Pune RR RA en Ed
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
AND THE ELEPHANTS
———————
Father and Son Proud of Big
Game Trophies.
————
a a
ogre
Huge Skulls Of The Mammals Car-
ried To Camp By Eight Porters
The Trip Over “Man Summit,”
8,800 Feet, Highest Point On The
Railway — Program For Party's
Trip Down The Nile To Cairo—
Scenes In African Wilds.
Nairobi, British East Africa (Spec-
fal) ——Colonel Roosevelt and R. J.
Cunninghame arrived at Nairvasha
on October 20 from an extended hunt,
looking brown and feeling well,
They were delighted with their ex-
pedition and Colonel Roosevelt sald
that both he and Kermit were proud
of having got their elephants, and
especially proud that they had each
got one when they were unaccompan-
fed by such experienced hunters as
Cunninghame and Tarlton. The skins
of the elephants and the skulls and
bones were brought in by porters
The hugh skulls were carried by
eight porters, with reliefs of eight
more every now and then. The loads
were suspended from long poles.
Sir Perry Girourd, the governor
of the protectorate, who was on his
way to Uganda, stopped to pay his
respects to the former President of
the United States. The following
day the Roosevelt party proceded to
Nairobi. There the station was
erowded with officials and settlers
Lord Delamere was among those to
greet the eéx-President and they stood
for a few minutes discussing his pro-
posed visit to Lord Deamere's ranch
at Njoro on his return from the
Guaso Nguisho.
On Monday, the 25th, the party
left again for Londiani, from which
place the start for the Guaso Nguisho
was to be made On this trip the
party passed over the “Mau Summit,”
8,300 feet, the highest point on the
railway. Thence it was a gradual
descent to Londiani. The following |
day Edmund Heller, Kermit Roosge- |
velt and Leslie A. Tarlton started for
Eldama Ravine, and were followed]
ghortly afterward by Colonel Roose-|
velt. The journey to their shooting
place will ocuppy one week and they
will spend three weeks shooting]
there. Colonel! Roosevelt's hunt at
Njoro with Lord Delamere, in De-
cember, will end his first African |
hunting. Then on fer Uganda and
Jown the Nile to Cairo.
NECK BROKEN: RECOVERS.
Octogenarian Gets Well After Re- |
markable Treatment, ;
Norwalk, O. Consider- |
ing his age, the recovery of George |
Morey, aged 81 years, from a broken
neck, is regarded by physicians as
one of the most remarkable incidents
Morey is a farm.
and has been
{ Special)
of surgical history,
er living near
noted for his unusual activity A
month ago he was thrown against
the side of his barn while pushing
a heavy wagon into the structure and!
his neck was broken at the second
and third vertebrae, i
Morey has since been kept in a
reclining position with his head held |
rigid, and his physician announced |
that the vertebrae are practically]
mended and that Morey will be able]
to soon go around as usual
i —
here
THEIR BODIES BURNED.
Reported Disposition Of Remains Of |
Groce And Cannom,
New Orleans (Special).—The bod.- |
jes of Leroy Cannon and Leonard |
Groce, the two Americans executed |
by order of President Zelaya, of Nie-|
aragua, were burned, declared pas- |
gsengers arriving here from Nicara- |
guan ports on the steamer Dictator. |
It was reported that (néineration |
of identification. Afterwards, itl was |
gaid, Zelaya found it was impossible
to conceal the fact that the Ameri-
cans had been killed, and was forced
to make a report to this effect to;
the State Department at Washington, |
Slain Over Taft's Religion,
Macon, Ga, (Special).—8ol. Brown
is dead and Andrew McCrary fatally |
wounded, following a quarrel at
Pleasant Hill Church, near here, over
the religion of President Taft. After
services were over Sunday and the |
congregation was going home Brown,
McCrary, Wheeler and others began
to discuss Taft's religious views, Ar-
gument became so heated that Brown
and McCrary attacked Wheeler, who!
drew a pitsol and killed Brown and
mortally wounded McCrary. Wheel.
er escaped.
Two Dead In Cavein.
Detroit, Mich. {Special}. —Jullus
C. Zander, a contractor, and John
Luski, a digger, were buried alive
by the eaving-in of a sewer trench in
which they were working, near the
intersection of the Western and
Lafayette boulevards. Their bodies
were found at a depth of 17 feet aft.
er half an hour's digging.
