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here, but we miss the grand old men
who were elbowed out when the Social
lists came. There are some OF them left
but not many.
But 1t isn't so bad as 1t was six or
seven years ago. said the old solicitor,
Frightening. II think there has been a
turn back toward our former ideals OF
civic honesty and economy. Yet there are
too many little traders, too many who
are ignorant OF the business they are
expected to transact Self-exploitation
Is very prevalent. We have been TAX
ing lessons in politics as YOU know 1t
across the water
TT IL only within the last ten years
that men have come to the Council for
what they can make out OF It. But there
are not so many as there were two or
three years ago. The reform associations
here have been doing good-but there is
Draw work for them still! to do.
Glasgow has many municipal employees
and they take a great deal OF interest
In the elections affecting the increase In
the city's force and IN higher wages. In
some instances the defeat of certain can
d!dates for the Council has been accredit-
ed to them. think 1t is pretty generally
conceded that there has been a deteriora-
ton in the personnel OF the Council during
the last ten years-yes. since municipal
trading began. But the Socialists are not
nearly so aggressive as they were. five or
six years ago and the Council has grown
more conservative about it's Investments"
SHRUNKEN REALTY VALUES.
These admissions were made by the
veteran solicitor slowly, and with ex-
IRENE caution. To one used to our
frank Western way of speaking, he said
hut hut 10 MI ic fanoilfar
with the reserve OF the Scotch solicitors,
his admissions range the entire gamut
of the municipal scale, from the former
timeB when councillors represented the
city because they loved It," through
Glasgow's period of depression. when
realty values shrunk and dwindled and
the Socialists scattered sovereigns like
chaff before the wind. and to the pres
ent when the reform associations have
brought the people themselves par
TALLY to their senses.
Glasgow mado long step towards re-
form when she abandoned her unptoft
nblc municipal telephone system
During the present week have heard
serious discussion OF selling the municipal
lighting plant to private company that
to furnish the citizens with cleo
trlclty five per cent. cheaper than the
rate charged by the city.
Tho battle will be fought out in Parla-
ment, probably next spring. 1t is the be-
ginning OF the reaction that may yet res
cue Glasgow from the thraldom OF the
traders. The reform associa-
lions have blocked all attempts during
the last two years at further municipall- |
zation and. like Birmingham. Glasgow
Is evincinG a strong desire to escape from
the slough OF municipal socialism. The
tendency during the last two years has
been to restore to private enterprise all /
The undertakings that, do not come strict
y within tho province of municipal gov
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The Income Tax.

IN discussing Judge Hutton's charg
! TO the grand Jury on the incosne-ta;
| law. the Bedford Bulletin says:
This means that II any merchant. pro
fcssonal man or farmer clears over. SEQ
81 year above his business expenses h
shall pay tax OF one per cent. or on
dollar hundred. on the excess amount
1t does not mean that the amount shal
De above his living in addition to hi
business expenses. For instance, If q mar
In business docs not really have anythins
over. but knows his fanily's support cost.
hsin more than $50 a month. he should pay
tax on the amount over the $50. There are
dozens Of laws on tho statute books that
are disregarded by both officers and people
but none more generally than this. Judge
Eutton's action Is the first we have heard
of looking TO It's enforcement. 1t 10 in our
opinion. while declared constitutional. an
unjust law. and one impossible to enforce
without discrimination. Persons who
draw fixed. known salaries or incomes
n1nst pay the full limit, while thousands
whose incomes are an indefinite quantity
Will BIO assessed only what they estimate
as nm approximate amount, or nothing at
ALL"
This argument would apply to all sub
iects of taxation. A man may have all he
can do to support his family, but he must
pay taxes on his real and personal prop
erty whether or not, and there is no ex-
emption. whereas he Is not required to
pay any income tax unless his income
exceeds $500.
But be that as 1t may. Judge Hutton
has we'll said tho law Is on the books and
it must be enforced. II the Taxpayers do
not like it, let them instruct their repre-
sentatves in the legislature to repeal 1t.
1t ought to DO repealed unless It is uni
formly enforced. Some men are returning
their incomes honestly. while others are
lodging. 1t IS unfair to make some pay
and allow others to escape.
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The Losses of Socialism.

