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week, to visit her aunt, Mrs James DurWard.
 Allan Plumb was a week end guest at Fort Trumbull Beach, -4ilford.
 E. E. Nettleton from Milford was a guest or Mrs ". D. Nicholson on Friday.
 Mrs Frank Reed is entertaining Mrs Everett Jesup and son from Waterbury for a few days.
 Miss Frieda Klinger of Bridgeport wa'. week end guest of her perents
 H. B. maurer entertained friends from out of town on Sunday.
 The Ladies Aid society will me, t on Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Louis c. Couch.
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Reddlnp.

ENTERTAINMENT AND SALE.
 The Morning Star Mission C.r' le of the Congregational chGrcb will have an entertainment in the social room of the church on Wednesday afternoon and evening, August 25. There will be variety of fancy ar ticles on sale, as well as llne SUD, ly cf useful things. There will also be a table of tempting refreshments,
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w. F. Stanton, tke watch maker of 1928 Main street, Bridgeport, has a watch business that's bound to be popular and is novel and practical. MT Stanton has spent 21 years in Bridgeport and is well known, hay ing been with E. w. Button & Co. for 20 years. The insurance on your watch is a guarantee against all repairs. Give I'm a call and let him expIain it to you,
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Rev and Mrs A. D. Adams and daughter, Miss Ellie, of New Haven, who are spending their summer vacation in Brookfield, were guests at dinner, Wednesday, of the Misses Scudder.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Dr F. J. Gale, the popular physi clan of Newtown street, is now at Marblehead, Mass. In letter to the editor he says: Was sick, last week, but am getting about now. Shall not come home until l feel able to work, which I hope will be the last of this week or the first of next"
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

MT and Mrs S. c. Seeley of Tashua were guests, Sunday, of Miss Edith M. Peck of Sugar street, making the trip both ways in their automo- bile.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Mir and Mrs Ernest Wilson and daughters of New Haven are guests of Mr and Mrs A. D, Fairchild in Taunton
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Miss Blanche Kelly, who has been visiting at F. E. Gilbert's, leaves, this week, to visit friends in Monroe before going to ner home in Niagra Falls, Canada.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

James Angevine was at Botsford, one day last week, calling on old neighbors and also taking view of his former home there.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Mir and Mrs Robert H. Beers re- turned on Saturday evening after an enioyable stay of two weeks at Fort Trumbull Beach.
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The NeWtOWn Bee. Newtown, Friday, August 20, 1909.
HOME NEWS.
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES.
Cake and Ice Cream Sale.

Mrs George A. Stevens will serve cake and cream at her home. Friday, August 27, from to 8 p H., for the benefit of the Methodist church.
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MT and Mrs Miles B. Burr of Mon- roe were guests, last Friday and Saturday, cf MT and Mrs Howard Peck ill Chtuse.
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sandwiches. cake, ice cream and nome made candy. Come and enjoy a pleasar evening.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Mrs Ha sey Pope Of HAwleyville has been entertaining friends finm out ,t town, lls' week.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Mrs Sylvia Lake and daughters, Misses Grace and Florence, are guests of MT and Mrs Charles E. Beers and MT and Mrs w. c. John- son.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Mir and Mrs William Clarke are the happy parents of a daughter born on August 12.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

MT and Mrs P. D. Boinay of Gay louisville have spent a week with their cousin, Mrs George A. Stevens in Sandy Hook.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Cures baby's croup, Willy's daily cuts and bruises, mama's sore throat, grandma's lameness-Dr Thomas . tric Oil-tke great household remedy.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Mrs Phebe Cable of New Haven is spending several days here, the
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

W. c. Gilbert, with his wife, spent Sunday in the Park City.
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guest of MT and Mrs Arthur
 Peck, Sr., on Lyon street.
The Newtown bee., 1909-08-20

