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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Although annually repeated we
trust that none of our readers will ring
the chestnut-bell on us when we wizh
them a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year.
—If Christmas of continual
occurrence li'e would be asort of per-
were
petual pie nic party.
-—Weren’t the Republican managers
who “fried the fat” out of the manufac-
turers the original Pan-A mericans ?
— What a brave animal the British
lion is when the nation at which he
curls up his lip and shows his teeth isn't
bigger than little Portugal.
—Is ForAkER really worth a Con-
gressional investigation? Isn’t his
case unsavory enough without creating
a further stench by a committee stir-
ring it up?
—Next Sunday there will be a solar
eclipse, but as it will be only
on a continent that has always been
considered a
visible
dark, it may be
waste of shadow.
—Dom PEDRO was too honest an
incumbent to afford ground for the pre-
# :mption that when he was discharged
from office it was done for the purpose
of turning a rascal out.
mere
—Chicago justice which didn’t hesitate
t) hang a set of crazy anarchists, madea
wretched slump in its treatment of a
gang of the bloodiest murderers that ever
ensanguined the criminal annals of this
country.
—The death dealing electric wires
of New York, if left to go on doing
their deadly work, won’t hold out a
very persuasive invitation to the visitors
whom that city will want to attend her
‘World’s Fair.
—The influenza that has recently
been making the crowned heads and no-
b:lity of Europe sneeze, hss reached
this country, and should 1t fail to at-
tack our native snobs they will feel
greatly slighted.
—JAKE KILRAIN has been found
guilty by a Mississippi jury of assault-
ing and battering JouN L. SULLIVAN.
Poor Joun L., what a satisfaction it
must be for him to know that the law
is ready to take his part when he has
been abused.
—>Some of the Republican papers
think that when CARNEGIE suggested
that CLEVELAND should be run again
h: was merely indulging in irony.
Pig-irony, perhaps, if one may be allow-
ed to asscciate Mr. CARNEGIE'S expres-
sion with his business.
—There is something terrible in the
report from Siberia that six exiles—one
of them a young woman—were killed
for refusing to withdraw a petition.
What is the matter with the dynamite
of the Russian patriots—misnamed Nihil-
its—that it is so slow in doing its
work ?
—A Chicago poet, apostrophizing
saur kraut, with a fine appreciation of
its most salient quality, exclaims: «I
love your odors wild and sweet, that
knock out everything they meet, and
jump onto it with both feet.” Was
ever muse before inspired by such a
theme?
—A burglar broke into the Methodist
church at Fort Madison, Iowa, and
stole the contents of the “little mite
jugs,” amounting to a hundred dol-
lars, which the children had been col-
lecting for Christmas. That rascal
ought to be kicked to death by Santa
Claus’s reindeers,
—Since Brazil has become a republic
she has followed the example of another
republic we could mention, by laying
a tariff for the benefit of special intor-
ests. If the new republiz wants to imi-
tate its big northern neighbor it should {
do it in another way than by copying its
economic vices,
— While everybody is praising the ex-
President for his evident adoration of
Mrs. CLEVELAND, it is difficult to be-
lieve what is nevertheless known to be
a fuct, that scarcely more than a year
ago miserable emissaries were employed
for political effect to go through the
country and quietly circulate the story !
that he was in the habit of beating her. |
—“Why not run him again ?” was |
ANDY CARNEGIE’ significant question
at the Boston mercantile banquet in
speaking of Grover CLevELAND. This
is the query that will be running
thiough the minds of the American
people until it shall be answered by the
re-election of the honest ex-President 1n
1892.
—There threatened to be bad feeling
between the Governor of Maryland and
the Governor of Virginia on the question
of jurisdiction over Hog Island in the
Chesapeake Bay This would have
teen unfortunate. The most amicable
relations should exist between Gover-
nors, and nothing is better calculated to
spread the white wings of peace over
gubernatorial functionaries than such a
remark as the Governor of North Caro-
lina made to the Governor of South
Carolina.
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{ public life which will give his name
| chair, locked the door of his court
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VOL. 34.
Death of Franklin B. Gowen.
The suicide of FraNkLIN B. Gowey,
| Esq., which happened at Washington
{ last Friday, was a startling occurrence.
