THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA. it Ljl u n i 'mm m 7onderfi.il Journey of an Ital ian Aeronaut. ;WENTY HOURS IN AIR fttempt of E. Spelterlnl to Sail From Zermatt to the Rhine. He Rose to a Height of 17,300 Feet, but Wat Defeated in Attempt by Ad verse Winds. The It.'iliHii aeronaut, E. Spoltorint, ent twenty hours in his Imlloon alia on S,)tnilt,r 17 and 18 last at lights of from lo.dim to 17,:!00 feet, an attempt to sail north over the . ps to tho Khlne. ll' was defected adverse wind), but nevertheless ide a wonderful journey. The few ntut.ipis nt ballooning In ;h mountain regions have been re rded as especially interesting from scientific point of view, anil this as ct of Spelterlni's exploit was very portant. He has just printed In the Tinan Aeronaut Ischen Mllteilungen S only detail of his Journey that has t appeared. H waited day after day at Zermattl, e starting point for the Matterhorn r wind conditions that would take m north arnrs the Bernese Alps, e central Swiss plain and the Juras Germany. On September l'th the forablo hour seemed to have come. A gentle breeze was blowing from south. The stations on the Santis, itthard anil Gorncrgrat reported a ak south wind. At 11 o'clock a tall balloon sent up by Spelterlnl iated 'slowly to the north-northeast ward Mount Dom. A few minutes after 1 o'clock an , her trail balloon rising from Zer tt made direct for the Welsshorn the north. The clouds were niov- northward and everything seemed opltloiis. At 1.15 o'clock in the afternoon tf' alia was cast loose from her an - orage ground, rose with great rapid- r to a height of 13.000 feet and drift away directly north toward the elsshorn. The day was very warm, d. the overheated balloon rose to Is height without any expendiiure 'ballast. Hut there was little wind, A her progress at first was only out six miles an hour. The air w as very clear and a doTen ;rsons at Zermatt were watching tho Oloon through tclcscopt3 until she s finally lost to view in the nolgh rhood of Weisshorn. Every one sup sed that the air vessel would cer Jnly pass over the great summits A proceed on the northern Journey. But something unexpected occurred. clear the tops of the mountains fely Spelterinl emptied a consider rte part of his ballast from the sand ?s and ascended to a height of about f. 300 feet. Here he struck a current of air that old not be reported from the high ittons. It was a steady wind from jei west and the balloon suddenly nsed in its northern flight and drift 1 rppidly to i be east. This was the contingency that could t have been foreseen. The airship ;ed away far above the mountain vps, tho'igh some of them rose to lghts of over J.'i.iMiO feet. The di ction was eastward and southeast ard. The aeronaut passed over the tops ' the Mischabel chain, tho Flotsch rn, the WeUsmlos and the Laquin rn. He was hovering over Italy now id the balloon began to move nnrth ird over Donio d'Ossola and the Val lttgorio, and finally hovered over .ike Maggiore. As darkness fell around him scarce ka breath of air was stirring and -.roughout the night the traveller wild scarcely detect any movement ' the balloon. Ho found In the morn- g, however, that he had drifted about drty miles to the west and was over a Italian town of Peccla. It was bitter cold, but he was well nilpped for low temperatures and his jyslcal discomfort was not so great I to Impair hi i enjoyment of the pros it beneath him, a prospect more -Agnlficent than any of the glorious ,ews that may bo soen from the tops t the Alps. At sunrise his balloon was almost 'Otlonloss, and ho decided to throw at more ballast and see if he could t propelling power In higher strata f the air. He soon ascended to a ;elght of over 16,000 feet, where a ery weak wind took him slowly to he north. There was no prospect that he ould find a curreut of air that would ike him over the northern mountains JL least, as far as the Swiss plain, so i decided to seek mother earth, and i landing was effected at 9 o'clock in :he morning, not without some danger, the Alp Shintl, which overhangs he hamlet of fiigna co. He had been in tho air for twenty tours. The greatest altitude reached as 17.200 feet. The average altitude -f the balloon above sea level during the whole Journey was nearly 16,000 ,eet. This Journey clearly revealed one cause of inaccurate weather reports. The movements of the air currents are an Important factor in weather pre dictions; but there are movements of air strata that are beyond the ken of observers, and so some elements which have to do with weather con ditions cannot yet be reckoned with. As far as could be ascertained at the start the conditions for a north ern flight of the balloon were perfect; but there