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Show LAWYER HANGED BY NICHT-RIDERS ENGLAND IS NOW FACING MOST SERIGUS PROBLEM Two Tennessee Attorneys by up for the house * Union City, Tenn—Colonel R. 2 Yaylor, aged 60 years, and Captain Quintin Rankin, prominent attorneys ef Trenton, Tenn. were taken from Ward's hotel at Walnut Log, Tenn fifteen miles from here, at midnight Wednesday night by masked “night being hanged to a tree and his body rid miralty was giving out orders for the Wed with bullets. Colonel Taylor construction of nine torpedo boat dehad a miraculous escape from the | stroyers and five unarmored cruis vengeance of the mob ers, to cost a total of $12,500,000, two Captain Rankin's body was found months earlier than originally (had fhe next morning, riddled with bul been intended. The premier made tets and hanging from a tree one mil: also a bid for recruits, saying that the war Office was ready to take on from the hotel. 24,000 men for the winter training in Judge Taylor's escape is due to 4 the special reserves faring dash for liberty while the The proposal quite fails to meet night riders were disputing among the demands of the labor members of themselves the best way to kill him the house. During the heat of the discussion at a moment when the guard’s atten A DAY OF HORROR. tion was diverted, Judge Taylor brok« for freedom. Dashing a few yards to the bank of a small inlet of Reed Typhoon and Torrential Manila.—Belated Shots and bullets fell on all sides but none struck him. Near the bank opposite the firing night riders, Judge “Taylor threw up his hands and pitched forward heavily over a log and lay fnert. Shots were fired into the log by the night riders, but not one pen 300 life. Mr. Ward, the Ward hotel at him. He log until into the Tipton the trag Hankin’s manager Wainut of Log, the tele- honed details of the tragedy. He aid that twenty-five masked “night Μ΄». came to his hotel at midnight They lined up outside the hotel, pull ed out their revolvers and called to ‘colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin. he two men did not suspect troulile nd came down immediately, As the {ioraeys passed into the front yard There was a heavy typhoon and torrential rains throughout the valley and in the mountains. Rivers were flooded and many places rose to a height of thirty feet, sweeping everything before them in rtheir rush to the sea. Hundreds of animals and houses were swept away by the waters. At Aparri, which was almost completely under water, the American rasidents, headed by Lieutenants Treadway « and Clark, Postmaster Foss and Wngineer Clark, formed a rescue brigade, which reseued scores of natives, taking many off their ouses while floating down the river. he riders covered them with their revolvers and before Rankin and Tay- 1 for had an opportunity to retire they Were surrounded und seized. They Dale early Wednesday morning caused a rise in the Canadian river that inundated its valley for several rs” and carefully guarded. The nightriders” then quietly took up miles between Shawnee and McLeod their march from the hotel, turning down the road toward Reel Foot Lake, Guests at the hotel in a few minutes lost the sound of hoof beats and nothing more was heard of the fate of the two men until the next and washed away track on the Rock Island, Missouri, Kansas and Santa Fe lines. & Texas A cloudburst at Perry caused the sudden rise of all the streams in that section and the flooding of several hundred acres of morning, crops. The trouble between inhabitants on the banks of the Reel Foot lake and nee, A third of the town of Paw with 1,500 inhabitants, is cov- ered with six feet of water. Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin originated several years ago, when the two latter men incorporated and organized the West Tennessee Land company. They bought Reel Foot Jake from non-resident owners and immediately made regulations οἱ heir own concerning fishing priviμε The lake separates Obion and To Increase Coal Supply. Winnipeg—An important announce. ment was made here on Wednesday. The Grand Trunk Pacific wil, construct a second main line across the three prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, starting from the present main line north of Brandon, Manitoba, and running thence across Saskatchewan to the aake counties, in the extreme north west corner of Tennessee Great mumbers of the residents in that neighborhood have made their living for some time byfishing {n the lake, and they became indignant wher what they claimed as their “rights” were disturbed. Town Under Six Feet of Water. Oklahoma City, Okla—A cloudburst at were "put'on horses behind “nightrid- lena indicate Cagayan valley was the worst and most destructive within the memory of living inhabitants of the valley. The official figures are