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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-02-27

FOR RENT-seven rooms on cor
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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-02-27
DEFENSE|S
PUzzL|NG
ExPECTATICN THAT GOVERNOR
PATTERSON WOULD BE CALI
ED ATTRACT GREAT CROWDS.
ONLY MINOR WITNESSES TEs-
THY ON NINTH DAY OF TRIAL

ina n1er in which the defense has
been presenting Its proof has proved
bit puzsling 10 the public up to
the present time. Following the
appearance Of the three defendants
on the stand the defense put on a
number or M nor witnesses, men
who testified largely to detagI. Quite
a number OF close political friends OF
Governor Patterson and the defend
arts are here TO testify to tho good
character OF the sgei defendant.
Judge Anderson. OF counsel for the
deefnse said today that Governor Pat
terson would probably be called as
witness for the Coopers.
The defense early in it's case In
cfssen offered proof that Col Coop
er told Edward Craig whom the
Colonel had sent to see Senator Car
mack. that Carmsck was In an ugly
huznor. The defense's case was bas-
ed really upon this one exception,
for Colonel Cooper and Robin both
testified that they armed themselves
hac.,so 80, - -.
from ,h,s -ars .s.. $780,
r,,~s. ..-..,.
er.
The state offered to prove by two
Of the defense's own witnesses, Ma
jor yerres and Assistant state Insu-
rance Commissioner T. Leigh Thomp
son that Senator Carmack was not
only not IN an ugly humor bat
laughed at the idea OF trouble.
The defense fought the admission
Of ehis testimony with more Vim
and bitterness than has character
lied any argument since The trial be-
gan. Learned counsel offered two
reasons why It should be excluded
First that the state could cross-ex-
anime only on such matters "a had
been gone over In direct. examina-
ton. The court promptly rejeetee
this theory. Next the defense ar.
gued that unless all the conyersa-
tom OF witnesses with Carmack al
well as their observation of his man
ner snd appearance had been corn
municated to the defendants, the
Testimony was inadmissable.
Hold xv,u. a.. IA
Tn The n,es,Ion =, 49,
tastimonv - ~
turv ana narrst.oa ~ s
anime the major ,or ar en,'s.,
eft He adr,tt.d -, 49, A.. 80.
amid no uo,,ld a.. ~ 80
Iaugbad a. tho a.. -, -" -, 80
he had done noth.nr 60 n.o,'n,. oAi =.
and that ba war,ad 1890 "
nlv IN e.,,s.v 81 sxsa
counsel on both sidaa arn,',s 80
the court beId v,,h e. aosa u
Later in tho dav wh, ~ -.
Tbomnson WAS m ,ha - 80 80
the same ouest,on .ro.a go 80
rument bepar .raw - IL,
said be wonld ros,wo ri
hut rnt,mo.aA a.. -
had d,scovor.d 60 ~ go
tiles 70 sunnor, &c -t,s
wouId rule out tho .es,tr..
Colonel coone- ro.,,uoa a..
when court onenad ana ~a.S.
az wrsA 20 m.Lo 80 a...o.
NV testimony vsa,ord.n - 49,
ing an Ola soldier w,sh non~v ~,
read a. In Tho storo.aho-,
cript this morn,n1 w.a roisnnda1
stood and am .,rs,d :, q 49, 81,
T secured Il a6o s,ou ~, 90.
gave $50 of II to the old soldier
but evidently every one thought I
said $1,000. That's ALL"
Cooper was then excused. After
some delay waiting for a witness
who did not arrive, Lieutenant M
B. Pilcher, U. s. A., who found the
revolver near Carmacks body. was
called by the defense. He said ne
had just left the club a block away
from the tragedy before the killing
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-24
ManIove SeIf-Opening Gate
NEVER GETS our
OF ORDER

For any driveway or posts. Open
ed by any vehicle without assist
ance or stopping. Easily opened by
hand, on foot or horseback, and
never stands unfastened. Cannot
be opened by any stock. With full
control of reins and teams, acct
dents are avoided. The machin-
cry Is all above ground, and so
simple 1t never gets out of order.
Satisfaction or no sale. II adds
safety of any home.
.n 2T@ EAST HURON STU
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-24

2T2 EAST HURON STU
CHICAGO, ILL.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
CANCELLATION BOARD
REPORTS GOOD WORK
Only Three Grievances Go to
Umpires In Three Years.