wero other air movements above those which were observed and these currents prevented the aeronaut from making tho Journey ho bad contemplated. STORIES OF TSI-AN. Caused Many Heads to Roll In the Dust During Her Journey. A dispatch from China says that tho IXiwnger Empress has left I'ekln for Kaifeng fu In tho provlnco of Honan. This city of over 200,000 inhabitants Is the capital of Honan l'rovlnce, and the railroad between I'ekln and Han kow will pass through It. The north ern part of tho road Is now far ad vanced, and the Empress Iiowager has probably utilized It, as she did tho completed portion when sho fled to Slan during the Hoxer troubles. Kaifeng Is a large trading place and hns the only distinctively Jewish col ony In China. These .lews are en gaged entirely in geld and silver working and In money lending. The city is on the right bank of the lloang River, and has suffered terri bly from the inundations of that treacherous stream. In 1541 most of the Inhabitants signed their own death warrant by tearing down the embank ments In the attempt to drown a rebel army that was besieging them. The rebels, however, escaped, while nearly all tho people of the town were drowned. We are not Informed as to the rea sons given to the Chinese public for the departure of the Empre ;s from the capital. When she and tho Emperor took refuge In Sian the people wero not told that they had left Pekln be cause it was about to be occupied by the allied forces. The journey was due, It was said, to the fact that the Emperor desired to travel through his dominions, study the condition of the people and worship in the temples. The American Nichols, who travelled to Sian, said that no one Intimated to him that the royal party had fled from Pekln. The revered rulers cre ated the Impression everywhere that It was only their good pleasure to travel to Slan; and to this day the farmers speak of the Imperial wander ers as if they had conveyed lasting honor on the old land by travelling through It. If the Empress Dowager is making her present progress by rail there will be no opportunity for exciting Inci dents similar to thoe that marked the land Journey to Slan. At that time she had made up her mind that the Boxer movement was a sad failure; and when, on the Journey, a man in Boxer regalia rushed into the road, knelt beside her chair and began a eulogistic address on her efforts to exterminate the "foreign devils," she merely motioned to one of her body guard, who quietly walked up behind the Boxer, and with one stroke of his sword cut off his oration and his head at the same time, and she degraded the mandarin who had permitted the man to make this demonstration un der the mistaken impression that It would be pleasing to the Empress. When the lady was Informed that a Manclm of high rank in her party was making a handsome squeeze in hiring carts to carry the luggage, she at once caused his head to roll In the dust of the road. A considerable number of decapita tions, in fact, relieved the journey of monotony; and these incidents did not tend to make the Empress Dowager less popular with her subjects. For eigners who have spent much time among the common people of China say that they almost wor-hlp her, and that her faults and cruelties are vir tues in their eyes, and the more Intelli gent classes have a great admiration and respect for her character and un bounded confidence in her ability. War Brings New Words Into a Lan guage. Out of each war come verbal riches, whatever the loss of property or life. A war has genuine value in increasing the currency of words outside of their tribnl sotting, and If we can acquire a few of the rugged consonantal Sla vics, and a few of the softer Mongolia exprerslons, the war will have been worth its cost in words. We could not spare "manana," acquired from the Spanish-American conflict, or "recon centrados," since we have no word of Saxon descent which quite expresses these ideas. And certainly the cur rency given to "hike" was worth all we have heard or are to hear of Rough Riders. And from the Boer war sure ly "kopje" was, to use an American ism, worth the price of admission. W await with Interest our next acquisi tions. Probably we will soon be mak ing all our eastern measurements in "versts," and if it be necessary to overlay eastern diplomacy with a veneer of silence we might "lacquer" it. In any event our verbal horizon Is certain to be pushed out, and we will have new portmanteau words In which ! to carry about our new wisdom. St. Paul Dispatch. Largest Locomotive In World. The Schenectady plant of the Amer ican Locomotive Works has under way the building of the largest loco- : motive in the world. It Is to be of the Mallet articulated type, will