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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1906)
II ENERAL SHAFTER DEAD. .Soldier of Spanish War Fxwne Die * I of Pneumonia. Gevi. William R. Shatter , retired , I who lead been ill for more than a. ( week with pneumonia , died Monday afternoon at the ranch of his son-In- Jaw , © apt W. H. McKittridz , twenty miles from Bakersfleld , Cal. At hla i > edsidc when the end came were Cap- iain and Mrs. McKIttrlck , Miss Carrie Iledmon-d , Mrs. Courtright and Capt .James W. Shafter. William Rufus Shafter was born at dalesburg , Mich. , on Oct. 16 , 1835. His father was a farmer. Shafter taught school three years before the outbreak of the Civil War. Then he entered the Seventh Michigan Volunteers as first lieutenant. He was consecutively ma jor of the Nineteenth Michigan Infantry I try , lieutenant colonel of the Seven teenth United States negro regiment nd brevet brigadier general. He entered I tered the regular army as lieutenant colonel in January , 1SG6. In March , N. SHAFTEB. 186T , he received a congressional medal of honor for biavery at the battle of IF air' Oaks. He was assigned to the Twenty-fourth Infantry as its colonel iin 18G9. He became brigadier general in 1897 nnd was assigned to command the De partment of California. When war nvith Spain came Gen. Shafter was -made major general of volunteers and -sent to Cuba to command the American forces. Hewas retired June 30 , 190L MEETS THE REPORTERS. Eddy Gives a Formal , Frcnr- ransejd Interview. A formal , prearranged interview waa siveu to eleven reporters from Boston and New York by Mary Baker G. Eddy , the venerable founder nnd leader of the * /hriatian Science church at Pleasant Ticvr , her Concord ( N. H. ) home , for the purpose of disproving recent statements ito the effect that she was totally incapaci tated by age or disease , or both. The statement had been made that a Miss Pa- ntelia Leonard , a Brooklyn healer , had I A "been impersonating the Chr'stian Science - ence lender on her drives. Several ques tions had been agreed upon to be put to Mrs. Eddy , but the reports conflicted as tto her hearing when these questions had Iboco. put to her by the appointed spokes- woman. To the first question , "Are you 'in perfect health ? " Mrs. Eddy replied , -with a bow , "Indeed I am , " speaking 5n a deep , level tone of voice , but with a slight quiver. To the next question , " 'Have you any other physician than Sod ? " she replied : "No physician but Sod. His everlasting arms are about -anc ; that is enough. " As she said this she turned toward the door , in front of which her carriage was waiting. In reply - -ply to the question , "Dp you drive daily ? " : she said s : * ply , "Yes. " The fourth ques tion , "Have you management of your own -affairs ? " was unanswered. She walked iiloug the width of the piazza , but her fhanda shook ns with a slight palsy when : she was helped into the carriage. Edward - ward M. Pierson , secretary of state of iNow Hampshire , was present with the reporters to positively identify Mrs. TEddy , whom he had known for many ; yeara. He issued a statement that it sras Mrs. Eddy , and that she appeared to keep her faculties. An official of the "household said that the gates of Pleasant View henceforth would be closed to the Arorld forever. All agreed the aged wom an showed her 86 years in marked de r-sree , and that she was extremely weak. U. S. FARM VALUES. .Prediction < Iial Great Increase ol Pn.vt o Years Will Be Maintained. A very large addition to the wealth of ± 5ae nation has been made during the past five. years from the rise in farm values. According to a circular issued by the Department of Agriculture , based on 45- 000 answers to its inquirers , it is esti mated that throughout the whole country farm land lias increased more than 38 per - cnt in value since 1900. The last census placed the total valae of all farms in the United States at $20,439,000,000 , so thaE -chc ineroasp Fince then , if the estimate of she Agricultural Department is correct , is nearly eight billions of dollars. Ajnong the reasons given for the rise In farm values are rural free delivery , elec- -fcric railways , good roads , the movement -ef townspeople to the country , better and 4heap ° r transportation and market facili ties , Jii-d better methods of farming. Most -r all of these conditions are likely to per sist , so that a continued increase in farm la.nda from these influences may be safely - dtintcd upon. Good crops , better prices for farm products and investment in farm lands by persons who are not farmers are > ther causes for increase in the value of the lands , but these are more or less fic- titions and temporary. The past dacade "has been a most bountiful period for the Tarmers of the United States. A Wireless Telephone. A lieutenant of the Swedish army is -credited with having evolved a practical -wireless telephone , and the Swedish pa pers announce that a public demonstra tion will be given next month at Copen hagen. Standard Oil a Peddler. The State of Louisiana , through its tax collector , has zegnn action against the ' tndard Oil Company to compel it to take out license as peddler for the past tihree years and pay fees to the amount oE $3,500. 