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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17
How tn. Yunnv Bn.sp-.s PAYS

Nasty made &, 500 900 By tickling the
sides Of humanity. The world always
pays more for the comic than for the ssTi-
Gus, and the minstrel show gets The dol
lars while the pennies go into the contFi-
button box 20 pay the parsons sermon.
Milton gets $50 for Paradise Lost. - " bile
Mark Twain received So, 600 for limo
cents Abroad" Josh Billings received
81, 0eo for his magazine work alone and
his literary profits ran into the hundreds
Of thousands. ". Quad IL said 20 receive
g., 600 year from TIE Detroit PTes
Press, and Burdette could make a. equal
amount out Of his lecture field AJohe-
Nasty had been working for few dollars
a week short time before he began his
humorous letters, and josh Billings sold
his first venture, the Essay OF tbs
Mule" for f1.O. Tom Nsst received
for year. go. 600 for the comic part of his
nature a. IL came ont through tie end q
his pencil, and Arteuus Ward, while
working for tI2 week on The CIeselsnd
Plain Dealer, discovered that BE bad tks
gift Of humor. and DO; long Esfteg this we
fad him in England writing articles FOR
Punch, each Of which paid him 500 Ths
fun and the patbos which so1ast mes creep
into Bret Harts's work has gwen HIN bis
literary success, and Sunset Coz onos told
me that his why We Laugh" was ore
Of the best paying q toe shorter works he
had written, and that u ssil oootl1ues 20
.en-Fraak g. Czrpeatsr IL New Yak
World
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

mysterious aud chronic diseases All -ho ere
sick or in trouble from any cause are invited
70 call without delay.
/ have always claimed that ciairyoyance
could be made g success II we could find
some ore who was sufficiently natural born
to grapple with it Now, Mrs Edwards
seems to know what is required Size was
born utterly without asecta.son. When she
was born she Just seemed 20 SAP 70 these
who happened 70 be present at the time:
:" Felow-sitizens, you viii ssve 20 take ne
tust as ycu find ne can not dlsssInoie or
appear 20 De e.hsrw1se than what an
an the moss natural born and highly cele-
brsted al over TIE country clsarvoTant
now travelling en- he road and Wonder
from the Pacific coast" She then le. cS .
whoop that ripped o2ca TIE sable robes Of
night. after which STE took aatShs finch AID
retired 20 her dreesing groom
Ex-Eayer Henry C. RossnsCr- OF Hart
ford, Cona-, II AZ not mistaken, suggest
Cd schooa CT Journalism a. least tvelys
years ago, but IL did nDs meet with Tn.ne-
date and practical Endorsement Vow Car
neil cones forward and sesEs TO De Il
earnest. za6 I am glad Of IL TIE letters
received fro-. dzy 70 DAY By EDITORS, and
written 70 them By men engaged Ia other
xarsagx nrz.z.G1-. IN s4snr5s A=S s-res.~ iAsa
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

Just as successfully as any other athletic
exercise. OF course you can not teach a
boy how to jerk a giant journal from the
clutches OF decay and make of 1t robust
and ripsnorting shaper and trimmer of pub
lie opinion, in whose counting-room people
will walk all over each other in their mad
efforts to insert advertisements. You can
not teach this in school any more than you
can teach a boy how to discover the open
Polar Sea, but you can teach him the rudi-
ments and save him good deal OF time ex-
perimenting with himself
Boys spend small fortunes and the best
years of their lives IN learning the sim
plest truths in relation to journalism We
grope on blindly. learning this year perhaps
how TO distinguish an ital!c shooting-stick
when we see it, or how 70 eradicate type
lice from a standing galley, learning next
year how TO sustain life on an annual pass
land a sample early-rose potato weighing
four pounds and measuring eleven inches in
circumference. This is slow and tedious
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

