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Show Thanks to a Burglar. Nobody had ever fcwn aide to exactly why Mndgp? laiiser was ro Her eyes were small, her nose was a most undenia-Llpurr, and the thick masses of her curly hair were always tumbling down untidily beyond the power of combs and hairpin to restrain. Even the warm color that came and went in her cheeks and the dimple in her chin wre hardly enough to redeem her from being hopelessly plain; and every man who approached her jet became her alyeet slave in four or twenty-fo'.thours, and in twice that time had offered her his heart and hand. Ilut then, he could not. tell wherein her facinntion lav. He only dis-ov- e r knew that she was. beyond nil com- tliinps, and then perhaps you would t he get me something 1 shuuldn ashamed to be seen in i dr. ail Coover immediately forgot the exciting subject of the robbing in refleet ions upon his spotws want of reverence for the family emeralds, w hieli bad adorned the persons of everv feminine Van Coover since the were year one Hut the young not so easily diverted, and their conversation turned upon burglars nnd biirgary, unt il. w hen the clock struck eleven and bedtime approached, the girls in particular wer- in anything but an agreeable state of mind. Mr. Eotterall bad been silting Madge m the group around the fire, li.it only Silly's quick eyes had detected the glnlces they had not infrequently exchanged. In the bustle at ten hint upon separation (or the night nobody noticed how lofigthe gallant Tommy was io handing his charming neighbor her bedroom candlestick, nor how the rich crimson flushed not only her llit her throat and brows, ns lmr tingiVs lay not unwillingly in bis strong grasp. Snllv flew into the room they occupied together and was already nestled among the pillows when slowly in, Iter Madge sauntered cyt-dancing and a new excln-ek- , parison, the most bewitching, bewildering, lovable little damsel in the world. Last spring, when she married Mr. Thomas Eotterall, after a brief engagement, there was a nine days wonder. pression on her hire that caused SalThat gentleman, the most desira- ly to look again with surprise nnd ble party of the season, of irreproach- wonder if she were really growing able social position, and with a mine pretty after all. ordered Miss GorCome to of wealth in government bonds, had ham, sleepily.bed, never been observed to pay her the Im coming, responded Madge, in slightest attention, llow, wlien and an absent way. Hut she proceeded, nevertheless, to where their courtship was carried on nnd let down her on a put waft a. problem over which society beautiful wrapper, hair preparatory to brushpuzzled its small brains in vain, lor ing it out nnd putting it lip for the no one could reecolect, a single occa- night. It was long and thick and and it sion wl en Mr. Eotterall could possi- curly, of a warm her like u veil nbout lntng mon hud chance have to bly puttlie softening her harsh features untilshe mentous question to his lovely bride. said to herself in a whisper of parIndeed, that, lady herself, on being donable pride, I tint almost pretty rallied at the wedding breakfast, with my hair down! How I wish She never finished tho sentence. It laughingly declared that. Tommy died away in a smile which lingered bad never proposed to her at all, a statement to which her lord mid n hont her lips ns she wound the plenmaster assented with a demure en- tiful waves and ripples into a careless knot on the top of her head, nnd sat joyment of everybody's surprise ut down on the edge of the bed, lost in such a singular revelation. Only Sally Gorham knewthe whole meditation as pleasant as it was mystery, mid she, strange to sny. profound. At last she looked tip. was wise and discreet enough to hold her tongue nml laugh with the draSally was sleeping the sleep of the matis persona at. t ho general mysti- just, with one dimpled ham! under fication of the world. Hut now that her cheek, the ot her Iv ing idly on t he billy nnd I have made it up, and de- coverlet. Tho old Hutch clock on tho cided to follow the good example set lauding of the stairs below chimed us by Madge and Tommy, there are out a melodious midnight, and no secrets between us. While we Madge began to think seriously of were wandering along the cliffs at! bed. As she glanced up, however, her Newport week before last, she told me the story, which proved so inter- - eyes hetield ii sight which caused csf ing that am about to divulge to (very drop of blood to stand still in the public, providing the public will her veins. In the mirror opposite her site saw listen, learn and forevi r nitenvards bold its peace. the door of a closet oil the other side It was at the end of April. The of tho boil open slowly, nnd tho face