not yet available, a8 many places have not been heard from, but it seems certain that the number of deaths will reach etrated far enough to injure remained hiding behind the morning, when he wandered forest, and finally reached ville, thirty-two hours after edy which ende@ Captain sethk> reports that the storm of October 12 in the Bwimming, the aged attorney pushed forward. a Rains Bring Death to Three Hundred. t lake, he plunged in, a fusillade or bullets following the fugitive whose figure was dimly discernible coal district of southern Alberta, giv- ing the railway a second line through the wheat fields of western Canada, but widely separate. From that point the present main line runs northwest They made demands of the land company and followed these with letters threatening Taylor and Ranki.. Colonel] Taylor desired protection, in some form, of the state, and he secured the passage in the legislature of an act regulating fishing in Reel Foot lake. This act made it Af, ‘ a misdemeanor to fish in the lake Without paying a heavy fee to Edmonton. His Sins Found Him Out, New York.—Frank C. Marrin, formerly a well known Brooklyn law yer, who was convicted of swindling Mrs. Caroline Barry, a widow, out of $80,000, was on Wednesday sentenced to from fifteen to twenty years in the state prison. The swindle took TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT SEA. place thirteen years ago. Marrin was finally traced to Honduras. Later Men Literally Cooked to Death as Re- he came to Philadelphia and engaged in extensive operations in cotton. He was recently convicted in the United States court in Pennsylvania. of sult of Bursting of Steam Pipe. Kenosha, Wis.—Three members of the crew swimming a mile in a heavy rea for aid, stands out as an heroic fraud in connection with these opera deed in an explosion on the steamer tions. ‘Maggie Marshall, in which four were Premier Katsura Entertains Amerikilled. Bearing her dead, the barge can Officers. was towed into the Kenosha harbor Tokio.—The dinner and ball given Wednesday afternoon, haying drifted Wednesday evening in honor of the afl ntght. ‘hose killed, all being lit erally cooked as the result of the visit of the American fleet of battle ships by Premier Katsura at his resbursting of a steam pipe, were the en gineer, assistant engineer, fireman idence brought together about 1,500 prominent people, including al! the and a deck hand American officers, who were invited The explosion occurred Tuesday The guests at the dinnight in midlake. Engineer Peterson to the ball. and Assistant Engineer Hicks were ner, however, were confined to those in the engine room and were forced holding official positions. There were | no set Speeches Premier Katsura to stand in their place health of President were cooked to desth Their bodies | proposed the | Roosevelt and Ame;ican Ambassador were found in the hold directly unde | O’Brien that of the emperor of Japan. the engine room : | | Millions Needed for Cana}, Ends Career of Adventurer, Ky—Charles Joseph s, charged with being a de iation of | Magnu d | serter from the Unite States navy, £55,000,000 for carryir ( worl married and who says he recently {{ the isthmian canal during the fis ter of the n, daugh Gorma Ada Miss eal year 1910, if the estimates pre pared by the commission are ᾽ \late United States Senator Arthur P Washington —Congress asked to make an appr proved by the war will deparime: b The | Louisville, Gorman, Was in Battle With Swept Over Michigan. Great Welcome Extended arrested at a local hotel aced in the Wednesday night and current year’s appropriation acer gates 521.009 ,090-..814 500909 0 μας ος ἵναἘΝof | which was for the purchase of i hres sane the on | first class musician vessels for the commission’s use. The | United States steamship Dolphin. He 1910 estimates make p will be returned to the navy depart shout seven months work the ment. When arrested. Magnus had three locks at Gatun. The wor $18,000 in bonds and $6,000 in cash. begin the coming December Narrow Escape.—Hor- rors Simply Beyond Description. Alpena, Mich.—Out of the burned | fired upon the redskins, and brought district are now coming some of the each of them down with a fatal bulstories of suffering and dangers en- | let. Herman Rudolph, also a deputy dured by those who survived the came warden, who was with Peyton flames. Miss Cassie Howland had in the battle, escaped uninjured. twenty-six little children in her According to the story told by Ruschool near Millersburg Friday after- dolph, he and Peyton went to the noon. At the afternoon recess the camp air was smoky. Half an hour later vised the woods about the little school- ,‘arge Louse were blazing fiercely. The chil- and of the Indians upon being adthat they were killing more game than permitted by law, he informed them that they cren