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JOURNAL OP T
VOL. XXVII.
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9" SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Official tJovaraal of tlia F^ariah. of X*afoMxoh.e and th.e Town
of 'PliilaocLa.ux.
THIBODAUX, LA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1891
NO 3
Ordinance >o
Levying a tax for the current year 1891,
on all property situated in the Pa-iish of
Lafourche, subject to taxation uuder the
constitution of 1879.
See. 1. Be it ordained by the Police Jury iu
re ular session convened, that an adva
toriutu tax of eight mills on the Dollar,
be ard is hereby levied for the current
vear 1891. on all property situated in the
Parish of Lafourche and not exempt from
taxation under the constitution of 1879.
Sec. -• Be it enacted etc.. That the said tax
when collected, shall be apportioned as
follows :
First. Four and a half mills shall be
set apart and used for the current ex
penses, of the Parish, including all sala
ries of Officers of the Parish, and shall
be designated, the General fund.
Second. Twc and a qr. mills shall beset
apart and used for the support and
maintenance ot the Public Schools, and
shall be designated, as the Public School
Funds.
Third. One quarter mill shall be set
apart to purchase, build or rent, school
houses, improving and repairing same
now in use by the Parish School Board,
paying the salary of the Superintendent
anil other incidental expense*, and shall
lie known as the School House Fund,
The School and School House Funds,
shall be subject to the legal order of the
School Board of the Parish of Lafourche.
Fourth, one mill shall be set apart and
used as the Drainage Tax uuder Ordi
nance No. 168 passed by this body. July
Ivth 1888. and to be expended as there
in provided foi.
Sec. -f> Be it ordained etc.. That this ordi
nance take effect from and after its pa*
sage.
Adopted and approved July 7th. 1891.
S. T. GRISAMORE. President
8 . N COULON. Clerk.
Resolution ->o
Accepting the renunciation of the citizens
to any compensation for the land expropriat
ed for a public road from Baton Pilon. Cbuc
thw and Coteau Boudreaux to Bayou La
fourche.
Be it resolved, by the Police Jnrv in regu
lar meeting assembled that the renunciation
dated April 27tb. 1891, of Joseph Boudreanx,
widow Jean Marie Thibodeaux, F.lias Haw
kins Ernest Boudreanx. Hypoolite Hebert.
Emile Benoit. Francois Eioi Thibodeaux.
Drauzin Hebert. Salvador Sanchez, to anv
and ail right of compensation tor that por
tion ot that respective tracts ol land expro
priated tor a public road from Baton Pilon.
Chaetaw and Coteau Boudreaux to Bayou
Lafourche, in view ot tbe benefit that such a
road will prove to their lands, be and the
s^ine is hereby formally accepted by this
body : and be further resolved that the form
4 il assent given by the said above named
parties to the road as laid out by the com
mittee of freeholdets appointed tor the pur
pose of layiug out and locating said road be
and the same is also hereby accepted by this
body as a solemn ratification of tbe action of
said committee aud of this body in the pre
mises by the said parties named and inter
ested.
Adopted aud approved July 7th. 1891.
S. T. GUISAMORK. Presnlent
H. N COULON. Clerk.
Ke*»oIntion >o
Relative to the Baton Pilon and Chaetaw
and Coteau Boudreanx Road.
Be it resolved by the Police Jury of the
Parish of Lafourche in regular meetiug as
•etcbled that the additional report made by
the committee of freeholders appointed by
this body to lay out and locate a public road
along Baton Pilon. Chaetaw aud Coteau Bou
dreaux out to Bayou Lafourche, whereiu
they appraise the laud expropriated for said
road at the sum of twenty dollars an acre in
snperficies. where same has l>een cleared and
cultivable and at seven dollars per acre in
su|»erficies where same are wooded, and the
same is hereby approved by this body, and
the sum of Fi e Hundred (f.>00.00) dollars, or
so much thereof as may be necessary be and
thesame is herebv appropriated out of tbe
General Funds to pay anil satisfy tbe owners
of the lands expropriated for said road, who
may exact coiiqiensatiotr
Be it farther resolved that the road inspec
tor for the district in which said lies' road is
situated lie and he is hereby authorized and
empowered to open and t-> cause to be opened
and laid out as located by the said commit
tee, tbe said new road along Baton Pilon.
Cbaclaw aud Coteah Boudreaux, and to em
ploy all necessarv means to so open or cause
to be opeued said road.