Gorhams had gone out totheircoun-ir- of a man pop slyly out a. bad, seat at lVnn Kliyn much earlier brutal, face, with bloodin the Reason than usual, nnd as it shot eyes that scanned thes'Vne with was intolerably dull, with nothing in ..vil accuracy. They sac the slumt lie world to do, they had asked a bering and ttneonseioii' ally, the dozen people out to spend a week in motionless figure of'.Mnng .evidently all sorts ot unconventional frolics, about to follow her friend's example isally had threeorfoureharming buds nnd retire for the night ami the litfor her guests, among them Madge tle heap of lings and pins that glitPnllispr; her brother Jack had brought tered on a tiny table near by. With several willing victims from the club, a grin ot hideous satisfaction the and thoo.d Van hoovers came to face was noiselessly withdrawn, nnd amnso pnptv and mamma Gorham tho door shut Hoftly again, while and keep them out of mischief with poor Mtulgo laid a hand upon her an innocent, rubber of whist in the heart and tried to still its wild beatchimney corner o nights. ing. There were great goings on, ns UnWhat should she do? Wake de Moses, the gardener, said, with a who would be certain to cry outSally in 'a discouraged shake of his woolly head. frenzy of fright, nml give the wretch Tennis playing in tho morning, rid- a chance to annihilate them before ing parties in the afternoon, and in could escape? Ely down stairs the evening Virginia reels and All they to the smoking room, where she Boston in the way to the long draw- could hear some of the men still talking room, with laughing, singingand ing over their cigars, nnd abandon not. a little flirting from dawn to Sally to her fate? She raised her darkness. head once more in despair, when lo! Ma dge was the blithest oftheblitlie. an idea! All the men ndi.red her openly, save Lightly, trembling, she rose to her and except Thomas Eotterall, Esq., feet, lightly crossed the room, and who never worshipped publicly at her Heaven! how the floor suddenly! shrine, though he often watched lmr cracked; she turned tho key Jh lively from afar off with ill the suddenly and had her prisoner lock, more than ordinary sufe something t interest in his eyes, ller How he swore anil stormed nnd ' merry, arch, ways made their tmfniling impression up- - beat against, the door, while Sally on his soul, nnd it was hardly to he woke screaming, and the household, n state of direalarm, appeared upimagined that. Miss Palliser was in on the scene! Tho men rushed lip of the havoc her charms ignornnnt were working in that manly breast. from tho smoking room and proto extract the offender from Oiitwnrdly, however, there was not ceeded the slightest symptom of an nffair. his impromptu dungeon, and to dekludge rode, danced and coquetted liver him over to the officers of the with every cavalier but one, and that peace, who were summoned by a one devoted himself with an assum- watehmaus rattle, wielded vigorousout of the window by Mrs. Van ed interest to Sally, ly who privately considered him a Coover in a paroxism ot fear. There was an immense amount of .greater bore than thelloosnetunnel. One night, w lion the week of gayety gable and explanation going on, unat Penn Kynn was nearly over, the stinted praise of Madge's courage whole party was sitting nbout a and presence of mind, and then a gengreat roaring tire in the hall, for the eral rendezvous in the hall below for spring evenings were apt to be cool, sleep was felt to be impossible nfter jesting and making merry after their all that bad occurred. Hut outlie custom. Old Mr. Van Coover, who way down stairs, on the dusky landbad been poring over that mildly ex- ing, where the old Hutch dock had citing journal, the Penn Kynn Ca- stood for years and told no tides, Mr. Tom Eotterall and Miss Madge lotte, suddenly nsfonished the by a singular snort, which Halhser were detained a moment bemight have expressed any emotion hind the rest, quite by chance of from delight to horror, and casting course, and unnoticed by day. The away his newspaper, cried in tones red brown locks were in a sad state of tumble, but the pretty pink wrapof dismay; 'Burglars there are burglars nbout per was very becoming nevertheless, in the village! They have already and for once in her life its wearerwas visited the Standishes and the really lovely, with happy tears iti her and got away with a quan- eyes anil the dearest blush in the tity of plunder, and it'll be our turn world mantling her cheek ns somenext, (lorham, mark my words! I say, body's tender arms went about her Mrs. Van Coover, you havent neck, and somebody said softly; At Trinity, the last of May! brought the family emeralds along, And that was all. A very brief mohave you'. The nminbe Mrs. Van Coover ment of bliss, but