started for their homes, but | would have to go to Missoula. The were compelled to go to a neighbor- {Indians refused to comply with the ing house for shelter. Miss Howland order, and when Peyton threatened tc fays she could hardly face the wind use foree, four of the number ran oft during the walk of a quarter of a a short distance, turned quickly and mile to her own home. After she commencedfiring With their rifles. reached it, the heat grew so intense One of the rifle bullets struck Peythat the women were compelled to ton in the breast and he fell bleedseek shelter in the cellar, while the ing to the ground. With supreme men fought to save the house. | nerve, however, he rested his arm “Then,” says Miss Howland, “ref- upon the ground, and in rapid succes« ugees who had escaped with their sion sent four shots after the murdereffect and iives by lying in the plowed field with ers, every shot taking their faces buried in the sand began bringing the Indians to their end. to arrive. They kept coming all Peyton was one of the most fearless through the night, all more or less members of Game Warden Scott’s burned in their flight through the staff, and was a dead shot. woods. A boy named Dust, one of the family of children which on Saturday was reported burned, brought in the He was feared by the Indians, having arrest ed many of their number on previous ceeasions for similar offenses. He charred remains of his little sister in| leaves a wife and three small his pocket handkerchief. His father and mother had already arrived at our house. Their grief was terrible Then another of their children, a little girl, arrived carrying a baby. The child’s dress was completely chil dren. FEARFUL FLOODS IN CHINA, Many Lives Lost as Result of Break: ing of Dykes. burned off and her little body was a Victoria, B. C.—Local Chinese have received cablegrams telling of heavy oss of life and great desolation in Yeiping, China, as a result of the mass of blisters, But one fresh report of loss of life came into Alpena on Sunday. Henry Hines, his wife and two children are believed to have been cremated on their farm near Cathro. Between yreaking of the dykes and overflow of he West river, inundating the dis trict for hundreds of miles. The num- Metz and Rogers City seven more bodies have been found, making a total of twenty-six lives that are known ber of killed is not given, but the to have been lost in Presque Isle and message states that the 1055 has Alpena counties since Thursday night. been immense and starvation is feared, and it appeals to the Chinese abroad to send aid. Subscriptions Charges for Grazing on National For- est Reserves Lowered. Washington.—Following the | lrom local Chinese were made within a short time after the receipt of the state- ment made a year ago at the meét-| rablegrams, which totaled $7,000, the ing of the National Wool Growers’ as- | first amount being cabled to Chinese sociation in Salt Lake City, Gifford | officials at Canton for distribution The disaster Pinchot, forester, and A. F, Potter, in! emong the sufferers. came at the time of harvest, when the crops are ready to be taken from the have announced a reduction of 10 to! tields. 15 per centinthe rates forsheep graz- | ing on national forests, to take efSiX DEATHS FROM STORM. fect the coming season. Changes in | market conditions which have made | Colorado Blizzard Causes Series of the sheep business less profitable this Accidents. past year, especially the greatly re-| Denver.—Six accidental deaths are duced prices offered for wool and the} depreciation in the value of mutton, | traceable to the blinding snowstorm Colorado Saturare partly responsible for this reduc:| which prevailed in tion. | day night and Sunday. Besides seven | persons sustained serious injuries in Ethel Will Make Debut. sailroad collisions or by coming in Washington.—The one social topte contact with live wires: charge of grazing in national forests,| of Washington is the announcement Joseph Henry, killed by wire in of Miss Ethel Roosevelt’s debut at a} Denver. J. J. McCloskey, killed by dance December 28. This clears the | wire at Louisville. Mrs. Lizzie Winsway for the season's buds to announce| low, killed by wire in her home in the dates of their coming out. The} Fort Collins. young people are all delighted with to death in the idea of a dance and merry plans) August Garson, frozen snow near Longmont. {Leonard F. Banker, scalded to death im wreck caused by collision on Rock are being laid to give Miss Roosevelt | a@ gay season. It is aot only because she is the daughter of the president, but that she has made so manyreal island railroad near Carlton, Henry john, killed by collision between hand car and motor car on Union Pacifio railroad in Denver yards. friends in Washington. Montenegrin Princesses Head Procession of Women Who Plead With Men to Take up Arms. . Completes Voyage Around the World. in the First Degree. dull brown New York.