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Show J THE PEOPLE to 1TCST. Tlike not Trnow New Yofk, BOSKETS JAPk that a Ight that would result tn wholesale htitchetr; that assassination would "THE WHISKY KINGM UST BE lork It every dark hallway and alley. DETHRONED. Bell, the meanest coward who walks the varth can die a natural death; it fakes to face death for a nobis Mn of )rk It ! t'ttvor cause. a Iman believe New York would be Mianrr Action Thtt better off if tome of you gentlemen Tk Mitloi 4 Wurth lur were In heaven tonight. It might be lhtluc Kvon ho tht IMath. V pietty hard on heaven, but If you died X In the fight, it woufil wake the rest of Ob of the most iVniarkable ad- the countrv up io the fact that the dresses on the liquor question which question now fai ing it is whether we h been delivered In recedv year, shall suppress this Iniquity or be was that of Mr C N HowaVd, of bv It The potato crop may Kocbester, N Y. who was one of the survive the drv-rThis republic principal speakers at the great meet- .cannot live on and end me the " ing at Cooper I'nion. New York, the other day. He said, tu substance: If Qod ever gave a people a country that WOMAN TRAVELER. was worth fighting for, worth Imug 1 1.. Is Xbuut Prrtrfl for, worth dying for, he has given it 1 rlU Sqmi . to the people of the 1nlted States. It Afrlru. holds the key to the futuie Mbs Mary Kingsley, who has gained of the race. In the sense that Paris is International note bV her daring tours Fradce, America i9 to be the world. of exploration tn AfrlcA,-- , has written a King of commerce, king of science, book, end It contains mdu Interestking of civilization. I have faith in ing bits of Inhumation gathered by We some-timmy country. I have faith In the peo- this remarkable woman. writes M8 declare In ple. But 1 stand here to say, that if America Is to be king of anything, Klngaley, that we will go out 'Ho we must down the whisky king. He Africa to get away from the noise. But always owns the political party that Is that would be useless. Woe to the man la power. If we are Yd fill our In Afrit a who cannot stand perpetual mission as the civilizer uproar. Srn h things surprised me more Inof mankind, If we are to carry the than the rarity of silence, and-- th blessings of liberty and tensity of It when you did get it. There around the world, we have got is only that time which comes between to raise the standard of public life at 10:30 a. m. and 4 30 p. m. in which home We have got to reform out you can look for anything like the uscivil service from the bottom up and ual quiet of an English village. I fancy the main body of the lower classes of Africa think externally Inatead of internally. You will hear them waen they are engaged together on some Job, each mao issuing the fullest directions and prophecies concerning it in shouts, no one taking the least notice ofhls neighbors. If the head man 'really wanta them to do something difficult he fetches those within his reach an Introductory whack, and even when you are sitting alone In the forest you will hear a man or woman .coming down the narrow bush path chattering away with such energy and expression that you can hardly believe your eyea when you learn from them that the wayfarer has no companion.' No more curious custom is described by the woman traveler than that given below. C. N. HOWARD, In Benin, she writes, when a king from the top down. To fathom the dies his domestics solicit the honor of depths of political incapacity and de- being buried with him, but this is omy bauchery in the great cities of this accorded to a few of his great favorcountry, would require a sounding ites. These slaves are let down into line that would reach from Hoboken the grave alive after the corpse has to Helena, Mont. Public scandal la the been placed therein, graves of kings order of the day. Pick up your New and chiefs in West A trio being nice, York papers; what say those big types roomy apartments, generally about 12 at the head of the column on the front feet by g feet by 14 feet But in Benii page? 