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Show F1EHCK FKHIT IN MINE ON EDGE OF A PRECIPICE. War May Com la Spite of Effort to Prevent IL Europe is standing on the edge of a precipice, declared in London on Thursday, a diplomat wljo Is participating in the International negotiations in connection with the Balkan question, "and no one can tell but that tomorrow may see Turkey and Bulgaria plunged In war in spite of all the efforts made to prevent it, and have though the powers separately mad strong representations to Bulgaria to desist from aiding the insurgents, and are on the eve of making a joint demand for the observance of a policy of strict neutrality In the meantime Turkey is becoming encouraged by the attitude of the powers toward Bulgaria, and there is a strong feeling among the Mohammedans that the opportunity Is at hand to take summary vengeance on the Bulgarian people The porte has been warned against engaging in war and we believe hesitates to embark on a move which may lesult In the armed Intervention of Europe The only encouraging sign in the Situation Is the understanding between the powers, all of which we are sure are upholding Russia and Austria In their efforts to maintain peace Turklth-Bulgaria- n BUTTE MINERS BATTLE TWO THOUSAND FEET UNDER GROUND. Hetnze's Men Have an Exciting Encounter With Amalgamated Force, Using Slacked Lime aa Ammunition. According to a special from Butte, Mont., at a depth of nearly two thou wed feet underground a force of hout thirty of F Augustus Helnzes atnera from the Rarus mine had an setting encounter with force of Amalgamated miners from the a mine, an adjoining property, n a portion of ground the ownership f which Is now beihg determined by fce courts Superintendent Treeriz of the Rarus led bis men, and breaking down Mte bulkhead, invaded the workings t the Pennsylvania The intruders were met by Superintendent J C. Adana of the Boston & Montana company. Rocks and loose dirt were when the Heinze men secured a aack of lime, and directing stream of Mispressed air from a hose through the mass hurled the fine lime and aa into the ranks of the Amalga-natemen, causing them to retreat to prevent being suffocated Several f the men became unconscious and JACKSON G0E8 TO GALLOWS. kad to be dragged away by their osnradea. Their conditions Is crit- - Montana Court Saves Mob Troubls of Lynching Murderer. BODY OF ihlDIAN CHIEF STOLEN. A special from Hamilton, Mont., ays the Jury on the Jackson murder Sensational Story From ths Blackfoot case brought In a verdict of murder Reservation in-- Montana. In the first degree, being out one hour A strange and sensational story and fifteen minutes. cornea from the Blackfoot Indian resThe case Is that In which Walter ervation in Montana regarding the Jackson is charged with assaulting mysterious disappearance of the body ear-ol- d Fonnie Buck at Stevensvllle, of the great chief White Calf, which August 13, the child dying from knife has been stolen from lta grave wounds Inflicted The defense was White Calf died in Washington, D. weak and took up but little over an G last February, where he went as hour. Jackson sat unmoved during the a member of a delegation to protest entire trial and showed no compreagainst the leasing of the reservation hension of the verdict He ignored his landa father and mother, who sat beside White Calf's tomb was sealed up in him. his house, located on a lofty cliff. Judge Webster will pass sentence When the Indians went to prepare afternoon at 5 oclock. The Saturday the tomb for the winter against the for the crime is banging. penalty attacks of wild animals, they found A mob has been organized quietly the door burst open and the body of the dead chief, together with his pos- during the trial with the Intention of taking Jackson from the jail in case sessions, missing. Members of White Calf's delegation the verdict did not meet with their declare his body was stolen for the and lynching him. When Smithsonian Institute. Indignation is expectations, It became known that would high and the bucks are .becoming ugly result from the verdictbanging the armed ever the situation. men withdrew to let the law take lta oourse. - POWERS TRY TOuAVEBT WAS THE PENSION ROLL. Outlook Still Gloomy and Situation Five Pensioners on the Roll Account Becoming Mors Alarming. of the Revolutionary War, The powers are evidently still exThe annual report of Commissioner erting pressure both at Constantia of Pensions Ware places the total nople and Sofia to avert a war, apparently with some number of pensioners now on the rolls temporary sucess, but meantime an at 996,545, of which 725,356 are solIncreasingly terrible tale of atrocities, diers and 267,189 widows