the next Sunday a shivered perceptibly, but soon re- paragraph appeared in several goscovered herself and replied tartly; sipy journals, which electrified soJames, youre a. fool! loii't you ciety at large. It said: The engagement is announced of know that I loath and detest those emeralds and never wear them except Mr. Thomas Urquliart Eotterall, who is the only scion of the oldest when you compel me by brute torn-Emeralds, indeed! I wish the burg- nnd most aristocratic family in Virlars would carry off the hateful old ginia, and Miss ikrgaret Ephro- s red-brow- 1 j y sear-seame- ! half-shu- sweet-hearte- d sharp-tongue- d s, ? d i syne Talliser, the reigning the season. M. EIFFEL. belle of hole put a pint of commercial a half bushel of stable manure ani well w ith surface soil. lath., these chip manure, bones or obi q, le put iu the bottom of the p, AGRICULTURAL. lllzlint Strorloro Ib tho Worn Washington Monument is oao BaiMtr or tho As for the burglar, lie was sentenced to a fine long term in jail, and Mis Madge lalliser might have realized a handsome fortune had she accented offers of the various dime museum, that longed to exhibit her as the heroine of a daring exploit. Providence Journal. SellKliness of l)og Owners. farmer who tries to keep 400 to ,j(m) sleep, this being his only means ot living nr.ong these rough bills. exposes in a letter to the National stockman the native selfishness ol dog ow ners, and tells of his efforts in A Hire necessity compels us to kil the dogs we can, nnd it is not lrom ti desire to destroy other men's property, but only to protect our own. If the dogs were kept off our s premises they would be sale. ttll Hog-owner- sometimes threaten private injury in return for the death of a worthless eur, but it is best to take such a risk, as the owner might as well kill stock ns for the dog to do it. We have have no choice, as there is no law to protect our tloeks, and we must protect them ourselves. Sheep are taxed to protect other property, but have no protection from worth less dogs. It raises a terrible howl nnd more mourning among some people to have a dog killed than to hear of ti loss of ti hundred sheep killed bv dogs. It is a great cruelty to kill a (log, but thereis no cruelty in a dog tearing and mangling a w hole flock The fect high, and has no rival in stature lit present, but the Parisians are finding themselves or. the fact that they have, standing on tho Camp de Mars, an iron tower one thousand 1et high. Naturally ennugn, M. Eiffel, the eminent French engineer, who built the tower, but who is better known to fame on this continent as the man who invented the system of iron locks for the lanama (anal, is proud of his tall enterprise. Speaking of it lately, lie said Consider its itn- with enthusiasm: portance from a meteorological pomt of view. It is not everv day that meteorologists can get up u thousand feet above the soil. This tower will enable them to study the of temperature at different heights, to observe the variations of the winds, tind our the quantity of rain that falls at different heightsnnd the density of the clouds. Indeed, mailthat relates to temperature, liygrometrv, air currents and the compo- sitioii oftlie air, the tower will afford opportunities for st tidy and research many ot which have hitherto been It w ill be equally useful A j j A correspondent to the Dural New Yorker says: I have never usei any steam plowing machinery, but a neighbor has a road engine and I employed him to break up some land for me. lie used the anil engine to run a thrasher and to plow to do anything that a stationary engine will da It will travel over any ordinary country as easily as a wagon, and haul almost anything that is hitched to it. In plowing for me he used six plows, cutting about 14 inches each in width and about The plows are fast and 10 inches in depth. cut everything and turn it uniter,,, l cow J . Not Square. Venom In a Horses Teeth. Isaiah Bentley, formerly of Hartford t ity find.,) a few weeks ago was attacked by his Arabian stallion and bis arm so badly mangled bv the teeth of the infuriated animal that amputation was necessary. Word has just been received trotii Sabina, O., that Heutley died a few da vs since from the effects of the poison of the stallion s teeth. I iiieiinuitiEnquireri to cun e. nt ; s.j t! f, d U, tiv . I Contraction or Farming Cattle. Tlicro is a constant fresh accession of labor and land to the producing capacity of each year's planting, but tliei e is an oh- stinate reduction in yield in proportion both to t lie laud employed and also to the labor. This is readily demonstrated for corn, wheat, hay and cotton, both for the averages of comp rative period of thiee The explanation of years and live years. this unpleasant