Bemortalic ata BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Its beginning to look as if Quay’s outside, Alone! Alone! And he'd better sneak back to Beaver to hide, At home! At home! He’sa “dead one,” it seems, and that is no joke, He's bought a bad big, In a Senator's poke And the game of his Governor has done, gone and broke, Poor Stone ! Poor Stone! —The South African boar seems to be playing horse with the British lion. —Centre county bear stories are taking a back seat these days, so as to give the Wall street bears a chance. —The foot race in the Philippines is still being run and AGGIE seems to have all of our Generals ‘‘distanced.”’ —Besides [getting licked at Stormberg Gen. GATACRE stands an excellent chance of getting relieved of his commission. —If they are really out of beer and whiskey at Ladysmith the Boers ought to build a fence around the city and present it to the Good Templars of the world. —~Should France and Russia declare war on England the last bit of our peaceful old goose would be cooked. Our warlike Presi- dent would get mixed up in it sure as fate. —The efforts of the window glass trust to force the outside factories into their clutches by pounding down the price of glass is calculated to give the consumer a cheap pane. —The man or woman who does or says aught to disillusion a child concerning the dear old mythical Santa Claus commits a crime against one of the purest, noblest, happiest traditions of childhood. —1If the officers commanding the British forces in South Africa look anything like the pictures that are being published in the daily papers as likenesses of them they deserve to be licked by the Boers. —The similarity between the New York Journal and the Philadelphia North Amer- ican is growing so rapidly that soon the only dissimilarity will be that the one is called the Journal and the other the North American. —Oh, Tommy, Tommy Atkins You're a good one, ’eart and ’and, But your trouble seems to be You've bad leaders for your band. —If the Boers keep on killing and captur- ing the English, as they have done within the past few days, the Queen won’t have to buy as many cups of chocolate as she con- tracted for as a Christmas present to each of her soldiers in South Africa. — ‘Benevolent assimilation’’ is a lovely way to put our appropriation of the Philip- pines, but when it requires a peptonoid of 1,236 lives and $150,000,000 to aid such assimilation it is time that Uncle SAM con- sults another doctor than MoKINLEY. —The New Haven, Conn., man who is building an ark in anticipation of another deluge could give ounr friend BRYAN present solace for future happiness if he would decide to take no gold-bugs into the entomological collection he will have in his ark to stock up the earth with after the water subsides and he finds his Ararat. —It is a question whether the KENDIG and JACOBS scheme to despoil the currency of the United States with their counter- feits, if carried out, would have been any worse than the attempt of Governor STONE to despoil the people of Pennsylvania of their rights, in trying to seat QUAY in the United States Senate. —With a rare sense of qualifications for State-hood New Mexico comes to the front with a list of the cattle and sheep on her ranges. When all is said and done they would do far less harm in the enjoyment of citizenship than many of the two legged specimens that have been counted up to make stars out of other Commonwealths in the country. —If WASHINGTON only knew that on the one hundredth anniversary of his death a successor in his presidential chair was trying to break down the last vestige of republican government he would have re- buked the people of the country for observ- ing yesterday with special services. ‘WASHINGTON gave his life to found a free government, not an empire, and he would be in scant sympathy with the men and methods of to-day. —Yes, Philadelphia would be an excel- lent place for the next meeting of the Re- publican national convention. No better place for an assemblage of Republicans could be found. They are past masters in the art of padding registry lists, voting re- peaters and making dishonest election re- turns down there and ever since the Re- publican party stole a presidential chair for RUTHERFORD B. HAYES it has been keen on just such manipulations. Philadel- phia iscertainly a Mecca toward which the Republican leaders should march, for there they could find things more to their liking than in any other city in America. —The Philippine rebels are to abandon organized warfare and resort to guerilla tactics until their rights are conceded. At least that is the latest utterance of their Junta at Hong Kong. So far as the dis- organizing of their armies is concerned our boys have attended to that for them al- ready. But the guerilla methods can’t be stopped so easily and we fear that we are entering upon a new era in our history, every page of which will he dotted with the blood of some innocent American who has contracted to uphold the flag only to die by a Filipino bolo, while trying to stretch its stars and stripes to cover Mc- KINLEY’S new empire twelve thousand miles away. OC Aemocrali RO /8%, 2% MM | I d y Z y