He was about the last man that one
would think would want to bring his
life to an end by his own act. In al-
most everything that could make life
worth living for he had been appa-
rently successful, and that there should
i have been anything to lead him to re-
gard it as a burden that could be re-
lieved only by self-destruction, 1s be-
{ vond the comprehension of those who
knew him.
Mr. GowsN was a man of remark-
able natural ability. Bat few of his
contemporaries surpessed him in intel-
lectual acuteness, and this quality was
attended with unusual brilliancy. A
mind so constituted placed him in the
highest rank of the legal profession in
which his pre-eminence was recogniz-
ed. In addition to the advantage of
great mental force, he was possessed of
a natural eloquence, and he had more-
over a suavity of manner that made
him irresistible. He was most known
to the public through his connection
with the Reading Railroad company,
in which he did not meet with the
measure of success that his ambiticn
aspired to. Itisto be regretted that
he ever allowed railroad business
to interrupt his legal career. Nature
designed him for a great lawyer, and the
yearsdevoted to the management of the
corporation with which he was so sig-
nally and in some respects unfortunate- |
iy identified, was so much time taken
from his opportunity to win the very
A Confusion of Ideas.
Those who take an interest in Penn-
svlvania’s agricultural progress and the
prosperity of her farmers, will always
welcome anything that Hon. Lroxirp
Ruoxe has to say about and in behalf
cer organization,
ize with his efforts to the fair
thing done for the farmers in the mat-
ter of taxation, but it cannot be expect-
have
pathy and agreement with him when he
to protect the productions of the agri-
culturists as those of the manufactur-
ers,
What hardships do our farmers en-
dure in being “compelled to compete
with the cheapest labor in the world?”
To what extent is the poorly paid agri-
ing the American market with cheap
wheat, corn, oats, Lay, beef, pork, but
ter or cneese, that a tariff is necessary
to abstruet its ruinous com petition ?
It is America that overrides all com-
petition in these articles and supplies
the markets of other countries. What
need have our farmers for protection
against competition where there are no
competitors ?
If we dide’t know that the agricul-
tural people are getting a very clear
cut conception of the tariff and its effect
upon their interests, we would advise
Brother RuoNE not to try to create a
confusion of ideas on that snbject.
Bue they are pretty well convinced that
no kind of a tariff does them any good.
hizhest place in the legal fraternity.
From his Reading railroad connection,
however, sprung the incident in his |
|
its chief distinction in the future. His
suppression of the Mollie Maguires,
whose murderous practices terrorized
the anthracite coal region, furnished a
really thrilling instance of the success-
ful checking of organized crime. In
this work, Fiich was most thoroughly
accomplished, Mr. Gowen displayed |
his fearlessness as a conservator of law |
| and order and his great ability as a
legal character.
| To high professional qualities and
personal characteristics is to be added
his strong attachment to Democratic
principles which was interwoven with
his private convictions and marked his
I public life. His connection with
' the Democratic party was life-long, and
there can be no question that if he had
turned his attention to politics his great |
intellectual force, his personal mag- |
netism and the persuasive nature of
his eloquence would have made him
one of the great leaders of the party in
the correctness of whose principles he
had such unswerving faith.
His friends who best knew him can
| find no other explanation for the act
that terminated his life than that his
acute mind, affected by the great
strain to which continual effort sub-
Jected it, was at the time brought to a
condition in which reason lost its sway.
With all its power it is evident that
Mr. GoweN's mental organism was of
a delicate constitution that at last sud-
denly broke under the effect of long
| continued and unflagging application.
‘Robust Justice.
Alderman DoNoHUE, a magistrate in
Wilkesbarre, the other day gave avery
forcible illustration of muscular justice.
