tHCA-H/VET?" SICKT ■ BR, Proprletori] NEW SERIES, ffortji tattlj pfnwcrat A. weekly Democratic paper, devoted to Pol tics, News, the Arts (4 '1 and Sciences Ac. Pub- |J, ; ! J jSf ' J. lished every Wednes- r p day, at Tunkhannock, § $ TCIEA-I I BY HARVEY SICKLER. ~ Terms —1 copy 1 year, (in advance) 51.50. If not pain within six months, S'i.oo will be charged. ADVEIITISirJG. 10 lines or| > less, make three ' four \ two 12^00'17.00< 25.00 | do. 8,00! 9,50, 14,00; 18,00 25,00 33,00 1 do. 10,00,12,00! 17,00 22,00 28,00 40,' '0 Wusiuess Cards of one square, with paper, S3. JOE WOEK of all kinds neatly executed, aud at prices to sui the times. I 9 IJusiiifss jlotiffS. BACON STAND.—Nicholson, Da. C. L JACKSON, Proprietor. [vlnl9tf] HS. COOPER, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County I'a. GIN). S. TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tunkhannock, Pa. Office in Stark's Buck Block, Tioga street. •fTTM. M. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT I.AW, Of- V ficc in Stark's Brick Block, Tioga, St., Tunk hannock, Pa. T ITTI.E HEWITT, ATTORNEY'S AT lj LAW, Office on Tioga street, Tunkhannock, Pa. K. R. LITTLE. ,t. TIE WITT. JV. SMITH, M. 11. PHYSICIAN .v SURGEON, • Office on Bridge Street, next door to the Demo crat Offico, Tunkhannock, Pa. HARVEY" BICKLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW and GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT Of fice, Bridge street, opposite Wall's Hotel, Tuukhun nr.k Pa. if - W. RIIOAES, M. D., (Graduate oj the University oj Fcnn'a.) Respectfully offers his professional services to the eitiions of Tunkhannock and vicinity. He can be ♦bund, when not professionally engaged, either at his Drug Store, or at his resideuee on Putnam Street. JM. CAREY, M. I). — (Graduate of the E. • M. Institute, Cincinnati) would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wyoming an 1 Luzerne Ceunties, that he continues his regular practice in the various departments of his profession. May t>e found Bt his office or residence, when not professionally ab sent [ '(f Particular attention given to the treatmtri. Chronic Disens. Centremoreland, Wyominsr Co. Pa.—v2n2. DR. J. C. BECKER A Co., PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS, Wonld respectfully announce to the citizen? of Wy oming that they have located at Mchoopany, where they will promptly attend to all calls in the live of their profession. May be found at his Drug Store when not professionally absent. DR. J. C. CORSEI.IUS, HAVING LOCAT ED AT THE FALLS, WILL promptly attend all calls in the line of his profession—may he found fit Bewmer's Hotel, when not professionally absent. Falls, Oct. 10, 1861. WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. Tlllfl establishment has recently been refitt<*i and furnished in the latest style Every attention will he given to the comfort and convenience of those "Jo patronize the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor. Tunkhannock, September 11, 1861. FIORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA j (tILEY W ARNER, Frop'r. CJAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above xl Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to tender the house an agreeable place of sojourn for who may favor it with their custom. RILEY WARN LB. I _eeptember 11, 1861. MAYN ARC'S HOTEL, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING COUNTY, PENNA. JO K N MAYNA KI) , Proprietor. HAVING taken the Hotel, in the Borough of Tunkhannock. recently occupied by Riley ffarner, tho proprietor respectfully solicits a share ot public patronage. The House has been thoroughly epaired, an l the comforts and accomodations of a first class Hotel, will be found by all who may favor with their custom. September 11, 1861. M. OILMAN, 9ENTIST, *• ' v*" - ' M OILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk • hannock Borough, and respectfully tenders his Professional services to the citizens of this place and surrounding country. , ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS FACTION. Psf* Office over Tutton's Law Office, near th e Pos Office. _ Dw. 11, 1861. : Blanks !! Blanks ! !! BLANK DEEDS SUMMONSES SUBPCENAES EXECUTIONS CONSTABLE'S SALES Justioe's, Constable's, and legal Blanks of all kinds, Neatly and Correctly printed on good Paper, find fr sate at the Office of the " Branch Democrat." * LIME FOR FARMERS, AS A FERTILIZER for sale at VBRNOY'S. Mcshoppcn, Sept. 18. 