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BREAK STRENGTH RECORD.
liidshipman stevens Makes 1,5S1
HiIos Against Chambers 1,43O.

Annapolis. Nd, Jan. 6.-For the third
time inside of TWO years the record for
the strength test at the Naval Academy
has been broken. The new record was
established by James c. Stevens. Of Sum
merfeld. Ohio. who made 1lS1 kiios
against the former record of /. .i30 made
By Midshipman Charles T. Chambers. OF
Steubenvilie. Ohio.
8Iidshipman Archibald II. Douglas. cap
tain of last seasons football team, held
the record until year ago. when Cham
bers established a new one.
Douglas has not been in the best Of
shape physically since he broke his leg
three years ago, but he expects TO try
for the record again before his gradua-
tiOn in June next
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Million Come in steerage.

New York. Jan. 6.-According to a re-
port made to-day by William c. Moore.
the landing agent Of the Department of
Commerce and Labor. at Ellis Island.
there were 94961 first cabin passengers.
156,4I0 second class passengers. and 1886
1856 steerage brought into New York dur
ing the year 1907.
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REV. JAMES CROWEL DEAD.
Prominent I'm the Presbyterian
Church for sixty Years.

Philadelphia, Jan. 6.-Rev- DR.. James
VI. CrowelI. for nearly sixty years
prominent in the Presbyterian Church.
IS dead at his home here.
He was eigthy-One years old Dr..
Crowell was president of the board Of
cducation Of the Presbyterian Church
and secretary of missions Of the Amer
ican Sunday School Union. For d mum
Der Of years he was a member of the
board Of trustees Of Princeton UniveT-
sity. he was a graduate Of Princeton
and one IF the TWO survivors Of the
class OF As.
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CROKER LIKES BRYAN.
Writes from Abroad that He Is Glad
Nebraskan Has "a Chance,

New York. Jan. civilian Hoge. presi-
dent of the Commercial Travellers Anti
Trust League, which is booming Bryan.
has received the following letter from
Richard Croker:
Your kind letter received and always
glad to hear from you. 1 am going to
Egypt tomorrow, to be gone three
months. It has been very wet season
here, and 1 am glad to get off / thank
you for your good wishes. and trust you
may have merry Christmas and a happy
New Year
"Glad our old friend Bryan has a
chance
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CRATER RDROPSDEAD
LOnergan, of San Francisco,
Stricken by RemOrse.
BLOOD MONEY" HIS DOWNFALL

When Trapped In the Acceptance
of BFibes, lie Made Full Confess
One. and wished He Was Back on
Bakery WagOn-ErOken in HeuIth.
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THREE KILLED IN RIOT.

Troops Needed to QueH Political
Fight in Italian Province.
Rome, Jan. "a political riot occurred
to-day at Ruvo, in the province of Bari.
Revolvers were freely used. and three
persons were killed and several wounded.
II required repeated charges by the
troops who We're summoned to quen the
disturbance
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Accident on Battle ship Nebraska.

San Diego. Cal, Jan. 6.-Reports have
been received here tonight of an acci-
dent to-day on the battle ship Nebraska.
which lost two lives. 1t is said some
men in charge of crane lost control of
1t and it crashed through a group of sail
ors, carrying two overheard to death,
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nine THAW JURORS
ON THE FIRST DAY
Justice Bowling Decides On
Night Sessions.
SUBJECT TO CHALLENGE
Veniremen Still Have an Ordeal
to Pass Through.

Members Of Thaw Family Early on
Scene to Witness Opening of Sec
Ond Trial for the Murder of STAN
ford White-WOmen Spectators Not
Permitted tn COurtrOOm-TrfaI to
BE a Short One This Time.
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Those Recclving Dividend Cbccks

Should deposit same In banking dept. of
Union Trust Co, 18th and II sts.. where
they will earn interest. New banking
house, every facility; government control.
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Clear Ceiling (Beaded) $500 per 1000.
Frank Libbey & Co., 6th & New York ave.
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EIorlsln and CnroIinn ResorI

