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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30
Very Pleasant Riding.

1t must be pleasant riding o.
yer some of the mountain roads
Of California. Foss, the pro-
'prietor of the road and stage
line, and one Of the celebrated
"whips" of California, used to
call a steep descent on the PIu-
ton river "the drop" and as he
began it would tell his passen-
gers to look at their watches
and hold on to their seats and
hats. He would then crack his
whip, and the horses-some-
times six to a wagOn-would
start at a keen run and make
the distance in nine and a half
minutes. There are thirty-five
sharp turns i'll "the drop" and
the road, just wide enough for
the team, frequently hugs the
edge Of the steep rocky preci-
pices, whose sides and bottoms
make a green cOncavity of brist-
ling fr-tops, hiding the stream
whose murmur comes family up.
The new road makes the de-
scent to the canyon Of Plunton
Creek, or River, by a longer
route, with more curves, in a
lighter grade; but is equally
narrow, and follows closely for
long distances the steep precipi-
ces that line the creek. Over
this, too, the teams are driven
at a rate Of speed frightful to
timid persons unaccustOmed to
mountain stage-travel in Cali
tOrnia. But, dangerous as these
roads seem, not Il single acci-
dent has occurred on them, for
the wagons are kept very strong,
the horses are of the best road
ster scock, and the drivers mas
ters of their trade. The great /
speed maintained, instead Of in
creasing the danger, lessons it. |
Yet there are persons in almost
every wagonful of passengers
who pale and shrink as the We
hicle dashcs wildly down. and
as they see below them, under
the very wheels, as it were, the !
yawning chasms that threaten
death. Women sometimes sink
into the bottom Of the wagon,
and hide from their eyes the
so dreadful to them
that is 50 sublime to cooler
headsand calmcr nerves. When
the wagon reaches the hotel,
however, all its tenants have Il
hall-wiId-Iook, as if they had
Just come down in a balloon
and were thankful it had ''lit."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Not long ago a young man Of
this city had a most favorable
opportunity to enter a business
house in this State, at a large
increase over his present salary,
with a prospect of soon getting
"a place in the firm. His rec
concentrations were frst-class,
and the officers Of the institu-
ton were decidedly pleased with
his appearance. They, however,
made him no proposals, nor did
they state their favorable I'M
pressions. A gentleman Of this
city was requested to ascertain
where the young man spent his
evenings, and what class of
young men were his associates.
1t was found that he spent sew
eral nights Of the week in a bill
liard-room OH Main street, and
Sunday afternoon drove a hired
span into the country with three
other young men. He is Won
dering why he didn't hear from
the house concerning that COW
eted position.-Spring1feEd Re
publican.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

A newspaper correspondent
has discovered a new solution
of the Mormon difficulties. He
says that the waters of Salt
Lake have been rising for years
and are now twenty feet higher
than they used to be. They are
moreover inclOsed by ridge
far above the doomed city of
the plain, and sooner or later
the imprisoned waters will break
out and engulf the modern Sod
ON and settle the Mormon
question forever.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

In DAnville, Ky, there is a col
lege and also a theological semina-
ry under the control of the Pres
byterian Synod of Kentucky
Last spring these institutions re-
ceived a severe blow by the loss
Of 100000 il bonds deposited
for safe keeping in the Falls City
Bank of Louisville, which was
robbed. This stimulated the
frieEds of the college to active
exertions in its behalf, and in a
short time the sum Of $4,000
was secured by subscription to re-
pleniSh It's treasury. Later the
trustees of 10th institutions, ac-
cording to the Louisville Com
mercial, made through accredited
agents Of the burglars a bargain
with the thieves who robbed the
bank whereby they recover the
stolen bonds by paying to the
agent of the robbers $27, 900 in
cash, so that they are now better
off than if the burglary had new
er taken place. To be sure the
recovery the securities involv-
ed the act of compOundinga fell
ony, an offence which under
the laws of Kentucky is punish
able with fine and Imprisonment
in the penitentiary; but it is to
be presumed that the high NOR
al standing Of the gentlemen
engaged IN the crime will shield
them from any unpleasant legal
proceedings. The seminary in
DanviIIe must be a good school
for the aducatiOn OF Christian
statesmen Of the HARLAN and
COLFAx stamp.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30
New Books.