weigh 405,000 pounds when completed for freight work on the Baltimore and I Ohio Railroad. The machine will be of the tandem compound style, with a 1 peculiar arrangement of drive wheels and cylinders. It is being built as an experiment, and is intended for use as a helper on the mountain divisions of the road. The heaviest engine now in use on tho Baltimore and Ohio weighs 162 tons. The new locomotive will have 320 000 pounds on the drivers, a tender weighing 143,000 pounds with coal capacity of 13 tons and a water capa city of 7,000 gallons. The wheel bass Is to be 30 feet, the traction power 70,000 pounds, and on a perfectly level track the engine is expected to haul over 10,000 tons. t FIRST 111 111S France Leads the World With The Number in its Navy. SAILORS RUN MANY RISKS Extra Rewards and Pensions Are Nec essary to Secure Crews Recruit ing In the Beginning Easy, as Rules Were Not as Rigid as for the Ordinary Seamen. The recent catastrophe of the Farfa dcl, while It has rofoiind!y touched the world, has had the etfect of even strengthening r.ie new French school of submarine enthusiasts. Ever since Admiral Aube, when min ister of the navy, began the transfor mation of the marine by Investing with inipoitanco its submarine units, the hostility of the old school has been con stant and unconquerable. During 15 years of experimental work no accident occurred to Justify their apprehensions, and even the disaster in the recent Bl terla lake has not given them the moral force which they reckoned on. The action of M. Thomson, the present minister of marine, in descending in tho Korrlgan, three days after the Far fadet accident, accompanied by various French naval dignitaries, has wonder fully restored public confidence and has given an Implied rebuke to the "old navy" party. Moreover, the naval vents of the Russo-Japanese war have shown the utility of various forms of the mosquito fleet, even if the war has also demonstrated the lndispensablllty of the batleehlp of many thousands of tons. France possesses 49 of these vessels In active service or In process of con struction, with a united crew of about 600 officers, engineers and seamen. Great Britain has five submarines of 120 tons, thirteen of from 180 to 200 tons, and one of 300 tons. Twenty-one more, each of 300 tons, are being con structed. Russia owns about 27, not all of which are completed. Germany, al though professing to take no Interest in submersible craft, is known to bo experimenting in secret with three dif ferent types. The United States has eight submarines, Japan six; Spain, In the projected reconstruction of her navy, expects to have several. It will thus be seen that France Is at the head of the world with respect to her submarine power, and she proposes to retain this prestige. Nevertheless a serious danger has for some time past threatened this position. This has been caused of the lack of sufficient crews, the seamen, with good reason, having shown an unwillingness to cuter that kind of service unless practically forced to do so. Recruiting was at first a com paratively easy task, because advan tages were offered that made it worth while to take on the difficulties and dangers of the work. But toward the end of his term of office M. Pellctan, late minister of the navy, issued a de cree practically suppressing all these advantages. Prior to the decree crews on submarines enjoyed special privi leges as regards pay and promotion. " In the United States, each man re ceives $1 extra pay for each descent. In Great Britain such crews receive regu larly double pay. In Frame supple mentary pay varying from 2T to 73 per cent was accorded. As a detail, it may be added that a ration of milk of the value of 4 cents a day had been pre scribed by naval doctors for all men engaged upon the electric accumulators in order to counteract the effects of lead colic. In general, food was of bet ter quality on submarines and vaca tions longer; and the men were treated not like ordinary seamen, but with the consideration due to pioneers In a new country. M. Pelletan, fiudlng something wrong With this system of things, and believ ing that it tended to hinder rather than develop tne new style of craft, brusque ly did away with it in a single fort night; and therefore there was no long er any attraction to seamen to take up the service. One can scarcely blame them, for, besides the danger In Incom plete understanding of the novel form of craft, there was the inconvenience of being often shut up for hours in a limited space, breathing destructive acids. Admiral Fournler and Admiral Ger vais, two of the most distinguished and trusted officers of the navy, believe not only that, as Lord Gosehen said in 1900, the submarine