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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-20
Christmas Goods at arhe Famous.


Fine Dress and Business Suits, Boys
Suits, Overcoats for men and boys, beauti-
full Scarfs of the latest styles, Black Corded
and Watered Silks, Tecks and Four-in-
Hands, Collars and Cuffs, fine hand painted
Suspenders and other fine Braces beautiful
Silk and Linen Handkerchief, Scarf Plus,
Collar and Cuff Buttons, and lots of other
small wear for gentlemen. THE Famous
is the place to buy your Christmas presents,
without spending fortune especially now.
as am selling down at great reduction
before moving TO the Broughton street
store.
Tee reduction / make in the prics OF all
clothing TO close OUT and save the trouble
OF moving them is so marked that any
body that has ever bought clothing before
can see that there is no humbug about it.
am determined to sell every stitch Of
clothing, even at sacrafce, rather than
move them. The time is limited now; take
advantage Of the chance to save money
while it is offered to you, and put in SUI
ply Of Clothing, Hats, Shirts, etc. 1.-THE
Famous IA Congress street, corner
Whitaker Savannah, Ga
r. S.-Country merchants desiring to buy
Job lots Of Clothing, prices will be made
lower than the goods cost the manufacturer.
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English as she is spoke.

Plain, correct English is not INDUCED in
py everybody; in fact, there is a big ma
iority who slip uD more or less in the daily
use OF the queens English We are speak
ing very plainly, correctly and emphatic
ally when we say that 7. z. p. Prickly
ASH, Poke Root and Potassium is the very
best blood remedy extant for rheumatism.
govt, dyspepsia. syphilis, scrofula and all
skin diseases. 1t is furthermore decidedly
powerful and efflcacious tonic, and as a
builder up and reviver Of impaired man
hood and womanhood Is unrivaled. For
weak, worn dawn women. particularly it is
dreds Of households yearly. AL druggists
sell it,
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

FINANCIAL
New YoRK. Dec. 10, noon.-Stocss opened
dull but steady. Money easy at per cent.
Exchange-long, "a s015G74 s0sl; short. 81 s4la
n4s43z Government bonds dull and feature
less. State bonds dull but steady.
Following were the noon stock quotations:
Chicago Y NorDn.1l1 Te.minaL......... 2lA
Lave Shore .1e7l Western Unon... $50
Norf Z pref %
500 D. 1a.-Exchange quiet but steady. Money
EASY at 307 per cent Sub-treasury balanc IS
Coin. sf6 .si7 600; currency, S1,74 0Jl. GOV
eminent bonds dull but steady; four per cents
127: four and a half per cent. coupons 1915.
state bonds quiet but firm.
The stock market was more active ana oe-
cidedly strong to-day. making a marked con-
trast with the tradiog of yesterday. ana ma
terial advances were made all along inc hne
Under tho lead Of Missouri Pzcsne and sp@cIai-
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PASSEN3 ERs.

Per steamship City Of Savannah. from New
!, n0rkLS hIanton, Ihos d James, J A Floyd. J
Z Phelps and son, G Keisling. J s Reilly. / s
GFaut h AlcChesney, A g Churchwood, Miss NJ
Seward, Mrs L McGriffin. NJ Leonard, and IS
Storage.
Fer steamship City of Macon. for Boston
Miss Livingston, Henry Bruce. G A Verge, II
Weston, Mr. and Mrs Thos L Sprague. d S
Chaplin, Capt w Gilkey, Mr. and Mrs ] II Sears.
) j Mcdonald, Mr. Coleman. Zahn, II p
A Jansen, F II O'Brien. and steerage.
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MARITIME MISCELLANY.

