a. Fe ts isin FREEDOM. f care not who were vicfous back of me, No shadow of their sins on me Is shed. $y will is greater than heredity; 1 am no worm to feed upon the dead. My face, my form, my gestures and my voice May be reflections from a race that was; But this I know, and, knowing it, re jolce: 1 am myself, a part of the Great Cause. I am a spirit! Spirit would suffice, If rightly used, to set a chained world free. Am 1 not stronger than a mortal viee That crawls the length of some an- cestral tree? Ella Wheeler Wilcox, A Trapper’s Nerve. By COL. NOAH PARKER. “In the days when 1 was knocking around the Rocky Mountains and be- | yond, it required a good many differ ent kinds of nerve for a person to keep the lamp of life from going entirely out, to say nothing of being comforta- | ble and happy. One was the nerve of | Jesse Bell, who made a journey of 120] miles with his upper jaw and part of his nose and cheek gone, half of his scalp torn off, one foot crushed and mangled, his right arm fearfully iac- erated and three ribs broken. “Jesse Bell was a miner, prospector, | hunter and trapper, well known In the | Wind River country, Wyoming. He | had a partner who went by the name | of Arkansas Bill. I never knew what | his real name was, but he was a good one. The time I was in that region Jesse and Arkansas Bill had been’ prospecting, hunting and trapping about the headwaters of Snake, Wind and Green rivers for some time, and, meeting with poor luck, had worked down to the mouth of Horse Creek. where they found great signs of big game and good fur. Following a herd of antelope one day, the chase took them eight miles toward a high bluff, | around one edge of which the hunters were cautiously creeping, Jesse in the lead. Turning a sharp corner of the rock, Jesse came face to face with a big she silver tip, a yearling cub and two _spring cubs. They were not ten feet away and they saw Jesse as soon as he saw them. They were in a hol low and the position and place Jesse was in made it a dangerous spot either | for an attack on the bears or for de-| fence against them if they should at-! tack. Arkansas Bill had crept to his! companion's side before Jesse could warn him what was ahead of them. | Bill lost no time in getting back around the corner. Jesse was backing away for the same purpose, when the old bear, her blood being up, made a rush for him. Jesse fired as quickly as he could. The shot broke the bear's | shoulder, but she came on more fero- clous than ever. Jesse jumped one side, but the bear was too close to be | evaded, and she caught him in the side. flunter and bear tumbled in a heap, the bear on top, at Arkansas Bill's feet. The bear's jaws closed in| Jesse's side. Fortunately her under teeth struck a heavy leather bullet pouch that Jesse carried slung over] his shoulder by a strap. or her jaws would have come together in Jesse's side and torn half of it away. As it was, three of his ribs were crushed as if they had been pipestems. Jesse | managed to give the bear a powerfui | kick in the abdomen, and at the same moment Arkansas Bill fired and lodged a bullet just back of her shoulder. i “Paying no attention to Bill, the bear’ turned her head and grabbed Jessie's right foot, just below the ankle and crushed it to a pulp with one savage bite. Not content with that, she bit and chewed at the foot and leg and tore away the flesh at every bite. Jessie all the while struggling to get his revolver out of his belt. This at} Inst caused the bear to wheel about again and she made a grab for Jes. sie's heaa., Arkansas Bill had his gan Joaded by this time—breech-loaders not | having got there yet—and sent another | bullet into the tough old silver tip. | This toppled her over, and Jessie rais- ed bimself partinlly to his feet and got his revolver in his left hand. The bear quickly recovered herself and struck Jessie a blosy with her paw on the head and face that knocked him down again, He held onto his revoly- er and sent a bullet into her body. Before he could shoot again the silver tip seized bis arin between her teeth and crunched it entirely through. Bill shouted to him to move his head. Jes. sie did so. At the instant he moved it the bear spapped at it. Jessie Bell in describing this situation afterward, declared that he could look right down the bear's throat, “Arkansas Bill, who had been striv- ing to get a chance at the bear, placed the muzzle of his rifle at the silver tip's ear aod fired. She sprang back. She did not take the trouble, though to loosen the hold of her jaws on Jes gie's head and face, but rasped her great teeth over them, tearing awav his upper jaw, part of his nose, one cheek and a pieee of his scalp nine inches long and five wide. Then the bear fell over against Avkansas Bill, dead. Her enormous weight carried him down with her. She