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Marden's 'lft Talks B;ORISON SWETT MARDEN. w q > ClaNe wspaper l) ydicte TIME TO MAKE FRIENDS" Y ag ago Mr. Mellen, the for g, ,Issldent of the New Haven sad most bitterly talked safiro d man of his time. said: --- I ght if a man knew his busi oad worked at It hard and pro the best product he could with materials available, that was But apparently it was not." s enough until a storm breaks," o newspaper man to whom Mr. was talking. .ight I was strong enough to any storm," he answered. should a man do to prepare as kind of storin that hit me?" i might have made more friends of the line of business-friends the public." og* I hadn't the time. I was too . I have had six weeks' vacation , di years. How could I And the bs -t meet your newspaper report s sand cultivate the good will of .dters I egaged a man to do that work, Well, we shall see. I may avo a lttle more time now to make uisd4." fter all, what does that thing Vhae we call success amount to if V hve sacrificed our friendships, if Shave sacrificed the most sacred Igs In life in getting it? pia of the most beautiful things e: a ever be said of a human be It that he has a host of friends. .he Lincoln's friends were pro him for the presidency he was and comparatively unknown people said: "Why, Lincoln has 15A men back of him; he has no pull, no money, not much of excepting a lot of Mriends." is tree, but what friends they f They made his presidency poe he has friends worth while who to pay the price for making epling them. He may not have Ms large a fortune as if he gave his time to business and money. But wouldn't you rather have good, stanch friends who believe and who would stand by you in wsgrest adversity than have a lit 8fo money? What will enrich the as much as hosts of good, loyal 'of us attend to everything else Sid it we have any little scraps left we give them to our when we ought to make a at our friendships. Are they of ri ends is a perpetual Bow it nerves and encour i do our best when we feel of mriends really believe a great deal to have en Wmeads always looking out AMri working for us all h.,lng a good word for as - pportunity, supporting us, irt us in our absence when a friend, stopping slanders, ear sensitive, weak spots, ies which would injure us, false impressions, trying lm right. overcoming the preju ,emsted by some mistake or slip a ant had Impression we made, mo always doing something to t a lift or help us along! leson why so many people are ted with what life has for Is because they have never cul the capacity for thendshilp. is no on4ided affair, but eachange of soul qualities. There he no trimdshkilp without reci ty. Many puple are not capable rmiung pgeat friendships, because • do not have the qualities them relves which attmnet noble qualities in othmers. If you ane crammed with dspcable quls, you cannot expect My as to erN fbr you. If you are •uneheztab n rantlt. If you lack rosty, eordiality; if you are nar. w aid bigoted, Uaympathetic, you expect that generous, large nobl charoters will fock INDIVIDUAL IN YOUR CHILD I wu lIttle girl." a friend eoame told me, "'I was always whe company came to the My mother would change so. -Mdd be cheerful and kind to and would stop scolding and me. Sometimes I used to I meld Just be company all the would have been so kind always then." fang could we hold the conS- I afeetlon of our friends if I them as many of us treat 1 ? Most fathers and do not seem to realize that , which attract children to whlich secure their conit the aame qualities which r' frieads and the good -Le people with whom they A lather might as well abuse a friled every lit- I LU then expect him to re- i love him as to poud and I and expect to gala his use he belongs to him. E to seem to think that own children are do them for their food, e r and education, that d respect, gratitude and 1 of how they are i smense of relationship has I the Problem. U years the newspapers t] with various discus- n high cost of living, but g a man in this com- a the nearest solution of He has three cows him with butter and and in addition to tl three calvee and the milk, while the to *ly and keepls the y His ditch banLks trees that mak nothing whatever to do with a child's feelings towards his father. It is lust as impossible to compel the respect of one's child as it is to compel some oth er person to love us. You must earn his respect, just as you would earn the respect of a friend. It costs you some thing to keep the good will and friend ship of your children. The greatest hold the parent has upon the child is its companionship. How