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THE NORTHWESTERN. DlKDCII01F.lt M GlltSOM, E<U ami I’olH LOUP CITY, - • NEB. » 1_" P _!i— * -J 1!JB Germany ha* a life insurance asso ciation of hotelkeepers which in seven years has paid over $300,000 to the families qf members. The will of the late Jarvis Ford, of St. Joseph, Mo., leaves $30,000 for a free memorial library in that place, and $10,000 to the municipal hospital. Charles C. Rumsey, whose equestrian statue of a North American Indian has been accepted by the managers of the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition, is a member of the junior class of Harvard. Venice is trying to revive the pic turesque ceremony of wedding the Ad riatic, which has been discontinued since the last Doge was expelled in 1797. Plans have been made for build ing a Bucentaur on the model of the last state galley used for the cere mony. The new Japanese cruiser Yakumo, which was built at Stettin and recently sailed for Japan, has so far given the greatest satisfaction. The system of ventilation is so perfect, it is asserted, that during her passage of the Red sea the temperature of the engine and boil er rooms was not much more than half that in British ships. Attention is called by the London Lancet to the fr.ot that canned toma toes are now being extensively col ored, in order to make them look at tractive and as if made from ripe fruit. Among the colors so employed are coal-tar colors and cochineal. Tho subject of artificial coloring and pres ervation of food is now receiving great attention In England. When ex-Queen Liliuokalanl visited tho island of Maui not long ago for the first time in ten years the steam ship which carried her was surround ed by natives bringing gifts of all kinds, fruits, vegetables, fowls and even pigs. There was music, dancing, a great feast, and the whole steamship was decorated with their garlands. An original device for evading the prohibitory law was recently un earthed by plumbers in a house in Rutland, Vt. The liquor, stored in a secret nook, was conveyed in hidden pipes to a radiator in one of the prin cipal rooms of the house/ A small faucet attached to the radiator was the means by which the liquid was drawn off for use. The Hungarian government is about to take steps to effectually put an end to the wandering of gy psles, who are so frequently to be met in that coun try. The stalwart Hungarian gypsy, with his multi-colored cloak, his dark eyed, fortune-toiling wife, and his crowd of half-naked children, is one of the most picturesque figures in this part of Europe. The Slecie announces that M. Osiris, a well-known Paris philanthropist, has instituted a prize of 100,000 francs to be awarded by a committee of the Paris Press Syndicate to the author or au thors of a work adjudged by the com mittee to be the most meritorious, whether from the artistic or industrial point of view, or on the ground of gen eral service to humanity. It bis been remarked In connection with the late Lord Armstrong as not a little singular that while lie was the founder of EJswlek, the arsenal of tho north, a member of another branch of tho same family was the founder of the royal arsenal at Woolwich in 171<5. This was John, a scion of tho Llddes dale Armstrongs, who became a very celebrated military officer and engi neer, serving with the highest reputa tion under the duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene. Captain Cotton of tho Norfolk navy yard has made a report on the damage sustained by the torpedo-boat Ericsson on Jan. 2, when she touched bottom in the Delaware and Chesapeake canal, while the water was low and the ice thick. The known damage is a bent propeller. Orders have been issued for tho docking of the boat at Norfolk and it is expected that she will soon be in readiness to join the torpedo flo tilla which will accompany the north Atlantic squadron on its winter cruise. In Scotland the halfpenny is called a '•bawbee,” but how it came to receive that name is not a matter of common knowledge. It appears that the first attempt at the portraiture of the un fortunate Mary, queen of Scots, was made in her earliest Infancy, and her “wee” face was engraved upon the Scottish halfpennies at the time of her coronation in 1543, when she was but 9 months old. A number of these small coins are still preserved, and it will be easily understood that the name “bawbee,” or baby, was origin ally given to tho coin bearing the baby’s effigy. Miss Jane Schroeder, who has Just died in Essex, Conn., has left what Is called in sporting parlance 7,000 “bones” to two dogs which she had picked up on the streets. During her 65 years of life Miss Schroeder lived in a tumble down shanty and devoted her days to visiting the sick of the town and picking up stray dogs and cats. During one of these missions she picked up a child and adopted her as a daughter, Greatchen Schroeder, as the child is called, will inherit what re mains of the $7,000, should the dogs die before she does. Mrrtmmuui tumimtmiumttuiuimttuuuKtmutut State Capital Observations. Expressions Emulative for the Good of Republican Supremacy. luttuit It has been