Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 24, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 March 1904 — Page 2

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Established October 10, 1901. Only Republican Newspaper In the Couaty. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. OFMCL Bis&ell Building, Corner LnPurte and Center Mrtets. Telephone No. -7. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In advance. At; Hi Months. 75 cents; Three jloath, W centä. delivered at any postofflce ADVERTISING KATES made known on application. Entered at the poitoffice at Plymouth, Indian, a second-cbss mall matter, , Plymouth, Ind., March 17, 1904Tom Tagga't, of Indiana, wants neither Hearst nor Cleveland, and It is a case where Tom's desires will be gratified. There are 85,000 profecsed converts to Christianity in Korea. Schools are maintained by the national churches and the hospitals et;iblished by the missionaries care for 60,000 persons each year. We are often told that truth is a beautiful thing, but the truth about Mormons and the Mormon religion seems about as ugly as anything that has been produced in the United States for a lonj time. Secretary Taft advises the senate committee that the Panama commission should have full power in the strip. That is sound advice frcm a man that has exercised that kind of power in the Philippines. High Russian officials, in a statement to the Associated Press, declare that the United States State Department is the unknown quantity lathe world'sdiplomaey, which causes great uneasiness among the powers. A prominent citizen of South Carolina, made a deathbed confession of the murder of his wife. Justice has already been satisfied, however, as three negroes were lynched for the crime at the time it happened. The Smoot cass is at least giving the country at large a good deal of definite and authentic information about the Mormon church which it did not before possess. And there may be still something else doing after Mr Smoot 's status is settled. John W. Kern is one of the democratic leaders in this state who can take refuge in an "I told you so." Mr. Kern favors Parker, but he has said repeatedly that Hearst's candidacy was not to be lightly regarded, and he has not been one to join in the wholesale denunciations of Hearst. Oklahoma has seven educational institutions of higher learning under control ot the Territory, and many schools and colleges under the supervision of religious denominations. The state has more than 250.000 children of school age, and 3,000 young men and women in the institutions of of higher learning. "William Jennings Bryan says he lives in a brick house, that the nomination of Grover Cleveland by the St. Louis convention would cause an earthquake, and that such an occurrence would endanger his (Bryants) domicile. For that and sundry other reasons Col. Bryan thinks Mr. Cleveland's nomination would prove a calamitous blunder. The uncertainty as to whether the legislative apportionment of 1903 or 1897 is to govern in the nomination of candidates for the general assembly is causing a great deal of worry in the minds of aspirants throughout the state, and the? are urging that the suits to test the act of 1903 be hurried to final adjudication. They wish to complete their campaigns for nominations, but are unable to do so if they live In districts different under the two laws. The uncertainty will Gelay the conventions, especially in districts composed of two or more counties. . For seveaty-seven years the pay of a Congressman of the United States was IS a day while in attendant opca a session and t6 for each twenty miles In going and coming. Double pay was granted to the Speaker of the House. The President's salary until 1873 was $25,000, when it N was increased (for Grant's second term) to C50.000. The Vice-President received C5.CC0, the chief justice C4,C0O, and department fceod3 lees. In 18S3 the pay of Senators tad Ilepreeentativcs ttzs n.'.;ed toC5,CC0 a year, vrlthcilez2 at 20 cents a rzllz rjclrj d ceraIrj. Tt2 rJLzzizz cf t-3 Collier zzl Vl:rrc::::t; r::e izJLzzl to C2,c:x

Public Printer Palmer indicates to the .House committee on appropriations that he will Introduce linotypes in the government printing office this year. Bulgaria and Turkey nave entered Into an agreement by which the porte promises an extension of reforms, which virtually means peace for the Balkan states.