Woman Kills Chicken Thief,
Chicago (Special).~-Mrs. Mary
Jones, whose chicken coop had been
looted seven times recently, answer.
ed the call of a burglar alarm that
she had placed in the coop to detect
further depredations, and with a re-
volver shot a n whom she saw
by the light of moon. crouching
near the chicken-coop door. Neigh.
hom, stoused Ny he 3 hot, ran to
with a bullet in his head. A re-
volver, a jimmy and sack
Wy beside him.
EL
INVOLVES ABOUT FIFTY-IWO LINES.
Railred Trainmen's Brotherhood
About to Act.
Officials Of The Northern Pacific
And Great Northern Declare The
Weather Is Holding Them Up
More Than The Strike—President
Of Switchmen's Union Receives
Word That “The Men in The East
Are Ready To Strike On Short
Notice,
New York (Special).-——At a cob-
ference of the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen held here, Grand
Master Le and Fifth Vice President
Murdock were named as a committee
to decide whether the men shall go
out or remain at work in case the
demand which they will shortly Jre-
sent to 62 Eastern railroads for a
10 per cent. increase in pay is re-
fused. It is expected that the final
schedule of grievances will be In the
hands of the railroad managers on
Thursday or Friday of this week,
The following statement was Is-
sued at the close of the conference:
“Before a general strike can be
ordered it must have the official
sanction of the grand master. In
the event of the refusal of the de-
mands a poll will be taken for the
purpose of re-indorsing the demands,
in order that the general strike,
when called, may be unanimous and
effective. The demand has already
been indorsed once by more than
a two-thirds vote of the member-|
ship. {
“The movement planned will have!
nothing in common with the gen-|
eral strike being conducted at pres-|
ent by the Switchmen's Union of
North. America, which is distinctly
a rival and an enemy of the Brother-
hood of Railroad Trainmen.”
This statement represents
000 switchmen and trainmen,
101.-4
Five Hundred Poisoned. |
Berlin (Special). — Five hundred
and forty-seven patients in the asy-|
lum at Friedrichsberg, near Ham-|
burg, are ill from the effects of poi-
soned rice, which is supposed to have
been given to them by one of the
employes Two patients have died|
eating the poisoned food and
cases are considered hopeless
} were not
analyzed,
68
Italian Cabinet Crisis,
Rome (Special).—The cabinet
Premier Giolitti resigned following
the failure of the Chamber of Depu-
to pass bill presented by!
government a8 4 measure of fis-
reform The government had
the reduction of indirect
taxation on necessiti the joss of
revenue from this source to be offset
of
the
the
Lig]
For Municipal
New York (Special) - Plans
the $7,500,000 municipal
building were approved by the Board
of Estimate and contracts for the
work will be let within a few days
This great structure, which will
house most of the city departments,
will be erected near the Brooklyn
Bridge and will have 650,000 feet
of floor space It will be 550 feet
high
Skycraper,
for
25-8tory
Get Raise Without Asking.
Pittsburg (Special). —A voluntary
increase of 10 per cent to 1,000
men has been announced by the Dun.
bar Furnace Company, operating
coke ovens in the Connellsville (Pa.) |
district.
D'Abruzzi Gets New Post,
venice (Special).—The Duke of
the Abruzzi has been appointed di-!
rector-general of the arsenal here
and shortly will take up his abode
in the Royal Palace in Venice.
BY TELEGRAPH |
Orders have been issued to Uni-|
ted States warships in Niaragua wo |
ters to prevent any attempt of Presi- |
dent Zelaya to escape from the coun-|
try, as he is charged by this gov-|
ernment with murder. Agents of |
Zelaya are in Washington to appeal |
to have set aside Secretary Knox's |
ultimatum,
Representative Tawney, chairman
of the House Committees on ADpro-
priations, stated that the government
expenditures must be kept within the
revenues,
George Curry, recently resigned as
governor of New Mexico, urges Sec-
retary Ballinger to aid In having
Congress raise the territory to state-
hood.
The five members of the crew of
the gunboat Marietta, who were fost
seven days ago in a whaleboat, have
not been found.
President Taft has accepted an in-
vitation to address the convention
of the National Civic Federation in
January.
