uu 1 p,i.iil-'. Weekly -A.clvextiinf- Hates. The UnreanJ reitanle c:rrulatio of the ."" bkia r ki.mAX romfri it to tb lavoraMa consideration of artrertis-rii abooe Savors will inserted at the lo.l v r.g low rates: 1 ln-h.4!mes S L.W 1 tnrh, months. ................... 2- 1 inch, nionthc. IS' 1 in-tj 1 year.... . 2 I rxt:e . 6 month........................ 0 2 Inrhes, I year 10.C 3 ItM-hes. month! .. fc.i S Ini-hex. year 12.0- . eoinuia, months......................... jo.ia (vlran.t tnonihf ...... au.Oi Mlumo. 1 yur S-VOO j rolumii, 6 month.............. ...... 1 column, I year .."' Business Item. htt insertion. Hip. er line rut-sequent Insertions, N. er line AjiniEntrsUir't anl "Lxerutor Not'eea ft W Auditor'' Noticed . r.so Stray and similar Nonces a oO -Kc"lut ion- vr proceed mars t any corj"1' tlon r society and coniuiuni-attons uesia-nt d U call attention to any matter ot limited or mdt Ttdaal interest rout-i le paid !r as advprtismenta. B- k and -!! I'rmtin of ail kinds oeatly tad exe iiousir execated at the lowest prices. And , yt hki o., pi:x.a., i,ao . ,.' ii a lvan. i- fl.M. ,,. ,. mI within ;l months. i.7r". : ( i i.l within ti liicuth. '1 ih ( l within (he vcai.. 'J -J;. re-! i'Ut.-Ule of the county !t...i i year wll he eharxetl to ,nr !!ie ahnve term, he ie .',. .e!io lon i oou.'uK tneir " , . .c aHam-e must not ei , , : i' - i in e loot Inn ah those who :.. .o-tin-iiy unjcmwil froc JAS. C. HASSON. Editor and Proprietor. "UK IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRl'TH MAKES FREE AND ALL AHK PLATES BEPIDE. 8I.SO and postage per year In advance. ,: c: M-tore you stop it, if sto ou st..i. it. if nop rt Tnrr vvt- oouierwlse... ( )LUM XX I. ,: MMi.iWiiit.' ,io o i. too -riort. KBENS15UKG, PA., FRIDAY, J UN K 14, IS95. TsUMlilvU :M, j don'tyoa loryet it. mm v& ifetoto Q' ,i uy HAY-FEVER w- a ... - COLD-HEAI r,' iH!::riivnxG. ,, i;l I.MAS rriE Office ;. i .11 Lji t your '22 PP-iMTING 'illy et-i-me(t. Ve .; . i.l ail: l.iiimritiU'. v . .inn't it.i any Inn :n..l Willi t a I-::.-.' fi'l it. rr..s ;:!ia New Type ..:.-.! In i ii: 'i I'll' ! I'riittuit; o 1 in !'ie KI N KST tTV 1 K rest Casb Prices.! , i : in i:ti.iI ! ti-.eil and , j. i, - i ! i'-c l. IW arc jiri- i ;,!!.! .' I ': r ' :i.'i tl lllll l"t -1 - ! i..-. I'll I. Hkuw, . i s : - Kn ki i !:. - i !: : 'i.- U H'w.Mi tMi .. - 1 h : . k -. N'l 1 1 . - - ! h ' :!'":- IMIK, j - ! v i I 1 III- HS AMI ... - ! m ! Iniithn F.TC. ; I ' i " i i: tuoii t ht -in;ilii'.-.t i Yi . I'ir tn tfii liui!i'?l r - ..i ' t .. : -. - a i i.l at I !l C;iiiiii i.l FirrlllJlIl ! i:t N -1; ;;. l'I'NX'A. . ,:1 i"l .ili CISCO, . : ..'..v liom, I l r u; in six - i. luu!t : i .r :-V. t!5. :r:rtors, ' ' ' - "y st i n'l ; and M::-i'.rt waa t I . p"i n -TvcrtisS" I . I'., riiiklmm's '. v rm,i de- y ' i tiVct was ' I to k the : :..: Ikis not :. ti .:,ks only i : v Well. Kwry UAI I O Vi;Tabll ilnLLo HAIR RENEWER. ' i r'-.-ir:itin. : .ir-. !inii;j lie an ! . -t i!,at I !! ilO tlllVP! v:. hi kuuw iLat - - f t :.:r on bal.l r 1 !.! i arc lint " ' : i-,-; r-troi r : Jiair: T-- " ' ii aii'l i lt ar of i j;r fulling .rT or ' j liaiit. In. "- t j -riv loii and i" i K ; rlii.-- Its . ii ilut m e i.f it. iii- ti iiiv iu',rali - u -t a ilw, ami in : r t'.:i, t u,. i 'un it il't-t ii, -t evai '! tiaturtil nil. n and Lritllc. aa Ua Buckingham's pe . whiskers r r t k, a., d-fir. N-,-tt it hartiiifSK ; ': ' ' i::iiiriil color; ami, r' ; ni'o.n. Ii more con :' ' ' ': :!,nn any other. - a. o., Nanhtia, N. K. K fcjl - ti-tj-a In Uedicirwa. , .-H lor Forty ; ' ' i i p-,' - ' M .:. .. tdo ! n .st i-.ul.ir : 1 it:-.T';ii:i.-nt., . - i:.ar,u,.r, m- - r ".jits. ' fj i-irrr. ' 'I Pianist, i; t. ' ' ' '"' CUTTING. rtS VOR;VJsTc;rECHOC0.2 ,'Wln;iillli1uTlJUlilK K r, i i iiFri no tnK, ' ''r l,KjlT,lNy A Ifl'SH. ' tiu at. 1 '"--'rnmi' ' I I i 1 THE 50d " 7 the '""'. '.V iJt'inn,ition. h.:,U ELY BROTHERS. 56 Warren Street NEW YORK. DUG nev&r wants to learn, but the 3 reads that Od Honesty CHEWING TOBACCO is the beat that is made, and at ONCE tries it. and eave3 money and secures mora eat isfaction than ever before. A. VOID imitations. Insist on having the genuine. If your denier hasn't it ask him to get it for you. JKO. FIIZER & BROS., Lonlriffle. Kj Constipation JVmnmls prumpt tri';itrn-nt. Tho rsw sul'.s of lifli'i t may lie siTioiis. Avuiil 4.il luirsh iiiol li-:utii; ptirjjiitivps, tlio t' liili-in y of wl.i. Ii is tn wc.'ikrn tlia '...-.vi l.H. Tlio ln-st rcitioily U Ayer's I'ills. I'.i iiil; I'lin iy vt i talili', tln ir a. ti.iii is prompt . ;ml rlii-ir -lTi-i t always V-. ii. iii iul. T!.i-y nro an ailtniralilo J.ivi r an. I Af:-r-liinn r jiill. ami every-w!it-ro ii l-.rs.-.l liy t!i' proft-SMinn. "Avir's T'iil-i arc lii-'lily ami univor a.illv "s.,.ki n .f tiv tin' M,.pli. alMUit lie.'-. 1 inaK.' .lailv ui- 'f llu tn in my pr i. ti. IT. J. K. i'owli r, J'-ride- uii t. I .tin. ' I can riToniTiicml Ayor's I'ilU aliovn f' olli.rs, liain prnv.d tlu-'T alni as n :H hart i,: fur myself ami Lunoy." J. T. JIc.is, lcillisv UIc, I'll. " For several years Ayer's I'ills li.ivo . en iimiI iu lay family." Wo li"d tliem All Effective Remedy f. .r -r.n-t :pntion and indigestion, and tar ii. -m t witli-mt them in llie lioii.se." M.im'S tin iiier, l-owcll, Mass. " I have ti d A.mt'.s rills, f.-r liver troniilc.s and imliiv-l ioti. during ni.iny years, and l:a ;.ia..s found tlieiu i'-ioinpt -md in. k iii in ilwir a-tiou." .. N. miili, I'li. a, N. V. " I mi IT. ri d from eon-tipation wliiih Bsmned Mii-h .in i.'.niialf form that feared it. would ea'io a Moppa;.'