requested that this de partment enlighten the public on the character of a "hold up" bill. It Is a bill introduced in the legisla ture to frighten somebody into paying money to secure its defeat. The inter ests most frequently attacked in this way are the railroad, telegraph, tele- | phone, express and insurance compa nies. A bill will be put in, for exam ple. reducing the rates charged or im posing some other hardship upon the telegraph companies. It appears to be in the interests of the public and many members innocently support it. After a time it gains so much headway that it seems likely to pass. The tele graph people became alarmed and send men to Lincoln to fight it. Some friendly man who just happens to Ijj loafing around the lobbies will drop around and say that he overheard somebody say that the bill could be defeated for a certain amount of mon ey. If the telegraph folks arc well scared they will invite a conference and after awhile will pay anywhere from $500 to $5,000 to have the bill killed. Then the men pushing the bill will suddenly lose interest In the meas ure, or find that it is unconstitutional, and it will die a more or less myster ious death. Of late years the "grafters” cr “hold ups" have not nad easy picking in Ne braska. In 1807 a regular hold up syn dicate was conducted in Lincoln, but the work was so hold that the interest attached wfere obliged to take meas ures for self defense. An open ex posure such as the “hold ups" suffered at the hands of Representative Toms sen is usually enough to cause the whole industry to languish for sev eral years. The lobby has not received such a shaking up in several years as it is receiving now' at the hands of the "hold-up” committee. This committee is finding Its task quite a little larger than was at first supposed and the scope of the Investigation seems to include much more than the commit tee thought when the job was under taken. The lobby has been proceed ing with caution since the first explo sion. hut those who are not yet under the ban are gloating over the discom fiture of their opponents. There is competition in the lobby as well as “lsewhere and the lobbyists left on the field and unmentioned are thinking what a feast they will have when the present trouble blows over. The com mittee knows this and when it re ports, it may spring a surprise on some of these gentlemen, which will cause them to seek cover in earnest. There Is another side to the cry o* ‘hold-up" bills which Chairman Fow ler of the investigating committee will probably take into consideration. Cor porations and individuals take advan tage of the cry to suppress legitimate legislation. A hill may he to correct an evil and he one which the people desire to have passed, but under the cry of “hold-up” it is killed by the members who may he controlled by the corporations or individuals. A hill may have merit and yet be a hold up hill. This fact is admitted by every one. A measure may be merit orious and yet be introduced with the intention of extorting money. The ob ject of the introducer is to secure pro fit to himself by introducing the bill and then having it killed, if it is not killed he loses his profit. It is a le gend in legislative circles that a cer tain law now on the statutes was in troduced many years ago for the pur pose of being killed with profit to the persons behind It. The members of the legislature looked into the meas ure and thought it was a good bill. They were begged by the introducer to vote against it, but a majority abso lutely declined and the bill became a law and is by a majority of the citi zens of the state believed to he a good measure. Frequent attempts to re peal the law have been made in vain. If the legend is true the bill was intro duced for profit to the persons be hind it. hut it got away from them and became a law. One or more mem bers of the legislature now interested in the present investigation were mem bers of the legislature when this par ticular bill passed and refused to vole against it when so requested by the. man who introduced it. I'p to this time the city of Lincoln has not been in the normal school business enough to count, but if the stato feels like accepting Governor IMetrich'H suggestion to trade off the hospital for the insane for a big cen tral normal the people here will not be disposed to make a disturbance. A good school is worth more to a town than an insane hospital or a peniten tiary. Governor Dietrich has greatly dis turbed the advocates of the new nor mal schools by speaking out so frankly against them. Incidentally he has shown himself more than ever to be a business man rather than a politician. A governor who cared more for his own political future than for the con dition of the state treasury would never say a word about a thing like the normal school bill. It is evident that the state has made quite a de parture in putting a business man in the executive office. It will lie inter esting to see how far he will let his hard-headed business sense govern his actions and how much he will he swayed by the advice of politicians. Judge Edgar Howard, now of Co lumbus, made a discovery in Lincoln