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THE DEAD LOVER
A ROUMANIAN FOLK SONG,
He whom I loved so well
Is in his long, long sleep;
Yet I lament him not,
For he told me not to weep.
More dear to him the grav
Than I could ever te;
For though I go to him,
He does not come to me.
I envy vot the grave
What yesto day was mine
But bow my head and say,
Keep him for he is thine.
But keep not, grave, my youth,
Which cannot p ofit thee;
My smils and my light step—
O give them back to me!
But the grave answerad, No;
For these things still are dear,
Sinoe he, dep ived of them,
Won d b» too lonely here,
Then to the dead I pray:
Restore my youth t> me,
That wh -n we meet agsia
I be not old to thee.
But he hear: nor sees,
For his eves hike wine sre dim;
80 to his grave I come,
To get them hack from him,
For only in the grave
Are tears no longer shed,
And the living happy made
Besides the bappr d ad
-{R. HI. Stoddard, in Harper's Magazine,
JACK WATSON'S EXPERIENCE.
Jack Watson drank heavily while he
was in college, but wa called him a good
fellow. After he left college he began
$0 drink heavily and to be a good
fellow, but we called him a drunkard.
him ns a lost man. [ believed that he
would be a mere sot at 30, and that he
would die miserably before he was 35.
We lost each other for some years and
then, after a chance meeting in New
York, I dined with him most happily in
of a beautiful woman's eyes. When the
light was withdrawn and we were left to
dim the remaining illumination with a
haze of tobacco smoke, I fell into the
deep thought upon the agreeable failure
of my prophecy.
I might have said it was his marriage,
but I knew that he had fallen into the
depths agnin soon after. Hearing that
report, 1 had pitied ber exceedingly,
and had thought the worst of Jack. Yet
I could not doubt that he was at [ast in
the sure way. Knowing him so well I
felt that some surprising incident must
have changed the course of his life, and
my curiosity craved the story.
“] know what you're thinking about,”
said he. “You're wondering why I am
here instead of being in the gutter.”
“Oh, no, Jack,” said I, "*nothing of
the sort. 1 always knew you'd come out
all right. You drank a little at one time,
of eourse, but--"
“*No, I didn't,
rank = little,
tion wasn't in me
lived the life of a drunkard.
death of drunkard.
“Metaphoricaliy 1”
“Lite raliy. That May sound absurd
but itis only the truth. Nothing but
derth could save me.”
**Not even—"'
“No: not even Alice.”
His eves filled with tears of tender.
ness at the mention of his wife's name.
said Jack. 1 never
I died the
wontinued, as to suppose that a man can
be saved by lovealone. Any person who
has had experience in such matters
is an added temptation to the drunkard.
a while
‘again.
has waned with the honeymoon.
such thing, At first he does not drink
bec.use the novelty of the situation
keeps his mind off the subject. Marriage
seems like a great vacation from the
dullness of life.
Then you see him take a drink
#t is. The preciousness of his possession
reveals itself to him. He who has more
than his due is never [ree from fear
dangers,
sees his appetite,
of him.
And that is the end
As soon as he knows that it
That was my experience; and mv sin was
the greater because | knew it all before.
hand.”
** Yet you escaped the consequence.”
“No: it killed me, as | bave already
said. I will tell you the story. You
ean make a farce comedy or a tragedy
out of it, just as you like. It was a
Mother nature is the
grimmest practical joker, alter all, and
this is the way she plased it on me.
But first I must let you into the myster-
ies of our early housekeeping. The de-
tails seem trivial but they contributed
to final catastrophe,
#1 began with the usual drunkard’s
balance -on the wrong side of the books,
We tock a flat in that long row I pointed
out to you as we oame up town on the
L. Our furoiture we procured on the
instaliment plan, It was not luxurious,
of course, but you should have seen how
pretty a home Alice made with it. There
were weekly payments to be met; and
for a month or more the rising sun and |
were equal models of punctuality,
Then I let it go for a week. Nothing
. 1 was somewhat surprised
at for my contract with the dealer
had been more binding than the shackels
of Israel in Fayp. Another week
slipped by, and another. Various
causes reduced our funds to a low ebb,
Presently I owed $40. A polite collector
came. | promised immediate settlement,
nd he departed. I was to receive my
y check from the Philadelphia
in a few days, and 1 relied upo
Something delayed it. I bos
£60 from John Ennis, and, ns he
me the cash be looked st me ina
a to
should’
‘It seoms absurd to be sentimental
about a few sticks of furniture, but when
a man is newly married and has a home
for the first time in ten years, he may be
pardoned for an excessive anxiety to
keep it undisturbed. That anxiety was,
of course, my chief danger, The drunk-
ard is always on the edge of a precipice,
and if he looks down he will cast him-
self into the depths. It is the same,
a fascination. 1 looked down that day
and was dragged over the brink,
*“That was the beginning of such deg
radation as I could not name to any mau
but a true friend. The poverty which
drunkenness entails is not nearly the
worst of it, and yet that alone is heart
rending to endure or to look back upon.
