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Eastern and
fiddle States

Thieves who got into Casper Berry &
Co.'s liquor store, at Boston made a
$4,000 haul.
To escdpe electrocution, N. v.
Strait, the condemned Elmira IN, W
murderer, tried to cut his throat with
a tin cup handle.
With 100 passengers, bound for the
Women's Christian, Temperance Con,
ventioa, at London, the steamer Berlin
sailed from New York.
Charles Gibbin serving a life rem
teuce in Sing Sing for murder, has
been pardoned by Governor Morton in
order to allow him to die at home. 5
Rather than stand trial for keeping
eontraband liquor, John 0'Brien, q
Brooklyn saloonkeeper, shot himself.
The bill to punish trst degree arson
with 40 years in prison was signed by
Governor Morton, OF New York.
The executors ofthe late John Roach
have fled in the Surrogate's Court in
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Cable sparks.

The French forces in Tamatave,
Madagascar, are badly crippled by sick
ness.
Ex-Queen Marie Of Hanover, moth
er of the Duke of Cumberland, is dying
at K~issIngen from pneumonia.
To escape torture at the hands of
Turkish officials a prominent chief at
|Treblzond, Armenia, committed sui
eide.
By n collision between the French
steamer Abeille and an Austrian steam
ship the latter vas sunk but no lives
were lost. )
The squadron which is to represent
Spain in the naval pageant at Kiel
sailed from Ferrol already.
The Chief of Police of Vienna will
be removed because of his inability to
suppress Socialist disorder.
Oscar Wilde is now said to be very
i'll and in a fit of melancholia.
A bill to tax heavily absentee land
lords was passed by the New South
Wales assembly. g
w. k. Castle has been appointed
Hawaiian Minister to Washington, to
succeed l.. A. Thurston.
The nomination of SAID Pasha as
Grand YIzier of Turkey is said to have
no relation to Armenian questions.
Arthur G. Van Sittart, secretary of the
British Legation at Munich, has been
gazetted British Consul at Chicago.
Eleonora Duse, the actress, is fatally
ill with consumption, and although
still appearing on the stage, her per-
manent retirement will be forced o
Miss Bronson, a neice of Mrs. Rich
ard Watson Glider, wife of the Century
editor, will be welded at Vienna to an
Italian army officer. l
The United States cruiser Marble
head has arrived at Hamburg.
NJ. Zaimis, a partisan of Premier
Delyannis, was elected president oil the
Greek Chamber.
Minister Rosebery has returned to
London from his yachting trip, and a
Cabinet council will be held.
Anthrax is doing terrible execution
among Australian sheep, and cattle
men fear England will stop all ship
ments.
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Erect Of the Sc. Upon Animals.

All animals when taken for a sea
voyage become tanner, and even the
widest seem to be overcome by q GER
tain feeling Of dependence and help
lessnesa Monkeys generally suffer
greatly from NAL de mer. Birds are az
BY the sea, for they never sing
nuring q voyage. Fowls and geese SOC
become thin. and cocks generally cease
% crow; ducks. however, retain their
usual spirits and appetite. Cats and
dogs usually become very unhappy on
me sea; the former turn shy and hide;
me latter keep as close as possible to
their human protectors. Oxen, buffa-
o and horses make friends with
strange attendants more quickly dur
ing 2 sea voyage than on sho5e. Pigs
sucks and snakes are tbaS fly cres-
snres mat are apparently GIly unin.
Ny the ana 8tov
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News in Brief.