Mrs Lydia Fairchild has recently visited her son, Hobart Fairchild.
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BAPTIST CHJT CF NOTES.
 'Gethi emane" vii he the subject of the sermon at the morning wor- ship. The attendal."e continues tc be excellent at these servlces.
 There will be an afternoon meet ing at Lower Stepney.
 An out of door service will be held if the weather is favorable at 7.3O p. m. in Judd district. The schoolhouse is not large enough tc hold the people who have been at tending these meetings.
 The picnic will be held on tke Green in union with the Methodist Sunday school on August 26.
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MT and Mrs Boutwell, are in at tendance at the conference of the Long Island assembly at Strong Brook, this week.
 Miss Jillson of Guilford, Miss Milliard of Norwalk and Jobn Me Cormick of New Haven have been guests at the parsonage.
 MT and Mrs James Marshall of Fall River, Mass, Mir and Mrs Phil E. Abbott of Bridgeport, Conn.,, and MT and Mrs Charles Potter of Nau- gatuck have been recent guests of their parents, MT and Mrs George s, Coley.
 MT and Mrs Phil Abbott have gone to Fall River, Mass, to visit Mrs James Marshall.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
HOW THE STATE
GOT STUNG
WEIRD AND WoNDRoUs Ac-
COUSTIc PROPERTIES OF
STATE CAPITOL ASTOUND
AND CONFUSE THE SALONS
THERE.
Especial to The Press)

OLYMPIA, Jan. 19.-New mem
bers of the house, and not a few
old ones, are expressing their dis
pleasure over the acoustic proper
ties of the room in which the house
assemblies. Whoever designed the
legislative hall perpetrated an ac-
coustical joke, for. nowhere outside
of a topsy turvey house on mid
way can be found a hall with so
puzzling and conflicting echoes.
Not alone are the echoes and re-
vibrations annoying to the law
makers, but they are debarred from
confidential whispers by reason of
the fact that whispers carry to all
parts of the room, and person
40 feet distant frequently can hear
the low murmurs more distinctly
than he into whose attentive ear
they are poured.
Frequently member has a mo-
ment's private conversation with
his colleague in the next chair. He
expresses his opinion of some 9TH
er member or measure Of interest
to another in the opposite side of
the house. His communication, by
sort of wireless, goes across
intervening seats and some other
member hears the conversation as
plainly as if he had his ear to a
telephone.
The confiction of echoes makes
it utterly impossible for many of
the members to hear what Is 60
ing on. The reading clerks voice,
try as he may, is a mere tumble
of sounds and the speakers rulings
unintelligible. :
All sorts of wire and bunting de-
vices are strung along the walls
| and from the ceilings, but appar-
emily they do nothing except vary
the vagaries of sound, and the best
the members can do is to grin and
bear it. 80
A few look upon this condition
as a blessing on the grounds that
| much is said within the hall the
losing of which damages nobody
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
By ANN FORSYTH

1t was tiny wooden cottage, old
and in bad repair. 1t stood back
from the Kingsbridge road in the
little town of Fordham, outside
New York city. A fruit tree shell
tered it at once side and rose
vine chung to its porch. Inside the
cottage there were three small
rooms and garnet, all comforta-
bly, furnished with cheap things.
That. was at first, in the summer.
Gradually as the cold autumn
came the things disappeared one
by one to buy food and fuel and
medicine. For there were three
people living in the cottage; they
called themselves Sissy and Buddy
and Muddy, and Sissy was dying
Of consumption.
But that was not the worst Of
1t; there were months to follow,
each month worse than the month
before, with cold days when there
was no fire in the house and only
Buddy's hands to Keep death from
coming wit hthe freezing wind. She
was only a child at ga Sissy of
rosy cheeks and still lingerina
love of doll land. The neighbor
children had come all summer with
their dolls to play with her, and
they came now when poverty could
not make them very welcome, and
when pride helped to make poverty
unkind.
Sissy lay In garnet room-she
could have touched the ceiling with
her hands-and there was no air
for her hard breathing, even in the
cold. Her eyes had grown big and
appealing. but she could laugh still
when children came in to sing
comic songs to her, as they some
times did. There was nothing but
some cotton covers to put over
her and spread over them faded
West Poi A-eape which had seen
little enough service, and had been
put away long before in disgrace.
Buddy worked hard trying to
write at the poor little table be-
side the bed, but it was heart
breaking task and the luXuries that
were so pitifully needed did not
come as they should.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

patches say that the Bronx Society
of Arts and Sciences, of which the
New York university professors
form part, crowded three down
stairs rOems to the doors. They
read the poems and sang the great
mans praise. And if you stop to
think of it-perhaps they did not
the cost of keeping this relic in
repair, the cost of painting the
raven on the house, the cost of es-
tablishing Poe park, which is just
across the way, would have made
Sissy so happy while she lived, and
even that small sum would have
eased life a bit for the frail, weak,
sensitive Edgar Poe and his dar-
ling's good mother, Muddy.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
THE LITTLE COTTAGE WHERE POE WROTE THE RAVEN
AS IT LOOKS TODAY