.' of th. l...w.l. Two l o.s of Ajit'.h fills ef-f,-i'ted a oinpl. ie i iii c" 1. lJnrke, iSa. ... Me. " I ha- used Ayer's T'dls for th past thirty e.os and ' ..e-i'l. r Ihein an in a'u:ihie lasildv me. 1 1, i lie. I Kliow of no h.l'.r ni.ii.lv f..r liver troiihles, m..l h:n.- :i!.x.is found ih.iiiapr l run- for .K-l- i-ia " d.ime.s Qiiinii, M Middle .t.'. Ilai lloi'd. ( ol.ll. II i iiiu' t" ii Iron!. led with eostiviv re-s. wl.n ll m e!li- ii . ilahle with KT sioii' . t j.. .lentarv lial.il-., I ha e tried A.-i'i 1'iiN. loping l-.r relief. 1 am pi. 1. 1 to .i thai they hae served mrt l.. iier than aii :!,. r iiiedieine. I nriiie ai i hi- on. lu-ioii only after a fa. ti, f.ii tn u f iln-n- merits." Samuel 1. .lol.es. .lk t-t . lio.-lol,. Mas. Ayer's Pills, h:ki-.i:i- o it Dr. J C Aver Sc Co.. I oeli. Masf 6oll bjs -J iHtultra lo SleJirlu. THE KEELEY CURE I- the H-t rc-ort for the drunkard and the victim t.l the iiioipl'ine I... Lit ntur all other m. .s i,;,ve l oh . I. It .'.".-i tlv to the r..ls ot the troiiMc climiii iuntr the ellc. ts ot tne nliolailicot n no .tic 1h.is.mi from the -tern, tc--tor.-s the -t..iii.u h to a healthy .ii.luioti. I.iiil.is ei. li e mtvoiis -v-o tu. rc-tor. - the :ipi-tite. -in. 1 h, illsuo-l .11..1 I. tre-i. -hep. Ihe-e r,--ult- have l,.-etl a. liiev,--! .it the iMTTTia-KO ki i:i.i:y iNsriTi'Tn. No. 4JUi l'ilth Avenue, in nl-out 1 K C.1-. S in the t. ur vrar. it has Ik tii 1,1 ,,,k l .tloll. the Kn 1. v rem. .lo - Lev. T falling If il 'he pati. at live- no to the tnles ami lake t!ie tre.ituient in .! f.iiih. .M .-t ol our i-ra.l- .. .. . 1...T i. . I I,- i ir,-r t a oi , ,i i - ... .' tli.""m f:o" ."ir i n count-. . I. hom lo ' i'iie lulu -t invc-tiHatioii bcu irtc.l. innW t'5. 1 nr. AhSTEO AGEKTS to rifn-M-nt the M.mt ' mi.,-ii. .Niii-jri.t-... iv nl,-U tut verltr-il tilt v four J-.-.ii-.: kll.ivn ail" I wauli-l hv ev. ly .l:,liler That in by bectimerH nlwitm iieereil iih u. ami rtprrirnrril AeenK ttttublp their mile ntnl ilieome. Now 1- I He lime I" i-!nll. wme ELLWANGER4BARRY, flit. !lpe Nuraeriesi, lfeheter, Pi. Y. j,(Aia.; coi los. Tho Work of NoRroes on the j Steamshina Down Smith. i ireat Skill itenlre,l in the lindlln of the Heavy Itnleit The Men Alwaya 4'tieerful an.l i-iii;inj; lhile ut I.alior. It is a pr.ilil.'in iu in li;inii s to load a e.itt.ui ship In till every enliie f.xitof I'r.-io-lit r.Kim with the awkward rcc t:i noular hales and -..uno lii.-ti are s.i imieli in, ire skilled than iitht-r-. in this scion. -i- that it often makes a li iVcroti.-e id' loo ur .".no l.al.-s in a 'J.l'Oii-t. m ship and that amount of I..: io the profit "I I lie Vnvare. Tlieref. ire. the steve.hires and screw nieii receive hio- w aLres. per haps tin- largest that are paid to iioo-rties anvwh.re in the world, for must of the l..nrsli.i-eiiieii ill tin- South At Unit ie are if t hat race, say s t he hi- aLr i Ijeei ir.l. In New ( Irleans they are nearly all white n i. -n - I ta lians. Sw e.les ;ti id I risli iiu n and t he ri it s t hat w o read al " hi t in the papers were due to the int roiliie liiiii nf n. o-r.i pai-ki-rs and screw ineii I'r. .in I .a I vest, til to take the place of t he w hiles. The screw men are divided into iran.rs f live, with a foreman, and the whoh are niuh-r tin- direetinti of a elnet st eved. ro, iv In i is tisiially a w hite man. and aets as siicriiitcii.loiit if tin" l.i.-k. Kaeh irati' m i-tijiics a hatchway of t h. steaiiu r. and livi- lin n are ail that can conveniently work in su. li a narrow space. The t'nt ton eomes from the plantit t ii hi in t he ea rs i ir ti m tlatlmats. Tin l.alesasthey leave the plantation ari I.Nisely pai Led - o-.-tiera 1 1 y four feet liio-h and the first thintr when they reach t he h ick is to tnnil.le them int. a livdraillie press, which reduces tin. it Inilk hv i uie-iial f and makes it Missihl. to pack tw ice as many in the h.ii.l if a steamer. The truck men pass hack and forth l.etweeii tin- pile of hales and theshi ilia pr.-essi..ii. rapidly and in perfect time, and it is an aw kwar.l and "wiith less nio-o-er,"" as the foreman said, win ever t . niches a hale with his hands. Some of tin-in put on jaunty airs, strike attitudes, and introduce fancy -tops as if they were at a cake walk, j cirt icu la rl - w hen spectators a re watch iier. hut that is unprofessional, and tin s.riotts and sol f-respeet in"" truckman "totes his hales"" without tryiin.' to at t ra.-t at tent i. Hi. They si no; as liny ro. Imt for the lite of me 1 could not cat.-h the words, and when in an interval I asked one lo rooat the verses lie re plied: '"!. y aiti't none. at wu jes' d i flickers' solio-." The rcfraiii sounded like "Oh rio rily oh. oh rio rily oh."" and it was evident ly iiothitio; hut o;ii,lM-ri -h. It appears that I ho several i'.-in's have their .ovnpar ticiilar sotiirs. and 1 jmU'cl from w hat i in- foreman I..I.I me that the word-.-..-re Usti.illv without mea n i iii.r. or sim j!v a scries of rh t hluical s. ui in Is w i t h lei'iui liat iotis t hat rhymed, iiivciil.-d hy -nine .me of t heir ii iiuih. and siiiio- t. familiar airs. The t ruckiiiati drops the hale at tin e.lo-e of t lie dock, or tosses it hv a jerk ,,f the handles of his truck over the mnwnle of t he ves-.-l; tii.-n a man ad jii-t s t lie irra ppl i iiLri r. ui a ml s'n -u t s a -.i' nal to the engineer al I ho windlas:.. wiio turns his lever, ami. Imisl iiij- t It, hale into the air. lets it swift ly do.vii into t he hold, w here t he live art ist s arc waitino; to pack it away. It is hot work holow, and the pa.-k.-rs and s.-r.- ui.-ii are usually haroiooted ami naked almve the waists, while per spiration rolls down their massive nui-eles. Iv.ich has a hook in his hand, and lliey sid.e ami toss tlio .YM pound ha les as a Japanese juo-o-l.