New York, Aug. 30.-The anthracite
Cancellation board has issued a report
covering the last three years of its
work in settling differences between
mine workers and operators. 1t shows
that only tw~enty-three grievances
were presented to the mediators be-
tween April 1, 1906, and April /, last,
as compared with $50 grievances in
the three years Immediately preceding
1906.
Improvements in the relations be-
tween the mine workers and their en-
ployers may be measured by the brew
ity of the report
The Cancellation board was created
by the strike commission of 1902. 1t
consists Of three representatives OF
the mine workers and three represen-
tatives of the operators. When these
six are unable to agree the case is
referred to an umpire appointed by a
federal judge of the third circuit. In
the last three years only three griev-
ances have been referred to umpires.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
Auto Wrecks locomotive.

New York, Aug. 2S.-A Long Island
railroad locomotive was wrecked in
collision with an automobile at a cross
ing near Jamaica, L. l., and the pas
senger train to which 1t was attached
was delayed nearly an hour until a
fresh locomotive could be sent from
the yards here. The automobile was
only slightly disabled and its occu-
pants were proceeding to start it
across the other track, when another
express crashed into it. In this second
collision the car was demolished.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
ASSAILANT OF ROOSE-
WELT POLICIES QUITS
Assistant Secretary Of Com
mere and Labor Resigns.

Washington, Aug. 30.-Ormsby Nc.
Harg assistant secretary Of commerce
and labor, resignad his job less than
twenty-four hours after he had deliv-
cred a vicious attack on President
Roosevelt, the policies of the former
president, and Chief Forester Pinchot.
The controversy between Secretary
of the Interior Ballinger and Mr.. Pin.
chot thus reaches an leu stage. It
is believed that President Taft will
now be compelled to take drastic ae.
ton towards ending the scandals
growing out Of the grabbing of lands
and water power and the efforts of
corporations to overturn the Roose.
welt policy of conservation of public
resources.
The resignation of McHarg is con
strued here to mean that President
Taft does no intend to turn over his
administration to the great Interests. F."
McHarg was to have retired Oct. /,
but evidently the president was desir-
Gus Of placing his stamp of disap-
proval upon McHarg's uncalled for
and unprecedented attack upon former
President Roosevelt and his progress
i've policies.
There was no excuse for McHarg's
outburst. He violated all the recog-
nized official courtesy by injecting
himself into the controversy between
Secretary Ballinger and Chief Forester
Pinchot.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
SWEEP THE FAV0RITE
keene's Entry Backed to Win the
Euturjtv Of Two-Year-OIds,

New York, Aug. 30.-The rich Flu
turity, the classic race between two
~year-olds nominated before they are
foaled, was run this afternoon at
~Sheepshead bay. Uncertainty ~enyelops
the outcome of this struggle of six.
teen young bloods of the American
turf for the richest purse that has
been hung this season, about $4,000
James r. Keene, whose stable has al
ways made it's best efforts to win the
Futurity, has two representatives en-.
tered, Sweep, a brown colt by Ben
Brush-Pink Domino and Grasmere, q
chestnut colt by Meddler-Rohta IL
Sweep appears to be q slight favorite
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
BIG MINE CAVE-IN
AT SCRANTON
Property Worth Fully $780,
600 Destroyed.
TWO CITY BLOCKS SINK

A School House I'M Many Dwellings
and Stores Completely Ruined and
the Land Made Unmarketable For.
ever.
Scranton, Pa, Aug. 30.-Fully $780,
900 damage was done to west Scran-
ton property by a mine ~caye-in, the
worst the city has eyer experienced.
Abandoned workings Of the old cork
and bottle" c%olliery of the Fairlawn
Coal company, which ceased opera
tons twenty years ago, gave away
under a side hill, and an area equal
to two city blocks sunk anywheres
from two to eight feet, throwing
houses from their foundations, crack
ing walls and otherwise damaging
buildings.
No. 16 public school, a $4,000 brick
rtructure. was 80 badly damaged that
t will have to be torn down. The
Jther properties damaged are mostly
frame residences with a few small
store buildings.
One OF the biggest items of loss is
the land which, on account Of being
on a steep hillside, is PROBABLY made
forever unmarketable. The disturb
ance is estimated to be about 100 feet
below the surface. Ffssures extend.
ing to the surface and three feet
across at the top show themselves In
n number of places.
One of the O'Connor properties.
right on the brow of the hill, a new
three-story tenement house, slid down
the declevity six or seven feet, and is
threatening to topple with any further
settling.
Gas and water pipes were broken
In all sections of the disturbed area,
and the police are keeping people
from entering upon 1t, for fear of a
lighted match starting a conflagration,
Rats by the thousand ran through
the assures and scampered ver the
streets. Whisps Of hay and straw that
have lain in the old workings for
twenty years we're blown through an
unsealed opening on the river bank
by the force of the compression of air
resulting from the settling.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
PENNA. PR0HiBlTIoNfsTS
Nominate State Ticket and Declare
For Women's Suffrage.

