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A Glveawav.

"You seem to have a deep-rooted
aversion to wrist watches"
you bet have. Just suppose they
should become so fashionable that we
had to wear 'em. Every time fellow
pawned his watch the whole town
would know it,"
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ouuht 70 work

ALAS, have never been kissed" :"
THAT shows lack of enterprise on
your part. Your sister has a fianoe,
believer"
"Yes."
why don't you meet him occasion
ally in the dark hall?"-Louisville
Courier-JournAl.
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Innnnrtant Information.

While it is interesting to know how
many eggs a pullet will lay in year,
it is more important to ascertain how
many eggs she will lay during the
fall and winter. when they command
the best prices.
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Paw,a IlttIe Inke-

Little Lemuel-Say, paw, what is a
stratagem?
Paw-The diamond. my son, is one
kind of a strata-gem.
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Quite True.

DO you know that girls often think
more of dog than they do of a man
before they are married?"
"Yes, and I've noticed that they Of
ten do afterward."
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Scraps Cause Of Death.

Many birds die from eating bone
and meat scraps which have been al
lowed to lie around exposed to the
heat and the flies.
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1t is difficult to convince the head
of the house that two heads are better
than one.
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lard 70 namane

"Alpine scenery is very grand"
"Very durable, too. l imagine 1t will
pull through the war all right. Kan
sas City Journal.
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Small chanee.

do you ever expect to be married ?"
well, that depends. If | can find
a girl with a million or two who
doesn't want to be married for herself
alone"
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A seismograph invented by a jan
anese scientist registers the velocity
Of all earthquakes two hundredfold.
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A textile made in China from raw
silk can be buried in the earth a year
without deterioTating.
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We have noticed that a good deal
of the life insurance is invested in
second husbands.
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Fitting Rccsptlon,

How do your women audiences
take to your candy-making lectures?'
"Oh, they just eat 'em up"
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There are said to be 500 uses for
the palmyra palm, which grows
throughout tropical India.
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It takes a conscientious man to
enjoy his work If the remuneration is
small.
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How we dislike the thoughtless per
son who always changes the subject OF
conversation when it's in our favor.
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In the last hundred years Great Brit
ain has had dozen different types of
rife.
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The Reason.

There is great deal of snap about
that marching"
mo wonder; it's q crack corps"
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The only blusterer from which q
brave man will take a blow is the
wind
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Nothing fiatters fool so much as
asking his advice.
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In Spitzbergen the longest day lasts
for three and a half months.
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And lots of people who think they
have nothing but trouble don't know
what trouble really is.
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When the sun shines lay aside .
little of your enthusiasm for a rainy
day.
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Usually a Liberal Ono.

H. WHdL 10 bI IuII'
Graft, my son, is sort of tip pock-
eted by the servants of the people"
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Agreed.

Sadie-Say, honest now, do you like
Maggie?
Pauline-Well. she's got a good
heart an she means we'll, but
Sadie-Nelther do I.-Puck.
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Those Dear Girls

nose Dear Girls.
Hazel-Harold tells me all he
knows.
Aimee-Indeed! Isn't the silence
dreadfully oppressive at times?
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TherA is a X Of 40 guineas in Eng
land cars of over 60 horse
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II one doesn't believe that honesty
is the best policy one should try 1t.
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Green Foo1 is Essential.

Poultry lhould have some kind Of
green food the year round.
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It Is.

II Is.
Thine is money"
"Yep, but it's mighty tough If time
is all you've got to spend"
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A good cook should be at the head
of every provisional government.
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TRAINING FOR CHILD
REALLY EASY TO TEACH HIM
HABITS OF NEATNESS.
Such Thing as the Shoe Bag Shown
in the ILLUSTRATION Is a Pointer
Good Idea Is Box for
the Toys.

