u mum mi mpwoa I tiEi - - ' Scuotcb ta-politics, itcvatuvc, Agriculture, Science, iHoralitij, ani cncral 3ntelligcucc. VOL. 30. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 26, 1872. NO. 34; Published by Theodore Schocli. TEil'-f S -Two lnilrs ye.irin adcanne nnd if not f. i t)!r re the r.wl of the year, I wo dollars niul fifty cents will te r.IiurgeJ. N iu.e- iieMUu'ieJ until alt arrearages are paid, exeent a'Jtl'.e opt inn ol the Bditnr. , cr. lvnrueii.eiUs of one square T (ctfjhl liner) or ns. one or three insertions it 5$. Bach .aUdiltonal ni?iti!, 51 ceni. Longer ones in proporlfrw. J job IpkinttngT OF ALL KINDS. Ctpcwted in th Muhfs siyt or t!.e Art, and on the iit rensonab1.: terms. DR. J. LAN TZ, burgeon ami Mechanical Dentist, Mill h is Im oflSce n M;iin Slrfrt, n the wwml tiry rf lr- S- WiiWonN lrtc.W huilituta', nemly oppo se s:rin:Iluig House, kikI tie ft;iUersruoiself Kt hy eictUftn years constant prnclire and the 11101 oarnet aril cm-rial aticniii-n la nil matters pertaining to his nrnfes'in, thil he is fully able to perform alt peruti'Mi in t!tciiMitA line in Hie mo.n careful, taste-t-il n t k: I . l 1 manner. sp:.r?l attention (ivou to savins the Natural Teeth ; Is.t, lo tin: insertion of Artificial reel h on Rubber, RiiM. Silver or CkmIhiuou Gums, and purlect fits in ail raes insurrd. Most persons know the great folly and danger en trn! niR their oili to the Jfitixjitrienoeil. or to those livinj al a lit.iii(!e. April 13, 1671. ly 11. GKO. W. J.iCIiSO PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER. In the old office of Dr. A. Keeves Jackson, residence in WyekotF's building. STROUDSBURG, PA. August 8, 1672-tr'. JU. II. J. IMTTERSOX, OPERATING AND 3IE( IIAMFAL . DEMIST, Having located in East Strotidsburg, Pa., an nounce that he is now prepared to insert arti ficial teeth in the most beautiful and life-like manner. Also, great attention given to filling and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex tracted without pain ly use of Nitrons Oxide ia. All other work incident to the profession dona in the most skillful and approved style. All work attended to promptly and warranted. Charges reasonable. Patronage of the public solicited. Office in A. W. Lodcr's new building, op posite Analomink House, East Strondsburg, Pa.l July 11, 1372 ly. DR. N. L. PECK, Surgeon Dentist, Announces lh it having just returned from Dental CoMegs, he is fully prepared to make artificial teeth in the most beautiful and life like manner, and to fili decayed teeth ac cording to the mot inprcved method. Teeth exfract-d without pain, when de sired, by tiie use of Nitrous Oxide Gas, which is entirely harmless. Repairing of all kinds neatly done. All work warranted. Charges reisonable. Office in J. (I. Keller's new Brick build ing, Mii.i S'reet, Stroudsburg, Pa. auj31-tf DTI. C. O. II OF SMI AX, M. O. Would respectfully announce to the public that he has removed his office from Oakland to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa. Trusting that many years of consecutive practice of Medicine and Stirrer) will be a sufficient guarantee for the public confidence. February 25, 1S70. tf. JAM ES II. WALTOS, Attorney sit L.:nv, Offic? in the building formerly occupied by Ij. M. J'urson, and opjo.sit the Strouds lurjr liank, Maiu street, Stroudiburg, l'a. jan 1 -i-tf LACEHWAX.VA HOL.se OPPOSITK TIIE DEPOT, East Stroudsburg, l'a. J. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor. The bar, contains the cboiest Liquors and the table is supplied with the best the market .affords. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf. 'WT' ATS OX'S JIuunt Vernon House, 117 and 119 North Second St. ABOVE ARCH, PHILADELPHIA. May 30, 1672- ly. , KELLERSVILLE HOTEL. The undersigned having purchased the above well known and popular Hotel Proper ty, would rcsiectfully inform the traveling public that he has refurnished and fitted up the Hotel in the best style. A handsome Bar, with choice Liquors and Segars, polite attendants and moderate charges. CHARLES MAXAL, Oct 1 9 1 87 1 . tf. Proprietor. gARTOXSVIIE IIOTEI. This old established Hotel, having recently changed hands, and been throughly overhauled and repaired, will reopen, for the reception of of guests on Tuesdav, May 27th. The public will always find this house a de irable place of resort. "Every department will bo managed in the best possible manner. The table will be supplied with the best the Market affords, and connoisures will always find none but the best wines and liquors at the bar. Good stabling beloning to the Hotel, will be found at all times under the care of careful and obliging attandants. way 23, 1S72. ANTHONY II. ROEMEB. , , , Found out why people go to McCarty's to M