Nominate State Ticket and Declare
For Women's Suffrage.
Pittsburg, Aug. 28.-Adopting a
platform, one clause OF which advo-
Gates women suffrage and going on
record as being in favor of the ami
hilation of the liquor trafic, and fog
the arbitration of disputes between
capital and labor, the Prohibitioa
state convention adjourned after nomi
mating the following candidates for
state Offices: State treasurer, Dr..
Frank Fish. Of C~laysville, Washing.
ton county; auditor general, G. w. r.
Smith, Delaware county; Harold u
Robinson, OF Uniontown, for justice
Of the supreme court.
Burton y. lockwood, Of Philadel
phia, was elected state chairman at Z
meeting of the state central commit
tee.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
Woman Decapitates Two Children.

East Grand Forks, Mimi, Aug. 30
Mrs. Antoine Straus. mother of SIX
children, residing at Tabor, killed her
n~ne-year-old daughter and three-year-
old son by chopping of their heads
with an axe. She then ran to the near.
est neighbor to borrow a gun to shoot
her other four children. who were
picking beans with their father in the
FIELD. The woman had been out of the
state asylum only three months.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
500 FOUND IN DEAD LETTER
Contained No Message as TO Identity
of Sender.

Washington, Aug. 30.-One of the
clerks engaged in opening unclaimed
letters and parcels in the dead let
ter division Of the p~ostoffice depart
ment ran across a letter which con
tanned 500 in bills, encased in two
pieces of pasteboard. The letter con-
tanned no writing or message of any
kind that might lead to the identity
of the sender.
The letter was mailed in Boston and
addressed to a party in New York. Re
ceipts of this character average about
100000 per annum. about 6S per cent
of which is restored to the owners,
leaving 80 per cent to be conveyed in
to the United States treasury, if not
claimed within four years.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
Pour Gasoline on Fire: Killed

Yardley, Pa, Aug, 30.-Mrs William
Tigar died as the result of burns r
ceived at her home at Morrisville
when an explosion followed the pour
ing of gasoline, supposed to have beer
kerosene oil, on the kitchen fire. Mrs
Tfgar was a mass of flame in an in
slant, and was burned from head tC
foot. She was taken to Mercer hos
pital. but was beyond relief. The
Tigar house was consumed, only 6
few articles being saved.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
JUMPS IN QUICK
SAND SAVES GIRL
Man Was Then Rescued When
Nearly Engulfed.
WATER UP TO HIS CHIN
In Desperate Struggle to Release Girl,
Man Was Caught Himself-Was
Dragged From PeriIous Position by
Rope.

VIZ vac S0N9fN 1855
Dragged From Perilous Position by
Rope.
New York. Aug. 31.-Slowly but
surely sinking deeper every minute
into the quicksand under the waters
of Flushing creek, near the Kill Cor
dan bridge, where he jumped i've
board to rescue a girl in a similar
predicament, and with the water
rising gradually on him until it
reached his chin, Samuel Smith, Of
Golden avenue, Flushing, had a thrill.
ing and desperate fight for his life.
BY the aid of ropes that were tied
under his armpits and around his
body, and while he chung with his
hands to a boat. Smith was dragged
from his perilous position at the very
moment thai his strength was exhaust
ed and hope almost gone. A delay OF
a minute would have meant his doom.
He Saves a Girl.
Smith was working as foreman in
the greenhouse of A. L. Thorne, about
goo feet from the bridge, when he
heard the combined cries of a half
playmate. Nellie Butler, nine years old,
had fallen overheard. Smith ran to
the bridge and saw that she was stuck
in the quicksand bottom.
Quick action vas necessary to save
her. He lowered himself to the water.
hoping to swim to her side and yank
her out. The water is only three feet
deep at the spot, but to touch the
bottom meant his own Imprisonment
and perhaps death.
He struggled with the girl, but
could not release her. Suddenly he set
himself on his feet, put his arms
around her body, and by a violent eff
fort released her from the suction. But
he himself was caught. He held the
child above his head and cried for
help.
Thrilling Rescue Wins.
John Dugan, the owner of a fat
bottomed rowboat, and Tony Naples
padded to his side. He was then
sinking rapidly in the quicksand. The
girl had become unconscious. He told
the men to get her to the shore and
return for him.
This they did. He held on to the
stern of the boat and tried to release
himself. but the suction vas too
strong. Ropes were then got by other
men working in the greenhouses and
boatmen. These were fastened around
Smith and violent tugs at them made
BY this time the water was up to
Smiths chin. His legs were imbedded
in the quicksand. Five men kept tug
ging at the ropes, while Dugan and
Naples rowed desperately with the
imperiled man clinging to the stern.
The combined efforts of the rescuers
released him from his Imprisonment
inch by inch. He was lifted into the
boat and taken ashore, where DR.. j.
w. Dick, who had been reviving the
girl, attended him. Both will recover
from the effects of the terrible ordeal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
Five Killed When Train Hits Auto