Warships started for Nicaragua on
both the Atlantic and Pacific sides,
while the auxiliary cruiser Prairie,
with Admiral Kimball and 700
marines aboard, salled from Philadel.
phia, but went aground in the Dela-
ware.
John R. Early, as to whose leprosy
the Washington health authorities
and Dr. Bulkeley, of New York, dif-
fered, returned to Washington and
was at once arrested.
President Taft named a committee
to ralse a permanent endowment
fund for the American Red Cross,
Representative Tawney has again
taken up his fight against the bond-
co les,
M.
in
wi
0 1K ll
J. PIERPONT HORGAN
GET THE EQUITABLE
Now in Control of That Life
Assurance Company.
BUYS ALL OF T. F. RYAN'S STOCK.
Transfer Marks A Reversal Of Old
Order In Which Insurance Com-
panies Controlled The Destinies Of
Banks And Trust Companies
President Morton And Officers
Surprised-—Price Paid For Stock
Is Not Announced,
New York (Special).—Control of
the Equitable Life Assurance Soci-
ety, which was secured by Thomas
F. Ryan soon after the Insurance
scandals of some years ago, has pass-
ed J. Plerpont Morgan with the
$472,000,000 of assets which the
company declared in its last state-
ment. The transfer, apart from its
magnitude as a chapter in the his-
tory of finance, marks a complete
reversal of the old order under
which the insurance companies con-
trolled the destinies of the banks and
trust companies
News of the transfer was contain-
ed In the following brief statement
issued from the offices of Morgan &
Co.
“Mr. Morgan has bought the ma-
jority of the stock of the Equitable
Assurance Society, formerly
owned by Thomas F. Ryan, This
der which Grover Cleveland, Morgan
J. O'Brien and George Westinghouse
were made voting trustees for the
benefit of policy-holders, and it cov-
all the stock purchased by him from
Hyde."
Beyond these bare facts Mr. Mor-
gan and his pertners declined to
give any detalls. The exact amount
price they pald remain for subse-
quent announcement Nor would
they name any other interests allied
with them, although it is commonly
understood in Wall Street that
least one large trust company may
is obtained.
of the trust
in Mr.
Under the terms
agreement referred
gan’'s announcement the
could not be sold without the econ-
gent of the surviving trustees, whose
until June 15
might continue the
another five
to
who
for
next, and
agreement
they saw fit
busy men
have served
it
and as they
the soclety without pay
been taken for granted
would willing to pass
that
on
they
be
if
without
Prior
confirmation of transfer,
neither Mr. Westinghouse nor Mr
O’Brien would discuss either its de-
tails or ita possibilities
MIXUP
they
found they could do go
the
IN RELATIONSHIP,
Marriages And Divorces Cause A
Stirap In Weaver Family.
Peru, Ind {Special)
of
in
this
relatives the vicinity of
county, are having
lationship About two years ago
William Weaver and his wife, Em-
their oldest child being a daughter
About the 1st of ‘August, 1808,
January. The oldest Weaver daugh-
ter married her stepfather's brother,
thus becoming her mother’s sister
The daughter's hus-
marriage, became his sister-in-law's
BALLOON UNDER FIRE.
Withstood For
shower Of Bursting Shrannel,
New York {Special).—A big Army
balloon which was sent up at the
stood for several hours a shower of
hursting shrapnel fired at it at in-
tervals from the fort.
Officers at Fort Hancock declined
to discuss the test, but spectators
with glasses were able to see that the
pasbag was not damaged. This was
ered to the proving grounds at dusk.
Several days ago a balloon was
hit by cannon shot from Fort Han-
cock and was seen to collapse and
fall. The tests are being conducted
as secretly as possible, with a view
of perfecting the Army in the rudil-
ments of aeril warfare,
Gets Half Million Endowment,
Durham, N. C. (8pecial) Trinity
College is to be endowed with half a
million dollars from the instituion of
a medical, pharmaceutical and dental
department in connection with the
school, The donors are the Dukes,
millionaire tobacco men, who alread
have given more than a million dol-
lars to the institution. The purpose
in view is to build up an educational
institution equal to any in the North,
—————————
Business Women Want Votes,
Berlin (Special). ~~ Seven mass
meotings of business women were
held and passed resolutions demand
ing votes for women in connection
with the election of the judges for
CHARGE RODRIGUES
"BETS HS PASSPORT
Zelaya Responsible For Killing
of Americans.