'Public Scandal! It used to the graves have a floor of about 1C feet be said that a man was rich in this by 12 feet, with sides tapering to an town if be owned his own home. Toaperture that can be closed by a sinday s man In New York who owns gle flagstone. On the morning followonly hi own home, must sell It to ing the interment this flagstone . was womb rich man who can afford to bay removed,' and the people down below the taxes on it, and mast move his asked, it they bad found the king. This family into a rear tenement or garret, question was put to them every sucwhere lack of sunlight, foul air and cessive morning until, no answer beout of the filth are making a pig-st- y It was concluded that the returned. ing American home. In New York and slaves had found their master. Meat Chicago the great corporations escape was then roasted on the gravestones taxation. The poor people must pay and distributed among the people, with all. Public scandal and political cor- a plentiful supply of drink. ruption are making it too expensive for the common people to live, and JIM BROWN, BIG MAN. the coffin trust Is making It a luxury to die. The water works scandal In This Is a picture of Jim Brown, Philadelphia has smitten that city nicknamed Jumbo, who was one of the with the plague of typhoid, that has heaviest violin players in the world. slain more people is tea weeks than He was born In Detroit, Mich., and died of the result of wounds in the when 32 years old, the time the photowar with Spain., The city hall in Chiwas taken, be weighed 492 graph cago was last winter the scene of a mob that threatened to lynch the aldermen who had been bought up like cattle by the street railroad lines of that city. But this I believe was a sham affair and the actors in it deserved hanging as much as the aider-meSo deep are the jungles of politics in great cities. Honest country people, you do not suspect; you cannot believe what ia going on. At 8t Louis, where I organised a prohibition union of Christian men last February, an excise commissioner locating saloons within the proscribed limits of places of worship and public schools, and accepting the petition of boys who owned bicycles as taxpay-er- s against the remonstrances of their parents, who owned the house. A police commissioner, who instructed bummers to Ignore the state law. requiring a license to well rum, so long at they patronised his brewery. Saloons operating the living picture machines, that would outrage the moral sense of perdition. JIM BROWN, The .devil Jbas fused the saloon, .and He wag-- ' widely known In pound. the brothel Into one colossal machine many part of the United States, and to attack the great centers of modern died in New York. civilization, and unless we can fuse THE - iw" Ksha"r U law-abidi- Cod-servi- organised iniquity with organized llghteousneas,. tbs situation is without hope. Nominate honest farmers for state and county offices. Let non of them city scalawags bear away the party name, be It Democrat or Republican. Today, the rum power owns this Imperial city In the sense that hen ownn an egg before it gets into the nest The situation In this city. Its depth of depravity, its open disregard for law, and the indifference of Ua cltisens, are positively alarming U doe not concern New York only, it concerns the whole nation. Not only do bad men administer Its affairs, but it would seem that the more incompetent and unscrupulous a man la, the larger support he commands. Now is the time for the people to pause preparatory to radical action. Better hang trust magnates to lamp posts, better let loose the roaring lion of outraged honor than to let corruption continue. to you say it is impracticable and m possible to dean out the whole Iniquitous system? Nothing is Impossible that Is right; nothing that 1 light Is impracticable. OS, you ray, Salttoat Water tn the Wort 4. The saltiest water in the world, apart from the brine of the salt mines, according to recent investigation, la the Lake f Uruml. in Persia, situated more than four thousand feet above the sea level. It is much saltier than the Dead See, the water having bRea found on analysis to contain nearly 22 per cent of salt, as against 8.5 per cent, according to Mulhall. in the water of the Dead Sen. Lake Urumia ia eighty-fou- r miles long, twenty-fou- r miles broad and Its northern const is encrusted with a border of aait glittering white In the sun. No living thing, except n very small species of jelly fish, can survive in it The three saltiest pieces of surface water in the world are Lake Urumia, the Deed Sea gnd the Great Salt Lake of Utah. - 1 Where the Kxpeeee these Is. Young Mr. Blisa (Just married) Im going to start housekeeping and you can give me a hint or two, cant yout I suppose the biggest item of expense will be the bouse rent, eh? Mr. Childers For the first few years, yea. Bliss And then? Childers Boot and shoes. Tit-Bit- s. U. X.u,r nMr. tarv. 