and dependcommitted In Macedonia, shows that ents. Mr. Ware announces that It is the situation Is daily becoming ag- not probable that the pension roll will gravated. again gross the million line, the high The news that a French squadron water mark having been reached is going to the Levant Is also consid- a year ago. Five of the pensioners ered ominous, and this step by the are on the roll on account of the war French government probably will be of the revolution, 1,116 on account of fallowed by similar action on the part the war of 1812, 4,734 on account of other powers. on account The Turkish embassy In London, in the Indian wars and 13,874 war. of the Turkish of Mexican Issued denial dally lta The average annual value of each atrocities, declares It to be "absolutely false that the Ottoman troops Itare pension is now $133. The total anda nual value of the Spanish war pension banking villages, the truth being the Bulgarians, who, at the approach roQ ha reached $1,765,310. the troops, use explosives to burn MISSING LINK FOUND. the villages before leaving them and then accuse the Turkish troops or Tribe In British New Guinea Uvea In each abominable deeds." Treea and Loee Uee of Legs. MUSSULMANSTHIRST FOR BLOOD A Melbourne dispatch to the LonFeared That They May Attack Chris- don Dally Chronicle says: The ad ministrator of British New Guinea tians in Constantinople. e reports the discovery of an extraorReport received by the foreign la Parts from Constantinople say dinary tribe of marshland dwellers In there is renewed agitation among the the island of Papua. Owing to the Mussulmans within the city, and swampy ground and tangled underfears are expressed of a possible Mus- growth, walking and canoeing are alsulman attack on the Christian popn most impossible. The native dwelNation. This agitation followed the lings are built to trees, and as a of the conditions existing the naappearance in the Turkish papers of accounts of the Bulgsrians dynamit tives are gradually losing the use trains and blowing up the steam- of their lower limbs and are unable boat Vaskapu. The government con to walk on hard ground without sidered that official sanction of the their fet bleeding. Their bodies have publication of the news was the best developed enormously while their legs means to avoid exaggerated stories of and thighs have become atrophied. the explosions. As the government In and carriage they are apehad rigorously suppressed any men- like.figure the past during of tion explosions twenty years, the recent publications Resolution Failed to Pace. caused widespread agitation. At the convention of the EvangelRUSSIA WANTS FURTHER TIME ical Lutheran synod of New York and New Jersey, held at Asbury Park, N. Proposed Postponement of Evacuation J.. on Thursday, a resolution was of Manchuria. by Rev. C. W. Heisler of AlA Peking telegram received to Tewith the movement in sympathy bany, conhama, which Is to oust Reed Smoot from his seat to ned at Toklo, says the Russian the United States senate. After ten ntster haa proposed the postpone-m- t minutes heateddiscusslon the motion of the evacuation of the Kirin was laid on the table by a Tote of 18 d Amur districts of Manchuria, set to IS. ' , r October 8. Wife. and Himself WORK OF BOLD BANDITS. ' Shot his shot of Denver H. M. Hayden Flva Men Robbed In a Hotel at Point fe through the body and then fired of Pistol. re bullets intohimself.one pass-men entered the bar ef-- rt masked Five one taking through his wrist, room of ths Hotel Oheit to Tacoma in his breast and' the other Thursday night, brain, killing him. The shortly maa will probably die. They foi- held up five men. Including the barled last Monday to separate, but tender and proprietor; robbed th till ler Hayden became intoxicated, and. behind the bar and forced the proprietor to open the safe to the office ling to bis wifes home, committed e double crime. They were both adjoining the bar room. The robbers Each was got away with $1,000 In cash and four krives of - Pennsylvania. wet 30 years old. and they had been rings, five watches and several gold nuggets. anted seven years. Penn-Wlrani- fly-to- g t d 6-- y Turko-Bul-garla- of-fe- re-sn- lt ig Anti-Smo- ot seml-offlclail- y g after-midnig- life. would fare by and by. when the wound had become a scar, she thought f least of all It was a handsome carriage to which she rode at the master's right bund A pair of fin horaes pranced b fore it, and a liveried coachman sat I on the box. She bad sometimes envied PRESS other women the possession of like ' ASSOCIATION NTERNATlO state She ought to derive delight Wr hu incapable of trom these outward symbol of her eleCHAFTIn il rt'0!rriin.i. 0 r means She had kept her heart