1861. Comet THE OUTCAST. BY DAVID CRARY, JR. Beneath this bridge The river runs, Only a ridge Its feHaaowc low Of misty damps, Of one d ark scene, Of deathly cramps, And then all's still : Fit grave for me an outcast from the world. The night is dark— The otarlcss sky Locks like a park Of gloomy clouds. The damp night-air Chills through my frame, And streams my hair Like ribands torn. Fit tlrhe to die, an outcast from the world. Most dreadful deep The current runs; Like troubled sleep On feathered down, In swiftest speed Its waters flow ; Soon wilt thou feed. Thou awful stream Upon my form, an outcast from the world. No sound is heard, Save dolefui notes Of that lone bird The whippoorwill; It sings a dirge my heart — . A solemn "dirge For my dark soul— A sinner's soul, an outcast from the world. Into the grave I soon shall go; Whope both the brave And coward sleep. And why not, I, A friendless one, Shut from the eye Of this cold world ? No one to love, an outcast from the world. No brother hare, No sister there, No mother dear. No fathers love. An orphan child ; A heart that' 6 wrung To deeds so wild, That nought cab save The dark soul of the outcast from the world. To-morrow morn, The sailors glim Will find forlorn A marble corpse ; On ! let it drift Adown the stream, While currents swift Drift to the sea The body of the outcast from the wcrld. Dark waves, thou'lt tell No gloomy tale, When I shall dwell In thy recess; And thou dark weeds Twine round my form, And crown my deeds With slimy crown— Fit crown for me, an outcast from the world. Farewell to thee, Cold-hearted world! Thou'lt not miss one, 'Mongst thy great throngs! Farewell to all! My eyes grow dim— I see my pall Beneath]the bridge! Ood save my soul l ad outcast from the world. llfotdkitMnß. Dying Soldier's Story. BY ISAAC N. COLTRIN. " Comrade, raise my head a little higher.— Let me sea your kindly eyes, and clasp your inanly hand. My moments are but few.— I shall soon be a ghastly corpse, like one of those that now surround me. I have long since grown weary of life, and earnestly Sought and prayed for death. Listen to me I will relate ta you a sad and terrible story : "On the sea-washed Coabt of Galway stands a large and gloomy mansioa, and there was 1 born—the only son of the proud Sir Hugh de Lacy, and the heir to all his vast estates. My infancy—but I will not weary you with useless details ; suffice it to say that my mother was almost as proud and stern as my father. Their habits seemed to impregnate everybody and everything around them with gloom and sadness. The servants moved noiselessly and rarely spoke, except in whispers. It is little wonder that I grew up to boyhood silent, meditative, and melan choly. tt was decided by my parents that I should enter the army on reaching my eight eenth year, I cared little—l merely acqui esced in their decision. "At lenght I reached that period of my life. To be frank With you, I was glad to look forward to the day that would release me from the chilling thralldom of that som bre mansion. I never loved my parents with a love that such relationship demanded— "TO SPEAK IIIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 1862. their chilliness ropelled me, and the feelingß of love and affection were allowed to remain dormant within my breast. A lieutenant's coramisssion in the —th regiment was ob tained for me. A few day 6 before I was to join my regiment, I rambled forth among the cliffs that overlooked the sea. The day was calm and beautiful, scarce a ripple ruflled-ithe bosom of the ocean, and the sun sinking in the west threw a crimson glare over the sur face that rendered the scene indescribably gorgeous and enchanting. " While gazing and ruminating, a loud and pierceing shriek of distress broke the still ness of the air. I saw the flutter of a white garment iu the sea; I hastened to the spot Npd sprung ; n—she sunk ere I reached her— she rose, and I grasped her inanimate form, and reached the shore in safety with my precions burden. Precious! precious indeed comrade. Lying upon my breast unconscious, the declining sun throwing its mellow rays all around us, she looked like a peri dreaming of her grottoes and arbors beneath the deep blue sea. She was was one of the most beau tiful creatures I ever 6aw. Imagine to your self a faultless blonde, and you have the pic ture of my lost angel. Assistance soon reach ed U3, and she was conveyed to her father's house. By interrogating the villagers, I learned that 6ho was the daughter of Mr. Eitzgerald, the village curate ; they all loved her, and never mentioned her name without invoking her blessing. The next day I call ed upon Madaline Fitzgerald. She received mo