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FORT MILL TIMES. VOL. XIII. FORT MILL, S. t)., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1004. NO. 36. JAPANESE Mil Shows the Source of tl Japanese WHOLE COINTRY IS INTERESTED | I The Whole Country as One Man in its i Willingness to Sacrifice the Last Man and the Last Cent?Coming Diet Will Cheerfully Pass a Budget Calling For $388.000,000?Ample ca i pacity Being Shown to Finance the War Withoui interfering With Economic Relations?Foreign Trade Actually Gaining. Tokio, lly Cable.?Discussing Hussar and the domestic, financial and political conditions of Japan on tlu eve of the- assembling eif the DieU. J viUi th? e-orrcsponekat r>| the- Asse>- i cinte-ei Press. Premier Kaisuria said: "To insure peae-e- in the Orient and te> safeguard our national existence, is tlie- aim and purpose e?f our empire, ' snd ue> sae.rifico shall Ixe tev> great feir stK-crsfcfully e-ff< .-ting this purpose. ! Itosski- hovidoo vi.Utii' ? - nvi jiil-UKl-fl In Manchuria, crowned her overboar.ng and aggressive policy by extend Ink her arms to the Korean peninsula. "We are highly solicitous to preserve pence, but had no alternative save that of war. which was forced i upon us. Throughout the negotiations Russia showed a haughty and ' overhearing attitude, which, us has | lately been shown, w sainudeqtiatcly supported by military strength. Kits- 1 sia allowed herself v> be deceived, and slighted our empire, for site nev- j or beliovi d Japan would draw the | swonl of war. Then, alter suffering repeated defeats on land md sea. lilts < sia perceived the mistake she had made, and, having discovered the seri- ' oasness of the situation, began to lake adequate measures. The case was different with us. Wo were alive to the seriousness of tin situation and i were prepared for exigencies. "Russia must ?e<. ?lmt in*, ? ' not be concluded by tlx issui s of a ' few battles. With its, I ho war means life or death, ami not one of our 4f>,000,000 it mains ignorant of the vital j issue at stake. Wo are prepared to ! sacrifice our last man or oar last j eont for this war. The dolay in the doolsive result of j our siogo at Port Arthur gives llus- ! siu hope of being able to relieve the ' garrison, and for this purpose she resolved to empty her naval defense at home, while on land corps after corps has been mobilized and sent eastvt ard. "Tito military and naval plan of Russia seems to center in the relief of Port Arthur, and General Kuropatkin's southward advance, which resulted in his serious defeat, had the lolief of the garrison as its sole object. The Russian Emperor's instructions to Kuropatkin not to retire beyond Mukden were desitrniwi ?.? the gloom that h:ul been bunging over the people of Russia since the defeat of Russian arms nt the battle of Liao Yang; and Kuropatkin assumed the aggressive, perhaps against his own judgment. "Everything seems to hinge on the fall of Port Arthur, but I do not console myself with the thought that the capture of the ill-fated fortress will bring the war to a speedy termination. Its eapturo will give occasion for renewed plans of warfare by Russia, and 1 am watching keeply for such new developments. "The domestic conditions of Japan are highly satisfactory. The history j of our Diet may be summed up by l saying tiinl from the first it planted I itself firmly in opposition to the gov- | , x>iiimem on unnuctal questions. After my appointment, friction became increasingly violent. The two great patties, the constitutionalists and the progressists, hold a combined front in opposition to my ministry. Despite administrative reforms effected on their demand, wo failed to satisfy tliem. They criticized our financial (measures as excessive, and refused to pass the bills. Commander Leaves. 1 Vlndlvostoek, Ry Cable.?Rear Admiral llnup, commander of the port for the last three years, has departed. Private advices from fort Arthur indicate that the position there is not so desperate ns It Ik reported abroad. The j Japanese are represented to be repair- j ing the cruiser Kasuga and 10 torpedo | boat destroyers. They have established ! a sub-naval base on the Elliott Islands, j a short distance east of Port Arthur. White House Functions. Washington, Special.?The program of receptions and dinners at the White ! House for the season of 1905 has been announced as follows: January' 2, Monday, New Year. ?o?rptton, It a. m. to 1.30 p. m., .January 5. Thursday, cabinet dinner. 