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The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
RAILROADS STOP ALL CONSTRUCTION WORK
Thew Law off 10000 Laborers in the Northwestern Doubt
About FUTURE -Retrenchment Follows Federal Policy OF
Preventing Advance in Freight Rates.

President Howard Elliott issued a
statement giving the reasons for the
action of the railroads. He says:
-Four forces namely, increased
taxes, increased prices for labor and
material, increased facilities, both in
quantity and quality, and the en-
larged powers of the railway commits
sions, are all working to reduce the
net earnings of railway companies,
SO that it seems prudent for boards
of directors and for railway officers
to consider most carefully not only
their duty to the travellers and ship
pers over their roads, but also their
duty to the very large number of peo-
pie whose money is invested in rail-
roads, and the large class of invest
ors to whom the railroads must go ii
they are to obtain money for add
lions and improvements and extern
sions. 1t seems, therefore, the part
of wisdom not to engage in new en-
terprises at the present time and not
to undertake too much railroad work
extension"
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A Word Fifty Spoken.

A lady once writing to a young
man in the navy who was almost a
stranger, thought: "Shall 1 close this
as anybody would; or shall l say a
word for my Master?" And lifting
up her heart for a moment she wrote
telling him that his constant change
of scene and place was an apt illus
tration of the words, Here have We
no continuing city" and asked wheth-
er he could say: 81 seek n to come"
Tremhlingly she folded it and sent it
off.
Back came the answer Thank
you So much for those kind words. l
am an orphan, and no one has spoken
to me like that since my mother died
long years ago." The word, like an
arrow shot at venture, reached its
mark, and the young mar shortly af-
ter rejoiced in the fulness of Gospel
peace.-Pittsburg Christian Advocate.
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One reason we do moi pray better,
1 suppose, is that we are afraid of be-
ing answered. 1t is a very serious
thing to pray, because We may be
taken at our word. We must consent
that God should order the answer
For instance: l pray in the MORN
ing that God will make me very use
full to-day; it is a hazardous prayer;
l may be taken at my word. Within
an hour l may be called to a very
great usefulness, that will take a
hundred dollars from my bank ac-
count. Now, if l don't want to take
that money if it is called for, l have
made a mistake in my prayer. Let
US say what we mean.-Alexander
Mckenzie.
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New York, N. Y.-If the positive
prediction of retailers and the re-
luctant prophecies made by whoie-
salers materialize the market value
of native dressed beef will jump
nearer the noon than ever before. IL
reached thirteen cents, and in some
cases thirteen and one-half to four
teen cents.
The retailers grumbled at the ad-
vance, but as a prominent Sixth ave
nue. dealer said: "We have to pay
the price because it prevails in all the
available markets when the pig
wholesalers say so, and there is no
alternative but to accept the explana.
ton which they offer for the rise.
The reasons for the advance given
by a number of the large wholesale
firms were that there was a light sup
ply to meet an increasing demand Tor
the best beef and that live cattle were
bringing higher prices in the West. a
representative of the National c
ing Company said that its customers
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st. Pauf.-The Pioneer Press says
that the policy of retrenchment,
threatened by the railroads because
of Federal activity in preventing a
proposed increase in freight rates, is
already going into effect. Thus far
the policy has meant the discharge OF
about 10000 laborers in the North
west. Orders have been received
from headquarters to stop nearly all
new construction work, while plans
for extensions and betterments
been dropped temporarily.
1t is estimated that the Northern
Pacific has given orders to lay on
$500 men, the Great Northern 5000
and the Chicago and Northern 500.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
discharged between 1000 and 1900
men during the first part of June In
the northern districts alone. For the
present, the Chicago, Milwaukee n
st. Paul is not extending the policy OF
retrenchment in the Northwest. The
Santa Fe has laid off 1000 men n
the Rock Island 1900.
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II is Gods Work: Net Ours.

Remember this: If that bit of work
which you have undertaken is for the
love of God-and it must be that
and for the glory of God, then it can
not fail. There is nc such thing as
failure in real Christian work. We
may make mistakes. but it cannot
fail. for it is Gods work; and if it is
done for God, when we have done our
best He will take it and make use OF
it, perhaps so that we can see it, il
not, we shall see it in the light OF the
world to ome
He will take US as we are and u
work as it is, and in the time TO come
perhaps make use of our very mis-
takes and build upon the work which
we began in humble faith and quiet
hope-the very work we wanted to
do, but we're too clumsy. There new
er has been yet a work for Him that
failed.-Bishop of Thetford.
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Bank Safe Short SIS. 600.