alive m , rin vation is the world. It waa an ImposThe Hen. r ! drta? moile of efght else for years ing munition, too, before which th Who would not b a bamjard hen. rr a'-T- o ai "ucJ her of home, and love, snd appreciation, equipage presently paused, and a tall To straub and pW and acratch arm aa roust be footman lay a calm eg now and than ? the front door and ran liberty 6t speak out what she jhl n, s opened v'e v . n benef.u- i never lisped since her mother died, briskly down to the sidewalk to assist To cackle when th deed ia done. s ir had she tne n None of To welter In the dual and sun, of being once again, joyously and Fit ior to to o I the travelers to alighting Uionl ncrp to C v mi' ' onln.on to out reserve, herself. There ard or single, lived 1 think would be no end of fun. married her associates, debar hern. If - o c essoi la- harder specters to lay than these in equal style, ahe reflected with a stir To have a corob and et no hair. tUina ai i, nle- - us the dreams. Mem or lea, however dear Seems carelesa, trite and debonair. i,i of exultation, aa ahe stepped out, beAnd yet I think "twere good to wear sacred, are more easily forgottea t mnke of paid U,.t r, 11 ta,ion waa ta een her husband and his lackey. the dismissed, or smothered by the growl it an tud Hie i,h that aud been address Mr Withers A vlgoroua penetrating note. dampened i prater u gnU u -- rictrUy was Arid widely radiating t of later ones. If she bade them fsP rising glow sasne-t-- d from-on- e clothes, , f,n-T ,oon aid she jOj well now, It waa for a lifetime. "This is our home, my dear. You will And 19 would offer no Her destiny lifetime! ahe repeated, shivering appeal find no rause of discontent with IL I Who would not be s barnyard hen. s mi o' 'ii i wav The-To acratch and peck and acratch again a shk chill, and crouching lower ovf was til-ehope, he asid. ta benign patronage, no more For famlliea of eight or ten? R no more stiug-Hdthe register. of majkj atone "Maybe ten, nandrag her up the noble flight Arthur Colton In Harper's Magaaln h to img ibe to the right ani twenty who knows but forty years?! j steps left si bratled with thorns, ehtrp and Is tedious slumber of ones heart, f "Thank you, she replied, coldly. "It A Walled Town tn Britain. But one ia a part of the price for which I sold a loveless marriage Is a loathsome sep- thick aa porcupine qu !1 In the old days when might was ulcher tor ones better and real self, i path iay open to her fen a abort and raj seif, she waa meditating. 'T must right the city that was walled about lifetime' and I can have but one! Bit straight course t'ut imuluacd her to not quarrel with my bargain was common enough, but there ar e one' If this step should be ruin act ElBathan VMher anna Mis F.eld met them In the hall a veTy few towns in Britain which be no can at a there redemption th e walls day. surmounted present misery, their wasp-l'kby figure, CHAPTER III. thia side of the grave. His grave, per Email head Her neck waa bare and Of those few, undoubtedly the moat I five'. I ALF pagt the crane-likbapa Just as probably mine! her face very oval, her unique la wrote to Harriet to akin this very hour, she roust opaque and chalky; her hair black old Border town, which haa occupied have dinner ready and resist the glittering temptation to foreshining, the front In long ringlets; many a page of the past "history of th at six. We shall be her swear her womanhood, or murder, wttk United Kingdom, and which , to this eyes jet beads, that rolled snd twinjust to time," said kled incessantly. her own hand, the dear visions that haf very day enjoys the distinction of Mr Withers, ss he come to be more to her than reality .Tb special mention as a place apart from My dear cousin! ah cried, effusivetook his seat in the was winter twilight had fallen early. It her patron's hand and the United Kingdom in every royal embracing ly old carriage that was winking back an officious tear. It U proclamation issued. Here th the season best loved by her dree to convey him with like aunshine to have you home again. battlements built In the time of Queen visitors. She had not lied to decl&rinl his bride from the Howtore you? Elizabeth remain Intact with all but to her Inquisitor that she had neve? their to 1 of the ancient gatewaya, and even one depot been to love, but ahe confessed Well thank you, Harriet; or, cases the very ponderous home. some to at she that had hould say, to tolerablo health. reequivocated on their old rusty her fort themselves by he? jaded the eon gates ef Mr. turned figure shadowy Withers, magnificently beare two walls, -there tn almost and sight's travel, reality ideal lover stood beside her to th? dispirited descending. Allow ms to