Be it further resolved that in case any liti
.gatioo should arise out of the matter of es
tablishing said mad *s laid nut by said com
mittee that the President of this body be and
he is hereby authorized to ropresent 'his
body in any am' all such litigation as may
arise or la-come necessary in the premises,
with power and authority to sign and exe
cute anv affidavit bond or any other judicial
papers or documents necessary in the pre
mises u hi* official capacity.
Adopted and approved July 7th, 1891.
8 . i'. GRISAMORE. President
H N. COULON. Clerk
LISTOK JURORS
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
20tli .Imlicial District Court Par
ish of Lafoarche.
1 bei.t
\ rertifv that on tbe 30th
dav ot
July A.
' ilu- udlnwing named
l»ersous
were «!•
"ii b\ tlio .Jmv i «»nmnssioners ot
said dm ii
-' . t>« serve us Jurors at the
ensuing
term *>: -
ii>i Court.
bui ti <
tii st week *>t - ■ • ! court beginning
Mod: .11 .
c loo r ih. A IV. 1891. to serve
as Gian
* and Petit Jm v. i- follows
to wit :
NO.
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Gneffi \ Celestin Jr.
3
McCullon. Frank
5
C.mtiello F« ,\
4
Mu'hews Charles S
7
Boudreaux l'otimssiii
5
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Latnrcst Edward
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3
Bc!_t-'on ( nanus
1
1 lev .1 d Louis
5
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Bel gel ell Joill.
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Lelihtf e I'auiille
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Touns Joseph
7
13
Moller Hmrv
6
14
Bernard Wash
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Keller Iguace
5
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Gaude Raphael P.
10
Abnbat Louis
U
Badeaux Adolphe
Leonard Arthur
Picou Theodule
Malbrough Arestile
Carter Mark
Benoit Emile
Lagarde Rightor
Laguerre Joachim
Poehe Alfred
Jeffries Joseph
Howard Johu
Benoit Donglas
Rudd A. G.
LeBlanc Lovincy J.
Jefferson Lovincy
Foret Benton
Falgout Augustin
Boudreaux Leo J.
Constant Jean
Naquin Emile
Boudreaux Anatole
Sanders Lewis R.
LeBlanc Adrien
Folse Lovincy J.
Knight WillUm
Bailie Albert
Malbrough Ben.
Bouterie Abel
Gnedry Lee
Eroth Auguste
Savoie Leo
Toups Emile J,
Falgout Clodomire
For the second week of said Court to serve
as petit Jury beginning on Monday October
12th. A. D *"•*■
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35
36
37
38
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Bourgeois J. N. Jr.
4
Plaisance Felix
4
3
Keller Aleide
5
4
Ogegou St. .Jest
4
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Donohue Thomas
3
McCollum M. C.
4
7
MeCtdla Frauk A.
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8
Bergeron Narcisse
9
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Tabor Robert J.
2
10
Lepine Nelson
Falgout Felix P.
7
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8
15
Arsen aux Pierre
3
13
LeBlanc J. B.
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Trosclair A J
15
Thibodaux Joseph
7
16
Leblanc Char e.«
7 -
17
Hunter \Y. \V. Jt.
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18
Braux Arthur
7
19
AubertSt. Just
2
20
Lejeune Joseoh
3
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Bergeron Octave A.
1
Browu Charles
1
33
Laine Henry
5
34
Gondollo A.
7
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Borne Gracien
5
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Picon Arthur
5
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Legendre Arthur
7
28
Hargis Philip
4
racquet O.
2
30
Bergeron Klebcr
2
**or tbe third week ot said Court to
serve
( petit Jury beginning ou Moudav C'otojer
*tk A. I). 13v*l. as follows viz :
Krammer Svrae
6
*2
Oucale John
2
3
Lasseigne Theodore
5
4
Davis Charles G
4
4
Brown < Iscar
7
5
Bergeron Cleophns
2
8
Blanchard Rodolphe
Newell Niel J.
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4
9
3
Leonard Alfred
5
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Jeffries Wil.iam Henrv
5
10
Bowman J. P.
2
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Bergeron Henrv
2
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Faucheux Kellis
4
13
Celestm Felix J.
2
14
Munch U. J.
2
15
McCulla John
2
16
Smith Alien
5
17
Theriot Alexandre
7
18
Paisauce George \V.
4
19
Tompkins John L.
2
20
Penuisou Theoubile
9
21
I.agarde Clav A
2
Lagard Kleber
3
23
>teveus Beattie
2
34
Leiiet Emile
8
25
Bellringer Clintou
4
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Guillot 1 homas
1
27
Doiieet Or eat ile
2
28
Oseffwald Joseph
2
Dunn John Sr.
4
30 Bronx Oscar
Iu Teatiiuouv where of.