Stephen Fl. Foss, of Pennington,
VT, has a violin made by Stainer, the
Tvrolese manufacturer, about 1861.
lit is said that dew will not form
on some colors. While a yellow board
will be covered with dew. a red or
black one beside it will be perfectly
dry.
Arizona has produced more than
$50, 600, 900 of precious meta s. The
exports of ,ilver have exceeded So
600, 900 a year, and copper 81, 0O0,-
600.
w. H. Gray, OF the Andover
Mass. J Press, can stick type in German,
Greek, Syriac, Turkish Arabic, Samar-
itan, EthIopic, Hebrew, Coptic and
English.
The use of telephone bells is about
to be discontinued. They will be su-
perseded by flash lights from an cleo
trio lamp.
The Japanese begin building their
houses at the top. The roof is first
built and elevated on n skeleton frame.
Then 1t affords shelter to the workmen
from storms.
IRENE ndous prices are being paid
in London tor prime poultry. A )o3e
or a pair of ducklings cost a guinea
about S.. 25l.
The nursery trlcy Gle has appeared
in London. 1t contains two seats, one
for the mistress and one for the mail
and her charge, and has two pairs of
pedals.
"A cup OF tea and q cracker taken
before a hearty meal, if you are tired,
| will fortify the stomach for the heavy
courses in prospect.
Henry Graham, of Thurston, Ky,
owns a gourd ifty-fvo years Did. 1t Is
| hve feet one inch i'll circumference
and holds one bushel aud nine quarts
| of oats.
1.-The sea otter produces the most
valuable of all furs. A single skin has
brought as high as 500.
"A scientist has recently declared
that the average speed of the transmits
sion Of the shock of an earth quake
Is 16, 900 feet per second
Edible suaIls to the amount of 230,-
O0o pounds are annually shipped to
this country from France AT the
place of expectation they are worth
about 81 % rer 100.
Sir b. W. Richardson dictated
to a photograph the whole of his
tw~elvepage article in the Asclepiad. 1t
was set up without a line of copy"
Animoslty is a mother of inventor,
The Russian crown was made by
an old time Genoese court ieweler
named Pauzie. 1t wa first worm by
Catherine the GREAT. 1t Is worth six
millions OF dollars.
Five feet four inches is now the
minimum standard OF height for re
~cruits for the British army.
Mrs Mary Lookhart, of Ensor,
Ky , has a very old ami valuable pow
der horn. 1t is an oxhorD of great
size, It was brought from Scotland
200 years ago.
AN electric pillow has been invented
in Germany and is said to work sue
oessfully.
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Frances new cruiser, lie Friant,
has been declsred to be almost an ideal
war vessel.
-Abram Atwood, q poultersr, of
Lewiston, Me-, sold a turkey TO a
patron, and the latter found in the
fowls crop a gold bosom pin worth
twice the price of the turkey.
-Argon IS still the bone of conten-
ton in British scientific circles.
Barley is mentioned on some of the
earliest Egyptian monuments
Perhaps the largest camellia in
existence is at the Piluitz castle near
Dresden, Germany. The tree Is
twenty four feet high and annually
produces about so, 900 blossoms.
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PENIS GROVE, N. j., FRIDAY. JUNE IA. 1896.

ear remember ner ma like she'd seen
her last. Her ma died. Yer mother
didn't git over that fer a long spell
seems sometimes like she never rot
over It plum, We know. But she amt
made much fuss. She knows a mans
got to run his own house an his own
folks. Once she got an idee she wanted
a carpet in the best room, but told her
OF how oilcloth 'ud wash. Shed not
have had the alabastine eff I hadn't
vowed I thought 1t kinder cheerful,
Them pictures too! / made her swaller
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the fac they was good enough fer me
That settled It."