his invariable style is broad brimmed
SLOUGH hat. He never held an office until he
came into the Senate, and does not care to
hold any other than that of Senator. Mrs.
Cockrell was Miss Anna Ewing. daughter
of Judge Ephraim Ewing, of Missouri She
is a tall stately and beautiful woman, who
enjoys society keenly.
Senator George Graham Vest succeeded
General Shields in the Senate in 1879. He is
! Kentuckian, fifty-eight wears old, and has
lived in Missouri since 1853, practicing law
with great success. In 1S60-6l he was a
member of the Missouri Legislature and
within the next four years he was a Con-
federate Congressman and Senator. Mrs.
Vest was Kentucky belle, the daughter Of
Alexander Sneed, whose father was rev.
olutionary soldier and lived to be one
hundred and two years old. Senator Vest
is an eloquent speaker and rare story
teller
Farmer" Hatch. who leads the Mis-
souri, delegation in the House, is one of the
indispensable features Of the House The
oleomargarine folks are not in love with
hun, but he is happy all the same. His col
leagues say he is ''sot' in his way, but
yields amiably to fair play. Mr.. Hatch is a
Kentuckian, fifty-fve years old. By pro-
fession he is a lawyer and this is his fifth
term in Congress. He was in the Confed-
crate army and served as commissioner for
exchange Of prisoners.
Charles Mansur is simon-pure Demo-
crat. If there was Democrat in Noah's
AJAX it was surely an ancestor of Mansur's.
He has been on the Missouri State commit
tee from time immemorial, and for twenty
wears no National Democratic conYentio
was complete till Mansur got there. This
is his first term IN Con gress.
DR.. Dockery has been in Congress so long
every body has forgotten that he is one of
the best physicians in Missouri He has
diplomas from three medical colleges. FIT
teen years ago be abandoned medicine and
took TO banking with great success. He is
q fearless fighter in Congress and a man Of
great self-reliance. This is his third Con-
gress. Dockery may yet be United States
Senator from Missouri.
Mr.. Burnes is the heavy man Of the dele
CATION He weighs two hundred always.
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nTooern Devotion.

Mrs Friendly ympathetically-I am so
saddened to see you in this garb of deep
mourning Yours was, indeed, heart
rending loss.
Mrs De Pugg fpathetically)-A yes F..
My precious Famine died in these arms
after suffering tortures for three whole
days, from the most frightful commissions.
never once left her cushion.
Mrs. Friendly tsurprisedly)-An your
little daughter, who was SO Ill with scarlet
fever?
Mrs. De Pueg Gndifferently)-Oh she got
well-JudJe
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

interesting stories told by him in his own
peculiar and iniInitable style
Read is not what can be termed bash
ful man. yet he dislilzes what IS termed So
ciety, other than that of his family and Eel
low-journalist with whom he is content TO
sit hour after hour while smoking MS
neerschaum pipe. His range Of reading IS
almost unlimited, and he is one OF the most
thoroughly welI-read students OF Engnsn
literature whom l have ever met Kind
hearted, generous to fault, Unaifectea ana
natural IN his ways as a little child exactly
as one who is a giant in both intellect and
physique should be, all this Is the ArkGrsdao
1TdCe}er man.
Opie Pope Read was born in Nashville,
Tenn, December -, 1852, and is the young
est Of ten children. His parents removed
TO Gallatin. Tenn. where his mother now
resides. They lived at Galiatln until the
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

Speaking q occupations for young NO
men, IL may Be sAta.iA@. there - Dow =
generous contingent; O. then employed -
th.s town - gray hair pa1srs. What
the red f4nrel garment % 70 TIE roGDa
eyed, short horned bull. lie frss INDIA
,.ons II silver hair are 20 sosle Of TIE
fashionable women Of SsE York it 10
then ia. lie 's-ay hair pu!Aer' % SIT.
for, and frDFa tBa, tine uat1 soci@sy L.
called upon - Eo-see f1r rsoEnxnt Ia
death u the fasain1ssis o5es tie gray
hair puIIsr'' = With her ~ certain Inter
rails, charging 40 rnseh Al kozr for sx-
tracing wh@: tzzssy think = tsse halo sssd
slo-r q woza2a's u.ssseniy cxys.-Ssw
YORK sua-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17
MUSICAL MATTERS.

Miss Marie Howe, Of Brattle6oro, VT. has
made a great success at KroH's Opera
House, Barlin.
The new American comic opera OF which
Charles Alfred Byrne Is The Hbre,tist and
Gustaye klrser the composer, Is to be
called Castles il the Air."
y Brazilian composer, Carlos de Nesouita.
is Al work on al Italian opera, .Esmer-
ada the ibretto by The editor of the Italia,
Of E.io Ja2iero. Sigaor Folgns-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

IS practicing lawyer and hard-wcrkins
member This is his second term
William II. Wade, of the Thirteenth dis
trict, is from that family OF Ohio Wades to
which Old Ben belonged, and, ike him, he
is Republican. He enlisted in 1851 and
served through the war. Within month
after he was mustered out he went TO Mis-
souri, and bought farm, where he has
since lived. This IS his second term N
Congress.
Mr. James Peter walker is new member
learning the ropes. He is Tennesseea1
by birth. thirty-seven old. Missouri has
been his home since 1857.
J. A TRUEsDELI-
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A DUDE is apparel-izlng spectacle.
MEN OF MISSOURI.

