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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

SCRAPING AND WASHING FRUIT TREES.
-Scraping and washing the trunks and
larger limbs of fruit trees will destroy
the eggs of injurious insects. For a
wash use common soft soap, or one
pound of soda in one gallon of water ;
whale oil soap is still better. Severe
scraping is not advisable, as nature
doubtless gave to the treee the rough
bark the better to stand the vicissitudes
of the climate,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

Il Ne,c- Electric Fire Alarm.-A new
electric fire alarm, devised by NJ. Gaul-
ne, of Paris, was recently described at
a session of the Belgian Society of
Civil Engineers. A metal box, fixed to
the wall or ceiling of the room, has
two metal columns which receive the
conducting wires from below, and to
which are attached two sensitive plates.
the upper ends of which meet near the
summit of the box at an acute angle
when brought together. Each plate is
made partly of steel and partly OF an
expansible metal, the steel being on
the inside and extending to the end OF
the plate, the expansible metal being
the shorter. The effect Of heat on these
plates is to cause the outer metal to ex-
pand and the steel ends being brought
in contact, connection is established
between the wires, and bell Is sound
ed.
Besides serving as a fire alarm. the
invention is intended to act as an Or
dinary call bell, and to this end ver-
tical rod, spring supported. has at Its
upper extremity an index which when
the rod is drawn down by a cord siml-
lar to bell pull on its lower end, rubs
against the sensitive plates and thus
establishes the current.
The degree of expansion of the Outei
metal of the plates being known, it II
only necessary to approximate the ends
more or less closely to cause contact 70
occur at any thermOmetrlc point and
the bell to sound. A needle attached
to one plate moves over q dial marked
with degrees and fractions. This plate
is moved toward or allow to sprlne
from the other by means of regulat,
ing screw, and thus the needle may be
adjusted at any degree.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

CLEANING BRASS INLAID WoRK.-Mix
tripoli and Hnseed oil, and dip felt into
the preparation. With this polish. If
the wood be rosewood or ebony, polish
it with finely powdered elder ashes, or
make polishing paste of rottOn stone,
a pinch of starch, sweet oil, and oxalic
acid, mixed with water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

The ghost that troubles the business
man nowadays, is the ghost of Bank,
owe!
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

From J. F. McJilton, Esq, of Balti-
more, Md.
81 feel it to be due to you to say that
a young lady, a member of my family,
had been suffering for several years un-
der bronchial affection. and the di-
sease had made such progress, notwith-
standing the best medical aid had been
consulted, that great fears were enter
tanned that the disease with her, as with
so many others, might speedily termi-
nate In death. | was induced, through
the persuasion of friend, to try your
DR.. WIsTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY !;
and, after she had taken three bottles,
she was entirely cured"
30 cents and 81 bottle. Sold by all
druggists. ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

CAN man who has been ridden on a
rail be properly called a railroad man
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

If word to the Y's is sufficient, how
about the rest of the alphabet?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

Mrs. MCGLL sat in the parlor talking
to the minister. "What do love,
said she, sis to see the children enjoy
themselves" And yet when, mo-
ment after, a baseball came singing
into the room, scattering the remains
of fifty-cent glass, do you suppose she
leaned out of the window and cried
"Hcre's your ball, darling; never mind
the old glass;" Not much. She sailed
out the front door like cyclone, and
banged the head of The boy who owned
the ball against the railroad until he
thought the Fourth of July had arrived
two months ahead of time.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

A GOOD WAY to make fiat irons smooth
is to rub them with clean lard and rub
dry.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

WINGED MERCHASTs-Bees, because
Vtey cell their honey.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

