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The Evil Though!, A girl, ynunu and beautiful, stood on the brow of ihe bill; with saddened gnze she looked on the deep vnlky and die roofed Inn, slie railed home. Far ns her; 1 eye could reach, stretched verd.int mead- j ows, waving cornfields nod (arretted halls; all bore the impress of peace and plenty, all but that little spot —that alone seemed desolate, devoid of lieauty—yet 1 that spot, since earliest clii'dhood, had been her dwelling place. - She pressed her quivering hands on her burning broiv, on which were written sorrow, and despair; poverty and her handmaid, cans had already darkened ! the voting life. Hitter murmurs burst from tier lips as die wearisome path or life loomed before her. ‘Why should all things rest but 7?— The dainty rippling streams creep lasily | down the moumniii side; the sultry breeze.’ even, disdains to p'ay with the idle gras-; I the gaudy butterflies are holding a feast in the wild cherry tree. O! it is glorious to possess riches, to dwell in von tieautis lul grounds, and forever listen to the sweet songs of birds, as arrayed in costli est robes, crowned with perfumed wreaths my early dreams imaged. Why should others lie more blessed than If Am 1 less lair* Yet 1 must toil and starve.’ She cast Ircr eyes Inwards a wreathing smoke that rose quite near, and as the iris tinted mist rolled away, she saw an ancient tnnnsinn never noticed Indore; and from its portaled entrance n man came forth; he was young in manhood's prime, of noble countenance, jet its beau.. IV was marred by a shade of sadness, or it might be discontent, that rested upon it. With a quickened step be neared (he maiden: her heart fluttered with a strange joy, as though it sprang to meet him, as with smiling lips lie bowed before her. ‘Why so sad, fair one? I have come in obedience to thy w islie-', to bear thee hence to yon ball; as its mistress, neither care nor sorrow shall assail thee.’ As be thus spoke, she thought of her starving mother; her features writhed with pain. ‘Give me bread! my mother dies.’ I ‘Not with hunger; thy mother is aged; I Death hath crept near, ami Time heck- < tins him to entei; think not of her; a life of pleasure is before thee. I will adorn < thy beauty with jewel.*; thy bright wo- i manhood shall lie spent amid courts, where all shall ofler homage to thy sur passing loveliness; all that comprises the ■ happiness of earth shall be thine.’ i The maiden’s head was proudly erect ‘ as with stately mien she gave her hand to ‘ her princely wooer; Iter tears, her moth- 1 er's love, the home of her childhood, all ! were lurgnitt-n. The proud aspirations of youth nliom to he gratified, who now I should slay her steps. A moment, then ■ eatne rushing o'er her soul the memories * of other days, when ns an infant nursed 1 at the gentle mother’s breast, now her 1 only cotnlort in sad widow hood: how she ’ had taught It r to bow Iter knee to the 1 great God to a-k his protecting care ‘ through the dark night: and w lit n pov.. < erty and | lersecutiou had driven ahem to I that lon Iv <"% her humble, trusting t prayer Intd -till been, ‘Not my will, O 1 Lord, but thine be done.’ To that dear 1 mother the was the only ti- to earth.— Would not God terribly punish such des ertion, such ingratitude?’ ‘Nay. believe util that,’ said lie wlm still clasped Iter bands, replying to her unuttered thoughts; ‘the good I offer thee ihou mayest enjoy through an infinity ol endless ages.—l will show thee a carele-s life, surrounded by all tile dazzling, beau tiful things of earth, crowned as ‘twill be with love, is worth more than ever thy prayers asked of heaven.’ Then the maiden knew him who stood beside her, and fell that her envious feel- j ings bad given hi n power over Iter. With 1 a cry, *grl thee hence, te.npter,’ she sprang from his encircling grasp and lu! she had been deeping on luat gentle bill, and the ancient niai siou and the bright tempter were but the creation ol an evil thought. She retraced her steps down the flowered declivity, towards her lowly home. As she entered the shaded door way, and looked on the humble board j spread with frugal fare, she was told the | latly of the cas It- had heard of their dis-1 tress, and sent the present supply, with a future promise ol further assistance; her very heart wept lor thankfulness as she bent her knee in grateful prayer to God, the father of the fatherless — Mentor. 1 never knew a w oman who was in the habit of scolding able to govern a family. Wliat makes people scold? The want of , self governmet. Mow then can they gov.. | ern others? Those who govern well are generally calm. They are prompt and resolute, but steady ami mild. ‘ Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor’s house,’ says Solomon, ‘lest he lie weary of thee, and so hate thee.’ Never make your friends glad twice: glad to see you come, ulad to see you depart. Lit your visits b • short, say wuat you say, do wiui you do, and off, off on business. The Col,ln, Rule. The New EngM Ministry. The defeat and resignation of the I Whigs, and. the accession of the conser vatives to power, are about to produce a marked chance in the internal policy of Ktigland, which, if the new premier the E trl I>f De ity receives the support lie anticipates, will react in a very consider able degree on the exportation of bread stuffs from America. Under these circumstances, it is of some importance to ascertain, as f>r as . po>sible, wliat prospects the new premier lias of carrying out his plans; and wliat aniounl of opposition is likely to lie array ed against him. In the first place, it is j not to lie denied, that (lie Karl of Derby, j notwiili-iandiug the principles lie espous j es, is very popular as a ntan Asa J statesman, he possisses many qualities , which are in the highest degree altrac i live In the great mass of Knghsh people, jMe is bold, frank, fiery, feat less and in dependent. However opinions may vary iu respect In tlie pi iiu iph-s lie advocates, no one denies the great force of bis per sona 1 character. For a long lime known l i AtiiPiiran readers, ns Lord Stanley, the earl of Darby has all the best quali ties which historians have been accustom ed to consider as appertaining to the character of that fine nil) Knglish family. lii the policy of his administration, we may be assured of one tiling—there will be no half measures, no compromises, no tergiversations. Whatever bills may lie brought forward, whatever plans may be Inrined, the objects will be distinctly en unciated, and gallanty defended. The support which the Karl of Derby will receive, will he derived from the land-owners, the farmers, a large pro portion of the Irish members and from those country boroughs w here the man ufacturing interest does not prevail. Be sides these, we have not the least doubt I that be will carry with him quite two- | third of the members, composing the | house of lords. Taught from infancy to, ‘stand by their order,’ conservatism has always been the most cherished policy of those hereditary legislators, indeed, so stub bornly have they clung, at times, to an cient usages, that more than once new batches of peers have had to be created for the purposes of breaking down their opposition to liberal measures. While Lortl Derby assumes the lead ership f the Moose of Lords, he has coin mined that of the Mott-e of Commons into the hand of D’ Israeli, it is an ev idence of the new premier’s sagacity, that so excellent a choice lias been made, and were the other members of the cabinet at all comparable in genius lo D’ Israeli, a conservative ministry might be able to maintain itself iu power, for some years yet to come, by mere intellectual force. The great battle which is soon to lie fought between the Agricultural, and the Manufacturing interests, will be fought ! almost wholly in the house o( commons, j 1 1 has already been announced that a ( duty will lie placed upon foreign grain, anti that the reform in the franchise, about to be proposed by Lord John Russell, w ill meet u ith no favor from the new min istry. As the corn law is again to become the great question by which the strength of the conservatives i- lobe tested, the lat ter are boldly preparing for the shock.— The olil corn law league is about to be I revived throughout the country, and Cobden, its most distinguished champion, is preparing fora renewal ol the struggle which be succeeded before in closing so triumphantly. There cannot lie a doubt that the con servative party in Kni’laiul is very strong; nor that its leaders are among the very ablest nten of belli houses. Supported by the Lords on the one band, and by many of the gentry in (fie lower bouse, the ministry may find it practicable iti maintain itself for a considerable time yet to come but its eventual overthrow, and the reassertion of more liberal are not the less rertain. The dissolution of the late whig cabi net is not at all regretted, even by those must friendly to the policy it professed to espouse. It bad retained only a sort of galvanised life for some years past, and had been compelled to resort to stimti j lants rather than to healthy food, in order Ito preserve the little vitality which really I did exist in the system, 7t has died at last, and there are none so poor as to do it reverence. Even the “Times,” al though opposed lo the new Cabinet, be speaks lor it a calm and impartial trial ; a manly