is "the arm of the poor power," but that it can save the big powers millions a year. Moreover, if the small powers place orders In the dockyards of the world, the big powers must do likewise In proper proportion. A City of Cretins. Almost the entire population of Kho kand. In Turkestan, Buffers from goitre or cretinism. When the Russians occu pied the city in 1878, goitre Immediate ly appeared among the troops, and In a few months a tenth of the garrison had developed well-marked tumors. Be cause of this the headquarters were eventually removed to Marghillau. Khckand is the only place In Turkes tan where such a remarkable state of things exists. According to Dr, G. Ca pua, author of a French work on medi cine In Central Asia, there appears to be nothing in the surroundings of the town to account for goitre being en demic. Its sanitary condition Is not bad, the altitude but 1.300 feet, and an abundant and pure water supply is ob tained from a mountain river. Goitre is due to an abnormal growth of a gland in the neck known as the thy roid, situated just below the so-called Adam's apple. Cretinism Is an arrest of mental as well as physical develop ment due to disease of the thyroid. It usually begins from the second to the fifth year of Infancy. Some of tha dwarfs exhibited as curiosities are the produot of this curious disease. SOME MODERN UTOPIAN3. Places Whcr: War, Poverty anW Dis honesty Are Unknown. Denmark claims that (hero Is not a singlo person In her domain who can not read and write. On the northeast roast of New Guinea, the Island of Kutaba, surrounded by a wall of coral three hundred feet high on one side n:id from fifty to one hundred feet on tho other, maintains thirteen villages of natives, to whom wnr.crimeand pov erty have boon unknown rIuco tho be ginning of their traditions. Tho most peaceful and comfortable community In Europe Is the commune of the Can ton Vatul. In Switzerland. Nearly every one is well off and tliere are no paupers. Finland is a realm whoso Inhabi tants are remarkable for their Invio late Integrity. There are no banks and no safe deposits, for no .uch se curity Is essential. You may leave your luggage anywhere for any length of time, nnd be quite sure of finding it untouched on your return, nnd your purse full of money would bo just as secure under similar circumstances. The Finns place their money and val uables In hole i In tho ground and cover them with a big leaf. Such treasure Ij sacredly respected by ail who pass It, but. In the rare event of a man wishing to borrow of his neigh bor during hln absence, he will take only the smallest sum he requires and place a mesage In tho hole telling of his urgent need, promising to repay the amount on a specified date. And he will Invariably keep his word, for tho Finn Is Invincible In his Inde pendence. Agneta Park, near Delft, In Holland, Is another I'toplan example. A tract of ten nores has upon It 150 houses, each with its little garden and with certain common buildings and com mon grounds. Tho house? are occu pied by the employees of a great dis tilling company, who form a corpora tion which owns the park. Each mem ber owns shares In the corporation, and pay rent for his house. The sur plus, after all expenses have been paid, comes back to him as dividend. If he wi shes to go away, or if he dies, his shares are bought up by the cor poration anil sold to the man who takes his place. Golden Penny. An Arctic Health Resort. A curious health resort Is about to bo established In Lapland, way beyond tho Polar Circle, according to news re ceived from Stockholm, Sweden. The intention of the government Is to erect a sanitarium on the shores of Lake Torne, a long and beautiful sheet of water at Was djauve, the end of tho Ofote Railroad. The latter, by the way, Is in itself a curious institution In thnt in a distance of 121 miles It boasts of only one solitary station. This Is not nnywhere near any human haoitation, but right on tho line be tween Sweden and Norway, and It was erected only for the requirements of the customs officer.. Tho sanitarium would be an ideal one for people with weak nerves who nood absolute rest. Aside from the small settlement at Wassijauve the rounlry is absolutely void of any signs nf human existence, except for a fow Laplanders who, with their herd of reindeer, pass through once In a while. Guests at the Arctic sanitarium will have for their only object of interest, aside from the scenery, a scientific sta tion which has been erected by the government out of funds subscribed privately by scientist.! anil laymen in terested in tho object of tho station. The observations and Investigations to be conducted here will be various. In eunicr biological, geological, botani