4
L.S.
) Witness my hand and the impress
> of the seal of mv otfee at Thibodaux
) this tbe 31st day of July A. D 1891.
J. W. KNOBLOCH.
Clerk of said Court.
Unreasonable (expectations.
Summer Rester—See here, you said
this was a furnished cottage.
Agent—Yes, sir.
"There are no carpets, no beds, and no
dishes in it."
"Huh! You didn't expect to find a
metropolitan museum of upholstery an'
brickybrack in a summer cottage, did
you?"—Good News
Luther Holt, of East Exeter, Me.,
while walkiug in the woods near his
home lay dowu to rest in the shade of
the roots of a large overturned tree.
Workmen, not knowing of his presence,
chopped the trunk from the roots, which
when released flew back into place, im
prisoning Holt beneath them. He waa
dead before be could be released.
Strolling Minstrels iu the City.
Now that the "sitting on the stoop"
season has set in. the colored minstrel
has begun his rounds. Sometimes he
comes along and simply sings, sometimes
lie has a banjo or accordion with which
to accompany himself, and sometimes he
has a couple of brothers along to play
the accompaniments for him. Rarest of
all. four of him will make np a quartet
and do some really effective singing.
These wandering songsters usually make
a good bit of money on an evening's
journey, for the stoop dwellers can over
look little defects iu quality in music
brought to their doors, and they pay
liberally for the entertainment.—New
York Times.
Of the 219 B. A.'sof London univer
sity this year fifty-two are women. Of
the II. A.'s five out of twenty are moth
ers' daughters, and eight ladies have re
ceived degress of B. Sc, and nine that
of M. a
ONE GRADUATING DAY.
A HOMELY SUBJECT THAT AT
TRACTED MOST ATTENTION.
A Bright Girl Told What She Knew About
"Raised Bread,* 4 and the Applause That
Greeted the Reading of Her Eiur
Eclipsed Thrt Given to All Others.
'•Well, 1 don't care if them other girl*
are going to write about 'Thought,' and
'The Marble Stan's Waitin'.' n' Genius,
and all them other things. Mebbe my
M'randy can't say much that's edifvin
on them subjects, tho' it's my opinion
she could if she tried. But she can make
beautiful riz bread, and she's goin' to
tell them how to do it."
With this expression of faith in
•M'randy's'* powers, Mrs. McGillicuddy
gave an emphatic twist to the garment
she was wringing out of the suds.
The subject first under discussion was
of no small importance in the village,
for it related to the graduating exercises
at the village high school.
With but one exception, the boys and
girls in the class sought topics that would
"sound well" and make a good show in
the daintily printed programmes.
One of the young ladies began to write
on "Twilight Thoughts:" another chose
as her subject "Destiny:" anotifbr wrote
at the head of the first page "Every
Cloud Has Its Silver Lining."
Of course each one soon learned what
subjects had been chosen by the other
members of the class, and loud were the
complaints when it was known what Mi
randa McGillicuddy proposed to write
about. It was agreed that the class
would go down into history forever dis
graced.
"But you see," said Miranda. "1 don't
know anything at all about these'high
toned subjects that the rest of you have.
I couldn't say one word about them that
would be worth hearing, but I think 1
do know how to make bread, and I'm
sure that many in the audience will be
interested to know some of the quirks
and the twists that turn out a handsome
loaf."
"Well,* said another, "I envy yon the
abundance of things you can say about
it, but it's so awfully commonplace:
why, it's—it'* as commonplace as—eat
ing!"
AN INTERESTING ESSAY.
Graduating day at last arrived, with
its flutter of excitement, its flowers, its
proud fathers and mothers and sympa
thizing friends and its somewhat envious
lower classes.
First came the salutatory, which was
listened to with marked attention, as
would be the case even with a thought
ful paper on the "Identity of Identity
and Nonidentity"—if it came first on
the programme.
Then came an oration on "Greece,"
by a boy, followed by an essay on "Phi
losophy."
By this time there were signs of rest
lessness, and some quiet whispering go
ing on among such as were not carefully
polite. Fortunately music came in at
this point, after which the audience
was invited to listen to some "Twilight
Thoughts." Then appeared the "Cloud"
that was supposed to have a "Silver
Lining," bat which certainly cast no
gleam over tbe audience.
This condition, strange to say, seemed
to be intensified when "Hope" appeared.
At this point the presiding officer an
noaaced an essay on "Raised Bread," by
Mias Miranda McGillicuddy.
The eager interest that came into ev
ery face in the audience was quite hu
miliating to those who had already ap
peared on the stage, and still mors hu
miliating was ths close attention that
was suddenly paid to every word that
was said.