often we hear fathers and moth ers say that they no longer have any control over their son; that he has passed beyond their reach, and they do not know what to do with ' him. Now, my parent friends, hare n you ever tried to make a companion of your boy; tried to make him feel that you were his best friend, by - sympathizing with him in his little > troubles and trials? Do you take an h interest in his hopes and ambitions? ,s Have you tried to encourage him when he was down-hearted, had made , a serious mistake. Have you sym r. pathized with him in his struggles for self-control? Any business man o would be horrified at the suggestion that he was ruining his son by e neglect, that his absorption in busi ness would result in the undoing of his own son. But if you have been " in the habit of driving him away ' from you because you did not want to be bothered every time he asked a 0 question or came to you with his n little heartaches for your sympathy e and your help, you cannot expect to t- have much influence over him. One if of the bitterest things in many a Lt business man's life has been the dis y covery, after he had made his money, a that he had lost his hold upon his boy, and he would give a large part g of his fortune to recover his loss. If Every father should think of the If child as a sacred trust, bringing into d the world with him a sealed mes sage, which he is bound to deliver like a man and a hero, and that this . sealed message within him is sacred. It may not be even for the father to read; but it is each father's duty to a help his boy to live up to it. It is comparatively easy for you to gain your boy's confidence, if you o begin early enough. From infancy, he should grow up to feel that no one else can take your place, that you stand in a peculiar relation to F him, which no one else can fill. Every boy is going to have a confidant, some one to whom he can tell his secrets and whisper his hopes and ambitions, which he would not breathe to others, and this some one should be his fa ther. e " Are Foxes Vegetarians? Foxes are not generally accredited with vegetarian instincts. You never see their tracks, as you see those of the rabbits, around a young oak-tree shoot which has been nibbled down to " the tough stem. But Esop evidently " thought otherwise when he wrote his r fable of the sour grapes, and there is " plenty of testimony that Esop was right. Foxes do eat wild grapes, as many observers have testified, climb ing a considerable way to get them; and probably at times they eat berries and perhaps apples. I have found " their tracks, at any rate, beneath apple-trees. I have also been confl dently assured that they eat the per t simmons in Virginia; that the "ol' I houn' dawgs" know how good this 5 fruit is, too, and if you wish to find the very best tree, take a "dawg" with you.-Walter Prichard Eaton, in Harper's Magazine. I Bank Notes of Silk. Bank notes made of silk of a par ticular shade that will balme the bank note forger are now possible. As is known, most of the expert banknote forgers use photography to obtain their best results; but a recent inven tion makes it possible to manufacture silk of a particular shade that can not possibly be photographed. Discovered by a woman, this intve lon is a new process of waterproofng abrice without rubber and dyeing them in the same operation. Uinen, cotton or other materials to be treat ed by this process are placed white into one end of the machine and brought out at the other end a few minutes later colored, waterproofed. and dry. Fabrics so produced, the in ventor maintains, can be used in hun dreds of trades, from aeroplane build ing to banknote making. Old Maid's Opinion of Boys. In the Woman's Home Companiom. Zona Gale, writing a story of an old r aid who suddenly found herself farce tlface with the responsibility of tak* Ink care of a small boy, presents the old maid uas making the following ob servation: "'Though I love the human race and admire to see it took care of, I couldn't sense my way clear to taking a boy into my house. Boys belong to the human race, to be sure, Just as whirling egg beaters belong to ome lets; but much as I set store by ome lets, I couldn't invite a whirling egg beater into my home permanent. "'And I don't ever rent to 'em. They ain't got enough silence to 'em." A Long Husah. The new pcntliff, if in stature he matches the shortest monarch in the present world, his contemporary in Rome, has at any rate a longer name, in Italian, than any of his predecee sors for many a day. It is almost un manageably long for acclamation "Vivi Pio Decimo." used