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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1902-03-21
Une Prophetic de Napoleon

Paris. LIE "Petlt JOurnaI pu-
bile les souvenirs dun anclen jour-
naliste quill ne nomme pas ct par
mi lesquels nous remarquons ce
qui suit:
"C'6tait en- 1862, la guerre de
Secession battait son plein en-
Amerique. Dix Etats du Sud re-
vendiquaient leur autonomie con-
tire les Americans du Nord. Je
r6digeais alors le "Courrier des
Deux-C Charentes', q Saintes. Je
pris parti pour le Sud.
"Je disais q nos adversaires:
"Discutons Pint6ret majeur qu'au-
raient la France et~PEurope voir
Sc disloquer un Etat gigantesque
qui, dams un demi-si6cle, pou1ra
presenter un peril 6conomique ct
meme politique majeur pour notre
vieille Europe"
"J'avais envoy6 quelques num6-
ros du "Courrier des Deux- Cha
rentes", au hasard, q Napoleon
III.
eau mois de mai de cette meme
aimee, Je sollicitai de pempereur
une audience. Je fus 6tonn6 de re-
cevoir presque imm6distement Ia
Wis de me rendre. le dimanche sui
want, aux Tuileries.
"Apres avoir expose le but de
ma demande d'audience, je crus
que Pempereur allait me cong6-
dler, lorsqu'il me dit: "J'ai lu,
monsieur, votre Courier des
Deux-C -Charentes''. Vous voyez
juste. Les Etats-Un1s seront avant
longtemps, la grande ennemle
commerciale, industrlelle, mariti-
me ct mllitaire de l'Europe. Et 81,
par impossible, une alliance SO fall
salt jamais entire les Etats- Unis ct
rAngleterre, la vieille Europe ct
la France devraient Sc resigner a
des queries formldables, renouve-
ler contre les nouveaux allies, ou
le blocus continental, ou lancer
contre eux des tariffs douaniers
tells, que lie march6 europ6en serait
ferm6 de fait q pAngleterre ct aux
Etats- Unis. L'int6ret du monde Sc
rait que les Etats-Unis fussent
bris6s ct s6par6s en- cinq ou six
puissaDces rivales.
-"Mais, sire, vous pouvez tout.
Pourquoi ne pas prendre parti
pour les Etats du Sud?
"-Oui, je puls tout avec lopi-
Mon, je ne puis rien sans ellie. Et
lei, ellie ne serait pas avec mol.
Ellie nest pas encore mdre pour
ces provisions q tongues 6ch6ances.
Et lon m'appelleralt esclavagiste
| 80. Continuez q precher dams lie
desert. >. mais vous etes dams lie
vrai. II fandrait morceler pAmeri-
que.'
CIT il me quitta.
"C'est pour atteindre ce but de
preservation de pEurope ct de Ia
France contre les envah1ssements
des Etats-Unis dams la politique
de lancien monde, quill fit pexp6.
dition du Mexique. II voulait alta.
cher aux flames de pUnion ameri.
caine un grand empire qui put lui
faire contrepolds.
"Je revis Napoleon Ill en- 1867
aprAs le drame de Queretaro!
I'll me dit, tres emu: "Ma poll
tique en Am6rique ma pas 6tt
comprise. Mais la France ct pEu
rope me rendront justice ayant III
demi-si6cle."
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1902-03-21
LIE SOURIRE