The Secretary Of State Sends A
Vigorous Note To Nicaragua's
Official Representative Severing
Diplomatic Relations With That
Country—Declares Zelaya's Re-
gime A Blot Upon Nicaragua's
History And A Menace To Central
America—Will Hold Both
tions To Accountability.
Washington, D. CC. (Special).—
Secretary of State Knox returned
the passports of Felipe
charge d'affaires of the
nouncing the Zelayan
tion of the government of Nicaragua.
The letter is definitely declared to
represent the views of President
Taft, and is about
as anything
State
emanating
Department in
The extraordinary
letter is that it seems to
an intention on the part of the Uni-
ted States to hold Presilent
from the
many Years
feature
execution of
and Groce,
and
Cannon
ed torture
Americans, and
tive of another practically as a com
mon malefactor Zelaya is branded
as a violator of solemn international
THS WAS A BIC
YEAR FOR THE FARMER
Se¢retary Wilson Declares It a
Record-breaker.
{Head Of The Agricultural Depart.
ment Sabmits His Annual Report
And Presents Some Large Fig-
ares To Prove His Statement
Price Of Beef Has Risen—Gross
Profit Smaller In Baltimote Than
Any Other City—Farm Products
Have Increased In Value,
eo
all
f
D
of
{ Special)
vears is
entitled
Secretary
Washington,
Most prosperous the
in
of
i place to which 1509 is
i agriculture, declares the
Agriculture in his thirteenth annual
report, just made public The value
of farm products is so incomprehen-
‘wibly large that it has become mepe-
{ly a row of figures For this year
iit is $8.7 a gain of
{$868.000,000 over The value
fof the products has nearly
ifn 10 years The report
i “Eleven years of agriculture,
ining with a production of $4 .417.-
000.000 and ending with $58.760,.
600.000 A sum of $70,000,000,000
for the period! it has paid off
mortgages: it has established banks;
it has made better homes: it has
helped to make the farmer a citizen
lof the world, and it has provided
{him with means for improving his
{ soil and making it more productive.”
i "The most striking fact in the
world's agriculture is the value of
ithe corn crop for 1808, which is
about $1,720,000,000, it nearly
80 000 G00,
190%
1808
RAYE
i personal adornments of 76,000,000
i people, according
11800.
{ bullion of the United States are not
| of greater value. It has grown up
{from the soil and out of the air
{in 120 days—3$15,000,000 a day for
{one crop, nearly enough for two
| ing years by 36 per cent.
i and this
iia easily
With cotton lint selling at 13.7
cents on the farm November 1 and
with cottonseed selling for about
$25 per tom, the lint and seed of
this crop are worth about $850,000,
{000 to the farmer. No cotton crop
isince 1873 has been sold by farm-
as this one.
i
conventions, a disturber of the na-
tional and international peace, a
tyrant whose administration has been
a blot upon the name of good gov-
ernment,
Becretary Knox vitually ancunces
the recognition of the Nicaraguan
revolutionists, declares it to be the
conviction of the United States that
| the revolution represents the senti-
| ments of a majority of the Nicara-
{ guan people, and that there is evi.
{dently no responsible governmeat
| with which the United Btates can
| deal, He, therefore, announces that
' all parties will be held accointable
for their actions as affecting the in-
| terests of Americans and the peace of
| Central America. He further informs
{| Benor Rodriguez that while he has
i lost his diplomatic quality, ‘he may
| stil] serve as an “unofficial” chan-
i nel of communication with the fac
{ tion which he is regarded as repre-
senting.
|
the crisis as nea;
| the status of war as ft could
brought by executive action wit
a definite declaration by both hous
of Congress.
