58 The Killing of Julius Caesar, Localized, written about 1865, being the only true and reliable account ever published, taken from the Roman daily evening fassies of the date of that tremendous occurrence.  He takes a living delight in this labour of love, for such it is to him, especially if he knows that all the other papers have gone to press, and his will be the only one that will contain the dreadful intelligence. A feeling of regret has often come over me that I was not reporting in Rome when Caesar was killed, reporting on an evening paper, and the only one in the city, and getting at least twelve hours ahead of the morning paper boys with this most magnificent item that ever fell to the lot of the craft. Other events have happened as startling as this, but none that possess so peculiarly all the characteristics of the favourite item of the present day, magnified into grandeur and sublimity by the high rank, fame, and social and political standing of the actors in it. However, as I was not permitted to report Caesar's assassination in the regular way, it has at least afforded me rare satisfaction to translate the following able account of it from the original Latin of the Roman daily evening fassies of that date, second edition. Our usually quiet city of Rome was thrown into a state of wild excitement yesterday by the occurrence of one of those bloody affrays which sicken the heart and fill the soul with fear, while they inspire all thinking men with forebodings for the future of a city where human life is held so cheaply and the gravest laws are so openly set at defiance. As the result of that affray it is our painful duty as public journalists to record the death of one of our most esteemed citizens, a man whose name is known wherever this paper circulates and whose fame it has been our pleasure and our privilege to extend, and also to protect from the tongue of slander and falsehood, to the best of our poor ability. We refer to Mr. J. Caesar, the emperor-elect. The facts of the case, as nearly as our reporter could determine them from the conflicting statements of eyewitnesses, were about as follows. The affair was an election row, of course, nine-tenths of the ghastly butcheries that disgrace the city nowadays grow out of the bickering and jealousies and animosities engendered by these accursed elections. Rome would be the gainer by it if her very constables were elected to serve a century, for in our experience we have never even been able to choose a dog-pelter without celebrating the event with a dozen knock-downs and a general cramming of the station-house with drunken vagabonds overnight. It is said that when the immense majority for Caesar at the polls in the market was declared the other day, and the crown was offered to that gentleman, even his amazing unselfishness in refusing it three times was not sufficient to save him from the whispered insults of such men as Casca of the Tenth Ward, and other hirelings of the disappointed candidate, hailing mostly from the eleventh and thirteenth and other outside districts, who were overheard speaking ironically and contemptuously of Mr. Caesar's conduct upon that occasion. We are further informed that there are many among us who think they are justified in believing that the assassination of Julius Caesar was a put-up thing, a cut-and-dried arrangement hatched by Marcus Brutus and a lot of his hired ruffs, and carried out only two faithfully according to the program. Whether there be good grounds for this suspicion or not, we leave to the people to judge for themselves, only asking that they will read the following account of the sad occurrence carefully and dispassionately before they render that judgment. The Senate was already in session, and Caesar was coming down the street toward the capital, conversing with some personal friends and followed as usual by a large number of citizens. Just as he was passing in front of Demosthenes and Thucydides drugstore, he was observing casually to a gentleman, who our informant thinks is a fortune-teller, that the Ides of March were come. The reply was, Yes, they are come, but not gone yet. At this moment Artemidorus stepped up and passed the time of day and asked Caesar to read a schedule or a tract or something of the kind which he had brought for his perusal. Mr. Decius Brutus also said something about an umble suit which he wanted read. Artemidorus begged that attention might be paid to his first, because it was of personal consequence to Caesar. The latter replied that what concerned himself should be read last, or words to that effect. Artemidorus begged and beseeched him to read the paper instantly. Mark that. It is hinted by William Shakespeare who saw the beginning and the end of the unfortunate affray that this schedule was simply a note discovering to Caesar that a plot was brewing to take his life. However Caesar shook him off and refused to read any petition in the street. He then entered the capital and the crowd followed him. About this time the following conversation was overheard and we consider that, taken in connection with the events which succeeded it, it bears an appalling significance. Mr. Papillius Lena remarked to George W. Caches, commonly known as the knobby boy of the Third Ward, a bruiser in the pay of the opposition, that he hoped his enterprise today might thrive, and when Caches asked, what enterprise? He only closed his left eye temporarily and said with simulated indifference, very well, and sauntered toward Caesar. As Brutus, who is suspected of being the ringleader of the band that killed Caesar, asked what it was that Lena had said, Caches told him and added in a low tone, I fear our purpose is discovered. Brutus told his wretched accomplice to keep an eye on Lena and a moment after Caches urged that lean and hungry vagrant Casca, whose reputation here is none of the best, to be sudden, for he feared prevention. He then turned to Brutus, apparently much excited, and asked what should be done, and swore that either he or Caesar would never turn back. He would kill himself first. At this time Caesar was talking to some of the back-country members about the approaching fall elections and paying little attention to what was going on around him. Billy Trebonius got into conversation with the people's friend and Caesar's Mark Antony, and under some pretense or other got him away, and Brutus, Deceus, Casca, Sina, Metallus Simber, and others of the gang of infamous desperados that infest Rome at present, closed around the doomed Caesar. Then Metallus Simber knelt down and begged that his brother might be recalled from banishment, but Caesar rebuked him for his fawning conduct and refused to grant his petition. Immediately at Simber's request, first Brutus and then Caches begged for the return of the banished Publius, but Caesar still refused. He said he could not be moved, that he was as fixed as the North Star, and proceeded to speak in the most complementary terms of the firmness of that star and its steady character. Then he said he was like it, and he believed he was the only man in the country that was. Therefore, since he was constant, that Simber should be banished, he was also constant that he should stay banished and he'd be hanged if he didn't keep him so.  He then backed up against Pompey's statue and squared himself to receive his assailants. Caches and Simber and Sinna rushed upon him with their daggers drawn, and the former succeeded in inflicting a wound upon his body. But before he could strike again, and before either of the others could strike at all, Caesar stretched the three miscreants at his feet with as many blows of his powerful fist. By this time the Senate was in an indescribable uproar. The throng of citizens in the lobbies had blockaded the doors in their frantic efforts to escape from the building. The sergeant-at-arms and his assistants were struggling with the assassins. Venerable senators had cast aside their encumbering robes and were leaping over benches and flying down the aisles in wild confusion toward the shelter of the committee rooms, and a thousand voices were shouting, �Police! Police!� in discordant tones that rose above the frightful din like shrieking winds above the roaring of a tempest.  Billy Throbonius and Caeslegarius struck him with their daggers and fell, as their brother conspirators before them had fallen. But at last, when Caesar saw his old friend Brutus step forward armed with a murderous knife, it is said he seemed utterly overpowered with grief and amazement, and, dropping his invincible left arm by his side, he hid his face in the folds of his mantle and received the treacherous blow without an effort to stay the hand that gave it. He only said, �E tu, Brutus�, and fell lifeless on the marble pavement. We learned that the coat deceased Haddon, when he was killed, was the same one he wore in his tent on the afternoon of the day he overcame the nervy, and that when it was removed from the corpse it was found to be cut and gashed in no less than seven different places. There was nothing in the pockets. It will be exhibited at the coroner's inquest and will be damning proof of the fact of the killing. These latter facts may be relied on, as we get them from Mark Antony, whose position enables him to learn every item of news connected with the one subject of absorbing interest of today. Later, while the coroner was summoning a jury, Mark Antony and other friends of the late Caesar got hold of the body and lugged it off to the forum, and at last accounts Antony and Brutus were making speeches over it and raising such a row among the people that as we go to press the chief of police is satisfied there is going to be a riot and is taking measures accordingly. End of Chapter 58 This is Chapter 59 of Sketches New and Old. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain Chapter 59 The Widow's Protest One of the saddest things that ever came under my notice, said the banker's clerk, was there in Corning during the war. Dan Murphy enlisted as a private and fought very bravely. The boys all liked him, and when a wound by and by weakened him down till carrying a musket was too heavy work for him, they clubbed together and fixed him up as a subtler. He made money then, and sent it all to his wife to bank for him. She was a washer and an ironer, and knew enough by hard experience to keep money when she got it. She didn't waste a penny. On the contrary, she began to get miserly as her bank account grew. She grieved to part with a sent poor creature, for twice in her hard-working life she had known what it was to be hungry, cold, friendless, sick, and without a dollar in the world, and she had a haunting dread of suffering so again. Well, at last Dan died, and the boys in testimony of their esteem and respect for him telegraphed to Mrs. Murphy to know if she would like to have him embalmed and sent home. When you know the usual custom was to dump a poor devil like him into a shallow hole and then inform his friends what had become of him. Mrs. Murphy jumped to the conclusion that it would only cost two or three dollars to embalm her dead husband, and so she telegraphed yes. It was at the wake that the bill for embalming arrived, and was presented to the widow. She uttered a wild, sad wail that pierced every heart, and said, Seventy-five dollars for Stouff and Dan, blistered their souls, didn't even suppose I was going to staff the museum that I'd be dealing in such expensive curiosities. The banker's clerk said there was not a dry eye in the house. End of Chapter 59 This is Chapter 60 of Sketches New and Old. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain, Chapter 60, The Scriptural Panoramist, written about 1866.  