Nothing moro striking has been elected
by recent tests of voting strength than
the losses of the Socialist party In 1904
the Socialists made showing which
surprised the nation Eugene V. Debs.
at the head of their ticket, poled 4os. 2e2
votes against Roosevelt and Parker. n
far greater total than his party had ever
before cast. The Inference was that
socialism was gaining ground ut a very
remarkable rate. and the enthusiastic pre-
dfctions of Mr. Jack London and other
apostles seemed In fair way to work
out in fact.
Recent history, however. entirely fails
to bear out these conclusions. The falling
off last year was very marked. Exact
comparisons cannot be given, inasmuch
as no general elections were held in so,ne
of the States. In ten States, however. I'm
which the strength Of the Socialists was
greatest in 1904 they polled 16i1l9 votes
last fall a decrease of liz, 504 in two years.
The same ratio of decrease in the nemnin
ing thirty-tive States would, according to
The computations OF the New York World.
give the Socialists a total FOR the country
of about $4,000.
The World gives the figures for these
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!" The Rernonstrance.'

Jve have letter from the secretary
OF tie massachusetts Association op
posed to the Further Extension OF SUI.
frage to Women
II is very often assumed says the
secretary, who is a woman. that women
wko ask for the ballot represent the
majority Of their sex. 1t is our conviction
thst they speak for only q small minority,
and that, in opposing their demands our
association and others in New York, I'LL
nois. Name, Oregon. Washing,on, Rhode
island iowa, and other States, are
doing service 10 women and to society"
This TALES with an opinion often ex-
pressed by The Times Dispsrch that wo-
men do not vote because they do not
desire TO vote, They isnow that they
have more power without the ballot than
they would have with IT, Moreover tie
rank and fle of American women have
no ambition 10 he ''Inannish.' They pre-
FER TO be womanly. AT any rate, they "a
not care to soil their dainty skirts In the
slime Of politics, III
The woman sun.agists have lately re-
cciYed q disastrous defeat in Oregon.
The 'feipaie, suffrage amepGmpnG was
rejected by a majority OF lo,i73.
The National Suffrage Association. sent
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Borrowed Jingles
GREAT EVENTS IN H1sronY.


i've travelled in Europe" auotn Evelyn
''we Mi lived abroad for a year."
The Others Just sighed In an o,ivious way,
Ana some Of them rnurmured, ''oh, dsari''
Said Dorothy Jane. i've never been thers.
Hut I've boon to Niagara Falls,
And that IL important You look everywhore
And aee only wator. like walls
IT n, tist have boon lovely" said Rosalis 10.
Ono time was down In mine,
Way under tho earth. and we all had to 20
In car. on q sort OF incline"
Then Jack declared loudly tho best time that
Dynr had was whom he and Joe Small
Went out on tbs trolley last SUR, IN ar to 500
Tho "GlantT' and ''Ynnkset' play ball.
~ rode on nm engine with papa ono day"
Said Margaret Miiiy. with pride:
The wind was SO strong I a!ruoat blew
And had to hold on to ths side
"And. oh. but II iolted." Thcn Babyi,in Lou
Interrupted With eyes very bright
But n serious voice, II did soineffn'. too
stayed up TIL 'lcvcn ons nighti
Boston Herald.
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Isabelle.

Whom the fairies tune to music
Murmuring brooklets of the dell,
They withhold the softest laughter
For the voice OF Isabelle!
When Aurora paints the dawning,
And the rose-tints hlsher swell,
She w'thdrnws the purest blushes
For the Cheeks OF Isabelle.
When the aneels, with their censer,.
L'rht the starry vault how we'll
They hestow rarer radiance
On the eyes Of Isabelle!
When that scrl-tor, fnmad OF Melos.
et wrought the rodly demolse,le,
al In vain he sought perfection.
8 nee ne knew not Isabelle!
Tho ! roam the fields Elyslan,
Or in dark Cinmerla dwell.
Let my spirit dream forever
or the lovely. Isabella!
All the beauty of this maiden
Would that Il had words to tell.
Yet It may be i can't see her:
I'm In love with Isabelle!
HENRI FORTESQU1RM
Waynesboro, Va.
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1t will be observed that in Ohio, Arinne-
sofa, Massachusetts, Kansas and Cali
fornin the shrtnkage has been SO great
as to constitute virtual breakdown. The
total loss in the ten States is nearly
forty per cent Another national election
should determine finally whether these
losses arc partially the result OF adverse
conditions, and are only temporary. or
whether the Socialist party has, indeed,
shot its bolt, and Is already headed to-
ward oblivion.
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POINTS FROM PHOTOGRAPHERS.

