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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
— Wind and water are not half as de-
structive as rum and women.
— With each day the human raceis
becoming more exciting and its entries
more speedy.
—If things keep on getting hot for
the sugar trust there ought to be a
drop in “zulicks.”
—The People’s party, of Maine, has
done everything to popularize itself ex-
cept endorse J. G. B.
— Many an economical house wife
loses her reputation when she strikes the
‘‘bargain counter.”
—1It a man has honor, he is licensed
to keep it in his vest pocket for a month,
at least, after killing his first snake.
---The queer thing about presidential
lightning is, that it hurts the fellow it
aon’t touch, more than the one it strikes,
—Uncle JERRY RUSK’s latest bulle-
tin says: Stick your onions in the sign
ofthe Bull, for it will give them strength.
—To speak his mind is every free
man’s right but the trouble is, those who
have the least mind insist on talking the
most.
—There are 5,000,000, bacteria in a
single drop of milk and almost as many
in a drop of water. Moral—Don’t
drink either.
—FERDY WARD has jumped from
Sing Sing into Wall street, and we'll
bet that he'll be mighty careful that he
don’t jump back again.
—The State Treasury was clear full
when the new incumbent went into it,
but how long will it remain so. How
long, O! Lord, how long?
—Baron BLaNc is a Branc Italian
fool, He might have known that his
keen American wife would out-wit all
the detectives be could hire to spy on
her,
--Mr. PORTER'S census shows that
there are 11,483,318 dwellings in the
United States. It does’nt show up the
relation that mud flinging propensities
bear to glass houses, however,
—If some people could control their
colors as well as nature does hers there
would be one season, at least during
which we would be rid of the bunco
steerer und his verdant victim.
—We tancy that GROVER will have
to be a good bit FULLER than he has
ever been before if he is persuaded to
haul off in favor of the Chief Justice.
He ain’t built on the haul off plan.
—The atrocious murder of Mrs.
‘WaLsh, by her nephew, in Chicago, on
Tuesday morning, savors more of bar-
barity than of civilization. That a hu-
man being could have committed it is
almost beyond our conception,
—The long-heralded and supposedly
considerable opposition to the re-elec-
tion of MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY, as
United States senator” has been flatten-
ed against the pates of the numb skulls
who had the audacity(?) to conceive it,
—An exchasige suggests that “fewer
soldiers would cure European anarchy.”
If such an argument be logical, then
the size of Sec. TRACY’s army has much
to do with the weaklings we find flaunt-
ing the red flag in New York and Chi-
cago,
—And now Philadelphia society is in
a quardary as to whether Mrs. J. CoLE-
MAN DRAYTON is good enough for it.
From the amount of advertising she has
had lately she ought to be a star, with-
out even considering the $2,000,000 pa-
ter AsTor bequeathed her last week.
—1It would be funny if the new State
Treasurer, MORRISON, while fumbling
through the rubbish in his office, should
Tur across a rubber stamp, which when
used would leave the imprint: “Thanks
for favors received.” A catalogue of
onyx clocks would not be out of place
in the debris.
—A duel has at last been fought in
which the principals did something be-
sides satisfying their honor. Duc Dr
MorxNY was actually hit with a ball. If
MiLeaNk had taken the same careful
aim when he was shooting at young
BUrrOWE, last week, we might have
been rid of another fool at least.
—If the negro was good enough to
fight for, why isn’t he good enough to be
recognized as a member of the G. A. R.
The New Orleans white Posts refuse to
have any communication with the simi.
lar organizations of their colored breth -
ren and the Grand Army is threateged
with dissolution. The soldier who
‘can’t stomach” the cause he fought for
surely must have had naught but a pen
sion in view.
—Excepting the sad fatalities, perhaps
there was no greater loss, in the awful
fire which destroyed the Central Thea-
tre and the Times annex, last week,
than that of Col. McCLURE’S political
library. He had spent years in collect-
ing it, and to think that this great store
house of learning, out of which his mas-
ter mind had conceived so many fruit-
ful themes is gone, brings us grief. For
we knew that bis use of it would always
have been for the public weal,
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VOL. 37.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 6, 1892.
NO. 18.
