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LITTLE ROCK
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The Most Complete. Thorough and
Practical Institution in the
Country.
ofThird and Main SITS, Little
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DNIiS Institution offers superior facillie,
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for the management of business and financial
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The full Commercial course M presented In
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and Banking Departments OF the College. em-
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description. Business Penmcnship. CONNER.
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Detection Of Counterfeit Money, Lectures on
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Organizations. Economies. Business Forms
Business Customs and Etiqueties, Com nerclal
Law, Finance and the General Laws Trade,
TERMS:
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Life Scholarship, full Commercial
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Full Course in Tclcgrapling, -
sound and paper. 30 o.
Special Discounts miH be made 10 Clubs
and Deserving Parties.
Usual time required to complete the Full
Commercial Course-irom 10 to II weeks.
Students can enter the College at any time.
as there are no vacations.
Be sure to visit or address this Collcgc'bc
fore going elsewhere.
AARON BALES, Principal.
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~ Pay US what you o,ce.
Proclamation by the Governor.

WHEREAS, AN ELECTION WILL BE
w held IN the several counties of the State
on Tuesday. the 18th day of October 1874, for
tie purpose of submitting new Constitution
for the Sattc to the qualified electors thereof,
and also for the election Of officers provided
for IN said Constitution. And whereas. 1t Is
important that peace and good order should
be preserved on said day.
Now. therefore, Elisha Baxter. governor
of the state of Arkansas, by virtue of the au-
thority In me vested by the Constitution and
laws OF said state. do hereby enjoin upon all
peace officers and citizens in the state to pre-
serve peace and good order on the day of said
election. and prevent any disturbance of the
same.
in testimony whereof, have hcreunto set
my hand and caused the seal Of the
fL.s state to be affixed. at Little Rock.
this 18th day Of Sept. A. d. 1874
ELISHA BAXTER
Governor of Arkansas.
BY the Governor:
j. NJ. JOHNSON. Secretary OF State.
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REMOVAL.

y +. BROWN, NJ. d., has removed
c' !" Office from the Wallace House to Col
w. 4, Whites store, on the Levec.
''o'ge anticipates being absent for sew
sat months this summer, and the Doctor
'" keep house du ing the intren.
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xf We are sad to announce the death
hy drowning of a young brother OF Miss
Leila Gardner. She has the heartfelt
sympathics of large circle Of friends.
We have not the particulars but learn
that he was drowned while attempting to
cross Red River in the Indian country.
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NOTICE.

llEApQUARrrRs STATE op ARkANsAsi
Little Rock. Sept. II 1871
vJ,HE OFFICERS OF THE ARKANSAS
l. state Militia shall not call out the mill.
tary forces under their command. except for
the purpose of drll. and on such occasions no
unnecessary demonstrations shall be made.
BY order OF the Commander-in-chief:
NJ. McCANANY,
Adjutant General.
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sS- Ry referring to our advertising col
mn. It will be seen that the elegant steam
:. ranne 7atun,. is again in the Arkansas
river trade, and a candidate for your favors
Tbis isa No. ! boat. and her officers are sec
and 70 none that come to this river. Shippers
or cotton will take notice.
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Proclamation by the Governor.

ILIHEREAS, II has come TO the knowledge Of the
w Executive that on the tn day of ls4.
In the County. of lizard, Andrew Jackson was mur-
dered bp one James ii Stags, and the said Stages ~
now at large.
Now therefore I, Elisha Baxter, Governor Of the
State of Arkansas by virtue Of the authority vested
In by the constitution and laws Of said state. DC
hereby offer u reward of TWO HUNDRED Doll
LARS for the arrest delivery of the said Jamcs
H. Stages to the Sheriff of lizard county.
In testimony whereof have hereunto
(-A-) set my hand and carsed the sea the
IL. s. State to be afIix ixed at Little Rock, this
ELISHA BAXTER.
By tho Governor
j. NJ. JOHNSON. Secretary of State.
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EH-" Are the Joneses back p inquii
ed Mrs Splkns, who hasnt been out of
town all summer Yes'm," replied the
cook, "and Mrs. Brown and the children
got home from Saratoga this morning p"
Then, Mary, you may open the front
shutters continued Mrs. S.. "and say
that we've returned too ~. y Com
merciai
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rS Henry Justice, of Crawford coun
U, sent to the penitcntiary in 1872, tor
two years, for forgery, was pardoned
Wednesday,, on petition, by Gov. Bax-
Iker, on account ettil health
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Van .Buren
Steam Ferry.
.A
U..s. Mail Stage Ro,fte-tanickes
and Best Crossing on the
Arkansas River.