the fac they was good enough fer me.
That settled it."
His voice, coarse In self-adulation,
Jared harshly IN the hot silence.
"'Nother time" he went on retro
spectiyely, "she set her heart on get,
tin a PLAINLY. She'd been in foreign
parts with her folks when she was 8
girl an had studied music. But l sex
my foot down on that. She might gil
a organ, l told her, II she could manage
to make the price of 1t out'n her butter
an egg money. That wouldn't cost
sech a heap. We did git one-but she
amt never teched It One thing she
did git to have her way in-that was
eddicatin' you. / didn't hold out agin
that after we'd had more'n a couple d
talks. Eddicatin', I say, don't hurt q
man, but a woman amt got no use fei
It All her'n never done yer mother
no good. Twas only after she quit
talkin' Of readin' and goin' back East
some time an hayin' n flower garding
an sech fool talk ez that, I begun to
feel right comfortable. You want to
break in Atty well at the first. We gil
along right pleasant now-don't We
motherf"
A woman who had been beautiful, a
woman bent and prematurely aged, a
woman with a t%witching, n face,
sunken, gllttering eyes, and tTemulous,
toilworn hands, rose stifiy from her
chair by the window-the window that
looked out on the stretch of arid earth.
She laughed a bitter, ,ieeting laugh.
81 haven't gonc mad" she said,
"though I feared I would. l haven't
died-though I hoped / mighty Yes.
I've been broken In. / hope you're
proud of It As for my sons wife"
The boy met her glance fash2ngly.
"Never fear, motherl" That look said.
sac left the room. Her husband gazed
uneasily after her. Mother" he re.
marked, seems a Dit upset But she
amt got nothin' to complain on. She's
ollus had shelter an enough to eat"
"Your cattle have had that"
"See herei You be goin' to take my
advice about Atty, amt you? You be
goia' to treat her foolish notions like
done mother's?"
The young man clenched his hands
hard. Words Of fierce Indignation
sprang to his lips. but trembled there
unuttercd. He turned abruptly and
went out. He found his mother in the
kitchen. She looked up at him timidly,
He bent and kissed her with passionate
reverence. Her answering smile was
almost n of happiness.
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MODERN M~ALTHuSlAN

! can't git no job,
'Taint nc good to try1
There is too many born
An there amt enough die;
There's too big a crowd
Fer a man to wedge in;
/ can't find no job,
An | shan't try ag'in:
You can't git no job
In the kentry or town.
There are too many folks in the Wort,
An there amt jobs enough to go roun.
Wen the world wuz cut out
Twas tut out too small;
'Twarn't made big enough
Fer its purpose at all;
The crowd is damned in
In a terrible cram;
Best thing you can do
Is git out er the jam;
So I've crawied from the crowd
An I've Jest settled down.
There Is too many folks in the worl',
An there amt enough jobs to go roun'.
My talents Is large,
But they've no room to grow
The worl Ia too small
An they don't get n 10 show,
"An'," ser I to myself,
"You, Se~mperonius Lang,
Clear out er this mob,
An git out er this gang,
For the mob'l Jest crowd
An Jest trample ye down.
There Is too many folks In the worl',
An there amt enough Jobs to go roun-:
An 1t don't do no good,
An I amt goin' to look,
Fer all places Is filed
An the Jobs Is all took.
The worl' 1t wuz built
On q too narrer plan,
So I'm a shut-out
An leftover man,
So what Is the good
For to rush up an DOWN.
There Is too many folks In the worr.
An there amt enough Jobs to go roun'
There wuz Jest one job left
In Bill Green's cotton mill,
All the one I could find
In the hull wort to fill.
But I've SIGH a big heart
This one job Of my life
lest give It up
G~en'rous-like to my wife.
An there amt no more jobs,
So I've Jest settled down.
There Is too many folks in the worr,
An there amt enough Jobs to 60 roun;
Sam Walter Foss.
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RACE HORSE
TO THE PLOW.

EHEMIAH CAR.
TIERS grim face
W a s full of
amazement when
his son finishes
speaking. 1t was
not often that the
boy talked out
not often. indeed.
that he ~exchang-
cd an avoidable
word with his
father. The lat
ter was gaunt
eathern-skinne
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Pennsylvania
xz- Items.

