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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-07-09
WILD FOWLS IN MEXICO.
A Corner of America Little known to

A Corner of America Little known to
Gunners.
There Is part of the American con-
tinent seldom visited by sportsmen,
which is hive of winter game. 1t
offers extraordinary inducements to the
amateur shooter and a wild field for
the market hunter. The chances are
that it will remain for years vast
natural reserve and place from which
will come the birds to repienish an
nually the decimated flocks that Win
ter on waters more easily reached.
The territory embraces the far-eXtend-
ing marshes of Northeastern Mexico.
1t is country Of lagunas, or sluggish
rivulets, scarce lower than the lands
through which they flow. The soil
is permeated with water which seeps
and trickles for miles. 1t grows an
endless variety of food and In enor-
nous quantities. Its ponds are in
thousands. Cover is everywhere
With every advantage of climate, wa
ter and food the ducks have sought it
in millions, particularly as they are
comparatively undisturbed, and the
same leaders visit it year after year,
taking their fresh offspring. 1t is
known as the lagunas district. Rail
ways have lodged it as far as pos
sible, as building through it is costly
in the extreme. 1t lies partly in the
State of Coahuila and partly in Neuvo
Leon at distance of from 100 to 200
miles beyond the Rio Grande. The
Mexicans have no game laws to speak
of because they have never needed
them. They are not sportsmen as
Gringos understand the term. Occa-
sionally one of them takes a single
barreled fOwling piece, which came
from Spain a century ago, or musket
which has drifted down from the
States, goes out and murders a duck
or two for dinner, but that is about
the limit Of the national shooting
New York Sun.
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Large Coins.

1t is said that the largest gold coin
Row in circulation is the gold ingOt,
or "lool," of Anam, French colony
in Eastern Asia. 1t is a fiat, round
gold piece. and on it is written in
Indian ink its value, which As about
forty-five pounds. The next sized coin
to this valuable but extremely awk.
ward one is the ''obang," Of Japan,
which is worth about ten pounds, and
next comes the ''benda," OfAshantee,
which represents value Of about nine
pounds. The California fifty dollar
gold piece is worth about the same as
the 'benda." The heaviest silver piece
in the world also belongs to Anam;
where the silver ingot is worth about
three pounds: then comes the Chinese
''tael,' and then the Austrian double
thaler.
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Fer AGED Peonle.

Bellfiower, Mo-, July 6.-Mr. G. V.
BOhrer of this place has written an
open letter to the old men and women
of the country, advising them to use
DOdd's Kidney Pills as a remedy for
those forms of Kidney Trouble so COM
mon among the aged. Mr.. Bohrer says:
Il suffered myself for years with my
Kidneys and urinary organs. 1 was
obliged to get up as many as seven or
eight times during the night.
Il tried many things with no sue
cess. till saw one Of Dodd's A!manacs
and read of what Dodd's Kidney Pills
were doing for old people.
Il bought two boxes from our drug
gist and began to use them at once. In
a very short time was well. This is
over year ago, and my trouble has
not returned, so that know my cure
was good, genuine. permanent one.
Il believe Dodd's Kidney Pills are
splendid medicine for old people or
anyone suffering with Kidney and
urinary troubles, for although 1 am 81
years of age. they have made me WELL"
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Javanesc Cure for Insomnia.

The Javanese have method of in
iucing sleep which consists of form
of massage, the operator COMPRISING
the carotids of the patient toward the
spine.
1t is not new, as travellers seem to
have believed. \ very similar opera
tion is described by Mr.. kipling in
"Kim."
In Russia the practice is general, and
the carotid arteries-known TO the an
clients as arteria soporifera-are there
termed the arteries of sleep"
No doubt the system is satisfactory
to the person practiced upon, but who
is to put he-operator 10 sleep?-Lon-
don Express.
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CUTICuRA
OINTMENT
Purest Of Emo|Iients and
Greatest Of Skin Cures.
The Most Wonderful Curative
Of All Time
For Torturing, Disflguring
Skin Humours
And Purest and Sweetest Of
Toilet EmoI|ients.