What Alice suffered doubtless I do not
even know. How she unfailingly for-
gave the Angel of the Book must have
recorded in words we have not learned
on earth, Through it all I think her
principal anxiety was to preserve our
home.
“1 will not weary vou with the story
of her struggles. There is nothing so
it the meaner it is
will snesk into an intimacy with their
self-respect. May Heaven forgive the
that, if he can; and I could, but did not,
for the sake of my appetite.
“At last there came to me a day like
that when [ borrowed the money from
Ennis, only far more serious. It was
Wednesday, and the polite collector had
After
I had pre.
served my connection with
Graves, and was still
salary was overdrawn and squandered. |
tomers, Andy Playson. You know him,
He said
ness.” Andy canno! talk business com-
fortably except in a liquor saloon. The
demon inside me welcomed him as a
friend. Here was certainly an excuse.
‘““T'he next thing I remember distinctly
I was blind, How
lone it took me to discover where | was
21
I am unable to say. In reality I was
door and turned on the eleotric light.
window I could see the illuminated dial
It was nearly
“But what midnight? 1 had no idea
whether 1 had been unconscious three
days or a month My mind was so
stupefied that I could not s<certain the
date of any of the ways which would
have suggested themselves to me in my
condition. There was a news
My eves rested upon
least one word
from the page
the date
line of the paper and that day was Friday;
then it was already too late,
“There was a pistol in the drawer of
my desk, and, somehow,
hands trembled so that I could hardly
hold a key, I managed to open the lock
and at last to secure the weapon Yet
it it seemed an idle and cowardly thing
to do, to die without a siruggle, to
it without intent, but at
secined to detach itself
and hastened from the office. But one
She would forgive me
certainly. Even a brother can claim
times seven, and [ with a far
“It seemed 1 wns at home as if by
door. 1 climed the dark stairs snd came
haste. The smail key turned in the
lock but the door did not open.
“Alice!” 1 called, and shook the door.
There was no response, [1 listened,
Surely there was a confused sound with-
she was there. We had no friends to
whom she could go in an emergency,
strangers. [ spoke her name again. It
seemed as if the noise within ceased. I
door, but she did not.
heard me,
“Did she deliberately exclude me?
Had she learned of my debauch? Had
1 been guilty of something more dis-
graceful than drunkenness?! In the
darkness which concealed the last three
days what madness and folly lay. for.
gotten but irrevocably written in my
past! But perhaps she was asleep. |
made a loud noise at the door, aus loud
as I dared, fearing to let the other in-
mates in the house know of my disgrace,
There was no answer.
“Confused, alarmed, and utterly sick
at heart, I sank down upon the flcor and
sat there leaning against the wall, [ do
not know how long. At times 1 felt ro-
sentment against her, and then I excused
my own fault with weak arguments;
again, I fell into abject pleading, with
my ips almost against the door, And
then, in desperation, I thought of the
wen in my pocket, and wad on the
brink of death. Yet through it all one
idea grew stronger as the others faded;
I longed to sec her again. Pledges rose
to my lips which no man could utter and
then violate; which no womsn eould
hear, unmoved, from one she loved,
“It eame into my mind to burst the
door, and I had got upon my feet to
make the effort, when 1 was aware of the
sound of some person ascending the stairs
below me. I had no wish to be discov.
ered In such plight, and so I put my
back against the door and kept quite
still, hall was dark as a 1
did not see the man who passed, nor did
he have a susplolon of my presence. Ie
Certainly she bad
for
come, Instead, I heard a light, peculiar
sound which even in my miseries aroused
a faint cariosity. 1 remembered sudden
lv that the Lawrences who occupied the
flat above were away from the eity,
What was the man doing at that door?