fell across his legs nnd pinned him down. It was some time before Bill could get from beneath the heavy carcass. He was badly Gurt and limped with difficulty to the aid of Jesse, who was sitting we best he could, the yearling bear had been forced to leave it ami made a savage rush upon the two hunters. Arkansas Bill had a long and severe struggle with the flerce young silver tip before he succeeded In kill- img the animal with his six-shooter every chamber being emptied before the bear gave up. “Jesse waited patiently and without a groan or murmur until Bill kad fin- ished the y=ang bear and returned to the dressing of his wounds, Fixing them up the best he could with the means at hand, Arkansas Bill took his wounded comrade on his back and started for camp. It was late in the afternoon, and it was important that camp should be reached before dark, for black wolves are common in the hills, and both Bill and Jesse knew that they would follow thelr trial if darkness overtook them. Some idea of Arkansas Bill's capacity may be had when you know that Jessle Bell was a man srx feet four Inches in his stocking feet ana made in proportion. The camp Was eight miles away, and the way was extremely rough. Bill reached camp with his burden a short time after dark, and was not any too soon, for behind them, and not far away, they heard the howling of pur- suing wolves. “They found the cabin occupled by a stranger, a prospector who had stumbied upon the shelter and entered. He was a providential visitor, To- gether Arkansas Bill #=4 the stranger fitted a bed of buckskin and furs on tepee poles, which they fastened to Jesse's pony, Indian fashion, and placing Jesse on the drag, started ai aid could be had, which was Fort Bridges, 120 miles away, through a rough and unbroken wilderness. They travelled day and night, stopping only to bathe Jesse's wounds at the streams they had to cross. They ate as they travelled, and reached Fort Bridges with their wounded charge. On all that remark- able journey Jesse never once com hardships. I was at the fort when the three men arrived. No explanations were asked or given until Jesse had been placed safely in the hospital Then the commandant said to Arkan- sas Bill: “ ‘Indians? “Naw! replied ly. ‘Bears! “The surgeon told Bill that Jesse could not possibly survive his injuries. But he did, and was out within a month, permanently disfigured, butthe same tough and intrepid mountaineer that he was before his encounter with the bear. That was tlie sort of nerve Jesse Bell had.” Bill, contemptuous- WHITE SLAVES IN HUNGARY, Harmessed to the Plow Like Beasts of Burden. Stephen Varkonyi, the leader of the peasants’ revolution which convulsed Hungary during the early months of last year, has just been sentenced to Peasants The movement which was inaugurat. ed by Varkony! was a revolt against in com: year exist in some parts of Hungary. these districts each peasant is pelled to work fifty days In the for the land owner without pay. These fifty days of compulsory la- bor are not successive, or at fixed in. tervals, but when the land owner hag work to be done he sends a drummed throngh the village, and every male inhabitant is obliged to respond to the summons, Thereupon so many men are selected as are required. The land owner al this labor in the summer when the peasant’s thine is most valuable to him. In summer the peasant can earn as winter pot more than fourpence or In winter the peasants are nate's hunts for a wage of two-pence a day. The occupation is a dangerous one, and the time is not counted In the annval fifty day's compulsory labor. The wives of the peasants are re quired to sweep and scrub the local Finally, many land owners use the peasants as beasts of burden, harness. ing four men to the plow instead of two oxen, Stephen Varkonyl, who instituted the revolt against these degrading con ditions of labor, is a sort of Hungar- fan Wat Tyler. He is the son of poor peasants, was educated in the farm. yards and graduated in the fields, He is quite a typical horny-handed son of toil, is physicality tall, stoutly buflt. with plenty of character in his shaggy head, and smal eyes with thel suggestion of the Mongolian slit, and has that rough kind of natural humor that appeals to the simple peasant mind. Varkonyl, whose power over the ag ricultural populetion of Is country Is unbounded, is one of the most inter esting figures in modern Hungarian life. Practical Results of an Idea. In 1842 a Russian farmer named Bokareff conceived the idea of extraet. ing oil from the seed of the sun flower. His neighbor told him it was a vis fonary idea and that he would have his labor for his pains. He persevered, KNIFE TRADE BY QUAY. A Deal Engineered by Him Whew a Boy with a Future Pennsylvania Judge. “1 mee that Judge Harry White