with becoming modesty, a:vl thanked me sweetly and earnestly for the service 1 had rendered her, in which sho was joined by the kind aad venerable curate. If is enough to say that 6oon fondly loved Madaline Fitz gerald, and 'hat she reciprocated rny passion. By many excuses, I delayed joining my reg iment. Days, weeks—ay, months—slipped happily by. At length, yielding to my ur gent entreaties, she accompanied ine to a neighboring village, where we were secretly married. *' At last, too soon came the day that we "must part. My regiment was ordered to In dia to assist iu quelling the terrible Sepoy revolt, aud 1 was ordered to report at head quarters immediately. There was no diso beying this summons, and we had to part.— I pictured to her that it would not be long ore I returned—that I should proudly pro claim her before the world as my cherished beautiful bride, and that we should live so happily. Ay, dear comrade,* I told her we should live so happily. She smiled amid her tears, and kissed me o'er and o'er. At last I tore myself away ; I to rush into the smoke and cra>h of battle, and she to remain and comfort her venerable father, who had lost the dear partner of his bosom while Mada lfne was but an infant. ***** •' Well, comrade, I served through that horrible and bloody Indian campaign—was with Mlavelock at Lucknow, and in every other important engagement. But while friends died around me, smitten by fell dis ease, or were struck down by the fatal bul let, I escaped, unscratched ! The memory of my sainted Madaline sustained me through every 6oene of hardship and danger. It seem ed like her love threw around me a shield that made me invulnerable. At length the Sepoys were quelled and subdued, and my regiment was ordered homo. Joyful, joyful news to me then ; but 'twere far better had I been left with the dead ! After a long, and tome, weaiis<>me voyage, I reached home.— I had bee i gazetted to a captaincy. " I almost flevv up the rocky path leading to my darling's cottage. I peeped in through the tellised window—she was sealed in the little parlor, weeping. I rushed in, and clasped her in my arms. She uttered a loud scream, and fainted. She soon revived ; and then I learned that her kind father had died during my absence. My presence, however, dispelled her sorrow and gloom, and we were happy—very happy. Such a paradise on earth for me could not last long. " I told her that the day wa3 not far off when I would openly proclaim her my wife. I proceeded to the sombre mansion of my pa rents. Its gloom chilled me. I entered the boudoir of my mother. She arose, and cold ly kissed me, and 6aid I looked handsome in my uniform. " ' Lady Blanche,' 6he said would make a fitting wife, indeed, for you." Lady Blanche ! who could she be '/ I car ed not ; Madaline was mine. " My father entered, and greeted me in his stern, proud way, and coldly, yet kindly, con gratulated me on my promotion. It only re mained for me, he said, to contract a noble matrimonial alliance, to gild my future life with honor. I listened, with an aching heart, and, making some excuse, left the apartment. " Thus it continued for some time. Days and weeks happily glided by. I was seldom absent from Madaline, living in the'sunlight of her glorious love. Ah. comrade ! these were happy days—alas! too soon to be blasted ! " There were visitors at the mansion. The Lady Templeton and her regal, beautiful daughter Blanche, for whom half the titled aristocracy cf the English metropolis were languishing for even one of her smiles. Sho " was a superb creature, faultlessly formed— her dark, flashing eyes and raven trcssos would have excited admiration in the bosom of the coldest anchorite. Comrade, I know that you will acquit me with all feelings of vanity—now calmly awaiting approaching death—when I tell you that I believe she loved me. She appeared to seek and desire my company. I, on tho contrary, avoided her ; and she appeared hurt by my conduct and seeming indifference. Had I never met Madaline, it is more than probable I should have loved her. As it was, I could not. So matters went on. " One day, my father called me into the li brary. lie asked me the cause of my cold ness toward the Lady Blanche. He said he knew that she loved me, aud that I must not throw away lightly such a splendid chance for a high alliance. He told me the lady in tended remaining but a short time, and that I must instantly propose to her. Disguise was now useless. I told hitti all—my mar raige to Madaline, and my love for her. I never saw, and never again hope to see, such an