A low-lived, cowardly brute of a fellow
was brought before him on a charge of
having beaten his wife, and after his
guilt was clearly proved the indignant
alderman got down from his magisterial
room, took off his coat and gave the
wife-beater a thorough licking in the
presence of a throng of spectators. He
then discharged him, believing that he
had inflicted a punishment that would
have more effect upon the offender
than imprisonment and a good deal
more economical in the matter of ex-
pense to the county, and declaring
that he intended to treat similar cases
thereafter in the same way. This ro-
bust dispenser of justice probably in-
tends to give our law makers a pointer
about providing a method of punish-
ment for wife beaters in which the
whipping post shall figure as the promi-
nent feature,
—An umbrella of sufficient size to
cover this rain-drenched world would
The Death of an Alleged Poet,
The death of Rosert BrRowNING, the
English poet of incomprehensible ex- |
pression, is announced, it having oc-
curred last week in Italy where he was
sojourning. Following upon his de-
mise we see in some of the leading pa-
pers pretentious notices in which there
is an affectation of admiration for his
poetical achievements. If poetry con-
sists in presenting beautiful images in
attractive language—if it is differentiat-
ed from ordinary prose by the charm of
rhythm, to say nothing about rhyme,
then BRowNING wasn't a poet. Tt may be
pretended that away down deep under
the surface of his knock-kneed verse
there are jewels that are worth the dig-
ging for,but doesn’t the provocation at- |
tendantupon the task of such excavation |
detract from the pleasure which those
jewels, if there are any, should afford ? |
Poetry implies a sense of enjoyment.
There is no enjoyment in grabbing. |
| Societies have been formed to exhume |
the meaning and unwrap the beauties |
But what a
of BrowNING'S poetry.
burlesque on the idea of poetical delec-
tation is the jlabor of interpreting the
lumbering versification of such pro-
ductions as Paracelsus, Sordello and
others that he is chargeable with. Itis |
even dull work to try to extract some
humor out of the awkwardiy told
Hamelin rat story. There is no excuse
for the writing of poetry mn the way that |
BrowNING wrote it, any more than
there is an excuse for CarrisLe's kind
of prose. Both those literary charac-
ters should be held responsible for the
swearing which il eir styles so strongly
savoring of affectation have forced ex-
asperated readers to indulge in.
-——= Senator QUAY is charged with
having opposed the election of Major
CarsoN to the clerkship of the House
for the reason that he represented
“nothing but a lot of damned irrespon-
sible newspaper men.” The Senator
denies that he ever made such an ex-
pression, and we are quite ready to be-
lieve that he didn’t, He is the last man
to entertain a contemptuous opinion of
newspaper men, for he well knows the
influence they exert, and even if he
didn’t favor them, he would be too
smart to ran the risk of offending them
by any such expression. The man
who cautioned Beaver to keep his
mouth shut 1s not going to give him-
self away by inconsiderate tall against
the newspaper men.
——The Philadelphia Record re-
garde General Hastings’ announcement
of his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for Governor as a manly
performance, and says thet he appears
to be better than his party. This
might easily be and yet not give any
one even a plausible reason to consider
be now in order.
him as being of extra quality.
of the practical operations of the gran- |
They will sympath. |
ed that there will -be the same sym- |
claims that a tariff is as much needed |
cultural labor of Earope or Asia flood- |
BELLEFONTE, PA, DECEMBER 20, 1889.
| Hastings Disclaims the Intention of
Insubordination.
A good deal has been said recently
in the papers about General Hastings’
candidacy for Governor. There were
published within the last two weeks
namerous reports of his intention to go
it alone independent of Quay, and even
‘to form a combination with such an
(enemy of the Boss as Curis Macek.
! Unusual boldness appeared in the
announcement of a pogsible ticket on
which Hastings would” be the candi-
date for Governor and Moxtoorn for
| Lieutenant Governor, and there were
other rumors of the General's disposi
tion to act with indifference to the will
of the great party regulator.
But a change has since come over
this dream of mutiny. It is intimated
that the Boss has called the ambitious
(Gieneral to account and demanded an
| explanation of the report that he was
about to form an alliance with the
Magee faction. This has been follow-
ed by HasriNas having himself inter-
viewed to enable him to announce that
while he still continues to be a candi
date, and would like to have the sup-
| port of all the factions, he by no means
contemplates such insubordination as
to go into an offensive combination
with Macez, Moxtoorn and other
enemies of the great ringmaster of
Pennsylvania, and he claims that the
latter is his personal and political
friend. His position, as announced by
himself, is a decided backdown from
the independent stand which in the
early part of last week he was reported
as being about to take. Some papers
are malicious enough to call it a flunk.
