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VACATk N, l*fe to«en having a .nti" va .• i Aofl 'twas better than 1 cat Vp at the farm, with tho oU ..v.a.e l£pe we eainc to the city to dwell. just as I left it, wn« every thin F«*her ami mother ami all. !'!.•• hilis were as jrrci u, an a fair Ar.-l the trees were just as a i A- father was fretting In 1... •. A 1 he wanted tne to load: "i was tbe Clover and he: tlUtt (.'!'! I w 11» 'he meadow acre- o-.,.!. c.r i those fraction ..*• i, u-.n.- j'l^t this same. -'.arp-hnrnert. with the brass button tips. iped fast en them on. the day they came. I fas th' year of the ^n at eclipse. 1 i 'Vi.cn the Ion?, loi.fr beautiful day «.1 .. --r I tlie lowing cow came home, mother sti o»l tin-re at the open i 1 she called to the children tocmi supper was ready, so one and a.: .»• tumbled anii lumrhed with tilei '. ur haste to answer the welconn c.-j.! "Why wife-what's the matter -.\iiu n,- i \m1 the old wife bowed o'er the old mrtn'. head kvl smoothed down his scant, pray hair, vi.•) liT kW» arid a tear were on», as she said •Voi, i i':.:.,,-..i,g a nap in your chair." Youth'sCompanion. FL'LFILLKI) ITS MISSION. Miss Smith's Article Wins a Prize in a Peculiar Manner. ELEN SMITH was only too well aware that money was not a drug in any market with which her fam ily had deal i n s II o branch of the o a S i family was small and strict ly feminine, con sisting of her widowed mother, her widowed sister and infant daugh'cr, a widowed aunt and herself. The united incomes of these four women hardly sufficed to supply them with the simplest nceessi ties of respect able life, so it wai their habit to scan carefully the "wanted"' columns of the •daily press, and all the ''inducements to agents," as set forth by weekly or monthly journals. As yet, neither of them had "struck pay gravel." One day Helen's eye was caught by an announcement ia a re spectable-looking weekly paper, that it would give a prize of ten dollars to the spinster who would send it the best article explaining why she had not mar ried. Helen had never written for the press, therefore she was not conversant with the many artifices resorted to by jour nals to advertise themselves when she saw such prizes offered, she was foolish enough to believe thorn sincere. At first she smiled at the request, wondering who would be willing to thus blazon abroad her heart-history, but ten dol lars would be »n useful. "I've a mind to try for the prize," she suddenly said to herself. "My story is truly a strange one, and as poor Will is dead, and therefore the recital can not annoy him. and as I am blessed 0') with the very common name of Mary Smith, noone will be harmed if I do come out in print. My family and friends, all but poor Will, have always called mo by my middle name, so that Aunt Mary and I should not be confounded, therefore they'll not be apt to suspect that I am the writer." Helen was a facile writer, but her chirography was a terror even to print ers, so she wisely determined to have her manuscript copied on a type-writer. She wrote: "My reasons for being an old maid are diverse. To begin with, it is doubt less Kixnut. Aunt Eunice has said to meevej- since I left school: 'You are too particular, Helen Smith! You'll go through the woods and then pick up a crooked stick at last.' Now what woman wants, knowingly, to marry a crooked stick? I don't, for one. Yet how many such sticks have dropped in my path! "1 here was IJert Wallace I can never forget how heartily his sister spoke one evening, when, after repeating to me various pleasant things he had said I I'll? i rAUTlCULAli, MABV -Mim.'' kbout me, she finished by explaining: Oh, Miss Smith, I do wish you'd marry brother Bert, he's *nrh a fool V "These last three words being sisterly euphemism for 'confirmed inebriate." But I could not espouse brother ltert, for delirium tremens secured him before 1 did. "Then there was David Archer his wife and I were very dear friends, and just before her second child was born, when she was very low-spirited and miserable, she sent for me, and when I arrived she said: 'I have one earnest request to make to you, Helen, and I w ant you to promise to carry it out want TZ if tJlZrrV'! you to take Nelhe and the coming baby, too, if it lives, and then, after a year or so I want you to marry Dave lie's a little bit disposed to be wild, but with fcfirm hand to guide him, like yours, he will be all right. Do promise, dear!' aV0 promise I need not fcave been so scrupulous. from V.VP ,1. Dave! "One ii.'