e } ——— Bena fap BY PRP. GRAY MEEK. ee Ink Slings. —When to-day and to-morrow are over, And all of this fussing is done, ; When the old town's no longer in ciover And Miles and the fellers gone hum. Twill be flat as a flounder around here. With nothing to shine but the sun, And then we will blame the Centennial For putting Bellefonte on the bum. —There will not be a buttermilk class at the races. —That the wall paper trust should go to the’ wall is quite natural even if surprising. —After all the terrible scare about the murdered ministers in China it appears that they are all alive and well. —Between the roar of the seas and the bore of TEDDY ROOSEVELT they must have had a very noisy time at Atlantic City on Monday. —Coffee has gone up half a cent a pound and now more grounds than ever for com- plaint will be found in the bottom of the boarding house pot. —If things are net going your way re- member that there are a few others -on the earth and your way might not Le their way. —They may caricature and ridicule STEVENSON to their hearts’ content, but, above all, he will still be the staunch, true Democrat he has always heen. —To think of it, Chicago is to lose two thousand saloons because the price of beer has gone up. What a pity the price couldn’t go up so high that the world would lose all such dispensaries. —If President McKINLEY and his Mr. Secretary Roor were in Bellefonte to day they would probably turn green at the rousing reception the people of Centre county will give Gen. MILES. —They say there are four million bushels of peanuts consnmed in America every year at a cost of $10,000,000. Quite a lot. But we could dispense with the ones that are used in churches duringservice and at pub- lic meetings. —Tbe Buffalo church that has set up a defense, in a suit brought by its organist for back salary, ou the ground that his work was done on Sunday and is unlawful, therefore ought not to be paid for, will start some of the ministers in the land to guessing. —The Sugar valley woman who thought she saw her husband sitting behind a brush pile, and thinking to surprise him, rushed right up to a big black hear, was probably slightly surprised herself. She ought to have known that behind a brush pile was no place to surprise a man. —The fakirs are a fakin’ All along on Water street, Their “barkers’’ are a grabbin,’ Every green thing that they meet. They’iFbe playin’ o' the fortune wheel, The “ten pins” and *‘bee hive;” And bettin’ on the big “star green” Until they're skint alive. —The Philadelphia Press is of the opin- ion that the bulk of the gold Democrats will vote for McKINLEY, what a fine sense of humor the Press paragraphist must have to use the word ‘‘bulk.’”” It is the first time we have ever heard of their being anything bulky about the gold Democratic vote. —Oo0nt PAUL is said to have had his hair cut and whiskers trimmed the other day and now reports come to the effect that he is personally leading a great battle against - the English at Middleburg. The foxy old Dutchman. He fixed himself up so that Lord ROBERTS could never have the satis- faction of saying he had made the fur fly. ——The Wilmington, Del., judge who frowned upon the city solicitor for appear- ingat court in his shirt sleeves and ad- journed the session until that worthy had put on his coat was probably roasting him- self and didn’t want anybody else to be cooler than he. But all the roasting the hot weather could have given him would feel like a Klondike breeze in contrast with the “roasting” that wasdue him from solicitor MEDFORD. —The manner in which Lt HuNa CHANG, the eminent Chinese statesman, plays fast and loose with the diplomats of the foreign powers is enough to make the world believe that he has played them all for wooden men. Old LI is a crafty individual and the first thing our people know he will have them “‘worked’’ about on the same plan as he did his own government when he equip- ped the Chinese army with wooden guns at the price of modern steel rifles. —-A Hazleton monlder is said to have discovered a chemical combination for mak- ing noiseless and smokeless powder. He has given several demonstrations with it that appear to have verified all the claims made for it. With noiseless powder in the battles the cowards never will know when to run, srawl under fences or behind stone heaps, for they will be likely to get into the fray before they realize where they are at. i —The drouth that has extended over this section for so long threatens to add the corn crop to its list of victims. Some rains have fallen in sections of the county with- in the past three weeks, but they have eith- er been too light or too dashing to do any good. With the corn crop gone the last resource of the Centre county farmer fades for this season and as he sits by his fire in the fall, thinking the matter over, he will ruminate in v=in for one MOKINLEY bless- ing. High priced groceries, high priced implements, high priced elothingz and no crops is the discouraging spectre that has confronted the farmer for several months. STATE RIGHTS.AND FEDERAL UNION. mem VOL. 45 At the End of the First Century. To-day and to-morrow we celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the