1794 Timothy Pickering of Massa chusetts became Postmaster General of United States. 1799 Bonaparte declared first consul. 1S14 Gen. Jackson , with 2,000 Tennes see militia , drove the British from Pensacola. ISIS Smith Thompson of New York be came Secretary of the Navy. 1828 Siege of Silistria raised. 1837 Riot at Alton , III. ; E. P. Lovejoy killed. 1853 President Pierce turned first sod of Washington aqueduct. 1859 Treaty of Zurich signed. 18G1 Federal naval and military forces , under Commodore Dupont and Gen. Sherman , captured forts at Port Royal entrance. 1SG4 Gen. McClellan resigned his com mand in the army. 1SG7 First woman's suffrage society formed in England. 1SG9 Holborn Viaduct , London , opened. 1871 Apache Indians attacked stage near Wickenburg , Arizona , and killed six passengers , among them F. W. Loring , the author. 1S73 Captain and crew of the Virginius executed at Santiago de Cuba. 1875 Steamer City of Waco burned oC Galveston bar. 1S7G Centennial Exposition , Philadel phia , closed ; total admissions , 9,799- 392. 1SSO Sarah Bernhart made her Ameri can debut at Booth's theater , New York. 1SS9 President proclaimed Montana a State of the Union Roman Cath olic centenary in A'merlca celebrated at Baltimore. 1S90 British torpedo boat Serpent wrecked on Spanish coast ; 173 lives lost Revolt against President Brogan in Honduras suppressed. 1S92 Dynamite explosions caused by anarchists in Paris. 1S93 Thirty persons killed and injured by anarchist's bomb in Barcelona theater F. H. Weeks of New York , embezzler of $1,000,000 , sent to Sing Sing prison. 1895 Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt and Duke of Marlborough married in New York. 1S97 Attempted assassination of Presi dent Morales of Brazil. . . .United States , Russia and Japan signed treaty for protection of seals in , Behring Sea. 1S9S Theodore Roosevelt elected Gov ernor of New York. . .Turkish troops in Crete forcibly removed by Russian admiral. 1S99 U. S. cruiser Charleston wrecked' on coast of Luzon , Philippine Islands Admiral George De'vrey married to Mrs. Mildred H. Hazcn at Wash ington , D. C. 1900 Canadian parliamentary elections carried by a Liberal majority. 1D01 Li Hung Chang , Chinese states man , died in Pekin United States. and Great Britain signed Isthmian canal treaty. 1902 Reciprocity treaty between Unit ed States and Newfoundland signed . . . . Spanish cabinet resigned. 1903 President Roosevelt sent to Con gress his message on Cuba United States recognized Panama govern ment. 1905 British squadron , commanded by Prince Louis of Battenberg , visited New York. George Westinghouse , the inventor , has received the degree of doctor of engi neering from the Technical university of Berlin. Dr. Alexander Petrnnkevitch , head of the department of zo-ology at the Indiana university , is a member of the Russian nobility. The senior officers in each department of stndy at Yale have had their salaries raised to $4,000 for the year. This af fects thirty-five professorships. The health officer of Cleveland , Ohio , has forbidden the use of slates and sponges in the primary grades of tha pub- lie schools on the ground that they are unsanitary. The woman's college of Baltimore has appointed Miss Caroline Shawe as pur veyor for the college , a new office , the duties of which are to have ckarge of the scientific and sanitary administration o the entire establishment. A new metric chart , representing geographical graphical measures of the international metric system of weights and measures has been prepared by the bureau of stand ards of the Department of Commerce and Labor and will be furnished free to any school in which the system is taught. W. L. Schlater has been appointed di rector of the museum of Colorado col lege. For four years he was deputy su perintendent of the Indian museum iu Calcutta and for ten years director oi the Sonth African museum at Cape Town. He has published a series of volumes oi the fauna of South Afr1 TO IICtHT OIL TETJ8T. SUIT IS BEGUN AGAINST STANDARD - ARD COMPANY. Attodaer General Moody 3t rt Er - eeedlngrs in St. Liouin Under tne Sfcerman Act AKO.ia.ttt Parent zrft < J Seventy ConatUncnt Oorporationa. Attomesr General Moody , actfng tferoagli the resident United States dis trict attorney , began proceedings Thursday against the Standard Oil of Now Jersey un der the Sherman anti-trust act by filing