+. F.. EunkePs celebrated Bitter Wine
of Iron will effectually cure liver COM
plaint, jiundice, dyspepsia, chronic or
nervous debility, chronic diarrhea, di-
sease of the kidneys, and all diseases
arising from disordered liver, stomach
or intestines, such as constipation, ia
tulenee, inward piles, fullness Of blood
to the head, acidity Of the stomach,
nausea, heartburn, disgust for food,
fullness Of weight in the stomach, sour
eructations, sinking or fiuttering at the
pit of the stomach, swimming Of the
head, hurried or difficult breathing,
futtering at the heart, choking or suffo-
eating sensations when in lying pos
ture, dimness of vision, dots or webs
before the sight, dull pain in the head,
deficiency OF perspiration, yellowness
OF the skin and eyes, pain in the side,
back, head, chest, limbs, etc., sudden
fushes of heat, burning in the flesh,
constant imaginings of evil and great
depression of spirits. Price sl.O0 per
bottle. Beware Of counterfeits. Do not
let your druggist palm of some other
preparation of iron, he may say is as
good, but ask for Kunkel's Bitter Wine
of Iron. Take no other. kunkefs
Bitter Wine of Iron is not sold in bulk
only In ST bottles. E. f. Kunkel,
Proprietor, No. 259 North Ninth Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Sold by all druggists and dealers
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

THEY are taking evidence in divorce
case for cruelty; the husband is under
examination; his wife, prostrated with
grief, is weeping bitterly, covering her
face with her handkerchief. "Now,"
saysthe judge, "are you not ashamed to
have thus brutally treated your wife,
tender young woman of 25:" The wife
suddenly raises her head. 81 beg your
PARDON" she sobs, ''2i only" And
she again gives way TO her grief.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

A CERTAIN physician has large card
hung up in his office with these words
printed thereon: "BOok agents and
pedlers charged s. an hour for CONVEX
sation." The other day book agent
came and was just beginning a rigmarole
about "the latest and best work on
when the physician pointed TO the card.
He read the words over but once, when
he handed the physician 50 bill, ana
was about to commence operations again
when the man of medicine said: Take
a chair, please, and keep your money.
Hand me your subscription book. He
has now bought brace of Derringers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

ONE DAY Bill had company to dine
with him, and his wife, wishing William
to appear well, quietly admOnished him
to be guarded in his utterances. All
passed off smoothly till Bill got his
potatoes thoroughly mashed, when he
blurted out: "DOlly, parse the grease" 7"
"why, William" said his wife, ''you
should call it gravy" "wall," retorted
Bill, 'I guess if it got on your table
cloth it would be grease" The guests
shouted.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

You SHOULD see a woman try 10 pass
a millinery store where an advance
courier of fashion in the shape OF new
style bonnet has just been placed In tne
window. She knows her own weak
ness and looks resolutely away, until
she is really past. Then one eye lolls
little and it catches the tip of an ostrich
feather. Oh such q lovely new color
and she steals just one look ana the
mischief is done! When her husband
goes home to supper he has his favorite
mullins, and she hOvers around MN
like humming- bird, and presently she
comes out with that hat on-Just tippeo
on one side enough to set off the feather,
and says so coaxingly, isn't II TOO
sweet, and so cheap. Won't george
wife be fit to die with envy" and he
smiles resignedly and takes out the
twenty dollars. There's diplomacy for
you!
DURING a country 'town meeting
i'm New Hampshire, last March, the
question of Equalization of school money
was being discussed. One old gentle
man. in the course of the debate, ex'
claimed in great heat: "Why, Mr.
Moderator, the money is not equally
divided. In district No. Z they have
sixty-seyen dollars, and only one
schOlar-one bare little girl and no more
Now, sir what should be done in suci
a case?'' There was a pause for mo
ment, when a chap with pipe in hi'
mouth, at the back side of the room
bawled out: s'Take the money and buy
her some clothesr' This, of cours,
brought down the house.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
STYLISH VISITING CARDS.

~ ZINE WHITE OR MIXED COLORs for 10 ct-.
ZC or so for 20 cts, postpaid Send stamp br
Nine Samples BEST terms to Agents. &c No suiatenr
concern. FICKARD CO. BETHLEHEM. Pa Siom
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

Correspondence invited. Old roofs all iinis promptly
repaired roofs laid BY contract. Sd fOg ,sI,.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

AHCMTC -Four SO 90 Chromos free. j. W.
lO-3-l2w
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

DIR. PIERCE's Pleasant Purgative Pei.
lets are so compounded from concentrated
principles, extracted from roots and herbs,
as to combine in each small granule, scarcely
larger than a mustard seed, as much cathar-
tic power as is contained in any larger pills
for sale in drug-stOres. They are not only
pleasant to take, but their operation is easy
unattended with any gripingpain. They OBJ
crate without producing any constitutional
disturbance Unlike other cathartics, they
do not render the bowels costive after opera
tion. but, on the contrary, they establish a
permanently healthy action. Being entirely
vegetable, no particular care is required
while using them.
$500 Reward is offered by the proprietor to
any one who win detect in these Pellets any
caiomel or other form of mercury, mineral
poison, or injurious drug.
They are sold by Druggists.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06
Dr. sehen Ne standard remedies.