—Indictments charging| New York.—Through a Captain Peter C. Hains, jr., and T.} curtain of haze and smoke which liam £. Annis, at the Bayside Yacht | club, in August last. Although T. Jen- | kins Hains had been held as an accessory to the murder, the indict-| ment charges him, as well as_ his brother, with being a principal. The trial will probably be set for Novem| ber 9. to entrance overhung the tortuous New York harbor Monday afternoon, caucrept the battleship Alabama tiously into port and dropped anchor off Tompkinsville, completing a voy309 days. age around the world in More than 35,000 miles of all the seas of the world lay behind her. Except in one particular the Alabama finish ed her trip as fit for a fight as when che sailed. The boilers of the great ship were put to a severe test and re pairs are necessary. Broker Has Plenty of Trouble. Billik Still Has Hope. Jenkins Hains with murder in the | first degree were handed up by the Queens county grand jury at Flush-| ing, L. 1, Saturday. The indictments | were based upon the killing of Wil-| Germans to be Harvard's Guest. Western Pacific Borrowing Cash. Oakland, Cal—The Western Pacific Railroad companyhas filed a $25,900,- second mortgage with the τθcorder of this county. The loan is secured from the Central Trust company of New York, and the main line of the road from Salt Lake City to is given as security for the have access to all departments of the | Oakland loan, which is to be used as a sinking | charges. _ tuition of free university The mortgage runs for fortyauthorities ex: fund. German educational The four years, bearing 5 per cent. a themselves. ‘as highly sratified Frst mortgage on the road was filed at this substantial indication of good September1, 19(3, and was fer a loan Will om the vart of Harvard. | 4 000 of $60,000,000 Yokohama. || manded ---------- | by Rear Admiral Murakami. Passing up the coast off Yokohama, the first note of real welcome was Cettinje——A remarkable exposition of the depth to which the war fever | sounded when a fireworks salute was tas penetrated the Montenegrin peo- | fired by the “America’s Friends asple, as a result of the annexation of | sociation,” comprised entirely of Japthe provinces of Bosnia and Herzego- anese, who had assembled at KuriVina by Austria-Hungary, ΜΒ wit | hama on the site of Perry’s monunessed in Cettinje on Thursday, when| ment, The fleet responded by gracethe women of the capital united in a | fully dipping colors. great street demonstration They When it came closer in the fleet were headed by Princesses Zenia was met by seven big ocean liners and Vera, daughters of Prince Nicho- | chartered by the prefecture of Kanalas, who marched through the streets | gava, carrying 7,000 persons, includThe alr was carrying Montenegrin flags They| ing many foreigners. were followed by a great throng of | filled with bursting bombs sent up women of all classes, who chanted | from various points, and the roar of war songs, stopping from time to time | voices was heard even in the city of to plead with the men who followed Yokohama. in their wake to defend the sacred | When the fleet rounded Honmou rights of the nation. The two prin-| point and came into full view of the cesses subsequently formed 4 com.) city of Yokohama, the sixteen asmittee for the enrollment of Red | rembled Japanese warships began firing the salute to the rear admiral in command of the American fleet. JAPS’ ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME, | The roar of the guns, the bursting cross nurses. fireworks bombs, the shriek of the steam sirens with the accompanisult of Emperor’s Orders. ment of the drone of the deep notes Tokio.—The capital of Japan wit- | of the liners filled the alr with oversound. Ashore bedlam nessed Thursday night the most ex-| whelming detraordinary evidence of the spirit of | broke loose and words fail to scribe the enthusiasm of the assemthe new Japan. After his audience with the oMcers of the American bat- | bled thousands. When the American fleet finally tleship fleet on Tuesday, the emperor | came to anchor it presented an imissued an order directing the people| posing spectacle. Thirty-two great Extraordinary Scene in Tokio as Re-| to increase in every way possible the warships oceupied four long columns enjoyment, comfort and pleasure of | of eight each, the Americans taking the American visitors who came, he| the place of honor in the forefront, Japanese immediately behind said, as historic friends of the Jap-| the anese nation. The response to this | them heading due north. As soon as the fleet came to an imperial mandate was seen and heard | chor a reception committee from the Thursday night. Originally a torch- | Japanese