“1 nscended the stairs noiselessly,
There was a ray of light above. [It came
from a dark lancern in the hand of a man
the lock.
{surd thought came to me.
my revolver and advanced upon this
man. He heard me and turned, Enough
of the light from his lantern struck upon
| his face to show me a picture of fright,
| This burglar evidently had not the cour-
age suited to his profession,
“+ Don't be alarmed,” said I. ‘If
you do what I tell you and do it promptly,
I will let you go.’
1 drew my
he witered a sort of growl which resolved
its®f at Inst into the
you want?
| have light enough to shoot by,
him,
that little bag
lock.” He did it, for he had no choice,
opened with the small latch key. My
| heart beat like a trip hammer 1 had no
{ voice to tell the burglar he might go. 1
i second. Then | entered,
“The hall was bare; no curtains hung
before the parlor door. The windows
stared at me. Epough light shown in
from the street to show a room absolutely
empty, My wife's name came from my
lips in atone such as a man may use when
he pleads for mercy in the face of death
and has no hope.
“I raised the pistol, which was still in
my hand, and then [ whispered to myself,
‘Not here.’ Even the bare walls, I
| thought, retained some sacred memory
of her which stayed my hand. That
room, I said, had to me the one chance
of my life; and | had thrown it away;
but [ would not die there. [I would at
least hide my disgrace from the eve of
mecenary curiosity. [1 wished no such
epitaph as the papers would be likely to
give me,
“* As for death itself it had already
come. When | turned to leave that
room there was upon me the peace which
is the reward of the man and the
pardon of the evil doer ~the common lot
of us all. 1f there had been any hope in
my soul that I could ever make amends
to her I would have lived in torment if
necessary to do it But 1 had utterly
{ despaired of mysell.
“| tell you, Harry, 1 was dead when |
left that room. The function of loco
motion wss all that distinguished me
from one who had passed through the
great change. My mind had ceased to
exist and my heart to suffer. Doubtless
muscular energy of my frame would have
carried me to the actual physical con
summation of suicide; but mentally |
had died of despair and degradation
: uw] passed down the stairs, opend land
closed the outside door and stood upon
the step. In the sky was the glimmer
fof dawn, The physical roanse which yet
survived in me perceived it and was
more weary of living at the sign of re
viving life and tumult and struggling.
The soul was gone and the body was im
patient for dissolution.
*“‘And yet the habits of this life per
sist straagely in the body. What do
you suppose, Harry, that this present
shell of my spirit did when | ceased to
direct it”
I shook my head
“Well, sir, it walked fifty-six feet to
the left—the width of two city lots
turned to the left again and sotered a
house. [It mounted two Hightsof stairs,
opened a door, and walked into a pretty
little parlor. Then it passed into a room
where a dim light burned and a woman
| lay asleep with one white arm stretched
out as if it to greet a man whom she
loved. My bodily eyes saw that, and
| thea my soul came back. | fell upon my
knees beside that bed snd covered the
{ white hand with kisses,
good
* That's the story, Harry. The soul
when it came back to me was better than
before. It can resist temptation; it can
{do its own will, being no more the slave
{of that witch who poisoned my blood
| centuries ago, perhaps; and above all, it
without fear, being now suffi.
ciently io barmony with what it loves to
feel secure.”
“Of gourse you don't need to be told
{ that it wasn't Saturday morning,” he
| almost a week old.
{scious from drink not more than six
{ hours. As for my getting into the wrong
{ house, 1 discovered the next day that the
! man who built that block of flats got his
all alike.
parsimony.
Otherwise I might not have died, and if
I had not died | could not have lived the
new life." Charles W. Hooke, in Brook-
lyn Times,
Man as a Mageat,
The old-time superstitious belief that
human beings should slecp with their
heads toward the north is now believed
to be based upon a scientific principle.