-"" reason I -:.iv n this, ala-d «t veritable one. ud'-h upon a I time I was fortunate enough to win the i love and troth of one of nature's noble men our marriage-day was set, and while I was preparing my trou$.tmu my poor Will was sent to Lyons by his ein ployors, to make-large purchases of vel vet. The steamer in which he sailed '"aught fire in mid-ocean, but after some hours all hands were rescued by a pass ing brig this ship, too, was doomed in a dense fog she encountered an iceberg n, and and again my poor Will, with the oth ers, was in mortal danger he was in an open boat, drifting i 1( ri u an Italian fruiter, bound for Naples. 1 he privations and exposures in-ii• -txt to this perilous voyage were too much for one poor creature, and after a lapse of many anxious week* I one dav received .i letter written in Italian, bv a kindly priest who hul attended my lov-d ono bis last moments, "m/'•«" though he was. An old letter of mine, containing my address, was found in one of his pockets, but for that I might never hava leai in 11 his fa11 Ite sleeps po.i.*fuHy in sunny Italy, and that is v 1 am an old maid." Such was Helen's tr:.c story. The yonnggirl to whom s|,e .,ad entrusted her M. S. had just finished copying it on her type-writer, when a well-known newspaper correspondent came to her office, bringing: a friend, and asked hor to take down some matter for him. "Just take Mr. Burton's story in short hand," said he, "and write it out after wards. He hrt$ aftt i I in tell you, and he's going to rm use it. Just think, he started for Europe fifteen years ago, to be gone about a month first of all, his steamer was burned to the water's edge, and every body took to the boats, but were soon picked up by a Norwegian brig she ran afoul of an iceberg, and again he was out in a boat this time he was hauled in by an En glish sailing vessel, which took him and few others to Montevideo. In the hurry-skurry of leaving the brig, he and another passenger exchanged coats and trousers, and Mr. Burton found himself in Brazil with no money and no letters of his own. He had just heard that tho poor fellow who got his clothes died in Italy, and is buried under his name. However, to go back to himself: ho happened to see some American papers soon after his arrival in Montevideo, one of which mentioned the death of a "IK VOL' SAY so." lady to whom he had been engaged, so when a fine position was offered him in Rio he had no reason for refusing it. Now that he has amassed a fortune ho comes home to enjoy it—and is generous enough to let me make use of his ex periences. You young ladies are usually eager novel-readers, don't you think I can make a fine serial out of this?" The girl had listened intently as ho concluded she exclaimed: What a romance! Mr. Burton, I have some copy here which I think will fit in with your history." While speaking she handed to him Helen Smith's M. S. he had hardly glanced at it when he cried: "She says she is an old maid! Where does this Miss Smith live?" "She did not tell me she is to call for the M. S. at two o'clock." "Ah, thank you I'll meet her here.** "Why, of course, it was not I who died," the type-writer might have heard Helen saying, about two o'clock, if she had not been womanly and discreet enough to rattle' her Item ington very vigorously. "Don't you remember, Will, that my father's youngest sister and I were the same age and both of us named Mary Helen? It was she whose obituary you saw." "What a fool I was not to have made some inquiries!" exclaimed Mr. Burton, wrathily. "But, Alary dear, doesn't our old engagement still hold good'.'" "If you say so." he repeated, laughing then, tearing Mary Helen Smith's story into inch-long fragments, ho said: "This thing which you had written out so carefully has fulfilled its mission it shall be consigned to the waste-basket!'