recently that certainly deserves to be classed among the things that are Im portant if true. “Before the week Is over,” he said, ‘‘the senatorial puzzle will bo solved by the election of one republican and one fuslonist. The re publican will be the man who can de liver enough votes. The fusionist will he Allen, Hitchcock, Thompson, Har rington, Sullivan or Holcomb. If you are able to get at the right sourse of information, some of the republicans around the Lindell hotel will be able to tell you more than I can. The birth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln was celebrated by the young men's republican club of Lincoln with a banquet at the Lindell hotel. It was the thirteenth annual banquet of the c:ub, and like the long line of ban quets past it was a successful affair. Orators who lent their eloquence to entertain those present were Lafs Young of Des Moines, W. F. Gurley of Omaha, Gus livers of Havelock, W. L. Anderson of Lincoln and Peter Jansen of Jansen. Tributes to the memory of the martyred president whose worth to the republic hn» never been overestimated, were eloquently offered by these speakers. The din ing room was decorated with flags and bunting, and the tables were daintily decorated with palms, ferns and car nations. Republican members of the legisla ture were invited, as well as all the senatorial candidates. Owing to the caucus, which had not been anticipat ed in the arrangement the attendance at first was not all that was ex pected, but shortly after midnight the members began to pour in and they wero greeted with applause by those already enjoying the feast. The ban quet room was not opened until after 11 o'clock. It was the hope of thoso in charge that the caucus would ad journ and let the legislators out early and this delayed proceedings. The legislators were to be specially enter tained and all the senatorial candi dates had given their word to be pres ent. Many of them came in after the caucus and while the forepart of the night was one of suspense and con siderable agitation on the part of thoc.e most interested in the success of the affair the close was serene. The exciting events of last Tuesday night in the republican caucus were foreshadowed in these columns six weeks ago. The fight has been a little complicated and hard to follow, but this paper has been pegging away in the middle of the highway of truth all of these weeks, and takes a good deal of pride in the fact that it ha9 been accurate in its history and rea sonably correct in its predictions from the first. It is not fair to ask a news paper to risk a hard earned reputation as a prophet by saying what is going to happen the next month or two, but it is safe to hazard a guess that the rumpus in the caucus was the begin ning of the end and that Nebraska will be represented at Washington in the future by two republican United States senators. It is as impossible to tell who the men will be, however, as to say where any other kind of light ning will strike. Perhaps the most conspicuous weak ness in the present administration of the affairs of the city of Lincoln is the 1 failure to compel property owners to j do justice to pedestrians in the matter ; of sidewalks. Hut under present laws | the mayor and council and street com- j missioner are virtually powerless. All they can do is to bluff men into build ing walks, or tear up old ones and thus shame the owners of the property into making the needed improvements. Theoretically the city has the power to order walks laid. Practically it lias no such power for the reason that af ter tiie walk is laid and a sidewalk cer tificate is issued, it is impossible to collect the certificate without spending more time and money than it is worth. The only way out of the present un pleasant situation is to get the charter amended by the legislature. Two little hills for the appropriation of money to pay the expenses of the legislature, including of course the j salaries of the members, and an act to permit Lancaster county to draw jur ors, is the sum total of the bills that j have been passed by both houses and have become laws. At this rate there ought to have been seven or eleven United States senators elected, but up to a late hour none had been chosen. Representative Mercer's bill provid ing for a Grant statue to be erected in Washington, at a cost of not to ex ceed $250,000 which has passed both branches of congress, is the first step ever made by the national lawmaking body to pay a last tribute to General Grant. Bills have been introduced and unavailing efforts put forth at least ten years, and Mr. Mercer feels a justifiable pride in the success of the If the Lincoln creamery was the largest in the world before, It will he ! doubly safe In that position when the i business of the Fremont creamery is brought here, as it will be next month. By running this plant continuously an enormous amount of butter can be turned out, and the saving in the ex pense of operation will more than pay the cost of transporting the cream from Fremont to Lincoln. The republican Lincoln central com mittee has decided that the three high candidates for the school board in the primaries shall be declared tiie candi dates of the party for the full terns, and the fourth high man shall be de clared the candidate for the vacancy On the presidential inaugural recep tion committee, the personnel of which has just been announced, Nebraska will be represented by Senators Thurs ton and Alien, Representative Mer.er, R. U. Schneider, Secretary O. 1). Mti klejohn and Col. W. F. Cody. Bluny Speaking Shakespeare'* In the time of Charles I. there were about 5,000,000 people in the world speaking the language of Shakespeare; at the time of our first national census there were about 12,000,000, one-third of them in the United States; and there are children now going to school who will live to see this vast number trebled.