1t was found that $4,000 in cash
was missing from the safe at the
Mount Holly National Bank after 1t
had for two days resisted the SER
vices of experts called in to open it.
Cashier w. H. Lee Immediately had a
warrant issued for the arrest of AS
sistant Cashier Clifford Shelley
Heller, who has not been seen at
Mount Holly for two days. Heller
lived in the house directly connected
with the bank, and had access to the
institution at all hours. The pre-
sumption is that he arranged the time
clock to release the locks on Sunday,
made his haul, and then changed the
combination of the safe, so that it
could not be opened without drills
and he would have every opportunity
to escape before the defalcation was
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NATIVE BEEF ADVANCES.
neral That Price Will 60 Higher Than Ever

had been informed that the price OF
native dressed beef might leach th1r-
teen cents before the end of the week.
1t had been necessary to raise it above
twelve and one-ha1f cents, he said.
Representatives of other large
wholesale houses like Swift & Com
pany and 5chwarzschild & Sulzberger
were reluctant to admit that tie price
had taken a "perceptible" jump re-
Gently, but said that their best dressed
beef was selling from twelve and one-
half to thirteen cents a pound, which,
according to the retailers, is an ad-
vance of about two cents.
According to the retail dealers, the
price of lamb, veal and mutton has
been raised to the record mark during
the last few weeks. The rise has
been gradual in most instances, in
order not to place too heavy a burden
all at once on the small dealers, some
of them said, adding. that if the price
continued to go up many would be
forced out of business.
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PENIS GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. JUNE "a. 1910. NUMBF
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Frees Railroad of Damages.

Railroads operating in New Jersey
are relieved of responsibility in case
a passenger is thrown from a car
while standing on the platform or
walking through a vestibuled train,
according to the decision of the Su-
Lreme Court, at Trenton, which sets
aside a verdict of $4,000 damages OBJ
tanned in Hudson County by William
j.. Rivers against the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Rivers was injured in Jer-
sey City. He was looking for a seat
when he was thrown, the brakeman
having opened a vestibule trap for
a stop. The Court held that the
warning, Passengers will keep off
the platform" relieves the railroad
in such a case. The Georgia courts
took a different view in a similar case
recently, when they held that a vesti-
buled car was an assurance of safety
to passengers.
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More Innocents Abroad.

did you lose anything in Mona
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ALL WORK, NO PLAY. NEVER A VACATION.
low George M. Reynosds Got to BE the Head Of a
100000 CD National Bank

author; he has no hobby but bank
ing; he has no country residence; he
does not even take exercise; he works
nice hours a day.
MAKE your business your pleasure
and marry early. These are my
rules" said Mr.. Reynolds. Il mar
ried at nineteen a girl in the little
Iowa country town where was cash
Ter of the bank. My health is fine. l
don't play any outdoor games, l have
no interest in them, and yet l never
was in better health in my life.
II have an automobile. [ ride
three times a week. / never went to.
any college. / began as a messenger
in a bank at fourteen"
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Chicago. = George M. Reynolds,
head of the 5000, 000,0 900 Continental
and Commercial Bank at the age OF
forty-fve, is a living example of what
attending strictly to business Will 40
for a man. President of the second
financial institution in America Wnlie
young enough to be the OF many
of his directors, Mr.. Reynolds Is a
man who never stepped out OF the
beaten track of ever stopped working.
Mr.. Reynolds has never lost a day
from sickness; he has never taken a
vacation that did not have business
inside; he does not drink; he e not
smoke; he does not play bridge; he
does not play golf; he has no favorlte
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Rov Drowned in Creek.