* Which was just what the editor would have said, had he ever seen the M. S. But though he would never have given Helen the ten dollars for her article, I think we may rest assured that she con siders that it did win a prize. Frances E. Wadleigh, in Young Woman's Maga zine. A Medical Miiii'h Explanation. Two men graduated from a well known medical school, and bofch went into practice in New York. One was a bright fellow and hard worker and a modest man, the other a man of showy parts and not given to overwork. The latter soon secured a handsome prac tice. The other got little practice, and, when making a call upon his classmate, remarked: "How is it, J., that you, who never worked in school, who often came to me for assistance over knotty mat ters, which 1 rendered (and J. admit ted all as stated), have a larjje practice, while I am not yet earn ,ng a living?" "Come to the window antt I will explain to you the whole case. Of every hun dred persons you see passing up street eighty at least are fools. I am doctor ing the eighty, while you are attending to the twenty wise men." —Brunswick (Me.) TelesrraDh. Prt.CE.Ji O EXPORT. •••me Figure** For tti* l)ont€»M" —How I'roUM-ttvl Manufactur* i t'omjM With KdiviuiiiTd hi th#» Foreign talking about an w hieh one of ther Blank here bvy i to von from •.• of the party. "!lov\ «i t• intending Vou'U g: „i there, for i three days, and then sin- was sighted by a 1• "I- r- porti i Thus appealed to the third man look' a little uncomfortable, and linallv nutted that lie had known such thin done. IVoteeted manufacturers, lie «•-,• on to explain, have two wholesale prio —niie tot hose who sell in thiscountry:a other, and a much lower on. -.»• hose w export manufactured gi- i.l- .i foreij. •, countries. The exporter hound admit that the practice of buying "f export." and then selling the goods th purchased to favored friends in t.li country was hardly fair, and was, in deed, something that honest exporte did not like todo. On the other hail i however, the existence of a lower e\ port price than the price to person dealing exclusively with the domest consumer was. to his mind, conclushe evidence that the tariff, or something pKe. enabled manufacturers to sell the. product at home at prices much beyond what is needed to give a fair profi' 1 he Whole Sllbiert has sinee lieen •estimated and U-b.w are iri\-n s,.iu,. the facts. Two mon'.iih p..b: .-u:.oiis ,n N»-a ork, the American Mail and E\ port Journal and the Australasia i. and South Avierican. rtre devoted., to the export trade. Thi-v are not permitted to .r- ulate i„ e Blows, harrows, cultivators, seed drilK. corn planters, road scrapers, rollers, mowing machines, horse rakes, corn shellers (both hand and power!, grinding mills, corn and cob mills (run by steam power and by hand!, cider and wine presses, root graters, hay and feed cutters, grain separators, fanning mills, horse powers (snaps and tread), farm en gines. churns, wheel-barrows, and in Cultivator* enjoy a protective duty of 45 per cent. Here is a short prictMthat ought to interest if ica« farmer: frw*sw'*. pr Tie Ti Market Ity ('iHlrrtM'lhtiig Tlutn. and at Oip Sain** Tune lieep I'rirett I r-tiii Ten to IVr *enf. Higher In the Domestic Market. Three or men dirr. club in .\i a V'"'V geihfr •it fell furniti i.v. "1 1 V.i. when the i|iiesiioti of transporta on urnc. There are nearly always s-hip loa lint In New York a »d I! iston for port on the west coast of south America, ami flu rate, of fi eiyht obtained make tile shipping biis-ine.s.s a paying one, so that unv numb. of vessels require I would be quickIv flat on. "As it is, we are supplying the bu'k of tie rulioad supplies and equipment used in Chili, mid an equally laiRe proportion of tin teleirraph plant. uur »ewin« imc-h «. printtiff machinery, milium machinery wood and metal winking tools ana ncrieu't ural implements, lisht hardware, wooilwai.' e e.. are popular and selling well, although Wi- could veiy in iteria ly incri-use our trad, in these lines by a more careful regard ii what the buyers n-qu re. The appro,-telling I xhibition of mill niachinerv cUn.uiti opm up I an exceedingly protltable tiaile with the I iiitod Stat- s, if our manufacturers would only taki' (lie trouble to secure proper rvp refutation, for it is nnqii. si ional.ly huiil as much for tl:- purpose of attracting Am.