z Great States Delegation at the National
Capitai-A Isoay of Big-Brained, Big
Hearted, Capable Men.
Special Washington Correspondence.l
They GAL, Missouri "the Pennsylvania OF
the West and it is name splendidly de-
served. Il is one hundred and thlrty-three
years since Waite men first settled the
State; it is seventy-six since her Territorial
Organization was formed, and slxtyseven
since she came into the Union. Her terri
tory ia equal to nearly all New England.
Her metropolis is the largest city west of
the Mississippi, and Kansas City, her sec
opd city, promises to be another Chicago.
Missouri is first in her lead product, and in
the number OF mules produced, and third,
in oxen, hogs, corn and copper.
The senior Missouri Senator is Francis
Marion Cockren, who succeeded Carl Schurz
In 1915. He has been twice reelected. Sen
ator Cockrell IS known as thu Man-Who-
Works-Very-Hard. He is very tail, not very
fat, and wears long, tapering gray beard.
He was never known to wear a silk hat, and
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

ard ton when he is mad. He graduated
az Harvard law-school and is a good lawyer.
He entered Congress IN 1854
Judge Warner, OF Kansas City, IS one OF
the two Republican members from Mlssou-
ri. He was born IN Wisconsin aad edu-
Gated there. He served through the war.
going TO Kansas City in 1907. He was Presi-
dental elec.or on the GRAFT ticket in 1873
snd 1852. Presi5sns Arthur sppolEted bin
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17
Model .fnrnrS.

4 couple Of New York gentlemen were
examining the mumnies ln-tae art gallery
il Central Park
Its wonderful how well it IS preserved. y
remarked the hrst gentleman, pointing TO
the remains OF an ancient Egyptian
That's not the most wonderful thing
about it" said the other.
- What is The most wonderful thing about
it?'
"That it was not called on 70 do duty as a
juror in the al0ermanic Doodle cases.
Sifti!lCs
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

Mental worry AID dtsquiet. ar.stng from
any Cause. s tbs strongest Agent n
aging" Zen or women Il y a mees-
sant sccrcs Of exhaustion 70 ths wal
forces Yea 90 90 erhaass yourself when
VOC worry about your busirssa. yoc1 fam
iIy sni sbo1t anything h c.rves enes
% the face snd hieAeAes ths ha4x- A
pse~ish young ~uas. a 70 VII soox cid
u 90. because hsr pesv1sA or varying
thorgt3 rspr>eenss % much Of h@ fssse
osed 20 tear her down tns:s>d o. hsz1aftSS
her cp-Ssx York Star.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17
Summer Concert Season.

Commencing Sunday night, Juno Il, and
continuing thereafter every afternoon and
evening, the management Of the Hay
market Theater, Chicago, announce a 60
ries of summer concerts by the celebrated
Eighth Calvary Regiment Band Of the Re
public of Mexico, direct from the City CT
Mexico, via Austin, Tex, where they were
the features of the recent dedication ofthe
magnificent capitol building Of that State,
followed by q very successful season q. the
Exposition building. St Louis.
The reputation Of the band was so fully
and firmly established when 1t toured the
States two years ago tina. nothing need b
said Of its great excellence Il Is sun d.
rected bs Captain Payen and contains six
very eminent soioists- Its roster shows
81 xty instrumeata.ists, and the reportory OF
music IS larger perhaps than any sszni,sr
organization On the continent
Summer prices viii prevail and the veI-
known comforts and ccnveniences Of The
Eaynarket viii be so eshsoced that L viii
positively excel any sumner place OF
amusement on the face q he globe.
ALL Elea are sH,AlI a. Clrth, and many
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

The Cyrspre tpotns4ne. se r,ss.sy p
terrier vhere &c Ay ca she rug af.>r s1hS
fed ursa Is -As dssssnded or5one - ps~
portion, LOOK pYA' ss<s5 ess1
PAps-Ts< sn6 be hss eesa ssd'y
STUFFED
Cyciooe-ftsts icx1se Be ssuned ess-
seY. an he didn't kESv k0v.-Fe2A6>s,
phSs Gail
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

sr-an Boy 90 rs Big ssSssr-rsssA. 20
ycu know WY l!slzk y0a az Re 3 a.
TIA: has fallen ito be<ssteS4 81 re-
lassest
Edith-B>carxe Tn - szee-t
Small Boy-So. teczrse yo<' re SO stnek
u2.-De.so.t Free PEe4a
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17
4 Good Excuse