Capt Googins, of steamship City Of Savan-
pah. from New York. reports that on Dec II,
lat 81 12 N. lon ~ 80 W. S:55 m, passed a yes
sells mast painted white about feet above
water attached to sunken wreck with several
small spars floating attached 10 the mast
directly in track Of vessels und south.
DEC is. D m. lat 80 n, lon 73 50, passed schr
Maud Snare, bound to Savannah, wished to be
reported.
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BALTIMORE. Dec. 19-Flour dull Wheat
Southern quiet; Fultz 730S4c, Longberry ;4l1
SIC; Western strong; No. winter red on spot
and December delivery 79h0s0c. Corn-South-
ern active and steady; white 3t@i3c for new;
yellow S344Oc for new; Western firm.
ST. Louis, Dec. 19.-rlour quiet but steady
cry SOQtSO14c. Corn weak; No. mixed, cash,
Z115Q2Thc; December delivery closed at 27ttc;
January delivery 271s92714c Oats better; No.
e., cash 19Ac bid; May delivery 22ya@222sc
some trading in pork futures; sales Of January
delivery were at 50 20 February delivery 50 so
CINcISNATI. Dec 1S.-Flour steady. Wheat
steady; No, red 7614@771Sc. Corn quiet: No
Provisions Pork quiet at 80 50. Lard steady at
50 IS. Bulk meats quiet; short ribs 81 IS
Bacon steady; short clear at 5 50. Whisky
steady at s; OF. Hogs lower; common and
hight 50 O083 65; packing and butchers SO IS
G3 60.
New ORLEANS. Dec. 19.-Coffee unchanged
Rio Tin cargoes) common to prime, 10000 &c
Sugar steady; Louisiana open Kettle prime
436c; Louisiana csntrifugals, off plantation
graduated 69Sc, choice white SIC, choice vel
low clarified SIC, prime yellow clarified l16
45Ac. Molasses quiet; Louisiana open kettle
easier; strictly prime 34035c good prime $50
BIC, prime 3O@5lc centrifugals, choice 29c
strictly prime 2i@95c. Syrup 3o8Slc.
LoUIsvILLE, Dec l9.-Wheat steady; No. 2
red, 76c Corn firm; No. . mixed, 10 arrive
3619c. Oats quiet; No. 3 &c Provisions firm
but quiet: Bacon-clear rib Sides none in the
market; clear sides, packed, SO 10. Bulk meats
clear ribs IS l21S; clear sides s. %16; shoul-
ders 81 so. Mess pork $40 Sugarcured hams
$40 50@l1. Lard, choice leaf 81 So
NAVAL STORES.
New YORK. Dec. 10, noon.-Spirits trrpsntine
quiet and unchanged Rosn quiet but firm at
81 2O01 %.
300 p. m.-Rosin steady; common to good
strained 81 20 81 25. Turpentine dull and easy
at 433494r4c.
CHARLEsToN, Dec 19.-Turpentine firm at
40lsc. Rosin, nothing doing; good strained
81 0215.
WILMINGroS, Dec. 19-Spirits turpentine
steady at 40c. Rosin steady; strained 90c
good strained Csc. Tar firm at 81 30 Crude
turpentne firm; hard 81 20, yellow dip and
virgin 81 p.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19-Rice steady and in fair
demand.
New ORLEANS, Dec fs.-Rice unchanged ordi-
nary to good 3}s0416c.
PETROLEUM.
Nav YoRK. Dec. 10. Petroleum market
opened steady at 1875, but after first sales
became weak and declined to 1865. Then the
the market became quiet, and the close was
steady at 1882
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EXPORrS

Per steamship City of Macon. for Boston-
l,o4S bales upland cotton, a bales domeAics 2si
bales sea island cotton, Is bales paper stock. 81
bales hides 80 bbls rice. 200 bbls rosu, 226 bags
pnosphate, Us hbls spirits turpentine. 81 bblS r
OIL 5o'3of feet lumber 50 bbs oranges 5.46l
crates oranges IL crates vegetables, III tons pig
iron, p bales moss, 1903 pkgs ndse
Yer brig John Wesley for Baltmore-2S9, $50
Feet lumber-E b Hunting a Co.
Per schr Oscar c Schmiit for Baltimore-
81 !, 5SS feet P p lumber Hunting & Co.
Fer schr Norman, for Baltimore-204, $40 feet
p p lumber-Stillwell, Millen & Co.
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CLEARED YESTERDAY.

Steamship City of Macon Lewis, Boston-C
G Anderson.
Brig John Wesley, Van Glider. Baltimore
Jos Roberts & Co
Schr John H May, Riggs, Philadelphia
Master.
Schr Oscar Schmidt, Bacon, Baltimore-Jos
A Roberts & Co.
Schr Norman, Henderson, Baltimore-Master.
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POULTRY Market frmer; demand good.
EGGs-Market weak, with stock full and
fair demand.
PEANuTs-Fair stock; demand moderate;
prices steady.
suGAR-Georgia and Florida nominal; none in
market.
HoNEY-Demand nominal.
SWEET PoTAToEs-Nominal; some new COM
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Steamship City of Macon, Boston.
Schr John Fl May. Philadelphia.
Schr Oscar G Schmidt, Baltimore.
Schr Georgietta Lawrence, Charleston
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NIIII UIIIIUtI Of DtIOW LleSe ugu
FREIGHTS.