rIyUE well knevn and long rstatiisncu
Ferry at Nan H4Gen. Arkansas, Is NJ"
under the charge tho snhscrfber: Inc E.o
prietors having recently put on large ~
Steamboatsn al lit, careful and experiences
Ferry ymer. they feel confident that fhey can
give universal satisfacficn to tie travenns
public. Their aim will le tn meet the IN
creasing demands of the larscemigrart tra'-
ell r. Texas. -
The st Louis. aid Sherman. Texas. U. ;.
Mails are carried over this Ferry. which -
good guarantee that " l. the shortest as wen
as the hest route for travel Of all kinds.
This Ferry hss the largest and best noa' on
the river. anil can cross 200 wagons and teams
per day and no retention on either bank need
he expected. Enclosures for stock and sheds
for travellers are being built on both sldes OF
the river and no pains viii he Spared ~ ac-
commodate the public. We shall strive to
continue to make this the popular n ute 70
and from Missouri and Texas.
~ B-Frry Acco'Aits must be setles
Manihiy-No 4eridff0a IFoga fhis rule
II. c. cRb BARDs, Proprietor.
Van Buren,, Feb. 4. T3. II
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ET- Miss Anthony protests that the
only lap she ever sat in was the lap of
Poverty, and that was when she was
young, long ago, soon after the May
flower struck Plymouth Rock
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Presbyterian, 20. 81

Rev. j. G. KENNEDY. Pastor. Divine Ser
vice every Sabbath. except the 3D. Of each
month. at IL A. NJ. and 7P.M. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 7P.M.
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~ Uncle Cyrus Bowen. for many years
with A. NJ. Callahan & Co.. has gone to the
,boctaw Nation TO reside.
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~ Mrs Ella Newell is at home for win
ter's visit with her fatherand mother, Many
friends are pleased to see her back again.
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- Van Buren, is the best and cheap
q furniture market, above Little Rock
"'''t our advertising columns.
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~ The Supervisors, as Board of Review
has been in session the past week.
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,x- The steamer Kittie Hegler arrived Sat-
rulay night and went down again Sunday.
sh. ia the first boat this season.
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NEW MUSIC.

" caoice selection of new and pop
:" music, for sale cheap.
App, to
y. w. DAUGHERTY.
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rs- W. b Mooney has made very
hands omo lob Of the New Store OF Miller
& Bfc's
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rr Cotton is coming in slowly. NJ. Lynch
!. turnjng out about dozen bales day at his
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BIBLE DEPOSITORY.

A LARGE supply Of Family and Pocket Bibles and
n Testaments, are constantly kept for sale at tho
Depository Of the Crawford County Bible Society, at
House,
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RIVER NEWS.

TUESDAY MoRNiSq.
N.Y.. wv 'Ner Is falling slowly with 0 fec; by
~e' Weather warm and cloudy.
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RICHARD SAMUELs,
ARCHER SHEPPERsoN,
JAMES I'Yus.