Cutfcufa Olnmens II oeyono ques'io"
The most successful curative for tortur-
Inc. .disnpurinR humours of the skin and
81. ,o,,nd,n, ,osa ~ hair. ever
eeAip' ine . -s,.h
compounded In PROOF OF WHICH
single amounting preceded by hot bath
with Cuticura SOAP. and followed in
tno eeVeIoI Caeess W = oooe Va S~'H
p..olvort 60 oftan sufficient tn
.r..a s-,,,.5,.<. ral;af fn the Yn0st
euOIU lHmouhatc 1SA0A AZ W"
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FUN IN mIsrRANsLATIoNs.
Strange Guise of Literal Converste,
of One I.annuare fo Aunfher

Strange Guise of Literal Converston
of One Language to Another.
A German cobbler in Southwestern
watering place affixed this notice to
pair of boots exhibited in his win
dow, Scarcely creditable! is 3D." al
though there was nothing in the ap-
pearance of the boots to suggest that
they were anything but creditable foot
gear.
Those who wandered through the
last Paris exhibition in its earliest days
We're amused TO see the following
legend wherever the paint was still
wet: Beware Of the picture,' l did
not seem to occur to the bold transla-
tor that the French word ''peinture'
and the English picture were not
necessarily the same thing.
''Ah,' wrote an enthusiastic French
man of young lady who had reused
his admiration, "she is young lady
of great mizzen topmast" What lie
meant to say was that tho lady was
very sprightly, but. unfortunately, the
French .'fougue" had nautical equiv
alent in his dictionary as well as the
word ''sprightliness." and it was his
bad luck to choose it for the purpose
Of his description.
The Hindu is responsible for many
amazing efforts of translation. A
missionary, lately returned from India,
tells how once, when he wished to
have the beautiful hymn
Rock of Ages. cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee,
translated into Hindu, he intrusted
the task to clever young native
student. To the misslonary's amaze
ment the Hindu version, when trans
lated into English. ran thus:
Very old stone. split for my benefit,
Let me absent myself under one of your
fragments,
which was not. quite what the au-
thor of the hymn meant to convey.
1t was well-known German clergy
man, says London Tid-Bits, who threw
his audience into convulsions by fer
vently saying at the end of his speech:
God kipper your worthy pastor!"
which reminds one Of another gentle
man Of the same nationality-a pro-
fessor in Berlin-who, when bidding
''good-by" at the station to some Eng
lish friends, startled them by saying:
FAREWELL! Good voyage! 1 expect
you will be jammed from de danger"
OF course, the well-meaning man
hoped" his friends would be ''pre-
served from danger during their
journey; but his way Of expressing
this wish was not quite happy.
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LIGHTING swINDLE.
Is Being Worked in Ohio by Smooth
Electrical Fakers.