In the meantime, notwithstanding
Hasina’ claim to having Quay’s po-
litical friendship, there is nothing to
indicate that the Boss has abandoned
his intention of having DerLamarer |
nominated,and there can be no question
that whom he wants on the ticket the
party will have to take as its candi-
age. : >
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An Important Commission.
The Commission to revise and con-
solidate the laws relating to the roads
and highways of this commonwealth,
is an important body and much public
good should result from its labors.
' The members that shall compose it
have been appointed by the Governor
and consist of Senators Harlan, My-
lin and Sloan ; Representatives Foights
of Westmoreland; McCullough, of
Allegheny; Faulkner, of Bradford:
Griffith, of McKean, and Shilito, of
York, and David McCargo, of Pitts.
burgh; Jacob Bollard; of Conneautville;
Cyrus Gordon, of Clearfield; H. P.
Goodwin, of South Bethlehem ; Samuel
R. Downing, of West Chester.
It would almost seem as if the pur-
pose of our present road laws was to
keep the public highways in as bad a
| condition as possible. At least that
| has been the effect of their interpreta-
|
tion and execution by the average class
of road officers. They should be con-
densed, simplified and given such a
practical character that good roads will
necessarily result from their enforce-
ment. The days] of slovenly, careless
and unscientific road making and re-
pairing should be near their end in
Pennsylvania.
——The report of the Commis-
sion on Manual Training as prospec-
tively connected with education in our
common schools, is receiving the fin-
ishing touches from Professor Arugg-
ToN of the State College who will show
what is being accomplished by such
Furepean schools. Tt
would appear to us that the useful
ness of our public schools has not been
fully developed, inasmuch as the in-
struction imparted does not give the
scholars the best equipment for the
average life work of men and women,
and that education of the hand will
supply a great deficiency in the prevail-
ing system of school instruction.
training in
——GRroveEr CLEVELAND in his re
cent Boston speech, speaking of Ballot
Reform, said that “it rises far above
partisanship, and only the heedless, the
sordid and the depraved refuse to join
in the crusade.”—It is easy to find a
place for Dana in this category.
—Mr. CLEVELAND would be out of
place on top of CARNEGIE’S tally-ho
coach. BLAINE is better suited tor
filling one of the seats of that vehicle. 2
NO. 50.
Interesting Facts from Free
England.
Colonel A. M. Snook, a gentleman
largely mterested in the Alabama iron
industry, has been over to England
taking notes of the condition of the iron
trade in that country. He was not an
emissary sent to color the industrial
situation in England for the benefit o
any American interest, but his purpose
was to gain information that would be
personally beneficial in his business. It
is a stumper to those who insist upon a
high tariff to keep English iron out of
this country, to hear Colonel Snook
say, as hedoes in an interview in the
Macon. Georgia, Zelograph, that he
saw no place in England or Wales
where iron was heing made as cheaply
as at Birmingham, Alabama; that at
no place either in England or Wales
were they putting coal on the cars as
cheaply as is now being done in Ten-
nessee and Alabama ; that English ore
delivered at the pit’s mouth is costing
more per ton than similar grades of ore
in those two States, and ‘that in
one of the leading English iron districts
pig at the furnace is $2 a ton higher
than at Birmingham, Alabama, and
Chattanooga. With such a condition
of facts isn’t the demand for a tarifl' to
prevent the competition of English iron
assuming something of the appearance
of a fraud ?
He also says that “the price of labor
in England has advanced in some in-
stances as much as 32 per cent. above
what it was a year ago, and another
advance of 15 per cent will be made in
January.” Where can be shown an
equal increase in the wages.of labor in
this tariff’ protected country ? Colonel
SHooxk's discoveries in England furnish
a nice commentary on the pretensions
of the American economists who claim
that our industries would be ruined and
our labor reduced to starvation wages by
English competition if it were not for
the tariff.
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pl eee
Cleveland’s Speech.
It Made Him Many More Friends
in Boston Than He Already Had—
What He Said About His Wife
Boston, Dec. 14.—When Grover
Cleveland capturedjthe applause of tie
Boston merchants on Thursday night he
also captured their hearts. There is no
denying that if his speech had been made
in the midst of a political campaign it
would have gained him many votes.