WOODS HOUSEHOLD MAGA-
ZINE, for October, has thrust It's
CHEEKY little self into our pres
lence. 1t brings to US the treas
ures it has been gathering the
past month. and all are deserv-
ing of notice. Each has its own
peculiar value, and maggie"
holds up this, that and the 9th
er literary gem and archly seems
to say, "What dc you think of
thisY' "Isn't this nice?" and
"Look at thisr' And we glance
at them all and say, "Yes! Yesl
All are goodr' There is also
a'pretty engravingof the chrome
YOSEMITE, which the publisher
is offering as a premium-which
it would be we'll for all our read
ers to examine-as it gives
very accurate idea, save in size
and coloring, of what the chro-
mo YOSEMITE is.
Price of the Magazine, One
Dollar a year,-with chrome,
OneDollar andaHalf. Address,
WooD'sHOUsEHOLDM MAGAZINE,
Newburgh, n. Y.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30
"Thirty-two cents!" echoed {

"Thirty-twn centsr' echoed a
woman J yesterday, when her gro,
Ger charged her that sum for a
pound of butter. eyes, 'um," he
replied, witba bland smile. "You
see, the grocers can't carry much
of a reserve, and we can't turn
outour collaterals at a sacrifice. If
the government calls in the bonds
due in 1874, and the imports of
bullion tend to ease the money
market a little, butter must find
its level with every thing eIse.-
Butter is very panicky just now,
but | think the worst is over"
She paid the money without fur
tier growing.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30
;1SsC.Ilalee Rortrn,
WORLD-WEARY.

l am sick of the world and its follies,
And long for the time that's to be
When the wearisome burden of living
Shall fall like garment from ME;
! am sick of the sin and corruption
With which the world is SO rife;
Though in its beautiful summer,
am weary-so weary of life.
l am tired Of the play that is acted
The sick'ning play Of deceit
But farce is the drama Of living,
repeat. and again repeat;
Deep, deep in the mire of perdition
Surges life's great cavalcade,
Despeiling the beautiful footstOOl
The hand Of the good Father made.
What wonder l faint by the wayside
What wonder all in the fight!
The demon of Wrong hath supplanted
The starry-eyed Goddess of Right.
long for the glorious dawning
OF the beautiful day to be;
Oh! when shall the burden of living
Fall off, as garment, from me?
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

take the next. To writing pre-
scription for Mrs. NJ, So. That
was where the heavy work came
in, you know"
pretty tam heavy! think sol"
Every reasonable for the a.
mount of care l gave the sub
ject, as you will see when you
think it over. Item again
To calling the next day, with
copy of prescription-book with
me, $3."
"Well, dat was all you got,
amt it? You was told my wife
was all right, and that was only
$500. Where you make your
.$13.75?"
"You are mistaken about
that being all, Mr.. Milchman.-
No sir, l could not let the mat
ter drop there. Pray allow me
to proceed. To studying over
the case in my Office, ST."
90 you studied him over
there?"
Certainly I did. Next
To riding around by yonr house,
on my way home, and looking
attentiyely about the premises,
81; to meeting child and asking
how her mother was 81; to max
irg bill, postage, etc., fifteen
cents. There, sir, are all the
items, and very reasonable, too,
uDOn nv honor"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

A new use for patent pills has
been discovered. A farmer liv-
ing in a Kansas village was alb
ruptly visited by robbers one
night not long ago and having
a gun and powder, but no shot,
loaded with box Of fever pills
and blazed away. The result
was as satisfactory as though
the rascals had swallowed the
pills. One Of them was killed
outright, and another danger
OuslY wounded.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Ofthe nearly seven hundred
million dollars issued Of green
backs and national bank notes,
it is estimated by experts that
fully seyenty-five millions-over
ten per cent.-have been des-
trOyed in various ways, worn
ont, burnt, lost, and rotten, etc.
This loss to the people is gained
by the government and banks,
but at the same time it is a mode
Of gradual contraction Ofcurren-
cy against which no provision
has been made.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Charles H. Davidson, Henry
O. Basford, publishers of this
paper, and D. S. B. Mollison,
were sued in the District Court
of Mower County, on Tuesday,
by Judge Sherman Page, of
this city, for libel, laying his
damages at the modest sum OF
$25,000. AS our banker failed
during the recent crash, we are
sorry to inform Judge Page we
can't pay.-Aastiaa { MINI } beg,
iSter.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Mr.. Senator Morton, of Indi-
ana, deplores the depravity Of
these days. He in effect says
that a gentleman cln'i get upnOw
to talk about the Declaration of
independence but somebody must
poke Credit Mobillier at him, or
ask what he has done with his
back pay. 1t is hard that such a
peccadillo as that can't pass under
;he shadow of the Declaration of
independence.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Among the documents read at
the trial of Bazaine at Paris, on the
llth instant, was one showing
that there We're 100000 cart
ridges in the arsenal at Metz, of
which only 1.0O0,000 had been
used, when the place capitulated,
and that when Bazaine said he had
no ammunition. the fact was he
had no intention of fighting.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