President Smith Insists that the Utah coiirts alone have jurlsdictiou of his offenses. And he proudly revels in the knowledge that he still holds jurisdiction over the Utah courts Whether Smoot goes or stays, the disclosures before the committee show no more Mormon regard for the law than Russia has for treaties, which happen to stand in her way.. Since Senator Hanna 's death a great many people who were inclined to sueer at bim before are thorougly convinced that it will be impossible to find anybody who is big enough to fill bis shoes. Russia serves notice on China that she must not send troops north of the great wail, and that she must restrain the bandits from interfering with the railroad and telegraph. A threat of hostile action is intimated. A Washington correspondent says: 41 When Mr. Hearst was mentioned fifteen months ago for the candidacy of the democratic party ip was regarded almost as a ridiculous " proposition. Now the poll tical sharps recognize him as a most formidable proposition." The difference between the Russian and the Japanese warships seems to be that while the former are not in evidence anywhere the latter are apparently ubiquitous. What there is left of the Russian navy is bottled up, while the Japanese squadrons are here, there and everywhere. The congressional boom for Mayor Fogarty of South Bend, seems to have gathered considerable impetus during the past week. His supporters urge that his strong following among labor leaders would make him a formidable candidate against Congressman Brick. 4' The unknown army," as the com missioner of Pensions calls the living soldiers of the civil war whohave not applied for pensions, numbers about 200,000, or about 30 per cent, of the total number of survivors, who are placed at about 900,000. This "unknown army" is applying for pensions at the rate of about 14, 010 a year. The United States geological survey has just issued a report on the "coal production of 1902," which shows the far-reaching effects of thu strike that paralyzed the industry in Pennsylvania, Michigan and West Virginia. The troubles in the anthracite district threw 145,000 men out of work for 98 days, and lost the worklngmen $35,000,000 in wages. The West Virginia strike caused a loss of 1.362,054 working days to the miners, and the Michigan tie-up resulted In a shrinkage of about 25 percent of the state's production for the year. The movement in the Marylsnd legislature to abolish - negro suffrage the St. Louis Globe-Democrat thinks, may be fraught with far-reaching consequences. Its view is: "The Maryland anti-negro propoganda has an importance as a symptom. It means that Gorman and the rest of the zealots from bis section are likely to be strong enough to put a negro effacement plank in the St. Louis platform. Such a folly would destroy the faint, the very faint, cliance which the democrats have of carrying any Northern or Western state in 1904." Indira lieu Prciider.tie.il Qndidele. Thomas Jefferson Wood of Crown Point, Ind., admittedly a receptive candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination on the ground of resemblances between his career and Lincoln's, was born in 1844, in Athens county, Ohio, raised on a farm nearTerre Haute, Ind., educated In law in the office of Senator Daniel W. Voorhees and at the University of Michigan, and commenced practice at Crown Point in 1868. He is a Mason and a Methodist, and has served as town treasurer, prosecuting attorney, state senator and representative in congress, ne is a veteran railsplitter, a quaint story teller and a self-made man. r Do yoa need more blood, core fieeh, core strength thbeprln;;? Hclllster's Rccliy Hcuatain Tea vrill brlnj t:n all. If it fails your neccsy teelr. 35 cents. Ten cr Utlet form. People's Drcj Ctere. '

BANDITS TO HANG.