When the French troops were in Mexico,
during the days of MAMMALIAN, a private
soldier was brought before General Genin-
gros, who was IN command at Monterey.
You are charged with having stolen the
golden slipper from the foot Of the Virgin
IN the cathedral" said the General sternly,
u didn't stealth, replied the soldier.
But the slipper was found in your KNAPP
sack"
Il know ii was, but l didn't steal it."
"How. then, did it come INTO your posses
sionln
The Virgin gave it to me-"
How so!''
You know, General, how she sits there
with one foot above the other, sticking out a
httle"
"Wen2r
"She didn't tell me to take the slipper,
but she held her foot out as if she was say
ing, Take the slipper if you want 1t, so
took 1t, more as matter OF accommodation
than any thing else
"Humph.n said the General, smiling,
that's about as good an excuse as l ever
heard. You can go this time time, but if
the Virgin offers you any thing else and you
accept it III have YOU shot."-SVtin9s.
:. An b,,,- NV, wa +,5az nv dear mad.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17
NYE HAS A YOUNG IDEA.

He Tells How 1t Should Be Taught to
Shoot at Corneil-The Job of Teaching
Journalism Not Difficult One-He Cites
Some Examples Which Almost Any Stu
dent Could Correct-The Art of Writing
observation-disclosures ON How to He
Popular.
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AN glad to know,
says Bill Nye in the
New York World, that
Cornell University is
20 establish a depart
ment of journalism
next September. /
have always claimed
that journalism could
be taught in univer-
citieS and colleges
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

ne receipts OF the A1slc@l festsvA, CD
cinnaa which closed On Nay 2sth, sgEre-
gated SO, 600 with expsnses II the vicinity
Of Sss,ooo Edward Lloyd. tie English
tenor. reoe.ved $40 Sor lbs services
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17
ghe aaaita daily eagle Sunday orng, guue II, 1885

United States District Attorney for the
Western district of the State
John T. Heard, of Sedalia, looks like a
Methodist clergyman, but he is lawyer
and Democrat. He has held innumerable
State Offices, and IN 1851 was retained as Q
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

"AND how are we to-day, my dear mad
ans" "Wel. doctor, the cold | caught the
dav before yesterday Is rather better; but
the one l caught on Monday week is ever so
much worse-and caught brand new ono
Inst stti- Punch
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17
MRG DIR EDYARpS.
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THE GREAT WESTERN CLARyOTASI,
Has arrived, and will remain only a short
time. Call at once at HOTEL WINDSOR, 1is
12l and I23 East State street. Room 10. third
floor. Please take elevator.
The greatest and most natural born. and
highly-celebrated, and wellknown all over the
country, Clairroyant now travelling on the
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Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter
born with veil and second sight; every Mys-
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removes trouble; settles lovers quarrels;
causes speedy marriage with one you love;
valuable information TO gentlemen on al bust
ness tran sactions; how 10 make pcnhtssie In
vestments for speedy riches; lucky number
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

way to obtain journalistic training. II this
can be avoided or abbreviated it will be
great boom.
AS | understand IT. the department in
Cornell University will not deal so much
with actual newspaper experience as 1t will
with construction and style in writing.
This is certainly a good move for we must
admit that we can improve very greatly our
style and the purity of our English For
instance, ] select an exchange at random,
and on the telegraphic page l find the de-
tails of a horrible crime. 1t seems that an
old lady, who lived by herself almost, and
who had amassed between SIG and 81, was
awakened by an assassin, dragged from
her bed and cruelty murdered. The large
telegraph headline reads: Drug from her
bed and murdered!' This is incorrect in
photography, syntaX and prosody, bad in
form and lnelegant in style. Carefully
parsing the word drug as it appears here,
find that 1t does not agree with any thing in
number, gender or person. / do not like to
criticize the style of others when | know
that my own is so faulty, but l am sure
that the word drug SHOULD not be used in
this way.
Take the following, also from the Kansas
correspondence of the Statesville IN. c.
Landmark:
There were several bad accidents IN and
around Clear Water during my absence
from home. The saddest one was the shoot
ing of one Peter Peterson by his father
They were out rabbit-hunting in the snow.
A rabbit got up and started to run. The
son was in a swag of place and the father
was taking aim at the rabbit. The son at
the same time was trying to get shot at
it and, not knowing that his father was
shooting, ran between the rabbit and mis-
father and was killed dead, falling on the
snow with his gun grasped in his hands and
never moved He still carried that pleasant
smile which he had on, in expectation of
shooting that jackrabbit, when put in the
grave. Wheat is selling at about 60 cents;
corn, 40 to 80 cents; fat hogs, gross, 4l2 to
434; fat steers, ~; butchers stock, 2
cents"
1t is hard TO say just exactly wherein this
is faulty. but something is the matter with
it. | would like to get an expression of
opinion from those who take an interest in
such things, as to whether the fault is in
orthe, photography, anatomy, obituary or
price current, or whether it consists in
writing several features too closely in the
same paragraph.
1t would also be good idea to establish a
chair for advertisers in some practical col
lege, in order that they might run in for a
few hours and learn how TO write an adver-
tisement so that it would express in the
most direct way what they desired 10 state.
Here is an advertisement, for instance,
which is given exactly as written and pune
tuated:
MRS Dr. EDWARDS
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17