After the first night's performance, the showman says, My friend, you seem to know pretty much all the tunes there are, and you worry along first rate, but then didn't you notice that sometimes last night the piece you happen to be playing was a little rough on the proprieties, so to speak, didn't seem to jibe with the general gait of the picture that was passing at the time as it were. It was a little foreign to the subject, you know, as if you didn't either trump or follow suit.  Well, no, the fellow said he hadn't noticed, but it might be he had played along just as it came handy. So they put it up that the simple old dummy was to keep his eye on the panorama after that, and as soon as the stunning picture was reeled out he was to fit it to a dot with a piece of music that would help the audience to get the idea of the subject, and warm them up like a camp meeting revival. That sort of thing would collar their sympathies, the showman said. There was a big audience that night, mostly middle-aged and old people who belonged to the church, and took a strong interest in Bible matters, and the balance were pretty much young bucks and heifers. They always come out strong on panoramas, you know, because it gives them a chance to taste one another's complexions in the dark. Well, the showman began to swell himself up for his lecture, and the old mud-jobber tackled the piano and ran his fingers up and down once or twice to see that she was all right, and the fellows behind the curtain commenced to grind out the panorama. The showman balanced his weight on his right foot and propped his hands over his hips and flung his eyes over his shoulder at the scenery and said, Ladies and gentlemen, the painting now before you illustrates the beautiful and touching parable of the prodigal son. Observe the happy expression just breaking over the features of the poor, suffering youth, so worn and weary with his long march. Note also the ecstasy beaming from the uplifted countenance of the aged father, and the joy that sparkles in the eyes of the excited group of youths and maidens, and seems ready to burst into the welcoming chorus from their lips. The lesson, my friends, is as solemn and instructive as the story is tender and beautiful. The mud-jobber was already, and when the second speech was finished, struck up a will-all-get-blind drunk when Johnny comes marching home, a solid of the people giggled, and some groaned a little. The showman couldn't say a word. He looked at the pianist sharp, but he was all lovely and serene. He didn't know there was anything out of gear. The panorama moved on, and the showman drummed up his grit and started in fresh. Ladies and gentlemen, the fine picture now unfolding itself to your gaze exhibits one of the most notable events in Bible history, our Saviour and his disciples upon the Sea of Galilee. How grand! How awe-inspiring are the reflections which the subject invokes. What sublimity of faith is revealed to us in this lesson from the Sacred Writings? The Saviour rebukes the angry waves and walks securely upon the bosom of the deep. All around the house they were whispering, Oh, how lovely, how beautiful! And the orchestra let himself out again, a life on the ocean wave and a home on the rolling deep. There was a good deal of honest snickering turned on this time, and considerable groaning, and one or two old deacons got up and went out. The showman grated his teeth and cursed the piano man to himself, but the fellow sat there like a knot on a log and seemed to think he was doing first rate. After things got quiet the showman thought he would make one more stagger at it anyway, though his confidence was beginning to get mighty shaky. The soup started the panorama grinding along again, and he says, Ladies and gentlemen, this exquisite painting represents the raising of Lazarus from the dead by our Saviour. The subject has been handled with marvellous skill by the artist, and such touching sweetness and tenderness of expression has he thrown into it that I have known peculiarly sensitive persons to be even affected to tears by looking at it. Observe the half-confused, half-inquiring look upon the countenance of the awakened Lazarus. Observe also the attitude and expression of the Saviour, who takes him gently by the sleeve of his shroud with one hand, while he points with the other toward the distant city.  You, all the solemn old flats got up in a huff to go, and everybody else laughed till the windows rattled.   Ladies and gentlemen, circumstances over which I have no control compel me prematurely to dismiss the house! End of Chapter 60 This is Chapter 61 of Skechers New and Old. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Skechers New and Old by Mark Twain, Chapter 61, Curing a Cold, written about 1864. It is a good thing, perhaps, to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit. The latter is the sole object of this article. If it proved the means of restoring to health one solitary sufferer among my race, of lighting up once more the fire of hope and joy in his faded eyes, of bringing back to his dead heart again the quick, generous impulses of other days, I shall be amply rewarded for my labour. My soul will be permeated with the sacred delight a Christian feels when he has done a good unselfish deed. Having led a pure and blameless life, I am justified in believing that no man who knows me will reject the suggestions I am about to make out of fear that I am trying to deceive him. Let the public do itself the honour to read my experience in doctoring a cold, as herein set forth, and then follow in my footsteps. When the White House was burned in Virginia City I lost my home, my happiness, my constitution, and my trunk. The loss of the two first-named articles was a matter of no great consequence, since a home without a mother or a sister, or a distant young female relative in it, to remind you, by putting your soiled linen out of sight and taking your boots down off the mantelpiece, that there are those who think about you and care for you, is easily obtained. And I cared nothing for the loss of my happiness, because, not being a poet, it could not be possible that melancholy would abide with me long. But to lose a good constitution and a better trunk were serious misfortunes. On the day of the fire my constitution succumbed to a severe cold, caused by undue exertion in getting ready to do something. I suffered to no purpose too, because the plan I was figuring out for the extinguishing of the fire was so elaborate that I never got it completed until the middle of the following week. The first time I began to sneeze a friend told me to go and bathe my feet in hot water and go to bed. I did so. Shortly afterwards another friend advised me to get up and take a cold shower-bath. I did that also. Within the hour another friend assured me that it was policy to feed a cold and starve a fever. I had both. So I thought it best to fill myself up for the cold, and then keep dark and let the fever starve awhile. In a case of this kind I seldom do things by halves. I ate pretty heartily. I conferred my custom upon a stranger who had just opened his restaurant that morning. He waited near me in respectful silence until I had finished feeding my cold, when he inquired if the people about Virginia City were much afflicted with colds. I told him I thought they were. He then went out and took in his sign. I started down toward the office, and on the way encountered another bosom friend, who told me that a quart of salt water, taken warm, would come as near curing a cold as anything in the world. I hardly thought I had room for it, but I tried it anyhow. The result was surprising. I believed I had thrown up my immortal soul. Now as I am giving my experience only for the benefit of those who are troubled with the distemper I am writing about, I feel that they will see the propriety of my cautioning them against following such portions of it as proved inefficient with me, and acting upon this conviction I warned them against warm salt water. It may be a good enough remedy, but I think it is too severe. If I had another cold in the head, and there were no course left me but to take either an earthquake or a quart of warm salt water, I would take my chances on the earthquake. After the storm which had been raging in my stomach had subsided, and no more good Samaritans happening along, I went on borrowing handkerchiefs again and blowing them to atoms, as had been my custom in the early stages of my cold, until I came across a lady who had just arrived from over the plains and who said she had lived in a part of the country where doctors were scarce and had from necessity acquired considerable skill in the treatment of simple family complaints. I knew she must have had much experience, for she appeared to be a hundred and fifty years old. She mixed a decoction composed of molasses, aquafortis, turpentine, and various other drugs, and instructed me to take a wine-glass full of it every fifteen minutes. I never took but one dose, that was enough. It robbed me of all moral principle, and awoke every unworthy impulse of my nature. Under its malign influence my brain conceived miracles of meanness, but my hands were too feeble to execute them. At that time, had it not been that my strength had surrendered to a succession of assaults from infallible remedies for my cold, I am satisfied that I would have tried to rob the graveyard. Like most other people I often feel mean and act accordingly, but until I took that medicine I had never reveled in such supernatural depravity and felt proud of it. At the end of two days I was ready to go to doctoring again. I took a few more unfailing remedies, and finally drove my cold from my head to my lungs. I got to coughing incessantly, and my voice fell below zero. I conversed in a thundering base, two octaves below my natural tone. I could only compass my regular nightly repose by coughing myself down to a state of utter exhaustion, and then the moment I began to talk in my sleep my discordant voice woke me up again. My case grew more and more serious every day. Plain gin was recommended. I took it. Then gin and molasses. I took that also. Then gin and onions. I added the onions and took all three.  I found I had to travel for my health. I went to Lake Bigler with my repertorial comrade Wilson. It is gratifying to me to reflect that we travelled in considerable style. We went in the pioneer coach, and my friend took all his baggage with him consisting of two excellent silk handkerchiefs and a daguerre type of his grandmother.  