to go off like artillery, and "V'iva Plo Nono" was eoven a sharper shot. But "Viva Bene detto Decimoqdtnto" does not, it must be confessed, linger and rumble. It is longer than the shout for Leonse Decimoters." money, instead of grass and burrs that make work. Of course, every man cannot do this, but there are a good many farms about here that are adapted to these methods. A Permisible Pun, "What's going on in hers?" asked the reporter. "A meeting of the board ol dire- * tors," said the doorkeper, witht a yawn, "And what are yoes" "I'm the bores" JAPANESE CELEBRATE THE TSING TAO VICTORY There was great rejoicing throughout supan when the news of the fall of Tsing Tao was received. The photograph shows a lantern procession in Tokyo, and incidentally gives a good idea of the strange mixtur ad costumes to be seen in any Japanese city. WAR AS A BUSINESS Impressions of Visitor to German Great Headquarters. Campaign Conducted With the Ef ciency of a Great American Co. poration-New Steel Hospital Trains Perfectly Appointed. London.-A newspaper correspond ent writing from Luxembours says: I have Just returned from the Ger man great headquarters in Prance, the visit terminating abruptly on the fourth day, when one of the kaiser's secret field police woke me up at ser en o'clock in the morning and regret fully said that his instructions were to see that I 'did not oversleep' the first train out. The return Journey along one of the German main lines of communication - through Eastern France, across a corner of Belgium, and through Luxembourg-was full of interest, and confirmed the impression gathered at the center of things, the great headquarters, that this twentieth century warfare Is in the last analysis a gigantic business proposition which the board of directors (the great gen eral staff) and the 36 department heads are conducting with the em clency of a great American business corporation. The west-bound track Is a continu ous procession of freight trains fresh consignments of raw material, men and ammunition, being rushed to the firing line to be ground out into victories. Our fast train stops at the mouth of a tunnel, then crawls ahead charity, for the French, before retreating, dy aamited the tunnel One track has been cleared, but the going is still bad. To keep it from being blocked again by falling debris, the Germans have dug clean through the top of the hill, opening up a deep well of light into the tunnel. Looking up, you see a pioneer company in once cream-col ored, now dirty-colored, fatigue uni forms still digging away and terracing the sides of the big hole to prevent slides. Half an hour later we go slow again in crossing a new wooden bridge MRS. WHITMAN AND DAUGHTER This is a specially posed pbotograph of the wife and danughter of Gev.lect Charles 8. Whitman of New York Mrs. Whitman was formerly Miss Ol ive Hitchcock. 8he was married to Mr. Whitman in 1908. Little Olive Is their only chldi RICHES FOR WORKING WOMAN Prepective Helires Premises to "Set 'Em Up" If She Gets $1,500,000. vannah, OGa-Mrs. Mary 'White, a repair woman employed in a dry goods store here, may be oebeir with her dtr i Atlanta, GO., to a estate said to moeest to SL000.O. This became .ews whien the womesu n-ia her eislea in the deartmet store I over the Meuse-only one track um yet. It took the German pioneer nearly a week to build the substitute for the old steel railway bridge, dyne mited by the French, whose four span_ lie buckled up In the river. Further on a variety of Interest is furnished by a squad of French pris oners being marched along the road Then a spot of anthill-like activitt where a German railway compan3i i at work building a new branch lite, hundreds of them having pickaxes and making the' dirt fly. It looks like home-all except the inevitable of. cer (distinguished by revolver and fleldglass) shouting commands. The intense activity of the Germans In rebuilding the torn-up railroads and pushing ahead new strategic lines It one of the most Interesting features of a tour now in France. I was told that they had pushed the railroad work so far that they were able to ship men and ammunition almost up to the for tifled trenches. The Germaniszation of the railroads here has been cothpleted by the importation of station superia tendents, station hands, track-walkers, etc., from the Fatherland. Now we creep past a long hospital train, full this time, which has turned out on a siding to give us the right of way-perhaps thirty all-steel cars, each fitted with two tiers of berths, eight to a side, 16 to a car. Every berth is taken. One car is fitted up as an operating room, but fortunately no one is on the operating table as we crawl past. Another ear is the private office of the surgeon in charge of the train. He is sitting at a big desk re ceiving reports from the orderlies. During the day we pass six of these splendidlyappointed new all-steel hos pital trains, all full of wounded. Some COOKS RE Many Decorated With Iron Cros by the Kaiser. Carry Food to the Trenches While Enemy Rains Bullets on Them, but They Never Fail in Their Duties. By HERBERT COREY. London.