Is it a Sign of Inherent Independence,
or What? :
If it is true that Auditor General
GREGG has determined, as it is confi-
dently stated in the papers he has, to
manage the affairs upon which he en-
tered on Monday, independently of the
politician, he will be able to do the
State some service. There is probably
no branch of the Executive depart-
ment of the State in which the possi-
bilties of doing harm are so abundant.
There is no field in the public service
in which the opportunities have been
more assiduously cultivated during
‘the past several years. In the eyes of
the politicians the office has beea re’
garded as a particularly soft snap, and
the vast corruption fund which has
been annually harvested from it has
afforded many a luxury to Quay and
his associates.
That General Greece would intro-
duce reforms in the management of
this office was to be expected. A man
of his probity could hardly submit
himself as an agent for the wholesale
robbery of the people. But it was
hardly hoped that he would lay hold
with the firm hand which he is said to
have applied at the outset. In other
words it was probably as little expect-
ed by the majority of the people as it
was by Quay himself, that the boss
would be absolutely ignored in the se-
lection of subordinates in the office. It
was largely through these subordinates
that the people were plundered, and
while the boss might surrender the
head of the department with complac-
ency, it is not likely that he would
yield up the control of the corporation
desk willingly. Bat according to re-
ports he will not only be obliged to
give up that lucrative billit, but every
other one which was farmed for his
private profit.
No doubt General Gress is govern-
ed by considerations of official morali-
ty and public duty in the course which
he has outlined. Bat it is none the
less certain to prove advantagous to
him politically. It is said that the
new Auditor General is not without
ambition to attain higher honors in of-
ficial life. His refusal to consider
QuAY’s recommendations in the selec
ticn of his official staff may therefore
contribute to his promotion. There is
a sort of understanding that the Audi-
tor Generalship is a stepping stone to
the office of Governor. Of course
Quay will not help to promote a man
who has treated him with contumely,
but by 1894 Quay may not be so im-
portant a factor in the affairs of the
party, and ‘the people may conclude
that a public servant who could refuse
him in the period of his power would
be a safe man to trust with higher.
duties,
A ————————
—As to the report that ex-presi-
dent CLEVELAND'S friends are trying to
form a combination to give the nomi-
nee to Illinois, we may expect FuLLer
returns later.
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Death of Harbor Master Patterson.
Hon. RoBerr S. Patterson, Har-
bor Master, at Philadelphia, died on
the morning of the Ist instant, in his
49th year. The deceased was on the
river attending to his official duties, on
the 23d ult, when the Conemaugh
sailed with provisions for the starving
Russians, and took a cold which re-
sulted in pneumonia aad death. To his
scores of friends, throughout the State,
who met him for the last time at the
recent Democratic State Convention
this announcement #ill be sad news.
Among all the prominent Philadel
phians, who have taken an active part
in political matters, none was more
justly respected or commanded a wider
influence than Mr. Parrerson. He
was open, honest and sincere, in all
things. He was a native of Aberdeen,
Scotland, and came to this country at
the age of 13, with his parents, and
since becoming of age has been an ac-
tive and influential Democrat. An
index of his popularity is furnished by
the eleetion returns of 1888, at which
time he was tie Democratic nominee
for Register of Philadelphia, and re-
cieved 8,000 more votes than did Presi-
dent CLeverAND at the same election.
He was appointed by Governor Par
TIS0N in 1891, to the position he filled
at the time of his death,
EL EU PERRY
IA
——Fine job work of ever discription
at the Warcuyman Office.
What of the Out-look,
That President Harrison will have
formidable opposition for nomination
there can be no doubt. Itis tolerably
certain that BLAINE i3 entirely elimin-
ated from the contest, and it is true
that the opponents of the administra-
tion are wanting in organization and
unity of purpose. But they are saga-
cious and resourcefull men, and while
the President has every advantage
now, Prartr, Quay, CLarksoN and
Duprey may be depended on to turn
up in the convention, not only with a
candidate, bat with an efficient and
vigorous organization behind him.
The attitude of the party in New York,
Ohio and Pennsylvania clearly fore
casts this, and those who fail to see it
are blind to the signs of the times.
In some respects Harrison is a
strong candidate. That is to say in
the main his administration has been
creditable. But he is not the strongest
candidate who could be named.