By managing in this way I made out to improve every hour in the twenty-four. But my disease continued to grow worse. A sheet bath was recommended. I had never refused a remedy yet, and it seemed poor policy to commence then. Therefore I determined to take a sheet bath, notwithstanding I had no idea what sort of arrangement it was. It was administered at midnight, and the weather was very frosty. My breast and back were bared, and a sheet, there appeared to be a thousand yards of it, soaked in ice water, was wound around me until I resembled a swab for a columbiad. It is a cruel expedient. When the chilly rag touches one's warm flesh it makes him start with sudden violence and gasp for breath just as men do in the death agony. It froze the marrow in my bones and stopped the beating of my heart. I thought my time had come. Young Wilson said the circumstance reminded him of an anecdote about a negro who was being baptized, and who slipped from the parson's grasp, and came near being drowned. He floundered around, though, and finally rose up out of the water considerably strangled and furiously angry, and started ashore at once, spouting water like a whale, and remarking, with great asperity, that one of these days some gentleman's neater going to get killed with just such damn foolishness as this! Never take a sheet bath. Never. Next to meeting a lady acquaintance who, for reasons best known to herself, don't see you when she looks at you and don't know you when she does see you. It is the most uncomfortable thing in the world. But, as I was saying, when the sheet bath failed to cure my cough, a lady friend recommended the application of a mustard plaster to my breast. I believed that would have cured me effectually if it had not been for Young Wilson. When I went to bed I put my mustard plaster, which was a very gorgeous one, eighteen inches square, where I could reach it when I was ready for it. But Young Wilson got hungry in the night, and here is food for imagination. After so journeying a week at Lake Bigler I went to Steamboat Springs, and besides the steam baths, I took a lot of the vilest medicines that were ever concocted. They would have cured me, but I had to go back to Virginia City, where, notwithstanding the variety of new remedies I absorbed every day, I managed to aggravate my disease by carelessness and undue exposure. I finally concluded to visit San Francisco, and the first day I got there a lady at the hotel told me to drink a quart of whiskey every twenty-four hours, and a friend uptown recommended precisely the same course. Each advised me to take a quart. That made half a gallon. I did it, and still live. Now, with the kindest motives in the world I offer for the consideration of consumptive patients the variegated course of treatment I have lately gone through. Let them try it. If it don't cure, it can't more than kill them." CHAPTER 62 A Curious Pleasure Excursion Published at the time of the Comet Scare in the summer of 1874. We have received the following advertisement, but, inasmuch as it concerns a matter of deep and general interest, we feel fully justified in inserting it in our reading columns. We are confident that our conduct in this regard needs only explanation, not apology. EDITOR NEW YORK, HERALD Advertisement. This is to inform the public that in connection with Mr. Barnum I have leased the Comet for a term of years, and I desire also to solicit the public patronage in favour of a beneficial enterprise which we have in view. We propose to fit up comfortable and even luxurious accommodations in the Comet for as many persons as will honour us with their patronage, and make an extended excursion among the heavenly bodies. We shall prepare one million state rooms in the tale of the Comet, with hot and cold water, gas, looking glass, parachute, umbrella, etc., in each, and shall construct more if we meet with a sufficiently generous encouragement. We shall have billiard rooms, card rooms, music rooms, bowling alleys, and many spacious theatres and free libraries, and on the main deck we propose to have a driving park with upward of one hundred thousand miles of roadway in it. We shall publish daily newspapers also. DEPARTURE OF THE Comet. The Comet will leave New York at ten p.m. on the twentieth inst, and therefore it will be desirable that the passengers be on board by eight at the latest to avoid confusion in getting under way. It is not known whether passports will be necessary or not, but it is deemed best that passengers provide them, and so guard against all contingencies. No dogs will be allowed on board. This rule has been made in deference to the existing state of feeling regarding these animals, and will be strictly adhered to. The safety of the passengers will in all ways be jealously looked to. A substantial iron railing will be put up all around the Comet, and no one will be allowed to go to the edge and look over unless accompanied by either my partner or myself. The postal service will be of the completest character. Of course the telegraph, and the telegraph only will be employed. Consequently friends occupying state rooms twenty million and even thirty million miles apart will be able to send a message and receive a reply inside of eleven days. Night messages will be half-rate. The whole of this vast postal system will be under the personal superintendence of Mr. Hale of Maine. Meals served at all hours. Meals served in state rooms charged extra. Hostility is not apprehended from any great planet, but we have thought at best to air on the safe side, and therefore have provided a proper number of mortars, siege guns, and boarding-pikes. History shows that small, isolated communities such as the people of remote islands are prone to be hostile to strangers, and so the same may be the case with the inhabitants of stars, of the tenth or twentieth magnitude. We shall in no case wantonly offend the people of any star, but shall treat all alike with urbanity and kindness, never conducting ourselves toward an asteroid after a fashion which we could not venture to assume toward Jupiter or Saturn. I repeat that we shall not wantonly offend any star, but at the same time we shall promptly resent any injury that may be done us, or any insolence offered to us by parties or governments residing in any star in the firmament. Although averse to the shedding of blood, we shall still hold this course rigidly and fearlessly not only toward single stars, but toward constellations. We shall hope to leave a good impression of America behind us in every nation we visit from Venus to Uranus, and at all events, if we cannot inspire love, we shall at least compel respect for our country wherever we go. We shall take with us, free of charge, a great force of missionaries, and shed the true light upon all the celestial orbs which, physically aglow, are yet morally in darkness. Sunday schools will be established wherever practicable. Compulsory education will also be introduced. The Comet will visit Mars first and proceed to Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. Parties connected with the government of the District of Columbia and with the former city government of New York who may desire to inspect the rings will be allowed time and every facility. Every star of prominent magnitude will be visited, and time allowed for excursions to points of interest in land. The dog-star has been stricken from the program. Much time will be spent in the great bear and indeed in every constellation of importance, so also with the sun and moon and the Milky Way, otherwise the Gulfstream of the skies. Clothing suitable for where in the sun should be provided. Our program has been so arranged that we shall seldom go more than one hundred millions of miles at a time without stopping at some star. This will necessarily make the stoppages frequent and preserve the interest of the tourist. Baggage checked through to any point on the route. Parties desiring to make only a part of the proposed tour and thus save expense may stop over at any star they choose and wait for the return voyage. After visiting all the most celebrated stars and constellations in our system and personally inspecting the remotest sparks that even the most powerful telescope can now detect in the firmament, we shall proceed with good heart upon a stupendous voyage of discovery among the countless whirling worlds that make turmoil in the mighty wastes of space that stretch their solemn solitudes, their unimaginable vastness billions upon billions of miles away beyond the farthest verge of telescopic vision, till by comparison the little sparkling vault we used to gaze at on earth shall seem like a remembered phosphorescent flash of spangles which some tropical voyagers prowl stirred into life for a single instant, and which ten thousand miles of phosphorescent seas and tedious laps of time had since diminished to an incident utterly trivial in his recollection. Children occupying seats at the first table will be charged full fare. First class fare from the earth to Uranus, including visits to the sun and moon and all the principal planets on the route, will be charged at the low rate of two dollars for every fifty million miles of actual travel. A great reduction will be made where parties wish to make the round trip. This comet is new and in thorough repair and is now on her first voyage. She is confessedly the fastest on the line. She makes twenty million miles a day with her present facilities, but with a picked American crew and good weather we are confident we can get forty million out of her. Still we shall never push her to a dangerous speed, and we shall rigidly prohibit racing with other comets. Passengers desiring to diverge at any point or return will be transferred to other comets. We make close connections at all principal points with all reliable lines. Safety can be depended upon. It is not to be denied that the heavens are infested with old ramshackle comets that have not been inspected or overhauled in ten thousand years and which ought long ago to have been destroyed or turned into hail barges, but with these we have no connection whatever. Steerage passengers not allowed to bath the main hatch. Complementary round trip tickets have been tendered to General Butler, Mr. Shepard, Mr. Richardson, and other eminent gentlemen whose public services have entitled them to the rest and relaxation of a voyage of this kind. Parties desiring to make the round trip will have extra accommodation. The entire voyage will be completed and the passengers landed in New York again on the 14th of December, 1991. This is, at least, forty years quicker than any other comet can do it in. Nearly all the back-pay members, contemplate making the round trip with us in case their constituents will allow them a holiday. Every harmless amusement will be allowed on board, but no pools permitted on the run of the comet, no gambling of any kind. All fixed stars will be respected by us, but such stars as seem to need fixing we shall fix. If it makes trouble, we shall be sorry, but firm. Mr. Kojia, having leased his comet to us, she will no longer be called by his name but by my partners, and be. Passengers by paying double fare will be entitled to a share in all the new stars, suns, moons, comets, meteors, and magazines of thunder and lightning we may discover. Patent medicine people will take notice that we carry bulletin boards, and a paintbrush along for use in the constellations, and are open to terms. Cremationists are reminded that we are going straight to some hot places, and are open to terms. To other parties our enterprise is a pleasure excursion, but individually we mean business. We shall fly our comet for all it is worth. For further particulars, or for freight or passage, apply on board, or to my partner, but not to me, since I do not take charge of the comet until she is under way. It is necessary, at a time like this, that my mind should not be burdened with small business details. CHAPTER 63 RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR A few months ago I was nominated for governor of the great state of New York to run against Mr. John T. Smith and Mr. Blank J. Blank on an independent ticket. I somehow felt that I had one prominent advantage over these gentlemen, and that was—good character. It was easy to see by the newspapers that if ever they had known what it was to bear a good name, that time had gone by. It was plain that in these latter years they had become familiar with all manner of shameful crimes. But at the very moment that I was exalting my advantage and joying in it in secret, there was a muddy undercurrent of discomfort riling the deeps of my happiness, and that was the having to hear my name bandied about in familiar connection