Quill est myst6rieux, mais par
fait, le m6canisme qui transmet
les emotions de Fame a la figure
ct les y peint avec plus de rapid
t6 ct de precision que le pinceau le
plus habile.
DE tous les traits du visage,
sauf les yeux peut-6tre, les levres
Sc pretent 10 plus facilement q
Interpretation des sentiments qui
agitent notre etre.
lie rire ct le sour1re sont loin
d'etre synonymes ct sont provo
qu6s par des causes souvent bien
differences. LIE rire est bruyant le
sourire est paisible. LIE rire est
semblables au vent qui remue
puissamment les eaux de la mer;
le sourire, a la brise qui en- ride
l6g6rement la surface.
II y deux sortes de rire: le RI
re spontan6, le ha! ha! 81 conta-
gieux, qui Went du c@ur ct qui
indique un caractAro bon ct jovial,
ct le rire r6f6chi, le hi! hi! qui ma
rien de franc nj de joyeux.
lie sourire a beaucoup plus de
nuances dispersion. II exprime
entire autres sentiments, la joie, le
commencement, la reconnaissance,
le m6pris, le d6dain, le sarcasme,
la douIeur meme, car lie sourire
est parfois plus path6th1que que
les larmes.
En- tout temps, d tout age, le
sourire qui Went dun c@ur est
plein de charme ct CONNIE un ray
on de soleil illumine le sentier
sombre de la vie.
Un sourire: ct la paix ct la joie
rentrent au foyer domestique Oh
rAgne la discorde. Un sourire: ct
l'ami qui vous await offens6 salt
que vous lui avez pardonn6; un
sourire, ct le pauvre qui vous tend
Ia main comprend quill a votre
sympathie avec votre aum6ne. LIE
premier sourire, avec quelle impa-
tJence on l'attend! Quelle joie il
cause au sein de la famille. Len
FAINT SQUIRT, ct pheureuse mere ou-
bile q Pinstant ses peines ct ses
fatigues, CO premier sourire en- est
la r6compense. Le dernier sourire,
adieu supreme dun etre aim6 que
la mort enl6ve, CONNIE nous en-
ch6rissons la m6moire!
Plus eficace que le meilleur cos
| metique, le sourire embelli la hgu-
re la moins attrayante. Quant au
rire, les m6decins nous assarent
quill ny rien de tel pour la SAN
t6. Voulez-vous vivre longtemps,
riez souvent ct de maniAre q se-
couer tout votre 6tre.
: Ne soyons done pas aware de nos
sourires puisqu'ils r6pandent la
ioie autour de nous ct que nous en-
recevons du bien nous-m6mes.
LOUISA KING.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1902-03-21
PAUL DuFAUD,
Commits franoaie
ETATS-UNlS
NEW-YORK

-D'apres ls "Dunn's Review,
il y a ell, aux Etats- Unis, pendant
la semaine qui Went de s'6couler,
l76 faillites contre 208 pendant Ia
semaine correspondence de lann6e
derni4re.
Pendant les deux premiers
mois de cette aimee, on constat6,
dams New York Agrandi, plus du
double de cas- de petite v6role que
pendant la periodic correspondent te
de pann6e derni6re.
LES m6decins charges par le
conseil d'hygiene de vecciner les
habitants de New York ont enva-
hi cent cinq maisons servant de
logement q des PEASANTS.
Prot6g6s par des policemen lis
ont pu, dams une seule soir6e, vac
ciner pres de 5000 personnes. On
estime que chaque m6decin en- a
vaccine une cinquantaine pour sa
part.
I'm certain nombre de tail
leurs de diamants belges sont ar
riv6s d'Anvers par le "Kensing-
tom. Ii y await longtemps qu'on
men await WI debarquer. [ s furent
aussitot dirig6s sur Ellis Island
pour y etre interrog6s, car on
croyait qu'ils avaient viol6 la loi
sur Immigration.
Ces ouvriers ont tous ME 6tre
venus dams ce pays en- vertu dun
contrat; lis ont declare qu'ils ne SO
connaissaient pas entire eux.
CONNIE il ny await aucun preu-
We de ce qu'on leur reprochait, on
les relach6s ct on leur a permis
de d6barquer.
Les autorit6s charg6es de la
surveillance de Immigration ont
eu, il y a quelques ann6es, bien
des tracas avec les tailleurs de dia-
mants belges. Quoique persuad6s
qu'ils viennent aux Etats- Unis en-
violation de la loi sur Pimmigra-
tion, elles mont jamais pu 6tablir
le fait.
Immigration des tailleurs de
diamants await commence aprAs
que le tariff douanier Wilson fut
mis- en- vigueur. Un grand nombre
d'ouvriers en- Belgique SO trouve-
rent sans travail ct lis 6migrerent
aux Etats- Unis.
Les 25 ouvriers qui arriv6rent
les premiers fond6rent entire eux
une union, dams le but d'empecher
le debarquement de nouveaux tail
leurs de dlamants.
Pendant deux ans, les autorit6s
charg6es de la surveillance de
Immigration current contlnuelle-
ment s'occuper de ceux qui arri-
vaient, punion formulant sans ces-
SO des plalntes contre eux. Depu1s
quelque temps, il en- 6tait d6bar-
que tres peu aux Etats-Uuis.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1902-03-21
EUROPE
PARIS

lie president du conseil, M.
Waldeck- Rousseau, qui await 6t6
bless6 dams un accident de voiture,
eat d tel point remis quill q pu sor-
fir.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1902-03-21

Avez-vous remarqu6 que, plu
une femme a d'esprit, plus les
mots qu'elle raconte de son b6b6
sont spirituels !?
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
Political Secrets.