phenomenon, wh'eh means a comparative waste both of capital and labor, is to he found largely in the dis- tressing diminution of the profits ou foim- el. cultivation, which gives rUe to the gen- eral effort to make up in quantity for the deficiency in price. If, for instance, it re- quires ono hundred bushe s of wheat or ten bales of (Ot'on to bring the farmer as much as sixty bushels of wheat or six bales cotton formerly yielded, he strive to up his income by employing the ad- -, ditional land and labor. lie is driven to which increases his expense while reducing his rate of production. It is a consequence that both of these factors of cultivation neeessaiily suffer the land and the lack of the needby ful fertilization, and the labor by reason of the fact that an aggregate wage find, especially if the aggregate be reduced, as it has been, the rate that can be paid to the hand is necessarily lowered. The general consequences are, therefore, that land and farm labor are being impoverished to- gether; that farming capital is being sell- ously contracted, and that we are suffer- ing from a gradual de ay in far the most important department in the nations sub sistence aud wealth. Exchange. . is a large piece of wood, some two or tbr.e feet long, about threo inches thick and s. inches broad. On this are laid more or less, according to sieof 1km, u long, light, straight steel prongs. The nearly touch each other, exvpt at tie pointed ends, which, being sharpcm-,- for about an inch and a half, give a to'ei.ay wide space betwe. n points; they are fa toned to tho wood by spikes. The lunjb is moitised into the head. lueaniimiigt!u. rake, one wou d think that if the Japanese insist on working With such an imp emeu; it might be cheaply made out of wnru-o- r tiles; but it would seem that, with them evident disposition to adopt new and proved methods and devices, they would throw aside tools so crude and provide themselves with thoso of better and more convenient form, as unquestionably they will in due time. soil, and works as well in rolling as in level land, hut will not work if the hillowner charged The sides are very steep. be- U!e $'2 per acre for breaking land, and I jjeye lie broke aLout Cftet,, nt.rig per day. The speed is about eipial to that of a goon pair of horses, but it could be made to run faster if desired. The great trouble with this engine is the difficulty of keeping it fed with water, as it does not iarry much water and requires an extra teem aud fro-- . Quent stoppages to obtain a fresh supply. It can work wherever horses can, if the land is nut too steep, but it requires care- hil attention and several hands to keep it supplied with water. It is entirely too exuse pensive to ever come ino general costing about $2500 except upon large farms where there are large quantities of land to be broken up, grain to be thrashed, silage, etc., to be cut, and hay to be pressed. It is not adapted to the cultivating of crops after they are planted. with most banks to do no business with absolute strangers, nnd to require identifications or at least refferences. Sometimes when a man wants to open an account lie ti resents very bitterly the demand for J-an introduction. If lie would only consider the matter he would see how very important the rule is. There are many reasons for it, but the chief is to prevent a scheme which has frequently proved successful. A member of the gang will open an an account, and pay in and draw checks in a most regular manner lor several months. Then one day he will happen to be present when a stranger presents a large check, the two will each other as old friends, and the rogue with an account will identify the rogue with a chech, which may turn out to be a forgery. With all precautions ns to its utility troni a military point of introduction and identifications, view, la the event of another seig'e frauds are possible, anil without of laris, see bow important this them frauds would be simple and tower would be. Cnirumniiraiions ettsy, and, as a natural result, fre- could be kept up by means of optic telegraphy for a ji'reat distance quent. around Baris; for from the summit you have a mncrnilicent, panorama An Editors Duties. extending from 120 to l.'iO kilomeWe apologize for mistakes made tu tres. laris by night, decorated and it, all former issues nnd say they were illuminated ns has been during the Exhibition, is a sight which before' inexcusable, as all an editor has to was only within the reach of aerodo is to hunt news, and clean the roll- nauts. In fact, tlie tower is the chief ers, nnd set the type, and sweep the attraction of the Exhibition. In our of the tower we have floor, nnd pen short items, and told construction calculated on the force of wind. M'e The Teuton is often n long