BraiNg, with his tattooed reputation
would inspire more enthusiasm. SHER-
MAN, with his calculating authority,
would enlist a more determined sup-
port, and ALGER, with his money-bags
and military manoeuvers, would excite
more active effort in his behalf. But
Wall street and the corporate interests
are fairly well satisfied with HARRISON
and while the political wire-pullers
might sulk a little after his nomina-
tion, the bank vaults would open in
his interest, and some of the discon-
tented would thus be comforted. It is
safe to estimate therefore that one Re-
publican candidate is about as strong
as another.
Four years ago Harrison had all
the advantages in his favor. Prarm
Quay, DupLey and CLarksoN took
every risk to secure his election.
Wanamaker and Evkins opened the
bank vaults wherever they were acces-
sible and the soldier racket was work-
ed more eftectively than it can be this
year, even if ALGER were the the nom-
inee. Yet on the popular vote Hawr-
RISON was defeated by a substantial
majority and his election was only
made possible by the bunching of ef-
forts in which all the elements were
combined, in certain localities. New
York and Indiana were carried for the
Republican candidate for local reasons
which do not exist now, supplemented
by corrupt methods which it will be
impossible to employ this year.
Therefore the popular Democratic
majority of four years ago is likely to
be materially increased this year and
a safe electoral majority may be con-
fidently counted on to give it force and
effect.
But this fact should not lead the
Democrats to be either careless or un-
wise. The very best candidates
should be nominated for local offices
and the most vigorous efforts made to
poll the full party vote in every lo-
cality. The most potent agencies for
maintaining party organization are the
local offices and every one of them,
which it is possible to secure through-
out the State, should be captured. To
this end the greatest vigilance and the
most active efforts must be put forth,
and the time for organization is now.
~The retiring State Treasurer
didn’t find the term of office profitable,
but all things considered he may con-
gratulate himself on having finished
his work. Nobody doubts the person-
al integrity of Mr. Boyer, but the law
makes a principal respoasible for the |
acts of his agents, and in view of that
fact liverty as well as lucre might have
been lost if political exigencies had not
intervened.
er v—————
——The effect of the coal combina-
tion was developed the other day by
the advance in the price of anthracite
ian New York and points reached from
there. If as may be apprehended this
is to be followed “all along the line,”
it is to be regretted. But there is no
certainty of that and the present step
has the effect only of equalizing prices.
Itis well known that under the old
system all Eastern points were bene-
fited by a discrimination in favor of
New York, and even Boston got coal
cheiper than Philadelphia. If the
New England manufacturers are in
future to be brought to a level with
those in Pennsylvania they have no
right to grumble whilst it gives us
a gool ground for rejoicing.
What Power is Back of Raum?
The recent developements in the in-
vestigation of the Pension Bureau, not
only proves that commissioner Raum
is a venal public officer, but that he is
a most dangerous and despicable vil-
lian. The corrupt use of his office to
enrich himself and such pension
sharks as obliged him with pecuniary
advances were bad enough. But the
fact that he conspired with some ot
these wretches to ruin the character
and destroy the reputation of a man
because he zealously performed his du-
ty, is infinitely worse. That Commis-
gioner Ravit did do thie dastardly
thing is beyond the region of doubt.
Indeed it has been confessed by one of
the conspirators, and the acknowledge-
ment has been particularly forced out
of the mouth of Raum himself.
What strange influence keeps this
man in place cannot well be compre-
hended. President Harrison had the
courage to break with DupLey, at the
beginning of his administration, and he
subsequently mustered up nerve
enough to snub Quay. Eitherof these
party leaders seem to possess wider
influence and more political force in
the party organization than Rav.
But this low-grade Indiana political
huckster seems to have power to hold
on, though every page of his official
record is stained with scandals of the
most enormous character. TANNER
was idiotic but scarcely corrupt, and
yet he was pitched out promptly
for indiscretion of speech. Raum has
violated every propriety, shared in
every corruption and committed every
offence in the catalogue of official mal-
feasance and yet he is undisturbed in
his tenure.
The Commissioner of Pensions must
have some great claim on the President
who protects him in his jposition.