Buddy was not strong; he was
not well physically. His thin, white
face showed that, and he was
Representatives; every cough from
the poor little threat sent an ac-
companying shudder through him.
He dreaded death, perhaps he fear
ed 1t. At every movement from
Sissy he started into a panic OF
fear lest death was already at the
door. And SO the days dragged
themselves along in despair and
misery.
Muddy was the only strong men,
Der of the family; she nursed and
tended both her children, she gave
them everything she could rake
and scrape together; she shut the
world out bravely and did her best
to shut poverty out with it. Only
poverty would not be shut out; it
came in through the attic windows
with lean fingers and death came
with it. Little Sissy died very
easily, but for Buddy it was a liv-
ing death, for his trembling, SEN
sitive soul there was an agony of
space to live ahead.
Edgar Allan Poe was Buddy, and
he wrote THE Raven" in that gar
ret, beside that bed and white the
world without was shouting the
praises of this new poet, Poe was
kneeling at her bedside breaking
his heart.
Now the little cottage in Ford
ham is painted very white with a
black raven drawn just below the
attic window and word to tell
the public that Edgar Allan Poe
lived there in 1S45. And isn't 1t
the irony of fate that on this Janu-
airy thirteenth almost the anniver-
sary of Sissy's death, there is a
memorial service in the cottage
for the great poet? Today's dis
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
WEATHER BRINGS JOBS

The free employment Office al
the city hall has been a busy
place during the last 10 days. PEG
pie who have had chores and odd
jobs to perform have been tele-
phoning in, and the day after the
last big snowfall 35 jobs were
handed out.
A crowd Of unemployed men
stand outside the door from s a. m
until 5 p. m. and every time the
telephone bell rings, in they rush
pell nell. In one of these rushes
a few days ago the large pane of
frosted glass in the doorway was
broken.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
WHERE POE SUFFERED
HIS KEENEST AGONY

Al ~ ~
- sMSSaf Allan Poe asked the
world for bread. and it gave him
q stone. More and more monu-
ments are erected to him, as the
years go by. magnificent works of
stone. Yet, not more than 81
years ago, in little cottage on
the outskirts OF the city of New
York-the cottage is still standing
he sat, penniless, at the deathbed
OF his wife, unable to buy her food
or bedding. Over her wasted form
was thrown the military cape
which Poe discarded when he was
dismissed for 'ineffieiency from
West Point. Poe never smiled aft
or that His wife had been a
dainty. frail, beautiful southern
girl. In that cottage today ap-
propriate ceremonies will be held
celebrating the one hundredth an
niversary of Poe's birth.-Editor.)
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

through the Big Bend country there
is sufficient snow to last till enough
frost is out of the ground to en-
able it to absorb ample moisture
for the coming crop.
In the Palouse country. where
the winds have not been so high
during the cold spell, 1t is reported
that the frost is but about IL or
IA inches deep and that chances
are still good for an excellent
wheat crop this season. 1t is pre-
dicted that in the Palouse the con-
ditions are even better than they
are in the Big Bend country, from
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
LOT 5CORSET COVERS.
Childrens Muslin Underwear Sale Less One Thir

Childrens petticoats of good muslin, made very
full with flare founce, trimmed with fine tucking and
VAL lace; ages to 10 years; regular 35c value for Csc
Children's pettcoat of best quality muslin, in
ages to 10; they very full and trimmed with dou-
BILE ounce of embroidery regular $lOO value for CSC
Child's underwaist of heavy drill; aged to 5
years; regular zoe value for .................13 c
Child's gown of best quality cambria, made very
full; has fine tucked yoke inlaid with insertion; has
ruffled embroidery collar and cuffs; regular
$780, for Observation-Disclosures. CSC
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

the fact that telsN snow is almsst
equally as deep and the ground Is
frozen less. 1t is stated that
should the weather continue at its
present temperature for about q
week longer much of the frost will
be out of the ground and there will
be sufficient snow left to insure
much moisture.
In the lower part of the Big
Bend country 1t is said that more
than half of the land is sown to
winter wheat.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
SLIGHTLY USED PIANOS-WEBER, STICK
STEINWAY AND MANY OTHERS.
PRICES, SLAB UPWARDS