A conductor was passing
through the crowded car, when
he picked up a ffty-cent shin
plaster. Holdingit up, he asked
who had lost it, when fourteen
hands went up and fourteen
persons called out, 81 did. >
The conductor put the money
in his pocket.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Scribner'S Monthly for Noyem-
Der begins new volume. Edward
Kings carefully and profusely IL
lustrated paper On Old and New
Louisiana, in the Great South Sc
ries, is remarkable for its calm
and dispassionate statement of the
actual state Of affairs in New Or.
leans and louisiana generally
Two American serial stories are
begun: katherine Earle, by Ade-
line Trafton (author of 1.-The
American Girl Abroad,') TO Iun
through the year, and the other,
"Earthern Pitchers" by Rebecca
Harding Davis, which will be cob
cIuded within three or four mum,
bers. Mr.. Froude's historical
sketch of an English Abbey"
Is also here begun: and in Sted-
mans series on the victorian
Poets, there Is an admirable pa
per on the ''mOst inspired of w0--
men," Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing. In the same number appears.
a biographical sketch of Stedman,
by A R MacDougb, with portrait.
in the service of Younger Ameri-
can Authors. Professor Newcomb
gives an interesting account Of the.
of tie new great telescope
at Washington; there is an Illus.
trated story by Edward King.
"Only Half a Woman" a story
by Louise Chandler Mou.tou,
For Pastime" and verse by George
Mcdonald, Celia Thaxter, II. II
J. Preston, and Richard
Watson Glider. DR.. Hollands
Topics of the Time are "a Greet
ing to our English Readers
st. Nicholas" "The New York
Observer" and "0ld Types. =
The Old Cabinet is written "In
the Woods" The Departments or
Home and Society, Culture and
Progr, IS, Nature and Science and
have their usual vGrie-
~ of contents.
ScKIBNEa'S for December will
have a new dialect poem by Bret
IIarte; and to the January num-
Der he will contribute a'Christmas
story, entitled How Old Man
plucket went Home"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30
Mail Directory,
Fayetteville Post-Omce.

Rsilroad-leaves every day except Sun
day at 6 A. M; arrives at 5 p. NJ. Supplies
the following Offices: Kelso Brighton, Flynt-
vile, Oregon, Georges Store Flora, Hunt 5
Station, Salem, Winchester and Decherd.
Tullahoma stage-arriyeS Monday. We'd
nesday and Friday at 10 A. NJ; leaves same
days at 2P.M. Supplies Mulberry, Lynch
burg, Bonneville, County Line, Tullahoma.
Huntsville stage-leaveS Monday and
Thursday at A. N; arrives Tuesday and
Friday at P. NJ Supplies Goshen, Halle
Green. Meridianville and Huntsville.
Shelbyyille stage-leaves Mondays and
Thursdays at A. NJ; arrives Tuesday and
Friday at N. Supplies Norris Greek,
Chestnut Ridge and ShelbyYil!e.
Pulaski hOrse-arriyes every Friday at l.
NJ; leaves same dayat 1880. Supplies Cv-
ruston, MillviIle, Pisgah, Bradshaw, Pulaski
Blanche horse-leaves every Friday al
:. A. N; arrives Saturday at ) N. Sup
plies Camargo, Molino and Blanche.
Money Orders can be obtained at this Of
flee upon post offices in all parts ef the T.
nited States. A list Of Money Order offices
may be seen on application. Rates Of CON-
mission for Money Orders are as follows:
Not exceeding $40. cents
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

The Texas newspapers are
making merry at the expense
Of a young city man who bought
a fine orchard Of two hundred
apple trees in Steuben county,
and tapped every one Of them
in order to secure a supply Of
cider.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