their furniture, because he buys it at the Ware Rooms of Lee & Co. and sells - it at an advance of only Ucmty-ttro aud ttfo ittnfli per cent. Or in other words, Rocking Chairs that he buys of Jx;e k Co. ( through the runners he don't have) for $4,.r,o he sells for $'jJAI loys him to bin me fooJ Fur iiurel LEE & CO. $troudsburg, Aug. 18, 1870. tf. C1AN-YOU TELL WHY IT IS J that when any one comes to Stroud burjr to buy Furniture, they always inquire or McCartys Furniture Store! ' Seii. 26 WHITE SLAVE TRADE. CHILDREN BOUGHT IN ITALY FOR THE NEW-YORK MARKET. A SADDER STORY THAN THE WRONGS OF THE ITALIAN EMIGRANTS CHILDREN SOLD OUT RIGHT TO AGENTS AND FORCED TO SERVE UNSCRUPULOUS " SPECULATORS THE HOMES OF TIIE STREET MUSICIANS. Frvm the A7. 1 Tribune The Italian problem which, during the past week, has engrossed the attention of the Commissioners of Emigration, is gradually working its own solution. The Hoard has now under its care nearly 2, 000 emigrants, who are almost or entire ly destitute. The sensational rumors regarding the dangerous character of these men are emphatically denied by the Commission ers, aud so lar as can be learned the iru migrants left their country because the representations made to them by ageuts regarding the opportunities for acquiring wealth in America were so flattering. The Young Men's Italian Association, at No. 4G Franklin-st., has opened an in telligcnce office, and received, yesterday, an order from Virginia for 200 railroad laborers. The Commissioners of Emigra tion will cooperate with the Children's Aid Society, and the men will be for warded at once. It is estimated that $5 will defray the railroad expenses of each emigrant, aud that the work will be such that, unlike the laborers who were recent ly sent to Maine, uone will return to be come a charge to the Slate or city. The capacity of the Alans house on Ward's Island is taxed to its utmost, but it is expected that the majority of those at present cared for by the Emigration Board will be provided with employment belorc the middle of the Winter. It the immigration continues, the project is to rent a large warehouse and to quarter the emigrants therein. After being thus furnished with lodg ings it is confidently believed that all could support themselves by gathering rags or dtin other light work. Commissioner Wallach last night visi ted the Italian school in Franklin-st, where 500 children are educated by the Children's Aid Society. WRONGS OF ITALIAN CHILDREN. The most starling disclosure which has grown out of the large emigration from Italy is the fact that children are pur chased from their parents and brought to this country to earn a living for their owners. The multitude of miserable lit tle wretchs who daily and nightly patrol the streets, annoy the passengers on the ferries, surround the doors of theaters and lecture halls, belong to this class. They are brought over in gangs and are housed in large teoements in Crosby, Elizabeth, Thompson, and Baxter sts. They are crowded into small, ill-ventilated, uncarpeted rooms, 18 or 20 in each, and pass the night on the floor with only a blanket to protect them from the sever ity of the weather. In the mornings they are fed by their temporary guardian with maccaroui, seived in the filthiest manner, in a large open dish in the centre of the room, alter which they are turned out in to the streets to beg or steal until late at night. More than all this, when the miserable little outcasts return to their cheerless quarters they arc required to deliver every cent which they have gathered dur ing the day, and if the same be deemed insufficient the children are carefully searched and soundly beaten. In some instances they arc treated inhumanly, and it is stated,' upon the authority of Mr. Tioelli of No. 3 Chambers St., that a fire brand was in cne instance applied to the feet of a child who had returned home without enough money to satisfy the de mands of the landlord. Mr. Tinetti stated that young Italiau children frequently visited him and, after complaining of the ill treatment which they received from their masters, lament ed that their parents had ever sent them so far away to serve such cruel people. He also stated that a man by the name of Sousonui came to him some time since and desired legal assistance in regaining the custody of three small boys who had escaped to Morristowo, N. J. Having met with a rebuff, Soosoooi procured another lawyer, who went to Morristowu to claim the children, on the grouud of a coutract made in Italy be tweeu the parents of the boys and an iuu porter of street musicians. So incensed were the people in Morristown, who had taken the children under their protection, that they forced the lawyer to