in the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis a petition in equity against it and its seventy constituent corporations and w. H. AIOODY. partnerships and seven individual defendants. The At torney General asks that the combina tion be declared unlawful and that it be enjoined from entering any contract or combination in restraint of trade. The following statement was pre pared and made public by Attorney General Moody : "In June , by direction of the Presi dent , Messrs. Kellogg and Morrison were appointed by me special assistant attorneys general to act with Assistant to the Attorney General Purdy to make an investigation of the relations of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey tothe business of refining , transporting , distributing and selling oil throughout the United States ; to ascertain all the facts , and to report whether or not in their opinion there has been a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey or the per sons or corporations associated with or managing it. Counsel have completed that duty and the report of their in vestigation has received careful con sideration by the President and kis Cabinet Charges Set Forth by Moody. "The information available to the de partment tends to show : That the various corporations and lim ited partnerships under the control , in the manner hereinafter stated , of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey produce , transport and sell about 90 per cent of the refined oil produced , trans ported and sold in the United States for domestic use , and about the same pro portion of refined oil exported from the United States. That this share of the business has been procured by a course of action which , beginning in 1870 , has continued nnder the direction of the same persons , in the main , down to the present time. That these persons now surviving arr John D. Rockefeller , William Rockefel ler , Henry H. Rogers , Henry M. Fligbr , John D. Archbold , Oliver H. Payne and Charles M. Pratt. That the design throughout of ( he persons baring control of the enterprise has been to suppress competition in the production , transportation and sale of re fined oil , and to obtain , as far as possible ; , a monopoly therein. That between 1870 and 1SS2 the ce- sign was effected through agreements made between many pel-sons and corpora tions engaged in this business. That during the seven years following the same individual defendants , as a ma jority of the liquidating trustees , were pretending to liquidate the trust , but as a matter of fact were managing all of tha corporations in the same way and exer cising the same control over them. That the individual defendants , in 1S99 , increased the stock of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey from $10,000,000 to $110,000,000 ; that said company was then a producing and selling corporation , and that they added to its corporate pow ers the power of purchasing stock in oth er companies and practically all of th ? powerg exercised by the trustees und- the unlawful trust agreement of 1882. That the Standard Oil Company of Ncvr Jersey , then taking the place of the trustees , acquired all of the stock of the corporations theretofore held and con trolled by the trustees , paying therefor by the issue of its own shares in * r- change ; that the president of the boar'l of trustees became the president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey , and that the same persons ( the individual defendants ) who had directed the busi ness of the trust then assumed the direc tion of the business of the Standard OU Company of New Jersey , and ever since have continued it. That the purpose and effect oi the use of the Standard Oil Company of Nsw Jersey as a holding company was precise ly the same as the purpose and effect of the appointment of the trustees hereinbe fore referred to namely , to suppress competition between the corporations and limited partnerships whose stock was first held by the trustees and then by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. That by the foregoing methods , aided by the establishment of railroad rates for transportation which discriminated in fa vor of the corporations whose stock was held by the holding company , that com pany has been enabled to obtain , in large sections of the country , a monopoly of the sale of refined oil , with the result that the prices to the consumer withi' . the territory where the monopoly prevails- are very much higher than within th < territory where competition to some ex tent still exists. John D. Rockefeller Indicted. John D. Rockefeller , M. G. Vila.