st. Louis, Aug. 30.-Ffve persons,
four of them closely related. were kill
ed when an automobile In which they
we're riding was struck by a fast pas
senger train of the Chicago. Rock
Island & Pacific railway west Of vi
gus station, st. Louis county. All were
residents of st. Louis. The dead: Theo-
dore F. White, Theodore f. White, Jr.,
aged three years; Mrs. Carl Klinge,
Miss Halcyon Campbell and Frederick
o. White. The two men are brothers
and officials of the White Hardware
company, one OF the oldest mercantile
establishments of the city. Mrs.
Klinge was their sister-in-law.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
Killed Two Girls and Himself.

Redwood Falls, Mimi, Aug. 81
William Tibbetts. a wealthy farmer
living near Delhi, killed Cecil Norton
the fifteen-year-old daughter of his
housekeeper; his daughter, Dorothy
Tibbetts, twelve years old. and set
fire to his residence and then hanged
himself. Everything indicates an as
sault by Tibbetts on the Norton girl
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
New Post For Henry M. Hoyt.

Beverly. Mass, Aug. 31.-President
Taft disposed of important state de.
partment matters with Secretary
Knox. Among the announcements
made was the selection of Henry
Hoyt, former solicitor general, As coun
selor of the state department. The
counselor Of the department will deal
with all the large legal questions, and
will have special supervision over the
negotiation of treaties.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
GIVES 10000 POUNDS MILK
Cows Nine Months Output Equals
500 Pounds Of Butter.

Williamsport, Pa, Aug. 30.--H. j
Helm. of Cogan station, has a thor
oughbred Holstein cow that has given
10000 pounds of milk In nine months
She weighs 1850 pounds. and hei
nine-month-old calf weighs 600.
Her milk is 4 per cent butter fat
which in the nine months would have
made approximately 500 pounds OF
butter. 1t costs no more to keep her
than an ordinary scrub" COW, and
the returns are much larger.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS

551 Killed and 1927 Injured In Penna.
During First Six Months Of Year.
Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. 30.-The state
railroad commission has compiled sta
tistics of the railroad accidents in
Pennsylvania during the six months
ending June 80 last There were in all
ISL fatal and 5427 non-fatal accidents.
OF the fatalities, 472 were on steam
railroads and 70 on electric roads.
There were 3697 persons injured on
the steam roads and 174s on the troll
ley roads.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
LIGHTNING KILLS THREE MEN

Storm Throws Chicago In Darkness
and DeIune Does Damage.
farm west Of here were killed by a
stroke of lightning. This was the most
serious incident of a deluge of rain
which broke over this city and vicin-
fly, flooding Easements and doing
other damage, but breaking a hot spell
Of seventy-two hours duration.
For nearly half IN hour the city
was in darkness, street cars and vehi-
cles being compelled to use their
lights.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
Larned Still Tennis Champion.

Newport. r. l., Aug. 2S.-The title
of single lawn tennis champion of the
United States still rests with William
A. Larned, of Summit. N. J., who sue.
cessfully defended it. William ]
Clothier, of Philadelphia, was defea'
ed. Five sets was required, the cham
pion taking the first two and the last
and the scores were 81, 60, 81. 1-6, 81
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
FIND GROUP OF SKELETONS
Old English Copper Coins Among
Hastily Buried Bones.