L. Being Worked in Ohio by Smooth
Electrical Fakers.
A new swindle it is reported Is be-
ing worked on the rural population of
Northern Ohio. A man bearing the
card of an electric lighting company,
supposed to be located in New York
City, calls on the farmer. He has q
small box bearing on the top closed
lamp with frosted globe Of the ex-
act appearance of large size incan-
descent electric light. The turning Of
a button serves to light the lamp,
which burns brilliantly. The solicitor
goes on to tell the farmer that his
company is the proprietor of a patent
electric light plant occupying a very
small space and which they will in
stall at the small cost of 81 per light.
The lighting of the average sized farm
house will cost but little at this rating
and the farmer is only too willing to
make the purchase. 4 contract Is pro-
duced and signed. This is sealed up in
an envelope and left with the farmer
uhtii SudIl GULLY
and install the plant. A few DAYS
later this man appears. Tie contract
is produced and read. To the farmers
surprise and CONSERVATION it calls for
S64 per light. OF course a refusal to
have the plant installed follows, the
agent threatens suit, and in order to
avoid trouble the matter Is compro-
missed by the farmer giving his note
for $500, which the agent takes to the
nearest town and SELLS. The light ex-
hibited is an acetylene one, and a
clever substitution of contracts COM
pletes the deception, at which so many
are biting, it is said.-Electrical
World.
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Dorothy Banks and Peabody Stand
lsh were engaged. Mrs. Banks and
her daughter were back in Chicago
and the marriage was set for the
spring. Once in while through the
winter shadow would come into Dor
othy's face. Mamma" she would say,
1--WE ought to have told Peabody about
grandpa. l know he's what you call
vulgar, but he's good and kind-hearted
and would be affectionate If you'd only
let him."
"Your grandfather and Mr.. Standish
will have to meet some day, Dorothy,
but there's no particular hurry about
1t. 1 want you to get married first.
Your grandfather is going to California
In February. and he won't be back till
after the wedding. about which, by the
way, he doesn't know anything. Ev-
erything will be all right if you do as
[ tell you"
Aud Dorothy. though secretly trou-
bled, did what long custom had Injured
her to do, to abide by what her mother
said.
They were married in April. Pea
body Standish, yielding to his mother
in-law's request, agreed to make Chi
cago his home, and to look after her
property interests. With Dorothy i'm
mediately after the wedding he went
abroad and remained there eight
months. When they returned to Chi
cago he secured an Office and buckled
down TO business.
1t was Standish's second day at his
work. He and Dorothy were living
with Mrs. Banks. At o'clock that af-
ternoon the Banks carriage was sent
to Standish's Office to take him home
Peabody would have preferred walk
ing, but he took his seat in the car
riage and started homeward. At a
street corner he saw the bent but
sturdy figure Of an old man, who was
plodding along with his eyes on the
ground. Standish looked at the bowed
figure for a moment, then a pleased
look came into his eyes and he shout
ed a rather peremptory stop" to the
coachman. Standish jumped from the
carriage and in an instant was by the
side of the old fellow on the sidewalk,
and was grasping him by the hand.
"Mr. Chandler. is 1t really you?" said
Standish, with ring of genuine pleas
ure in his voice and his eyes fairly
dancing.
"Well. bless me. if it amt young
Standish. Yes, it's me. JabeZ Chand-
Ter, all right. but didn't suppose you'd
remember me-"
Remember you. Do you suppose
I'd forget the man who came to my
fathers rescue and made 1t possible
for me to go through college? Forget
you? I should think not"
well, Mr.. Standish, your grand
father did me turn In the past, when
1 was boy. that 1 ain't-forgot vet,
and amt likely to-"
81 looked you up as soon as 1 reach
ed Chicago, Mr.. Chandler, and found
you were in California
The cid man smiled little.
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HOLDS DOWN HIS JOB.
Patriots Go to Maracaibo to Succeed
Plumacher, but Always Return.

Patriots Go to Maracaibo to Succeed
P1umacher, but Always Return.
Eugene H. Plumacher, Of Tennessee,
has been consular agent at Maracaibo,
since 1878 and consul since 1888. Many
patriots who desired to serve their
country for the $1,000 salary Consul
Plumacher enjoys have gone to Mara
caibo, but none has remained. Plu-
macher attends to that, according to
the Saturday Evening Post"
AT the State Department in Wash
ington they say when n ship arrives
bringing a consul appointed to Mara
caibo Plumacher is on deck with ef-
fusive greetings.
MY dear SIR" says Plumacher, Il
extend TO you the heartiest of well
comes. l." Then, as If struck by a
sudden thought. Plumacher withdraws
the hands he has outstretched and
says: But, no, must not touch you,
for 1 have just returned from officiat-
ing at the. last sad rites for two dear
friends who died Of the yellow fever"
4uc III Su6
day, after he has dined with Plu-
macher. they take a stroll. The new
conner sees row Of graves, each dec
grated with an American flag.
'Do they decorate the graves of SOL
diers here, too?
'0h, no." replies Plumacher. Those
are not soldiers. There rest the remains
Of several fellow countrymen, each Of
whom came here to be consul. They
all died of the yellow fever and l strive
to honor their memories"
That is enough. The next ship takes
the quaking patriot home, and Plu-
macher settles down to the routine Of
official life until another ambitious sue
ceSsOr arrives.
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His Logical Conclusion.

The following notice was posted the
other day ON the bulletin board of 8
famous London club: '.Will the noble
man who purloined Capt. ---'s um
brella kindly deliver it TO the hall por
ter?"
A well-known peer taking umbrage
at this slight ON his order, accosted
Capt. - and demanded an explana
ton.
well, you see," was the reply, "the
rules state that this is a club for noble
men and gentlemen. I am certain ne
gentleman took my umbrella; hence
there was no other conclusion to come
to."-New York Mail and Express.
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Expensfve Litieatiou.