The standard remedies for all diseases Of the lungs
are SCHENCK's PuLNONIc SYRUP, ScBENcK's SEA
WEED Toxic ant SCIIENCK's MANpRAKE FILIs
and If taken before the lungs are destroyed, speedy
cure Is Effected.
10 these three medicines Dr. J. II, Schenck, Of
PHILADELPHIA, owes bis uuriyalled success IN the
treatment Of pulmonary diseases,
The PulmOnic Syrup ripens the morbid matter 10
the lungs nature throws 1t Oh by an easy expeeto-
ration, Tor when the phlegm or matter Is ripe q
slight cough will throw 1t %, the patient has rest
and the lungs begin 70 heal.
Te enable the pulmonc Syrup to do this, Schenek 5
Mandrake Pill and SChenek's Sea Weed Tonic must
ID freely used TO cleanse the stomach and liver,
Schencks Mandrake Pills act on the liver, removing
an distractions, relax the gall bladder, the bile
starts freely, and the liver IL soon relieved.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic is gentle stimulant
and Alternative; the alkai Of which tt e composed,
mixes with the food and prevents souTing. lt as
ssts the digestion by toning up the stomach 70 q
healthy condition to that the food and the PulmOn-
ia SyrIp viii make good blood then the lungs heal,
ana the patient will surely get well care IS taken
10 prevent fresh cold.
All who wish to consult Or, Schenck, either per-
sonallv or by letter. can do at his principal Office,
corner Of sixth and Arch SIS, Philadelphia every
SeheGck's medicines are sold by all druggists
throughout the country,
Ed HART& Co, Nos, q % and u IehoupitOalas
Street, New Orleans, Wholesale Agents
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06
THE HOG cROP.

The New York Bulletin Of recent date
says Our readers are aware that we are
no accustomed to place very much reli-
ance upon the statistical estimates of the
Washington department of agriculture,
for, from the nature of the case, they are
subject to bias in the direction of under
statement. In many cases, however, they
are the only data available; and, pro-
vided they are received with due allow
ance, may be useful as a guide, if not as
absolute authority. For this reason, we
present the following estimate of the
number Of hogs raised in the United
States for the current season, as COM
pared with last year it will be noticed
that the estimate is confined exclusively
to numbers, no note being taken of
weights, which, so far as respects the
western product, are generally conceded
to excel those Of last year by seven and
a half per cent:
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

zone dolla. /" zone dollar for what2"
" For your dinner. Didn't you get
dinner to suit your Yes, but didn't
you tell me to do just like ! do at my
own house? Do you suppose ! ever pay
a dollar for my dinner athome? All
right. 1t is my treat. You don't owe
me cent. Call again"
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06
ABOUT GHOSTS.

Ghosts-and this is very important
may be divided into three distinct
classes, which must not be confOunded.
There is the vulgar and detestable class
typifed by the COck-lane-old men con-
demned to be perpetually repeating the
Bible backward, cattle without heads,
and aimless noises. The second class
consists of well-defned apparitiOns, gen.
orally men or animals, which appear ten
or twelve times in lifetime, usually
after supper, whose Ariel takes the shape
of salmon with cucumber or Welsh
rarebit, and whose PrOsperO is the doctor.
The third case comprises the real thing
the hereditary ghost, constantly as
ISOLATED by skeptics with its inferior and
spurious brethren, but utterly distinct in
it's origin, its appearances and its habits.
It's origin is invssiably lost in the twi-
light of fable. These ghosts are essen
TALLY aristOcratic; they seem to wax
and wane, as certain trees are said to do,
with the fortunes of house to which
they are attached; they never pass from
one family to another. You may come
into the mansion, but you cannot come
into the ghost of an old family. In the
grave of the last hereditary posses
sor are buried also the hereditary ghosts,
These ghosts, like good servants, are
seen and not heard. No objectless clank-
ing of chains, rattling of bones, rumbling
of barrels, and the like, ever accompany
them; they are much too respectable for
that. They rarely make their appear
ance, and when they do, it is only a
glimpse that can be caught of them.
The breath of life is tradition. Gray
haired buffers and superannuated nurses
are their ehrOniclers, and over the win
ters fire you may hear their story told.
Generation after generation their legend
is handed down with a weird accuracy
and a strange uniformity of detail ;
nothing is exaggerated, nothing is lost
whatever form the legend takes, so it re-
mains, the same to-day as three hundred
years ago.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