Immediately after the Senate ad-
journsd Friday the committee on gen.
eral laws met and by a vote of to
reported unfavorably the Bland gu ar.
antine bill, which provided that the
office should ibe alternately held by
Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Mr.. Bland created something of a
sensation that night before the com.
mittee when be stated that Portsmouth
had only had the place twice when it
caught two governors napping.'
Chairman Barksdale probed a little
along this line, and Mr.. Bland stated
that Governor Tyler had no delegates
from Portsmouth before he was nomi-
mated. but when they voted for him at
Roanoke he promised them "anything
they wanted,' and that they put the
quarantine officer in an envelope and
he opened it on his inauguration day
and appointed their man.
He then stated that Portsmouth
would not give Governor Tyler vote
for the United States senate against
Senator Martin and then the quaran-
tine officer was lost to them.-Rich-
mond News.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
Growing Railroad Ties

Within five or six years there will
probably be several row of catalpa
trees stretching from Chicago to New
Orleans, a distance of about 900 mile.
They ale to be planted by the Illinois
Central Railroad, to provide the COM
pany with lumber for cross-ties in the
future. Over 100000 of the trees will
I be planted.
At first it was thought to set aside
one or two tracts on which to plant the
trees, but it has now been decided to
string the forest over the entire sys-
tenn, placing hundreds of trees on ev-
cry spot where there is any considera-
BILE room.
From Chicago to New Orleans the
trees will be planted in profusion. They
will not be set out after any pattern or
design, but will be dropped into the
ground around stations, around ware
houses and every place where they
may grow, and at the same time add
to the surrounding with their shade.
The contract for planting this i'm.
mense longitudinal forest has been let
to private firm. Agents of this COM
pany are now in the field locating
places where the larger number of trees
are to be planted.
Scarcity of timber for ties is the
cause of the planting of these trees by
the railroad. During the last two or
three years much difficulty has been
experienced by railroad officers in oh
tanning the proper timber for ties, and
the great amount used for this purpose
has drawn heavily on the lumber mar
kets of the country for the right kinds
of wood.
In addition to the trees the manage
ment of the Illinois Central will give
considerable attention to the beautify-
ing station grounds in other ways DUR
ing the coming summer. Three slarge
greenhouses are now being erected by
the company at champaign, ILL.,, where
flowers for the decoration of STATEN
grounds and tables in dining cars will
be raised.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
FEAST Of PASSOVER
ONE MONTH LATE
Jewish Leap Year Adds One Month to the
Calendar.

The celebration of the Jewish feas,
OF the Passover will be begun this veal
Oh Tuesday, April %, and will continue
for seven days.
The spring festival of the Hebrews
Is one month later this year than US.
ual, owing to the occurrence of leap
year, which>adds another month to
the calendar.
There are 354 days in the Jewish year
instead of 365, as in the civil calendar.
and the difference is made up in cycle
OF nineteen years by the addition of
seven leap years, each one including
an extra month, called the second Adar.
or twelfth month.
The Jewish Passover is observed with
no special formality. There are spe-
cial prayers in the Synagogues, and
unleavened bread is eaten in the He
brew homes, though this observance
is now kept rather in the spirit than
in the letter.
The feast of the Passover belongs
to the three joyous festivals of the
Jewish church, the other two being the
feast of Pentecost or the feast of
weeks, and the feast of booths, or the
harvest festival. The two solemn fast
days of the church are the New Year
and the Day of Atonement.
The Passover celebrates the exodus
from Egypt; the feast of the Pentecost,
The delivery of the law on Mount |
Sinai; and the feast of booths the |
protection and sojourn in the wilder
less. The new year and the day of |
Atonement are days of solemn refec-
ION and introspection.
In addition to the five Biblical festi-
rails there are two minor festivals on
he Jewish calendar, not observed
ervices in the synagogue, but in the
lone and the Sunday-school, they are
be feast of Dedication. which com
nemOrates the Maccabean victories
gainst the Syrians. and the feast of
Esther or Purim, which commemo-
ates the saving of the Jews by Esther
rom the plot of Haman.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
STILL HARD AT WORK.
Good Roads Association Considers
Spring a Splendid Time for
Missionary Work,