Chicago Jury Finds All the Car Barn Bandits Guilty and Fixes Death Penalty Special tD Plymouth Tribune. Chicago, March, 12, 11:30 a. m. Death for Harvey Van Dine, Peter Niedemeyer and Gustav Marx was the yerdict returned by the jury in Judge Kersten's couri at ten- o'clock today. Tue jury retired just after noon Friday and within an hour the death penalty was voted against Van Dine and Niedemeyer but a part of the jury hung out until 10 o'clock this morning to save Marx from the hang man's nocse and imprison him for life. Marx is the bandit who confessed and one of the jurors was inclined to be lenient with him and held out until this forenoon. Plymouth Debaters Beatrrf. The auditorium of the Plymouth high school was crowded Eriday evening by a very fine audience who listened to tne debate between the Laporte and Plymouth high schools on the subject of municipal ownership. Laporte sent a fine delegation of ladies and gentlemen who seemed to have the utmost confidence in the Laporte debaters and the result showed that their confidence was not misplaeed. The representatives of both schools did exceedingly well, and it was generally conceded that the Plymouth boys were the best orators but the Laporte boys made the best argument. The subject discussed was "Resolved that municipal ownership and operation of street railways is preferable to operation by private corporations." Plymouth had the negative and was not able to make it clr.r thai private corporations could and would do better for the public than municipalities would. The music was excellent and the people of Plymouth feel proud of the efforts of the Plymouth team although the decision was against them. May Have Good Effect, The hearing of the Smoot case by a congressional committee may have a more far-reaching effect than the expulsion of the Mormon senator from the legislative body, if it is decided to expel him. The admission by the man Smith, a leader of the Mormon church, that lie is still living polygamously in violation of the law of Utah, and the testimony ot a woman witness that she contracted a plural marriage since the prohibitory law was enacted, will doubtless cause congress to take specific action. The crying need of society at .present Is a uniform divorce law. As each state has its own laws, the dissolution of the marriage bond has bec me so easy as to make marriage little more than a garment to be donned or doffed at pleasure. To strike at the root of the evil of Mormonlsm a constitutional amendment will probably be necessary. And if a uniform Federal marriage law is made possible, a uniform divorce law can be.included. Such a law would work no hardship on any decent citizen. It wou!d elevate the moral tone of the country and go far to lessen crime. The Smoot investigation may prove to be one of the best things for the nation that congress has ever undertaken. Indianapolis Star. t' Another Secret Unearthed. , The News-MIrxor has been fortunate in unearthing matters that would prove pleasant surprises and this is a splendid time to record the marriage of Miss Margare tte Colflesh to Mr. Frank narris, at St. Joseph, Mich., Dec. 9, 1903. Mrs. Harris is the daughter of Mrs. Chapman, and the two have been conducting the popular Central House, for some months. Mr. Harris, until last week, was proprietor of the Center street livery barn, having been there for some time. - We had heard pf this soon aftej tne event but could not verify it until at present. When faced with an array of tacts Tuesday Mrs. Harris was prone to try and dodge the issue, but Unding it useless, "fessed" up and acknowledged the above. Bourbon News-Mirror. Indiana Editors- to Enjoy Outing. The Indiana Republican and Democratic Editorial and the Northern and Southern Indiana Press Arsociations will have an outing in Canada next July on Invitation of the Canadian government. The excursion will reach from Winnepeg west to Banff with many side trips, including Fort Garry and St. Boniface. Thf party will leave Indianapolis July 13. One of the side trips will be up the Assiniboine valley. It is the plan to have, about six hundred on t the excursion including the Indiana United States senators and some of the leading politicians of both the republican and democratic parties. The Canadiah government has offered a prize ot C200 for the best written account of the trip. 3, W. Smith, Philadelphia "My rheumatism has disappeared entirely cince ulilrj Hellster r Bcciy Itcuntila Tzz. Tvro pee!iec3 wads me a vr.'U cm. Z5 ccnte. Tea ci Unlet

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-f dolph Hooligan Hearst f'r th' dimmycratic nommynashun y fr th' presidency," saiol Mr. Dooley. "'Tisth' tindency h yfj in polyticks, as in sassiety, Hennessy, t' kape in tooch j with all th' latest fads, an' in this iustance th' oppor-rtu- ( nities f'r profitable tooching seem t' be great." W " Who is th' mon Hearst? " asked Hennessy. JfJ j? "He's a par rty who inherited about forty millyuns Jjj from his ad, an' with it a terrible thirst fr noteriety," qy ygj said Mr. Dooley. "He's th1 'rigin'l inwent'r iv linin col- 7 ored joornalism, on which he has saycured litters patent f

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r r- -r- - JjJ way iv drisses f'r pug dogs, an' th' scandals iv th' Foor jy Hundred; a mimber iv congriss fr'm N'York, whose name j (J) sildom appears in th' rayports iv procadings; besoides, f he's th' only full-nidged, ready-made, guaranteed candy- 9 fy date fr the- dimmycratic prisidential nommynashun. JjJ Takin' thim altogither, he must have more business than me frind Jimmy Daloney on a Sattiday avenih'." jy ytj "But phfy do they call it the Hooligan club?" asked fj J Hennessy. "Is not Hooligan th funny mug in th' Sunday ( iß pa-apers, that always gets his head bate off b' th' cop?" W