pe. ey, “Ry bv be -Re VOL. 44 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 15, 1899. NO. 49. To Make Money Scarce. If we were to think of political effects only we would feel like praying that the proposed currency bill might pass and be- come a law without delay, and we might add to that prayer the request that it might become a law by the solid vote of the Republican membership and that no Democratic ballot would be cast in its favor. There can be no doubt about what the ultimate results of the passage of this pro- posed measure must be. Any legislation that shortens the supply of money among the people; that scarcens the circulating currency or thas adds to the difficulties of obtaining a medium of exchange, must bring disaster to business and distress to the people. These will bring dismay and defeat to the party responsible for that legislation, and it is because we hope and pray for that defeat that we would, if political results alone were looked to, hope for the speedy passage of the bill just as it has been presented. That its enactment into law will lessen the amount of money there will be to do business with its warmest advocates ad- mit. Is there a man in the country, no matter how little thought he gives to financial affairs, who does not realize that to lessen the supply of money is to cripple business, decrease values, destroy confidence and insure panics? Are these what we want ? And then as to a legal tender. The pro- posed bill makes no provision for this. At present greenbacks are the only legal tender we have excepting gold. These, under the provisions of the law about to be enacted, are to be redeemed and retired. When they are retired how in the name of all that is fair to business, or just to the people, are men to pay their debts? When green- backs are not to be had, the creditor will demand gold, and where is that to come from ? To-day, with all the greenbacks that are in circulation and all the gold that is held by individuals and banks, there is not enough in any community to pay the one- fourth of the debts within it. When one- half of this is retired and the demand is made for gold alone to liquidate these debts can any one point to where it can be bad without paying an enormous premium for it? as And it is to make a premium on gold that the effort to change the currency laws of the country is now being made—toc en- hance its value'and benefit the few who can own and control it. The real effects of such legislation may not be felt at once, but they are as sure to come as the sun is to shine on a cloudless day or the waters are to continue to run down hill. When they do come they will be the beginning of the end of the party that was responsible for them. Mark the prediction. A Brazen Job. The shameful inconsistency of Republi- can pretense, for favoring a high moral standard in public officials, is plainly exem- plified in their conduct in the cases of Con- gressman-elect ROBERTS and that of would- be-Senator QUAY. In the former they claim great ciedit for the position they have taken in demanding the expulsion from the House of Representatives of a man as to whose legal election then is no ques- tion, but who is charged with an offense that the law fixes as a misdemeanor. In the other case they insist on the admission to the United States Senate of a man who has no title to the seat, whatever, and who, within less than a year, saved himself from a sentence to the penitentiary, by pleading the statutes of limitation for an offense, much graver, under the law, than that with which ROBERTS is charged. The one manfully admitted his guilt and stood up and took the punishment the law prescribes for it, and to this extent ex- patiated for the wrong he had done. The other, when the evidence of his crime was made apparent, sneaked under cover of the limitation laws and, while virtually ad- mitting his guilt, defied the courts to punish him. The former of these two, who was duly and legally elected, Republican con- sistency says is unfit to represent a con- stituency in Congress. The latter, who makes no claim to an election, this same Republican consistency would force into the United States Senate to represent a great State and a constituency that has repudiat- ed him. Has inconsistency ever shown its shame- less face as plainly ? If it is moral character, moral standing or the enforcement of moral principles these Republicans are after, in their efforts to oust RoBERTS from the seat to which he was elected in Congress, what moral principles do they expect to strengthen, or what moral lesson do they hope to teach by for- cing QUAY into the Senate, in violation of the will of the people and against the pro- test of those who have the constitutional right to elect ? -——8Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. ‘tematized and well under way at this time. A Matter That Should Not be Delayed. In speaking of the benefits that would arise from a fusion among those citizens of the State who are opposed to the rule of the ring, and the chances of the success of such a fusion, the Philadelphia Record ex- presses a fear that such a movement would fail because of the ‘“‘greed’’ of both sides for