Italy seems to ho'1 the record of late
years for expensive law. Signor An
tona Tracerso, merchant of Milan,
died three years ago, leaving behind
him fortune of six hundred thousand
pounds and a will which displeased
certain of his heirs. They disputed it.
and the more they did so the more
heirs came to the fore. Eventually
when the case was called for trial no
fewer than one hundred and five law
yers were found to have been briefed
to represent the various litigants. So
great were their expenses that when
all was settled four hundred thousand
pounds was divided among them in
fees, while the heirs had to be content
with the remaining two hundred thou
sand pounds.
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Dorothy Banks was delightfully."-
,retty, aristocratic looking withal, and
as sweetly disposed toward humanity
general as girl possibly could be
whose mother was constantly remind
:ng her of her station in life and that
;le hoi-polloi were interesting chiefly
1t distance.
Mrs. Banks wished her daughter to
marry, as she put it, gentleman and
a man of lineage. Il want you to mar,
~ 'Mayflower' man if you can, Dor
othy," she said, "a man whose ances-
Try has been college bred for genera
tons. But, Of course. my dear, he
must be all right himself
There came to Rye Beach that sum-
mer young Peabody Standish of Bos-
ton. He was "Mayfower" all right,
Harvard man and one whose ances-
tors names had been borne on the rolls
Of that school ever since John Har-
Yards day. Now, Peabody Standish
was fine young fellow, athletic, hand
some and with manner which New
England fogs and frosts had failed to
:hill.
Peabody Standish and Dorothy
Banks met. The Boston man liked
me beauty and the breeziness Of the
western girl, .and Dorothy, with never
1 thought Of what her mother had said
shout aristocracy and Mayfiower line
age, liked the eastern man for himself
1t Is perhaps needless to say that
Mrs. Banks looked on approvingly She
took pains to find out all about Pea
body Standish. and the finding out
was satisfactory.
The young fellow from Boston lin
gered longer at Rye Beach that sum-
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The readers Of this paper viii be pleased to
that science has been able to cure In all Its
stages. and that Is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known to the med
ical fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional
disease. requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system, thereby destroying the foundation of
the disease. and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting nature
In doing Its work. The proprie:v:s have SO
One Hundred Dollars for any case that 1t fails to
cure. Send for list of Testimonials.
Address. FL. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
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pler than he had
Intended. He knew
in a general way
who Mrs. Banks of
Chicago was, for
he had a bit of law
business with a
Chicago client in
which some of the
B a n k s. holdings
had figured. He
didn't make any in
Quiries. Had he
momentarily felt
so inclined a look
at Dorothy would
have checked him,
for she was sweet
and W IN S o m e
enough to make up
for a. family skele-
ton in every closet
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othtr oIten IN the
later days. They
moved in different
social circles. Mrs.
Banks had a great
gray stone palace
within sound Of the
lashing lake wat
ers, W hile the
father preferred to
live in something
little bigger than 4
cottage on the
Southwest Side un-
der the very shad-
Ow of the chimneys
and within smell
ing range, SO So
speak, Of the fac
tory that had
brought him his
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Through the Cracks.

When the celebrated divine, Edward
Irving. was on preaching tour in
Scotland. two Dumfries men of de-
cided opinions went to hear him. When
they left the hall one said to the other:
"Well, Willie, what do you think 20
"Oh." said the other. contemptuous-
ly. 'the mans crackedr'
The first speaker laid quiet hand
on his shoulder.
"Will." said he. you'll often see a
light peeping through crack"
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Accounted For.

Mrs. Slimson-Willie, your shirt is
dripping.
Willie-Yes'm. Some boys tempted
me to go in swimming, and 1 ran
away from them So hard that got
into an awful perspiration.-Harper's s
Bazaar.
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Judicial.

June stood before the bar of Time,
Where great and small are tried,
And pleaded guilty of the crime,
As herewith specified. i.
"She stole the blooms of Paradise,
She pilfered airs Elysian,
She mocks the wisdom Of the wise,
And turns them to derision.
"And she is noted, near and far,
For idle, vagrant ways;
Time placed her on the calendar,
And gave her thirty days.
Chicago Tribune.
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COy,ltln't Use Ii,

Customer-Say have yol anything
that you can recommend for Il cough?
Druggist-Sure. | have Il delightful
cough mixture that put UP myself.
Customer-I'm afraid it won't do. l
haven't got delightful cough.
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Meelxest Man of All.