'bvt. klock w When tne new treaties g0 jU,0 e(tpol next July opening th whoie of Japan 111 to trade with foreigners the bring about sweeping UUJ rai.al changes in the life of the people uo have been called the Yankee ,,r Yoik InUmie. east, says the l ports now permitted Except in the to trade with foreign nation-- , Yok-- ohama. Kobc,.. tr Mfoi, Osaka. a?. Hakodate auu Niigata-a- mi in thirteen other lees Import am ones, where foreign common allowed under severe restrictions, the empire of Japan is at present closed to ou iders so far as traffic with them k Practically the whole of the interior is debarred from buMiiexx intercourse WUh people of other ltd turns, and the result of this ibt of rout-- , a total unfamiliarity on 'the part of the tnajority of Japenc1 with the trade customs of the rest of the world to be Now that the whole countr gasakl, -- d. dlvtne-ly-appolnt- ed the patriotic, cltisens of the country and meet b for or es ot ,. lP,,'V"--Ntl- WAS ' nlckel-ln-the-sl- NEW TREATIES OPENING THE WHOLE COUNTRY. Caarta? f ot n. NEW ANIMAL. ZW -, however, there is a sudden curiosity , and eagerness on the part onto inhabitants to know how these strangers propose to carry on their commercial relations, and while it will be neeetWry, naturally, for foreigners to conform in some measure to Japanese ways, Itls more necessary throwkopen, still that the Japanes be instructed in the more practical kqd less ceremonious business methods' Nand manand Americans. ners of European For this purpose treaty operation committees are being formed In all parts of the empire to explain to the Japanese merchants and the people gener-ally the most important points ot difference between their own and foreign ideas. For the guidance of the foreigners translations of the more oom-mJapanese laws are also being prepared. Many a tourist In former years would have been grateful for this piece of work if It had been performed sooner, for It would have kept him from various unintentional offenses against Japanese ideas of correct behavior. Above nil things, the subjects of the mikado are a polite people, polite with a patience and persistence which know no limit, and the best efforts of a foreigner to equal them cannot fall to seem almost like rudeness in comparison. No European and certainly no American could bow, for example, as does the Japanese gentleman who meets a business friend in the street His inclination is a veritable eastern salaAttt, slid It 4 16 Je feared that he will staYe with en tie 'reproach at the .jerky ilttto nod which hie hurrying foreign acquaintance 1 likely to give him In return. "HI ceremonious Inhonorable quiries regarding the health of the exalted Mend and hi Illustrious family sr ofton destined, dispoeed of all It Is to be feared, to notions of too brledy for Jap such things. The Idee of haste and of business pure and simP'e, shorn of social ceremonies, will come as a barbarism to the native mind, but It Is bound to be manifested wherever the foreigners obtain a considerable foothold In trade. Many of the Japanese cities, too, will probably see striking changes tn their appearance after the foreign traders have become well established In them. At present most of the towns of the empire are still like wildernesses of fltmay little buildings, scarcely better than wooden sheds picturesque, it is true, hot frail. The business portion is small and corn pact in one place, but even here there is hardly anything to distinguish It from the rest of the city. There are no big warehouses, no busy factories with their whirling machinery, no heavy traffic in the streets, no hustle, no noise. Even In Tokyo this state of affairs is to be found. There are some horse cars, which charge the modest sum of 1 sen (half a cent) a ride, and there Is one electric street railway. Other electric lines are either in process of building or in contemplation, N on j hut there Is much oppositkE'jothem y, among the Japanese. Our cities are very pretty," said a Americanized Japanese hi this city the other day, "and the people In them think the ears a dls- flgurement,. 1 caat help .sympathizing with that feeling to corns extent. Of course, the electric car would be great convenience in many ways, but they" do seem out of harmony with ths Japanese surroundings, gnd, reslly, tb jlurlkishaj Which everybody uses foreigners as much as any one else Is not at all a bed vehicle. It Is comfortable, and the coolies who carry It The Jlnrlklshss are quick runaera. also have th advantage of being being 19 sen cheap, the nsusl charge two-mi(5 cento) , for trip. One may, also hit them for different length of tlm. t the rate of 10 sen tn haur, 75 sen (374 cento) a day, or week. 5 yen (82.50) well-educat- le Wide Tara XHr Malta, BASE BALL TOPICS aaa Is la Waatk Saaftra Natives of the Interior of Brazil have been exciting naturalists for years with accounts of a ertaln wonderful animal, which, from their description, had never jet been seen by civilised man. Dr Florentlno Ameghlno, an Italian naturalist, who has been on the continent pursuing researches foi a leng.h of time, at last determined to penetrate to the regions In which the bejud was said to have been found and see If There was anything in It. Ramon Lhrta, a Chilean since had told the scientist of an enan &nimHl something of counter He had come the order described acrou it In the dark, and. although he fired point-blan- k at It from a point leas "than file yards, lil ballet made no apparent Impression. Armed wttli these particulars Dr. Ameghlno set out some time last winter, and, after traveling hundreds of mile Into the heart of Brazil, at last came upon the object of tatf starch He sew the animal ttree difteieut night before bringing It down. The repeated manner In whith his -- hot- t id not ell convince I him that llie reports of the natives as to th liopeaetrablHty of the sni- Dial's akin must havetbeen correct, s belief In which, aflek securing the beast by s shot In the eye, and then finding that the hide could not be penetrated by a hatchet, he was move than confirmed. The Naomylodon Listol, named by the doctor, partly In honor of the Ramon I.Istal who first saw It, and partly from Its characteristics, resemble more nearly than any other animal the short-taile- d pangolin or scaly ant eater. It is larger than the paugolin, being some six feet In length. The skin i more than an inch thick, and so tough that no weapofi at the disposal of the scientist sufficed to cut it. Its surface ahowa an epider-mi- s, not scaly, but covered with coarse, reddish-gra- y hair an Inch and a half long, the ossicles being burisd In th skin like paving stones in ths street. The oesicles resemble those of the fotoil Mylodon, though smaller. The pangolin, if its traits may be assigned to H)ls new beast, ia mors a lizard than avpiammal. They have no weapon of defense against man or ths larger animals, qd are so far as Is known perfectly harmless. The skin of tho pangolin has often been known to turn n musket ball. Its habits are nocturnal, and it shows great, timidity In the presence of man. DrAAmeghlno state his intention of securing specimens alive for the old world zoologi' cal gardens. AN OLD FRAUD. Mow Hli rrttif IlmofrRphvr Wont 0i to LBrb. The framing of half the criticism in the world i dependant upon thft way one looks at thing, any the New York Commercial Advertiser, Theret" the'cynfc,' In triumph, polatinff cross th restaurant with a lea finger, '2 told you the old mans piety was fraudulent .Just look at him bringing his stenographer here to hmebt The stenographer pert of the charge was true and. So make It mors dreadful, she was provoklngly pretty. The old men merchant of years tad repute looked oh, sorrow, to tell It!) quite ed unashamed. He threw aside the bill of fare, gave a hurried order to the walt-- r and a nod to the fair stenographer. The letter promptly produced a book and began taking notes at his dictation. The cynic fairly hugged himself. Oh, he whispered, whet a bluff! Pretending hes bringing her here to work. Boys, isn't it The boys agreed Ibat it was. The elderly merchant dictated swiftly and aide-splittin- g? the pretty stenographers pencil flew over the paper, in twelve minutes the waiter appeared bearing dainty dishes end the elderly merchant dismissed the pretty stenographer end proceeded to enjoy his luncheon, leisurely and alone. The beast? sighed the cynic softly, to send as sweet n maid as that And the boys agreed away hungry. to that, too. tUqf'i Jokes cm Halford. 3. Whitcomb Riley did his first literary work. In the early seventies, for the Indianapolis Journal, under an assumed name. The first pay he ever received for a poem was a suit of clothes from the late George Harding, of the Indianapolis Herald. About 1876 Riley east and was welcomed by Went Holmes, Whittier and Longfellow. The New England newspapers made much of his visit, and when hd returned he was ahero.'rcan remember said an old Journal man tbe other day, when Riley, with his smooth, boyish face, slender figure, clad in sacerdotal garb,' used to come around the office end sit on my desk and dash off bos-severses in that same copper-platmicroscopic handwriting that he use I4ge Halford, now n major in today. tbe United States army and President Harrison's private secretary, was the editor, and It used to be Riley's chief delight to submit some of his most meaningless jingles to Halford for ths editorial psge. The major, who never had tbe slightest sense of humor, spent many a weary hour trying to comprehend them. 