-r plays with plates. l-'ive luMiks are in the eot ton t lie in stant it touches liottom. and they seem to work like a slot ui:u-hilie. for one does not pull one way and anot her an- . ..t her. hut hy united, siiuultaneoiis ef fort the (.Teat package is lifted, and drops into the very place where the hoss wants it to jr.i. Then at intervals they ovt out a hii: ja.-kscrew that must w-irh aim poiiml and crowd the hales toovthor until the hold of 1 he ship is one solid mass. hie . lid of the jackscrew is placed against a l.ale and the other end against a piece of hoavv oak tiiiiln-r four or lie 111. lies siplare. W llicll is notched to keep the screw from slippiii!r. and can he in clined a-rainst I In' side of tin-ship or one f its stanchion:., so that a o-o.nI purchase may he ohtaiue.l. 'I'he screw is worked hy a douhle crank, and one man holds it in posit ion w hile t he ot her four turn. That operation is called ""II. isino; up." All this is done to a musical a m- pauimeut I suppose u neo-ro always - ino's w hell lie works - lint t he soiors ol the scr-w ineii are li iTeretit f r.-lii t hose of t he t rmktiieii. and Hie air that o-.h-s with the ja.-kscrew is not t he same t hat i . sinur when the s.-rewiiu-ii are placiiio : he hale ill (Misitioii. These stevedores have work" otily al.oiit r.iv iiiont hs in t he year, hut while :!i.-v are at it they receive ,,o. pa v. I'h v work hv the pie.'- that is. :,o m !i in uu v for .toriiiT away so many :..nd the foreman, w ho i'.-ls sin ...Land selects his ow n associates, o-ets m. -half mor. than tliey. Itiiriior the cotton season, for VI or 14 hours" work, he will average a day aml they sfa. if they are skillful and en ergetic. The t nickers are paid hy tin hour, and nuike from fl.'i.l to.rl.aO. ISetwee-ii s-as.ms the serewnieii en-;ra'j-e ill other leeuput ions. -ul t i vat lug ar.lens. doinif plantation work, or fol lowing any trade that t hey may have learned; but they are universally ro Lrardod as superior lieino;s. like hull lighters in Spain and li.ischall play'rs in t he I 'nited States. A liale of cotton weio-hs from l."iO to ouu pounds, and skillful packers ran ire! from ".i.uoti to Iimmiii liah-s in a L.Vmi Ioii ship. 'I'lic iiuiiiIkt of hales a ship will carry increases rapidly with its toimaefe. l-'or i-xampli'. a l.ooo -ton ship w ill carry iJ.immi hales: a 1..MMI ton ship, .OIMi; a -i.lMio-ton idiip. 1 a.tliHI, and a o.ouil ton ship. :.O.linil hales. FIGS AND THISTLES. Thk father w ho prays too little will sometimes use the rod too much. ItiluliK you praise a nut. make sure whether it has a kernel or a worm at its heart. W ii K.v some men are baptized they first put their poeketbM.ks w here they won't jf t wet. NATURAL HISTORY. Manners an.l 'imt4niH of -!iir.M'un Koyal tl. art 'I'Im-j- .re Not. The pomp and eereiuotiy which serv" as a barrier between kincfs. prinees and cfran.1 duchess.-s, and Americans of '.he common or irarden kind, render it ditlicult for the latter to study the matnuM's and habits of t he earth's c alted. except at very lone? raiifTe. a ml if it were not for the inforiiiatioti otTered Us by the makers of eiira ret t e piet ures. the artists w ho desi'.'ii museum posters ami oilier persons possessed of accurate in foriiiatioti. it would be iniMissible to o-ive a satisfactory account of their various modes of life. Kut. Shanks to the jrreat American ta-te for ad vert isino-. says tin- Cincin nati l ia.et t e. he ho runs may read t he story of t he daily act ions of Knrlaiid's in cn and Uiissiu's c.ar, not toineiitio:i ot h.-r M-rsonao-cs of almost eiual ini h irta nee. I-' mm the trusty sources indicated aliovo. one learns that l.hieon Victoria has iu t he ovoiiino; of life developed an extraordinary fondness for various branches of prepared food, many of which are of American manufacture. In the in, oi i i 1 1 lt she make, careful use of Apple s soap, preparatory to partak iii!' a en p of s. ppe"s cocoa. At lunch con she tops with Shiuiple'.s canned c.rn b.-cf. and at dinner she will have no dess.-rt but Iiacvs prepared blane ma iil'c. So part icu la r is her majesty in -.-.rard to her favorite articles of food thai every packare. can and bottle mu-1 lie adorned wit Ii tin' name of its maker in letters laro-e ciioii":h to he ea-ilv read by the e-roiip of princes, princes, nobles and courtiers w lmstaii.1 at a resH-ct fill distance w henever roy al ! v partakes of any pr ijiriet ary art i.dr of f. M m 1. The prin if Wales has also been noted for many years for his fondness for extensively advertised toilet prcp- a rat ions a ml e ist ly bra in Is of eio-a ret t es :i ml -ha mpao-nes. ln-iii-Vi r tlu ri' ap pears on the market a new, Turkish eiira ret te w it Ii a o-ilt uioiit h piece, a ml c ist i 1 1 o-a little more than an imported eiirar. we mav be sure that his royal highness w ill contrive to purchase at least one b,.x of the largest size, no matter what economy he may be com pelled to practice in other ways to mak up for it. and smokes the cigar ettes with much ostentation on the terrace in front of Windsor castle or some ot her ei pia 1 ly conspicuous place. n such occasions the prince Usually wears a red uniform and is at tended by several reo-imcnt s of lancers. 'I'he late c.ar of Kiissia havino; lie n ! roil i'h I up from his childhood on a simp!.