The Good Roads association is still
active in it's work of improving the
highways of the country. Winter and
spring is the time to make converts
to the good cause, because then the
roads are bad. This is big country.
and much of it is comparatively new.
The expense of proper road building
is great, but it will come gradually, as
it has in the older countries of Europe.
The aim in making road is to estab-
lish the easiest, shortest and most
economical line of travel, and that it
is therefore desirable that roads
should be firm, smooth, comparatively
level and fit for use at all seasons of
the year. They should be properly
located so that their grades shall be
such that loaded vehicles may be
drawn over them without >great loss
of energy. ;. properly constructed, the
roadbed graded, shaped and rolled,
and surfaced with the best available
material suited to their needs. The ex-
tension of rural mail delivery will en-
courage better road system.-Chica-
go Daily Sun.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
Good for Mr.. Ivey.

| Some time ago the secretary of tt
treasury received unofficial informs
tion to the effect that J. w. Ivey, col
lect0r of customs at Sitka, had instruct
ed his deputy at Unalaska not to pei
NIT Canadian vessels presumably abou
to engage in pelagic sealing to Obtain
supplies at that port. The collectO
was directed to send a statement of th
fact to the department, and was in
formed that if such orders had beel
given they must be rescinded. Toda!
the department receive a telegram from
lvey, saying:
my instructions was not againsI
Canadian vessels actually engaged il
pelagic sealing, which is illegal ani
criminal when committed within the
marine jurisdiction of the United
States. If there is en- ancient treaty
between the United States and Great
Britain by which subjects can commit
depredations destroying American
property and depicting our revenue by
tens of thousands of dollars annually,
while our own citizens are denied these
privileges, the sooner such treaty is
abrogated the better. Your sOlicitude
regarding international complications
with Great Britain need cause you no
uneasiness, as the poaching season is
not yet opened. Your new collector
will arrive in time to enforce your Or
ders. My Americanism will not allow
me to rescind an order which gives
British subjects privileges within our
marine jurisdiction which are denied
our own people.
s'There is another matter that may
attract your attention. l have recent
ly issued orders to the deputy at Ska
quay, copy of which has been sent
you, which has put the Canadion Off
,ers located there out of business and
'ent them to their own territory. You
ire aware of the fact that this officer
became so offensive that he interfered
With American officers in the discharge
If their official duties, opened United
States customs mail. dominated over
he railway officials, Disseminated in
he order of shipment in favor of Can
dian merchandise against that ship.
,ed from Seattle. established a Can
dian quarantine at Skaguay, collected
moneys and performed other acts of
British sovereignty in port OF the
United States, such as hosting with
ravado the cross of st. George from
be flagstaff of his custom house.
ave sent the concern, bag, baggage,
ag and other paraphernalia flying /
ut of the country.
"Y GU may fear the shadow of inter-
ational complications and rescind
his order. but a Reed, an Olney or a
'laine would not.''
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
Would Smash the Club.

Ii members of the ''Hay Fever As
sociation" would use DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, the club
would go to pieces, for it always cures
this malady,-and Asthma. the kind
that battles the doctors-it wholly
drives from the system. Thousands of
once hopeless sufferers from Consump-
ton, Pneumonia, Bronchitis owe their
livss and health to it. It conquers
Grip. saves little ones from Group and
Whooping Cough and is positively
guaranteed for all Throat and Lung
troubles. SOC, 81 100 Trial bottles
free at b. F. Hughes.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
The Vice of Nagging

Clouds the happiness of the home.
but a nagging woman often needs belp.
She may be so nervous and rundown
in health that trifies annoy her. If she
is melancholy. excitable, trou bled with
loss OF appetite, headache, sleeplessness,
constipation or fainting and dizzy
spells, she needs Electric Bitters, the
most wonderful remedy for ailing wo
men. Thousands of sufferers from fe.
male troubles, nervous troubles. back.
ache and weak kidneys have used it.
and become healthy and happy Try
it. Only SOC. B. F. Hughes, guaran-
tee satisfaction.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
NEW ROAD MATERIAL.
bticky Mud, Known as Gumbo, BAKED
Over Wood Fires, Almost as
Good As Stone.