LUMBER-C oAsTwIsE-Tonnage is offered in
excess of shippers requirements. and in some
Instances less figures are accepted. Rates may
be quoted within the range of Sc 90
az so from this port to Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York and sound ports, with 25150c
additional if loaded at near by Georgia
ports. Timber 50c@S1 90 higher than lumber
rates. To the West Indies and windward,
nominal: to Rosario, S22 90; to Buenos Ayres or
Montevideo, $50 90; to Rio Janero, S2l 90;
to Spanish and Mediterranean ports
S14 seals 90; to United Kingdom for orders,
nominal at for timber Sc standard: lumber,
e6. Steam-To New York, 81 90; to Phila-
delphia,. 81 90; to Boston, So 90; to Balti-
more, So so.
NAVAL SToREs-Steady. Foreign-Cork, etc,
for orders, rosin, IS Sd, and As Cd
spirits. Adriatic, rosin, IS Cd; Genoa, IS Cd;
South America, rosin, 81 25 per barrel of $50
pounds. Coastwise Steam To Boston, 10c per
100 lbs on rosin, SOC on spirits; TO New YORK,
rosin, INC per 100 Ms spirits, sec; to Philadel
phia, rosin, 715c per 100 lbs; spirits, soc; to Bal
timore, rosin, SOC; spirits, zoe. Coastwise,
0uiet.
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FRIDAY, Dec 20. 1859.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.

ANftI ' EU I Is EItDAl.
Steamship City of Savannah, Googins, New
York-C q Anderson
Steamship Scawfell (Br), Stanhope, Antwerp,
in ballast-Richardson & Barnard
Schr Island City. VOORHEES,. Baltimore with
oil and general merchandise TO order; vessel to
Dale. Dixon G. Co.
Steamer Bellevue, Baldwin. Beaufort, Port
Royal and Bluffton-Master.
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Per savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Doc ~ bales cotton. 1876 bbls roSin eS7
ODDS spirits turpentine. 200 cases cotton goods
~ DDS Hour, cases dry goods. IL bbls syrup. S
cans wood, so empty bbls $50 bbls rrits. car
bananas, l69 sacks oats. 10 bbis potatoes. car
isths' 50 cars lumber. 90 coops poultry. cases
paper. 81 cases Gags. 80 pkgs furniture r. 40
S5stes ORANGES, 10 sac IS potatoes. 7bales hides.
bias
Ter Charleston and Savannah RY. Dec 10
81 bales cotton. $50 bbls roSin. cases hosiery.
cases toys, ~ pkgs newspaper. Is boxes drugs
d cars wood, bales hides, ! box wax = pieces
castings, cars brick 80 boxes patent medicine.
10 nests tubs, cases baking powder cases
cherootS. { boxes clothing, : Dbl whisky, lfq
pkgs tobacco, % cases smoking tobacco. -
crates machines, , bbls castings. 10 boxes mats.
lot furniture, Q ca, es cigarettes / lot buggies
Fer Central Railroad. Dec 1882. bales cot
ton 10 bales yarn, So bales domestics car
nails bale hides, bills leather. box trees. 81
pkgs tobacco, ., 600 lbs bacon 7S3 bbIs rosin y
hols whisky. 20 bbis spirits turpentine. 30 half
hbis whisky, 5fl bales hay, - bbls syr,ip cars
cotton seed, car cotton seed meal, 6 cars coal
10 bbls cotton seed oil. S cars brick. buggies
50 boxes hardware, u bales plaids $50 bhls grits
~ pkgs furniture. 40 tons pig iron, 10 shoats
40 bolS beer, l2S hf bbls beer - bbls -four. 20i
empty bbls, horse. 80 cars lumber iron safe
car doors. sashes etc "a casks clay, 5 cars
railroad iron, cases liquor, $40 bbls vegetables
% pkgs mdse, pkgs plows.
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SHIPPING INrELLIGENCR.

htIlAfJSG AAdANAJ-rdlS DAY
SuNhisES. .sfs.s. 1:05
sun SETS '''s' ..--,-r--r.ss..- ss.ss 455
HIGH WATER AT SAVANNAH. . .6:2i ", (.2a N
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ARRIVED UP FROM TYBEE YESTERDAY.
Bark Elizabeth (Nor) Knudsen, to load for
Europe-Paterson, Downing & Co.
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NOTICE. TO MARINERS

branch Of the United states photographic
Office has been established In the Custom House
at Savannah. Notice to mariners, pilot charts,
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DEPARTED YESTERDAY.
SAILED YESTERDAY.