—John Fiske in December At lantic. When a marriage engagement la broken It la another matrimonial failure. EUROPE’S THREATS IN NO WAY DISTURB THE PRO TECTIONISTS. European f'onntrlm lu No Foiltlon to Comhlu* igaliut tlie l'ill ted State* In a Ketnll>'*tnn Complrury—They Would Soon He Starved Into Their Senses. The periodical free trade scare Is bobbing up again, and we are being told by our always active, if misguided, fellow-citizens who don't believe In laying any burdens on our foreign competitors, not even to the extent of making them pay a price for a share of the American market, that, unless we lower our tariff to accommodate those dear friends across the sea, they will retaliate by enacting prohibitory tar iffs against us. In the first place this warning against the danger of retalia tory tariffs is getting a good deal worn and threadbare from long and constant uses. It has been a part of the free trade stock in trade from the begin ning, and in all the years during which it has been in use it has never cmce Justified its existence. No retaliatory tariff ever has been called forth by our protection of American interests. In the second place, even if the long prophesied but never fulfilled thing should come to pass, the retaliatory tariffs should be imposed by other countries, while such tariffs would undoubtedly be a disadvantage to us, Just as our protective tariff i3 now a disadvantage to our foreign rivals, it would he only a disadvantage, while the loss of the American market, which would be the result of the adop tion of a policy of free trade, would mean ruin and distress to the whole American people. If we should, by any chance, be obliged to choose between a partial loss of certain foreign markets and the loss of our own home market, the choice would be an easy one to make. The American market, as all the world knows, is worth to the domestic producer many times as much as all the markets of tue world now open to us, and it i„ the market which the American people intend, under all circumstances, to keep for them selves. Moreover there Is not a single manu facturing nation in Europe which could afford to adopt a retaliatory pol icy. To do so would be to provoke on our part such a system of counter re taliation as would absolutely close the American market against the products of such nation or nations. For exam ple, Germany, where the question of a retaliatory tariff of 60 marks a ton on American grain is now under discus sion. According to a cablegram of Jan. 7, Prince Herbert Bismarck is quoted as having declared definitely in favor of a heavy increase of the tariff on American foodstuffs. Says the ca blegram: “Some of the papers cast doubt upon the authenticity of the interview, but the 'Berliner Tageblatt’ secs in it a fresh confirmation of the recent state ments of Count von Klinckowstrocm, the Agrarian leader. The ‘Tageblatt’ severely deprecates a tariff war with the United States, the cost of which, it contends, would be borne by German trade, Germany’s flourishing ship ping and German consumers generally, the 'National Zeitung’ says: We can not believe that a diplomatist like Prince Herbert Bismarck would openly advocate a policy favoring Russia at the expense of the United States. "The semi-official journals, com menting upon the interview, declare that nothing has been settled regard ing the tariff,” What is true of Germany is true of every other European country which buys food of and sells manufactured products to the United States. All would suffer seriously in two ways through tariff retaliation—by the in creased cost of food to working classes already too close to the starvation point, and by the loss of export trade with the United States. PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEACUE. Sixteenth Annual Meeting; Sliown tlie Organization to He In Splendid Shape. The sixteenth annual meeting of the American Protective Tariff League was held January 19 at the league head quarters in New York. General offi cers and standing committees were elected as follows: President, Charles A. Moore; first vice president, Le Grand B. Cannon; second vice president, Joseph E. Thropp; treasurer, Chester Griswold. Executive committee—William Bar bour of New Jersey, P. C. Cheney of New Hampshire, James Phillips, Jr., of Massachusetts, Franklin Murphy of New Jersey, and Alfred Ray of New York. Board of managers, expiration of term January, 