leave the town bo the next train. HOME IN ZTALV In the southern part of Italy many of the peasantry are below tne intelligence of the Eedouios. They subsist upon the scanty growth of partly cultivated farms and raise barely enough to carry them through the year. This U especially true of the dwellers in the vicinity of the vil lages of Marsicovettere, Lacorenzaoa. Caleello. and Carletto all within a radius of 100 miles from Naples. Agents go out from New York about oocc a year and visit these neighborhood. Their stories of the great prospects which are offered to the young in America are poured into the ears of the peasant aud ignorant villagers. After the subject has been .somewhat agitated the agent be comes more explicit. He approaches the father cf a family, and after commenting upon the beauty of his children, tells the infatuated parent that his boys "should be sent at once to America, where they must in time bo come rich." "There are no poor in Ameri ca." "The children should go when young, so that they may grow up with the people and the better acquire the language." "None arc too young or too old to go to America." Such are a few of the artifices adopted to induce the parents to entertain favor- i ably the unnatural proposition which the agent next ; makes. The father, finally convinced, stammers out a regret that poverty preveuts him from going to this El Dorado or from sending his children thither. The agent then offers to take the child ren to America, and to pay 40 or 850 to the father upon his signiug an indenture abandoning all claims upon them. Often the agent promises the parent 8100 at the end ol one year, aud so defrauds him out of his infamous "head money." Instances have come to the knowledged of a lawyer in this city where three small childreu were thus indentured for four years' ser vice for 8100. Alter the agent has collected a suffi cient number of children they are all sup plied with musical instruments, and the trip, on foot, through Switzerland and France begins. They are generally ship ped to Genoa, and often to Marseille", and accomplish the remainder of the journey to Havre or Calais by easy stages from village to village. Thus they become a paying investment from the beginning. This journey oc cupies the greater portion of the Summer months, and after a long trip in the steer age of a sailing vessel the unfortunate childreu land at Castle Garden. As the parents never hear from them again, they do not know whether they arc doing well or not. HOMES IN NEW YORK. After passing through Castle Garden, they are at once transferred to Baxter, Crosby, Thompson, Elm, Elizabeth, and Park sts., where their life of slavery be gins in earnest. A Tribune reporter yes. terday made a tour through their dreary lodging-houses. Nos. do, 45, 4., and 5u Crosby St., N03. 72 and 74 Thompsou St., and several tenements in Elizabeth st., between Broome and Spring sts., were visited A complete description of No Id Crosby st. and of the great tenement in the rear is here introduced. The building which bears the number is an old fashioned "brick house which at one time was painted white. Ascending a flight of stone steps the reporter enter ed a dirty hall way leading to a porch at the rear. A stairway at one side of the hall gave access to the second story and attic, whence two gaunt, unshaven men, wrap ped in cloaks, descended, suspiciously in specting the reporter at every step. The porch at the rear of the building looked out upon a small court, and beyond a high board fence a tall tentement, appar ently teeming with life, rose to such a hight as absolutely to shut out what little suu light would have punctured through the murky atmospere. As the reporter stood on the porch re garding the building, he noticed through a window at bis right a very strange scene. Around the sides of a small room, in the front building, children to the number of abuot twenty were ranged, and in the center of this circle was an old hag. crouched upon her knees. She was engaged in a strange course of instruction, which she was giving to the dirty faced boys aud girls. As each was called, he or she stepped up to the wo man, and received sotnethiug perhaps a penny which was at once returned. The right baud was always employed by the children, and their manner was both attentive and respectful. One luckless urchin, of perhaps 5 years, did not perform the tedious lesson pro perly, for as the gift was returned ho re ceived from the woman a stout blow on the ear. The boy did not appear to be even surprised. Another child was call ed up to the bag and the game, or lesson in beggtDg, or whatever it may have been was proceeding again, when the centra figure of this strange group