time in learning the American idioms. One w ho had been here for a year ormore, and who could speak some English before his arrival, a very short and crapulent man, by the way, went to his grocer's and paid a bill which hail been standing for several weeks! Now you are square, llans. I vas vat. You are square, I said. I vas square? Yes you are all square now-- . Hans was silent for n moment, then with reddening face and flashing eyes he brought his plump list down upon the counter and said: See here, mine front, I vil haf no more peezness mit you. I treat you like a gentleman, I pay my pill, und you make a shoke of me vou sav I vas square von I know I vas round as a parrel. I dond like such shokes. My pee.ness mit you vas done! Youi h's Companion. jears .... It is the rule papers, nnd write wrappers, and make the paste, and mail the papers, and distribute tho type, and talk to visitors, and carry water, and sawr wood, and read the proofs, nnd correct mistakes, and hunt shears to write editorials, and dodge the bills, and dun delinquents, and take cussing from tho whole force, and tell our subscribers that we need money. We say that we have no business to make mistakes while attending to these little matters nnd getting our living ou gopher-tai- l soup flavored with imagination, and wearing old shoes nnd no collar, and a patch ou our imuts, and oblige to turn a smiling countenance to the man who tells us that our paper isnt worth tjfl anyhow, and that he could make a better one with his eyes shut. Sauk Rapids Sentinel. for t,a- - TW up the Lo'e, treading the Crjy meanwhile, and leaxin tlu tre- no in the ground than it was in tin u The entire giouml may be iruit, either straw terries alone lu rries and blackberries. If set a row in a tree row, lea,uj feet space for laeli tree, and tour each middle, making tlx row, fur f.. If bhicklienies or ia,pleiry, apart. j0 be added, Mt them four fei t in t) ll?t( a row ju tj,e tH.e row .lmj olie tween making the rows t ' feet a; art pq.nt a row of strawberries in. d way tween the blackberries, and the gi(,u,l(1 will be as closely planted as it ought tu q. and raise trees. Keep the tree gruaii clear and trees will le well eiilnvutei. (irounil in this way made to carry d,, m e should be well fed. Iopular l.arJa t ' ex peri- - y. materia' $ gradually decay j Swindling a Hank. Bank Teller ill Plowing, tr.e of sheep. A Correspondent's Idea of Sleam j. of twoitj-impossi- ble. im- - Ilere farmers brought TL in some eggs to sell. The one was evidently pioucl of his eggs am proud of the birds that laid them. He had a flock of fne Plymouth licks and the eggs they laid were beauties. A dozen of them weighed 31) ounces, an average of three and a quarter cnee each. The other tanner biouuht in h eggs without saving a wor 1, had nntlii: ; to say of them or the fowls that laid m. A dozen of his eggs weighed 21 ounces, an ounces average of one and each. Iloth'lots of eggs were can ied to the rear of the store by a clerk, countei anil each man got a cent apiece for lib eggs. As lie of the small eg. s passed a iu going out he winked and Th it man with t ie bigegg-issaid: fool; his liens eat a heap more than mine, make no more eggs though they are f ger but he gets no moie for tliem.''-ke- ep Mail and Express. t! tt o 111 j V1 fn three-quart- er b lu r tl fc ai a Ciiltlvata g, w io i t:i iu Te Ilosers. fo The vegetable garden should not In the neglected flowers. lie frith-o- cornea tu may be often grown enough of Rowers cheemake brighten the household and have calculated that the tower will noon and night. rful the table, morning, a wind withstand normally pressure And w'e are well satisihd that flower of three hundred kilogrammes per should never be looked upon m the cousquare metre, which amounts to considered a total pressure of ntry as a luxury, they should be 2,250,000 AVe should I made have and one of llie necessities of life kilogrammes. and this calculation on the most as home regularly the for provided favorable hypothesis possible. We the for systematically as hay is provided have reckoned the trellis work as full man w ho neglects to provide barn. That walls and made other allowances. flowers for his family in the countrj, is And. as the strongest tempests leaves only half man at the best; for lie known in Haris have never been beand best out the of calculations his highest a ofone hundred and yond pressure elements of human nature, having no fifty kilos per square metre, th tower is perfectly secure. Should a, wind thought for the love of beautiful thngs Wool Production of Southern Russia. bearing a force of three hundred kilos and the fountain of happiness thoss arise little would be left standing in In referring to the wool production of things will supply in his family Haris