Republicans who listened to him uninflu-
enced by partisan feeling frankly con-
fessed that he is a bigger man than they
had gave him credit for. For instance,
Merchant John Shepard, Republican,
said :
“Mr. Cleveland impresses one as a
man of conviction and power. His
speech was one of the best I ever heard.”
Another Republican, Weston Lewis,
said: “He impressed me as a man honest
and sincere, and with a good deal of re-
serve force. His speech was dignified
and patriotic, and as a whole ver ac-
ceptable to every one, whether Demo-
crat or Republican.”
Alden Speare, President of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, also a Republican,
said: “His appearance was dignified
and manly. As a whole it was a grati-
fying speech and I was agreebly sur-
prised at his fluency as an off-hand
speaker.”
J. C. Paige—My general impressions
of Mr. Cleveland were bettered by his
manner and bearing last night. His
speech was wonderfully good. It was
sound, consistent, logical and bold.
Mr. Cleveland received the Young
Men’s Democratic Club at the Vendome
yesterday morning, but many old Demo-
crats also came to shake his hand. In
the afternoon the Bay State Club dined
the Southern visitors at the Parker
House. Colonel Taylor presided. Mr.
Cleveland dropped in a few moments
before train time and had to speak. He
said he had a grudge against ex-Mayor
(VBrien, who bad spoken admiringly of
Mrs. Cleveland. “I hear nothing when
Igo anywhere,” said Mr. Cleveland,
“except praise of Mrs. Cleveland—(great
applanse)—and though I am not aware
that this is ordinarily cause of jealousy
in young husbands—(laughter)—still I
feel it keenly.—(Laughter.)
1 wish I
could say something on that subject,
but I don’t believe it would be fair or
right. I must say, however, but I
don’t eare to have it reported, as it may
reach her ears—(laughter)—that she
is deserving of all the adoration and the
adulation the American people can
give her. (Great cheering and cries of
“Good.”) Mr. Cleveland also adjured
the Massachusetts Democrats to stick to
tariff reform, and remarked significantly
that everything comes to those who
wait.
The Cleveland party
York at 2 P. M.
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———Mr. Geo. W. Rogers, of this
place, has gone to Harrisburg where he
will superintend the manufacture of the
hydrants of his invention, for the mak-
ing of which a company has been form-
ed in that city.
left for New
EN ee EL TR eB RK
3 PREP 3 TT Te SETI
Spawls from the Keystone.
—There is no money to pay the premiums
awarded at the West Chester Fair.
—Omne of Seranton’s wide awake milk ped-
lers is a single woman, 20 or 22 years old.
—A true bill was found against William Lott»
of Reading, for selling cigarettes to a child.
—Fenees and telegraph poles in Chester
have been pasted with copies of the cigarette
law.
—Dinner was delayed ina Pottstown hote
while two waiters had a fight in the dinning-
room.
—Detective Lyon, of Reading, says he has
heen offered £6000 to settle liquor cases before
the Courts.
—During the progress ofa “buck dance’at a
Quakake ratile a fight took place which ended
in a riot.
—In fifteen years J. J. Skooff, of Guilford»
Berks county, has killed 16,000 pounds of pork
for his own use.
—John Husbands, a farmer in Brandywine
Hundred, had several hives of bees to swarm
on last Monday.
—Mason Houtzman was liberated from the
Easton jail the other day after serving a long
term for blasphemy.
—Lancaster has a woman who smo ked two
big ci i in seven and a half minutes—Lan-
rigars, too.
caster
—An outdoor Club is being organized by the
swell people of Chester county, to be located
near Glen Mills.
—A West Chester paper tells of a man who
was “dragged down stairs and over a stone wall
by a stubborn mule.”
—Lame, blind and toothless, a cow sold for
8150 at West Chester recently. The animal
will soon make its bow in bologna sausage
costume.
—Mornis Troxel, a “slugger” by repute, has
been sent to jail at Easton for six months for
beating Minnie Metzer, who was in delicate
health.