cal, entomological and other re searches will be made, while at all Eivisons meteorological, magnetic and i t her observations are to be made. Tno station is a solidly built block hcr.te containing seven rooms, and it Is proposed to build the sanitarium In the same way. For Fare for a Doll Under Three. True kindliness doe3 not abound In any particular place. A conductor on a Ridge avenue car the other day gave an example of how the ordinary things of life may be mado attractive by the presence of a little kindliness. The car Btopped and a little girl carry ing a large doll got on. Tho conductor came In to collect her fare. The lit tle girl, who was about six years old, handed blm a nickel. He looked at it and then at her, but didn't register the fare. Her expression was that of perplexity. The conductor then lean ed down and asked her for tho doll'3 faro. That requost mado the Httlo girl's perplexity even greater. But tho conductor quickly asked her whether the doll wasn't over three years old, and to her negative reply he said: "Oh! I thought she was, and I was waiting for her fare." Then ho smilingly pulled tho register strap, and the other pas tengors who had wit nosiod tho occurrence somehow or other felt better for this touch of whimsical comedy. The Newest Explosive. The latest In explosives Is powdered aluminum mixed with nitrate of am monia and put upon tho market under the name of "ammonal." ThU explo sive Is said to be one of the surest and safest known, as It cannot be ex ploded by friction or blow, while otherwise containing all requisites of an explosive. Metal Industry. The clerk of the pari ih In England when reading the third chapter of Daniel, wherein tho names of Shad rach, Meshnck and Abed-nego are three times repeated, after speaking them once called them, during tho re mainder of the chapter, "tho afore said gentlemen." Unhappy Women I No woman rnn be Imppy when hor health I undermined. No woman can IiiivokimhI health while she xulb rs from female weakness, InMimiinilloii. ulcera tion or iiiiv disease of the delicate wi.in nnlv organs. Nervous, sleepless, tretiul. (ull'erlng In body and iniiul, she does not live but. olilv exists. Mure than a half a million vnch women have found n perfect and permanent, cure fur their diseased condition 111 the use or Iiu.Mor Pierce's Favorite prcM-riptioti. 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Tickets good going and returning only on the date of issue. 2t Union covxtv pair, kkwckd Rates via Pennsylvania Railroad. l'or the benefit of persons desir ing to attend the I'nion Comity Fair, to be held at Brook Park, near Lewisburg, Pa., September 26, 27, 28 and 2o, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell excur sion tickets from Kast Bloomsburg, and intermediate points, to Brook Park, on .September 26, 27, 28 and 21), valid to return on day of issue only, at rate of single fare for the round trip ( no rate less than twenty cents). Special trains will be run on Thursday, September 28, and on Friday, September 29, as follows: Leave MifHinburg 12:00 noon, Vicksburg 12:08 i M., Biehl 12:13 P. m. ; arrive Brook Park 12:18 v. m. Returning, leave Brook Park on September 28 for Coburn, on September 29 for Glen Iron and intermediate stations at 5:45 v. m. Special trains will also be rim oti Thursday and Friday, September 28 and 29, between Lewisburg and Brook Park every half hour from 9:30 A. m. to 5:30 p. M. 2t - That Little Pain in Your Back threatens your Kidneys. If allowed to go 011 a little while you will suffer throughout the entire system. Take at once Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. It is the most certain cure known for the treat ment of all diseases of the Kid lie vs. Liver and Blood. Write Dr. David Kennedy's Sons, Rondout, N. Y., for free sample bottle and medical booklet. All druggists $1.00. HUMPHREYS' Veterinary Sncciftca cure disomm of Horsos, Cuttlo, Sheon, Dogs, Hogs and I oultry by aoting directly on the bick pabt-J without loss of time. olVJuipTr,.,ROAT' '. ciiifi; WORMS, UiL. Orubi. E?:U','on.'!i ro,l". InHiiMwa, Inflamed ?ui& I B,'"v-lw. Wlnd-Blown. cuum ) Diarrhea, Myit-utrry, a.Q. Prevent MISCAHRI AJE. J'JIridxev a RLADIIKR DISORDERS. too. each 1 Stable Owe, Ten Speolflca. Book, As . 