The large Christmas business
brought us many secondhand
pianos in exchange for fine pianos
and Pianola pianos. All are in
splendid condition and are offered
at sacrifice. Only store that
handles such magnificent instru-
ments as Chickering pianos and
genuine Pianola pianos could in
duce people to aprt with the fine
pianos we have taken In exchange.
We simply wish to get our money
out OF them, and they are yours for
just what we allowed for them in
exchange.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
BRAND NEW PIANOS AT CUT PRICES

ing at one fourth and one third be-
q
low regular price.
We have a Smith G. Nixon Apol-
10 player piano, So note. brand
new, regular price $3.50. sale price
$3.50. A Schuman Apollo player
piano, 65 note, brand new. regular
price $500, sale price $500. Auto
piano, secondhand. in fine condi-
ton, cost new $3.50. sale price $3.50.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

There are also some splendid
bargains in discontinued styles Of
new pianos, art styles, mission
styles and two magnificent grands;
prices $40 to $l57 below regular
prices.
Music cabinets, Pianola roll cab
inets, talking machine record cab
inets-a fine line that arrived too
late for Christmas trade-are sell
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
NO DAMAGE TO
! WHEAT CROP

Spokane wheat dealers predict
no damage to wheat crops in Wash
ington's fertile grain belts by the
cold of last week. 1t is stated that
although the frost ranges all the
way from IS to 80 inches in depth
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

Gowns of good muslin, made very full, with tuck
ed yoke and rues in neck and sleeves all Sizes up to
10 years of age regular 45c value for. SOC
Chdren's gowns of best quality muslin, trimmed
with four of tucks in yoke and around neck and
sleeves; regular 85c values sale Wednesday,
Chdren's muslin pants, made very plain, with
hemstitched and pin tucks regular 20c value for 14c
Chdren's pants of good muslin, made with hem
stitched rule and fine tucking worth regularly 45c;
sale price Wednesday NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Soc
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
ROOT SLIDES INTO
PLATT'S PLACE

ALBANY. N. r.. Jan. 1.-The
endorsement Of Elihu Root as SEN
ator to succeed Plat went through
the republican caucus according to
program. The democrats have
nominated Chanler, but Root u
elected, as the republicans control
the legislature by . big majority.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

means bona fide saving to pur-
chasers Of one fourth to one third
of the price.
Almost any reasonable terms will
be accepted. Come early and get
House. corner of Sprague ana
Post.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
SMALL GOODS

The small goods department also
enters In with line of violins.
mandolins. guitars. banjos. band
and orchestra instruments of all
kinds.
Bring a few dollars and visit
this sale. II Is chance that
comes but once year and 1t
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

Kingsbury piano, cost new $3.50.
sale price $l43; Mozart piano.
would cost new $3.50, sale price
$156; Schubert, slightly used, cost
new $3.50, sale price $342; Stein
way, slightly used, cost new $3.50,
sale price $40; rosewood Weber,
fine old instrument, thoroughly
overhauled, cost new 5000, sale
price $415; j. B. Coow, second
hand, cost new 1875. sale price
S243; Wheelock, mission case, cost
new $500, sale price $247.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19
Two Important Weeks
For Piano Buyers
Seven Eight Dollar Monthly Payment Now Secures
Splendid Instrument at Eiers Pre- Inventory
Sale. Prices, SLAB Upwards

The most important sale of the
year IN any business is the Pre-
Inventory Sale. Especially is this
true of the piano business. The
heavy Christmas sales bring in
many secondhand instruments in
exchange for higher priced pianos
or Pianola pianos.
To make room for new goods,
which it was necessary to order
Immediately after the holidays, and
to clear the store of all exchanged
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-New York
will shortly be able to boast the
highest bells in the world
Four massive bells, the largest
weighing 1000 pounds, are being
placed In the Metropolitan tower in
Madison square. where they will
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

The less account dog is the
more boy thinks of him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

instruments. discontinued styles,
etc, we must make a sweeping sac
rifice of the greater part of our
present stock.
There Is something for every
body at this sale-Pianos. Player
Pianos, Organs, used Pianolas,
Talking Machines (oisc and cylin-
der). Record Cabinets for Pianola
and Talking Machine Records.
Musical Goods of all kinds at a
big saving and easy terms.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

ring out the time every quarter
hour. Thousands of persons have
watched the daring but nonchalant
workmen stand on the bells rs they
were lifted 400 feet to the lower
staging. The bells win be 575 feet
above the street.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-19

The Press. % cents a month.
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04
Freak Fruit Cake.