Jjj Dooley. "The candydacy iv Mr. Hearst an' th1 car-rtoons jy ft iv Mr. Hooligan were both inspired by the same desire t' ( ij get a part of his ginerous bar'l. Both have about th' t viz same degree iv absurdity, an' its nine chances out iv ten (3 if both will ind in th' same disastrous way. "Tis me pr-ri- JJ vate opinyun, Hennessy, thot afther th dimmycratic con- jjj vtntion at Saint Louie th' political atmosphere will be re- j iJi mar-rkably free iv headgear iv th' impty tomato can vari- j J ety." ( j "How is his campayne progressing' asked Hennessy. (?) i 44 Well, it depinds upon th' soorce iv your informa tion," said Mr. Dooley. "If y' take up th' Chicago. AmerJlJ ican. or th' Chicago Examiner, or th' N'York Journal, j yVj y'll see that his chances appear as bright as th' first born fj) (J baby. Y' can r-rely on the shtatemints, Hennessey, be- (if) i) cause th' information comes fr'm th' fountain head. They carry the same conviction as the ads iv Isaacs tein, th' jl: y Sout' Side clcthier, whin they say he's 4 sellin1 clodings at - fly Jj- less th'n- th button-holes cost.' But if y pick up most j anny other payper, y're sure t' get an intoirely diff'rint ( view av the situation. So, th' mor r'l is plain, Hennessy; (?) i if y fav-r-r the candidacy iv Hooligan, don't rade anny ither paypers. That's what's ailin' most av the mimbers 5; to th' Hooligal cloob they get only th' Alphonsa an' jj Gaston view av th' situation." j "Then y' don't belave Hooligan is the man for th (?) ÜJ dimmverats t' nommvnate?" asked Hennessy. (?)

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CHANCE FOR OUR FARMERS. Opportunity is Offered to Win Honor at the St Louis Exposition. Professor II. E. Van Norman, of the Purdue Agricultural school, who is superintendent of the dairy exhibit to be made by Indiana at the coming St. Louis exposition, has sent out notice to farmers all over the state asking that every one desiring to offer country butter to be placed in the ex hibit shall send in one pound packages of butter to him at once. Tbe purpose of this is to assist prospective exhibitors to bring their product up to the highest standard of ex cellence. As fast as the packages are sent in the butter is scored by an ex pert and tha score, together with any criticism or suggestions for bettering the product will be returned to the maker free of expense. Prospective exhibitors are asked to send in their packages of butter at once so that there will be ample time for analyzing all the samples and for all the farmers to take advantage of the suggestions that may be made in preparing a new supply. The' butter is scored la tbe same manner that will be followed at the exposition, and by submitting their product to Professor Van Norman first the makers will have a chance to know about what rank they can hope to take at St. Louis. The packages should be sent by express,' charges prepaid, with the rvame and postoffice address of the maker plainly marked. You need a tonic, tissue builder, strength producer, ßech creator, thi3 spring? Hollister's .Rocky Mountain Tea will revitalize your entire system, 35 ccat3, tea or tablets. People's Dru3 Stcrs. Cut:crit2 fcr tta Trituzr,.

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promvnint diminycrats,.an' f who day votes most iv his in phwat is pr roper in th' seer.1' said Mr. Dnnlp-tr Vnf. -tWhat Ails the Churches? If a young man goes to church in this generation, it is because he knows his best girl is there," said the Rev. Russell II.-Conwell of Philadelphia to the Baptist Union. 4,Tbe church is dying through the indifference of pastors and congregations." Probably the Rev. Mr. Conwell Is a bit overwrought. A great many young men attend Plymouth church in Brooklyn. Most or them, if they have best girls at all, baye left tbem behind in their Western, Northern or Southern homes. The young men go to hear Dr. Hillis preach. " They know he hss a message to them, and that be is well able to convey it. They know that, while he broadens their views of Christianity, he broadens their views of humanity, and of the world in which humanity is being developed into higher form. There is moral, mental and even physical education in the sermons of preachers qualified to preach, and who do preach, out of the fulness of their great hearts. They move men, young and old, and nil them with religious ardor. Mr. Moody never preached to empty pews. Sam Jones fills large auditoriums, , Ain't you afraid , your bishop will sit on you sometime, brother Jones?" an old lady asked atter one of those vivid and picturesque sermons that were alive with the preacher's individuality. "Sit on me!" he replied. "You can't sit on a lightning express train going seventy miles an hour!" The preachers young men like to hear are afraid of nothing. Not even rich psv7 holders. Tell your eel jhocra tEcut tea fjeed qualities cf Tns Tzpuin:.