1905— Calvin Wells of Pennsylvania, James Phillips, Jr., of Massachusetts, Francis E. Warren of Wyoming, F. S. Witherbee of New York, and Homer Laughlin of Califor nia; 1903—James F. Hanson of Geor gia, Charles A. Moore of New York, William Barbour of New Jersey, and Charles E. Coffin of Maryland; 1904— George M. I.anders of Connecticut, E. A. Hartshorn of New York, A. D. Juil liard of New York, Theodore H. Ives of New York, and Joseph E. Thropp of Pennsylvania. The operations of the league were embraced in the report of the general secretary. Briefly, the report was that the organization had received, includ ing the cash balance on hand, $69, 172.02, that it had expended $02,834.70, leaving a cash balance on hand of f6,337.24. The new publications of the Tariff league for the last year in cluded seven documents. The total distribution of literature exceeded 135, 000,000 pages. The report also showed that the Tariff League has 963 mem bers, an Increase of 40 during the past year. The number of local or official correspondents of the League number ed 2,225. HOW PANICS MAY BE AVOIDED An officer of one of the prominent national banks is reported in the New York Times as saying: “Despite the active business demand for money, there will be plenty to spare, and we could even send gold abroad without in the least being em barrassed.” Free Trade theorists may not see any advantage in our having a balance of trade in our favor, but practical men of business and men on whom is laid the burden of keeping the financial market steady have a different view of things. Panics, to the man who knows, are not the products of recurrent, in explicable “periodic waves,” such as some of our Free Trade economists talk about. They find their caus°, more than in all other causes combin ed, in definite industrial conditions, and the industrial condition which does not allow of a panic Is that in which business is active, prices good and sales large, with plenty of money flowing into the country; such an in dustrial condition, in fact, as has ex isted in this country since the Dingley law restored the American market to the American people, and such as has always existed in this country when ever our policy of giving Protection to American interests has been in full force and effect. FAR FROM DWINDLING. Some of the free trade papers have been referring recently to the busi ness of wool growing as a ‘'dwindling industry.” This oi*ly means that these free trade papers are preparing for an attack on the present protective tariff on wool. Their characterization of the wool growing industry has nothing, to do with the facts of the case. If it had they could hardly use the word “dwin dling” in reference to the business, for the figures given in the United States Statistical Abstract show that the number of sheep in the United States has increased by more than 5,000,000 since 1S07, when President McKinley succeeded President Cleveland and the Dingley law supplanted the Wilson law atrocity; and that the total wool clip has increased proportionally. If this is the sort of industry that the free traders call “dwindling,” it is not so strange, perhaps, that they claim that free trade Is a good thing, for it is evident that they are twisted in their understanding of the meanings of words. DO SOMETHING AND DO IT quick: STEWART AND THE YOUNG MAN Senator Stewart of Nevada was rid ing to the capitol yesterday on a street car. A real smart young man, who is a clerk to a Southern senator, greeted the senator quite effusively. “Good morning, senator," said the S. Y. M. “Good morning,” replied the senator, with equal cheeriness, “and how have you been?” The smart young man saw his oppor tunity to show his cleverness. “I have always been a Democrat,” he replied. “Well,” remarked Stewart, with em phasis, "I don’t think that is anything to be proud of.” And the S. Y. M. went out on the platform.—Washington Post. Can’t Fool Them Akraln. We are promised fresh propaganda by the Free Traders. They are going to rake over the ashes and apply the bellows. Just what the result will be cannot be predicted, but they will find the people pretty busy this time and with quite a fund of experience and reminiscence. Still, if the Free-Traders have anything new to offer now is the time to unravel it. If there is any way to increase our prosperity we want to know it, but still—let us repeat—we are pretty busy. , AH Hut ( enKpil. 1 From the land of the sunflower comes a mighty wind, the sound of 1 rustliag checks and greenbacks and silver certificates; and the old hot blast of Populism and Bryanism has all but ceased to blow.