expression of rage and hate as 6wept across his countenance. With a face perfectly livid he shrieked lorth ! '•' Dog ! base, ungrateful dog ! leave the house you have disgraced! Go, and be hap py, if you can, with your beggar-wife ! Be gone Never darken my door with your presence!" " I did not deign to vouch a single word in reply; I almost joyously left the hated and gloomy mansion, and hastened to the cottage of my Madalone. Tho same evening I received a letter from iny mother, stating that she fully approved of my fat.ier's con duct, and that, from that moment, she would only regard me as an utter stranger. A day or two afterwards, Lady Templeton and her daughter Blanche rerurned to London. " I resigned my commission in the army s determined hereafter to devote iny life to Madaline. Being now of age, I inherited an income of three hundred pounds a year from a deceased relative ; our wants were few, and | my income was amply sufficient to enable us to live very happy indeed. These were tru ly happy days, comrade ! The peaceful tran quility in which we lived seemed a perfect heaven on earth. " One morning I left her to visit s friend who lived about twelve miles up the sea coast She kissed me tenderly and bale uie return soon. "It was nighijwhen I returned. I entered her parlor :It was deserted ! I called loudly on Madeline :no voice replied. The echoes I awakened seemed to mock me. I sat down to collect my scattered senses. Her piano was open, with the music lying on it, as though she had just quitted it. I burst into tears. They brought me relief; and I began to ponder calmly over the mystery connected with her disappearance. I knew that some dark treachery had been at work, and I sus pccted my parents of instigating the foul deed. It suddenly flashed upon iny mind that I had lately seen Richard Visiner— a morose and sullen Englishman, employed by my father as steward—prowling about my dwelling. I rushed forth and saddled my gallant steed, and galloped madly to my parents mansion- On reaching there, I rushed into the study where my parents were seated. They started as I entered ! " Where—where is my wife ?' I asked, im ploringly. If ye possess not the hearts of fiends, tell me and do not drive me mad !' " My father arose, and in cold and chilling accents thus addressed me : "What means this ill-timed intrusion? What think you we know of your wife, but sho has left you for some more favored suitor? Call up your pride, renounce her, and return to your parents and your home." " 'Tis a lie as black as hell !" I shrieked. She isjpure as the angels, and 6inless as the heavens 1 Now, mark.me 1 will find my wife, despite your efforts to part us!' " I again left my hated natal halls, deter mined to find my lost Madeline—or to die, " I will not weary you with long and weary details. Suffce it to say that lat length tra ! ced her to a private madhouse. On a dark) tempestuous night, I eluded the vigilance of the guards. I moved stealthily along the dis mal corridors, hoping to find the apartment where my darling Madeline was confined. I heard voices' and proceeding to the door of the room from whence the sounds came, over, heard the following conversation ; " Now,' interrogated a voice, which I rec ognized as Vistner's, 'sign your rennuciation of your marriage with Walter de Lacey. He has deserted you. Sign it, and tou shall .have wealth in abundance.' " The fabulou" wealth of Golconda,' replied Madeline—for it was 6he—'would not tempt me to submit to your dictation, You cannot make ine believe that Walter is false. If you have a heart that can be touched by pity, I pray you release me from this dreadful place. I feel that my hours are but few. Would to heaven that I could behold Walter once more and I could die happy !' " Peace, driveling woman !' thundered Yis mer, bending over my wife, and drawing a dagger. 'Sign this paper, or your blood be rm your own hoad. Every mortal in this house is in my pay, and I act by the Com mands of noble persons; you know who. Sign this paper, and receive wealth. Refuse, and die!' "Never !—never!' sho screamed. 