There is no doubt children will more
readily learS neatness If it is taught
attractively. Children by nature are
careless, and oftentimes lazy. To
make them pick up their belongings
and put them away in the proper
places is quite as much trouble as do
Ing it ones SELF
They leave their shoes around prob
ably because there is no charm in
putting them away in a closet, but If
ctild is given a shoe bag for its own,
to b,a hung inside the closet door, like
the one shown, 1t will be a pleasure
to put the shoes away and visit with
the tiny figures pictured there.
The foundation is gray or tan linen,
and the figures are worked in brilliant
colorE, using mercerized cotton fast
colors
Little folks never tire of the = Id
woman who lived In a shoe, and her
large family, or the kittens who lost
their 'nittens because they had no
bag). A row of tiny boy and girl fig
ures, each in different stages of put.
ting on their shoes, is another sug-
gestion for decoration that will ap
peal to children also.
Mothers may be saved many pen
MES and children taught a lesson in
neatness If they are provided with q
case for keeping their pencils. What
mother has not experienced the wild
| hunt for pencils when 1t was time tC
start to school? All this commotior
can be saved by making case on the
shoe bag order.
Put tho runners in to take a pencil
in each pocket. One-half of the bag
could be given to the pockets for the
pencils. The other half could be {
larger pocket into which to slip &
scratch pad. On the outside of the
case over the larger pocket one coult
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Shoe Bag for Children.

work a couple of brownies. an owl, or
q squirrel.
Most mothers know the value of a
pretty box for collecting toys, but
know of one child who never could
be taught to put away his toys until
his mother bought fair-sized tin wa
ter pail one day. The small man was
told to put away his toys in the box,
but he promptly took the pail and
banged the toys into it. Nor would
he ever put them away in the box
again. He liked to hear the noise,
he said, when the toys got fired in
to the pail" Children are queer little
creatures, truly.
A Japanese mating box is an ideal
toy box. 1t is attractive, hard and
shiny inside, and makes a nice seat
for little people besides. But it is
much better for mothers to come down
to the children's way of thinking and
let them learn good habits in their
own way. One child, it will be found.
will like tin pail, another will oply
be happy If taught neatness through
the medium of satin and lace.
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STYLE IN HATS AND COATS
Various Shapes Of Becoming Millinery
Are Shown-Garment for Wear
over. Evening Gown.

The small, close-fitting black hat Is
still first favorite, but is often bright
ened by vivid hued flowers, sometimes
just one huge velvet rose, poised at
the back, or the high plain caps have
a band about half way up, set with
alternate small roses or camellias and
picquets of tiny mixed blossoms. One
Of the new and very becoming larger
shapes was seen the other day. 1t
was of black velvet, with crown of
white moire, and a mass of fluffy os-
trich feathers at the right side. A
serviceable and ultra-smart model
seen at the same time was entirely
made of black moire ribbon, deftly
manipulated.
There is no more useful garment
then the picturesque dinner coat
which, donned over a well-worn eve
ming gown. imparts to 1t a delightfully."-
fresh and festive appearance. Some,
made of vivid hued velvet or brocade,
bordered with fur, are just like a
medieval surcoat, short or long. to
suit the wearers figure, the longer
ones usually having an ornate girdle
of bead or jewel work; but loose at.
fairs of net or chiffon are more gen.
orally becoming. A charming exam
pie worn recently was of emerald
green chiffon and gorgeous -Sblack
and gold embroidery over simple
gown of black charmeuse. 1t was
wonderfully effective
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which the husband Of one of them had
suffered, they were raking up this
past, and gossiping over its petty de-
tails.
Mrs. Scoville sighed and said:
1T couldn't have been very long
after you saw him that MIR. Etheridge
was struck?"
only some twenty minutes, 1t takes
just that long for man to walk from
this corner to the bridge"
And you never heard where Oliver
went?"
1T was never talked about at the
time Later, when some hint got
about of his having been in the ravine
that night. he said he had gone up the
ravine, not down it. And we all be-
lieved him, madam"
"Of course, of course. What a dis
eliminating mind you have. Miss
Weeks, and what wonderful memory!
To think that after all these years you
can recall that oliver had cap on his
head when he looked olt of the win
dow at his father and Mr.. Etheridge.
If you were asked, have no. doubt
you could tell its very color. Was it
the peaked one?"
Yes, could swear to it," And
Miss Weeks gave little laugh, which
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KNEW WEAKNESS OF MEN
Or. Johnson's Idea Of Their GIorifica-
ton of War Showed Him a
Student of Nature.