'Youd better draw a diet gram to go with this, be would say. Then a shout of laughter from theboys would show him that there was a joke loose somewhere, and he would retire Into hie office to avoid 1L ns e, - Wrong Truck. Os "Always think More you speak," murmured th loquacious Filipino ho was being Intrusted philosopher, with a flag ol truce. You want to forget about that proverb while you am attending to this business " gald th KUitankl la Brv kb Jo1 lrm sy 'wa surrender general. The life of an editor in Servla is as qilickly a Tou aar If you stop to think theyll 8 os another whipping not a delightful one. within thrlast two years a weekly paper has had Washington Star, In the interim sixteen editors, 'Fifteen of them ere Twenty f Jara ago Franea was In jail for too keenly commenting many soldiers In th upon government affairs, and ths sixable to put Germany. as Today It tails short teenth has Just been bustled off to geld Join them for the same offense. by about 1.000,000 men. -- CURRENT NEWS AND NOTES OF THE OAME. V Cl remit Fixer StUI Harping M tt Tkelr 1 SskprC Itin Tl- Clrralt Banda? KmwA 4slfl Ulhlk Fa-or- li-l'k- kaii't J Will B No Louisville sensationalist recently revived the story That the Cleveland and Washington clubs would be dropped by the league and the circuit cut down to ten clubs. The story bad no other foundation than the idle gossip Of players. Induced by the recent Cleveland postponement of some games owing to the death of Mr. Robison's daughter, and the further dispose! of players by the Washington club. Th magnates at large take no stock whatever in reports of circuit reduction end they ought to know what Is going on if anybody does, Messrs. Hart and Some j A Boetow Thw From Boston Globe: This year It th the champion Boston against field, with the chances about even. Brooklyn, SL Louie and Chicago wilt work with a hope of seeing Boston go against hard luck, for In Ito present condition not a dub In th league ha AffridhsiiSZcEanceZof -- beating JJ-- too. The three teams above mentioned, eg well as Cincinnati, will "turn tricks that Beaton will refuse to consider. Inside base hall will find willing students among th cluba of Brooklyn. 8L Louis end Cincinnati,- - and in Jinn ion, Ewing and Tebeau the three above flubs manager -- who .will, plan campaigns that . Manager, Sale would refuse to allow his Boston tenon to pass through. Tb Boston cham- -i ions this season have no ideal to follow. ,By all odd they: eooaiitut the finest team ever organized. With perfect harmony and a string ot players as easy to handle aa a college team, nothing but, flean, straightway bail need be looked fOr, will-hav- . e all-rou- Brush, In fart, ksve taken the pains to again emphatically deny rumors that really need no contradiction. Mr. Brush ' I he Cleveland nd said pointedly Washington clubs arc la the league partnership until the end of the season of 190L and to the best ot my knowledge they will remain until that time. It Is certain that both team U that is will play out the season. not enough for the doubting Thom-aee- s we may add that everybody connected with the Cleveland club is emphatic In the declaration that that club will play out the season no matter how much it may lose; while the Brooklyn-Baltimor- e people make the came assertion enent the Baltimore eluh. As foe Washington, the owners of that club must hang on, willy nilly, JOSEPH H. KELLET. pending the coming reorganization, or Tbe Famous Outflolder and Captain lose all as they are not likely to find the Brooklyn Club. a purchaser for the eluh in view ot the "of the the fate uncertainty regarding A Good Ttp foe Tseng Flayer. twelve-clu- b league Itself, to say noth-ln- g Young players will Uo well to follow of the future atatue In base bell ot as close as possible ths style of living the dty of Washington. pursued by a player who has been over twenty years In th spangles and Ig A RivIim Riiwds still tb king In his position. McPh Chicago is surely tbe banner Sunday second baseman of ths Cincinnati team town of the world, mink of nearly ball on practically aa empty plays of 11,900 persons witnessing a game On days that I take part no extraordinary importance a Sun- stomach. tn a gams I eat very little at ths noon day gam between Chicago and Clncltt' meal, said McPhea yesterday day natL This bone fid attendance breaks tes or toast, ot something squab th record, la addition to tb turn Some as light Is enough for me until aftef stile admission of 27.489, about 7,000 ly th game, I found long ago that yofi people were turned away, as there was cannot expect to do good work on a full no possible room for them, besides the tickets ran out, no such crush having stomach. been anticipated. A Aanarfcahte Flay. Bo greet was th crash et th gates On dsy in IMS, Bill Joyce, who wsS -men were the away-hthat swept then with Washington, stood poised on pressure of the crowd bhlnd them first from the ticket windows after they had waa baas, while Tacks Parrot, who playing center for SL Louis, handed In their money bnt before they eonld grab their ticket ot admission. chased a fly la deep field, relates Joha -Hundred! of meu and boy moueted B. 8hrldan. , Tacks had a habit of oH hie eetchaa wlth a run et -th feuqennd formed a complete black touching tea