Salvatore Locicero, seventeen,
whose father, Benedetto Locicero,
lives in New York City, was drowned
in Crosswicks Creek, at B~ordentown.
He and his friends went In bathing
and the New York boy was swept on
his feet. His body was recovered and
efforts were made to revive him, but
without avail.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia.-The passing
of an ocean graveyard" of SABLE
Island, scene of i~nnumerable snip
wrecks, is brought to mind by the re-
cent breaking up for junk OF the last
vessel wrecked there.
The steamer Skidby, a 200O-ton
freighter, met its fate Jan. l. lsOl.
Since that time no vessel has been
wrecked on the treacherous rib OF
sand forming the island coast, which
previously had taken a toll of more
than two hundred and fifty vessels
and many more than that number OF
human lives. Wireless t~e1egraphy,
more numerous and improved light
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News Of Sports.

Jack" johnson dismissed his man
ager, George Little.
The Crescent A. C. lacrosse team
defeated Johns Hopkins alumni, 8
to 8.
Caleb Bragg, amateur driver, made
the fastest time in the Dead Horse
Hill <ilmb at Worcester.
Delaney, who went to Georgetown,
has coached Exeter, Worcester Poly,
worcester High and Northwestern.
The First Life Guards polo team
Dictated the Qnidnuncs in the maj
match for the Whitney Cup, In Lon
don,
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Man of Eighty browns Himself.

The suicide of a man eighty-one
years old was brought to light at
Mays Landing by the finding of the
body of Isaac E. Smith in Lake Len
ape. Estranged from his only living
relative, a daughter, with no home
and unable to find work because OF
his old age, he drowned himself IL
the lake.
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Girl,s Health Broken by Study.

Weakened by too close application
to her studies, Miss Emma Ditmars, a
popular Trenton girl, was stricken
with typhoid fever two days after be-
ing graduated with high honors from
the State Normal School and the
Trenton School of Industrial Arts.
The girl endeavorei to complete the
two courses in both schools at the
same time, and also to put the finish
ing touches on her musical education.
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The Labor World.

One thousand retail clerks at but'e'
Mont. we're recently organized.
The supply of female labor In
toria, Australia, is unequal TO the ue
mand.
In Turin, Italy, the cabinetmakeTs
have struck for a wage of nine cents
an hour.
The American Federation Oh Lap on
on an average sends out daily INV
letters. circulars and packages.
The fight for alleged free speech az =
Spokane, Wash, has been won ~ 'ns
Industrial Workers Of the WORD
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Decision in Old Lawsuit.

Vice-Chancellor Stevenson an
nounced at Paterson his decision in a
suit pending before him five years.
The litigation is among relatives and
pertains to the distribution of the
profits of {he Beattie Manufacturing
Company, of Little Falls, left by the
will of Robert Beattie, head of the
Several hundred thousand
dollars is involved. The Court said
it would issue a decree compelling the
present managers of the company to
declare a substantial dividend.
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OCEAN GRAVEYARD NO MORE.
.u,~e,ess Telerraphy and other Things Have Robbed
1t of Terror.

houses and other beacon aids to navi-
cation and corrected charts have
robbed this quondam ocean grave
yard" of its terror for the mariner.
Mrs. Susan Kelly, wife of a former
keeper of a life-saving station there,
now approaching fourscore years, saw
ffty-two wrecks, many of which she
worked on with her husband during
her twenty years on the island.
Maurice Noonan, who is more than
threescore and ten years old, is be-
lieved to be oldest lifesaver in the
world. He has een sixty-two years
of service on Sable Island and still
actively awaits a call for succor.
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His Occupation.

What do you NEAR by writing
down a mans occupation as 'liar'?"
asked the census takers superior, as
he glanced over one of the sheets
that had been filled out. Surely
there isn't anybody who makes lying
his regular business"
We'll, / thought that was the best
way to put him down. He told me
he was a painless dentist. Chicago
Record-Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Mute Writes Plea of Guilt.

With tears running down his
cheeks George Millington, a mute,
wrote as his plea to a charge of
forgery: 81 wrote the check myself;
l am guilty; 1 will never do such a
thing again" MillingtoD was ar
rested in Trenton for trying to cash
a check for Sc made in the name of E.
E. Wiley at the Trenton Trust and
Safe Deposit Company. He is a young
man with a good record, and in view
of his affection Judge Gnichtel was at
a loss how to dispose of him.
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Auto Owners Have Rights.