How He Cor A CHEAP DINNER.
Not many days ago a Memphis mer-
chant walked into a well known restaur-
ntand took his seat with his hat on, as he
would at railroad breakfast stand. AS
he was about to order a lunch the pro-
prietor approached and said IT like for
my customers to make themselves at
home in my house. want them to do
just ike they do at home" THANK
you, sir" said the guest. II viii be
pleased to do 50" But you do not sit
down at thetable with your hat on when
you are at home, do your ] want you to
dojust like you do at your own house"
said the polite man ofhash. "Very well,
III try to do 50, thank you" He hung
up his hat, ordered fine dinner and ate
heartily, As he passed out he stopped
Mt the desk to light a cigar, when the
boss, anticipating a question, answered,
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06
rHE oLD-rrnE zrENUET.

the revival Of the minuet in that city on
Washington's birthday:
For the first time in this city since
Washington's day, as it is believed, the
genuine usinuet de Ia cur was danced
Tuesday night at the academy of music
in the cause of charity. 1t opened the
ball, as it did in the days Of the grand
monarch in France. It was simply an
illustration Of the minuet by twenty or
more Young people, who have been PTac-
ticihg its intTicacies diligently for the last
month. What passes current by the
name Of the minuet in the dancing acade-
mics of this and other cities is only
quadrille with the flavor of the stately
old-time war dance, whose name it has
appropriated. Properly, the minuet is
danced only in couples, as are the galoP
and waltz and other round dances of the
present day, the cheaper currency which
has driven out of use the better sterling
coin of former period. It was 50
danced in colonial days. There lives in
Germantown, Pennsylvania, silver
haired old lady, born over one hundred
years ago, named Mrs. Margaret Boggs,
who, at one Of the courtly private assem-
bIages of that era, led the minuet with
Washington, and from her it is possible
to learn the manner of the genuine min
net de Ia cOttr without resOrting to the
libraries. The occasion was a tea party
of about twenty guests, of which Mrs.
Boggs, then eighteen, was one. She
wore that evening satin dress with a
very long train-so long, in fact, that in
entering the house it was necessary for
her maids to coHae behind and lift it as
she walked. Her hair was arranged in
front like a cushion, and fell in natural
curls down her shoulders, and was all
powdered, after the pretty colonial FASH
ion. Washington led her by the hand to
the floor. The music was slow and dig
niied, almost choral in its character.
After a profound salutation to the COM
pany, three slow steps forward were
taken, followed by an equally grave salu-
tation to each other. At this point a
modern society girl would have laughed,
but there was no laughing with the dig
nifed Washington. After the rever-
ence the young lady was led to her place
by the hand. There then began a series
of slow, graceful evOlutiOns by which the
| imaginative old French masters who per
fected this dance intended to represent
the varying relations Of two newly formed
acquaintance to each other in good So
ciety. At times the partners were ten
PAGES apart. They would pass each other
gracefully but gravely two or three times,
as though reluctant to meet; then adj
vance slowly with a smile, and join
hands; then cOquettishly retire still fac
ing and smiling; then hesitate, and
piroutte, and even absolutely tnrn away
from each other; ultimately, however,
advancing with a smile and joining both
hands, and returning to their places. 1t
was in this manner that the minuet was
danced at the academy of music.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

In marrying his wife's daughter,
Mr.. Parton becomes his own son-in-law,
(which case his wife is hismother-in-law.
1t was probably the terror of this awful
mixing up Of things that was the cause
of the Massachusetts, law on the subject.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

DT. TUFTS Hair Dye Is great triumph Of chemis-
Try Being free from all injurious qualities, its ef-
feet Is natural that the closest observer would not
observe It. u initiates Nature TO perfection and s
sold al over the world
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

An impecuniOus tramp offered a
cancelled postage stamp for sale at high
price as sacred relic, declaring that it
was from one of St. Paul's letters to the
Corinthians. This is hard winter.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

CLOTHES last longer when washed with
Dobbins' Electric Soap, (made by Cragin
& Co., Philadelphia, because no rubbing
is needed. Clothes are worn out more on
the wash board than on the penson. Tryit.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06
GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS.