government, representing light procession of 15,000 people was | every department, and attaches of planned as part of the day's program, the various foreign embassies and leLut this feature went far beyond ex. | pations, and the mayor of Yokohama pectations and developed one of the put off from shore for the flagship ‘ greatest popular demonstrations and | Connecticut. From thousands of flagstaffs and Cutpourings of an enthusiastic people ever witnessed in any country. Japan’s buildings and every point in the big city floated the stars and stripes and war celebrations after peace with the entire lengths of miles of streets Russia, London's “Mafeking Night’ were almost walled with intertwined and even New York's clection igui/! American and Japanese emblems. revel would seem almost ‘nsiguificant \ The bay itself was fairly aflame with compared with Tokio’s .-lebpation of bunting where tugs and steamers, Thursday tight. It would imp9s-\| sible to estimate the numbef ple who took part in the gaily decorated with streamers and of peo:| pennants, lined the wharves awaiting de and | thousands of excursionists who were the myriads of spectators’ going out to meet the fleet. Admiral Sperry and the other chiet | Foreigners were in the minority In officers of the American fleet viewed | the crowds, but wherever they ap the procession from a special stand, | peared they were treated with even standing with bared heads above the | exceptional courtesy, because on this tea of waving lanterns, the ΠΤ occasion to the Japanese all foreign: roar of cheers and the elash of the | ers must be Americans, many of the music from scores of bands which | Japanese being unable to dis@im!played the American mational hymn nate between Americans and those continucus'y. So dense became the| crowds around the stand where the American off.cers stood that the en- tire procession was blocked until Admiral Sperry was forced to leave to | keep an engagement at the dinner| given by Minister of Foreign Affairs emura. Again at the American emlassy the great procession halted and the climax of enthusiasm was reached, although Ambassador O’Brien was rot at the embas y at the time. He from other jands. Attempted to Assassinate Priest. Chicago.—An attempt to assasstnate Rey. J. P. Fielding, pastor of the Corpus Christi Roman Catholic church, was made Sunday afternoon After twice shooting at the priest in the Sunday school hallway of the church, the would-be assassin, knock ing down scores of children standing lin his way, ran into the street and the residence of the foreign minister The shooting and the ‘When the head of the procession ar- | escaped. screaming of the children’ created rived at the embassy and halted. Mrs wild excitement in one of Chicago's O'Brien ‘and the other ladies of the fashionable residence districts. The embassy appeared upon the veranda man is described as being about 34 and received a prolonged ovation from years old, roughly dressed, and evi: the crowds, every man and boy among too, had left to attend the function at the | dently a Greek or an Italian. to the paraders lifting his hat Left Money at Hotel. PREFERRED DEATH TO DISGRACE Ends Doct Young New York.—Rather than face trial for manslaughter i> the first degree, trowing out of a case of alleged criminal practice, Dr. Irving J. Cook, a young doctor of this city, drank a powerful poison and shot the Waldorf Astoria hotel 84letter left a sealed his wife, but accompanya terse note in which he affair asked her “not to take this hard.” Ship is All Right. have York been Methods employed by alleged the to so-called powder trust to gain control of the powder trade in the United State were described by R. S addell, for mer general s the United States for the Thursday's session of the the government suit wn of the She pany for all man anti-trust law. He had declared that the defndant between 95 trade in ti the eunpowder trade company and 98 per cent $300,000 controls of “the and 90 per cent in blasting powder currency on his person and failing to return has alarmed the friends of George W. Cappers, a prominent bus iness man of St. Charles, Ills., who ar rvied in this city on Friday after noon. It is thought that Cappers bad a large sum of money. It is believed by his friends that he has been foully dealt with and possibly his Lody may now be found floating in the bay. New Jersey Judge Suicides. Newark, N. J.—In the presence of a hundred persons, Judge David B. Howell of the first criminal court of this city, on Saturday twice shot him- self in the head in Branch Prook park, inflicting wounds from which he died in a hospital two hours later. Judge Howell was one of the most widely known Democrats of this city, and, although he was not a candidate for election, took an active part in the campaign. Sharp personal criticism was made of the judge because he had been divorced by his wife. Second Tragedy in Family. Powder Trust Controls Market. New Francisco.