—New York Sun. Object to » Full Dinner Pall. The wage earner’s’ full dinner pall is especially objectionable to the aver age Free Trader. A small dinner pail only half full may be a poor tonic for the laboring man, but the usual Free Trader will tolerate no other. Only a Fan Wanted. Professor Kaufmann, of Breslau, la conferring the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on Franklein Immer wahr, the first woman who has ever passed the examination at that uni versity, said that fee earnestly hopsd study among women wotlld ‘’continue to be the exception with the few ca pable individuals,” inasmuch as it was desirable that they should hold to their primary and noblest calling of wife and mother, “which,” said the professor, “a man will never be able to exercise.” “DEALING WITH CRIMES IN CANADA.” (From the Chicago Tlmes-Herald, on Jan. 12th, 1901.) The citizens of the Dominion of Can ada have Just cause to be proud of their record as law-a'blding people. The annual report of the criminal statis tics of the Dominion, which has a population of over 6,000,000, shows that there were only twenty-flvo indict ments for murder In 1899, of which only two were left without final action. Eleven of those Indicted were hanged, nine acquitted and three oonfluqd as insane. - *, Canada Is a country of vast propor tions. Its people are scattered over a wide stretch of territory, making po lice surveillance particularly difficult and In many districts impossible. Yet a city like New York or Chicago alone furnishes a far greater criminal list every year than the whole vast stretch of territory from Quebec to Vancou ver. 'I he Canadians ascribe their Immu nity from crime to the promptness with which punishment is meted out to offenders. When a man is caught red-handed in the act of robbing an other he is not released on straw ball by somo Justice of the peace from the slums, to go out and repeat the offense. Sharp and sure Justice is meted out to criminals of all kinds, the result being that when the guardians of the publio peace succeed In bringing a thug to the bar they are seldom called upon to hunt him a second time. Furthermore, there are few court de lays in Canada when a criminal is brought to book. They have no Dreyer cases over there. There are no meth ods whereby Canadian criminals can have tho proceedings stayed from month to month and from year to year or after being convicted, appeal from one court to another until witnesses die of old age or opportunities for cor ruption can be found. Nor does this swift method of treat ing with wrong doers in Canada leave the Innocent unable to properly defend themselves. They have all the oppor tunities and privileges that our own laws extend to them. The extent to shield the guilty is lacking—that is all. The above, taken from the editorial, column of the Times-Herald, gives some idea of the immunity from crime that exists in Canada, and this is one, of the many inducements held out for Americans to settle In the district, known as Western Canada. The sea son of 1901 will see a few new sections of the country opened up for settle-, ment They are attractive in every; respect. It is understood that one of the best Indian Reserves in the famous; Valley of the Saskatchewan will be opened up this year, and an invita tion Is extended to those desiring' homes to make inquiries. The price of, the land i3 said to be nominal. Be sides these lands, the several railway companies have lands to sell; also the government. For particulars writ# to the agent of the government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere. lianlNlied an I’unUlitnrnt. Banishment was the unusual sen tence imposed upon a Syrian by a New Jersey judge the other day. The Syrian had been arrested for assault. The Judge offered to release him if lie would leave the country. The Syrian agreed, and in charge of an officer he was brought to Hoboken and placed aboard an outbound steamship. Care of tlie Baby. To keep the skin clean Is to keep it healthy, every mother should there fore geo that her baby is given a daily bath in warm water with Ivory Soap. The nursery should also be well aired and cleaned, and all clothing washed with Ivory Soap, well rinsed and dried in the sun. ELJZA R. PARKER. Het HU Vote Away For Life. Among the fost curious election bets on record is one made by John P. Courtney, Democrat, and Harry Wal lace, Republican, two plumbers doing business in Minneapolis. The agree ment was that the loser must for his life cast his vote as the winner shall dictate. Courtney, who was a candi date for alderman in the recent cam paign, was the loser and is now en gaged in earnest but so far unavail ing efforts to substitute some other penalty. Wallace Is obdurate and swears that Courtney must in future vote the Republican ticket. A Carnegie Labor Lyceum. Andrew Carnegie offers to duplicate whatever sum is raised by the people of Paterson, N. -J., for the building of a labor lyceum in that place, orig inally the plan of the local Knights of Labor. Hi* Groat Ilorb Cur*. The use* of Garfield Ten are manifold; It regulates the digestive organs; cure* constipation; puritU* the blood; bring* good health. The front parlor is the most popu lar of all court rooms. We call our readers’ attention to the advertisement of the Northwest ern Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, Minn. This is an old reliable firm with a national reputation for origin ating and compiling Information valu able to trappers and farmers on wild animals and their skins; they publish the best trapper’s book evor printed. You can buy of them or ship them furs, hides, etc., in perfect confidence. Mention our paper when writing them.