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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-05-22
1877


1877. 1877.
SPRING GOODS.
1. A. DENISoN & CO.,
Mechanic Falls, Maine.
Having enlarged our store -by the addition of
the store adjoining formerly used as a millinery
seore and lifted it ND IN irstelass style, we have
iustPurchased, in New York and Boston, large
stock Of
Ladies' Fancy and Furnishing Goods,
consisting in part OF
LADIES'. MISSES, AND CHLDKEN's
HOSIERY
in great variety.
KID GLOVES, in black and
cOlors, all sizes.
Ladies' and Children's Lisle
Thread Gauntlets 4 Gloves.
CORsETS,
SKIRTS,
SUPPORTERS
aud BUsTLEs.
Skirts and Skirt Goods.
LINEN COLLARS and CUFFS.
Hemsitched, fancy bordered.
and plain Handkerchiefs,-
from q cents up.
Children's Lace Collars and
BibS.
Neck Ruches and Lace Edg-
mgs.
Black Lace, Plain & Spotted.
SPANISH LACE BARBS.
Ribbons, Neck-tie> Il Jerbows.
Hambmgs, Broadway Frillmgs
and other trimmings for lin
gerie.
Pearl Trimmings and Dress
Buttons.
Fringes, Trimmings, BraidS,
Velvet, Ribbons, etc.
Parasols { Sun-UmbrellaS.
Alarge assortment OF ladies', misses aud
chiliIen's
BOOTS, WALKING SHOES AND
SLIPPERS.
French Kid Boots a Specially.
AIso great variety Of SMALL WARES, sc.
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Important to Persons Visiting N. Y.

one Of the best and most convenient Hotels for
Merchants and others to stop at when In New
York Is the GRAND Union Hotel, nearly oppo-
site the GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT Kept on the
European plan-you therefore only pay for what
you got Everything is first class, and prices
moderate, adapted TO the stringency Of the times
You save the expense of carriage hire, and by
leaving you baggage check at tie counter OF the
Hotel, Your baggage VIII be delivered in your
rooms, fifteen minutes after the arrival Of the cars,
free OF expense. We advise YOU 70 siyethe Grand
Union trial.
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ral.rql Officers soldiers and sailors "i the ,.ttc
,,,. "a. t,,.r ncir- are in man, cases entitled %
unoucy from the Governments which has Dr' ID
foupd To he due since hnJl payment Wuie iull
bfsf,,y of service and state amount Of pay ana
bounty received Certificates OF Adjutaut General
L. s. 4, showing service .nG honorable dI''har-t
thercfrom. in place of discharges lost procured
for A small foe Enclose stamp 10 Gilmore CO.
and full reply, with blanks. will he sent free.
PENSIONS! PENSIONS!
All Federal Officers, Soldier and sailors Wound-
od ,1rtured or injured In the line OF duty IN the
iatewar, aud disabled thereby, can obtain pen.
sion. -.1s..-.
Wilows and minor children of Officers SOLDIERS
anil sailors who nave died since discharge, Of
disease contracted or wounds and injuries re-
ceivcl in the service nj in line OF duty, on pro-
cure pensions. 10y addressing GILMORE x 60.
increased rates for Pensioners obtained. Bonn
~ Lard Warrants procured for service IN wars
urior 10 March 3, 1855 There are no warrants
GRANTED for service in the late rebellion.
send stamp 10 GILMOnl, & CO., Washing
ton, -. g.. for full instructions. maN<Hu
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"A Rattle ora Te,rQR Soil.