the offices and glory that would come out of it. In proof it cites the organiza- tion of the last Legislature and declares that it was simply ‘‘greed for place’ that prevented fusion at that time. To some extent the Record is right, but it is to a very small extent. Greed for place had nothing todo in preventing fu- sion in the organization of the last Legis- ture. That was a case of indifference and neglect until the time had gone by when fusion could be made. Under any circumstances and at all times there are many things thatstand in the way of complete political fusion. In the first place there are honest men on, both sides who don’t believe in it. Then there are honest men who are so wedded to all their political beliefs that they refuse to have anything to do with those who won’t subscribe to all of them. Then there are others, just as honest, who believe that whenever fusion is attempted it demoral- izes the voters and destroys party discipline and party organizations. These are honest beliefs of honest men which cannot be changed in an instant, nor controlled by the dictation of any one. They must be over- come by reason and it takes time for reason to get in its work. The principal reason why political fu- sion has proven a failure, is that it has never been undertaken until too late to make it a success. There is a time for all things and the time to plant a crop of fu- sion, that will be worth harvesting, is be- fore any other political crop is sown. To wait until after party lines are formed ; until after aspirants have announced their candidacy ; until promises have been made and prejudices aroused, is simply to wait until such obstacles have been placed in the way of making a fusion that it is impossible to overcome them. This is where the great weakness in this move- ment is most likely to crop out, and where its greatest danger is to come from. To avoid this, the work should be sys- We doubt, if anything, looking toward it, except the publication of opinions and resolutions, has as yet been done. If not, and anything is to be done, the practical work ought to be begun at once. There is no time for delay in this matter. As to Cecil Rhoads. Perhaps he’s still at Ladysmith, Guarded with Briton care ; Perhaps he’s up in his balloon A sailing through the air. Perhaps he’s dead, perhaps he’s not, Perhaps he’ lyin’ low, To snatch Oom Paul, and Joubert too, For the Parisian show. ——The action of the Democratic leaders in Kentucky in quietly accepting the re- turns which gave Governor TAYLOR the certificate of election, was one of the sorest disappointments that the Republican wind- jammers have had for some time. They had been predicting all manner of unlaw- ful and outrageous actions on the part of the disappointed Democrats and had heen doing their best to excite northern bitter- ness toward southern Democrats, but none of their prophecies were fulfilled. Gover- nor TAYLOR was inaugurated, Tuesday, be- fore a smaller and less demonstrative crowd than has witnessed such a public function in Kentucky for years. ——1If council will investigate the old tradition that Bellefonte was once legally declared to be ‘‘the head of navigation on the Susquehanna river,”” and ascertain whether Spring creek is really a public highway or private property it will set a great many minds at rest. In the event of finding out that it is a public highway we might then have a little something for the improvement of it included in the river and harbor appropriation bill. Philadelphia has the nerve to ask the federal government to clean out the Delaware. Why shouldn’t we have Spring creek cleaned out too, if it is a public highway ? ——Cyrus E. Woods, a native of Boals- burg, this county, has announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomina- tion for Senator in the 39th senatorial dis- trict, which comprises Westmoreland county. Mr. WooDs is a practicing attor- torney in Greensburg and is said to be identified with neither one of the Republi- can factions in that county. Honors are easy in Westmoreland between QUAY and former Congressman HUFF, the leader of the antis, so that if Mr. WooDS hopes to be successful he will have to make himself a tail to one Kite or the other. ——The people of Minnesota are going to fix DEWEY with a gift that he won’t be likely to transfer to his wife. They are going to send him a big black beara Christ- The +*0ld, Old Story.” The annual meeting of the Grangers of the State is Ling held in Lock Haven this week. What will be done by them of course cannot be proclaimed for a certainty before it is done, but one is almost safe in assuming that the same old complaints will be made, the same old resolutions to better conditions be passed, and then these over-taxed and generally wronged farmers will go home and vote the same old way again. This has been the program for many years. If is likely to continue to be the program until a more independent class of citizens are grown; and men who mean what they say, and who have the courage to act as their interests demand, take the place of those who now represent and speak for the Grangers. There is no denying that, as a class, the farmers of Pennsylvania receive