The Committee which is charged with
the duty of investigating the office
ought to direct itself toward discover-
ing and disclosing the facts in the mat-
ter. Thereis little to be gamed by
the public in pointing out new crimes
committed by Raum. There would be
much in discovering the causes which
give him immunity for hiscrimes. So
long as he is secure in his place the
offenses will be continued. The way
to stop them is to attack the source
which gives them protection. There
ought to be a way of getting to the
bottom of this matter. If there is a
way the sooner it is discovered th e bet-
ter.
A Dirty Braggart.
If it is trae that Harry VANE MiL-
BANK fought a duel in Brussels the
other day it is to be regretted that he
came off the field of honor with his
life, This Harry VANE MILBANK is
a blackguard who has evidently come
into social conspicuity through a scan-
dal in which a foolish woman and a
bad man, both Americans, living
abroad, were concerned. He has since
employed the opportunity to parade a
number of scandals in which he was
himself involved and has succeeded .in
disgusting all right-minded people who
have become acquainted with him and
his reputation.
Mr. Harry Vane MILBANK isa type
of the braggarts and blackguards who
are occasionally picked up by wealthy
idiots abroad and introduced into de-
decent society on this side of the ocean:
Of course their boasting and bratalities
are repulsive to everybody who comes
in contact with them outside of the
vulgar habitues of brothels and dives.
But the wealth of those who adopt and
introduce them serves to shield them
from the cuffs and cudgelings which
they deserve, and in many cases vir-
tuous women and decent men are ac-
tually compelled, by mistaken notions
of duty, to show them courtesies. Bat
this MiLBaNk proved such an exag-
gerated specimen of beastliness, that it
it is to be hoped his visit will put an
end to the evil,
There is a well defined social law
that gross immoralities and ostenta-
tious brutalities are a bar against the
admission of Americans to American
homes ot respectable character. But
in the past this commendable rule has
not run against foreigners of the same
type.
It is to be hoped that the recent visit
of MiLBANK will have the desired ef-
feet of correcting this omission and if
it does, the faet that he polluted the
atmosphere of New York for a few
weeks will prove a blessing in disguise.
The Conditions «i Successs.
From the N. Y. World.
The next President must be a Demo-
erat.
Without that 1t would be impossible
to embody in law those ideas and those
reforms for which Democracy stands—
taxation for the government's needs, nut
for the enrichment of monopolies,
economical administration ; home rule;
just government and a perfectly free
People.
hese are ideas which an overwhelm-
ing majority of the people desire to see
written into thestatue books. In order
that it may be done the next President
must be a Democrat certain conditions
must be fulfilled.
1. The Natural Democratic Conven-
tion must be left free to select a surely
winning candidate. Its choice should
not be hampered by instructions to dele-
gates. The States which cannot contri-
bute any electoral votes should resolute-
ly put aside their own preferences so far
as to let the States that elect select. Pre-
ferences and prejudices and personal
partisanship, whether for one man or
another should be subordinated to the
one great purpose of choosing a candi-
date who can win.
The candidate must be one who can
surely carry New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut and Indiana. The vote of
those States are absolutely necessary to |
the election of a Democratic President
If the candidate can also be one who
has a chance of winning electoral votes
in States usually Republican, so much |
the better. But there should be no
hazarding of Democratic States for
the chance of winning other States from
the adversary.
3. The issues of the campaign must
be kept assimple as possible from the
“fads” of this or that faction. The
platform should antagonize the record,
the spirit and the work of the Fifty-first
Congress and of the present administra-
ticn. There is issue enough to win
with in that, and any attempt to add
other issues will sim ply weaken the
cause for the campaign,
4. When the platform is made and
the candidates selected every citizen,
Democrat or Independent, who desires
the overthrow of MecKinleyism, Force
bill methods, Billion Dollar extrava-
gance and corruption in administration
must put aside his whims and fancies,
forget his disappointments if he has any
and work and vote for the ticket for the
sake of what its success will mean, even
though the names upon. it are not those
he preferred.
These ars the conditions of Democra-
tie success this year, These are the
terms on which the reforms desired by
all Democrats and all independents may
be wrought, If they are loyally ac-
cepted —
The next President will be a Dewo-
erat.
A Voice frem Texas.