discovered the vibitor, and, instantly rising, came to the wiudow, and frowned upon him so savagely that he at once returned through the hall to the street. Determined, however, to go throug the large tenement, the visitor entered a low corridor which runs between the buildings No. 45 and No. 47 Crosby-st and after wading through filth and mud dv water reached the open court in the rear. Here he met childreu who ap proached and rubbed against him. From every -room proceeded, the dis cordant sounds of violins in childish hand. The buildiuir was only 25 feet iu deDth. and there were four rooms on each floor. In this house resides Nichol la Negro. In the first room on the left, 10 by 12, were quartered a man, wife and several children. Ascending 10 me se p.nn d floor bv a sliopery stairway, which was almost spiral, the visitor saw a schoo of young musicians in a frout room, teacher was playing sadly out of time upon a black violin, and several urchins furnished with the same instrument, were vainly trying to follow him. The dis cord was something to be speedly forgot ten. The hall ways were full of children and as the visitor climbed to the next floor he again eucountered the music o tuudess harps and cracked violins. From this floor until the fifth story of that damp, dirty and wretched tenement was reached, the scene was the same. These are the homes to which the Italian children are brought. It is stated that the Consul General De Lucca has long been cognizant of this infamous traf fic, and that he has made every effort in his power to reform the abuse. THE CAUSES OF BAD BREATH. BY DR. DIO LEWIS. Most persons think that a bad breath comes from the stomach ; being out of order, sends up an impure something which escapes in the breath. This is impossible. A bad breath never comes from the stomach. Nothing ever comes upward except in vomiting and eructa tions of wind. There is no open . passage through which an odor cau rise to the mouth. The passage into the stomach from above is always perfectly closed, except at the moment when there is no chance lor an odor to escape from the stomach upward. The oesophagus, or meat pipe, closes up on the thing going dowu, and grasps it all the way from the upper to the lower end. For example, a whole chestnut passes down the oesophagus. The mom ent it enters the upper end of the pas sage, the walls of the passage grasp the ut, and squeezes it from above so tight as to force it down. The part of the ca nal immediately above the chestnut all the way down is so tightly closed upon the nut, that the squeezing presses it on until is forced into the stomach. When ever there is nothing in the passage, it remains shut : the sides are pressed to gether; nothing whatever can escape from the stomach up through it. And even in vomiting it is very difficult to force even solid matter upward. In most persons it requires a tremendous effort to get anything up. And yet, strange to say, most persons imagine the passage to be an open pipe through which bad odors may constantly pass up and escape in a breath. There are three sources of bad breath, the mouth, the nose and the lungs. Of twenty cases of bad breath 1 estimated that fifteen came from the mouth, one from the noe, and four from the lungs. As generally, when the mouth is in fault, the lungs contribute something to the odor, the above definite classification is probably too precise ; but I think it a close approximation to the truth. The Mouth. I need hardly argne that rotten teeth and diseased gums may produce a bad breath. I have but rarely met a case in which the teeth were white and the gums healthy. In every case o bad breath the mouth i to be suspected and examined. In a majoity of cases you smell nothing while the patient keeps his mouth shut and breathe through his nose; but as soon as he be gins to speak, then it comes. That man must go at once to the den tist. He is the doctor for the mouth. He will remove every cause of offense from that cavity. The Nose. The various forms of ca farrh are more or less productive of bad odors. Ozena, which is the worst form of catarrh, produces a peculiar and sick ening odor. The cure of this malady is somewhat difficult, but the odor arising from it can be mitigated by a thorough cleansing of the nose with water, or soap and-water, several times a day. But a cure should be sought, and let it not be sought at the hands of one of the advertising catarrh quacks. The Lungs. A man eats and drinks, say five pounds in a day. Now, unless he is gaining weight, he must, part with five pounds. If we place on the scales all that comes from his bowels and blad er, we shall find it weighs, say, one pound and a half. Three pounds and a half have left the body