-ric.iri exhibitors as for any thing else. We have incieas. our trade with I liili the past two months Pupereent. as compared with the same period last year, and we can keep th s r-at-i of nii-reaso iij without trouble, i'f we only try to hupp:y Chilian buyers with Just what they want, in place of endeavoring t- make 1111• 111 take what we liav The prclia.inai y woik has Couipiett il, lint we must nt in reaping the harv h.irs lie. ill] ii liars, •lie. ill) IIIK I'll I Nteel p,,. 1 .nu fact th EiiLr i ne«,e a" ro-t t.rade one of of the fan Boston. oifer si mi la liar, wl, mim-nt o .th Aim s coun try. and win u inquiries were mad' at the otllees of publication as to th reason of this, the frank answer was tha the prices quoted for export in the casi of many articles of American produ-tio: were considerably below the wholesab rate of those articles to the domestic dealer. "Discount to the export trad, only" is a common phase in the Eng. neering and Mining Journal, which pub li.-hes a monthly price em-rent. (»ne these publications exhorts the foreign buyer to compare the prices for ex port American goods with the European prices on similar products. It must be borne I in mind that, these* verv foreign good* referred to are products airainst whlei the American manufact jrer demand pro tec ion at the hand-, of i ,iiir, Says the Aus! ralav.au and So .th Amer ican "It a mii-take -ujipose that our pood are much lienrer. as a rule, than those sup plied 1 y oilier countries As a mutter i.t fact liey ale often cheaper, without tukin thcii super.or nua.ities mtn consul,.. th .s i tile i-U'i» partieulanv with tie articles on which Chili has undertaken t- IviJuee 1 he ililt'V. "Nor are we under very serious dl!»ad yantaj, to sell. *n Sucre* 1 1111y exereisu some Jiulg- classes of mach.nes in use hy our I P» ds the higher prices now ruling, and I tho strong probability of their maTnteri for some time to come. On first quality goods an advance is now made of SI.75' to S'i. j.V A further contemplated. all farmers are sold for export at prices much below the rate to wholesale deal|ance ers at home. One manufacturer savs: "Our prices to the domestic trade aver age about 1U per cent., more than to the export trade. We box and deliver in New York all our export goods domestic goods are 'jnoted on car* here." This is fair sample of the policy as to all the articles named in tlieabo^e list. wf 1 To Kor- In "Home Market." Wheel hoe, cultivator, rake P'ow $11.Oil All steel liof'e hot' and cul tivator, with wln-cl.. fc.im All ^teel, plain cultivator, with wheel... 7 -_m Js.tO The above prices to the exporters as well as for sale here are for single articles. For export, the cultivators are delivered "free on board" ship at New York. They are sold in all the markets of the world, and catalogues describing Malleable their merits are printed in English" I 'l Spanish, Oennan, French and I'ortu- I ^l°' Horse rakes, tedders and potato dig- I.ock J,- \4er Hay Rakes. $ir,.D) li-imu.p Hay Rakes ls.no Hay Tedder IX) I'o.ato l'ig.er a V!'S ger-s are protected by a duty of 4.-, per n1 cent. Here are contrasted quotations for home foreign market, those for the home market applying to 1 nge consign ments only, those for the foreign market to single articles: III "lIolIK Market.' tr other t-ions Kou fliers. $!t.'.'l No. ale ty of -y to •Tom nr." irow in uIauI n pa u i ted pr i me •i at v mio ado for home and ex- 1 -i i s a n u a u e in-minent members Home Market Club'' i.anufacturers of shovi (nuns. (no firm in p.i r 'tnent lias a c-ry hair exha .-',-d. The tir-t yuaiit.v of runz0t ux»-s ad V a The lock factories of this count ry are peculiarly fortunate. They enjoy a'duty of 4. per cent., and by reason of the skill workmen and the high .develop- mentof their machinery, the labor cost of their product is extremely low com- list of par''d with the labor cost of foreign Anii-i" locks. Of course there are marked dif ferences in the prices of locks for home ••onsumption and for export, jleru are he In'Tlomn To Kit Market." porters. Locks and jiadlocks— No. 1 brass padlocks, p,. iloz. No. S5, per !