'Oh! save me, Walter !' ' Fool !' said he ; 'You must be mad, indeed to think that your lover can help you now, You are beyond the reach of all help! "Liar and villain!' I shouted, as I kicked down the door and dashed into the room. " He quailed before my gaze, and I darted, upon him with the ferocity of a tiger. I hurl ed him to the floor' and plr.nting my knees on his chest, drew my pistol, and placing it to his temple, pulled the trigger. The treach erous weapon snapped, I threw it from uie with a curse. I dragged him to the window which I opened with one hand, and then hurl ed the villain forth. I heard his despairing shriek above the howling of the tempest as he went headlong to eternity ! Madaline had fainted. I wrapped her in my cloak, and hastened down the 6tairs. I met no one to bar our egress. I sprang upon my gallr.nt 6teed, and galloped madly through the howling storm. Madaline at length re turned to consciousness; but, O God ! my comrade, only to die. Ihe shock was to much foi her delicate frame, and the angel died in my arms. I again stcod in the presence of my par rents. "' Fiends in human guise !' I wildly shrieked, behold your innocent, murdered vic tim ! " And 1 depisitei the corpse ofMadciline on the floor. " My mother screamed, and fell senseless; my father cowered, and turned ashy pale. " , I have sent your infernal agent to the regions of the damned; but my lost angel shall have a glorious funeral pyre to light her pathway to Paradise !' " I left the room, and locked the door. " A few moments afterward, the mansion was in flames. " The servants all escaped. My parents were never seen again. They perished in the flames. Well was Madaline avenged. " I escaped to the United States, and wan dered to tlie Western wilds. When the Re bellion broke out, I came to New York and joined the Sixty-ninth Regiment as a private. A few days after enlisting, the gallant Colo nel Corcoran, discovering that I possessed considerable military talent, offered me, as you are aware, a captain's commission. All I desiied was death, and I cared but Tit- Lie in what capacity I met it. I refused the colonel's generous offer. Comrade, you know the rest. Good-bye, dear fellow! Loved and lost Madaline, I come to thee!" Private Walter De Lacy was dead! EXTRACT FOR YOUNG MEN. Give a young man a taste for reading, and in that single disposition you havo furnished him with a great safeguard. Ho has found at home that which others have to seek abroad, namely, pleasurable excitement. He has learencd to think even when his book is no longer in his hand, and it is lor want of thinking that youth go to rnin. Some of those who have been most eminent in learning and science made their first at tainments in snatches of time stolen from manual employment. Hans Sachs, the poet of the Reformation, and the Burns, .f Ger many, began life as did Burns, a poor boy : lie was a tailor's son and served an appren ticeship, first to a shoemaker and afterwards to a weaver, and continued to work at the loom as long as he lived. The great dramatist, Boa Johnson, was a working bricklayer' and afterwards a soldier. Linmus, the father of modern botany, was once on the shoemaker's bench. Our immortal Franklin, it need scarcely be said, was a printer. Ilurschel, whose name is inscribed on the heavens, was the son of a poor musician, and at the age of fourteen years was placed in a band attached to the Hanoverian guards. After going to England undertook to teach music and then became an organist. But while he was supporting himself in this way he was learning Italian even Greek. From music he was naturally led to math ematios, and thence to optics and astronomy. John Doland, the inventor of the arch romatic telescope, spent his early years at the silk loom ; and continued in his original business even for some years after his eldest son came to an age to join him in it. Few cases are more celebrated than that of Glif ford, the founder and editor of the Quar terly Review. He was an orphan, and barely escaped the poorhouse. He became a ship boy of the most menial sort on board of a coasting vessel. He was afterward for six years apprenticed to a shoemaker. In this last employment he stole time from the last, for arithmetic and algebra, and for lack of other conveniences, used to work out his problems on leather with a blunt all. Few names are more noted in modern literature. __ -•*- ROSECRANR A REGULAR " TRUMP."— Ctesar in his victory over Pontus, and Perry at his victory on Lake Erie, immortalized them selves by the point and brevity of their dis patches. Cmsar said—" I came, I saw I con quered"—Perry said—" We have met the en emy and they are ours." But Rosecrans at luka has surpassed them both. He said "I ukered the enemy." Pretty good, for a Dutchman ! He's a " right bower." r [TERMS: SI.GO PER ANNTT3MC Associations tor Help. Several gentlemen in Providence united in au agreement to pay each a certain sum in case any of the party were drafted. All es caped save one, and he is fortunate in being aided by his associates to,bear the burden of securing a substitute In Hyde Park, we learn, some twenty-five were banded together for a similar purpose, each agreeing to pay 825 apiece for the benefit of those drafted.