in some other way or other ways. These other ways ore the skin and lungs. By far the larger part should escape through the skin; Some times the millions of holes in the skin, through which this worn out, effete mat tcr should escape, become in part closed, from lack of bathing and perspiration ; and this effete matter cannot escape free ly in that way. But the poisonous stuff must be got 'rid of in some way. Now, the lungs come in to supplement the skin. To a certain extent, the lungs and the skin are ever ready to substitue for each other. If the lungs, for any reason, leave a small part of their duty undone, the skin at once steps in to assist. If the skin fails to accomplish its whole task of the work of excretion, the lungs are ever ready to assist in working off the impur ities. Dut whenever the lungs are obliged to perform this extra service, they cannot do as well as the skin. They are obliged to work off impurities which do not belong to their department, and so they take ou a morbid condition, and the excretions are so changed iu charac- ter as to become offensive. Three persons out of every four whose bad breath cotne3 from their lungs, can cure themselves or mitigate the nuisance by washing themselves all over with strong soap and water, and following this by the vigorous use of rough towels every day for a month, and exercising at least once a day till there is free perspiration, By this time the impurities which-should escape through the skiu have free escape in their natural course, and the lungs re- turn to their own proper work, and the disagreeable odor disappears. J In a small proportion of fhe cases in which bad breath comes from the lungs, the difficulty is a foul condition of the system, not depeudeut upon the condi- tion of tho skin. In such cases the whole system must be cleansed belore the bad breath can be removed. Correct Way to Sweep a Carpet. There are three ways to sweep a car pet one right and two wrong ways One wrong way is to hold the broom nearly in front of the operator, with the handle inclined backwark toward him, then press down as a forward thrust is given, throwing the heaviest dirt half way across the room, while the light particles are sent whirling about, cover ing, as they settle, every article of furui ture. Another wrong way to sweep a carpet is to move the broom forward with a heavy, drawing stroke, by which the material to be removed is pressed into the capet rather than worked gently along ou the surface. If either of thece wrong ways is adopted, the broom will wear out the earpet more thin it is worn by the occupants of the dwelling. When a sweeper collects a dust pan full of the nan of the carnet everv time it i -went. r r. j -g-i a new one will soon be required. The right way to sweep is to incline the handle a little forward, then give a light drawing stroke, allowing the broom .ill i . to naraiy toucn tne carpet. rot one half the weight of the broom should be allowed to press on the carpet. a3 the dirt is moved forward. Let the dirt be moved and rolled along very li-htlv. If a generous supply of tea srouuds. small bits of wet paper, or clean and wet saw- dust can be spread over the carpet before ntconm Ammm.Mll oil fin dirt will adhere to the wet material. A little smart woman who is a terror to dirt will frequently hurl it about the room as if it were impelled bv a whirl- j j wind, aud when the the task is ended her dust pan will contain scarcely. enough to pay for sweeping. But by usio a irood broom, having a long, clastic prush, and touching the carpet very lightly, it will scarcely require the strength of a child to sweep a large parlor in a few minutes. Scarcely one housekeeper in fifty under stands how to sweep a carpet correctly. Rural Home. Live and Dead Weight of Animals. The amount of meat obtained from a domestic animal sold by its live weight is very variable, and experiments have recently been made in Liverpool to ascer tain the proper allowauces to be made From the statistics to be derived from the public slaughter houses, or abattoirs, of Paris or Brussels, it appears that the race and the conditiou of the animal, besides many other circumstances affect the result, and that certain animals yield as much as 70 per cent, of meat, while others only give 50 per cent. The mean weight of meat produced, however, is calculated at 58 per cent, of the live weight in beef cattle.. Iu the case of sheep, the propor tion, is from 40 to , 50 per cent. From experiments made, it appears that the different products obtained from oxen and sheep are as follows:; An ox of the live weight of 1,332 pounds, yield-!, meat, 7714 pounds; skin, 1 10 2 ; grease, 88 j blood, 55.1 ; feet and hoofs, 22 ; head, 11 ; tongue, G 00 ; lungs and heart, 15 33 ; liver and spleen, 20.05 ; intestines, f(.15 ; loss and evaporation, 154.322 making the total o! 1,322 pounds The products f rom a sheep weighing 110 2 pounds, are as follows : Meat, 55 1 pounds; skin, 7.711; grease, 5.51 : blood, 4 408 ; tongue, lungs, heart, liver and spleen, 4 408 ; in testines, G G12 ; loss and evnporatioo, 10. 