fewer benefits and less protection from their state government than any other body of citizens, whose interests are identical, within the Commonwealth. They know and feel this, and, year after year, meet in annual session and demand that this condition of affairs be changed. They petition the Legislature to redress their grievances. They ask for the equalization of tax laws. They send their committees to Harrisburg to beg that they be relieved from the burdensome taxation that is bearing them down. They make just complaint of the unfair laws that make them ‘‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’’ for other interests. This goes on during three hundred and sixty-four days of the year, and then on the three hundred and sixty-fifth day, when they could cure these evils, they either stay at home and do nothing or go blindly out and vote to continue the same party and the same men in power, that have brought, and continue this condition of affairs, upon them. And for as many, and for even more years than they have been complaining of these wrongs, the Republican party, for which so many of them continuously vote, has promised to correct them, and upon every occasion has failed or refused to do so. This the Granger knows, and if he is honest with himself will admit. One's sympathies are with the man who makes his first mistake and has to suffer for is. At, after his first experience, he repeats that mistake that sympathy grows less: for him. If he continues on willingly or blindly committing the same error we finally con- clude that the punishment he is receiving is well deserved and that he is getting just what he wants and works for. And so it is with the Grangers and the wrongs they have to complain of. They helped to make them by helping the Re- publican party into power. They help to continue them by continuing it in power. Until they strike at the cause, there can be no change in the effect. And so long as they go on voting the Republican ticket, they can expect a continuation of all the woes they annually complain of, and of all the wrongs that are crushing the life and hope out of the farmers in Pennsylvania. It Would Have Been More to the Point. The anti-QUAY papers of Pennsylvania Republicanism published a ‘Ringing Call from Reform Republicans’’ on Tuesday, that is calculated to strike terror to the heart of the old rascal who is now in Wash- ington trying to squeeze himself into the United States Senate upon the certificate issued by a Governor, whom he ownes. The ‘‘Call”’ is published asa result of a number of conferences that have been held in Philadelphia, within the past few months, by leading Republicans of the State, who are anxious to see QUAY remov- ed from the control of their party organiza- tion. As to whether this anxiety for the re- moval of QUAY is inspired by motives of jealousy or an honest desire to have their party purged of the destroying elements in it is of considerable consequence. The fact is that eighteen ‘‘leading Republicans’ of Pennsylvania have signed a ‘‘Call”’ for the uniting of their party men to accomplish their reforms. While some of the signatures to this “Call” are those of men whose honesty of purpose can scarcely be impugned there are others whose names are attached thereto, who must very recently have changed their ideas, of what constitutes ‘‘honesty and purity of elections,” if they are now in real earnest in this movement. Notably the very first name that is signed thereto. That of the former Governor of Pennsylvania. If, instead of putting his name there, a picture of him, as he could have been seen in the corridors of the court house in Centre coun- ty at the last Republican primaries, had been substituted the whole effect of this plea ‘for the enactment of adequate regis- tration laws and statutes governing primary and general elections,’” would be lost. Such a picture would have been far more to the point than the plain signature, unless there has been an entire change of hearts and methods since the campaign in which the ‘‘political nobodies’’ in this county were mas gift. made to feel the power of the ‘‘real thing.” When the Century Ends. From the New York Sun. The ‘‘Sun’® has received so many evi- dences of confused minds regarding the beginning of the twentieth century that it will present a proof that the twentieth century begins after the year 1900 is ended in the shape of a little conver- sation :— Question: —What is a year? Answer:—Three hundred and sixty-five days. What is a century ? One hundred years. When did the year No.1 end ? December 31 of the year1. When did the year No. 2 begin ? January 1, of the year 2. When did the year 99 end ? December 31, A. D. 99. Did that complete a century ? No. When was the century completed ? At the close of the year following 99, orat the close of the year 100. When did the second century begin ? January 1 of the year 1 of the second century, that is, January 1, A. D. 101. When did the 19th century end ? At the close of the nineteen-hundreth year, or at the close of 1900, Q. When does the 20th century begin ? A. It begins on day No. 1 of year No. 1 of the 20th hundred years—that is, on January 1, A. D. 1901. A