SECRETARY SHAW'S GOOD ADVICE

Tells Students to Work for What Merit There is in the Work. Secretary of the Treasuay Shaw, iu a recent address to students, admir ably eptitomized an important secret to success. If you will take my advice." he said, you will never work for hire. If you work for hire you will never rise. II you work for hire, life will have little else for you but drudgery, and eight hours per day ten hours per day at most is all that you can stand and keep your health. "But if you work for the" accom plisbment of the thing you are employed to do, you can work 16 or 18 hours a day, and life will be full of sunshine and song. God implanted in the human mind the desire to do things." In other words, real success lies not so much in what, we can get out of our work as what we can put into it. If we love our work we have taken a long stride not only toward happi ness but toward accomplishment that is worth while. 5 The man who gets no more out. of his work than mere support, though he ruav be enabled to live in most lav ish style, is no more than an animal. The hog works onlv for a living, and that is all he gets or cares for. But man, with his emotions, sensi bilities and inspirations, requires more. With man work -is not merely a means but an end. He must work that he may live, but he also lives that he may work. It is a melancholy fact that mil lions of men are forced to devote nearly all of their lives to sustaining life. It seems a slavery. Yet, the drudgery is due, not to the incessant work, but to the dislike of it. While one man bitterly laments the cruelty of his fate, another working at his elbow finds his labors sweet. The difference lies within the men. The immortal things in this world have been wrought for the things themselves With the most of us satisfaction is found in the things we do rather than In the great rewards or In the plaudits of the world. Usually a large measure of the suc cess which, in the popular conception means wealth or public honors, fol lows as the result of devotion to the appointed duty. Certain it is that there is small hope for the success or happiness of the I man who does not find his work con genial and a pleasure in itself. Aside from moral and correct living and the love of wife, family and kindred, there is nothing in which a rational man should have more real heart interest than his work. Asks Damages for Fever. A nice law point is brought up in the suit of Francis Gladieux against the city of Ft. Wayne and the Pennsylvania railway for $19,000 damages. He alleges that he contracted typhoid fever last December and has been ill ever since. lie claims that the city put in a connection with the Pennsylvania water works plant at a time when it broke down several months ago and when the company repaired the break in machinery the city valve was not off and the Pennsylvania company pumped river water Into the city mains and the water was contaminated with typhoid germs. About forty others were similarly affected. Resources of Manchuria. Manchuria corresponds in latitude to Manitoba, North Dakota. South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska. Its area of 362,310 square miles is only 10,000 square miles less than the combined areaof these great grain states. It is two and one-half times larger than California, and is as big as Texas, Alabama, and Louisiana combined. In the northern part of the province are thousands of square miles of rich wheat land entirely untouched. Manchuria has a possible wheat area as great as that of the United States. A Question of Flour.' Every family uses more or less flour but a large number are not getting the full value of their money in return in both quality and quantity of bread they make from the flour they use. Now Pillsbury's Best Flour will make more bread than a great many other flours and much better bread too. You will get from four to seven more loaves from a sack of Pillsbury's Best Flour than from a sack of ordinary flour. It is and has been for years the standard of all spring wheat flours. If you are not using Pillsbury's Sest Flour try a sack and ycu will be convinced that these statements are facts. Bread made from Pillsbury's Best Flour retains its moisture ard does not dry out. A test will prove it. 18t8 Vtr.diüa Ur.t Excursions. World's Fair rates: Season $14.00, 60 days $11.70, 15 days $11 75, coach 7 day SS.75 v ; . San Francisco and Los Angeles Cal. 52. 55 return. Sell Apr. 22 to 20th. Final return limit June 30th. Special one way rate to the L'cuthvreet Haren 15th. Cpeial Ilcnicecclzcrs round trip for Viz Couth, Coutavrecttnd Wc:t IZ zzh