- diet of caviare t a I low ca miles, vodka, caravan tea. bear's irrcase. and other products of his nat iv c count ry. never disl iiiLrui-he.I himself as a con sumer of prepared food ami drink. lie was better known that is to the fre iicnt crs . ,f dime museum- .isainio hty hunter of freaks, and up to t he day of his deal h he was re'.'a rdcl as one of t he most d ist i ntruishcil a m I erudite connois seurs of human monstrosities in all I .ii r. ( ic. Accord in"; lo Ihe unimpeachable tes tiiuotiv of the superb works of art which lure the humble amusement seeker i h t o t he 1 em pies which are .'iven over to the worship of the eccentric and the deformed, his imperial maj esty assisted at the capture of several .f the best known freaks of eastern l roe. and was always ready to ac cord special audiences to those taken in remote port ions of his empire. The doi.i--faei.il lady, for example, was I ra Lr;-rci 1 from her cave in the I. alkali mountains hy a detachment of the im perial ejnaril. commanded by his maj esty in M-rson. and it was the same eiili""litene.l sovereio-n who captured the turtle boy. who siinhili"" himself on a bit of sandy beach on the Caspian sea. When prevented by officers of state from enjoy-in"; tin" excitement of tin freak chase, his majesty always made it a point to irive special recept ions at llie winter palace to such curiosities as were found in his realm, all of which were instantly brontrht to St. Peters bur"' that they mi";ht receive this spei ial mark of the imperial favor. At those receptions there was always a museum artist in attendance in order that an accurate rcpresctitat ion of t he scene mi";ht In- placed before the Amer ican public, and it is throiio-h the ma"; iiiticcnl oil paintings t hns obta ined that we know of the fondness of Prince I iortcliakof. M. de tiers. Prince llis marek and other eminent statesmen for the society f Ii iituaii tiioust rosit ies destined for the American museum plat form. NOT MADE BY HUMAN HANDS. l'retty I-mIiI- Kt;irIUit lrlnk.iiift; l'u of 1 arvt'l.to .trkiinii-liit. A drinkiii"; horn of marvelous work manship is one of the relics kept in the church at oldciibure;. Ccrmaiiy. says the New York Commercial Advertiser. It is known t hroiiefhoiit Kuroe as "the horn of Ol.leiibui-""." ami has a most wonderful history. Accord'ui"; to the storv. 1 he "freat t ho of t lldeiibiir"; was out hunting, and. lM-cominjr exluiuste.l from thirst an. I fati";ue. sank ujmui tin ea rt 1 1 with tin- exclamat ion: "Oh, Jod. would I had a. -n1 drink'.'" The sound of his voice had scarcely died away auioiiirlhc treesof the forest when sud denly a lM-autiful maiden appeared be fore him bearincfa richly-carved drink inef horn, tilled to overflow inir w ith e n .1. spark I'm "; water. Ot ho was more captivated with the beauty of tin- horn than he was with that of his fair bene factress, and without even stayiti"; to say "Thanks." turned and ran at tin top of his speed, earrviii"; the vessel wi'h him. To save himself from the eotise.pieiices of such a peculiar t heft . Otho bestowed the horn upon the church, and to this day the story, as friveii above, is told by the irui.les. who ii--play the relic to the (raze of curious v isitors. A Kunaway Stpaio-hln. Ycrv few more unpleasant predica ments can be imagined than to be aboard a runaway steamship. The steamship Marchioness, while makili"; the passa;,'i from Kothesay totilasp-ow, Si-ot land, met with an accident toiler machinery, and the engineers were un able to stop her. The lioat raced ahead atteriilic sM-ed, and thiurs lM-ejan to l.Hk alarmiii";. unt il the captain t.mk her out to mid-channel and steered her around iu a circle. When the steam was nearly exhausted the runaway was headed for tMasjrow, where she was secured by ropes, and the rest of the steam let oh. wW sells slave girls. How th Ourrn of ( oma Sutalo Her ICoyal I'urns. There are slave o;irls innumerable around the royal palaces of the hermit kingdom of Corea. says the Philadel phia Press. It is ditlicult to find out how many there are. Oue official will say hundreds, another thousands. A c. uisul who has had opM irt unity to learn the facts iu the case says there are about tifteeii hundred. It ise.ually ditlicult to learn where they come from. Their appearance show s that 1 hey a re not from any one stock. Some are Corea ns and some are T.ui'.'-haks, from I !uiii";-Sliaiiy;-I . iu thesoiuli of t lie kintrdoin; some show Japanese blood, others Chinese and still others Maucliuriau. They are of till sorts and types. All sjw-ak Corcau and nearly all have a smattering of Chinese. They art" all well brought up and tpiiet. mlite and industrious. Tliey bejriii their career as domestic servants when mere children uud are seldom found iu the royal establishment after they are twenty-five years old. A few who are unusually e;o,d-l.okinir W eome royal concubines and a lar(,'i number are taken for the same purpose? by the princes and lords of the realm, and. it is said, for a very lare;e price. The rest are sold as Commodities to the hierhest bidder and the proceeds paid into the royal treasury. The latest available blue Inxik of Corea l-s i,, summarizing the royal income, includes these articles: "Xiiii-ty-oiic thousand nine hundred and seventeen stone of best rice. "Forty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-four stone of ln-ans. "ne hundred and seventy-two thou sand seven hundred and thirteen nvaiie; in money. "Twenty-four thousand nyano; from sale of slave e-irls." A nyaii";ia string f one hundred copper coins, whose value in American money ranges from live hundred to one thousand to the dollar. The market value of a earl in Corea varies from ten lo forty dollars. I'pou these ti";ures the monarch must raise and sell iu 1 he public market every year from thirty to four hundred and eighty youiir women. The "vncral average would be alioiit two hundred per year. The custom is not so bad as it s-ems at first si"-it. The majority are purchased bv men for their w ives, and a small mi nority for immoral