Dream. From the Medical World. An angel had been sent to call the doc- tor from labor to reward. He had served the people faithfully and well; had gone to see them at all hours of the day and night, in all kinds of weather; had made moderate charges and waitéd patiently for his pay; had sympathized with them in their afflic- tions, mourned with them in their sorrows, and rejoiced with them when restored to health. Before leaving for Heaven, the doctor asked if he could visit the regions below. Permission being granted, the doctor went in to look around, while the angel waited outside. Having been gone an unusual length of time, the angel went to look for him, and found the doctor seated fanning himself and watching a lot of people burning in one of the hottest fires in the place, whilea look of supreme bliss lighted his face. The angel looked, and over the door was this sign: ‘‘These are the people who did not pay the doctor.”” The angel touched him and said, ‘‘Come, let us go.”’” With a radiant smile the doctor replied, ‘‘You go on; this is Heaven enough for me.” The Cost of the Automobile, From the New York Tribune. A Philadelphia man according to the Record, who has just returned from Paris, which is -automobile crazy, says that the the ordinary citizen. ‘‘There are plenty to choose from,’”’ he remarked, ‘‘with steam, gasolene, petroleum or electric mo- tors. These range in price from $300 for a motor cycle to $3,000 for heavy rigs suit- able for carrying four persons and a driver. While in Paris I busied myself to the ex- tent of finding out how much it cost to operate one of these carriages. For a year it is about as follows: Gasolene, $87.50; lubricating oil, $5.45; repairs to carriages $102.50; repairs to machinery, $185; repair. to tires,$27.50; sundries, $65.80; deprecia- tion, $150; tax, $50; servant, $200. That makes a total of $872.75. Remember, this is for Paris, where my calculations are bas- ed upon the actual experiences of a friend of mine. But they can’t vary much in this country.’” The Open Door or the Shut Door. From the Milwaukee Journal We are standing in for the open door policy. We ask to be put on the same footing as to trade within the German or the Russian spheres of influence as those nations themselves. Are we ready to grant like freedom to them? We have ac- quired outlying territory in the Indies, West and East, and in Hawaii. Are we rea- dy to open our doors as freely to foreigners as to ourselves? Or are we to continue our protective policy and apply it to these pos- sessions? If is simply a fact that trade expansion as well as territorial expansion, and protection did not go together. It is the height of impudence for us to be de- manding the ‘‘open door’’ of foreigners who have acquired ‘‘spheres of influence’’ in China while we are slamming thedoor in their faces here at home, and more so, if we apply our restrictive system to our outlying lands. We've Only Begun. From the Fulton Democrat. From the Philippines came the news a short time ago that Mrs. Aguinaldo’s night robes had been captured. More re- cently word was received that the mother and the oldest child of the insurgent gen- eral, together with $2,000 in gold, the property of the mother, had been captured. We may expect to hear ere long of the wily chief’s capture, though he’s a slippery cuss. From all accounts the rebellion, or rather resistance to American conquest, has about closed in the island of Luzon, only a few bands of insurgents remaining together. It’s been a costly business this, of establishing our supremacy in those far away islands, but what it has already cost isn’t a marker to what it will cost to main- tain our supremacy and establish good gov- ernment there. The man is hardly born who will see the end. We’ve only begun. A Rapid Gate In the Wrong Direction, From the Potter County Democrat. Two years ago no one would have advo- cated our taking the Philippines as a gift from Spain, even with the consent of the natives. The man who would have sug- gested that we send an army of 70,000 men to conquer the islands would have been re- garded as crazy, and his claim that it might be for the ultimate advantage of both this country and the natives would have been dismissed as not worth discussing. This shows what great steps have been taken from Republicanism to Imperialism during President McKinley's term. cost of maintaining one would bankrupt: Spawls from the Keystone. ~—Montour county teachers opened their thirty-fourth annual institute Monday. —An appeal to the workmen of Reading to aid the City hospital resulted in contribu- tions amounting to $763. —Near Maytown, Lancaster county, Eman- uel Ebersold had a hand chopped to shreds to the wrist, in a fodder cutter. —While Rev. R. 8. Arndt, of the United Brethren church at Mount Carmel, was preaching Sunday evening, thieves secured $100 worth of jewelry and other articles from his house. —While a little son of Henry A. Ott, a farmer living near Selinsgrove, was playing in the barn near the horses Sunday, one of the animals kicked in the boy’s skull. The surgeons have no hope for his life. —Judge Metzger has appointed Lawyers Jonathan Streiby, John Reilly and Horace Shale