+ Is estimated that about 5000 young
| colored citizens will enter tho world next
year to assume the dignity of "Joseph
Benson Foraker a front name.-Lous.
VILE Courier-Journal.
Again comes tho suggestion that Mr..
Roosevelt Is proper size for New York
senatorship Can 1t be possible that some
one Is seeking to damn the President with
faint aise?---Washington Herald.
When Japan builds few moro cotton
mills she will be reluctant to go TO war
with the United States as Great Britain Is
The Shah OF Persia left 500 widows It
much new life into soclety.-Louisville Cou.
ierJournal
They are beginning to wear Tuxedo coats
in Texas" says Now York paper Begin
ming" is good. Don't you know. man, that
the Tuxedo coat was invented In Texas when
cowboy had tho tails shot OF his clayham.
mer coat Denver Republican.
:, Trusts. car and coal shortages and color
iines nave taken the pla ce OF the crime Of 'T3
the silver question and imperialism, az ma
t'onal issues,-seattle acknowledgement.
W,hiskey and work fell out ages ago when
work found whskey to DO a liar. Noah
drank of the wine because It told him II
would help him In his work 1t laid him in
his tent instead. Since then the two have
been incompatible although whi.key still
tells the same old lie that IL can helm work
nlong.--Detroit >-r---
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL

has becn revived at New Britain Conn, the
learned blacksmith's'' native place.
In 1888 Sb7o bottle was paid for SONS
scheldt The wine had been bottled In IT'S
Oliver Cromwell Is the name OF the incom-
ing tenant of the Red Lion Hotel, High Wy
connie, Eng, and 1t is said that he ella inlsi the
Protector as an ancestor.
A Swedish inventor thinks that the price
OF alcohol made from peat will be less thnn
nne-half Of the present price Of alcohol and
laum
Where 100 10 15o people live Ia the square
nile the death rate averages sixteen a 1900,
l000
There is an enormous number of small
lRndholders In Egspt. a,oeo,ooo acres being
whom G0oo are Europeans, owning on an
average little over one hundred acres.
The American Board Of Masons now has
s9'sSG STATIONS and outstntons $50 men
and $3.50 women missionaries. 7o,Te5 native
lhbprers 1890 p0S communicates leo 500
undor instruction, aud an income OF SIS
GQ5Tis
Up to date Il costs az alien s7h In fees to
become nstionaIiyed milton and he must
walt five wears and t9en produce evidence
Introduced 70 reduce the fees probably to IS
The DO lsynrd employees at Tculon have dc.
efed MAT II the French Chamber can AFFORD
70 rN1 i' -tHe Nny or It's members the country
can niFord 10 ray It's workers more. Hence
a dolegetlcn to tho Mtnister OF Marine ana
u biz R,rike !nipending,
The popular thing for tho Ckristrnaa gin.
Eerbread decoration In Bcrl!n was ..Can,ain
Won koepenick" Done in sugar on the tor
or the cake, he was represented in sfn!litary
cap, with sabre by his side, sitting on n stool,
anG stitching shocs
Edward +, liamn for tho past thirty,
wears has acted as Executive secretary under
fourteen Governors of SInssachusstts DURING
uI,,
day on account Of sickness, lie Was an.
pointed by Govcrnor Rlce In 1877, and has
being the hrst person sppoin,el 10 that posi,
ton. = 49, : t'N9''
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House Robbed.

The police wore Informed Saturday
night that robbery had occurred In
the rear of No. goa East Grace Street.
Several shirt waists We're stolen, and a
black coat belonging to a man was
taken by the rohber, The house is oc-
cunied by Gus Summers
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FIRE IN BRISTOL.
Blaze Originated in Car Barn and
Every Car Was DESTROYED

fRIsTOL, TENN, January ao,-Fanned
into fury by high wind a FIRE which
'rolre out In tho electric car barn Of
mo Bristol Belt Line Railway Company
20 O'Clock this morning, quietly con-
md the barn ana every 81, In the
apf@NnY's rossers'o-, including five
loved cars and ngn large sumner q rs,
The loss Is $4,000, with only partial
Insurance. Tho comreny 's without II
car for service. and Knoxville and Chat
tnnooga have been applied to with the
hopo Of meeting the emergency. The
origin of the fire Is mystery, as there
had been no fire in the building,
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Rx rred unr1,a-