Best reached by Seaboard Air Line Ry.
Three daily trains. Office, 1921 Pa, ave.
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San Francisco, Jan. G.-Former Super
visor Thomas F. Lonergan dropped dead
at his home here this morning. He was
one Of the members of the board Of su-
pervisors who confessed TO having re-
ceived bribes from the United Railroads.
the telephone company, and ether cor
porations.
The following is a synopsis Of the con-
fession Of Lonergan as published in the
San Francisco Examiner:
Never since 7 have been i'm public Of
fee have / asked a man seeking a public
favor for a dollar. But 1 have ac-
eepted bribes volunteered by many Of the
public-service corporations of this city
and county. God knows I have
paid dearly for accepting those bribes,
and now. when I look over the happen
ings of the last few weeks, I wish / had
taken the advice of my heart-broken wife
and remained on the seat Of Foleys
bakery wagon.
Meant tO he square.
Il meant to be square when ] was
elected. but one day we seemed to IN
derstand simultaneously that the fight
trust wanted a permit. While nobody
ever said word about money. we all
seemed to realize that we were to be
paid for our vote. Well. the mat
ter finally came up before the board, and
It was unanimously passed. A couple of
days later Big jim Gallagher came to
me and handed me $500 That was my
downfall.
Maybe a month passed and everybody
seemed to think an opposition telephone
would be a good thing HaIsey
= made me promise to come down
and see him In his Office. Well,
after I looked at the swjtchbOards
and all the complicated stuff that they
had in the sub-offices quite agreed with
Halsey that an opposition system
wouldn't be very good thing for the
city. Now. Lonergan he said,
when we were alone. I want your vote.
and I don't want it for nothing. I will
give you 5000 if you will vote against
the Home Company's franchise, and next
year I will give you an additional $500.
That viii make $500 in all for your
trouble, and really do the city a good
turn.
Took $1,000 Bribe.
II agreed 10 his terms at once, and he
handed me the 5000 in bills.
I had a lot of paper money in my
house down south of Market street at
that time And like an act of God, the
fire came along while | was in San Jose
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II agreed TO his terms at once, and he
handed me the 5000 in bills.
4 had a lot of paper money in my
house down south Of Market street at
that time And, like an act of God, the
fire came along while | was in San Jose
attending a convention with Abe Ruef.
When I got back my house was gone,
and so was most of my money. It was
hard blow. and it seemed like fate"
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HARVARD STUDENTS
FACE DEATH AT SEA
Hurricane Drives Their Craft
Far from Course.
SERIOUS END OF A LARK
Saved with Difficulty by Rev
enue Cutter Mohawk.

Five College Men, Comprising the
Crew of the Fishing Schooner
Fame. of Boston. We're iu "a Seri-
Gus Plight When SuccOr Arrived
Vessel mark and DisabIed-FOOd
and Water Almost Exhausted.
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Cypress Shingles No. /, $500 per I.Ooo.
frank Libbey & Co, 9th s New York ave.
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Prices of All Kinds Lumber TumblinE.
Frank LibbeY & Co.. 9Th & New York ave,
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Wide Beards, $500 per 100 Feet.
frank Libbey & Co. 9Th & New York ave.
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NIrs. Thasv ArriYes EnrIy.

Those of The Thaw family who were
present to-day had their old seats at the
end Of the jury box. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
came early. She was escorted to the
courtroom by Detective Moore. who IS
employed by her husbands lawyers, and
she went to lunch with him. although
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WUEFT
At Eckstein's s from u to g. 1912 II. Y. ave
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Women Cannot Live There.

Conditions of living in the Philippines.
he said, were such that it was practically
impossible for a refined American woman
TO live there
'sWe. OF the army. he continued.
think that our country's attention should
Flooring Alabama Good So 100 TT.
Frank Libbey & Co, 18th s New York ave.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-13
A Mauic Oven.

Tho smith was building a large and
peculiar oven. ITS a shame" he
said. Ito tell you what this ovens for;
but the secret Is too good one to
keep. 1t is a pieture-aging oven. 1t
is guaranteed to add In couple Of
hours two or three hundred years to
a pictures age. You know the cracks,
the innumerable little cracks, that
cross-cross in thousand squares and
diamonds the surface of an old mas
ter? Welk smooth. fresh picture. put
into this oven. develops under care
fully regulated temperature those
very cracks. Withdraw your picture,
then add dust and dirty varnlsh to
taste and set to cool, and you've
got an old master that Gobsa Code
or Stoxon Bonds will pay big money
for. darent tell you the name of the
well known art dealer am making
this oven for" the smith concluded
But it's not the first, nor the tenth
oven, either I've TUNED out"
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Vibrations of the Sea.