of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, ‘was consplcuous among the workers for the re-election of United States BSensator Quay,” sald an ex-member of the Pennsylvanian Legislature to a Sun man. “And this in spite of the way Q 'y traded kulves with him when they were boys together, going to school In western Pennsylvania. Judge White is about the last of the! old school of politicians In that State who is still prominent and influential | among the Republican leaders. He was a smart boy, but not quite so smart as Matt Quay. There never was | a sharper, more mischevious, success- | ful schemer as a boy than Matt was. | He wis continually cutting up pranks | that no other hoy would ever think | of. He was always looking for a dick. | er of some kind, and he never traded a knife, or a handful of marbles, or! anything else, that he didn't get the better of the boy he traded with, no matter how much the advantage seem- | ed to lie with the latter in the prelimi. | nary negotiations. But the transaction | in the matter of the knife trade with | Harry White was a little ahead of any | deal evermade In those halcyon days. { “Matt had a jackknife that was the] envy of all the boys. It had a buck! horn handle, and 1 don't know how | nany blades and files and other im- | plements dear to the boy heart. This! knife was particularly coveted by! Harry White, and he made all sorts | of offers to Matt for a trade, one of | which Included a knife he owned, a! dozen marbles, a ball of twine, and a! tin squirtgun; but Matt persistently | declined to make a dicker. One day,’ though, much te the surprise and joy of Harry, Matt brought up the matter of a deal for his knife, and suggested | that he might be induced to swap for something. “1 haven't got my knife with me, though,’ said the future statesman, ‘and If we strike up a bargain you will have to go after it.’ “All right.’ said Harry, pleased to ask any questions, will you trade? { “ “Well,” replied Matt, ‘if you will give me your knife, the marbles, the twine and the squirtgun and throsy in that horsehair fishline of yours I'll call it a go.’ “IH do It” exclaimed Harry, and be produced the articles Matt had men. tioned and handed them over. ‘I'll go up to your house and get the knife’ “ ‘Matt stowed Harry's knife and the other things in his pockets and said: “‘Yqu needn't go up to our after the knife. It ain't there “Where'll I go after It then? asked Harry. “‘Up to the tannery,’ replied Man ‘1 was fooling around there this morn. ing and dropped my knife in the old vat. Me and some o' the boys fished two hours for it and couldn't find it. But it's there. Go up to the tannery, and maybe you can get it’ “Harry kicked like a steer, but there wasn't any use. He pever found Matt Quay's knife, and it's in that vat yet for all anybody knows, But Quay has stuck by Harry White during all bis political career, and Harry White has been sticking to Quay ever since in spite of that dis astrous deal” too much ‘How | house A Rare Wild Bird Captured A strange wild bird of the coast flords of New Zealand is the Notornis Mantelll, another specimen of which has just been captured. Bot four of | these birds have been caught, and so precious are they and so greatly in de mand by naturalists that many lives have been lost in the effort to ran | them down in their remote fastnesses in the wilderness. The steamer Warimoo, which arriv ed recently at Vancouver, B. C., re ports the capture of a notornis by a dog belonging to a tourist. It is a | handsome bird, with a heavy gait and is absolutely unable to use its | wings for natural purposes of flying. 1ts feathers, back, wing and fall, are an olive green, with almost metallic | lustre, and below a short tail, very peculiarly, it is pure white. Its legs and toes are a rich salmon red. Another remarkable feature is its | beak, a great equilateral triangle of | bard pink born, with one angle direct: | ly forward. On the upper side, back of the beak, is a band of soft tissue, Hike rudimentary comb, such as ap. pears more developed in ordinary do | mestic fowl. Altogether it is a most peculiar specimen. The notornis is a powerful creature, and very fleet of foot. It covers ground very rapidly and does not seem to mind its inability to fly. It runs away from those who hunt it, uttering loud screams when discovered close ar hand, It can run faster than a man, It is also a good swimmer.