or fifteen yards, just to show how ot fringe around the grounds.' In view .the unprecedented attendance one can hard they were. , Bill , wa acquainted not help wondering what would hap- with thht 'weakness, and th mlnul pen should Ihe Chlcsgo team happen the ball bit Parrotts mitt he was off. When he struck second Parrott was . to be first or second ia a neck and till running with his back to the Inneck race at tbe finish and th con dndlng series with tb nearest club be field. Bill kept on, shot past third played at home? Thtjik also of the and came straight home. When tho money thrown away before th Hart lnflelders saw him go for third they and that wild yelled to Tacks, regime by the Chicago club's persistent refusal for elxteen yeah to play worth sent la ths ball, hut Bill had th piste a mil I think thla la tha Sunday games at home or abrokd! only case la which a ruaaer scored from first on a field out on which no Tka HHatwy Oatflaldar. Clarence Beaumont, who has been error was made. drafted by Pittsburg from Milwaukee, - OIsimM Gllata. Is on of the few players who have is for work one better Casey at bound doing from their first Jnmped minor league engagement into th Na- Brooklyn then be did for Washington. tional league He joined the Milwau- Thst'snaturI, however, considering kee team on Aug. of last year. From that arrester teem Is carrying him that date to the close of th season along wlthIt he played In 24 gamee and finished Clark Griffith has been trying hard with n betting average of .254, lead- to have that $25 flna for ' ing the Milwaukee team In that re- removal from gams rescinded, bnt spect, while his fielding record was President Hart, as a matter of disci.907. In ths brief period he played tn pline, refuse to relent th Western league, however, he deepManager Hanlon thinks there are too ly impressed all the magnates and many New England men on th league critic by bis ability add was hailed staff, Hs hi Inclined to consider that on all aide as a rising outfielder, his handicap on other lesguh clubs la batting, besernnnlng and speed in tbe favor of Boston. outfield making him particularly vsiu- At Louisville those patron who insult the local players knoclers President Drey fues cells them are to 1 be regularly ejected from th grounds Mr. by order of Dreyfus.' Manager Irwin has rearranged his Senatorial team. Slagle goes to short field, Cassidy to third bane, Mercer to left field, Gettman to center field and OBrien to the bench. How times have changed. - There la not today in ths National league a player who cau not write hU name... whereas years ago X signatures to contracts were plentlful. That whitewash of Baltimore on April & was pitcher Dunns first shutout since he broke Into the league. To date Dunn has proved Brooklyn winning pitcher. CLARENCE BEAUMONT, Bess moot, of the Pittsburg team,- able. Out of 96 times at bat he cracked but 21 singles, six two since his short residence In the Smoky become a great toby smoker. triples, five home runs and two sac- City has rifice hits. He was the fastest man on He never saw them before he stgfked th team going to first base, and his with Manager Watkins. bases tcellng record was equal to that Tommy Dowd is credited with beof Daly and Waldron, and he also pos- ing the possessor of $30,000 In cold sessed a staunch wing, throwing the cash'.'"In4jie tanguaxe of a New Tork ball swiftly and aernrately from deep paper as applied- - to famous polUi- field to the piste or bases. Beaumont clan: "Inhere did he get R?" native of 'Rochester, Wls., and he ' The coat of Detroit players will Is attracted the attention of Connie Mack wear this year In place of the hfopae last year, when he ,wm catching th usually worn are made of bright r&4. delivery of Adkins on - the Weupun flannel with black collar, pocket laps team. His terrific batting and speed and cuffs. They are cut like the reg-marked him Sy a phenomenal ball ulation box coat, double breast and player, and acting under Mack's advice have great black buttons. ,In length d sod began to he doffed tbe wind are a little longer than the usual play the outfield, a position In which they box coat and will make the eyes of the he exhibited marked ability. He also fane bulge about a foot the first time -second here at times et last played tha players com marching up from the spring, while attending Beloit College, but most of his work was dons In left eluh house with these coats on. Elber-- . 1 garden. During tbs summer he re- feld says that tn red coats 1 team Elber-fel- d wlH kinds of hava luck all and and th Weapons played with joined is a professor oa signs and superthe Prisos City teem until August, stitions. Detroit Journal. when bs Joined the Milwaukee team. V -- -- clqb-lnfllct- A two-bagge- T V t. |