8 p. j m.; January 12, Thursday, diplomatic reception, 9 *o 10:30 p m; January 19. Thursday, diplomatic dinner 8 p. m.; January 20. Thursday, judicial reception. 9 to 10.30 p. in.; February 2. Thursday, Supremo Court diuncr, 8 p. m.: February 0, Thursday, congressional reception, 9 to 10:30 p. m.; i February HJ, Thursday, army and navv i reception 9 to 10:30 p m. SISTER TALKS lie Great Confidence in i I Finances. I Judging by those conditions, serious . collisions between the governed ancl ! governing were predicted, but. when the war catne, tins frletion entirely eased, and the House of Representatives. wrlch once refused to pass a budget of $125,000,000 as excessive and unbearable, gave a ready and willing assent to the first war budget of $288,000,000. "At this session of the diet, the government will be compelled lo present a budget calling for $388,000,000. and indications aft: that it wiil be passed > without tho slightest difficulty. This j happy phenomenon is attributable to the characteristics of our people. "Before a great national problem our people unite, and friends and op- | poncnts join bands for the accomplish- 1 ment of our national purposes. With the groat problem of the war before tliim, the people of our uatiou have become as one man. Wo have no war party and no peace party, as Russia lias, but, on the contrary our nation is one. and united with a deter- ' ruination to tight to the last extremi- ' ty." NORTH SEA AGREEMENT. London. By Cable.?The Foreign Office lias issued the following English transaction of the declaration signed at Si. Petersburg hy Sir Charles Hardinge. the British ambassador, and Count l.amsdorlT. the Russian Foreign Minister: "His Britannic majesty's government and the imperial Russian gov- ! eminent, having agreed to entrust to an international commission of inquiry assembled conformably to Articles IX to XIV of The Hague convention of July UJ?. ISii'.t, for the Pacific settle- | iiu lit of international disputes, the taslt of elucidating by means of an impartial and conscientious investigation the questions of fact connected *.iiu mr incident willed o rurroil during the night of October "I -21*. 11104. 1 in the North Sea (on which occasion the firing of gr.ns en the Russian fleet caused tiie loss of a boat and tlie death of two persons belonging to a British fleet, as well as damaging to other beats of that fleet and injuries to the crews of some ol tnose boats), the ulld( .-signed. being duly authorized thereto, have agreed upon the folliwiug provisions: "Article 1 The international commission of inquiry shall be composed of five members (commissioners) of whom two shall lie officers of hign rank in the British and imperial Russian navies, respectively. The governments of Franco and of the United States shall each lie requested to select of their naval officers of high rank as a member of the commission. The fifth shall be chosen an a member of the commission. The fifth member shall be chosen by agreement between the four niemb? rs above mentioned; in the event of rc agreement being arrived at between the four commissioners as to the selection of the fifth memlier of tlie commission, his imperial and royal majesty the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary will be invited to select liim. Each of the two high coutratting: parties shall likewise appoint a legal assessor t<? advise the commissioners, and an agent officially empowered to take part in the labors of the commis- | slon. "Article II. The commission shall in- i qnire into and to report on all circum- \ stances relative to the North Sea in- t t itlent. and particularly on the ques- I tion as to where the responsibility lies and the degree of blame attaching to ! subjects of the two high contracting , parties or to subjects of other | countries in the event of their ! responsibility being established by the inquiry. "Article 111. The commission shall settle the details of procedure which it will follow for the purpose of accomplishing the task wherewith it has been entrusted. "Article IV. The two high contracting parties undertake to supply the commission, to the utmost of their abilit V with fill #Ka mneno l |UV wvruo auu KM iiuir^ necessary In ordar to enable it to acquaint itself thoroughly with and appreciate correctly the matters In dispute. Alleged Defaulter For $6,000. Wiliamson, W. Va.. Special.?Charged with being a defaulter in the sum cf $6,000, from the Norfolk & Western Railroad, Richard Anderson, the agent nt Canterbury, was r.rrested and is now in Jail at Williamson. Anderson, who Is of a prominent Virginia fnmiiv to alleged to have appropriated checks stilt to him to pay off employes at the uiine^. Robbers Blow Up a Bank. Baltimore, Md.. Special.?A special from I?n Plata, Charles county, Md.? rays that a number of men blew up and paaotically destroyed the building of tho So it horn Maryland Sayings Bank early Thursday morning. They secured $15,000 In cash. Nltro-glycormc Is supposed to have been the explosive used. The robbers, after ? ?curing tho money, made their escape, but cut the telegraph and telephone wires boforo leaving tho vicinity. Tho government lino from tho proving grounds at the Indiun Head to Washington was found to be In working order, and the police of Washington snd dialticuore of the mutineers wero wuinued. ? i i ? NEWS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY" Paragraphs of Minor Importane* Gathered From Many Sources. Through the South. The Uawson-MeGhce libraiy, with 15,000 volumes, was burned at Kuox* ville, Tenn. < Washington Happenings. The United States Supreme Court adjourned for two weeks. Commissioner of Pensions Ungene F. Ware his resigned, to take effect funoor.. 1 Re-publican National Chairman Cortelyou is spending a few days in Washington. Archbishop Ch a nolle presented to the President a verbal message of esteem and good will from Pope , Pius X. Civil service regulations are to b? extended to a number of the employes of the Ishmlan Canai Commission. Negotionations were opened at Vienna for a treaty of arbitration between the United States and Austria. In the North. Roosevelt's official plurality in Del- J aware was 4,3.r>4 and last's 2,7T>2. The annual horse show, which marks the opening of New York's so- , eial season, began at Madison Square ^ Garden, that city. Wire communication, which was in- ] terrupted over a vast area of the couu- 1 try by Sunday's storm, has been only ] partly restored. The Methodist Episcopal mission ary committee, in session at Boston, i continued making appropriations for ' missions, including $o0,000 for Southern whites. 1 < C.on. Alfred on Lownefeld. cencral , adjutant of Emperor William's mill- : tary strff, anil Major Count von 1 Schmottow, imperial adjutant general, who are to represent the Kaiser at the unveiling of the statue of Frederiok the Oicat in Washington, Novemher 19, arrived in New York. Philip Weinsoimer, former presidint of the Huilding Trades Alliance, was sentenced for extortion to Sing Sing for 20 months in New York. The Frnncois nirshtp failed in a 1rial at the World's Fair. Another brilliant gathering of social leaders att.cnded the New York Horse Show. Senator Thomas C. Piatt gave a buckwheat breakfast at Oswego. N. Y., to Republican politicians in bouor of the recent party victory. Foreign Affairs. Prino& Fushlmi, of Japan, arrived in wusiiiugron. J Count Cassini declares that Russia ' will prosecute the war in the Far East until she wins. Signs of an early resumption of , fighting along the Shakhe river, Manchuria, are numerous. ' Cardinal Mocenni died in Rome i while a papal consistory was in pro- I gress. ] ^10 Italian cabinet has made fur- I ther gains, according to the latest election returns from that country. It is benevolently suggested by the 1 Czar that the trouble caused by boya . who climb upon the seating accomino- \ dation of slow-going motor car3 in 1 crowded thoroughfares might be effectively removed by high-tension wire ^ controlled by the driver. t Hazel Harrison an 18-year-old American colored girl?the first negro artist who has ever appeared in Germany ?made a successful debut ns a piano ? soloist with the Philharmonic Orohes- t tra in Iierlin recently. She is a native i of La Porto, Ind. ^ I. l'\ Loree, former president of the Rock Island system, proposes to go ^ abroad. In Russia he will bo Ihe guest ^ DHnon lllll/^ Lao.I ..AI1..?A.1? ... . ill! rv* 'II . I.."