recommendation in which (he other leading opposition papers appear • disposed to acquiesce. One tiling we think may be set down as certain—the walls of the Knglish House of Commons will witness during the next few years, a scene of vigorous ass mil anddetermin- j cd defence which to the future historian | will mark it as an epoch of more than ordinary interest. An old gentleman who has dabbed all bis life in statistics, says lie never beard of more than one woman who insured here life. He accounts for this, by the singu lar fact of one of the questions on every insurance paper being, “YVliat is your age?” J THE mnS-VBtISMMUV -^= C, B. YOUNGBLOOD, EDITOR. OGLETHORPE APRIL, 2nd 1852. Agents for the South-West Georgian Spencer Caldwell, Fori Gaines, Ga Jeter A. Mohue, near Anurievs , do. Col. Wii. T. Perains, CuthLert, do. G. Caritiiers, Esq. ‘-Uihbert, do. | Gilbert M. Stokes, Slade, Lee to. do. Dr. \V. M .jStokes, Dooly to. do. • M. L. Holman, Brtnksnille. Strm'rt do. A. A. Blakely, GriJ/iii, Pike co. do. John W. Griffin, Griffin, do. J. I’, Mav, Francis,nlle, do. W. J. Parker, Chenuba. Lee Cos., do. A. J. Williams, Agrnt for Sunder eo. Cuf.l.EN Webb, Trawler's Rest do. French Haggard, Athens do. Reduction In tlie terms of the South-West Gcorglnn. After the firs! day of October the Geor gian trill be furnished to subscribers ut the following rates : $ 1.00 for 6 months, if paid in advance, 125 “ “ if not paid in advance. 2,00 for 12 months if paid in advance, 2,50 “ “ if not paid in advance, Inducements to Clubs. Five Copies 6 months for $4,00 in advance, Ten Copies “ “ •* 7,00 “ Five Copies 12 months “ 8,00 “ Ten Copies “ “ “ 15,00 “ Fifteen Copies 12 mo. “ 20,00 “ We have been induced to oiler the above terms in order to iocrease the circulation of our paper, and for that purpose we earnslly solicit the co-operation of our fiiends. If we meet with sufficient enrtiragement, we intend getting new material in a few months and enlarging our paper. WE are aiulioiised lo announce the name of 11. H. Map, as a candidate for Magistrate at the election to take place on the 12th inst. - Our Soperiot Court adjourned on 1 Wednesday last. C 7“ The Justice’s Courts for this t District, being part of the 740th and 757(b, will be held in future at the Store I House formerly occupied by P. L. J. i May, in this City. I j A short Treatise on the mind. , The human mind is the brightest dis- i play of (he power and skill of the Infinite t Mind, with which we are acquainted.— I It is susceptible of a higher cultivation i Ilian any other created thing. It is i found in a variety of conditions, which, lor convenience may be divided into three classes, viz: First, die uncultivated or natural state. Second, the cultivated and enlightened, and, Third, that God-like pow er which is termed genius. The first is possessed by man in a sav. age and unimproved condition—the sec ond by civilized and- enlightened man, and the third, though much desired, is seldom found. In the first place, we will attempt to show, in a condensed manner, the limited enjoyments of the man whose mind is shronded in ignorance: He grows up to manhood like a vege table. He exerts bis physical powers merely because it is necessary for bis sub sistence. His views are confined lo ob jects immediately around him. His circle of society is limited to bis Parish, and his knowledge of die world is confined w ithin the limits of the blue bills which skirt his horizon. He knows nothing of the aspects of the globe in other countries, or of the numerous order of beings which people the ocean, the air anil the land. In regard to tile briundless legions which lie beyond the firmament, and the innu merable worlds that roll there, in magni ficent grandeur, be has the most confus ed and inarurate ideas. Indeed it is a , matter of (rival importance to him, wheth er the stars be great or small, w hether they be near us, or at a distance, or whether they move or stand still. In his hours of leisure, his thoughts eilhei run wild among the most grovel ling objects, nr sink into sensuality or in anity—solitude and retirement present no charms to bis vacant mind. While human beings are thug immersed i in ignorance, they can never experience > those pleasures, which flow from the ex- , - ercisc of the understanding. In the second place, we will attempt to I draw a contrast between the ignorant nnd enlightened mind: The tnan whose mind is irradiated with the light of science, has views and feelings, and exquisite enjoyments, to w hich the former is an entire stranger.