forma- tion of our connty. Truly its people have reason to rejoice at the showing made at this, the end of its first century. Few counties have done as well ; none have done better; few can point to the general progress and prosperity, or to the promi- nence attained; none to greater content- ment among its peopie. From the smallest and most sparcely settled division at the time of its formation it has grown to be one of the most important, wealthiest and most prosperous counties of the State. In the healthfulness of its climate, the purity of its water and the beauty of its scenery it is without a rival. In the sturdy morality and the general intelligence of its popula- tion it is unsurpassed. In the fertility of its soil and the wealth of its mineral de- posits it has no superior. In its comforta- ble homes, its productive farms, its pros- perogs business men, and the general con- tentment of its people itis the equal of any locality within the Commonwealth. It is 1,227 square miles in extent, and is the largest county in the State. It has a total of 785,280 acres. It has 197,712 acres of as fertile and pro- ductive Jands under cultivation asare to be found in the Commonwealth. Its 587,568 acres of uncultivated and untillable lands are all, or nearly all, under laid with iron ore, coal or other valuable minerals. The assessed value of its real estate is $15,342,328. : The assessed value of its personal prop- erty is $405,248. The actual value of all its property is more than double the valued fixed by the assessments. It is divided into twenty-five townships and eight boroughs. It bad a population of 43,269 in 1890, and the recent census, although not given out officially, shows over 45,000 people within the county at this time. It has a voting list of 9,765. It has 216 public schools, with public school property valued at $257,155 It is educating in these schools, children. It has academic and private schools that are educating hundreds in addition. It has 161 churches, the valuation of which is returned at $426,520. It has 147 miles of railroad. It has over 1,000 miles of good public roads. Its litigation amounts to less than 30 days actual time for the courts during the year. Its county tax rate is but 3 mills on the dollar. It has newspapers that are second to no county papers in the State. It has furnished seven Governors, five for Pennsylvania, one for Californiaand one for Kansas. It has produced judges, and lawyers, doctors, preachers and teachers, known to the entire country, and with reputations and abilities equaled by few and excelled by none. It has given Democratic majorities at every annual election that has been held within it during the hundred years of its existence, except at three presidential, four state and seven county elections. Is there any reason why we should not all feel proud of our county; thankful that 12,000 | we are citizens of it, and pray God that the next hundred years may witness equal strides in everything that tends to make a county great, and its people worthy, pros- perons and contented. Ballot Frauds In Kentucky. The Republicans of Kentucky propose to go, before the people on a single issue, bal- lot reform, and the platform of the party consists only of a denunciation of the GOEBEL election law. No doubt that meas- ure is faulty in some respects, and the Re- publicans of Kentucky may have just cause of complaint against some of its provisions. But it can hardly be as atrocions a law as they would make us believe. It will be remembered that after the last election for Governer there the returning hoard de- clared that the Republican candidate was elected on the face of the returns and gave him the certificate. Judicial investigation subsequently made proved that the result was fraudulent, and that the Democratic candidate was entitled to the commission. An election law which permitted the mi- nority party to return the most votes may be bad but it is not all on theside of bad Democrats. But however just or unjust the com- plaints of the Republicans of Kentucky against the GOEBEL election law may be, there is certainly no reason in Republicans of Pennsylvania protesting against frauds in the interest of Democrats at elections. At any election in any year since 1892 there have heen more fraudulent votes counted for the Republican candidates in Philadelphia than have been counted for the Democratic candidates in Kentucky at all the elections during all the years that BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 25, 1900. NO. 29. have elapsed since the Blue Grass State he- came a member of the Federal Union, about one hundred years ago. We do not say or even pretend to believe that there have been no fraudulent votes polled in Kentucky in behalt of the Democratic par- “ty, for politicians are pretty much alike all over the country. But we do say that bal- lot-box stuffing and other forms of electoral frauds have been practiced more in Phila- delphia, and in the interest of the Repub- lican party, than in all the other States to- gether and the Republican papers of Phila- delphia are estopped forcondemning frands in Kentucky or anywhere else. The people of Kentucky have ample reason to