with those of such people. I grew more and more disturbed. Finally I wrote my grandmother about it. Her answer came quick and sharp. She said, You have never done one single thing in all your life to be ashamed of, not one. Look at the newspapers, look at them, and comprehend what sort of characters Mr. Smith and Blank are, and then see if you are willing to lower yourself to their level and enter a public canvas with them. It was my very thought. I did not sleep a single moment that night, but after all I could not recede. I was fully committed, and must go on with the fight. As I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast I came across this paragraph, and I may truly say I never was so confounded before. Perhaps now that Mr. Mark Twain is before the people as a candidate for Governor, he will condescend to explain how he came to be convicted of perjury by thirty-four witnesses in Waka Waka Cochin, China, in 1863, the intent of which perjury being to rob a poor native widow and her helpless family of a meager, plantain patch, their only stay and support in their bereavement and desolation. Mr. Twain owes it to himself as well as to the great people whose suffrages he asks to clear this matter up. Will he do it? I thought I should burst with amazement. Such a cruel, heartless charge. I never had seen Cochin, China. I never had heard of Waka Waka. I did not know a plantain patch from a kangaroo. I did not know what to do. I was crazed and helpless. I let the day slip away without doing anything at all. The next morning the same paper had this, nothing more. Significant. Mr. Twain, it will be observed, is suggestively silent about the Cochin, China perjury. Mem. During the rest of the campaign this paper never referred to me in any other way than as the infamous perjurer Twain. Next came the Gazette with this. Wanted to know. Will the new candidate for Governor deign to explain to certain of his fellow-citizens, who are suffering to vote for him, the little circumstance of his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his trunk newspaper he rolled his traps in, they felt compelled to give him a friendly admonition for his own good, and so tarred and feathered him and rode him on a rail, and then advised him to leave a permanent vacuum in the place he usually occupied in the camp. Will he do this? Could anything be more deliberately malicious than that? For I never was in Montana in my life. After this this journal customarily spoke of me as Twain the Montana Thief. I got to picking up papers apprehensively, much as one would lift a desired blanket which he had some idea might have a rattlesnake under it. One day this met my eye. The lie nailed. By the sworn affidavits of Michael O'Flanagan, Esquire of the Five Points, and Mr. Snub Rafferty and Mr. Catty Mulligan of Water Street, it is established that Mr. Mark Twain's vile statement that the lamented grandfather of our noble standard bear, Blank J. Blank, was hanged for highway robbery is a brutal and gratuitous lie, without a shadow of foundation in fact. It is disheartening to virtuous men to see such shameful means resorted to to achieve political success as the attacking of the dead in their graves and defiling their honored names with slander. When we think of the anguish this miserable falsehood must cause the innocent relatives and friends of the deceased, we are almost driven to incite an outraged and insulted public to summary an unlawful vengeance upon the traducer. But no, let us leave him to the agony of elacerated conscience, though if passion should get the better of the public and, in its blind fury, they should do the traducer bodily injury, it is but too obvious that no jury could convict and no court punish the perpetrators of the deed. The ingenious closing sentence had the effect of moving me out of bed with dispatch that night, and out at the back door also, while the outraged and insulted public surged in the front way, breaking furniture and windows in their righteous indignation as they came, and taking off such property as they could carry when they went, and yet I can lay my hand upon the book and say that I never slandered Mr. Blank's grandfather, more I had never even heard of him or mentioned him up to that day in date. I will state, in passing, that the journal above quoted from always referred to me afterward as, Twain, the Body Snatcher. The next newspaper article that attracted my attention was the following. A sweet candidate. Mr. Mark Twain, who was to make such a blighting speech at the mass meeting of the independence last night, didn't come to time. A telegram from his physician stated that he had been knocked down by a runaway team, and his leg broken in two places, sufferer lying in great agony and so forth and so forth, and a lot more Bosch of the same sort, and the independence tried hard to swallow the wretched subterfuge and pretend that they did not know what was the real reason of the absence of the abandoned creature whom they denominate their standard bearer. A certain man was seen to reel into Mr. Twain's hotel last night in a state of beastly intoxication. It is the imperative duty of the independence to prove that this besotted brute was not Mark Twain himself. We have them at last. This is a case that admits of no shirking. The voice of the people demands in thunder-tones, who was that man? It was incredible, absolutely incredible, for a moment, that it was really my name that was coupled with this disgraceful suspicion. Three long years had passed over my head since I had tasted ale, beer, wine, or liquor of any kind. It shows what effect the times were having on me when I say that I saw myself confidently dubbed Mr. Delirium Tremens Twain in the next issue of that journal without a pang. Notwithstanding I knew that with monotonous fidelity the paper would go on calling me so to the very end. By this time anonymous letters were getting to be an important part of my mail matter. This form was common. How about that old woman you kiked of your premises which was begging? Paul Pry. And this. There is things which you have done which is unbeknownst to anybody but me. You better trot out a few dolls to yours truly, or you'll hear through the papers from—Handy, Andy. This is about the idea. I could continue them until the reader was surfeited, if desirable. Shortly the principal republican journal convicted me of wholesale bribery, and the leading democratic paper nailed an aggravated case of blackmailing to me. In this way I acquired two additional names, Twain the Filthy Corruptionist and Twain the Lothsome Embracer. By this time there had grown to be such a clamour for an answer to all the dreadful charges that were laid to me that the editors and leaders of my party said it would be political ruin for me to remain silent any longer. As if to make their appeal the more imperative, the following appeared in one of the papers the very next day. Behold the man! The independent candidate still maintains silence, because he dare not speak. Every accusation against him has been amply proved, and they have been endorsed and re-endorsed by his own eloquent silence till at this day he stands forever convicted. Look upon your candidate, independence. Look upon the infamous perjurer, the Montana thief, the body snatcher.  Gaze upon him, ponder him well, and then say if you can give your honest votes to a creature who has earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dares not open his mouth in denial of any one of them. There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so in deep humiliation I set about preparing to answer a mass of baseless charges and mean and wicked falsehoods. But I never finished the task, for the very next morning a paper came out with a new horror, a fresh malignity, and seriously charged me with burning a lunatic asylum with all its inmates, because it obstructed the view from my house. This threw me into a sort of panic, and then came the charge of poisoning my uncle to get his property, with an imperative demand that the grave should be opened. This drove me to the verge of distraction. On top of this I was accused of employing toothless and incompetent old relatives to prepare the food for the Foundling Hospital when I was warden. I was wavering, wavering, and at last, as a due and fitting climax to the shameless persecution that party ranker had inflicted upon me, nine little, toddling children of all shades of colour and degrees of raggedness were taught to rush onto the platform at a public meeting and clasped me around the legs and called me pa. I gave it up. I hauled down my colours and surrendered. I was not equal to the requirements of a gubernatorial campaign in the State of New York, and so I sent in my withdrawal from the candidacy, and in bitterness of spirit signed it, truly yours, once a decent man, but now Mark Twain, I.P., M.T., B.S., D.T., F.C., and L.E. End of Chapter 63. The first notice that was taken of me when I settled down, recently, was by a gentle man who said he was an assessor, and connected with the U.S. Internal Revenue Department. I said I had never heard of his branch of business before, but I was very glad to see him all the same. Would he sit down? He sat down. I did not know anything particular to say, and yet I felt that people who have arrived at the dignity of keeping house must be conversational, must be easy and sociable in company. So, in default of anything else to say, I asked him if he was opening his shop in our neighbourhood. He said he was. I did not wish to appear ignorant, but I had hoped he would mention what he had for sale. I ventured to ask him how was trade, and he said so so. I then said we would drop in, and if we liked his house as well as any other we would give him our custom. He said he thought we would like his establishment well enough to confine ourselves to it. Said he never saw anybody who would go off and hunt up another man in his line after trading with him once. That sounded pretty complacent, but barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. I do not know how it came about exactly, but gradually we appeared to melt down and run together, conversationally speaking, and then everything went along as comfortably as clockwork. We talked and talked and talked. At least I did, and we laughed and laughed and laughed. At least he did. But all the time I had my presence of mind about me. I had my native shrewdness turned on full head, as the engineers say. I was determined to find out all about his business in spite of his obscure answers, and I was determined I would have it out of him without his suspecting what I was at. I meant to trap him with a deep, deep roose. I would tell him all about my own business, and he would naturally so warm to me during this seductive burst of confidence that he would forget himself and tell me all about his affairs before he suspected what I was about.  