A LOT of shoes, evidently stolen from
an Allentown store, have been found
hidden, in Pottstown.
Stone Mason Enos Mates committed
suicide by drowning while temporarily
insane at South Easton.
Michael Mooney was sent to jail in
Pottsville for stealing Frank Miller's
cow and trying to fix up the COW 80
that Miller couldn't recognized it.
For the third time IN its history the
Pennsylvania Steel Works, at Steelton,
is rolling heavy rails, 100 pounds to the
yard, for the "Pennsy."
Fifteen-year-old Thomas Sweeney
was killed at Pittston by the explosion
OF d gun he was examining, and Gui-
seppe Trove the gun holder, was ar
rested!
A cIiId of Augustus Smith, while
playing near Reading, fell into the
canal and was drowned.
Accused of stealing a horse and
wagon from Isaiah Hampton, Matthias
Rambo, Of Bridgeport, was jailed.
While playing peacemaker in a fight
at Mount Carbon, Anton Gallo had n
eye gouged out and was also badly
beaten.
To remove a corn from her toe Miss
Katie Erb, of Pottsville, used carboilc
acid, and may lose her log in conse-
quence. .
A Lock Haven inventor is construct
ing an electric wagon for general use'
A charter has been granted to the
Myerstown Water Company, capital
500, 900.
Failing to see his wife al he wished
at Allegheny City, julie Vogel sent a
bullet through his head
G. B. Greeley has been appointed
Fourth -clsss postmaster at CrenshaW'
vice w. S. Steel. removed.
Falling downstairs with a lighted
lamp ia her hand, Mrs. Frederick
| Wilt, of Allentown, was burned to
death.
A night watch has been set over
samuel Carpenter, in Easton jail, to
prevent another attempt at suicide.
Three girls are under the doctors
care and over a dozen dogs have been
shot as the result of the visit to Tower
City of a mad dog.
Berds County Prison inspectors have
Appealed for a pardon forWilliam Web,
Der, who was sentenced to be hanged
for Numbering his father-in-law, Justus
Klemmer.
Agent II. R. Wolf, representing the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
of New York, at Ardmore and Over,
brook. ,.as convicted at Norristown OF
'embezzIing $11S.s9. 3
Eighteen mules were ~suffocated in
Pittston mine owing to break in the
ventilator fans.
Founzo Levento blew out the gas in
a Pittston hotel and it is doubtful If hi
shall GOV
The bridge on the Jersey Contra
Railroad, near Hometown, and which
is 1859 feet high, is being replaced by
an iron structure.
Anew 10, 900, 700 reservoir will in
few days to add Readings water supply
Ex-Burgess W. S. Roger is the only
living charter member of the Potts
town Patriotic Order Sons of America
which has just enjoyed its 9th ami
yeesary. l
Forest fires in the region of Bradfor'
were checked.
/ Major Sam Losch is a candidate 70
Cf6troller of Schuyikill County.
q frsua
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ncoked-nosed, a tuft of yellowish-gray
whiskers on his chin. and a crafty
sparkle in his narrow eyes.
$50" he said. in a voice Of irrita-
ton, you're a-goin' to git married. >
notice ye didn't ask eff We kim"
The young man. his brown, clean.
shaver, straightforward face set with
reserve and resolution. looked Mt the
elder.
II am Of age-and I have talked II
over with mothers
eyer motherI"
The contempt in the tone stung him
who heard.
"Yes." very quietly. "Have you any.
thing to say"
"Not less I give you a bit Of advice"
the old man replied, with a chackle.
"See here, now Don't let her git emmy
nonsense in her head In the beSinnin'.
Squelch It then an thar. an yell have
peace in yer life. an prosper like I've
done. It's Atty Greaves ye're wantin'
"a girl that has been to boardIn' school
and hes a PLAINLY, an ben set up by her
folks ez 1t we're. Yen have to git the
whip hand Of her at hrst-that's what
I done with yer mother"
There was silence In the room. It
was a d~isagreeable silence. and a de-
Icidedly unpleasant room The "best
room" to be sure. but not on that ac-
count less-perhaps more-repellant
and ugly. The floor was covered with
yellow and red oilcloth. the walls were
"alabastlned" an UNDERGONE pink, the
heater stood In Its accustomed place,
although the August dust was sitting
In at tho loose easement, the shelf over
the organ held some framed photo
graphs and hymn books, wooden chairs
were ranged rigidly against the wall;
a picture on the wall. framed In silver
gilt, represented q horse belonging to
the master Of the house, a horse that
had once won third money at q country
fair, another picture represented ada
mantine fruit the original feryent
tones Of which had been reduced to q
mellow monotone by years Looking
through the small window on the north
one's gaze colided with a huge rcd barn.
through that on the east one looked on
q barren tract OF suu-baked earth.
Eyer mother he'd lotG Of queer no
dons when she come here" continued
the old man. "Her folks were well of.
She'd ben brought up in a city an eddi-
Gated One thing. she'd q hankerin'
fer pritty clothes. Not that she wanted
silk an velvet like Hawkins wife, an
their farm amt but a quarter section,
but she'd DO fer havin' white stun at
her neck Of a mornin', an putin on
smother gownd by the time 1t come
evenin', an soch ridiculous notions.
Then she wanted to take q magazine.
What'd we want q magazine ferf I
was a-takin' the Giiead Register-the
paper Of the place I come from-the
Farmers Friend, an the Police Enter
prise, 50 I didn't see no need fer o
magazine. That was Of the nrst
differences. Then she wanted to have
her ma come an stay q spell the winter
you were born hut law, / says, they's
old Sally Rankles, who'll be glad to
come fer q dollar an a half q week
What's the use Of beIn' at the expense
Of havin' yer ma, fer l expect shed
look to you to pay her way out Her
took bad not long after. They tele-
yraphed yer ma-sech wastei She
wanted to go. But 1 joked her out Of
Il Never said q word to rile her. but
lest lowed Ell how she couldn't hold
death back, an folks had to 60 when
lhelx QrsAtnx eallad saEn. An eha,d bet
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MlD-coNTlNeN1 EXPO.
Invitation to Governors to Meet and
Consider 1t.