COUIITY CLERKS' CASE

Decision by Judge Buskirk That Affects the Official Positions of Fourteen Men. DEFEATED 011E NOT SATISFIED Will Appeal to the Supreme CourtKentucky Emigrant Does Horse Work. Brownstown, Ind., March 12. In tbe suit of John It. Tinder, clerk-elect against James W. Lewis, the present clerk, for damages and possession of the office, Jud?;e Buskirk has in effect decided that Tinder is entitled to the office. Lewis was elected for four years and his time was up on Feb. 24, but lie refused to surrender the office to Tinder on the grounds that by an act of the last legislature his term did not end until Jan. 1, 1905. I j overruling a demurrer lel by Lewis, Judge Buskirk said: Judge Explains the Law. "In the act of 1901 the legislature attempted to fix the time for the terms of all county officers to begin on Jan. 1, following the term of the present incumbents, but In the act designated tlio olrrk of the circuit court as 'county clerk.' The legislature of 1903 declared that no sudi office as county clerk was known to the constitution or laws of Indiana and repealed that part cf the act of 1901 which related to 'county clerk, ard also legalized th election of those who, like Mr. Tinder, had been elected in 1902. ' TT 111 Go to the Supreme Court. "The act of 1903, repealing o much of the act of 1901 as related to the office of lerk, rendered Invalid and inoperative so much of the repealing; clause of tbe act of 1901, leaving in full force section 7927, revised statutes of 1901, under which Lewis was elected and which is the only law now la force and governing the case at bar." The plaintiff is a Democrat About fourteon other counties in the state are affected by the ruling, a-nd thecase will go to the supreme court. Receiver for a Traction Line. Indianapolis, March 12. Judge Anderson, of tho federal court, has, appointed Lemuel Darrow, of Laporte, and Fred It. Fitch, of Chicago, receivers for the electric line from Laporte to Michigan City, on the ground that the company ig insolvent The receivers were appointed upon the petition of tho Royal Trust company, of Chicago, and the bondholders. Tbe bonds involved amount to $362,000. ACTED AS HIS OWN DORSE Pitiable Condition or a Family Which Bad. Walked from Bowling Green. Ky to Indiana. JeffersonvIIIe, Ind., March 12. John A. Wyatt, his wife and two children, boy and girl, have arrived here, footsore, cold and hungry. Wyatt was harnessed like a horse and bitched to a canvas-covered, two wheeled cart, which he pulled through the streets. His wife and children were following: along behind on foot The mother's face was pinched with hunger, and the children were so weak they could hard ly walk. Wyatt etated that the family left Bowling Green, Ky., the latter part of January, and had been cn the road ever since. He said that he was in search of work and would continue his Journey until he found it. "We had a horse when we started out but be died on the road, since which time I have been the horse," he said. The wagon was tilled' with blankets. At night the father,-mother and two children sleep in the vehicle. It is more than 100 miles from Bowling Green to Jeffersonville. Graft in England. Some years ago an investigation of election bribery In England disclosed the following method of buying votes: An elector entered the agent's room. Agent (holding up three fingers, to signify three sovereigns): "Well, Mr. Smith, how are you today?" Mr. Smith: I am not very well to-day." Agent (holding up five fingers): "I am sorry you are not very well tcday." Mr. Smith: "Ob, I am not very ill. It is all right." Then Smith looked out of the window while the agent put five sovereigns on the tableIt was then the agent's turn to look , out of the window, and when he tur ned round again Smith and the money had disappeared. Smith' never saw the agent put down the money; the agent never saw Smith pick it up. Consequently when a parliamentary commission was appointed the agent swore bd never gave Smith any money and Smith swore that no one gave him any. Kansas City Star. The free Delivery. The Atlanta Constitution is con stantly saying good things about what is being done by the only live politi cal organization the country has, the republican party. Last Monday it had this to say about a, measure inaugurat ed exclusively by the present party in power, which Is certainly very flattering. It says: "No one who is in touch with the rural life of the nation will be ready to deny that the free delivery mail service inaugurated a few years ago in the rural districts of every state in the union has proven an unqualified success. The system, is as yet, incooate and imprfes't, it is true, but the farmers - of the country have seen enough cf it to feel that it is indisp:ncab!o, end every cCcrt cf ccn jrcca an3 in tha tuizzi thould bs in t'3 direction cf est:-d!rj t3 c:rv::3 zzl izzzz"'z its c:::l:z:7.