denounce electoral frauds. The, were the canse of a stain upon the record of the State that can never be effaced. Be- cause of the frauds which gave Taylor the certificate of election from a Democratic re- turning board, which counidn’t s:and the test of judicial inquiry, the Democrat ic candidate for Governor who had first been cheated out of the election wassubsequent- ly murdered in order that the fruits of the fraud might be enjoyed. What is still more discreditable is the fact that the conspiracy to murder was formed in the office of the man who was enjoying the fruits of the fraud, and that he isnow a fugitive from justice, while the most damning evidence of the dastard crime is being fastened on a co-conspirator. Under such circumstances it is hardly fair for the Republicans of Kentucky todenounce election frauds. The Campaign Opened. The Democratic campaign in western Penuvsylvania was opened most auspicious- ly on Saturday evening. More than 5,000 earnest citizens assembled on an intensely hot night, in an exceedingly hot city and for hours listened to the gospel of Dem- ocracy as expounded by the distinguish- ed speakers on the occasion. There was no ‘‘make-believe’’ enthusiasm in that vast crowd. It was a genuine, whole-hearted and honest expression of faith in Dem- ocracy and a notice to the Democrats of all parts of the country that there is no halting in the ranks or limping in the gait of Democrats in that section of the State of Pennsylvania. The principal orator on the occasion was Hou. ROBERT E. PATTISON, twice chosen Chief Magistrate of the State, and no man questions either his honesty or his integrity. He gave to the Democrats the key note of the campaign upon which we are now formally entered. He recited, in burning phrases thejoutrages which have been perpe- trated by the Republican party against the traditions of the country and the sacred principles upon which our grand Republic is founded. He pointed out in unequivocal language the false pretense under which imperialism is being enthroned in the name of expansion and he invoked the Dem- ocracy to come forward and rescue the country from the peril in which it is en- gulfed. As the campaign has been auspiciously opened in western Pennsylvania, so the patriotic work should be moved forward in every section of the State. No contest of equal importance has ever been wit- nessed in the civilized world. It is not a question of which party or what individual shall occupy the Executive Mansion in Washington during the next four years. It is to determine whether ‘‘government of the people, for the people and by the peo- ple shall perish from the earth.’ We have reached the parting of the ways and the vote of this year will determine our course in the future. The Chinese Affair. The welcome intelligence has come to the people that the American Minister in Pekin, as well as all the other diplomatic repre- sentatives of civilized nations there were safe, though in imminent danger, on the 18th of this month. Supplementary dis- patches indicate though there was much disorder and probably a great deal of vio- lence, confusion and crime there, daring the time that has elapsed since the insur- rection of the Boxers began, the authorities, those representing the governing dynasty, have employed every available means to preserve. the lives and property of the for- eigners. ! That being the case how will the admin- istration at Washington justify the inva- sion of a country with which we are at peace, with an ‘army and banners.” If it had been true as alleged by some that the government of China had begun a war against humanity and Christianity, then it would not only have been the right, hut actually the duty of our government to join with other Christian countries in de- fending the principles of religion and the right of exercising it. Butit appears that such a state of affairs did not exist in China and if that is true we had no more right to invade that country than Italy would have had to send an army and fleet to attack Washington hecause sonie” Italian subjects were murdered at New Orleans some years ago. : The purpose of Russia and Great Britain in provoking the people to war is manifest. Earth hungry those insatiate land pirates hope to force a dismemberment of the Em- pire and expect to profit through the parti- tion. But the people of the United States have no sympathy with such atrocious pur- poses, and the administration should be called to account for its wanton violation of every principle of the just laws of nations and its willful betrayal of its obligations to a friendly people. The whole history of the world reveals no greater outrage against justice and the penalty should be univr- sal popular execration. A New Propaganda. Chairman RICHARDSON of the Democrat- ic Congressional Campaign Comittee has uncovered evidence of the seciet alliance be- tween Great Britain and the United States which will surprise a great many people. The bureau of education, it appears, has been sending out anti-Boer literature at the instance of ‘‘some gentleman who re- sides in England.”” The literature consists of pamphlets written to prove that the Boers are wrong in their struggle for