The Supreme Court of Kansas de-
cided, at Topeka, that E. H. Himmel-
wright, of Sedgwick County, cannot
GOV damages for being run over
by an automobile driven by Hattie
M. Baker. The Court held that a
person afoot must exercise proper
diligence to prevent being run over.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24

At the home of Joseph M. Kelley.
in Summit, there was on exhibition a
hens egg that measured seven inches
in length, had a circumference OF six
inches and weighed two ounces. KEEL
ley cannot tell which n of his hens
laid the egg, but thinks it was n OF
his Wyandottes or Plymouth locks.
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Not COMPLIMENTARY.

We'll" said the young lawyer, af-
ter he had heard his new clients
story, your case appears to be good.
1 think we can secure a verdict with
out much trouble"
That's what I told my wife," said
the man, "and yet she insisted at first
that we ought to engage a first class
lawyer."-The Catholic Standard and
Times.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Prominent People.

The Pilgrims entertained Com
mander Peary i'll London.
Rudolph Spreckeis told about a ma
tion-wide reform movement he was
planning.
Professor HysIop declares his dis
~coveries seem to show that spirit lives
after the flesh dies.
Professor Starr, The anthfopologist
said a reaction might be expected in
Japan against Occidentalism.
John r. Bradley departed on 2
shooting expedition to the Rocky
Mountains in quest Of wolves and
bears.
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In All Parts of the State.

Edmund Oscar Wilson, who was Tor
forty years one of the leading busl-
ness men of Phillipsburg, died at his
home of heart failure. He was sixty
two years old, and leaves a widow a
six children.
The Rev. D. j. Jones, of Crozier
Seminary, has accepted a call to the
Taylor Baptist Church, Paulsboro.
All the girls of the graduating class
of the Glassboro High School will
teach school in Gloucester County
next year.
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Farmers Get Roads.

Taxpaying farmers from the lower
end of the county swooped upon the
Board of Freeholders at Woodbury.,
demanding better roads, and were SO
successful that the county will have 2
bond issue for owe 100000.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
ROosEvELTs SON MARRIEs
Rough Riders Invited to Add Pictur.
esuueness to Homelike Ceremony.

New York City.-Theodore Roose-
welt, Jr., eldest son of the former
President of the United States, mar
ried Eleanor Butler Alexander,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Addi-
son Alexander. The ceremony in the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
and reception in the c. B. Alexander
home, No. 4 West Fifty-eighth street,
were characterized by incidents that
were distinctly "Rooseveltian."
There was a touch of the pictur-
esque and of the homelike sentiment
and simplicity of which Colonel
Roosevelt has been fond.
The 1900 guests who thronged the
church and the 500 who were invited
to the house included Rough Riders,
who greeted Colonel Roosevelt on his
return from Europe.
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Friendly Advice.

But for my ears being in the way,
I could wear one of those very high
collars"
TOO bad, but stick to your ears,
girl. You may need EN- in your old
age to hook our s~pectacles OVER
louisville Courier-Journal.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Silent Victories.

Our boldness. for God before the
world must always be the result OF in
dividual dealing with God, in secret.
Our victories over sin, and self, and
the world, are always first fought
where no eye sees but God's.-Whit-
field.
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After the CaPouse.

First Reveller-"I say, old man,
your wife won't do a thing to you
when she smells the whisky"
Second Reveller-"When I'm near
her I hold my breath"
First Reveller-"You won't be able
to-. It's too strong."-Boston Tran
script.
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A Searching Question.

Are we living, habitually, in such
nearness to the Lord Jesus that the
gentlest intimation of His wish comes
to us with the force of a command,
and with a consciousness that some
way or other it is possible to obey,
and that we shall be carried through
in any service to which He calls u.s.
j. Hudson Taylor.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Winding Up His Affairs.

LOOK here, Ben, what did you
shoot at me for. I amt got no quar-
rel with you"
"You had a feud with Jim Wombat,
didn't ye?"
81 did; but Jim's dead"
I'm his Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Versatility.

Dolly-"Is he a great linguist?"
Tom-"Ratheri He can talk on
football, motor car, billiards, golf and
backslang and he can swear in three
Observation-Disclosures Bits.
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Breaking it Gently.