The essay discussed the importance of
good bread in a hygienic point of view—
the effect which a "flat" bisenit fre
quently has upon the disposition of the
eater, as well as upon his stomach: the
nutritions and nonnutritioos qualities
of various kinds of floor, and the whole
method of procedure, from the making
of yeast, through the successive stages of
mixing, working, raising, reworking,
molding and baking till that consum
mate flower of good housekeeping ap
peared—a light, nutritions and delicious
loaf of bread.
THE JUDGE'S REMARKS.
Not one word was lost by the audience
from beginning to end. The ladies were
chiefly interested, perhaps, but men lis
tened very attentively too. When the
reading was finished the essay was given
the heartiest applause of the evening.
After the programme had been finished
and the audience was preparing to de
part, Judge Gildersleeve, chairman of
the school committee and the most im
portant citizen of the town, rose to make
a few remarks, and this was what he
said:
"Before the audience diperses, I have
a suggestion to make, chiefly for the
benefit of those who may belong to the
graduating classes of the fufuro. if van
man, ,», ^icyaimg a grauuating essay or
oration, to interest your audience—and
it is needless to say that you do—let
your remarks apply to a period not later
at least than a hundred years ago, and
better still if they apply to a time not
later than a hundred days ago. And let
them be on a subject in which you are
interested, and in which your audience
is interested, however homely it may ap
pear.
"It is not necessary that it should be
on tho proper way to bake bread, like
the very interesting, practical and well
written paper to which we have just lis
tened, or on the right way to make a
bed, which would be another good sub
ject; but it would far better be on these
subjects, if you know what you are
writing abouf, than npon Time, Genius
or The Ideal, even though you treat
them thoughtfully.
"We are a practical people, and we
like to be approached upon the plane of
our everyday life. We are greatlv inter
ested in our schools and scholars, but we
want to see you with your feet—both of
them—on the ground, which precludes
the possibility of your heads being among
the clouds."—Webb Douuell in Youth's
Companion.
Nat Goodwin's First Stage Experience.
Before 1 ever went on the stage 1 used
to take part in amateur affairs in my
mother's parlors in Boston, and I both
ered Charlie Thorne to death to get me a
place in some company.
My friends also said they were con
vinced 1 had talents. So finally Thorne
secured me a position iu a company then
playing a piece called "A Bottle." Provi
dence was to be the place where I made
my debut, and the part assigned me was
'.he old time gentlemanly villain, who
come3 to the village and captures the
near: of the rustic beauty.
i had rehearsed several times and was
sure 1 knew it all.
The neroine was to rush on with a
4 .ream and 1 was to run after her; but
she hadn't rehearsed the scream with
me. so when she dashed on and gave an
unearthly yell it nearly frightened me
'o death.
I stubbed my toe, feel sprawling and
lost one of my sidewhiskers. 1 couldn't
utter a word, and didn't do so during
the whole performance. They thought
I would gain courage as the piece pro
gressed, but during the third act the or
chestra came in with a few thrilling
bars of music ami 1 completely lost my
head, and 1 dashed out of the theater to
find the depot and take the next train
for Boston.
As I entered the cars with makeup oti
a black streak on my cheek f:<mia black
ened eyebrow and my wig at one side,
passengers thought I was staring mad.
On reaching home i. rushed in to my
mother, who thought I was going to be
a second Booth, begging her not to send
me on the stage again, but to get me a
position in some store.—Nat C Good
win, Jr., in New York World.
zlsenlapius and His Profession.
Aesculapius, whom Homer calls "the
blameless physician," was the famous
pupil of Chiron. The glory of Aescu
lapius' name is not dimmed as it has
come down to us through the age*
While his treatment of the sick was
heroic, as was natural in an heroic age,
he did not ignore the virtue of metaphys
ical treatment To those who suffered
from violent passions he recommended
the perusal of works of poetry, the study
of hymns and songs and an attendance
on light comedy.
It has often been said of physiciBha
that they have two kinds of medicine
one with which to care the patient, the
other to be used when it is desirable that
the cure shall not be effected too quick
ly. ASsculapius had two kinds, which
he received from Pallas Athene, the
goddess of wisdom. Both were taken
from the veins of Medusa. That taken
from her left side operated to the de
struction of men. That from the right
side brought them health and strength.
Aesculapius' medicine even had the
power of bringing the dead to life—a
fact which so incensed the gods that
.'Escnlapius was immediately put to
death by a thunderbolt. The sceptic
Montaigne, referring to this injustice,
sarcastically express*,* his surprise that
the patron of the doctors should be sent
to Tartary for restoring men to life, when
so many of his disciples are pardoned for
performing the opposite feat.—Chicago
Herald. _
The Homans Invented Horsepower.