— In consequence of the numerous ideas he has acquired, he is introduced, as it ( were, into anew world, where he is en tertained with objects, of which a mind enveloped in ignorance, can form no cons ception. He can trace back the system of time to its commencement and gliding along its downward course, can survey the most memorable events which have happened in every part of its progress from the primeval ages to the present day. He can give date to the rise of empires, the fall of kings, the revolutions of na lions, and the pi ogress of civilization, 1 from the foundation of the world lo the present time. With the mental eye, be Can survey the globe in all its variety o t aspects, and contemplate the continents j islands and oceans which compose it, the numerous rivers by which it is indented, j the lofty ranges of mountains w hich di j versify its surface; can visit the dark re cesses of its winding caverns, roam thr nigh its majestic forests, stand on the brink of (he silvery lake and gaze upon its smooth surface, lit up with the golden hue of dcpaiting day. | He can* by the imagination, descend ’ into the subteranean grotto, can climb to : (lie summit of the flaming volcano, listen toils stibterauennt bellow ings, beheld its lava bursting from its mouth and rolling down its sides like a flaming river. He j can survey from the lop of the Andes, the lightnings flashing and the thunders roll ing far beneath him. Stand on the brink ot ibe dashing cateract and view its mags nif)retire. He can contemplate the ocean rearing its billows in a storm, the liuri enne and tarnado, tearing up forests by their roots and tossing them about as •nibble. Assisted by his microscope, be can en\ ter into a world unknown to the igno rant and altogether invisible to the naked eye. He beholds in a single drop ol wa ter, thousand: of animated beings, and the very air tlint we breathe he discovers to be filled with living insects. The enlightened and well educated mind is enabled to siar aloft, through the ethereal regions, and contemplate the beauties of myriads of revolving worlds. ll is evident that a mind capable of such excursions and contemplations as we have now supposed must experience enjoyments infinitely superior to those of the individual whose soul is enveloped in intellectual darkness, and the enlighten ed mind must enjoy gratifications ns far superior lo those of the ignorant as man is superior in station and capacity to the worms of (lie dust. Having attempted to show you wliat a striking difference exists between an ig norant and unenlightened and the culti vated and enlightened mind, we w ill pro ceed lo the tliiid part of our subject: Men haveOLinelimes appeared of such transcendent abilities that their slightest and most cursory performances excell all that labor and study can enable meaner intellects to compose. But it is no less dangerous for any man to place himself in this rank of understanding and fancy that he is bom to be illustrious without labor, than to omit the cures of husband ry, and expect from his grounds the'blos sonts ol Arabia. Genius is a gift, and it may be greatly improved by art ana study; but by them alone it cannot be acquired. /1 matters not where it is loutui, whether with a lord or peasant, it will rise to eminence. You might as well try to obscure the rays of the noon-day sun as to suppress its on ward course toglory and renown; —it will —“through learning, and through sum y take its flight sublime, and on the loftiest lop of fame’s dread mountain sit.” Adversity is but its cradle and misfor tune its nurse. As he who stands in the deep cave, sees stars at noon-day, so the child of genius looks up from the depths of alfliction’and reads stars in the silent heaven of thought, tiudazled by the glare of this world’s sun-fight. Were not mind gifted with this power to tise superior and even to derive nour ishment from mislortune, creative as it i-, it must have lost its proudest tmpliies. WliatTtave not the gifted enduied?— j Imprisonment aud torture exile and scorn and the withering coldness ol the world. ! The history of genius is but the history ol suffering, a record ol sleepless nights and weary days, and aching hearts. The exquisite perception oi all that can aflfoid pleasure, renders it the more keenly alive to all that can give pain; yet, as beauti-; ‘fully said by another, ol men of genius: “It would seem as if all their sufferings had but sanctified them, as if the death* ‘ angel in passing, had touched them with the hem of his garmeut aud made them holy; as if the hand of disease had been stretched out over them, only to make the sign of the cross upon their souls; aud as in the sun’s eclipse we can behold the great stars shining in the heavens, so in (his life eclipse have tliese men beheld ’ the lights of the great eternity burning i solemnly and forever. ’ VVe cannot close this treatise without saying something in regard to the won j dertul powers and exquisite beauties of the mind in general. Mind is that mysterious emanation which leads us from depth to height, and over endless space; culling, abstracting, combining, and seeking by every effort of thought and experiment, to iuvestigate the cause of seeming trifles yet each dis covery leads deeper nnd deeper itMo the labrynths of mystery, exciting more and more the restless enquirer, till bewildeted by the might, the majesty and the mercy of God, he seeks rest at his teet and bows in bumble submission to bis will. Notbintt ts beautiful but mind.