Simkins always was soft hearted,
and when it devolved upon him to
break the news gently of Jones
drowning to the bereaved Mrs. Jones
it cost him much paper, ink and in
spiration before he sent the follow
ing:
Dear Mrs. Jones-"Your husband
cannot come home to-day, because
his bathing suit vas washed away"
"P. S.-Poor Jones was inside the
suit."-Moderp Society.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Cooke to Head Mint?

Thornton Cooke, of the Fidelity
Trust Company, of Kansas City, Mo-,
had been offered the position of Di-
rector of the Mint by President Taft
and he accepts.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Bondholders Buy Up Railroad.

Representatives of the holders OF
S476, 500 of the Burlington County
Railway Company, at Mount Holly,
bid in the line and its assets for
$3.50, 600. The company has sixteen
miles of track between Moorestown.
Mount Holly and Burlington. 1t had
a yearly deficit of about $4,000.
Judge Horner, a special master, reor-
ganized the railway and has tried to
make 1t pay. A syndicate of Phila-
delphia bid up to 100000 for the
line.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Bolt Hits Guggenheim Home.

During the violent storm the sum
mer home of United States Senator
Simon G.. Guggenheim, at Deal beacn,
N. j., was struck by lightning, the
roof being damaged.
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Authorizing Postmaster-Genera to
Start Airship Mail Experiments.

Washington, D. C.-The Postof1lce
Department may soon be sending up
its special delivery mail by aeroplanes
at a 1OO-mile-an-hour clip.
Representative Sheppard, o texas:
introduced a resolution giving Tue
Postmaster-General authority TO ca,
pertinent with aeroplanes Tor the man
service. The department mas money
it can use for this service. n ros.-
master-General is directed 10 use
Washington as a base from wnich ~
make his tests.
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SNOW Them fne Door.

There are some sorrows which. be-
cause they are lingering guests I
will entertain but moderately, know
ing that the more they are made OF
the longer they will stay.-BishoE
Hall.
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VOLUME XXXlI.

(l9l0)
I may develop %eloquence,
Drop petticoat for bloomer;
Or, s~corning sham and saving pence,
Bar costume and costumer:
But heaven grant me recompense-
A trace of saving common-sense,
A grain or two of humor.
Life.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Morgan Capital, Long Dominant in
Chicago Railways, Controls System.

Chicago Railways, Controls System.
Chicago.-All four elevated rail-
roads of Chicago have come to terms
with Henry A. Blair for merging the
companies into one. The ~consolida-
ton, according to present plans, will
be brought about within thirty days.
1t is Morgan capital that will weld
the four IL, systems into one
The capital stock and bonds OF the
four companies to be merged are as
follows: Preferred stock, $17,044,-
500; common stock, ,~$2S,479,9O0;
bonds, $47,26O,6o4.
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Drops Dead as Peoria scores.

At a ball game in Peoria, ILL.,, be-
tween two teams of the Three l
League, William Bistler, a retired
farmer of Averyvilie, dropped dead
when Peoria scored two runs.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Ont of Season.

Courses on that magazine editor!"
'How now?"
"He ran my college serial so that
the football chapter will come in mid
July."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Big Damages.

Ibid Simpkins get n damages in
that assault case?"
Did he? My dear fellow, you
ought to see his face."-St. Louis
Star.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Lack of Enterprise.

''Those Bedouins around Baalbec
are a shiftless lot"
Gas to how in Particular"
"They won't keep the ruins in any
Journal.
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Common Consent.

Hicks-"Has he any right to the
title of colonel?"
Wicks-"Sure. Everybody calls
him that."-Somerville Journal.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24
Teddy in Paris.

President Fallieres (to R~oosevelt)
well, Mr.. Roosevelt, and how do
the European monarchs, my col
leagues, strike your"
Observation-Disclosures all very nice,
but rather Observation-Disclosures
mus.
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PREDICTS PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
Edward p. Ripley Says 1t Will Take
Place in Ten Years.

Place IN Ten Years.
Chicago, n.-Within ten years the
railroads of this country will be run
by the Government, should the pre-.
diction of Edward p. Ripley, presi-
dent of the Santa Fe Railroad, be
verified. Ripley said that the rate
legislation recently enacted in Wash
ington, D. c., is the last step in this
direction.
THE fates will force railroads into
bankruptcy" said Ripley.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-24

Q !
THAT was the place where you lost
your parasol, wasn't it, Jane?"-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.