liberty aud that the people of the United States are blamable for sympathizing with them in their heroic fight for the preservation of their firesides. When the discovery was made the clerk in charge of the distribution grew very in- dignant. He said it was nobody’s busi- ness what kind of painphlets were distribut- ed through the machinery of the bureau of education of the government. The busi- ness of the bureau is to promote the inter ests of education, but the officials who ad minister its affairs select the kind of educa- tion it promotes. . His ideas appear to be tuat the people of this country need to be educated in imperialism. They are to be taught through the school teachers ‘‘in tonoh with the burean,”’ that colonies are the thing, that liberty is a myth and that personal rights are a delusion and a snare. These are not the lessons taught by the fathers of the Republic They are not the principles which were cultivated or the tra- ditions that were cherished during the years which have elapsed since Washing- ton took upon himself the duty of admin- istering the government ‘‘nnder the con- stitution.”” But they are the policies of McKINLEY and the tenets of the empire. They are what are needed to make trusts prosper and monopolies thrive and they have the benediction of MARK HANNA and the support of all the trust magnates who contribute to the fund to pervert the coun- try and destroy the rights of the people. It Is Bogus Prosperity. The Republican national platform dwells fondly on the declaration that the country is enjoying unusual prosperity and the people have every reason to desire a con- tinnance of the influences which brought the existing conditions about. The Presi- dent in his speech in reply to the notifica- tion of his nomination accepted this declara- tion as of good faith, and took upon him- self the credit of changing conditions from bad to good. But has there been any im- provement that affects the people? In what respect have conditions changed to their advantage ? : + The railroads are busier than they were four years ago, probably, and their profits have increased no doubt. But how much more do the brakemen get for ten hours work, and what material increase has been made in the wages of conductors and fire- men ? Probably they work longer hours and the amount of their pay checks is en- hanced in proportion as they strive and impair their health by the prolonged ap- plication of their energies to the labor bhe- fore them ? But how much more do they have after the bills are paid? How much are they able to add to their savings ? The only thing that is certain in connec- tion with the wages of labor is that it re- quires more money now to keep the family than it did hefore and the only way to get the additional amount is to work hard and long. Meat costs more now than it did and sugar, and oil. and leather, and chem- icals and soap and every luxury and ne- ceszity that comes into the house costs more than it did before imperialism turned the head of the President, and the ambition to become a world power and meddle with the affairs of foreign nations entered the minds of our governing agencies. Bnt that is not a sign of prosperity. It isan unfailing symptom of decay. ——Mr. QUAY’s friends heieabouts will doubtless take some comfort out of the fact that Corn. W. F. REEDER has been hounced from the position of Judge Advocate of the Second Brigade of the National Guards, and Mayor EDWARD B. McCorMICE, «f Greensburg. appointed to the place. What | partienlar qualification Mayor McCor- | MICK may have.—if any are actually neces- | sary—for the the position, we do not know, | but as the change was made, wore to grati- © fy the political spleen of the QUAYITES, than from any desire to improve or strengthen the National Gnard, we pre-| How They Will Try to do It. From the New York Journal. Several of our granny Republican con- temporaries are flourishing their suonbon- nets wildly in a queer effort to scare voters away from Bryan. They claim that capital is showing signs of timidity for fear that labor—the true electing power—will elect Bryan. They claim to be responsible for the prosperity of the people, yet they are trying to cramp that prosperity by calamity cries. Four-fifths of the wealth of the country is owned by less than one-fifth of its popula- tion. Nive-tenths of that proportion of the country’s wealth is Republican ; nine- tenths of the trusts are Republican ; nine- tenths of the banks are Republican, and all the wealth thus represented works on hall bearings with a corrupt Republican admin- istration. The Standard Oil Company, the gas com- panies, the Carnegie companies, the Sugar Trust, the telegraphs, the railroads, the telephones, the Rubber, Tobacco, Leather, Lead and hordes of other trusts are Repub- lican trusts, operated and controlled hy Republican boards of directors. Thirty Republicans of wealth in this country—men who exert a selfish interest in swaying the President and buying Sen- ators and Representatives—have a joint yearly income approximating $300,000,000. These men can stop or start a panicat will. They can expand or contract the currency at will. tii Their fear of Bryan is not the fear of the