—The Glen Rolling Mill at Allentown is ad-
vertised for public sale to foreclose a mortgage
of $30,000, held by the Allentown Rolling Mill
Company.
—The Montgomery Oil Company has been
Oil Werks.
—The remains of Franklin Sehriver, of
Allentown, who was shot by his insaneson in
Minnesota, were brought to that city and in-
terred there.
Lebanon, not to call on a certain girl of.
that town, and while leaving the house recent-
ly he was shot at.
—A bul.et fired into his leg twenty-five years
ago at the battle of Thatcher’s Run, Va., has
just been removed from the leg of Rev. M. P.
Doyle, of Reading. :
—Jesse Hickman, aged 65 years, and his son
of West Chester, hunted two foxes and chased.
a third, but their horses gave out, and they
were compelled to quit.
—The people of East Bradford, Chester:
rounty, are again terrified by the reports of a
fearful animal of unknowa species roaming
aeross the country there.
—Every purchaser at a Hamburg jewelry
store received a chance to win a music box
and the jeweler has been held for keeping a
gambling establishment.
—The school teachers’ lyceum at Glen
Mills was interrupted a few days ago by two
armed hoodjums, who entered the placeand
defied any one to put them out. r
—The jury at Media in the murder case of
Richard Mitchell, alias Dick Deadeye, accused
of having killed Emma Jenkins, has returned
a verdict of involuntary manslaughter.
—While being taken to the Harrisbuag In--
sane Asylum, W. H. Mathews, of Lebanon, ess
caped from the train three times, and long.
stops had to be made until he was captured.
—During a performance of “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin” at Pottstown; W. E. Crandall, who took -
the part ot Marks, was badly bitten by one
of the blood hounds,a physician was summoned.
—Bishop O'Hara, of Wilkesbarre, has issued :
a brief to the effect that he will expel from the
church all societies who hold fairs and fes-
tivals without first getting: the consent of their
pastors.
—Thieves entered the coal office of Henry
Smeyeh, at Lancaster, on. Tuesday night, car-
ried the safe to a field, broke it open and stole
some money and valuable papers. The pa--
pers werg found scattered overa field.
—Jacob Wert, a farmer of Brecknock town-
ship, Berks county, is. at p resent making his’
second crop of hay. He has a quarter acre o f°
corn still standing, snd six or seven acres
more to husk.
—The wall of a house on which be was work-.
ing fell to the ground and contractor Charles
E. Evans, of Charabersburg, was buried. His
life was saved, as he fell under the protecting
ledge of a step.
—The West Chester Local News thinks the
female cigar smoker of Lancaster would prove
a municipal blessing if she were put to work to.
smoke the cvewd out of the Pennsylvania
Railroad depot at that place.
—A slick-tongued swindler visited McKees-.
port and sold the womewu of that town 300 cases.
of needles at rates of three packages for $1, on
the misrepresentation that they contained
tickets ealling for big prizes.
—A colored man jumped from the ‘cannon-
ball” train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad near
Bethlehem on Thursday night, and as noth-
ing has been heard of him since, it is thought
he was thrown into the Lehigh.
—With a pair of crutches and a well regulats
ed cough, a tramp succeeded in arousing a
good bit of sympathy at Chambersburg. He
was finally arrested for stealing a book, and as
an excuse he pleaded that he thought it was a
prayer book,
—NKirkbride Wright, of Fallsington, while
on his way to Philadelphia recently, picked up
a paper containing sixty coupons and forty
railroad tickets, worth $3000. They belonged
to the Misses Drexel, who liberally rewarded
Wright for their return.
—In making an appeal to his delinquent
subscribers to come and settle, a Mifflin county
editor explains that a cow walked intohis yard
and devorred his white vest, whieh his wife
had washed and hung up with out knowing
that the pockets contained 814.
—The body of Rernard Nitz, a tramp, pre-
suinably a resident of Rock Island, Ill, was
found alongside the Pennsylvania Railroad
tracks on Saturday. in his pockets were $50 in
cash and a certificate of deposit showing a bal-
ance of $350 in the Rock Island National Bank,
organized at Norristown, with a capital of
$150,000, to refine oil at the Slemmer Brothers .
—White Caps have warned Frank Yitter, of"
———