purposes. This trade in human being's is con sidered jierfectly legitimate and has comedown from time immemorial. It is not confined to the royal palace but is practiced to a certain extent all over I'm rca. The custom is followed like wise in China and seems to character ize nearly every Mongolian race. TOBACCO IN HAVANA. Fmttkinic I, lone In All i'lacea anil at All 1' tinea. I have never seen a Havana man stuokinir in church, w rites a correspon dent of the Washington Star. It"s about the only place where he docs not unoke. lie smokes iu the street ears, he smokes at the public diniiiir-t able, he smokes everywhere. The presence of women is not considered at all. When coffee is brought on the table, the Spaniard or Cuban li edits his ciirar or cifrarctte and In-jrins to send up clouds of smoke. He never even thinks of savin) to the ladies: "Ilyyotir leave," for the custom of the country is to smoke everywhere. On the railway trains there is no smoking compart ment, for a man is privileged, and. iu fad. expeetetl. to smoke everywhere. If he is not smokin". his neighbor will o'.Ter him a cigarette. The driver ot your coach will smoke and very likely oifcr you a cheroot. At the ojiera the I !.in will walk and smoke between the acts iu the spaces behind tin- boxes and balconies. You will see tincly dressed, seeminirly well-bred men. with ladies iu full evenini toilet, cntcriii"; the thvatcr and smokiiif as they po. You never see a piie in Cuba. lt is the country of the cipar and the ciparctte. One of the odd siphts to a stranper is that afforded by the ncpro women, who smoke hip, lonp anil black cipars in the street. It was here that the smokiiip hal.it, whi.-h has spread around the w orld, had its start, and the Cubans are still more devoted to their cipars than any other iioople. The cipar industry and the tobacco trade pive employment toalarpe tort ion of the population of Havana. In every quarter one will run across small establishments where from two to ten men are employed makinp cipars. and some children ami Women fiijjaf'cd in strippinp l.3icco. VERTICAL WRITING. Telegrapher Are. Matnly lteaonalll for lia IntrtMlu.-tion Here. If the vertical hand w ritinp which is bcinp taupht in our public schools pre vails, and Itetomes the ordinary hand writ inp. t he peojile who enjoy its ad vantapes will have in larpe measure the Udepraphcrs to thank for it. They have Ix-i-it the pioneers of vertical w rit inp. For the last twenty years almost every telepraph perator in the country has written a round, vertical hand, plainer than any other sort of hand writinp known, with round, fat loops for the letters which drop below the line, anil simple capitals. This tclep rapher's hand writ inp has much iu common with the Knplish "civil service hu-.nlwritiiip," which may have preceded it. but the civil service hand is less often vertical and has certain juiints of dihVrcnce. Men's handwritinp tends in a peneral way to conform to the fashion of Koman print prevalent at any time, and as the most ordinary print letter nowadays is of a round or Scottish face, it is not stranpe on the w hole that the tendency in handwritinp is toward a round letter. Women's chiropraphy Ls more capricious in its fashion, thouph it has inclined pretty steadily now for several years toward aupular Briticism. l'alnted on a iralu of Cirn. It is said that the smallest piece of paiutinp in the world has recently beei executed by a Flemish artist. It is painted on the bin. Kit h side of a prain of common white corn, and pictures a mill and a miller mountiiip a stairs with a sack of prain on his back. The mill is represented as standing' on a terrace, and near it is a horse and cart, while a proupof several peasants are shown in the road near by. The picture is l-au-tifully distinct, every object lieinp fin ished w ith microscopic fidelity, yet by careful measurement it is shown that the whole painting does not cover a surface of half an inch square. ABOUT CLAY KATE I IS. Tho Diaerustinff Habit la Common Iu All Countries. Trlbea of Indiana Who Mix Mud with Their llread Somt- Singular Kra kmu for the Abominable Practice. Amonp the extraordinary passions for eat inp uncommon things must Ik reckoned that which some M-ople exhib it for eatinp earth or clay. f this prac tice, w hich would apiM-ar to hav ic- prevailed all over the world, savs the Philadelphia Times, numerous exam ples were cited by I 'apt. J.H. ISourkc. I nited States army, in the niuth an nual rejmrt of the bureau of et Inn .loirv. Ill some places the custom has depen crated into a ceremonial, while in others the eatinp of this straturc f. .1 still prevails as a kind of necessitv to the lives of those whoarc addicted to it. The Mexican devotees picked up a piece of clay iu the temple of Tezcatli poca and ate it with the prcatcst rever ence, and also ate a piece of earth in swearinpby the sun and earth. Itu' the use of clay by the Mexicans was not merely a matter of ceremony, for the substance seems to have Im-cii an esculent in common use, I j.liblc cart h was sold ojH-nly in the markets of Mex ico and apiM-ars in the list of f. ...!