ALL E1en are Small a. Clrth, and many
never get over IL
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a Noted Twain Who Write Funny Things
-Opie p. Read and Eugene FieId-Inter-
esting Sketches of These yFeii-Known
Men and Their Work.
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There Is a clock On exhibition at the Sal
Francisco mining bureGu which is YER.
curious in construction, and, though over %
years old, keeps excellent time IL IL inciose.
In long glass case on three foot stand
The clock is bot twelve inches long and abou
eight vida Il IL made Of japanese orss
and has two side doors. which are kept opsl
in order 90 allow visitors 70 ere Us uniqts
construction Instead Of tie hands movini
they remain a. a standstiL, while the dis
continually goes round and every minute
small weight moves Up peg The face
covered with japanese casTact<rs III
clock il wound up daily by priliny two sraai
weights, which are attached 70 . cord al
move larger and heavier weigh. 30 as
touch the work.. This clock was The proper
~ Of the nalka6o's household for over -
reayx-Cticsro Nswa
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-29
LOCAL NOTICES.

MEMPHIS Steam Laundry. 224 Second st.
ID. II. BALDWIN & Co., dealers in pianos
and organs, No. 257l Main street.
CITIZENS Steam Laundry, Nos. 20 and
% Beale street Tel. 1856 for wagon to call
The only Hand Laundry in Memphis
under Chambers house, No. 1888 Second st.
BRrSKLEy LuMBER Co.. l24 Jefferson st.
J. II. MANOR for livery and hacks, 6S tc
"a Monroe street.
Buy your potato barrels from T. Kordel
No. 1913 Front street.
TELEPHONE 1900 for messenger or car.
riagc any hour day or night
PANTS made TO order from SO up. l.
Mcnke, tailor, 40 Monroe street.
LEE LUMBER Co., $50 Second street
sash, doors, blinds, shingles, holdings.
@. X. HoTouKiss. skilled matchmaker
Difficult and complicated watches | es
pecially solicit. No. 80 Monroe street.
PURE and white az the flower whose
name II bears are the biscuits raised by
Lily Baking Powder.
DEAN x LILLY CoTFEE AND SPICE Co.
CLASSES In decorative art, painting in oil
and water colors, wood carving, etching,
etc, are now forming In the IIigbee
School. Studies under Mrs. Laura Prugh,
OF the Cincinnati Art School. Drawing
classes under Miss Dobyns, az heretofore.
Students admitted at any time and for any
branch desired.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-29
SOUTHERN FIELD TRIALS.
Organization OF spostuman's Club at
Ch~NrahooRa.

Organization OF n spoFtunan's Club at
Ch~trnhooRa.
IN oftanixaiion Of this club AZ Chntia.
nooga last week opens for sportsmen,
breeders Of settlers AMI pointers, new pleas.
urcs and fresh fields for conquest. Tho
following gentlemen were elected officers.
]. W. Reniroc, Atlanta, Ca, president;
Pat Henry, GAINESVILLE Tenn, first vice.
president; W. II. Holiday, Prairie, Miss,
sccond vico.prosident; 4. NJ. Brunsby,
Marietta, Ca, secretary and treasurer.
The first meeting will be- held December
next at Amory, Miss. The club has at
this time q paid up guarantee fund Of
5000, which Is being constantly added TO.
Stakes amounting TO ~ 800 are offered 10
'he winners and open 10 the world. Sew.
tral Memphis gentlemen are interested In
The club, aud, this coupled with the fact
hat the new organization has the good
will and support Of all true sportsmcn
Throughout, the United States, insurcs for
II n successful career. The officers are too
well known 10 require any further mention.