From the Housten (Tex.), Post—Dem.
Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, has
generally been regarded of late asa
Presidential possibility, and if the dele-
gation from his State, failing to nomi-
nate Grover Cleveland should turn to
him it would have great weight in
bringing about his nomination.” Gov.
Pattison is a very popular man in Penn-
sylvania, as evidenced by the fact that
he has been twice elected Governor of
that State where his party is in a hope-
less minority, but bardly any one
would be foolish enough to suppose that
he could carry the State as a. Presiden-
tial candidate. It is not, however, ab-
solutely essential that the candidate for
the Presidency shall be able to secure
the electoral vote of his own State so
long as he can get enough others to
elect him, and if it is thought Gov. Pat-
tison can do this be may become Presi-
dent Pattison,
rE ————————~
A Subséantial Sop.
From the Chicago Times.
From the testimony in the Raum in-
vestigation it appears that Col. 'W. W.
Dudley was re-rated as a pensioner with-
out examination or investigation of any
sort and received in consequence thereof
the snug sum of $8,000 arrears of pen-
sions. In view of this very consider-
able gratuity it would seem that the
hero of the ¢blocks-of-five’” victory
might be willing to forgive and forget
the snub administered by the President
who failed to ask him to dinner.
A Horse of Another Color.
From the Rochester Herald.
As soon as the Republican organs
have had their say about the Legisla-
tive redistricting of New York we trust
they will favor the public with a few
highly moral reflections on the Con-
gressional gerrymander in Ohio, where
the Democrats were allowed six of the
twenty-one Congressmen.
A ————————
Will Mr. Quay Answer.
From the St. Louis Post Dispatch, :
Senator Quay thinks President Har-
rison has a marvelous faculty of discuss-
ing great public questions without mak-
ing blunders. Are those speeches he
made in 1888 about cheap men who
wore cheap coats examples of this’
faculty ?
A Point that Was Overlooked.
From the N. Y, World.
The hypocrisy and cant of the Ohio
Republicans is incomplete in one small
particular only. They should have
denounced gerrymandering, after cary-
ing out for themselves seventeen Con-
gressional districts out of twenty
three.
‘Walton,
Spawis from the Keystone,
—A tree planting craze has Pittsburg in its
grip.
—Fayette county Prohibitionists have nomi-
nated a full county ticket.
—A five-story tobacco factory is to be built
by Gumbert Bros. in Reading.
—Andrew K. Black, Harrisburg’s new post-
master, took charge of the office on Saturday
—Leliman A. Watson, of West Chester, has
just completed a banjo in which there are 500
piec2s of wood.
—Xdward Gregg’s infant, that was learning
to walk, in Lancaster, fell to the floor and
broke its neck.
—Reading’s City Engineer calculates the
cost of the proposed five-mile boulevard in that
city to be $40,000.
—Fruit tree blossoms and vegetables in the
Schuylkill Valley perished ina heavy frost
Saturday morning.
—Editor John T. Parker, of the Mahanoy
City Record is in a critical condition from the
effects of paralysis.
—After bumping his head against the wall
Walter Kinney, of Girardville, stabbed himself
with scissors and will die.
—An agent of Archibishop Ryan, of Phila-
delphia, is in Reading selecting a site for the
new Henry F. Felix Convent.
—A barn built in 1755 is the only one used
on the farm of Michael Swartley, Franconia
township, Montgomery county.
—A large portion of the cows of Schuylkill
county are now registered in the Mutual
Bovine Association, of Pottsville.
—Frank Bissikuraer and Harry Wingert, of
Reading, were arrested for pulling the tail
feathers out of John Stark's peacock.
—Inspectors of the Mt. Penn Gravity Rail «
road, at Reading, on Saturday, recommended
the removal of curves and a deep cut.
—While crossing the railroad at Gibraltar,
Berks county, Joseph Wicklein was run over
and killed in the presence of his c hildren.
—Three men burglars disguised in women’s
clothes robbed the residence of Mrs. Eliza
Franklin township, Washington
county.
—J. K. Sloane, who lives near Hollidays-
burg, has four black Morocco hens that have
‘averaged three eggs a piece daily for two
months.