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. October 90
"What Is the matter with Glasgow, that
Its municipal taxes are twice those OF tho
average American municipality"
This question have asked a number
OF officials and business men hero during
the last week. Some Of tho answers L
received are highly interesting.
First, there was a discussion OF tho DIFF
ferent rates. I had fortified myself with
the following table, prepared by the Glas-
gov Citizens Union and published in their
Year Book, showing the taxes actually
paid on Glasgow business property, for the
year 105-1D6.
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The Inference.

What did tho doctor prescribe for your
dyspepsia 7" Advised starving TO dcath''
W-what7" mot precisely in those words
He told me to play golf, ride horseback and
go yachting"
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Brotherhood to Meet.

The brotherhood of st. Paul an or
ganiznton Of boys. extending through
many OF the Episcopal churches OF
Richmond and vicinity, will hold joint
meeting on Friday, January 25th, at st.
Jamcss Episcopal Church at o'clock,
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STAGNA WON AND
REAL ESTATE SLUMP
Penalties Paid By Glasgow For Municipal
Socialism.
Scotch City Hit BY An Enormous Tax Ratc-Not One
Shilling Of Ctys Street Car Fares Goes Into the
lax Fund--Poverty Is Appallng-A Strk-
ing Object Lesson for Los Angeles

sar!ly high rates for gas, electricity and
tramway service.
'DIsopline in the departments is i'm
possible because these favored friends
and relatives are the very men who
bully tho honest faithful servants in the
discharge OF their duties.
Pretty strong language. you think.
coming from member OF the Council.
! regret that conditions arc such that
strong Language Ia necessary. But tho
American people have received SO many
lavender reports OF our city government
reports mado on Information furnished by
the mcmbers Of the ring who are waxing
TAT on their picklngs, that l feel It is
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COMMENT OF VIRGINIA EDITORS,
The BniIcy RESOLUTION

Senator Baileys friends In the Texas Sen.
ate have succeeded. according to the dis
patches. In taking the starch out Of the reso-
Iution providing for an investigation OF his
OH Company. The fact that they should
have failed to meet the issue face to face,
does not speak well FOX this appa rem tly bravo
and outspol!cn tribune of the people.-staun-
ton Dispatch.
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A Grc,vxomc 0uip.

'Juxsins is In terrific state OF nervous
alcoholism" sold Que rnfeelng friend
"Yeg." answered the other. He always
used to be shaking for the drinks. Now he,
drinking for the Observation-Disclosures Star
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The first thing Senator TlllmRn
KNOWS, some enterprIsing manager will
jerk him off the lecture platform and
book him on some high class museum
circuit
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Complaints of weak gas are risin,
I'll over the country. Even the House
OF Representatives, does not seem TO
be exempt.
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Andrew Carnegie says that he would
give 100000 600 for ten years more
OF NE You'd need ten decade to put
through phonetlcs Mr.. Carnegie.
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MERELY JOKING.
Eemini,,e Amenities

Yos. dear, was married last month, ri
like you to call on mo and SEQ the profit,
little fiat have" i've seen him. my
dear!"-Lifc
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England has a poet worth $4,000
900 How much he would have been
worth but for his expensive tastes can,
OF course, only bo estimated.
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They call this mmonwcalth,
apparently because Mr.. Rockefeller
finds 1t so commonsas to be positively
frequent,
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Sure Method.

First New Congressman: How did You
catch the Speakers eye?" Second New Con
Eressman: ~ borrowed a Ayer from him.
New York Sun.
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Mr.. Smoot may be the Senate's long
est Issue, but there must be momen is
v hen he thirsts for some other claim
10 glory.
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Az to Antls and hnte..

The Merchant I'm politics there arc too
many antls. It's 'anti-this and anti. that
The Congressman: mot bit of it, II
there weren't people TO ante, whore would
the parties get their campaign funds2"--
Brooklyn Eagle.
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RockefcIler,x Innoccncc.