- U1 l.? .illllWUUS t of the Czar's kingdom. s Two school boys at Lear, near the Dutch frontier, put. Hendrlck Basch. a companion, age 13, in a barrel half filled with treacle for cheating at pitch- c and-tose. They confesed what they c had done and Basch was found suf- a focated. n d e Miscellaneous Matters. g Manuel Garcia, the singer, is still 1 living in London and on March 17 next he will be 100 years old. Ho Is fl the only singer now living who took n part in the first season of Italian P opera in New York in 1823. singing " the role of "Figaro" in "II Barbler," f] on the evening of November 29. f BROKE MAN'S NECK Fatal Result of s Blow With Fist Of Angry Man THE SLAYER IS QUITE PROMINENT Wm. H. Slaughter, a Coal Merchant of Louisville, Strikes a Dairyman, Causing Instant Death?The Trouble Brought About By An Argument < Over a Debt of $15 Which the Dead ; Man Owed?Slaughter Goes to Jail, Accompanied by His Wife, Whom He Married a Year Ago. Louisville, K>\, Special.?Frederick Sanders, a dairyman, was killed Tue? Jay bv William H. Slaughter, Jr., a coal merchant and one of the beet known men in Louisville; The men had an argument over a debt and Slaughter struck Sanders with such force as to dislocate the man's neck, death resulting instantly. Slaughter surrendered. Sanders was 55 years of age. The trouble rose over an amount of $15 which Sanders owed Mr. Slaughter for rent. Mr. Slaughter's statement was: "This morning 1 met Sanders and ho ottered to ret tie the account. I refused' to accept the money, having put the matter in tne hands of a law- : yer. Sanders called me several names and 1 hit him with my open hand. He fell and I walked away. I4?nv i i in ell u llv: 111V-II. Mr. Slaughter was married about % year ago to one of the most promilent writers in local iuwsi>appr cirrles. Mrs. Slaughter has made arrangements to at ay in jail with her tushand until application for bail will ;.t made. Mr. and Mrs. Slaughter will K-eupy a spacious room in the cast iving of the building facing Jefferson srret t. which was surrendered to hem by the matron of the jail. Arbitration Treaty Signed. Washington. Spot ial.?The Amerhanl.erman arbitration treaty was signed Tuesday at tho State Department by Secretary Hay and Baron Sternberg, he German ambassador. It is identical n it It tire American-French treaty. As re left the State Department. Baron Sternberg expressed his hearty satis'aotion that the treaty had been con:!udcd so promptly. "It was," he said, 'a pleasure to postpone my departure w. W|#v JU WI VICJ lO 01&11 lll?? ucai J . Die importance winch in its effect upon lie maintenance of Rood will and amity jetwon (he two countries cannot be jverestimated. T can fissure you that this is a happy day tor me, as it. is for my sovereign and my people." The embassador sails for Germany with the ambassadress the middle of December. Kc will be unable to accept the invitation to address an association of cotton-growers at Shreveport, La., next month, but his embassy will be represented. Increase of Cotton. Washington Special.?A bulletin was Issued by the census bureau Tuesday showing that in 105 counties in Georgia the cotton gained to November 14 as reported amounted to 1,246,997 running bales this yoar, as against 792,606 hales ,or ine same counties last year, countnit round bales as half bales the number )9 1,244 741 as agftiUBt 783,395 last pear. The report issued is supplemental y to previous reports and is more complete as to the counties covered. In iddltion to the figures regarding the :otton ginned, Tuesday's statement ihows that the ginneries covered by .ho reports for the present year num. >er 31,907 as against 3.993 for the year 1904. In 1903 the reports showed the otal cotton ginned to November 14 to >e 992.656 bales and the number of ginneries employed 4.913. Wreck on Northwestern. Columbia, 8. C.. Special.?A special o the State from Surnmerton says hat the Northwestern'^ passenger rain, bound from Sumtor to Charleson, was wrecked near Tindalls Tueslay night. The engineer is reported inrt, but as there is no telegraph staion at Tindalls particulars are unobainable. A wrecking train has been ent out from Florence. I Commission to Offer Bill. Washington, Special.?The morhant marine commission mot at tho apltol. Senators Gallingcr and Lodge nd Representatives Minor, McDoriiont and Spight being present, liner the law the commission is direct- , d to make its report on the day Contcss re-assembles, December 5tn. 'he commission expects to make its | cpor* on that date, with recommendalons and a bill. While it is not. coram that tlie report tvill be unanitous. members of the commission oxress the hope; that such an ac-rorient will lie reached. It. is stated tiat no attempt will bo made to revise le Fry<-Payne bill, providing for a fstem of subsidies. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Premier Bnlfour's private luoome is $350,000 a year. The Rev. William May. the oldest Methodist preacher in Kentucky, died recently. Ewald Ilering, of the German I'ni ersity at Prague, has just celebrated his seventieth birthday. Mrs. ltnssell. widow of Henry Grinned Russell, of Providence, R. I., is the richest woman in New England. The Right Hon. 9lr Francis I.eveson Bertie will succeed Sir Edward Moiisou as English Aiubassidor to France. Princess Eleonora Massalska, who tin*ii me oiuer nay nt Warsaw, was the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Lithuania. Dr. Andrew Sledd, a graduate of both Harvard and Yale, has been called to the presidency of the University of Florida. The Emperor Francis Joseph has appointed Karon von Urauu, hitherto diplomatic agent in Cairo, to be diplomatic agent in Sona. Huron de Serovskerkcn, the new nui bnssndor from Holland to the United States, brought with him six servants and seventy-three pieces of baggage. It is reported that Governor-elect Douglas of Massachusetts lias asked General Nelson A. Miles to accept the portfolio of Adjutant General of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Lord Curzon. of Kedleston. Viceroy of India, will speei.ily return to his seat of authority, his wife having fortunately recovered sufficiently from her distressing lllucss to permit his departure. Hear-Admirnl C. M. Chester, chief of the naval obscvulory, lias submitted to tiie Government a recommendation for provision for a naval expedition iu 1U05 to observe a total solar eclipse. Acquitted of fcurder Charge. Houston. Tex., S. ?cial.?In the ease of of W. T. Eldridge, charged with the murder of Captain William Dunavant on an Arkansas passenger t rain lr. August. 1902, which has been on trial at Richmond for the past two weeks, the jury Tuesday returned a vonurt or not gntlty. Tim ease attracted vvido attention, owing to the prominence of th<? men ('apt. l)unav.int being president. of the the Cane Holt railroad, and Eldrklfce vice presi- ' d< nt aud general nanager. Cnrtoonist Dying in Georgia. Macon. On, Special.?A special from Cavo Springs, G;.. says that Charles Nccland, ?he New York cartoonist, who liar, he-en there for somr> time in search of health. is slowly s'ipking. and the attending phystciaus have abandoned all hope. His wife and sister are nt his bedside. The cartoon i8t's home is in Akron. Ohio, and wlioa he has passed away, his remains trtll la* shipped thero for interment. 4 Drowned n St. Cialr River. Port Huron. Mir.b., Special.?Th<rowboat of "William Briggs, ferryman between this city and Ssrnia. Ontario, ove ciirned in a heavy sun while Briggs with six passengers, was rowing across the St. Clair river, an<l the following were drowned: AI-FRED GREEN, engineer. St. Thomas. Ont. JOHN 3. CHREENAN. fireman. St. Thomas. JOHN DACK, brnkcman, St. Thomas JAMES CO INK I.E. bar keeper. SarUin. Ont. 1 A Third Attempt. Cincinnati, Special.?A third attempt to blow up tl e plant of the Newport, Ky., Brass and Iron Foundry with dynamite has been made, considerable damage being done to one of the buildings. Dynamite was found in a mold nt the Eureka Foundry Tuesday. Soon afterwards warrants were issued for Edward Rauhauser. a molder's apprentice. and for his father, and for Josenh ITollownll Christ is more than an exponent of truth: He is nn impulse to truth. The Iter. J. E. Gilbert, secretary of the American Society of Religious Education, has been invited to attend the first international congress of education, to bo held In Liege. Belgium, next September. Ho will present a paper oiv the moral and religious instruction of children in the family. A Rio Janeiro dispatch says the revolt there has been quelled. The Prussian Diet, it Is expected, will pass bills providing for extensivo canals. Strikers Under Arrest. Cincinnati. O.. Special.?Charged with vflrloue decrees of lawlessness in connection with the strike of union molders of Cincinnati, Covington and Newport. Ky., a naif dozen men are under surveillance. Those in custody are Wi'llara ratten, alias Friend, ) rhnrped with murder; Eugene Trainer, charged with murder; Thomas Brack- 1 en. charged with murder; Fred Ran | hau*e?, Ji.. charged with malicious do- | i ti-ucttna of property; Fred Radians-, it. Sr.. and John Hi ok. obarged wi lt [ i,lin? nr?