The parties signing the above are all
leading colorcd men in south Arkansas
Mr. Samuels was member Of the con.
vcntion which framed the constitution OF
1868, and is the present clerk Of Hemp.
stead county. Mr.. Shepperson is presi-
dent of the board of supervisors, and a
member Of the Legislature in 1878. Mr.
Tyus, we believe, is the present assessor
They attach to their card the names OF
one hundred colored men, to whom they
are willing to leave the question We
trust the colored people in other sections
of the state will adopt this mode, or
some similar, Of informing themselves as
to the provisions of the new constitu-
ton. We assert, without the fear Of sue.
cesstul contradiction, that it is not only
a better constitution for the whites and
the state generally, but it is better one
for the black, and protects their inter
ests more fully than does the constitu
ton of 1865 Il r. Gazette,
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rEA white garment appears worse
with slight soiling than do colored gar
mcnts much soiled. So little faultin
good man attracts more attention than
groot ofIeu.e IN a bad man.
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~ From the Memphis Daily Appeal

of the 22d
Senator Brownow, in his prospectus
announcing the revival of the Knoxville
Whig, SAYS he will war increasingly upon
the infamous civil rights bill, now before
congress, or any other like odious class
legislation.
Gen. Emory has notified the President
that the surrender of the McEneryites is
complete and in good faith, and the war
in New Orleans is over. The conference
between the opposing parties has adjourn
cd sine die, the radicals refusing to make
any fair play concessions. Such is the
ann total of the news from New Orle-
ans
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EB Mr.. N + Cornelius returned Fri.
day from business trip to ST Louis

sF Hon G. Wilcox. Hon. b. j. Brown. A.
J. Ward, f 6. Whitesides. DR.. f. Wall and
l. Il. Southmayd returned from the Congress
ional Convention at Clarksville. Saturday.
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YINHE unexampled favor accorded TO The conductors
l of this Magazine enables them TO entey upon the
year vii the means Of making 1t more attractive
and valuable than ever before TO its large and in-
ereasing number of readers.
THE SERIAL STORY or TnE YEAR,
"KATHERiNE EARLE"
BY Adeline Trafton, aqthor Of q An Amonoau Girl
.abroad,
It is charming love story hy gifted writer. and we
BRILLIANT NOVELTIES SHORT STORIES
BY BRET uARTE, SAKE HOLM, REBEccA
HARDING DAVIS, KATE PUTNAM
osGoop,
md other able writer's The tos shortest stories will
be secured for Serlber's Monthly.
The Splendid Series of Illustrated Papers
1.-THE GREAT SOUTH"
by Edward King with illustrations from Sketches by
Champneyl, commenced a Nov, will be eontinu-
der will be two on
"THE LONE STAR STATE"
and three on
1.-THE MOUNTAIN REGIONS OF THE SOUTH,
to be followed by others, on Missouri, Tennessee
and other Southern States. A series Of
oLIlklhS dHu Sua4uO oOMo ~A~ AAAAS
Music
By BENJAMIN +. Taylor. long known for his brilliant
contributions to the western press, are in prepa-s
ration; they will sing to us again the music
Of Spinning Wheel, ~ he Stage
Coach, etc. and will be beaut-
fully illustrated.
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF AMERICAN AUTHORS,
will be continued By various skillfull hands.
We have IN preparation series of illustrated article,
ON DAIRY FARMING AND STOCK RAISING
| IN EUROPE,
which will be Of the greatest practical interest and
value to our farmers.
| We intend to publish u Christian Magazine in
which there shall be free thought and free expression
and to make literature aud art tributary not only to
the cultivation of the intellect but to the purfae
tion of the heart and tho advancement OF Christian
civilization.
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y Miller a Bro are spreading themselves
/, their new store. Look out for their adver-
,;sunent npNt week.
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nHACKIPION

DESCRIPTION
James H. staggs 10 about 2s years old, feet 10 in.
high, red complexion, red or sandy whiskers. blue
eyes, a mole on the upper lip and quick spoken.
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Attention Militia.