-Chicken-hearted? Well, l
should say; he's the limit
Thingumbob-Is that SO?
McJigger-Nothing can make him
fight Why, I've seen him let a man
cheat him out Of his turn in the barber
shop and he never said word.-Phila-
delphia Press.
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Not SO Warm.

Il say, Miss Dewitt" remarked young
Sapleigh, '.youh wespiendent beauty sets
Inc bwain on fab, doncher know"
"Never mind. Mr.. Sapleigh," replied
Miss DEWITT, .'the confiagraticn will he
too insignificant to necessitate the calling
out of the fire department"
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YIIBBER STAMPS.

All kinds of Rubber Stamps Made
to Order. Self-Iuking Daters-some-
thing new. lux and linking Pads.
Send for Catalogue to Lock Box 210,
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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Too Slow for Him.

Say" queried the weary passenger,
lis this an accommodation train?"
NO, SIR" replied the conductor, Its
the limited express"
''Well," rejoined the W. p, 'it's up to
the company to raise the limit"
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ChautauauaLak AssembIy.

Low fare excursion to Chautauqua, N
Y, July Sd and 2lth, '03, via Nickel Plate
Road. Tickets on sale above dates good
to return within thirty days. Get particu-
lars from nearest agent or address C. A
Asterlin 7. P. A., Fort Wayne, Ind. 1Ot
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The reason you can get
this trial free Is because
they cure Kidney Ills and
will prove 1t to you.
WEST BRANCH, JfIcH.-
Doan's Kidney Pills hit the
case, which was an unusual
desire to urinate-had to get
up five or six times Of O night.
/ think diabetes was well un-
der way, the feet and ankles
swelled. There was an in
tense pain in the back, the
heat Of which would feel like
putting ones hand up to a
lamp chimney. Ihave used
the free trial and two full
boxes Of Doan's Pills with the
satisfaction of feeling that I
am cured. They are the rem
edy par excellence"
B. F. BALLARD.
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Let this Coupon be yourc Messenger of Deliver
ance from Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Troubles.

It's the people who
doubt and become cured
while they doubt who
praise Doan's Pulls tho
highest.
Aching backs are eased.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling Of the
limbs and dropsy signs
vanish.
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment. hig h
colored, pain in passing,
dribbling. frequency, bed
wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills
remove calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation,
sleeplessness, b eadach lie,
nervousness, dizziness.
TAyLoRsvILI.E, Miss. II
tried everything for q weak
back and got no relief until !
used Doan's Pills"
j. n. LEWIS.
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Do Your Feet Ache ana Barn9

Do Your Feet Ache ana Barnf
Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns. Bunions, Swollen, Hot and
Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, n. Y.
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An RS. GERALDINE BANKS,

AN RS. GERALDINE BANKS,
Iml widow. of Chicago. and her
daughter Dorothy We're at Rye
Beach. Mrs. Banks had enough money
something like three millions-to
make her last name eminently fitting.
Her father, who had made fortune
in Transforming rank Chicago fat into
delicate French soap, had given her
the millions outright at her marriage
with John Banks, now deceased.
Father and daughter didn't see each
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Human Nature.

Sume people practice what they preach
But it's lead-pipe cinch
They preach to others by the yard
And practice by the inch.
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The Jews have a greater number oi
religious papers. proportionately, than
any Christian denomination, and thei,
papers are the best supported.
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Just Like a Man.

Husband-Suppose We attend DR..
Thirdly's lecture tonight, my dear.
Wife-But l have nothing to wear.
Husband-Oh, then we'u 60 to the
onera
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find Piso's Cure for Consumption the
best medicine for croupy children.-Mrs.
F. Callahan, ia Hall street, parkers-
burg, W. Va, April IL, 1901.
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PaYo Permanently Cured. No ts or ne vougnses after
PHI frSf dsy's use Of DR.. Kline's g. Nerve Ro-
seorsr send for FREE 80 90 trial boz and treatise
M IL II. KLINE, Ltd, 81 Arch ST.. P Iladephia, p
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He vino commits injustice is ever
made more wretched than he who suf
fers it.-Plato.
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Mrs. Helen Thornton Campbell, who
died recently, left 100000 to Buffalo
homes for worthy poor.