—New York Journal, med am atm Our Great Coal Fields. “Not many people are probably aware that the conl mined in the Unit. ed States annually is worth more than three times as much as the gold mined here,” sald a Pennsylvania coal miner, “The product of the anthracite fields alone exceeds in value the output of the gold mines of this country, Canada and Alaska, which last year amounted to over $50,000,000, are 162,000 square miles of coal Innds, and the yearly output is nearly 200, t coal fields of the world as fol There are many deposits in other coun: tries, but thelr extent is Inconsiders able. England's coal area is small; still she has for years produced more than any other country. “Now the United States is ahead. English coal velus are thin; one, only fourteen inches wide, has been worked 1,200 feet down. On the other hand, there are veins In the Pennsylvania anthracite reglon sixty feet thick, and, in the bituminous regions, eighteen feet thick. Our Applachian coal fields are the largest known and alone could supply the whole world for centuries to come, At the present rate of pro- Guetion it is estinmted that our coal flelds will be exhaust d in 616 years while those of Eaglard will last but 212 years, The first coal found in Amerien was pear Ottawa, 111, by Father Hennepin, a French explorer, in 1679. It was first mined on the Schuykill during Washington's admin Istration.—~Washington Star, Freight Cars by the Thousands. Last year the contracting car-build. ing companies did the greatest busi ness that thev have done since 1800. The total number of freight car: built during the last calendar year ws 00, 800, the passenger cars were 60D, and the street rallroad cars 4,650, or a total In 1800, the best year so far as our records show, the output was 103,000 freight cars, but in 1801 and 1802 nearly 100,000 were built 1807 is quite wonderful. In that year our reports are from thirty contractors {and five estimated) showed 43.088 freight cars. This year our reports are from twenty-eight companies, and from twenty-six others we have made estimates carefully checked. These are mostly very small concerns. Iu 1806 the freight cars built outside of the railroad shops amounted to 51,180 gregated only 18,000. Among the cars cars. In makiog this summing up of car building last year we found 2,167 street rallroad cars reported to have been bulit.—Rallroad Gazettes A Cure for Cresky Shoes No matter how expensive the shoes one wears, they will sometimes creak, and there is no getting away from a pair of creaky shoes. Shoemakers tell me there is a certain something about the way the leather is cured or the make of the shoe which causes this awful creak. “Cheap shoes are not necessary of poor quality,” an authority. “Creaking often accounts for the low price. Cheap double soled shoes al ways creak, and the reason is that the two soles do not quite fit or one Is of more pliable material than the other, #0 that they rub against each other. “Among the remedies usually tried is soaking the sole fn water or oll. This is affective for a time, but the cure ix The creak invariably returns in a few days. “There Is one certain remedy. It is to drive three little wooden pegs into the soles, The pegs prevent the friction of the soles. Any cobbler will do it for you for ten vents and restore your own peace of mind and that of your friends.—New York Herald, said and simple EE ono Humble Oysters’ Virtues. Judged hy the relative amount con sumed, the oyster is the most impor tant of the shellfish, according to a bulletin of the Agricultural ment. Roughly speaking, a quart of about the same quantity of actual nu tritive substances as a auart of milk two pounds of fresh codfish, or a pond of bread. The nutritive sub stances of oysters contains consider able protein and fuel ingredients; they not only make or repair blood, muscle tendon, bone and brain, but they alse supply the body with almost any other common food material as regards botd tions of nutrients. Oysters cannot be eonsidered the most economical of But they have delphia Record. A Man of the World An observant citizen who has travel. ed nt home and abroad sald to a re- porter: “One may be a man of the Island. For instance, my grocer is from Holland, my butcher is a native of Brazil, my druggist hails from Al sace Lorraine, my newsman is a Bo. hemian, my barber is from Austria, my habepdasher is from England, my caterer Is from Paris, my chef is Ger man, my valet is a Jap, my domestics have a doctor in a hurry and sent for the nearest one. 1 saw that he was a foreigner, and an intelligent man, He is a Persian and bas lived in New York ten years. In going to iny sia tion 1 pass an undertaker’s piace funeral director, If you please, 1 have an idea be will get an order froin me some day, He Is a Scotchman. | am an American, My partner Is a native of Bavaria.”