Marine seiches," or vibrations OF
the sea- are pulsations usually having
periods Of Is to 20 minutes, though
varying in different localities, and
they occur on coasts in addition to
the waves of short duration due to
wind and those caused by the regular
ebb and flow Of the tide. They have
brought out various theories. A recent
study has been made by Prof. Clio
vanni Platania at Catania, Sicily and
he concludes that the principal cause
is air waves or variations Of atmos-
pheric pressure.
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A Remarkable WAGON,

j. b. Boyer of Sohola township Pike
county. Pennsylvania, has a farm wa
gon the woodwork Of which he built
himself In 1863 in wagon shop In
Barryville. N. Y, in which he was an
apprentice. Mr. Boyer did all the wood
work on the wagon by lamplight,
sawed the hubs, split and hewed every
spoke, felloe and axle Purchasing q
farm In Shohola township the same
year, Mr.. Boyer took his wagon with
him to the farm and has used 1t con.
stantly ever since. He has never had
the tires set or dollars worth Of re-
pair done to il, and to all appearance
1t is good for another century. Aside
from good workmanship and material
the secret of its lasting qualities 10
due to the fact that 1t has always been
housed when not I, USE
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-13

Another daily paper at Montpelier?
We should hope not. To anybody fam
liar with the newspaper situation up
there, such a proposition would appear
very much like a deliberate attempt
at journalistic suicide.-Ludlow Trib-
une.
To start another newspaper at Mont
pelier would indicate the third degree
of intoxication on the part OF the start
er and the merchants who furnished
him advertising to get under way
Newspapers get their living not from
their readers but from the advertisers
The merchants of a town in order TO
reach the people in the section have TO
advertise in all the newspapers pub
lished there, for II there are two or
three papers some will take one and
some another. If there is one paper
the merchants can reach all the people
with one advertising charge; If there
are two papers, the advertising account
of the merchant is doubled. and If
three the advertiser must pay three
times as much 10 be sure of reaching
all. The merchants Of Montpelier
would be crazy to put up the money
to start another paper there as they
will have to in the long run If they
give it encouragement enough to once
let it get into the field
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-13

A news item tells how Maxwell
Evarts of Vermont and New York,
rushed like mad bull out OF the White
House, where he had gone as attorney
for f. H. Hartman to present claim
of Mr.. Hartman against the govern.
ment for $2,OOO.OOO for work done on
the Colorado river in California. The
Enosburg Standard thinks that Mr..
Evarts can afford to indulge in dis.
play Of temper on salary OF from
SIS, 900 to $4,000 year, received from
advising Mr.. Hartman how to be leg
ally honest, and adds that he would
make dandy delegate to the Chicago
convention representing Vermont SEN
timent in favor Of the continuation of
the Roosevelt policies.-St. Johnsbury
Republican.
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ENDED IN CHILDISH TRAGEDY.
Fate Of Two Pickaninnies Who Went
on a Cruise.

Afoat on the bounding wave-in q
washtub-two pickaninnies went cruis-
ing Thursday, says the Houston
Chronicle. They sailed until they were
rescued, and with that event came
rainwater bath. White men pulled
them to the shore to leave them CUR
Cling In the arms Of two black man.
mics.
There were no signals Of distress fly
ing as the two babies in tub hoated
swiftly down White Oak bayou. The
current was running like mill race.
but the tub was properly balanced for
the ride.
AS II emerged from the jungle into
the ship channel the ipparition In
spired immediate action. Straightway
into the trimming tide plunged man
after man. They swan strongly for
the tub and-tippc3 L over. Into the
turgid stream fell r to draw to.
With difficulty they we're fished from
the water, screaming Justify for their
ship" continuing like derelict on
down the stream.
Meanwhile two buxorh colored wom-
en-, mothers OF the black babies, had
appeared. Gathering the drenched and
crying pickaninnies in their arms they
marched away to their cabins.
The cruise started in play about the
water edge and ended in woodshed.
when, with wet clothes stretched tight,
every spat stung fiercely and walls
sounded over the inundated bayou
! fats
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ecceNTRIcITIEs OF A SAINT.
Famous Fakir Who Spoke a Strange
Language and Scorned Clothes.