I said, now you never would guess what I made lecturing this winter at last spring. No, don't believe I could, to save me. Let me see. Let me see. About two thousand dollars maybe. But no. No, sir, I know you couldn't have made that much. Say, seventeen hundred maybe? Ha! I knew you couldn't. My lecturing receipts for last spring and this winter were fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. What do you think of that? Why, it is amazing, perfectly amazing. I will make a note of it. And you say even this wasn't all? Oh! I bless you, there was my income from the daily war-woop for months. About, uh, about, well, what should you say to about eight thousand dollars, for instance? Say, why I should say I should like to see myself rolling in just such another ocean of affluence. Eight thousand. I'll make a note of it. Why, man? And on top of all this, am I to understand that you had still more income? Ha! Ha! Ha! Why? You're only in the suburbs of it, so to speak. There's my book, The Innocence Abroad, Price Three Dollars and Fifty Cents to Five Dollars, According to the Binding. Listen to me. Look me in the eye. During the last four months and a half, saying nothing of sales before that, but just simply during the four months and a half, we've sold ninety-five thousand copies of that book. Ninety-five thousand. Think of it. Average four dollars a copy, say. That's nearly four hundred thousand dollars, my son. I get half. The Suffering Moses, I'll set that down. Fourteen, seven-fifty, eight, two hundred total, say, well, upon my word, the grand total is about two hundred and thirteen or fourteen thousand dollars. Is that possible? Possible. If there's any mistake, it's the other way. Two hundred and fourteen thousand cash is my income for this year if I know how to cipher. Then the gentleman got up to go. It came over me most uncomfortably that maybe I had made my revelations for nothing, besides being flattered into stretching them considerably by the stranger's astonished exclamations. But no! At the last moment the gentleman handed me a large envelope and said it contained his advertisement, and that I would find out all about his business in it, and that he would be happy to have my custom, would, in fact, be proud to have the custom of a man of such prodigious income, and that he used to think there were several wealthy men in the city, but when they came to trade with him he discovered that they barely had enough to live on, and that, in truth, it had been such a weary, weary age since he had seen a rich man face to face and talk to him, and touched him with his hands, that he could hardly refrain from embracing me. In fact, would esteem it a great favour if I would let him embrace me. This so pleased me that I did not try to resist, but allowed this simple-hearted stranger to throw his arms about me and weep a few tranquilizing tears down the back of my neck. Then he went away. As soon as he was gone I opened his advertisement, I studied it attentively for four minutes. I then called up the cook, and said, Hold me while I faint! Let Marie turn the griddle cakes! By and by, when I came to, I sent down to the rum mill on the corner, and hired an artist by the week to sit up nights and curse that stranger, and give me a lift occasionally in the daytime when I came to a hard place. Ah! what a miscreant he was! His advertisement was nothing in the world but a wicked tax return. A string of impertinent questions about my private affairs, occupying the best part of four fool's cap pages of fine print. Questions I may remark, gotten up with such marvellous ingenuity that the oldest man in the world couldn't understand what the most of them were driving at. Questions, too, that were calculated to make a man report about four times his actual income to keep from swearing to a falsehood. I looked for a loophole, but there did not appear to be any. Inquiry number one covered my case as generously and as amply as an umbrella could cover an anthill. What were your profits during the past year from any trade, business, or vocation wherever carried on? And that inquiry was backed up by thirteen others of an equally searching nature, the most modest of which required information as to whether I had committed any burglary or highway robbery, or, by any arson or other secret source of emolument, had acquired property which was not enumerated in my statement of income as set opposite to inquiry number one. It was plain that that stranger had enabled me to make a goose of myself. It was very, very plain, and so I went out and hired another artist. By working on my vanity the stranger had seduced me into declaring an income of two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars. By law one thousand dollars of this was exempt from income tax, the only relief I could see, and it was only a drop in the ocean. At the legal five percent I must pay to the government the sum of ten thousand six hundred and fifty dollars income tax. I may remark in this place that I did not do it. I am acquainted with a very opulent man whose house is a palace, whose table is regal, whose outlays are enormous, yet a man who has no income, as I have often noticed by the revenue returns. And to him I went for advice in my distress. He took my dreadful exhibition of receipts, he put on his glasses, he took his pen, and presto! I was a pauper! It was the neatest thing that ever was. He did it simply by deftly manipulating the bill of deductions. He set down my state, national, and municipal taxes, at so much, my losses by shipwreck, fire, etc., at so much, my losses on sales of real estate, on livestock sold, on payments for rent of homestead, on repairs, improvements, interest, on previously taxed salary as an officer of the United States Army, Navy, Revenue Service, and other things. He got astonishing deductions out of each and every one of these matters, each and every one of them. And when he was done he handed me the paper, and I saw at a glance, that during the year my income and the way of profits had been one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents. Now, said he, the thousand dollars is exempt by law. What you want to do is to go and swear this document in and pay tax on the two hundred and fifty dollars. While he was making this speech, his little boy Willie lifted a two-dollar greenback out of his vest pocket and vanished with it, and I would wager anything that if my stranger were to call on that little boy to-morrow he would make a false return of his income. "'Do you,' said I, "'do you always work up the deductions after this fashion in your own case, sir?' "'Well, I should say so. If it weren't for those eleven saving clauses under the head of deductions, I should be beggared every year to support this hateful and wicked, this extortionate and tyrannical government. This gentleman stands away up among the very best of the solid men of the city, the men of moral weight, of commercial integrity, of unimpeachable social spotlessness. And so I bowed to his example. I went down to the Revenue Office, and under the accusing eyes of my old visitor I stood up and swore to lie after lie, fraud after fraud, villainy after villainy, till my soul was coated inches and inches thick with perjury, and my self-respect gone forever and ever. But what of it? It is nothing more than thousands of the richest and proudest and most respected, honoured and courted men in America do every year. And so I don't care. I am not ashamed. I shall simply, for the present, talk little and eschew fire-proof gloves, lest I fall into certain dreadful habits irrevocably." End of Chapter 64 And End of sketches new and old by Mark Twain, read by John Greenman.


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Gamers of all ages filled the Sanford Center ballroom in Bemidji for the annual Paul Bunyan Communications Gigazone Gaming Championship. Josh Peterson shows us how these gamers faced off in different realities. The gaming industry has come a long way since the 1970s and 80s. Since then it has exploded into a competitive e-sport and through the use of its gigazone Paul Bunyan Communications seized the moment to launch its annual gaming championship. It's about community for us. We give back to the communities we serve and this is one of the ways we do it. This is a very unique event that we hope everybody takes advantage of if not this year into the future. To put on a tournament like this requires a lot of tech and some of that tech was locally built and designed just for this event. So we wrote our own leaderboard software. We wrote our own registration software. We uh everything that you see running here that has tech. Most of it we wrote ourselves. An event like this would normally be found in a metropolitan area but placed in Bemidji the tournament draws regionally. Very unique to our region really across the country. Not many rural areas have anything gaming related let alone something this expansive. Throughout the day thousands came to compete and tried their hardest to be the very best. For many this gaming tournament is all about fun and games but for some it's a chance to experience a different reality. When you're in it it's like a whole like your mind's just on for it and you're trying to get kills and get the dough.  In the end no matter where gamers finished there were no true losers. Instead it's a community that wins. In Bemidji Josh Peterson Lakeland news. Winners of the GigaZone gaming championship walked away with over $5,000 in cash and prizes.


Should you buy Bitcoin that is probably a question you're currently asking yourself right now That is also a question that we get every single day. So today We're gonna go over whether or not you should buy Bitcoin right now as You watch this video now. It might not be the answer that you want to hear But it's going to be the answer that you need to hear all that and more coming up Hey, what's up Jay here and welcome to Bitcoin daily bringing you guys the best tips tutorials and Ideas to help you guys become profitable and successful Traders the goal of this channel is always to empower you guys with the resources and knowledge to help you get to that next level So make sure to subscribe if you're new here and turn on that notification bell Also, make sure to hit the thumbs up on this video and share it with friends and family So we can continue to promote the mass adoption of cryptocurrency. All right So let's go ahead and jump right into what you guys came here for Should I buy Bitcoin right now? So it is a rather complicated question because there's a lot of things that you need to factor in when buying Bitcoin So the first thing that you need to know is that crypto currencies overall is Extremely high risk but with high risk comes high reward even only buying Bitcoin the most reputable cryptocurrency in the space. You're still basically investing into Experimental technology something in its infancy then when you start getting into outcoins, which is even more volatile That puts even a lot more risk on you So before answering the question of whether or not you should buy Bitcoin right now You shouldn't be making that decision based on Bitcoin's price You should be making that decision based on some questions that you should figure out for yourself and for everybody It's going to be a bit different. So here's some questions to ask yourself Do you have a lot of debt if you have a lot of debt, especially credit card debt, which charges you probably somewhere around 20% Yearly you should probably use that cash to pay that debt off first Because if you have debt that's charging you 20% yearly and then you instead of paying that off you buy Bitcoin Even if Bitcoin goes up 20% you're still paying 20% in debt. So that kind of you know what I mean So if you just pay off your credit card debt, which is charging 20% yearly That's basically a 20% gain right off the bat just by paying off your bad debt The next question you should ask yourself is do you have an emergency fund of at least three to six months? This is a very important question After you've paid off your debt or if you have no debt You need to have a stack of cash for at least three to six months for emergencies Imagine if you bought Bitcoin right now at 50k and then in a few weeks or a month from now You had an emergency where you had to you know, take out the money back out of Bitcoin And let's say at that point Bitcoin went dropped from 