—New York Sun, Experiments recently made in Paris show that am electric wagon costs forty-seven per cent. less to run than a horse wagon, and thirty-two per ma] a SUICIDE OF THE LION. A Kalfir Hunter's Word Picture of a Strange Event In South Africa. “It was a strange story 1 heard from my Kaffir guide last summer in the Transvaal” sald W, 8. Mcintosh, who arrived In New York recently | from Cape Town, South Africa. “The | name of the boy—he was 40 years old, | but all natives employed by Europeans | In Africa are boys, though their hair | be gray and thelr years three score! and ten—was Tamaya and his master, | Capt. Jack Mason, detailed him to my | special service during my stay at his place, “Ihe Willows,’ Tamaya was | a good representative of his fine race, | a skilled hunter, brave and trustwor-| thy, and a masterly handler of the] three or four hundred words in his vocabulary when he told the strange | things he had seen and undergone in| the African wilderness, He and 1 were | hunting for antelope one day and had stopped for luncheon in the shadow of Breakneck Rock. 1t was a rocky blufy, which fell on one side in a sheer | preciplee 200 feet to the plain; on the other side a gradual slope, covered with bushes and small trees, led up to the summit, “+t was here that lon jump and die, sald the Kaffir. ‘No, not this place here.” He walked away a few paces, | and, stopping, pointed with his hand first up to the top of the cliff, where a projecting shelf covered the base, and then to the ground at his feet, He made an sweeping gesture with his arm, Indicating that it was meant to take in the distance from the top to the ground where we stood. Then he came back to me ar! told the story. “It wax long ago-—-many years—so long. The Kaffir held up the thumb and fingers of his right hand twice and then two fingers to signify that it was twelve years. “That horse run away from the kraal and I go after him and the Old Nick 1 catch sooner than that horse. 1 go so half a day, ard so half a day, and come to the kraal and no horse have, and Bans Mason swear and say I catch him horse to-morrow or 1 catch him whip. Bimeby to-morrow I go and I think 1 climb that rock and look long way round, and mebbe 1 see thm horse. So 1 go round behind him, that rock. where he go up 80, 80 easy, and I climb ope, two, tree miles, mebbe, and I zet up, and 1 look, but I think sooner 1 see Baas Mason's whip than that damn horse. Then I think I go out on the rock-—there’ The Kaffir pointed to the projecting top of the cliff. ‘He all one piece, big, smooth like that designating the level ground where we were sitting. “Then some thing say in my head lion, lon, and I look back and there he comes up thai path like he come catch me. “1 have po gun, but there Is tree 1 =o up where that lion no get nil, iat he no sco tie or care. fle come on and he walk slow, so.’ and Tamaya imitated the movement of a four-foot- ed animsl walking nalofully with measured step. ‘Big. he mighty big pover a on 20 big. bu: be old and his head hang down, down, and 1 think be no see me. He old, and lis tall dra-ag on the ground and the rib stick out so. Ie go slow, slow, by me. and go out on the rock and he stand and he look off there, and 1 think bimeby he go "way, and I go to %raal. Drt he stay and he roar low. #0 like ox when he smell the lion: then Le roar so; the Kaffir, imitativg a lion's voice, deepened and strength- ened the sound: and be lift his head and his tail switch so. Then he roar I sex like that fellow roar—and I drop my hat and I reach to earch him, and 1} look again, and there is the rock and | the lion be no there. “+1 wait and walt, and bimeby 1 get | down and go to that rock and 1 get | dows so and look and there that lion | is down on the ground and he lies so | dead—and he never kick. And I go back to kraal and 1 tell Baas and he gay 1 come with big lie becavse 1 no cates that horse, and If I lie 1 catch that whip. And be ride out, and I 20 and he bring whip, snd he find that fion--there. And he say: “That thing 1 never saw since 1 came here, con found the horse! Tamaya tell the) truth.” “No rendering that T can give will] carry the effect of the Kaffir's story, | acted out as it was at every stage! with voice and pantomime. Capt. | Mason told me that it doubtless was true in every detail: that be had rid-| den out with Tamaya after the Kafr had brought him the tale and they had found the lion dead where he had fal fen. He must have been killed instant. iy by the fall and could not have mov. ed from where be struck or rolled—but the body lay forty paces from the foot of the cliff, and fully twenty-five paces beyond the projecting rock above. showing that the lion had leaped and not fallen down the precipice. “ ffow Jo I account for it? 1 don’t account for it. sald Capt. Mason. ‘Or. rather there is only one explanation that the lion got tired of the game and quit. He was a big fellow, and he must have made a noble showing in his prime. Now he was old &nd tooth. fess; blind, maybe, starved and alto gether run to seed; but so much of the lion was left in the shaky body-- the heart to make a dignified ending.” History of English Colas. Henry 111, issued the first current gold coln in England in 