Invitation to Governors to Meet and
Consider 1t.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 10 Upon his re-
turn from Milwaukee Governor Clough
will issue an invitation 10 the governors
Of 10 Northwestern states to send repre-
sentatives, or be present in person, at a
meeting to be held in Minneapolis Nov.
20 to consider the matter of mid con
tinent exposition in the Twin Cities in
1897 or 1898. The interested states are
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana,
Idaho, Oregon and Washington, which,
with Minnesota, bring the number up
to II. In addition to the governors the
mayors of all leading cities in these
states will be invited to tie present.
This will be the governors part of the
work. The commercial bodies of Min
neapolis and ST. Paul will send out in
>vitations to the commercial bodies of
these states, and SO the whole industrial
field will be covered.
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HAND OF RUSSIA.
She W IL ie ore q to Take Steps
Necessary to Make Korea
independent.
This Stat ment in Response to q
Note From the Japanese
Government.
Sensational Statements Regard.
ing Venezuela Made by The
st. James Gazette.

PARIS, Oct. ia special dispatch to
The Eclair from St. Petersburg says
that IN exchange of communications
has occurred between the Russian gov
ernment and the Japanese minister at
St. Petersburg, with reference to the re-
cent disorders at Seoul, capital of Korea.
It is added that the Japanese minister
assured the Russian government that
the culprits would be punished. But
Russia is said to have replied that she
would be forced in consequence of the
riots to take steps considered necessary
to preserve order, and to make the
Korean government independent Ct for
eign interference
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SAID TO BE SIGNIFICANT.
Ex-< ecretary william, G. whitney Getting
Ready for Hts Canvass.