50k to 40k So you're basically down that 10k difference, but you had an emergency So you have no choice and you had to sell your Bitcoin and cash it out Then as soon as you cash that money out Bitcoin went right back up to 50k and you know It kept going up to 60 70 80k now You sold that a loss when Bitcoin is up from where you actually bought That's why you need to have an emergency fund so that even when you're down You don't you're not forced to sell and it could move in 20 25 or even 30 percent Increments at a time in either direction. The next question is will you need this money for bills in the next 12 months? And this basically goes the same thing with your emergency fund If you're gonna need this money for bills, you should not be investing at all in anything Do not invest any money that you will need to pay off bills in the next 12 months That should be a rule of thumb for any investment when investing in Bitcoin another question You have to ask yourself is will you be okay if you lost your total investment now? 99% of anyone who's ever bought Bitcoin if they just held They're in profit and they've never lost money, but Bitcoin is known to fluctuate and drop 50 to 80 percent in value it happened in 2018 when Bitcoin hit 20,000 and it dropped down to $3,000 now didn't go to zero But a lot of people did sell at a loss because they just couldn't take the losses It affected them on a day-to-day living So this goes back to all the questions that we asked previously and this should also be a rule of thumb when investing You should only be investing money that you're willing to lose Will you lose sleep over the ups and downs of Bitcoin? You have to accept the fact That Bitcoin is very very volatile the cryptocurrency market is very volatile It can go up 20% one day the same way it could drop 20% one day If you cannot handle the day-to-day ups and downs of this rollercoaster You should not be investing in Bitcoin or any other Cryptocurrency so if you're able to answer all those questions honestly and feel like yes You're ready to buy Bitcoin right now Then the next thing you're probably wondering is how much should I buy and how much money should I Put towards Bitcoin from my portfolio So what's the perfect amount to invest in Bitcoin or other crypto currencies? The short answer is that there's not one answer that's appropriate for everyone Everybody's going to be different So the recommended number by many financial experts that are in the Bitcoin space They usually recommend anywhere between one to five percent of your total investment portfolio So where on the one to five percent scale should you be in well that really all depends on you usually the younger You are the higher the risk that you can take some millennials have over ten percent of their investment portfolio In Bitcoin and the other ninety percent in memes stopped on Robin Hood I personally hold between twenty five to fifty percent of my total investment portfolio in Bitcoin right now Because we are in a bull run now as I see the end of the bull run get near this number changes So this number is always changing but as of this moment right now I hold about probably around fifty percent or more of my investment portfolio in Bitcoin, but It is an amount of money that I am willing to risk and willing to lose. I do not have debt I have an emergency fund. I do not need this money for bills in the next 12 months I would be okay with losing it and I do not lose sleep over the ups and downs of the market So what should I do? I can't make that decision for you But from all my years in the crypto space and all the research that I have done There is definitely a strong argument to have some of your portfolio Exposed to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but going all in that's quite extreme Now the only caveat to that might be if you're in total investment capital is really low like maybe under $2,500 and also if you're young Millennials generation Z That's only because in the grand scheme of your lifetime earning potential Losing that much wouldn't really hurt you in the long run if you lost it off All right guys So I'm gonna let you think about those questions and that number of total investment that you're thinking about making And while you're thinking about it I'm preparing to give you my answer on whether or not you should buy Bitcoin right now at its current price But before we get into that make sure that you subscribe if you're not subscribed yet to this channel Also, make sure to give it a thumbs up and turn on that post Notification Bell so that you guys are notified every time we post new videos up five times a week So should you buy Bitcoin right now if you've answered all of these questions already and you Figured out the perfect balance that you would like to expose your portfolio to Bitcoin Then the short answer is yes You should buy Bitcoin right now the reason why the fundamentals of Bitcoin are stronger than ever The bull run is just getting started some of the richest people in the world are Currently flipping over when they were against Bitcoin to now being pro Bitcoin and Bitcoin bulls You know what to say follow the smart money But if they got in this late, are they really the smart money? There is also now major major companies that are putting Bitcoin in their balance sheets And I'm talking about billions of dollars in Bitcoin Micro strategy Tesla Square just to name a few those are just the first dominoes to fall it is almost Guaranteed that more are coming if you're new here. Let me just show you how long the previous bull run lasted So just to get an idea on the time that the last bull run went for this is as far back as Bitmex chart here goes and it starts in 2015 and just look at this each candle here represents an entire week So there was of course drops during that time But you can just kind of continue going and we're already into 2017 that bull market lasted about Two years before going down So if we take a look at our current bull market when we started going up was in March of 2020 After the big dump So that still was not a bull market So if we say that maybe right around here when we broke that 10,000 mark Was a start of the bull market that would be saying that around July of 2020 is when the bull market started the bull market Just started we're not even an entire year in look how short this run has been when people are trying to judge and predict Bull markets they only look at price and forget that time is just as important So now that we have answered the main question on whether or not you should buy Bitcoin right now the next thing that you need to know is how should you buy Bitcoin right now? How you're buying Bitcoin is just as important as whether or not you're buying Bitcoin So when it comes to how should you buy Bitcoin the strategy that I always recommend everyone is dollar cost Averaging so what is dollar cost averaging dollar cost averaging also known as DCA is an investment Strategy in which an investor divides up the total amount to be invested across periodic purchases of a target asset in an effort to reduce the impact of Volatility on the overall purchase the purchases occur Regardless of the assets price and at regular intervals in effect This strategy removes much of the detailed work of attempting to time the market in order to make purchases of equities at the best prices So purchasing ten dollars every week for example would be dollar cost averaging This is mostly used for investors looking to purchase Bitcoin for long term So what are the pros of dollar cost averaging one? It reduces the risk of buying tops to it doesn't require a big upfront investment Three it gives you time to understand Bitcoin for it gives you an opportunity to buy Bitcoin at a discount five It reduces emotional stress now like it with everything else in investing There's always cons to every strategy so the cons with dollar cost averaging are one Eliminates the possibility of buying the exact bottoms to it takes some time to get the desired Exposure to Bitcoin and three you're gonna get potentially lower performance in a strong bull market Now let's look at an example of dollar cost averaging. Let's say that you invested ten dollars a week Every single week for the last three years your total investment would have been $1,570 out of pocket now the total value of that 1,570 out of pocket would now be $9,385 you'd be up right now almost 500% on your money Let's change that to a hundred dollars a week and see what kind of a difference that would have made so Investing a hundred dollars a week for three years starting three years ago You would have invested a total of fifteen thousand and seven hundred dollars that would now be valued at ninety three thousand eight hundred and fifty nine dollars again a total of Four hundred and ninety seven percent return on your cash So I know that was a very long and extended way on answering such a what seems like a basic and easy to answer question, but the thing is that it is a complicated answer and There's more that goes into making that decision of whether or not you should buy Bitcoin right now And for every person it's gonna be different So that's why it's so difficult sometimes to answer that questions when you guys ask me But now I have this video that I could just send you to when you ask me this question So if you guys enjoyed this video make sure to give it a thumbs up If you're not subscribed yet make sure to give us a subscription I would appreciate it so so much if you have any other questions about Anything that I covered today in this video drop it in the comments I'll be happy to give back to you guys with an answer and that's pretty much it guys remember that tomorrow I will be doing a market analysis on Bitcoin and going over some possible new trade setups Just like we do on every Monday and Friday on Wednesdays We do live streams where we cover Bitcoin and other outcoins as well So you want to tune in for those you can follow us on Instagram at Bitcoin dot daily as well where we post day to day stuff And if you really want to be a lot more involved in trading Then you can check out our trade room in the description below where we charge a small monthly fee And we share our exact trades that we make every single day. 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Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's CaseBreaks.com coming at you with 2020 Panini Certified Football 12 box pick your team number four. That's the second inner case. Remember Sean opened up pick your team three at first inner case last night we'll be doing the second 12 box inner. Also chance to win a sealed box, we'll ship it to you Seal, a sealed box of 2020 Panini Certified Football. That's pretty cool. You can buy at least two teams in the break, you'll get an entry, so on and so forth, all the descriptions are right there. Everybody knows about that. A lot of good stuff here, so let's roll. Big thanks to all of these lovely people here for getting into the action, pick your team four. Thank you. There's Ronnie with that last spot mojo star next to his name, maybe a little extra magic there perhaps. Alright, let's see what we got. Now from, I didn't watch pick your team three last night, but from what people are saying in the chat, they're saying hey, break was alright, but I don't think there was like any of the big name quarterbacks in there, i.e. Herbert, I don't think was in the first half right, no Herbert autographs, no Joe Burrow autographs, no two autographs. Alright, so you can see on the top camera right there, you can see all the boxes up there, so there's plenty of camera coverage here. Nick Galvin saying pick your team three was nice. Oh, there was a Hertz patch out, okay. But not that guy, that guy on the bangles, that's for Burrow. Farvotto in there too? Hori, what's up? Miami only up by four for watching, it's got a little heat Pacers happening right there. Pacers don't want to go down three nothing apparently, they're battling, trying to make things interesting. Football, baseball, NFL stuff happening too. Any crazy NFL news that I'm missing? My head, I've just been so locked into basketball and baseball, mostly basketball to be honest with you, but I've just been so locked in there that I don't know if I've really come across any major news, alright. Here's box one, good luck everybody. Carson Wentz, 219 out of 299 for the Fly Eagles Fly, that'll be for Eric J. Sammy says yes, some breaking news, Bears still suck. Are you a Bears fan?  