—Leaving in gold and his personal baggage at Than Face Jury- dose of a himself at The man dressed to ing it was San Rather | the Hotel Majestic Annex, departing from the hotel with a large sum of Life Peary’s Washington.—The supreme court of Los Angeles, Cal—Fred Dorr, the | effect to the New York.—A story stock broker of this city and other the United States has dismissed, for Arctic steam Peary’s er Command that cities, whose tangled financial affairs want of jurisdiction, the appeal of sr Roosevelt had collided with an ice have been under investigation for Herman Billik from the decision of erg before she reached Etah, recentStates some weeks, and who had been ar Judge Landis of the United Johnson, ly, and told by Henry rested in San Francisce recently on a circuit court for the northern district sailor on the Roosevelt, was denied charge of embezzlement, was arrest- of Illinois, denying the petition for a the Tariett, ed in this city Saturday on a charge| writ of habeas corpus in the case of ‘hursday by Robert re Johnson carpenter, noosevelt’s of embezzlement made by W. T. Killik, who is under sentence of death turned to New York several days Coatsworth of this city. He was later in Chicago on the charge of murderRoosevelt azo, having left the released on bonds in the sum of $10,- ine a number of persons. It is probHe declares 09: Coatsworth claims thai on june eble that Billik will not get another } Etah because of illness there was no basis wh ever for t therefore 24 last he placed $8,000 in Dorr’s of- stay of proceedings, and report of injuries sustained by the likely that the sentence of trial court fice which Dorr has embezzled. hoosevelt will soon be executed. Berlin—Another extension of the kaiser’s pet project for yermanAmerican intellectual alliance is announced. Beginning this year Harvard university binds itself for a) period of ten years to accept as guests of the university five advanced German students each year who shall Thow Yokohama.—The American battle ship fleet dropped anchor in the harbor at 9:30 o’clock Sunday morning. As the sixteenth battleship roundGreat Throng of Women Chant War | ed Honmou point and came through Songs as Result of Annexation of the entrance to the bay, they were Bosnia and Herzegovina by accompanied by the Japanese cruisAustria-Hungary. | ers Soya, Magami and Tatsuta, com- ladies. Hains Brothers Charged With snl by sands of Enthusiastic Brown Men When Battleships Arrive at Mortally Butte, Mont.—A special to the Miner from Ovando, Mont., says: During a fight with four Flathead Indians, which resulted while he was making an effort to place them under errest for violating the game laws, Deputy Game Warden B. Peyton was killed Monday afternoon near Holland prairie, in the Swan river county, sixty miles west of this place. Although Peyton was mortally wounded, he Schoolhouse in Path of Fiames is Swept from Earth, the Children Having Being Wounded. of commons Wednesday afternoon, but a larger dole of money than last year and the expediting of the naval ship building program were the only expedients proposed by Premier As quith in bis unfolding of the government’s plan to meet the_ situation The gravity of the case arising from the fact that hundreds of thousands are on the verge of starvation through lack of work was fully recognized by the premier, but he could not undertake, in the legislative field, to grap ple with the permanent causes there of until] the next session The government, he said, was pre pared to provide a fund of $1,500,000 to help the unemployed and the ad Trouble of Long Standing Over Fish ermen’s Rights Terminates in One Man Being Hanged, the Other Having Narrow Escape. Rankin discussion in After Death, Destruction, Horrible Suffering Caused by Fires Which Have London.—The very serious matter of the unemployed in England came Murderous Mob. Ensace Montana Officer, Who Kills Four Terrible Vengeance Wreaked Upon Captain Redskins Hundreds of Thousands of People on the Verge of Starvation Because of Lack cf Work. riders,” OE |S SLAN AMERICAN FLEET GREETED HARROWING TALES GAME WARDEN BY FLATHEAD INDIANS BY CHEERING. JAPANESE FAG FURESTS THe WAR FEVER Chicago.—Arnold Luetgert, brother of Adolph Luetgert, the Chicago sausage-maker, whose trial and convic~ tion for the murder of his wife was one of the most sensational in the criminal annals of the country, committed suicide in a spectacular manner at Elgin, Ill. His identity, how ever, was not discovered until the following day. Luetgert was visiting an amusement park, when, to attract the attention of the crowd. he fired three shots into the air. With everybody staring at him he then sent a i fourth bullet into his head . |