-There Isn't anything he role about a cook One simply can not imagine a cook in a soiled apron and a mussed white cap doing a deed of valor. But the German army is full of cooks upon whose breasts dan gles the iron cross. And the rop ores is conferred for one thing only-for 100 per cent courage. "They've earned it," said the man whp had seen them. "They are the bravest men in the kaiser's 4,000,000. I're seen generals salute greasy, paunchy, sour-looking army cooks." The cook's Job is to feed the men of his company. Each German com pany is followed or preceded by a ield kitchen on wheels. Sometimes the fires are kept going while the de vice trundles along. The cook stands on the footboard and thumps his bread. He is always the first man up in the morning, and the last to sleep at night. He is held to the strctest accoatability. The Teuton believes in plenty of food. A well-fed soldier will fight. A hungry one may not, "When the company gets into camp at night," said the man who knows, "the cook is there before it, swearlng at his fires and the second cook and turning out quantities of veal stew, which is very good to eat" When the company goes into the trenches the coos stays behind. There is no place for a field kitchen in a four-foot trench. But those men in the trench must be fed. The Teuton insists that all soldiers must be fed but especially the men in the trench. The others may go hungry, but these must have tight belts. Upon their staying power many depend the safety of an army. where she had been eaning a comfort able Itving for some years, to prose ute her claim. The estate is md to have been left by Washlait Ware. formerly of athens, who died some moaths ago i Knoxville, Tenm. Aceording to infor mation which Mrs. White. who is a widow, has received, it was turned aver to ua admiistrator in the a sDnce at the time o knowledge of any rlyin elatve the deceased. Mrs. Whlte was Informed that bse med her slete hs wee marrien d in STYLE SHOW FOR RED CROSS I I Mrs. Christian D. Hemmlek, soiety woman and artist of Washington sad Paris, was one of the patronesses of the style show reoently held In Wash ington for the benefit of the Red Cross. She Is here shown standing beside one of the exhibits at the show. --------,------ --------- of them are able to sit up In their bunks and take a mild Interest In us. Once, by a queer colncidence, we si multaneously pass the wounded going one way and cherng fresh troops go ing the other. AL HEROES So, as the company eannot go to the cook, the cook goe to the com pany. When meal hour comes be pets a yoke on his shoulders and puts a bucketful of that veal stew on either end of the yoke and goes to his men. Maybe the trench Is under fir Be ing a trench. It most probably is. No matter. His men are In that trench and-potstausend-they must be tfed. Sometimes the Mseond cook sets his step right there. Sometimes the apprentice cook-the dishwasher, the grub murderer, the university gradu ate who has Just learned what to ex pect when Fahrenheit is applied to spuds-Is summoned from his Job of rustling firewood to pick up the ska yoke and refill the spilled kets and tramp stesdl~ forward to th line. Sometimes the supply of assistant cooks, even, runs short. But the men in the trenches always get their food. "That's why so may cooks In the Ges man army have Iron crosses ddngln from their breasts" said the man who knows. "No braver men ever lived. The hero of the German campaign is the cook of the feld kitchen." The man who knows really does know. He has been along the Gese man battle line, under protection of a headquarters pass. It 11 this man's belief, based on what he has heard, that the eommi sarat of the aLlies has from time to tul broken down, but that of the Germans never has. WATCH IS OF BIBLICAL AGE Has Marked the Paessan of Sh12i$ Heours and Is Three-Sere and Ten. - Sheridan, Wyo.