Certified potential Tony Pollard to 25, that will be for Cascade Lusage and the Dallas Cowboys. EA saying National Mayor said no fans for first game. I didn't think there'd be fans in any game, right? Are there cities that are going to have fans at games? Just an inch of time, we're going to set aside these numbered cards right here and we're going to sleeve and top load those up a little bit later so this break doesn't take a million years.  That will be for Ryan, they flip this around, make me think it's an autograph but it's not. And for the Blue Horseshoes, Jersey and Otto, Jacob Eason, 28 out of 99.  There's Clyde Edwards-Hallaire, Relic, Ted on the Instagram stream talking to him about this kid for the Chiefs, John McCall, he thinks he's going to win Rookie of the Year. Got to add a 50, Christian Fulton for the Titans and there's AJ Eponessa to 3.99 and that's box one. Alright, box two. So EA saying that the University of Tennessee wants to try to get 12,000 to 20,000 people in there for SEC games. Who is the SEC guy? Are they just going to play each other or aren't like all the conferences? I don't watch a lot of college stuff but aren't they, aren't a lot of the conferences saying, eh, spring? Is SEC still planning for fall? I guess they could just play games against each other. They're a pretty good, good conference. I've done, I mean, I guess the health concern is when you're like in a concourse waiting in line for beer, right? But if they, if they, you could make it work I feel like for an outdoor stadium? Couldn't you make it work?  Just have that as a service. Not just for the expensive seats but just have that as a safety service for the entire stadium. You'll make it work. Boom. Ooh, entry and exit times. Okay, there you go. I mean, I feel like they could, I feel like as long as you can keep, you know, encourage everybody to mask it up too but if you can stagger those entry and exit times, maybe section by section, they'll just have to be, that's just how it has to be if we want fans there. Inconvenient, yes.  I feel like baseball can do the same as well. Maybe they'll experiment with that in the playoffs or something like that. But yeah, as long as you can keep groups of people away from each other, that could work, I feel like, right, staggered seats, staggered rows, John suggesting, I feel like you can make it work in an outdoor stadium and hopefully if everyone just kind of polices each other, you know, and with masks, it's going to be chilly. Everyone's going to be wearing gloves eventually too, right? So maybe that could work. It's Ross Blacklock to $199. All right, yeah, maybe you got to cancel the tailgating. Yeah, which sucks but I'd rather have some fans there than just saying not nobody. Hey, Jordan Love, $93 out of $149. You're going to love it, Joseph. Joseph L with that one. I haven't noticed that. Have they been doing some limited attendance for Europa League? I feel like that. I mean, NBA, I can see how that can be tough, sort of in a, in a real, it's a rookie signature in a sort of arena, small arena dome environment. But no, no fans for Jets or Giants games this season. Malibu, what's going on? Love the LA Times. Nice pick. Thanks. Yeah, I got my, I got my picture in the paper. There's Aaron with the Falcons. Thanks for reading it. Thanks for supporting us. Appreciate that. Can't do it without you guys, ladies and gentlemen. We wouldn't be in the LA Times if it wasn't for you. And there's Michael Pittman, Jr. New Generation Relic for the Colt Sterak with the blue horseshoes. I think the Rams will get their new stadium, their first home game, John, but I don't, I don't know if anyone's going to be in there. Next box. I don't think anyone's going to be in there. No, no one in the Rams Charter Stadium. Honestly, I don't know. I feel like for the duration of the season, they probably won't, won't have anybody there. I think LA has just started tailing off of being a hot spot again. I think we finally kind of re-flattened whatever curve we had going on lately. So I'm not sure if the state is prepared or the city is prepared to have live big sporting events happen just yet. All right. There is Quasitwackens. It's kind of hard to read that, that red foil against the black. Maybe update that. I usually love, I love Certify, but maybe a slight design change on that panini. That might be helpful. And there's Gabriel Davis, Relic for the Bills. Eric J. Jalen Hurts right there. Stadium, I'm pretty sure is actually, I don't know. I feel like if there was going to be fans, there's a two-color passion autograph. T. Higgins to 225. There you go. Freshman fabric for EA and the Bengals. Looking for the guy that's going to throw him the ball. I don't know if the stadium is actually complete. That's a very good question. 37, I know there was a ton of delays. It's Harrell Edmonds. Steelers, Michael Gallucci. Kind of looks like it. To 75. It's a family show, folks. Easy. TJ Watt to 299. Sam, you want to be my assistant. What are your assistant qualifications? All right, so Derek with the Colts. Philly saying, the Philly at 3291 saying the RAM seating is 100% done. As I say, a colter. You have mad connections. I don't know if mad connections makes you a good assistant. How does that make you get me a good cup of coffee? Can you make a cup of coffee? Do you know how to take food orders? You live in the South Bay area, the greater Los Angeles area. I've been collecting since 5 years old. How old are you now, Sammy? If you're only 10, that doesn't help me. We can't hire people under 18. Murrieta, isn't that... I'm not sure where that is. Isn't that in your San Diego?  I don't know if you're going to like that commute. I did not see the Raiders' Season Ticket Pack as they sent out. There's Alvin Camero right there. Van Jefferson, Jersey and autograph. $3.55 out of $4.99. Maybe that's a little closer to Mecula, kind of halfway to San Diego. It's still a long way to Hermosa Beach. That might be prohibitive for Sammy to be my assistant. Joseph Lachat with the ramps. And there's Mira Sanchez, Ricky Jackson. The Season Ticket Pack is a mini stadium replica that plays the Raider song when you open it. The Autumn Wind is a Raider, that song. The Autumn Wind is a Raider. $27.99 out of $9.99. Wow. Now I want to get... See, I can't afford Season Tickets. I don't have Season Ticket Money. We've got to sell a lot more cases of certified football. I'm going to get Raiders, any NFL team, NFL Season Ticket Money. $20.99 out of $1.99. New Generation Relic. Wait, you're going to be our competition, Sammy? I appreciate the service, but I don't know if I appreciate you being my competition. The Boss Man, Navy Guy. I've got to get Raiders Season Tickets now. Out of $4.50, I'm feeling, yeah. The Visiting Team Chaperone is going to have a lot of fun trying to wrangle 53 young men with money in Vegas. See what happened to the people who visited in the hockey team out there? Yeah, as am I saying. So, I think the Golden Knights had an impressive home record. Like, if you bet the Golden Knights to win on the money line at home, their inaugural season, there's Derek Henry for EA and the Titans, then you would have profited pretty nicely. The Vegas flu. All right, next box. See, Season Tickets for my Raiders would get expensive for me because I would have to fly or drive there. I guess I could, what do people do with season? Do people actually, I would want to go to all the games. Maybe I don't. Do I sell games? Do I sell like half the games? And then I go to the other games, just like go to a couple of games? I don't know how that works. I feel like NFL has made it harder to like sell season ticket games. Like I can't just, I don't just get like a little ticket stuff that I could give to somebody. There's Joe Burrow Relic for EA, getting warmer. Oh, they have a website to resale tickets. All right, how much are, I don't even want to look at how much Season Tickets are for the Raiders. Isn't there like seat license stuff too? I don't have. Here's Jelani Tavae for the Lions. There you go, trendsetter. No worries, Sammy. We got Stefan Gilmore to 75. We got Kenneth Murray to 75. J.K. Dobbins to 399. Any guesses on this redemption? And Cortland Sutton, two color patch. 7 out of 35, a certified gamer. And my rival, Scott Goodman with my rivals. Imagine people that bought resale tickets in early February. Yeah, there has to be some sort of, I don't know, unless there's like a private cash sale or something like that. Yeah, maybe then Sad Times. Stefan Gilmore to 450. Tyler Johnson to 299. No, nobody? Philly, the Philly is saying Ram, saying you can get a cardboard cutout at the home games. I wonder if the Raiders would do cardboard cutouts. That'd be kind of cool. Sammy saying redemption is to a Brian Baker, a known associate with Sammy. We've discovered this earlier. I'm a much better assistant than Sammy. He's more of a prospect and you're like a vet player? I see.  Who gets my lunch here the quickest? Who hustles to run and get me top blowers when I run out on the table? Alright, good luck everybody. Freshman of fabric signatures. Car 216. Good luck. J.U. Juju? No. Justin? Justin Herbert? H? No. Justin Jefferson? Justin Jefferson. Wow. What a roller coaster of emotions right there. I didn't know what it was going to be. Justin Jefferson is a Viking. Skull that goes to Scott Goodman. Season tickets range from 650 for 10 home games to 3500 for club seats. This is 8 or times 10 right? Seems like a lot. What about Malibu is saying talk about personal seat licenses. That's where they get you right? I feel like the per game price I could easily do. Or what about the personal seat license? There's Nick Chubb. Mirror signatures 3 out of 7. Just 2 off a train whistle. That goes to Cleveland. That'll be for Glen and Campbell. By the time I get to Cleveland. She'll be rising. So how much is a PSL? Maybe these are 20-21 goals. Not 20-20 goals for me. But now I'd like to know. 2 out of 10. Nate Stanley. Nice low number here for the Viking. Scott. Keeshawn Vaughn. Relic for the Buccaneers. That's going to go to Dave Ivers. Malibu's got me here. He lowest PSL for Raiders per seat. Started at like 8 to 10,000? So if I want 2 seats. So I'm not just watching a game by myself. And I want to take a buddy. Or a lady friend. I've got to pay $10,000, $20,000 for 2 seats. Plus the 650th seat. Per game. That's a lot. We've got to raise the prices on certified football if we want to. Joe's going to get PSL money. There's Gabriel Davis. 3-color jersey and autograph to $499. When's NT football coming out? We need that.  That's a very distinct possibility. Justin Herber. 