The famous fakir. Bawa Moni Sahib
1.-THE Silent Saint, during his long so
years sojourn at Mirpur never uttered
a single word which could be under
stood by any one around him. What
wondrous tongue he spoke no man
Knows
Every day hundreds OF pious people,
men and women, focked around him
to pay homage and alteration. Since
his boyhood, It is said, he had lived
stark naked. resolutely disdaining
even a loin cloth. He abode in pub
lie lane which was always full OF busy
people, yet he moved as he listed in
his sacred nudity, neither ashamed
nor causing shame.
His age was well over a hundred
years. The saint never touched gifts
indeed he meekly spurned them. a
devout Sikh priest looked tenderly
after him and gave him morsels o!
food with his own hands. For days
however, he would refuse to partake
of food.
The corpse. after being taker
around the city, followed by horse:
and palanquins fifty caparisoned for Sc
grand burden, was buried. The con
course OF mourning people who fol
lowed the solemn procession mustered
quite 10000 strong..-Calcutta States
man
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VERMONT DELEGATES FREE
Governor Proctor Says This is States
Custom,

Washington, April 9.-"The Vermont
delegation to the republican national
convention will go uninstructed," says
Governor Proctor OF Vermont, who is
here. He says: 1T has been the Gus
tom for years TO send an uninstructed
delegation TO the convention and we are
going TO observe Ii this time too. From
what ! can gather however, the senti-
ment seems equally divided between
Taft and Hughes. There is a strong
sentiment against Roosevelt being re-
nominated for third term and there
are many reasons why he should not
be mentioned in that connection. His
methods, in the opinion of many people
are not what they should be and the
idea of third term is not at all popu.
lar and has always been looked upon
with great distrust by the American
people"
1t is believed here that Representa-
tive David J. Fosters chances for the
senatorship are rendered very good by
the retirement of Governor Proctor.
Mr. Foster has appeared contented with
the outlook. ever since his return from
Senator Proctor's funeral So much
So in fact, as to suggest that Governor
Proctor never thought seriously of be-
ing candidate. The appointment Of
John w. Stewart to the senatorship
was wholly agreeable to Mr. Foster
and although that venerable gentleman
may be a receptive candidate for cleo
ton, he probably will make no fight.
The contest promises to be between
Foster and Carroll S. Page with the
chances favoring the former.-Boston
Transcript.
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IL St.Albans were to build COM
Portable place like the Woodstock Inn
or the hotel at Waterbury, it would be
crowded with guests every summer.
The hotels at these places are always
full, yet nobody can pretend for a mo-
ment that the scenic and other attrac-
tons about them can equal the
charms of the Champlain valley where
st. Adams sits In loveliness.-St Al
bans Messenger.
We hear more about Burlington but
to our mind st. Adams is not a bit less
attractively located and in some res
poets its situation is superior st. AL
bans is in richer agricultural sec
ton and the farms, orchards, meadows,
and groves around II make the land
scape one of the most beautiful in the
state. II is near enough to the lake
for most purposes, except perhaps, vul-
gar commerce. and yet far enough
away to escape some of the dampness
and being on a gentle slope instead of
a high bluff, and it escapes some of
the high winds that make life in Bur-
lington trying at times. We have no
doubt that a first class hotel at st. Al
bans would be kept full all the year
and add not less than $4,000 annually
to the money brought into st, Adams
and put in circulation there. But st.
Adams does not appear to have the
necessary sprawl to get a first class
hotel any more than Bennington has
to build decent roads.
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Bravery and cowardice OF a Lie.

There is no vice that doth so cover
a man with shame as to be found
false and perfidious. wrote Sir Fran.
els Bacon. And therefore Montaigne
saith prettily when he inquired the
reason why the word OF the lie should
be such disgrace, and such an odious
charge. Saith he: IF 1t be well
weighed. TO say that a man lieth is
as much as to say that he is brave
toward God and a coward toward men.
For lie faces God, and shrinks from
man"
Surely the wickedness of falsehood
and breach Of faith cannot possibly
be so highly expressed as in that it
shall be the last peal to call the judg.
ments Of God upon the generations
OF men; II being foretold that when
Christ cometh He shall not find faith
upon the earth"
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vERMoNTERs ON FLEET
Green Mountain State Boys Going
Around the World.