—Rest of tltat atribute, the bright earth has no charms—the glorious heavens no splen dor. Man looks around about him with careless eye and unenlightened soul, —he sees no beauty in the mechanism of nature —hears no delicious melody in her har monious anthems—the finest prospect is lost to bis unenrnptured sight—the sublimesi imagery moves him not. No ! like the unintellectual herd that crop the grass, he has no emotions apart from the demands of his apetite. But give him a mind elevated by cul tivation, expanded by knowledge, then he looks proudly upon the works of his creator. Every particle of matter, he feels, is filled with the presence of deity. With loving eye he gates upon the gran deurs of nature, and lier beauties, until his ’rapt, soul drinks in melody for sweeter than the sound of harps or the song of bards. For him there’s music in die j deepened thunder, in the voice of the tempest, and loud roar of the Ocean. He turns his eye to the bright arch of Heaven, he beholds the glorious sun iu splendor rolling: fondly lie gazes until the last expiring beam lias flashed upon the departue of day. Still he upturn; hi; delighted gaze to the concave firgianeni, its brilliant azure is no longer illumined by the bright blush of Eve; for she with silent tread lias stolen away into the hush ed city of night. Hut now the sweat smiling eyes of the hour are gleaming bright upon the soft rest of heaven. Ele vated by the contemplation Divine his soul tehispen him worship thy God lie kneels, and now beneath ;he pale qiuon, and brighter, stars, he pours forth the feelings of soul; his mind divested of all iinholiness, he seeks communion with that Eternal Mind of which his is but an ema natjon. Mind is the light of life the power that renders map superior to all creation, —the only tie that links him to iiis maker. Be it what if tnay, we believe it divine and imorial, destined by the Eternal in the begining, to he gathered hack to himself to be freed from all im purity .and sopyrjor Iq nnilitlalion, she dark chamber; of nonentity cannot con tain it; the unmeasured void of chaotic nothingness has no receptable for it— No! like the divine source front whence it sprang it is superior to aught w e can conceive of it, it is in itself mighty, great, grand, wonderful, sublime and incuui prebensihle. “ Mind, Mind alone—bear yyiiqe;; earth and Heaven, The living fountain in itself contains Os beauteous and sub|iiqe.” Montgomery Wide Awake. The citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, seem to be determined to go largely into the work of internal improvements, in ike shape of Plank Roads. The subject of Plank Roads has, within the last two nr three years, been very thoroughly dis missed in that section and the people have been benefited by the experiente of one successful Plank Road, already in successful .operation from that City.— Investigation and experience, it seems, have resulted in a clear conviction of the advantages of such enterprises, and a dis position to give every posfilileenrourage ment to a further prosecution of these im provements. In the Inst Montgomery Journal, we notice the Report of a Cmn | niittee of thirty citizens, appointed at a j public meeting some lime since, to take j into consideration and systematise various projects for giving aid to different Plank Road Companies. The result of the deliberations of the Committee, is a re commendation that a general elet lion of : the qualified voters of the city be held, to decide on several propositions submitted by the Committee, for loaning the credit ol the city in aid of several enterprises 1 named in the Report. The propositions of the Committee are to give assistance to the South Plank Road Company to the amount ol $30,000 ; to the Mont ; gomerv and Wetumka Plank Road cotn ; pnny, $20,000 ; to the Union Springs Plank Road Company $20,000 ; to the Montgomery and Tuscaloosa Plank Road Company $30,000 ; to the Coosa and Tidlapoosa Plank Road Company SIOO,OOO, —the whole amount of aid proposed to lie extended by the city* be ing $3 n O,OOO. The Journal represents these propositions of the Committee, as meeting with very general favor among the citizens and as probable to be carried out with but little opposition. Spirit Rappings.