Sturdy Englishman that he was
one hardly associates Doctor Johnson
with dicta that will serve in recruit
ing campaign. Perhaps the times.
says the Westminster Gazette, hold
events of such gargantuan import
that it is hardly matter for wonder
that in casual reading one may chance
upon a passage in the utterances of
a past giant that seems particularly
apt in reference to current events of
our time:
I'VE talked of war" says Boswell.
Johnson: Every man thinks meanly
of himself for not having been a SOL
der. or not having at sea-" Boswell:
Lord Mansfield does not" sir, If
Lord Mansfield were in company OF
general officers and admirals who
have been in service he would shrink;
he'd wish to creep under the table"
mo. sir; were Socrates and
Charles XII Of Sweden both present
"a any company, and Socrates to say.
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sounded incongruOas enough to De-
borah, In whose heart at that moment
a leaf was turned upon the past, which
left the future hopelessly blank
Must you got" Deborah had risen
mechanically. Don't, beg, till you
have relieved my mind about Judge
Ostrander. l don't suppose that there
is really anything behind that door
o. his which it would alarm any one
to see?"
Then. Deborah understood Hiss
Weeks.
But she was ready for her.
I've never seen anything of the
Sort" said she, "and make up his
bed in that very room every morn
ing"
"Oh! And Miss Weeks drew a deep
breath. mo article of immense value,
such as that rare old bit of real Satsu-
ma in the cabinet over there?"
NO" answered Deborah. with all
the patience she could muster. Judge
Ostrander seems very simple in Lis
tastes. l doubt II he would know Sat
suma II he saw It,"
Miss Weeks sighed. Yes. he has
never expressed the least wish to look
over my shelves. So the double fence
means nothing?"
"A whim," calculated Deborah, max
ing quietly for the door. "The judge
likes to walk at night when quite
through with his work; and he doesn't
like his ways to be noted. But he pre-
fers the lawn now. hear his step out
there every night"
We'll, it's something to know that
he leads a more normal life than for
merly!" sighed the little lady as she
prepared to usher her guest out
Come again, Mrs. Scoville; and, If
may, will drop in and see you some
day"
Deborah accorded her permission
and made her final adieux. She felt aE
If hand which had been stealing W
her chest had suddenly gripped heI
throat, choking her. She had found
the man who had cast that fata
shadow down the ravine, twelve years
before.
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INHABITANTS OF THE MIND
AIwavs In the Child, or Youth or
Man. Accompanied by the Ohe TIC
Knows Above All others

Real men and women are NOT tne
only people Our minds are lhhaplteu
as truly as any other country. every
child has his invisible playmate 10
whom he talks more freely thah 10 ' nlS
parents and with whom he goes upon ~
strange adventures tiny columbus '
with whom he embarks upon 'ne w"
ters of the uathtub to discover new new
land, or a rowing De Soto. with wnU,n Uni
he ships through the garden s"te' Hn
attended and unafraid, always oeiolu an
he is three years old, bent upon ,,in,nb "h
excursion into the wilderness Vim - IN
lies across the brook in the tlela OF ~ ~
the agoods. If you are the la're' oan
mother of this child you new new Inv
understand that-bow the tima DaUy onUy
who was never before out u a;ono
sight could have gone so Tar o'mod a'Ung
Why, when you found him; s'S,mst ,mnnst
With his travels, very tlreu' nooc
nodding he was still confident. pi1OT nil
WED and bent upoR q farther ~
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APPRECIATE THE HEAD PEST
Many Women Would Take Delight In
a ServlceabIe and Comfortable
Addition to Chair.

You may wonder who in the world
would care to have head rest in
this age, but if you have overheard
a woman complaining about the un-
comfortable. high-backed chair in
which she was obliged to sit day aft
er day you would realize that there
are many people in the world who are
not free to be so active on their feet
that they haven't time to rest their
heads during the day. Many a shut
in" and perhaps some women of ad-
vanced years would be glad to pos
sess a rest for the head. In any event
you can make an attractive rest"
of tan or dark green (green may be
the better choice for the color itself
is SO restful) linen. stencil or an
eyelet design of flowers could be ap-
propriately applied Or, If you are not
fond of embroidering or stenciling,
cut some attractive flowers from a
piece OF cret9nne and with blanket
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stitch attach them to the head rest.
If you do not know how to do the
blanket stitch these directions might
help you. 1t is made by holding the
edge on which you work toward you;
in this case the edge of the flower
would be held toward you. Sew from
left to night, allowing the thread to
form a loop under the needle. Do not
draw the thread tight, as It will
wrinkle the cloth. A loop of cord
should be attached to each end at
the top of the head rest, so that il
may be hung on the chair.
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SYNOPSIS.