()/. No. 2!«. per do/. ca n dinaviari 1 m |s— No. 1 l!i, per do*. No. U'ii doz. No. 14 per .I. No. 140, per U ,H I licit is tr 2.H0 2.)(5 '. It i a tors, locks u ml o gr.nding mills, Tnill n.a wing machines, and fifty es. Here are a few quota* In 1'i Farm inn!,.! o, i .. 14 ill Is in Feed li i-ni.-r. \. 'lo 2 Portal.:-- in ii- i i. t'i in Farmers, esnecially in th improved plows of great power. They are accustomed, perhaps, to believe that! J'iu'-'ma "li Brick n at" ni.s Hf-prt-s,,nj Kiaciutif. Hest make sewing mi. Medium niHchlnes w. $Oi.o 1 $ 7 41 0 3oH 2 .'.0 41..'.s ?. 14 ISO. IK) 1 270.HI) 41 u e i.r.u 1 i fi •i-s 24 01 /. 0 Tt.ix 1 1 ,M !C£N TABuE'j. 11 Ought to Beneiit P«n i Willi the Hik Head. ior*.an in.ul\ 1 l'hai aiiia/.ed enouLrh Wn-i Sew Englander ,res shovel-,, and 4') jier cent, is a named insists neces- i omm "And Australasian and i •, ,i discount on its Mime i• o while f.•: ?n» e\ i. Mint, is friend. it ^V' N, -.:" 7? sell in the home market at l( dozen: they export at •S'i.-'.i per dozen. These axes beveled sell in the home market at $8.34 per dozen to the exporters at ??.•() a dozen. The duty is 45 per cent. Not long ago the axe manu facturers of the I'nited States formed a "trust." under the name of the "Ameri can Axe A. Tool Company." The trust was formed by the consolidation of four teen of the largest manufacturing con cerns in the country. Concerning it. the Iron Age. of March 'JT, lvio. savs: --Tho general feeling among the trade is that the axe makers have formed a very strong 'association.' and have complete control of the market, or so nearly so that the outside makers will have scarcely any appreciable effect on prices. It is found that scarcely any orders can be placed with outside manufacturers who are not under the control of the 'American Axe & Tool Company.' Tho trade will do well to note the changed condition in this line of goods n/m. CLOTH FROM WOOD. A !.•( l-«(Ti(ii ion of tb lr... Hliieh It Is \u.|, A deta Iitvhe prod '-oards ,r •_ •, '. tlto Stri •_ tue-erah). an .. u: i hi- dai: -ansfert "hi.-h 1- Inch u corrugat iaii»-ouH strong •. o the itia.sses. 1 a r, matter can be though it is ferabie fe-ted after threads, e .-.^ Me.-ri Ui ,, N MISCEL .ml UlU RUSSIAN PIPE LINES Their K.ep Amoric^n *MI Out r»f l-.irropi*. American petroleum wiii. n tinie. 'no a thing of :i^ ,if, i-,,.. the owners of willT in a v y ruin, oil being on the road. 'J'he pipes will l, ca st iron, eighi e lameter, an Ui( rf inches in sixty-four intermedia pij.M*s must be* buried iopth to guard against cra.-ki,,,, :v stations. Tie at a consideraldr in t|l intense frost and coid. Theentiro gallons, whil-at the sam, th«y were gallons. imiiortant elfect which O.fitl 2 inif last year e well known tbat tnn it ". menselychia ie^ the Kussiati pr„d„ I- mm t- To Kor- to carry theii :.,, arry their Market." doners. ts s years been 'l''''idedi?M:^\ ls ,n arrl:1 LANLC, •"-The official director* \ork Central shows that agents oa il,e 9 omen. —The fanners n s .,-, followed by large K% which find rich pi ,. :i turned furrows. It is said that the ann Of eggs in this country ,.gi value the country's annii,^ rif iron. The eggs are (.at, produced, while the ir^* owners, and is subject to |, accumulates from y,. ar to Women invent', rs Wit Above appt on the patent ollico recoril. them who succeeded an improvement in is said to have mad fortune by the e ideas in practical —A freight car w West, Chester, tained the followi writ ten with a penc: above will be ronviction of work, by Cam kuk, la." -An old y..u that there are not o\er .VH the globe now. There art wild bisons, about "no in "(Klin el low stone lv.. the wild ones 1 j„ Twenty-five are kr. "0 in Colorado, ','t i", tana, and )." in Da said to bo in the u a y it pu- »n eV( pan: the No. never Sym- i Highway, (.ml Haiti soon ob e v A short t! ii fii. iissued by nnsiaKe i face representing side represented was subsciju*-n11 i cashier of the Fn I Washington. N. ,1, to light iti New Yo elerk of an insuran said that, he has re the: 1 material in pas- is avoided by having to pass over the low placing a can\ as cov. upper roller. '1 from thesr ,.. not "Hers cloth 'id, or. and by around the fall He: ltd s ... ., cloth wl, .