honest financier, but of the thief. They fear an honest government. They fear Bryan, especially, because he is known to have a backbone. They do not fear the financial question. They could have a diamond dollar if they wanted it. They fear legislation that hits straight from the shoulder for the people. They cringe and cower at the thought of the legislation that Bryan may recommend against them. This is why they preach panic and prophesy hard times. They are afraid—sorely and shiveringly afraid. Therefore, through subsidized Republi- can organs, they throw up their hands in a horror-stricken effort to scare labor away from Bryan. Their talk of “‘panic’’ isa threat. Of course they can bring it abont if they want to. Nobody doubts the power delegated to them by successive Republi- can administrations. But should labor hang back by reason of a threat of Republican panic from those who control Republican finances? The laboring man is not constituted after that fashion. The election of Bryan will mean noth- ing worse than the shattering of trusts and imperialism, the restoration of legitimate competition and a full dinner pail at reduc- ed prices. ———————— Fears to Condemn Trusts. From the St. Louis Republic. In his speech uccepting the Kepublican nomination for President, delivered at his home in Canton. Mr. McKinley uttered not one word concerning trusts. Why this ominous silence, as to one of the most im- portant subjects now agitating the minds of the American people? Is the President Jor the trusts or against them ? The people are suffering most grievously from trust monopolies and legislation for the further enrichment of the trusts at their expense. Assuredly the President could not, in his helpless vassalage to the trasts, denounce them. They own him and dictate his policies through Mark Hanna, their ac- credited instrument. They elected him to the Presidency in 1896. They are con- tributing the slush-fund to be used in his campaign for re-election this year. They look to him for the extension of their power and the strengthening of their greedy grasp on the commerce and industries of the country. He is pledged to their serv ice, body and soul. Therefore the President of the United States did not dare, in accepting a re-nomi- nation to the high office’ which he now holds, to say one word about the trusts. He stands before the American people dumb on this great issue. It is his duty to defend the people from the monopoly greed of the trusts. He dare not. He is mute and, of his own consent, im potent. Is is for the American people to pass judg- ment upon such a servant of the people. The Great Question. From the Charleston News and Courier— Gold Dem. : The paramount issue in the present cam- paign is imperialism—that is why we shall support Mr. Bryan and in spite of the fact that he is in favor of free coinage of silver. Free ' government overshadows free silver; we would accept the latter rather than lose the for mer. ; AFTER THIRTY-TWO YEARS. — After thirty-two years of continuous control of that property the Hon. Fred Kurtz sold the Centre Hall Reporter plant, good will and all, on Munday, toS. W. Smith. Mr. Kurtz founded the paper in 1868, but has retired from it and will leave the associa- tions and friendships that he has formed in his years of life in “the Valley’’ to come to Bellefonte to become senior editor of the Centre Democrat. Mr. Smith took charge of the paper on Monday and this week’s edition will be under his management. The readers of the WATCHMAN are acquainted with him, throngh his clever correspondence from Centre Hall. Though he leaves a farm to enter 1 ewspaper office there is no sign of Lill eqaipment for the work in that, for he knows the printer's trade from the press room up and is a Keea, forceful writer. We are glad to welcome Mr. Smith into the profession and we feel certain he wiil sume this appointment will meet with the | give the people of Centre Hall a very able cordial approval of all the stalwarts. They paper. will, at least, rejoice that an open enemy is not wearing honors at their bestowal. : ; ——Sukeribe for the WATCHMAN. 3 Spawls from the Keystone. —Harry Alvan Hall has resigned as cap- tain of Company H. Sixteenth regiment, Ridgway. His successor was elected Tues- day evening. —A company is being formed in Williams- port for the manufacture of the Stutzman automobile, with a capital of $50,000 at $50 a share. The factory will be located in that city. . —The double track between Jersey Shore station and Aughenbaugh’s is nearing com- pletion. With this piece of track finished the Pennsy will have double tracks from Harrisburg to Lock Haven. —Nathan Tolbert, colored, and 90 years old, was Thursday granted a license to wed Katherine Davis, who is 33 years old and white. Toldert has been a widower thirty years. His prospective bride has been a widow four years. Both reside in Williams- port. —Amy Bower, the 8-year-old daughter of William Bower, a Lycoming county farmer, had her foot cut off by a mowing machine Friday. The little girl found a guinea’s nest in the meadow, and while standing in ecstacy over the collection of eggs, the knife of a mower, driven by her father, cut off her leg. —Four years ago