-, (riven by lioiuara. Cabcza le Vaca says that the Indian of Florida ate clay, and that the natives offered him many iiicsquite licaiis. which they ate mixed with earth. Yciie pas asserted that the Indians of Cali fornia ate earth. The traditions of the Indians of San Juan Capist ratio and vicinity show- that they had fed ujioii a kind of clay which they often used ujmui their heads by way of ornament. The Tatu Indians of California, accord -inp to Powers, mix red earth into their acorn bread to make the latter sweet and cause it to po further. Sir John Franklin writes that the banks of the Mackenzie river contain layers of a kind of unct uoiis mud which the Tin Dfli Indians used as food durinp the seasons of famine, and even at other times chew as an amusement. It has a milky taste and the flavor is not disa preeable. The Apache and Navajo branches of the Athabascan family of North American lupins are not un acquainted with the use of clay as a comestible, althouph amonp the former it is now rarely used, and amonp tin latter is employed only as a coiidimeiit to relieve the bitterness of the taste of the wild potato. 1 n t he same manner it is known to lioth the Zuni and the Tusayau. In South America, likewise, the eat inp of clay prevails amonp the Indians ou the banks of the Orinoco, throuph out lirazil and on the mountains of Holivia and Peru. In western Africa the neproes of (iuinca have loiip been known to eat a yellowish earth called by ihein "caouac." and the flavor and taste ot which is very apreeable to them an.l said to cause them no inconvenience. Some addict themselves so excessively to the use of it that it becomes lo them a real necessity, and no punishment is sufficient to restrain them from the practice of consuminp it. When the (iuinca neprin-s were in former times carried as slaves to the West India islands they were observed to continue the custom of eatinp clay. l!ut the "caouac" of the American islands, or the substance which tin poor neproes attempted to substitute in their new homes for the African earth, was found to injure the health of the slaves who ate it. and so the practice was lonp apo forbidden and has jwissi bly now died tint iu the West India colo nies. In Martinque, a species of red earth or yellowish tufa was formerly secretly sold in the markets, but t he use of it has probably ceased iu the French colonies also. In eastern Asia a similar practice prevails in various places. iu the island of Java. Iietween Sou ra bay a and Samaranp. Labillardicre saw small square reddish cakes of earth sold in the villapes for the purpose of licinp eaten. These were found by Khreii lerp to consist for the most part of the remains of microscopic animals and plants which had lived ami lieen tie posited iu fresh water. Some of the Japanese, too. are addicted to the practice of eatinp e-irth. Dr. Love, some time apo, published an analysis of a clay which is eaten to a consider able extent by the Ainos; it ticeurs iu a lied several feet thick in the valley of Tsie-tonal (eat-earth valley I on the north coast of Yesso. It is lipht pray in color-and of tine structure. The peo ple mix with the clay frapments of the leaf of some plant for the aromatic principle it contains. They eat the earth liecausethey think it contains some lieneticial substance, not Wcause it is a necessity with them. They have meat and abundance of vepetalile food. The clay is eaten in the form of a soup. Several pounds are lioiled with lily roots in a small quantity . of water, anil afterward strained. The Ainos pronounce the soup very palatable. In Kunjut valley, in the Sikkim Him alayas, a red clay tn-curs which the na tives chew, esecially as a cure for the poitre. In Smith's "Aboripines of Victoria." it is stated that a kind of earth, pounded and mixed with the rtxit of the "mene" (a sjecies of Ilaemadoruni), is eaten by natives of west Australia. llorae-l'ower or a licy cl 1-t. A French scientist has recently made some experiments which show the amount of force developed by some t if our bicycle cracks durinp a hard race. American cyclists have maintained for two minutes a speed to continue which required the expenditure of enerpy rep resenting two-thirds of one horse power. For six seconds they were able to exert the astonishinp force of one and a fourth horse jKiwer. This is equivalent to raising a weight of one hundred and eighty-eight jiouiiils I yard high iu one second. Experiments are also Wing made to determine the force exerted by different sports. These results will In of great use for traiuing and hygienic data. One of the discov eries made during the calculation of force exerted by bicyclists is that at high sjK'ed the work of a bicyclist in covering a specified distance is as great as that of "a man running the same dis tance. At a moderate sliced a runner undergoes three times the labor of a bicyclist, but the higher the sed the nearer are their exertions equalized. CLIPPINGS OF SCIENCE. j Tiik rare ojH-ralioti of amput :.t i.ui at the hip was recently performed at Ciu- cinnati. I Km. 1 1 1 i v n.it.TZ s '.il.rary fas Nrr 1m ught by direct ion of ha net '. !or von llohetilohe f, .r the Imperial Institute of Technical Phy sic- in IS. i lin. Tiik n.-w photograph of the heaven which is being prepared by London. I.erlin atid Parisian as; roii- .m. rs show -r.s.iHHi.iatti stars. Tiik nearest approach to Hie north Mile was on Mav I I. i when I.i.-ut. I. ockwoo.1 stl wit:. .u ::'. miles of t hat t- ivete.l sh ,t . Wiikn a M.rli.-ii of the brain is re moved it seem- to be n nev ed. but whether lh" substance is 1r:e brain tissue or not appear- to be undeter mined. Win. at can Ik- grown in the Alp, at an eleval i.ui of :;.i'.uu fc. ' : in Brazil at .".ihiii; in the Cain-a-n- at -.i i..e in Aby s sinia at In. nine in Peru am: l;...iv..i at I I. '""'. Pl:or. Yoi ii finds by ii. c-t :gat ii m that the sun's light i- a'.ut :;mi.Mn t ill ies as great a - 1 lie mm ill's. I f. t here fore, the sky va- e,.ci. ! with full moons, they would g v.- l.nt on, -eighth as much light a- 1h- -uti. A J rM-i eh. uii-t. Jokiciii Taka ininc has discover. -d a new mcth.Ki of prcp;iriiig dia-la-o and some other substances fr,.m a plant eal'. d Fur tiiim ory ae. I'i.i-t a-e is a fermenta tive airvnt much more M.werful than yeast. I'lKis was the tir-t of t he a-t.roids to In-di-covcrcd. and it was found oil the first day of the tiin.