830 making the total of 110.2 pounds. Greeley's FirstJob in New York. In 1830 Grcelrey left Poultney, and after sojourning a year around Lake Erie, and workiug in various printing offices, turned his steps toward the city of New York, where he arrived , ia the early morning of Aug 17, 1831, tall, slender, pale, ungainly, his entire stock of this world's goods consisting of a shibby summer suit, a very small buudle tied up in a pocket hankerchicf, and a ten dollar bill, tho whole ready cash in-. eluded, being dear at 820. And now this raw country lad, without an ae- quaiotance in the great metropolis, commenced a search for work at the art preservative of all arts Up and down the stairs of priuting offices he went, rr most instances a single side glance at hs shambling figure being enough to briug out iu growling tones, "We've no work for you!" However forbidiug in other respects, the countenance and voice of the tall, thin lad ought have satisfied those to whom he applied for a chance at the case or the press thaS though he might be a poor printer he was neither a liar nor a rogue. And yet so keen an observer of men as the late- David Hale, then of the Journal of C m- merce, did not hesitate to tell poor Gree- i.i.i icy ma: ne was a ruoaway apprentice, and he pretty thoroughly frightened him. by threatening his arrest on the spot. At leugth after visiting more printing offices than he had previously supposed; the whole country contained, and just as he was eating up his last shilling at a cheap lodging house, he, following the direction of sotae young Irishmeu whom he accidentally met, found a small job of work which, as he afterward ascertained, was so difficult ol execution, and was paid. for at such low rates, that other priuters had refused to do it; abd so it fell into the hands of the comparatively iuexperi enced Green Mountain apprentice. WORD PUZZLES. Pcrpaps, writes a correspondent, you would like to have me tell you some- funDJ thZs wl"ch 1 hc:lrJ atout 6Pe11 ,D and pronouncing - There is one word or only five letters and if you take away two of the them ten; will remain. What word is that ? It is often. If you take away of, ten will re main. There is a word of five letters, and if Jou laKe away lwo or ibtm six will re I.I A . . ... maio- That i3t? Sixty. Takeaway six rciuaio- IIere is a PUZ2lc : Take away w? Crst letter take awaJ my secoud IeVCf, tak awa' an ra? ,eltcrs' and 1 wv; the same. Can you guess that? You are riht ' ifc " the mail carricr- There is a word which, if you change tl,e P,ace of onc of it9 Iel,er9' meaC3 exactl? tho Wsite from what it did at first. What is the word ? It is united. 1Mafc tha ' after the ' and h becomes uutieu. Can you tell me what letter it is that has only been used but twice in America ? It is a ; it is only used twice in America. Can you tell me when there were only tw0 weIsJ li was 5q th days or Noah, before ou auJ 1 VTCre borQ-a days of no, a before u and i were born. Perhaps you cau tell me hy a hare is easier to catch than an heiress 1 It is be cause the heiress has aa i and' the hare has none. What is the word of one syllable which, if you take two letters from it, will be come a word of two syllables ? You must try Bod guess for it will be my last puzzle. It is plague, take pi, and it becomes ague. Formation cfCoal. Under each coal seam a stratum of an cient soil exists, in which there arc com monly found the roots of ancient trees; whi,e abovc the coal thcrc is nouy a layer of shale or sandstone, in which cot unfrequcntly the trunks of those trees aro found either falleu or still in their origi, ual position, and only partly converted into coal. The bark remains, but is trans muted into coal ; the hollow of the trunk, decaying long before the trunk gave way, is represented by a, cast in the sandstone. Thus, it we try to picture to ourselves the state of thingi which existed when such a seam of coal fiit begau to bo cov ered by the next higher deposit, we sco that there must have been trees standing erect above a layer o vegetable matter, the roots of the trees being imbedded in the soil which forms the deposit next bo low the coal. The vegetable lawyer may probaoly have beeu two or three times as thick as the resulting coal seam, and were reduced by pressure tu their picseut thiek- is rr p
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