—Ofthe seven sons in the Lewis family of
West Chester, six are bricklayers. The sev-
enth will learn the trade as soon as he is old
enough.
—A team driven by John Sneider, of Mah-
anoy City, ran away, going down the moun-
tain. Sneider was Hurled against a pile of’
rocks and killed.
—John Roberts, of Bridesboro, Berks county,
has had the skin of his four-legged chicken
stuffed and mounted. The oddity lived to be
two weeks old.
—Mrs. Ameli. Moyer has sued Frederick
Bowman, a Reading carpet weaver for 80 cents
the amount alleged to have been overcharged
in making a carpet.
—A famous cherry and apple tree that stands
in George Anewalt’s garden in Bethlehem is
burdened with blossoms. It bears five differ-
ent varteties of fruit.
~The convention of presidents of college
Christian association closed at Lancaster on.
‘Sunday. Addresses were made by J. R. Mott
and Gilbert A. Beaver.
—After escaping from his burning hotel,
the Coleman House,.at Eldred, McKean coun~
ty, Proprietor C. M. Coleman returned to get
$300 and was burned to death.
aster, at Minersville, censures the company
officials for not having put strong enough.
props in the shaft to prevent a flood.
—In tearing down a house the other day in
Williamsport, built 25 years ago by J. 0.
Bovee, a perfectly formed and mumified kit-
ten was discovered between the plastering
and the laths of the wall.
—A crow was shot by Walter Wink, of Maxa~
tawny, Berks county, that measured a yard
from tip to tip of the wings and was halfas.
long from bill to-tail. This is claimed to be
the largest one ever captured in the State.
—Henry Rank,, a farmer living near Millers-
burg, Lebanon county, is the happy possessor
of a calf two weeks old that is only 14 inches
high and weighs but 35 pounds. Its ears are
like those of a. jack rabbit and it is covered
with hair likea mouse.
—A strange pigeon alighted among Levy
Kurtz's large dock at Altoona and behaved so,
strangely that Mr. Kurtz caught it. Written
on a silken band about its leg were the words =
“Courage. CG.C.K. Mexico.” It is- believed
to be a carrier pigeon that has lost its bear-
ings.
—A land tortoise was found by Hunter
George Lewis in the woods a mile and three
quarters from Valley Forge a few days ago
that is causing mueh speculation. On the
under sideof the shell were inscribed “‘G. W,
1779.” Its suppesed to have been.marked by
Washington.
—The family cat and a pet hen belonging to
A. 8. Otley, Claymont, Delaware county, are
using the same nest to a rear a litter ot kit
tens and.a brood of a dozen of ehickens. When
the hen occupies the nest she warms both her
own and .tabby’s family, and te. retaliate tabby
keeps the rats away from the. chickens at
night. .
—A flock estimated to contain 500 wild geese
flew. northward across the State a few nights
ago. and ligthed in a swamp on Jacob Rigley’s
farm on Perkiomen Creek. The geese made a
| tremendous clatter all night, and in the morn-
ing Mr. Figley gathered enough feathers from
their roosting place to wake four good sized
feather beds,
—Clem Brubaker, while plowing near Mari-
etta, Lancaster county, turned up an open-
faced watch of the old fashioned copper va-
riety. All the works in the watch are good,
and it is now keeping first rate time. Bru.
baker has owned the farm 17 years, and the
watch, he says, musk have been lost long be-
fore he took possession of the place.
—A party of fishermen on the headwaters of
Loyalsock Creek, Sullivan county, caught 40
trout one afternoon. William Beck, of La-
porte, put 20 of them, tied toa string, in the
shallow water of the creek to keep them fresh
for breakfast. The next morning he found
two immense water snakes clinging to the
string. They hal swallowed six trout and
were hela fast by the string.
—John Strunk, near the mountain below
Sunbury, saw a novel fight the other day be-
tween a rat aad a big blowing viper snake,
The r«$ was bitten dozens of times, while the
plucky rodent fically sunk its sharp teeth in
the siake’s neck back of the head and stuck
there. The viper writhed and squirmed for
15 minutes and then lay still. It was dead.
As the rat did not move Mr. Strunk looked
clos r and found that it had also heen killed,
—The Coroner’s jury in the Lytle mine dis- :
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