Mr.. Rockefeller is evidently an artless old
soul for he says: II have seen very little
Owl , IN the world Perhaps he allows his
deviltry chat goes in and around the
Standard Oil headquarters. while he dis
Vile Herald '
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Reports from Florida indicate that
the crop or winter tourists IL very
small. Most OF them, doubtless, We're
killed in transit.
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ian Game was caught in the lanai
his latest manuscript eseapea uni,t,,t
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Poems You Ought to Know

Whatever occupation however crowded vonr
with affairs fail
retreshment with bit 81
Charles Eliot Norton. - - 's.'' -Aioi'
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Well suppose tho White House is
Damn They sell porous plasters ia
Lincoln, Neb,, don't theyy
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You can buy an alderman In New
YORK for $500 Which would you
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Many more people understand how
20 nre cannon than Sow to nre a
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Grin, Eunor.

Lucretia Borgin had perfected the poisoned
taper. THE original dip OF DEATH" explain
ed she. Whercat the courtiers nenrly OK.
pired.--Louisville Courier Journal.
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Now heap the branchy barriers IN
No for
The pne-logs on the happy hearth
For we shall not
We've We. come to to our last campngground.
Set to fir and tamarack
The foe is here the S near.
And we shall not back
In vain for us the town wait
The homedear faces yearn.
The watchers on the steeple watch
For shall not return.
For them we're come to these straits
To from flame and wrack
The little city built far off;
And shall back.
Now beat the Yelling butchers down
Let musket blaze burn
Set hand to hand, lay brand brand
But we shall not return
For every u s that fall.
Their hordes ack
Close in about the Lily Flag
No man OF us goes back
AtA 9sth'se : For us morows shall break
-s Our and wives shall learn ''
Some day from lips of flying scout
why we might not
dream Of chldrens laughter comes
Across the battles
A vision OF familiar Streets
but we shall not go back.
Up the painted storm once more
e@as4- Long rest we shall s43,a
Henceforth the city safe may sleep,ig
But we shall not return. shss
And when last has fallen in blood
Between these black
Their tribe shall
For shall not
vain for town shall wait
Eales, The home-dear faces yearn, q a,
#aA The watchers In the steeple watch,
For we shall
in
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No. 1850.
The Keepers Of the Pass.
by CHARLES q. ID. RoDERTs
(When Adam Duac and his comrndes not to return
Montreal from tho 1roquois)

portrait
SKETCH have already been printed In this anu poS
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Glp Gln,es Vs. l Ise. DigpalrA
pAlhr-wpnKLx-st;NpAY.

liusiness Office .,............s,t II, Main Street
WASHINGTON Bureau .........spi 18th St, n. w.
Matchmaker BurehI .............1l0s Hull Street..
Lynchburs Bureau .................si5 Eighth St
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4 Dcxerter.

"A soldier should not deSert life or the
rag Courage does not consist solely in fac
Ing death on the field OF battle, but also
IN lighting vallantly against the difficulties
The foregoing quotati Is from the colonel
or French regiment who refused to give
military horors at the funeral OF a sergeant
who had ended his own life.
Il seems bit harsh that n man Of
military courage and determination should
thus deliberately withhold tho honors of tho
army from poor unfortunate who had sur
rendered. to his own troubles and gone down
to death.
But, after nl the example Is q worthy
ono, 1t furnishes food for thought To tho
colonel II WAC tust cowardly, IL indeed
not moro 50. TO desert life as to desert tho
flag OF ones country.-Bristol Courier
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The Real Rebel.

Governor Guild. OF Massachusetts, has de-
c!ared IN favor OF government control OF au-
tomob'les Evidently the Governor never
tried to control one OF tho contrary things,
or he would not be seeking to get the gov.
ernnont into any sueh trouble-Floyd Press.
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The Shah OF Persia left 500 widows. I,
Tails to the lot OF O. few men to infuse 80
much new life into soclety.-Louisville Cou.
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When Japan builds few moro cotton
mills she will be as reluctant to go TO war
with the United States Us Great Britain Is
Atlanta Journal
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Entered. january u, 1905 at Richmond. va.
n oild-ciass matter. under Not OF Congress
OF March :. 1879.
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Yes, during tho last ten or fifteen
Years there has been difference; from
some OF tho wards q different class OF
men are returned to the Council. They
have brought. with Them. new logic.
They have become more liberal in their
Niews-,-and with our money, too
I'VE dn not discuss thase things much