-Arnold Tchirl, the county surveyor, has a watch that has marked the passing of 1TUIS7 hours. It has been ticklng away fr 70 yaurs and is still a good timekeeper. The watch is key-wtd. It is au pea face gold casM. The dial is beetnit.l ornameted tIn fgured gold. The ary- tal is made of heavy oemv glass. Tihe watch formerly beloned to Mr. Tchle. ge's tther. brothers, are the only heirs that could be Ioeted. Th are asd to be nIuees of the millionar Mrs. White's eer, semed White, who lives tin Oklbahomsa, came to Se vanash to Massist herw a establhInS her claim. From here he weant to Athens and retained an attore. In a letter to his moths he say he be lieves that she ad i ae unt will s come into possessin at the esoat. "Wouldnat tt be seed." sau Ml . White; "I'd 'st 'em. up' to aD my telY s" STILL WITH THEN By GEORGE BURROUGHS. H ny-- ------- ----U---~------ Hery Nobble, senior partner f tdu firm of Nobble & Black, brought h fist down upon the mahogany tabl with a crash of self-emphasis whct showed plainly enough that he was nl. a married man. Black, Miss Gregory has got to g10" he declaimed. Andrew Black looked up at his part nor with a melancholy smile "I know she has. Noble, but whbo' going to do the trick?" he asked. "I tried It last Christmas, and all she got was a raise of salary," said Black. "You try." "But I can't think of any ezoe" protested Nobble. "I can't pretend that we're getting into deep water, be cause she knows more about the firm's finances that we do. And, anyway, after 1 years' service we couldn't nre her without a real reason." "Then let her stay." said Black with slgnatlon. "But she's so abominably officious Black," protested Nobble "She's so strong-minded that she's got to the point where she rans the whole shop. She won't let me do sanythin I want to do. Of course. I admit she is a w- an of sound Judgmeatr-in fact, a trea am, but--" "But this is our business, Nobble, and not Miss Gregory's, and we want the fun of managing it ourselves," said Mr. Black. "Welt I'll tackle her again." "Get her out," said Nobble. "I don't care how you do It. And, whe she's gone, no more strong-minded women in our employment." Miss Ada Gregory would have been surprised and distressed beyond mess' are could she have heard this conve satioa between her employers. Miss Gregory might have been qprg minded, but she was eartainly pretty. She had eatered the firm 1 years he 0 Getting-Es- rie, Miss Grog fore as a cash girl, with the determlna tion to become a eontsrelliasg assee in It before she reache4 middle age. A her life was bound up with Neb ble & Black. She became first stew grapber. thea private secretarr to Nob lis and Blapk suec~slvely, the so sistant massnager. lrom that pet she was nominally promoted to busiesss director, being rally sh ted ito -a slneeur. lI vain. MKi Gregory ro fusemd to sta put, ad ereated a new departmet of more Imprtance than arn other. Tis was an oeelest thlg for the irm, but Miss Gregory acted as fr she was the irm. "iShe wm t et au have a ru for our moeey," was the way Nebble pthetically pt it. "Mr Blaek would iuk to m yu Miss Gregory," said the head oBle boy deereatally. Ml Gregeory weat Inato Mr. Blerks oee sad sat down before him. looking at him with a direct gen whleb eo. -deably diseameertd the Jeulor pu. ncr "Ahem, Miss Gregory?" he gaa, playtring with 's ruler,. "Mr. Nobde sad I have been thlan s about yoe futur. We are agreeod that your hances with a small frm Ilke eors do not amount to what the ouaghbt to" "Never mlnd that, Mr. Black," inter ims Gregsory asvely. -I'm. ila to make this a verry big Arm ti. ded, some day. Noew, I have a schelm-" "~xuse ma, Miss Gresery," Mr. Bla Interrupted, "but the sugaUtlea I wated to m take is this: If ye would alke to take a tbre months ~s atic on full salry sad Leek -eand "Why, my dear Mr. Blakt I leek around m ever day t y life,'" ea wered i Grega ory. "However, I thik theo ldea good one I wgl a ept the holday In part-tht is to say, I sha come down e.ly i the aJternose sad lookasbet for Ideas in the morn gs. Whoen the time is nded no doubt I shall.retnrn to m full d~y's work witth a number of iaatins to Kr. Black looked at Mia Gregory, ad, resinga his fa flre, senel. "What is the mtter, MrI. BaT' to ard Miss Grgar in slam. "Yeu are net teelat well Can I set re-' "A teoeu of headache" saMid the Junir partner. "ThaRt wil b a. Kms Gresory, thank ye" And he nerved mself io bear the -repraches of is partner. d"Nebe," he said, when the ther had ended his haranes "there's only one thn to k deane We must get i Gregory married." "Yes, Fve thought that." ansawered Nobbl, with mlaholyW demsaer. ~Tea remeber Clrves, the good-ook lag hookkeWp we aued to hae 1 maved his desk ap anat to herspeu know. Ho had a tailng way with women." "He lIf, the." awswerd sleek "T. Din't sire nyree, di=r. We. asi. the n~ h~ I can think of is for you to marry her." "Me!" shouted Black. "Why, rm never goinl to marry. YTo marry her, Nobble." "I'll toss you for her," said Nobble, feebly. "Nothing of the sort," shouted Black. "You're a crabby old bachelor. Nob. ble It'll do you good to have a wife a fre, spirited. capable, managing woman like Miss Gregory. Besides, then, shell give up her position." "I1l see you-" began Nobble, but, without finishing the sentence, be re turned to his own desk and sat there, absorbed in thoouht It was a sdngular thins, but the Idea of Miss Gregory as a wife appealed tar more to Mr. Nobble than as busi news director. Mr. Nobble suspected that Miss Gregory might have quite human characteristics outside the at mosphere of once work. In brief, be fore a month had gone by he had ap preached Miss Gregory from another angle and had fallen in love with his idea. He did not say anything to Black. and yet he began to be conscious of a new and almost unknown sentiment Jelousy-whenever he saw Miss Greg ory's pretty head in close relationship to Mr. Black's ron-gray one. Mr. Black seemed to be utilising Miss resgory's services a good deal more than he used to do. And presently It began to dawn upon Nobble that he had a rival in Black. If that was the case, e must us tablish his suit at the earliest moment possible. And he ebhse a day when Miss Gregory and he were to have a coasultation on the ball-yearly hal ance sheet. "Miss Gregory," he began, when they were seated together at his desk. "let us put this matter by for a moment Thre is something I want to say to you. Did you ever think of-think of getting-er-married, Miss Gregory?" Miss Gregory started and ficed her blue ey oa his. And in the ther was unmistakably tear. "Put It in a business way," coatinaed Nobble nerved for his plunge "Yes are attractive and capable Ad yeou know that marriage takes a' woman into her proper sphere, out of the dis tractiag details of business life" Suddenly Miss Gregory did senm thing that she had never been haow to do in her life before-she put her badkurchit to ber eyes and burst into tears. And, as Mr. Nobble strove vainly o cosole her, he heard the harsh viles of Blak hiss in his ears: "You scoundrel!" hissed the junior partner. "What do you am" by mak. iag Miss Oregory ary?" "I didn't!" euolaced Nbble. "But suppose I did, what's that to yes? Da't I ay her? Iaven't I ieta right to make her cry i I want tot" "N ya haven't" nsawered jt fetoci'osly. "And 'll tell ya why. Becaue It is my Intent)on to ask Mis Gregory to nemem-" "Miss Gregory" melaieed Mr. Meb' hiso eangui~h, "be nak wthb me, Think ofet yuear laen years of aseaM wtth tle rm. L su afn love a beas, toheart tlk togeter." Miss Gregory raised her eagsiehd eyes and ed them on saeb ah otr "0, 1 have donea wr,.I knw,. nealls It," .e weiL "I meant it yea, but I ealid't Imuster u earingl And I hare r to yes hefs lley. prspared to euer my restiaes, sad I eeeen't hurt year euti rg by 4dg so. Yea never undaerntas m" "Miss Gregory! eabs d 'lath "l iy ie aZw t yes raised my salary, ad how saU Ife.. fees heat I was married woasn and wanted to be at bhome wha ye theaght m so nesesary to 00 Amt ago." "Miss Gregs-pr ea Mr. Neiie "Miss Oregry" wailld Mr. ih . "But Ill stay with ys" e e" o em tioed. "It win't e right to the arm, ltera these years, to go away - from ye-st least, net fer a yerw two huger, whil yes are gutting as so the Iea. And new tha Mr. Maetl s sond me at there iagu t e a betr uadertandlan smon us sad I shall take a e eaesIt ubIr i the besines." And It was net anti Miss Gregory d goe away to pewdr her uass that the partners renited ebe yws sUE (Cleaht, , r W. 0. ChpmanJ Cesltitealelem to Pre~si. ted ris stbjeets a repreestative eo eamea. Though he iaved sutl mea years later, he ner raedeme his premise. When be died, 1t4 he Wlim IV. The lattei was m own s Sis after coming to t)* throne was peple a free mltutei. Great, earebr, was the surprise ad ch. grin whe eM began to govern in a aer wholly sotradletory to these prmise. Not i ay years I nter, s a result of the revolut nary menr mst whleh pwept over neery the whole of urope In 184, wen the peo pIe of Prussia sabhe So omeae a measure of seifgoveamat and ether _a_-de as ther right. The Cabbdl. The Caslists were a seot f Jew ma the Hebrews oln the sath tom ligo t the Cebalts were a mlagt of Taladedsm sad Greek phileagby, J. ep aned €see. Moving a Cehi s diotsee ot a mile from ose hoie to a Wap -es, a. , mR e d to reeie wi Jewelers d aled to st It go ust the jolteg eamessesi hew foa eeen ve P eu . wqrk and trabl puss a hot estles eam eL snseat lln s Wi lru* -I~