Mr. Knox's
This brings
be §
all but
letter In
| States with the single exception
| entirely dominated by Zelaya, Mexi-|
{ eo has all along shown its sympathy |
{ resentatives of the United States in|
Nicaragua now enjoy it not Jefinitely |
explained It is expected, however, !
that Vice Consul Caldéra, who
. been occupying the legation in Mana.
gua, together with other consuls in|
that country, will be given their pass
{ ports. This is the usual method
tween governments
orth
and
Third in value is wheat, Ww
about $725.000,000 at the farm,
this largely exceeds all previous val- |
ues. The November farm price was
almost an ev dollar a bushel, a
price which has not equalled
since 1851 This is the third wheat
crop in point of size, 7
600 bushels
The hay crop valued at $665, -
G00. 000: oats at $400,000, 100 poO-
tatoes at $212,060,000, and tobacco
t nearly $1¢ 0
cane sugar and molasses
from farm and
the total of abo $45
barley crop is worth
flaxseed $36.000,000 and
000 pounds of rice $25,000,000
Interesting Comparisons,
en
been
with 725,000,
in
Beet and
EyYrusn.,
reach
a 0.0060 00
and
will
iGO 000 The
$88,
1.600.000
factory,
1
it
G00 G00
production of all the
4.7111
A o his
ICTrRbiy
The cereals
combined
An amount consl
any other
codes the
06 040 bushels,
greater than
180%
pre-
VERT except
It exc average of the
ceding fi years by 6.5
The value of all cereals in
never been equaled in a
YOAr it ia almost exactly
000.000, or 34 per cent
AVETARC
w
vo Ye per cent
1909 has
previous
$3,001
above the
|
Car
§1 4
ith
the
ears, all
average of th
principal ¢rops
th
Compared w
previous five y
are greater in quantity
jeept cotton, flaxseed, hop
but without
worth more
‘
is year ex-
cane
every
8 and
Ox option
¥
SURAT.
ig to the farmer
This is the year of highest produc.
tion for potatoes, 1oback EUBAr
all sugar, and rice; next to the kigh-
est production for coan, onts and all
cereals Compared with 1508, gains
in value are found all along the
line, the exceptions being barley,
buckwheat, rye and milk The in-|
crease for cotton, line and seed is!
$208,000,000: wheat, $107,000,000; |
corn, $105,000,000: $29,000,000:
oate, $22,000,000; tobacco, $18.000.- |
000; potatoes, $15,000,000
The increase in the value of farm |
OQ, beng
products this years over 1908, $869.
000,000, is enough to buy a new!
equipment of farm machinery for
over 6 000,000 farms. The value of |
the cereal crops to the farmer would
pay for all the machinery tools and |
ing industry. The value of all crops,
payment on the value of all steam
railroads, according to the valuation
of 1904.
Secretary Wilson concludes his re-'
1509 as’
Pollows:
“The agricultural production of
1909 must add much to the prosper- |
fty of farmers. The record is un<|
Year
by year the farmer is better and bet-|
ter prepared to provide the capital
and make the expenditures needed |
to improve his agriculture and to
educate his children for farm life
and work.”
i
ss——_
Fourth Member Of Family To Meet
A Tragic Death.
Forest, Miss. (Special).—News
reached here that Dr. Clay Hender-
son, a prominent physician of Leake
County, was shot and killed by Bell
Hudson, . his brother-in-law, near
Zion, 20 miles north of here.
The killing occurred at the home
of Hudson,
Dr. Henderson is ‘the fourth of
five brothers to meet a tragic death,
A few years ago Dr. Tom Henderson
was shot and killed by a man named
Morehead, near Zion. A short time
afterward another brother was mor-
tally wounded by the accidental dis-
charge of a revolver. About a year
ago a third brother died after swal-
lowing ecarbolic acid by mistake.
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE.
The Pennsylvania Railroad in Oc-
tober earned more than in any other
month in its history with just
ons in 1907.
Norfolk and Western's gross earn-
gained 20 per cent.
Dying, Accused Suitor.
Tampa, Fla (Special). — Marie
Acosta, a widow, died of burns said
by her to have been inflicted by a
rejected suitor, Miguel Gomez, who
is under arrest. The young woman
declared that she had rejected Go-
mez's suit and that he, with two con-
federates forcibly entered her home
fn West Tampa, bound her hand and
foot, saturated her clothing with
gasoline and set her on fire,
—— DL AAA
Roosevelt Had “Bully” Time.
l.ondiana, British East Africa
{8pecial) Colonel Roosevelt, Ker
mit Roosevelt, Edmund Heller and
Leslie A. Tarlton arrived here from
Guas Inghisu Plateau, All are in
splendid health. The former Presi
dent is greatly elated over the sue
cess of the hunt on the plateau.