except the tower. Southern Russia the British consul-generNew Farm. He will run the tower during the at ( a says there are two princifor and Exposition twenty years wool produced Merino and yew Method of linrtdiiigf ifterwnrds, at the end of which time pal kinds of and in less quantities zigal and Donskoi, it, will become the borticulturtist cla ms to lnvedi Sorre of the property malitek. The Merino was she introdoltower The cost a new method of setting buds. million covered a 'p nty. cluced of from Spain in iso.!, and was found which lie holds to be much better than which the French Government lars, oaid about three hundred thousand. to thrive In a climate where, though there the old way. It consists in mating the? are extremes of heat and cold, the atmos- - cross cut on the stalk at the bottom imh g Tho phere is gene-all- y Ship. dry. It is to be met f the top of the vertical cut, ami shoving Great anil desirable is the record-breakin- g with in the governments of Taurida, Kher- - the hud in upward under tlie hark instead Lkaterinoslay, and to a less extent it of downward, as on the old plan. T11S' ship, nnd the one we have son, Bessai abia. The Molokanis, who imini- - he says, eiusos the bark to better now is bound to be still greater than to the have devoted them- - the bud from rain . than in the old die is now. The city ot Haris has grated most Caucasus, selves assiduousiy lo the real ing of and hence largely increases in dunces just come over, though this is not these sheep, aud have succeeded in im- sue css. The tiling appears entirely her first time of immigration, in the breed, the wool of which is sonah e; the cut for the bud would need t nearly five hours under the six days longer in staple and better adapted for be a little different from the usual cut, y that were but lately the engine-mak-?r- s combing purposes than tho ordinary Meri- - suppose-- , the knife starting in sufficient no. Fleeces in gtease will weigh from It above to leave more wood and baik aliow dream. be Yet, what is that to her? Wait! as pounds to 14 pounds, while tlie common than below. Of course the bud mint the lion. Jerry Black said to the Merino fleece will seldom ex ced nine set tlie same end up as iu the other and is frequently lighter. Tlie Mobile Register. Electoral Commission. She has more than 20,000 good horse power Donskoi wool is tlie giovvth of sheep found Rvener. 1 in her hold, as the indicator 1ms near tlie liver Hon. Tlie zigal is a native finer will which wool of some time pull shown, quality than the preceding, themselves toget her for a prolonged while the maliUh is ail infeiior from a piece of effort ol unvarying combination from found in the Crimea. Biadfoul still staple takes shore to shore, instead of taking a large quantity of Fouth a Merino tough, strong timber. j. partial rest occasionally- - When she wool, but since the enormous development with a half-inchole, one inch fim does that her record will probably be e " b and a similar nearer five days than six. Then the of sheep breeding en the I. a Plata and in end for a olevis-pial the oC South Russia foot four inches from one end, wool Autia!ii ado j t will imagination yearn for a boat to other. the has diminished in from beat live days, and the mechanical1 feet eight inches importance. 3 10 . double-tre- e is attached by its cIt'' genius of the world w ill be applied to i riBnUf-a reach Orchard wl the task of gratifying it. There is a oneq!orfe p Any, a that will grow a fair crop of tQ , theory abroad that the expense is so clld by a clevis and two Croat thin there won t be anv more roin 'vlU Rrow a Poaoh (roe. After plow- h brhl it alelst the other very fast ships built, that the husi- - '"S the gr. und, lay it off in straight rows PasP ;s dAhed to give the ness has already been carried to too twenty feet apart, by running a a c:t J when tiaining amavanta-- e Like Plow twice in a row and throw ing the dht foulluhoie iorcd one inch hijjli iv pitili ot extravagance. U some other theories, we imtigine that each way, as as tho plow will ruu. clevis-P'f- l into which the short end, this w ill not be supported by tlie facts. Mark it acrossdeep in the same way. Dig a At any rate, we may be pleased to hole three feet across n at the know tVit one hij: 'ship, the City of wrantmS of tho furrows, twelve inches Persons Advertisement: than link deeper to let out still. Sun. Haris, has a the tree Is to be set In tho bottom of this good ho. would do well to ca!l upen beaa-tif- al de-s- Record-Breakin- J JT of tr nr fn Ot pi. ii foi h ot lx u he n he Jo qu ept an his bet of T(i Th on tre its jet cid fat fh( the 8to an he Silt for the up. tac njs doi api tut case.-pou- liroe-liors- o J t Ilti-si- h t ; Jj u, te two-hor- inter-sectio- se $ shiglet ral hfi t 3 |