— Eight were drafted, which gives some 890 each to the unlucky ones. Several of the men employed at Dickson's associated togeth er for the same object, agreeing to pay 825 each. On Saturday afternoon, before we had heard the result of the drawing, anothei of the workmen was invited to join thern, but he declined, saying he had rather expose him self to the draft. He shortly repented, for in less than an hour afterward a list of the draft ed men was received, with his name among the uufortnates ! — Scranton Republican. The Negro Question in Illinois. Indictments hava been found tn the Jersey County Court against Lieut. Col. Milton S. Littleffeld, Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, and Adjutant William A. Scott. Fourteenth Illi nois Infantry, for bringing negroes into the State. Each brought home a servant from the war, and hence the indictment. Bv.th were present during the session of the Court, and one is a Republican and the ether a Dem ocrat. The penalty is a line of from one to five huudred dollars and imprisonment in the, county jail not more than one year. The continued introduction of negroes into some parts of Illinois, contrary to t he laws of that State, appears to increase the prejudices of the people against this species of immigration Public meetings protesting against this policy have been held in various localities, supposed to be injuriously affected by it. Prophecy. According to a translation from Michael Nostradamus' " Seven Centuries of Prophecy it appears that he not only prophesied the j death of Charles I. of E igla i 1, the establish ment of the French Republic, the deaths of Ilenry IT. and Louis X\ I. of France, giving the exact dates of each, but that a war would arise in a country beyond the seas, that many would perish, that there would be the most in tense hatred manifested, that the war would last four years, when both parties would be* utterly prostrated and almost ruined, and then would embrace each other with great joy and love. Nostadamus died in 15GG. So far as known he appears to have beeu a true Proph. et. Important Hearing. , A writ of habeas corpus was yesterday is sued by Judge Pearson, of Dauphin county, requiring Lieutenant Smith to produce before him, this morning, two drafted men who pro test against the order of the Government compelling themselves and their comrades to supply the places in the ranks of the old reg imental organisations made vacant by those who have fallen or become disabled in tho service of their country. Able counsel have been engaged, and as the decision of the Judge will probably de termine whether the Government has the right or not, to enforce such an order, great anxiety is naturally manifested to ascertain the result. Vanity Fair has a cut representing* two colored gentlemen discussing " the crisis.'' under which the following conversation is re ported : Tom—"Say, Pomp, a 'liable darkey tell me just now dat Jeff. Davis is gwine to 'taliate 'bont do President's Proclamation ; he gwine to 'clare de niggers ob de Norf States slaves arter de fust cf Janerwerv next." Pomp —" Bres6 us all." ha7e canvassed the entire North in defence of the Union cause, and in vindication of the present Administration, and I now propuse to recanvass the whole in order to expose the villainies of its army officers, pay masters, swindlers and upstarts, who are eat ing up the Government! W. G. BROWLOW. U THE ONLY Exoncs OF THE SLAVE IS OVER THE RUINS OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION." So said Wendell Phillips, and Mr. Lincoln' has evidently adopted this' opinion. His emancipation proclamation supersedes the Constitution, so far as the latter relates to slavery aud as Webster said, " a contract bro ken in part is broken altogether." GOOD GROUND FOR EXEMPTION A scene in Surgeon nailer's office —" Doctor, if the foot won't answer, I have another all-suffi cient reason—one that you cannot refuse me exemption for.'* " What is it ?" asked the doctor. " Why, the fact is, doctor, I have not {jot good seuse—l am an idiot," Boberly replied the applicant. "Ah !" said the doctor, " what proof have you of that ? What evidence can you bring ?" " Proof conclusive," said the applicant— " Why sir, I voted for Abe Lincoln j and if that isu't proof of a man's being a<* t f idiot, I don't know how coul£ ]L proven." .*!* : i VOL. 2, NO. 15.