Steamer Ethel. Carroll. Cohen's Bluff and way
landings-W I Gibson, Manager.
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aud all nautical Information will be furnished
masters OF vessels free OF charge. Captains are
requested to call st the Office
JoHS WATERS
Ensign L \. in charge, pro tenn.
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ARRIVED AT TYBEE YESTERDAY.
Bark Catharine (Sw) Myra, Barcelona, in bal
last-Holst 6 Co.
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COMMERCIAL.
SAVANNAH MARKETS.
-r1cE OF TnE MORNING NEWS

G., rsIan1s-The market continues quiet and
- a. quotations. There was a little better
~ 1s,,i-v and more business doing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
The AMERICAN LION.
Pec6llarities of Savage Beast That In.
habits the Far West.

Pec6llarities of Savage Beast That In.
habits the Far West.
Chambers Journal.1
The mountain lion of North America is
one Ofthe most dangerous of the wild ami
mails which are found in the mountains of
the Far West Although called a lion,
yet this animal bears no resemblance to
the African lion except so far as its
ferceness is concerned. 1t really belongs
to the same family as the wildcat or
catamount, but is of much greater size, gen.
orally being about as large in body and limb
as full-grown sheep dog. 1t is rarely seen
in the vicinity of settlements, except driven
thither by hunger, when it will attack
cattle, sheep, horses, or poultry, and at
times human beings. But, as a general
thing, if not moIested, 1t will not attack
human beings, though, if wounded, there is
no animal which will make more desper-
ate fight, regardless of consequences.
1t cannot DE driven off from an attack as
long as life lasts; it must be killed to be
beaten. Its chief popularity is its cry,
which the most experienced hunter has at
times mistaken for the wall of child in
distress. This feature makes the beast more
dangerous, especially if he should establish
his lair in the vicinity of settlement, he
cause, unless a person is an old-timer, he
will be deceived by that cry whenever
he hears it. 1t is the most perfect imitation
of a child's wall of lament ever heard,
more perfect than the cleverest mimic could
utter.
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boy returns and then ascertain accurately
just how the addressed party received tht
missive. Especially is this said to be cor
rect hypothesis when the sender is youns
man and the receiver young woman, OF
vice versa. But this is conjecture, How
ever, there is no doubt of the decadence of
system which a capricious public clamoreC
for vigorously, hailed with satisfaction anC
wearied of eventually.
The chief place of interest in the corri
dors of the postoffice is the stamp window
The dark, good d-natured man who passes ou
the stamps so expertly and makes changt
so affably is Mr.. L. Celia. He is q Ions
suffering employe Of the Government, anC
has about as lively time passing out an
sequiFalent for the 81, 200 ne handles every
day as could be imagined. Some of the
stamp combinations thrown at him would
battle the most expert mathematician.
Here is one taken at random from the
calls which come every five seconds in the
course of the day:
''GIve me 81 2-cent, / 10-cent, c
postal cards, l stamped envelope, 2
lettersheets and the rest in 1-cent stamps, u
says a breathless individual balancing
a dollar of our daddies on the abbreviated
j
10-cent, q; 6 postal cards, 78; stamped en-
velope, 81; 2 letter sheets, 81, IL 1-cent
stamps rounding up the dollar. But the
stamp seller has the goods piled in the GUS
TONER'S hand and the dollar in the drawer
before the traditional "Jack Robinson
could be said. His mental arithmetic
seems entirely infallibIe, and when change
is involved in the transaction the money
and the stamp appear with truly
MARVELLOUS RAPIDITY.
The large majority of stamps sold are 3
cent. A great many 5-eent stamps are sold
fe-e for foreign mail, a stamp of that de-
nomination taking half ounce of letter
material anywhere in Asia. If the letter
exceeds halfa an ounce in weight the foreign
countries light onto it for the extra postage.
The letter must be of exact weight for trans
mission to Australia, u good cents is what
the service demands.
The Scent letter-sheet, which is a sheet of
note paper and a stamped envelope COM
bined, is highly ingenious postal device
for which the last national administration
was responsible, but it has never had any
share of popular favor for some unexplained
reason. The sheets were not printed by the
Government, but by private firm which
furnished the sheets to the Government and
awaited the results on the sales. The latter
have not been a remarkable financial
achievement The inventor of the device
was smart enough to secure fat sum from
the firm which went into the scheme and
has since doubtless had occasion to congrat-
ulate himself upon his sagacity.
One of the most interesting features of
the arrangement of the corridor are the lock
boxes, of which there are 1,022. There
never were any call lock boxes in the Pitts
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turned the girl, with a certain contempfhous
resignation.
'sOh, yes" struck in another voice, which
seemed to belong to the female of the first
speakers species, and to be its equal in age
and temper; "and reckon you, saw 3 jay
bird on tree or squirrel on the fence, and
either Of 'em was more important to you
than your own brother"
aSteve didn't come by the stage and
didn't send any message" continued the
yonng girl, with the same coldly resigned
manner. "No one had any news Of him,
and, as I told you before, I didn't expect
any"
want any?" said the old man, sneeringly.
''Much you inquired No; orter hev gone
myself, and would if was master here,
instead.of me and your mother bein' the
dust the yearth beneath your feet"
The young girl entered the house, followed
by, the old man, passing an old woman
seated by the window, who seemed TO be
nursing her resentment and large Bible.
which she held clasped against her shawled
bosom, at the same moment. Going to the
wall she hung up her large hat and slightly
shook the red dust from her skirts as she
continued her explanation in the same deep
NoASC1 NAbn . SCA soA4 AAgnOtOuy VI AoSAS 1A4
possibly Of purpose and practice also.
"You and mother know as we'll as do,
father, that Stephen is no more to be de-
pended upon than the wind that blows It's
three years since he set foot here-it's three
years since he has been promising TO come,
and even getting money to come, and yet be
has never showed his face. though be has
been dozen times within five miles Of this
house. He doesn't come, because hedoesn't
want to come. As to your going over to
the stage Office, I went there myself at tbe
last moment to save you the modification Of
asking questions Of strangers that they
know have been dozen times answered
already"
There was such ring Of absolute truth
fulness, albeit worn by repetition, in the
young girls deep honest voice that for one
instant her two more emotional relatives
quaiIed before it; but only for a moment.
"ThaHs rightp shrilled the old woman.
"Go on and abuse your own brother. It's
only the fear you have that he'll make his
fortune yet and shame you before the father
and mother you despise.
The young girl remained standing BY the
window, motionIess and apparently passive.
as if receiving an accepted and usual pun
ishment. But here the, elder woman gave
way to sobsa aud some incoherent snn1iing,
at which the younger went away. Whether
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for some reason it has steadily retrogressed
in its employment as means of Transports
tion of messages. Not over 175 letters per
diem are dropped into the box at present,
and it is understood that this state of affairs
is noticed all over the country. Collec-
tions are made from the box every half
hour, and the special messenger boys are
under strict injunctions not to tarry by the
wayside while en- route with the accelerated
missives. Despite every effort to push the
service it is steadily declining in patronage.
An expert in human nature says that one
reason why the district messenger boy is
the favorite emissarv for sudden or impor.
tant messages, is because the person who
sends the letter can wait around until the
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CHAPTER I.