Salisbury, Md, Aug. 30.-FIfteen
skeletons, lying together in such a
position as to indicate hasty burial,
and three English copper coins bear
ing the date 1929 were found during
the e%xcavating for the United States
Medical School hospital, near the
banks of the Potomac river.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
WALKED OUT OF JAIL

Alleged Robber Changed His Clothes
and Left With Visitors.
Carlisle, Pa, Aug. 28.-George Ora
ham, who was In Jail here on q charge
of being one of the robbers of the
Donson store, took advantage of the
visit to the Jail Of "Old Home Week"
s~ightseers, changed his clothes in his
cell and walked out Of the front door
with the visitors. He is still missing.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04

Wilmington, Del, Aug. 28.-Frank
L. Reardon, aged fifty years, an in
mate of the State Insane hospital al
Farnhurst, was liberated on parole al
the request of the family physician.
He proceeded to his home here. and
finding his family absent committed
suicide by taking carbolic acid.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
TRIKE-DREAKER
DESERT PLANT
uit Steel Gar Company Works,
Charging Cruelty.
FAVE BUT few AT WORK
Mere Fed on Rotten Food and Given
Filthy Beds to sleep Upon-Guards
Rsdoubied, as Renewal OF Rioting Is
Feared.

Feared.
Pfttsburg, Aug. 28. - Sixty state
troopers mounted guard at the plant
Of the Pressed Steel Car company IN
Bchoenyille, where $500 employees OF
that concern are striking, a~nticipating
q repetition of the bloody corner
riots of last Sunday night.
Trouble is feared for several rea-
sons, the principal n being the fact
that imported workmen have been de-
sorting the Pressed Steel Car com
pany's plant in droves of from two
TO two hundred. The men declare un
e~quivocally that they have been mis-
nsed, subjected to indignities and
forced to work whether they chose
or not. AS quickly as the men reached
the outside of the a plant stockadc
they were welcomed In open arms by
the striking employees, and within half
an hour the imported workmen had
entered into a strike spirit as virulelt
as If they had walked from their JOB
six and a half weeks ago when the
car plant employees first laid down
their tools. instead OF but thirty min
utes before. A spirit of unrest per
vades McKees Rocks and the strike
zone In spite of the state constabu-
larry on duty and their eternal vigi-
lance, the strikers and their sympa-
thizers gathered in knots about street
and discussed the develop
ments in strong language. The strik-
ers declare that the Pressed Steel
Car company will be forced to sus
pend operations.
Company Abused Strike Breakers.
Stories told by the workmen who
have quit their jobs in the a plant
are almost unbelievable. Conditions,
according to these workmen, were
practically unbearable inside the car
plant stockade. Soup prepared from
rotting vegetables was served them,
they declare, by filthy negro walters,
picked up from employment agencies
In the slums OF Pittsburg. Beds filled
with vermin were given them to sleep
on, they declared, while they were
charged ~exorbitant prices for clothing,
even 2 CEN stamps selling at four for
10 cents in the car company's COM
missary. These stories we're made the
subject of afidavits in the govern
ment probe into alleged peonage con
ditions at the car plant.
Sensational developments in the ses-
sion of the government peonage probe
were developed when several wit
nesses declared in afidavits that they
had been treated worse than dogs"
had been served rotten food" the
car company had failed to keep fiDan-
cial promises and a company
bosses had threatened to blow heads
off with r~evolvers."
Charges that gambling was allowed
to go on unchecked in the car com
pany commissary were also made.
United States District Attorney Jor
dan and Special Government Agent
Hoagland refused to comment on the
evidence. -e4rt. -'sst
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
FALLING Ashpan Injuries Engineer.

Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. %. Robert
Mofatt. of Vineland, N. j, a Pennsyl-
yania railroad engineer, Of train No. %
sustained decorations OF the head and
face at Rheems and was treated a.
the Harrisburg hospital. An ashpan
dr. ,pping from the engine caused a
shower Of stones. A number of stones
few into the cab. slightly injuring the
engineer, Robert Moffatt.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
Railway Mail Clerk Trained.

Pittsburg, Aug. 30.-Frank Magown.
of Newark, N. j.. for many years one
of the most trusted and responsible
railway clerks operating between
New York and P%ittsburg, was arrested
by postal inspectors, charged with
stealing letters. He was trapped by
mean of a decoy letter.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
Mine Disaster In Wales.

Cardiff, Wales, Aug. 2S.-Ffve coal
miners were killed and twelve others
seriously injured in the naval colliery
at Rhondda through the falling of an
elevator cage. The connecting roo
broke, and the cage was dashed to-
the bottom of the shaft.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-04
LAUGHED Herself to Death In Theatre

New Orleans, Aug. 2S.-Margaret
feathers, negress, laughed so heartily
al the performance in a local theatre
| that she became unconscious, and died
before she could be taken out. She
was subject to heart attacks, and the
violent laughter brought on a fatal
one.