A curious crowd of neighbors invade
the mysterious home of Judge Ostrander,
county Judge and eccentric recluse, fol-
lowing q veiled woman who has gained
entrance through the gates of the high
double barriers surrounding the place.
The woman has disappeared but the Judge
Is found in a cataleptic state. The Judge
awakes. Miss Weeks explains to him
what has occurred during his seizure. He
secretly discovers the whereabouts of the
yelled woman. She proves to be the wild
Ow Of a man tried before the Judge and
electrocuted for murder years before. Her
daughter is engaged to the judges son,
from whom he is estranged. but the muir
der is between the lovers. She plans to
clear her husbands memory and asks the
Judges aid Alone In her room Deborah
Scoville reads the newspaper clippings
telling the story of the murder of Alger-
non Etheridge by John Scoville in Dark
Hollow, twelve years before. The judge
and Mrs SCoVille meet at Spencer's Folly
and she shows him how. on the day Of
the murder, she saw the shadow of q
peaked cap. The judge engages her and
her daughter Reuther to live with him in
his mysterious home. Deborah and her
lawyer. Black. go to the police station and
see the stick used to murder Etheridge.
She discovers a broken knife-blade point
embedded in IL. Deborah and Reuther go
to live with the judge. Deborah sees a
portrait OF oliver, the judges son, with a
black band painted across the eyes. That
night she finds. in divers room. a cap
with a peak like the shadowed one, and
. knife with a broken blade-point. Anony-
nous letters increase her suspicious.
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seekIna nm Under the Sea.

Mining for tin under the sea is COM
mon enough in Cornwall, where the
veins are followed for a considerable
distance under the waters of the stern
coast, but Cornwall is fairly eQualed
by Chile, which. instead of producing
tin. yields large quantities of coal. On
Coronel bay are located some of the
best coal mines in Chile. and as the
seams extend beneath the bay and
give evidence Of continuing far
out into the ocean, coal mining is
thus carried on at good depth be-
meath the harbor. So imperyious to
water is the overhead rock that the
underground workings are dry and
clean. Modern equipment is used. and
electric power for all purposes ls sup
Piled at a low rnaA-
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CHAPTER x.
ANONYMOUS Letters.