Nowhere in the United States are
| the present roads poorer or better
| ones more needed than in some parts
OF the Mississippi valley. The prob
lem of improvement in this region,
moreover, has seemed peculiarly diff
cult because there are no lodges of
rock of kind suitable for making
good road material.
But now, behold! out of the very
excess of badness-out of the sticky,
clinging, almost bottomless mud into
which the roads are converted every
spring and autumn-comes the ma
terial which is to work their salvation
This material is burnt gumbo, the very
mud which makes the roads so bad.
baked over wood. fires until it becomes
one of the best road-building ma terials
known.
The credit of making the first prac-
tical applicati ton of this discovery be-
longs to the railroads. For several
years they have been using burnt gum
bo as ballast for their road-beds in Il
Mnois, Missouri, Iowa and other states
of the middle west. It was first intend
ed as a substitute for crushed rock in
regions where rock could not easily be
obtained; but it demonstrated its su-
periority so plainly that ii is now used
extensively even where lodges are
abundant
The mud is really an impure, exceed
ingly sticky clay. The process of pre-
pairing it for use upon the road is very
simple. Cord wood is piled in low
pyramid eight or ten feet wide. Over
this is thrown three or four inches of
coal slack, and on this again is placed
from IL to 20 inches of mud. When the
wood is fired a slow combustion goes
on, which converts the mud into small, !
sharp-cornered and exceedingly hard |
pieces, so that the product has the ap-
pearance of red gravel.
The railroads find that they can
make and deliver the gumbo on board |
The cars at a cost of IS to 35 cents a |
cubic yard; but when burned in more |
primitive fashion and on smaller
scale, as is usually the case on country
the cost is slightly greater.
Roads covered with this material are
never muddy or dusty. They keep free
rom snow and ice, are slow to get out |
IF repair, and weeds or grass will not
row on them. The supply of mud is
unlimited, its preparation simple and
heap. A writer in the Review of Re-
7iews declares that five years of syste-
natic and intelligent work with burnt
,umbo would make the principal coun-
ry roads as passable all the year round
IS a paved city street, and at little
more cost than the amount now wasted
n working the road."-Youth's Com
,anion.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
Gooa Roads a Necessity.

Homeseekers seeking farming op-
portunities will not move into dis
trict where they will be mud bound for
half of the year. No man from other
parts of the country who is familiar
with better road conditions and has
learned to value them for his own
profit, comfort and convenience and
that of his family viii deliberately iso-
late himself in q country where he
cannot travel about except knee-deep
in mud and water. Good roads are q
necessity.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
Strenuous Meetfnu.

did you meet the head of the
house2" asked the man with the soap
samples.
NO. sighed the book agent, who
had been booted from the porch, II
think l must have met the foot. -
Chicago News,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21

Mendelssohn's wedding March, is
said to have been played for the first
time at a public Ceremony on the oc-
caslon of the marriage of the Prin ,ess
Royal to Frederick William, Crown
Prince of Germany, in 185e.-March
Ladies' Home Journal.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
lockjaaw From Cobw ebs.

Cobwebs put on cut lately gave a
woman lOckjaw. Millions know that
the best thing to put on cut is Buck
lens Arnica Salve. the infallible healer
OF Wounds, Ulcers, Sores. Skin Erup
tions. Burns. Scalds and Piles. 1t
cures or no pay. Only Csc at B. F.
Hughes, drug store.
GA ASTORIA.
Bsars the The Kind You Have Always Bought
''s'a'''' q [<W4Zzzzx
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Can't Keen 1t Secret.

The splendid work of DIR. King 4
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No such grand remedy for Liver and
Bowel troubles was ever known before.
Thousands bless them for curing Con-
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
Repairing
Neatly
Done

Never thought of such !;
sign for a medicine did you
Well, it's a good sign fe
SCOTS Emulsion. The bod
las to be repaired like othe
things and SCOTS Emulsion i,
the medicine that does it.
These poor bodies wear oui
from worry, from over-work.
from disease. They get thin
and weak. Some of the new
ones are not we'll made-and
all of the old ones are racked
from long usage.
SCOTS Emulsion fixes all
kinds. 1t does the work both
inside and out. 1t makes soft
bones hard, thin blood red,
weak lungs strong, hollow
places full. Only the best ma
terials are used in the patching
and the patches don't show.
through the new glow of health.
No one has to wait his turn.
You can do it yourself-you
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21
STAGING FOR CHIMNEY.

Light Framework That Is Easily
Slipped On and Needs No Nall
ing to the Shingles,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
IOc. 25c =. e. G. 9. fail. druggists refund money
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21

It is very often necessary to put a
staging about the house chimney. This
is usually done by mailing uprights to
the shingles, at the great risk of caus-
ing lsPks. The engraving shows light
and easily made framework that can
be slipped over the top of chimney
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-03-21

ARRANGEMENT OF STAGING.
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in moment, and that needs no mailing
to the shingles. It is always in readi-
ness for use, and will also be found
very convenient as a table, or bench,
for many other uses about the farm
that will readily occur to anyone
Orange Judd Farmer.
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How Are Your KIdneysv
Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney ills. Sam
pie free. Add. Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or N. z
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CONSUMPTION

10 like the constructor which drops its
coils around Its victim and slowly tight
ems them until life is extinguished.