Vermont has % men who made the
trip as enlisted men with Rear Admiral
Evans North Atlantic squadron from
Atlantic to Pacific waters and who are
likely TO continue on the trip around
the world, unless something happens.
Burlington Is represented In the list
Just compiled by the bureau Of navi.
cation of the navy department by Wal
ter p. Fennell, coal passer on the
Minnesota. The other Vermonters are
as follows: William w. Whitehead. a
Aaron A. Carey, coal passer on the H.
linos Barton; Harry C. Bates ordin'
airy seaman on the Vermont, Benning
ton; Henry II. Stevens, ordinary sea.
man on the Kentucky postofilce box
1906, Brandon; Leon H. Andrews, en-
gineer, second class on the Rhode Is
land, and Fred Hescock, engineer
third class on the Georgia, Brattle
boro; Robert II. Danforth. coal passer
on the Illinois, Canaan; Harry Parker
machinists mate. second class, on the
Georgia, Castleton; George Il. Mullen
| fireman, second class, on the New
| Jersey, Chester; Earl G. Stevens. or
binary seaman on the Vermont, Dan
by; Simon s. Labelle, ordinary sea
man on the Illinois. Hartford; Irving
NJ. Page, machinists mate, secont
class, on the Alabama. Groton; Thorn
as Hallinan. seaman on the Maine
Johnson: Silas Eli King. ordinary sea
man on the Rhode Island, Middlebury
Arthur Elkey, engineer, third class OF
the Rhode Island, 269 West street
Rutland; George II. Kruse. coal pass
er on the Kentucky, 20 Madison st.
Rutland; Daniel ID. Corey. engineer
second class on the Kearsarge, Sax
tons River; George A. Howard, ship
wright on the Virginia, Springfield
Harry s. Pelton, coal passer on thu
Georgia, South Stanford; John f. Car
roll. seaman on the Panther, Whiting
Cornelius c. Kane, chief machinist'
mate on the Panther, Wilmington.
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TRADE AT HOME
Injunction Has Been Issued Against
Sears, Roebuck G. Co., Of Chicago.

SCdIO nOCpbNN W WI W N''S'0Ns
The United States Circuit court for
the southern district of New York has
issued an Injunction against Sears,
Roebuck & Co. OF Chicago, preventing
its selling the infringing separator,
known as the Economy" and "The
improved Economy" This injunction
prohibits the company from selling or
advertising for sale these infringing
separators
The ruling of the United States court
state that the patent which was in
fringed, belongs to the Vermont Farm
Machinery Co., of Bellows Falls, and
to the Empire Separator Co., of Bloom
field n. J.
The ruling of the United States court
on this patent was broad, and not only
makes Sears, Roebuck & Co., liable
for the infringement, but also holds
that each and every user Of these in
fringing separators is equally liable.
In other words, every farmer in the
| United States who bought and uses
one of these Economy" cream separa.
tors, Is liable for infringement and
the only way for them to avoid being
| implicated in this case and laying
themselves liable to violation Of the
United States court injunction Is to al
once discontinue the use Of these In
fringing separators
Ii is said that no user of these ma
chimes need think they can escape be
ing found out, because one of the sec
tons in the ruling of the United States
court, reads as follows. ordered, ad
Judged, and decreed that 1t be referred
to Samuel NJ. Hitchcock, Esq, one o.
the masters Of this court to ascertain
take, state, and report to this cour
an account Of the number of all cen
trifugal separating apparatus ant
parts thereof made, used, or sold BY
the said defendant and its confeder
ates in infringement Of each or an!
of the said claims of said letters pat
ent and to whom sold and at wha
price"
II will be seen by this section tina
the concerns owning these patents
through a ruling of the court, will
know exactly who have bought thes'
infringing machines from Sears, Roe
buck & Co.
Retail merchants who have beef
selling the Iowa Dairy Separator Coz
machines have occasion to look on
that they are not implicated in thi
matter.
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FRANK 3. HOWE. Editor and Publisher

Says the Manchester, n. H., Union,
the leading New Hampshire newspa.
per: "A prophecy by whomsoeyer
made that eight delegates to Chicago
from New Hampshire will be chosen,
who will go uninstructed, seven, If not
eight, of whom favor the nomination
of Judge Taft, Is safe, because no op-
position to such course appears.
Yet when the New Hampshire con
vention Is held and does not instruct
the delegates our friends, the Rutland
Herald and Burlington Free Press will
hurrah about the great anti.Taft vic
tory.
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Njtrates from Air,

II the claim Of Norwegian manu-.
facturers can be substantiated, q
process has been invented for procur.
ing nitrate from the air, or rather for
obtaining the nitrogen for conversion
into nitrate-vhich is declared to be
more sure. efficient, reliable and cheap
than the employment Of bacteria In
the soil for the same purpose. Manu-
featuring establishments have already
been built and are in operation in Nor
way, which promise to produce nitrate
In such quantities and at such prices
a. to materially affect the market
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POSTGRADUATE Work.

when you graduate from that cook
ing school" asked Tess. do you get a
diplomat"
Sometimes replied Jess. you get
certificate for a postgraduate
course"
"A csrtifcate!"
"Yes. marriage certificate"