Introduce my hinges, of which older one, her tbs outside and power of concealment, but ahe wife, Mrs. Withers!" friendly gloom. Mrs. Romalne would yond remain some now fragments only have questioned her sanity had shs had learned already that her lord dislcourMiss Field swept a flourishing to th far-of- f guessed how the girl had sobbed her iked to have whatever observation he tesy. Constance, aa the truer lady ot standing,' dating back who to ?u pleased to make go unanswered. the two, offered her hand. It was times of Edward the First, castle-ogriefs into quiet upon bin bosom, ho nly Berwick hall of She I la the great your housekeeper, suppose? grasped very slightly, and Instantly retalked lowly but audibly to him of her small part of which now rea love and the comfort his presence iht replied, languidly. linquished. Ballol should b 'No that la she does not occupy tne Charmed to hive the honor, I an main decreed that brought ' She had never looked Into which. decree a his face, hut she shonld know hlnr tn foalUon ef a salaried Inferior la my murmured Miss Field. I trust King ofJScotland, soon set an instant should they two ever meet MtabllshmenL I must surely have I see Mra Withers quits well? But every schoolboy knows, was his and hardy Bruce defiance at by to the flesh, as they did now dally tn spoken to you of my cousin, Harriet you, cousin did I understand yon to On this outer line of the warrior. FWl to and Somewhere the dim spirit. Intimate that you were Indisposed! ramparts till stands the tower to Not that I recollecL I am sore that with strained solicitude. Messed future he was watting for her, which the warning notes ot the war and she had borrowed patience from I sever heard the name until now. A trifling attack of Indigestion, not bell were rung to denote the approach Wlth-Mr. "Her continued the hope. She was to be his wife the mother, worth mentioning to any ears exceptof an enemy, an object naturally of la a pompous narratlvs tone, "was ing yours, my good nurse. mother of children aa unlike the prodiInterest to all visitor to the. Mias Field smiled Indulgence to this great gies of repression that lined two sides tty fathers sister. Left a widow ten town. of her brother's table as cherubs to years prior to her decease, she accept-- concession to her anxiety, and Con my Invitation to take charge ot my stance, who now heard ot the indispuppets. She welcomed them to her Her Life for Her Child. arms in these twilight trances. They louse. She brought with her only position tor the first time, looked Wells, formerly commander ot Capt lolled upon her knees, slept to her em child, the Harriet of whom I speak, and from one to tb other to surprised sith metropolitan fire brigade of Lon- brace, strained eager arms about her the two remained with me until our lence. don, thus describe the bravest deed neck, dappled her cheek with their timily group was broken to upon by "Perhaps Mrs. Withers would like t? he ever saw: kisses Unsubstantial possemlons feath. Harriet would then have go directly to her 'apartments T" purThe scene was s fire at an ollsbop these, hut cherished as types of good sought a situation aa governess but sued Harriet,' primly, with anothe? -wt.hatuM. he said. A woman . and e aqpgaY?0mp7MHNSMMtsaSiF'iMiriii things to come. Other women had such jrirty-flv- e, of thereabouts, and I two children were on the top By all means," Mr, Withers replied her over her scruples touching the and without a moment's thought floor, affections less ardent tEajr hera "As for her. It Is, I fear your dlnne? th Great Father was good and merci- propriety of her- - continued residence will bars to wait for her. If, aa I pre- she snatched up one of ber children, ful, and the Rewarder ot them who put under my roof, by representing that sume Is ths case, you are punctual as la and. fighting her way down the staircase, through smoke and beat, delivertheir trust to Him, a true and loving he? mature age, even mors than our your custom." to safety to a person In to her who relationship, the the happiness placed beyond rejoiced parent, Could I fall to promptitude upon ed the child atraoL Then she rushed through the of His creatures all these must be reach of scandal. For eighteen months this day of all others?" queried Harthe shop and up the stairhers st last. If she resigned them now she has superintended my domestic af- riet, and preceded case burning arch, sentimentally with a view ot reaching her room. to fairs my entire satisfaction. That I ths brldt It was a final separation. upstairs. "She must have reached her child, And I can have but one lifetime, have not alluded directly to her befors 'TO sa COVTIVOSt.l clutched onr it, and tried to make her to fruitshs