AM A MII
W. C. Lilley Short $21,034.84.
Pittsburg (Special), — Willlam C.
Lilley, former treasurer of the Pitts
, who disappeared
mber 29, is short
$21,034.84 accounts to the
church, according to a statement giv.
en out at a meeting of the board
trustees of the presbytery, after
Jeg of
committee | ted to in
Lilley's affairs. The
receivin
not waether or
—
THE HOUSE OF LORDS
FORCE A CRISIS
Reject the Financial budget By
a Big Vote.
HAVE PUT 17 UP 10 THE COUNTRY,
May. Involve Great Changes lo The
Briitish Constitution—The Advices
And Warning Of Some Of the Olde
est And Ablest Peers Disregaed-
ed——One Of The Most Hemarkabie
Figits That Ever Taken
Place Between Two Houses
Of Parliament,
Has
The
THE BILL AND THE VOTE.
The British Ho
vole 350 Lo
financial budget
the country ¢
theory made it il
faxes
According to the
pensions and
Dreadnoughis
of $78,810,000
Diminution in value of foreign
trade returns $570,000,000 a=
compared with 1907
Principal levies included increased
income taxes, tates and
legacies duties and stamp axes
on sales of property
House of passed
budget by 378 to 149
Nationalists abglained
voting as ration of war
against t House of Lords
The effect will be a bitter fight of |}
the English people for the abo
litlon of the House of lLovds
ise of lords by a
15 rejected the
referred iL to
thereby in
to collect
of
oid age
building of |
deficit
budget
the
caused a
death oF
O
Commons the
The
{from
a dec]
London
of the pr
procs
aA
chamber, and
disregard of
ablest and
Rosebery,
Hereford,
Bar
the advice of
odest members
Motley, Lord
Lord Cromer,
leigh, the Earl
the Arc ishops { Canter
of Lords
yrecedented in
English histor) { least in 300 years,
f nt to the budg-
the country
reliy, in theo.
¢ 1 iaxes
nment
olable for
Oradory, as
convincing
glides for
placing
as pots
yuecsiions
iz cleared
o'clock
ve, but In
that the
utmost ea
glrange
» benches ow
numbers of
in the House
1 wi
bury, i ¥ «
created a sit
1
t+
q
» was packed
and a great
faces were seen on
fing to the
peers who on
r of
resence oO
IPeAT
in noanoed.
58 to 75
a few
When
just before ne
in favor of the amend?
mixed cheers = beard Owing to
the crowded state of the chamber
the tellers had some difficulty in fore
ing thelr way through to Lord Lore
burn, Jord high chancelior. The
Ear! of Crewe immediately moved an
adjournment and the House rose
fhe was
eh
ent,
Te
GLAD TO BE ARRESTED.
Wanted In South Carolina, Man ¥ad
Been A Wanderer,
Camden. N. J. (Special) — Want
ed on a charge of emberzling about
$10,000 while cashier of the Lake
ley was found working for Hymas
Admitting his identity, the prison
“1 am glad I've been caught. ¥'we
been traveling around the world us
til my money is gone, and for the
past few davs I have been consifler
ing the advisability of returning
He ig being held to awall esirs
ESCAPES ARREST BY DYING.
Alleged Bigamist A Suicide As OF
ficer Knocks.
Dresden, Tenn. (Special). —Whes
Everett Hynde a young farmer, liv
ing in the county near here, heard
some one demand admittance at his
door, he fired a builst into his bent
and fell dead across the sleeping
form of his wife of one week.
Hynds was expecting arrest on a
charge of bigamy, arising from a»
alleged marriage he contracted at
Fulton, Ky.
The man who knocked proved to
be an officer with & bigamy warrant
for Hynds.
Lafayette, Tenn (Special). — Dr.
WwW. BE. King, a well-known physician,
wag shot from ambush and instastly
killed while riding on horseback
peross the public square. No one
witnessed the shooting, though sev
eral persons heard the shots. It is
known that King had enemies who
had threatened to kill him om se
count of domestic troubles,
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Bradford, Ark.
street duel with knives at Allels,
near here Miss Nora Owens was
stabbed over the heart and killed
by Miss Stella Belk. Both young
women were prominent in the town
some time had been bitter
When t met