A man in Yates county, New
York, who has been an luveterate
smoker for fifty years, has sudden.
ly and permanently gwen it up.
lie knocked the ashes off his
pipe into a keg of blasting pow
der.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Congressman VIM. NJ. Mer.
rick, of Maryland, is exonerated
from participation in the back-pay
steal. 1t appears from a letter
mislaid and just discovered, SO 1t
is said, by the Sergeant-at-arms,
that on the 22d OF March Mr. Mer-
rick ordered the restoration. OF
his back pay to the treasury.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Far Western papers, as a rule,
spare neither age nor sex when
a Joke is wanted. For instance
a Carson City journal says:
Our County Clerk can boast
Of a wife with the biggest feet
and the longest nose Of any fe-
male in the Territory"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Here is the latest description
Of q kiss: " Twas night. A
real warm couple stood in the
pale, cold moonbeams. Their
lips touched, and there was a
sound like COW hauling her
hoof out Of the mud"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Lord Houghton adds the fol-
lowing to the long list Of Sid
ney Smiths jokes: Of Lord
Macaulay he said that Macau-
lay "not only overfowed with
learning, but stood in the slop."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Dean Swift, who possessed the
necessary gift for a reformer or a
martyr, once went through the
Episcopal service in his church
with congregation consisting Of
his servant Roger. He began,
Dearly beloved Roger, the Scrip
ture moveth us in sundry places, "
etc, etc. Then in the proper
place. "The Lord be with thee,
Roger" to which Roger duly re-
sponded, "and with thy spirit. -
Lyman Beechcr also preached one
of his best sermons with only
one listener in the church before
him. A person disroursed at the
Metropolitan Hall, 81 Sixth Ave
nue., recently, to an audience Of
three, his subject being the Com
monwealth Of Humanity" The
discourse was listened to with deep
attention by the intelligent audi
ence. No collection was taken UP
at the close of the services.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

The London Times keeps q
"libel suit lawyer and he has
carried the paper through thir-
teen suits without judgment
being rendered against it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Some ogre of an editor tries
to frighten tender consciences
by telling young ladies that
when they exclaim, 'Dear me-"
they are swearing like troopers.
Yet such is the fact; for the
phrase, as we have it, is but the
corruption Of the Italian words
Dio Mic! 'My Godr'
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

A Boston lawyer has lived to
the age Of nincty-nine years,
Notwithstanding what is prin-
ted about the wicked not living
half their days.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

The Brooklyn Argus says Jay
Cooke is a genius. About Il year
ago he imported some G gantic
specimens Of corn, potatoes, tur-
nips, beets, pears, etc, labelled
them as the productions Of the
country in which the proposed
western terminus Of the North
Pacific Railroad was located, and
placing them on exhibition at his
office in Wall street, sent for the
members of the New YOrn press
to come and look at them. They
came, saw, were astonished, and
straightway returned to their
sanctums and wrote that Jay
Cookies road ran right into the
Garden of Eden.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

The Science of Health for No
vember contains a rich variety of
interesting and instructive matter;
especially interesting are the arti-
cles on "Sickly Country Girls"
"DiseaseanditS Treatment;" "The
Health of Children at Schori:"
The Woman Doctor" illustrated;
"The Two Jacks" Diseased
Liver and Suicide;" Calico
Emergencies" "Seasonable Dish
es,' being a rich collection of sea-
sonable receipts; "MalariAl Fever.
patients and Physicians" and
the usual Miscellany and Answers
to correspondents. Only $500
year, 20 cents a number. To
new Subscribers Three Months
"on Trial." for % cts. Agents
wanted. Address S. r. WELLS,
Publisher, 389 Broadway, New
York.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

A good way to find out if
there is obnoxious gas in well
is to lower your mother-in-law
by rope,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30
TERNTS

B&- Two Dollars for one year, taca-
'IGOty Sn ddUdnce; YWO DOltars aIid
FIIy Cents if payment be deferred three
months. All papers going cut of the county
10 be paid for an ddcdaee.
E2- Single copies, Five Cents each.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-30