- s pair of rollers, veyed to i third i.a times, ity coir,., Wood the libers able and l'solate.i they can bo coarse filaments fiber, the boiled at i completely dried, ... direction paralb-' larly to the opi-rai ..n cotton, etc. Th. tractable matter by boiling the n.s IHK Z o o o I to pros ,n .1 niestii and ja been It -. niestj. im At a re.-. V s. miitueated so I j.ikcals. dog,-, upon his ex H.if.lf itinera I. tor v. I orchestra wa heirs object. grounds, hut the ere distinct., and i without endangcrib so Sttaiiss a 1 i gaged and j» grave, and w t, I tied rong, are bit h, •Hers, with their '"•itJg -f t-he' lllu' i.'jsing LIFE FROM DEATH. Ili-nefnrt Ioim from the Ormp a rated lit the I.Kiptiniii, A package..? .. .r.i-c f.iji ft fold of the '.\ :»n Egyd« mummy, when u t.a- ...ti uniisttf! throe thousand year--. 1 tic peas at once soaked in te: -. ,''-r and if ward planted. Tin —ti uprmimif crew finely and pr- ... a ponds 1 It will Im« retnembi at al vifij, times kernels o' win .• -.-.-e imeitIi( in the wrapping c. if muail which, on being j. havt* pr and flourished finely "i The above facts i v. esting lesson regar i.n' h.: oT tb«» years far. fur It lsl Their religion t.uug.n- 111 to pW for the conUtuiance :n. fraito« earth in reunite ti'i:- tiiit the ings of (kid might a- manifi lnan as well throu:. n n- ImuntiS] nature as in the. ion i are i the simi flav. e meed .-anic time, ef- g.- .-•: of the And thus thoy mad. of de»tn the transmission of nis uf lift ages iti the inealctiia .- f.-ri knew lliat the rope-. he ili-ai' Bacred among the pi 1.1 the pa® general ions, and th..' 1. '-hancet' natural changes and 1 -mnilaH' their good works !. ring for' '"•rs, perhaps at a tin a ncti thew would be greatest, ••..•-e li'"*Pr plants whose benefit- had t".°J If the Egyptians !,..!• ni'il the 4 W'ith costly burials, took cirtV life should' have iiie h. n- of derf Bometliing more di.raoic tiian mental si one and tin i s.incites logy. I low much nobler, how ai'i'.'llbljl the ei/otiomic morality of this, than later custom of placing niarhlc als oyer or beside the dea l, and insf lug upon them, not always the a character of the occupant of tltt'W but, a supposititious one which*" could purchase perhaps a ii' (feneration then passing nward. only a description of that which S&81 Pome after. The Egyptian priestsW their dead in solemn court and witb imposing ceremonial, iind tbey honorable liurial to hose only i short i.e ,. n tinent of Europe. on "•bilds. ells, 'Jler ling run I.e as -i. the lieen. a A ican firm. he c.T1 of a pipe h.„» l: ,, ,. from the oil w.-i', l'ian, to liatoum .u l: 1 loading port. Ti... ...., shelved for a long time. titudeof the l{iiss nii g( owns the railroads whi "ii. and which '•v hii.-h v tiie to ='"d W11 able oi t( Eurori', from the wells at, The fight with Amr markets fie very oivest prie, i ,, :i pipe added indh- tp that* States breeders a-'. V, here or will piv, tory.-l'm"[,|HS Tte,ro- I he roast beef of i7'J.r0 4 0 n 0 1 J- been obtained for ve ,,-. ." turkeys V) 27.0 Ti stock. w'')0** been honorable in their lives. WW* we not believe that those dead i" custody were left seeds for tbc duetion of fruit in after ages were Pj Sons of peculiar sanctity of 1 ivesor tinguished by the noblest virtue?? may vonturo to sup|K»s(1 that things were confided to their £^05! keeping so that the blessings of tbe heritance might be magnified tou*. The world is every day learning sharply presented contrasts to re3P® more and more highly the wisdo® religion «f those mighty men '^v whose histories they have so catf' handed down to us. Their and tablets, thus inscribed, now .. Bands of years old, if left where tbpf long—under the burning heaven 0 East, and onveloped by a pure, luosphero—will be frerUi. compar*" though newly hewn, whe" °"r® and memories shall haye crumW^ dust, our books become mild,,tt!, worm-eaten, and the memei'i'is honorable dead shall be |*«rpeW "ly in other and jK-rhap^ Lis iorios. Washinyion l'o^t as 1 ni, tl lln "••"P 1 iJi'Uisu