to represent Wm. Hummel, who will be tried at Williamsport in March for the murder of his wife and three children. ---Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion Stewart will soon announce the program for the reunion of the members of the Consti- tutional Convention in 1885, which will be held in Harrisburg after the Christmas holi- days. —There will be three eclipses during the year 1900, two of the sun and one of the moon. The most interesting one will be of the sun, May 28th. In this State it will be nearly total and in most southern States it will be total. —Arthur Wilson, aged 18 years, was hunt- ing near Picture Rocks, Lycoming county, Saturday. While leaning on the muzzle of his gun the weapon exploded, the contents entering 'Wilson’s arm near the shoulder. The arm was amputated. —The Doylestown town council has been ordered under arrest by Judge Yerkes for maintaining a nuisance, and for having taken some spiteful action at a recent council meeting. Each councilman was put under $300 bail for appearance at court. —There is already unusual interest being taken in the next Republican nomination for Congress in the Twentieth district. Alvin Evans, Cambria ; J. L. Hartman, Blair, and Congressmen Joseph E. Thropp are all after the prize, and their friends have actively started work for them. —It is said with reference to the Steel- Doty judicial contested election case from Westmoreland county : ‘‘As a matter of fact the popular impression is that the object of the contest is not so much to unseat Judge Doty as to reveal how certain gentlemen in the district voted at the election.’”’ —Jason F. Williams, a stone mason of Du-, Bois, was killed by a passenger train on the! Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg rail Mr. Williams was walking on + ° tra ' id stepped from the path of a fre sl ttra; 37 mediately in front of the pas He was instantly killed. A wife’, 4 children suryive him. | —An order to the effect that Ridgws.’ Sil have free mail delivery has been made by the office department at Washington, and the service will go into effect on Thursday, March 1st, 1900. Three regular carriers will begiployed and one substitute, and fifteen street letter boxes will be placed in different parts of the town. f —Friday morning without previous notice about a hundred of the boys and girls em- ployed at the Altoonasilk mill struck. They claim they are not paid enough wages and that there have been systematic cuts in their wages, but the management deny this. By evening most of the strikers had returned to work and all looms are now running with a full force of workmen. —Ralph and Clyde Hendry and Albert Shilling, all under 13 years of age, were drowned in a mill dam at Gallitzin on Satur- day evening while skating. The boys had been warned the ice was dangerous, but per- sisted in the dangerous sport. Clyde Hendry broke through first. His brother and young Shilling while trying to rescue him were also precipitated to the water, where all drowned before help could rearch them. The bodies were recovered Sunday morning. —The third splash dam in Lock Haven was torn away early Sunday morning. The accumulated water that rolled down the river, floated the rear end of the drive to Crane’s riffles, which is the head of the backwater of the Williamsport dam. There were over 4,000,000 feet of logs between Lock Haven and Williamsport, and these have now all been floated in. Rafting out was begun Monday, and Tuesday the saw mills in Williamsport resumed oper- ations. —A new point in the adoption of children has been handed down by Judge Archibald, of Wayne county, in a case before Lackawan- na court. He decides that after a child-had been legally adopted the court had not the power to revoke the decree of indenture. The original relation of parent and child ex- ists, however, notwithstanding the adopted parentage. The changed name of the old child remains, but there 1s nothing to pre- vent the child inheriting from its real parents or they from the child. —In the town of Torpedo, near Kane, Friday, Joe Houston, of Clarendon, was hauling a 3,000 pound load of nitro-glycer- ine. He stopped to grease his wagon, and when a wheel slipped he had to hold the load up while he yelled for help. The men realizing that if the wagon dropped the nitro- glycerine would have exploded with fright- ful effect, ran away, fearing that Houston would not be able to hold the wagon up. Houston, however, pluckily continued to yell for assistance. Two women finally rushed to his help. The wheel was put on without mishap. —Thomas Scott, a negro laborer at the Spruce Creek tunnel, got on a rampage in Tunneltown Saturday morning and received a severe trouncing by several of his fellow- workmen. In the afternoon the fracas was renewed, and Scott received two bullets in his body, one in his abdomen and the other in the chest. He was removed to the Altoona hospital where he died Sunday morning about 11 o’clock. There is some mystery amid conflicting stories as to how the shoot- ing occurred or who fired the fatal shots. Scott was a native of Virginia and was con- sidered a very bad man. \r t 10}
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