WASHINGTON, June 16.--The Collector of
Customs at FL Paso, Texas, informs the Sec.
retary of the Treasury of the capitulation of
Ell Paso, Mexico, to the partisan of Lerdo
Tejada, under the immediate command of P.
z. Machoro, Colonel of the Second Regiment
Mexican Infantry, who is acting under the
authority and instruction of Gen. Escobedo.
The taking of the city was accomplished be.
tween one and six o'clock a. m. The prin-
eipal city officials were taken prisoners.
Among them were Gefe Polilicio,
Mayor; Rafael Varios, Collector of
Customs, and nearly all his subor-
dinates, fifteen in all. The uprising is
spreading throughout chihuahua. It is
authoritatively stated that quite a large
body Of men will assemble at this point for
the ostensible purpose of inducing Mexico
to develop her mining interests; but many
think that their object is entirely different.
G. Merando, who was made Mayor of the
city by Col. Machoro, publicly declared that
he could drive every American out of the
place. If an attempt is made to carry this
threat into execution, trouble will ensue.
The absence of the troops is greatly deplored.
NEW ORLEANS, June 16.--The Galveston
News' Fort Clark special says on Monday
last detachment of Mexican Government
troops crossed the Rio Grande to this side
point twenty miles from here, in
order to avoid conflict with q
larger body of revolutionary troops fast
closing in on them. On the same night a
revolutionary body crossed the river, and at
tackled the government soldiers, killing sew.
eral and wounding many, and returned to the
Mexican side. The United States military
authorities at this post made captives of the
Mexican troops, for the violation of the
| neutrality law, in crossing to the American
side with arms and having battle thereon
They were broughtto this post under guard
of United States troops, forty in number, in
Guiding one Colonel, three Lieutenant Gel
onels and five Captains. They were re
leased yesterday on parole. Recruiting il
going on this side for the revolutionary
1 Nv
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A slight misunderstanding.

When Sir Samuel Baker, the African
traveller, was taking leave of Kamrast,
King of Unyoro, that potenate asked
him, as particular favor, to leave Lady
Baker behind. This cool request raised
Sir Samuel's ire, and in high indignation
he told the King that if ever he made
such request again he would shoot him.
Lady Baker, too, who overheard and un-
derstood the offer, felt that a word from
her would not be out of place, and gave
the monarch a piece of her mind in the
strongest language she could command.
His Majesty for while was greatly
astonished, being unconscious of having
given any offense. At last, seeing that
his guests were really angry, he said, in
a deprecating tone: "Don't be angry. l
did not mean to offend you by asking for
your wife. Twill give you wife if you
want one, and 1 thought you would have
no objections to give me yours. 1t is my
custom to give my visitors pretty wives,
and 1 thought you would like to ex-
change. Don't make fuss about it; if
you don't like to do as others dc, there's
an end of it,"
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pondent says: Minister Washburne wrote
Gen. Grant a few days ago inviting him to
visit Paris, and asking when it would be con-
venient for him to go there. In replying to
this note, Gen. Grant stated that he would
be unable to be in the French capital until
septe ember, as his engagements were very
numerous in England and Ireland, and that,
moreover, his tour OF Switzerland, Norway
and Sweden had been already planned.
The Earl of Derby, Sir Stafford Northcote,
Lord Abenare, Viscount Cardwell, Lord
Tenterden, and the Right Honorable Mr..
Forster, with their wives, were present at
Guild Hall, in London, when the freedom
of the city was presented to Gen. Grant.
| The Canadian pilgrims had an audience
with the Pope on June is, and asked his
benediction for their countrymen and the
people of Liverpool and New York, who had
given them friendly reception. The pill
grims presented the Pope with magnificent
miter, studied with gems, silver vase, and
$4,000. The Pope expressed his joy at the
escape of the pilgrims from the great perilE
of their voyage on the City of Brussels, and
at the many signs of devotion from theii
country, whose faith, after surmounting sc
many dangers, still remained so strong and
vigorous. He concluded by giving his bless
ing to the pilgrims.
The Turkish force, ten thousand strong
attacked the Montenegrins, few days since
in Montenegro, near the Albanian line, at 8
little town called llama, on the main road
leading from Spuz to Nicsics. The Montene
grins had taken up their quarters at Seana
a very small village on the route of the
Turkish advance, and three thousand strong
awaited the invaders, who finally attacked
them in their chosen position. The battle
lasted from ten a. m. till ear nightfall. Foul
determined attacks were made by the Turks
who in each instance were repulsed by the
Montenegrins; and finally after eight hour
terrible fighting, the Montenegrins drove
their enemy back, and followed them mer
cilessly in their retreat. The Turkish deae
in the line of the retreat is reported at tw,
thousand.
The losses by the tidal wave on the Soutl
America coast are fully up to the first reports
The government is heavy loser from fort
to fifty thousand tons guano having bee
lost. The Chilian Times of May Is report
that south of Valparaiso and the Bolivia
frontier the shocks were more severe. A
Ante Fragasta, in Bolivia, no lives wer
lost, but the damage to property is estimate
at half million. 1t is said that the town
, of Calama. Chinchin, and San Pedro hay
entirely disappeared.
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WGlking Le0Ces of Australia,