- treasurer of the Standard Oil Con pany of Ohio ; J. M. Robertson , seen tary , and H. P. Mclntosh , dirtf-to were indicted at Findlay by the gran jury , before which the recent oil ii quiry was reopened by County Prosed tor David. Bench warrants for Rock feller and the others indicted wre h sued immediately and placed in tl hands of Sheriff Groves. Advertise In this pap Birmingham ( Ala. ) carpenters hare obtained an increase in wages of 5 cents an hour. Piano piate molders of Cleveland- Ohio , have obtained a 10 per cent advance on piece prices. The newly organized Harness Makers' Union at Seattle , Wash. , has enforced the nine-hour day. Boston ( Mass. ) BiH Posters and Bill- ers' Union has begun a campaign to have next year's convention held in that city. Organized labor in Brockton , Mass. , numbers 25,000 , of which 13,000 are affiliated with the Shoe Workers' Union. Organized labor in Alabama will try to effect the repeal of the anti-boycott law at the coming session of the Legislature. Iron molders at Portland , Me. , have gained 25 cents a day increase on the minimum rate of wages and a nine-hoar workday. Augusta ( Ga. ) textile workers have re duced their hours from sixty-six to sixty- three hours a week and obtained a slight increase in wages. Newark ( N. J. ) trade unionists are to have a labor temple. In the same city a subscription of $30,000 has been raised to start a daily labor paper. New York hod hoisting engineers have , within a decade , reduced weekly hours-of labor from fifty-three to forty-four , and gained advance in daily wages from $3.50 to $5. Fifteen hundred San Francisco ( Cal. ) mill workers have gone on a strike , caus ing thirty planing mills to shut down and reducing the oatpnt of building materials SO per cent. The attempt to resuscitate the British Agricultural Laborers' Union is making some progress , but it will take a long time to bring it to the position it occu pied in the seventies. From the institution of strike benefits , ' in April , 1891 , to June 30 , 3906 , the International - ternational Association of Machinists has paid out $1,018,697.40 , and for death benefits , since April , 1898 , $110,976.10. Iron molders of Victoria , B. C. , have obtained a written agreement with the foundrymen for the coming year , which gives an advance of 25 cents a day , mak ing the present minimum $3.75 for nine hours. The Builders' Exchange League o ( Pittsburg , Pa. , has declared for the open shop , or merit system , as it is termed. This action will affect all workmen whose labor goes into the construction of build ings of all kinds in Allegheny county. Birmingham ( England ) iron workers are reported to be submitting loyally to the new 2 % per cent reduction in a mill- man's wages and 3 pence a ton in pud- dlers' , occasioned by the new average sell ing price , although an increase had been expected. ' Another test of the federal eight-hour law was tron by the government at Cin cinnati , when the jury found the Sheri dan-Kirk Contracting Company guilty in the Ohio river dam at Fern Bank. Em ployment agencies said it was impossible to get men at the wages offered for an eight-hour day. Painters' district council of eastern Massachusetts recently elected a commife- tee to discuss a uniform wage scale and working rules project for the men of all the unions of the entire metropolitan dis trict. Jan. 1 was the date mentioned at the last meeting as that on which the agreement would be presented. The total number of employes of each nationality on the sugar plantations of Hawaii in 1905 was : Japanese , 31,753 ; Chinese , 4,409 ; Korean , 4,683 ; Portu guese , 3,005 ; Hawaiian , 1,452 ; Porto Ilican , 1,907 ; Caucasian , excepting Portu guese and Porto Rican , 1,006 ; negro , South Sea Islanders and others , 32. A decision rendered by Judge Rosalsky of New York hcrfds that two members of thfi typographical union convicted on the charge of disorderly conduct for approach ing non-union men upon the street were not guilty , as charged , as magistrates had no jurisdiction , and as there was no such crime defined in the criminal code. In the first six months of this year the changes in rates of wages in the United Kingdom resulted in a net in crease of about 26,000 in weekly wages , in which 843,000 workpeople have partici pated ; these advances have been chiefly in the textile , coal mining , engineering and shipbuilding industries. In the cor responding period of last year there was a net decrease in wages of 9,800 a week , some 305,300 workpeople being invited. Demands for higher wages and shorter hours are being made by the heads of many railway labor unions , and the offi cials of various eastern trunk lnes ; have engaged in conference with the union leaders in the hope of adjusting the diffi culties amicably. The railroad managers attribute the demand of their employes to prosperous times , and there is a disposi tion to meet these demands half way. On the Southern railway about 700 to 800 men are on strike for higher