7 At druKKtma. or aunt t.r,.i..i,i ......... . . . ' Humphrey' Medlclue Co., Cor. William Mid Vim Btrouta, Now York. W BOOK MAILED FREE. 1.1 l""" I El HI 1 SI New Jersey June's Dccison. BOY ftSOOQ; GIRL 3joo Future Prospect tho Bails. Ciaim Made That Woman May Bctom a Bread Winner, Out a Man Must No Motion Made for a Ncv Trial. JildKd Frederick Adams, In tin Essex County Circuit Court Newark, N. J handed down decision that ncenrdinK to wdl versed lawyers Is novel In New Jersey. The decision is that tho lif of a henlthy buy is worth twice as much as that of a nlrl In equal ln;:ilib and of the same ape. .hi:l; e Adi'ics's decision w.ia on mo Hons made by Klcliard V. Llndalmry counsel for the North .Jersey Si reel Hallway Company, to upset one w.r diet fur $i.iHti. Riven by a Jury In favor of Kvan II. IC:istwi)od. and anollni for f.'i.nno rendered In favor of llcnrj Werpupp. The suits grew out of the Clif'oi avenue grade-crossing disaster of !'.: 1!), t!l).t, when In a collision between a trolley car nnd a Lacknwanna Ita'l road train, nine Newark lll.';!i Scho-J pupils lost their liven. ICastwood Is the father of Kvan K J. ICastwood, the only boy klllrd li the accident, while Werpupp is tin father of Ella Werpupp. one of t!.t (rirl victims. The application to up net or reduce the verdicts was mad: some time ago, on the ground that the damages awarded In each case werj excessive. Judge Adams announced that the Eastwood verdict would stand, bill that tho Werpupp verdict was exces live that the plaintiff must accept $.1,000, with the alternative of under going another trial. The Court said: "Tho verdict of ffi.onn in the Ids', wood case has never seemed to mi to be excessive and I still maintain it. Let us look at the matter. "Young Eastwood was In gnnl health, a creditable scholar, of excel lent character and In all ways admir able as a young man of high promise. The evidence shows that he hnd 1 peculiar aptitude for mechancial con struction and to some extent employ ed his Ingenuity to help advance hli father's business, "The father Is a healthy man, and the Jury may have considered ihs point that both nun would probably have lived for twenty-five years more. The son might have been expected M learn the trade of his father, and s: his services would ultimately havj been very useful to the firm. I am basing this conclusion upon hopeful, rather than a pessimlsMe view of th-j future. "The Jury, I Infer, probnbly con cluded that substantial benefits of this kind should be expressible In thou Bands Instead of hundreds of dollars, and I am Inclined to agree with the verdict as rendered. "As to theVleath of Miss Werpup;i she wns a very promising young wo man, healthy and Inrplred with ambl tlon to some day earn her living as a school teacher, with, of course, the possibility of her marrying. "Now, n woman may become a bread-winner; a man must be one. if Miss Wcrpup;) devoted herself to the career of a teacher, as she probably would have done had she lived, she could, after n few years, earn, If greatly successful, at tho most about $110 n month. "Therefore, taking the most optl mlstlc view of her financial value, I think Eastwood's expectations wero at least twice as valuable as those of Miss Werpupp. I decide that if the plaintiff in her case shal elect to tako $U.000 In place of the $5,000 awarded Judgment mny stand in that amount. ' Boiling Water In the Clouds. An article upon the route of ths Thibet mission, published In a Loudon, paper contains an interesting record of temperatures and conditions of life at high altitudes. The mission has necessitated the continued exposure of a very large number of untried men to life at altitudes ranging between 10,000 feet and 15,700 feet, and the general results are of considerable value. Tho lowest temperature yet reached on tho routo has been 2C de grees F. at Chuggla on the Tangla. which was, however, only an encamp ment. Of actual nightly exposure to cold of men and animals Tuna prob ably holds the record with 17 degrees F. Dut I'harl has repeatedly reached 15 degrees F., and Kamparab. nine miles distant from Pharl, might, if continual registration had been possi ble there, show a lower figure than either. The normal night minimum during January and February Is prob ably 10 degrees F. for 15.000 feet, warming to 7 degrees F. for 10.000 feet. Mountain sickness has been closely observed by the medical men accompanying the mission. Indlge? tlon has been common on account of tho eating of Imperfectly cooked food. At 15,000 feet water boils at a temperature about 30 degrees F. lower than at sea-level, and the normal amount of cooking Is therefore quite inadequate. At 15.000 feet it is al most Impossible to boll rice properly. Tho Dal, the common red lentil of India, affords a curious example of the difficulty of cooking at high ele vations. Out of five different kinds of dal supplied to the troops only ono 1 capable of being cooked at all at holghts above 10,000 feet. It la dif ficult to make the native understand these aberrations of gastrology, and a great deal of Insufficient cooking ha been the natural result.- lJul!a. Record. Nuvd
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