Almost everybody has heard of the
walking leaves of Australia. For a long
time after the discovery of that island
many people really believed that the
leaves of a certain tree which fourishes
there could walk about the ground. The
story arose in this way:
Some English sailors landed upon the
coast one day after roaming about until
they were tired, they sat down under a
tree to rest themselves. A puff of wind
came along, and blew off shower of
leaves, which, after turning over and
over in the air, as leaves generally do,
finally rested upon the ground. As it
was midsummer, and everything ap-
peared quite green, the circumstance
puzzled the sailors considerably. But
the surprise was much greater, as you
may well suppose, when, after short
time, they saw the leaves crawling along
on the ground toward the trunk of the
tree. They ran at once for their vessel
without stopping to examine into the
matter at all, and set sail away from the
land where everything seemed to bt
bewitched. One of the men said tha
he expected every moment to see tn
trees set to and dance jig" Subsequen
explorations of Australia have taugh
us that these walking leaves are insects
They live upon the trees. Their bodie
are very thin and fiat, their wings form
ing large leaf-like organs. When the,
are disturbed, their legs are folded ava,
under their bodies, leaving the shap
exactly like leaf with its stem and a.
complete. They are of bright gree
color in the summer, but they gradual
change in the fail, with the leaves, I
the brown of frost-bitten vegetation
When shaken from the tree, they lie fc
: few minutes upon the ground, /,
! though they were dead, but present.
a they begin to crawl along towards tt
: tree, which they ascend again. The
. rarely use their wings, although they a.
well supplied in this respect.
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The Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna.

1hls renowned tree is known In Sicily
as the Castagno di cento Cdualli, or, Chest
nut Tree of a Hundred Horses It is
about q hundred and fifty feet in cir
cumference. It is said that the Queen
Juana, of Aragon, ascended Mount Etna
during her voyage from Spain to Naples,
and that all the nobility of Catania &C.
companied her IN her excursion. A
tempest broke out, but the Queen and
her whole suite easily found shelter un-
der the foliage of this immense tree.
Jean Honel, the first traveller who gave
description of it, in the last century,
says: might not yet having set in, we
went at once to see the tree which we
had come so far to admire. This boasted
tree, though of immense diameter, is en-
tirely" hollow, and subsists now only by
means of its bark, but does not the less
cover itself every spring with new foli-
age. The hollow of this tree is so large
that the people of the neighborhood have
constructed house within, with an oven
for drying chestnuts, flberts and al
monds, and other fruits which they wish
to preserve, as is the common usage in
Sicily. When they require fuel they
take a hatchet and help themselves from
the part of the tree around their dwell
ling. For this reason this magnificent
chestnut is nearly destroyed.
Some people believe that this colos-
sus consists of several chestnut trees,
which, pressing the one against the other
and no longer maintaining their indi-
vidual bark, have grown together and
appear as single tree to careless eyes.
This is mistake. All the parts, though
mutilated by time and the hand of man,
belong to one and the same trunk"
Careful examination seems really to
prove that all these diverging branches
have but one system of roots. Moreover,
Brydone, who visited it in 177O, states
that his guide, following up the tradi.
tions of the country, assured him that
at time long past single unbroken
bark covered the trunk all around, al
though at the present day only few
remnants of it can be seen. Canon Re
! cupero, Sicilian naturalist, affirmed ir
the presence of the English traveller ane
many other witnesses, that the root O
;; this colossal tree was single one. Th,
pest proof in support of the oneness o
r this tree is the example furnished b,
other chestnut trees on Mount Etna
. which have diameter of thirty-six feet
The tree we are now describing is on
hundred and sixty feet in circumference
a 1t is impossible to assign limit to it
$ probable age.
|. At the present day, an opening suff
o GENTLY large to allow tive carriages t
J pass through it abreast, penetrates it frol
n side to side, but this circumstance doe
d not prevent the venerable tree from CO.
K ering itself every year with bloom an
fruit.
u u 1t ought to be added, however, in COZ
d clusion, that it was the custom of ancie1
horticulturalists to plant around sing
shoot number of others of the san
a. species, so as to produce the appearan,
Il, of a single tree, which time would m
ID ture to colossal size. They peeled {
rs the bark on the inside, and soon sing
le bark came to enyelop the whole. Th
to practice was pursued especially wi
Y, olive-trees.
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Railroad Casualty.