The Romans, among whom agriculture
was a highly favored occupation, were
an inventive race, especially in the mat
ter of labor saving machines. Recog
nizing the drudgery of handmills, they
invented those whose motive power was
imparted by asses, mules and oxen, anj
introduced them into all the countries
conquered by their victorious armies.
There is no positive record of the name
of the originator of this improvement in
milling.—Detroit Free Press,
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WHICH ONE?
i One of us. dear—
But one—
Will sit by a bed with a marvelous face I
Aud clasp a hand.
Growing cold as it feels for the spirit land—
Darling, which one 8
One of ns, dear—
But one—
Will stand by the other's coffin bier
And look and weep.
While those marble lips strange silence keep—
Darling, which one?
One of us. dear—
But one—
By an open grave will drop a tear.
And homeward go.
The anguish of an unshared grief to know—
Darling, which one?
One of us, darling, it must be;
It may be you will slip from me.
Or perhaps my life may just be done—
Which one?
—Old Song.
A German Baby's Adventure.
A party of German peasants set out
for the christening of a new baby, the
baby being swaddled and wrapped in
the usual manner. The way was long
to the church and the weather was cold;
indeed, snow lay on the ground. The
anxiety of the christening over the
whole party — parents, sponsors and
friends—adjourned to the village inn
to warm and cheer themselves with
schnaps, or what the Londoner terms,
"a drop of something short." They then
set off on their return home lightly and
gaylv, and their hearts being merry
within them they essayed a snatch or
two of song and a step or two of dance.
Home was at length reached, and the
interesting christened bundle was laid
on the table. The whole party—parents,
sponsors and friends—stared agape and
in silence; there was the pillow, the
ribbons and the bows all complete, but
where was the baby?
Some one ventured to raise the bundle;
it was quite limp and emptyl Baby was
gonel Back the whdle party hurried on
its lonely track, and baby was found
asleep in the snow, about midway be
tween the church and the village. He
was a sturdy child, and the story runs
that he escaped with a violent sneeze or
two, which, it is said, the anxious pa
rents strove to allay by popping him
into the oven. There can be no doubt
that the German child that could sur
vive the pillow, and the snow, and the
oven must have been sturdy indeed.—
Strand Magazine.
Electricity in Europe.
Instead of leading the van, we are
from ten to fifteen years behind Europe.
Even in our own field of electrical meth
ods, as a prominent American electrician
assured uie in Paris, we are now five
years behind the continent. He declared
that the difficulties our American cor
porations still complain about, when
asked to bury their telegraph, telephone
and lighting wires, were all met and
vanquished in Europe several years ago,
and that our fellow countrymen insist
upon remaining in a state of invincible
ignorance rather than learn anything
from the technical and scientific achieve
ments of Europe.
But perhaps he stated the case too
strongly. Doubtless we shall in time
learn to be ashamed when we come to a
realizing sense of the fact that the one
city of Paris has at its command a larger
and more brilliant array of engineering
and architectural talent than all the im
portant cities of the United States taken
together can show, and that many a
small European town is better supplied
in this respect than many a large Amer
ican city.—Dr. Albert Shaw in C'eutury.
The IVaijr Ah Artist Reason*.
Here is a Characteristic story about
the great Parisian man milliner: A lady
of high position once ventured to remon
strate with the great mau because he
had charged her £120 for a ball dress.
"The material," she said, "could be
bought for twenty ponnds, and surely
the work of making np would be well
paid with five ponnds more."
"Madam." replied the milliner, in his
loftiest manner, 'go to M. Meissomer,
the painter, and say to him. 'Here is a
canvas, value a shilling, and here aie
colors, value four shillings. Paint me a
picture with these colors on that canvas
and l will pay you one and threepence.'
Wluit will he sav? He will say, 'Mad
am that is no payment for an artist.
1 say more. 1» say, if yon think my
terms too high, pay me nothing ;u.J
keep the robe. Art does not descend to
the pettiness of the higgler."—Loud a
Tit-Bits
Over One Hundred and Fifty Vram Oi«|.
A man resides at David, iu the prov
ince of (Jhiriqui, Isthmus of Panama,
who is one hundred and fifty-one 'years
old. according to his own statement, out
his neighbors claim that lie is older. ;.n i
that a document is in existence which
he signed 142 years ago. He works hard
every day on his coffee plantation, and
is in excellent health.—Philadelphia
Ledger.