Some French savants have made experi.
ments upon the body of a criminal who
had suffered death, and these tests go to
prove that each human body is in itself
an electric battery, one electrode being
represented by the head and the other
by the feet. The body of the subject
upon which the queer experinients men.
tioned above were made was taken im-
mediately after death and placed upon a
Bivatat board, free to move in soy direc.
t
After some little vacillation the head
portion turned toward the north and re.
mained there stationary. One of the ex-
RE took hold of the pivet acd
urmed it so that the head pointed south,
but upon being treed it almost imme.
diately resumed the firat named jositidn
turned until the head north.
To prove that this was neither accident
nor coincident muscular twitohing,
eo: aa oo a hs
BILLINGSGATE,
A Description of the Most Famous Fish
Market of London,
Billingsgate fish market is the best
abused ifvstitution in London, and vet
its sturdy health is unimpaired. Hun-
dreds of years have passed since this
was first declared a free and open
To-day 10,000,000 people are
dependent on it for their fish supply,
und the combined efforts of its enemies,
from the Royal Commission downward,
do not seem to be able to effect any
radical change in its condition or coun-
Men of experience in the fish
trade confidently A, that it can
never be removed from its traditional
home,
The average cost at Billingsgate of all
exoept the rarest kind of fish is a frac.
tion of over one penny a pound. It has
sumer B00 per cent. The process of
this remarkable giowth is inexplicable,
but the consumer has an obvious remedy,
ly the gruce of his deceased majesty
King William 1IIL any person can visit
us describe the process,
The laggard sightseer who lets mid-
famous fish market will find it dirty,
malodorous, foresaken to the scavengers,
in a vigorous way that
trespassers. T'o see Billingsgate at its
strects are dim and silent,
At 5 o'clock the market opens, and
from either side the steamships and the
lingsgate, which at this moment presents
a vivid pioture of industry, A thousand
porters run to and fro, till the 200 rough
stalls that fll the floor space begin to
groan beneath the weight of turpot, brill,
soles, John Dory, mullet, plaice, had
dock, cod, skate, roker, whitiog, stur
geon, hoke, dabs, thormback and gur
nard, sccording to the season.
work of the fish porters is extremely ar-
duous, but well paid as such work goes,
his few hours’ toil, Fish porters src as a
rule rough fellows and free drinkers,
through B
pass
abou
Hlingsuate each year,
ivi
The chief source of the fish supply is the
North Sea, which specialists declare to
be inexhaustible. The trade is carried
on by bonts or
on the Dagger bank or off the German
const, and also by boats fishing siogly
nearer home, which return at short inter
vals to p rt, say to or Yar
mouth, whence their fish iso nveyed by
train to Billi
Fish that ar land ‘is
eonnsigned direct to commission agents
They in turn sell it by private contract
i Ww ho
Grimsby
0"
usually
to the “bommarecs”
break up the nis
into smaller lots to
ranging from the West
end fishmonger to the East-end coster,
The second channel of the Billings
gate trade, the river, is different in its
methods, The fleet that fish the North
Sea are away from houe for weeks and
even months together, Fast steamships
wat on from time to time and
iW omiaaiemen
JCLY und packages
suit the needs of
their customers
them
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS,
THE BABY'S RIDE.
K-jiggity-jig goes old roan Prig
When baby fades out with Ned:
K-thumpity-thump, with a bounce and 8
bump,
Till his dear little face gets red,
K-lollopy-lolly, O hie away, Dolly,
You sleekest and fattest of bays!
Now baby is grinning at such a tine spin-
ning
With wamma alone in the chaise,
—[ Babyland.
THE MAN-FACED CRAB,
One of the most singular-looking creas
tures that ever walked the earth, or
crab of
the world-famous man-faced
Japan,
fe body is hardly an inch in length,
| yet the head is fitted with & face which
{ 1s the perfect counterpart of a Chinese
| coolie—a veritable missing link, with
! eyes, nose and mouth all clearly defined.