BALTIMORE, June ia collision occur
red about7 80 this morning, near Point of
Rocks, between the regular morning accom-
mediation train from Winchester, Virginia,
and special excursion train from Fred
erick to Washington, with an excursion
for Mount Vernon. The engines crushed
into each other. Four persons were in
stanly killed and eighteen wounded, all on
the excursion train.
The killed were Charles FL. Keifer. editor
of the Frederick Examiner; Richard Dutrow,
merchant; Dorsey Walker, merchant, and
Howard E. Dickson, all of Frederick
City.
The wounded are Louis Schley, son of DIR.
Fairfax Schley, dangerously, lost both legs !;
| Colonel Chas. E. Trail, dangerously.
| Colonel Trail is son of one of the most
wealthy and influential citizens of Frederick,
and was State Senator from that County sew
| eral times.
| follows-whether dangerously or slightly is
not stated: NJ. L. Knodie, A. Kottengale,
w. Fl. Young, L. c. Mollineaux, William
Bartges, Peter Luganbell Isaac Ely, G. F.
Snouffer, William Snouffer, Enoch Green,
L. C. Moberly, William Harrison, Fl. N,
Hutchinson, John Davidson, JOHNNY Dennis
and Henry Brashears.
Frederick City, or residents of Frederick
County, and have been taken to Frederick
City. Only one person, lady, on the
Winchester train, was injured, and she no
seriously. The cause of the accident was {
Misunderstanding between the train men.
Later dispatches state that Louis Schle.
died from injuries received before being
removed.
Colonel Charles Trail is reported fatal,
INJURED. One or two more may die, but tn
others will recover.
A dispatch from Frederick says the col
) lision is attributable to the gross careless
ness and negligence of the train men.
Messrs. Keifer, Trail, Falconer and Colone
Dennis were committee from frederick o
their way to Washington to extend an inv
: tation to President Hayes and Cabinet
attend the next Fair of the Frederick Count
Agricultural Society.
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The Markets.