1247. It was of pure gold, passing for 20 pence, and was called a gold penny. The next current gold coin Issued-—the florin-—was Issued by Edward 111, In 1844. Guineas were issued by 11, in 1003, and continued to be that in every good town there was s¥ jeast ome mint; but at London thee were eight: at Canterbury, four for the King, two for the archbishop: one fo® the Abbot at Winchester, six at Roch- ester, two at Hastings, mn a A IASI HER EYEBROWS, iy How a Man Can Choose 8 Wife Successfully by Examining the Brow. “It's all very well for 2 girl to pluma herself upon her pretty eyebrows” sald an expert physicgnomist the oth- er day, “but 1 who have been study- ing character for years, have perhaps a rather different point of view. Eye- brows show character, and the wise man will take note of them when choosing his friends. Eyebrows, for instance, that are wide apart denote frank, generous, unsuspicious and hm- pulsive nature, “When they meet one may be pretty is ardent, but jealous and suspicious. Eyebrows which are elevated at starting and continue io long, sweep- ing lines over the eyes with a down- ward tendency, indicate artistic feel ing. “Straight eyebrows, forming a firm- iy defined line close to the eyes, denote great determination and will power. Those which begin rather strongly and terminate abruptly without pas- sing beyond the eyes show an impa- tient and irascible nature, “Sensitiveness and tenderness are indicated by slightly arched eyebrows, and firmness of purpose and kindness of heart by those which are straight at the beginning and are rather arched at the temples. The eyebrows of peo- ple utterly devold of mathematical power are raised at the termipation, leaving a wide space between them and the corners of the eyes, On the other hand, if they are close to the eves at the end, mathematical talent may generally be safely assumed. “Eyebrows of the same color as the constantey, firmness and resolution; if lighter than the halr they denote Indecision and weakness; while if darker we may be rignt in our sarmise that thelr owper iz of an ardent, passionaie and jnconstant dis- position. “An energetic and easily irritated nature is shown by the hair growing in different directions: while short, close-lying hair, I¥ing in one direction, indicates a firm mind and good per- centions, An ardent but tender na- ture is shown by the hair being soft and fine, “When the hair of the eyebrows has a downward droop =o that it almost meets the lashes when the eyes are widely opened, tenderness and melan- choly are betrayed. The nearer the eyebrows are to the eyes, the firmer and more earnest the character, while the more remote the more volatile and flighty is the nature of their own. er.” One Tris! Enough This head of a Second avenue house. hold struck an emergency the other morning such as tends to strain and weaken the tender domestic ties, His wife had worked and worried herself sick in preparing for the usual obsery- ance of the blessed yule-tide. The ser. vant girl had promised herself as a Christmas present fo a beau of long standing, and had gone home to pre- pare the ornamental raiment that must adorn the bride. There were the fath- er and his two little sons to bulld the kitchen fire and prepare the morning meal. Bret he Is not the man to flinch in With the ald nad the top of the stove a sparkling He didn’t recall whether coffee should be boiled or brewed, but he set it on and let it take its course, and put in a pinch of baking powder, just be. cause he had inferred from glancing over the advertising columns of news. papers that It must be used in every- thing. Then it came to him that he had heard somewhere and at some the that a hamburger steak was one of the easiest meat dishes to prepare. He butcher knife, sausage grinder and and went to work. He made little headway and one of the youngsters with a practical turn of mind, went to the barn, dug out the lawn mower and took It to the kitchen to help cut the steak. This brought the troubled father to the exploding point and he cut loose In a way that induced the presence of his wife, who sat wearily in a chair and directed the prepara- tion of a plain meal “Girl wanted” at his sumber.—De troit Free Press, - Two young midshipmen of the French navy, MM. Viviete and Dave. iyn, have invented an “eye” or window for submarine torpedo boats, but de- tails on the matter are kept very close. The invention was, It is said, most nseful during recent naval operations between the Magenta and the submer- sible boat, the Gustave Yede. The gov. ernment is now urged to spend the money required for a new ironclad on fifty submarine torpedo vessels capa- ble not only of defending the coasts, but of invisibly penetrating into the ports of an cnemy.— London Telegraph.
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