended to. Honcsdale, Pa. ME. SIMONS, . ATTORNEY J OniceiuFosterbuilding roomsOand 10, uonesuaie, ra. C. MUMFORD, . ATTORNEY COUNSELOR-AT-L AW. . Office Liberty Hall bulldinc. omosite the Post Office. Hutiesdale. Pa. :3 EKMAN HAUMES, ATTORNEY A COUNSKI.OR-T-l.AW. Palpiitssmd ramslons semirwl. titftentu th. Court House. Honedale, Pa. GHARLES A. McCAETY, ATTORNEY COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Special and prompt attention civen to the cullcKtlomitrl.iir.JEu Office over Keifs new More, Honesdale. Pa, PETER H. ILOFF, ATTORNEY 6 COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Office Sivond Boor old Savins Hank buildiiir. Hones-dale. Pa. KIMBLE, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Office over the ost office. Honcsdale. Pa. A. T. SEA RLE, ATTORNEY COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Office near Court Huue. Ilonesdale. Pa. OL. ROWLAND, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Office over Post Office. Honesdile. Pa. HOMER GREENE, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. j Office over Keifs store. Honesdale. Pa. i H .TvV... 1JJ - . ATTOI.NEi A COUNSKLOR-AT-LAW. bviMlns, second Boor. Office. MonIc Honesdale. Pa. Dentists,. DR. E. T. BROWN, DENTItT. Office First floor, old Savings lUnV tmilit. inc. Honesdale. Pa. Physicians. jrjR. H. B. SEARLES, HONESDALE. PA. Office and residence 1116 Church street Telephones. Office Hours 'JMI to 10 and 7.-O0 to tWW. p. ni. Liveries. !g. II. WHITNEY, I.IVERY AMI OMNHIVS LINE. Kearnf Allen House. !I,mesilale. Pa. Vlteierthones. S ARTISTFC HONESDALE, PA. 1036 MAIN STREET. This Parlor Table Is made of Quarter saved OaV; Retails ia stores tor f 1.50 to coo. Only $3.35 For Uils handsome Parlor Table In Quartered Oat. Kiniihod and iwliibed eoldcn Quartered Oak. Facer SI z SI ton, richly carved rim, shaied uodersheir. French stylo lees. Also in the rich Mahoiranized Birch for W 35. Caretully oacked and shlpiied tor Do not spend another cent for Furniture until you hare seen our latest catalogue. Sent free. BIKGEASITOUr, N. Y. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. LSTATE OI H.O.CiAYMIItn., Late of Clinton town-lilj.dtxxMxl. The uiMjeridcned. " auditor aplNjliilecl t reiKirt distribution of said estate, will attend to Hie duties of Ills apiiiii1intit.m FKIIIAY. IlKCF.MItKli Itli. llK at 10 o'clock. u.nu.at IjIsotllcoliiUiclMirous'i of HouC'Mlalc. tit vblrli time and place ftll c lalnik asalnst-Nild e state niuM l pivMnUd. or recourse to the fond for distribution wll lK'l',', WM. II. I.lli:, Auditor. HoiiCMlale. Nov. 8. MUS. liMJ IHt.C". It.lllUllY.DKxnt-T HonescUle I'a. Oi iiri: Hoims ti a. in. to S p. in. Any evening by amKjIiitmciit. Cltlren toiK-. 3J. Ifetldcttoe. No. Wi X. MflBT LAUFELD WORK r