81 HEADQUARTERS, W EsTERN Drsr.oF NRk.I
Az G.
spadra Ark. June 22d, 1874. }
General Ordcrl
Noe.
The Colonies commanding the several coun-
ties In the Western Military District OF the
Arkansas State Guards. will at once cause all
men In their counties. subject 10 military d,'-
ty, to be enrolled in the Arkansas state
Guard. In strict compliance with the military
law of 1868
BY order Of Brig Gen HtA' MEn hh'
Commanding Ark State Guards.
Western District
@. A. MEYER, Col. and A. a. e.. lm
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HEADQUARTERS,
ARKANSAS STATE GUARDS.
Van Buren,. Ark, Sept 10, 1s7i)
General Order.l
No.
In pursuance of an order from the Major
Gen'l commanding Arkansas state Guards J
am directed to organize regiment OF stat.
Guards ut the earliest possible day.
Every man In the county subject to mill
tary duty must be enrolled, In accordance
with the militia law Of 1868.
Officers holding commissions will proceed
to organize companies and report the same
to these headquarters for further Instructions
BY order OF
ROBERT w. MILES,
Colonel Com. Ark. state Guards.
JosEPH r. BYERs Adjutant.
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~Pdy Tor your paper
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~ All job Work, cash on deliv-
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A Fair Proposition.

We find the following in the Washing.
ten Telegraph:
WASHINGTON, September Is, 1874.
EDITOR TELEGRAPH: We wish to say
to the colored people, through your pa
per, that inasmuch as certain men, not
having the interests Of the colored peo-
pie at heart, would have them believe
that the ratification of the constitution
submitted to the people by the late con
stltutional convention takes away from
them their liberties, prevents them from
serving on juries, allows the whites to
make slaves of their children, prohibits
free schools. proscribes them from hold
ing office, fixes laborcrs wages at ruin
ous figures md many other things that
there is BJ ti.th in
Therefore, me undersigned challenge
any man or men to submit the two con-
stilutions-that Of 1868 and lS74-to
one hundred of as good and honest col
Ored men as there are in the county or
the state, and meet us before them. and
then and there show their objections to
the new constitution, by reading and ex
planning each, and after fair and i'm
partial discussion and consideration, if
these one hundred colored men shall de-
eide that the new constitution is not the
best, we will submit to their decision to
the end that the colored people may be
united, and all strife and discord end.
RIcuARD SAMUELs,
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BY the Governor:
j. NJ. JOHNSON. Secretary OF State.
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Scribner's Monthly for 1874.

4 YInJ 2S--lY.
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35 Park Rom, New York.
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We find the following in the Washing
ten Telegraph:
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-01-27

A broad and sinuous line of riv-
er, bright with the full sunshine of
a September noon, here bordered
with meadows, there fringed with
low woods, and winding toward
the clustered roofs of a distant
town. Two wherries drifted idly
in the shadows Of hcmloclxs and
pines while their prone and medi-
tative occupants watch the lazy
wreaths of smoke curl above the
bowls of their pipes.
OF these two individuals one is
David Whipple, Bostonian, aged
nineteen, fair-haired, fair-skinned,
and six feet two. The other, with
his cap pulled low over a pair of
dark eyes, is of lighter make and
more vivacious expression this is
Ernest Walch young Virginian.
Fifteen minutes of silence had
evidently tried the latter's patience
excessively. He had frightened
several turtles back to their watery
haunts, had whistled to birds, apos-
trophizcd flies. He finally pocket
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-01-27
Written for the Argus.
A Bachelors Dream.
By CON c. QUENCE.