— /imong the ma ny wonders of the Spirit Rappers, we learn that in a country village, not fifty miles from Cincinnati, a poor fellow bad lost bis favorite dog. He enquired fur Towzer, and the raps came. Man— ‘ I* your spirit happy ?’ Dog— ‘ Yes.’ Man— ‘ Are there any coons there ?’ Dog—• Yes, but they are twice the size they are in your country, and 7 can’t catch them.’ Political. At a meeting of the Union party of Wilkes county, to appoint delegates lo the Milledgeville Convention, the follow ing resolutions were adopted: 1. Resolved, That we approve the call of the Convention to be held at the Capitol, on the 22d of April next, to take into consideration the next Presidential election. 2. Resolved, That we will send dele gates to said Convention, without instruc tions as to any particular course they will be guided in their conduct, by honest efforts to subserve the interests of the country and maintain the principles and policy of the Constitutional Union Par y- The following resolutions have been adopted by the Union party of Cobb county : Whereas, The emergency which called the Onfon papy into existence, still remams-rstbat Pfliergenpy wa§ to main tain ttie Constitutional remedy—tq pre serve the Union wliicli was endangered by the Nashville Convention, and to, maintain die rights of the States which were assailed by Northern abolitionist;. And Whereas, The Union having overcome the more immediate danger which menaced the peace of the Country, in the total qverthow of the se cession psqty, it becomes qur dqty n>q to rela* our vjg'dffnce j hot l<> gourd a gainsl the insidious enemies of the Uuinq and draw more closely the bonds of our brotherhood ; Therefore, Resolved, Thai we will support op oqe for President or Vice President, who is not unequivocally in fayor pfrecognizing the compromise as a final atfiii;tmsnt of the slavery agitation. Respited, That tye hqye the utmost confidence in the prudence of the Unioq Convention w hich is to assemble at Mil ledge-ille on the 22(1 of April next and confide the whole question of sending delegates to the Baltimore Cqnygntloq lo them. Yankee Speed. —The Missouri Re publican is responsible for the following anecdote : An Englishman, boasting of the su periority of the horse; iq bis country, mentioned that the celebrated Eclipse bad run a mile in a minute. ‘My good fel low,’ exclaimed an Ameripaq that is rather le;s than thy average rate of our cqinqion roadstyrs. 7 live at my country seat, near Philadelphia, and when I ride in a hqrry to town, of a morning, mv own shadow can’t keep tip with me, but generally comes into the store to find me, from a minute lo a min ute and a-Half after my arrival. One morning the bea;t wa; restless, and Jj rode him as fast as 7 possibly con'd, sev eral times around a large factory—-just to take (he old Harry out of him. Well, sir, he went so fast thqt tlie whole tiqie 7 saw q>y back directly befqre my, and was. twice in danger of riding over myself.’ A Doctor’s Joke. — A well known physician, in a certain city, was very much annoyed by an old lady, who wa? always sure to accost him in the street for the p trpose of telling ovyr hyr ail ments. Once she met him when he wa; in a great hurry : * Aha ! I see you are quite feeble,* said the doctor, ‘ shut your eyes and show me your longue.’ She obeyed and the doctor moved off, leaving her standing there for some time in this ridiculous position, lo the infinite amuseuien; of all who witnessed the funny All old lady of Threadneedle street, being at a loss for a pincushion, made use of an onion. On the following morn ing she found that alt the needles bad tears in their eyes. , Good Endorsers. — 4 Will you rise now, rny dear?’ said a broker's wife to her sleepy spouse : ‘ the day broke long ago.’ ‘ I wonder,’ replied the somnolent fi nancier, • if the endorsers were secured.* Tills is said to have actually taken place. We have it on the best author’ ity. ‘ Wliat are you looking after my dear,’ said a very affectionate mother to her only daughter ?’ The daughter turned around, and thus replied : Looking after a son-in-law r or father.’ Prize Talk.—The sun sank beauti fully behind the western bills > (To be continued.) Cation ftlarlifts. Cotton Statement, April 2d 1852. RMBat djfcthorpe for the ■Bt, ending April 2nd 298 bales Ship and per S. W. Kail Road, 243 “ Total receipts up lo this time, 34.495 “ Total shipments “ 31,197 “ u Total baland on hand, 3,298 “ Oglethorpe April 2nd 1852. a The market is fair, 4 to 7 ei t rentes, Charlston March 10. Cotton 6 a 8, “ ’