wages , as President Spencer was unwilling to meet their demands. B. F. Yoakum of the Rock Island says that an unusual demand for labor has been created by active busi ness conditions. Arlcnnsn Fines PackingCompany. . The State of Arkansas has won a no table victory in its campaign against the packing company , Jndge Winfield of Lit tle Rock sustaining the motion that the Hammond Packing Company be fined $10,000 because the officers of the com pany failed to testify before the commis sioner in the recent Chicago hearing. Usnrer'.s Fortnne to Charity. The fortune accumulated by the late Sam Lewis , prominent money lender of London , England , which is estimated at about $15,000,000 , will now be distribut ed to charity , owing to the death of his widow , Mrs. Sam Lewis-Hill. About 54,250,000 will go to the King's hospital ind $7,000.000 for the establishing of Iwellings for the poor. Lewis , who lent uoney to the highest in the land , used to < ay his motto was , "I lend to the Lord nd I give to poor , " and it is claimed hat Ws princely bequests seem to prove truth of his words. During the present American occu pation of Cuba the government is to be conducted as if it wore independent of the United States , although in point of fact it will be directed by the Bu reau of Insular Affairs of the War De partment When Governor Magoon wishes to communicate with the bureau he will send his message to the Cuban Secretary of State , who in turn will forward it to the Cuban minister ii < Washington. The Cuban minister will hand it over to the American Secretary of State , and he in turn will deliver it to the Secretary of War. Finally , the chief of tha Bureau of Insular Affairs will receive the document , reply to it and place it on file , properly mark ed. This roundabout process is adopt ed to keep the record straight , but there is a more direct method of com munication in use , so that the Bureaii knows what the message contains , and has an answer prepared before the formal document reaches it by way of "Robin Hood's barn. " * Plans for the pr.dposad giant battle ship have been submitted to the secre tary of the navy by constructors who. have availed themselves of the oppor tunity to compete for the floating for tress. Very little is known of any plans for the gigantic ship , which , it Is assumed , will have a displacement o.f at least 20,000 tons. All plans are to be submitted to Congress , which is to pass on the navy department's action. Indefiniteness marked every part of the appropriation bill relating to the new warship , which is described by the bill as "a first-class battle ship , carrying as heavy armor and as powerful arma ment as any known vessel e.f its class , to have the highest practicable speed and greatest practicable radius of ac tion and to cost , exclusive of armament and armor , not exceeding $6,000,000. " , _ _ - j i- It seems strange , and not altogether pleasing , that the United States govern ment , as represented in the Navy De partment , should be obliged to go into the show busines to encourage enlist ments. The latest and most successful scheme is the moving-picture machine which shows the life of the bluejacket on shipboard , and some of it on land. The advertising value of the plan lies in the readiness and completeness by which it enables the recruiting officers to give applicants or possible applicants an accurate idea of their duties and pleasures. It is especially efficacious in the West , where less is known about life at sea. A recruiting party in Ne braska lately displayed the moving pic tures to a crowd of fifteen thousand people. Plans have now been submitted by the bureau of construction of the navy department , which , if approved , will give the United States the most potvcr- ful battle ship in the world. One plan contemplates a 20,000-ton ship , and the other a 25,000-ton vessel. If cither plan is adopted , a battery of 10 or 12 Inch guns will be so arranged on cen ter line as io give a broadside of all the guns. * _ Attorney General Moody has in structed District Attorney Devlin to assist counsel for the Japanese resi dents of San Francisco in bringing in junction proceedings in the Circuit Court to compel the board of education to allow Japanese subjects to attend any school in the city. President All- man insists that he will obey the State laws , which require separate schools for the orientals. " " " Proposals have been submitted to the Postmaster General by the American Bank Note Company of New York for furnishing stamps and stamp books for the next four years at 5-1000ths dollars per thousand , whereas the Bureau of Engraving and Printing , operated by the Government , bid 57-1000ths dollars per thousand. For special delivery stamps the company asked 10 cents and the bureal 15.6 cents. For the year 1906 , according