lows: Patent, s1o@11; fancy. ss 1899 50; family,
ss aas :eInS Rye s.
81 75@i IS: prime to choice red is held at q 6o9
7sc. Oats, s7@67c Rye, 75@7se: Hay, No.
SKGesA SStH sA@as1f ssae So family
s7@7 50; extra, Sc 5o@7, Ora. neat, No. 2,
81 So Corn mixed 4a@a5e; high mixed, a5c.
oa teIs es Ess Hog: No. sqf 54
Observation-Disclosures S6@6 so; extra
family s7@7 50; A No. /, 81 5o9s rs; fancy, IS 75@
47c mixed 45c Hay, se@12. Mess Pork, s14 so.
1sd Shw 19g5He Gotaen 9o g. So $685. super
fine western and State s5 1896 rs; common to good
Western and State, $6 5o@6 75; good to choice
white wheat ana Western m EXTRA fancy
white wheat Western extra, 81 55@s; common
to good extra Ohio, s6 5o9s 5O commen to choice St
| Rye -four, $4 25@5 10. Grain Wheat. 81 5s@
so oss ssso barley Mesa net parf ana 5m
Lard. prime steam. So o5 Cotton, $11ss@11s4c..
ve X. sGperfne
Indiana extra family, IS 1893 25 high grades
Pen1sylvania amber, s2@2 O5; white, r, s. 05
Rye, Pennsylvania, s3c. Corn, yellow Western
60c.; mixed, 59@591ac. Oats, Pennsylvanla, 4s@
soc mixed, 44@46c. New mess Pork, $l5@l5 30;
| MEMPHIS - Flour - Choice family, $9@9 Sc
Corn is quiet at 6O9e2c. in store: Oats are scare
SIS so. Lard is quiet; terce, lie; keg, 12c. Bul
| Meats are dull and nominal; shoulders, 5hc; clea
rib sides, SIC, and clear sides, s12c. Bagging
dull and nominal at 12@l211ac.
| STOCK MARKETS.
| CINCINNATI. - Cattle - Common to medium
50 5O@4 5O good to choice butchers grades, "a SOC
5 40; fair to good shippers, 81 1895 so. Sheep an
Lambs-Common to choice sheep, " 5O@4 70; tal
to good lambs, S4@6.
BUFFALO.-Sheep-Fai clipped, u 70: gooe
IS; choice, SIS 81. Supply equal to demand. Hogs
Workers, a. SO(95 O5.
NEW YORK-Beef Cattle-A few selected prim
and extra steers sold at 1214@121ac. per ID. Som
toughest cattle went as low as t04@1O1ac, but lOs
@l2c. was the range generally, and included M
and distillery fed. Sheep and Lambs-Common
, good clipped Western sheep, 1896. Lambs WI
moderate sales brought 769c., for common to prin
Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee stock, and s
1Oc. for ordinary to choice Jersey.
EAST LIBERTY, PA.-Beef Cattle-Best, Sc
: mon to fair 81 SOFAS. Sheep-s415 20. Hogs
3 Workers. 81 7O94 80; Philadelphias. $4 40@6.
WOOL.-In Boston. the market is bare of doub
extra and above. Medium and extra Ohio an
= Pennsylvania, 4O@4212c.; double extra and aboy
46@48c.; Michigan and Wisconsin, 36@40c. SUPP
and extra pulled was in good demand at 30@46c.
In Cincinnati, dealers are buying freely, and pa
the quoted prices, desirable lots commanding fu
| figures. We quote: Unwashed fine merino, 81
22c; clothing 22@25c medium delane, 2792St
q long combing, 3l@33e. Washed-Medium fleece
27(02sc.; fine fleece, 30@33c.; delaine heeces, sc
s3c.; long combing, 35@37c.; tub-washed, 30@S
O Pulled. 27@2Sc.
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ONE night in the latter part of May,
in Buffalo, young girl and her lover
were seated in the girls fathers house,
when he entered and struck his daughter
twice, being much enraged because she
kept company" with the young man
to whom the parents were opposed. The
next day she was missing, and her dead
body was afterward found floating in the
river
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~Canker In the Bud.'