{ This curious and uncanny creature, be
| sides the great likeness it bears toa
human being in the face, is provided
with two legs which seem to grow from
the top of its head and hang down over
the pon of its face,
Besides these legs, two feelers, each
{ about an inch in length, grow from the
chin of the animal, looking for all the
| world like a forked beard, These man
faced crabs fairly swarm in the juland
seas of Japan,
THE PROUD Cow,
There was once a cow who was very
highly prized by her mistress. She had
a fine meadow to herself, and was so
| petted that she became very proud. She
thought no other animal good enough te
look at her. There were some sheep in
' the next field who watched her over the
{ hedge, and this made the cow very
: BOTY.
| “Every night when we pass each other
on the bridge going home that biggest
in a most unpleasant manner,” said the
proud cow to herself. *‘I wish I couid
find SOMme Way to punish her "
She thought about the rude sheep all
day, and that night pondered bow she
might resent her familiarity,
The next morning as she crossed the
| bridge she noticed that the broad central
plank hung loose. It was only held in
place by a beam under the middle of it,
and the ends hung loose over the water,
“Ha! ha!” thought the cow. “I have
it! When that vulgar creature crosses
here to-night I'll wait until she steps on
oue end of that plank. Then I'll step
on the other, snd, being so much heavier,
I can easily toss her up into the air and
down into the water.”
So when nicht came and it was time
to go home the cow waited at one end of
the sheep bw gun to cross
The rude sheep came first,
When the sheep sts pped upon one end
of the plank the proud cow, eager for
revenge, jun.ped on the other.
And then—what happened !
Suppose some unkind big boy put a
helpless little fellow on one end of a see.
saw intending to toss him into the air
when he jumped on the other end him-
self. What would happen first when he
jumped on?—|{ New York World.
the bridge until
at the olaer,
Two such steamships
Thames most mornings, the fish they
the appointed agents of the fishing com
panies. Round the suctioneer and his
clerk a
Iesass,
The rapid bidding is to a layman un
intelligible, but apparently very clear to
the bommarees, who acquire all the fish
up at suction in an
space of time, and then put it through
the same process of retailmeni as the
land borne fish. The rapidity by which
may be
gathered from the fact that s shipload of
3,000 trunks of fish is disposed of, gen.
erally by single trunks, in jess than three
hours, the priees recorded being the
prices current of the whole market.
So fish comes to its ultimate consumer
thick
man, the carrier, the salesman, the bom.
maree and the final retailer.—| London
Black and White,
Tralned Machinists,
There are plenty of men who will, by
the impression carried through a pair of
calipers and the fingers’ ends, determine,
within a very small percentage, the
amount of pressure which shall be re.
quired to be exerted by a hydraulio press
in order to force on to its shaft an engine
measurement in which a thousandth part
of an inch variation in diameter canses
much more variation in pressure than is
permissible.
Indead, on some kinds of work done
employed unit of measurement; a unit
This, of
tioned but supposedly superfluous hair.
splitting operation, since an ordinary hu-
sandths of an inch in diameter,
The paper upon which this page is
rinted is about three-thousandths of an
inch thick, and one ten-thousandth part
of an inch is thereliore one-thirtieth the
thickness of this sheet. Considerably
smaller variations of size can be detected
by the trained sense of touch, or rather
by the variation in resistance of a pair of
calipers passed over the work, and it is
even ible for the sense of magnitude
and the sensitiveness of the finger ends
in relation to it, to be so highly devel.
oped as to detect unaided, and by merely
rolling a small steal ball between the
thumb and finger, a variation from true
sphericity amounting to 1-12,600 of an
inch, or about one thirty-seventh part
of the thickness of the paper of this
[eo Ambrose Webster, a machinist of
of machi
ha
ROME XATURAL HISTORY.
Tigers, leopards and jaguars all belong
to the same family. It is generally sup-
posed tigers cannot be tamed, but they
can, just as easily as the lion. The
: tigers’ skin is =o like in color the long
jungle grass amongst which it lives that
it is not always easy to distinguish the
| animal
The leopard is found in Africa, India,
the Indian islands and Java, They live
a great deal on trees, and on that ac.
count are called
natives,
to another with the greatest agility.
The panther, which is really the same
| perfumes, especially lavender water, and
by means of this has been taught to per.
| form several tricks,
The jaguar lives in America. It is
larger and stronger than the leopard,
i which it resembles in color.
| of climbing trees and can climb any tree,
| no matter how smooth the trunk is. It
lis a great hunter after monkeys. It is
fond of turtles, also, and scoops out
| their flesh by turning them on their
shells,
| also,
jaguar is anywhere around.
| known to even go into water after fish,
{and will capture them in the shallow
| water by striking them out of the water
{with a blow of its paw,
{| When it captures a large animal it de-
| stroys it by leaping upon its back and
twisting the head around until the neck
is dislocated.