-t.-eiiS Si century. Situated in the midst of the broad gap of -pace that li.s 1 -l w eon " he .1 1 t - . ,f Mars and Jupiter, it- mean .li-tancc from the sun i- about j'.T.i'.mi.ihhi mii.-s. M. I'i;i mom ha- proved by t K-ri-nieut that water kept for tw.-ntv luin ntcsat 1 T'". .iegre. s 1'ahrenheil loses all t he deleterious germs ,t m i; have e,,n tailie.l without being dt-;.rived of its pases or pr.-.-ipi'at ing the sill- con tained in it. and that the flavor is not m.Miitied by the proee-s. FEMININITY. Ml:-. N. M. l.'i. iii;:ison is a practic ing at t. irn.-y in l.im-. :i. N b. Mi Si -vm A:im- i- another American girl vv h i has ju-t made a suc cessful debut at t he tratid opera house. Paris. Thk princess f Wale- has a tea serv ice consisting of sity pie. . -. and every pi has iiHn it a photograph taken by Ihe prim ess in Scot 'and. M i:s. '!' i v . r . w i f.- ,t I r. T :' mage, recent il" r eeive.l a Lcpie-t of .-" 1 ...HI ill f rom a w oma ii w !e i was a stranger to her. and to w hom she gave a s.-a! in a street car. Ml:-. S. o l i , t he w i.l, ivv of J u - Ipe I .li cit -il S-, ,: t . of I ..-a i u wor! h. Ivan., man ages h.-r own ranch in Texas, where she owns -v.il. uno a .-res ..f land, all fenced iii. over which six or seven thousand cattle arc brow-ing. I 1 Sosn ia 1 1. t rv 1 1 vv ui.eii .1. m-1. irs a p Miiuteti by t he Austrian government a few years ago. 1 r. The. fh r-i Krajew ska and 1 r. IS, dusla va Keek, seem to have iv t-rc. uin-1 he pr-.-jud ice i if t he Mo hammedan population against them. They had over six hundred Moham medan patients between them last vrar. FOREIGN CLIPPINGS. TliK river Khine flows at three times the rate of the Thames. Tiik crown worn by '.'u.-eii Victoria weighs forty ounces. Tiik population of the t.-ruian .em pire is increasing at the rate of .".iiu.ihmi a year. Thk heaviest of t he foreign w .Molsare t he pomegra nat and the ', iginim vit a-, and the lightest is c.rk. Il- to the ) ireseii t time t he N.-er. m .1 i companv. the biggest undertakers in Fngland. ha v.-buried 1 jr,.coii 1 .. kI ies. Till' long .iistam e 1.-!, phone Im-Iw.-cii Paris and London has over two hun dred calls a day. At the rate of two dollars for each call i' pays. Ix all. it h:is Ik-cii es-. imat e.l that over two million acres are devoted to t he maintenance of deer in Sot land, and that alMUit live thousand stags are an nual ly k i l led. Ix I-i'iI the cold was so severe ill east ern KurojM- that pa.-Us .f starving Wolves entered Vienna, and all t he canals of Venice w ere frozen, and 1 he principal mouth of the Nil.- wa.- blocked with floating ice for a week. Kntllf-iciit ly Keirar.lrtl. The latest joke at t he expense of t he French Society for the Protection of Animals is lo the following etTect: A countryman armed with an immense club presents hinist If before the presi dent of t he society and claims t ho first prize. lie is risked to dcserilie t he act of humanity on which he founds the claim. "I saved the life of a wolf." replies t he count ryiuan. "1 might have easily killed him with this bludgeon." and he swinps his weapon in the air. to Ihe immense discomfort of the president. "Kut where was this w olf;" inquires the latter; "'what had he done to you'.'"" "He had just devoured my wife. was the reply. The president reflects an instant and then says: "My friend. I am of opin ion that you have Ik-cu su lliciently re warded."' BOOKS AND WRITERS. Mil. J. VaKM'M Fi.kti IIKK. of Kel inoiit. Mass.. has given the town of Wert ford, Mass., flu.uiMj for a tuldie library. Wiikn placing himself under medical advice Carlyle once told a doctor: "I'll tlo anything ye tell me, but ye mamma st. ip ma l i j -."" Mks. Ki knktt's "Little Lord Faunt lerov" has just 1k-cii brought out in a French translation at the Colin-die Parisieiine as "Li- Petit Lord," with great success. Sin Jons Lntr.ocK's; daughter is treading iu her father's footsteps. "Some Poor Law Oucst ion-.'" an ex planation of the workings of 1 he pres ent laws and pr. ip ise.l changes, l.y Miss to-rtrude LublnK-k, is announced by M u rray. JosKl'll Al sTIN STf.ovti. the Oakland (Cal.llKiv. who is heir to one-half of KolH-rt louis Stevenson's estate, is tle scril'tl as bright :;ii1 jirepossessinp in aiqH-arance. His father. Joseph 1 Strtuip. was one of Mr. SleveUsou's iu tiuiate fricutls, . , ITALIAN LEGAL FUNCTIONARIES Mlnnr limiltU Who tre I'rxtrly I'ald for I ht-ir s-r --. In Ilaivanv unfortunate who owes 111 kt cent. tin. Is his little. l. bt run up by sheri'Ts' .;"!;, -crs. tribunal eM :is-s ami all t he manifold charges of n, .tar ies. attorneys and advocates i.cJ.mi p-r cent. 1 k-fore he has t i me t . i br.-at he or rea ! ie the situation, and t he f. treed sa'.-s a re so eond uctetl that the property s,.'d pr. m! hits ti if hi tip for any. me except t In state and t he auctioneers. The state takes its percentage lirst.s:ys the l",.rt tligiitlv Kevievv. In-fore even 1 he ere, ! .1 -ors. and thus is caused t he avid it y 1 v v liicli all st at e . .:mia !s and my rm id. -ns drag to ruin, by iiitripneandex1or1i.nl. a large majority of the Italian lax paying public. Note the salaries paid to t he .i!i,-iais of the tribunals in Ila! v and judge if su.-li otVn-iais are not in vited and f. treed to ruin t he mass of t he jh-. .pie. here a county court judge in Fng land has i.1 .mm or i.'J.oin a year, he re ceives here the tspiiv alelit if or jK-t haps i.:;u. M-r aniiutn. All t he lesser f i:i.