to the report of Auditor Layton of the State Department , receipts from the consular service have exceeded expenditures $19,722. This is the first time in six teen years that this service has been oil a self-supporting basis. Under the new law consuls receive more pay , but are required to turn all fees into the treas ury. * * In the postoffice department building at Washington the largest American flag in the world has just been unfurl ed. When it was suspended from a ca ble at the seventh floor across the in ner courts 2,500 employes joined in singing , "The Star Spangled Banner. " The flag is 50 feet long by 30 feet wide. * * v * The State Department announced that James L. Gerry , chief of the cus toms division of the Treasury Depart ment , and N. J. Stone , tariff experts of the Department of Commerce and Labor , will accompany Census Direc tor North to Berlin to confer with Ger man tariff experts regarding changes in our customs administration. The object is to ascertain what It Is that the German manufacturers expect of os In the way of concessions under their new tariff system JOIIH D. KOCKEFELLER. ANNA GOULD DIVORCED. Connt Hoiii Lo.tcx , and "Wife and For * tune Are Gone Forever. Final separation from home and i - como is the cruel fate meted out by French justice to Count Bom do G * - tellane , the wife-beating spendtkrtft who Irad won the affcctidn and BorUaao | of Jay Gould's daughter and " "dissipated both. The decision , jfl divorce without even an " " "allowance , " handed down in Paris by the Tribune of the First Instance o < fc Seine. Jndge Ditte presiding , give * 'Counters de Castellane the custody C her children , who , however , may not b ® taken from France without the < & * - sent of tlieic father. The end of the famous case cams suddenly. The court hrushed aside tto demand of the court's lawyers foe a examination of witnesses , and , as - pected , the puhlic prosecutor did not even ask to l > c heard. In granting the conntoss the custody of her childre * tlie court allowed the count only tiw usual rights to see them and share tm ihe control of their education , which was not contested. The count is giresi * he right to see the children at state * 3 > eriods at the home of their grand mother , and to keep them a moath Ma nually during the holidays. Boni's demand for an "alimentary al lowance of $50,000 annually" was pro nounced by the court to be withoit foundation in law and was rejected. The only point decided in the hmsbaadte THE IHVO3CED PAIK. favor was the order that the countess , may not take the children from Franca . ( without their father's consent The count appointed the president o tike chamber of notaries to liquidate the af fairs of the husband and wife. Tl judgment was given with costs agntawt the count. Anna Gould , youngest daughter * f the late Jay Gould , was married to Count Ernest Boniface de Castellan * , eldest son of the Marquis de Oasbellane , at the New York home of her brother , George J. Gould , March 4 , 1895 , ti late Arcubishop Corrigan officiating. Miss Gould's dowry was understood to have been $18,000,000 , and it was state * that her income was § 000,000 a year. Immediately -after the marriage the couple left the United States ftxr France , where the extravagant manarer in whiok they lived attracted attri tion. About five years after the mar riage Count and Countess do OasteUaes were reported to be financially embar rassed , it being alleged that the count shad spent about $7,000,000 of his wife's money. An adjustment of the affairs of the couple became necessary anS considerable litigation followed , witk the result that the Gould family inter- Tened and the income of the countess was reduced to $200,000. Feb. 5 of tire present year Countess do Castellane - tered a plea for divorce. The three children of the Castellanes are George , . Boni and Jay , the youngest being tfee namesake of his mother's father. Humorous Nevra Notes. Japan is for the open school door. That $75,000,000 soap trust sounds like a bubble. Ohio has knocked the piers from unfec- the Bridge Trust. They will have to stop naking curraxt jelly ont of cows' hoofs. Cuba wakes up with a headache , emty pockets and owing money. What we really need is government ownership of Congressmen. The wild automobile is one thiag that doesn't discriminate in favor of the mill ionaire. Philadelphia indulges in the kin * of dramatic criticism the hens lay. Gov. Magoon is going to clean Cuba- up if the cyclone don't do it for him. Germany ate 1,568 dogs and 81,312 horses last year. This is enough to giy * Chicago a jealous fit. The skeleton of a horse 40 feet high has been found in Wyoming. They'd be won ders in a steeplechase. As long as we get ever a million immi grants a year the race suicide movemwfc doesn't seriously affect the cens" ? re turns.