It had grown dark on Burnt Ridge. Seen
from below, the whole serrated crest that
had glittered in the sunset as if its inter
stices were eaten by consuming fires, now
closed up its ranks of blackened shafts and
became again harsh and sonber chevaux de
frise against the sky. A faint glow still
fingered over the red valley road as if it
were its own reflection, rather than anv
light from beyond the darkened ridge.
Evening was already creeping up out of
remote canons and along the furrowed
fanks of the mountain, or settling on the
nearer woods with the slow homecoming Of
innumerable wings. At point where the
road began to encroach upon the mountain
side in its slow winding ascent the darkness
had become so real that young girl ca nter
ing along the rising terrace found difficulty
in guiding her horse, with eyes still dazzIed
by the sunset fires.
In spite of her precautions, the animal
suddenly SHE'D at some object in the OBJ.
scured roadway, and nearly unseated her.
The accident disclosed not only the fact that
she was riding in mans saddle, but foot
and ankle that her ordinary walking dress
was too short to hide. It was evident that
her equestrian exercise was extempore, and
that at that hour on the road she had not ex-
pected to meet company. But she was ap-
parently good hOrsewoman, for the mis-
chance that'might have thrown less. .prac-
tical or more timid rider seemed of little
moment to her. With strong hand and
determined gesture she wheeled her fright
ened horse back into the track and rode him
directly at the object. But there she her
self slightly recoiled-for it was the body of
man lying in the road.
As. she leaned forward over her horses
shoulder she could see by the dim light that
he was miner, and that, though motion
less, he was breathing stertorously. Drunk,
no doubti-an accident of the locality
alarming only to her horse. But although
she cantered impatlently forward, she had
not proceeded 100 yards before she stopped
refectively and trotted back again. He had
not moved. She could now see that his
head and shoulders were covered with
clOds of earth and gravel, and smaller frag-
ments lay at his side. A dozen feet above
him on the hillside there. was a foot-trail
which ran parallel with the bridle-r road; and
occasionally overhung it 1t seemed posi-
BILE that he might have fallen from the trail
,and been stunned. -
Dismounting, she succeeded in dragging
him to safer position by the bank. The
act discovered his face, which was young
and unknown to her. Wiping it with the