Deborah re-entered the judges house
a stricken woman. She reached her
room door and was about to enter,
when at a sudden thought she paused
and let her eyes wander down the hall
till they settled on another door, the
one she had closed behind her the
night before, with the deep resolve
never to open 1t again except under
cpmpulsion. A few minutes later she
was standing in one of the dim corners
of divers musty room, reopening a
book which she had taken down from
tn shelves on her former visit. She
remembered 1t from its torn back ard
the fact that it was an algebra. Turn
ing to the fly leaf, she looked again at
the names and schoolboy phrases she
had seen scribbled all over its surface,
for the one which she remembered as,
Il hate algebra"
1t had not been a very clearly writ
ten algebra" and she would never
have given this Interpretation to the
scrawl, had she been in better mood.
Now another thought had come to her.
and she wanted to see the word again.
Was she glad or sorry to have yielded
to this impulse, when by closer in
spection she perceived that the word
was not algebra" at all, but "Algernon,
| hate A Etheridge.-I hate A. Ell
hate Algernon E., all over the page,
and here and there on other pages,
sometimes in characters SO rubbed and
faint as to be almost unreadable and
again so pressed into the paper by a
vicious pencil point as to have broken
their way through to the leaf under
meath.
The work of an ill-conditioned
schoolboyi but-this hate dated back
many years. Paler than ever, and
with hands trembling almost to the
point of incapacity, she put the book
back and flew to her own room, the
prey of thoughts bitter almost to mad
ness.
1t was the second time in her life
that she had been called upon to &c
through this precise torture. Then
only her own happiness and hOnOa
were involved; now it was Reuther's
and the fortitude which sustained hel
through the ignominy of her own trou
BILE failed her at the prospect of Reu
thers And again, the two cases were
not equal Her husband had had traits
which, in a manner. had prepared hel
for the ready suspicion of people. Blu
Oliver was a man of reputation anC
kindly heart; and yet. in the course o
time this had come. and the question
once agitating her as to whether
Reuther was fit mate for him and
now evolved itself into this: Was he I
fit mate for her?
(TO BIZ CoNTINUED3
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light upon fresh evidence. And where
am to get that? Only from some
new witness" k
Miss Weeks polite smile took on an
expression of indulgence. This reused
Deborah's pride, and, hesitating no
longer, she anxiously remarked:
Il have sometimes thought that
Oliver Ostrander might be that wit
ness. He certainly was in the ravine
the night Algernon Etheridge was
struck down."
Had she been an experienced actress
Of years she could not have thrown
into this question greater lack Of all
innuendO. Miss Weeks, already un-
der her fascination, heard the tone but
never thought to notice the quick rise
and fall of her visitors uneasy bosom,
and so unwarned, responded with all
due frankness:
Il know he was. But how will that
help you? He had no testimony to
give in relation to this crime, or he
would have given it."
That is true" The admission fell
mechanically from Deborahs lips;
she was not conscious, even of making
it. Then, as her emotion choked her
into silence. she sat with piteous eyes
searching Miss Weeks face. till she
had recovered her voice. when she
added this vital question:
How did you know that Oliver was
in the ravine that night? only
guessed it."
We'll, it was in this way. l do not
often keep my eye on my neighbors
(oh, no, Miss WeeksD, but that Night
CHANGED to be looking over the way
just at the minute Mr.. Etheridge came
out, and something saw in his man
ner and in that of the Judge who had
followed him to the door, and in that
Of Oliver who, cap on head, was lean
ing towards them from a window over
the porch, made me think that a con
troversy was going on between the
two old people of which Oliver was the
object. This naturally interested me
and / watched them long enough tC
see Oliver suddenly raise his fist and
shake it at old Etheridge; then, il
great rage, slam down the window anC
disappear inside. The next minute
and before the two below had done
talking, caught another glimpse o
him as he dashed around the cornel
of the house on his way to the ra
vine"
And Mr.. Etheridge?"
"Oh, he left soon after. watched
him as he went by, his long cloak flap
ping in the wind. Little did think h'
would never pass my window again"
So interested were they both, tina
neither for the moment realized th'
strangeness of the situation or tina
it was in connection with a crime TO
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grimage into the unknown. 1t is be-
cause he was not alone. He was ac-
companied by another whom he knows
better than he will ever know father
or mother-one of those companions
of his own fancy, about whom he neV-
er tells you or anyone else.
These people grow up like other
people The little child has his fa-
miliar, and the young man has his
ideal" always a woman-not the
one he marries, nor even the one he
might have married, but one whom he
never saw in the flesh yelled and in
scrutable presence who never forsakes
him. And when he grows old, and
the wife he did marry grows old. she
remains young, fairer than the lilies,
sweeter than honey.dew. upon the
leaves of June.-Corra Harris, in Har-
pers Magazine.
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MATERIAL FOR THE FRoCK
Should Be Selected With View Of Pre-.
venting Too Transparent Effects
in Revealing the Figure.

1t may take more material to make
a full skirt, but for thin fabrics there
Is nothing better suited than the gath
cred or founced skirt of this season.
Sheer fabrics, like mousselines, or
candies and the infinite variety of cot.
tons, require some fullness to prevent
tearing as we'll as to prevent trans
parent effects beneath and while one
petticoat was the rule and. indeed,
all that the narrow skirts Of last sea-
son could accommodate there were
some of us who were at some pains
to hide the silhouette that would make
itself visible underneath if one stood
against a strong light.
There are many charming lowered
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Severe Rlouses.

Shirt waists cut along mannish
lines, severely simple in style. are
having a tremendous vogue this sea
son. They are particularly suitable
to the business girl. Three attractive
models were seen recently. One was
a finely striped silk black and white
being the color scheme of the shirt
waist. This was made with a high
collar-a new idea of the season
which buttons up tightly to the throat.
Very chic but boyish is the effect.
The other two blouses were of dainty
handkerchief linen and showed a
graceful shoulder line.