While in conversation with an old
bachelor, a few days ago, he related
to me q dream he had had, and l
became very much interested. 1t
may be well TO say that this friend
Of mine had lived in single blessed
ness for upwards of forty years,
never once entertaining a matri-
monial idea for a single moment.
Indeed, he fairly abhored the sight
of a woman, and would dodge
around three or four blocks rather
than face q pretty girl. And he
would often demonstrate with me be-
cause | was in the habit of saying
many things so much in favor OF
the fairer sex.
had occasion to visit him one
day, and when l arrived at his
place of abode, | was not a little
surprised at finding him in the rear
of his cabin, seated upon a block OF
wood, with his face buried in his
hands, and his elbows upon his
knees. He needed not my ap-
proach, until / spoke to him, and
then he started up and gazed at me
with q maniatic glare in his eye. ]
spoke kindly to him, and extended
my hand. He arose to his feet
grasped me by the hand, and in
tones which convinced me he was
laboring under great agony, he
pleaded:
"Con, Con; oh, what shall / do
What shall / do ?"
l was dumfounded. / knew not
what to say, or how to say it. l at
last asked him to reveal to me the
great cause of his affliction. He
looked me straight in the eye, and
said that the night before he had
horiid and fearful dream, and it so
worked on his mind that he was
nearly crazed. He said:
81 thought | was married to a
widow with thirteen children-five
pairs of wins, and triplets-that
she had red hair, and a tongue as
long as q State of Maine sleigh,
which seemed to hang on % swivle,
md there was nothing under the
sun capable of stopping its rattle"
At this juncture he became COM
pletcly exhausted, and I helped
him into the house, where / talked
to him for more than two hours,
telling him to give no heed to the
dream, that it was caused by over
work the day before, and restless
night. He seemed much consoled,
md when left him, he was quite
cheerful.
Two weeks after he was married
% q handsome little woman of two
hundred and eighty pounds weight,
With a capital of about thirty
and he was evidently
happy.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-01-27
LPENA, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 81, 1874
Faster Over the Sparkling
Snow.

Faster 4! faster ! Dobbin, my boy!
Faster over the sparkling snow!
What with my love and the frosty air,
and my heart are all aglow.
Haste for II pair of dear, dark eyes
Are watching for me tonight, know;
A moments pause for us both, old boy,
Then over the roads again Wen go.
Three of us then, you know, of course
Two in the sleigh and you, my boy.
But mark, old pony, you mustn't hear
The words 1 say in my hearts wild joy.
Toss your name as you bear US on,
And ring your bells on the frosty air !
What should staid old horse like you
For lovers and all their nonsense care
What if our hand by chance, you know,
Under the bufEalo-robc should meet
l wonder who would the wiser be,
As we went dashing along the street
So faster and faster, Dobbin my boy,
Faster, over the sparkling snow
What with love and the frosty air,
and my heart ure all aglow.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-01-27
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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-01-27

FIRE DEPARTMENT..
Royal Ins, Co., Liverpool, England, sli,00O,OOO
Fire Association of Philadelphia, Pa, 2,500OOO
German American Ins, Co, New York, l,5OO,0OO
German Ins. Cos Erie, Pa, 100000
Allcmannia ms Co, Pittsburgh, Pa, 500 900
Penn Ins. Co., Philadelphia Pa, 100000
LIFE,
New England Mutual Ins. Co., Boston,
All Life Policies Non-Forfeitable by
Mass. law, 100000
ACCIDENT,
Travellers Ins. Co. of Hartford, issues
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Railway passengers Ins. Co. issues ac-
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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-11-26

The STATE TREAsURER.-"Jno. Francis lacks
Just about 5000 votes of getting a majority of
all the votes cast for the Office of State Treasurer
and yet he wants the Office. Francis ought GER
tainly TO 90 to Arkansas and join the Smith Brig
adc. He understands how to figure as to de-
feat the will OF the people and hang on to office
through thu votes of handful of men."-Law-
renee Standard
The Standard is Reform" paper. But il has
hit the nail Squar,ly on the heail. Ii Mr.. Fran
els prnlrr>tS IT, claim the office of State Treas
nrpr upon sneh miserable quibhle as that the
ballots for Lappim and Watson did not specify
''rrsniar rrrm, aud Lappin is therefore elected
to I'LL the vacancy; while he, Francis, having
procured the casting of forty-three votes for
himself in Allen cuunty, for 'the regular term"
is elected Treasurer for two wears, Mr. Francis is
about the mast ablc-bD,iied specimen of the po-
litical peititngger ever yet developed in this
State. We ever, heretofore, held him in good
rrpTte an honorable man, and we are very
slow To believe that lie would put in surh a
claim such a petty and rdiculous qubhle
But if he neS, he for-is the respect of every de-
cent in the State, and will he regarded. here
after. a small shyster, whose hunger for office
prompted him tn ito the m-snest and most dis
reputable thing ever known in the annals of pol
Champion.