Many housewives would say fruit cake
made without butter was a freak. The
recipe below will, however, give you as
rich, favory fruit cake as you ever tasted;
yet there is no butter in it:
Mix four cups sfted pastry flour one
level teaspoon soda, two level teaspoons
mixed spices Except cloves), one
fourth level teaspoon salt and two
cups seeded and quartered raisins. Add
also one-half cup nuts chopped fine,
if you like. Blend one-half cup Cot
tolene with one cup brown sugar and
one cup white sugar, add one cup mo-
lasses, one cup milk and then the flour
mixture. Beat well and bake in two pans.
Cottolene is used exclusively by many
housewives for all frying and shortening
purposes.
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04
NOTICE.

All persons having claims again,
st the late Judge George c. Reed
are requested to present them to
us.
Each claim to be itemized and
sworn to before officer having
jurisdiction. And presented be.
fore the first of January 1910.
MRS. SUSAN L. REED.
CARL REED.
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04

The nearness of Christmas
should suggest the wisdom
of early purchasing. Babbitt
Bros, with the largest stock and
widest assortment of Christmas
goods ever displayed in Winslow,
announce their readiness to sup
ply the wants of Christmas shop
pers commencing Wednesday,
Dec. 1St. n
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04

The peculiar properties OF
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
have been thoroughly tested DUR
ing epidemics of influenza, and
when it was taken in time we
have not heard of a single case
of pneumonia. Sold by all
Dealers.
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04

A. !. Ratelle will discontinue
repair and construction work
and hereafter devote his atten-
ton to the lumber business ex-
clusively.
All accounts due the Winslow
Lumber Yard or P. A. Ward up
to December l should be paid to
A. ]. Ratelle, at his office, at the
lumber yard, near railroad track.
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04

lfyou are suffering from bill
business, constipation, indiges-
ton, chronic headache, invest
one cent III a postal card, send
to Chamberlain Medicine Co.,
Des Moines, Iowa, with your
name and address plainly on the
back, and they will forward you
a free sample of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Lives Tablet. Sold
by all Dealers. y
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04
italians First Users of Forks.

Neither the Greeks nor the Romans
possessed forks, It was, according to
that curious book of travels, "Coryat's
Crudities," published in 1611, left to
Italy to invent them, because, AS the
author quantity observes, the Italian
cannot by any means endure to have
his dish touched with hands. seeing
that all mems fingers are not alike
clean"
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04

The Gallup Enterprise reports
there IS rumOr out that the
Santa Fe will increase salaries in
the telegraph department over
the entire system commencing
January 1st. This probably re-
lates only to relay and division
terminal offices.
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04

A sprained ankle will usually
disable the injured person for
three or four weeks. This is due
to lack of proper treatment.
When Chambeslain's Liniment is
applied cure may be effected in
three or four days. This hniment
is one of the best and most re-
markable preparations in use.
Sold by all Dealers.
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04
A LOGICAL DEDUCTION.

"Mr.P" said a gentleman to
his tailor, "how is it you have
not called on me for your account?
"Oh, | never ask a gentlemen
for money"
Indeed! How, then, do you
get on if he doesn't pay?"
"Why, after a certain time |
conclude he is not a gentleman,
and then ask him. ."-Tit-Bits.
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04

Wednesday, Dec 1st, the latest
and best in Christmas goods
will be ready for your inspection
at Babbitt Bros. The lines are
complete and novel. The stock
is large but early purchasers will
have the advantage of widest
selection. <
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04
An Impression OF Zanzibar.

A curious sight is told of By a gen.
tleman who was lately in Zanzibar.
Perhaps the most vivid impression
that l brought away from my hurried
visit to Zanzibar" he says, was that
of seeing the native carpenters in the
Cathedral carving the memorial to
Bishop Smythies, and planning with
their toes, which were decked with
silver rings,"
The Winslow mail., 1909-12-04

7. w. Ritter with two bands of
sheep passed through the town
Tuesday on his way to winter
quarters at Jerome Jet.