You watch its development with expectant
solicitude-the choice, exquisitely-moulded
bud which promises to unfold with the per-
feet flower. You perhaps think how it will
adorn the drawing-room vase, and anticipate
the pleasure of showing it to your Hover
loving friends. But some morning you ind
its head dropping, its fragrance fled, and an
ugly purple spot on one of the delicately-
tinted petals. tbs the poets canker in the
bud" How often the loathsome canker
blights the cherished "infant blossoms" in
our household gardens-those human buds
which give earnest of q brilliant future. The
noisome canker, so long concealed-scrof-
ula-at length reveals its dreaded presence
and to our bright hopes succeeds the most
agonizing fear, for We know the fatal sequel
it portends-pulmonary consumption. 1t is
estimated by eminent medical authority
that at least one-ffth of mankind are af-
ficted with the insidious malady. But its
rayages are so secret, that even Its victims
are unaware of its presence untirit suddenly
| discloses itself in some of its myriad and
ofttimes fatal forms. A slight cutaneous
presence. The only means of extermlnatlng
this disease from the system is by a thorough
| course of constitutional treatment. This
| treatment must fulfill three indications
namely, promote nutrition, alter or purify
| the blood, and arrest disorganization of the
tissues and the formation of tubercles. No
more efficient Alternative can be employed FOL
these purposes than DR.. Pierce's Colder
Medical Discovery. While impartins
strength and tone to the digestive organs i
cleanses the blood and heals the diseased
tissues. Test its virtues ere the deadly can
| ker has blighted the lie you prize.
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Maize Flour Toilet Soap!-
Flour..Toilet Soap
Maize Flour Toilet Soap

A great discovery "A new soap compound! 1t
eoothes softens and whitens the skin, has wonders
ful healing and su perior washing properties, and IL
equally suited for the bath, nursery, and genera
toilet. 1t is delightfully."- perfmmed, and sold every
where at moderate price, Registered in Patent,
Office, 1876, by the manufacturers. MokEoNE-
VAN HAAGEN q CO., Philadelphia, Pa.
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A Clear Head:

Elastic limbs; good digestion; sound sleep; buoy
ant spirits; fine appetite; and ripe old age are
some of the results of the of DR.. TUFTS Pills.
They require no change of diet nor interfere with
bDSin
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RHEUMATISM cured at once by Durang's
Rheumatic Remedy. Send for circular to
Helphenstine & Bentley, Washington. D. G.
Patentees and inventors should read adver-
tisement of Edison Bros. in another column
DURANG's Rheumatic Remedy never fails
to cure rheumatism. Sold by all druggists.
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Purely

The Cheapest. Pnrest
and Best Family Medl-
cine in the worlil
AN EFFEcTUAL SPE..
scIFIc for all diseases OF
the Liver, Stomach and
Spleen. Regulate the
Liver and prevent
CHILLS and FEVER,
NJ AL RIO Us F E.
VERS, BOWEL COM
PLANTS. RESTLESS.
NESS. JAUNDICE and
NAUSEA,
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PONDS EXTRACT FOR PAIN.-You seldom
see much aIlusion to it in the public prints,
yet its sale has extended to all parts of the
world
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Good Material , Away Requisite

to great results. You may have the best
flour, eggs, milk, shortening however, and
still have poor bread, cake, pastry, etc.
Why? You didn't use DooLEY's YEAST
POWDER. With this last magic element to
give order, harmony, and union to the rest,
the result is mathematical certainty. Try
it, and be convinced.
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Iryou feel dull drowsy, debilitated have frequent
headache mouth tastes badly, poor appetite, ana
tongue coated you are suffering from torpid llVer,
or .tbiliousness.'' aud nothing will cure you SO
sneedily and permanently as to take SIMMONS Liver
REGuLAToR MEDICINE
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A POSITIVE Cure for Rheumatism-Du-
rapg's Rheumatic Remedy. Send for cir
cular to Helphenstine & Bently, Washing
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The Macon IN. CD Advance speaks of
the discovery of new mica mines in that
county,
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INFORMATION worth thousands to those out
of health. Self-help for weak and nervous
sufferers. Facts for those who have been
dosed, drugged, and quacked. The new
Health journal teaches all. Copies free
Address, Electric Quarterly, Cincinnati, O.