10 out of 99. Almost looks like Chevron's right there. There you go. Bolts. Rich Schmidt with the Chargers. He had a friend get row 2. His PSL is $16,000 a seat for 4 seats. What does he do? I need his job. That's Kyle Duggar. Next one. Yeah, I know. We've got to try to find you some ink, Rich. So Eric Jay is saying it's more like an investment. You can... After they win the Super Bowl, are you talking about the Raiders? We're talking about the same team, right, Eric? You might have to wait for Patrick Mahomes to stop being Patrick Mahomes. That might be like 15 years. So EA is saying I bought my Titans back when they sucked. That one 35-yard and 10 rows up for 6K each. So there's a whole stock market. There's a fluid market on values for these. I don't know if I'm at season ticket level yet, you guys. I think I'm at, you know, buy seats off of Stubhub and then fly to Vegas and then stay at my sister's apartment to save money in Vegas level right now. I don't know what Vegas is going to do. There's Capola with the Redskins or the Washington football team. I don't know what Vegas is going to do about fans and stands. Because I was... Man, I was so excited about that new stadium. I was going to fly to Vegas. My sister's birthday is in December and I was going to be like, hey, I'll take you to a football game. How cool would that be? There's new generation.  That'd be a cool thing, a cool big brother thing to do. Take the kid's sister to a football game in December. But nope. Thanks a lot, COVID. Michael Glushy, Steelers. There's my homies right here. He's going to get in the way of a Raider Super Bowl for a while. No fans. Raider has scrimmage there last night. But maybe some wizard comes and delivers like some sort of vaccine next month. And I'll just be like, pop! Pop that vid vaccine right in my arm. And then just breathe deeply in small and close faces and I'll be like, I'm good. There's Willis McGay, mirror signatures. 161 out of 199. Sam Zaske, in my opinion, who has the best shot to be in the Super Bowl this year? The Kansas City Chiefs. Man, this is a Broncos box, isn't it? My rival, Scott Goodman, getting all those Broncos. Went right there to 99. I mean, it's got to be the Chiefs, right? I mean, it's Chalk, but they won the Super Bowl last year. They look pretty good. They know what their weaknesses are. They got Patrick Mahomes. They got all those, you know, young pass catchers, speedy guys that are just another year older and just more experienced in the league. It's got to be that. The NFC. Crap shoot. I'll put the 16 teams in the NFC. Put them in random.org. Whatever name on top, boom. The Packers would have given, right? They were just a game away from the Super Bowl. I thought the Packers would have given Aaron Rodgers some extra weapons just to one more run, but they didn't do that. Carters may have a QB now. Raiders in a QB. I think Derrick Harcill, TVD. Raiders added a lot of weapons this year. Potential weapons. Ooh, nice patch. Keyshawn Vaughn. That's not a 349 to get that patch. That goes to David Ivers. I think Derrick Harcill will be given kind of this season to be like, all right, here's some weapons. What can you do with it? There's Fred Warner, Niners. Certified Potential Autograph, 5 out of 10. Nice low number for Capola and the Niners. Raiders team is going to be half Raiders fan and half the other team? We're thinking about the Chargers and Rams. You know how excited Raiders fans are about that team being in Vegas? All the people in LA, Raiders fans in LA will be all over that trip. The stadium is sponsored by this airline called Allegiant, who have all sorts of special deals from Oakland directly to Las Vegas to bring all the Oakland fans over there. My sister lives in Vegas. I go to Vegas a lot. Every mall has a Raiders team shop there. A lot of Raiders stickers on the back of trucks out there in Vegas. There's another Bronco. That city is fired up for the Raiders. So you're going to get a lot of the local people who live there. DK Metcalf to 450. A lot of local people who live there are going to be fired up about that. Think about the resale. You're thinking about the Chargers and Rams. Very fair weather fans. Raiders have one of the best fan bases in all of football. They're like the Steelers. Steelers travel. They're like the intensity of those kind of teams. There's another Bronco for Scott Goodman. The city is very excited about... There's Justin Herbert right there. The city is very excited about the Raiders. I don't think it's going to be the Chargers situation where at their home games, it's like... I think some of the guys here are Eagles fans, right? They went to an Eagles Chargers game a couple of years ago. There was like 60, 70% of Eagles fans. We don't have any alerts, unfortunately. I suppose if you have some coding skills, you could have a notification sent to you when something sells out on the website. But we don't have that. See, there you go, Malibu. Sorry. It works for the Chargers. Raiders have a slightly stronger fan base. All right, four boxes to go. This one right here, and then three more. On the top cam you see right there. I'm doing good on time. That's a 34-minute mark. The schedule and the chance is a little off on time, but the next break... We've got a couple more breaks after this. There's Jalen Hertz, Relic, New Generation Relic for the Eagles. That will be for Eric J. And then this system, I'm fine. I'm all right. There's Clavon Chase and Jaguars. To 50. Got Joe Montana to 25. Jerry Jiman. It's a Broncos case. 19i25. Three-color patch and autograph for Scott Goodman and my rivals.  The Broncos. Who might actually be interesting this here in all seriousness. That guy? Drew Locke looked pretty good at times. Added a lot of weapons. You know? Some younger players he drafted a year or two ago. Could be marinating. Could be emerging. Could be blossoming. Eagles, Eric J. Dallas Goddard. Juju Smith Schuster to 450. And a one-of-one bangle. That is Tyler Boyd. All right, not Joe Burrell, but still a one-of-one. EA. And the Bengals. Are we getting warmer? EA. Catty Mojo. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo! LaVisca Chanel Jr. to 399. Neville Gallimore to 299. Choking on my water. I need more water. Moving on. Vanilla Grilla and his just hatred of the Lions. When the Steelers come to Detroit, it's like a Steelers home game. Steelers travel pretty well in general, right? The Pacers were keeping it a little close, but now with 22.8 seconds left, Miami's up by eight. That's going to do it. Just really don't run the clock out. We'll follow. Tua. Relic. Dolphins. Ryan. Ryan L. Justin Jackson. Five out of five. Certified potential autograph. All right, there you go. Rich Schmidt. Chargers. Not Herbert, but a train whistle. All right, Rich with the Bolts. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo! Out of 5% under. Get the world-famous train whistle. There's Kyler Murray. Where's the number there? Out of 50? Yeah, there it is. Out of 50. We got out of 450. Damien Williams. Ray Kwan-Davis to 399. And Clyde Edwards-Hallaire autograph. Three-color patch in auto. 58 out of 299. Chiefs. John McCall. There you go, John. This is Ted Jaspy's choice. It's on Instagram right now at Jaspy's Breaks with personal boxes. But that's his choice for Rookie of the Year. There's Cortland Sutton. Relic to 149. Scott Goodman. Broncos. Nice break for the Broncos. There's Darius Smith to 199. Deandre Swift to 299. Second to last box. Where's the other game on then? My game. Espen? No, they got Rocket Thunder. Oh, the Lakers games on ABC. Oh, okay. All right, all right. All right, second to last box. Good luck, everybody. This is pick your team number four. There's a full case, sorry, a 12 box intercase random team break in the shot right now, which is part of our big $1,000 promo. JaspysCaseBreaks.com. Check out all the details there. All the details on that promo on the top of JaspysCaseBreaks.com. Read it, check it out, see what breaks are involved. And maybe give it a shot. Deadline at 9 o'clock Pacific tonight, 12 a.m. Eastern. AJ Brown to 199. Clyde Edwards-Hallaire again. New Generation Relic this time for John and the Chiefs. Michael Pittman Jr. to 399. For the Patriots, 99. That's Sonya Michelle. Have we seen, we haven't, right? Cam Newton, Patriot cards? What's that happening? Three-color passion autographs from the Michael P. Ryan. 53 out of 99. For the J-E-T-S Jets, Jets, Jets. Adam Cupperman as Jets. Samajah's brother. Pretty talented family there. Brother? Brother, cousin. Brother, I think. There's Kishan Johnson. Autograph. 11 out of 35, that is. Kee. For Adam Cupperman. And the Jets. Jets finishing strong. Kishan does mornings here on Sports Talk Radio. ESPN Radio, 7-10. And the final box. Good luck, everybody. Pick a team four. I think we're a tiny bit behind that schedule. I just posted in the chat, but the order is still correct, though. I thought OKC was going to be a little more competitive in this series, but it looks so good in the regular series and in the re-seating games, but it's like James Harden's rest helped. That's a nice belt. Russell Westbrook. Nice Hermes belt going on there. Good for him. We got Derek Henry to 450. Well, Michael P. Ryan. Three-color patch and autograph. Jets finishing strong. For Adam. Justin Tucker. There's your second autograph. And final one of the break. Two out of 20. That's for the Purplebirds. That'll be for Aaron Billingsley and the Ravens. Chase Claypool for the... So we should have two more relics to go. Maybe a low-numbered relic would be cool. There's a two out of 25. Gold. Dolphins, Ryan L. With that. Kind of a cool color on that parallel. There's Daryl Taylor. And we've got Van Jefferson. 268 out of 299 for Rich... No, not Rich and the Chargers. The other LA team, Joseph and the Rams. Kind of looks like a Chargers logo.  All right, to 50. Will Fuller. Cam Acres. DJ Shark is our last hit of the day. Nice Jaguars window there. 299. Fabric of the game. Ronnie, with the Jags. A little something for you at the very end with Lastbod Mojo. That's 299. Bendinucci. And the last card is Stars Amari Cooper. And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. That was certified. Pick your team four. Let's do a quick recap here. There you go. It's kind of just starting the middle right there. Justin Jefferson redemption. Some lions there. Some relics. Some mirror signatures. Van Jefferson has a nice auto. There you go. That was good for the Packers. Broncos had a nice break as well. It's a good looking patch. Kishan Vaughn. It's a good looking patch right there too. Justin Herbert. Gold 2. We just saw a second ago. Justin Tucker. A couple of Michael P. Reins. Clyde Edwards-Hallaire looked really sharp. Two of a relic. Jerry Judy Gold was pretty cool. Claiborne Chasen. A couple of train whistles right here. Certified potential. Five out of five. Justin Jackson. And just a one of one base card. Tyler Boyd for the Bangles. And there you go, boys and girls. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. And I'll do more football with you next time. Bye-bye.


There was a question came in, like Sheikh Maryam spoke about Sayyidah Maryam, is she a prophet? There's a different opinion about that, the strongest opinion she is not. Remember Ibn Hazm is a Bahri school, again without going into the technicality of it, it's a school where it goes exactly what the Qur'an say, just the external meaning. That's what it's called, al-Bahri. But the stronger opinion that she is not, prophets were only men. And there is the answer, why? You know why? Because Allah said so. Done. Learn this answer, ladies. When people ask me why you wear your hijab, my answer is Allah said so. I don't have to explain it. Of course I will later on for other reasons, but number one, why do you fast? Allah said so. Why do you lower your gaze? Learn this. teaches you submission, teaches you to be al-Qanateen, Sayyidah Maryam.