*' abetting ..he destruction of J ; ropcrty Indictment Against City. At Saco. Me., the municipal phy. i si clan irdorsod on .1 death certificate "died of starvation caused by the city'* refusal to furnish aid." A DURHAM TRAGEDY Business Difficulties Lead Up t? t Fatal Shooting Affray W. I. MURRAY KILLS HIS U*Of Victim's Own Pistol Turned AijauMlK Him After He Had Shot Sliiy??*% Son?The Homicide the Outcorx? ?y a Long and Bitter Business ? Both W. R. Murray, the Skvyeq, And the Deceased Are Prominently Connected?Coroner to Hold an 3s*. quest This Morning?The Slayer l?i Custody. j Durham, N. C-, Special?In ;v .ilrsrt duel Friday morning about 10 o'rfnclt J. S. Murray, a prominent cittzoA was killed by his nephew, W. R. Msm ray. The homicide occurred c:? Mat* street. in front of the place of leudh noss of tbe deceased, and the killing was done with a pistol betoncring t*> the deceased. Aflor ho had fircAl three shots at his slayer, it was the* taken from him and tho fatal she*, fired. He lived but a few mnmnnis after the last shot. Friday night \V. R. Murray. th? alaycr of the deceased, who is h.neunr a prominent business man, and identified with oolh tlie Klk nud Masonic lodges, was in charge of the polio*. The tragedy is one that line. shockeA the entire community. Nothing baa so stirred Durham in recent your*, it canto as the result of an ill feeling of several years' standing:. Roth mu? were engaged in the musle t ir oiiu mis engendered tiio bid b'.i >ilhat le<i up lo a light several ye;us a ??. an& eventually to this tragedy. The full fa ts in tire c.iru . > far o.s i ..n lie learned, are as folio v. ; l*'rV day morning, J. S. Murray, tb do eeimcd, went out to deliver a lie RUbpicioncd that his nephew an* business rival had sent a man te watch him. A few minutos alter hks return two- employees in the W. K. Muiray house, one his son, Earl, pa?> ed the store of the deceased, t Murray came out, stopped them and engaged in conversation, in which in* charged that they had followed him in placing an order. While thiv conversation was in progress W. R. Mar ray appeared on the scene and puHfeI ing apart those who were in the quarrel made some remark about fighting a person his own size. Then tin* i trouble followed. Sonic witnesses s*> j that Joe Murray, tho deceased. stei?ped back and drew his gun. tiring, dirccct at. W. R- Murrav Then ?K*. two men closed In on each other ao<l a total of four shots were fired. Th* last one was fatal to J. S. Murray. II*; was led back into his store and a moment later he was dead. The slayer tinned in the street and surrendered to Dr. N. M. Johnson, who ran uj?, turning over to him the pistol of tb?< deceased with which tho fatal she* was fired. A few moments later h*was taken In charge by Chief of Police Woodall and has oc.cn In his other since that time. In the duel J. S. Murray was killed. Kail Murray was shot n the ami unit W. It. Murray lias a broken finger. It is thought that the first two shot* were the ones that wounded Earl Marray, son of the slayer. One of the** shots past through his left wrist am} the other struck the left hip rmO giatucrt. Ho is not in a serious conation. The prisoner lias n broken finger on the left hand. He content* that this was broken in trying to qua. the pistol from the bands of the uouu who was trying to kill him. The fi? tal bullet struck the left lireasrl. ranged upward, severing the artery from which ho bled to death. Russian Loan Concluded. London. Special.?In London financial circles It is understood that nc-frptiations have practically been concha* ed for tho issue in Berlin and far** simultaneously in January of f> jercr cent. Russian treasury bonds to the TfAli4/V ffOPA AAA AAA < /* >uur; vi f^uu,UUlf,UUV, IDT IIVC OT SCVflT years, tho price taking $100,000,000 and the same French bankers wr*? made tnc last loan taking $100,000,OOOt Farmer Kills His Son. Knoxvile, Tenn., Special.?In a pule over some form work. Puna Hickman, a farmer residing In tlri? county, killed his son, Walter, aged SCI. striking him a blow on the head wl?a a stick, which broke tho young nock. Thq tragedy was witnessed "Ks other members of the family. Tlx? young man ?s said to have been ;**vnncing on his father with a ?ira rr> knife,, v.l en the latter etruc.k hitn l? self-defense. Tho alleged murderer w *? arrested, and brought to jail in t?.|? city, being unable to futeish ?VS" $'.,0(10.