The puma, which lives in America, is
also called the pasther, and is much
dreaded by the natives, It is of a gray
color, It lives much on trees and usually
lies along the branches,
The oscelot, of the tiger-cats, is a
native of Mexico and Peru. It is about
eighteen inches high and three feet long.
It is a beautiful animal and easily tamed.
It lives principally on monkeys, and
resorts to the most clever tricks to catch
them,
The domestic cat was formerly sup-
posed to be the same as the wild cat,
but it is a different specics altogether,
its tail being long and taper, while that
of the wild cat is short and bushy. Cats
are very fond of aromatic plants and
powerful scents. If they find a musk
or valerian plant in a garden they will
roll over it and scratch it up until not »
bit ix left, Their
mouse hunter is well
It is very fond of turtle eggs,
WILDS FAL
Nearly $150,000,000 Under
One Roof.
LIBERAL ARTS EXHIBITS
Transportation Day-Locomotives
Old and Quaint Brought Out
For the Edification of the
Crowds -The Fair Or-
chestral Music.
Nearly 150,000,000! That is the gene al
value placed on the exhibits in the Liberal
Arts Buliding in the office of the chief of the
This figure will be a surprise,
perhaps the more so as not & few of the ex.
puiting the
75,000,000,
As the costilest goods of every deseription
seen hers
ncres of
bibitors themselves have been
and us there are some sixty solid
seem out of the way,
No figures in detall bave been gathered, but
total valuation wil
something more than
Transportation Day
of tho transporta-
and Awmeri-
can exhibitors to unite in making it one of
the notable days of the Fair, A special track
was laid on the promenade outside, where-
over
September 9 was
twenty reproductions im
wood and metal of the oldest pioneer en-
gines exhibited by the Baltimore and Oblo
and Pennsylvania Raliroads was rolled jor
f the mul-
addition thers was a parade of
m the Midway
exercises in
the edification snd enlightment «
ti ude, In
the antiques and horribles fr
‘inieance : and at the indoor
and President
Roberts, of the Pennsylvania, with other
arch of the transportation building bad to
incilitate the egress and
When the big loco-
motives are taken out st the closs of the
Fair they will be towed home “dead,” that
fs, without steam, In freight trains.
WHAT INSTITUTIONS ARE DOING.
Tht American institutions for the Teshle
minded are Jdolng a grand work is shown by
ease exhibits in the educational department,
represented are the
cele rated one at Elwyn, Pa ; Port Wayne,
Ind. ; Glenwood, Ia : Fairbult, Mion. ; Lake
ville, Conn. : Barre, Mass, ; Glen Eller, Cal ;
Boston, Mass, t is sad to look over those
scores of photographs aad notion the droup-
ing under lips and contracted eyebrows thet
which
start into
industrial
tell the story of dwalted Intellect,
trying to
Mapusl trainiog and
won.
ders oan be accomplished is shown plainly
enough in case after case of needle work in
writing, painting,
every branch, drawing,
other material,
The photographs evidence a marked intel.
likeness aoccom-
panied by written descriptions.
THE FAIR ORCHESTRA.
The World's Fair orchestral music threat.
ens to get Into chaos azain and the cost of
maintaining that great o chostra of 100 men
is nearly 800 a day as not a few of the per.
formers are artists of established reputa-
tions, both in this and the old country, and
The largost
far bave been
considering the magnitude of the Fair, noth.
doubt over the out-
But really, this orchestra is one of
It #s one of the two great orchestras of the
being the Boston Sym-
its value cannot be
The Musical Committee are
gan. 1fsome wealthy citizens are willing to
put up for the deficiency the orchestra is
sure to continue, The plan of presenting
such eminent soloists as Mile Nikita and
Emil Liebling fs proving a good thing,
France's organist, Dr. Alexander Gulimant,
drew big audidnces at Festival Hall
a
A MINE EXPLOSION.
Men Return to Work and Four Will Die
From Their Injuries.
At Sheldon, Ind., on the Evansville &
Terre Haute Road, a fores of men went into
& conl mine to resume work after weeks og
jdlenons,
There was a gas explosion and the mine
RECOVERY TO BE RAPID,
Comptroller Eckels Says the Finan<
cial Trouble is Over.
Treasury Department, says in an Interview,
“I believe the recovery from the financial
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