Flour, $50 Wheat, o. Corn, &c. cats, SIC.
Pork, 22.5O. Lard steam, BE kettle, 1870 Bulk
meats, I21fC. Bacon, 1870. Whisky, LOS Butter
Choice western reserve, 30c. choice central Ohio,
LOUISVILLE.
Flour dull and unchanged Wheat, LIS. Corn,
SIC. Oats, &c. Hay, 1900 Pork 23O0 Bulb meats,
12Ie. Bacon, 13zC.; sugaT-eurel hams, i41Ec. Lard
--TieTce, 1871 keg, 151zc whisky, 1.O9 Bag
20 ST. LOUIS.
FlOur-SuPerfne fall, 3.75; extra fall, AS; Xxx
do, AIS; Xxx DO, $50. Wheat-Ns. red winter,
strictly freah. Odts-No. p 3315c bid for strictly
fresh. Pork, p 50, delivered. Lard, 125<c; small
lots, PIG Bulk meats, 125Ic; shoulders and clear
ribs UpL country, sold II 11JSc for April. Bacon,
1315e. Hogs Packing, 7s5.
NEW ORLEANS.
Sugar Common, exc; fair to fully fair, ne;
prime, nc; choice, re. MOlasses-F sTmenting
common 35c; prime to strictly prime, 48c.; TebOiled
prime 20 choice, Sc Fl0ur-Superfne, AS; double
extra, $50; treble extra $50; choice and family,
$50 COrnmeal, $50. Com, 5SC. Oats, 46c. Bran
Soc Hay-Prima. 1900; choice, $500. Pork 300
Dry salt meats, 1870. Bacon, 1876. Hams-Sugar-
cured, l5c. Lard-Iierce, packers, 12zsc.; refined
1879; key, lie. Rice-COmmOn to choice Louis
lana, sc. whisky ReCtifed, 1.12. Cofee-Fsil
to prime, 1876.
COTTON MARKETS.
CIN1NNATI.-CottOn dull at re
LOUIsvHLE.-COttcn inactive, 12c.
81. LoU1s.--Cotton easier, but not quotsbly lower
at lie.
NEW YoRK--Cotton dull and irregular. Jp
lands, I25&c.; Orleans, u I3-16c
LIyZRPO0B.- Market dun and easier Uplands
1-i6d; Orleans, 65Ad.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

Showing a decrease in number of q,
174,9O9, or about eight per cent; which
is set off by an equal percentage Of in
crease in weight.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

When Alexander Wilson, the orni-
biologist, was personally canvassing for
his great work, he went to Cincinnati,
then a town of a few hundred houses,
and, according to his diary, " visited a
number Of the literati and wealthy of
Cincinnati, who all told me that they
would think Of it, viz, of subscribing;
they are a very thoughtful people" The
dry old joker!
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

AnRn A MQNTHs-Agents wanted every
WHhk where. Business honorable and hTst-
d Aept class Particulars sent free. AddTe9S
SSV WORTH a CO., st. Louis, Mo.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

/ @sa, Pin WEEK GUARANTEED 70 Agents
~Hl Male and Female, in their own locality.
N 4 Gems and OUTFIT FREE. Address p.
~ D. vICKERY & Co, Augusta, Maine.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

AMISD Reading, Psyehomaney, fascination, soul
NA Charming Mesmerisnl, and Marriage Guide,
showing how either may fAsCinate gain the love
and affection Of any peTH0n they choose instantly; ~
pages BY mail SOC. HINT Co., l29 s. It'll ST., Fhila
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06

"A ANYTHING nom nursery pin to steam
%HW y engine,we can buy for you very low.
We hare circsaF Of inferred 10 oil S0FekeepsTs For
terms, etc, write to Great southern PuFen&as
ing Agency, SIC 09tsR ST.. sc. EDuia. NE