moaned again. Thwarted and daring acquaintanceship is only be aocounted for by the circumstance way out But to the attempt the deless thus far, but still all shs had. The one idea recurred to her with th that we hare had so many other and HER CONTRIBUTION ACCEPTED. voted mother was forced back, only our who haa Bat rather Paid far tt as ASrartUlaf to be found dead by waa men, persistency of a presentlihenL The 11! more engrossing topics of conversastill holding Juat arrived. She which God had given, the heart He had tion, Ho raised her gloved hand to his Kstaa. to her, and had eviUps to stiff gallantry, snd Constance endowed! Hers Is the amusing experience of her child close an amateur literary aspirant which was dently kept her own back to th If some one, stronger and wiser than smiled constrainedly to reply. flames to protect the little one, whll Mis endearments, albeit he waa lesf told to me a few L would only take the responsibility of days ago, says a writar her arms and clothes were tightly decision from my soul, would hedge me profuse of them than a younger and tn ths New York Commercial Adverround the Utile one." to on the right and left, I would go more ardent bridegroom, would havo tiser. A young woman to New York wrote forward. As it Is, I dare not! 1 dare been, were yet frequent enough to keep , i Cigars st $4 Apises. not! She sobbed and wrung her hands his wlfa to unfailing remembrance of one day a short skit Intended to bo have the attended who big . Those hla claims and her dutlea He waa, ap- humorous. It aroused favorable comtn th agonies of Irresolution. at Delmonlcos, such, for You told Constance about the tele- parently, content with her passive sub- ment from her circle of friends and banquets as the one given to Cyrus Instance, gram T It was her brother speaking in mission to theso, seemed to see In her shs mads up ber mind that It was good Field upon the completion of the Atthe library below. Tb sound arose forced complaisance evidence of her ebough to be published to' one of th lantic cable, and wblch coat $50 a r pleasnrt to their reception. He waa too humorous periodicals. Accordingly shs plainly through ths open register. had the privilege of smoking "I did. tot I regret to say that she Is aedato, aa well as too gentlemanly, to submitted It to first one periodical, plate, choicest Havens cigars, costing the then another. It wai t brief skit, only not yet tot frame of mind wo could be openly conceited, but hit spprecta perhaps fifty cents apiece. But what wish her to carry to the Interview with tion of hla own Importance to aoclety about fifty lines to all, and, as her would the dinner cost with cigars st Mr. Withers, said Mrs. Romalne. Shs and to bnslnesa circles was too pro- brother Indulgently said, couldnt pos$4 each! Yet there are such cigars always expressed herself with delib- found to admit a doubt of the supreme sibly hare dons any harm." But still being made to Havana and e. editor failed to seo some have arrived to New York. Fran- ? bliss of ths woman be had selected to ths erate precision even to conjugal share his elevated position. Without th humor of it and kept sending it cisco E. Fonseca, s friend of President back to her. Finally tbs young author NoT Constance heard the rastls of being puppyish, he was pragmatical; Palma, and who was born near where lost heart completely and was about he lived to Cuba, received one of these r-without teIt waa he the evening paper as Charles laid being little skit to ths down, and the creak of his chair as be nacious to tbs extrema of his dignity to bury ber poor few days ago.lt was wrapped in a confronted bis wife. What Is ths mat- snd the respect he considered due to depths of her portfolio. Then - her piece of Imported Japanese rice paper this. Had her mood been lighter Con- brother took. pity on her snd said: ter T and inclosed In a handsomely decorat"Hers, jrfve me your skit Ill get ed box. to fact, only one comes to a Some overstrained ideas of the beau- stance would hats been tempted to or know the reason why. box, and each Is sixteen Inches long ty and propriety of reciprocal devotion, mile at ths allusion to hit cousins age, it Apublished week or two later her skit apI believe. She looka for a hero In a his own exceeding It by three years, ss and an Inch and a quarter to diameter to one ot the humorous papers, at the middle. It Is said that the tohusband, and Mr. Withers ha nothing she had accldentally learned through peared and ths young contributor enjoyed all bacco can only be grown on one planheroic in his appearance or compos- the Indiscretion of a common acquaintance. He was sensitive upon this point ths delights ot first authorship, sending tation In