after having a number of teeth extracted, Mrs. Elwood Moyer, of Tamaqua, became suddenly deaf. She re- mained in that condition until one day last week. She had again gone to the dentist to have some work done, ahd when he began to operate upon her she heard faint noises, whieh gradually became louder, until her hearing was restored. —Dry weather has caused a water famine along the Beech Creek district of the New York Central which is the worst that has ex- isted since the road was built. Full one half of the tanks are dry and the rest are be- ing drawn from so heavily that they will only last a short time. It is a common thing the last few days for a train to be laid out a few hours on account of water. It issaid the work of sinking wells will begin at once to keep up the supply. —William Weaver was severely injured at Loganton, Friday afternoon. He was assist- ing in unloading hay into Harry Cole’s barn. As a fork full of hay was being hoisted from the wagon, one of the pulleys broke, swung back, and struck the young man on the head inflicting two deep gashes. He was knocked senseless. He was carried into the hotel, where Dr. Goodman dressed his injuries. The injured man recovered consciousness in about an hour. —Thursday morning an 11-year-old son of John Holtzapple, of Juniata township, Perry county, fell from the seat of a reaper into the knives, and had his right hand severed from his arm at the wrist. The lad picked up the amputated hand, remounting the machine, and drove to where his father was in the field, and requested him to replace the mem- ber. When informed i¢ could never be fixed the lad began to cry and from his worriment and the loss of blood he is very weak. —Frank Rorrick, of Jeannette, was seriously, if not fatally, injured at the Stony Point mill, about three miles below Jackson- ville, Indiana county, on Monday evening of last week. He was camping with several other men from Jeannette, and while felling a tree he was caught under a heavy branch. Both bones of his left leg were broken below the knee, and the broken bones protruded clear through the flesh. He was also badly injured on the back, and it is feared he sus- tained an internal injury. : —About two weeks ago a sheep belonging to G. W. Painter, who lives about three miles south of Philipsburg, was missing. Mr. Painter concluded it had been killed by dogs, but a few days ago, while looking un- der the barn floor for some purpose, he saw the missing animal in a salt barrel. Finding that it could not go on through, it stopped, and had been there mine days when dis- covered, without food or drink. Ard it would have stayed there until it perished. All it had to do was to back out of the barrel, but it hadn’t instinct enough to do it. — Albert Carlson, of Renovo, has instituted legal proceedings against Lewis Putt, of that place, to recover $10,000. In January 1899, Mr. Carlson, while passing a row of dwell- ings belonging to Mr. Putt on Eighth street, was struck by a brick which fell from an al- leged defective chimney on one of the build- ings. Mr. Carlson was rendered unconscious. He claims that his health since then has been greatly impaired, he being compelled to lose considerable time by not being able to work. The case will likely be tried at the next term of court. —The large stable or barn known as the Centre Hackney stable, located in Hunting- don Furnace, was discovered to be on fire about 3 o'clock Sunday morning and within haif an hour was totally consumed, together with its contents, consisting of four horses, fifteen tons of hay, a quantity of feed and ‘several sets of harness. The barn was own- ed by the George J. Shoenberger estate and the loss on it is estimated at ‘$800, on which there is $500 insurance. Two of the horses belonged to R. A. Zentmyer, who also had some other property in the barn, and his loss is $400. with no insurance. Only after a hard fight was the dwelling of Harry Harris saved from the flames. Asit was the sum- mer kitchen was on fire several times, hut the flames were extinguished before they got much headway. Itis thought the fire w of incendiary origin. ; — Clare and Paul Hipler, of Daleborough, near Johnstown, are under arrest, charged with being the perpetrators of the most re- markable robbery on record. They, accord- ing to the police, took the $100 from the stocking on an amputated leg on the morning when a Pennsylvania freight train ran into some excursionists. That leg belonged to Mrs. Anna Begley, wife of the editor of the Windber Journal, who was run over by the train. After she regained consciousness at the Memorial hospital, she told the physi- cians that she had concealed $100 in the stocking on the leg that wascut off, the ob- ject being to keep it safe while she was on her journey to visit her parents in Bedford county. Tbe leg after being cut off by the train, lay on the station platform for a few minutes, time enough to allow the Hipler lads to turn the stocking inside out and secure the money. After being locked up the boys told Constable Cook that most of the money was secreted behind a board in the piano at their home, and there the constable found $79.
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