Andrew johnson always
speaks Of Grant (who he ap-
pointed general and secretary
Of war; as the "littIe fellow !
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-10-09

street. The president was spoken to on
the subject, and said he thought green
backs had become sufficiently numerous
to allow resumption. In case, however,
of the pressure becoming too great, they
would no doubt fall back to the plan fol.
lowed during the past two weeks as
measure of safety. There was no reason
he said, why payments of legal tenders
should not go on; trade was prosperous !
producemen were paying for and rsceiv-
ing larger quantities Of grain than had
been received at any time before. Ship
ments of grain from the West were fully
l,0O0, 900 bushels more during the pas.
week than during any week in the history
of the country, and all this WINS rad for
in legal tenders.
STOKES.
The trial of Edward 5. Stokes for Il o
murder of Jas. Fisk, Jr., is now in pre-
gress. Judge Davis sustained the chall-
enge 70 the array of jurors, and the coun-
Gil for the prisoner asked leave to with
draw it, asserting that the investigation
by them showed that the pistol was drawn
in the usual manner, and without inten-
tion to murder The case work of empsn-
| nelling the jury then began.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-10-09
MARKET REPORT.
PROVISIONS

| PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK, October 8 Flour quiet.
Wheat firm 81 4l@l46; red winter
81 coal 63.
Corn, dull 64G65c; choice Gee.
Oats firm 56(a60c.
Mess pork nominal SIC 75G97.
Lard easy, . 7-l6.
Whiskey quiet 81.
CHICAGO, October 9-Provisions dull
with DO sales.
Pork nominal at IA s7A cash l3 so in
December ID IS in January.
Lard 7s97ic cash; 7sc in December
&c in January.
Hams nominal 1t l09,.
| Products bold At previou. prices.
CINcISSArI, October 9.-Flour firm an d
higher; t7CG9 If.
Wheat firm 81 4o6l 4j.
Corn quiet 52(a53c.
Oats steady and unchanged.
Whskey quiet, soc currency.
Pork held firmly at SIS
Bulk meats quiet and unchanged.
Bacon, fair jobbing demand shoulders
sic; clear rib held SIC; clear held 80.
Lard firm and small sales; steam held
Sc; kettle s(Gssc.
GRAIN MARKET.
CHICAGO, October Wheat irregular
and low n / 0si@l 0S4 cash; OF in
October; o6s in November.
Corn heavy At 3sc fresh 379c October;
39s, in in November.
Oats lower and quiet at 3Sc cash 33i@
33ic in Novem Der.
Rye firm; sales At Csc;
Barley irregular and firm; No. 8 sold
At 81 l5@l 80.
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
CHICAGO, October Seattle receipts
3407; the market rather dull under the
ont nued heavy run and bad markets
East. Sales; Native cows and butchers
strers S5(d5 25; goodto choice smooth
steers So 30(d6 so. Shipments $3.50.
Hog receipts 1902, which with the
number left over from yesterday made
about 10000 on sale, and prices dropped
l0@40 per cent with fair sales at the de-
cline at "a l014 -. Shipments $3.50
Sheep receipts 1914, and quiet and lower
at2 1904 % for common to good
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-10-09
WEATHER REPORT.

WASHINGTON, October 9.-Probsbili-
tics For Thursday throughout the At
lsntic and Eastern Gulf States, light winds
mostly northwest with clear weather.
For Lake region, falling barometer and
westerly winds backing to easterly partly
cloudy and clear weather, excepting on
Lake Superior, where brisk winds and
cloudy weather are probable. For the
the northwest falling barometer and south
erly winds with cloudy and threatening
weather. For Ohio valley south westerly
winds, and rising temperature and clear
or partly cloudy weather.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-10-09

THE editor Of the Clarksville Tenn.
Chronicle 10 in doubt which 10 most to
b. dreaded -" the yellow fever scourge or
that epidemic Of moral corruption which
l. sweeping through the North, threaten
ing death to the government and the eI-
tinction of that public virtue which isthe
last hope of popular liberty" The edi-
tor of the Chronicle may console him
self il be should catch the yellow fever, or
the yellow fever should catch him, it night
carry him off, will he mill he but he
need no. steal if he don't wan, to, and it is
optional with himself to resist moral con-
tsgion and be as severely homes. as he
chooses, For ourselves, We woull prefer
to risk the moral epidemic.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-10-09

DR.. KELLER, Of Louisville, at q meet
ing Of the board OF school trustees of that
city rose to personal explanation and as
sured his colleagues tina. hs was not an in
fdel. Although member of no church
be protested that no person had more rev.
erence for religion than he but he would
not, even st the risk Of being charged
with infdelty forego the privilege OF
thinking as he pleased Of all bigots in
Christian robes, and the right Of visiting
upon such people the scorn and contempt
they richly merit from every honest man
be he churchman or not. Brave Dr. Ke-
Ter, goln.