Cuba, and the duty on each-- is ition. sixty-eigh- t cents. - He (s worth more than half a mil she had likewise been Informed, She marked copies of tbs paper to friends, etc. The contribution did not ocetc., how to discover many had own tal upon accumulated his yet all lion, by cupy s prominent place. It was among Horse Commits 8ulclde, eats and Industry, returned Mr. Ro- others. ths advertisements, but the author bad Commission Merchant W. K. When malne. "Constance cannot be such as would not hats Most young wives seen many comics among the adverto bis stables st Morriswent Cassel egregious simpleton as not to perceive relished ths Idea ot finding this total snd she was too contented town, N. J., recently, ho was grieved the manifest advantages of this connec liable relative Installed as prime man- tisements to see her contribution to type to Into find that his most valuable hors tion to her. I have never complained of ager In her new abode. It mattered litShe never knew what was dead and from aU appearances farther. quire the burden ot her maintenance, but I tle to her, Constance said, still languidtwinkle in her brothers eyes the animal had committed suicide. have often wondered ber own sense of ly, who ruled and who obeyed. She that meant snd that he had paid full adverThe horse was lying In a most pe'justice and expediency did not urge ber had given up so much within three rates to Insert ber skit to fifty culiar position. Its head was betising to put forth tome effort at months past that resignation had be- lines space, single column, one Inserneath Its body and from the manner to There Is but one way In which come a habit; aacrifice waa ao longer tion." which It was lying the horse must ahe ran jaaLSufficjently an effort. Having nothing to hope tor, have brftkeaJt s neck,. deliberately to any branch of literature, she could sustain no further loss. How thorough br4 Attmr, which the animal had The by )ror strap or any accomplishment, to become long this nightmare of apathy would Do yon really think As knows very been tied was torn and the horse from successful teacher. In the event of my continue was a question that did not much? , all appearances had by brute strength death or failure to business she would present Itself to her gray musings. he knows sa much as done tne act sir; dear, My be driven to the humiliating resource Having once conquered Nature, and the average politician thinks hsf Mr. Cassel went for Dr. Dengler, of taking In sewing for s livelihood, or held Inclination under the heel of Reknown" thinking perhaps that life might not to seek the more degrading position of solve, until life seemed extinct, she anAs much as be thinks hs knows yet be extlftct, but upon the arrival of a saleswoman in a atore. Her future ticipated no resurrection. She did not the veterinary be at once pronounced before e, after the nomination 7 baa been s source of much and anxious know that no tingle battle, however the case one of broken neck. The thought with me. This , marriage long and bloody, constitutes a camth P0'011 f th ,d dCt0r H.-. Th. rml-hl-o would, I hoped, quiet my apprehen- paign; that length of days and many waa s most peculiar one and Mlmal to full wife evening (to sions by aAiillng her handsomely In sorrows are needed to rob youth of toe case seemed like on ot .tars! 1, that all you are j life. If she refuses Withers I shall be elasticity; that the guest who Ungers c , both angry and disappointed. She la longest to the human heart, clinging going to wear? All, except the flow- - J senWife (calmly) ol enough to leave off echool-gl- rl ts the shattered shelter from, which all Cont Many Centurie. Old. would other Joys have flown, is Hope. It la ere. Which of these clusters timentality. F Bruc) of Billerica. Mass . has The listener put out her foot and shot doubtful, 11 flhe thought with any dis- you select?" Just received from a missionary who THe Husband (res gnedly) blj-- Is principal of an academy to Kutne register noiselessly. She bad had a tinctness at this period. She waa cera surfeit of disagreeable truth for that tainly less actively miserable than in 0 ching, China, eight historic old coins. The oldest of the coins bear? the date that which Immediately preceded her time. The man who doat forget ennything of 221 B. C. while the others range Yet It waa truths every word ot IL tegagcmenL That was amputation to tiiia, reactionary weariness. How ahe Isnt a gong to learn mutch more. between 759 A. D. and 1270 A D. VUe was a d hanger-o- n ABARTCRED j 1 , ! I it-- .,-- i k . f -- ba-.d- e pro-berv- Berwick-upon-Twee- e; To-nig- ht, n, d pre-'sall- ed to-da- tete-a-tet- hard-heart- ed sell-suppo- rt. T-- - dressy j sw mean-spirite- |