Ready for Hts Canvass.
NEW YORK, Oct. l9.-It has leaked
out that at the annual meeting of the
Metropolitan Traction company on
Tuesday Mr.. William G. Whitney de-
clined reelection as director.
Charles r.. Henderson, the president
Of the company, also retired. 1t is un-
derstood that Mr.. Whitney's retirement
has no significance so far as the COM
pany is concerned, and that he is still
one of the largest holders of the COM
pany's securities. Politically, however.
his withdrawal from the directorate Of
the Metropolitan Traction company
is of importance. The ex-secretary
will, it is said, retire from the manage
ment of all properties in which he is in
terosted, while retaining his stock hold
in&' therein. 1t is inferred from this
II It Mr.. Whitney is arranging his af-
f Is in such manner a, will leave him
free to push his canvass for the presi-
dency.
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A Dairy School.

WnLMAR, Mimi, Oct. ia dairy
school has opened here, conducted by
Superintendent 0. G. Gregg and Pro
fessors Carlyle and Hacker The dairy
business in all its details was considered
and explained. The superintendent
made speech strongly pleading for the
COWS" He said we Were exporting
44-cent wheat and importing lS-cent
cheese, and he was sorry it was so. In
raising wheat the farmers are compet-
ing with the cheapest human labor upon
earth.
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NEARLY ALL LOST.

Destruction Of - Chinese Troop Ship Ii
Confirmed.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 9.-Additional ad-
vices from Kin Chow, near which place
on Wednesday las; the steamship Kun
Pal was destroyed by an explosion which
sunk her in shallow water, confirms
former advices. The vessel was loaded
with troops. The explosion, the cause
of which is unknown, completely
wrecked the forward portion of the
steamship, and only "a persons of those
on board were saved.
LATEST MARKET REPORT.
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HoNG KONG, Oct. l9.-Dispatches ~
ceived here from the island of Formosa
announce that Takao, OH the west coast
of that island, was captured on Oct. 16
by the Japanese. The dispatches also
state that the japanese intend to bonn
bard Tai Wan Flu, the Chinese capital
OF the island. That city is held by the
black flag leader, who refused to sur
render Internationally, and heavy fight
ing resulted.
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CREED IN HARD LUCK.

Third Disastrous Fire in the Famous
Mining Camp.
DENVER, Oct. IA dispatch from
Greed says that all the frame buildings
in the town have burned. This is the
third disastrous fire in that famous
mining camp
Thirty-four business houses are de-
stroyed, including the post Office office,
the two newspaper offices, the Sentinel
and the Candle: The loss is estimated
here at $4,000.
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ST.. PAUL, Oct. l9.-The cases of the
Sioux City, O'Neill and Western Rail
way company against the Manhattan
Trust company. Hubbard, as assignee.
against J. Kennedy Tod ct al. and Tod
against Hubbard are being heard by the
judges of the United States circuit
court of appeals. The cases involve the
failure of the Sioux City syndicate,
against which the Great Northern has a
claim of $5OO,OOO
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STRIKE TURNS LOCKOUT.
Bicycle Manufacturers at Toledo shut Up
Shops.

shops.
TOLEDO, O., Oct. 10 The strike has
turned into IL lockout. Thursday the
toolmakers in all the bicycle factories,
except the Viking, ana in the machine
shops of the city struck for q
10 per cent advance in wages
The manufacturers association de-
clined to accede to the demand and
have posted notices on the doors Of their
establishments announcing that they
are closed. This makes nearly 5000
men who areidle. Not bicycle fac
tory is at work in any department ex-
cept the Viking. The foundries are at
work, but otherwise everything in iron
and steel manufacturing is at a stand
still.
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Favorable FIR Fast Time.

Boston, Oct. 19.-The battleship In
diana left her anchorage below Boston
light at S a. III. for her official speed
trial over the Cape Ann course. The
weather conditions are favorable for
making good showing.
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MANKATo, Mimi, Oct. 19.-The grand
lodge. Sons Of Herman, wound up with
a typical German social. All the old
officers were reelected. It was decided
to raise the initiation fee to a minimum
Of IS and annual dues from II to &c.
The time for grand lodge meeting was