-1 iona ries are paid in pro tort i,.n. The giuiiiee e. .neil i;it . .re. -a ho ansvv .-i-s toth.-jiige de la jtaix in 1 'ranee, and to t lit- jtoiioe magi-t r;it.- in I ingla nd . is paid sou let imcs at the ra'c of t'J'i p.r aniiuui. s. .met i iii.s not at all: the po.-k-el s of t he a 'j K-lia n1 s at his court mu-1 maintaiii him. It can readily Ik- uiider-st-Ntd that ail lliest- hungry function aries of the law. big and little, live ii the public jM-rfor.-e. and that almost any iniquity or injustice may Ik- ob tained under their rule if ni.mev u largely enough and secret !y enough t-x-jK-iide.1. ""Your splendor is my .Ii honor."" sai.l Kacon to his magnificent liveried serving men. vv ho rose to meet him when he entered court to stand upon his 1 rial. The Italian functionaries mav siv to the Italian Themis: "That we have coal s t o our 1 tacks and rings . m . u r ti i gers is your tlishoiior. for y. hi do lot pav us enough to enable u - to ir.-t eit ht-r Ic .n.-st I ."' Not w it h standing ' h i miseral.!e pay which they receive. It aly sjM-nds on the ad m ! n i-t ra t i. ci . ,f la.v I :..".. ! in. iMinf i. ... 7.iiu.o,inf m..r,' than I'r.iii.-.- .in .-oin p;i ri, .n t, :lte po. hi la 1 i ui i and l-.'.iMMi.iamf. uioretl.au linglaud. Thej. ul. lie who eont ri but . all 1 ii. se mil 1 i. .lis get little or iiothiiig t, ir t heir m. me v. HIGH EXPLOSIVES. Kaf-h lirat Nation Hat tie and I-SK-rl-tittrt.t- with It S-r-tly. Kvery great power ha- itsown special high explosive w i; h which it - siiei i s a r.-liii.-d. All the high (, iw t-r explosives, h w ever, nr.- in a in--re . r l.-ss , x jk ri lii.ii'a! s' age. and w.-t gun cot ion i, the mat. riai upon which most reliance is placed. s;iv - Sh- .New York World. There i- io doubt of 11 1'ica.y of tie- 1 reUlell.loll-i V HWt-rflll explosives which have rec. i,t 1 v Ik-.-ii inv.-nl. .1. so long as thev can Ik-ex .1, nI.-.I among the enemy. When subjected to tic enormous impact which is mnssirv 1 obtain the required vel.K-ilv of tun thousand feet per stsolld. or tlliTi'- a I m ui t s. 1 he v are a 1 in- tst as likely 1 o e x-P'.mI,- before leaving t he gun as after vva rd. j f t his tii lVn-u i t v is t iverc. mi,- tin" ti.-Xl question is to prevent the shell from expl. Miing before penetrating the object which it is tired. The l'reii. h pi:i their faith to melin ite, which has Ik-cii very thoroughly tested. Shells filled w il h t his com p-isi -lion have Ik-cu tired through ten inches of armor wit hunt expl.Mliiip. The shells in this instance left tl ic gun s muzz! '. with a Velocity of two thousand feet jM-r second. Ihe Kngl ish arc d.ii bt f ul .f the safely of melinite and us.- a cm M.silioii cal'.-d lyddite, lt gets its name from Ly.l.le. in Wales, where it is uian u fact u red. The ly ddite shells have been successfully tired through live inches t if a rm. r. Iicrasite is used by Anslria. Ilseotu pKisition i a secret l.nown only to the two in vent rs. w ho are Aust rial is. This explosive has Ik-cu found to have es jfcial destructive Mtvver when Used against earl 'iw. irks. Sweden lu.s decided upon the inven tion of a Swede, w hich is called beliitc. W hile it has not as much explosive force as many of the other composition-, yet it is claimed to Ik- more stable. Its towers of preservation are also lunch greater. The I'nite.1 Stales h:t-1k-cii making exhaust ive t ria 1-of a gnu cotton known as emmelirite. The air guns of the Vesuvius were designed for discharging emmelirite shells, but tlu v did not prove satisfactory. Keet-u;!v emiiienrile has Ik-cii successful v- tir. .1 from a high-pow t-r pun with a wlm-ilv of over t w . ( t loll sand feet. EVERYBODY IS SUPERSTITIOUS. a-t.int Arcu.-.l Itv a liii-i :ll- Srr,in.l-llaiiil hraliT Who lit- llliriol. ""1 don't lK-li.-ve there is a man livii.g who is without his jM-t suk rst it i..n.'" rcinarked a secoiul-haii.l f iirnit lire tl.-al -er. says the l.uisville Courier-Journal. "We constantly have (KsipU- who sell Us articles of household use, and volut in after a few weeks sometimes on.v day and try to buy 1 hem back again, with the explanation that they hid 'had bad lu.-k" ever since the sale was made and never would have got mI L.'ck again until tin- bargain was undone. mm- woman w ho had sold us h.-r grand mother's cl.K-k fairly wept Iteeaiise it was g iiic "n-for- she could btiv it again. "The idea is not confined to unedu cated or ignorant people, by anv incaKs. At this very time 1 know a Loiii-v ill, business man tif great culture ami re-fiiieiiit-nt w ho is vigorously pursuing a-i old w.mmI.-u tlesk w hich he owned maiiv years ago-- a th-sk on which he nia.l.-au enormous amount of money l.y a few lucky strokes of his pen. The tlesk passed from hand to hand aa.l out of his iMisscssion; he is now earnestly n dcavoring to trace it and purchase it. lK-Iit-ving t hat recent business reverses and hard times w ill lice a vay if he can only stretch his legs once more under that same old tlesk." Sound TtMt tine to Hear. Sir John I.ublwK-k Ik-Ucvcs from his study of ants that they cannot hear many of the noises which are audible to men. and it is infcrontially iK-liev.sl that there are some sounds too tine and others ttMi hmd for the ears of men. The Ijoiuloil Spectator thinks that if light is a vibration there is no reason it should not Ik- audible to finer ears than ours. Kv the same rule music ought to shine t eyes which arc capable of appreciating the same vibrations which impress t hcip.-cl ves . m t he drum tif t ho ear. That, however, is poetry. t r r t- r r V a r l K- C C. fc. a fc. -at t I r r t; r. fc' r c fc.-: fc. t 5 ' C f r E r r r e r: t i c r I t i a r XT
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